officials in the hopes of avoiding a trade war let's cross live now to our china correspondent adrian brown in beijing so adrian given the complexity of all of this what realistically can be achieved there in just two days of talks. well those talks actually haven't even begun yet the u.s. side were due to arrive in beijing until thursday morning they'll have a meeting with the ambassador and then those first talks are due to happen on thursday afternoon beijing time there be a dinner in the evening and then the real talking will resume again on friday so not a lot of time to deal with the many complex issues now before them but these are the first high level talks to happen between the united states and china since the current trade friction began remember both countries are currently threatening to impose massive tariffs on each other's imports that hasn't happened yet but the deadline is the middle of june so not a lot of time left now going into these talks both sides have been talking up and talking down the chances of success china has said that he wants to see sincerity from the u.s.

i'm adrian brown in sichuan province in southwest china where they are preparing to commemorate the tenth. anniversary of one of the country's worst ever natural disasters full coverage here on al-jazeera. a palestinian has been killed and seven hundred thirty others injured on the israel gaza border on the seventh friday in a row of demonstrations forty two people have now been killed in the protests which call for palestinian refugees to be able to return to their ancestral land in israel from gaza stephanie decker reports. the injuries started early this young man was shot in his lower leg as he tried to pull that israel's fence it's a seventh friday but protest years here called the great march of return a passion well established by now tires brought right to the front and set on fire to obscure israeli sniper positions many palestinians have been coming here every friday for seven weeks now in the lemon leg. we're not going to stop our protests we will not move until we get our rights if the international community was on a separate us and implemented a two state solution it was pro

kim from summit either so president xi wants to ensure that kim's priority is aligned with his adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. heavy rain in aleppo province is making life even harder for syrian civilians displaced by the war many camps for internally displaced people are now severely flooded western aleppo is one of the main destinations for people evacuated from the rebel controlled areas under siege tens of thousands of living in both formal and makeshift camps without access to clean water food and sanitation. or further south a convoy of hundreds of syrian rebels and civilians has left southern damascus as part of an evacuation deal with the government forty seven buses are taking them from the capital to rebel held areas in northern syria government forces are preparing to take control of the towns of him and southeast of the city the military is also bombarding eisel fighters who remain in control of yarmouk refugee camp. saudi arabia is mediating in a disagreement over a yemeni island that's occupied by troops from its coalition allies the united arab emirates residents of the isla

the kim from summit either so president xi wants to ensure that kim's priorities align with his adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. polls have just opened in malaysia in what's being billed as the country's tightest ever election let's take a look at the main candidates and what's at stake prime minister najib razak and his ruling party have been in power for more than six decades but allegations of his links to a corruption scandal involving the station had best been found may affect his party's performance competing against like us has one time mentor and former prime minister mahathir mohamad and ninety two year old quit his old party and gave the country's opposition a huge boost for his fortune and lions but then it does x. coalition is still expected to win the vote but a significant loss of seats to marty could leave the prime minister open to a leadership challenge with then has on party well discontent over the rising cost of living among voters may also sway the vote self let's get more on this now we're joined by correspondent rob mcbride who is live for us in kuala lumpur so what ar

nation and that rejuvenation includes maintaining a tough line with the united states on trade adrian brown al-jazeera beijing the nobel prize for literature will not be awarded this year. in that decides the prize the swedish academy has been engulfed in a scandal over sexual assault allegations. diane has more. it's a scandal that's left the swedish academy in turmoil and the nobel prize for literature on hold at least for now the academy decided this year's winner will be selected and announced in two thousand one thousand in. the confidence in the academy is so low in the world at the moment and that is the deciding reason why we now refrain from awarding this prize. eighteen women say they were raped assaulted or harassed by famous photographer john clarke not he's the husband of academy member and poet catarina frost and sun the women l. legend the abuse happened in properties owned by the swedish academy their complaints they say were ignored he has denied the allegations his wife has since resigned. over the crisis has aggravated differences among its members shedding light on other

