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. >> this is the city of taipei, taiwan's most important city. many immigrants from hong kong are now living in suburbs around the city. although some elderly people in rural areas only speak taiwanese, mandarin is also spoken the city, making it easy for immigrants to live here. taipei also has many shops run by hongkongers. >> the memorial hall has a statue of the former leader on display. after a conflict, the party retreated to taiwan. for decades the nationalist party ledy chiang kai-shek governed with a one-party rule. taiwan's first direct election was held in 1996, realizing the democracy that citizens had long hoped for. one hour's drive from taipei is a small restaurant run by a family from hong kong. the family had believed that beijing would maintain the one-country two-systems policy that it had promised to keep for 50 years when hong kong was returned to mainland china in 1997. >> in 2019, over 2 million people took part in demonstrations in hong kon surpassing the scale of the umbrella movement. they were opposing the revision of t

it's all right for more of this let's bring in the sorts on hand in taipei so let's take a look at china's g.d.p. growth in 2000 and 21st 2.3 percent growth despite all the ramifications of the coronavirus where is that growth coming from. or growth is backed by the strict virus contend the measures and stimulus policy the dramatic rebound was highlighted by as the next week and a celebration over the last 3 months of 2020 when china's economy grows come to 6.5 percent from a year earlier it has been field by a surprisingly we still an x. force factor corner of ours disruption field the demand for more chinese goods for example like china made face max and other medical supplies and so let's look ahead yes president elect joe biden will be argued on wednesday both sides of a lot riding on this economically what does china expect from the incoming u.s. president of china expects biden will continue to restrict the. development of its technology and definitely to come from beijing on various human rights issues meanwhile it's widely reported in the media that biden will create a new post col

and china washington wants to end the quote complex restriction on diplomats dealing with taipei but beijing opposes any diplomatic recognition of the democratic island which also happens to be a world leading tech up. as was only to be expected beijing responded furiously to the united states plan to lift restrictions on official contacts with taiwan. we are drawn as u.s. secretary of state pompeo to have a clear understanding of the trend of history stop manipulating taiwan related issues and stop acting against the trend and not to go further down the wrong and dangerous path otherwise he will be severely punished by history. the new era was said to be marked by the visit of an american diplomat to taiwan for 3 days this week the fact that all travel by the u.s. state department including that trip has since been canceled to assist the biden transition is unlikely to call beijing taiwan is an essential global supplier of high technology to china as well taiwan is trying to fill the gap caused price ancient's on china especially in the microchip industry and it's been pressing hard

yang who's a journalist and vice president of taiwan foreign correspondents club and joins us from taipei via skype with me i welcome to the program and it seems little doubt that the timing of this just days after president biden takes office china really setting out their stall their position. right this is a continuation of from the policy and the strategy that china has adopted since last year over the last year the taiwanese government has been deploying its fighter jet for more than $300.00 times throughout 2020 in order to respond to all kinds of different incursions by chinese fighter jets into the a.z. id and today we saw the biggest number of single day incursion. prompted by the chinese fighter jets and i think this is a very clear sign that china is sending to the u.s. it is very unhappy with what the trump administration has done before it left the office and it should also be seen as a message to the biden administration that beijing is closely watching and monitoring how washington is planning to at vannes war continue its relationship with taiwan when it seems as if the u.

we have seen a lot of changes in both taipei and beijing, - and, of course, domestically in washington we have - also seen quite a lotj of changes in policy. we will have to see _ what the biden administration comes up with, but also - the centenary of the communist party will matter to bolster domestic confidence - that the communist rule - in china is superior in a time of crisis than the system in the west. _ it's interesting, janet, that the biden team pointedly invited the de facto ambassador to washington who represents taiwan to the inauguration, which seemed a bit of a signal to beijing. what sort of approach do you think biden will adopt? a very good question. the thing is, this new cold war with china has really taken the west by surprise. it is not at all like the old cold war with the soviet union, which was straightforwardly communist and was in an ideological war with west. china is tyrannical capitalism, if you like. state capitalism. it is engaging in global markets, it wants to dominate global markets. but that gives it a very different kind of weakness, in a sense. in

