firas al masadi sold more dubai properties than any other real estate broker last year. the same from china in 2019 so another $400 million from china alone so we are starting an office in shanghai, and the interest is concrete for us. also encouraging chinese investment has been the uae‘s push to strengthen ties with beijing. first of all, the visa. we don't need visa to come to dubai, so this is a big difference and chinese feel very free to come, and also to live here and now you can see, even in dubai mall, you can see the chinese word sign. so it's quite easy for them to explore in dubai. as dubai prepares to host expo 2020 next year, chinese investors won't have forgotten the boost the world fair—style event gave to shanghai property prices a decade ago. chinese investment in this corner of the middle east looks set to keep rising for now. vivienne nunis, bbc news, dubai. more detail on financial markets. in japan we are seeing a bit of a catch up japan we are seeing a bit of a catch up rally because japan was closed on monday when we saw strong gains across the bo

firas commitments in this regard that it will not only put on paper but will actually comply with if you talk about interference if it wasn't your own this interference in human. you made it human which is. so the problem is that everything in this regard is somehow mutual if we talk about if we do if the saudis interpret this as a kind of interference they have to you know give the same commitments i mean i'm not talking about an offshore position because i'm not an officer i'm simply saying about the facts based on this. it's simply on realistic to ask you wrong to you know just be restricted to its internal affairs because it's easy in the region you know there are 2 different viewpoints to our security and there isn't among iran and. i would you let block and see for you don it's the regional countries against regional countries that see or trance regional countries for the saudis and news and the emir it is it's about iran versus arabs or versus sunni is iran does not believe in this it's a pretty asian iran believes in the possibility of a kind of the you know. collective secur

joining us from washington dc is firas modad, the middle east analyst at the research company ihs markitng us. how surprised were you see this fourth day of protests? we said round 1 days ago we were expecting unrest to break out, we were not expecting the scale and we were not expecting the cfoss scale and we were not expecting the cross sectarian make up of the protests. so-and-so given that surprise, how bad things now, in the country? lebanon is governed by a coalition of sectarian mafias that collaborate to loot the state. they don't have solutions to offer so things are pretty bad. you say things are pretty bad. you say things are pretty bad, sorry to jump m, things are pretty bad, sorry to jump in, you say things are present #2i bad. give us an idea what kind of things aren't working. —— pretty bad. one of the slowest internet connections in the world you pay electricity to private generators and to the state. telephone networks don't really work so well. you have to pay for private water provision and for state water provision. relatively high taxes on everything thatis relativel