times aren't in the maligned way weiwei is one of china's most important tech companies that the world second largest mobile phone producer and it makes the laptops and tablets gadgets that rival apple and samsung but crucially weiwei also sells some of the communications hardware that allows mobile phone and wireless networks to operate and when the u.s. currently embroiled in a tip for tat trade war with beijing the chinese tech giant has come into the spotlight washington says it's concerned that using weiwei hardware will give beijing the ability to spy on foreign countries and exert too much control over western infrastructure weiwei has raised serious concerns among u.s. officials for a potential role in cyber espionage given their reported links to china's state security services reportedly used for a shell companies to conceal efforts to get sensitive satellite technology from boring facebook shared the personal information of americans with smart phone manufacturers these included the chinese companies one way n.z. t e z t y way threaten the security of our networks due to the

producer and it makes the laptops and tablets gadgets that rival apple and samsung but crucially weiwei also sells some of the communications hardware that allows mobile phone and wireless networks to operate and when the u.s. currently embroiled in a tit for tat trade war with beijing the chinese tech giant has come into the spotlight washington says it's concerned that using weiwei hardware will give beijing the ability to spy on foreign countries and exert too much control over western infrastructure by way has raised serious concerns among u.s. officials for a potential role in cyber espionage given their reported links to china's state security services and huawei threaten the security of our networks due to their close ties to the chinese government and now the u.s. is pursuing well ways chief financial officer who was arrested in vancouver at washington's request main one jew now faces extradition to the u.s. over possible violations of sanctions against iran but the case appears more than a little politicised the u.s. president suggested he might use china's tech princess as a b

they were already talking about a divorce, weiwei, and she was — weiwei was happy that the children wouldere they should be. he's told the bbc that their campaign to have both of their grandchildren back in the uk will continue. but, for now, these two siblings will live thousands of miles apart. laura westbrook, bbc news. volunteers atjoshua tree national park in california have turned out in force to help stave off any chaos from the government shutdown. if the shutdown continues for five more days or five more weeks, we will be out here cleaning and taking ca re of will be out here cleaning and taking care of the park, like the government can't. they've been cleaning toilets and picking up litter to keep the park open during the partial shutdown of the us federal government. that began on december 22nd, after congress clashed over president trump's demands to fund a wall on the border with mexico. since then, thousands of officials have been temporarily laid off — many without pay. 200 years ago, around a third of argentina's population were black, but today, very few people admit to b

weiwei fu is now serving a life sentence for murder.d what's happened to their parents. their english grandparents want to raise them in the uk. in a heartbreaking decision, they agreed to a custody deal to bring just their granddaughter alice back to the uk, leaving jack with his chinese family back in china. they will also have to pay them £10,000. ian simpson says bringing both of the children to the uk is what his son would have wanted. michael raised them very much in a western style. they spent a lot of time, they spent two visits a year over here. they speak english and... they were already talking about a divorce, weiwei, and she was... weiwei was happy that the children would go with michael. because he was the real carer. so as far as we're concerned, that's where they should be. he's told the bbc that their campaign to have both of their grandchildren back in the uk will continue, but for now, these two siblings will live thousands of miles apart. now, from tuition fees, technical education, apprenticeships, to mental health

they were already talking about a divorce, weiwei, and she was — weiwei was happy that the children would far as we're concerned, that's where they should be. he has told the bbc that their campaign to have both of their grandchildren back in the uk will continue. but, for now, these two siblings will live thousands of miles apart. laura westbrook, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: we meet a man who's using a team of animals and a remote control to help people who are grieving after losing a loved one. the most ambitious financial and political change ever attempted has got underway with the introduction of the euro. tomorrow in holland, we're going to use money we picked up in belgium today and then we'll be in france, and again, it'll be the same money. it's just got to be the way to go. george harrison, the former beatle, is recovering in hospital after being stabbed at his oxfordshire home. a 33—year—old man from liverpool is being interviewed by police on suspicion of attempted murder. i think it looks good. just good? no, fantastic. that's better. hello, welcome bac

