absolutely hong kong is part of china and one of the one percent is doing beijing's business not doing it is not doing it very well is it it's failed it's failed to keep the hated extradition mordant it was forced to withdraw that it tried threats calling the demonstrators rampant in the range them warning that a blow from the sort of law was waiting for them in the future these threats and the effect well i think there are china not understand what it's dealing with because i think there are many different ways to look at what's happening in hong kong i would say the primary situation right now is law enforcement you are talking about a restoration of law and order in hong kong and democracy of course when the british left hong kong in 19 only 78 did not leave behind a lot of democracy to talk about but the british did leave behind deeply entrenched the rule of law tradition and i think we all need to be very grateful for that and it is now law and order very much at stake in hong kong we should not be confused with been the other grievances and political pursuits in hong kong they ar

beijing was not happy, predictably. they retaliated in very interesting ways, directly and indirectly, including rhetorically increasing their support for cooperation with the united states on the korean peninsula. but more practically, throwing their weight behind some very important and unprecedented international sanctions that were applied on north korea during 2017. then, as you remember early in 2017, something changed. an outburst of interesting and unprecedented diplomacy on the korean peninsula left seoul and washington and the driver seat, when it came to relations with north korea. meanwhile, the chinese were sitting there nonplussed, wondering what in heavens's name just happened. a senior chinese official told us in beijing that there were real concerns that north korea was drifting out of our orbit quote unquote. there were also concerns uttered by chinese officials that the chinese were concerned about the possibility that north korea would start to cut its own deals with united states. and north korea wi

has always insisted that it will do anything to avoid chaos shot a large number of its own people in beijing 30 years ago to do that but it's failed comprehensively to address the protest in hong kong why maintaining stability has always been a pillar for china's development since the later 1970 years but it's failed to do it in hong kong. different ever since 9097 this part of china and china has practiced a one country 2 systems so in hong kong the primary responsibility of maintaining law and order is resting on the shoulders of the hong kong government and the chief executive carried government that's approved by beijing absolutely hong kong is part of china and one of the one percent range ings business not doing it is not doing it. well there's it it's failed it's failed to keep the hated extradition morden was forced to withdraw that it tried threats calling the demonstrators rampant in the range then warning that a blow from the sort of law was waiting for them in the future these threats and the effect well i think china will not understand what it is dealing with because i think th

so with common scared beijing believes patriotism is even better. i did have a correspondent phoebe kong joins us from across the bay in hong kong good to see you how are president xi jinping commons in moscow being viewed in hong kong. while from hong kong perspective the people in macau are always perceived as more obedient to beijing partly because of his population on my plate and from china and it has to weaken. and choosing peace remarks is widely seen as a rebuke and are even a lecture to hong kong current political turmoil that he mentioned are he praised the hong kong people over there a strong sense of national identity specially these so-called patriotic education that they have implemented over the last 2 decades and on the same day right after she came out to hong kong government has announced some kind of a new measures that they're going to suspend the duties of the t. shirt if they got arrested or file a complaint so this is perceived as something that the education bureau is going to tighten measures to be the education sector and t

from officials in beijing and from profile gandalf of the communist party. does not let as expect a change in her approach to protesters have a set of demands one of them has been met that's the withdrawal of this extradition bill that would have a lot extraditions to mainland china that was at the beginning of the protests but beijing does not seem to be wanting to compromise on any of the other demands including an investigation into the police with beijing house unknowns is that they want to. they want more severe laws being passed on a separate trip to disney for example and national security and that they want to enhance patriotic education the propaganda efforts in order to control the population all right our correspondent let yes bellinger with the very latest there in hong kong thank you. now to bulgaria and a small village that's making a big name for itself in china the areas. plenty of world travel but there is one local product in particular that's putting the countryside village on the. back. clear air high in mountains and no industry none to