people in taiwan who are increasingly worried about the unprecedented tensions between beijing and taipei, since trump came into office, and under the president in taiwan, that the love affair has created a really bad relations between beijing and taipei, and are necessarily china to a point where it is flying military aircraft near the island almost on a daily basis. forget robocop — how about a robodoc? scientists think robotic health care assistants could soon become a reality. a team at the university of sheffield in the uk are developing ways of using new technology in hospitals and care homes, as luxmy gopal has been finding out. this is benny the robot. he's in a home lab in sheffield, but he is being controlled in real time from manchester. through the technology, anyone anywhere can immerse themselves in the robot. i become the robot simply by putting on a vr headset. and now i can see everything the robot sees. and i can control its arms. robotic firm cyberselves has developed a versatile, more user—friendly programming system, so what robots can't yet do alone can be done w

ambassador to the united nations again it's a it's a gesture that's welcomed here in taipei but it also is about that's balanced against the reality that it's coming in the final days of the trump administration in their craft while also be out of a job shortly after joe biden's inaugurated yes on we know that the u.s. and china have had a fractious relationship on the trump out do you see that changing and abiding the ministration particularly in a sense to missions like taiwan and hong kong. it certainly still remains a big mystery what the biden policy towards china and other issues related to china such as funk on such as taiwan or the trade issues technology exports from the united states what the policy actually will be it's still a better speculation he still warming his team there's been some announcements by people who've already been announced as going on to the foreign policy or national security team that they'll continue broadly speaking to be tough on china but what those policies actually will be whether they'll maintain all or only some of the trouble ministration polici

administration to increase official ties with the self route island while also provoking china because the taipei from. also coming up his presidency ends next week just enough time for donald trump to slap new tariffs on aircraft parts and wine from the european union. and an adviser to chancellor angela merkel gave evidence to lawmakers about how to the government's role in the wild card scandal go to frankfurt for the latest. welcome to the w business i want to get johnson berlin good to have you with us and it's a turbulent times for the u.s. with the presidents trying facing a 2nd impeachment and only days to go until joe biden's inauguration the outgoing u.s. administration has called off last minute trips by its top envoys to europe and to taiwan now the latter has caused much friction between the united states and china washington wants to end the quote complex restriction on diplomats dealing with taipei but beijing opposes any diplomatic recognition of the democratic island to which also happens to be a world leading tech up. as was. only to be expected beijing responded furiously to th

gold is in asia political risk analyst he says the move is welcomed in taipei. these restrictions had existed on paper for decades but in reality in its recent interactions with the government of taiwan on a government to government level the united states had largely departed from these restrictions anyway regardless of the fact that you know the states is making this . an official announcement it's certainly going to be welcomed by the government and people here in taiwan as well as taiwan supporters in the united states congress or or in the united states generally why wasn't this inodes 201720182019 or earlier and 2020 why in the final days of the trumping ministration perhaps the tribe administration was holding this for a 2nd tour and would have used it at a convenient time for u.s. policy interest and now that they don't have a 2nd term they are trying to announce these kinds of measures towards china towards taiwan in their final days so perhaps in the remaining 10 days we'll see something else with regard to u.s. taiwan relations busy to be u.s. ambassa

visit taiwan highest ranking american official to do so let's get now to journalist william yonkers in taipei thank you for your time so what difference will this practically make or is it more of a symbolic move i think when it comes to less than 10 days before the trump administration is going to leave the office this comes as more from bali then actually going to have any concrete impact but however i think for the incoming administration this is going to be a tough situation for them to handle because. over the last 4 years we have seen the us time relationship really making a lot of breakthroughs that we're on think of even just 4 years ago and now after 4 years of very high level sometimes even provocative approaches that the us has made when it comes to handling the issue with time one of the biden administration will now be held. to see whether they're going to follow through on this particular announcement that pump ill made and if yes then this is definitely going to continue to antagonize the relationship between washington and beijing but if not there might be the possibility that

