so the next day, shage orders a taxi to take him to shanghai to meet her in person. intentions are not romantic. halfway through the journey, he pulls over to a service station and checks in on her. he discovers that, despite the unsigned contract, lele is back on air. as usual, shage requests a song, and then sings along with her. it took shage four hours to get to the bund, a romantic and iconic waterfront area in central shanghai, where they have arranged to meet. but by the time he arrives, it is past midnight and all the lights have been switched off. lele is still at work live streaming and shage doesn't want to wait here. they head off to a cafe near lele's apartment, but the conversation is really awkward. it is rare for streamers and fans to meet in person, and they are both anxious. they celebrate their one hour together with a selfie. though they had arranged to meet up the next day, they don't. shage takes a taxi back home, and lele goes back to her on—screen life. we have very quiet weather for the festive period, dominated by high pressure. but we start

we'll be live to shanghai for the latest.nd global oil prices soar — russia and saudi arabia pledge to extend their pact to limit crude output. it's a new trading week well underway in asia and you can see the gains, and look at the price of oil, spiking as we speak. brent crude is also up. we'll be live to the middle east for the latest. at last some optimism and progress, and the markets are reacting in kind. president trump and chinese leader xijinping have reached a temporary truce on the trade war between the us and china. the agreement was made after the two leaders met at the 620 in argentina. us and china have agreed to halt new tariffs for 90 days, according to the terms of the deal outlined by the white house. the us had threatened to ratchet up tariffs on more than $200 billion of chinese goods from 10% to 25% injanuary. china says it will buy a "very substantial" amount of farm, energy and industrial goods, though the amount was not specified, to reduce the trade gap with the us. and there'll be fresh talks on the

she looks quite sweet she's from shanghai says matchmaker your parents are civil servants. james wang owns an apartment and a luxury car impressive status symbols here if you have a better car maybe you have a better chance to find a woman but for me i wouldn't i don't want to take this into this path because i would like to find the right woman or woman to grow all not just a value me for these things i have but more likely my person. about two hundred million chinese are single the pressure to marry can be intense but people are choosy especially when it comes to money often love is not enough. without financial security love is wishful thinking and. your financial status is a requirement. of course it's not the only thing that counts but it is a factor. for well heeled clients the match makers will keep looking for as long as it takes the agency success stories line the halls trophies in the hard for chinese marriage market. at this park in shanghai matchmaking takes a more traditional form parents are here on their children's behalf the notes on the brothers brag about

supersized ballet shanghai ballet company stay just one lake and live. inflatable spaces to berlin based optics design portable roofs made of plastic. and fluffy delights have a yeah it's a sleek speciality from learning from. we start on the big stage with what many regard as the epitome of classical ballet swan lake when it was first rehearsed an eight hundred seventy six its original choreography felt the ballet was undone simple since then it has developed and found success all over the world but directed derek deane decided to make things a bit harder with the shanghai ballet company he brings forty eight instead of the usual sixteen songs onto the stage this sensational production is currently in berlin and we went by to see how the dancers afforded ruffling feathers on the crowded stage. first six then nine then twenty four in the end forty eight swann's downstairs a press call in berlin's border museum it's one lake on a scale never seen before staged by celebrated british choreographer derek dean. it is the biggest one late in the world i mean t

our correspondent robin brant is in shanghai. how is the news being received in china?y are not happy, it happened on december the 1st, the same day that president xi jinping and president trump were at the gzo's and president trump were at the g20‘s sorting out their differences over trade. we heard from the ministry of foreign in the last hour also saying there has been no clarification from canada or america as to why she was arrested. the embassy in ottawa —— make the chinese embassy in ottawa said it was a breach of her human rights. more details of the allegations will come out but it is reported it is about iranians sanctions and claims that huawei may have been selling materials of us origin, material it is licensing, to iran. this is not just about targeting one person or one company. this is a hugely significant sign of a much more aggressive move against china and it comes in the middle of this trade war. this is washington, thejustice department there, the trump administration as a whole saying they will not tolerate any more. they alleged breaches of sancti

