rich a book of hers there for another view i spoke to force one more director of the asia and china program at the european council on foreign relations a pan-european think tank i started by asking how he described the deal. i think it's business rather than what it takes it's a product of the trade and it's a product of the german presidency by chancellor merkel who prioritize really. the industry issues and maybe that should be right for investment the of the only problem is and in china everything is political nothing is purely economy so my main worry when i look at the supposed draft of the deep nobody has the final text by the way and even today it's not the final text but if they're still have to be written in one run a look at i worry about what's the section make it isn't what's the very thick ation mechanism there are lots of restrictions put on by the chinese side and you know depending on me depending on the capacity as a lot of accent of the mystic euro and we know what that is in china very did so on arbitration mechanism in fact what passes as arbitration is often a top leve

major investment deal and we asked friends well goldman for his take he's director of the asia and china program at the european council on foreign relations a pan-european thank you. i think it's business rather than what it takes it's a product of the trade and it's your product of the german presidency by chancellor merkel who prioritize really. the industry issues and maybe that should be right for investment the of the only problem is that in china everything is political nothing is purely economy what the premier is doing is confirming to the chinese companies that they have access to the european market which they always have the problem is the other way around it's above the you access of european companies to the chinese market which has always 'd been more close in terms of investment because of the way that china entered into the world trade organization as a developing economy with special rights. all right friends will go to mt there with the e.c.f. are talking about that a huge china investment deal in the works and now before we go a look at how far the world of robotics has come

american held welcome to the program the european union has struck a controversy 0 investment deal with china they use has high yield the accord saying it will give european companies better access to chinese markets but critics say those economic benefits come at the expense of human rights. for 7 years european union representatives have been haggling with china at the negotiating table the results were presented at a joint 1st show press conference. market access for both sides will be improved a level playing field means that chinese state owned enterprises will no longer be given preferential treatment through subsidies and for the 1st time china commits to following environmental climate social as well as occupational health and safety standards but when it comes to those standards chinese president xi jinping made only vague promises in the agreement china has imprisoned up to $1000000.00 readers in labor and reeducation camps and shing shang province she has promised to sign a convention against forced labor but no date has been set and sanctions haven't been discussed even take promi

and a giant leap for china's space program as it successfully lands approve on the moon . it's on a mission to bring living a rocks back to earth for the 1st time. in decades, this time bring it off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome at least 5 people have been killed in the western german city of tree year. after a car plowed into a pedestrian zone, a baby was among the fatalities. several others have also been reported injured. some seriously investigators are continuing to work at the scene which took place early this afternoon. the suspect was alone in the car and is now in police custody investigators stress there are no apparent signs that the rampage. it was politically motivated, but prosecutors say the driver appeared to be suffering from psychiatric problems. and they say that he had been drinking our let's get the latest now from our reporter on the ground. louis sanders is in tree or good evening to you. so summarize for is what happened today. earlier today this afternoon, a man a 51 year old man was able

match the howard welcome to the program the european union has struck a controversy over investment deal with china the e.u. has high of the accord saying it will give european companies better access to chinese markets but critics say those economic benefits come in the expense of human rights. for 7 years european union representatives have been haggling with china at the negotiating table the results were presented at a joint 1st show press conference. market access for both sides will be improved a level playing field means that chinese state owned enterprises will no longer be given preferential treatment through subsidies and for the 1st time china commits to following environmental climate social as well as occupational health and safety stand. though when it comes to those standards chinese president xi jinping made only veg promises in the agreement china has imprisoned up to $1000000.00 readers in labor and reeducation camps and shing shang province she has promised to sign a convention against forced labor but no date has been set and sanctions haven't been discussed even vague promises

