adrian brown live for us in diamond dong on the china north korea border thank you very much indeed. what has been known as hurricane has now weakened to a tropical storm as it made landfall in the u.s. mainland at least eight people have died in the u.s. and dozens more in the caribbean along this destructive path people in the state of florida are beginning to assess the damage. reports from tampa. the search for survivors begins in the florida keys where fishes fear a humanitarian crisis and untold number of people defied evacuation orders ahead of him as a rival despite warnings and staying would be suicide. was lifted by the storm surge and carried across the highway one and posited about one hundred meters from where ridge line came from as the florida death toll rises in other parts of the state have begun to clean up the storm a category four hurricane at its first u.s. landfall left a trail of destruction from miami to naples further to the north the city of tampa is breathing a huge sigh of relief the extent of irma's damage here some downed walls some trees and power lines

of a safety may have eased concerns remain over the cost of china's high speed rail ambitions adrian brown report. china's high speed rail ways are a potent symbol of its economy today the network has more than twenty thousand kilometers of track the largest in the world and it's all happened in less than a decade the link between beijing and shanghai is one of the busiest experts say the new service is about more than just the lure of speed or hunger for. the purpose of raising the speed is merely symbolic that the speed of three hundred fifty kilometers an hour the fastest in the world this implies the stress of chinese twenty. foot high speed trains are expensive to operate one international think tank estimates that it cost ninety percent more to build lines for trains that reach three hundred fifty kilometers an hour than four ones that allow a speed of two hundred fifty but china's government is in a hurry to build more both in china and abroad than handle if you want it nobody predicted that the high speed rail between beijing and shanghai would be profitable when it was built but a

some of those sanctions falls on customs officials on the border between south and north korea adrian brown reports from dandong in china hours before the u.n. vote it was business as usual in dandong a steady flow of empty lorries to north korea cross the single lane friendship bridge a vital economic conduit for the north. thereby other trucks enter a customs yard before hitting the other way. there covered cargoes offering few clues of what might be inside. but some trucks appeared to be carrying building materials. experts say because north korea's government is now so hard up china is selling on credit. so the north needs hard cash from wherever it can get it the stirring patrie arctic songs are a feature of one of dandong most popular north korean restaurants in fieri new sanctions mean these performers can't be replaced by new musicians from the north the wages of the performers waitresses and cooks are collected directly by the regime a very lucrative source of hard currency what happens as well these restaurant is the people work there. basically all the money is going back or only

adrian brown al-jazeera don't want to talk to b.j. kim is a political commentator a junk professor at hancock university of foreign studies he joins us live now from seoul the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. says these are the toughest sanctions ever imposed on north korea over its nuclear program but many people say look they're not going to work what do you think i guess is that in my opinion there are lots of realists here in town and they seem to believe that actually this is not the strongest measure ever let's take a look at what's inside twenty seven thirty five you want to see our u.n. security council resolution here i mean keeping the crude oil at four hundred four million gallons per year that's no change there and then textile ban textile exports then what does that mean actually rather syria don't really see much meat in the resolution of course united states and inside the allies that work very hard for it but realists here believe that china and russia have made it very clear that they do not want north korea's denucleariza

if as expected president donald trump begins an official visit to china in november richelle ok adrian brown live for us and beijing adrian thank you well as alluded to the insults continue to fly between the u.s. and north korean leaders with donald trump calling him a madman on twitter and in response to a chemist official statement calling the u.s. president to ranged and i barking dog meanwhile russia says it's time for the war of words to stop and for mediators to step ahead of america to tame space reports in the united nations. for now it's a war of words but diplomats increasingly fear that the heightened rhetoric coupled with any miscalculation could lead to actual conflict kim myong own has been calling president trump a mad man after trump mocked him as rocket man russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says it's time for threats to give way to dialogue i asked him about president speech and his threats to destroy north korea do you think that his language his tone and his approach make the world a safer or more dangerous place yes because although we never supported threats which

relations once more it has adrian brown live in beijing adrian thank you. state media in iran have released footage of what they say is a successful test launch of a new a list that missed solve the crime shahr was launched just a few hours after it was unveiled at a military parade and tehran follows threats by u.s. president donald trump that washington may withdraw from the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal of sense china has a senior lecturer and international relations a middle east policy politics at the university of preferred it says that while iran remains committed to the nuclear deal it is telling the u.s. and israel that it stands ready to defend itself this is happening at the time that the pressure from the united states is increasing. iran and been my puppini and what happened just yesterday is a manifestation of a new type of terror and of course you have to remember that from the beginning of the nuclear negotiation iran remains very determined that it is not prepared to negotiate its defensive mechanism and it is not prepared to negoti

