in one of the most rapidly evolving cities on the planet. >>> when i first came to shanghai in the '70s, individ l individuality was unthinkable. all these years later i find the city is full of self-expression. women have reclaimed control of their appearance, their sexuality. and how they use it. >>> so, sex and love around the world continues this saturday and our finale is a double header with the shanghai episode at 10:00 p.m. eastern time and akra, ghana at 11:00 p.m. thank you for watching amanpour on pbs and join us for next time. ♪ ♪ ♪ (female speaker) support for "yoga in practice" is provided by the etv endowment of south carolina. ♪ ♪ welcome to "yoga in practice." my name is stacey, and i will be your teacher. please close your eyes and deepen your breath. we seem to always be in a rush, speeding here and there and feeling as if there's not enough time. this rapid pace of life compromises our well-being and ages us prematurely. yoga teaches us that the present moment is the only moment. this class will focus on the slow and steady practice

the bbc spoke to this man outside a donor centre in shanghai. he told us he pays people to donate, then he sells their certificates to needy patients, which they exchange for blood. it is illegal, and the government banned it last month. it is almost two weeks now since the rules changed, so we came back to the same blood centre in shanghai, and we‘ve been driving around for half an hour. and look who we‘ve seen hanging around outside — the same man, this time in red, in the same place. the era of blood traders outside centres doing deals is supposed to be over but there is still a problem inside and it‘s a big problem. there is not enough of this. only about 1% of chinese give blood. china had a reciprocal system. people could donate, they earn credit, they could give that to friends and family. but that‘s what gave rise to the blood traders, so the government banned it last month. in a village on the edge of beijing this month, that is good news. zaozao has a rare blood type, which she discovered when she was pregnant. she wants bett

the bbc spoke to this man outside a donor centre in shanghai. he told us he pays people to donate, then he sells their certificates to needy patients, which they exchange for blood. it is illegal, and the government banned it last month. it is almost two weeks now since the rules changed so we came back to the same blood centre in shanghai and we have been driving around for half an hour. and look who we have seen hanging around outside. the same man, this time in red, in the same place. 0nly man, this time in red, in the same place. only about 1% of chinese give blood. china had a reciprocal system. people could donate, they earn credit, they could give that to friends and family. but that‘s what gave rise to the blood traders, so the government banned it last month. ina the government banned it last month. in a village on the edge of beijing this month, that is good news. this woman has a rare blood type which she discovered when she was pregnant. she thinks an end to people shopping around for blood will encourage more donations. but that r

daniel riccardo of red bull has won the chinese grand prix in shanghai the australian had started sixth on the grid but stormed ahead in the final twenty laps to win by almost nine seconds almost an eternity in formula one racing good enough to beat out second place valtteri bottas of mercedes overall season leaders the bash in fact all suffered a minor collision and it off in eight as ricardo sixth career win and his first in shanghai that all still needs lead to the standings rather and riccardo springs into a fourth. time for some german soccer now byron munich wrapped up above his league title last weekend so they decided to rest some stars for their game against gladbach but the match was still important because biron were bidding to stay in the groove with a trouble on the line on gladbach are gunning for europe. flatpack fans were hoping a weakened by and would give their side an easy ride. defender jerome bowen saying was among those handed a well earned breather by the bundesliga champions nicholas zillah came into the starting eleven and enjoyed a difficult start he lost out i

one drug lords daniel worked hard oh almost didn't make it to qualifying has emerged victorious in shanghai. and welcome to the program the u.s. and its allies say they have no further plans to launch missile strikes on syria instead the white house says it's preparing new sanctions on russia for supporting the syrian regime what washington has warned its locked and loaded to act again if damascus carries out more gas attacks syria's president assad has said the western air strikes were based on a campaign of lies and the u.n. security council a bid there by russia to condemn the strikes has failed. just yesterday as u.s. led strikes on syria it was a war of words between russia and the united states in the united nations. a sign of cynical this day in a group of western countries decided to take military action without waiting for the results of the investigation russia condemns in the strongest possible terms the attack against syria through its actions the united states makes an already catastrophic humanitarian situation in syria even worse i spoke to the president this morning and he s

