is from high technology but as artie's dan cohen reports that's not the major area of import here's dan. trump administration officials have pointed to chinese advances in high tech to justify the trade war in tariffs but the real competition from china is in its ability to export medium level technology that includes items like vehicles in their parts and electrical and construction machinery china has now surpassed the united states and european union as the dominant producer in medium high tech industries in just the past decade its global share has nearly tripled to thirty two percent much of that is a result of privatisation for example china's share of global bulldozer exports grew nearly eight percent in the last decade the share of chinese exports going to countries outside the organization for economic cooperation and development the list of developed economies has grown from forty three to forty eight percent in the same period china has emphasized exporting capital goods which are used to manufacture other goods rather than simply relying on consumer products for instance chi

were joins us to discuss and we've questioned more about the real competition from china parties dan cohen gives us the answer and it's not from chinese high tech as claimed by the trumpet ministrations plus the dow jones industrial average hits a new high and there's lots of auto news will be joined by our friends to see you all of the stocks. are mo and we've met with so many great an interesting entrepreneur is in boston at the forbes under thirty summit these last few days but we didn't have time to bring them all to you we'll show you one of those today about an interesting start up that is literally out of this world all that directly ahead but first we get to some headlines let's go. to the u.s. government has been ordered by the united nations international court of justice to lift sanctions on iran that would have interfered with the importation of humanitarian aid the court ruled today that the u.s. government must lift the sanctions that impact iran's ability to import things like food medicine and even airline parts the court said that any limiting of things like food and medic

artie's dan cohen reporting there from washington d.c. we know that you'll see across the story for us this is a developing story and i'm sure that we will be with you again. all right we are now joined a live to discuss this further with us diplomat jim john trust jim always a pleasure to have you with us. you and i had a chance to chat a little bit about this in the break in the sound check what we know is that stepped into the saudi consulate on october second to get documents for his marriage and the saudis are now saying that he got into a fight and died. were this a little bit differently now that we're on t.v. do you believe his explanation. no i don't particularly and i think the real this really just. multiplies the advantage the president go on of turkey has if he has these recordings as he says and can prove that the saudis are lying even about this part now he's really got them over barrel and i expect him to use the most of it as far as the american side goes i think president trump opened up the door to this kind of thing wh

artie's dan cohen reports. saudis have confirmed that. the saudi national and washington post columnist who disappeared on october second is dead they say an argument turned into a quote fistfight led to his death the came also from a tweet from the saudi foreign ministry king solomon has fired five top officials and arrested eighteen people among those fired to our crown prince mohammed bin solomon's advisor saudi to any and deputy intel intelligence chief major general ahmed allah siri they're being investigated about the case the white white house press secretary sara sanders has released a statement saying these are the exact words the united states acknowledges the announcement from the kingdom of saudi arabia that its investigation into the fate of gemma hall shoji is progressing and that it has taken action against the suspects it has identified thus far we will continue to closely follow the international investigations so the saudi version that we are hearing tonight about a fistfight that led to his death is very different from

dan -- redundant for reasons in the therein. my staff and i are available to answer questions. >> president cohen: colleagues, do you have question for planning? all right. next we'll hear from a representative from the bay area air quality management district. welcome. >> good afternoon, mad madame president. i'm a deputy air pollution control officer for the air management district. two weeks ago we expressed concern about the mixed-use project localized air quality impact. today i'm here to thank city staff for working with the air district to address our concerns. as stated in our october 10 letter, with minor adjustments we believe the e.i.r. reduce the localized impact as much as feasible. the air district supports mixed use to reduce vehicle trips and emissions. the air district is also concerned about localized air pollutant exposure and identified bayview-hunters point under our health protection program because this area experiences disproportionate negative health impacts, increased vulnerability and exposure to air pollution. new sources of air pollution in a community like this is always a concern. the air district's

dan -- redundant for reasons in the therein. my staff and i are available to answer questions. >> president cohen: colleagues, do you have question for planning? all right. next we'll hear from a representative from the bay area air quality management district. welcome. >> good afternoon, mad madame president. i'm a deputy air pollution control officer for the air management district. two weeks ago we expressed concern about the mixed-use project localized air quality impact. today i'm here to thank city staff for working with the air district to address our concerns. as stated in our october 10 letter, with minor adjustments we believe the e.i.r. reduce the localized impact as much as feasible. the air district supports mixed use to reduce vehicle trips and

dan goldman who is -- >> i'm on the other side of this table. >> you're free to leave at any time. >> i was nowhere near the bar that night. >> what questions are on your mind for michael cohenny? >> well, i think there are a lot of questions for michael cohen and what's interesting is what we learned today, that it sounds like it was the southern district of new york prosecutors who are meeting with michael cohen. and what seems to be happening here is that cohen is splitting time. he's spending a fair amount of time with bob mueller and going through the collusion and maybe some of the obstruction of justice, and maybe more because there's a lot that occurred that michael cohen was involved with after the election. but then he's also spending time with the southern district of new york, which is not going to be involved in the collusion aspect, but may very well be involved in exactly what donny was talking about. michael's role as sort of a consigliere for the trump organization. and you can bet that the prosecutors in the southern district are downloading michael cohen about everything that he knows about everything nefarious related to the trump organization. he does no