reaction to be this fierce lettuce thanks very much for that from beijing. well the climate activist. taking a break in lisbon portugal right now after selling cross the atlantic he's headed for the u.n. climate summit that's in madrid spain is due to arrive there on friday. the final moments of the nearly 3 week journey across the atlantic ocean from the united states to lisbon portugal gretta turn bug look tired and happy to be back on dry land the 16 year old swede said she took the transatlantic voyage by boat to prove a point. i'm not travelling like this because i want everyone to do so i'm doing this to sort of send a message that it is. even possible. thank the it is impossible to live sustainable today and that means saying these become much easier to invoke arrives in europe as the un's cup 25 climate summit isn't full swing representatives and delegates from some 200 countries have gathered in madrid spain to try and find a way to reduce the world's emissions of greenhouse gases her rival also coincided with the release of a bleak report from the

it's her annual meeting in beijing it's. she delivers a report to the central government and the central government discusses future policies with her of course this year this will be about the protests and what to do about what we've heard so far from beijing from officials in beijing and from professor ganda organs of the communist party. does not letters expect a change in her approach the protesters have a set of demands one of them has been met that's the withdrawal of this extradition bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland china that was at the beginning of the protests but beijing does not seem to be wanting to compromise on any of the other demands including an investigation into the police look aging has announced is that they want to. they want more severe laws being passed on a separate trip to xm for example and national security and that they want to enhance patriotic education the propaganda efforts in order to control the population all right our correspondent met yes bellinger with the very lat

at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week big news that beijing didn't want out there somebody inside the communist party wants the outside world to know what is happening in st john the conflict of interest the corporate kind reporters at bloomberg news cannot investigate their boss who happens to be running for the white house they're tracking journalists from inside their phones the governments are buying an insidious piece of israeli software to target activists and reporters they don't like and is a deep fake version of boris johnson as well unless why should you believe me any less credible than the real boris johnson. it is one of the biggest human rights stories on the planet one that we've reported on before just not in this kind of detail it is about china specifically the province of sindh jang and the estimated 1000000 weekers and other muslim ethnic minorities currently held in massive internment camps there previously most of what the world knew about sin jang came through some satellite imagery carefully controlled official tours of

from officials in beijing and from the profile gundogan of the communist party. does not lead does expect a change in her approach the protest is have a set of demands one of them has been met that's the withdrawal of this extradition bill that would have a lot extraditions to mainland china that was at the beginning of the protests but beijing does not seem to be wanting to compromise on any of the other demands including an investigation into the police what caging house unknowns is that they want to as they want more severe laws being passed on a separate trip to them for example and national security that they want to enhance patriotic education the propaganda efforts in order to control the population all right our correspondent much as spilling over at the very latest there in hong kong thank you. now the civil war in syria has crippled a number of industries people in many parts of the country are still struggling to survive after almost 9 years of conflict but one traditional maker of all natural so finding growing demand for his products in europe. the g

require it's to allow beijing to access that data so if it's being stored in china it means it falls under the purview now what you might ask is well what what would china want with the states and now we can't. speak from inside the chinese government but we can discuss perhaps you know why they might want that i mean for example that data can be used these enormous data sets to try and target advertising to target specific messages that perhaps promotes the chinese government's there also is the possibility that you could scam that days of people who are critical of the chinese government so the concern here is that china would have access to that data versus a facebook or google which already has access to massive amounts of our data yeah exactly that because you've got a state hacked a state actor that could potentially be a hostile state tax so when you're dealing with the data of overseas citizens this isn't the 1st time the tick-tock has been in the spotlight at least in the last few weeks i believe no i mean we've been talking about the context of us this is a particularly con

one of the sticking points between washington and beijing has been china's dominance in the tech sector and that is something the white house wants to end one of the targets of its campaign has been chinese tech giant huawei the white house says beijing could use while waste technology for intelligence gathering and industrial espionage washington has been calling for its allies to block the company from participating in building 5 g. networks no surprise the debate on while way has also been heated here in germany and we've been covering it. can the state of china force you to give information which you would be able to collect for example in germany now while we once were away has never received any such requests during our operations over the past years and even if we received such requests in the future we would not agree to them chances without any lawful requests so we won't do anything which will i won't mention for which until i was. on here it was a topic under $29000.00 was the year of the protest across the world also across germany's border the yellow fast movement took to t