. >> ongoing cyber attack, eric swallow's china program and hunter biden's probe, many lawmakers in the middle of it all. homeland security committee chairman ron johnson, welcome. you have been in the middle of the hunter biden probe for a long time. you and senator grassley put out a comprehensive report. are you convinced there has been criminal wrongdoing in the biden family? >> it is not my call. i'm not a prosecutor. that is up to the front of justice. we uncovered some troubling connections with chinese companies, persons that have connections to people's liberation army. i wish the mainstream media had paid attention before the election. this is a mess and under the biden administration will be a bigger mess, not going away. mike: what is the future of the hunter biden probe on capitol hill? will there be hearings in the next congress? >> chuck grassley and i will not turn a blind eye to new evidence but is in the hands of the justice department. i hope this is a legitimate investigation. the only reason i say that, i have no suspicions one way or the other. we did an investigat

could take several months i asked for more for his take on the deal he's director of the asia and china program at the european council on foreign relations a padded european think tank. i think it's business rather than critics it's a product of the trade and it's a product of the german presidency by chancellor merkel who prioritize really. the industry issues and maybe that should be right for us mindy of the only problem is and in china everything is political nothing is purely economy so my main worry when i look at the supposed draft of the deed nobody has the final text by the way and even today is not the final text the tears still have to be written in one run a look at i worry about what's the section make it isn't what's the very thick ation mechanism there are lots of restrictions put on by the chinese side and you know depending on the depending on the capacity. a lot of accent on the mystique row and we know what that is in china very little on arbitration mechanism in fact what passes as rb tradition is often top level reviewed by both parties meaning the e.u. and china an eventu

i'm anthony held welcome to the program the european union has struck a controversy 0 investment deal with china they use has high yield the accord saying it will give european companies better access to chinese markets but critics say those economic benefits come at the expense of human rights. for 7 years european union representatives have been haggling with china at the negotiating table the results were presented at a joint 1st show press conference. market access for both sides will be improved a level playing field means that chinese state owned enterprises will no longer be given preferential treatment through subsidies and for the 1st time china commits to following environmental climate social as well as occupational health and safety standards but when it comes to those standards chinese president xi jinping made only veg promises in the agreement china has imprisoned up to $1000000.00 readers in labor and reeducation camps and changing province she has promised to sign a convention against forced labor but no date has been set and sanctions haven't been discussed even take promises a

i would make the point that china has a program they call made in china 2025. the point of this program is to go out not just of the united states, but to other countries of the world and try to gather both expertise in terms of people as well as information and technology and bring it back to china. and i think that we've seen, i've seen a number of justice department prosecutions of academics who have been co-opted by this program. they've taken large amounts of money and the chinese are spending upwards of $500,000 per year on a particular professor or some researcher who has access to the kind of information that china wants. and it is a major problem. the other thing i would point out which i haven't talked about is the chinese confucius institute. of stencil -- obstenvstencil he sively buying their access onto campus and a lot of universities became addicted to this chinese money and in so censor they had to self- by not criticizing china's human rights record like the imprisonment over one million in western china. the trump administration has really gone

a giant leap for china's space program as it successfully lands a probe on the moon. it is on a mission to bring lunar rocks back to earth for the first time in decades. i am brent goff. to our viewers on pbs in the united states and around the world, welcome. at least five people have been killed in the western german city of trier. a car plowed into a pedestrian zone. a baby was among the fatalities. several others -- other injuries have been reported, some seriously. this took place early this afternoon. the suspect was alone in the car and is now in police custody. investigators stress there is no apparent sign that the rampage is pointedly motivated. the driver appeared to be suffering from psychiatric problems. they say he had been drinking. let's get the latest from our reporter on the ground. lewis is on the ground in trier. summarize what happened today. >> earlier today, this afternoon, a 51-year-old man was able to gain access to the pedestrian area in this marketplace in trier. he plowed his vehicle through would-be shoppers in this area. it was filled wit