they were already talking about a divorce, weiwei, and she was — weiwei was happy that the children wouldarer. so, as far as we're concerned, that's where they should be. he has told the bbc that their campaign to have both of their grandchildren back in the uk will continue. but, for now, these two siblings will live thousands of miles apart. laura westbrook, bbc news. the uk's home secretary has said britain and france will step up action to deal with the growing number of migrants crossing the channel in small boats. sajid javid, who has returned early from his christmas break, said he'd discussed the situation with his french counterpart. more than 200 migrants have made the journey in the past two months. on sunday six iranian men were found at kingsdown in kent. from there, alexandra mackenzie reports. cold, wet and exhausted — iranian nationals on a beach in kent. they arrived on an inflatable boat this morning. they received medical assessments and were questioned by immigration officials. this afternoon, the beach was busy with locals. it's fairly calm today. it is quite mild, bu

minister has voiced his deep concerns about a possible spying threat from the chinese tech giant weiwei it comes amid a confrontation ongoing between the company and the u.k.'s closest ally the united states as police reports. they seemed like the best of friends one side with cash to flash the other keen to court chinese investment you have a golden era of u.k. china relations and what about the relations between britain and china of very good issues in the past i think we've come to an understanding over. premier li said yesterday this should be an indispensable partnership. we have cemented britain's position as china's best partner in the west with the u.k. playing bragg's it really with brussels trade ties with china seem as important as ever but there's a bone of contention coming between london and beijing or rather a phone of contention we've got to look at what partners such as australia in the us are doing in order to ensure that they have the maximum security of that five g. network and we've got to recognise the fact there's been recently exposed the chinese state does somet

they were already talking about a divorce, weiwei, and she was — weiwei was happy that the children wouldas told the bbc that their campaign to have both of their grandchildren back in the uk will continue. but, for now, these two siblings will live thousands of miles apart. laura westbrook, bbc news. 200 years ago around a third of argentina's population were black. but today very few people admit to being of african descent. despite their huge and historical influence on society, black argentinians still face racial discrimination and are often treated as foreigners in their own country. our correspondent celestina olulode reports from buenos aires. there's nothing more argentine than tango, but many are unaware its roots are african. for the afro—argentines whose families descended from the slave trade, they often feel like they've been written out of history, and invisible to their fellow argentines. mistaken as foreigners, these are the people who face racism today. translation: i belong to an ethnicity that has been systematically denied. it hurts. it's deep, and it remains with you

weiwei fu is now serving a life sentence for murder.nd alice have been living with their chinese grandparents. they haven't been told what happened to their parents. their english grandparents want to raise them in the uk. in a heartbreaking decision, they agreed to a custody deal to bring just their granddaughter alice back to the uk, leaving jack with his chinese family back in china. they will also have to pay them £10,000. ian simpson says bringing both of the children to the uk is what his son would have wanted. michael raised them very much in a western style. they spent a lot of time, they spent two visits a year over here. they speak english and... they were already talking about a divorce, weiwei, and she was... weiwei was happy that the children would go with michael. because he was the real carer. so as far as we're concerned, that's where they should be. he's told the bbc that their campaign to have both of their grandchildren back in the uk will continue, but for now, these two siblings will live thousands of miles apart. s

kqed's monica lam spoke with ai weiwei when he was in san ancisco. massive human migration due to war, violence, disaster. what did you learn from making is film? -what i have learned is very simple. amonthere's no single onegees, is willing to leave their home. they all struggle not to leave. it's very heavy price they have to pay. their relatives, friends, or whole village vanished by war, by famine, or environmental problems. -united states president lfdonald trump has cut in in fact, more than half the number of refugees allowed in ts country. what is your reaction to that? -i think that this current administration, what they did is beyond belief. -more than ever, we need the wall. we have drugs pouring through. -i should say it's a shame for a nation like ited states, which is the most powerful, not only leading in the economics but should be strongant nation in defending hights. after all, u.s. is a nation of immigrants. just a few generations ago, we all come from somewhere. er-absolutely. -i nevet a native here. i mean, to limit somebody's ri

