a friendship that's been underpinned by huge loans investments and weapons china correspondent adrian brown. they were jumping for joy when president nicolas maduro was lost in china four months ago but today the leadership here is not excited about the prospect of venezuela without him at the helm. china is venezuela's biggest creditor has invested heavily in its oil industry and regards president maduro as its strongest ally in south america china has lent more money to venezuela upwards of sixty billion dollars than it has to any other country in the world it's probably been repaid up to two thirds of that but that leaves anywhere in the neighborhood of twenty to thirty billion dollars venezuela china analysts say china's leaders are concerned about whether the deals will be honored if the opposition party takes power but for now china continues to voice support from the duros coupled with veiled warnings to the united states. china opposes for interference in the internal affair of minutes well especially when it's well in government to uphold national sovereignty independence and threa

him beijing has reason to be concerned about the term or in venezuela our china correspondent adrian brown reports. they were jumping for joy when president nicolas maduro was lost in china four months ago but today the leadership here is not excited about the prospect of venezuela without him at the helm. china is venezuela's biggest creditor has invested heavily in its oil industry and regards president maduro as its strongest ally in south america china has lent more money to venezuela's upwards of sixty billion dollars than it has to any other country in the world it's probably been repaid up to two thirds of that but that leaves anywhere in the neighborhood of twenty to thirty billion dollars venezuela china. analysts say china's leaders are concerned about whether the deals will be honored if the opposition party takes power but for now china continues to voice support from the duros coupled with veiled warnings to the united states. china opposes for interference in the internal affair of finance wella especially when it's well in government to uphold national sovereignty independen

america friendship underpinned by huge loans investments and weapons sales is china correspondent adrian brown. they were jumping for joy when president nicolas maduro was lost in china four months ago but today the leadership here is not excited about the prospect of venezuela without him at the helm. china is venezuela's biggest creditor has invested heavily in its oil industry and regards president maduro as its strongest ally in south america china has lent more money to venezuela's upwards of sixty billion dollars than it has to any other country in the world it's probably been repaid up to two thirds of that but that leaves anywhere in the neighborhood of twenty to thirty billion dollars venezuela china analysts say china's leaders are concerned about whether the deals will be honored if the opposition party takes power but for now china continues to voice support from the duros coupled with veiled warnings to the united states. since china opposes for interference in the internal affair of finance wella especially when israel and government to uphold national sovereignty independence an

running trade dispute but the chances of that happening now would appear to be in serious doubt adrian brown al-jazeera beijing the leader of the opposition in the u.k. says his party would back a three month delay to breaks it if the government can't get an exit deal approved by parliament before february twenty sixth jeremy corbyn made the comments in the u.k. parliament where m.p.'s are hearing amendments to the u.k. prime ministers breaks it withdraw bill to resume a told m.p.'s there would have to be significant change to the deal to when parliament supports the u.k. is due to leave the e.u. on march twenty ninth and i want. what i'm talking about is not a further exchange of letters but a significant and legally binding change to the withdrawal agreed. negotiating negotiating such a change will not be easy it will involve reopening the withdrawal agreement a move for which i know there is limited appetite among our european partners. but i believe that with a mandate from this house and supported by the attorney general the chance of the dutch of lancaster and the secretary of state fo

running trade dispute but the chances of that happening now would appear to be in serious doubt adrian brown al jazeera beijing. it team of turkish scientists is bound for antarctica they'll spend thirty days there studying climate change and the world's future officials hope the expedition will pave the way for a permanent turkish presence on the continent some custody who spoke to the scientists before they settle from a sample. turkey has been conducting an ambitious for impulse in international arena this time to become a major player in the scientific field these group of turkey's scientists are having to untie arctic up to establish a temporary base a station which is called to this national scientific base as part of a national call of program this is the third expedition scientific expedition to the coldest continent on earth and these scientists are going to be studying on climate change which is a major global problem and they will be collecting data on the dynamics of this global problem we have about nine national projects scientific projects mainly about the marine life sciences