beef fresh from the nebraska prairies a seventeen tons shipment recently arrived at this shanghai meat importer that was before the escalation in trade tensions between china and the united states and the threat of new tariffs on u.s. beef the firm's boss initially feared the worst being left with a lot of expensive meat on which he'd make little or no profit. as well when we heard there might be a twenty five percent tariff we thought oh no we can't do business anymore. his concerns have subsided but he still faces another problem uncertainty so. we can only make plans when trade relations between china and the united states are stable that's why we're not totally sure how often and how much we should buy so far we've bought seventeen tons and sold two tons and if it really does come to a trade war it's going to be several more weeks before the new tariff on beef is applied and more young says he feels uneasy he will continue to import u.s. beef because he says they'll always be demand for what he regards as a quality product he just won't import so much of it instead he'll buy more f

now plastic from the river is slowly killing life in the east china sea and beyond the reports from shanghai. three generations of new ijaz family are out cleaning up plastic along the mouth of the yang z. river one of the worst spots in the world for plastic pollution. but. i'm here to protect the ocean there's a lot of trash on the beach we saw a video where turtle and held a straw and it bled a lot so when people try to help get the straw out of it's no littering endangered species. one of the biggest plastic consumers in the world china's numbers are staggering for instance package delivery services in two thousand and sixteen used fourteen billion the plastic bags and with the rapid increase of food delivery options it's estimated that sixty million plastic containers are used each day many cannot be recycled. one campaigner at the environmental group that organizes these volunteer cleanup outings says people seeing the pollution drives the message home alone. i think we can look beyond the numbers when we're talking about the marine waste to the public statistics of their abstract it's

seventeen ton shipment recently arrived at this shanghai meat importer that was before the escalation in trade tensions between china and the united states and the threat of new tariffs on u.s. beef the firm's boss initially feared the worst being left with a lot of expensive meat on which he'd make little or no profit. when we heard there might be a twenty five percent tariff we thought oh no we can't do business anymore. his concerns have subsided but he still faces another problem uncertainty. when we can only make plans when trade relations between china and the united states are stable that's why we're not totally sure how often and how much we should buy so far we've bought seventeen tons and sold two tons and if it really does come to a trade war it's going to be several more weeks before the new tariff on beef is applied and more young says he feels uneasy he will continue to import u.s. beef because he says they'll always be demand for what he regards as a quality product he just won't import so much of it instead he'll buy more from australia new zealand and canada young say

well this city shanghai is of course emblematic of china's economic achievements during the past forty years but it was in another part of china hina an island in the south of the country where president xi jinping on tuesday announced that he wanted to deepen economic reform in china he said he wanted to improve the investment environment for foreign companies doing business here but of course these were his first comments since the start of the current trade friction with the united states president xi jinping said china didn't want to seek a trade surplus children as young without we have a genuine desire to increase imports and achieve greater balance of international payments under the current atmosphere this year we will see how difficult it lowers the import tariffs for vehicles and also reduce tariffs for some other products we work hard to import more products that are competitive and are needed by our people these could be regarded as conciliatory words by president xi jinping but while there were plenty of promises there was very little in the way of details especially when

beef fresh from the nebraska prairies a seventeen ton shipment recently arrived at this shanghai meat importer that was before the escalation in trade tensions between china and the united states and the threat of new tariffs on u.s. beef the firm's boss initially feared the worst being left with a lot of expensive meat on which he'd make little or no profit. when we heard there might be a twenty five percent tariff we thought oh no he can't do business anymore. his concerns have subsided but he still faces another problem uncertainty. when we can only make plans when trade relations between china and the united states are stable that's why we're not totally sure how often and how much we should buy so far we've bought seventeen tons and sold two tons and if it really does come to a trade war it's going to be several more weeks before the new tariff on beef is applied and more young says he feels uneasy he will continue to import u.s. beef because he says they'll always be demand for what he regards as a quality product he just won't import so much of it instead he'll buy more from au

hamilton dejected, he knows the race is probably already lost with the last four in shanghai all one from pole and possibly the championship, too. no driver has failed to claim the title after winning the opening three races. we will finish in the premiership with wins for wasps and gloucester. leicester now faced with just two games left to get into the top four and secure a spot in the play—offs for a 1ath successive season. more excitement in rugby union. that said from sportsday for this evening. much more in the evening. goodbye for now. goodbye. good evening, what today it has been, the sort of spring day all of us been, the sort of spring day all of us have been waiting for. sunshine for every unit across the country, that‘s how we ended the day on the north coast. a beautiful scene. it was a north coast. a beautiful scene. it wasa similar north coast. a beautiful scene. it was a similar story in working as well. a little bit of low cloud here, spells of sunshine as well. most of us seeing a lot of sunshine, if it wannabe struggled to break the cloud across northern irelan

