to make it possible for people to move to the remote province of shin jiang or to trade their beijing has extended its high speed train along the entire new highway . the travel time for the two thousand kilometers between lunch show and room she is now at just ten hours down from forty. five that. the fact that. china now possesses the largest high speed rail network in the world with a length of twenty thousand kilometers three hundred billion dollars was invested in ten years that corresponds to almost the entire annual budget of a country like france. the route of the new silk road is among the newest it's been in operation since two thousand and fourteen. the high speed route to cian jiang swallowed a lot of money and it'll never be cost effective but for beijing the benefit lies elsewhere firstly it's political because this route really affirms the desire to connect shane jiang more closely to the rest of the country. and it also sends a message to neighboring states because china sees itself as the builder of an international high speed network to run from russia to central asi

surrounding her tweets it appears that there has now been added a small reference to it but sarah jiang on these tweets the controversy surrounding them seems to be quite a big issue we could pedia seems to make efforts to minimize that so it seems that many people are looking at this case and looking at the statements that sarah jiang has made regarding white people and saying that this is a double standard so a lot of debate yet another example of how in the united states when it comes to issues of race and free speech and merican is just don't see eye to eye for news suspension from twitter to convey sevens was confronted on the streets by anti fascist protests this. was breakfast time with another conservative activist calling when demonstrators gathered near boy they can be seen throwing drinks and shouting stop white supremacy as well as calling them racist police quickly as you can see on the scene . investigative journalist fave lindelof says twitter's attempt to ban speech actually backfired they didn't then one thing they've been another that was just the substitution of words

the high speed route to cian jiang swallowed a lot of money and it'll never be cost effective but for beijing the benefit lies elsewhere firstly it's political because this route really affirms the desire to connect shane jiang more closely to the rest of the country. and it also sends a message to neighboring states because china sees itself as of the builder of an international high speed network to run from russia to central asia and iran. the route currently ns at the cutting edge railway station in odum cheek the provincial capital the station has very strict security measures in place. the local muslim minority and the han chinese who make up the vast majority of the population in the rest of the country. attacks violent riots and economic and religious imbalances in the region combines all the ingredients for a highly explosive cocktail police roadblocks and military checkpoints secure the new silk road here with strict controls. moscow. beijing believes the two cornerstones of peace inching jiang our domestic security and massive growth without peace this province cannot becom

it's a unique transport link and indispensable when it comes to connecting the province of sheen jiang which means new border to the rest of the country in the arid semi desert expanses of western china beijing and the central government were always very far away. but today the new silk road is creating change it's altering the concept of time and ultimately it will change the lives of the people here. go that route they come from all over the country from change on stage on shanghai. beijing and even from the northeast we're in a favorable transport location which is good for business in every regard. ten years ago we were still in our home village but we moved to the city to make money when the economic reforms came. from regionally the minister china is undergoing a radical shift particularly in the west of the country and inching janko all these cities being built in the desert are cities with skies great pose better than us they're moving. and there's a lot of activity everywhere with lights and even music and car oaky vasu it's got award theatre that i work at there's one backs f

surrounding her tweets it appears that there has now been added a small reference to it but sarah jiang there on these tweets the controversy surrounding them seems to be quite a big issue we keep eating it seems to make efforts to minimize that a lot of debate yet another example of how in the united states when it comes to issues of race and free speech and americans just don't see eye to eye. up in the well the new york times has issued a statement defending its decision to highest sarah jo said she had simply used the same language as online harasses did to respond to them while sarah so says that they were meant to be satirical well following news of her tweets a suspension of his come to silence was confronted on the street by anti fascist protests this. was having breakfast a with another concern that his colleague when they were harassed by protesters demonstrators could be saying peace i surrounded her police with quick. investigative guinness they've been doing really this is the way twist to this tackle hate speech it isn't working. they didn't then one thing they've been ano