interest come this close to china's border mostly on public holidays and they make the most of it adrian brown al jazeera in downtown more on that and all our other stories on our website al-jazeera. now reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the un human rights chief says violence faced by myanmar's minority is a textbook example of ethnic cleansing on monday alone a witness for imported seeing hundreds of ranger running from the village after security forces fired guns and set fire to homes more than three hundred thirteen thousand have now fled the military crackdown in northern rakhine state to seek safety in bangladesh the situation remains or seamless a textbook textbook example of ethnic cleansing. the myanmar government should stop pretending that setting fire to their own homes and laying waste to their own villages this complete non of reality is doing great damage to the international standing of a government which until recently benefited from immense goodwill i call on the government to end its current crew a military operation with accountability for all violations that have o

over safety may have eased concerns remain over the cost of china's high speed rail ambitions adrian brown reports. china's high speed rail ways are a potent symbol of its economy today the network has more than twenty thousand kilometers of track the largest in the world and it's all happened in less than a decade the link between beijing and shanghai is one of the busiest experts say the new service is about more than just the lure of speed or hunger for. the purpose of raising the speed is merely symbolic that drinking a run at a speed of three hundred fifty kilometers an hour the fastest in the world this implies the stress of chinese twenty. foot high speed trains are expensive to operate one international think tank estimates that it cost ninety percent more to build lines for trains that reach three hundred fifty kilometers an hour than four ones that allow a speed of two hundred fifty but china's government is in a hurry to build more both in china and abroad than handle if you want it and nobody predicted that the high speed rail between beijing and shanghai would be profitable wh

the first time and now once more china holds the title for the world's fastest passenger train adrian brown algis you a few. quick recap of the top stories for you now president donald trump has signed a new executive order ramping up sanctions against north korea its pacifically helps the u.s. target people companies and banks financing in facilitating trade with pyongyang the aim is to put the country under pressure to stop pursuing its nuclear missile program both korea's textiles fishing information technology and manufacturing industries are among those to be targeted also praised china for ordering its banks to stop doing business with north korea. a new executive order will close to our sources of revenue that fund north korea's efforts to develop the deadliest weapons known to human kind the order in hand says the treasury department's authorities to target any individual or entity that conducts significant trade in goods services or technology with north korea. and in the past hour there has been reaction from north korea with the state news agency responding to that order from the

adrian brown is live for us in beijing so a.j. we heard the u.s. president there talking about the banking industry but hasn't china deny that they put banking sanctions on north korea. yeah there is confusion once more here in beijing because on friday as you rightly point out the foreign ministry spokesperson here in beijing said that donald trump's version is not conforming to china's understanding of what has been agreed so it didn't really specifically reject or deny what donald trump had said but china hasn't actually spelt out or confirmed actually that it's going along with these new banking sanctions against north korea we've had no official statement from the bank of china remember president donald trump on thursday said that the bank of china had told its banks to no longer deal with north korea so it is far from clear at the moment and it's saturday here in beijing where the beijing is necessarily going along with what donald trump has outlined to that audience i think it's fair to assume though that the united states does believe that

passengers the defect has been linked to several deaths and scores of injuries around the world adrian brown joins us live now from beijing so a train yes this is an issue we have heard about before with this company what else do we know. yeah and the figures easter to sticks in this story really are extraordinary because as you point out general motors has today announced it's recalling some two and a half million vehicles fitted with these airbags is concerned about the deflator as you pointed out but last week the volkswagen company announced that its chinese joint ventures were recalling some almost five million of their vehicles because of similar concern so that's what seven and a half million vehicles now china of course is the world's biggest auto market it has some thirty million vehicles on the road but this of course is raising concerns about you know the airbags in many of these cars now to carter has globally so far recalled more than one hundred million of these airbags seventy percent of those airbags were recalled in the united states and as you said there is concern about wh