maduro china as reason to be concerned about the turmoil in the country are china correspondent adrian brown reports they were jumping for joy when president nicolas maduro was lost in china four months ago but today the leadership here is not excited about the prospect of venezuela without him at the helm. china is venezuela's biggest creditor has invested heavily in its oil industry and regards president maturer as its strongest ally in south america china has lent more money to venezuela's upwards of sixty billion dollars than it has to any other country in the world it's probably been repaid up to two thirds of that but that leaves anywhere in the neighborhood of twenty to thirty billion dollars venezuela china. analysts say china's leaders are concerned about whether the deals will be honored if the opposition party takes power but for now china continues to voice support from the duros coupled with veiled warnings to the united states. since china opposes for interference in the internal affair of finance wella especially when israel and government to uphold national sovereignty indepe

chinese firms the charges filed on monday include fraud theft of trade secrets and conspiracy adrian brown reports from beijing. while away is a company that has come a long way very quickly not just china's largest telecommunications company but also now the world's second largest maker of smartphones bigger even than apple sales worldwide are doing well in spite of allegations its products contain technology that can be used for spying china's government says the trumpet ministration is envious of weiwei success and is trying to halt its progress by tarnishing its reputation you know me for for some time the u.s. has smeared suppress the chinese enterprises and tempted to suppress their normal operations their strong political motivation and maneuvering behind this. fun choose day while ways executives also rejected the wide ranging criminal charges filed against the company by u.s. prosecutors including bank fraud obstruction of justice and theft of technology. they also dismissed criminal claims against its chief financial officer main one joe who was arrested in canada last month and

a friendship that's been underpinned by huge loans investments and weapons china correspondent adrian brown. they were jumping for joy when president nicolas maduro was lost in china four months ago but today the leadership here is not excited about the prospect of venezuela without him at the helm. china is venezuela's biggest creditor has invested heavily in its oil industry and regards president maduro as its strongest ally in south america china has lent more money to venezuela upwards of sixty billion dollars than it has to any other country in the world it's probably been repaid up to two thirds of that but that leaves anywhere in the neighborhood of twenty to thirty billion dollars venezuela china analysts say china's leaders are concerned about whether the deals will be honored if the opposition party takes power.

including weapons for crowd control which have been proving so effective during the current unrest adrian brown al jazeera beijing in the us the youngest member involved in the one nine hundred sixty nine killing spree led by criminal and cult leader charles manson has been recommended for release from prison leslie van houten who was nineteen at the time has been serving a life sentence for her role in the murders sixty nine year old has sought parole nearly two dozen times but always been denied a group led by manson was held responsible for seven murders. let's go live now to rob reynolds in los angeles so rob just just fill on philis in on this. if you can this was a notorious. crime of the time it was it was one of the most notorious crime sprees of the twentieth century what was leslie van houten as role. well it was just fifty years ago fifty long years ago that this city was thrown into a state of fear bordering on panic and the united states as a whole was horrified by this series of grisly murders perpetrated by the manson family charles manson a life time petty criminal would be musi

maduro china as reason to be concerned about the turmoil in the country are china correspondent adrian brown reports that they were jumping for joy when president nicolas maduro was last in china for money.

running trade dispute but the chances of that happening now would appear to be in serious doubt adrian brown al jazeera beijing. still ahead for you on the program. the team of turkish scientists hoping to learn more about climate change and what the future might have in store for the planet. and in sport we'll have more on castles in the united arab emirates details coming up. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places to get the. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places to get the. welcome back a team of turkish scientists is bound to. days that studying climate change in the world's future officials hope the expedition will pave the way for a pumpkin and turkish presence on the continent so i spoke to the scientists before they set off from istanbul. turkey has been conducting an emissions for impulse in international arena this time to become a major player in the scientific fields these brutal truth is scientists are having to untie arctica to establish a temporary base a station which is called to this national scientific base as part of a nation

court defending political activists victims of land seizures and banned religious group falun gong adrian brown has more from beijing. for the past three and a half years wang has really been in a legal black hole and until he appeared in court for his one day trial on december the twenty six his family didn't even know if he was dead or alive he was unable to see his wife during his long time incarcerated before his trial and he also wasn't able to select his own legal team now wang had been part of a a grassroots movement here in china which was trying to improve civil society he gave advice to people who were involved in disputes over land seizures or people who were complaining about religious persecution now in the middle of july two thousand and fifteen president xi jinping ordered a crackdown on this group and some two hundred fifty lawyers and human rights activists were detained and one is the last of these people to have gone on trial he's been found guilty of subversion sentenced to four and a half years in jail his wife though has said that she believes her husband will appeal an am

