waste products a security threat and china can use its equipment was eyeing china correspondent adrian brown reports now from change him. from the air while way success is clear just part of its sprawling complex in the special economic zone of shenzhen while ways name literally means the achievements of china but the trumpet ministration says those achievements more to cheating and stealing than the sort of innovation on display here allegations its top executives deny on thursday they held a news conference inviting selected media organizations including al jazeera to confirm that while away has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. government over a ban which restricts federal government employees from using its equipment we are there is no us. challenge to. these men only. but i thought oh this was me and us she was once more they insisted while ways not in the pocket of china's government and accuse the us of hacking its servers. go and. see it hence our service and story are given us since while ways top officials were once like china's leaders they rarely spoke to the foreign media but the

network adrian brown there for us in beijing thank you adrian well andrew lang is an independent china analyst and he joins us now via skype from hong kong and you talk us through these numbers as agent says even though consumer sales korea sales and its carry a business strapped. well there one one hundred billion prophets is is really has been going on for quite some years for walkway is the will of the revenue of big companies like cisco but want ways of a special company in china because ninety five ninety eight percent of the shares are all modest of and then all is one hundred seventy thousand start off forty five percent of people that the r. and d. and has been focusing keeping that over for so many years building up is trustworthiness to its customers in wonder in sixty countries worldwide and as far as the provider of telecommunications infrastructure is concerned there is really no other peer i mean here in ericsson don't come even close as far as that it's uncertain but even look at the profits. a large part of the profits comes from consumer business in fact this increase

products a security threat and says china can use its equipment for spying china correspondent adrian brown reports now from shenzhen. from the air while way success is clear just part of it sprawling complex in the special economic zone of shenzhen while ways name literally means the achievements of china but the trumpet ministration says those achievements more to cheating and stealing than the sort of innovation on display here allegations its top executives deny on thursday they held a news conference inviting selected media organizations including al jazeera to confirm that while away has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. government over a ban which restricts federal government employees from using its equipment we have there is no us. challenge for. these men only. but also oh this was me and us she was once more they insisted while ways not in the pocket of china's government and accuse the us of hacking its servers. and. it has carried our service and this story given us since while ways top officials were once like china's leaders they rarely spoke to the foreign media but the arres

in china have decided to ground all of their seven three seven max planes for now adrian blount adrian brown is in beijing for us so adrian what more do we know about the extent of the shutdown there and what it's going to involve. well we got a short statement on monday morning from the china civil aviation administration confirming that all seven foot seven three seven max aircraft in china would be grounded now it's not clear how long this grounding will remain in effect but certainly that grounding has now begun now why does this matter well china of course has the world's fastest growing aviation market the chinese are very big customers of the seven three seven max in fact part of that aircraft is completed here in china it's where the the seats are installed though the the main manufacturing still happens in the united states now according to our research at the moment some nine chinese airlines are customers of the seven three seven max there are some sixty of this aircraft that have been delivered over the past year or so and more than one hundred more seventy seven max aircraft hav

considers well as products a security threat and says china can use its equipment for spying adrian brown has more from. from beer one way success is clear just part of it sprawling complex in this special economic zone of. while ways name literally means the achievements of china but the trumpet ministration says those achievements more to cheating and stealing than the sort of innovation on display here allegations its top executives deny on thursday they held a news conference inviting selected media organizations including al-jazeera to confirm that while away has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. government over a ban which restricts federal government employees from using its equipment we have there is no us. challenge to all. these men only. but also owes me and us she was once more they insisted while ways not in the pocket of china's government and accuse the us of hacking its servers. and. it has cared so this and this story and you know us since while ways top officials were once like china's leaders they rarely spoke to the foreign media but the arrest of the firm's chief finan