the pressure with more threats saying it could conduct a hydrogen bomb test in the pacific so adrian brown is following all this live from beijing for us so adrian how significant is this move by china to limit oil exports . i think what has happened richelle is this china has simply confirmed what it did read to at the united nations security council in terms of the sanctions that it must now in force against north korea because of course china accounts for ninety percent of north korea's trade so the onus is really on china to enforce those sanctions so between now and essentially october the first china will stop exporting liquefied natural gas it will limit exports of oil it will cap oil exports at two hundred million barrels a year that effectively means a ten percent cut its all go also going to stop the export of refined petroleum products but most importantly it's going to halt the import of north korean textiles and those textiles as you mentioned in your introduction are a very important source of hard currency for the regime china is also going to limit the number of north korea

and what is this i do apologize we are not in the south korean capital we are in beijing with adrian brown adrian we've heard from the chinese government now what are they saying well a short time ago the chinese foreign ministry held their daily media briefing for foreign journalists and as always china was very quick to condemn north korea's actions remember north korea was not just thumbing its nose at the international community once more it was also thumbing its nose at china its old its only ally its oldest friend now the foreign ministry spokeswoman was also quite defensive her language was quite techy on friday she said that what was happening on the korean peninsula was not the fault of china and she said once more that the crux of the problem was the conflict between the united states and north korea let's listen more to what she had to say just a short time ago on candour we've seen that peacefully solving the nuclear issue on the peninsula through formal diplomatic means is slowly becoming the consensus of the international community at the same time there are more and more peo

adrian brown al jazeera. iraq's parliament has rejected this month's referendum on independence by the semi autonomous kurdish region campaigning is already underway for the vote on september twenty fifth iraq as well as neighboring turkey and iran opposed the non-binding referendum in non-con has more from below in the capital of the kurdistan region in iraq. where we're all expecting baghdad to say no to the referendum promise to hide a body has been very clear he says he doesn't want this referendum to go ahead so this vote was expected by the baghdad parliament however the kurds members of that palm and they walked out of that vote so they didn't take part in the vote allowing the arab m.p.'s to vote and say no to the referendum so me who is the speaker of the house says this means that the baghdad parliament must now really negotiate with the kurds for a settlement to this issue president masoud barzani of the k r g has been very clear he wants this to go ahead this referendum to go ahead it's an interes

the first time and now one small china holds the title for the world's fastest passenger train adrian browni'll just be patient. and it's time for sport to sign a thank you again all christian or and others return to ryall madrid after serving a five game suspension did not go according to plan for him or his team. made his comeback to leader for the first time this season after pushing a referee but in the dying moments it was a real betis who scored to inflict a one nil loss to ryall who losses seventh in the standings. on the first to a semi final spot for south america's biggest club competition the copper liberty dollars are now filled in all brazilian a quarter final game euro and water for go were lost that nil they off to the first leg of lucas by year says the sixty third minute striker was it was all that separated the two teams over to the exit in the quarter final time. we all three time winner scientists were knocked out of the competition they were beaten two one on aggregate by barcelona of ecuador despite having two players sent off salaries or edging closer to the semifinal

their own and we've got our correspondents craig leeson in tokyo mike hanna in washington and adrian brown in beijing first let's cross live to seoul and thomas andrew what do we know about this launch. well that missile was launched at six fifty seven local time on the korean peninsula that is just over three hours ago in fact exactly three hours ago that missile was in the air it flew for nineteen minutes we're told by the south korean military and it flew for three thousand seven hundred kilometers in a north west easterly direction now had that missile being flown in a south westerly direction it would have flown towards a quorum where the united states of course has a big military presence so that in itself is significant the distance it flew very very significant north korea had made it clear after the united nations part its resolution at beginning of the week that it was not going to be deterred from testing missiles and from nuclear tests this seems to be evidence of that a test so swiftly after that u.n. resolution was passed is clear provocation by the north and clear suggestion

craig lease in life which they're in turkey and thank you to adrian brown now he is in dandong china near the north korean border so age in china is of course north korea's biggest trading partner and only real friend what impact will these sanctions have on china because of course that town where you are now is very reliant on trade with the north. yet certainly when you speak to people here they're pretty sanguine about it all as you rightly point out you know china accounts for a whopping ninety percent of all of north korea's trade most of that trade passes through the city of dandong right on the border with north korea but actually during recent months as trade with north korea has fallen tourism has really started to pick up tourists now come to this place from all over china to stand on the riverfront here behind me and to stare across the river into north korea much the same way the tourists used to go to hong kong thirty or forty years ago to go across the border into china they want to come to this place to experience north korea without actually having to go there but i t

