sixteen spare parts to a certain location very close to beijing that beijing does not feel comfortable about well the president is somebody who has a history of going hard against a country and a country leader and then turning around and befriending them witness of course. what happened north korea where just a little over a year ago the president was referring to the north korean leader as a little rocket man and now he's chairman kim and he's somebody with whom the president says he is happy to have a good relationship the same is true with china's president for life the president even yesterday in the midst of his comments about the trade war said that he thought that he had a good relationship and certainly hopes to have one with china's leader so the president oftentimes uses these trade wars and other conflicts military conflicts and disagreements as a way to bring his trading partners to the table to negotiate and don't be surprised if the president at some point. goes back to the table and has significant discussions with china and then comes to agreement with china on what is

and he selling hard. president xi have the opening speech in beijing and he selling hardm isa in beijing and he selling hardm is a big dealfor africa, if you've been to an african city in ten years the skyline has changed. africa is known to be one large chinese construction project. the numbers back it up. so you talked about trade, it peaked at about $220 billion a few years back, mostly driven by oil prices, and the prices of machinery. africans buying machinery from china and china buys oil. it goes beyond that. if you look at the scale of infrastructure in africa that is being funded, you see that china is the single largest financialfunder of see that china is the single largest financial funder of infrastructure gci’oss financial funder of infrastructure across the continent, bigger than eve ryo ne across the continent, bigger than everyone else combined, so it is a big dealfor africa. everyone else combined, so it is a big deal for africa. and president xi talking about the 1—.3 billion chinese people who will work with the1-.2 chinese people who will work with the 1—.2 bil

he spent fourteen months in jail for attempting to recruit spies for beijing a charge he continues to deny today so holmes so that once will that be it among alleged collaborators being shown when we meet again it's at a hastily called press conference. his father and two members of his political party have just been indicted and are awaiting trial we'll let you see what the reason for that but you can see what you mean or what we've done you know it's also the wisdom of god i don't think you go that. wasn't what i wanted. but prosecutors insist the three politicians took money from the chinese communist party with former student joe home shoes acting as a middleman. the national chain she university is where he caught his postgraduate degree. joe declined our request for an interview but we managed to speak to a former exchange student at one of taiwan's other universities she's asked that we hide her identity. joe you're a whole horrible evil sleazy all wrong overall solution for hashimoto's four. hundred one. coming out swords are going to naples on hold the real. amy says she quic

sixteen spare parts to a certain location very close to beijing that beijing does not feel comfortable about well the president is somebody who has a history of going hard against a country and a country leader and then turning around and befriending them witness of course. what happened north korea were just a little over a year ago the president was referring to the north korean leader as a little rocket man and now he's chairman kim and he's somebody with whom the president says he is happy to have a good relationship the same is true with china's president for life the president even yesterday in the midst of his comments about the trade war said that he thought that he had a good relationship and certainly hopes to have one with china's leader so the president oftentimes uses these trade wars and other conflicts military conflicts and disagreements as a way to bring his trading partners to the table to negotiate and don't be surprised if the president at some point. goes back to the table and has significant discussions with china and then comes to agreement with china on what is

sixteen spare parts to a certain location very close to beijing that beijing does not feel comfortable about well the president is somebody who has a history of going hard against a country and a country leader and then turning around and befriending them witness of course the what happened north korea were just a little over a year ago the president was referring to the north korean leader as a little rocket man and now he's chairman kim and he's somebody with whom the president says he is happy to have a good relationship the same is true with china's president for life the president even yesterday in the midst of his comments about the trade war said that he thought that he had a good relationship and certainly hopes to have one with china's leader so the president oftentimes uses these trade wars and other conflicts military conflicts and disagreements as a way to bring his trading partners to the table to negotiate and don't be surprised if the president at some point. goes back to the table and has significant discussions with china and then comes to agreement with china on what

chan denies accusations he wants to foment violence but he accuses beijing that eroding freedoms in hong kong and says the only way for the territory to get full democracy is to break away from china caused. he says he was inspired to set up his party after the failure of what became known as the umbrella protest movement back in twenty fourteen demonstrators there also accuse china every meeting on a promise supposed ptolemy and interfering too much in the running of pan kong. but china and its supporters such as these demonstrators in hong kong last month i determined to take a hard line beijing says it will be no tolerance for any groups advocating for separation from the mainland it say's such acts should and will be punished. but joining me here the big table is bernhard barnes she is a senior asia analyst at the battle's mint foundation here in for a live bernhard's going to have you back on the show you know this is the first time we've seen a political party banned in hong kong i mean what does. tell us about the state of democracy or the state of hong kong's freedoms now and sho

