but at the same time, you mentioned that dr mahathir mohamad spoke in august 2019 about a new form of was in april 2020? april 2019 — he was in china for the belt and road forum initiative. he was one of the chief guests. in fact, he was one of the opening keynote speakers. it's facing setbacks. of course, this is the huge flagship policy by xijinping, came to power in 2012, launches in 2013. but it's facing setbacks now to build all its infrastructure projects all over the world. because covid—19 has meant that there's slower economic growth in china and elsewhere. there are growth, debt issues, high project costs and all the rest of it and a lack of local participation, even local opposition. so perhaps things are changing on that score. you know, it's important to get one's timeframe right, 0k? the belt and road initiative is not a one—year, two—year initiative. it's a 100—year initiative. and the chinese probably have some things planned out over the next 30—110 years, 0k? and when you take a long journey, there will be setbacks. but let me just give you one statistic — countries

and former finance minister abdul he mohamad nor does a popular destination among government workers and officials al-shabaab which is linked to al qaida has been waging a brutal insurgency in somalia for more that a decade. this attack shatters a relative calm that lasted a few months in a city. former intelligence contractor edward snowden u.s. intelligence contract has been living in exile in russia for the past 7 years after leaking u.s. intelligence documents now president donald trump says he's considering a paddling the world famous fugitive supporters view snowden as a whistleblower who revealed the extent of u.s. government surveillance but he's charged with violating the country's espionage act here's what donald trump had to say when he was asked about a potential padan everyone i'm not that aware of the snowden situation but i'm going to start looking at it there are many many people it seems to be a split decision that many people think that he should be treated differently of other people think he did very bad things and i'm going to take a very good look at it ok i mea

south korea's human he moldova's tutor or you know if she britain's liam fox answered uribe years mohamad maziar to worry jury. whoever takes the hot seat will certainly have a big job on their hands the 1st item on the agenda will be saving the organization is crucial dispute resolution system it's been paralyzed ever since the u.s. blocked the appointment of new judges to its decision making course the bigger picture will be adapting to the changing face of global trade. the chinese u.s. trade conflict to shine a light on u.s. grievances over how the w.t. o. deals with china the u.s. as the organizations rules for dealing with economies like china are out of date a view shared by both the e.u. and japan. let's get more of those from our eliott seen he's a professor of economics at the constance university of applied sciences here in germany and an avid follower of the proceedings at the w t o welcome to g.w. no better us of a view announced his early departure in may more than 3 months ago now a member states couldn't even decide on an acting chief that's a pretty bad image isn't. it is

and former finance minister abdul he mohamad nor does a popular destination among government workers and officials. al-shabaab which is linked to al qaida has been waging a brutal insurgency in somalia from all over the decade. this attack shatters a relative calm that lasted a few months in the city. ok let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world this hour new zealand's prime minister just into arjun has delayed the country's election by 4 weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic will now be held on october the 19th after early success against covert 19 musial and is battling a 2nd outbreak last week its largest city was placed under lockdown. the 1st mediterranean cruise off to italy's coronavirus lockdown has sits crew and passengers on the embassy grandiose had to take a temperature checks and coronavirus tests before they left the general was a series of 19 it cost as excuse me on board ships has forced governments around the world to shutter the industry. and hundreds of people have rallied in madrid to protest the magic tree use of face mas

and former finance minister abdul he mohamad nor does a popular destination among government workers and officials. al-shabaab which is linked to al qaida has been waging a brutal insurgency in somalia from over the decades. this attack shatters a relative calm that has lasted a few months in the city. restrictions on south africa's economic activity will be eased from today after president obama post the code 19 infections had peaked with more than half a 1000000 confirmed cases south africa has been hard hit hard by the pandemic the country implemented strict measures to curb the spread of the virus including a ban on alcohol and cigarettes sales but its lockdown has crushed businesses and livelihoods. here people are helping themselves we've been from this area in cape town and cooking for their neighbors who are even worse off than they are nearly 5 months of lockdown has pushed many into deeper poverty than they were before. my daughter can only work 2 or 3 days a week without the people from the soup kitchen i don't know what our children would eat. the women at the soup kitche

is what we are looking on any of that would become available and would be approved by the body dr mohamad linear from lancaster university in the u.k. dr maria we appreciate your time and your insights tonight as always thank you. our lives have a look now at other developments in the corona virus pandemic india's prime minister narendra modi says his country can defeat the virus if it curbs surging infections in its 10 most populous states he urged regional leaders to increase testing and contact tracing germany's foreign office is warning citizens against unnecessary trips to madrid and spain's basque region due to a rising number of cases there it's already issued travel warnings for barcelona and to other northern regions new zealand has registered its 1st infection in more than 100 days with 4 people from one household testing positive oakland has been placed under a new lockdown following that outbreak the world wide film industry has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic social distancing means cinemas cannot function and movies can't be made especially those including fight sc

aim of ending the conflict and also it could be a way to ease the world's worst humanitarian crisis mohamad al bob i'll just. from the seaboard city where they did the bride of the red the. play again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera and other major anti-government rallies underway in the capital of ben i will say salacious in a wave of protests against the disputed re-election of president alexander lukashenko boston is in men's with the latest. there was a large rally at the independence square it was actually not enough space for everyone so that's why did you decide to move elsewhere in the city so that's where they're moving towards right now tens of thousands some people even say it's a similar size of crowd that we saw last sunday which was more than 200000 people on the street and the worst quite a festive atmosphere families bringing their children small children as well people shouting out to resign and singing. song while the authorities kept urging them ordering them to leave the square repeatedly protesters in southern iraq have called on a local governme