tonight: weijia jiang explains what prompted the president's outb >> first lady melania trump reached out in defense of lebron james after her husband starts a twitter war with him. >> reporter: nba star lebron james appeared on cnn this week to talk about opening a new school for disadvantaged youth in his hometown of akron, ohio but the conversation quickly turned to president trump. >> he is dividing us and what i noticed the last few months, that he has kind of used sport to kind of divide us. and, that is something that i can't relate to. >> reporter: the president responded on twitter last night writing lebron james was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, don lemon. he made lebron look smart which isn't easy to do. adding to the drama, today, the president traveled to campaign for a gop congressional candidate in james' home state of ohio. governor john kasich chimed in. rather than criticizing king james, he should be celebrating him for his charity work, and efforts to help kids. in a statement, a spokeswoman for first lady melania trump said it looks like lebro

weijia jiang has our report. >> reporter: president trump signed an executive order from his new jersey golf club to reimpose sanctions on iran, which were suspended under the obama-era nuclear deal. the president abandoned that agreement in may. >> the fact is, this was a horrible, one-sided should have never, ever been made. >> reporter: the sanctions iranold and metal and restrict iran from using u.s. dollars in financial transactions. the trump administration argues just the threat of sanctions has already made a difference, pointing to iran's plummeting currency, a worsening economy, and as a result, intense, antigovernment riots like these from recent days. despite heightened hostility, last week, president trump offered up a meeting. >> no preconditions. no. they want to meet, i'll meet, any time they want. >> reporter: rouhani said negotiations and sanctions can't coexist, and if someone has a knife in the hand and seeks talks, he should first put the knife in his pocket. european allies still part of the iran nuclear deal say the president is wrong, even taking measures to prot

making hateful comments regarding black and jewish people she says however the outrage is that sarah jiang was not banned for making these comments about white people on the surface i actually agree with tweeter twitter is assessment i believe that what i said what i tweeted was wrong you should not be able to tweet about any race or any group that you want them canceled that they should live underground i don't know why suddenly people think that white people are excluded from that scenario that people can't be racist towards white people when in fact they often are the problem with the new york times essentially saying shinning her behavior is that they are signaling to the rest of the world that racism actually is ok as long as you pick the right race this was candice owens first statement to her followers after the ban twitter not only reinstated her account but actually apologized and said that it was a mistake for her to be banned now immediately there was a firestorm with people pointing to what they see as a double standard one of the ways you go cooping city tweets and replace the

. >> glor: so that was just after rhe president landed in west inrginia f r weijia jiang is there with him. she is going to start with the cohen case. >> reporter: michael cohen left tanhattan federal court late this evening after pleading guilty to eight felony charges, and admitting he and then- candidate trump worked to cover up his alleged affairs during the 2016 campaign. at times emotional, cohen told the judge that, in violation of campaign finance laws, he paid two women hush money in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office, for the principal purpose of influencing the election. he also admitted to bank fraud and tax evasion. deputy u.s. attorney robert khuzami spoke soon after. >> these are very serious charges and reflect a pattern of lies and dishonesty over an extended period of time. they are significant in their rin rights. they are particularly significant when done by a .awyer. >> reporter: cohen is at the center of the stormy daniels controversy. he admitted to paying the adult film star $130,000 right before the 2016 election to keep her qu

only fifteen percent of the country is arable that makes the russian fertile province of hay long jiang very important especially now . close to the border with russia this is soybean country. china is the world's largest consumer of soybeans but it can't grow enough and so is reliant on imports to meet demand that means the decision to impose a twenty five percent levy on u.s. soil beans creates risk yet in this province the trade fight appears to be having a welcome impact. farmers like mn foundling are being urged by the local government to switch their fields to soit from corn offering subsidies as an incentive that'll raise incomes moon says he has a lot to thank president trump for who won when you know how when china stops importing from the united states is possible what the price of domestic soybeans welcome and that means we will make more money. soybeans may flourish in this province but only around ten percent of those consumed in china are domestically grown the instruction to local farmers to grow more soybeans was a political priority but the reality is this china is a lo