in beijing the plan is to have a local community practice within thirty minutes of every home. this is station and community health center in north beijing saving about fifty thousand local inhabitants. the reforms to provide basic medical services that people who want to use without having to wait days or weeks for appointments. this will help to keep the costs of china's health care. are. if you. at all they. are. your body that oh yes i i like jim a delicious young saudi i think i may. try to. find out i. seventy five year old mrs dole lives five minutes away. she has just had a heart bypass in a specialist hospital. but where once she would have returned to the hospital for her follow up appointments and rehabilitation now she's treated here at her local practice by dr goh. he ought to be of that you know you didn't go there did you little fool. yes we had it they yeah i wasn't here but yeah yeah i kind of want to live in. lagos which he had me. see says yeah. i'll. talk to go is one of a new wave of specially trained general practitioners providing a level of primary care

now rush hour in china's capital beijing used to mean streets crammed with bicycles but the nation's spectacular economic growth in the past three decades has seen people swap two wheels for forts and that in turn is a huge demand to learn how to drive also w. news went to visit a driving school where as with everything else in china they think not just big but huge. thousands of gleaming cars wait in neat rows. for the first bus loads of learners and teachers to arrive from all over beijing at six thirty in the morning they're welcomed by music blaring from loudspeakers. a typical morning at the world's biggest driving school with more than two hundred thousand students a year do you know is one of them her instructors starts by showing her how to shut the door properly she's already worried about driving in beijing i don't want to say to her friends of the traffic jams and pedestrians who cross the road at a red light and don't follow the rules of the drive us who believe to get us and push and. measured how we challenge. around six million cars crawl along beijing's traffic arteri

has to bear the consequences so some strong words coming out of beijing russia's also reacted to this new round of sanctions russia's top diplomat sergei lavrov has said that while there is nothing new in that russia is learning how to live with that and how to reduce and will eventually get rid of its dependency on the united states and especially on exchanges in dollar and but also what is what is happening here is washington is saying that it is mostly russia that it is being that it is targeting it is it denying that china is a significant target for it it is saying that beijing simply happened to be in the splash zone in this blast damaging zone so have a listen. will continue to vigorously implement countering america's adversaries through. sanctions act and urge all countries to curtail relationships with russians defense and intelligence sectors both of which to malign activities worldwide. but there's a whole other twist to this story because russia's c thirty five fighter jet and the s four hundred missile defense system is the most advanced are the most advanced pieces of w

beijing to discuss trade with china. as the president dismisses criticism but chinese investments leave african countries and a so-called debt trap. find ato the table to joint solution, officials from several laain american countries gather in ecuador to tackle the venezuelaa of migrant crisis. 18 people are injured in germaayy a violenn scuffle between counterprooesters and far right nti-immigratton demonstration outnumbering those who are saying they are taking a stand against racism. also coming up this hour in our business uppate, weetake a closer look at argentina's deepening economic crisis as the country's finance minister has tt washington for more talk with accusations of corruption, live, and russian meedling.% what u.s. politics are talking about, -- the worll chess federation and its upcoming -pelection detailed in our press review. live froo paris, stay with us. ♪ ♪ p7 >> first up, african leaders from over 50 countries are in beijing for a two date business for run with it -- trade ties top in the agen

rising to 25% if beijing retaliates. it is the biggest round of trade tariffs yet imposed by washington on beijing. plenty more on our website. you are watching bbc news. thank you for being with us. hello. the jet stream targets the uk with a proper taste of autumn over next few days. several areas of low pressure moving through. the first on tuesday, the remnants of ex—hurricane helene. so storm helene is coming in and the winds at the south and centre of this will be strengthening as tuesday begins. another area of low pressure into wednesday too so voer the next few days, some strong, possibly disruptive wids as well so keep in touch with the situation in your part of the world through bbc local radio because there could well be some impact on travel, for example. the yellow, a met office warning area here, you need to be aware of some impacts during tuesday. some of the strongest winds through coastal and hilly areas to the west of wales and western england but it is going to be a very blowy we start off the day i

sixteen spare parts to a certain location very close to beijing that beijing does not feel comfortable about well the president is somebody who has a history of going hard against a country and a country leader and then turning around and befriending them witness of course the what happened north korea were just a little over a year ago the president was referring to the north korean leader as a little rocket man and now he's chairman kim and he's somebody with whom the president says he is happy to have a good relationship the same is true with china's president for life the president even yesterday in the midst of his comments about the trade war said that he thought that he had a good relationship and certainly hopes to have one with china's leader so the president oftentimes uses these a trade wars and other conflicts military conflicts and disagreements as a way to bring his trading partners to the table to negotiate and don't be surprised if the president at some point. goes back to the table and has significant discussions with china and then comes to agreement with china on wha