-thank you very much, ai weiwei. -thank you.rr to addressing tough topics like race and ethnicity. he takes on the long-running cartoon series "the simpsons" in his documentary titled, "the problem with apu." e lores how an indian convenience store owner caters to stereotypes. -the problem is we didn't have any other representation in this country. -there was no iz, no mindy, no kal, no "th dude who was on 'lost' and that other dude from 'heroes' and that dude that's no "in the apu documentary,"ol no picians or reporters and no whatever deepak chopra is. this is all we h. apu reflected how america viewed us -- servile, devious, goofy. -and joining me now is hari kondabolu. h so nice e you here. -thanks for having me. -"the simpsons" was one of your favorite tv shows as a kid,d t you were so frustrated with the character named apu. why? -apu is a convenience store owner, very one-dimensional, stereotypica and at that time, that's the only depiction south asian-americans had, i specificalian-americans. like, we didn't have anythin

second round of talks are somewhat close but meanwhile the daughter of the founder of the tech giant weiwei is also second in command there has been arrested at a request for american requests for violating u.s. trade rules and in tehran sanctions i mean why ways they were china's government and even though china says that they arrest want to stop the trade talks with washington why the need to complicate things i mean these weren't just getting better you're just about to hammer out a deal or so. what this arrest do really negotiations well i think you're assuming more coherence within the u.s. government than might be. prudent. we have in the pension edition area the justice department does the fact trump didn't even know she was arrested at the time he was having dinner with she had the g twenty cannot tell bolton said that he didn't pass the news of imminent arrests or present trauma to understand that you know president shouldn't be looking into every single detail or things going on with this about this is a big deal well it's like bill gates daughter being arrested in china for or so

fraud weiwei conducted in doing business with iran through a subsidy that i read i can't just like stop for a second to note is that companies like ericsson and samsung call so south to iran are being sanctioned and people are being arrested from them i mean this is hardly it's only always disappointed ical thing because you know the prosecution is very selective. i think we've sanctioned a lot of other countries. but i'm talking about companies i just gave you two examples some broad areas they're selling iraq i think wawa has a problem not just with the united states over the past several months they've been rejected in the u.k. in. new zealand australia japan is now in the process of thinking of doing away with wa is a five g. carrier so i think there's a lot of concern about chinese technology practices more broadly and i think that's one of the reasons we're beginning to see these trade talks kind of get traction because that i think the chinese chinese big is not that different from american big if you're ali baba or baidu or ten cent you want access to global markets china is onl

criminal the charge confirmed in a canadian court on friday fraud specifically using an unofficial weiwei subsidiary to do business with iran in violation of u.s. sanctions china's foreign ministry has condemned her arrests and demanded the evidence. she do what i can tell you is that not the canada nor the u.s. has provided any evidence to china that the person of the case is violated the laws of the two countries until now. canadian prosecutors acting on behalf of the u.s. argued against freeing man on bail saying her wealth made her an extreme flight risk while her lawyer said she'd never do anything to embarrass her family or her country in court filings the united states argued that mung was likely to flee to china if released on bail the united states believes that one way officials have been avoiding travel to the united states since april of two thousand and seventeen when they became aware of the investigation and furthermore that they had been moving u.s. based employees out of the country who could have been called to testify in the case that's why when they became aware of her