simply replaced the words white with the words black or the word jewish hundreds of tweets from sarah jiang regarding white people she simply changed the target of the tweet from white whites to black or jewish when she did this the response of twitter was to shut down her account candace owens says that twitter was right to take down her post and ban her for making hateful comments regarding black and jewish people she says however the outrage is that sarah johnson was not banned for making these comments about white people on the surface i actually agree with twitter's assessment i believe that what i said what i tweeted was wrong you should not be able to tweet about any race or any group that you want them canceled that they should live underground i don't know why suddenly people think that white people are excluded from that scenario that people can't be racist towards white people when in fact they often are the problem with the new york times essentially saying shinning her behavior is that they are signaling to the rest of the world that racism actually is ok as long as you pick th

jeff. >> glor: okay, weijia jiang at the white house for us. weijia, thank you.he commander in chief today called a halt to his plans for a veterans day military parade this year, saying the now-$92 million price tag is padiculously high. h.re's kris van cleave. >> reporter: president donald trump's bastille day-inspired military parade will have to wait, announcing on twitter, "the local politicians who run washington, d.c. poorly know a windfall when they see it. t.en asked to give us a price for holding a great celebratory military parade, they wanted a number so ridiculously high that h c. mayor muriel bowser, who is iet a trump supporter, shot back hoying she's "the local politician who finally got inrough to the reality star in the white house with the realities-- $21.6 million-- of parades/events/demonstrations in trump america. sad." the city's estimate included $13.4 million for d.c. police and nearly $3.6 million for fire and emergency services. pentagon sources confirm the total estimated cost of the parade was $92 million, about ehe cost of an f-35 fi

making hateful comments regarding black and jewish people she says however the outrage is that sarah jiang was not banned for making these comments about white people on the surface i actually agree with tweeter with twitter assessment i believe that what i said what i tweeted was wrong you should not be able to tweet about any race or any group that you want them canceled that they should live underground i don't know why suddenly people think that white people are excluded from that scenario that people can't be racist towards white people when in fact they often are the problem with the new york times essentially saying shinning her behavior is that they are signaling to the rest of the world that racism actually is ok as long as you pick the the right race this was candice owens first statement to followers after the ban twitter not only reinstated her account but actually apologized and said that it was a mistake for her to be banned now immediately there was a firestorm with people pointing to what they see as a double standard one of the words you go. tweets i'm replacing wants with

weijia jiang explains what prompted president trump's latest outburst. th i'm truly excited. >> reporter: n.b.a. star lebron james appeared on cnn this week to talk about opening a new school for disadvantaged youth in his home town of akron, ohio. but the conversation quickly turned to president trump. w he's dividing us, and what i noticed over the last few months, that he's kind of used sport to kind of divide us, and i-- and that's something that i can't relate to. ondeeporter: the president responded on twitter last night, writing, "lebron james was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, don lemon. he made lebron look smart, which en't easy to do." tding to the drama, today the president traveled to campaign for a g.o.p. congressional candidate in james' home state of ohio. governor john kasich chimed in, grather than criticizing @kingjames, we should be celebrating him for his charity work and efforts to help kids." in a statement, a spokeswoman for first lady melania trump said, "it looks like lebron james is working to do good things

>> glor: weijia jiang in berkeley heights, new jersey. weijia, thank you. thousands spent the night in makeshift tents in indonesia after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake flattened buildings. the official death toll is 98. ree rescuers have not yet reached all the areas that have hen hit. on the neighboring island of bali, hundreds of tourists slept in the airport desperate for flights home. a new study reveals a jarring truth for baby boomers tonight. instead of retirement and relaxation, many are facing bankruptcy. more than 12% of those who filed for protection are over 65. in 1991 it was just over 2%. jill schlesinger is here. jill, pretty alarming to think thit. what's happening to baby boomers? hi well, this is accelerating a long-term trend that we've seen, and the great recession poured even more fuel on that. and the first thing that happened was pensions overall were eliminated by many private companies, replaced with 401(k)s, which are voluntary revings plans. the next problem, medical costs, out-of-pocket expenses have gone up dramatically, and then w