beef fresh from the nebraska prairies a seventeen tons shipment recently arrived at the shanghai meat importer that was before the escalation in trade tensions between china and the united states and the threat of new tariffs on u.s. beef the firm's boss initially feared the worst being left with a lot of expensive meat on which he'd make little or no profit on your order when we heard there might be a twenty five percent tariff we thought oh no we can't do business anymore. his concerns have subsided but he still faces another problem uncertainty. why when we can only make plans when trade relations between china and the united states are stable that's why we're not totally sure how often and how much we should buy so far we've bought seventeen tons and sold two tons and if it really does come to a trade war it's going to be several more weeks before the new tariff on beef is applied more young says he feels uneasy he will continue to import u.s. beef because he says they'll always be demand for what he regards as a quality product he just won't import so much of it instead he'll buy

beef fresh from the nebraska prairies a seventeen ton shipment recently arrived at this shanghai meat importer that was before the escalation in trade tensions between china and the united states and the threat of new tariffs on u.s. beef the firm's boss initially feared the worst being left with a lot of expensive meat on which he'd make little or no profit and. when we heard there might be a twenty five percent tariff we thought oh no we can't do business anymore. his concerns have subsided but he still faces another problem uncertainty. when we can only make plans when trade relations between china and the united states are stable that's why we're not totally sure how often and how much we should buy so far we bought seventeen tons and sold two tons and if it really does come to a trade war it's going to be several more weeks before the new tariff on beef is applied and more young says he feels uneasy he will continue to import u.s. beef because he says they'll always be demand for what he regards as a quality product he just won't import so much of it instead he'll buy more from a

tons of plastics into the sea each year through some of china's biggest cities the last one here in shanghai before it meets the east china sea and then the plastic makes its way to the pacific ocean nature magazine recently reported that what's known as the great pacific garbage patch is much larger than previously thought twice the size of france and containing seventy nine thousand tons of plastic china's environmental protection ministry admits there's a big problem and recently announced that a restructuring plan is in the works. to plan that will create better conditions for fighting the battles against pollution and improving ecological environment we're obliged responsible and have every reason to do a better job in coming days. and the pace of that job needs to quicken as scientists predict that if the flow of plastic into the oceans is not slowed by two thousand and fifty the amount of plastic in the oceans will outweigh the fish it's got hotter al-jazeera shanghai but more of course on our website. is the address all the news we're covering and plenty of comment and then. all righ

beef fresh from the nebraska prairies a seventeen ton shipment recently arrived at the shanghai meat importer that was before the escalation in trade tensions between china and the united states and the threat of new tariffs on u.s. beef the firm's boss initially feared the worst being left with a lot of expensive meat on which he'd make little or no profit. when we heard there might be a twenty five percent tariff we thought oh no we can't do business anymore. his concerns have subsided but he still faces another problem uncertainty. when we can only make plans when trade relations between china and the united states are stable that's why we're not totally sure how often and how much we should buy so far we've bought seventeen tons and sold two tons and if it really does come to a trade war it's going to be several more weeks before the new tariff on beef is applied and more young says he feels uneasy he will continue to import u.s. beef because he says they'll always be demand for what he regards as a quality product he just won't import so much of it instead he'll buy more from au

and fast the people keep the shanghai life in the mega city. below. zero max this week's time. enjoying the spring in a house but this influx. celebrates in calif the parade of flowers in midday if. you're over. thirteen of dublin. as you accidentally shed some. truly. stunning time in the field. how can you get out. with him could own serious. shit this week on t.w. . we make up of what we watch as the cost of the fund budget we are the seven seven percent. they want to shrink the continent's future to. enjoin african youngsters as they share their stories their dreams and their challenges. the seventy seven percent to twenty w.'s platform of africa is charging . us president donald trump says a meeting with north korean leader kim jong un could take place in the next three or four weeks he said it would focus on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula and he was cautiously optimistic about the outcome adding that whatever happens happens.