robin brant is in shanghai.ampaigning for the grandchildren to get them for a couple of years now in a very long fought campaign. .. a better life in the uk compared to where they are currently living which is with a chinese grandparents in a town in rural china called xiangyang. they have been campaigning for two years since their son michael was murdered by weiwei fu. she was his wife at the time and is the mother of the children. she stabbed him to death here in shanghai. the simpsons have been fighting a long legal battle involving mps and the government here, lawyers and chinese officials as well. that all came to a head about ten days ago when a court hearing took place. but they face the unimaginable decision really of having to either take just one of the grandchildren, alice, which is what the chinese grandparents were offering, the chinese court backed that up as well, or neither of them. so they have struck a deal to take alice back to the uk with them but their grandsonjack, alice back to the uk with

correspondent in shanghai with the latest.other group of migrants cross the channel and arrive in kent as the home secretary cuts short his holiday to deal with the crisis. the chances of britain leaving the eu will be about 50—50 if the prime minister's withdrawal agreement is rejected by mps, the international trade secretary liam fox has told the sunday times. stars from the entertainment world remember comedy actress, dame june whitfield, best—known for her roles in terry and june and absolutely fabulous, who's died at the age of 93. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's holly hamilton. including the race for the premier league title. more premier league action this afternoon with the pressure on manchester city who'll be looking for a crucial win over southampton to narrow that gap with leaders liverpool. city are now third — ten points behind — following a run of three defeats in their last four matches. we have the belief when the situation is win or lose. the belief is more what we are. we kn

the shanghai composite seems to be finding support. we have dipped below that three times this year. the last one was on tober when we saw the -- was october when we saw regulators in the pboc trying to reassure the market. over the week there was speculation that there was state buying of large caps earlier this week and news they would replenish capital for chinese banks, the bank of china issuing a perpetual bond. so for now that could be the line in the sand for beijing. let's get you caught up with the first word news. bloomberg has learned the u.s. and china will hold mid-level trade talks in early january. a u.s. delegation will travel to beijing in the week of january 7. the deputy u.s. trade representative and mid-level officials will lead the team. be the first face-to-face discussion since president trump and xi jinping agreed earlier this month. the partial government shutdown is heading for a sixth day with lawmakers that audits over the demand to fund a border wall. billion,dent wants $5 while democrats have proposed $1.3

is it quantity over quality on the contrary derek dean and the shanghai ballet have performed swan lake repeatedly for international audiences to great acclaim. still giving them pure a classical ballet you're not changing the structure you're not changing the level you're giving them the best part of it you can give them it's just it's just this overwhelming sensation of people just bring something else to the back of the show lives up to its advertising slogan with more songs than you can count derek jeans version of swan lake is a great ballet there's won't be performing it's one song any time soon. now to a different car and julio are now our carbon doing as a street artist but doesn't dabble in graffiti murals or political slogans he has an amazing ability to copy iconic paintings and recreate these works on walls in unexpected places they're so good that you need to look twice to determine that they aren't the original old masters. when german artist caspar daveed feedly he painted two men contemplating the moon in eighteen nineteen he would never have guessed that a copy of his w

when you want to learn what is going on, i would be tempted to tell you to go to shanghai.avid: we are used to going to a fast food restaurant and there is coca-cola there. you don't have that when you are on your app. james: no, but you have to get it. if you went back even two years or three years and china, for example, when a lot of the apps systemsmobile payment came in, we were not on the menu. even worse, we were trying to sell a returnable glass bottle to the restaurant which had no way of being in the delivery system. we had to reengineer our business system very quickly to be present on the app, so what is the virtual representation of what you would normally see in the store, and how do we change the packaging portfolio so we can be part of the delivery system? we have a lot of places in it is 50% of the restaurant sales. david: that is a relationship with the consumer. talk about coca-cola as coca-cola. how is technology changing the way you do business and your workforce? james: it is changing and lots of profound ways. a largee terms, we were company and one o

done says movements must be strong yet smooth and sensuous dean strives for perfection that shanghai ballet will work very much on the emotional side of the dons not just forty eight girls being in line being in the precise place with very very much work on on the quality of the movement and the emotion of the movement as well. as for the tea seller list in particular performing on a completely new stage requires a great deal of concentration they have to find their way through three times as many swans as usual yet make it look as easy as if they weren't there it'll. take a final bit nervous it's my first time on the stage and i'm still a little jet lagged or they were all really excited. but it was derek dean there in the best of hands he's made his name choreographing productions performed in huge arena. dean has studied stagings of swan lake throughout history from the primary nine hundred seventy seven to modern day performances he says there have been major changes. no words while it was first performed it was a disaster i mean everybody booed at the performances everybody said