. >> weijia jiang in berkeley heights, new jersey. thank you. >>> thousands spent the night in makeshift tents in indonesia after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake flattened buildings. the official death toll is 98. the rescuers have not reached all the areas that have been hit. >>> on the neighboring island of bali, hundreds of tourists slept in the airport, desperate for flights home. >>> police in venezuela have been rounding up suspects after this dramatic video appearing to show a failed attack on the president. this is from over the weekend. the footage is raising alarm about a new threat, weaponenized drones. here's charlie d'agata. >> reporter: the u.s. administration is among many casting doubt on the alleged assassination attempt on venezuelan president nicolas maduro. but the exploding drones above appeared real enough to send troops scrambling for safety below. cbs news could not authenticate this video. whether staged or legit, the incident highlights growing concerns over the threat of weaponized drones. isis deployed them on t

the tariff war with the united states could secure their future adrian brown al-jazeera in a long jiang province northeast china. long is the managing director of the hong kong based research consultancy asia and a lesson she says even if there are talks over tariffs china may not be willing to do what the u.s. wants i think china will come to the table it is the united states the trump administration that has been pushing for this tariff fight china does not want a trade war and it will do everything that it can to stop it you know shut down. you know giving up then tie country as it were so yes china would want to talk the problem is what is the truth and ministry should demand it of china and whether china is willing to give that the point there is that it isn't whether china should open its markets or whether americans have a right to demand that china does it every government does what it's best for its own people regardless of the abstract moral issue and grant now up until now china fuz that it can do a lot of things that. trade in other areas because it's got this huge trump car

dr jiang from the university of north carolina. or italy is mourning the victims of the genoa bridge disaster that killed at least thirty eight people present such a matter now the prime ministers have become say will attend a state funeral for many of the victims tomorrow a funeral was held in naples today for four friends in their twenty's who died as they were driving to vacation in france from spain the founders didn't want to take part in saturday's seventy it's obvious transport ministry has opened an investigation into the bridge collapse but that might not be enough to placate an angry public as the w.c. all of telson pill reports from general. this is a scene replicated across this region. nestled in mountains in the shadow of towering concrete structures living in one such home as retired construction worker johnny has been here for thirty years for him the branch had long just been part of the scenery but now he's looking at it very differently. i am a little more worried but first i thought they would have closed tempor

making hateful comments regarding black and jewish people she says however the outrage is that sarah jiang was not banned for making these comments about white people on the surface i actually agree with tweeter with twitter assessment i believe that what i said what i tweeted was wrong you should not be able to tweet about any race or any group that you want them canceled that they should live underground i don't know why suddenly people think that white people are excluded from that scenario that people can't be racist towards white people when in fact they often are the problem with the new york times essentially saying shinning her behavior is that they are signaling to the rest of the world that racism actually is ok as long as you pick the the right race this was candice owens first statement to her followers after the ban twitter not only reinstated her account but actually apologized and said that it was a mistake for her to be banned now immediately there was a firestorm with people pointing to what they see as a double standard by the way as you go. tweets and replace the points

only fifteen percent of the country is arable that makes the russian fertile province of hay long jiang very important especially now. close to the border with russia this is soybean country. china is the world's largest consumer of soybeans but it can't grow enough and so is reliant on imports to meet demand that means the decision to impose a twenty five percent levy on u.s. soil beans creates risk yet in this province the trade fight appears to be having a welcome impact. farmers like mn foundling are being urged by the local government to switch their fields to soil from corn offering subsidies as an incentive that'll raise incomes moon says he has a lot to thank president trump for who won when you know how when china stops importing from the united states is possible what the price of domestic soybeans welcome and that means we will make more money. soybeans may flourish in this province but only around ten percent of those consumed in china are domestically grown the instruction to local farmers to grow more soybeans was a political priority but the reality is this china is a lon