foreign investment law and appeasing the concerns of trading partners in washington and elsewhere adrian brown reports now from the chinese capital. as ever when china's parliament meets everything was perfectly organized. inside the great hall of the people the mood was celebrating as the almost three thousand delegates gathered for the final day of the national people's congress they knew what was expected of them their job of to rule is not to block legislation or place checks on leaders of the communist party so the outcome of the vote to amend the foreign investment law was never in doubt as was it's true to help end the trade war with the united states which is why the legislation was approved in record time. the measure will affect some of the biggest corporations doing business in china in theory it will mean among other things that foreign firms will no longer need a chinese partner to operate here or be forced to hand over their technology to. the new foreign investment laws china's concession to the united states which is a compromise china is making in the trade war so it's very li

investment all aimed at appeasing the concerns of trading partners in washington and elsewhere adrian brown reports from the chinese capital. as ever when china's parliament meets everything was perfectly organized. inside the great hall of the people the mood was celebrated as the almost three thousand delegates gathered for the final day of the national people's congress they knew what was expected of them their job after all is not to block legislation or place checks on leaders of the communist party so the outcome of the vote to amend the foreign investment law was never in doubt as was its true aim to help end the trade war with the united states which is why the legislation was approved in record time the measure will affect some of the biggest corporations doing business in china in theory it'll mean among other things that foreign firms will no longer need a chinese partner to operate here or be forced to hand over their technology. the new foreign investment laws china's concession to the united states which is a compromise china is making in the trade war so it's very likely that

our correspondent adrian brown has been at that news conference and why ways headquarters joining us from sens then how unprecedented is it adrian for a chinese company to come out and speak so publicly. well there in i think it's fairly rare for a chinese company to one you know hold a news conference like this to invite selected media including al-jazeera to put questions to these executives questions we did not have to submit in advance it is very rare also for you know a chinese company to announce it's suing the u.s. government i can't recall a case where this has happened before what was clear today is a while away is saying to the united states we want to cooperate with you but we're also up for a fight now there was very much an international line up at this news conference we heard voices from the united kingdom from the united states and these were executives who were offering technical legal and also constitutional opinions the overall message coming through was that the united states is behaving in an unjust way so while way is resorting to the courts and it believes and

has failed to provide any evidence to support its claims adrian brown has more from war ways home city of shenzhen from the wall ways success is clear just part of it sprawling complex in the special economic zone. while weighs name literally means the achievements of china but the trumpet ministration says those achievements more to cheating and stealing than the sort of innovation on display here allegations its top executives deny on thursday they held a news conference inviting selected media organizations including al-jazeera to confirm that while way has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. government over a ban which restricts federal government employees from using its equipment we have and there is no us. challenge to all of. these men only. but i also owe this i we and us she was once more they insisted while ways not in the pocket of china's government and accused the us of hacking its servers. and ran here so. it has carried our service and this story you know since while ways top officials were once like china's leaders they rarely spoke to the foreign media but the arrest of

company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera. at least three people have been killed and dozens injured following an attack in western kabul rockets and heavy gun via targeting the shiite gathering in the afghan capital i saw has claimed responsibility various politicians were at the event including presidential candidates for july's upcoming election shall abella says carmel. eisel has claimed responsibility for this attack in western cargo unfortunately it is not a surprise because they have targeted this community the shia minority the czar's they have targeted the many times in this area especially over the last year dozens have been killed in this this gathering today of more than a thousand people was commemorating the death of his our leader who died twenty four years ago there was a large gathering but also a lot of politicians with a senior politicians we're talking former president hamid karzai the c.e.o. of diller a dollar acting foreign minister rabbani the presidential candidate. when as they were talking

company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera. while the us has been suspicious of chinese tech firms for some time now and twenty twelve a congressional panel warned while way and its rivals n t both posed security threats fast forward to last year and as adrian mentioned four ways chief financial officer men one joe was arrested in vancouver in january the us justice department filed charges against while way and having relation to fraud obstruction of justice and attempted theft of trade secrets but president i want trump says he'd consider intervening if it serves national security interests or if it helps to close a trade deal with china while trump has been fighting a trade offensive against china and others since coming to office promising better deals but the u.s. trade deficit has now grown out to its highest level in ten years here's our white house correspondent can really help that. the report by the u.s. commerce department stands in stark contrast to what president donald trump said just days ago and you

