this is infrastructure that papua new guinea really needs.here it has spent its money, roads, highways, convention centres, all bankrolled by beijing, not the way it does business here with little transparency has also raised anti— chinese sentiment. but there are locals here to see china as a friend. this lady is the ambassador for the china papua new guinea friendship association. chinese businesses he appalled their money together to fund it. we need something there to help us, people the chinese people coming into the country and getting everything that papua new guinea owns but it has to change and position has to change about chinese people here in png are here to help. australia has traditionally been papua new guinea's biggest donor and investor but china's presence here is growing rapidly and is increasingly visible, and fears are growing as to what beijing wants from the region. you ta ke beijing wants from the region. you take a look at what china has done in sri lanka, taking ownership of a 99 year lease of a port that they themse

region has been felt in popper new guinea -- papua new guinea.esident trump is given the opportunity for president xi to shine. get more from there. we want to follow that speech. war has generated major uncertainty of across global supply chains -- u ncertainty across global supply chains. presss. may actually ahead with higher tariffs, no matter what happens. there is an e-commerce platform providing cross-border services. and alibaba are among its competitors. engel is at port moresby. take it away. wong is sitting here with me. welcome to papua new guinea. about thest talking trade war and the backstory to all of these discussions. what do you provide a platform for? diana: i think trade tensions will speed up the process. -- the process of looking at business in new ways. consensus against protectionism. we believe digital globalization reates -- that creates more jobs. stephen: you think trade tensions are a springboard for china to focus on innovation, more so than relying on tradiational forms of trade? exatly. sme's needed to find new wa

our correspondent at the apec summit in papua new guinea.news and walmart saying that the company continues to compete with amazon by gobbling up online firms. it says it expects a strong holiday season. 0ur online firms. it says it expects a strong holiday season. our business reporter in new york michelle fleury has the details. judging by the numbers walmart‘s determination to ta ke numbers walmart‘s determination to take on amazon appears to be increasing. the e—commerce brand was boosted by the online grocery business, while store sales grew 3% in the third quarter. if you look heading into the holiday season, walmart, which also ownsjet.com is poised to overtake apple in online sales according to one survey. now this would put the world's largest retailer behind only amazon and ebay. but it has come at a price. it has had to spend more and sacrifice profit margin to achieve these competitive gains. and if you look at thursday's closing stock price, investors punished walmart for that. more generally with the us economy doing well it is

many of them will make their way to papillon new guinea —— papuan new guinea, with the likes of china's likes of china's xi jinping attending that, and presumably trade will continue to dominate the agenda. and as sharanjit leyl mentioned, the next venue sharanjit leyl mentioned, the next venue is papua new guinea, where the apec gathering will take place in the capital of port moresby. 0ne apec gathering will take place in the capital of port moresby. one of the capital of port moresby. one of the defining features of this year's meeting is some of its venues. 0ur asia business correspondent will tell us why she will stay on a ship for this gathering. swimming pools, waterslides and the big, blue sea — not the usual backdrop for a major summit, but this is a venue for the apec summit in port moresby, a cruise ship! papua new guinea is the poorest of all apec nations hosting this event. most of the additional money to do this has come from australia and china, to build things like venues and roads. a lot of these roads have been builtjust for this event, like this highway over here just

this is infrastructure that papua new guinea really needs.na has not been shy about showing off where it spends its money. roads, highways, convention centres all bankrolled by beijing. but the way it does business here with little transparency has raised anti— chinese sentiment. but there are locals here to see china as a friend. this woman is the ambassador for the china papua new guinea friendship association. chinese businesses he pulled the money together to fund it. when we need something to help us, the chinese people come into the country and a perception needs to change about chinese people here in papua new guinea. they are here to help. australia has traditionally been the biggest donor and investor in papua new guinea but the chinese presence in growing rapidly and is increasingly visible to fears grow as to what beijing wants from this region. when you look at what china has done in djibouti and sri lanka where they have taken ownership of a lease of a pot they don't build themselves, you can extrapolate that out through the paci

still to come in the news asia pacific leaders talk trade in papua new guinea where the basket weavers are now using mobile apps plus. nine is the romeo and juliet of the east an ancient love story from persia it's reimagined in contemporary dance. and we find out why the crowd was unhappy with this tennis player after being roger federer will reveal. how after a ferry cross from the mediterranean for more a week or two so we're back to get more active largely because what's happening of the black sea this swirl of cloud what's coming out from the sas is bass developing something to the west there been a few big thunderstorms recently and they're still going on but what will happen is west the sides of the med go in spain will turn increasingly wet and windy and at the same time the courts have been down here secularization just south of greece snow north of greece on the high ground up through the balkans they have run you between sunday and monday they spread all the way northwards there is cold air now in central europe the temperature out best in vienna two degrees obese and snow o