could take several months i asked for more for his take on the deal he's director of the asia and china program at the european council on foreign relations a pad european think tank. i think it's business rather than critics it's a product of the trade and it's a product of the german presidency by chancellor merkel who prioritize really. the industry issues and maybe that should be right for me this movie of the only problem of these and in china everything is political nothing is purely economy so my main worry when i look at the supposed draft of the deed nobody has the final text by the way and even today is not the final text the tears still have to be written in one a look at i worry about what's the section make it isn't what's the verification mechanism there are lots of restrictions put on by the chinese side on you know depending on the depending on the capacity and a lot of accent of the mystique you know and we know what that is in china very did so on arbitration mechanism in fact what passes as arbitration is often a top level review by both parties meaning the e.u. and china and

share data and samples from the probe the successful mission was the latest breakthrough for china's space program has declared a state of natural disaster a slight cyclon yes the hits authorities say no part of the pacific island nation is likely to escape the category 5 cyclone and have set a nationwide curfew some experts warn the storm could be the southern hemisphere is most intense tropical storm on record. next year's burden film festival is said to have a very different look the us magazine variety reports that the 71st birthday not it will take place virtually in march organizers are hoping to put on a scaled down version of the festival with some on site screenings in june and is among the top film festivals well why aren't. you. now to a controversy in the world of sports with the spotlight on german gymnastics a report by the germany's desh beagle race and really shed light on serious allegations of bullying and mistreatment by fame outcoached national gymnastics center in the city city of kemet but now de w. has spoken to 2 former l.a. chip midsts who trained there and elsewhere and t

china in any way at all. american enterprise institute, the conservative conscience in which these programs come along, they send this quote, is the most substantial china related provisions, the 2000 and baa. they're talking about this bill, what it does for china, we talked about the deterrence last year, that's china we are talking about. it shifts the supply chain away from china semi conductors, circuit boards, pharmaceuticals and it stimulates the economy's in those ways and brings chinese, blind national security activities into light, we know they are doing. it supports taiwan. this bill accelerates the program and prevents china's intellectual property threat. i have a whole list here and i ask unanimous consent after my comments this morning -- >> objection. >> what i would like to wind up with, two years ago, we have put this together, i realized that because the media hates president trump, people are not aware of all the good things he did in those first couple of years a and people were not awae of it. first of all, i'm just going to go over these. the biggest tax cuts and we learn a lesson, the be

is basically competing not only nasa but china the space program as well by themselves so america there are glimmers of hope that if we look at this kind of new pathway forward maybe we can start to innovate again and get out of it but we have been languishing for decades here has another headline i'm just waiting for the 1st time and. know what's going on anywhere in the world i guess china has turned on the nuclear powered artificial sun according to press reports it uses a powerful magnetic failed to fuse hot plasma and parents temperatures of 150000000 degrees celsius approximately 10 times hotter than the core of the sun china is racing ahead in the nick of technology as well what john what i'm lost dan what's going on john as we talk about december 5th and the moon landing landing their flag they also on the same day announced a quantum computer that's 10000000000 times faster than google's quantum computer they also announce a hypersonic engine in development that could put a commercial aircraft anywhere within in the world in 2 hours this all came on december 5th the physics rea

china inl. any wy at all there's a group called the american enterprise institute it's a conservative conscious with programs that come along this bill has a most substantial inconsequential china related provision sense the 2000 ndaa the talk about what this bill, it establishes the city determines when we talked about the european deterrence in the nda bill this is the pacific deterrence, that is china were talking about, shifts the supply chain away from china in semi conductors, circuit boards, pharmaceuticals and diminish the economies in those way, it brings chinese, malign national security ac activities into light were know what they're doing the good guys and the bad guys, the supports taiwan we've been doing that for a long period of time, this bill accelerates a program, prevents china's intellectual property threat and i have a whole list that i ask unanimous consent be inserted after my comments this morning. >> what i would like to wind up with, two years ago i put this card together, this is when i realized because the media hates president trump people are not aware of all the good things tha