principles and develop foreign economic cooperation on the basis of abiding by local laws and adrian brown joins us live now from beijing agency how is china then lucky to respond to these charges and i know our way is seen as a poster child for china's economy. well i think in those words you just heard from the chinese government official the response so far daryn has been one of sort of mild indignation mixed with portraying itself as you know the victim china believes it is the victim of a smear campaign by the united states a smear campaign that is focusing at the moment on one chinese company while away but let's not forget this is not the first time that the united states has taken on and prosecuted a chinese telecommunications company it happened just over a year ago with a company called zed t. and that action by the united states almost led to said to be going out of business so i would imagine that while way executives will be concerned that said it is not just any telecommunications company it's the biggest most profitable telecommunications company in china and it's now offici

including weapons for crowd control which have been proving so effective joining the current unrest adrian brown al jazeera beijing. well china is not the only key ally of venezuela and speak now to mr cool to see in the moscow he's a partner at bruce energy an oil and gas consulting firm based in russia good to have you with us what's at stake for russia or in venezuela particularly maduro survival yes i think mainly this is the gas that russia has invested in ministerial or it is an estimated two top all over seventeen billion dollars and i believe this some might be even higher and the problem is is that with the change in the regime and even if my dearest stays in power there is very little hold over recovery in that money back. how far do you think russia would be willing to go you know to to ensure that we're doing a stays in power keeping in mind that the there has been speculation in the us about possible military intervention by washington yes there are all kinds of speculations even know there were reports that some sort of a group over russian mercenaries have already reached video so

running trade dispute but the chances of that happening now would appear to be in serious doubt adrian brown al jazeera beijing has what's coming up here on al-jazeera and legal victory for a christian woman in pakistan his acquittal led to widespread protests and investigators in brazil arrest five people over their alleged role in a dam collapse. hello again well here across the levant things are not looking too bad for much of the area we do have one weather system that's making its way towards the east and behind that we're going to be seeing a lot of clear skies cooler conditions as well here in aleppo fifteen degrees with some clear skies we do have some rain though it's going to be mostly on the southern coast of turkey over the next few days so from wednesday and thursday that is going to continue to be a problem across much of that area more across parts of iraq we're going to be seeing temperatures few rising and so on thursday how about a high for you of about twenty degrees there well across much of saudi arabia a lot of clouds particular over here towards the west as well as nor

money package has retained his double to be a welterweight title after beating american adrian brown on points this was the filipinos first fight since turning forty despite being more than ten years older than his opponent through twice as many punches he's won titles in eight weight divisions and this was the sixty first win of his career after his victory said he was keen for a rematch with floyd mayweather who beat him four years ago. the headlines here and al-jazeera the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential elections calling for nationwide protests after the constitutional court rejected allegations of vote rigging art and for use appealing to the international community not to recognize felix just as president he said to be an overrated on tuesday. a car bomb blast in syria has killed several soldiers state t.v. says a military checkpoint on the outskirts of damascus was the target as i have been. near the syrian border. this explosion happened on the entrance of damascus on a busy roundabout at a checkpoint according to initial reports it was a car bomb

including weapons for crowd control which have been proving so effective during the current unrest adrian brown al jazeera beijing. let's move to other news the u.k.'s prime minister has met the opposition leader labor leader jeremy corben as they try to find common ground on a deal to leave the european union the british parliament given may a two week deadline to renegotiate the break that agreement she signed with the e.u. in the van m.p.'s have asked her to go back to brussels demand changes to what's known as the back stop an arrangement to avoid a hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland however european union leaders insist they want renegotiate that deal to weave dual agreements remains the best and only the. do opinion so in november. we set sail in december. after the first million new full vote in the commons in general. the debate unfolds in the house of commons yesterday do not change that far we've gotten agreement we look the rigidly renegotiate. so here's november in london to talk through some of this in the dream it just feels like or looks like even th

