the sun may be shining in the capital but heavy snow and ice brought some highways in the south of china cars, dozens of trains were delayed or suspended, and passengers were stuck at wuhan station for hours. these ladies have a long journey north to see their 90—year—old mum and they are doing all they can to ensure this year is lucky. translation: l was born - in the dragon year so this year i have bought red clothes and red pants for a prosperous and thriving new year. i hope everyone has a safe new year and you all get money in your pockets. those left in beijing settle in to their celebrations. traditional costumes have become popular with young people, along with this one new year wish. "money, big money," she says. whatever their dreams for the future, this week is for food and for family and for many this will be their first new year together since the start of the pandemic and they are determined to savour it. laura bicker, bbc news, beijing. the lunar new year there in china. i will leave you with pictures from iceland, as you can see, the volcano, which is its second eruption

the sun may be shining in the capital, but heavy snow and ice brought some highways in the south of china stranded in their cars, dozens of trains were delayed or suspended, and passengers were stuck at wuhan railway station for hours. these ladies have a long journey north to see their 90—year—old mum, and they're doing all they can to ensure this year is lucky. translation: l was born - in the dragon year, so this year i've bought red clothes and red pants for a prosperous - and thriving new year. translation: i hope everyone has i a safe new year and you all get i money in your pockets. those left in beijing settle in to their celebrations. traditional costumes have become popular with young people, along with this one new year wish. "money, big money," she says. whatever their dreams for the future, this week is for food and for family. and for many, this will be their first new year together since the start of the pandemic, and they're determined to savour it. laura bicker, bbc news, beijing. money and food, very important they are. i'm joined now by kitty lu who's director of public

interesting, you probably all know that we really like spicy cuisine, why do i know that in the south of chinaoblem with the body, they eat a lot of spicy cuisine, so that when they remove this moisture , these spicy plums immediately become popular, with every pro.. .my local dishes, i am from the hana province, here, when the local dish is one spicy soup with black pepper, all the people from my province they cannot forget about this dish, i also really missed it and when i tried to cook tom too when i cooked it, i tried it exactly, when he remembers about my homeland, in fact, at the beginning it was a little difficult to get used to your cuisine, i also really missed my cuisine, but because in belarus it is very difficult to find spicy, spicy dishes, but i i read an article about why, when you eat a lot of pepper, you already develop a hobby, that is, people get pleasure from the spiciness, now 4 years have passed, i... when i had already lost my abilities, i barely eat spicy cuisine . i think it's quite difficult to come to someone else's country, because it’s completely different. no , i

stay behind that we have got another system working its way across a south of china, recent drenching down pools, freezing rain to most central areas and bits and pieces of snow. here in the laundry, cloudy, full shanghai over the next few days, and improving pick up in the north for basing. if we have a look at the outlook will be up to 7 degrees celsius. so above average on friday, with sunshine, through to the end of the week. now it is looking much quieter across the northern parts of south asia as that west of the disturbance pushes its way further east. taking rain to the port and boots had lost huge. why behind that hardly any warnings, not only for funk, for additional launch, we settled with sunshine across the south of india. the meeting of minds discussing the defining issues of our time in one year. we source that change, it became clear at that point, but we really were really kind of a new era of know about the slower it's maria theresa and professor michael wooldridge explore the pedals and possibilities of artificial intelligence. it changes the way we think, and then

the sun may be shining in the capital, but heavy snow and ice brought some highways in the south of china hours. these ladies have a long journey north to see their 90—year—old mum, and they�*re doing all they can to ensure this year is lucky. translation: l was born - in the dragon year, so this year i've bought red clothes and red pants for a prosperous - and thriving new year. translation: i hope everyone has i a safe new year and you all get i money in your pockets. those left in beijing settle in to their celebrations. traditional costumes have become popular with young people, along with this one new year wish. "money, big money," she says. whatever their dreams for the future, this week is for food and for family. and for many, this will be their first new year together since the start of the pandemic, and they�*re determined to savour it. laura bicker, bbc news, beijing. a volcano in south west iceland has erupted for the third time since december. the lava is spewing from a long fissure — and has reached a crucial road that leads to the already damaged town of grindavik. our scie