another the intelligence community has information about china's covert biological weapons program. i have reported on this extensively. theink hopefully, before jump administration leaves office, that we can get some answers on what really happened and what the origin of the virus is. host: joan is a democrat. good morning. caller: i wonder about this gentleman that i wonder is a republican. but trump denounces china most of the time. but yes, his daughter -- but yet, his daughter was extensively in china, does a lot of business with china, and that never seems to come up. it seems to get covered up. and i think that china has always been there. we have an and be sometimes of how far they have advanced and we haven't. vy sometimes of how far they have advanced and we haven't. i think we have to focus on our country and other countries for other things and just work on ourselves. think that would be the good thing to do for the american people. thank you. st: this is the central thesis of my book. we made a 40-year gamble that if traded with china, ignored their human rights abuses,

but more important the china space program is oriented. any transfers of technology are going to improve china's military capabilities. and china is configuring its military to kill americans. so this is horrible policies on the part of obama as the biden transition team. >> jesse: so if they steal our secrets and use it for weaponry that they point directly at, d.c., losm. angeles, new york, y would the democrats want to engage in such a space and space riddled with the highest u.s. technology? we are talking about satellites, of course, why would they risk giving access to the chinese communist who have shown for decades that they can't be trusted? >> well, in the obama era, we have a big lead on china and space. so president obama said, and this sounds reasonable, while we shouldn't militarize space because we will be the big losers. the problem with those reasonable sounding words, however, china and russia were militarizing space and weaponizing themselves. we weren't protecting our assets and space. so we lost a lot of ground. unfortu

demand for family tracing and unification education and for child friendly spaces and nutritional programs. china'sleaders say the country has eradicated extreme poverty over the past 5 years the communist party has been billions of dollars and dispatched thousands of officials to help rural households but critics question the sustainability of the program so that millions of people or risk of falling into hardship. reports. county. county in china south is known for its mountains its rivers and its poverty. was among those one struggling to get by living in this dilapidated house she struggled to raise enough money to send her 2 children to school. but she says thanks to the chinese government her life has been transformed she's been given a new home in town and left this old farmhouse behind this is how people here you still live in crumbling buildings built about 50 years ago without any water or electricity this area is also deep in the mountains and far away for many essential services including hospitals during the past 5 years millions of people in rural china have been relocated to apartmen

attempt to bring those samples back to earth it would make china the 3rd nation to do so an important step in a much more ambitious space program that's under chapelle reports. shortly after touching down on the ocean of storms a volcanic plane on the near side of the moon china's state television showed pictures of yet another homegrown technological breakthrough in space. or long march 5 is on a historic mission to bring back rock and soil samples from the moon the 1st such mission in more than 40 years to a delusional monday this movement is the 1st step it's steadily landed on the surface very steady and very good playing a very important foundation for the next steps for. the lander has a number of instruments to make this happen including a camera as well as scoop and drill capabilities. to ensure that next is the drilling and collecting of samples on the surface and folding the national flag and making preparations for taking off. if all goes to plan 2 kilograms of rock and soil samples will be brought to earth later this month with hopes of learning more about the moon's origins formation and volcanic activity. but 1st

developed a biotech pfizer vatsim that should lead to more countries starting in the occupation programs china has approved its 1st cover in 1000 vaccine for general use state owned assign a farm says it is 79 percent effective but hasn't published the full trial data and 3 quarters of england's population has been placed under the strictest level of pandemic restrictions the u.k. has seen nearly a 1000 covered $1000.00 deaths for 2 days in a row. well as we say goodbye to 2020 correspondents around the world upand asking people what they're hoping for next year it's a common thread they all wanted to be very different to the issue. for me. i let my wish good health for every person for everybody in germany in 2021. might do it anyone is actually putting their best good to see me who is and actually just like being a bit more free and i like the idea out but there's just so much fear and it would be so nice to be a mask be to be able to meet family friends to be xti you know just just be able to do the normal things again yeah that's my hopes. for myself i'm hoping that i can live a better lif