from officials in beijing and from the propaganda organs of the communist party. does not let as expect a change in her approach the protesters have a set of demands one of them has been met that's the withdrawal of this extradition bill that would have a lot extraditions to mainland china that was at the beginning of the protests but beijing does not seem to be wanting to compromise on any of the other demands including an investigation into the police what beijing house announced is that they want to. there they want more severe laws being passed on a separate trip to xm for example and national security and that they want to enhance patriotic education the propaganda efforts in order to control the population all right our correspondent my chest pulling over at the very latest there in hong kong thank you. sports now and in football going into saturday waning bundesliga champions barry munich had lost 2 games in a role but they were able to remedy that disappointment against federer braman thanks to a host of goals. but the referee told brains captain to have f

network as it's been rolled out what kind of retaliation is beijing talking about. well monica you mentioned that the ambassador has talked about the car industry and the huge role that the chinese market is playing for our german carmakers what the ambassador failed to mention is that all of the car makers b.m.w. folks walking by and or have popped by companies in china and that they're all big manufacturers in china as well so if you harm the german car makers you are risking to harm chinese companies and chinese jobs as well it's very difficult to imagine that the chinese will end up with europe in a trade war situation they way they have been with the united states it's more likely that there's a lot of rhetoric involved here all right don't go anywhere conrad because i do have another topic for you i'm talking about italy because the country is allocating up to tuck and $900000000.00 euros to bail out of the ailing bank a bank up a bloody body last week italian government plays the trouble lend to understate at ministration the bank's governing body has been re

government and that it had been deleting accounts and deleting videos that were critical of beijing is there any truth to the well to talk denies that it says it's never been asked by beijing to take anything down and if it was asked it wouldn't do it but last week we did have this example that hit the news 117 year old user name was pharoahs as ease and she posted a series of videos that looks like make up tutorials but in fact highly critical of beijing's treatment of weak and muslims in jang her account got deleted now to attack is set to attack to talk that sound that was a mistake and it was down to human error but it doesn't look good when the fighting those accusations are right will keep it out it was thanks for talking with us about this drug. china the tariff wars continue with no end in sight just a few weeks ago markets were celebrating what appeared to be an end to the trade conflict between the u.s. and china but trump has changed his tune now the us president is saying that he's in fact in no rush to get rid of those tariffs. if the end had been incited doesn't appear

a few years ago or the beijing or 40 or the same state of the world out beijing has all for jurisdiction over hong kong and because the act having certain impact and construct over how hong kong government will conduct is only turn off here so does this being perceived by beijing as completely breaching the chinese sovereignty over on cop did you think when trump signed the hong kong human rights and democracy act into law or do you do you think he really thought china would just sit there and accept it. what i think what mr trauma storing he's trying to or increase more bargain in troops in his hand in trying to get a good deal with china are trying to close up the to close the trade negotiation with china as soon as possible unfortunately. north very optimistic about what is going on and obviously ward china is doing is trying to tighten and to tough on up more measures on to hong kong and unfortunates the hong kong looks like to increasingly become a battleground between u.s. and china can with and i'm afraid to hong kong where we're likely to be sacrificed because of these a confront

she came to beijing in 2015. she grew up in a wealthy family where both her parents were company owners. wang training at this gym twice a day, in the morning and the evening. >> wang's home is a ten minute walk away from the gym. she has rented a family-sized apartment for $2,000 u.s. a month. the 90 square meter apartment has three rooms,s, as well as a kitchen and a bathroom. initially, she thought of decorating all the rooms herself, but they have just become storage space. the only bare area is the kitchen, which she hardly uses. wang feels most at ease in the bedroom where she works, eats and does most everything else. she used to work at a securities firm, but quit, weary of the volatility of the stock market. now she meets with individual investors to get them to fund movies. she works on commission, and the returns will be good if the film is a box office success. however, if a movie fails, she will have worked for next to nothining. to survive in this business, she must find promising projects to pitch