on a papua new guinea an odd man asylum famous for hosting australia's refugee. of course but that same island in a very strategic position on routes from china down into the south pacific sea and that's announcement again it was appointed remind us that they are opposed to china's activities not only the pacific but in the south china sea as well so a lot of the positions i thought we may see a bit more cooperation on sunday but that meeting the four and a half i want to go on that will happen behind closed doors i'm not quite sure how much information will fight up off of that concludes and what's at stake then for the host nation in all of these papua new guinea. well this is a massive event that happened you going to this is the country that has easily the smallest economy of all the members of i have never hosted this summit before that the only country not to have done and they've been building up to this event or five years back in twenty eight when it was a great they would host it's that when you get this economy looked like it was flying there was a hug

and china is overshadowing a major economic summit will be live from papua new guinea. campaigning begins in what's expected to be nigeria's most expensive presidential election. and later in sport find out why the crowd was unhappy with this tennis player. roger federer be here with. solar still ahead but first authorities in argentina say the submarine a san juan which disappeared with a crew of forty four on board imploded the wreckage of the vessel was discovered a year after it disappeared off the country's eastern coast today several reports from one of cyrus. for a year and two days they walked into the same question where are the forty four loved ones the crew of this on kwan finally they have some answers but not closure just yet loss and we were sitting at the dining table with my mom when the mrs from the submarine command force arrived saying that an object that was detected just said i was the sun one we couldn't believe it we turned on the television and they said it was the sun one this and one was on a routine patrol before it went missing the crew repor

still to come here at al-jazeera in the grip of the health crisis the battle in papua new guinea against an epidemic of tb. and why these women in the spanish capital and so wrangling. hello again it's good to have you back well here cross united states we are finally past the holiday weekend but still a lot of bad weather here across much of the great lakes as well as into the northeast now this is a system that brought the blizzard conditions across the central plains that system is now bring some very heavy rain up towards the northeast also down here towards the southeast now once this system pushes through we're going to be ushering quite a bit of cooler air across much of the northern plains so for chicago three degrees here on monday is going to be a high but on tuesday you're going to be dropping down to about minus four minneapolis at minus seven winnipeg minus twelve you factor in the wind chill and it's probably going to feel more like minus low teens in some of those locations up here to the northwest though we are seeing another system off the pacific and that is going to br

france as thousands join protest over the government's fuel prices and asia pacific trade in papua new guinea. so we start the program with developments in the murder of the saudi journalist us media is reporting that the cia believes saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solvent ordered a killing in the saudi consulate in istanbul on the table the second the findings contradict the saudi government claims that its de facto leader was not involved with saudi embassy in washington rejects the accusation made by the u.s. intelligence service donald trump has reacted by saying that he will be speaking to his sexual state as well as the cia about the issue later on saturday. we haven't been briefed yet the cia is going to be speaking we should be today we have not been briefed yet as of this fall when we were told that he did not play a role we'll have to find out what they are saying. well let's hear now from michaela who has more from washington in recent days a number of members of congress have demanded that mohammed bin solomon be held accountable either by way of tweets or in the case of

would join australia and papua new guinea in setting up a naval base here on p. and g.'s man a silent the us has been there before obviously during world war two but to be back in this region and potentially partnering with a stranger and thingee on permanent military facility in this part of the world very much a push back on some of that strategic movements in the region this weekend there are strongly in warships protecting port moresby and the cruise line where leaders gave their opening speeches this is the biggest event papua new guinea has ever host states but without the us president it's not as major an event as its host had hoped for though donald trump isn't here his presence is being felt his protectionist policies and china's growing assertiveness are the twin contexts for this conference under thomas al-jazeera port moresby papua new guinea the maldives are sworn in its new president abraham mohamad solly he won the election in september against former leader mean the island nations location near strategic maritime lanes has placed china and india influence

president xi takes centre stage at the asia pacific summit in papa new guinea — a sign of china's growingce in the region elswhere on the markets. asian shares follow wall street higher on hopes of a thaw in relations between the us and china — with reports that washington has put the latest round of tariffs on hold. we start with the pound — which has been taking a pounding. sterling has suffered its worst sell—off in more than two years after a series of resignations from the uk government over prime minister theresa may's draft brexit deal. the chaos in westminster has thrown the future of the deal into doubt — just hours after it was revealed. we will take a look at the deal in more detail in a moment — first lets cross to singapore where rico is looking at the currency markets. what do international investors make of what's going on in the uk? at this point, they are still very nervous about developments taking place in the uk and as you can see right now, in regional trade, the british pound remains under pressure after the currency suffered a rock fall overnight on fears the countr

