are hopeful a deal can be done this weekend but it's also clear their expectations are not high adrian brown al jazeera beijing. as we mentioned the standoff between ukraine and russia is one of the big issues on leaders minds at the g. twenty and ukraine's president has upped the ante in banning russian males between the ages of sixteen and sixty from entering his country andrew symonds reports from kharkiv in one of the flashpoint border regions. this is the latest message sent from ukraine to russia via social media a miniature video packed with action drills said to be taking place nearly as all seemed intended to show off the cranes defensive capabilities. within your ground so of your joint forces operation is full of air defense weapons that are able to stop the aerial aggression of the russian federation. and as the live fire exercises were playing out on the world wide web president petro poroshenko decided to ban all russian mail policy holders aged between sixteen and sixty from coming in or going out of ukraine. just outside hockey here of one of the main board oppose any.

say look china has capitulated and caved in we're winning the trade war our china correspondent adrian brown reporting live from beijing adrian many thanks. ukraine is building up its military capability as reservists are being called up to training centers and large scale exercises are expected in the coming days it follows russia's seizure of three ukrainian ships and twenty four crew members in the black sea more than a week ago ukraine wants nato to deploy ships to the region but russia blockading ports nature's secretary general is due to hold a news conference within the next hour let's go live now to andras simmons. in kharkiv in ukraine i'm drew some strong words again from the kremlin directed today at ukraine's president what else is happening. hear the seesaw that swings on a daily basis of trading insults really from the kremlin to ukraine and ukraine returning accusations to the russians but this one is in regard to an assertion from ukraine that russia could be planning attacks on but jan ski that's the ports on the on the in the in the in this sea between crimea and here the i

index on monday as indeed in hong kong and other important indexes here in the asia pacific region adrian brown there in beijing thanks so much for that adrian jane garvey is the acting director of the australian center on china in the wild at the australian national university she says the u.s. and china's trade issues are part of a larger debates. as china rises all we say now has risen to become the second largest economy in the world the u.s. has a choice does it share the global sort of strategic space with china does it trying contain it and really the trade war has looked like a serious effort to contain to the detriment of pretty much everyone in the global economy. said the question now is whether or not a deescalation of the trade will can give china the space in the united states the space to try and share that global technological front here i don't think there are many people in the united states who are in europe for that matter who are particularly comfortable with that idea there's almost a kind of righteous ownership of the global technological front that is belongs to the west

over sixty percent of the country's energy consumption a new coal plants are still being built adrian brown has this report. the economic machine that is china needs a vast amount of power to fuel its growth engine much of that fuel is coal. in order to meet the target for reductions in carbon emissions china's leaders pledged to move away from fossil fuels to clean energy even if it meant closing thousands of factories. three years almost that commitment is looking in doubt says one leading environmentalist the reasons slowing economic growth and worsening trade friction with the united states it is economy. is in a down cycle the growth rate is not as rapid as as before and then we're having facing a trade war. which having quite some psychological impact at least people are beginning to understand the government has a problem as it has you know they must keep pushing to reduce pollution but they need to consider the economy they can't rush too much but they also can't be too slow. three years ago i visited this steel town in sichuan province the mill had recently shot with the loss of si

reaver on saturday way says it's not aware of any wrongdoing by making out china correspondent adrian brown joins me now from beijing adrian this is a hugely high profile arrest of the c.f.o. of an enormous chinese company can you can texture lies this faurisson and what reaction has there been from huawei or indeed the chinese government. well the stars of the company has been commenting a statement was posted on its web site a few hours ago a very mild statement essentially saying that they weren't aware that she had broken any laws they say that they hope that she can be released soon and really portraying someone who is completely innocent but the language coming from the chinese government via the chinese embassy in ottawa her is a lot more hostile their statement says that essentially her human rights were being harmed and that a chinese citizen has been accused an innocent chinese citizen have been accused of violating laws and they demanded that she be released as soon as possible it's worth pointing out that she is not just any chief financial officer she is the daughter of the fou

china correspondent adrian brown has more from beijing. in one nine hundred seventy eight the overall impression of china was one of backwardness and extreme poverty with workers doing jobs machines could do better the country was still recovering from the chaos and cruelty of chairman mao's political campaigns china's current president xi jinping was twenty five and a postgraduate student. china's leader then was done shopping and on december the eighteenth in the great hall of the people he delivered one of the most important speeches in china's history outlining a radical plan to reform and open up the country stagnating economy allowing foreign investment from rivals like japan and the united states the southern city of shenzhen next to hong kong would be the crucible of that change the tiptoeing into capitalism had begun. forty years on president xi delivered another keenly anticipated speech unusually sitting down and he struck a defiant tone no one would stop china's rise neil curry from meet there is no textbook to follow that no o