billion dollars and these guys are you know they're controversial within the big client space certainly jiang wu is very controversial but the guy is smart and he hires the best and he does the best and he has a plan for africa and he sees that bet embedding through the opera browser a thing called open a and you can introduce cryptocurrency a frictionless market frictionless way to transfer value from kenya to ethiopia or you know tens and somewhere like that you are able to really. crypto in the u.s. are not high because there's no urgency but here there is urgency so the adoption rates in africa could skyrocket compare to the rest of the world and be the cutting edge toward crypto adoption for the world yeah but also i'm saying like we don't necessarily know what is opposed to us world oppose us empire world is going to look like we don't know yet what china will do that here they're building up africa is africa going to be one of the biggest economies in the entire continent is the enemy an economic force that it never. has been in a thousand years i mean that's what could very well be a

billion dollars and these guys are you know they're controversial within the big quiet space certainly jiang wu is very controversial but the guy is smart and he hires the best and he does the best and he has a plan for africa and he sees that but it embedding through the opera browser a thing called open a and you can introduce cryptocurrency a frictionless market frictionless way to transfer value from kenya to ethiopia or you know tens and somewhere like that you're able to really. crypto in the u.s. are not high because there's no urgency but here there is urgency so the adoption rates in africa could skyrocket them for the rest of the world and be the cutting edge toward crypto adoption for the world yeah but also i'm saying like we don't necessarily know what is opposed to us world oppose us empire world is going to look like we don't know yet what china will do that here they're building up africa is africa going to be one of the biggest economies in. entire continent is the enemy an economic force that it never has been in a thousand years a little why i mean that's what could very w

only fifteen percent of the country is arable that makes the lush and fertile province of hay long jiang very important especially now . close to the border with russia this is soybean country. china is the world's largest consumer of soybeans but it can't grow enough and so is reliant on imports to meet demand that means the decision to impose a twenty five percent levy on u.s. soil beans creates risk yet in this province the trade fight appears to be having a welcome impact. farmers like mn foundling are being urged by the local government to switch their fields to soil from corn offering subsidies as an incentive that'll raise incomes moon says he has a lot to thank president trump for who i'm with you know hard on when china stops importing from the united states is possible what the price of domestic soybeans welcome and that means we'll make more money soybeans may flourish in this province but only around ten percent of those consumed in china are domestically grown the instruction to local farmers to grow more soybeans was a political priority but the reality is this china is a l

. >> quijano: weija jiang, thank you.he wildfires in california have claimed a ninth victim as they continue to burn. 00re than 15,000 firefighters are battling 18 large wildfires across the state. the largest is the mendocino complex fire. mireya villarreal has the latest >> reporter: strong winds, excessive heat, and bone dry vegetation fueled the mendocino lemplex fire overnight. it's now the fifth largest fire in state history with nearly 255,000 acres burned. y avy fuel loads and spot fires pve been problematic for crews. >> we get 100 embers that land in a particular area, they all start a fire and start a new ewad fire on us, literally, in shat particular location. and it runs at us. and sometimes it runs us out of locations. >> reporter: more than 3,500 firefighters are struggling to control this fire, which is 33% 3ntained. so far it's destroyed more than 100 structures and is threatening 15,000 more. to the north, the so-called carr fire has continued to prove deadly. an employee with pacific gas & electric beca

the tariff war with the united states could secure their future adrian brown al-jazeera in a long jiang province northeast china a struggling mining company in south africa says it will slash thirteen thousand jobs as it battles to stay afloat impala platinum which has seen violent protests in the past over pay will cut its workforce in rustenburg and lessen the number of lines operating there to reduce labor costs the government has criticised the decision calling the job cuts careless and reckless. well now to nicaragua where the largest private sector organization is accusing the ruling party of engineering land seizures across the country it says the government is trying to pressure or punish suspected opponents up to four hundred fifty people have died in more than three months of anti-government unrest you see in human reports now from messiah just outside the capital. squatters settlements like this one are sprouting up over much of nicaragua and arrived with his family just last week when he heard that this prime property on the outskirts of managua was pretty for the taking the