technology and international trade mean papua new guinea and weavers can sell their baskets to anyone in the world crystal cube developed an app to help and at this weekend's apec summit has been awarded a price for innovation so happy for you this i have the chance to utilize digital technology to parliament in development to. in a very simple people even into. the ambition of the asia pacific economic cooperation group is to foster better relations and smoother trade between the twenty one biggest economies of the pacific region combined they're worth more than hoff the world's total but papua new guinea's economy is the smallest of those in the apec group and there's obvious poverty in port moresby a city right now where security is tight most years the leaders of all apec countries attend its annual summit the u.s. president as leader of the biggest economy in the world is the star attraction but donald trump is skipping this year's event leaving china's president xi jinping as the leader in the spotlight and in his opening speech were clear criticisms of trump's trade policies so

china has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in papa new guinea. been held in the capital papa new guinea but this new friendship is raising concern in other quarters, namely with australia and the united states of america. they see beijing's cheque—book diplomacy as a way for china to insert more influence in a pa rt china to insert more influence in a part of the world which is geo— strategically very important to them. so what can we expect over the next few days? perhaps more trade and aid deals for papa new guinea but also from the united states, australia and japan, this country has just become the latest battle ground between the west and china. let's have a look at the coverage on papers and websites. lawrence gosling from what investment magazine joins us again to discuss... in the daily mail, this is interesting, the wording, things have changed at the daily mail! they talk about preening tory supper tours, which is fantastic. the whole language, it seems extraordinary —— supper tours. they are not holding back. jacob rees—mogg in particu

would join australia and papua new guinea in setting up a naval base here on pm jeez man a silent us has been there before obviously during world war two but to be back in this region and potentially partnering with a stranger and on a permanent military facility in this part of the world it's very much a push back on some of that strategic movements in the region this weekend there are strongly in warships protecting port moresby and the cruise line where leaders gave their opening speeches this is the biggest events papua new guinea has ever host states but without the us president it's not as major an event as it's hosts had hoped for though donald trump isn't here his presence is being felt his protectionist policies and china's growing assertiveness are the twin contexts for this conference and the thomas al-jazeera port moresby papua new guinea a tragic love story often compared to shakespeare's romeo and juliet told throughout the middle east and central asia for over a thousand years has been reinterpreted through twenty first century contemporary dance jessica baldwin went t

in the grapes of a have crises the battle in papua new guinea against an epidemic of tuberculosis. we got a lot of dry weather now making its way across japan lost the settles well too bad too into the korean peninsula but now this is just making its way across the northeast of charter into the far east of russia was to go on through the next day also tending to where peter out in the process is there to send for tokyo touch woman for a soccer match getting into double figures for a time at least across the korean peninsula pyongyang does turn cold as that weather system makes its way through by ship settle temperature here around nine degrees celsius but the usual fall and visibility problems coming through here and of course the smoke well as you drive across southern parts of china still a little bit of wet weather just affecting taiwan sliding its way down towards say the coastal fringes of southeast charter towards hong kong as we go on into wednesday we can see how that same system the northeast me wins those trade winds they push away data to central parts of vietnam but of

in the grip of a health crisis the battle in punit guinea against an epidemic. do you. feel like you get. in sport the formula one driver who didn't say experience the ideal sinister this season. thirty eighty five years we have had many proud moments around the world and in the sky and now starting from october twenty ninth turkish airlines will be taking off from the new aviation center of the world for a new journey. to . the final mission. hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour turkish police are focusing in on to that was one hundred kilometers outside istanbul is part of the investigation into the murder of jon. the remains of the saudi journalist haven't been found since he was killed inside the saudi consulate in turkey last month. ukraine's president has signed a decree detailing his plans to implement martial law for sixty days it follows a naval clash between ukrainian and russian forces in the black sea on sunday nato and the u.n. security council are planning emergency meetings over the incidents a british academic is on his way home from t

dusty is perseverance but in rural papua new guinea that's unusual to treat tuberculosis patients need to take an elaborate and unpleasant cocktail of drugs regularly for months a lack of clinics and transport to those clinics makes getting those medicines to people or people to the medicines hard when the appointment when did on their review dates i dread stan. i go out into the villages and i meet them and i ask them why you are not mean health workers reach only a fraction of those infected and when people let their treatments lapse the disease has a resurgence and becomes more tolerant to drugs once it's more into what's called multi-drug resistant tuberculosis the disease is much harder and more expensive to treat half of all patients die organizations like doctors without borders are trying to help but there's not enough central coordination the frustration that many have here is that papua new guinea's government is no thing is that it has a big problem and that it's getting worse and yet despite having the money the government hasn't been spending it in the right way and hasn't