accuses china of unfair trade practices which beijing denies adrian brown joins us live now from beijing a dream we've been hearing from president xi speaking at the great hall of the people i imagine it was quite the nationalist celebration did he say anything significant. a lot of what he had to say i have to say we have heard before the reason why everybody was watching the speech so closely is that we were looking for signs hints of any possible concessions that president xi jinping was prepared to make to try to ease the current trade friction with the united states now china's already agreed to cut auto imports on the u.s. cars and to stop buying more u.s. soybeans again so we were hoping perhaps imagining that there might be further concessions those concessions did not happen other than a vague promise from president xi for china's economic reforms to continue the reforms begun by dung sharping exactly forty years ago but more this was a speech i think about china's identity and china's position in the world he said that no one could condescendingly tell china what to do he said

export sanctions adrian brown al jazeera beijing life else washington d.c. is free to al-jazeera as party culhane a party how does all of this play into this current trade war dispute between china and the u.s. . well the timing is very unusual i think it's important to stress that we do not know why she was been arrested we've had u.s. senators link it to potential violations between the company and iran sanctions but we're not hearing that from the courts we're not hearing that from the justice department we're not basically getting any information so far from the u.s. government i can tell you it would be exceedingly rare to have a person actually arrested for what would be violating sanctions still it is possible we do know that the justice department is investigating while away for potential sanctions violations i've reached out to the just the treasury department to ask has anyone ever been arrested criminally held liable for this and waiting to hear back but as far as how this plays out between the u.s. and china it is going to dramatically increase t

exports sanctions adrian brown algis. beijing hallway is the planet's largest supplier of telecommunications equipment as we were hearing there it's partly to eighty percent of the world's telecom companies but it's been plagued by control mysie the us is accused of working with the chinese government to spy on american citizens as well as violating sanctions imposed against iran while ways even spot fears about phone security is at it as it's at the cutting edge of the next generation of networks called five g. the u.s. u.k. new zealand and australia of either blocked all of the company's five g. operations because of security concerns well earlier i spoke to abigail grace from the center for new american security she doesn't believe lungs arrest was politically motivated is perhaps the white house might have had a pretty notification period a based on my own government experience but they certainly wouldn't have been involved in directing the sort of arrests which is a criminal offense as you know the department of just

of the company's operations because of security concerns let's speak to our china correspondent adrian brown in beijing as we said the u.s. and other governments have been investigating hallway for a while now what exactly are they worried about. well what they're concerned about is this company's close links to china's ruling communist party and that's certainly been reflected in decisions that have been taken by governments in new zealand australia and canada the united states and britain and also just last year another telecommunications company zed t. was fined some one point two billion dollars in the united states for selling its products to iran and as well as north korea and basically the u.s. government feels that said he and holloway are basically the same sides of the same coin and they want this company placed under really tight scrutiny and that's what is now taking place what's interesting though is the timing of this arrest because it happened on the very day that president xi jinping and president donald trump were sitting down to face each other over that diplomatic dinner i

export sanctions adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. well it sounds a bit to patty call him in washington but see what more do we know about his comments and u.s. national security adviser john bolton that he was aware of this arrest in advance of it taking place. exactly john bolton giving the interview to national public radio and he said that he did get a heads up that he knew she was going to be arrested because the justice department told him as to asked if the president knew after all is a dream mentioned he was having that very important dinner with the chinese president he said he didn't know if president trump was aware which is an odd thing to say because as national security adviser he'd actually be the one probably telling the president seems like he was trying to dodge answering that question directly he didn't say exactly what the charges are again very unusual because we don't really know there's been no official confirmation from anyone within the u.s. government but he did say that the u.s. government has had longstandi