the first time and now once more china holds the title for the world's fastest passenger train adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. and that's it from the team here and. from london shortly with more news and the latest from the u.n. general assembly. i just want to make sure all of our audience is on the same page where they're online and want to pollute the u.s. citizens here you know what pollutes people of iraq by one and the same or if you join us on say i was never put a file been look at differently because i'm dacogen all the people that i'm a watch this is a dialogue tweet us with hash tag a.j. stream and one of their pitches might make a connection join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera the story that have the greatest impact on me would probably be the maracana massacre thirty four miners died and we where there were no very few television things being right on that time to dismiss some of the science the story the story and films and stuff like that tonight i want this to viewer in malaysia like al-jazeera english because the news is not censored and you didn't miss

russian and chinese warships are taking part in the exercises live now to be china correspondent adrian brown adrian to what degree is this a reaction to increasing tensions coming out of north korea and indeed i guess out of washington. well i think it's possible to read different things into these war exercises that are taking place involving the navies of russia and china i think possibly though it has more to do with japan monday mark the eighty six anniversary of japan's invasion of north east china it's a very important anniversary here in china and here moscow and beijing reiterate that they have no third country in mind when they carry out these drills which have happened every year for the past five years but analysts here in beijing say actually the real target is china and now we have seen really over the past four five years president vladimir putin and president xi jinping becoming much much closer and of course these exercises enable them to demonstrate just to the united states as well that actually russia and china are becoming much closer allies now russia and china have no f

where he's going to be joining us from seoul with the south korean perspective adrian brown is in dandong china's border with north korea first let's go to our diplomatic editor james bays the united nations james the u.s. ambassador nikki haley was speaking after the unanimous vote earlier on and she said the security council had been there before with sanctions but this time it was different in what way is it different this time james. well certainly there are tighter sanctions they certainly have increased sanctions for example on north korea's textile exports they've increased sanctions on the oil that north korea can buy but it's nothing as tough as the original version of this resolution that they tried to get through they do negotiations behind the scene over the last week and it was clear that russia and china were not going to have the tougher version of this resolution and so they have watered it down because in the end the u.s. decided it was worth getting some extra sanctions and it certainly wasn't worth getting a division among the u.n. security council because one of the fe

adrian brown al jazeera. coming out for you this news hour millions of refugees children missing out completely on schooling we look at what it means for their future. on the front line with an elite branch of them philippines military in its fight against armed groups in the south. and then later unspoken tell you why the celebrations by south africa's football team ended up counting and nothing. bangladesh's prime minister has visited ranjoor refugees from myanmar and promised that her country will look after them so far three hundred seventy thousand range of muslims have crossed the border escaping what the united nations says amounts to ethnic cleansing from fiji camp and bangladesh to the reports. some of the recently arrived at the prime minister who's giving them refuge sheikh hasina condemned the me and my government for causing at least three hundred seventy thousand people to flee across the border in just three weeks but she says they don't belong here in our parliament. that. all the back to back

we've got our correspondent in seoul under thomas mike hanna in washington our china correspondent adrian brown in beijing for us let's cross live to our correspondent in tokyo craig leeson so sins are producing some very strong statements there what else is even saying. yes well he arrived back from this summit that he was attending in india and was greeted by this missile launch he's called for an emergency meeting of the un security council and for the un security council up to that point to implement the strong sanctions or stronger sanctions that would imposed against north korea on choose day and that was bought by the united states and backed by south korea so clearly they don't very happy with the current state of affairs but he did say that japan was prepared for it in that they tracked the missile and that in fact they were able to issue a jail which is a public warning to people in the north of japan shortly after that me saw it was launched and what that does is it sends a message to people's mobile phones it also makes radio and television announcements and gives fair warning that

city of dandong to peek at their neighbors and to buy cheap cigarettes are china correspondent adrian brown went there for a day trip. it is an unlikely but increasingly popular destination for chinese tourists posing in traditional korean costumes is part of the experience. most visitors come to dandong because they're curious about their neighbor while others appear unaware about the north's latest test. we all want to come to the border to take a look i've never heard of any news on missile launches or nuclear tests those who are better informed know are losing patience yet some work somewhere like china is angry at north korea it's like a crying baby but you can't throw away this baby even though it keeps growing sanctions of calls the volume of chinese trade with north korea to fall but tourism officials say it's growing now accounting for around half of down dongs g.d.p. so i had a nice watch so it's hard to say if north korea's behavior is stimulating tourism or the opposite but we are expecting a increasing demands during the golden week holiday in early october. less than ten perce