yangtze river is the only killing marine life in east china sea and beyond it's got highly reports from shanghai. three generations of new ijaz family are out cleaning up plastic along the mouth of the gang's the river one of the worst spots in the world for plastic pollution. but. i'm here to protect the ocean there's a lot of trash on the beach we saw a video where turtle inhaled a straw and it bled a lot when people try to help get the straw out of its nose littering endangered species. one of the biggest plastic consumers in the world china's numbers are staggering for instance package delivery services in two thousand and sixteen used fourteen billion the plastic bags and with the rapid increase of food delivery options it's estimated that sixty million plastic containers are used each day many cannot be recycled. one campaigner at the environmental group that organizes these volunteer cleanup outings says people seeing the pollution drives the message home alone. i think we can look beyond the numbers when we're talking about the marine waste to public statistics of their abstract it's eas

beef fresh from the nebraska prairies a seventeen ton shipment recently arrived at the shanghai meat importer that was before the escalation in trade tensions between china and the united states and the threat of new tariffs on u.s. beef the firm's boss initially feared the worst being left with a lot of expensive meat on which he'd make little or no profit on your door when we heard there might be a twenty five percent tariff we thought oh no we can't do business anymore. his concerns have subsided but he still faces another problem uncertainty that only. when we can only make plans when trade relations between china and the united states are stable that's why we're not totally sure how often and how much we should buy so far we've bought seventeen tons and sold two tons and if it really does come to a trade war it's going to be several more weeks before the new tariff on beef is applied and more young says he feels uneasy he will continue to import u.s. beef because he says they'll always be demand for what he regards as a quality product he just won't import so much of it instead

what correspondent jim brown reports from china from shanghai. it's freezing inside this storage room it has to be the boxes contain prime u.s. beef fresh from the nebraska prairies a seventeen ton shipment recently arrived at this shanghai meat importer that was before the escalation in trade tensions between china and the united states and the threat of new tariffs on u.s. beef the firm's boss initially feared the worst being left with a lot of expensive meat on which he'd make little or no profit. when we heard there might be a twenty five percent tariff we thought oh no he can't do business anymore. his concerns have subsided but he still faces another problem uncertainty. we can only make plans when trade relations between china and the united states are stable that's why we're not totally sure how often and how much we should buy so far we've bought seventeen tons and sold two tons and if it really does come to a trade war it's going to be several more weeks before the new tariff on beef is applied and more young says he feels uneasy he wil

thousand and fifty the amount of plastic in the oceans will outweigh the fish it's got to al jazeera shanghai the canadian prime minister was one of hundreds of people who paid tribute to an ice hockey team at a vigil in the town of humboldt fifteen people died including ten players when they team bus crash in the province of saskatchewan the police are still trying to work out what caused it i don't want to be here. i'm sure. it's good that we are. friday i don't want to go to the game my but my kids beg me to go to the hockey game we travelled up and arrived at the scene shortly after the bus. and walked up on the scene and i never want to see again. to sound like everyone here again. to greet chris. and just feel so lost. this is al jazeera these are the top stories syrian military sources have told its state media that missiles which have hit one of the country's major airfields were launched from israel the state t.v. says several people were killed at the t. four base in the province of homs the airstrike comes hours after the u.s. president wondered consequences for a suspected chemica

the shanghai and shenzhen connectors would be quadrupled. the caps on foreign ownership of chinese banks would be removed. oferlying the strengthening what he said would be a wide opening of the financial sector. chinese policymakers on the reform side have long argued they are getting more foreign players involved, will help in transparency and in terms of generally the competition in the sectors. it is the second time he has speak and in public -- spoken in public. surplus, about the which is something of a bugbear for president trump. the u.s. have asked china to reduce their trade. take a look at what yi gang had to say about the surplus. >> the trade imbalance between the u.s. and china is a complicated issue, a structural problem. china is on one end of the value added chain. you have to look at this from a multilateral perspective, rather than the usual bilateral solution. tom: he said the insurance sector, there would be changes. foreign ownership to be changed to 51%. president xi reiterating those policies around autos. we are expe

tons of plastics into the sea each year through some of china's biggest cities the last one here in shanghai before it meets the east china sea and then the plastic makes its way to the pacific ocean nature magazine recently reported that what's known as the great pacific garbage patch is much larger than previously thought twice the size of france and containing seventy nine thousand tons of plastic china's environmental protection ministry admits there's a big problem and recently announced that a restructuring plan is in the works. the plan will create better conditions for fighting the uphill battles against pollution and improving ecological environment we're obliged responsible and have every reason to do a better job in coming days. and the pace of that job needs to quicken as scientists predict that if the flow of plastic into the oceans is not slowed by two thousand and fifty the amount of plastic in the oceans will outweigh the fish it's got hotter al-jazeera shanghai. side al jazeera dot com is the address all the stories we're covering and plenty of comment and analysis to. so i