china and the united states well as i mentioned just now tied in with all this chinese telecom giant weiwei may be blocked from a german auction to develop high speed internet infrastructure the chief. exec was arrested in canada is just a while back his calls all the attention is now all this coming amid rising security concerns over the company's possible espionage activity for beijing now earlier a u.s. delegation reportedly visited berlin and held a closed door meeting at the german foreign ministry encouraging a boycott of weiwei the company's already been blocked from building high speed networks in the u.s. in australia and japan is also concerned about in the u.k. too for the u.k. secret service chief alex younger also voiced concern however germany's i.t. watchdog has expressed skepticism about all this because of the lack of evidence proving why wait spy activity. for such serious decisions like a ban you need proof. but of background about why it's the world's second biggest smartphone seller in germany it's the third most popular smartphone brand after apple and samsung let's ta

arrest in canada of the chief financial officer and daughter of the founder of the chinese giant weiwei she's now facing extradition to the u.s. over an alleged violation of sanctions on iran china is demanding her immediate release and called the detentions a violation of human rights this morning a case. where there was a sigh of relief when the u.s. president and his chinese counterpart agreed to a temporary truce to their trade spots last weekend but one december the first may have been denied diplomacy in argentina at the same time the u.s. was making moves which would take relations to new lows it involves one of china's leading telecoms firms weiwei the jewel in china's enviable tech industry and this is the c.f.o. of that company mung one joe who also happens to be the daughter of its founder she was taken into custody by canadian authorities on the very same day that she didn't paint and donald trump were giving the impression the better times were on the cards for their bilateral relations well monk now faces extradition to the u.s. and while u.s. authorities have not revealed

-thank you very much, ai weiwei. -thank you.comedian and writer hari kondabolu is no stranger to addressing tough topics like race and ethnicity. un he takes on the longng cartoon series "the simpsons" in his documentary titled, "the problem with apu." it explores how an indian convenience store ownerrs cao stereotypes. -the problem is we didn't have any other representation and that other dudey. no "that from 'heroes'on 'lost' and that dude that's in the apu documentary," no politicians or reporters ak and no whatever deep chopra is. this is all we had.d apu reflecte how america viewed us -- servile, devious, goofy. -and joining me now is hari kondabolu. so nice to have you here. -thanks for having me. -"the simpsons" was one of your favorite tv shows as a kid, and yet you were so frustrate. why? -apu is a convenience store owner, very one-dimensional, stereotypical, and at that time, soat's the only depictionh , specifically indian-americans. like, we didn't have anything else, and initially we were... usthink i was excited be

so i think both weiwei and multiple the chinese companies pose a threat to our national interests our national economic interests and our national security interests and the why we case what they're accused of here what she's accused of is violating the iran sanctions so at a minimum we should be doing to them what we did to z. t.-e. when they violated the sanctions law and which included not having access to american suppliers and i hope that will happen those who are encouraging the administration to do as soon as possible it's going to be said hastert is live for us in washington d.c. heidi this is an escalation every day at this point. that's right rachelle just the other day china had summoned canat canada's ambassador to complain about the arrest of mon and today china has taken the additional step of summoning the u.s. ambassador as well accompanying that summon is a strongly worded statement from the chinese foreign ministry it reads the u.s. side has seriously violated the legitimate rights and interests of chinese citizens and the nature of the violation is extremely bad the

thing is standing by for us in singapore she said asia correspondent andrea said more trouble for weiwei. this is a very interesting case unfortunately there is more trouble in camp we things are not looking good for me once and specifically she's requested. you know she's with us a bill of up to twelve million citing health reasons and she's even offered to put up two homes you couldn't do that amount ask electoral i know she says cuse of conducting business in iran for its telcos using ag and unofficial subsidiary called skype on monday while we and to top it all off japan it's not just announced that he will not be using o.e. as well as it to be quick and on its five g. networks will really icing on the cake. how are the chinese taking all of this andrea. clearly not very well and expected to be so that to beijing says canada has breached the bilateral agreement by failing to inform the consulate immediately after the arrest and apparently that is plenty of the agreements and the chinese authorities have also summoned the u.s. and canada as ambassadors demanding them to release her as