the sun may be shining in the capital, but heavy snow and ice brought some highways in the south of chinaelayed or suspended, and passengers were stuck at wuhan railway station for hours. these ladies have a long journey north to see their 90—year—old mum, and they're doing all they can to ensure this year is lucky. translation: l was born | in the dragon year, so this year i've bought red clothes i and red pants for a prosperous and thriving new year. translation: i hope everyonej has a safe new year and you all get money in your pockets. those left in beijing settle in to their celebrations. traditional costumes have become popular with young people, along with this one new year wish. "money, big money," she says. whatever their dreams for the future, this week is for food and for family. and for many, this will be theirfirst new year together since the start of the pandemic, and they're determined to savour it. laura bicker, bbc news, beijing. you are watching bbc news from washington. more at the top of the hour, join me then if you can. goodbye for now. hello there. a wide range of t

the sun may be shining in the capital but heavy snow and ice brought some highways in the south of chinaains were delayed or suspended, and passengers were stuck at wuhan station for hours. these ladies have a long journey north to see their 90—year—old mum and they are doing all they can to ensure this year is lucky. translation: l was born - in the dragon year so this year i have bought red clothes and red pants for a prosperous and thriving new year. i hope everyone has a safe new year and you all get money in your pockets. those left in beijing settle in to their celebrations. traditional costumes have become popular with young people, along with this one new year wish. "money, big money," she says. whatever their dreams for the future, this week is for food and for family and for many this will be their first new year together since the start of the pandemic and they are determined to savour it. laura bicker, bbc news, beijing. we are back in a moment or two in washington at the supreme court because arguments currently being heard, it is an unprecedented case there, supreme courtju

a heavy showers will continue across the south of china. every showers continue across northern areas of india, just spinning outs of a northern pockets. stop them wesley. the stipends already is one eastern force at present. plus the north assigned the north west composite of in the system. what we can slot is it makes its way further east, which over the next couple of days, but still plenty of showers and the risk of avalanches continue the work out of their existence. it slowed ship as a principal present to us as a correspondence with any breaking the story we want to hear from those people who would normally not get that voices heard on the international news channels. one moment i'll be very proud all was when we covered the pool last week of 2015 at the terrible natural disaster stuff. and the story that needed to be told from the hall of the affected area to be then to tell the people story. it was very important at the time of israel is once again before the i c j. this time for public hearings on the consequences of its occupatio

south korea and japan. so china's reaction has shown that china is criticizing japan and south korea and u.s. moves internationalization ofthe taiwan issue but so this has led china to change their policy toward japan and south korea. also i do think there are differences in dealing with taiwan straight among the three countries but even so, i think institutionalization of secured cooperation is vital to deal with either taiwan straight crisis or korean peninsula crisis so the point has been mentioned in the first session that we need to promote the institutionalization of cooperation among the three countries and this kind of cooperation should expand beyond the security area. >> thank you. let's move on to a slightly different topic. taiwan had an election in january. i would like to hear thoughts on their countries reaction to the outcome and brian could you tell us about what the policy toward china and the u.s. will be and do you expect the policy to change and how -- and what do you think china will likely response to that? >> in terms of taiwan's election in january, i would say japan's, japan is watching very clos

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this is one of the reasons why china is seen as an alternative to a lot of the countries in the global south and one of the reasons china has been -- maybe not winning, it's also because of this. >> sam, let's turn to you and take a bigger picture view of the debt issue. can you talk about how your understanding of how china manages its lending practices and debt relations with countries and what are some of the implications of china's debt diplomacy to the recipient countries economic stability and sovereignty? >> i think i will start by building off of the great answer. when i think about one of the differences and uniqueness of what china offers to the world, i go to my five-point cheat sheet. one is the scale of what we are talking about. we are talking about $1.3 trillion in financing that far outstrips most other donors on the market speed. we are talking about things like big-ticket infrastructure projects, a typical chinese finance infrastructure projects is two and a half times as much as the competitor. focus, i think it was alluded to, traditionally when you think about the chroni

