taiwan issues is the most important and sensitive issues in china u.s. relations well for starters how about you express your concerns about these important and sensitive issues to someone who cares a little more because that in trump we worry about. i don't worry about things. let's be great never worrying about anything unfortunately others are and there are those in china who believe that america wants taiwan to declare independence and the chinese are preparing for that eventuality militarily. as your own you know we are resolute to defeat any scheme or act of taiwan independence in any form. thing is the taiwanese don't really see a point to defending themselves taiwan which recently switched from conscription to a volunteer army is having huge trouble recruiting even reserve troops dodging the juicy after all that's the point the devil when. the government needs to think whether it's necessary to bring conscription back to the theme national security matters but taiwan is a mind the player in these confrontation if war does break out at likely be t

to life to stand out to chew to life on the street to say like light let taiwan be taiwan but that comes at a cost angering china could have serious repercussions for taiwan beijing has previously pressured several countries to cut diplomatic ties with taipei pushed foreign companies to all you refer to taiwan as part of china and increased patrols by its airforce and may be close to the island china has always maintained it's within its right to take taiwan back by force if necessary and that's a risk the taiwanese government is not willing to take so even the government which started out as a separatist local identity political party is also not eager to have something that would actually possibly cause a more rapid military response from china as well. many here know it will be difficult to even hold a vote on whether to declare independence but they say this sends a message the more pressure china puts on taiwan's people the harder they will push back if you go pollen typee. hundreds of thousands of people have been marching in london to demand a so-called people's vote on the final

to life to stand out to choose to life on the street to say like light let taiwan be taiwan but that comes at a cost angering china could have serious repercussions for taiwan beijing has previously pressured several countries to cut diplomatic ties with taipei pushed foreign companies to all you refer to taiwan as part of china and increased patrols by its airforce and may be close to the island china has always maintained it's within its right to take taiwan back by force if necessary and that's a risk the taiwanese government is not willing to take so even the government which started out as a separatist local identity political party is also not eager to have something that would actually possibly cause a more rapid military response from china as well. many here know it will be difficult to even hold a vote on whether to declare independence but they say this sends a message the more pressure china puts on taiwan's people the harder they will push back if you go pollen typee. the conservative government of australia's new prime minister scott morrison has lost its parliament tre

if you and i need to explain for many people they would think why outside of taiwan why does taiwan need to declare independence doesn't it have its own currency passports government and even its own leader well for one thing china still sees taiwan after a renegade province and even the government here although it does recognize taiwan sovereignty it's never actually declared independence now people here say that needs to happen now because of china's increasing pressure on the island and they fear that if it doesn't happen soon if it doesn't happen now it will be just a matter of time for china to take over this little island so is there any real prospect of that independence votes in taiwan. so that is the question the main. message in this rally is that they're calling for a referendum to vote on whether people want independence now that goes against taiwan's constitution so it's. very on likely that this rally would precipitate that but what it is doing is putting pressure on the government to recognize the fact that people are concerned about china's growing influence they're

one day but we think there should be a referendum to make taiwan a normal country. we need to come here together as one nation to really project one voice get out and this is my country this is my nation we need a referendum on independence we're taiwanese that's it it's very simple these protesters are not satisfied with the current government they asked for a tougher stance on china however according to a recent poll there are less than forty percent of tar winnie's the port in independence is since china's economic and military pressure on taiwan has its effect. protesters calling for a referendum face another obstacle currently voting on topics relating to taiwan's name and constitution illegally by. all right we'll take you back to afghanistan now because we have a freelance journalist for us in kabul now mr mr levy it's you know it's almost midnight where you are and we know that voting stations closed a few hours ago we've heard of chaotic scenes today how did you experience the vote and the election today. so i might my vote he can see i'm a singer my vote w

kind of untruthful the sales of weapons by the united states to taiwan damages china's sovereignty and security interests. beijing sees china and taiwan as two parts of a whole two chinese entities same culture and this is the same languages with two separate governments communist capitalist the end goal is to reunite into one state there are differences of course currency preventing that and about one hundred kilometers of c. that separate the two and trump always a fan of sticking it to the chinese he's been saluting his warships right between the two chinas i see. we have expressed our concerns to the u.s. side the taiwan issue concerns china sovereignty and territorial integrity and is the most important and sensitive issue in china u.s. relations. for starters how about you express your concerns about these important and sensitive issues to someone who cares a little more because that in trump we worry about. i don't worry about things. let's be great never worrying about anything unfortunately others are there are those in china who believe that america wants taiwan to declare in