company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera. let's take a close look at hallways history based company was founded in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven by a former officer of the chinese people's liberation army he won a government contract to provide equipment to the communist party in the early one nine hundred ninety s. his company was later granted status of national champion this effectively closed the market to foreign competition hallway expanded internationally in the year two thousand and five years later the value of its overseas sales the past local business and today as the world's biggest supplier of network telecommunications equipment and the second largest seller of mobile phones. let's bring in our guest now and andrew long is an independent china analyst and a research fellow at beijing normal university he joins us via skype from hong kong and washington d.c. we have richard goodstein a lawyer and democratic political consultant and via skype from tokyo mark einstein chief analyst for digital

to court over a baton government agency is using its technology our china correspondent adrian brown has this report from chen's and from the wall way success is clear just part of it sprawling complex in the special economic zone of shenzhen. while ways name literally means the achievements of china but the trumpet ministration says those achievements more to cheating and stealing than the sort of innovation on display here allegations its top executives deny on thursday they held a news conference inviting selected media organizations including al-jazeera to confirm that while away has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. government over a ban which restricts federal government employees from using its equipment we are there is no less. challenge for. these men only. but also oh this was me and us she was once more they insisted while ways not in the pocket of china's government and accuse the us of hacking its servers. and. it has carried our service and this story and given us since while ways top officials were once like china's leaders they rarely spoke to the foreign media but the

adrian brown reports from the chinese capital. as e ver whenever parliament meets, everything was perfectly organized. inside the great hall of the people, the mood was celebratory as the almost 300 -- 3000 delegates gathered for the final day of the national people's congress. they knew what was expected of them. their job, after all, is not to block legislation or place checks on leaders of the communist party. so, the outcome of the vote to amend the foreign investment law was never in doubt, as was its true aim -- to help end the trade were with the united states which is why the legislation was approved in record time. the measure will affect some of the biggest corporations doing business in china. in. , it will mean that foreign firms will no longer need a chinese partner to operate or be forced to hand over their technology. >> the new foreign investment law is a concession to the united states which is a compromise china's making. it is very likely in the future, there will be policies that favor foreign investors, but we

area north of shanghai people living nearby have a windows were smashed by the force of the blast adrian brown has more from beijing . well many people have been killed but many more have also been injured the death toll began to rise on friday because rescuers were able to recover bodies from the rubble of the factory where this blast happened the explosion was caused in a part of this fertilizer factory where benzene was being produced it created a huge fireball that according to china's earthquake administration packed the force of a small earthquake now more than six hundred forty people we know have received treatment in hospital in hospitals that have been absolutely overwhelmed they're being treated with things like respiratory problems severe cuts as well as severe burns the injured include school children there were at least five schools within a five kilometer radius of the site where the explosion happened now investigators of course want to speak to the managers off this plant to find out a bit more about what happened we know according to state controlled media that the bus of thi

problems because for almost seventy years there's been only one party that has ruled this country adrian brown al-jazeera beijing a drive by shooting of a repeated maffia boss is raising fears of a return to mob killings betrayed in the sopranos t.v. series and hollywood movies police fear the murder of frankie boyle cally will provoke where vange attacks as well as on airports from new york. considered one of the greatest movies of all time that one nine hundred seventy two big screen classic the godfather depicted the italian american mobster wars in new york not good meeting you. now the scenes are coming back in real life friend jesco cali was gunned down wednesday night by unknown assailants outside his home in a posh neighborhood in staten island. he exits his house but he has a conversation with an individual in front of that residence and that individual at some point in time it's only about a minute into it pulls out a firearm and shots are fired known by his nickname of frankie boy he was widely believed to be the head of the gambino crime family unlike high profile mob bosses of yea