so that cold air continuing its journey southwards as we head through the next few days for now the shanghai is fairly warm twenty seven degrees the winds are feeding up from the south so really feeling quite mild for us but it will change as we head through the next few days as shanghai even by the time we get to wednesday will only be getting to around twenty one for the southeastern parts of asia plenty of showers here as you might expect but force in the philippines not looking too bad looking mostly dry. tracing the form from prosperity to financial ruin this is precisely the movement where we humanized that nothing was first broke the story the devastating impact to save the banks means also to save the deposit simple ordinary citizen and the failure to prevent disaster and political leaders of the people who need to to live in this gora from democracy to the markets on al-jazeera. you're watching al jazeera let's recap the top stories for you right now hospitals in gaza are struggling to cope with the palestinians injured by israeli troops fire at the border on friday fifteen people w

beef fresh from the nebraska prairies a seventeen ton shipment recently arrived at this shanghai meat importer that was before the escalation in trade tensions between china and the united states and the threat of new tariffs on u.s. beef the firm's boss initially feared the worst being left with a lot of expensive meat on which he'd make little or no profit and. when we heard there might be a twenty five percent tariff we thought oh no we can't do business anymore. his concerns have subsided but he still faces another problem uncertainty so. we can only make plans when trade relations between china and the united states are stable that's why we're not totally sure how often and how much we should buy so far we've bought seventeen tons and sold two tons and if it really does come to a trade war it's going to be several more weeks before the new tariff on beef is applied and more young says he feels uneasy he will continue to import u.s. beef because he says they'll always be demand for what he regards as a quality product he just won't import so much of it instead he'll buy more from

in shanghai. there are more millionaire women in shanghai than any other women in china, and they're doing great except on the field of love and intimacy, because they don't know what it means to date. they haven't had that experience. so i was there in a dating tutorial. these two girls wanted to know how to date men. what to dress, how to be. even though they were successful professionals and had a high level of education. >> it's so fascinating. and you also go to ghana. it's so different from china, of course. what did you learn there? >> we went to the capital, lacroix, and ghana is one of the successful african nations. it's very progressive, relatively, in terms of politically and culturally. it also calls itself one of the most religious capitals in the world. it's true, on every corner you see a temple or a mosque or most likely a christian church, a holdover from all the sort of christianity that came with missionary and beyond. but in any event, there is a whole spectrum of love, myster

shanghai the epitome of the chinese dream. everything is higher. and faster than the people keep shanghai lives in the mega city limits double. time for an upgrade. from the church grows all by. us with. design highlights you can make yourself. some tricks that will turn your home into something special. a brace yourself with d. w.'s interior design channel on you tube. the dangerous battle for images five women. five exceptional stories. one calling more photography dramatic pictures from the frontlines capturing faithful moments in time and even risking death. she gave her life to tell us stories of people who ended up killing. women more photographers starting may third on t.w. . business g w news live from vogue and the european union is ready to react to u.s. trade trips german chancellor angela merkel has been lobbying president trump in recent days in a bid to change exemptions for the european union now in germany france and britain say they'll move to the fish and sea and st if they all hit spiky contentiously crippling that it's also on t

i'm scott either in shanghai or one organization is teaching about the damage of plastic because the nearby yangtze river puts the most plastic in the world's oceans been any other river. and rafael nadal's winning return from injury but is it enough to get spain into the davis cup semifinals will tell us in school. hello there the storms are mostly clearing away from north america now they've been over texas louisiana mississippi and now edging away across parts of florida and georgia as well they're just really clinging on to florida as we head through the day on monday and perhaps one or two a bit further north around the east coast but away from there it's largely fine and dry but what we are seeing is that it's not as warm as it might be safer chicago will get to around five degrees and it will be a good deal of cloud around times two that gradually clears away though as we head through the day on tuesday and chicago should see the temperatures rise a little bit higher towards the west the next system is we're rolling in here from the pacific so some of us are going to have some

on scott high there in shanghai where one organization is teaching about the damage of plastics because the nearby getting sea river puts the most plastic in the world's oceans than any other river. stop drop and roll the wheels fall off for one driver at the latest cynical race. what makes this moment this era we're living for so unique this is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important. to publish it. to be offensive or provokes it's all about the nice people do. setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. discover. programming from around the globe challenge your perception but i was hearing sounded so far fetched that i thought there were five behold it was true groundbreaking documentary. fearless journalism life let me. see the world from a different perspective on al-jazeera. everybody in the longest river in asia has become one of the world's most polluted the young sea has long been a lifeline for millions of chinese but now plastic from the ri