these talks even though as of now we still have precious few details on what was actually agreed adrian brown in beijing thanks for that adrian israeli police say they have enough evidence to indict prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his wife on bribery charges they're accused of fraud and breach of trust in dealings with israel's largest telecoms operator netanyahu denies any wrongdoing police have already recommended charging netanyahu over allegations he accepted gifts from billionaire friends is accused of offering to promote new laws to benefit them in exchange for positive media coverage. weather up next but still ahead on al-jazeera french president. talks with protests. violent demonstrations. discrimination discrimination and genocide. a story of survival. with refugee children. had i was about two or three days between bites of right in the levant moment was we got nothing much happening in iran apart from the showers it looked likely in the caspian sea we have got incoming from the eastern med the next developing system so cloud first of all probably nothing more than that stret

opened yet another rift between the welds two top economies who are already engaged in a trade war adrian brown has more from beijing. well a lot happening on many different levels in this case right now over the weekend the ambassadors of both canada and the united states were summoned to the foreign ministry for a dressing down by a vice foreign minister who warned of unspecified action if monk is not freed immediately they continue to complain that monks human rights are being violated by this action and there is a growing belief here in china that her arrest her detention was politically motivated because of course how a way is a company that is at the heart of president xi jinping strategy to make china a leader in technologies of the future by twenty twenty five the language in state controlled media is going from really purple to crimson the nationalistic global times on monday warned that the detention of mung amounted to an act of war by the united states and i think that's going to be the tone of the language in the coming days weeks and months if mung remains detained her next bail h

substantial amount of american farm energy and industrial goods more from china correspondent adrian brown in beijing. well the governments of both china and the united states are putting a positive spin on the outcome of these talks but this is not a deal it is a truce a temporary cease fire because the white house is still warning that if after the ninety day period there is still no agreement between china and the united states on their many trade issues then the united states will impose tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods that's on top of terrorists that already apply to two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods now the chinese foreign minister wang ye has says that he hopes it can be more exchanges and visits between the two sides just before the talks president xi jinping said he was very happy to be meeting president donald trump and the best option for china and the united states was cooperation but there remains a fundamental areas of disagreement between these two sides especially in the area of force technology transfer and the fact that

a real sort of stepping up of the tempo from beijing in terms of its reaction out of there is adrian brown in beijing thanks very much for that adrian. well the next but still ahead on al-jazeera we speak to the commander of ukraine's navy whose twenty four crew members are still being detained by russia. and fighting for justice for the victims of sexual violence and conflict the powerful message from now about peace prize laureate. hello going to welcome back to international weather forecasts we're here across the united states we've been watching one major winter storm system pushing across the southeast now that has left a lot of snow a lot of ice in many places and we're still going to be dealing with that snow here on sunday mostly across the carolinas back behind that storm system we're still dealing with those very cold temperatures so any lingering snow is probably going to be refreezing in the overnight hours so very slick conditions for many locations there on tuesday a little residual snow left here but we do think by tuesday afternoon into wednesday that storm system is going

ping became president we have in many ways seen an almost opposite strategy thank you for that adrian brown live for us in beijing plenty more ahead on this news hour including sure lanka's prime minister celebrates his reinstatement with a promise of stability after a two month political crisis blasts. were in the in their refugee camp by the million borders find out next time this temporary shelter has become the fourth largest town in mauritania and in sports some of europe's biggest clubs are unable to avoid being drawn against each other in the champions league last sixteen details coming up later with peter. in britain the leader of the opposition is submitting a motion of no confidence in the prime minister that's after theresa may push back a crucial vote on the country's deal to leave the european union to next month with exit day on march the twenty ninth fast approaching and with no deal officially in place some politicians say the deadlock can only be resolved with a second referendum already and reports from london. with prime minister theresa may adamant there would be no mean

but made a veiled reference to not being dictated to adrian brown reports now from beijing in one nine hundred seventy eight the overall impression of china was one of backwardness and extreme poverty with workers doing jobs machines could do better the country was still recovering from the chaos and cruelty of chairman mao's political campaign. china's current president xi jinping was twenty five and a postgraduate student china's leader then was done shopping and on december the eighteenth in the great hall of the people he delivered one of the most important speeches in china's history outlining a radical plan to reform and open up the country stagnating economy allowing foreign investment from rivals like japan and the united states the southern city of shenzhen next to hong kong would be the crucible of that change the tiptoeing into capitalism had begun. forty years on president xi delivered another keenly anticipated speech unusually sitting down and he struck a defiant tone no one would stop china's rise neil curry from meet there is no textbook to follow that no one is in a po