. >> reporter: he is also suing the department on behalf of adrian brown. in january of vallejo officer detained the military veteran while on his porch recording a traffic stop. >> we really disturbed at the way he responded to some of these recent incidents, the lack of retraining. we are open to the possibility of someone coming in that wants to reduce violence against the civilian population. >> pulling valuable resources against the community. >> reporter: the low point came when detectives doubted the kidnapping and of denise hoskins. the city paid $2.5 million for that mistake. >> he has been looking forward to this time, 31 years in law enforcement. he is ready to retire. >> city leaders praised him saying he will card to freeze relationships with communities he started coffee with a cop with neighbors and officers at local coffee shops. he cocreated a late night basketball program for cops who with teens after school. he also instituted the police body camera program. in 2017 the police department won an excellence in community policing award. they

while al-jazeera is adrian brown joins us now live from beijing adrian given all the company's been through all these results a surprise. well let's put this into perspective i mean these are the two hundred eighteen results and for most of two hundred eighteen while we didn't have any serious problems with the united states with new zealand with australia and britain and other countries that have raised concerns security concerns over its equipment it's only in the last few months of two hundred eighteen that it's had these problems and going into two thousand and nineteen the figures to watch will be those for two hundred nineteen but this still proves that while away remains a symbol in many ways of all that china has achieved in the past thirty years it really is the crown jewels of china's economy tech is forefront of china's economy at the moment and while away is at the center of that nice figures demonstrate that way is now one of the most profitable companies in the world in spite of that campaign that's been led by the united states which has been trying to get while away blacklis

investment law aimed at appeasing the concerns of trading partners in washington and elsewhere adrian brown reports from the chinese capital as ever when china's parliament meets everything was perfectly organized. inside the great hall of the people the mood was celebrated as the almost three thousand delegates gathered for the final day of the national people's congress they knew what was expected of them their job after rule is not to block legislation or place checks on leaders of the communist party so the outcome of the vote to amend the foreign investment law was never in doubt as was its true aim to help end the trade war with the united states which is why the legislation was approved in record time the measure will affect some of the biggest corporations doing business in china in theory it'll mean among other things that foreign firms will no longer need a chinese partner to operate here or be forced to hand over their technology to. new foreign investment laws china's concession to the united states which is a compromise china is making in a trade war so it's very likely that in

problems because for almost seventy years there's been only one party that has ruled this country adrian brown al jazeera beijing. toxic chemicals dumped in a very southern malaysia of course thousands of people to seek hospital treatment three arrests have been made as police investigate the pollution linked to rather tired recycling as florence of the reports from pass a good eye in the state of just more than one hundred schools of being closed. is worried about his younger sister she was admitted to a hospital intensive care unit when she complained of difficulty. his appointed seeing my system hospital and. they came here took some samples and then left they didn't seem interested in helping those. it's been a week since it was discovered that between twenty and forty tons of chemical waste had been dumped into the river near their homes were standing right next to the kim kim river which is where the toxic chemicals were dumped now people here tell us the smell usually gets worse at night it's an acrid burning smell that smells like tires or plastic being burnt and even just standing her

company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera. french cardinal philip barber has been found guilty of covering up sex abuse allegations against a priest babar says he will offer his resignation to the pope after a quarterly or ruled it failed to report allegations dating back to the one nine hundred eighty s. his lawyer says he will appeal at least three people have been killed and dozens injured in an attack in the afghan capital kabul rockets and heavy gunfire targeted a shia gathering killing many leading politicians in the west of the city are still has claimed responsibility donald trump's former presidential campaign manager paul manifolds will soon find out how much more time he's going to spend in prison and a fourth was found guilty of financial crimes as part of a special counsel's investigation into possible collusion between trump's twenty sixteen campaign and russia. algeria as president of the disease but if he curses peaceful protests in his country risk being infiltrated by troublemakers comes as hundre

area north of shanghai people living nearby have a windows were smashed by the force of the blast adrian brown has more from beijing well many people have been killed but many more have also been injured the death toll began to rise on friday because rescuers were able to recover bodies from the rubble of the factory where this blast happened.