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robin brant in shanghai has the latest on the family's struggle.years now, since their son, michael was murdered by weiwei fu, his wife at the time and the mother of the children. she stabbed him to death in an attack in an apartment here in shanghai. the simpsons have been trying to get custody of the grandchildren, they've been fighting a long legal battle, including mps, the government here, lawyers and chinese officials as well. that all came to a head about ten days ago, when a court hearing took place. they face the unimaginable decision of having to either take just one of the grandchildren, alice, which is what the chinese grandparents were offering and the chinese courts supported that, or neither of them. they have struck a deal to take alice back to the uk with them but their grandson, jack, who is a little older, will stay here in china. they say their campaign goes on to have both children in the uk. for now, this is progress of sorts, for this family who have been through the awful trauma of first, losing their son, who was murdered,

like i'm twenty years old and i'm from a small village in shanghai. i had to leave my parents when i was twelve and i joined the company after studying at an opera school. in the beginning i was so young that i really missed my parents. i remember crying a lot back then. i've been here for four years now and how can i put it things have changed. i don't know if i like this life but i've gotten used to it. we don't have much time to set up the stage. oh. this is a typical village one where farmers spend their time in their fields and entertainment is rare. the one or two times a year that the opera comes to town are still a big event a moment of a scape and welcome or spike from the calm of life in the countryside. all over. the troop will stay for two days maybe three they live out of suitcases no where is home but everywhere is home this time they found lodgings in an abandoned school leaver is the youngest performer in the group she didn't choose this life for herself her family decided for her in an attempt to help or avoid a future of labor and po

supersized ballet shanghaied ballet companies they just. lake and live. inflatable spaces to build and base complex design portable routes made of plastic. and fluffy delights and they have a yeah it's a sleek speciality from the front. we stopped on the big stage with what many regard as the epitome of classical ballet swan lake when it was first rehearsed and eight hundred seventy six its original choreography felt the ballet was undone simple since then it has developed and found success all over the world but directed derek deane decided to make things a bit harder with the shanghai ballet company he brings forty eight instead of the usual sixteen swans on to the stage this sensational production is currently in berlin and we went by to see how the dances afforded ruffling feathers on the crowded stage. first six then nine then twenty four in the end forty eight swann's downstairs a press call in berlin's border museum it's one lake on a scale never seen before staged by celebrated british choreographer derek dean. it is that it is. i mean there hasn'

so a wet day not necessarily getting any colder and that with forty eight in shanghai and about twenty five in hong kong the coast of vietnam is drawing now i think the heaviest rain in the next day or so is going to be constrained to the east of the southern philippines. running is one of the most accessible sports in the. al-jazeera correspondent andrew richardson takes us on his personal journey of discovery when you find yourself out in the middle of nowhere and run is hurting a washout not just stop exploring the growing popularity in science he pushes the limits from kenya to the antarctic. in search of answers to why we run. our correspondent. let's have a look at the top stories here that is there a cease fire has come into effect in the yemeni city of her data there had been reports of sporadic fighting in and around this strategic pull but reports now say there's an uneasy calm. china's president has celebrated the fortieth anniversary of free market reforms which transformed the country from one of the world's poorest to the world's second largest economy president xi open u

but as we head into choose day that system just pushes its way further towards the south so shanghai should see more in the way of drawing weather that will still be a fair amount of clough clinging on to the south coast though so hanoi and hong kong both will see a fairly great day with a few breaks of rain at times now across towards india and for most of us here it's fine and dry sri lanka is very different though lots of cloud a lot of rain with us and it has been pretty wet over the past couple of months and it looks like we're going to see plenty more rain over the next few days and it will be incredibly heavy so plenty of rain then on monday and tuesday for many of us in sri lanka and it looks like we have a little developing feature within that as well for the arabian peninsula where mostly fine and dry the winds in doha feeding down from the north so they are making things a little bit cooler now our top temperature is around twenty six degrees it's still a little bit milder for us since a lot of maximum getting to twenty nine. in nepal poverty leaves children vulnerable and

