the row escalated with the arrest of monk one joe weiwei c.f.o. and daughter of group founder of enjoying faith in canada in december while ways taken legal steps filing a lawsuit against the u.s. over a ban on government agencies using its products always lawyer said fears beijing might compel it to spy were baseless on homeland or that. if we install back doors or collect intelligence on behalf of others it's tantamount to committing suicide and we have no intention of committing suicide. as for the chinese government i believe they also hope wakeling continue to pay tax create employment and drive growth in the whole industry i don't think they prefer to use while we as a tool to attack others. while we are uninsured off the road with the usa income from its network business at the center of the espionage was down while we said it was a long term business and the effects will be felt in a few years' time. and in the latest turn in the ongoing investigation into the crash of an ethiopian airlines flight and initial data have reportedly now shown

to rao escalation with the arrest of monk one joe weiwei c.f.o. and daughter of group founder of enjoying faith in canada in december while ways taken legal steps filing a lawsuit against the u.s. over a ban on government agencies using its products always lawyer said fears beijing might compel it to spy were baseless and. if we install back doors or collect intelligence on behalf of others it's tantamount to committing suicide and we've no intention of committing suicide. as for the chinese government i believe they also hope continue to pay tax create employment and drive growth in the whole industry i don't think they prefer to use weiwei as a tool to attack others. while we are uninsured off the road with the usa income from its network business at the center of the espionage was down while we said it was a long term business and the effects will be felt in a few years' time. cliff couldn't is following this story for us cliff it weighs chair's cold the u.s. government loses it is is that what all of this comes down to basically a competition

joe appeared before an extradition court on wednesday she's accused of breaking u.s. sanctions and money laundering monks' lawyers argue her arrest was politically motivated weiwei is trying to weather the storms on many fronts the copycat european architecture is not a theme park but the firm's new research and development campus the company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera shenzhen to afghanistan now at least three people have been killed and dozens injured following an attack in western a couple rockets and heavy gunfire targeted a shia gathering in the capital eisel has claimed responsibility there is politicians were at the event including presidential candidates for july's election shallop ballots has more from kabul. eisel has claimed responsibility for this attack in western kabul unfortunately it is not a surprise because they have targeted this community the shia minority the czar's they have targeted the many times in this area especially over the last year and dozens have been killed in this this gathering today of more than a thousand people was commemorating the death of his our l

joe appeared before an extradition court on wednesday she's accused of breaking u.s. sanctions and money laundering monks lawyers argue her arrest was politically motivated weiwei is trying to weather the storms on many fronts the copycat european architecture is not a theme park but the firm's new research and development campus the company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera. thailand's constitutional court has dissolved a prominent opposition party and bandits leaders from politics for ten years the thai rocks a charge party was found guilty of violating election laws for nomination princess as their candidate for prime minister the king said it was inappropriate for royals to get involved in politics thailand is set to hold elections on march twenty fourth when haye has more from bangkok the nine constitutional court judges took less than forty minutes to deliver their verdict that the thai charge party should be dissolved it was a unanimous decision all nine judges voted in favor of that it wasn't unanimous though when it came to the other decision of whether to ban the leaders of this party

joe appeared before an extradition court on wednesday she's accused of breaking u.s. sanctions and money laundering monks' lawyers argue her arrest was politically motivated weiwei is trying to weather storms on many fronts the copycat european architecture is not a theme park but the firm's new research and development campus the company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera. at least three people have been killed and dozens injured following an attack in western kabul rockets and heavy gun via targeting the shiite gathering in the afghan capital i saw has claimed responsibility various politicians were at the event including presidential candidates for july's upcoming election shall abella says carmel. eisel has claimed responsibility for this attack in western cargo unfortunately it is not a surprise because they have targeted this community the shia minority the czar's they have targeted the many times in this area especially over the last year dozens have been killed in this this gathering today of more than a thousand people was commemorating the death of his our leader who died twenty four ye

joe appeared before an extradition court on wednesday she's accused of breaking u.s. sanctions and money laundering monks' lawyers argue her arrest was politically motivated weiwei is trying to weather the storms on many fronts the copycat european architecture is not a theme park but the firm's new research and development campus the company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera. while the us has been suspicious of chinese tech firms for some time now and twenty twelve a congressional panel warned while way and its rivals n t both posed security threats fast forward to last year and as adrian mentioned four ways chief financial officer men one joe was arrested in vancouver in january the us justice department filed charges against while way and having relation to fraud obstruction of justice and attempted theft of trade secrets but president i want trump says he'd consider intervening if it serves national security interests or if it helps to close a trade deal with china while trump has been fighting a trade offensive against china and others since coming to office promising better deals but the u