identification zone it's deployed missiles to monitor the chinese planes tensions between beijing and taipei are at an all time high after the u.s. lift a decades old self-imposed restrictions on direct contact with taiwan officials last week china has reported upwards of 100 new daily coronavirus infections for more than 10 days in a row it's the worst surge in cases it's seen since march last year now this comes on the anniversary of the world's 1st covert 19 lockdown when china sealed off the city alou hard between january and june testing has been ramped up in parts of the country ahead of february's a lunar new year holidays that's when hundreds of millions of people are expected to travel to visit their families. and thousands of people in hong kong have been ordered to stay at home the lock down is the toughest pandemic restriction imposed on the territory so far it affects a densely populated district that accounted for half of all new crowd of virus cases over the past week on kong has been struggling to contain an outbreak since november adrian brown is in the district where the lo

ambassador to the united nations again it's a it's a gesture that's welcome here in taipei but it also is about that's balanced against the reality that it's coming in the final days of the trump administration and. also be out of a job shortly after joe biden's inaugurated rescue his in indonesia have recovered body parts and wreckage during lessons from missing passenger playing the boeing 737500 disappeared from right house shortly after takeoff from the capital concept 62 people were on board just the washington has this update from time to port in concert. authorities here have just returned from a search of the java sea that if it is ongoing but they are unloading now some of the debris that they found from this search just off the coast of jakarta between the islands of lucky island and long chalk island we do know we do have confirmation from police that they did find body parts during this search of the area and they were also able to find what appears to be items of clothing from those on board the plane they also found metal scraps from the plane police have asked the relati

taiwan's defense ministry has reported what it calls a launch incursion by chinese military planes taipei says 13 chinese bombers and fighter jets flew into the southwestern corner of its defense identification zone tensions between beijing and taipei are at an all time high after the u.s. lifted a decade's old restrictions on direct contact with taiwan officials last week when we are in is a journalist and vice president of the taiwan foreign correspondents club and he says this move by beijing is a message to the ministration. this is a continuation of from the policy and the strategy that china has adopted since last year over the last year the 20000 men have been deploying its fighter jets for more than 300 times throughout 2020 in order to respond to all kinds of different incursions by chinese fighter jets into the a.z. id and then today we saw the biggest number of single day incursion. prompted by the chinese fighter jets and i think this is a very clear sign that china is sending to the us it is very unhappy with what the trump administration has done before it left the office an

embassy taipei, which is no longer embassy taipei it's beijing. you could see the changing relationships with something like that. this one was from a consulate in england that eventually closed down. you could see changing national economies, political priorities with openings and closing's of consulates as well. fantastic items. >> yes and we have some items here the seals would be perfect for. >> absolutely. the great seal of course appears on passports. we love passports, we have many in the collection. they tell fantastic stories. we have a fantastic story of the owner of this passport. >> we do. it is the second oldest passport we have in our collection, and unusual on many counts right? it was issued to this gentleman here, is a must samuel wall or. it was born in connecticut. he was a businessman who spent most of his time in new york city, but he traveled back and forth to bridge part quite frequently. we know that because we have his travel diary and his accounting books. what's really interesting about him, americans didn't need passpor

taiwan's defense ministers reported what is calling a large incursion by chinese military planes taipei says 13 chinese bombers and fighter jets flew into the southwestern corner of its defense identification zone tensions between beijing and taipei are it's an all time high after the u.s. lifted decades old restrictions on direct contact with taiwan officials last week. tropical cyclone and always has made landfall near mozambique's port city of bayda which was devastated by cyclon i'd die in less than 2 years ago heavy rain and strong winds battle years which had not yet fully recovered from the last storm earlier at least 3000 people have been moved from boozy districts in the east fama to miller has been tracking the site from from johannesburg and sent us this report . in the area of prior nova embarras specifically this is an area where people live in informal settlements homes made from plastic sheeting corrugated iron it appears that hundreds of those homes have been destroyed by the psych loan and those people are now looking for shelter in places like schools where they isn't

decision to lift restrictions on its relationship with taipei. however saying some flooding recently into parts of malaysia apos of indonesia seeing some very heavy rainfall thunderheads continuing to slide their way down singapore with a 185 millimeters of rain in 24 hours in some parts of say significantly more rainfall than that wes the weather will continue across the malaysian peninsula so in parts of thailand also seeing some lively showers long spells of rain some are just still very disturbed and the showers extending right down into indonesia more big downpours coming through here notice some pretty wet weather too into central and southern parts of the philippines and we've had some wet weather recently it's an all them in eastern parts of australia down towards the southeast has seen some rather cool and wet weather a recent labor vacs has all changed now so we've gone from cold and wet so hot and dry it means fire risks elevated these a current temperatures you can see temps getting into the high thirty's across that southeastern corn

