xijinping, on the international stage, very different.is in —— english interpreter was the highlight of my career and i've benefited from that experience ever since. i would say, china has changed profoundly over the past 30 or a0 years in china todayis the past 30 or a0 years in china today is a much larger, much more impactful and powerful country than under deng xiaoping. however, i would say, regardless of the fact that there are people in china especially out of china talking differently about xi jinping, i think xijinping in the differently about xi jinping, i think xi jinping in the current leadership of china are still moving in the same direction of reform and opening to the outside world. you keep using this word, reform, and i keep using this word, reform, and i keep challenging you. how can you cast it as reform, the degree to which xijinping is recreating cast it as reform, the degree to which xi jinping is recreating what looks to many like a cult of personality. his investing power not just in the centralised communist part

and place in osaka, japan injune when xi jinping and donald place in osaka, japan injune when xijinpingtrump are likely to meet. so it will be a fact being ——we will be affected by this trade warfor a while being ——we will be affected by this trade war for a while to come. earlier, i spoke to james green who until last year was the most senior us trade official at its embassy in beijing. asked if he agrees. i think consumers and producers will be both affected. also, the window of progress, whether presidents might be at the g20. it happened late last night ourtime, be at the g20. it happened late last night our time, the chinese delegation had invited the us team to go to beijing. as someone who's worked on us trade issues before, how contentious are these issues and how contentious are these issues and how can the two sides move on? none of the things being discussed will be new to the chinese side or the other side. what us officials see and experience, but as i said, a very workmanlike attitude, and the chinese side, to put things down on paper. trying to find a solution. they meet

is it xijinping decides because he's boss?rything and it is a black box. i think the best description is fragmented authoritarianism. you have an authoritarian structure where decision—making goes up through the standing committee to the president, who is now chairman of a whole series of what are called leaning small groups which makes policy. his problem is that below that there is this a vast anarchic unruly place in which he has to negotiate. and on this issue, it is a difficult position he finds himself in. how does he even present to himself his choices? very good question, but you have to look at his... he also needs public opinion and that is something people forget about in china. he has a slowing economy which is part of a fairly normal cycle, so he has to think, how do i get through the middle income trap? how do i keep various constituencies happy and how do i secure the future? they decided to secure with advanced technologies which is part of the war with the united states and they can bring to bear on that chall

that received a beautiful letterfrom his counterpart, xijinping. that is it for the show. i'm ben bland. the top stories. two years after the grenfell tower fire in west london, the government is to spend an estimated £200 million, on the replacement of dangerous cladding, on privately—owned high—rise buildings. there had been growing concerns that individual leaseholders would have to pay for the work, because some private landlords were not coming up with the money. but many fear the actual cost of removal will be much higher, as our home affairs correspondent tom symonds reports. flats in this block in bromley can cost up to £300,000, but it's now a fire risk and that means having someone on duty to raise the alarm if the worst happens. hugely expensive — so the flat owners do it themselves. we are on waking watch duty, 211/7, and we have been doing this for a year and a half to keep everybody safe. it will take seven minutes for the flames to reach the top. seven minutes for everyone to get out. so this is the escape route for the ninth floor of the building. there's t

china's president xijinping recently gave a speech pledging that china would move to embrace the worldese are two very lucky window cleaners in the us city of oklahoma. they were working 50 storeys up — that's over 250 metres — at the top of the city's tallest building, the devon tower, when their basket started swinging violently. the window cleaners acted with amazing composure, grabbing a rope thrown to them by fire—fighters to secure the basket. the crane smashed several windows before it was brought back under control. world leaders and heads of global technology companies have pledged at a paris summit to tackle terrorist and extremist violence online in what they called an "unprecedented agreement". the measures by amazon, google, microsoft, twitter and facebook were prompted in part by revulsion at the live streaming of the new zealand mosque attacks. prime ministerjacinda ardern welcomed the plans. never before have countries and tech companies come together in the way of an horrific attack to commit to an action plan that will deliver collaboratively work and new technology b

in 2018, last year, xijinping dozen or so years.jinping committed dozen or so years. in 2018, last year, xijinping committed another $60 billion to africa. well, we should never be complacent about our position but to answer your question very directly, yes, britain is a global power, we will remain a global power, we will remain a global power, we will remain a global power, let me tell you why. we are the second—biggest military spending in nato, we have the world's language, we organisations like the bbc that have reach across the world, and we have huge pool because britain is the country, alongside the united states, that really put together the international order that we now live in since 1945, the postwar world order that has been stunningly successful in delivering peace and prosperity to a far greater proportion of the human race then has ever experienced that before, but we have to work for it. in my message in africa, where incidentally we're in a country now whether uk is the largest investor, early in the week i was in

