but china is also investing heavily in papua new guinea to win its hearts and minds. . a grand welcome for a new friend, papua new guinea rolled out the red carpet for china's president xi jinping, in town for a pick and a state visit. thousands of people have gathered here just to catch a glimpse of the chinese president. this will of ip is driving down has been paid for by beijing and is the same thing across the country. 90% of the roads here are being built in some way or another with china's help. this is infrastructure that papua new guinea really needs. china has not been shy about showing off where 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 countr

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

assertiveness are the twin contexts for this conference and the thomas out is their port moresby papua new guinea. of the mold the maldives has sworn in its new president abraham mohammad soli he was the surprise winner of the election in september against former leader of the i mean the allah nation's location near strategic maritime lanes has put china and india at odds for influence in the region solace when is seen as a setback for china which had signed several infrastructure projects with the means administration at least thirty three people are now confirmed dead after a cycling hit parts of southern india cycling just struck six districts of tamil nadu state on friday with heavy rains in winds that reached one hundred twenty kilometers per hour wind and eighty two thousand people are in emergency shelters a lame british cabinet minister has told prime minister to resign may there's more work to be done on her draft breaks it deal andrea lets him who is leader of the house of commons is heading a group of ministers who want made to amend the agreement the prime minister will meet e.u. lead

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

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

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

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 in the region when was seen as a setback for china which had signed numerous infrastructure projects with your means of ministration so they have a habit is a journalist for the maldives independent an online news website he says that the new president has prioritized strengthening ties with its neighbor. the mystical is speaking one of the biggest policy changes would be in terms of how down the current is policy of by the state and by the government. during the previous administration we saw a lot of infrastructure projects that coming up in breakneck speeds in the country and this was seen as. and from what it does develop and by the government but the current president he has promised he has pledged and it's included in the state budget for the next year as well n

apec may not have been able to have been held in port moresby, the capital of papua and new guinea. ther quarters, namely with australia and the united states in america. they seek beijing's cheque—book diplomacy as a way to china to exert more influence in a pa rt china to exert more influence in a part of the world which is strategically very important to them so strategically very important to them so what can we expect over the next few days? perhaps more trade and aid deals from china for popular new guinea but also from the united states, australia and japan. this country has become the latest battleground between the west and china. now let's brief you on some other business stories. facebook faces a new controversy over alleged tactics it used to discredit its critics, embarrass rivalfirms and downplay problems at the company. the new york times has published a wide—ranging account of the methods facebook and a public relations firm used to "deny and deflect" criticism. the report has led us lawmakers to call for tighter regulation of social networks. facebook has denied seve

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

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

tuberculosis improper 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 waters 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 hard when the base chance a missed appointment when did don't come on bare review dates i dread stan. i go out into the villages and i meet them and i asked them why you'll you're not kamin health workers reach only a fraction of those infected and w

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

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

geopolitics 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

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 mean we saw on saturday all the tensions i would trade policy and mike pence the u.s. vice president talking about how chinese loans were a way of countries giving up their sovereignty all that tension will be left out of the commu

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

australia the us and its allies and china will be the main unofficial theme of the summit for papua new guinea and smaller immediates will be concern over waste and corruption associated with hosting the event the country is impoverished with struggling health and education systems so flying in hundreds of brand new cars to shuttle delegates around including forty luxury maseratis from italy has been controversial and unpopular. you see those maseratis driving around the streets of port moresby but otherwise those streets are deserted this is a city that's really been cleared out for this summit much of the summit is actually taking place on two cruise ships that have docked alongside the harbor in port moresby what you can see going on behind me on the big screen is a conference for c.e.o.'s business leaders that's being addressed by mike pence president xi and others on saturday but it is being posted on board a cruise ship not on land the actual main summit though that will be on land a brand new conference center that's being built by papua new guinea with help from australia and china who

about working together and more about individual statements under which almost reports from papa new guinea where the summit was held. international summits usually end with bland communiques not chaotic scenes 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

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

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

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

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

and they are competing for the favor of countries like papua new guinea, small pacific island countrieshat have in recent years received a lot of chinese investment assistance. and pence brought news that he was going to embark that the u.s. was going to be providing some aid as well to some of these countries. papua new guinea, for example, a pledge to help build its electricity grid. and 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 hospi

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

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 her days again in flames both if fighters us a top target that industrial complex on the outskirts with rockets and artillery because it was a base for the pro-government alliance backed by soda. its forces took control of these parts of the eastern suburbs a few days ago philthy commanders say the recent clue sharply forces fired is simply a ploy to allow their allies to the

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

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

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

rishaad: an economic cold war asia afterparating that meeting in new guinea.was there for us. he is back. what happened? stephen: there was no communique. pec.ve covered many a covered --not even they couldn't even come up with one that is watered-down. this is from the u.s. side, there may be some spin going on. there is a report in the ft saying that chinese officials barged into the papua new guinea foreign ministry where they were working on the final communication. even the police had to be called because it got a little rough. that is a report that the chinese have refuted as spin by the other side. this is what xi and mike pence crisscrossed back and forth at the summit on the pacific explorer this weekend. >> mankind has once again reached a crossroads. which direction should we choose? cooperation or confrontation? openness or closing one's door? win-win robbers or zero sum game? the interest -- when-win progress or zero sum game? >> the united states will not change course until china changes its ways. >> let me make this clear, the belt and road ini

together so that it can get past a lockdown it was an apex of first time it's been held in papua new guinea and the only time leaders have been unable to agree on a formal declaration so is divorce on the cards for the apec family with trump and she said to me to the g twenty this month in their first face to face since the trade spun began the question is will the leaders be having double tyra's chocolate cake or coerced into sour grapes. sitting the kids in front of the t.v. to watch cartoon should be a pretty safe bet to keep them quiet for a bit just make sure they're not being covertly programmed with propaganda some western news reports claim a global acclaim russian series is trying to do just that and influence young minds jacqueline good report. and that little sweetheart was matia from the cartoon in the bear originally russian the series has been translated into dozens of languages and won the hearts of millions across the globe but it turns out there may be a sinister side to the enduring little girl and her protective pet decent trying to . see now what russia has forgotten to

the prime minister of papua new guinea, you see in the yellow, one of the yellow shirts, he the entire world is worried. the aipac nations and economies make up half the world trade, 60% of global gdp, and those 21 economic blocs or nations, they are in the cross fires of china and united states for your they rely on trade and were not able to put out a communique. let's hear from the main players, being xi jinping and mike pence. mankind has once again reached a crossroads. which direction should we choose? cooperation or confrontation? openness or closing one's door? the issue of all countries and the future of mankind hinges on the choices we make. >> the united states will not change course. >> the bill initiative is an open platform for cooperation. it is guided by the principles of the consultation and cooperation for a share of the benefit. it is not designed to serve any hidden geopolitical agenda. it is not target against anyone and does not exclude anyone. >> the united states offers a better option. we don't don't -- we don't drown our partners in a sea of debt, don't compro