and china adrian brown has more from beijing. hallway is the biggest private company in china worth almost twenty seven billion dollars according to the firm's latest annual report it recently overtook apple to become the world's second largest smartphone maker. mongering joe is not just the company's chief financial officer but daughter of the found a company statement says it's not aware of any wrongdoing by her the response from china's government has been swift and angry it says her human rights have been harmed wants her immediate release and a reason for her wrist to warn you when you're going to he don't let you go china has expressed our solemn position to canada and the us regarding the case china demands them to immediately clarify the reason for their arrest release the detainees and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the detainees. while way has been under scrutiny by governments in the united states and elsewhere over its links to china's ruling communist party and whether its operations pose a threat t

i'm adrian brown in taipei pickup at all of taiwan but for the past sixty nine years has been self-governing but this place is also claimed by mainland china and in the past it has threatened repeatedly to take taiwan back by force if necessary they just had local elections here and the ruling party did very badly china it seems may well have been a factor i've been talking to joseph taiwan's foreign minister who has the job of selling taiwan's message overseas at a time when china is doing all it can to isolate taiwan internationally he admits it's a frustrating job i can not think of any other country that has a more difficult foreign policy then taiwan china has been trying very hard to isolate taiwan internationally josephs taiwan's foreign minister talks to al-jazeera. joseph we welcome to talk to al-jazeera the last time i met you you were secretary general of the democratic progressive party you had just secured the presidency the legislature your party had done very well in those elections we've just had local elections and things haven't gone so well what what went wrong ruling part

and china correspondent adrian brown joins us live now from beijing agents how does the chinese government feel that meng's arrest was politically motivated. well yes i think in some ways that it does reading between the lines from official statements been getting from china's government i think there's certainly a feeling that the timing of monk's arrest is suspicious to say the least coming just a few hours after that meeting between president xi jinping and president donald trump to try to secure a fragile truce in the country's ongoing trade war when you go online the comments there a pretty forthright they certainly believe that the arrest is politically motivated a lot of people saying that canada has become the u.s. is dog and that you know canada is now doing the u.s. is bidding also some comments quite interestingly questioning and hoping that mung was not traveling on a foreign passport because they say if she was this could be potentially embarrassing to china's government we heard there from john bolton the national security adviser in that earlier package saying that he knew t

export sanctions adrian brown al jazeera beijing let's try to tie with the given how it can be how could our white house correspondent in washington it's all sort of come a bit out of the blue kimberly and involving so many countries and then as adrian pointed out that timing to be the same time that president and she was speaking how do you think this all works together. well you know there are so many unanswered questions in all of this and that's why there's a lot of spotlight on the next bail hearing that will be held in vancouver canada in the province of british columbia on friday as there's been a ban on this top to this point it's been very hard to piece together some of the allegations that have been made against man one joe the fact of the matter is that the timing at all of this is you point out is exceptionally curious her arrest coming at the very same time that donald trump the u.s. president and chinese president xi were essentially negotiating a truce in their tit for tat trade war that's been going on for months so whether the this is just sort of an unfortunate coincide

rift between the wilds to self economies who are already engaged in a trade war let's speak to adrian brownin beijing china's foreign ministry summoned the ambassadors of both canada and the u.s. over the weekend is this beijing trying to hit back. yeah i think beijing in many ways the stars here is playing the victim card of the moment which it often does on occasions like this it's summoned the u.s. ambassador as well as the canadian ambassador over the weekend to once more complain that the human rights of man when joe are being violated it's always interesting to hear china complaining about the human rights of its individuals being violated when of course china is accused of human rights violations on a massive scale especially in shin jiang where up to a million muslims may well be incarcerated now in labor camps so yes that china continues to complain very for seriously about the detention of mungo but it's leaving it in many ways to its attack dogs in state controlled media to really lead the charge the global times are really sort of nationalistic leaning newspaper here in china on

the two countries attempt to work out their differences kristen salumi al jazeera more now from adrian brown who's following china's reactions from beijing. this case is being watched very closely by china's leaders and certainly the tone in state controlled media seems pretty unanimous that the charges against mung are politically motivated the global times newspaper for instance a really nationalistic leaning media outlet says the united states is guilty of a despicable rogue approach to china saying that the united states has brought these charges against mung because its companies are unable to compete against a giant like highway of course governments do have hard way under scrutiny at the moment they're worried about its close links to china's communist party and they worry that that has serious implications for national security at least one major u.s. corporation is now advising its employees not to travel to china for the time being that said there is no sign whatsoever that china is planning to take any retaliatory action i think there's a clear reason for that we have a number of

