the undertaking means a big role for chinese telecom giant hua i huawei.l the firm brought 5g connectivity to mt. everest. the move is part of china's base station blitz. there are now more than 250,000 base station i in the country. officials aim to have more than double that number by year's end. to help meet the challenge, huawei is training everyone from salespeople to researchers to install the equipment. >> translator: i'm in charge of customer relations, so i never thought i'd have to train for this. it's so hot and there's a lot to do. it's quite tough. >> reporter: the company aims to make all of its employees engaged in pushing the technology on the back of china's new infrastructure initiative. >> china recognized the value of ai iot, cloud and huawei specifically 5g. so china has been putting a lot of money into this area. we can achieve a better result. >> reporter: but the plan is facing some headwinds. the u.s. has moved to cut off huawei from the global chip supply and the uk recently band wireless carriers from buying its 5g equipment. wit

. >> i am hoping this is going to be a slow goodbye toi hua, but try to sell as much kit in thend next months as possible ande le are still putting legally high-risk vendor kit in our 5g network andope that policy or government changes. gordon: this evening came the first response from china, its ambassador to the u.k. tweeting, disappointing and wrong decision by the u.k. on huawei. it has become questionable whether the u.k. can provide an open, fair, and nondiscriminatory business environment for companies from other countries. today may not be the end of the road. just as washington piled othe pressure, it may be beijing's turn. gordon corera, bbc news. tim: we have managed to get our link back to d.c., so i am handing back to you now. katy: thank you. apologies, everybody, for those technical remnants. let's t more on huawei. i am joined by congresswoman abigail spanberger f virginia, a former cia case officer and she serves on the house foreign affairs committee. thanks for joining the program. do you think huawei is axy p for the chinese government and the chinese military? thin

accepted not to increase the rebate which means germany has accepted that the natural event is actually hua and france also accepted that for the 2 of said movie 8 of the others. i have are going some of it i'm so the reality is that france and germany and italy and other countries have actually accepted to finance a transfer of dynamism. in the direction of the biggest night piers in order to convince them that this is a good budget and to comes compensate something that they felt was not so attractive so. you see that is not only a clear tribute to european solidarity it is also something is most important on the basis of our initiative. actually taking up loans together and also having transferred solidarity mechanisms that didn't exist in the past that was the most important thing it was only possible because we together accepted to finance it so that's something that i needed to remind you of at this point in time. a month from politico when asking this question. good morning good morning president good morning madam chancellor and congratulations on this agreement. mr president you sa

the the midnight how ling of coyote's hua ventured back in the music to the ears of city folk but long time no see dolphins in the canals in venice what are some of the other good things that have happened while we've been torturing the environment less lately. it's been unbelievable it's in you know it's i think everybody wanted says is producing part of this it's we're seeing in a ml's going to that we've never seen we're seeing cleaner air mean you mentioned new delhi you can see aging them from space where we've never been able to see that before dolphins in venice we're talking about there's literally deer now walking down the streets in major major cities major cities and towns across the united states. and you've never seen that before the trick here that we have to keep reminding ourselves is. they've actually probably already always been there it's just that now we're not so what's happened say in venice for instance the dolphins have actually always been there it's just that there have been so many people so many boats so much mud and muck being picked up every day that we ju

about to cover those in the next half-hour, but i want to start with news this weik, the fcc declaring hua the kumble -- corporation to be national security threats. representative doyle: that is one of the reasons you saw the bill we passed in the energy committee. now we are just waiting for appropriators to put money in it. it is going to take $1 million to $2 million to assist smaller companies that want that equipment, to make them whole so they can remove the equipment and put other equipment in. we have been generally supportive of that and our hope will be appropriators will put sufficient funds in the bill so that that can happen again. here to help us explore the issues is chris roderigo. he is with "the hill," and covers technology. chris: ask for having me. to know how the coronavirus pandemic has shifted the priorities of you and your subcommittee. representative doyle: it has obviously made it much more difficult to schedule hearings and do our normal course of business. we had a hearing last week on this information. i'm sure we will talk about that later. don't at this time

early 20th century.ys china t's administered xinjiang since 60 b.c., and foreign ministry spokeswoman huanying says china is fighting separatists. >> ( translated ): the problem in xinjiang is the issue of counterterrorism and de-extremism, noreligious and human rights issues. >> reporter: but in xinjiang and a neighboring province, residents say china has launched a campaign against islam. the government has partially or completely destroyed at least a dozen mosques, and uyghurs say the chinese ar't only targeting their religion. in istanbul, uyghurs describe how china criminalized uyghur language and all uyghur culture. the u.s. has called that campai "cultural genocide." ♪ china even banned uyghur music. ♪ yusup sulayman sings about a culture that's been lost and a people who've been silenced. ♪ >> ( translated ): ty're disappearing our famous artists, composers, and songwriters a befoone else. they're disappearing our intellectuals. they've burned what they wanted to burn, and scrubbed what they nted to scrub. >> reporter: in xinjiang's capital, a huge statue of chairman mao looms oe