of state rex tillerson in washington should also meet president trump let's get more now from adrian brown who joins us live from beijing adrian so what can we read into the timing of this announcement by the chinese. well sanctions sanctions and yet more sanctions daryn why is this happening now well there are a number of reasons firstly i think you know china has really reached the limit of its sort of patience threshold with china it is deeply frustrated with the fact that north korea continues to defy u.n. resolutions and then there is the timing well in less than twenty four hours the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is here in beijing he of course is expected to say to china you need to do more to rein in north korea well of course china can now say look in the past couple of months we have begun imposing three sets of sanctions let's remember china is now limiting exports of oil to north korea that comes into effect on october the first it's no longer importing textiles from north korea an important source of hard currency and it's no longer taking coal from north korea these l

trumps first official visit to china is expected to take place in november let's get more now from adrian brown he joins us live from beijing adrian rex tillerson i was just in beijing six months ago so why is he back there now. well daryn an awful lot has happened during the past six months tensions on the north korean peninsula have reached really unprecedented levels and of course there remain still deep trade friction between china and the united states but of course rex tillerson is really here a century not just to talk about north korea but also to lay the groundwork for president donald trump's first inaugural visit here to china that's going to happen sometime in the first two weeks of november so a lot to talk about there he really does carry a very heavy agenda even though he's here for really a very short time no more than a day but north korea as i say is going to be top of the agenda you know in many ways these two countries need each other right now in a strange way daryn the crisis on the korean peninsula north korea has in a way bought china and the united states closer togethe

beijing to shanghai but there are concerns about the cost of china's high speed rail ambitions as adrian brown reports. china's high speed rail waves are a potent symbol of its economy today the network has more than twenty thousand kilometers of track the largest in the world and it's all happened in less than a decade the link between beijing and shanghai is one of the busiest experts say the new service is about more than just the lure of speed or hunger for. the purpose of raising the speed is merely symbolic that drinking a run at the speed of three hundred fifty kilometers an hour the fastest in the world this implies the stress of chinese twenty. foot high speed trains are expensive to operate one international think tank estimates that it cost ninety percent more to build lines for trains that reach three hundred fifty kilometers an hour than four ones that allow a speed of two hundred fifty but china's government is in a hurry to build more both in china and abroad. nobody predicted that the high speed rail between beijing and shanghai would be profitable when it was built but after a

president trumps first official visit to china is expected to take place in november let's get more of adrian brown who joins us live from beijing adrian rex tillerson as you were saying was just in beijing six months ago so why is he back there now do we think. well daryn an awful lot has happened during the past six months tensions on the korean peninsula have now perhaps entered their most dangerous phase and rarely has the relationship between the united states and china mattered as much as it does now so i think rex tillerson comes here with a very full agenda i think it's fair to assume that north korea will be at the top of that agenda but of course he also wants to lay the groundwork for the visit here in november by president donald trump it's been confirmed by the white house the president from peru is to visit china vietnam the philippines japan and south korea during the first two months of november so there's an awful lot for both sides to plan and i think china wants to ensure the president from his visit is not entirely overshadowed by the crisis with north korea also i think china w

leaders for now they'll continue their push for a diplomatic solution to reign in their old ally adrian brown al jazeera dandong. britain and sweden are requesting a u.n. security council meeting on violence against the muslims in myanmar united nations is describing their treatment in rakhine state as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing more than three hundred thirteen thousand rangers have escaped a military crackdown to seek safety in neighboring bangladesh the government there says three thousand have been killed by me and most security forces while difficult holland is in cox's bazaar that's on the me and bangladesh border device so we understand the bangladeshi prime minister sheikh hasina is going to visit the border area what are we expecting from this trip and if you like to do you think to ramp up any kind of relief effort for the ranger. that's right rob and ahead of this trip i want to mention the huge diplomatic push that bangladesh is making that try to meetings with the foreign minister that tried to enlist the help of the in march giant neighbors india and china they want t