type of mention of the two thousand and fifteen piracy agreements are trying to correspondent adrian brown has more now on what's at stake in the trial she talks. in beijing last november president donald trump appeared to be excited about her new friends my feeling toward you is an incredibly warm one as we said there's great chemistry. and i think we're going to do tremendous things for both china and for the united states it was the last time trump met president xi jinping who won't be fooled again says one academic he didn't count on trump's volatility the fact that trump could be you know a love in roses one day and in the next day we know launch a trade war. there's not much love now both sides are almost five months into a trade war and if there's no breakthrough at this weekend's g. twenty summit in one of saris the trumpet ministration is set to raise taxes or more chinese goods including i phones which are designed in california but manufactured in china the american consumers are likely the get a hit because if you look at the products always a great deal of the products like a

batteries that rely on the electricity grid that still derives two thirds of its power from coal adrian brown al-jazeera beijing illegal gold mining in the amazon has reached epidemic levels polluting rivers then destroying rain forest and that's according to a report by a conservation group they use satellite imagery and government data to track the effect of illegal gold mining in six countries if it found more than two thousand such sites the gold price increased in ten years has sparked a gold rush for police and believed to be russia's most prolific serial killer has been handed another life sentence because pop calls killed seventy eight people mostly women or a challenge as more. recall of was known as the anger ask maniac also the werewolf he was already serving life in jail for murdering twenty two women and he's just been found guilty for fifty six more murders they happen between one thousand nine hundred ninety two and two thousand and ten and eighteen year killing spree the mutilated and often rapes bodies of women were found in the cemeteries forests and roadsides of the siberia

as a very substantial amount of american farm energy and industrial goods china correspondent adrian brown has more reaction from beijing. well the governments of both china and the united states are putting a positive spin on the outcome of these talks but this is not a deal it is a truce a temporary cease fire because the white house is still warning that if after the ninety day period there is still no agreement between china and the united states on their many trade issues then the united states will impose tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods that's on top of terrorists that already apply to two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods now the chinese foreign minister wang ye has says that he hopes there could be more exchanges and visits between the two sides just before the talks president xi jinping said he was very happy to be meeting president donald trump and the best option for china and the united states was cooperation but there remains a fundamental areas of disagreement between these two sides especially in the area of forced technology

extradition to the united states on suspicion of violating sanctions against iran or china correspondent adrian brownreports friday looks like being another difficult day for china's biggest private company the japanese government has announced it's no longer going to be buying our way equipment this follows decisions taken by governments in new zealand australia and the united kingdom that they were effectively going to be barring holway from those countries five g. networks in the united states it's becoming clear that at least some senior white house officials were aware that monk was going to be arrested on the day the president donald trump sat down to meet president xi jinping at that all important meeting in one of saris on saturday but it's still not clear if president from himself new one analyst who says the what we have here is a serious legal act happening with political timing here in china there is certainly a belief amongst those online anyway who feel that this was a politically motivated arrest some people saying that canada is acting as the u.s. is thug and demanding that mung be im

i'm adrian brown in taipei taiwan but for the past sixty nine years has been self-governing but this place is also claimed by mainland china and in the past it has threatened repeatedly to take taiwan back by force if necessary they've just had local elections here and the ruling party did very badly china it seems may well have been a factor i've been talking to joseph taiwan's foreign minister who has the job of selling taiwan's message overseas at a time when china is doing all it can to isolate taiwan internationally he admits it's a frustrating job i can not think of any other country that has a more difficult foreign policy then taiwan china has been trying very hard to isolate taiwan internationally josephs taiwan's foreign minister talks to al-jazeera. joseph we welcome to talk to al-jazeera the last time i met you you were secretary general of the democratic progressive party you had just secured the presidency the legislature your party had done very well in those elections we've just had local elections and things haven't gone so well what what went wrong ruling party we n

china correspondent adrian brown has more from beijing. friday looks like being another difficult day for china's biggest private company the japanese government has announced it's no longer going to be buying our way a quick moment this follows decisions taken by governments in new zealand australia and the united kingdom that they were effectively going to be barring holway from those countries five g. networks in the united states it's becoming clear that at least some senior white house officials were aware that monk was going to be arrested on the day the president donald trump sat down to meet president xi jinping at that all important meeting in one of saris on saturday but it's still not clear if president from himself new one analyst says the what we have here is a serious legal act happening with political timing here in china there is certainly a belief amongst those online anyway who feel that this was a politically motivated arrest some people saying that canada is acting as the u.s. says thug and demanding that mung be immedi