ross are trying to hammer out a deal with chinese officials in the hopes of avoiding a trade war adrian brown has more from beijing. well these are the first high level talks between government officials from the united states and china since their trade friction began now both governments of course of threaten to impose massive terrorist on each other's imports that hasn't happened yet but the deadline is the middle of june so not a lot of time left now ahead of these talks both sides have been talking up the prospects of success but also of failure now china of course currently exports far more to the united states than the other way around and wilbur ross the u.s. commerce secretary has said that he believes that deficit has been inspired by evil chinese trade practices where as robert light hisor the u.s. trade representative has said that the united states is not out to change china's system and china for its part is warning that it won't bow to any demands that seek to contain china's economy and that it wants to see sincerity from the u.s. side now the two sides will be meeting on thur

jinping this is kim second visit to north korea's only major ally this year china correspondent adrian brown has more. when kim jong il second secretive visit to china was confirmed on state t.v.'s main evening news bulletins in a seven minute for a pool when this time came was welcomed by president xi jinping in the northeastern city of dolly on close to the border with north korea it's not clear if kim asked to come in. bited but it happened just a few weeks before the north korean leader's planned talks with u.s. president donald trump kim appeared to suggest the prospect of that getting together was being undermined by trump like he said if the relative country stuck there hostile attitudes and threats then there's no need for north korea to have nuclear weapons like kim's powerful sister kim jong accompanied her brother her international profile continues to grow. well the chinese side but thought hard about the backdrop they wanted for this visit and beyond these waters the korean peninsula dali and offering a picturesque setting. as the north only ally chinese leaders want to ensure t

both are proposed high tariffs on one another's goods over talking to law china correspondent adrian brown a little bit later now ten thousand people in hawaii have been ordered to evacuate their homes after the killer way a volcano erupted steam and love is threatening at least one residential neighborhood the eruption follows a series of earthquakes the national guard has also been activated when i bring in kenneth rubin in honolulu via skype is a professor of geochemistry and vulcanology at the university of hawaii professor killer way is one of the most active volcanoes in the world was this latest eruption anticipated. yes so killer has been erupting continuously since one thousand nine hundred eighty for the last decade in two locations and starting in a couple of days ago a series of in advance unfolded after which there was a migration of earthquakes into this residential part of the volcano it's what we call down river it's. about fifteen kilometers away from where it had been in for roughly two and a half days or has been a high frequency of earthquakes and the residents in the a

nation and that rejuvenation includes maintaining a tough line with the united states on trade adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. a massive volcano eruption in hawaii is forcing more than fifteen hundred people to be evacuated from their homes larger flows are threatening residential areas close to killer whale one of the most active volcanoes in the world after erupted on thursday afternoon local time and i would has more. in the heart of a residential area in hawaii molten lava pours down the road burning through woodland and sending smoke ash and rocks into the sky. killer where up to death to several quakes were felt on hawaii. and hundreds of people living close by and now being told they have no choice they must leave their homes since it's right there behind a harsh we could hear this loud. exploding. right from the house and so you know there is a house going to still be there when we go back over to. the emergency services are now involved in a major incident trying to assess the scale of the eruption on the ground and in the air and how best to help those who live and work in its pa

ross are trying to hammer out a deal with chinese officials in the hope of avoiding a trade war adrian brownas more from beijing. i have a meeting with the ambassador and then those first talks are due to happen on thursday afternoon beijing time they'll be a dinner in the evening and then the real talking will resume again on friday so not a lot of time to deal with the many complex issues now before them but these are the first high level talks to happen between the united states and china since the current trade friction began remember both countries are currently threatening to impose massive tariffs on each other's imports armenia's opposition leader has called off nationwide protests after the ruling party agreed to support his bid to become the interim prime minister. announced the deal to supporters at a rally in yet of that parliament will vote again next week on the polls. britain's upper house of parliament has voted against any deal with the e.u. which could bring back controls along the irish border house of lords heard that a so-called hard border would have violate the peace a

china to reduce that by one hundred billion dollars let's go live now to our china correspondent adrian brown in beijing age and both sides have been downplaying expectations of a breakthrough at the talks expected to end in a few hours time so what's your assessment of how things are going. well i guess the fact they're still talking could possibly be seen as good news these talks mean that we're perhaps a step further away from there being a trade war happening any time soon but let's look at the composition of the people in that room there really is a mixed bag of experience on the u.s. side we have people like a peter navarro he is a white house trade an economic advisor who cited some pretty blunt things to say about china he's written several books that criticize chinese trade practices but then we also have people like robert lite hisor who's the u.s. trade representative who's an advocate of free trade on the chinese side we have lou her who is a vice premier very close to president xi jinping and then of course we have the issues on the table it's not just tariffs i think that is the