face—saving way for president sheeting being an president trump to say they have one and come forward —— xijinpinge of the young and square for china because of the young and square massacre anniversary for china because of the young and square massacre anniversary “— tiananmen. will donald trump through the whole kitchen sink on old chinese products entering the united states —— all? will they be under scrutiny and under tariffs?” states —— all? will they be under scrutiny and under tariffs? i think that he has made that clear that that he has made that clear that that will be part of his intent. and again, it's because of chinese behaviour. why are we even in this situation? how do we take a step back? i think it's by addressing some of the long—term concerns of not just the some of the long—term concerns of notjust the us, but many companies, asian companies have had about china and its unequal treatment of chinese companies. the oecd said it could affect 0.7% of global gdp by 2021, this is definitely a fair warning. affect 0.7% of global gdp by 2021, this is definitely a fair warninglj this is

a short while ago, president trump said he hopes to meet with chinese president xijinping next said heeet with chinese president xi jinping next month. said he hopes to meet with chinese president xi jinping next month. we are dealing with them and we have a good relationship. we'll be meeting at the g20 injapan and that will be probably a very fruitful meeting but we are taking on right now hundreds of billions of dollars. hundreds of billions of dollars of tariffs. the dispute hitting stocks in the united states. a big drops on financial markets here in new york and a big pa rt markets here in new york and a big part of it is that investors had really been pretty confident they we re really been pretty confident they were going to see a trade deal between china and the united states but clearly all that has changed. now the two sides seem very far apart. if you look specifically at the companies that saw some of these big falls here in the us, it's companies that are china focused so apple, for example, or boeing. these are companies that sell a lot to the chinese market and they wer

and talking a video that is, you have resident xijinping here on the financial times.stribute wealth there differently, maybe it is working on a different way? you could say that but this of course is a story with so but this of course is a story with so many different facets because on the surface we are talking about soybeans, we are talking about liquid natural gas, different items that are listed in all these reports about the trade wars. of course there are other stories coming to there are other stories coming to the fore, variants of this to, as well as the us's suspicion is a growing military power. this is why the us has been so forceful in trying to put china back in its box and trying to get china to obey — to more western rules as opposed to chinese rules. this is such a large story that, although we can talk about just the tariffs story that, although we can talk aboutjust the tariffs and stories like this, this is a story that on some level is going further. it's about ideology, isn't it? what we we re about ideology, isn't it? what we were just talking a

present trump is due to meet china's leader, xijinping, at the g20 meeting in june. first in this escalating trade war. laura trevelyan, bbc news, washington. an american explorer has set a new record for the deepest dive ever recorded in a submarine. victor vescovo dropped nearly seven miles into the mariana trench, in the pacific ocean, and spent nearly four hours exploring the sea floor. what he found there was astonishing — not only four new species, but also the mark of humanity's impact on the planet, as our science correspondent rebecca morelle reports. 0k, roger that. we'll go for a release. the start of an epicjourney. in the middle of the pacific, heading beneath the waves, to the deepest place on the planet, a sub with a titanium core built to withstand the crushing pressure. it takes 3.5 hours to plunge 11 km, that's seven miles, down. inside is american explorer victor vescovo. then... ..touchdown. at bottom. cheering. it seemed a bit like being on the moon. but a wet version of it. there were small critters here and there. there were slight undulations.

does it make it harderfor xijinping and action from trump?ng and his action from trump? does it make it harderfor xijinping and his team to actually concede? so, i think it makes it both harder and easier. i think this is what is happening. china was going to open up anyway, you saw that in terms of all the, probably all of your time in china, they were moving towards market reforms because they have to, growth is slowing down. but they were doing it very slowly. so when president trump announced these tariffs pretty abruptly, he could have had the europeans alongside the united states in forcing china to move faster, and that probably then tipped the chinese into the other side, which as we were doing this anyway, now we are not going to do it because we don't want to be seen as caving to the americans. i mentioned the europeans because what present trump did was pretty dramatic and you could see the reaction in business and markets. now we are at a position where the chinese know they have to open up more in these sectors, have better legal

china's president xijinping recently gave a speech pledging that china would move to embrace the worldn attitude. these are two very lucky window cleaners in the us city of oklahoma. they were working 50 storeys up — that's over 250 metres — at the top of the city's tallest building, the devon tower, when their basket started swinging violently. the window cleaners acted with amazing composure, grabbing a rope thrown to them by fire—fighters to secure the basket. the crane smashed several windows before it was brought back under control. the un says a pullout of houthi forces from three key ports on the west coast of yemen has been carried out. but there's still a lot more work to be done on implementing the rest of the peace deal reached last december between the yemeni government — backed by the saudi—led coalition — and houthis aligned to iran. the united nations special envoy for yemen has hailed the progress, saying "change is now a reality." but he warned the country's future remains on a knife edge. here's the bbc‘s lyse doucet, with more on the withdrawl process. the houthis sa