adrian brown has more from beijing and. for the past three and a half years wang has really been in a legal black hole and until he appeared in court for his one day trial on december the twenty six his family didn't even know if he was dead or alive he was unable to see his wife during his long time incarcerated before his trial and he also wasn't able to select his own legal team now wang had been part of a a grassroots movement here in china which was trying to improve civil society he gave advice to people who were involved in disputes over land seizures or people who were complaining about religious persecution now in the middle of july two thousand and fifteen president xi jinping ordered a crackdown on this group and some two hundred fifty lawyers and human rights activists were detained and one is the last of these people to have gone on trial he's been found guilty of subversion sentenced to four and a half years in jail his wife though has said that she believes her husband will appeal an amnesty international on

including weapons for crowd control which have been proving so effective joining the current unrest adrian brown al jazeera beijing china's vice premier league here is in washington for trade talks with a trumpet ministration trying to resolve a dispute that seen the two countries imposed trade tariffs on each other relations soured further on monday when u.s. prosecutors filed new criminal charges against tech chinese tech company while away and its chief financial officer. one joe is appeared in court in the canadian city of vancouver where she's been under house arrest since last month the u.s. is seeking to extradition to extradite her for allegedly violating sanctions on iran as well as accusations of theft food and conspiracy. complaining how joins us now live from washington d.c. and kimberly regardless of what u.s. officials say one imagines this whole while weigh in so that must be costing a shadow over the whole mood of the talks if there's no question sami that that is the case at least that is the concern as they head into two days of high level talks designed to end this month long

that it is a problem one of the same time denying that it's ever been involved in it all right adrian brown lifeless in beijing thanks for plenty more ahead on this news hour after months of protests the palestinian authority puts plans social security tax on hold. and hoped on heroin in iraq and see how some addicks are getting help. plus later in sport japan of reach the finals of the asian cup and looking to become a five time asian champ. solar still ahead but first the man leading the u.n. team tast with overseeing the truce in the yemeni port city of data is stepping down retired dutch general patrick kamat is leaving his post after just one month the reasons are not clear and it comes though as the u.n. envoy for yemen martin griffiths confirmed the timeline for both warring parties to withdraw from the data that a prisoner swap deal has been postponed for now. amnesty international is calling bahrain's justice system a complete farce that after an opposition leader lost his appeal against a life sentence. men and two colleagues from his party were convicted in november of spying for

department announced criminal charges against the telecoms giant huawei and its chief financial officer adrian brown has that story from beijing. well the response from china to the fact that there's a ray of charges being laid at weiwei has been one of mild indignation mixed with portraying itself as the victim it does believe in this case that war way is the victim of a smear campaign of slander and in fact a statement was released by the foreign ministry here in beijing on choose the afternoon in which it said the u.s. is using its state power to blacken the name and attack certain chinese companies now we have to remember that while away is not just any company it's now the world's second largest maker of smartphones it's overtaken apple and that's part of the problem while away has been challenging the big telecom companies and china believes that the united states is jealous of that it resents that and now it's going out of its way to try to contain china's rise in any way it can and one of the ways it's doing that is to try to slow while ways progress in the united states and indeed other mar

including weapons for crowd control which have been proving so effective joining the current unrest adrian brown al jazeera beijing. british prime minister tourism a has just met the opposition leader jeremy corbin to try to find common ground on a deal for leaving the european union parliament has given may a two week deadline to try to renegotiate an agreements with the e.u. and peace of also to go back to brussels to demand changes to what is known as the backstop that's the contentious issue of the border between ireland and northern ireland the european union leaders have consistently said they will not renegotiate a position european commission president. reiterated in the last hour the reeve dollar agreement remains the best and only course. do people said so in november. we said so in december research so after the first medieval new full vote in the commons in germany. the debate unfolds in the house of commons yesterday do not change dept phil we've thought it meant to be not be read differently i mean it was . allowed as there is correspondent ali baba has been following events for us