beijing imposes new tariffs on $60 billion of u.s. goods. the premier says he will not devaluing the yuan. asian stocks extend their rally. leaders meet to map out a brexit deal. barnier and may signal readiness to meet in the middle. dirty money, new details on the involvement in one of europe's biggest financial scandals. how will regulators crack down on money laundering? welcome to "daybreak europe."i am irritated. here is what has been happening in the asian session overnight. you are seeing the msci asia-pacific index with strong gains. you will see those gains are pretty broad-based in terms of the regions, this despite the fact that we have got the retaliation from china to the u.s. tariffs. tariffstaliating with on $60 billion of u.s. goods, but equities continue to rally for a second day in asia. we get china's premier, leakage the chinese premier saying he will not devalue the yuan. we see a bit of strengthening in the yuan. this is what the offshore is doing. the 10-year gilts also catching our attention because it has gone above

forests are welcome to concerts and thank you last year the beijing government made it crystal clear that it no longer feels bound by the joint declaration it signed with britain in one thousand nine hundred four why didn't you stand up for the rights of the people of hong kong when they said that. i fainted the officer push a position is that after signing the joint declaration hong kong has been returned to china and then the hard core fans will come to internal affairs of our home country now but there's a binding international agreement which china signed and these rights and freedoms are supposed to be respected for fifty at least fifty years sure that was written down this is a. an accord which was registered with the united nations as you know so why to wipe a tear it up and why allow it to be torn up nor ought such a kind of white house have it in hong kong as you can see everyone in hong kong now enjoy the freedom of speech of speech but certainly much less than they used to get will get on to that much less no i think there would be some understanding in the international.

trying to cause one to age and brown has more now on beijing's reaction. well china's leaders don't like surprises but they're getting used to them when it comes to president donald trump and once more they were caught off guard at the united nations with his latest accusation against china accusing beijing of attempting to interfere in the upcoming midterm elections in the united states china's foreign minister wang ye who's in new york said that china does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries that's the standard or purpose phrase the china's leaders use at times like this at the foreign ministry on thursday afternoon a spokesman said that a century it was the united states that was guilty of interfering in the internal affairs of other countries the whole world knows who does that he said and he urged washington to stop damaging the relationship with beijing as for president xi jinping he's been touring the north of the country preaching a message of self reliance president xi has become concerned that china has become too reliant on

chan denies accusations he wants to foment violence but he accuses beijing actually voting freedoms in hong kong and says the only way for the territory to get full democracy is to break away from china. he says he was inspired to set up his party after the failure of what became known as the umbrella protest movement back in twenty fourteen demonstrators there also accuse china every meeting on a promise of autonomy and interfering too much in the running of punk all. but china and its supporters such as these demonstrators in hong kong last month i determined to take a hard line beijing says there will be no tolerance for any groups advocating for separation from the mainland it say's such acts should and will be punished. but joining me here the big table is bernhard barnes she is a senior asia analyst at the battle's mint foundation here in for a live broadcast have you back on the show you know this is the first time we've seen a political party banned in hong kong i mean what does this tell us about the state of democracy or the state of hong kong's freedoms now. and shows us tha

chan denies accusations he wants to foment violence but he accuses beijing actually voting freedoms in hong kong and says the only way for the territory to get full democracy is to break away from china. he says he was inspired to set up his party after the failure of what became known as the umbrella protest movement back in twenty fourteen demonstrators there also accuse china every meeting on a promise of autonomy and interfering too much in the running of palm kong. but china and its supporters such as these demonstrators in hong kong last month i determined to take a hard line beijing says it will be no tolerance for any groups advocating for separation from the mainland it say's such acts should and will be punished. but joining me here the big table is bernhard barnes she is a senior asia analyst at the bevels mint foundation here in for a broad it's good to have you back on the show you know this is the first time we've seen a political party banned in hong kong i mean what does this tell us about the state of democracy or the state of hong kong's freedoms now. and shows us tha

chan denies accusations he wants to foment violence but he accuses beijing that eroding freedoms in hong kong and says the only way for the territory to get full democracy is to break away from china. he says he was inspired to set up his party after the failure of what became known as the umbrella protest movement back in twenty fourteen demonstrators there also accuse china every meeting on a promise of autonomy and interfering too much in the running of palm kong. but china and its supporters such as these demonstrators in hong kong last month i determined to take a hard line beijing says it will be no tolerance for any groups advocating for separation from the mainland its ace such acts should and will be punished. joining me here the big table is bernhard bar she is a senior asia analyst at the battle's mint foundation here in for a live good to have you back on the show you know this is the first time we've seen a political party banned in hong kong i mean what does this tell us about the state of democracy or the state of hong kong's freedoms now. and shows us that these freedoms