on top of all that, we have a market here in shanghai, over in shanghai, just doing a little better than we anticipated, maybe down to all the talk of stimulus. yvonne: we are seeing more back in these markets as well. or back in these markets as well. owhen it comes to the banks or helping these enterprises, either credit policy, losing roles in property enterprises, either credit policy, losing roles in property sales, seeing some tweaks from the statement that came out on friday. that should help lift most of the sentiment, but we are not seeing it as a broad-based game. we are pretty mixed when it comes to equities. you can still blame it on the low liquidity situation, thin trading across the board in asia. hong kong, we are a couple hours into this half-day of training, and we are down 1%. you see it for the ftse, 0.5% lower. all these stocks are short in trading today. the dollar roughly weaker today, given the fact we did see those lines coming through from mnuchin, something perhaps more panic for the markets. they were calling the bank ceos, asking about liquidity. some said th

suck their incident in shanghai was a real shock for me. you know if you design no longer had any hope that we would find a perfect society there was nothing we could bring back to france from china from france. the communist party still rules china but the persecution of paul cooke's family ended as the cultural revolution through to a close and was then reversed years later paul was even invited to speak at an event honoring his mother or with yourself or agrees or a woman within the younger way this is that. in the mid one nine hundred sixty s. the authorities had detained isabel crook as an alleged spy but today she's honored for her work in chronicling the liberation of chinese peasants paul crook has had a tough time dealing with this contradiction. i kind of a tough this experience if it's too much to take too to absorb it as horror you mitigate it by a sense of this incredibly unbelievable. call a comedy call it satire call it whatever in there. and it's one way of dealing with it now i think that's. one way that i was dealing with

that's going to be giving some of us some snow but i think force in shanghai is going to be a bit too mild so here we'll just see rain and fifty most slip its way southwards as we head through the day on tuesday so shanghai should have a dry and bright today more cloud there across the southern part so we could see a bit more great weather across hong kong for the south still and for many of us in the philippines it should be dry and we should also see a good deal of dry weather across borneo further west though this is where the majority of the showers are. al-jazeera world follows the struggles of an iraqi painter a syrian screenwriter and a palestinian filmmaker as they come to terms with their lives as displaced artists in lebanon. the first to go and the last two to zero. five and you're home alone in my imagination. it's refugee artists on al-jazeera. trying to take out of the top stories here it out is there a cleanup operations underway in paris after riot police squared off with thousands of anti-government protesters on saturday the government's deployed heavy security for t

her women's group spent nearly two months travelling around the countryside and then they visited shanghai for a week then you know wanted to take pictures of everyday life in china to show their friends in france the group's mind is chose an acceptable size. only then you know as i went to markets there were loads of people bustling and there was life fish being sold plus vegetables meeson poultry they had everything there a lot of young so i got to shoot the dream within a few in the evening we went home. but danielle had let some of her film at the market she went back the next day to try to find it she was in for a shock. when i got there everything was gone yeah. there was not a single paper or carriage to buy the place was completely empty you're here and to see. the marketplace had been fake these images were the truth the country was facing a crisis average chinese had to wait in line for hours to buy basic necessities and millions of alleged counter-revolutionaries was still in jail. including paul crooks parents he and his brothers were left to fend for themselves. but even in ja

derek dean and the shanghai ballet swan like has already received rave reviews from. derek dean and the shanghai ballet just doing a great job there it's interesting to hear him talk about it now but but but more largely what is it about swan lake that has made it this perennial favorite in the repertoire yeah i mean i first and foremost one has to say tchaikovsky i mean tchaikovsky one of the greatest composers who ever lived and certainly one of the greatest ballet composers i mean after this he did sleeping beauty and he did the not crack and these are three of the greatest ballets in the genre really i mean with one let it be dare i say it it's got those hit choose we already heard. of the people. that's the most not one then there's the the dumps of the cygnets old little swans that we most probably know is de dum dum dum the you know that everybody does these jeans and apart from the hip shoes it's the classic timeless love story with the prince and the princess there's magic in there the sorcery i mean it's a mixture of cinderella or on one side the prince is s

their turf the malls of shanghai. the objects of their interest are supposed to be pretty stylish and elegant. and there's a higher who are meant to. fly say hello to them and introduce myself and my job i then called them on their beauty and i asked them if they have a boyfriend or if they're single. some say you and i know. the thirty three year old looks for potential marriage material for wealthy men but the first women approached today have given him the cold shoulder. he's matchmakers work for a particular marriage agency they have six million registered clients which is rather small for china but they offer tailor made match ups starting at ten thousand euros per year. james wang would like to get married he works for a car importer which gives him very little spare time that's why the agency is finding candidates for him in organizing meetings. she looks quite sweet she's from shanghai says advisor uli her parents are civil servants her auto import client owns an apartment and a luxury car impressive status sy