. >>> as gavin newsom prepares to be sworn in, jerry brown gave his last television interview as governor. he sat down with adrianert. >> california's 39th governor chose to conduct his final interviews in the governor's mansion, a 142-year-old three-story sacramento victorian. edward g. brown jr. is contemplating his place in the state's history. he leaves office at age 80, the oldest governor, re-elected in 2011, nearly 30 years after his first two terms starting in 1975 he has seen the state double in size, the budget grow ten times, governing in a style both pragmatic and practical. president trump versus congress, the partial government shutdown over his demand for the $5 billion for a border wall. saying now he could declare a national emergency at the border and get it done under presidential edict. you as still the governor today of california, is there a national emergency at our border? >> no, no. and that is very dangerous to declare a national emergency if there isn't one. i think we ought to have a good border security and patrol. we have to work on how to deal with these refugees, and that's somethi

brown will be a free woman when she walks out in august. it will change more than just her life. here's abc's adrian bankert. >> i just want to say thank you, first. i know a lot of people get to see you, but i have prayed for a very long time to be -- >> reporter: sen toya brown is begging for mercy. the 30 year old is a college graduate, an advocate against sex trafficking and a convicted murder. >> what i did was horrible. there's nothing i can say to justify it. you can't justify it. you can't. you know, i killed johnny allen. he's gone. i thought he was reaching for a gun. >> then what did you do? >> i shot him. >> reporter: brown admits she did it but maintains her sentence was too harsh for a teenager. it would take nearly 15 years and attention from a-list celebrities to put her c spotli highlight juvenile justice in documentar maker dan berman has been following her case since the beginning. >> within a day after she was arrested, the juvenile public defender gave me a call and said we just arrested somebody we think you ought to meet. >> reporter: officials in tennessee granted berman as s

brown has given his final television interview in office. it was in sacramento at the governor's mansion. he sat down with adrianfrom our sister station in los angeles. >> reporter: california's 39th governor chose to conduct his final interviews in the governor's mansion, a 142-year-old three-story sacramento victorian. admin g. brown jr. is contemplating his place in the state's history. he leaves office at age 80, the oldest governor re-elected in 2011, nearly 30 years after his first two terms starting in 1975. he has seen the state double in size. the budget grow ten times. governing in a style both pragmatic and practical. >> president trump versus congress, the partial government shutdown over his demand for the $5 billion for a border wall, saying now that he could declare a national emergency at the border and get it done under presidential edict. you as still the governor today of california, is there a national emergency at our border? >> no, no. and that is very dangerous to declare a national emergency if there isn't one. i think we ought to have a good border security and patrol. we have got to wor

brown gave his last television interview as governor. it was in sacramento at the governor's mansion. he sat down with adrian governor chose to conduct his final interviews in the governor's mansion, a 142-year-old three-story sacramento victorian. edward g. brown jr. is contemplating his place in the state's history. he leaves office at age 80, the oldest governor, re-elected in 2011, nearly 30 years after his first two terms starting in 1975 he has seen the state double in size, the budget grow ten times, governing in a style both pragmatic and practical. president trump versus congress, the partial government shutdown over his demand for the $5 billion for a border wall. saying now he could declare a national emergency at the border and get it done under presidential edict. you as still the governor today of california, is there a national emergency at our border? >> no, no. and that is very dangerous to declare a national emergency if there isn't one. i think we ought to have a good border security and patrol. we have to work on how to deal with these refugees, and that's something we have to work with m

today jerry brown gave his very last tv interview as governor in sacramento at the governor's mansion. he sat down with adrian in los angeles. >> reporter: california's 39th governor chose to conduct his final interviews in the governor's mansion, a 142-year-old three-story sacramento victorian. edmond g. brown junior is com templating his place in state history. he leaves office nearly 30 years after his first two terms started in 1975. he saw the state double in size, the budget grow ten times, governing in a style both pragmatic and practical. >> reporter: president trump versus congress, the partial government shutdown over his demand for the $5 billion for a border wall, saying now that he could declare a national emergency at the border and get it done under presidential edict. you as still the governor today of california, is there a national emergency at our border? >> no, no. and that is very dangerous to declare a national emergency if there isn't one. i think we ought to have a good border security and patrol. we have to work on how to deal with these refugees, and that's something we have to work