dropped its long time ties with taipei let's go live to beijing get more on this from syria's adrian brown in the dominican republic if you look at it is a pretty small country so why does this matter well asia and i think it's what it symbolizes because of course during the past few years a number of countries have severed ties with taipei. coming under enormous pressure from beijing to do so the last country to do that was panama that was in june last year now taiwan has accused beijing in the past of playing a diplomatic money game basically using all sorts of in juice mints to persuade these which tend to be small countries to end their relationship with beijing now on choose day morning the time when his foreign minister said that taiwan was deeply distressed upset over the decision of the dominican republic to sever diplomatic relations and of course we have to really appreciate and understand what china's strategy is here adrian what they want to do is to isolate taiwan diplomatically as much as possible and also to exclude it from a number of international organizations now china o

try to ensure beijing plays a role in the next round of nuclear diplomacy with its longtime ally adrian brown reports. it's eleven years since the chinese foreign minister last stepped foot in north korea a measure of the strain in relations between these allies and now of china's desire to repair them one year is in pyongyang five days after the historic into korean summit when kim jong un and president mungy in agreed to pursue denuclearization of the peninsula and the peace treaty one will be hoping for a detailed briefing on the results of that meeting thanks unusually last friday chinese leaders found themselves on the sidelines of a major international event happening on their doorstep and they won't be part of the planned meeting between president donald trump and kim jong il either. analysts say china's president who met kim jong un in late march wants to ensure that the chinese aren't left out of future talks that could possibly include the united states and i want to make sure that in any war on these questions china will have this here seat and that negotiating table it is hard to

attending the talks in a bid to stave off this trade war let's cross to our china correspondent adrian brown who is in beijing so adrian this is a just a couple david a very very short visit with very big complex issues what can realistically be achieved in that time. we'll in fact the visits going to be less than forty eight hours because they haven't actually arrived yet they're due to arrive sometime this morning beijing time then the delegations going to meet the u.s. ambassador here and then they'll have talks the staff to do the diode tie guesthouse which is traditionally where v.i.p.'s have their meetings with chinese officials but there really substantial talks i gather will not be until friday so in fact they'll have less than twenty four hours to hammer out these very complex issues in the days leading up to this meeting both sides of being both talking up and talking down the prospects of success wilbur ross the u.s. commerce secretary in comments he made before leaving washington said that the trade deficit that the united states has with china is down to evil chinese trade pract

ross are trying to hammer out a deal with chinese officials in the hopes of avoiding a trade war adrian brown has more from beijing they'll have a meeting with the ambassador and then those first talks are due to happen on thursday afternoon beijing time there be a dinner in the evening and then the real talking will resume again on friday so not a lot of time to deal with the many complex issues now before them but these are the first highlevel talks to happen between the united states and china since the current trade friction began to remember both countries are currently threatening to impose massive tariffs on each other's imports armenia's opposition leader has called off nationwide protests that's after the ruling party agreed to support his bid to become the interim prime minister because pushing yen announced the deal said to supporters at a rally in yellow valley harlem and he's due to vote again next week on the post. egypt's military court has renewed the detention of journalist ismail iskhandar rani for another thirty days he spent nearly nine hundred days now behind bars without

after threats from the world's two biggest economies high tariffs on each other's goods but as adrian brown reports from beijing there still appears to be a long waits and. as is so often the case in china the media were kept away from the venue for these talks beforehand both delegations that sought to play down expectations of a breakthrough we now know why for a while there was progress in some areas major disagreements remain. less than two days was never going to be enough time to resolve them all the u.s. came with a long list of demands immediate action to reduce china's huge trade surplus with the united states and then to force technology transfers whereby u.s. companies have to hand over their intellectual property to local joint venture partners as a condition for doing business here the u.s. has also been complaining about the heavy state subsidies for technology development like robotics and i.t. one area though where china is unlikely to yield analysts say the deepening strain in relations is a recognition by the united states that china once seen as a partner is now regarded