people feel very strongly here so yes this is not a year when china's leaders can appear weak or it adrian brown there in beijing agent thank you. for a short break here not just iraq when we come back a desperate journey turns into a desperate situation as rescue refugees hijack a ship. and celebrating a major.

our correspondent adrian brown has been at that news conference of why ways headquarters in sens and how rare is it adrian for a chinese company to come out and speak so publicly let alone sue the u.s. government. well i can't recall an occasion where a large private chinese firm has announced it's going to be suing the u.s. government that is indeed very unusual and the language being used there by the rope tating chairman of war where he was very blunt very direct weiwei clearly want their day in court and they are determined to get their day in court they say that the allegations that have been made against them in congress remain unfounded and they want to have a chance to prove to really clear their name what we're seeing at the moment i think is the beginning of what is going to be a long media and legal offensive we saw very much a very international management lineup today we heard opinions of a u.s. lawyer a british security expert and of course while ways other key chinese executives it was trying to convey i think a really international voice why way of course is not just a

coastal area north of shanghai people living nearby say their windows were smashed by the blast adrian brown has more from beijing. well many people have been killed but many more have also been injured the death toll began to rise on friday because rescuers were able to recover bodies from the rubble of the factory where this blast happened the explosion was caused in a part of this fertilizer factory where benzene was being produced it created a huge fireball that according to china's earthquake administration packed the force of a small earthquake now more than six hundred forty people we know have received treatment in hospital in hospitals that have been absolutely overwhelmed they're being treated with things like respiratory problems severe cuts as well as severe burns the injured include school children there were at least five schools within a five kilometer radius of the site where the explosion happened now investigators of course want to speak to the managers off this plant to find out a bit more about what happened we know according to state controlled media that the bus of this

thank you very much for that and that is adrian brown with the latest from thank you. still ahead on the bulletin more facebook is dealing with logic obviously and security lapse plus . i'm far into the week in northern thailand a political stronghold of a party that was removed by a military coup almost five years ago and the people here are vowing to turn out in huge numbers to vote in the upcoming election. we've got more wet weather more when she weather just effects in the fall northeast of the u.s. is latest band of cloud making its way through in the form of rain and indeed some snow that will push up into that eastern side of kind of the temperatures just about getting up into double figures for new york and all safe with the central areas look lousy dry flume on the cool side over towards the rockies just around the great plains we have still got some wet some wintry weather rolling in him and what that say just around the pacific northwest turning to snow to drive this way in across the rockies well disturbed weather into central parts of those eastern seaboa

company's products is unjust washington says that while weight poses a security threat al jazeera says adrian brown reports now from change in where huawei has its headquarters from the air while way success is clear just part of its sprawling complex in the special economic zone of shenzhen. while weighs name literally means the achievements of china but the trumpet ministration says those achievements more to cheating and stealing than the sort of innovation on display here allegations its top executives deny on thursday they held a news conference inviting selected media organizations including al-jazeera to confirm that while way has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. government over a ban which restricts federal government employees from using its equipment we are there is no us. challenge to all of. these men only. but also oh this was me and us she was once more they insisted while ways not in the pocket of china's government and accuse the us of hacking its servers. and ran here. it has our service and this story and you know us since while ways top officials were once like china's leaders th

company's products is unjust washington says that way it poses a security threat al jazeera says adrian brown reports now from change in where huawei has its headquarters from the air while way success is clear just part of its sprawling complex in the special economic zone of shenzhen. while weighs name literally means the achievements of china but the trumpet ministration says those achievements more to cheating and stealing than the sort of innovation on display here allegations its top executives deny on thursday they held a news conference inviting selected media organizations including al-jazeera to confirm that while way has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. government over a ban which restricts federal government employees from using its equipment we're there is no us. challenge to all. these men only. but also owes me and us shoot us once more they insisted while ways not in the pocket of china's government and accuse the us of hacking its servers. and. it has carried our service and this story and given us since while ways top officials were once like china's leaders they rarely spok