ahead right here on the al-jazeera news hour in the grip of a health crisis the battle in papa new guinea against an epidemic of tb. do you. feel like i don't get this. and sports the formula one driver who didn't experience the ideal finish to the season. from don't ski sunsets if it's pruning savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis. met some really nasty weather across central parts of the mediterranean recently and more heavy downpours and very strong winds to come as we go on through the next couple days these pictures taken out of southern italy actually where the heavy rain caused massive sinkhole a car was swallowed up in the process but the worst of the weather is now making its way further east was wild by any grease seen the worst of the heavy downpours as we go through the next couple of days with some fun then large hail and again destructive winds all swirling a way around nice well three areas of low pressure three deceased areas just making their way across central parts of europe then pushing a little further north was into the colder air in the process long line of

attending that meeting failing to agree on a final statement after two days of meetings in papua new guinea i picked the asia pacific economic cooperation summit was less about working together more about individual statements andrew thomas with us from port moresby. international summits usually end with bland communiques not chaotic scenes and a prime minister being bundled out of the conference room who that peter o'neill papua new guinea's prime minister had just been telling reporters about the success of the apec summit he'd been hosting and trying to leave without taking questions on its dramatic failure but leaders have not been able to agree on even the plan this language for an agreed leaders statement the apec summit took place behind closed doors so why the failure to get all twenty one to agree i think your writing is as the chair you are the reason not to be able to receive a community where you have almost twenty one economies agreeing to the agreeing to all the issues that we have discussed and it is not the frustration but you know we all know haitians summit thank managed

the department of homeland security which monitors the border a tuberculosis epidemic in papa new guinea is getting worse and officials say poor infrastructure is only adding to the problem so far health workers have only been able to get to a fraction of those affected is under thomas reports from the capital port. tuberculosis in papua new guinea isn't just an issue it's an epidemic more than one in two hundred fifty people are known to have to kill a disease the real proportion is believed to be much higher. cari dusty fell ill two years ago but living in a remote area accessible only by boat it was five months before she was diagnosed after she was she had trouble after taking the pills she was prescribed listen i faithfully took my medications however my body wasn't reacting well to it i started to experience some kind of allergic reaction and side effects dusty is perseverance but in rural papua new guinea that's unusual to treat tuberculosis patients need to take an elaborate and unpleasant cocktail of drugs regularly for months the lack of clinics and transport to those clinics m

scenes and the prime minister being bundled out of the conference room who peter o'neill papua new guinea's prime minister had just been telling reporters about the success of the apec summit he'd been hosting and trying to leave without taking questions on its dramatic failure but leaders are not being able to agree on even the plan this language for an agreed leaders' statement the apec summit took place behind closed doors so why the failure to get all twenty one to agree i think your writing is as the chair you are the only one not to be able to achieve a community where you have almost twenty one economies agreeing to the agreeing to all the issues that we have discussed and it is not frustration but if we all haitians summit thank you managed to publish something even if it's a pretty bland race they haven't this hour why not eyes of the public that are now they would listen that this afternoon prime minister chairman statement is not the same as a communique you must be disappointed there's been no communication there's been general statement in the past. maybe i'm so used to that wi

now only this month world leaders flew to papa new guinea as capital for the annual apec summit it was the biggest event in the country's history but critics of the government say hosting apec was a costly indulgence considering the many challenges the country face one of them is the rampant spread of tuberculosis as under thomas explains it's an epidemic that's getting worse. tuberculosis in papua new guinea isn't just an issue it's an epidemic more than one in two hundred fifty people on the hop or killer disease the real proportion is believed to be much higher. carry dusty fell ill two years ago but living in a remote area accessible only by boat it was five months before she was diagnosed after she was she had trouble after taking the pills she was prescribed. i faithfully took my medications however my body wasn't reacting well to water i started to experience some kind of a lunatic reaction and side effects. dusty is perseverance but in rural papua new guinea that's unusual to treat tuberculosis patients need to take an elaborate and unpleasant cocktail of drugs regularly for mo

attending the meeting failed to agree on a final statement after two days of meetings in papua new guinea the asia pacific economic cooperation summit was less about working together or more about individual statements under thomas reports from port moresby. because. international summits usually end with bland communiques not chaotic scenes and a prime minister being bundled out to a conference room who peter o'neill papua new guinea's prime minister had just been telling reporters about the success of the apec summit he'd been hosting and trying to leave without taking questions on its dramatic failure but leaders are not being able to agree on even the plan this language for an agreed leaders statement the apec summit took place behind closed doors so why the failure to get all twenty one to agree to writing is alistair are you not to be able to achieve a community where you have almost twenty one economies agreeing to the agreeing to all the issues that we have discussed and it is not the frustration but you know we all know haitians summit thank you managed to publish something even