but they also know they'll never meet him adrian brown al jazeera in sichuan province southwest china. all the sports are rafael nadal's on comes to an end coming up. the former bishop of hong kong says the pope is sending out china's complex pieces of things. but on those informations. cardinal joseph zen. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. on counting the cost how the u.s. decision to exit the iran nuclear deal is being felt around the world argentina's cry for help with the i.m.f. triggering bad memories for many people the coal mining debate in south africa. counting the cost. it's time for sports here. thank you very much well the head of world football has publicly backs the idea of expanding the twenty twenty two world cup to include forty eight teams cats or is currently preparing to host thirty two teams ornament in november and december of that year or favor president johnny in france and i was talking in paraguay at a meeting of the south american football association is there in favor of expansion qatar tournament orga

xi jinping came second visit to north korea's only major ally this year a china correspondent adrian brown has more. when kim jong un's second secretive visit to china was confirmed on state t.v. as main evening news bulletin in a seven minute report this time kim was welcomed by president xi jinping in the northeastern city of darlie on close to the border with north korea it's not clear if kim asked to come or was invited but it happened just a few weeks before the north korean leader's planned talks with u.s. president donald trump kim appeared to suggest the prospect of that get together was being undermined by trump what he said if relative country stuck there hostile attitudes and threats then there's no need for north korea to have nuclear weapons like kim's powerful sister kim jong accompanied her brother her international profile continues to grow well the chinese side but thought hard about the backdrop they wanted for this visit and beyond these waters the korean peninsula dali and offering a picturesque setting. as the north only ally chinese leaders want to ensure they're not

their would but for now thanks very much indeed but i want to bring in our china correspondent adrian brown he's in beijing adrian obviously all eyes are going to be on china now because they're in the position of being able to exert at least some influence on north korea do you think that there is any way that china will have a role in trying to bring these two sides together also given the fact of course china is just agreed to some some threads of a trade agreement with the u.s. . yeah i think it's possible rob that this impasse offers a chance for chinese to clone a seed to perhaps shine once more i think the chinese leaders will be disappointed but not surprised by president trump's decision to cancel the summit i think the chinese leaders will also see president trump decision as a slap in the face not just for peace but also for beijing because publicly china has been in favor of this summit saying that it really did offer the best possible prospects for peace on the korean peninsula and just a few days ago in fact china's foreign minister wang ye basically said in his many words tha

kim and south korea's president when jai invalid to completely denuclearize the korean peninsula adrian brown reports from beijing. it's eleven years since the chinese foreign minister last stepped foot in north korea a measure of the strain in relations between these allies and now of china's desire to repair them one year is in pyongyang five days after the historic into korean summit when kim jong un and president mungy in agreed to pursue denuclearization of the peninsula and the peace treaty one will be hoping for a detailed briefing on the results of that meeting john on the east. china has always insisted on denuclearization peace and stability on the korean peninsula always insisted on finding a solution the response to the appropriate concerns of all relevant parties through dialogue and negotiation thanks. unusually last friday chinese leaders found themselves on the sidelines of a major international event happening on their doorstep and they won't be part of the planned meeting between president donald trump and kim jong il either not even to analysts say china's president who met

try to ensure beijing plays a role in the next round of nuclear diplomacy with its longtime ally adrian brown reports. it's eleven years since the chinese foreign minister last stepped foot in north korea a measure of the strain in relations between these allies and now of china's desire to repair them one year is in pyongyang five days after the historic into korean summit when kim jong un and president mungy in agreed to pursue denuclearization of the peninsula and the peace treaty one will be hoping for a detailed briefing on the results of that meeting thanks unusually last friday chinese leaders found themselves on the sidelines of a major international event happening on their doorstep and they won't be part of the planned meeting between president donald trump and kim jong il either not even to analysts say china's president who met kim jong un in late march wants to ensure that the chinese aren't left out of future talks that could possibly include the united states and i want to make sure that in any war on these questions china will have a secure seat and that negotiating table it i