is a truce but it has a very very short expiration date natasha thanks for that lucy and now to adrian brown in beijing adrian i see the white house is also saying they'll be immediate discussions on controversial intellectual property issues and technology transfer what's been the reaction so far out of china. well we've been getting a slow trickle of information in china's media but generally the tone is that there has been a breakthrough but let's see it for what it is this is a partial short lived agreement which is what everybody basically expected the two sides are i think going to meet again the chinese foreign minister wang ye has said that he hopes there can be further visits and exchanges in the coming weeks and of course there will have to be if this wider dispute is going to be resolved because it's not just tariffs where the two sides have differences as also intellectual property rights technology transfer taiwan you know the south china sea north korea human rights these are all fundamental issues where big differences remain between china and the united states and it's going

china correspondent adrian brown has more more now from beijing. well a lot happening on many different levels in this case right now over the weekend the ambassadors of both canada and the united states were summoned to the foreign ministry for a dressing down by a vice foreign minister who warned of unspecified action if monk is not freed immediately they continue to complain that monks human rights are being violated by this action and there is a growing belief here in china that her arrest her detention was politically motivated because of course her way is a company that is at the heart of president cheating peing strategy to make china a leader in technologies of the future by twenty twenty five the language in state controlled media is going from really purple to crimson the nationalistic global times on monday warned that the detention of mung amounted to an act of war by the united states and i think that's going to be the tone of the language in the coming days weeks and months if mung remains detained her next a bail hearing is on monday

have proved one thing you could improve livelihoods and grow an economy without political reform adrian brown al jazeera beijing but we've been speaking to don wang who's of the economist intelligence unit she says following the president's speech is a little chance of any development in the trade war with the us i do not see the possibility of even a small breakthrough because china has made several gestures in the past to make some compromise with the u.s. but at this point any observers would have realized that it's not a war the us want it's not about trade deficit isn't arbitrate it's about the commanding heights of all you can amuse and that is technology and the u.s. so far has been trying so hard to decouple its domestic technology sector from china's technology sector in order to maintain its dominance in technology and this is quite alarming to china because according to see speech today china would focus still on its indigenous innovation and that would be something that china is going to support for a long time and because of the i do not see any any possible new deal as a signing

and china adrian brown is monitoring reaction in beijing. friday looks like being another difficult day for china's biggest private company the japanese government has announced it's no longer going to be buying highway equipment this follows decisions taken by governments in new zealand australia and the united kingdom that they were effectively going to be borrowing hallway from those countries five g. networks in the united states it's becoming clear that at least some senior white house officials were aware that monk was going to be arrested on the day the president donald trump sat down to meet president xi jinping at that all important meeting in one of saris on saturday but it's still not clear if president from himself new one analyst who says the what we have here is a serious legal act happening with political timing here in china there is certainly a belief amongst those online anyway who feel that this was a politically motivated arrest some people saying that canada is acting as the u.s. is thug and demanding that mung be immedi

have proved one thing you can improve livelihoods and grow an economy without political reform adrian brown al jazeera beijing. rusher is being accused of using every social media platform to blur the lines between fact and fiction to help donald trump win the white house in two of the sixteen two reports released by the senate intelligence committee and giving a much bigger picture of moscow's this information campaigns which the studies are all a sell going on our official reports. if you can think of a social media platform there's a strong chance the russians used it to try to influence the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election from you tube facebook and twitter to read it and instagram and more to reports commissioned by the u.s. senate intelligence committee says russia's internet research agency or i r e tried to capitalize on divisions in u.s. politics it pushed more than ten million tweets more than one thousand you tube videos and their own one hundred sixteen thousand instagram posts all together that translated into a potential of reaching more than one hundred forty million

of chinese goods in january it's now delayed that plan the existing tariffs will stay in effect adrian brown with the latest now from beijing. well so far there's been no official response from china's leaders to that tweet from president donald trump suggesting the china's leaders have now agreed to cut tariffs on u.s. car imports by some forty percent if that is true then it does represent another sign of this trade dispute deescalating china's version of what happened in that diplomatic dinner in one of saris is though very different from the white house version the chinese statement actually makes no reference to the ninety day truce and the fact that more tariffs could be imposed on china if there is no agreement also the chinese statement makes no reference to china agreeing to buy more agricultural goods from the united states and also no mention of china agreeing to begin talks on the issue of forced technology transfers certainly analysts say that any pause is good for president xi jinping if it leads to more talking because they say china's strategy is to simply play for more time