developed a biotech pfizer vaccine that should lead to more countries starting in occupation programs china has approved its 1st cover in 1000 vaccine for general use state owned assign a farm says it is 79 percent effective but hasn't published the full trial data and 3 quarters of england's population has been placed under the strictest level of pandemic restrictions the u.k. has seen nearly a 1000 covered 1000 deaths for 2 days in a row. well as we say goodbye to 2020 correspondents around the world asking people what they're hoping for next year it's a common thread they all wanted to be very different to the issue. for me. i left him and i wish good health for every person for everybody in germany in 2021 . might do i hope soon and even anyone is actually putting their best food to sinew and actually just like being a bit more free you know like we had out but there's just so much fear and it would be so nice to be masked be to be able to meet family friends to be actually hug them you know just just be able to do the normal things again yeah that's my hopes . for myself i'm hoping tha

according to a new human rights watch report that's revealing more details about how china's predictive policing program works the research is based on a linked list of at least 2000 the week of detainees apparently flagged by the system all of them were sent to political education camps in china's western chine jang region by reverse engineering the system researches identified criteria used by an algorithm to flag its targets the analysis suggests the majority of flagged for lawful behavior that includes traveling being young or acting suspiciously the report says the system operates independently from china's judiciary leaving its targets with no way to challenge the algorithms conclusions or beijing is dismissed the human rights watch report as an attempt to smear china's reputation. as the so-called human rights group you mentioned has always been full of prejudice and stirring up trouble the words are not worth refuting ken roth as human rights watch is executive director he says that china's reaction to the report is not surprising . they say it's not worth refuting because they can't it's all ac

program. it prevents china's intellectual threat. i have a whole list here that i ask be inserted after my comments this morning. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. inhofe: and so what i'd like to wind up with, if i brought -- i did. two years ago i put this card together. this was when i realized that because the media hates president trump, we weren't -- people were not aware of what all of the good things that he did in those first couple of years and people were not aware of it. first of all, on the card -- and i'm just going to go over and run over these -- we had the biggest tax cuts -- you know, we learn add lesson back there during -- we learned a lesson back there during the -- john kennedy said the best way to get more revenue in for the great society programs that they were advocating at that time, the best way is to reduce marginal rates and that will increase revenue. it did. unfortunately, john kennedy died before he could reap the benefits that came with that. but it worked. and of course others followed him

china. on a special program on thursday al-jazeera is going to be looking at the devastation caused by covert 19 in the year since the virus emerged and as vaccines offer hope of protection we're going to be asking how long it could take for the world to recover that's at $800.00 g.m.t. here on of his era. u.s. president donald trump is blaming state officials for the slow rollout of covert 19 vaccines their criticism is growing about the way his administration is responding to the pandemic around 2000000 shots have been administered so far but that's well behind the 20000000 promised by the end of the year it comes as a new more infectious strain of the virus has now been identified in 2 u.s. states and a gallica has more from miami. patiently waiting for the code 19 vaccine many of florida's over 60 five's and health care workers camped overnight for their chance to receive a potentially life saving shot in the arm as the state's positivity rate hits record highs delays conflicting information and crushing websites left fax anation sites overwhelmed i want to i want to see the good in peopl

months left in office storm transform china continues washington comes down on cultural programs. we'll have the details after the break. and. join me every thursday on the alex so i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then . i'm back with r.t. now u.k. army veterans who risked their lives serving in iraq and afghanistan have lost a legal battle to stay in britain the high court rejected appeals from 8 fiji born soldiers insisting they were in the country illegally g.t.d. bureaucratic errors. captured the heartbreaking moment the decision was revealed to the children of one of the soldiers. the judge said that he wasn't concerned with any misadministration on the part of the government and only eat galatea and that he didn't see how the government had behaved in an illegal manner but. to a minute she's the wife of one of the soldiers at swat say she brought me to start on trant see the moment when she breaks the news of that ruling to the daughters of some of those soldiers to hit home exactly how dev