as your own you know we are resolute to defeat any scheme or act of taiwan independence in any form. thing is the taiwanese don't really see a point to defending themselves taiwan which recently switched from conscription to a volunteer army is having huge trouble recruiting even reserve troops dodging the juicy after all that's the point the devil when. the government needs to think whether it's necessary to bring conscription back if they think national security matters but taiwan is a minor player in these confrontation if war does break out it likely be the people's republic of china slugging it out with the united states rather than taiwan and that is a war that trump really really ought to be worried about the world is really across rolled facing major threats to world peace and development between china and the united states the tensions are getting more and more acute and the united states has been pushing china around he really china and imposing unilateral tariffs on the chinese exports china does not want to have a trade war with the united states and china does not want t

moment to life to stand out to you to chew life on the street to say like light let taiwan be taiwan but that comes at a cost angering china heard have serious repercussions for taiwan beijing has previously pressured several countries to cut diplomatic ties with taipei pushed foreign companies to all you refer to taiwan as part of china and increased patrols by its airforce and may be close to the island china has always maintained it's within its right to take taiwan back by force if next. kerry and that's a risk the taiwanese government is not willing to take so even the government which started out as a separatist local identity political party is also not eager to have something that would actually possibly cause a more rapid military response from china as well many here know it will be difficult to even hold a vote on whether to declare independent.

i wonder but we think there should be a referendum to make taiwan a normal country. we need to come here together as one nation to really project one voice get out and this is my country this is my nation we need a referendum on independence we're taiwanese it's very simple these protesters are not satisfied with the current government they asked for a tougher stance on china however according to a recent poll there are less than forty percent of taiwanese the independence it seems china's economic and military pressure on taiwan has its effect. protesters calling for a referendum face another obstacle currently voting on topics relating to taiwan's name and constitution. the baby columbus spacecraft has lifted off from the european space agency's board in french this is the e.s.a. is new mission to explore the planet. launched just a few hours ago the craft is going to win satellites bonnie european and one japanese it believes them into orbit around the smallest of the rocky planets there they will spend at least a year mapping and analyzing the sun's closest plane

now in taiwan taiwan thousands of people have demonstrated to call for independence from china the rally in taipei is a clear challenge to the island's already embattled government it's the first large scale protest calling for an outright independence vote since taiwan first became a democracy well and twenty years ago. taiwanese so fab and the china considers the island as part of its territory in the past year china has ramped up pressure on taiwan conducting air and sea military exercises around the island. wonder but we think there should be a referendum to make taiwan a normal country. we need to come here together as one nation to really project one voice. school you're trying to get out and this is my country this is my nation we need a referendum on independence we're taiwanese that's it it's very simple these protesters are north that is by with the current government they asked for a tougher stance on china however according to a recent poll there are less than forty percent of tar winnie's the porting independence it seems china's economic and military pressure on taiwan has

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taiwan's president tweeting today's accident is a major tragedy. authorities tonight have launched an investigation into what caused taiwan's worst rail disaster in more than three decades. >>> there is new friction with russia tonight over nuclear weapons, and now president trump is threatening to pull out of a landmark arms agreement that was negotiated decades ago marking a turning point in the cold war then. white house correspondent kelly o'donnell has more. >> reporter: this demonstration of putin's arsenal ratcheting up tensions with the u.s. president trump says he is ready to act, withdrawing from an historic nuclear missile treaty. >> russia has not, unfortunately, honored the agreement, so we're going to terminate the agreement. we're going to pull out. >> reporter: tonight national security adviser john bolton is in moscow to deliver the message. >> we still have issues and disagreement. >> reporter: more than 30 years ago, a legacy achievement for president reagan and the soviet union's mikhail gorbachev who sign the intermediate range

most widespread pain beijing can inflict on taiwan its economic as taiwan or china is taiwan's biggest trading partner more than one hundred thousand by jury and refugees have sought refuge in northern cameroon. group boko haram now though they face being sent burke was hit more than reports from ottawa. it has taken up on someone how much nearly a year after fleeing to find a job in this shop. he needs to provide for his first of blaine's after his village was attacked and they were all forced to flee to cameroon for safety. but it. came to our village they were looking for young boys like me to join them in the nigeria army accused us of being part of. we were not see so we run and came here. is one of over one hundred thousand nature and refugees who have fled to cameroon more than half of them live in a refugee camp where the u.n. says providing them with water health care and education is a challenge. and over forty thousand are living in host communities in the northern part of cameroon some refugees are trying to rebuild their lives after a haven from nigeria but it's difficult