says his children will know they have a big brother but they also know they'll never meet him adrian brown al-jazeera in sichuan province southwest china. on the news. all the. practicing. law. and. business updates. going places together. business updates. going places together. from. thank you so much jon all the head of world football has publicly back to the idea of expanding the twenty twenty world cup to include forty eight teams cats or is preparing to host a thirty two teams ornament in november and december of that year of faith of president jiang in fancying i was talking in paris quite a meeting of the south american football associations there in favor of expansion that's all tournament organizers said last month a further discussions would be required before any final discussion could be made the twenty twenty six world cup was set to be the first forty eight team event. i want to face if we've already taken this decision to a forty eight teams in a future world cup if it is doable and that's the key question why not anticipate it's not just whether we will have enough stadia

nation and that rejuvenation includes maintaining a tough line with the united states on trade adrian brown al-jazeera beijing will stay with fiscal matters more than a thousand economists have now written to donald trump warning him his tough stance on trade could plunge the u.s. into another great depression the group which includes nobel peace prize laureates is concerned that mistakes will be made such as they were in the one nine hundred thirty s. they say the u.s. withdrawal from trade agreements and calls for new terrorists could see americans eventually paying a heavy price. the u.s. president changing his story about hush money paid to a former porn star stormy daniels says she had an affair with him in two thousand and six donald trump denies that mr trump has now admitted however reimbursing his lawyer for a payment he made to daniels but says it wasn't part of the campaign funding arrangement white house correspondent kimberly how kids has the story and. a shifting story from u.s. president donald trump appearing at the white house rose garden ironically on the national day of p

jinping is kim's second visit to north korea's only major ally this year as china correspondent adrian brown has more. when kim jong moon second secretive visit to china was confirmed on state t.v. as main evening news bulletin in a seven minute report this time kim was welcomed by president xi jinping in the northeastern city of dolly on close to the border with north korea it's not clear if kim asked to come or was invited but it happened just a few weeks before the north korean leader's planned talks with u.s. president donald trump kim appeared to suggest the prospect of that get together was being undermined by trump what he said if relative country stuck their hostile attitudes and threats then there's no need for north korea to have nuclear weapons like kim's powerful sister kim jong accompanied her brother her international profile continues to grow well the chinese side but thought hard about the backdrop they wanted for this visit. beyond these waters the korean peninsula dali and offering a picturesque setting. only ally chinese leaders want to ensure they're not sidelined in the

chinese officials in the hopes of avoiding a trade war adrian brown has more from beijing they'll have a meeting with the ambassador and then those first talks are due to happen on thursday afternoon beijing time will be a dinner in the evening and then the real talking will resume again on friday so not a lot of time to deal with the many complex issues now before them but these are the first high level talks to happen between the united states and china since the current trade friction began to remember both countries are currently threatening to impose massive tariffs on each other's imports armenia's opposition leader has called off nationwide protests are to the ruling party agreed to support his bid to become the interim prime minister nikolai pushing in announced the deal to supporters at a rally in get a van hollen is to vote again next week on the post the u.k. company at the center of a major facebook data breach is shutting down cave bridge analytic is accused of improperly getting the personal information of millions for political clients including the us presidential campa

wants china to reduce that by one hundred billion dollars let's cross to our china correspondent adrian brown he's in beijing adrian so what's your assessment then of the talks so far is the chinese side saying anything at all. well just a short time ago china's main nightly news bulletin aired a report about the talks as a short report with the announcer basically saying that the talks have taken place and that more talks will be taking place in the future and that china and the united states we're going to set up a mechanism for more talking down the line so you know i think as we said in our earlier conversations darrent both sides have been doing their best to sort of play down hopes of any breakthrough and now we know why the bullet in mention that the two sides had reached agreement in a number of areas but of course there are plenty of big disagreements and we know i think what the stumbling blocks have been i think china was prepared to do a deal on terrorists it was player prepared to do a deal on the trade deficit but i think where china has been pushing back is over its industrial

a strong prepares for a historic summit with kim in late may already june china correspondent adrian brown has more now from beijing. well as is often the case on these occasions it was left to state television to confirm what many had suspected that kim jong un had indeed made his second secretive visit to china this time though he wasn't in the capital beijing but in the northeastern city of darrien not far from the north korean border kim was accompanied by his sister who continues to play a high profile in north korean diplomacy now it's reported in chinese state me denuclearization on the korean peninsula shouldn't proceed now of course when he refers to some countries he's talking about the united states now kim jong un is due to meet president donald trump in the next few weeks and of course just a few weeks ago china's foreign minister one year was also in the north korean capital pyongyang i think from this meeting it's clear once more that in the she can relationship kim is very much the junior partner in the various pictures that were released of their meetings it had the feel o