recently in beijing. francisco you were one of the first journalist to interview the current pope why do you think he wanted to talk to you i think he wanted to talk to you t. . to talk to china i didn't want really to talk to me he wanted to talk to china. it took a long time to. turn the stand how we should year there was a lot of preparation we should give the interview and i think he wanted to talk to the chinese people or else they are not necessarily catherine not necessarily. concerned about the same issues that concern and worry people in the west but he wanted to reach out to the chinese people why. is jazz writ therefore here is in the tradition of material cheer and china is one big thing and of course china is the new frontier for the catholic church it has been solved for sentries but especially now i would say new frontier in terms of. getting new members old soul but also having i would say a foothold here. china has. you know a systemic differences with with the west in every country has t

chan denies accusations he wants to foment violence but he accuses beijing active voting freedoms in hong kong and says the only way for the territory to get full democracy is to break away from china caused. anyhow. he says he was inspired to set up his party after the failure of what became known as the umbrella protest movement back in twenty fourteen demonstrators there also accuse china every meeting on a promise of autonomy and interfering too much in the running of pan kong. but china and its supporters such as these demonstrators in hong kong last month i determined to take a hard line beijing says it will be no tolerance for any groups advocating for separation from the mainland it say's such acts should and will be punished. but doing here the big table is bernhard bard she is a senior asia analyst at the battle's mint foundation here in for a live broadcast of have you back on the show you know this is the first time we've seen a political party banned in hong kong i mean what does this tell us about the state of democracy or the state of hong kong's freedoms now. and show

from the further street cheese of the countrysides to the heart of beijing. the chinese government is facing the costs of its own economic success. rising living standards and a longer life expectancy. health reforms are only the first steps towards affordable and sustainable care for this massive country. healthier china is on its way but there's a long way to go and noory form that seemed at one point four billion people can succeed over night. hello again it's good to have you back or across australia we are watching one front about you making its way towards parts of perth you can notice those clouds right there that is going to start to bring in some clouds and some cooler weather but not here on monday we expect to see that a nice day but there's a front there's that weather system right there so as we go from monday to tuesday well we do start to see more clouds and a drop in temperature maybe about eighteen degrees few there out here towards the east we're looking quite nice we're going to be seeing a little bit cooler weather for brisbane most of the

this was the race in beijing where two drugs cheats robbed the heptathlete of her big moment. she will leave this stadium with some tainted memories. remarkably it is not the first time. kelly sotherton, bronze. earlier this year she collected another retrospective bronze from beijing after she and team—mates from the 400 meter relay were also cheated out of third place. next week a decision will be made on whether to welcome russia back into the fold after that doping ban. tonight felt like a after that doping ban. tonight felt likea win after that doping ban. tonight felt like a win for those most affected by cheats. time for the news where you hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm holly hamilton. coming up on the programme tonight, eckstein years waiting in the field but finally, surrey have seen the county championship. walking up to the last time. his knock is finally over. the lead out onto the ball to a espa a with just two stages to go. —— vuelta a espana. hello and welcome to the programme. it's been a long 16 years but surrey have won the county championship once

because tough call hyla from beijing. still ahead on al jazeera iran's elite army unit val's revenge as president has some rouhani blames the u.s. to saturday's attack on a military parade. and india rolls out the biggest health care plan in the world at the hof a billion people are expected to benefit if it works out. nice pink skies by the time hot. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. hello again it's good to have you back well we do have some clouds are passing through parts of the caspian right now over back who we do think that things will get a little bit better as we go into the beginning of the week let's stick with your forecast map here for monday most of the rain is going to settle down here towards tehran and that is going to be light at most we don't expect to see much in terms of accumulation but it will remain cloudy at least until we get to tuesday down here towards quite city forty two over towards crotchety it is going to be thirty two degree day for you and then across parts of most of the arabian

in china people continued to demand the restitution a demand which took on political dimensions beijing viewed it as a way to exercise a national humiliation but also to confirm its newfound international clout the two bronzes in the sun the home begs a collection had become symbols of the plundering of their country by the west for christie's it was urgent to calm things down with the chinese in twenty thirty the owner of christie's file swapping no himself sent emissaries to directly negotiate the purchase of the bronzes with. was to be agreed we could see over there. for therapy no this it had to be up or here or there. she sees it for barely shores. officially from swapping no returned the heads to beijing out of friendship for the people of china but that wasn't all a few weeks after the return of the bronzes in the presence of the french businessman the chinese government finally gave christie's permission to operate in the country and exchange as p.r. described it. the much publicized case of the summer palace bronzes is far from unique more and more pillaged countries are demand

from the further street cheese of the countrysides to the heart of beijing. the chinese government is facing the costs of its own economic success. rising living standards and a longer life expectancy. the health reforms are only the first steps towards affordable and sustainable care for this massive country. healthier china is on its way but there's a long way to go and nor a form that seemed at one point four billion people can succeed over night. however the way still have a scattering of showers around the black sea around the caspian sea elsewhere across the middle east warm dry and sunny pretty much sums it up but it's a cold one low for ankara temperatures here struggling to get to fourteen celsius on wednesday off know what that cold some wet weather as well temps just pick out. a woman weather coming in fourth day not to better on the eastern side of the med by right twenty eight degrees and cold to sunshine coming in here around the forty degree mt once again full kuwait city had also for baghdad thirty two there in karate a little colder than of l