criminal the charge confirmed in the canadian court on friday fraud specifically using an unofficial weiwei subsidiary to do business with iran in violation of u.s. sanctions china's foreign ministry has condemned her arrests and demanded the evidence. you do what i can tell you is that not the canada nor the u.s. has provided any evidence to china that the person of the case is violated the laws of the two countries until now. canadian prosecutors acting on behalf of the u.s. argued against freeing man on bail saying her wealth made her an extreme flight risk while her lawyer said she'd never do anything to embarrass her family or her country in court filings the united states argued that mung was likely to flee to china if released on bail the united states believes that one way officials have been avoiding travel to the united states since april of two thousand and seventeen when they became aware of the investigation and furthermore that they had been moving u.s. based employees out of the country who could have been called to testify in the case that's why when they became aware of her

criminal the charge confirmed in the canadian court on friday fraud specifically using an unofficial weiwei subsidiary to do business with iran in violation of u.s. sanctions china's foreign ministry has condemned her arrests and demanded the evidence. you do what i can tell you is that not the canada nor the u.s. has provided any evidence to china that the person of the cases by the laws of the two countries until now. canadian prosecutors acting on behalf of the us argued against freeing mongan bail saying her wealth made her an extreme flight risk while her lawyer said she'd never do anything to embarrass her family or her country in court filings the united states argued that mung was likely to flee to china if released on bail the united states believes that walkway officials have been avoiding travel to the united states since april of two thousand and seventeen when they became aware of the investigation and furthermore that they had been moving u.s. based employees out of the country who could have been called to testify in the case that's why when they became aware of her travel to

a lot of the americans western allies have been called to attention to this fact and in fact the weiwei products have now been banned especially by the so-called americans are five are as you know the alliance of five nations the united states caliber australia new zealand in the united kingdom monitoring kind of military intelligence around the world targeting what is perceived as potential and tacking is to the united states so at the heart of it all is. this kind of. perceived china threat so it's a push back almost three hundred sixty degrees not only on trade up with the there are lots of trade practices from beijing or from china which have perceived to to cause problems but also on the military the south china sea technology of course as i mentioned before and also ideology a lot. but a stop in highlighted the negative aspects of the rise of china as a potential threat to the world order underpinned by american dominance. clearly sets up and lots to talk about in the next few minutes and well let's just take it as you say this in birmingham scott when it comes to predicting where

criminal the charge confirmed in the canadian court on friday fraud specifically using an unofficial weiwei subsidiary to do business with iran in violation of u.s. sanctions china's foreign ministry has condemned her arrests and demanded the evidence. she do what i can tell you is that not the canada nor the u.s. has provided any evidence to china that the person of the cases bottles of the two countries until now. canadian prosecutors acting on behalf of the u.s. argued against freeing mongan bail saying her wealth made her an extreme flight risk while her lawyer said she'd never do anything to embarrass her family or her country in court filings the united states argued that mung was likely to flee to china if released on bail the united states believes that one way officials have been avoiding travel to the united states since april of two thousand and seventeen when they became aware of the investigation and furthermore that they have been moving u.s. based employees out of the country who could have been called to testify in the case that's why when they became aware of her travel to

ambassador in beijing to protest the detention of an executive from chinese tech giant weiwei language oh was arrested in canada last week at the request of the us which accuses her of violating sanctions against iran the canadian courts are deciding whether to extradite her also closed in armenia's first parliamentary elections a landslide victory is expected for the acting prime minister nicolle the shinya it came to power in may after what was known as the delegate revolution he stepped down in october asking for a stronger mandate to govern so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more to come inside story is next. on the easy gathering the g.c.c. has met in saudi arabia but the blockade of the war in yemen at a journalist's moda overshadowed the summit can this powerful six nation block survive what does the future hold this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan leaders of officials from six gulf nations of met in the saudi capital riyadh to discuss cooperation from the economy to security but its regional disunity that's hanging over the summit