derek dean and the shanghai ballet swan lake has already received rave reviews from the world. wow robert i know what a scale what's behind the enduring popularity of the swan lake well i think first and foremost really try koskie i mean tchaikovsky one of the great composers of all time you know he's going to be in the top ten as and they really. and he went on to compose the nutcracker and then the sleeping beauty which i mean those three have sort of the top ones of the genre i would say i mean the must be one or two of those you know and also it's one like when it has hit you doesn't it i mean it really does have the hits in it i mean you we heard the mostly the. deed but there's that's the one i mean then there's the dance of this the cygnets all the little swans you know the everybody knows those choose where they where they come from and apart from the hit t.v. . it's a timeless love story this is a print searching for his princess there's magic in that this sorcery in there i mean it's a mixture of cinderella and romeo and juliet and the prince is looking for his for hi

shanghai-shenzhen, it is the size of a city that matters. that china'srguing economic model should be based on super cities. most people should be living in big cities. this way you get the economy of scale. andhina focuses on that concentrates development in megacities, the per capita income can double in less than 10 years. yvonne: we have a key economic meeting scheduled next week. they have to lay out the priorities for 2019. what are those priorities now? do i focus on the private sector , infrastructure, property? what is it going to be? these meetings focus on short-term stability. if there is trouble somewhere, maybe you loosen up a little bit to make, decrease the pressure somewhat. now, they are talking about property and automobiles, obviously, but i am not sure there is much to be done. estimates,o some lats underllion f construction, and they are in the wrong places, so there is not much we can do. instead, china should focus on the future. it's not about technology. it's about the right kind of urbanization. i'm not sure the go

encouraging rate you have offices pretty much all over the world you have one here london milan shanghai some three hundred staff dozens of projects every year how much of the job especially as an architect and design think how much is in your hands and how much do you delegate to other people. i dedicate an enormous amount. you know i think architecture is is not to a singular activity certainly not now if it ever was i mean the image of the you know the creative artist staying up at night with a bottle of whiskey and a. and drawing you know. i don't think that exists anymore i think the world you know the the nature of our projects the nature of how we work is highly collaborative. so you know designing buildings is one thing designing a structure designing an office is is no the more important you know how do you create an environment a creative environment with within which people can flourish and take responsibilities and at the same time you know how do how do you hold the bits together you know i mean it's. it's important that we have a an approach an attitude so that's my respons

david chipperfield constantly on the go between his full roughnesses around europe and in shanghai he studied in london and started his own architectural firm in one thousand nine hundred five. his restoration of billions noise museum brought his international breakthrough. after ten years of construction work the noise museum was reopened in two thousand and nine david chipperfield has also created entirely new museums like the hip with wakefield gallery in england and the who makes museum in mexico city. his timeless architecture as in boston vuitton birds common that for him is simple straightforward open and unobtrusive. this symmetry chapel in a gallery japan blends elegantly into its natural surroundings. david chipperfield has been knighted and bestowed with many accolades the means found a row of water among them. in twenty twelve he curated the venice biennale it of architecture. in twenty thirteen he was awarded the prestigious premium imperio. for its two hundred fiftieth birthday last may london's royal academy of arts got an overhaul from david chipperfield including a ne

derek dean and this shanghai bad i swan lake has already received rave reviews. robert swan lake it is iconic in the world of bio ballet but what is made it so popular well first of all i mean without a doubt tchaikovsky i mean one of the greatest composers who have lived for it he wrote it and then by the way he wrote the crack and sleeping beauty and if you take those three they sort of define the classical genre really i mean in the cases form like i think the hit choose if you like i mean we had. but also me when you think of the don'ts of the little cygnets or the dolls the little swarms we should say there's the look you know it's a very famous thing i mean apart from that it's a tie in a story of a prison sioux falls for a for a princess and there's magic in it as sorcery and it is a kind of mixture of cinderella the prince looking for the great love and then romeo injured because at the end of cole's. spoiler alert this production they don't die it's all the first time this is being done there's a happy ending in this drama i think you know which does hap