bought some pieces of this hardware and it kind of fell flat with the white house to beijing found that it is essentially being dictated some new rules apart from competition when it comes to market well it did not mince any words of a lesson. we strongly call on the u.s. to remedy the mystique and cancel the sanctions otherwise the u.s. has to bear the consequences see what happened is china's the main arms acquisition body was targeted over over this purchase and washington is saying that essentially this is in line with their policy when any country that is being considered an adversary of the u.s. can be targeted with sanctions of course russia and china both fall in this basket but still the state department is insisting that it is russia is the main target for these sanctions have a listen. will continue to vigorously implement countering america's adversaries through sanctions act and urge all countries to curtail relationships with russia's defense and intelligence sectors both of which alington the line activities worldwide well but there's a new whole other twist to this story

stephen macdonald, bbc news, beijing. we know shares alibaba were down, they and other top firms have been hit with the help of that china's economy and beijing's scrutiny of the sector. i spoke to someone earlier, asking if taobao is the right person for the job. his background is an accountant, but he is credited within alibaba for taking taobao to build this massive consumer platform. who could fill the shoes to some extent. you could probably buy those shoes on alibaba's platform. probably buy those shoes on aliba ba's platform. but probably buy those shoes on alibaba's platform. but he is a safe pairof hands, alibaba's platform. but he is a safe pair of hands, unknown quantity. you have spent time with jack ma, you met him in 1999 in his small apartment where he started alibaba, grated all kinds of access, what is he like and will alibaba miss his leadership? i think of him as a comedian. to look online and on youtube, you see he is a very funny person in both in wish and chinese. he isa person in both in wish and ch

from the further streets of the country sides to the heart of beijing. the chinese government is facing the costs of its own economic success. rising living standards and a longer life expectancy. health reforms are only the first steps towards affordable and sustainable care for this massive country. healthier china is on its way but there's a long way to go and new reform that seemed at one point four billion people can succeed over night. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. i'll also try and find whether through south america or some other heavy right into the southeast it was a clump of clouds sliding out into the open water as some live up to that eastern side of power y. for a time through the remainder of monday and that slides its way down to a southeast of brazil is chemical see the sort of a plate is fine and dry for want to say twenty one celsius some of the temperature perhaps attack cold as you go on through cheese day that rain still and evidence at this stage you know just further north it is gene

here in beijing, 2 p.m. in sydney, i am tom mackenzie. >> and i am david inglis, this is a special edition of "bloomberg markets". known int, it is a hong kong, and as tom mentioned, it is midnight on the u.s. eastern seaboard as the public consultation preps for the potential new tariffs is closed. the weight is now open for the u.s. to come in and slam duties on about 25% on $200 billion more of chinese imports. ♪ tom: and that

forests are welcome to convert their thank you last year the beijing government made it crystal clear that it no longer feels bound by the joint declaration it signed with britain in one thousand nine hundred eighty four why didn't you stand up for the rights of the people of hong kong when they said that. our fame to the officer pushed position is that after signing the joint decoration hong kong has been returned to china and then the hardcore fans will be in town or for some of our home country but there's a binding international agreement which china signed and these rights and freedoms are supposed to be respected for fifty at least fifty years sure that was written down this is a. an accord which was registered with the united nations yeah so why tear it up and why allow it to be torn up no. kind of white house have it put it in hong kong as you can see everyone in hong kong now enjoy the freedom of speech for certainly much less than they used to go to get on to that much less know are there would be some bits understanding in the international community actually everyone in ho

forests are welcome to cause it's a thank you last year the beijing government made it crystal clear that it no longer feels bound by the joint declaration it signed with britain in one thousand nine hundred eighty four why didn't you stand up for the rights of the people of hong kong when they said that. i framed the officer pushed our position is that our after signing detroit decoration hong kong has been returned to china and then the hardcore fans will get entire office of our home country now but there's a binding international agreement which china signed and these rights and freedoms are supposed to be respected for fifty at least fifty years sure that was written down this is a. an accord which was registered with the united nations as you know so white wipe a tear it up and why allow it to be torn up no or such kind of white house have it in hong kong as you can see everyone in hong kong now enjoy the freedom most of which were certainly much less than they used to go through to get on to that much less no i think there would be some understanding in the international commu