i'm scott hi there in shanghai where one organization is teaching about the damage of plastics because the nearby yangtze river puts the most plastic in the world's oceans than any other river. and install stop drop and roll the wheels fall off for one driver at the latest in the car race. china's big brother is always watching at home and abroad. one on one east investigates how far china will go to control its citizens. on our visit. i sometimes feel that we're really looking into the hearts and the souls of those directly involved in offense taking place very good at telling all sides of the story from the political elite to those people who think that you really get to know what's happening on the ground that's very important for me as a third generation past that can often feel that my continent is misrepresented and we've changed that your story is important to us it doesn't matter where you come from getting to the heart of the matter if the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification would lo

the shanghai composite a top performer of 2%. an open book for the first time facebook is revealing his secret rules for heuser posts. what the company says crosses the line. uber of china steps on the gas. china's radio giant reportedly in talks to go public or the jaw-dropping valuation for this company. mitt romney gets jazzed up. the senate hopeful making a scene at utah's game against the thunder. his solaris font against superstar russell westbrook. joining me to

that word has haunted stocks in shanghai for the past year and a half. they have underperformed the rest of the world and almost every benchmark in the world since january. importantly, that is what orchids have been focusing on. that theyrong signal are willing to ease policy. since then it has been all about tightening and deleveraging and decreasing risk in the financial sector. rishaad: quickly, i'm going to bring up this chart, 6495. you can look up the charts on the bloomberg terminal, gtv . this is what we have, the msci world index and turquoise. chinese market, beginning of february, lower. it has beene underperforming, then does fantastically well. >> let's put this into context. stocks did lose $1 trillion since january, so it is a little rebound. we saw stocks outperforming everything else yesterday. it was a bad day in the u.s., spilling into this morning, but at one point it was the biggest rally in large caps since 2016, so markets are taking this as a big signal that the beijing put i -- the timing is quite important. it is the first

london-shanghai stock connection would be executed this year. stock connect would be quadrupled, as well. the insurance sector, president xi talking foreign ownership fees would be increased to 51%. and again, trying to articulate this message laid out by president xi to the financial sector in particular, would be opened up more to foreign investments in foreign players. speech didi's something to ease tensions around the rhetoric. it was welcomed by president trump. he tweeted he was thankful to president xi. president xi had crafted this message as a nod to president trump, even if what he was saying when he delivered it was nothing new. yi gang is adding more details around timeline and implementation that have been key to vest -- key to investors. whether this will be enough is a key question. focused on the financial sector, intellectual property will have to wait. this move things along to a degree. haidi: tom, thank you for that. tom mackenzie in beijing keeping an eye on comments from the pboc governor, yi gang, speaking on this panel a

beef fresh from the nebraska prairies a seventeen ton shipment recently arrived at this shanghai meat importer that was before the escalation in trade tensions between china and the united states and the threat of new tariffs on u.s. beef the firm's boss initially feared the worst being left with a lot of expensive meat on which he'd make little or no profit. when we heard there might be a twenty five percent tariff we thought oh no he can't do business anymore. his concerns have subsided but he still faces another problem uncertainty so it was that for me to go when we can only make plans when trade relations between china and the united states are stable that's why we're not totally sure how often and how much we should buy so far we bought seventeen tons and sold two tons and if it really does come to a trade war it's going to be several more weeks before the new tariff on beef is applied and more young says he feels uneasy he will continue to import u.s. beef because he says they'll always be demand for what he regards as a quality product he just won't import so much of it instea

beef fresh from the nebraska prairies a seventeen ton shipment recently arrived at the shanghai meat importer that was before the escalation in trade tensions between china and the united states and the threat of new tariffs on u.s. beef the firm's boss initially feared the worst being left with a lot of expensive meat on which he'd make little or no profit. when we heard there might be a twenty five percent tariff we thought oh no he can't do business anymore. his concerns have subsided but he still faces another problem uncertainty. when we can only make plans when trade relations between china and the united states are stable that's why we're not totally sure how often and how much we should buy so far we've bought seventeen tons and sold two tons and if it really does come to a trade war it's going to be several more weeks before the new tariff on beef is applied and more young says he feels uneasy he will continue to import u.s. beef because he says they'll always be demand for what he regards as a quality product he just won't import so much of it instead he'll buy more from au