tuberculosis in papua new guinea isn't just an issue it's an epidemic more than one in two hundred fifty people on the killer disease the real proportion is believed to be much higher. carry dusty fell ill two years ago but living in a remote area accessible only by boat it was folly months before she was diagnosed after she was she had trouble after taking the pills she was prescribed. i faithfully took my medications however my body wasn't reacting well to it i started to experience some kind of a lunatic reaction and side effects dusty is perseverance but in rural papua new guinea that's unusual to treat tuberculosis patients need to take an elaborate and unpleasant cocktail of drugs regularly for months a lot of clinics and transport to those clinics makes getting those medicines to people or people to them it's hard when the base appointment when did on their review dates. i go out into the villages and i meet them and i ask them why you mean health workers reach only a fraction of those infected and when people let their treatments lapse the disease has a resurgence and becomes mor

australia new zealand the us japan saying that they would invest millions of dollars in papua new guinea bringing electricity so the poorest parts of this country at the moment only thirteen percent of people in papua new guinea have reliable power countryside with their money and with papa new guinea and help as well they'll bring that number up to seventy percent of the country by twenty thirty will hot on the heels of that the chinese there was an announcement that they will relieve day it's from one of the pacific island nations in this part of the world debts to china is a big issue china invest heavily in major projects right across this region but it offers loans to countries that do have to be paid back at some stage tongans loans . it looks as though china is going to really none of this is particularly relevant to apec now this will be in the final communique and frankly that final communique is expected to be quite bland's because it's going to be about finding common ground that all these twenty one members of apec can agree on even though they're actually quite supposed i me

front and center with the aipac economic leaders and leaders make -- meeting taking place in new guineahis week. sydney futures come on the back foot. 6/10 of 1%. oil looking like the indicator 1%.side close to new zealand, we are seeing the downside of 3/10 of 1%. as well as weakness across the aussie and kiwi currencies can let's get you to first word news with ramy inocencio. ramy: good morning. president emmanuel macron called for greater international corporation is a world marked 100 years since the end of world war i. occasion to criticize the protectionist policies embraced by america under president trump saying patriotism is the opposite of nationalism. nationalism is a guitar -- visit the trail of patriotism. angela merkel warned the world is regressing on human rights. opec and its highlights have become laying the groundwork for a pert curves next year with saudi arabia announcing reduction in crude shipments from next month. after the meeting in abu dhabi, the minister said the group was responsible and would work hard to balance the market. the kingdom will export half a

epidemic in papua new guinea is getting worse for infrastructure is only adding to the problem so far health workers have only been able to get a fraction of those to get to a fraction of those affected andrew thomas reports from the capital or more speed. tuberculosis in papua new guinea isn't just an issue it's an epidemic more than one in two hundred fifty people are known to happen killer disease the real proportion is believed to be much higher. cari dusty fell ill two years ago but living in a remote area accessible only by boat it was five months before she was diagnosed after she was she had trouble after taking the pills she was prescribed. i faithfully took my medications however my body wasn't reacting well to it i started to experience some kind of allergic reaction and side effects. dusty is perseverance but in rural papua new guinea that's unusual to treat tuberculosis patients need to take an elaborate and unpleasant cocktail of drugs regularly for months a lack of clinics and transport to those clinics makes getting those medicines to people or people to the medicines

a year ago it looked far from port moresby it would be ready for the biggest event to papua new guinea has ever hosted but we've chinese and australian help and money the country's leader says it is our very proud of our country and they've been able to step up i'm. going to deliver one of the most memorable and hospitable if it got me to. you know history papua new guinea is the poorest member of the asia pacific economic corporation or apec group but the economies of its twenty one members are combined worth more than half the world's total discussing ways to grow them further through free trade investment and development is the official substance of the apec summit with big investment deals likely to be negotiated and announced but it's the unofficial meetings and bilateral discussions and deals on the sidelines that will matter most particularly those involving china's president well this is the show paying isn't paul was me for five days whereas most leaders will be spending as little time here at all in port moresby as possible to the disappointments of its hosts presidents putin