norm is in basra the old zero to one ok let's gauge reaction as beijing for you our correspondent adrian brown is there for us this hour so the chinese reaction to mr trump's announcement about the iran nuclear deal please adrian. well no official so far reaction so far peter from chinese leaders but i do expect that reaction to come later in the day and i do expect chinese leaders to roundly condemn president trump's decision we have been seeing some reaction in the media here they're reporting on reactions of various governments around the world under the headline in the global times the united states is now the enemy of the world china of course has good reason to worry peter it relies on iran for a lot of the oil that it imports in fact twenty five percent of all of iran's oil exports now go to china trade between these two countries is now worth about twenty seven billion dollars a figure that won't have gone unnoticed to president donald trump of course he's warned that he will punish countries that continue to assist iran's nuclear program so i think china is feeling in a sense very vul

president donald trump tweeted that his team was trying to negotiate a level playing field on trade adrian brown has more from beijing on the issues at stake. there are many areas of friction i guess the two key ones would be the deficit at the moment china exports far more to the united states than the other way around and the united states wants to redress that balance china of though also is accused by the united states of really carrying out very unfair trading practices what the united states really gets upset about is this china has a plan known as made in china twenty twenty five and this is president xi jinping ambition to basically overhaul the economy and to pour billions of dollars into technologies of the future things like artificial intelligence and robotics but the problem is these are state funded companies that will be competing against u.s. companies in the global market in china the united states believe the basically china is out for world domination in this area and says you know it's unfair on the trade issue on the deficit issue the united states wants china to to cut the

president in the coming weeks china correspondent adrian brown has more from beijing. well one year now becomes the first chinese foreign minister to visit north korea in almost eleven years in fact the last time a senior chinese government official was in north korea was almost three years ago that i think is a reflection of the strain immolations that's existed between these two cold war era allies this time a year ago for instance china and north korea simply weren't on speaking terms if there was a hotline between pyongyang and beijing it simply wasn't working i think president xi jinping was both humiliated and enraged by conjunctions refusal to desist from his missile and nuclear tests his defiance of the international community and of course he wasn't just define the international community he was also defying china it's one ally well things started to in change i think at the end of march when kim jong un came to beijing either summoned or invited here by president xi jinping and of course that came shortly after it emerged that kim jong il and president from w

this decision and for the united states to really be the intransigent one i thank you for that adrian brown. poser of an island on whether to appeal one of europe's strictest abortion laws an amendment to the constitution makes terminating a pregnancy illegal in all but the strictest circumstances and it's punishable with a long prison sentence the vote pitches social and religious conservatives against those who want a more liberal island barker reports from dublin irish people have been given an important choice campaigners from both sides of the argument have been bringing the debate to the people islands voting on whether to repeal the eight the badman to of the country's constitution that all but bombs abortion the law says that the life of a mother of an unborn fetus are equal abortions only allowed if there is a serious risk to the mother's life not in cases of rape incest or serious are. those that break the law or face the backs of a fourteen year prison sentence. is a doctor she's voting yes to repeal the eighth amendment she was pregnant with her third child when things started t

government in to give a top story in donald trump canceling the meeting with kim jong un let's bring in adrian brown in beijing i believe there's been some official comment what is it. yes we've just heard in the last few minutes from china's official foreign ministry spokesman this is the first time china has reacted to president trump's decision to cancel that planned summit in singapore the response actually from china was fairly measured and restrained rather like the response actually from north korea the spokesman said that we have noticed there have been obstacles in the process of preparing for this meeting but we also notice the two sides are willing to meet up and he says we hope both sides will cherish the opportunity that's been made be patient with each other and work towards the same direction so quite restrained there i think china doesn't want to enter into a sort of he said he said she said slanging match with the united states remember president trump has basically accused president xi jinping of trying to influence kim jong un so he can gain leverage in the ongoing trade talks bet