beef fresh from the nebraska prairies a seventeen ton shipment recently arrived at the shanghai meat importer that was before the escalation in trade tensions between china and the united states and the threat of new tariffs on u.s. beef the firm's boss initially feared the worst being left with a lot of expensive meat on which he'd make little or no profit. when we heard there might be a twenty five percent tariff we thought oh no he can't do business anymore. his concerns have subsided but he still faces another problem uncertainty so he was at one meeting when we can only make plans when trade relations between china and the united states are stable that's why we're not totally sure how often and how much we should buy so far we've bought seventeen tons and sold two tons and if it really does come to a trade war it's going to be several more weeks before the new tariff on beef is applied and more young says he feels uneasy he will continue to import u.s. beef because he says they'll always be demand for what he regards as a quality product he just won't import so much of it instea

and fast a lot of people keep the shanghai life in the megacity. may the fourteenth one thousand nine hundred forty eight the state of israel is founded. for the jews it's the end of two thousand years of exile. for the palestinians it's the day they lost their loved. ones in forty eight jewish dream arab not the creation of israel. in forty five minutes on t.w. . global inequality. what does inequality mean. connected well. to the media. joining a discussion and half. as global media forum claims eighty. time for an upgrade. upfront your clothes all buy. a house with. poor design highlights you can make yourself. trends tips and tricks that will turn your home to something special. a great yourself with d w's interior design channel on youtube. this city is a pulsating symbol of china's rise to a superpower on the world stage. the. future self confident elegant and constantly expanding here in shanghai with its twenty four million inhabitants the world moves faster.

robin brant, bbc news, shanghai. the retailer sears was once as much a part the american landscape as the rocky mountains. until their business empire started to crumble. the company's ceo said last week that it was fighting to survive, after a merger with rival kmart failed to spark a turnaround. what's happened instead is a tale of an icon in decline, as mat morrison reports. advertisement: put an end to traffic fears, it's very easy to get to sears. sears' appliance spectacular. sears, where america shops for value. it was the american retailer for much of the 20th century, an amazon for its age, sears sold everything under the sun, from homegoods to actual houses. at one time, it was the world's largest retailer in terms of sales, profit and employees. it was the number — fourth employer in this company. starting as a mail—order watch company, sears branched out to brick and mortar stores — hundreds of them. the heyday of sears occurred right after world war two, that's a period of post—war optimism in th

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we have that on the back foot, leading base metals lower in shanghai. while aluminum would be hit most by u.s. tariffs, the sense is that the impact will be limited because the targets are finished products and alloys. aluminum could be under pressure as stockpiles in shanghai are expected to increase when data is released. let's check on the mood in shanghai. you do have the benchmark coming off of the session high. taking a look at the leaders on the benchmark, you have appetite for domestic oriented players, gaining 2.5%. we have some carmakers on the way up. i.c. motor gaining almost 2%. movers, theher laggards. we have some defense stocks under pressure. aecc aviation gaining ground. defense was one sector targeted on the u.s. tariff list. overall, investors keeping their heads about them in the wake of the u.s. tariff list. rishaad: to get more on this and get to our beijing bureau chief -- the object is here seem to be manyfold, don't they? ken: right. so, the trump administration wants to push back on what it sees as decades of chinese theft of

all this week history was made when the shanghai international energy exchange launched the first crude futures contracts priced in chinese renminbi or you on it is an attempt to turn the global oil market on its head but china the world's biggest oil importer buys around nine million barrels of oil every day and it wants to use its own currency to price the world's most traded commodity you've heard of petro dollars but what about petro you on the u.s. dollar has been the main currency for oil futures contracts so launching a contract in its domestic currency is a sign that china wants to you want to play a bigger role in global oil trading china's also taking on the world's most used oil benchmarks brant and w.t. i crude which are both priced in dollars but shanghai traded oil is still far away from earning benchmark status and taking on the petro dollar won't be easy we're joining us now from london is made an asia analyst and vice president of research at energy aspects thanks very much for being with us so first off what does this mean then for the major oil producers particularly