the south china morning post has comments by president xijinping, amid the country's trade war with theer technological innovation, for the good of its businesses. and arab news looks at the us saying it is seeing signs that the syrian regime may be using chemical weapons. the claims include an alleged chlorine attack on sunday in north—west syria. let's get more now on the post—election violence in indonesia. six people have been killed and 200 injured following mass rallies against the re—election of the country's president, joko widodo. indonesian police confirmed the death toll based on reports from hospitals. aaron connelly from the international institute for strategic studies says he was surprised by the level of violence. police knew that there were going to be protests as a result on tuesday night. it had been broadcast weeks in advance that the groups opposing presidentjokowi would take to the streets. they said they used rubber bullets, no live rounds, but there are videos of them firing rifles at protesters, so the real question is how the protesters died. and the big questi

but xijinping, the president of china, not so long ago talked about china's space stream.go, the chinese with a remarkably detailed, technical achievement, putting a rover on the other side of the moon, something that hadn't been done before. i mean, there are people in washington, dc extremely nervous about chinese intentions in space. do you think they've got a point? well, the chinese, i think, certainly pose a problem. i think the fact that they landed on the back side of the moon is not an extraordinary technological achievement, but some of the things that they may learn there will be extraordinary. some of the minerals, for example, that can be mined from the backside and brought back will be very, very valuable and i think... so, we in the united states, have to worry more about china as a competitor. how we overcome that, i don't know. i don't think we do it by increased tariffs, i think we have to somehow get the chinese and the russians, who inhabit this little, tiny, fragile, little planet, to join with us in friendly, not hostile space ventures. and when histo

the south china morning post has comments by president xijinping amid the country's trade war with the self—reliant and have greater technological innovation for the good of its businesses. and arab news looks at the us saying it is seeing signs that the syrian regime may be using chemical weapons. the claims include an alleged chlorine attack on sunday in northwest syria. a worrying development. six people have been killed and 200 injured in indonesia following mass rallies against the re—election of the country's president, joko widodo. indonesian police confirmed the death toll based on reports from hospitals. they said the cause of the deaths was being investigated. the protests erupted after official election results showed mr widodo had beaten his long—time rival prabowo subianto at the polls last month. with me is aaron l connelly, research fellow on southeast asian politics and foreign policy at the international institute for strategic studies. thank you forjoining us. were you surprised by the level of violence during these protest?” surprised by the level of violence during

there is talk of a phone call between president trump and his chinese counterpart, xijinping, i don'tbut it looks like the working meeting, the working dinner is done. there is talk of a call between the two leaders, to either sign off on any agreement that's been reached or to agree that the tariffs are going ahead. both sides of stepped back and they can't do a deal so we are waiting to see what comes out of washington dc on this thursday evening. just paint a picture of what is at stake of the world's two biggest economies. the imf, meant to ensure global financial stability, says this poses a threat to the global economy. because there is uncertainty and instability and all of that, it's not good, particularly if you are chinese or american businesses looking to sell to the united states or looking to invest here in china but what america's top politician sees as a decades long dispute essentially, subsidising their state—run entities, opening their markets enough to foreign companies including the americans and they have been stealing intellectual property are not offering protec

present trump is due to meet china's leader, xijinping, at the 620 meeting in june.uestion is, which leader blinks first in this escalating trade war. laura trevelyan, bbc news, washington. earlier, i spoke to jao—yin fung of the bbc‘s chinese service. she gave her reaction to the chinese retaliation. right, so after the us tariffs going up last friday, i feel like beijing might have felt pushed into a corner. it was a very strong response, especially to its domestic audience so on monday, on chinese state media, you could see strong state announcing china has fully prepared for a trade war with the us. the retaliation is far from unexpected and if you look at the language, the chinese tariffs will not kick in until the first of june which leaves the country's three weeks for renegotiations. but with this retaliation from the chinese, the united states is now planning tariffs of up to 25% on a further $300 billion worth of chinese imports, including cellphones and laptops. if this materialises, what does that mean for the chinese? indeed, that will become a full fron