with china breaking ties with taiwan last year panama also dropped its longtime ties with taipei adrian brown reports from beijing. well the dummy can republic may be a small country but its decision to sever ties with taipei and recognize beijing still amounts nevertheless to a major diplomatic loss for taiwan it's just ten months since another small country panama also sever ties with taipei just nineteen countries now have diplomatic relations with taiwan and it seems that china's strategy is simply wants to isolate taiwan as much as possible and also to exclude it to prevent its participation in a number of international organizations well in the past taipei has accused beijing of playing a diplomatic money game and says it's a game it's no longer prepared to pay now beijing of course regards taiwan as part of its territory and is deeply suspicious and occasionally very antagonistic towards taiwan's independence leaning president zine in when and they have warned in the past that if any time when he's leader were to declare independence than china would seize back the island republic by f

nation and that rejuvenation includes maintaining a tough line with the united states on trade adrian brown al-jazeera beijing more than a thousand economists have written to the u.s. president donald trump warning that his tough stance on trade could plunge the u.s. into another great depression the group which includes nobel peace laureates are concerned that mistakes were made such as they were in the one nine hundred thirty s. they say the u.s. withdrawal from trade agreements and calls for new tariffs could see americans eventually paying a heavy price the french president emanuel macro is in the french pacific territory of new caledonia ahead of a referendum there on independence now officially he is neutral but the president has made no secret of wanting to build rather than reduce french influence in the pacific and retirement's has the story from new me. emmanuel mccall says as french president he is and must be neutral on the question of new caledonian independence it is for those living here to the site but meeting people on a housing estate in noumea he certainly looked like he

hostilities on the korean peninsula but not the state of war that still exists between the two koreas adrian brown al jazeera in beijing. the british company at the center of facebook's data privacy scandal is watching to be closing its operations cambridge analytical hit the headlines in march after a former employee revealed how he had a company use data from eighty seven million users donald trump's presidential campaign nigel oakes the founder of s.c.l. group which is a british affiliate of the firm says both companies and are shutting operations. shares in some online dating companies have taken a tumble after facebook announced it's creating a new dating feature facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg says two hundred million people on facebook currently list them selves a single day she service which will launch soon is seen as a move to rebuild facebook's popularity among younger users but getting back trust may be tough due to ongoing privacy concerns facebook has been hit hard by the cambridge analytical tobacco which will probably information millions of users shared with a potential consultanc

washington at this stage for now thanks very much indeed let's bring in our china correspondent adrian brown he's in beijing for us adrian what role do you think is there going to be for china in all of this particularly given the fact that it seems to have released reach some sort of at least threads of agreement with trade for example with the u.s. does it still carry weight with north korea. it's a difficult one rob i think that china has been both disappointed but not surprised by president donald trump's decision after all china finds itself caught between two of the world's most unpredictable leaders but it does believe that kim jong un is sincere about wanting to achieve denuclearization albeit in his own time it says that the dismantling of its only nuclear test site is evidence of that that event was also witnessed by chinese journalists the few journalists that were invited to watch this happen china believes though i think ultimately that the fault for this summit not taking place does not lie with north korea it lies with the united states and some of the provocative language tha

services donald trump wants china to reduce that by one hundred billion dollars china correspondent adrian brown has more now from beijing . well tick tock goes the clock but no indication so far as to how these very secretive talks are going they began on thursday afternoon resumed on friday morning and a jew to finish sometime on friday because the u.s. side is due to fly out on friday evening but of course there's also a possibility that these talks might well be extended into saturday now the main areas of contention are terrorists the fact that both sides are threatening to impose large levies on each other's imports the deadline for that to happen is the middle of june and then there's the area of chinese trade practices the united states believes that china is pouring billions of dollars into technologies of the future making it very difficult for u.s. companies to compete in this area because of the heavy hand of china's state in this sector now on friday president xi jinping has also been talking not about the trade dispute but about his great hero karl marx whose two hundredth birthday

nation and that rejuvenation includes maintaining a tough line with the united states on trade adrian brown al jazeera beijing hundreds of workers from korean air have been protesting in the center of seoul they're calling on the airlines chairman chilled young hole to resign because of the bad behavior of his daughters is youngest daughter is accused of throwing a drink at people cheering a business meeting her older sister was also in the headlines after she ordered a plane to return to the gate because she disagreed with the way she was served knots on a flight two sisters have stepped down from their positions. north and south korea are moving ahead with another display of unity and this time with their times ill the clocks in north korea have been set half an hour forward to realign them with seoul time it's a reversal of the situation that pyongyang made in twenty fifteen kathy novak explains. these flowers in the center of seoul are symbolic of the renewed hope that many people here are feeling about this country's relationship with north korea the display depicts a map of a unified