connection with violating sanctions against iran china has demanded her release al-jazeera as adrian brown reports from beijing. huawei is the biggest private company in china worth almost twenty seven billion dollars according to the firm's latest annual report it recently overtook apple to become the world's second largest smartphone maker. mongering joe is not just the company's chief financial officer but daughter of the found a company statement says it's not aware of any wrongdoing by her the response from china's government has been swift and angry it says a human rights have been harmed once her immediate release and a reason for her arrest. she don't let you go china has expressed our solemn position to canada and the us regarding the case china demands them to immediately clarify the reason for their arrest release the detainees and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the detainees while way has been under scrutiny by governments in the united states and elsewhere over its links to china's ruling communist party and whether its operations pose a threat to national se

over sixty percent of the country's energy consumption and new coal plants are still being built adrian brown has this report. the economic machine that is china needs a vast amount of power to fuel its growth engine much of that fuel is code. in order to meet the target for reductions in carbon emissions china's leaders pledged to move away from fossil fuels to clean energy even if it meant closing thousands of factories three years on that commitment is looking in doubt says one leading environmentalist the reasons slowing economic growth and worsening trade friction with the united states.

in the escalating trade war and said they'll use the time to try to resolve their differences adrian brown now joins us from beijing agent president trump says the chinese are reducing these tariffs on u.s. made cars from some forty percent have the chinese confirmed this. no not yet not for the first time china's leaders have been caught on the hop by a tweet from president donald trump we know the of course that back in july china impose tariffs or some twenty five percent on u.s. car imports now president trump is apparently saying the china has agreed to cut those tariffs by more than forty percent if it's true then it would mark a possibly another significant deescalation in the trade war what is very clear understand is this the u.s. version of that diplomatic dinner in one of saris is very different from the that the chinese version for instance china is saying it it's official statement there is no mention of this ninety day deadline president trump are saying that if china and the united states can't reach agreement in this trade dispute then the united states will impose tariffs

accuses china of unfair trade practices which beijing to knives adrian brown reports from the chinese capital well there's no doubt the trumpet ministration will be hoping for some concessions i think though there may well be some misplaced expectations i think there will be concessions but i think there will be minor concessions what the trumpet ministration wants though is to hear a pledge from china's leader that it's going to win this system whereby american companies that do business here in china forced to hand over their technology to their partners as a condition for doing business here there's also the issue of forced technology transfers and the feeling among corporate america that they simply do not find a level playing field here in china now those are big demands but i think the president will try to go some way towards meeting them but we've heard pledges and promises made by china's leaders before and they simply haven't been met that the words haven't matched reality the history of relations between china and the united states over trade is really one marked by you kno

more now from our correspondent in beijing adrian brown. well this was a speech where many were looking for signs from president xi jinping as to whether he was prepared to offer more concessions to the united states to try to end the trade war between the two countries there were no concessions other than a vague promise from china's leader to continue the economic reforms the done shopping began exactly forty years ago with a speech in this same setting president xi struck a defiant tone he said nobody in future would be able to tell china what to do he also said that china would continue to set its own course and that no country had anything to fear from china's rise in the audience were many foreigners that president xi jinping said had helped in china's development it was forty years ago when dan had outlined his ambitious plan to radically change china's economic model and since then of course china has gone on to become an economic miracle president she said that in that time the poverty rate in china had been reduced by more than ni

have proved one thing you can improve livelihoods and grow an economy without political reform adrian brown al-jazeera beijing still to come on al-jazeera a former trump advisor is to be sentenced soon for lying to the f.b.i. about contact with russia and online vacation rental company b. and b. deny is reversing its plan to stop listing properties in illegal israeli settlements. bit more snow coming through its generous action the bay of bangor cloud here is just coming into the high ground in sichuan at the moment and that's the forecast for wednesday so there's a hint of it spotting is rain on lower ground for the researcher who handles shanghai and between wednesday and says these are mostly an overnight feature it's exactly what it'll do is a line of cloud developing rain rain not snow because the height and that's as up there on to rain probably in shanghai temps hasn't changed very much at all there was just a burst of rather secure cloud still quite well in hong kong at twenty five degrees which is rather better than delhi to be honest now there's the clouds it's come up through the