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and austria against the face of intensifying pressure from beijing in that south china sea region. hina, focus when it comes to china's tech sector. baidu's stock fell. it highlighted the growing costs of trading and developing ai to fend off competitors. the results followed his appointed numbers out of alibaba, another sign at private sector is following -- running out of steam. let's bring in our guest. brandon ahearn. it has been a trying few years for the private sector particularly across text. it looks like perhaps with the federalization of the moves in alibaba, that we were starting to turn a corner. let's talk about baidu first. is this the expenditure investors are willing to tolerate with the opportunities of ai? brendan: chinese equities have been eviscerated as an arca class. considerable underperformance relative to particularly suck u.s. equities has really weighed on investor sentiment. a lot of the assets have moved out of the region into india and japan but particularly to the u.s. and u.s. technology. i think baidu's results missed revenue by 16 basis points and

is typically in china's favor in the western pacific, united says base of law would not be able to contain china. that's why the asked to enroll other asian nations lights, japan and south korea of this antique china band. why did those so far united states had been fairly successful, even getting this south korea to patch up their relationship with japan to to form just try the alliance. but at the end of the day, cells, korea still very much depend on chinese market for economic growth. right now is how things are shaping up this one date. so fall of next. so i would just went through delta and ppo, so it's helpful greenbacks dominant. and dominating almost a century of the current cupids, ships the thing to find me break that down. as the independent journalist mike jones says he constantly monitors the news west and media presents about the russian troops. special military operation in dumbass deal from travelers to the front line and meets people in the liberated territories, the residents here. so let me know what happened so that he moved from marketing to dunbar and it was bone of the the blocking of russian media. so in gaming, when i did see 2 videos, i often

south china. i became a lynch pen of economic growth across this region. in the late 19 seventy's, china is the the dump shopping in box on radical reforms to the country's economy. he threw open the doors to foreign trade and investments. and in doing so, transformed the lives of chinese citizens. since the late 19 seventies. china is g . d. p per capita, as thoughts from just $300.00 us dollars to maybe $13000.00 today. lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty in the process. by 2018, the countries middle cost, the balloons over 700000000 people. sum full cost expects it to expand to 1200000000 by 2027. the impact of china is rapid growth wasn't confined to just explode as many of the ships leaving this port in northern taiwan destin for china . and taiwan was one economy of many across asia been read. the benefits of china is economic a sense, those benefits came in 3 main ways, trade investments, and eventually towards the 1st let's look and trade. china is population in cities . what already swelling by the time of the century. but china's accession

essential to the united states to prevent. the independence of the global south, the freedom of the global south, and to prevent the rise of russia and china and the multipolar world that would squeeze the us out of the control of global commodities, including oil, gas, etc. and so therefore israel itself is essential to the united states and to the countries that are aligned with the united states, the palestinians to to a degree... stand in the way of israel's security and israel's supremacy in the region and as joab gallan, the war minister said before december, before christmas, they have to have... victory in the middle east in order to survive, so what we're seeing is the us tacitly supporting palestinian genocide, but actually not so tacitly, because by supplying the weapons, by cutting off funding to arawa, they now come into the line of fire for actually uh not only being complicit in the zionist genocide, but also committing genocide themselves. taking a look at the the other motivation and incentive that the us has uh, which is quite evident in the statements made there by blinken, alberta watson, if you agree, is the fact that

china 3 but comedy people also. how can i can explore badging became the biggest buy events and you just called and palm while i'm the top expo destination of electronics made in south korea and taiwan. if you even look at the ion of taiwan, i mean china has been this thing that has happened to them in terms of, you know, their economic, a transformation towards the unexplored driven economy. the 2nd pillar of china is economic power is outward investments. as the chinese economy expanded is companies, as well as its government became bolder. china has started to become an important outbound direct investor for countries in the region. i was trying to sponsor setup operations throughout the southeast asia. decisions me shes new 7000000000 dollar high speed rail. the countries 1st began o pricing and i'll tell you, but it's main funder. china is bouncing road initiative over the past decades. the flagship policy of chinese president eugene ping has pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into transport networks like these across asia, funding infrastructure. but some say buying instruments to on the final side to is towards it. as china is economy to call. so 2 digits

but there's also been the build-up of military bases in the south china sea, the increase of air sortieslanes. do you see a lowering of the temperature in the south china sea? >> no. and that's a problem. >> you don't. >> and then in taiwan, following speaker pelosi's visit, we have seen for 16 months a much higher rate of chinese both air activity and naval activity that is very intimidating. meant to intimidate. >> they haven't pulled back on that. >> they haven't pulled back on that. i think ultimately, they want to become and overtake the united states as the dominant country globally. and we don't want that to happen. we don't want to live in a world where the chinese are the dominant country. >> when the cold war ended, we all thought our system had won. you know, their system failed. our system rose up. now, he's come back and said no, no, the communist system is the right way. i guess we didn't bury that after all. >> you know, it's interesting to compare the old cold war with this time. what distinguishes this time versus the old cold war, soviet union had a strong military and