programs are a high priority group. >>> the vaccine has shown it is 95% effective in trials. >>> in china and russia, officials have been administering thousands of doses of vaccines developed by government-backed research institutes outside of trails for weeks, unlike the western vaccine program. neither russia nor china carried out large-scale international human trials with data provided for independent analysis. >>> california attorney general xavier becerra has been selected to serve on president- elect joe biden's cabinet. he will be named the next head of health and human services. reporter steveb large has a loo at his career and why his appointment is making history. >> we are here to stand up for the right way to do things. >> reporter: sacramento native xavier becerra will be now if president-elect joe biden's closest advisers. becerra , the current california attorney general, has been named to biden's cabinet as the next health and human services director. becerra is the son of immigrants from mexico. >> this news is great from not only california but sacramento. >> reporter: eric garrett is a friend of bec

/china student visa programs. >> i think we need to take a hard look at the visas we give to chineseationals to come to the united states to study, especially at the post graduate level in advanced scientific and technological fields. if chinese students want to study shake spears and the federalist papers, that's what they need to learn from america. maria: kevin mccarthy along with nancy pelosi were the only two leaders to receive a classified intel briefing by the fbi on eric swalwell and china as well on russia. kevin mccarthy joins me right now. congressman, good morning to you. it's great to have you here. >> good morning, marie ya. mariamaria.maria: you've said c swalwell should step off of the intelligence commit tim you received the fbi briefing as well as nancy pelosi. do you think she would agree that swalwell should step down? >> are you right, that friday we finally got our fbi briefing. it was just the speaker nancy pelosi and my c it was a very thorough briefing. no one that was in that room could walk out and say eric swalwell should be on the intel committee. i don't

i would make the point that china has a program they call made in china 2025. int of this program is to go out not just of the united states, but to other countries of the world and try to gather both expertise in terms of people as well as information and technology and bring it back to china. and i think that we've seen, i've seen a number of justice department prosecutions of academics who have been co-opted by this program. they've taken large amounts of money and the chinese are spending upwards of $500,000 per year on a particular professor or some researcher who has access to the kind of information that china wants. and it is a major problem. the other thing i would point out which i haven't talked about is the chinese confucius institute. of stencil -- obstenvstencil he sively buying their access onto campus and a lot of universities became addicted to this chinese money and in so censor they had to self- by not criticizing china's human rights record like the imprisonment over one million in western china. the trump administration has really gone after

china student visa programs when he joined us earlier this year. >> i think we need to take a very hard look at the visas that we give to chinese nationals to come to the united states to study, especially at the post- graduate level in advanced scientific and technological fields. if chinese students want to come here and study shakespeare and the federalist papers that's what they need to learn from america. they don't need to learn quantum computing and artificial intelligence from america. maria: house minority leader kevin mccarthy along with house speaker nancy pelosi were the only two leaders to receive a classified intel briefing by the fbi on eric swalwell and china, as well on russia. kevin mccarthy joins me right now and congressman good morning to you. it's great to have you here. >> good morning, maria. maria: so you've said that eric swalwell should step off of the intel committee. you received this fbi briefing as well as nancy pelosi, so you both heard the same thing. do you think she would agree that swalwell should step down? >> well you're right, that friday, we final

that, cyber security is an issue across the board, reining in iran and north korea's nuclear programs. chinaere the focus has been. and that's going to cost money and in this budget constrained era, how much of the $700 billion defense budget will be devoted to that and what other priorities in spending will the biden team have? jim, poppy. >> critical briefing to say the least. thanks for the reporting from the pentagon. thanks to all of you for watching. we'll see you back here tomorrow. i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm jim sciutto. "newsroom" with kate bolduan starts after a break. if you, like many people, are covered by both medicare and your state's medicaid, here's something important to know. medicare annual enrollment is here and ends december 7th. so now's a great time to look at a unitedhealthcare dual complete plan. it could give you even more health benefits than you already have. call now to see if you're eligible. medicaid gives you benefits and medicare gives you some, too. but a unitedhealthcare dual complete plan can add even more benefits... ...and features compared to original me