and the prime minister being bundled out to the conference room who that peter o'neill papua new guinea's prime minister had just been telling reporters about the success of the apec summit he'd been hosting and trying to leave without taking questions on its dramatic failure but leaders are not being able to agree on even the plan this language for an agreement leaders statement the apec summit took place behind closed doors so why the failure to get all twenty one to agree i think your writing is as the chair you are the reason not to be able to receive a community where you have almost twenty one economies agreeing to the into all the issues that we have discussed and it is not the frustration but if we all haitians summit thank you managed to publish something even if it's pretty bland and raise they haven't this thought why not ours to publish that and now they would listen that this afternoon prime minister chairman statement is not the same as a communique you must be disappointed there's been not going to there's been german statement in the past. maybe i'm so used to that with th

the seed apac stands for cooperation but in papua new guinea it appears to stand instead for confrontation it may be smiles all around but accusations have been flying between china and the us regarding their ongoing trade dispute on full display here at apec the host remained diplomatic so we did have very fruitful discussions. exchange very frank views about important issues about the that it is a fiction and the challenges the region continues to face for the first time since a pic was established no final statements were made the us want to the techs to condemn unfair trade practices china rejected this the u.s. is also unhappy about china's plans for its own trade route dubbed the new silk road u.s. vice president mike pence laid out what he sees as the two nations key differences they begin with trade practices with tariffs and quotas. and force technology transfers the theft of intellectual property but it goes beyond that to freedom of navigation in the scenes and concerns about about human rights chinese president xi jinping says his country is not pursuing a hidden political agen

. >> life on deck at the apec summit in papua new guinea. this is bloomberg. ♪ papua new guinea is hosting the apec summit for the first time this week. world leaders will discuss a wide range of economic and geopolitical issues. our correspondent is there. a lot on the agenda. there is a lot on the agenda. a lot of backdrop to the humor. we are down almost to the level. that is where the broadband is. the ceo summit is in full swing today followed by the leadership summit tomorrow and on sunday. i'll have the apex director who is of course the former reserve bank of new zealand governor as well. six years now is the head of a pack. it is interesting times as you are having the summit here and public new guinea. finance ministers got together, they put out in 1800 word communique and trade was mentioned just once. surely trade will be on the top of leaders minds today. >> it has benefited so much from very strong trade. every economy says they want more of it. there is some disagreement about the rules of trade and conditions for trade. we h

a year ago it looked far from certain port moresby would be ready for the biggest event papua new guinea has ever hosted but we've chinese and australian help and money the country's leader says it is i was very proud of our country and they've been able to step up and. going to deliver one of the most memorable and hospitable if it got me to. you know history papua new guinea is the poorest member of the asia pacific economic cooperation or apec group but the economies of its twenty one members are combined worth more than half the world's total discussing ways to grow them further through free trade investment and development is the official substance of the apec summit with big investment deals likely to be negotiated and announced but it's the unofficial meetings and bilateral discussions and deals on the sidelines that will matter most particularly those involving china's president well this is the show paying isn't paul was me for five days whereas most leaders will be spending as little time here at or in port moresby as possible to the disappointments of its hosts presidents puti

so well this weekend's summit of the asia pacific ignore economic cooperation and pup a new guinea was marked by dispute united states and china. a squared off over trade security and who would be the better investment partner for the region u.s. vice president mike pence walked to beijing's regional ambitions while china ping hit out at trump's america first protectionist agenda as apec approaches its thirtieth anniversary the failure to agree on a communique for the first time in its history calls into question its relevance. the seed apex stands for cooperation but in papua new guinea it appears to stand instead for confrontation it may be smiles all around but accusations have been flying between china and the us regarding their ongoing trade dispute on full display here at apec the host remained diplomatic so very fruitful discussions ed exchanged very frank views about important issues about the that it is a fiction and the challenges the region continues to face for the first time since a pic was established no final statements were made the u.s. wanted the text to condemn unfai

papua new guinea, for example, a pledge to help build its electricity grid.nd another message that was pretty striking. pence announcing that australia and the u.s. would be building a military base on papua new guinea's manis island, and that is clearly part of the larger competition on military fronts between china and the u.s. and their allies over influence and control of the pacific. george. >> ivan watson, live in hong kong. thank you. >>> and finally this hour, we want to take you inside india's first elephant hospital. this opened up last week in south of new delhi. elephants are an endangered species and the hospital uses cutting edge technology including wireless exray machines and ultrasound to treat injured and sick or aging elephants. the nonprofit behind the hospital's rescue of wild animals across the country, of course, activists say elephants are revered in india, but can also be abused or hunted. thanks for being with us for cnn newsroom. i'm george howell at the cnn center in atlanta. early start is next for viewers here in the united state