problems because for almost seventy years there's been only one party that has ruled this country adrian brown al jazeera beijing. the drive by shooting of a reputed mathy abbas is raising fears of a return to mob killings like those seen on the sopranos t.v. program and hollywood movies police fare the murder of frankie carlin will provoke revenge attacks as gabriel is under reports from new york considered one of the greatest movies of all time the one nine hundred seventy two big screen classic the godfather depicted the italian american muster wars in new york. not good meeting you liz. now the scenes are coming back in real life friend jesco cali was gunned down wednesday night by unknown assailants outside his home in a posh neighborhood in staten island. he exits his house but he has a conversation with an individual in front of that residence and that individual at some point in time it's only about a minute into it pulls out a firearm and shots are fired known by his nickname of frankie boy he was widely believed to be the head of the gambino crime family unlike high profile mob bosse

has failed to provide any evidence to support its claims adrian brown has more from shenzhen from the while way success is clear just part of its sprawling complex in the special economic zone of. while weighs name literally means the achievements of china but the trumpet ministration says those achievements more to cheating and stealing than the sort of innovation on display here allegations its top executives deny on thursday they held a news conference inviting selected media organizations including al-jazeera to confirm that while way has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. government over a ban which restricts federal government employees from using its equipment we're there is no us. challenge to all. these men only. but also oh this was me and us she was once more they insisted while ways not in the pocket of china's government and accuse the us of hacking its servers. and. it has carried our service and this story and you know us since while ways top officials were once like china's leaders they rarely spoke to the foreign media but the arrest of the firm's chief financial office

company's products is unjust washington says that while weight poses a security threat al jazeera says adrian brown reports now from change in where huawei has its headquarters from the air while ways success is clear just part of its sprawling complex in this special economic zone of change him. while weighs name literally means the achievements of china but the trumpet ministration says those achievements more to cheating and stealing than the sort of innovation on display here allegations its top executives deny on thursday they held a news conference inviting selected media organizations including al-jazeera to confirm that while way has filed a lawsuit against the u.s. government over a ban which restricts federal government employees from using its equipment we are there is no us. challenge to all. these men only. but also owes me and us and shoot us once more they insisted while ways not in the pocket of china's government and accuse the us of hacking its servers. go and jump around here is it hence our service and this story are given us since while ways top officials were once like china's

seven max jets and with that news boeing shares slid around ten percent in monday morning trading adrian brown with us from beijing. well in light of the ethiopian plane crash china has moved swiftly and decisively on monday morning the civil aviation administration confirmed that it had notified all of chinese airlines telling them that the boeing seven three seven max eight aircraft had been grounded and would remain grounded indefinitely it so far affects ninety six aircraft you know the administration felt that there were similarities between the crash in ethiopia and one in indonesia almost six months ago that also involved a boeing seven three seven max eight it was also practically brand new and also crashed shortly after takeoff and for china that was one similarity to many now the the max eight is basically the latest version of the boeing seven three seven which is very much the the work course of the chinese airline industry now it's not just boeing that china purchases from china also buys from air bus but it's also developing its own version of the boeing seven three seven the co

company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera change him. well the u.s. government has a troubled history with chinese tech firms that goes back at least seven years in two thousand and twelve a congressional panel warned that way and its rival z t e both posed security threats in december twenty eighth chief financial officer among one joe as you heard there was arrested in vancouver at the request of the u.s. in january this year the u.s. justice department filed charges against huawei and mung of fraud obstruction of justice and attempted theft of trade secrets secrets but u.s. president donald trump says he'd consider intervening if it serves national security interests or helps to close a trade deal with china why andrew long is an international and independent china analyst he joins us via skype now from hong kong thanks very much for being with us with us so why wait has a great deal of business outside of the u.s. in fact the u.s. is just a small part of their revenue but what impact could that all of the negat

