concerning the belt and road initiative a financial correspondent in new york and carter spoke to sabah kashmiri professor of political science at the peace and war center in orange university. it was the belt and wrote in the city of will that lead to china to become the superpower in the world well that's a really interesting question right and in my book that was just relieved i point out that the belt and road is really a part of china's 3 step strategy to become a superpower so the 1st step was to get rich right which they did the 2nd step was to make their coastline unapproachable so today it's very risky for american aircraft carriers and conflict to get rid of a 1000 kilometers of china and so this is a 3rd step to become the most influential country in the world over the next 2 decades and to connect itself to all these other countries and i might add that the strategy that china is following is not the one that america followed after the 2nd more wall which is to set a basis right to extend its influence china is much more business oriented countries so it's a win when it come

be overlooked by tourists drawn to the bright lights of kl and the resorts of its neighbour state sabah am going to discover for myself the sights and inhabitants of this remarkable state. along the way i will be hanging out with these guys... climbing jagged peaks... easily one of the most beautiful and most difficult hikes i have done. ..and getting a taste of one of the world's most remote food festivals. sucking. laughs. i have to work on my snail sucking technique. yes, i love sarawak so much. everything very unique in sarawak. we have 26 ethnic groups in sarawak. sarawak mean "surrender to you" in malay. my trip starts here in sarawak‘s biggest city, kuching. and does the word kuching mean, it means something special, right? yes, kuching is mean cat, in english, called cat. like the city of cats? yes, cat city. we are starting here in the state capital kuching, and we are travelling all the way up here to the kelabit highlands. it's going to be a journey. on my first stop, i am going to meet one of the state's most iconic residents. and here he is. the orangutan. so much soul in t

be overlooked by tourists drawn to the bright lights of kl and the resorts of its neighbour state sabah i am going to discover for myself the sights and inhabitants of this remarkable state. along the way i will be hanging out with these guys... climbing jagged peaks... easily one of the most beautiful and most difficult hikes i have done. ..and getting a taste of one of the world's most remote food festivals. laughs. i have to work on my snail sucking technique. yes, i love sarawak so much. everything very unique in sarawak. we have 26 ethnic groups in sarawak. sarawak mean "surrender to you" in malay. my trip starts here in sarawak‘s biggest city, kuching. and does the word kuching mean, it means something special, right? yes, kuching is mean cat, in english, called cat. like the city of cats? yes, cat city. we are starting here in the state capital kuching, and we are travelling all the way up here to the kelabit highlands. it's going to be a journey. on my first stop, i am going to meet one of the state's most iconic residents. and here he is. the orangutan. so much soul in their ey

but he's off to a good start as this year's nobel peace prize laureate robyn kriel al jazeera at a sabah. now a town in the central philippines has replaced an almost all male police force with women officers it's part of a broader government effort to promoting women in the workplace jubilant over reports. they are on a mission not just to apprehend criminals but to break stereotypes. these police officers are the 1st all female police force in the country. marry young police or pulleys mary's as they are called are from the town of mary in c.q. who are in this sensual philippines male police officers who were previously assigned here have all been moved elsewhere this is seen as a trail blazing move by colonel angela handle who is also the 1st female police director of the city hall or she said she knows how tough it is for females to rise through the police ranks. we have women legislators we have women in the congress we also have women presidents and why not 4 day philippine national police around 20 female police officers now staff this station assigned to protect around 12000 resi

. >> sabah al-noor. >> smith: fifilly, i was greetes by a ttor, aziz, and an office assistant. >> smithditionsdii for the women particularly. >> smith: okay, is he here? l smith: he's trying g c him. why is it so difficult to tt an appointment to see dr. aiban? >> smith: despite it being a workday, i got nowhere. (man speaking arabic) (assistant speaking arabic): >> smith: good luck to you. (aziz speaking arabic) ♪ (smith): i never received a call back. but i kept trying. (phone ringing) hello, hello? yeah. i am looking to speak with dr. aiban. (saking arabic)ar dr. aiban. number is wrong? okay, thank you. >> smith: yes, hi, i want to speak with dr. aiban. (phone hangs up) ♪ i also tried to contact th public prosecutor and the minister of justice. by the time i spoke to foreign minister adel al-jubeir, eightnt h gone by since al-hathloul and the other women were arrested. >> we refuse the charge of torture. i don't believe that's the case. the prosecutor has said is. and i think the procedures, legal proceduresn saudiha arabia to play out. >> smith: they've been held wiout trial. >> we,

the backing of turkey which has boosted their numbers well mehmet chili is managing editor of daily sabahan english language newspaper he joins us on skype from istanbul it's nice to have you with us there's a lot to discuss here i want to start 1st of all with just how this is playing out inside turkey this support for this incursion and also for president in one. well i think you are a ship into syria against white b.g. terrorists has created something that's not very usual in church politics and public opinion and that being if you go to fight or it's want it comes to this operation aside from some small segments of society 'd some radicals and marginalized groups. from the opposition to government pretty much the whole parliament is unified except with the exception of. h.t.t.p. which is you know ideologically linked to the ek but when it comes to decide see that public opinion there is a very unified stance and support because the there is a there is an acknowledgement that the presence of y.p. g. along orders is no different then to p.q. presence and target and being a national secu