finds acceptable. >> charles, thank you for that, reporting from beijing. the democratic race for the u.s. presidency just got a little smaller on tuesday, as s u.s. s senator kamala harris decicided to endnd her 2020 presesidential bid. she abandoned the campaign, saying she simimply doesn't hav enough cash. the 55-year-old was hoping to be the first woman and second black u.s. president, but her campaign got dragged down by her waffling on issues like thousand solve the nation's healthcare problems. >> so here's the deal, guys. my campaign for president simply does not havave the financial resources to continue. and the financial resources we need to continue. i'm not a billionaire. i can't fund my own campaign. and as the campaign has gone on, it has become harder and harder t to raise the money we need to compete. but i want to be clear witit you. i am still very much in this fight. and i will keep fighting every day for what this campaign has been about, justice for the people. >> to nigeria, where the corruption trial of two former prems, several form

to get more reaction from china, let's bring in our beijing correspondent. protests,months of historically low approval ratings, she still has beijing's backing. how is that? absbsolutely. the president praised the leader for her courage in the face of adversitity. it is impoportant to note that i jinping is the one that chose leader ofof to be the hong kong g and going bacack ont dedecision would be showing weakness, showing fallibility. that is one reason. the orders for carrie lam were very clear, please end the violence and restore ordrder in hong kong. over the course e of the last to or three weeks, it has been n a relative return to calm despitie the clashes we have seen in n hg kong on the night ofof sunday. itit is important to show the appearance of stability and continuity in the face of adversity and chaos. is a mission from theing that t the position of chief executive of hong kong dodoes not h hold that much powr leeway a and whether it is carre lam oror someone else, they are not going to do anything radically different. >> what is beijing's s

beijing. in the early days of june 1989 it was a big tragedy that level of brutal violence. i don't think people were prepared for it but after it it's like seeing the real face. of a party state regime that's a tolls of an authoritarian. and long number of people killed in town long on things. united states on the west and pause sanctions on china that limited sanctions. don't want to visit china anymore this was a period where chinese society and chinese government has never come to terms with regard to the nightmare it wasn't just the cover up by the face of the government to allow discussion of it it was that china just moved in a very decisive way. the chinese communist party would move on from the chin in the square nightmare. nary a massacre in the ceremonies and monuments marking the 40th anniversary of the people's republic of china. the protests were recent out of history as history was. 5 months after the time when they changed the berlin wall was torn down. the 1st folding the bric

in beijing with the world all get such a festival happening this week in amsterdam i'll be looking at why it says that it's chinese projects like this one with a dominatrix in the wards. now it's been labeled the brain dead by the french president and there are disagreements over its direction but names are leaders and now gathering us a venue just outside london for a summit hoping to find some unity over its future nature is riddled with disagreements between some of its most prominent member countries the u.s. and french presidents in particular have disagreed on several points including the very role of nato and turkey has threatened to block a major defense plan which could undermine the alliances role in the baltic region of british prime minister barak's johnson used as opening speech to push a message of unity. we are rock solid in our commitment to nato and to the giant shield of solidarity the 9 protects 29 countries and nearly a 1000000000 people the fact that we live in peace today demonstrates the power of the simple proposition at the heart of this alliance the for as lo

this year's topic will be the protests and how to deal with what we have heard from beijing in recent days it is not that does not letters expect a big change in the strategy beijing wants to keep pressure on high on the protests it does not want to give in to the demands of the protesters the protesters have voiced several demands one of them has been met that's the withdrawal of the original extradition laws that would have allowed extradition is to china but there are others remain including an independent investigation into the police what we've heard from beijing is that their idea on how they would deal with these protests is to ramp up what they call patriotic education and to keep the police pressure high . in hong kong for us and yes i really appreciate it. tens of thousands of people have gathered in rome to protest against the divisive rhetoric of the italian far right leader. and his anti immigration league party the gathering started just a month ago as a flash mob but have since evolved into something of a movement participants adopted the name sardines to signify their

and talk about climate change electric vehicles are still few and far between in europe shanghai and beijing needs a top 25 cities in terms of electric mobility and account for about 5 percent of the global equal billets you market and no you won't find a german city among the top $25.00 and that's a problem for germany's car industry germany's famous comic is a trailing u s competitor tesla which delivered around $245000.00 electric cars this year that's more than any car maker in 2nd and 3rd place to chinese comic is b.y.d. and to be a i.c. b.m.w. comes in 4th and folks just about make. it to the top 10 i'll be behind renault and sure ny so how can european comic us hope to catch up early i spoke to police come know via director of clinical said immobility of the european federation for transport and environment in brussels and i started by asking her how the car industry could reach the current c o 2 targets set by the e.u. this year to target set for common factor is actually great news for european consumers who will have hundreds of affordable and better performing models to choose fro