nearly 170 were injured in the accident which happened in north west taiwan.ave a full report on this a little later in the programme. anger is growing in northern india at the authorities‘ response to a train disaster on friday that killed 61 people during the religious festival of dusshera. police used batons to disperse protesters from blocking railway tracks in amritsar where the accident happened. hundreds of people took part in the protest saying there was no proper help for those affected. china's top representative governing the chinese territory of macau has died after falling from a tall building. beijing released a statement saying that zheng xiaosong had been suffering from depression, implying he had killed himself. mr zheng served as the liaison between the chinese government and the casino hub of macau, a former portuguese colony. the olympic sprint champion usain bolt has been offered a professional football contract by australian side central coast mariners. the 32—year—old jamaican, who retired from athletics in 2017, has been on trial with t

david: taiwan is something we do not focus on enough.nd those little islands, but they are not islands. taiwan is the sleeping dog we have left -- let live. we are poking it again. you hear rhetoric much more confrontational on taiwan. richard: when i was in government, we used to be worried people in taiwan would declare independence. what we are seeing is much less tolerance of anything that changes the status quo and the united states is beginning to change the status quo. encouraging officials to travel to taiwan and we're looking at ways to penalize countries that downgrade relations with taiwan under pressure from the mainland. based on the politics in beijing and the mainland, i do not think there is any give on their part. i would put it the list of things people should start worrying about. david: let us talk about resolving this. we had john bolton saying that we need to have an approach that has such deterrent effect, the chinese would never think about doing this. area? get in the cyber war was the cold bipolar and we had att

taiwan's president tweeting, "today's accident is a major tragedy." authorities have launched an investigation into what caused taiwan's worst rail disaster in more than three decades. lucy kafanov, nbc news. >>> let's take a look outside. bill karins, good morning. new week, new hurricane threat, huh? >> a huge hurricane, too. this one flared up over the weekend. this is willa, off the coast of mexico, 155-mile-per-hour winds. it's almost a category 5. and this, by the way, is the ninth category 4 or stronger storm in the eastern pacific this tropical season, which has never happened before, so it's pretty amazing stuff. and unfortunately for mexico, it still will come in as a major hurricane. here's the path, north of puerto vallarta through tuesday afternoon and will rain through the mountains of mexico and eventually bring flooding rains into texas by wednesday, so another huge hurricane and there will be, unfortunately, a lot of destruction from this one, too. each a catory 3 caneg that continues into your monday. there will be low clouds along t

and weighing and sister that she would not recklessly provoke china beijing considers taiwan part of its territory and has been pressuring other countries to cut ties free nations didn't access spend a magic relations with taiwan earlier this year so head on al-jazeera i'll tell you about a government decision in zimbabwe that has led to fuel and food shortages and two countries one alphabet we look at efforts to unify the language between south and north korea. by the skyline of immigration harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. and others still want to share his falling and full cost of fall in northern parts around the throws of our job not quite as vicious as were the ones that caused the flooding and was a bit of a circulation in the cloud by the look of it at the tajikistan east and took minister on and afghanistan all producing as it might right a bit of snow hill but not as much as might be light and nothing in the western side of afghanistan and that clouds that massive cloud might develop a shower or two of a syria iraq or some parts of the wrong but probably mostl

companies that depict taiwan as a distinct geographic entity.irlinesompels delta to publicly apologize for not calling taiwan a province of china on its website, and it pressured marriott to fire the u.s. employee who merely liked a tweet about to that. ibet.out to china demands a hollywood depicted in a strictly positive light. it punishes producers that do not. quick toensors are outlaw movies that criticize china in even minor ways. z," theyvie "world war had to cut the script's mention of a virus because it originated in china. the movie "red dawn" was digitally edited to make the enemies korean, not chinese. but beyond business and entertainment, chinese communist party is also spending billions of dollars on propaganda outlets in the united states. and frankly, around the world. international out broadcasts beijing-friendly programming and 36 u.s. outlets, many in a major american cities. the global china network reaches 75 millions americans and it gets its marching orders directly from its communist party masters. as china's top leader p

these actions threaten the stability of the taiwan strait, and the u.s. condemns these actions. while our administration will continue to respect our one china policy, as reflected in the three -- the joint communiques and the taiwan relations act, america will always believe that taiwan's embrace of democracy shows a better path for all the chinese people. [applause] these are only a few of the ways china has sought to advance its strategic ways across the world. it is growing with sophistication. previous administrations all but ignored china's actions. in many cases, they abetted them. those days are over. under president trump's leadership, the u.s. has been defending our interests with renewed american strength. we have been making the strongest military in the history of the world, stronger still. earlier this year, president trump signed into law the largest increase in our national defense since the days of ronald reagan. extend then to strength of the american military to every domain. we are modernizing our nuclear arsenal, we are fielding and developing new cutting ed