this is the latest success for china's ambitious space program.country, the federal reserve offered a brighter projection foomic growth next year. policymakers promised ain to maintain stimulus measures and jerome powell says a key will stay nea zero through 2023. >> the economy will be growing in expectation, should be growing at a healthy clip by the second half of next year, but it is going to be a while before we are back to the level of labor market, the sort ofad conditions we in early this yearh and for m the last couple years. >> the fed estimates that unemployment will decli to 5% by the end of next year. the u.s. supremeourt agreed to hear arguments on compensating student athletes. a lower courtas barred the college sports governing body ncaa from curbing pay for division i basketball players. of states have passed laws. still to come on the newshou local officials phase backlash from politicians and the public. rising covid infections complicate in person classes. france reaches a tipping point over its treatment of radical islam. plus

freeze out the chinese for their house americans presho works also on the program president trump wanted to reduce imports from china but americans knocks down at times seem to have other ideas that buying up chinese goods like never before. meanwhile the coronavirus pandemic is altering spending habits elsewhere to house frowns germans are using the lockdown to spruce up that hopes. this is due to be business on rooftops in berlin welcome to the program. the german government is expected to approve a new law when the state to enforce tougher oversight of telecoms networks it would make it harder for china's far way to keep a foothold in europe's largest market the draft of the new i.t. security or establishes a 2 stage test procedure in addition to an examination of the technology it would also be a political evaluation of the trustworthiness of the manufacturers as well as effectively and countries like china which have massively expanded their access to technology firms the u.s. claims far away poses a security risk to some of its western allies have already agreed not to involve the company in the 5 gene that ma

the trump ministrations ramping up anti china masha's as close 5 cultural exchange programs in the us accusing them of being a propaganda tool and secretary of state might pump a announced fresh visa restrictions on chinese citizens. today i announce to be's of restrictions on united front work department officials who can gauge to malign activities to co-opt and coerce those who oppose beijing's policies we call on the p.r.c. to end it to use of coercion to suppress freedom of expression pompei allege that the beijing controlled group called united front was working internationally to quote bully those who raise chinese human rights issues it comes after the trumpet ministration limited visas stays for chinese communist party members and their families in the u.s. to just one month well the u.s. director of national security has also branded china as america's greatest threat and john mark cliffe claimed beijing plans to dominate america and the world technologically economically and militarily but the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson says he has different motives for his attack

according to a new human rights watch report the travailing more details about how china's predictive policing program works the research is based on a leaked list of a base 2000 we could detainees apparently flagged by the system all of them were sent to political education camps in china's western changing region by reverse engineering the system researches identified criteria used by an algorithm to flag its targets the analysis suggests the majority of flagged for lawful behavior that includes traveling being young or acting suspiciously the report says the system operates independently from china's judiciary leaving its targets with no way to challenge the algorithms conclusions beijing has dismissed the human rights watch report as an attempt to smear china's reputation. as the so-called human rights group you mentioned has always been full of prejudice and stirring up trouble the words are not worth refuting for more on this we're joined by human rights watch is chief executive executive director i'm sorry ken roth good to have you with us but just before we talk about what's in this report wha

china's space and visions are no secret and have been growing for years. in 2003 it secured a major breakthrough when it became the 3rd country in the world to launch a crude space program. 10 years later china hit another milestone successfully landing in unpiloted spacecraft on the moon it was the 1st soft landing since the soviet union success in 1976. more chinese cheers in january 2019 in a global 1st aluna probe touching down on the far side of the moon boosting china's space ambitions mars is also in its sights this year beijing launched a probe to the red planet. and in july china put the final satellite into orbit for its chinese navigation system the country's arrival to the u.s. own g.p.s. . beijing now has its sights set on building a moon base cementing its role as a superpower in the news face race. now if by any chance you have ever met a kangaroo and you had a feeling it was trying to tell you something well and a new study suggests you may not have been dreaming the research shows the marsupials are capable of behaviors only previously seen in animals like dogs that have been domesticated for hundreds of years. that's a lot of us got you were going to.