giant caught a defeat defect has been linked to several deaths and many injuries around the world adrian brown has the latest from beijing. well the scale of all this is huge just a few days ago volkswagen announced that its joint venture companies here in china were recalling almost five million vehicles made here now general motors says the two and a half million vehicles that it manufactures here in china including buicks and chevrolets are also going to be recalled the problem issues with the airbag deflator which have been linked to the deaths of sixteen people worldwide as well as more than one hundred eighty injuries there have been no deaths in china no injuries that we know of but the problem is sufficiently serious enough for these manufacturers to now take this record every measure now the recall will go on until the end of the year both companies say that the repairs will be done for free but of course this is going to cause huge inconvenience for millions of chinese motorists why does all this matter or china of course is the world's biggest auto market and no manufacturer wants t

the first time and now once more china holds the title for the world's fastest passenger train adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. now helium balloons are a staple of many childhood memories but have you ever wondered how far they can travel well the french past helped with the answer winning one of the world's most prestigious ballooning events the duo traveled more than eight hundred kilometers in a gas balloon and then it was one of twenty one teams taking part in the gordon bennett race chapel from five home in switzerland and landed in a field in a stone yet almost two days later. the top stories this hour north korea's foreign minister says his country is considering a hydrogen bomb test in the pacific ocean. it follows new sanctions imposed by u.s. president donald trump the european union and china are also stepping up measures against pyongyang over its nuclear program. bangladesh's prime minister has used her address at the un general assembly to push the international community on the range of crisis shake a scene at once the u.n. to help establish safe zones for people who fled the

place a call and that's the difficulty china has no one to talk to anymore and in the past it has adrian brown live for us in beijing thank you injury and. first cabinet has been dismissed after a bout of no confidence by the opposition controlled congress president pedro public osinski now has three days to swear in a new team he can reappoint ministers but not the prime minister for hundreds of allah a congress is dominated by the right wing populist force officers ition party brazilian president michel timorous facing new corruption charges he's accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes but denies wrongdoing or a house of congress will decide if he should face trial in the supreme court last month the house voted against a hearing on a different corruption charge. in nigeria about fifty thousand women die every year because of birth related complications and often happens while giving birth at home culture cost and distance keep many from going to hospitals in the first of a three part series on maternal mortality catherine sawyer reports from soco. but there is four months pregnant a

the first time and now once more china holds the title for the world's fastest passenger train adrian brown. beijing. let's take you to the headlines now on al-jazeera the south korean president when jay in a sent a message of peace to north korea is told the u.n. general assembly doesn't want to collapse has called for more dialogue but also commended the u.n. security council for imposing its latest sanctions on north korea. we do not desire the collapse of north korea we will not seek unification by absorption or artificial means if north korea makes a decision even now to stand on the right side of history we are ready to assist north korea together with the international community. second vice president has told the general assembly the violence in rakhine state is easing our teams on the ground however say that is not the case in fact more than four hundred twenty thousand re-injure of now fled to bangladesh since a military crackdown began last month and thousands of people are protesting outside barcelona as the supreme court calling for the release of regional government officials

have the potential to inflate with too much force firing shrapnel at the driver and passengers adrian brown has the latest from beijing. rush hour in beijing a reminder that this is the world's largest auto market with almost thirty million vehicles on the road but now some of these vehicles having to be recalled because of problems with their airbags specifically the airbag deployed has now according to some reports the air bags have been exploding when they come under too much pressure and they've been linked to sixteen deaths worldwide although no deaths so far here in china but general motors is worried and on monday it announced it was recalling two and a half million vehicles manufactured here that have been fitted with these airbags models including buick and chevrolet which are very popular here in china now this followed a similar recall by volkswagen last week affecting almost five million of their vehicles produced by their joint venture companies here in china so this is a serious setback for car manufacturers now manufacturing here in china. now the island nation of summer in t

and its allies james zira at the united nations but adrian brown joins me live now from beijing agents of president trump says only one country is the target of these sanctions but is that how china will see it. i don't think so i mean that statement that came from the treasury from the white house on thursday said that financial institutions have to decide whether they want to do business with the united states or with north korea now given that ninety percent of north korea's trade is china it's fair to assume who that statement was directed at now so far we've had no official confirmation from the bank of china that they are going to go along with these sanctions but i think it's fair to assume that it is going to happen and if so this represents a major tightening of the economic news around north korea because they are such important trading partners now i think privately behind the scenes this has been happening there and i think that the united states really has china in a headlock i think it said that we have evidence that a lot of your small financial institutions and banks ar