china says washington will face consequences if it doesn't roll back the sanctions imposed on beijing over the purchase of freshmen if we. head to the program this our father in germany says he's lost faith in the rule of law in his country cost and hempel son. refugees prosecutors pulled as self defense lawyer here take a look here at this point my son has already been knocked out is that self-defense is that self-defense. designed to try criminals has been discovered in phones in countries around the world now critics say unscrupulous governments are also using it to snoop on civilians tell you all about. the new york times issues and special report on russia's alleged interference in america's twenty sixteen presidential election but the article's been slammed for poor ethics for journalistic standards. welcome this is an international my name is kevin owen it's just turned three pm here in moscow now but you can stay with me for this thirty minute news update. china has reacted furiously to new sanctions imposed on beijing by washington for buying russian military hardware that's

beijing has promised not to use the yuan as a trade war weapon. mark mobius sees further weakening if the dispute escalates. >> you will see the devaluation of the renminbi. if you are in beijing and have a 25% tariff put on your goods going into america come the best defense would to devalue your currency i that amount. eight to a dollar. it is not beyond the realm of possibility. haidi: still with us is our guest. ,evin, you look at the signals the limited symbolism from the yuan fixing every day, are they steeling themselves for potential weakness if we get these additional tariffs today? that will put more pressure for them to think about further depreciation. i think the yuan is already suffering, mainly because you have two major central banks going into different directions, and if you look at the yield gap , it has been disappearing, more court less, so that puts pressure on the yuan. it looks like the pboc does not want to intervene. that is different from what we ago.wo or three years at least they tried to intervene to support the yuan.

beijing created a new development agency in april, 2018. it is expected to play a larger part in government strategy as the role is reduced. >> it is one of the criticisms china gets. it is offering these loans. they are originated by the african countries, they are the ones asking for it. i do not think they are trying to shape the future of africa. rishaad: that is not to say aid and lending will not be influenced by commercial interests. interests which some say still have access to resources at their heart. chinese companies see an abundance of opportunities in the rebounding economy. green light to raise presence under the initiative. while china sees huge investment opportunities, what about your average portfolio manager or retail investor? can they come along for the ride? >> if you want to invest directly in the belt and road initiatives, you cannot do it directly. what you are investing somewhere, perhaps there is a hub for international companies. as the environment gets easier, the cost of power comes down, it becomes more easy

beijing agree in with that. perhaps talks will be delayed until after that time when they can reach some kind of common ground. >> in terms of how china's holding up, the narrative is that is going to help them more than it helps the u.s.. i'm wondering if the data is supporting that. -- whichtest facebook is a backward looking survey, indicates manufacturers and exporters in china are feeling the pain. it is being exacerbated as well by the rising borrowing for the highest level since 2012 or thereabouts by these exporters. we are seeing according to this report declining revenue, sharply declining profit growth, and that was done -- these surveys done even before that first round of tariffs at $50 billion were imposed. they are starting to feel pain and the pinch from the global trade winds. but also the deleveraging campaign in china. well, this week we are seeing in the exporters being offset by strong services sector. the question is, how long can that be sustainable? , wen terms of those weapons have gone

chorister welcome to concerts and thank you last year the beijing government made it crystal clear that it no longer feels bound by the joint declaration it signed with britain in one thousand nine hundred eighty four why didn't you stand up for the rights of the people of hong kong when they said that. i found the officer push a position that are after signing detroit decoration hong kong has been returned to china and then the hardcore fans will be internal affairs of our home country but there's a binding international agreement which china signed and these rights and freedoms are supposed to be respected for fifty at least fifty years sure that was written down this is a. and the cord which was registered with the united nations is yeah so white wipe a tear it up and why allow it to be torn up no such kind of white house have it in hong kong as you can see everyone in hong kong now enjoy the freedom of speech of which for certain yet much less than they used to go it will get on to that much less no i think there would be some understanding in the end international community actuall

this hour china says the us will face consequences if it doesn't roll back the sanctions imposed on beijing for buying russian military hardware. and the u.k. tabloid retracts the tale of a russian model who claims president putin attempted to assassinate the english city of seoul very. high leverage friday night at nine here in moscow i want to thanks for choosing us for world news this hour first the british prime minister is demanding equal respect from the european union to reason make a fiery statement early this friday off to have breakfast plan was slapped down by e.u. leaders at a summit in austria. and hissing which fails to respect the referendum or which effectively divides our country into would be a bad deal and i have always said no deal is better than not that. throughout this process i have treated the e.u. with nothing but respect. the u.k. expects the same a lot of people saying that the reason may sort of channeling the i and lady here we got here and have strictest incarnation really she said that the talks of the e.u. had reached a stalemate london and brussels are at l