china share. well that's a very good point i think very often there are concerns that is the chinese program done to pretty much in isolation well for years there's been international collaboration with china on part of what's called the u.k. china joint departure in space science and technology sanctioned ministerial level between 2 countries and there are carriers that we will collaborate on in clear areas that we won't because of course you know every country has its own geo political positioning about about what it will collaborate with but i'm delighted to say that in the areas where we can collaborate we have seen very effective data sharing and so although initially on pretty sure that china will keep its samples for its unsigned to look at who the european space agency points of view we have a joint virtual abort here with china we have agreements about how we'll share data and we share data from previous missions so i have full confidence that eventually we will get access to the samples and we'll see international collaboration that will a lot new secrets about the earth moon system beca

differently wish it would get better because i think it has a lot to do to convince china to act against the missile programs and the publication i think should be see as pushing us closer together because truly where china wants to do is to drive a wedge between us between japan and south korea so the next question is from doug. how possible is it for president xi to reclaim taiwan is at hand. the height of the power before the military is fully prepared? >> is something we should be extremely concerned about give and the level of military power that china is projecting around the taiwan strait right now give him the flybys with a fighter aircraft and we should be extremely concerned and also with us distraction i think that china wants to do having observed for many years is not to full invasion into those planes earlier about taiwan success to be one of the biggest threats to china there is. why? it is a democracy and a chinese cultural contest because it didn't go through a communist revolution. so they want to do is the very existence of the president with the republic of china and taiwan is the affront

if it gets the samples back to earth successfully china will become only the 3rd nation to do so an important step in a much more ambitious space program under chapelle now. shortly after touching down on the ocean of storms a volcanic plane on the near side of the moon china's state television showed pictures of yet another homegrown technological breakthrough in space. or long march 5 is on a historic mission to bring back rock and soil samples from the moon the 1st such mission in more than 40 years to go down a little mundane this movement is the 1st step it's steadily landed on the surface very steady and very good playing a very important foundation for the next steps for. the lander has a number of instruments to make this happen including a camera as well as scoop and drill capabilities. to ensure that next is the drilling and collecting of samples on the surface and folding the national flag and making preparations for taking off. if all goes to plan 2 kilograms of rock and soil samples will be brought to earth later this month with hopes of learning more about the moon's origins formation and volcanic activity. but 1st anothe

china's space ambitions are no secret and have been growing for years. in 2003 it secured a major breakthrough when it became the 3rd country in the world to launch a crude space program. 10 years later china hit another milestone successfully landing in unpiloted spacecraft on the moon it was the 1st soft landing since the soviet union success in 1976. more chinese cheers in january 2019 in a global 1st alluna pro touching down on the far side of the moon boosting china's space ambitions mars is also in its sights this year beijing launched a probe to the red planet. and in july china put the final satellite into orbit for its chinese navigation system the country's arrival to the u.s. alone g.p.s. . beijing now has its sights set on building a moon base cementing its role as a superpower in the news face race. and if you have ever met a kangaroo and thought it was trying to tell you something well then a new study suggests will not have been dreaming the rest of the research shows that the marsupials are capable of behaviors only previously seen in animals like dogs they've been domesticated for hundreds of years. there's a lot of skin that's got you excited. maybe

welcome back to the program you and china have struck a landmark deal after must 70 years of talks that opens up the chinese market to european investment while giving beijing and inroad to some strategic european projects or want to cross live to artesia charlotte devinsky 1st charlotte what's in this deal and what kind of reaction has there been. well this deal has almost been several is in the making between the e.u. in china and they've really pushed the boat out to get it done before the end of 2020 essentially it means that there is the opportunity for the e.u. for investment in certain industries this is companies within the e.u. to be able to invest in areas of china before it had barriers around them such as the financial sector the health sector for china it means that there is this possibility of investing in renewable energy so this is something on the table for each side in this and this deal has been described by many as being the most ambitious deal that china has ever struck with a nation country. tomorrow's post covered world needs a strong china relationship to build f