adrian brown al-jazeera. britain and sweden are requesting a un security council meeting on violence against a range of muslims in myanmar the united nations is describing their treatment in recalling states as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing more than three hundred thirteen thousand were injured have a skate to military crackdown to seek safety in neighboring bangladesh the government there says three thousand have been killed by me in moscow two forces the bangladeshi prime minister sheikh hasina is expected to visit one of the refugee camps difficult pollen is incautious bazaar the bangladeshi parliament has been discussing the situation and the decided to send a statement to me and maher urging me and mark to take back the refugees and create a safe zone for them the bangladeshi prime minister is due to arrive here at this camp which has grown since hundreds of thousands of refugees have a right here in bangladesh and recent weeks she's expected to announce relief efforts for them the moment the on

the first time and now one small china holds the title for the world's fastest passenger train adrian brown al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories u.s. president donald trump is impose new sanctions on north korea targeting anyone who does business with pyongyang kim jong un says trump will pay dearly for his actions the e.u. is also considering new measures and china is ordering its buying to abide by existing sanctions bangladesh's prime minister has used her address at the un general assembly to push the international community on the crisis. once the u.n. to help establish safe zones for people who fled the violence in me a most rocking state she says four hundred thirty thousand muslims have fled to her country since a military crackdown a member began last month. we are horrified to see that the million marrus already are laying landmines along their stretch of the border to prevent the road from returning to me on mine. these people must be able to return to their homeland in safety and security. and dignity. at the same time i condemn all kinds of terrorism and vio

treasury says it could sanction anyone who owns or controls a port of entry there adrian brown has more now from beijing. well china has now essentially begun implementing what it agreed to at the united nations security council on saturday a statement appeared on the website of china's commerce ministry it said that as of now china was no longer importing textiles from north korea textiles have been until now an important source of hard currency for the regime also as of saturday china is no longer exploiting things like liquefied natural gas as well as condensate all while and significantly china is going to limit the amount of oil that it exports to north korea those exports will be capped at two hundred million barrels a year now last month of course china agreed to other wide ranging sanctions against north korea it's no longer importing things like coal iron ore and seafood on friday president donald trump once more praised china's leaders for the fact that he says china's banks have shut the door on north korea even though less than twenty four hours earlier china's foreign minis

certainly carry out another test of some sort to demonstrate its annoyance with what china has done adrian brown reporting live there from beijing thank you a.j. . to spain now and pro and anti separatist campaigners are holding their last rallies in the run up to sunday's independence vote in the spanish in the region of catalonia as long as regional government insists their vote will go ahead despite the spanish government and course declaring it illegal john hendren reports from barcelona. each day a peaceful show of force growth. led by young in fiercely proud catalans in the street. police say sixteen thousand of them organizers say tens of thousands more. schools because. not. by comparison this session rally mustered perhaps three dozen people. at a secret location days after the spanish army arrested catalan leaders and confiscated ten million ballot papers this video tweeted by catalan president carlos a month shows the resistance printing new bell he got better miska. but no matter how much they intimidate us no matter how many times they say that they will not give us the keys or the.

leaders for now they'll continue their push for a diplomatic solution to rein in their old ally adrian brown al jazeera dandong. bangladesh's prime minister has visited one hinge of refugees from me and promised that her country will look after them so far three hundred seventy thousand range of muslims have crossed the border as gaping what the united nations says amounts to ethnic cleansing but shaikh has seen also says it will have to take them. from the courts of palang refugee camp in bangladesh give you a couple and if. some of the recently arrived the prime minister who's giving them refuge sheikh hasina condemned the me and my government for causing at least three hundred seventy thousand people to flee across the border in just three weeks but she says they don't belong here in our parliament there is a nation that man should. all the citizen back to back to the shoot. for the dish to go back and also we. know also. that this should work. so that they act accordingly that they should take them back. this is one of the camps she visited in. four families live in the shelter they exis