embassy in taipei. it is no longer u.s. embassy taipei, it is u.s. embassy beijing, so you can see the changing relationship of something like that. this was from a consulate in england that eventually closed down. you can see changing national economies, political priorities with openings and closings of consulates as well. so, fantastic items. alison: yes, and we have some items here that the seal would be appropriate for. katie: absolutely. the great seal appears on passports. we love passports. we have a fantastic story about the owner of this passport. alison: we do. it is the second oldest passport we have in our collection, and unusual on many counts. it was issued to this gentleman. his name was samuel waller. he was born in connecticut. he was a businessman who spent most of his time in new york city, but he traveled back and forth to bridgeport quite frequently. we know that because we have his travel diary and accounting book. what is really interesting about him, americans did not need passports to leave the country. it was not required u

the trump and tyler love affair if you want to, that has created bad relations between beijing and taipei. it has untie committed —— antagonise china to the point where they are flying aircraft on an almost daily basis. when the coronavirus was still in its early stages, one of the theories about its origins involved a rare animal — the pangolin. they're among the most trafficked mammals in the world. our africa correspondent andrew harding reports on south africa's efforts to rein in the illegal trade. get on the ground! a sting operation by south african police. they've lured a gang of suspected smugglers to this car park in order to arrest them. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven arrested. inside the car, still alive, a strange and precious victim is rescued. whose animal is this! this is a pangolin — one of the world's most endangered, most trafficked creatures. its thick scales prized in traditional chinese medicine — but on no scientific basis. injured and weak, the elderly male is rushed to a dedicated pangolin clinic in johannesburg — but too late to be saved. thi

embassy taipei which is no longer u.s. embassy taipei. it is u.s. embassy beijing. so you can see the changing relationships with something like that. this one was from a consulate in england that eventually closed down. so you can see changing, national economies and political priorities openings and closings of consulate, as well. so fantastic items. >> and we have items that the seals would be appropriate for. the great seal appears on passports and we have many in the collection and we have a fantastic story about the owner of this passport. >> we do. it is the second oldest passport that we have in our collection and unusual, i think, on many counts, right? so it was issued to this gentleman here. his name is samuel waller, born in connecticut and he was a businessman who spent most of his time to bridgeport quite frequently and we have his travel diary and book, but what's interesting with him it wasn't required until 1941 and so the felt that he felt the need he had to have one and why would he feel he needed that and when he was issued this passport in 1859

and in taipei. major equipment supplies including asml and applied materials all rose significantly yesterday. in tokyo, we see that japanese equipment and semi conductor suppliers including tokyo electric, there stocks jumped in tokyo today. rishaad: debbie wu in taipei. let's have a look at the latest business flash headlines with canon surging by as much as 9%. that is the most in almost two years. it came out with profits ahead of estimates. operating profit coming in at over a billion dollars. that is around 80% of the forecast. canon pointing to a recovery in demand for cameras and home-based printers. saying office space printer equipment does of -- does pose a challenge. cnooc is being blacklisted by the administration for allegedly drilling any disputed waters in the south china sea. the move will deny the company access to technology without specific permission and follows the blacklisting of 60 companies last month. washington saying cnooc represents a continuing threat to u.s. national s

embassy taipei, no longer u.s. embassy taipei, it's u.s. embassy beijing. you can see the changing relationships with something like that. this one was from a consulate in england that eventually closed down. and so you can see changing national economies, political priorities with openings and closings of consulates as well. so fantastic items. >> yes, and we have some items here that the seals would be appropriate for. >> absolutely. and so the great seal, of course, appears on passports. we love passports. we have many in the collection. they tell fantastic stories and we have a fantastic story about the owner of this passport. >> we do. it is the second oldest passport that we have in our collection, and unusual, i think, on many counts, right, so it was issued to this gentleman here, samuel waller worn in connecticut, a businessman who spent most of his time in new york city, but he traveled back and forth to bridgeport frequently. we have his travel diary and accounting book. but what's really interesting about him. americans didn't need passports to