it's leading with this photograph of chinese president xijinping and singapore president halimah yacobxi reportedly praised singapore as an example of a multicultural society co—existing in harmony. moving on to the japan times now, which reports on the ongoing us—china trade war. it has experts predicting beijing's latest retaliation against us tariff hikes could be detrimental to the chinese economy, leaving little room for manouvre. and finally, a report from the new york times features an lgbt film festival in tunisia — despite the fact that being gay is illegal in the country. it's put on by an organisation which advocates for the decriminalisation of homosexuality. now, what stories are sparking discussions online? an interesting online story about a child and rules football game? this is a match between two amateur australian rules football teams in victoria. keep an eye on the bottom right of the screen, where a little girl wearing a red jacket is about to make an unexpected entrance. she's two—year—old pippa biggs — and she was in danger of being flattened until one of the pla

is a question, because it is notjust xijinping government cosmic approach to trade with the united statesch to economics in general. and china's economy, certainly of private sector which has been the bellwether really of china's economic reduction over the last 30 or a0 years, —— eruption. it is flagging because china is giving primacy to the role of state owned enterprises and the role of the party in pretty much everything, the party in pretty much everything, the party has to be in the centre of pretty much everything in commerce and economic and social life. so if these tariffs stay in situ, and president trump is, extend them to other imports that have not yet been subjected to tariffs, i think china, both sides lose as i said, but i think china has more to lose because its economy is onlyjust stabilising after quite a serious downturn over the winter. and it can ill afford the winter. and it can ill afford the consequences of broken supply chains and loss of exports. george magnus from oxford university's china centre. the chancellor, philip hammond, says he‘s ‘very concerned‘ abou

president xijinping is meant to meet mr trump soon at mar a lago. suddenly, the tone has changed. what's going on? we're joined from new york by our business correspondent samira hussain. my my understanding is this was about to happen, we were about to get a trade deal. doesn't look its way this week. absolutely, and that is what we are hearing from the chinese delegation and the white house up until last week, that things were moving ina until last week, that things were moving in a positive direction. there were even talks about a joint signing ceremony by the month. now, we see these tweets from president trump and we are getting more understanding of perhaps what is happening. we heard from the us trade representative that are saying that, the chinese delegation has been reneging on some of the previously agreed to commitments. they were changing the language of the deal. and as a result, they expressed this frustration with the chinese delegation to president trump, and president trump then released the tweet on sunday, indicating that for by

yes, the chinese, president xijinping is meant to be coming to mar largo soon, and the hope is that hech. the chinese delegation supposed to land midweek. where is the money going on the royal baby names? not a given he would be styled as an hrh, his royal highness, there are rumours his official title could be this, the earl of dumbarton. the betting companies say there are plenty having a flutter on the first name as well. arthur at the moment leading five to one, l not far behind 6—1. —— leading five to one, l not far behind 6—1.—— mike leading five to one, l not far behind 6—1. —— mike albert not far behind. philip, 6—1,james, alexander, alfred are all popular as is charles, after his grandfather. by is charles, after his grandfather. by the way, i don't think they have to choose because i've done a bit of research here. and the duke of windsor, who i think was king... edward viii, he had seven names. here they are. his names were edward albert, and look at that third name, christian christian, george, andrew, patrick david. so, why choose when you can have seven names! just go wit

president trump says he has received a letterfrom xijinping saying both sides should work together toa deal. and up until a few days ago, the view had been that the trade negotiations were going well. but according to this from reuters, last friday, china sent a diplomatic cable with a new version of the deal. and commitments to change chinese laws to meet us demands had gone. america wants more protection against theft of intellectual property, better access to financial services and limits to currency manipulation. this wall streetjournal article says that cable was sent because china saw weakness in recent statements by president trump, and thought the us was willing to compromise. president trump has a different angle. a reference to the election next year. to make it more confusing still, china denies it's attempting to renegotiate at all. translation: the us has assigned lots of labels, such as backtracking, going back on one's word and so on, a lot of promises have been foisted on china. the chinese side has valued credibility and has kept its promises. the numbers in this stor

economic adviser has said there's a strong possibility that the president will with his counterpart, xijinpingonth. so perhaps that won't go ahead. this is good, on the telegraph, best before revolution to target £20 billion of food waste. the idea is that food which is just approaching its best before date will be taken off the shelves in advance and handed out to charities and resold to make sure there is less waste, and that in restaurants you might be offered a smaller portion for a lesser price, with any food waste and being handed out.|j spotted the same story, chips to face the chop. is that in a different paper? restaurants will serve smaller portions of chips and offer doggy bags to cut food waste. that is good, though, especially with the obesity crisis. sometimes i can't finish it, sol with the obesity crisis. sometimes i can't finish it, so i do take it home. chips aren't a treat for everyone, some people have too many chips. saving billions of meals, we waste 10.2 million tons of food every single year. well, 500 quid per household, that is not my household. we never put any food