drop further what's beijing going to do about that. well firstly in the short term will see a slowdown of manufacturing activity which is the most important drive for investment so therefore we can also see the drop of housing prices but secondly i think in the long run the most significant problem is the belts depend in the base and that's how china can adjust itself to a long term and sustainable economic growth model especially in the middle of the economic slowdown process and so has to they're reporting from taipei thank you so much. francis the as a group the maker of persia and here chrysler are expected to announce a memorandum of understanding for mega churches today both company boards gave their blessing on tuesday paving the way for creating the world's 4th largest copper you said more details are expected to measure out the day here's what we know so far. the $50000000000.00 merger brings together some iconic brands chrysler and his long time partner fia on one side france's persian citoyen as well as germany's open on the

beijing says the camps provide vocational training. moscow straight to beijing for the very latest on this with mathias bellinger good morning the ts china's calling the spill a smear but the question is will it affect the trade talks a very delicate talks now underway between the us john. well this bill will not help easing the trade talks in fact we do not really know at what stage the trade talks are we get news every day different news every day about these trade talks and we do not see any. and you hint that that they are new. closure of this 1st phase one trade deal but what we know is that beijing has reacted to another bill that was passed just recently about hong kong and now to this bill. with the counter sanctions it would not ease this treaty ok now the intention of course of this bill is to get china to reconsider holding hundreds of thousands over a 1000000 muslim minority leaders in these gaps is there any chance that's going to happen i don't think it is going to happen anytime soon china is sees this as their internal

in beijing with the world all that such a festival happening this week in amsterdam i'll be looking at why it's is that it's chinese projects like this one. it's in the wards. for leaders of the world's largest military alliance have begun arriving as a venue just outside london for a summit hoping to find unity over nature's direction now the gathering comes as the block is rife with disagreements between some of its most prominent member countries the u.s. and french presidents in particular have disagreed on several points including the very role of nato and turkey has threatened to block a major defense plan which could undermine the alliances role in the baltic region while this morning nato secretary general against olsen back was the fast to arrive at the summit venue and he says china will be a big focus. we have seen the russell trying them including their investments in the the fence capability is china's. law a 2nd largest defense spending in the world the next 2 do not did states. recently displayed new capabilities including nuclear weapons so we have to address these. the

from officials in beijing and from the profile gandalf of the communist party. does not lead does expect a change in her approach the protesters have a set of demands one of them has been met that's the withdrawal of this extradition bill that would have a lot extraditions to mainland china that was at the beginning of the protest but beijing does not seem to be wanting to compromise on any of the other demands including an investigation into the police what caging house unknowns is that they want to. there they want more severe laws being passed on a separate trip to them for example to national security that they want to enhance patriotic education the propaganda efforts in order to control the population all right our correspondent my ts spilling over at the very latest there in hong kong thank you. the u.s. china trade war was set to escalate in a big way today instead the 2 sides have agreed to a partial truth today was the deadline for a new round of tariffs affecting hundreds of billions of dollars worth of product but u.s. president donald trump suspende

christopher was in a piece on our correspondent in beijing thank you very much thank you. let me now bring up to date with some of the stories making news around the want riot police have fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in the lebanese capital beirut opponents had gathered to protest against outgoing prime minister saad hariri backing prominent businessman to replace him anti-government demonstrations began 2 months ago. tech sector trade razor mosque has testified in court that a treaty describing a british rescue of dr died as a paedophile was not meant to be taken literally the divert vernon is suing for defamation have to rescue troubled boys from a flooded cave in thailand last year. the u.s. senator can lock harris and didn't have bid for the democratic presidential nomination she says she doesn't have the money to continue campaigning 15 contenders still remain in the democratic field they are 2 months to go until voting on candidates begins in iowa where the field is expected to win even further . the democrat led house of representatives approved a report

chief executive carry law gets beijing's full backing president tells us she has he supports despite the .