japan, south korea, all major players and it will includejapan, south korea, russia and of— includejapan, south korea, russia and of course chinaven that — and of course china and the us. given that necessity, given that indonesia — given that necessity, given that indonesia will need to continue to have _ indonesia will need to continue to have high— indonesia will need to continue to have high levels of economic growth, the need _ have high levels of economic growth, the need for investment in infrastructure in order to meet the needs— infrastructure in order to meet the needs of— infrastructure in order to meet the needs of 275 million people any indonesian president whether prabowo subianto _ indonesian president whether prabowo subianto or the other candidates would _ subianto or the other candidates would have to get on with his hard work _ would have to get on with his hard work. would have to be persistent with trade — work. would have to be persistent with trade deals, attracting investment, participating in international and making good ties with all— international and making good ties with all players within the indo

of power competition. the u.s. looks at south asia through the lens of competition with china and russia. been increasingly present through infrastructure projects and naval power production in the indian ocean. this is concerning for the u.s. quietly russia h been a key player in south asia, with a growing relationship with pakistan and india. it has energy cooperation set up with bangladesh. the u.s. feels a need to strengthen engagement with countries of south asia in order to push back against the growing influence of china and russia. john: are they willing to overlook the lack of democracy? they talk about wanting to spread democracy around the world. >> strategic imperatives carry the day. the administration has used this values-based foreign policy where it sought to push for better, more rights, more democracy in the region but has applied that selectively. it had been applying it robustly in bangladesh. much less so in india, which is a country struggling with democratic backsliding. it's been quiet in pakistan. these are different countries, policies. the u.s. has different int

of coming to south korea because of economic difficulties orfamine. tell me what the assumptions are in south korea about the influence that china has on north korea. strongly against any question of kim jong—un launching a war of any kind? it is difficult to separate north korea from chinese influence, especially when it comes to economy. however, right now in south korea, experts are more aware of a north korean and russian relationship rather than north korea and china relationship. so russia might very well encourage kim jong—un to do whatever he wants, whereas china might be more concerned to hold him back? that's what many experts are analysing at this point. and do you think kim jong—un�*s position is as strong as ever? or are there signs of weakness? kimjong—un is trying to hold more power and authority right now in north korea and experts are seeing it as a sign of his weakening position. he has been showing off his possible successor, kim ju—ae, his daughter... who is, what, 11, 12 or something? she's becoming 11 this year. the reason kimjong—un is showing her off to, like, missile test sites and many other official events is to show that

of time. but i mean there's, there's the taiwan issue. there is the chip or issue that you alluded to. there's uh, you know, united states military exercises in the south china sea. there's the build up of some of the islands on the south china sea and that hey, a pacific rim discussion is a fascinating conversation for another time. i will look forward to due to having that with you and a guy is a host and a reporter for c g t a radio. it's a delight to be able to have this conversation with her so that we can all learn perspectives that we don't often take into account. thank you so much and it's a pleasure to rake is as i, as i earlier, our mission is a great honor to talk to you and i learned a lot as a host from you. oh, that's nice to you to say, i appreciate that. thank you very much. thank you. hey, before we go i, i want to remind you of our mission and simple really. i want to the silo, the world we've got to stop living in these in these little boxes. truths don't live in boxes too. so everywhere i'm actually inches, i'll be looking for you again right here where i hope to provide or a direct impact. the . the boys are liberators. may god bless yo

negotiations to create a sustainable route through the chabahar free zone with the cooperation of iran and china . now south and north of afghanistan and from afghanistan to the country if needed. preliminary agreements have been made. this delegation is chaired by the representative of the ministry of industry and trade of afghanistan, consisting of the representatives of the economic deputy prime minister, the ministry of aviation, the ministry of foreign affairs, the ministry private sector assets have traveled to chabahar free zone to visit and examine ways to increase the interactions between the two countries. tashib's group exhibition titled "shahmama girls" with 40 works of iranian and afghan artists will be held at the niavaran cultural center. the works of 19 iranian and afghan female artists will be displayed in this exhibition . art will be held from the 12th of esfand, during the half of shaban this year , mosques and hosseiniyeh and processions of afghan immigrants living in the city of mashhad host the lovers of imam zamanullah. his majesty was farja al-sharif. the processions despite the sno