dusty is perseverance but in rural papua new guinea that's unusual to treat tuberculosis patients need to take an elaborate and unpleasant cocktail of drugs regularly for months a lack of clinics and transport to those clinics makes getting those medicines to people or people to the medicines hard when the base appointment when did on their review dates i do a stand. i go out into the villages and i meet them and i ask them why you are not mean health workers reach only a fraction of those infected and when people let their treatments lapse the disease has a resurgence and becomes more tolerant to drugs once it's more into what's called multi-drug resistant tuberculosis the disease is much harder and more expensive to treat hall of all patients die organizations like doctors without borders are trying to help but there's not enough central coordination the frustration that many have here is that papua new guinea's government is known for years that it has a big problem and that it's getting worse and yet despite having the money the government hasn't been spending it in the right way a

to popper new guinea now where a group of police and security guards have stormed the parliament building breaking windows and smashing furniture the whole thing was over a pay dispute the guards were furious that they had not received the money promised to them after working out last weekend's international summit hosted by this south pacific island. from smashed plates to broken windows but this was more than just a break in it was carried out by the very people who should have been protecting the building security guards and police stormed proper new guinea's parliament to demand paid wages from a summit that only ended on sunday. chinese president xi jinping was among the guests at the apec conference hosted by this south pacific island. but it's an extremely poor nation and there's been growing anger at the expense of it all a fleet of luxury cars was bought by the government in which to ferry round the dignitaries some local residents claim they're living in tents after their homes were demolished to make way for a new road the government has reportedly promised to pay the security

position that all the latest going to greater is pretty dramatic and the prime minister of papua new guinea will issue a chairman's summary of what has been the great but it's not the same thing it really seems that it was disputes over the language to do with trade between the united states and china that led to this fundamental breakdown so this is a dramatic conclusion to this i pack summit we were expecting something in writing the great so we haven't got it papua new guinea's prime minister says a formal closing statement will be released in the coming days peter o'neill was mobbed by journalists at the apec closing news conference his short statement left reporters wondering what had been decided during the two days of talks. air strikes have resumed over her data in yemen the main port for food and medical supplies the saudi and iraqi coalition is trying to retake it from the who's the rebels the united nations as the war has pushed eight million people to the brink of starvation monitor reports from nearby djibouti after a brief pause in fighting a few days ago the besieged city of

mr pence will also travel to singapore and papua new guinea.". they've sank by 5%, dragging down us markets and wiping more than $40bn off apple's market value. and look at this photo on the front page of the new york times. it's a house swallowed by sand in a fishing village in russia. more than 20 homes have been buried under dunes. now, what stories are sparking discussions online? we spoke earlier about how fake news isa we spoke earlier about how fake news is a huge concern in the philippines with social media at the heart of the issue. and now one online media company has joined forces with facebook to try and tackle the problem. together they are aiming to bonk the false stories we mentioned earlier about revising the events of martial law. for more on this i am joined now by marites vitug, who is the editor at large of the social news network rappler. firstly, we could not focus in on a case that the philippine government cut and have with rappler but tell me how rappler deals with investigative journalism, how me how rappler deals with

but papua new guinea is a tiny tiny part of that so huge excitement. hosting this big event many many roads closed off a lot of the events actually the speeches that you saw of itself there actually took place in a on a cruise ship that has been brought in because there aren't really the facilities in the city to host events of this size alone the main apec summit itself will be held at a new conference center called apec house that'll happen on sunday as for what we're expecting will be a photo opportunity with all the leaders later on saturday then a dinner for them all on saturday night but the main talks will be on sunday but although those are the official events it's the kind of the bilateral meetings the sideline meetings that perhaps tell us more about what's going on here i'll give an example president jay last night on friday night i should say hosted a reception for pacific island leaders particularly those he invests heavily in in terms of aid on investment projects but also interesting lee only those specific a lot of countries that recogn

economicia-pacific summit gets underway in public new guinea. -- in papua new guinea. >> 21 countries will be attending. it was overshadowed somewhat by what the government -- by what the guardian -- it was revealed that the government splurged on maseratis. poverty.n despite of the summit will take place at a convention center that was paid for with chinese money. something that regional players like australia are increasingly worried about, growing chinese influence in the region. a local paper calls it the opportunity of a lifetime that will allow png to rejuvenate its tired old ways of development. the route to rome already has its winners. it is a transatlantic solo yacht race. taking place every quarter years. competitors sell from brittany -- sale from brittany to guadeloupe. it is a lot of time at sea. some skippers have been sharing their daily lives. particularly what they eat. the huffington post says whatever you eight on sunday was infinitely better. that is scrambled eggs and cheese and a powder -- cheese in a powder form. there was another sailor eating a banana. there