as in beijing he's been welcoming fifty two leaders including his sudanese counterpart omar al bashir and south africa's president civil run opposed she's trillion dollar bills and road infrastructure plan is set to top the agenda but there are concerns that the project is overloading poor countries with debt well here's a look a closer look at the economic ties that exist between china and africa for nine consecutive years china has been africa's largest trading partner in twenty seventeen trade between the two sides went up some fourteen percent to one hundred seventy billion dollars africa is also important to president xi jinping is belt and road initiative a plan to create a vast network of new trade routes connecting china to the rest of the world over the past two decades chinese companies have managed financed africa's most ambitious infrastructure projects on top of trade and investment beijing opened its first overseas naval base in djibouti last year before let's cross live to beijing al-jazeera search out of corresponded avery and brown is with us live so adrian why is afr

forests are welcome to cause it's thank you last year the beijing government made it crystal clear that it no longer feels bound by the joint declaration it signed with britain in one thousand nine hundred eighty four why didn't you stand up for the rights of the people of hong kong when they said that. our fame to the officer pushed position that after signing detroit decoration hong kong has been returned to china and then the hong kong fares will be in town or for some of our home country now but there's a binding. international agreement which china signed and these rights and freedoms are supposed to be respected for fifty at least fifty years sure that was written there and this is a. an accord which was registered with the united nations yeah so white wipe a tear it up and why allow it to be torn up nor ought such a kind of white house to have it in hong kong as you can see if you want to enjoy the freedom of speech of speech or certainly much less than they used to get will get on to that much less no i think there would be some understanding in the end international community a

john sudworth, bbc news, beijing. earlier, i spoke to our asia business correspondent, karishma vaswani. she's at the world economic forum in tianjin, china. a lot of people that i've been speaking to here at the forum, which is often called the summer davos, obviously there's deal of concern about what's being seen as the most serious escalation of the trade tensions between the united states and china. you know, we're looking at something like almost half of everything that china sells to the united states being put under a tariff starting monday, september 2a, and then from january one, 2019, that tariff will go up from 10% to 25%. china's hit back, even though it says that it's a choice that it had to make to retaliate, putting $60 billion worth of american goods under a tariff as well. but i think it's really important to remember that all of this is something that china consistently says, that it's been put in this position by the us and by president trump, and that is why it has to push back. it is a choice tha

continuing to fall out so publicly well what we're seeing is that beijing and moscow are starting to move closer together just two weeks ago president xi jinping had yet another meeting with the russian president vladimir putin they've had several this year already and russia and china one closer cooperation particularly in the area of defense so yes on many levels now we're starting to see the relationship between beijing and washington gradually unravel iran's president has an rouhani has returned to tehran after his address at the u.n. general assembly telling the a media there that leaders at the u.n. were laughing at us president donald trump's comments was an example of how isolated the united states has become. what. the most important thing that was obvious at this year's un general assembly session that we saw in the media and also heads of state said it was the rightfulness of the republic and the nation and the bullying by the united states that was the main stance adopted by the us the unilateralist approach they are indifferent to international organizations and laws it

has imposed duties on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports beijing vitaly gaited with some of the taxes on sixty billion dollars of american products . maybe from. the u.s. side has turned its back on the agreements abandon the consensus and adopt a tried restrictions which made the negotiations impossible to continue in order to make negotiations effective first of all we must treat each other equally and respect each other now the u.s. has adopted such large scout tried restriction measures and how to not do what others nick back in the negotiation proceed still ahead on the bulletin and opposition party rejects the prime minister's breck's it failed and india's prime minister faces allegations of corruption stemming from the twenty sixth by french fighter jets. however we still have a scattering of showers around the black sea around the caspian sea elsewhere across the middle east warm dry and sunny pretty much sums it up it's a cold one low for ankara temperatures his struggling to get to fourteen celsius on wednesday afternoon what a cold north some wet weather a

china pledges 60 billion us dollars in new investments in africa, even as beijing is accused of being saddled in debt in overseas projects. and making will cool again. we'll ask new zealand's minister for agriculture about plans to revive an industry in crisis —— wool. good morning, asia. hello, world. it is tuesday, guide you could join us for another exciting edition of asia business report cash glad you. i'm rico hizon. we start with china/ africa business nations and leaders from more than 50 african nations are in beijing to talk trade with their chinese counterparts —— business relations. the government on the mainland isn't underselling it. the foreign minister has called it. the foreign minister has called it the biggest summit of that's quite a it the biggest summit of that's quitea claim, it the biggest summit of that's quite a claim, but when you consider the extent of trade between the two sides, you can see the importance. let's look at the numbers, trade came to 170 billion us dollars last year, with africa selling commodities and buying chinese goods. that's up