she says bus and the father died in their long journey from an immense north saw the problems had sabah my grandson has been suffering from malnutrition since we were in the region of shah i'm afraid to lose him like strother my only son stuff the medical center and one of the poorest districts and often am i try to do their best a 7 year old severely malnourished to go named hussein home made headlines around the world last year was treated here before her death and many cases continue to be transferred here it's the only remaining clinic in ops district about 50 kilometers from the saudi. so. it's juta the shortage of medicines and that families around able to have a safe and well shelter rather than putting food on the table but a behind the deaths of children. those working to distribute aid here say the international community need to do more to help yemenis displaced by years of war we are trying to make best but unfortunately what we are making is and addition to the other organizations like the united nations on some indios organizations not enough. according to health officials

security jobs as part of planned reforms in the wake of these protests are not for job no not in the sabah let alone also i got you know i came here at 4 30 am to enroll the guard told me to go home and play computer games is this how you treat someone who is looking for work what i want. the it's not just iraq's poor who want reform outside the prime minister's office engineers are also demanding jobs and transparency. she has fallen into sweeping protesting for 90 days if you don't have the ability to provide us with jobs then why are we going to university why do we study so hard you might as well close the college an. iraqi government insists is working to improve the economic situation and has announced a set of potential reforms intended to tackle corruption and reduce unemployment the government's under a tremendous amount of pressure not just from a civil society but also. from religious parties and the opposition now some say they want you elections others say that they want reforms to be implemented immediately now there's a lull in the protest but how long that last really depen

coalition and struck a moving vehicle and tough district that's in the northwestern province of sabah 2 children and 2 women were among the dead the u.n. says ending the war as soon as possible is crucial the saudi u.a.e. coalition has been fighting with the rebels alongside yemen's government since 2015 and taliban fighters have killed at least 16 afghan police offices that happened in the district and province 3 fighters were also killed now it's time for the weather his everson with news of hot cold and stormy weather in north america. yeah that's right the stars are going to roll going on across north america at the moment we have got fires in the west we've got potential flooding in the a sense thummim well just about everything going on in between this is a scene from yesterday's is the clear up which are now nice to type place following on from the tornadoes that hit dallas texas say the process of making its way further research with that massive hook of cloud which is pushing its way over towards the eastern seaboard very active system this one this cold front will continue t

be overlooked by tourists drawn to the bright lights of kl and the resorts of its neighbour state sabah starts here in sarawak‘s biggest city, kuching. and does the word kuching mean, it means something special, right? yes, kuching is mean cat, in english, called cat. like the city of cats? yes, cat city. 0k, we‘re starting here in the state capital kuching, and we are travelling all the way up here to the kelabit highlands. it‘s going to be a journey. on my first stop, i am going to meet one of the state‘s most iconic residents. and here he is. the orangutan. so much soul in their eyes. 97% of their dna is shared with humans. that where they get the name — orangutan means "man of the forest." 0rangutans are native to only two islands in southeast asia. some live on sumatra, but the vast majority live here in borneo. i have come to the semenggoh nature reserve where the rangers are preparing for the morning feed. it looks like they eat quite well because there is a whole buffet here, and it seems like every day there is a different meal plan. so today is saturday, so they will have 21 k

for the 1st time in more than a century the ethiopian capital out of sabah is hosting the people's thanksgiving event but it is against a backdrop of growing ethnic tensions in the country creel now reports. the o.p.'s iconic mess hall square has been completely blocked off for this event known as the you reach peace festival at the liberated by one of the opiate the largest ethnic groups the world more people and say they're expecting hundreds of thousands of people turned out today in fact the or a more tourism i would estimate it would be more than a 1000000 people that's the band it's going to be about giving the bounty the cost . and 2016 though it was modified violence at this very festival about an hour away from here at tempe to kill more than 50 people government so security is very tight here today of something but joyous and thankful that the 1st time the spectacle had to be held here in the center. in more than a 100 years i do truly european fashion something special to go there and that's the big giving during every now and again the sun comes out. of the headlines on al-jazeera a

. >> smith: at the pro-government turkish newspaper, "sabah," reporters started getting detas fr turkishwere told more. durrahman msek (speaking turkish): >> smith: yasin aktay,or to turkey's president erdogan, heard details of the murr. when you learned that the police had concncdethat he had beenha murdered, can you describe that moment? >> that moment was very, very difficult for me. they said me, "they're, they're animals, theare animals. they're, they're worse than animals. they-they killed himdogs, and they, he was crying." and i, ii,-i cried. >> i just couldn't come to myself for a couple of minutes. that they cut him into pieces. (horn honks) >> smithi texted mbs. e ths no response. i tried again. ♪ ow did u am khashoggi? >> yes.es i've known him since the late '80s. >> smith: and what kind of man was he? >> he was a journalist, an editor, he was a kind person. and he was... he hadamily, he had children. d >> smith: and what happe him? consulate in iste bul in what is a hugeistake that has shocked the whole country, and that we havevexpressed our commitment to hold those accounta