guinea unpaid wages and election results of now led to. protests government leaders in the capital conakry of all that the. us hawke reports. discontent is spreading teachers left their classrooms swapping pens and paper for rocks and sticks protesting for better pay the join a growing wave of discontent against president alpha condé and his government civil servants want their unpaid wages trade unionist wanted to oil price hikes and the opposition want the killing of protesters to stop it here in the shell but if the army has been deployed against the people the military are heavily armed this is in violation of our rights and the constitution. and overwhelm the police now patrol with an elite army battalion turning the capital into battlefield human rights groups accuse the president of using the military to fire live bullets at the people it's meant to defend hundreds have been injured and twenty killed including members of the security forces we're calling for is. to ensure that this stops there should be no more death in the context

the apec summit have failed to agree on a final statement after two days of meetings in poppea new guinea the canadian prime minister blamed disputes between member nations over trade tensions between the u.s. and china dominated discussions the remains of five more people have been found in california's wildfires that brings the death toll to seventy six one thousand three hundred people are missing rescuers are bracing for strong winds which could hamper efforts to control the fires cyclons killed at least thirty three people in southern india cyclon gudger struck six districts of tamil nadu state on friday all and eighty two thousand people were forced to leave their homes and take emergency shelter. while prime suspect alfred yakkers home has been extradited to the hague for alleged atrocities against muslims in the central african republic is a sitting member of the parliament he was a senior leader within the mostly christian anti black a movement its fighters attacked muslims after muslims a lake of rebels seized power in twenty thirteen. two former presidents of madagascar are set

a tuberculosis epidemic in papa new guinea is getting worse poor infrastructure means health workers have only been able to get to a fraction of those affected andrew thomas reports in the capital port moresby tuberculosis in papua new guinea isn't just an issue it's an epidemic more than one in two hundred fifty people are known to have to kill a disease the real proportion is believed to be much higher. cari dusty fell ill two years ago but living in a remote area accessible only by boat it was five months before she was diagnosed after she was she had trouble after taking the pills she was prescribed listen i faithfully took my medications however my body wasn't reacting well to it i started to experience some kind of allergic reaction and side effects. dusty is perseverance but in rural papua new guinea that's unusual to treat tuberculosis patients need to take an elaborate and unpleasant cocktail of drugs regularly for months the lack of clinics and transport to those clinics makes getting those medicines to people or people to the medicines hard when the base appointment when d

apex summit -- apac summit wound up in papua new guinea. balked at the wording of a pledged toe but fight all unfair trade practices. the u.s.-china trade war overshadowed the facts that they traded barbs in back-to-back speeches. >> mankind has once again reached a crossroads. which route should we choose? openness or closing one store? -- ones door? the future it hinges on the choices we make. offers aited states better option. we don't drown our partners in a sea of debt. we don't compromise or coerce independent spirit we operate failure -- failure it -- we operate fairly. we partner with you, and we all prosper. union iseuropean working on new rules to prevent foreign investing security amid increasing concern the pace of acquisitions of china. they made the announcement tuesday which will include how far concerns go about fbi with their peers. chinese bloodhe moderate from buying a robot maker earlier -- conglomerate from buying a robot maker earlier. any emissions scandal could have been averted after they halted manipulation in 2011

to ensure that this stops there should be no more death in the context of demonstrations in guinea and there are a number of ways. this can be done one is ensuring that the members of the security forces where they use excessive force are held to account that they are taken to brought to justice bishan may also a clear message from the authorities but also from the political parties that violence should not be used during demonstrations including demonstrations of the imposition of the or the ruling party i mean they should be very clear that they're right that it's protected is the right to peaceful demonstration. began in february over a contested local election in quickly spread the government accuse the opposition of using guerrilla tactics running street battles with armed men pitted against the security forces despite a ban on marches protests continue. they are trying to take part of the population hostage by militarizing the streets and they give the excuse that this is to maintain law and order gandhi has been in power since two thousand and ten opponents fear he wants to chan

a good guinea pig and i was grateful that i'd been chosen, because it sounded too good to be true.hree years after her operation, the battery in maureen's pacemaker stopped working. but the doctors couldn't get it out. maureen now has a traditional pacemaker keeping her alive. but the nanostim is still sitting inside her heart. i don't like the thought i've got a piece of metal or whatever in my heart that's doing nothing, and it's just laying there. disappointment, you know. to have it done and then have to go through all that. the manufacturers say they "met all regulatory requirements" and the pacemaker was "approved based on strong performance and safety data." 1,400 patients had the nanostim. but implants were stopped for safety reasons. batteries failed and parts fell off inside patients. at least three people died. so how can that happen? how can a device that doesn't work properly be used on so many patients? and why was a device that was made by an american company first used on british patients? the simple answer is that it's been easy to get new medical devices approved