expected a couple of years ago but again the pottery issues the what grades that the company offered bazza reason from the all the handsets maybe that some people from grading but my fear is they sold so many to the fact they're just not innovating like it once did and there are all the competitors out there particularly in china where we look in a hallway as one example but there are a number of all those that are innovating at a fast pace and the gap between the two phones is not as great as the prices and therefore there is a majorly price sensitive issue and with craig and i'm talking to us in london going by the ongoing market volatility it looks like investors will have to brace for a continuation of last year's rollercoaster ride a major trade conflict between the world's top two economies. uncertainty over breaks it and also divisions within the euro zone twenty nineteen inherits quite a few unsolved problems if there's one thing the markets cannot stand it's uncertainty and in twenty eighteen there was no bundles of s. . u.s. president donald trump kicked off the year by signing o

-a bazza narrow is sworn in as brazil's new president with promises to crack down on corruption and improve the economy. this is al jazeera live from doha for the back to the bar also ahead china's president xi jinping makes a speech address to the people of taiwan saying both sides of the strait should reaganites u.s. border patrol agents launched a gas at asylum seekers to keep them from entering the country last why it's the final curtain for one of new york's most famous jazz fans. thank you for joining us brazil's new president. has been so on injuring a ceremony in the capital brasilia the former army captain represents a major shift to the right and not america's largest country and his first speech as president he promised a free brazil of corruption and crime and improve the economy john home and reporter. standing in the shadow of her hero for christina new year's day is the start of change help or think that that is going to say it's the opportunity for the country to grow it's an opportunity to stop being the country known for corruption and this opportunity is named. to the tic

would have expected a couple of years ago i can the pottery issues the grades that the company offered bazza reason some of the older handsets maybe did that some people from grading but my fear is they sold so many to the. juice not innovating like it once did and there are all the competitors out there particularly in china where we look in a hallway as one example but there are a number of all those that are innovating at a fast pace and the gap between the two phones is not as great as the prices and therefore there is a majorly price sensitive issue all right so so apple if i as of interpret you correctly is is in trouble is certainly in trouble and faces a lot of competition but going back to china you mentioned slowing growth there is well for various reasons but then again you do have to mystic demand there so what is the biggest problem that you see especially also when you talk about gross for investors in the next months to come. well you say we do have to master the monkey in china but we're always wiping up the monk versus what i expected the man was going to base so if you're l

a shock drop of seven point six percent that's the biggest monthly decline since july twenty sixth bazza beijing still maintained a wreck or trade surplus with washington in twenty eighteen of more than three hundred twenty three billion dollars china's trade surplus has been a sore point for the u.s. and prompted tit for tat terrorists last year christopher balding is an associate professor at fulbright university in vietnam he joins us now on skype from her city chris what's behind this truck then how much of this is juices slowing global demand and how much of this is due to that trade war. i think most of it is clearly due to both slowing global demand and what is most important to note is the drop in chinese imports indicating that there is rapidly slowing china he developed growth we started to see a drop in chinese economic growth back to probably october and this seems to be accelerating needed to those december important words that we saw from china be expecting this trend to continue. i think for the for the foreseeable future absent a strong policy response from beijing which

expected a couple of years ago i think and the pots of reissues the what grades that the company offered bazza reason some of the older handsets maybe that some people from upgrading but my fear is they sold so many come back to the op all these just not innovating like it once did and there are all the competitors out there particularly in china where we're looking at huawei as one example but there are a number of all those that are innovating at a fast pace and the gap between the two phones is not as great as the prices and therefore there is a majorly price sensitive issue. i'll have more biz for you later in the show including what to do if you're accused of insider trading or hurry thanks. plastic waste in the world's ocean is a huge problem there is still hope that it can be cleaned up but it's proving to be a difficult technical challenge a ship designed to start cleaning up the great pacific garbage patch is now being told back to land the giant boom it uses to collect rubbish has broken that needs to be repaired ocean garbage is a particular problem for coastal communities in india

responded strongly so really in many ways it's now a showdown between the nine day old government of giant bazza noddle and those two drug gangs that i mentioned so this must be somewhat of a challenge for about son aro a few days into his presidency presidency do we expect him to authorize greater involvement in the states. he's also another president with very much to prove he came to office. with a landslide victory part of that was promising to be tough on crime brazil has a very high crime rate he made that his major campaign promise so nine days into his term he really has to try to prove that to those people who supported him he's done that by sending several hundred state troops here to fort to listen and to say our province there are military police patrolling the streets of the state making their presence felt here it's been received fairly well by the residents they seem to be exhibiting that this needs to be done they seem to be supporting the noddles a show of strength but as i say the drugs gangs also showing their strength they've reacted very strongly this is a test here in seatt