problems because for almost seventy years there's been only one party that has ruled this country adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. north korea's considering suspending talks with the u.s. and restarting missile and nuclear tests vice foreign minister charles san jose says they have no intention of yielding to u.s. denuclearization the months is blaming the u.s. secretary of state and national security adviser for the breakdown of last month's summit in hanoi between donald trump and leader kim jong un. that former congressman or texas congressman beto or rourke has announced that he is running for u.s. president the forty six year old joins twelve other people competing for the democratic nomination alan fischer has this report from washington d.c. . he's the latest to join the race for president but he won't be the last. or happy to share with you that i'm running to serve you as the next president of the united states of america. b. two on rort became a darling of the democratic party last year when he came close to beating republican senator ted cruz for his texas seat he ran a populist and

rules governing air pollution and waste management two years ago one of them is among the injured adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. well time now for the weather and everton is where there is ever so what's the latest on those two storms that are bearing down on history and you know just a couple of days away now this is only a second time in recorded history we've had two storms this strong make landfall similar tiny asli over australia have taken the satellite pitching see the strongest one is veronica sustained winds around two hundred five kilometers per hour gusting to two hundred fifty it's a slow mover those only moving at four kilometers per hour you can still walk a lot faster than that the swim fast that actually tropical cycling trevor on the other hand well this is slightly weaker but it's still strong enough still intensifying actually and this is what is going to make landfall around about nine or ten hours winds gusting over two hundred kilometers per hour is moving more quickly though eleven kilometers per hour and that is crucial because as we go on through the next couple of d

billion dollars while way has denied his technology can be used by the chinese government for spying adrian brown has more from beijing while way in many ways symbolizes all that china has achieved in the past thirty years in many ways it is the crown jewels of the corporate sector here in china and that success has certainly been borne out by these latest figures showing that sales surged to more than one hundred billion dollars in twenty eighteen this in spite of that campaign being led by the trump administration which has been demonizing wall way for a number of years the century saying the firm is in the pocket of the chinese government something walk away continues to deny but while way is banned from being used by u.s. government employees for that reason why our way is now suing the u.s. government and official report from the british government has once again accused war way of poor software and saying that while away has also failed to repair flaws that might make it vulnerable to cyber attack now the reason why this is important is because the u.k. government has to rule shortly on whe

after an explosion at a chemical storage plant so this is beginning to look you know very familiar adrian brown an update from beijing thank you. manas stories we have coming up on the al-jazeera news hour we'll hear from a war of our reporters in southern africa of the worst hit areas a week after cycle on a dime. and one of the legends of baseball size goodbye to his home crowd in tokyo after a twenty eight year major league career. we got some rather wet weather in the full cost parts of central and southern china this thick band of plaids in the process of sinking its way further south what's going to bring a fair bit of rain there into eastern parts of china twelve celsius the high for shanghai on friday hong kong should be settlin sunny make the most of it because you know what's coming as we go on into saturday that will sink its way further south with what whether a person could parts of southern china at this stage but i just need to warm up we do brighten up the shanghai with a fair bit of sunshine a rolling through some sunshine too into the philippines not too bad here but the usual

province windows in the neighboring residential area were smashed by the force of the explosion adrian brown has more from beijing. well the investigation into this latest explosion at a chemical plant in eastern china is now underway this was a very powerful blast several hours after it there was still a large plume of smoke hanging over the industrial complex a number of people were injured at least thirty they're being treated in hospital so it's possible the death toll could continue to rise at least thirty people though were rescued many of them workers from this chemical factory now we know that at least ten schools are within a five kilometer radius of this side of course that is one small raise questions about why people are able to live a permitted to live so close to industrial estates where these dangerous chemicals are produced now sadly industrial accidents like this are not rare in china there have been at least four serious ones during the past five years the most serious of which was in the northeastern city of to engine in august two thousand and fifteen when a hundred sixty

rules governing air pollution and waste management two years ago one of them is among the injured adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. weather is. why a new study is describing the deadly. wave. when. three eastern zimbabwe many people was sleeping. and i'll tell you why this is one of the worst i think today.

