to follow washington's lead or to trust huawei and anger the us government joining us now is helena humphrey our washington correspondent helena it's great to see you why has the us been intervening and who gets to build which part of other countries five hundred networks. two overarching reasons for you genelle and essentially we do have to acknowledge that the trumpet administration has been extremely hawkish on china in terms of its economic power or influence and reach that's one reason secondly of course that allegation from washington d.c. that hardware made by huawei will be used to spy on sensitive information now the argument from washington d.c. is it can ban the hardware being used at government agencies here and indeed it has done her for example when it comes to liaising with allies such as britain for example the connection may not then be secure with london for example in classified information which would be transmitted if for example the u.k. used that hardware from quote way a threat to intelligence sharing then but how effective has the u.s. been in its wake up in. i would

she wus helena humphrey has been following those protests for us from the nation's capital now helena it has been a heated debate over the past few days you've been talking to demonstrators what have they been telling you. that's right call there have been well hundreds of rallies up and down the country today the key ones of course being held in states which have recently passed anti abortion legislation like georgia for example where one of those so-called hot fetal heartbeat bills was passed i spoke to an activist in georgia she said around 1000 activists turned up to the capitol building there she said to me this is a direct quote i'm tired of old white men telling us what to do with our bodies that we are warden ating across the states and i'm grateful for that they are not there to alabama as well whether legislation is passing that we're all men another organizer i spoke to on the ground in alabama said when they came to apply for that permit to hold this rally the person organizing that in the government office said normally you need about 20 days to apply for that permit i'm

carl: helena humphrey can tell us more on that. welcome. u.s. rships are on their way to the region. this is clearly much more than an exchange of angry tweets, right? helena: right. that is certainly the concern. it is not the first time the u.s. p president has waged a war of words. it is fair to say that there is concern in the international community that this tactic could one day go too far. that was the warning from the british foreman -- foreign secretary, saying, let us not see these two countries trip into warfare. iran is bringing its own provocation. earlier today, it announced it has up its e enrichment of eithr -- uranium. it remains within the parameters of the 2015 nuclear deal. what we are seeing overall is trump's particular brand of foreign policy, flattery and then, battery, battery with that harsh rhetoric on those tweets. yesterday, remember, we saw the president appeared on fox news, saying i don't want to go to war with iran and wars hurt economies before adding, it also leads to loss of life. confused rhetoric, leading man

world wide walkout to protest about wages and working conditions are washington correspondent helena humphrey met one driver who like many of his colleagues is struggling to make ends meet. after a gnome flight there's no shortage of weary travelers eager to jump in here at washington's one hundred reagan airport right hating services have never been more in demand that drive this state than not seeing the benefits of choice been in for three years and that time rivals of his knee has come on the scene meaning greater competition and fewer cost him as it used to be relatively easy to just go online you know turn the up on go online and know that you would make decent money and now it's having to be more. strategic with that in terms of where and when i drive. these days tori has more down time than he used to wednesday he went on strike in solidarity with other drivers around the world who are also frustrated by wages and working conditions as the company protests to go public i know the labor is said in their initial public offering prospectus did they expect to reduce drivers compensation m

maker and economic reform and that in light of an election campaign code be a dangerous move helena humphrey in washington thank you. well now to our serious on the german constitution or basic law which is 70 years old this month the constitution came into effect on may have 1949 after being drugged up under the supervision of the victorious allied powers its aim was to ensure that after the years of nazi evil and the destruction of the war. the new germany would be built on solid democratic foundations 40 years later when west and east for be united the constitution was adopted in the new real unified germany. and all this week we're looking at how germany is constitution works in practice in this next report we focus on one of the most hotly debated issues in the country today what to do about rising rents especially here in the capital berlin one activist has invoked the constitution in his fight to expose property owners he says are responsible for the city's housing crisis 40 article 14 of germany's basic law he notes that property entails obligations and should serve the public good.

ellen humphrey is standing by for us in our washington studios following this story helena how's the pressure from china being such a huge market scene there way you are. i think the reality of the situation ben is that the f.a.a. and boeing might not like it but that is the reality of the situation china is the walls largest aviation market despite the fact that at the moment it's not building its own plane so boeing really does need to get a handle on this because china is looking to make its own airplanes in the future so if it doesn't of course then it will really risk missing out as china tries to wean itself off the likes of boeing as it tries to wean itself off the likes of us as well and of course not only have these chinese carry is sort compensation they also want compensation for the missed a livery all of these jets remember that the max jets in china comprise around a quarter of boeing's delivery wild white and also don't forget the chinese aviation authority was one of the 1st to ground this model of plane so it could be in the future that people look to china's aviatio