city in been in and west africa is going the other way restoring monuments from the slave trade era mohamad has more. this speech in bend in may look like the perfect holiday destination but has a sinister history in the 17th and 18th century it was a slave trading ports from way more than a 1000000 men women and children left africa for their often fatal voyage across the atlantic been ins government wants to restore much of the area including historic monuments. it's part of a $1000000000.00 development project aimed at promoting tourism and confronting its role in the slave trade. further inland stone carvings of captive villages forced into slavery and onto ships by rival tribal chiefs this tall guy says it's vital to acknowledge the past. is the most marked city in the history of slavery that's why beyond the movements claiming the cause of black people we want the sites that have known history to be restored so that the history doesn't die. remnants remain in way does landscape and architecture portugal britain and france build forts to protect their profits. nearby or whether bated m

and television just a moment ago mohamed homiletic is on the line for us now a journalist in bamako mohamad thanks for your time what does this mean now who's in charge. now i think the all missing child presently just resign now i was in the restaurant watching that and everybody was happy to go but never by living side because this is no that situation people like to happen. since this afternoon there is a big confusion between people here because some people think that 1st of all security and other people think has been really arrested and this is done in concert right now and you think just too many talk to say here is 'd and they will also resign the national assembly which it was the source of the problems is the big into all of this the constitution although not in population this couple of months now so all the unrest that we've seen in mali for the past few weeks do you think it will settle down now the army will take control for sure for sure 'd the army is in charge and we don't know but since now they didn't suck and it is a nazi maybe they have a plane to don't take the power a

tanker moves near the city of hadera is slowly leaking more than a 1000000 barrels of oil and as mohamad the reports there are fears it could all spill into the red sea by next month. up with turn show environmental disaster and the persisting waters of the red sea this oil tanker has been murdered here off yemen's recent cost about 8 kilometers from the port since 2015 it's holding on is to meet at 1140000 barrels of crude oil experts say the ship structure is deteriorating and earlier this year water breached its engine room in july the un want the tanker called the suffer course pull 4 times as much oil as the exxon ferries which ran aground in alaska in 1989 spilling 37000 tons of crude that are also fares the ships unstable cargo could explode if fire breaks out on bald. assertion or if the tanker explodes it will cause devastating economic and environmental consequences in yemen might even be more powerful than the explosion in beirut environmentalist expect the pollution could reach barber monday and the swiss sea channel in the north. this lawmaking by a mental catastrophe has pr

the 2 countries malaysia's 2 time former prime minister has formed a new political party mahathir mohamad was expelled from his previous party after losing a power struggle with his successor in may the 95 year old quit as prime minister in february and his governing coalition collapsed the rajapaksa brothers have cemented their hold on power in sri lanka in dominating in a dominating win in the country's parliamentary election and the rajapaksa will now become prime minister with his brother got a buyer the president and that has been our fernandez reports from colombo and now plan to change the constitution. celebrations in the rajapaksa heartland the reason that 2 thirds majority in sri lanka is new parliament on thursday will richest cute to see incumbent prime minister mind the rajapaksa who secured the highest number of votes. sylvia would lead us into the general also patriotic and then we have 2 thirds majority in the parliament and i didn't know the country can be developed in a very short period to see all what is the discipline and also the theater in 18 days to know it in the

south korea's human he multiverse to the all you know if she britain's liam fox answered uribe is mohamad maziar to worry jury. whoever takes the hot seat will certainly have a big job on their hands the 1st item on the agenda will be saving the organization is crucial dispute resolution system it's been paralyzed ever since the u.s. blocked the appointment of new judges to its decision making course the bigger picture will be adapting to the changing face of global trade. the chinese u.s. trade conflict to shine a light on u.s. grievances over how the w.t. o. deals with china the u.s. says the organizations rules for dealing with economies like china are out of date a view shared by both the e.u. and japan. let's get more of those from eliott sienese a professor of economics at the constance university of applied sciences here in germany and an avid follower of the proceedings at the w t o welcome to g.w. no better us of a view announced early departure in may more than 3 months ago now a member states couldn't even decide on an acting chief that's a pretty bad image isn't. it is actuall

a little earlier, eyewitness mohamad najem told me what he'd experienced. big explosions. i thought the building was going down. i didn't know what was happening. i was trying to hide. i'm bleeding a bit from my feet — i'm 0k, though. yeah, all the buildings around me are just fully — all the glass has been destroyed, all the doors are broken. i mean, this took me back in the memories to 2006, when israel was bombing lebanon, and i thought i was going to die. ijust had the same feeling today. you thought you were going to die? yes, this is the feeling i had. i mean, i think many people had the same feeling. one neighbour... i mean, people are just devastated, with the currency, this... in the moments after you heard the explosion and all the glass broke, did you all go out to the streets? tell me what you did in the 5—10 minutes after, all of you? i live on the 11th floor, so i was thinking if they're bombing the building, then there is no reason to run away anyway. i'm on the 11th floor, so ijust sat in the corner remembering what happened in 2006 with me.