china has stopped flying the boeing seven three seven max in wake of the theo can airlines crash adrian brownhas more on that from beijing well in light of the ethiopian plane crash china has moved swiftly and decisively on monday morning the civil aviation administration confirmed that it had notified all of chinese airlines telling them that the boeing seven three seven max eight aircraft had been grounded and would remain grounded indefinitely it so far affects ninety six aircraft you know the administration felt that there were similarities between the crash in ethiopia and one in indonesia almost six months ago that also involved a boeing seven three seven max eight it was also practically brand new and also crashed shortly after takeoff and for china that was one similarity to many now the the max eight is basically the latest version of the boeing seven three seven which is very much the the work course of the chinese airline industry now it's not just boeing that china purchases from china also buys from air bus but it's also developing its own version of the boeing seven three seven

has stopped flying the boeing seven three seven max in the wake of the ethiopian airlines crash adrian brown has more from that beijing. well in light of the ethiopian plane crash china has moved swiftly and decisively on monday morning the civil aviation administration confirmed that it had notified all of chinese airlines telling them that the boeing seven three seven max eight aircraft had been grounded and would remain grounded indefinitely it so far affects ninety six aircraft you know the administration felt that there were similarities between the crash in ethiopia and one in indonesia almost six months ago that also involved a boeing seven three seven max eight it was also practically brand new and also crashed shortly after takeoff and for china that was one similarity to many now the the max eight is basically the latest version of the boeing seven three seven which is very much the the work course of the chinese airline industry now it's not just boeing that china purchases from china also buys from air bus but it's also developing its own version of the boeing seven three seven t

foreign investment law and appeasing the concerns of trading partners in washington and elsewhere adrian brownreports now from the chinese capital. as ever when china's parliament meets everything was perfectly organized. inside the great hall of the people the mood was sort of breakthrough as the almost three thousand delegates gathered for the final day of the national people's congress they knew what was expected of them their job of to rule is not to block legislation or place checks on leaders of the communist party.

i'm adrian brown reporting from the nerve center of china's largest technology company demonized by governments around the world and now beginning a major legal a media offensive. a catholic cardinal gets a suspended jail sentence for failing to report accusations of child abuse in france. and i'm leah harding here with all of your sport continue to try to expand the qatar world cup they're now reported to be considering oman and kuwait as. several explosions have taken place in the afghan capital kabul. believe the target was a large gathering of shia muslims attending a commemoration ceremony on the tenth anniversary of the leader's death let's go live to our correspondent charlotte bellus in kabul charlotte what more do we know at this point. there's still a lot of ambulances and military vehicles coming in going from where this gathering took place the ministry of interior has told us that they're currently surrounding a building near where this gathering took place where they believe rockets were sent from from attackers this surrounding that they're trying to move into it but they said th

company's critics continue to argue that it's not just the buildings here that have been closed adrian brown al-jazeera. let's take a close look at hallways history based company was founded in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven by former officer of the chinese people's liberation army he won a government contract to provide equipment to the communist party in the early one nine hundred ninety s. his company was later granted status of a national champion this effectively closed the market to foreign competition hallway expanded internationally in the year two thousand and five years later the value of its overseas sales the past local business and today as the world's biggest supplier of network telecommunications equipment and the second largest seller of mobile phones. let's bring in our guest now and andrew long is an independent china analyst and a research fellow at beijing normal university he joins us via skype from hong kong and washington d.c. we have richard goodstein a lawyer and democratic political consultant and via skype from tokyo mark einstein chief analyst for digital