joe appeared before an extradition court on wednesday she's accused of breaking u.s. sanctions and money laundering monks' lawyers argue her arrest was politically motivated weiwei is trying to weather the storms on many fronts the copycat european architecture is not a theme park but the firm's new research and development campus the company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera. germany and the u.s. are warning of more sanctions against venezuela's president nicolas maduro washington says it will target banks supporting them adore government and germany's foreign minister says europe is not ruling out further sanctions the diplomatic standoff between them with their government and western leaders backing opposition leaders on why do as intensified after venezuela expelled the german ambassador on wednesday. well as the politicians battle for power venezuelans are struggling to survive trying to cope with food shortages medicine and the world's highest inflation rate and some children are going to extraordinary lengths to attend schools by crossing the border into neighboring colombia and well apol

joe appeared before an extradition court on wednesday she's accused of breaking u.s. sanctions and money laundering monks' lawyers argue her arrest was politically motivated weiwei is trying to weather the storms on many fronts the copycat european architecture is not a theme park but the firm's new research and development campus the company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera shinji. or white house correspondent kimberly how good is live in washington d.c. for so kimberly how are they reacting to this move by the chinese that. well there's no question that for many many months the u.s. government has been actively working to shine wall way to encourage other governments around the world not to use the company's equipment because of security concerns you have to pull back and think about where we are i mean not only is it actively working on that came the campaign to distance itself and to urge others to do the same with regard to the equipment but also they have indicted ploys for stealing u.s. technology and also sought extradition as we saw there in that report of a top executive over fraud ch

joe appeared before an extradition court on wednesday she's accused of breaking u.s. sanctions and money laundering monks lawyers argue her arrest was politically motivated weiwei is trying to weather storms on many fronts the copycat european architecture is not a theme park but the firm's new research and development campus the company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera. let's take a close look at hallways history based company was founded in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven by former officer of the chinese people's liberation army he won a government contract to provide equipment to the communist party in the early one nine hundred ninety s. his company was later granted status of a national champion this effectively closed the market to foreign competition hallway expanded internationally in the year two thousand and five years later the value of its overseas sales the past local business and today as the world's biggest supplier of network telecommunications equipment and the second largest seller of mobile phones. let's bring in our guest now and andrew long is an independent china a

joe appeared before an extradition court on wednesday she's accused of breaking u.s. sanctions and money laundering monks lawyers argue her arrest was politically motivated weiwei is trying to weather storms on many fronts the copycat european architecture is not a theme park but the firm's new research and development campus the company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera shen jan. now earlier we spoke to john biggs his reporter at tech crunch and he says holway has become a political soft ball between america and china. it's not clear that there's a that there's evidence of actual spying. if almost every piece of hardware that we own could be used for spying doesn't matter who makes it the big issue here is that this has become sort of a political softball that folks are throwing back and forth china saying that they're being an untrue unfairly treated and the u.s. is saying that these things are dangerous is the technology actually dangerous absolutely not it's there's these these back doors would have been caught long before anybody anybody. has been affected but the real question is here whe

joe appeared before an extradition court on wednesday she's accused of breaking u.s. sanctions and money laundering monks lawyers argue her arrest was politically motivated weiwei is trying to weather storms on many fronts the copycat european architecture is not a theme park but the firm's new research and development campus the company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera change him. disgraced french cardinal philip bombast says he will offer his resignation to the pope after a judge and found him guilty of failing to report child sex abuse trial far she's the case has shed a light on the catholic church's declining influence in france the dutch about what has more. from his diocese in the city of french cardinal philip announced his resignation. i have decided to go and see the holy father to tender my resignation he will receive me in a few days. it was an unexpected twist to often already dramatic morning in court in his absence the judge found the cardinal guilty of failing to report child sex abuse to authorities giving him a six month suspended prison sentence bob barr had known the priest

joe appeared before an extradition court on wednesday she's accused of breaking u.s. sanctions and money laundering monks' lawyers argue her arrest was politically motivated weiwei is trying to weather the storms on many fronts the copycat european architecture is not a theme park but the firm's new research and development campus the company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera. let's take a look now at what's behind the political and economic battle china has to spend four hundred and eleven billion dollars from twenty twenty to twenty thirty upgrade in telecom systems to five g. now compare that to us telecom companies will spend one hundred billion dollars between twenty eighteen to twenty twenty and twenty thirty five g. technology well and able twelve point three trillion dollars in total economic output that is the combined spending of consumers in china japan u.k. france and germany and twenty sixteen well let's get more on this now we're joined by john biggs reporter at tech crunch and he's joining us live from new york very good to have you with us on al-jazeera as one of the world's bigg

joe appeared before an extradition court on wednesday she's accused of breaking u.s. sanctions and money laundering monks lawyers argue her arrest was politically motivated weiwei is trying to weather storms on many fronts the copycat european architecture is not a theme park but the firm's new research and development campus the company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera. let's take a close look at hallways history based company was founded in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven by a former officer of the chinese people's liberation army he won a government contract to provide equipment to the communist party in the early one nine hundred ninety s. his company was later granted status of national champion this effectively closed the market to foreign competition hallway expanded internationally in the year two thousand and five years later the value of its overseas sales the past local business and today as the world's biggest supplier of network telecommunications equipment and the second largest seller of mobile phones. let's bring in our guest now and andrew long is an independent china a