we go to taiwan to find out why.nd in uganda we meet some courageous animal-lovers who are helping to save the rhino. rhinos are one of the world's most endangered species. in africa, only zimbabwe, kenya, namibia, and south africa have reasonably sized populations of them. the reason is poachers who are keen to profit from their valuable horns. they fetch a forortune on the global black market. traders get around $60,000 u.s. per kilo. in uganda their numbers have slowly been increasing in recent years. our reporter julia henrichmann paid a visit to a privately-run sanctuary and met with some committed conservationists. reporter: they're safe here in this sanctuary. it covers 70 square kilometers and is sponsored by the rhino fund. the southern white rhinoceros has been wiped out i in otheher paparts of uganda. but here, 24 of them roam the savannah and woodlands. raymond opio is trying to find one for us. the ranger sometimes has to trek far into the bush to track one down. finally we catch a glimpse of uhuru and h

at a local hospital taiwan's president. met with victim's families. everyone wants to know what caused this accident i've asked investigators to find out as soon as possible how this happened. that inquiry is expected to take at least a day now to some sports news and sunday's formula one action british driver lewis hamilton sail in his bid to secure a first world championship with three races remaining as a ferrari is coming right in and stormed to victory in the us grand prix germany sebastian settle meanwhile fought back after a difficult start to finish fourth and keep a lot of his slim chances of overtaking hamilton the driver standing. paid position in a potentially title winning you ascribe great the dream scenario for lewis hamilton . and things are about to get even better as rival sebastian vettel spun out following a collision on the opening lap. but phenols ferrari team mate can be right killen wasn't about some make life easy for hamilton repeatedly forcing the british drivers attempt to regain the elite. the surprise emergence of red bul

companies that depict taiwan as a geographic entity, or straight from chinese policy on tibet. beijing compelled delta airlines to apologize for not calling taiwan a province of china on its website. it pressured marriott to fire a u.s. employee who merely liked a tweet about tibet. beijing routinely demands hollywood portrayed china in a strictly positive light. it punishes studios and producers that don't. beijing sensors are quick to edit or outlaw movies that criticize china, even in minor ways. for the movie "world war z," they had to cut the mention of a virus because it originated in china. the movie "red dawn" was edited to make the villains north korean, not chinese. beyond business and entertainment, chinese communist party is spending billions on propaganda outlets in the u.s. frankly, around the world. china radio international now broadcasts beijing friendly programs on over 30 u.s. outlets, many in major american cities. the china global television network reaches more than 75 million americans. it gets its marching orders directly from its communist party masters

officials in taiwan say excessive speed was the main cause of a korean do you really meant that left eighteen people dead an investigation found the train entered a curve at one hundred forty kilometers per hour or twice the speed limit for the section. two u.s. warships have seen through the taiwan strait in a move that could aggravate tensions with china u.s. military officials said they were shadowed by chinese warships the trump administration has stepped up military support for taiwan which china sees as a part of its territory. in mexico authorities are calling on residents to seek refuge in temporary shelters as hurricane wilma nears the country specific coast throughout the region are preparing for the worst the storm has weakened overnight but forecasters warn it will likely batter coastal regions with wind speeds in excess of two hundred kilometers per hour. it's only two weeks until midterm congressional elections in the u.s. and an unprecedented number of women are running for office it's been called the pink wave but it's not reserved only for liberal candidates as part

officials in taiwan say excessive speed was the. all support train derailment that left eight hundred people dead and missing the train and to a curve at one hundred forty kilometers per hour one was twice the speed limit for the section. two u.s. warships have seized through the taiwan straits in a move that could aggravate tensions with china u.s. military official said the. chinese warships the trumpet ministration has stepped up minute to support for taiwan china to seize as a part of its territory. u.s. national security adviser john bolton is said to her talks with russian president vladimir putin and moscow in the day buton met with russia's defense minister sergei surely go who stressed the kremlin remains committed to nuclear nonproliferation both an incentive to do visits to russia shortly after u.s. president donald trump announced that washington would pull out of a thirty year old myside treaty and build up its nuclear arsenal trump accuses russia of violating the treaty of moscow denies the charge but the very latest l