hopefully the work she had written see al-jazeera washington reaction now from china i'll just say as adrian brown is in beijing. well upbeat and considered three words from china's foreign ministry spokesman lew kang on friday he said it was obvious there had been obstacles in the process preparing for the summit but it was also clear that the two sides were still willing to sit down and talk and china would do whatever it could to ensure that that happened and he appealed to washington and pyongyang to remain patient china and north korea appear to be talking with one voice of the moment their language is both restrained and measured now remember president donald trump has accused president xi jinping of essentially seeking to undermine the summit he says that president xi has influence over kim and he's using that influence to try to gain leverage in the current trade negotiations between washington and beijing down analysts here in china have essentially suggested that senior officials in the trumpet ministration the vice president mike pence the national security advisor john bolton had been

president donald trump later this month or early next month china correspondent adrian brown from beijing. well one you now becomes the first chinese foreign minister to visit north korea in almost eleven years in fact the last time a senior chinese government official was in north korea was almost three years ago that i think is a reflection of the strain immolations that's existed between these two cold war era allies this time a year ago for instance china and north korea simply weren't on speaking terms if there was a hotline between people and young in beijing it simply wasn't working i think president xi jinping was both humiliated and enraged by conjunctions refusal to desist from his missile and nuclear tests his defiance of the international community and of course he wasn't just define the international community he was also defying china it's one ally well things started to in change i think at the end of march when kim jong un came to beijing either summoned or invited here by president xi jinping and of course that came shortly after it emerged that kim jong un and president

as trump prepares for a historic summit with came in late may or early june china correspondent adrian brown has more now from beijing. well as is often the case on these occasions it was left to state television to confirm what many had suspected that kim jong un had indeed made his second secretive visit to china this time though he wasn't in the capital beijing but in the northeastern city of darrien not far from the north korean border kim was accompanied by his sister who continues to play a high profile in north korean diplomacy now it's reported in chinese state media that kim jong un said that as long as some countries desist from a hostile attitude or making threats to north korea then there was no reason why denuclearization on the korean peninsula shouldn't proceed now of course when he refers to some countries he's talking about the united states now kim jong un is due to meet president donald trump in the next few weeks and of course just a few weeks ago china's foreign minister one year was also in the north korean capital pyongyang i think from this meeting it's clear once mor

expected to meet donald trump later this month let's go to china correspondent now in beijing adrian brown an agent it seems is that kim jong un is a druther enjoying travel a lot more these days a second time that he's meeting president xi in a matter of two months. yeah absolutely right martin and as always on these occasions it was left to the main news bulletin on state t.v. to confirm what many of us have suspected for the past two days the kim jong un had indeed made his second secretive visit to china this time though not to beijing but to the northeastern city of darlie which is just a short distance away from the north korean border so not too far for kim jong un to come what did they talk about well it's hard to say but what is interesting we've been transcribing the seven minute report that appeared on the main evening news was a snippet that really caught my eye and it was where kim jong un said that as long as some countries were not hostile or threaten north korea then there was no reason why the nuclearization should not go ahead so there we had in a sense an implied warning

pushing for a jury in his negotiations in the north korean capital adrian many thanks other serious china correspondent a dream brown there live in beijing. the un's nuclear watchdog is skeptical about the israeli prime minister's latest allegations regarding iran's nuclear program the i.a.e.a. says there were no credible indications of iranian attempts to develop nuclear weapons since two thousand and nine on monday benjamin netanyahu presented what he called conclusive proof that the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal was based on lies tatiana's rubbish the allegations center seven supports. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu may have unveiled secret files and computer disks describing them as conclusive proof that iran's nuclear program did exist this was an innocent looking compound it looks like a dilapidated warehouse he may have shown a building in iran where he says israeli intelligence agencies had found their evidence but in vienna a former director of analysis for the international atomic energy agency isn't impressed or who speech is the dates are all missing everything he presented it appears to b