china to get back to the rules of the game. whether that's the rules of the game over taiwan, the south china sea, over economic issues, over technical issues in our technological issues, including the issue of espionage. what do you mean? does washington or guys, so the j a think rules of the game? i know, and i'll refer back to the other issues. and they get back to china. is, is that with russia and ukraine and in the sense of order across europe, plumber violated the rules of the game in a conflict which has been going on since 2014, including russian occupation and part of the country by watching the drug military invasion that's crossing a red line. her boss drove all the rules of the nature as with the nature of its attack on israel, on october 7th, because it carried out the mass killing of civilians. and then of course, israel breaks the rules of the game on a day upon day, upon day basis with this indiscriminate war with the us in china after a period of height intention of 2022, including over taiwan, including over military issues. there has been an effort in the past year on both sides, including a series of high level m

of what it is like. it's close to about 500 billion u.s. dollars. what does that mean? it means that the cumulative stock is larger than the u.s. into china, japan, and south korea combined. combined, ok? when i say that, actually, there's a lot of economic skin in the game for u.s. to remain deeply vested in our part of the world. i think you understand what it is that i'm saying. >> thank you. you have a foreign policy background from lithuania. what are your reflections on the broad question of the role of trade and advancing foreign policy? >> thank you for the question. i would like to pick up where the president of the manufacturers association left because his last statement was a clean way to the point, saying that if we want to advance or move together with our trade and make sure our foreign policy agenda or security agenda moves in the same way, we move together. in the transatlantic relations, one of the things is it is a validating partnership. we were the ones who together built international schools and other international organizations, and i think we probably have to appreciate more how it works. trade would not be the same if we did not h

inaudible conversations] >> the atlantic council also hosted a discussion on china's financial role in the countries of the global southerica to south east asia. speakers focus on china's investments in developing countries infrastructure and the debt from those loans. this isci about 15

a striking illustration of this is the recent rampant disaster in china. in the southountry, ice covered everything from trees to cars. in the central regions of china, bad weather even caused death. but let's return to russia. the atmosphere over the country will continue to seethe. to in the middle of the work week, the atlantic cyclone is... learning to spoil the weather in the south of siberia, a new whirlwind will head towards the russian plain, its areas will also be enclosed in an air mass warmed by the golf stream, and the region will face another portion of ice rain. in other topics, russian electronic warfare systems are instilling fear in nato troops. the other day there was an article with this title. was published by the british newspaper express, and this is far from the first or only publication of this kind. western media have increasingly become write about the advantages of russian rap. well, what exactly are they afraid of in the west, military meteorologist evgeniy teshkovets will tell you. evgeniy, what caused this re-canopy? have our raps been wor

with some banks, very serious problems with corporate real estate, here, of course , other asian countries, south korea, japan and chinaer attack. huge amounts of money in this corporate real estate in america, the construction of these skyscrapers before the pandemic, then a pandemic happened, it turned out that, well , in general, all these offices are not needed, so now we have to reduce their cost by 20, 40, 50%, this, of course, is hitting american banks and many financial institutions in asia, too, that made money from it money, well, they either tried to make money, but the energy sector is growing, of course quite actively in america, we’ll see how long it will last, but nevertheless it is growing, the problems with the military-industrial complex are really quite complex, on the one hand... we worked for twenty-two, twenty third a year of record profits, many companies are exporting arms, but indeed for many new programs, yes, the creation of new weapons, as was rightly noted there , the same new b-21 bombers, american military corporations are incurring losses, and decent ones, for example with these bombers,

a striking illustration of this is the recent rampant disaster in china. in the south country, ice covered everything from trees to cars. in the central regions of china, bad weather even caused death. its area will also contain air masses warmed by the gulf stream and the region will experience another round of freezing rain. in other topics, russian electronic warfare systems strike fear into the military contingent nato. the other day, an article with this headline was published by the british newspaper express, and this is far from the first and not the only publication of this kind, western media increasingly began to write about the advantages of russian rap, and what exactly are they afraid of in the west, military meteorologist evgeniy teshkovets will tell . evgeniy, what caused such a change; in ukraine, our rap music has been working successfully for a long time? vadim, ukrainian militants really cannot oppose our electronic weapons, but now they have felt their capabilities on... and the nato military. headline in the british express newspaper. russian rap s