robin brandt, bbc news, shanghai. president trump has tweeted it's not a trade war, but i asked our asia business correspondent karishma vaswani what is it, if not a war? it is a public negotiation over the terms and conditions of how the world's two largest economies are going to do business with one another from now on. if you look at the tariffs that each side has said it wants to place on products from the other side, they have targeted politically sensitive products, with china targeting agricultural products from the united states. that hits american farmers. and the us targeting products in industries, innovative industries, that china says it was to be a leader and in the next decade. but they have not put these tariffs into place yet. nothing has gone into effect yet, sharanjit. that this is a negotiation tactic on both sides have actually said that they want to keep talking before any of this actually comes into effect. the commonwealth games are getting underway on australia's gold coast. the prince of wale

robin brant reports from shanghai. in just 2a hours, both the united states and china have laid out plans to hit each other‘s exports. the us has a long list, around 1,300 items, including ovens and flamethrowers. the punishment is in response to claims that china has stolen its intellectual property. it is also about the decades—old policy of forcing foreign firms to share their technology when they invest here in china. china, though, is targeting far fewer products, and it looks like it wants to cause more pain. soy beans, corn, cotton, beef, tobacco are all on the list. soy bean alone is a multibillion—dollar import business to china. these measures would hit specific farming areas of the us hard, but china insists it doesn't want a trade war. translation: frankly speaking, the challenges we are facing today are huge, for sure, because of the scale of the trade volumes, as you can see. however, china's stance has been clear—cut. we don't want a trade war, because the result will only be a no—win situation

shanghai's dramatic skyline is a symbol of the economic reforms that began in china forty years ago but president xi jinping chose another part of the country to announce a deepening of those reforms the setting for his speech was the bar forum on the island of hina a key diplomatic event and so the perfect setting for an important policy announcement. an announcement that sought to soothe foreign investors now worried about a trade war between china and the united states generally see among for that this year we will significantly lower the import tariff for vehicles and also reduce tariffs for some other products we will work hard to import more products that are competitive and are needed by our people she wouldn't say how big the cuts would be over when they would happen but reducing such tyrus are one of president trump's main demands and the chinese leader may have had trump in mind when he warned against a cold war mentality and protectionist policies the disadvantage china almost sure i'll find out what yeah we hope that the developed countries will stop imposing the limits i do

the bbc spoke to this man outside a donor centre in shanghai. he told us he pays people to donate, then he sells their certificates to needy patients, which they exchange for blood. it is illegal, and the government banned it last month. it is almost two weeks now since the rules changed, so we came back to the same blood centre in shanghai, and we've been driving around for half an hour. and look who we've seen hanging around outside — the same man, this time in red, in the same place. the era of blood traders outside donation centres across china, waiting for patients, doing deals is supposed to be over but there is still a problem inside and it's a big problem. there is not enough of this. only about 1% of chinese give blood. china had a reciprocal system. people could donate, they earn credit, they could give that to friends and family. but that's what gave rise to the blood traders, so the government banned it last month. in a village on the edge of beijing this month, that is good news. zaozao has a rare blood type, which she discovered

robin brant is in shanghai. robin, that is slightly ahead of the chinese government target, as it were. tell us more about how china is doing? the overall target the 2018 6.5%, marking a continued growth but a decelerating rate of the chinese economy. 6.8 is what we got in the back of the 2017, yet again very consistent. in these figures we see for instance on the retail sales side that ticking upjust on the retail sales side that ticking up just about 10% for the first three months, that seems to suggest that the government ‘s plasma desire to see the economy here move towards one driven very much by consumer demand continues to be on track. online retail sales continue to explode, up 35%. that sector doubled in size every two to three years. much of this growth came from the industrial side, we saw a bit of an uptake in the first three months thanks to the ending of some tougher environmental regulations at the end of last year. —— we saw a bit of an uptick. there isa —— we saw a bit of an uptick. th

lim li, live from shanghai, thank you. the fate of thousands of people from the commonwealth who arrived in the uk legally as children has been the subject of an urgent diplomatic meeting today. despite having lived here and worked and paid taxes for decades, many now face possible deportation due to a lack of official paperwork. our community affairs correspondent, adina campbell, has been listening to some of their stories. grandfather michael braithwaite moved from barbados to the uk when he was nine. but last year while working as a special needs teaching assistant the 66—year—old was let go because he couldn't provide proof of his legal living status. when you heard the words, illegal immigrant, how did that make you feel?|j heard the words, illegal immigrant, how did that make you feel? i fell to pieces inside, i didn't actually feel it externally until i came home andi feel it externally until i came home and i sat down and i cried. and how has it been over the last two years 01’ has it been over the last two