to analyze what beijing has said we have to see we have to look at what washington's doing and essentially it's playing a double game it is targeting russia mostly with its new round of sanctions but also launching a blow that is well which intention is to damage beijing everything revolves around the russia's weapons brushes and heavy weapons like the su thirty five fighter jet on the earth's four hundred surface to air missile defense system and so china bought some of those units and now it is also coming under fire for that and while beijing let me tell you was not impressed when it found out that it is being dictated some new rules on this arena of arms trade and other than a fair competition we strongly call on the u.s. to remedy the mystique and cancel the sanctions otherwise the u.s. has to bear the consequences russia has also reacted to this new round of sanctions russia still diplomat sergei lavrov has said that what these acts are doing they essentially are pushing more school towards reducing its dependency on washington and especially on the exchanges in dollar and the u.s. c

officially from swapping no return the heads to beijing out of friendship for the people of china but that wasn't all a few weeks after the return of the bronzes in the presence of the french businessman the chinese government finally gave christie's permission to operate in the country and exchange as p.r. described it. the much publicized case of the summer palace bronzes is far from unique more and more pillage countries are demanding the return of their cultural assets the trophies of the renowned museums of the western world. pillaged countries have a legal tool to negotiate for the return of their stolen treasures the nine hundred seventy unesco convention signed in june the era of de colonization imposes on all nations to return objects obtained illegally. in recent years the pressure on renowned museums has a. intensified. the pergamon museum the most visited i'm ballin is obliged to know the origins of its collections. you start to understand that what you have here is not just archaeological object but it's part of the cultural heritage of the region or of these countries an

in the coming hours housing for the moment scott highlight for us there in beijing thanks. well we've got plenty more ahead on this news hour the four margin time leader charged with corruption we take a look at the political future of cristina kirchner. clouds on the a rise in. not become lighter but darker the international monetary fund warning of recession for britain if it crashes out of the e.u. with no deal. and later in sport india get ready to start the defense of their asia cup cricket title. so all that still ahead but first russian state media is reporting that they have lost contact with a reconnaissance plane over the mediterranean sea just off the syrian coast fourteen russian servicemen were thought to be on board the plane as it was returning to letterkenny a province all this happening as syrian air defense forces intercepted a number of missiles fired at the city of latakia they were targeting a state run industrial compounds not clear who launched the strikes but israel is suspected is thought to have been behind a series of earlier strikes targeting ira

and the united states latest round of tariffs on chinese goods takes effect today beijing calls the move trade bullyism the tariff wars getting ever more better but so far neither side looks willing to compromise. plus hong kong authorizes authorities formally banned a political organization the hong kong national party led by any chance promotes independence from china the government says it is a threat to national security how far away is hong kong from direct rule by beijing . and we visit the beethoven fast and bog one of the highlights of peace commissioned by d.w. and performed by german and indian musicians. i'm brian thomas a very. warm welcome to the show we start here in berlin where chancellor all america has apologized for being out of touch with voters now that after leading members of her coalition became embroiled in a dispute over how to handle her controversy or domestic intelligence chief the decision to move into a higher paid position in the interior ministry met with a huge backlash the coalition has since walked back his pay raise and now america was trying to repai

a trip to beijing is cut from around 24 hours to just beijing is cut from around 24 hours tojust under beijing is cut from around 24 hours to just under nine. now this isn't the usual thing you'd go searching for to buy online, but an australian couple found an ex—new zealand warship. for a few hundred thousand dollars, paul and wilma adams became the proud owners of the royal new zealand navy dive tender manawanui. earlier they told me why they bought it. well, it seemed to be the best way to do it in today's world. you can pretty much get anything on the internet and we have proved it right. we are going to show our view is exactly the mammoth beast that you bought. i direct that want to know if you paid for postage and packing? we had to pick it up ourselves. we sailed it back from new zealand in july this year back to australia. wilma, it's pretty big. it's 44 metres i understand? yeah, it has quite a size, but this is what we need. the new zealand navy calls it the little boat which can. it's strong. so tell me the story about why you needed to buy this boat. the long and short

midterm election china correspondent ajahn brown has the latest from beijing. well china's leaders don't like surprises but they're getting used to them when it comes to president donald trump and once more they were caught off guard at the united nations with his latest accusation against china accusing beijing of attempting to interfere in the upcoming midterm elections in the united states china's foreign minister wangi who's in new york said that china does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries that's the standard or purpose phrase the china's leaders use of times like this at the foreign ministry on thursday afternoon a spokesman said that essentially it was the united states that was guilty of interfering in the internal affairs of other countries the whole world knows who does that he said and he urged washington to stop damaging the relationship with beijing as for president xi jinping he's been touring the north of the country preaching a message of self-reliance president xi has become concerned that china has become too reliant on

our to international coming up china warns of consequences after washington piles more sanctions on beijing we get into that this. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. you know world's big partners. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. twenty two minutes past nine am this sunday morning here moscow welcome back no yesterday saturday china summoned the u.s. ambassador and postponed joint military talks with the united states it comes in response to washington slapping sanctions on beijing over its purchase of russian weaponry china warned the u.s. it would face c