weijia jiang has more on this from the white house.jeff sessions-- never took --ntrol of the justice department, and it's sort of an incredible thing. >> reporter: president trump was rept and bold on fox news, once oain blasting attorney general jeff sessions. >> you know, the only reason i sve him the job was because i felt loyalty. he was an original supporter. >> reporter: but the president made clear that loyalty dissolved during this moment in march of 2017: >> i have recused myself. >> reporter: back when sessions uswed out of the russia ovestigation. >> he took the job and then he said, "i'm going to recuse myself." i said, "what kind of a man is this?" >> reporter: today, sessions fired back in a statement: "i took control of the department of justice the day i was sworn in," he wrote. adding, "the d.o.j. will not be improperly influenced by political considerations." president trump has stopped short of saying he plans to fire sessions. republican senator lindsay graham: >> i think there will come a time, sooner rather than l

points usa conservative organization in the usa what she did was she took hundreds of tweets from sarah jiang regarding white people she simply changed the target of the tweet from whites to black or jewish when she did this the response of twitter was to shut down her account candace owens says that twitter was right to take down her posts and ban her for making hateful comments regarding black and jewish people she says however the outrage is that sarah johnson was not banned for making these comments about white people on the surface i actually agree with tweeter twitter is assessment i believe that what i said what i tweeted was wrong you should not be able to tweet about any race or any group that you want them canceled that they should live underground i don't know why suddenly people think that white people are excluded from that scenario that people can't be racist towards white people when in fact they often are the problem with the new york times essentially saying shinning her behavior is that they are signaling to the rest of the world that racism actually is ok as long as you pic

more on that tonight from weijia jiang. >> why did you speak so long to the special counsel? >> reporter: today, white house counsel don mcgahn dodged questions about his role as a witness in the russia investigation. since may 2017, mcgahn has met with special counsel robert mueller's team for 30 hours in three separate interviews, they included questions about the firing of former f.b.i. director james comey, and the president's failed attempts to get rid of mueller. >> we need new laws. >> reporter: president trump did not address the new revelation during a white house event, but on twitter, insisted he approved mcgahn's testimony with "disgraced and discredited robert mueller and his whole group of angry democrat thugs... for purposes of transparency." the president has ramped up his twitter attacks on the special counsel, mentioning mueller by name, more in august than any other month. >> i'm not going to be rushed into having him testify. >> reporter: yesterday, mr. trump's personal attorney, rudy giuliani, said he fears mueller could ensnare his client in a perjury tr

and that somehow he was going to push china into a position where or that he even talk to president jiang that they can add some sort of resolution after this you know tough guy image was allowed to show itself to the world but it doesn't seem that way and actually things are going to be drawn out by the looks of things because nothing was accomplished at these talks we're looking now next month that we saw a tit for tat now at sixteen billion dollars worth of tariffs thrown in by the states and of course china doing what it does is that same amount back and now we're looking at another two hundred billion in tariffs possibly next month from the u.s. side of course will see the chinese throw back at that and don't show up to even saying he might push it to five hundred billion dollars now a lot of the analysts are saying that this might be a largely a long term game for trump that he's trying to push a new status quo which would be tariffs specially when dealing with china and some other analysts are saying and this is interesting that at this point if trump was to back down or if this wa

taking place in the northwest corner of china in an area called shin john which the chinese call shin jiang that is muslim territory it's basically it's very shut off from the rest of the world and. the people who live there are just not genetically chinese at all they're sort of sent there really central asians are turkic. but they have started experimenting on them essentially in one thousand nine hundred five because it turned out that if you took out organs from someone well they were still alive the organ can be transplanted into a new person with without much of a problem or a lot less of a problem the body doesn't fight it's a bit like cutting flowers and running water or something. now that was the beginning in one thousand nine hundred seven something very unusual happened c.c. up till then china's harvesting the organs from executed prisoners right and as much as the world made you know say oh that's so terrible and all the rest the truth is the world doesn't consider that so terribly think of it is well they're going to these people are going to die anyways and so there is a tend