sanctions against north korea beijing has been on the pyongyang's biggest backers in the past adrian brown is standing by for us in the chinese capital b. jing but first to kathy novak in the south korean capital seoul kathy how's this being viewed and reported there. well we just saw the statement being read out as you mentioned on north korean state television that's blocked here in south korea we're able to see it here at the al-jazeera bureau but most people will be reading about this second hand in south korean media and what the foreign minister of north korea in new york was talking about there was the question around what kim jong un specifically meant when he was talking about the highest level of hardline countermeasure in history and suggesting it could mean anything including the detonation of a hydrogen bomb in the pacific now the south korean unification ministry was asked about this here's a little bit about what the spoke of the what spokesman had to say. please on the progress toward north korea should immediately stop reckless provocations that show a hostile attitude tow

beijing ordered all north korean companies and china to shut down by january china correspondent adrian brown has more. well rex tillerson was last in beijing just six months ago but during that time of course an awful lot has happened tensions on the korean peninsula have now entered perhaps the most dangerous phase so rarely has the relationship between china and the united states mattered more than it does now north korea of course will be at the top of rex tillerson agenda but he's also here to lay the groundwork for the expected visit of president donald trump to china in early november the white house confirmed at the weekend the president from would also be visiting south korea japan the philippines and vietnam another vexed issue of course is trade the fact that china still exports far more to the united states than the united states sends to china and the united states says that trade relationship is a lot sided at the moment and he wants it to change this will also be an opportunity for the secretary of state to get guarantees from china that it continues to fully implement united n

to increase the economic pressure on north korea over its nuclear weapons and missile program adrian brown reports from beijing. well with tensions on the korean peninsula still at a very dangerous level rarely have relations between china and the united states mattered as much as they do now rex tillerson had been jus to arrive in beijing on friday night but his visit was delayed because of mechanical problems with his plane on saturday he had a brief audience with president xi jinping that is significant because china's president doesn't always grant an audience to visiting dignitaries from overseas that's a measure of the importance they place on rex tillerson presence in china and also of the importance they place on president donald trump visiting china in november that was confirmed by the white house at the weekend both china and the united states have a very different approach as to how to deal with north korea rex tillerson wants to make sure that china delivers on its promise to fully implement united nations sanctions against north korea for its part china says it's backing a wh

and are thomas live for us this whole enter thank you let's go now to our china correspondent adrian brown who is covering more reaction from beijing so what are we hearing from the government fair. well pretty much what we've heard after every missile or nuclear test carried out by north korea on friday the foreign ministry held their daily briefing for the foreign media and the foreign ministry spokesman said once more the china condemns north korea's actions he urged all parties to continue to show restraint and to avoid actions that could intensify still further the situation on the korean peninsula he said the situation on the peninsula was complicated an understatement to say the least he also said that china would continue to fully implement all u.n. security council resolutions against north korea of course the question now is what will china do will it go along perhaps now with the call for tougher sanctions against north korea which may come of that u.n. security council meeting later on friday the united states will certainly be hoping so rex tillerson as you heard earlier has s

to announce sanctions against north korea beijing has been one of pyongyang's biggest backers adrian brown is standing by for us in beijing first to kathy novak in the south korean capital seoul these added sanctions this time cathy from the united states not the united nations and the language what kind of impact will that have on south korea. well south korea as you would welcome these sanctions it has long said that the way to deal with north korea is through sanctions and pressure president moon was speaking at the united nations saying that the unanimous support of the latest round of u.n. sanctions demonstrated that the world is speaking with one voice when it comes to north korea and he above all does not want to resort to military options he wants to do deliver a message to north korea that repeated provocations will not be tolerated but he says that it must be through peaceful means that the situation will be resolved we heard a little bit more of the south korean response from the unification ministry spokesman today as well for kind of praise on the progress toward north korea s

hundred thirteen russian and chinese warships particle part in the drills china correspondent adrian brown joining us live from beijing so what they're about one hundred thirty kilometers from the border into the symbolism must be clear that's right the timing is very interesting because these naval drills are happening as the militaries of south korea and the united states have been carrying out war games but both moscow and beijing say you know don't read too much into these naval drills they have happened every year for the past five to six years there is no you know third country we are targeting but actually analysts here in beijing say there is a country that's being targeted and it is japan and that in a sense underscores the complicated tensions in northeast asia right now monday also marked actually the eighty thicks anniversary of japan's invasion of northeast china a very very sensitive anniversary here in china now there is no formal military alliance between china and russia but what these exercises i think demonstrate pretty clearly is that militarily china and russia are mov