now let's get more on this from our reporter in taipei song so so so what's the reaction been from the u.s. government to this move by the new york stock exchange. according to many sources and why as he could still go ahead with its listings because the u.s. treasury secretary steven lucci phoned the n.y. as the on tuesday to tell him that they did he disagree with the decision to change the course of the de liston's so to the 3 chinese companies is nothing but a merely political decision to use the concept of dashon of security to suppress chinese companies and also to them it shows that how chaotic that the chump and construction is for the last 2 weeks they have in the white house so the 3 chinese companies would hope that the biden presidency could be more predictable and even change is that of order a so that they could be strong of the certainty of the u.s. rules but in the meantime we now also have this executive order from president jiang banning transactions through a chinese ups if it takes effect what sort of an impact is that going to have well we know that. they have alre

better one that allows students to escape the turmoil at home amy is safe here she's studying at a taipei and a 1000 the hong kong authorities cannot reach her thanks are better here but she suffers from post-traumatic stress there are a lot of them a little i feel guilty i survived we used to chant together we stand but i got out and left them behind in hong kong. sometimes i wish i'd been arrested too so we could face the hardships together why am i enjoying life here when all my friends are in jail. those friends were with her at the protests back in 2019 many of them are facing charges like rioting and could go to jail for a long time that was something she feared to getting into a taiwanese university seem to like her only chance to xscape. well till to you i lived in hiding in hong kong for 6 months while i prepared for the taiwan university entrance exam now i have freedom and peace here i no longer live in fear i don't need to text my friend every hour to say i'm safe. taiwan is only an hour's flight from hong kong is enough for university students to reach but high school student

strongly condemned the decision by the united states to lift restrictions on its relationship with taipei taiwan foreign minister praised the move saying relations with washington have been elevated to a global partnership china of course considers taiwan to be part of its sovereign territory and chief medical offices issued a diet warning about the capacity of hospitals to treat the rising number of seriously ill coded 900 patients chris witty says the u.k.'s national health service is facing its most dangerous situation yet. up to date with the headlines on al jazeera radicalized youth daughters. is next. from the worst economic. kind of recovery can we expect without the world's poorest and sets the stage for economic. that was. 6 that. was that. was. good enough until they'd all be as you call it tough pitch of the morning but. find that when you. stop us straight but it's true it's like i talk about you know jump on an adult. street trade your boots you just did many. issues and incidences and all the views from the streets around now keep information. about issues of youth empowerme

decision to lift restrictions on its relationship with taipei. and the p.g.a. delivers a major blow to the golf about going u.s. president don trump details coming up in sport. it is murder when you throw a fire bomb into someone's home and mishit you off trashing you know the next not insignificant in the numbers that insignificant ideologically that is significant even as a crime against the very significant by dictating the government and the fact of policy. shalt not kill part of the radicalized series on al-jazeera when the news breaks the impact of the storms in honduras has been particularly devastating when people need to be hurt no group has claimed responsibility for the shooting on the outskirts of srinagar in india and minister kashmir people here say they're living in fear al-jazeera has teams on the ground they never ate this type of food back home we simply don't know if we can teach you to bring you more award winning documentaries and light leaves on air and online. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now the uni

taipei will see a maximum of about 22 degrees. crossing over to europe, there's still lots happening here. a very strong low pressure system associated with a front is moving towards the southeastern direction closer towards northern england. there could be heavy snowfall. another part of europe will be seeing similar conditions with belgium, switzerland, and austria. switzerland is expecting close to 110 centimeters snowfall is expected along those parts. and temperatures are going to get quite chilly as you move towards the end of the week. you'll see a lot of subzero temperatures through stockholm, moscow and kyiv. minus 2 for your thursday but later into the week, friday, saturday, and weekend as well, temperatures grow even colder along those parts. still fairly warm for lisbon. single digits but sunny skies expected to hold along those parts. in higher grounds you might see snowfall but majority of the country is experiencing a little bit of warm weather. that's all your weather. stay warm and stay safe. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

taiwan's defense ministries reporters for his calling a large incursion by chinese military planes taipei says 13 chinese bombers and fighter jets flew into the southwestern corner of it's defense identification zone tensions between beijing and taipei are at an all time high after the u.s. lifted decades old restrictions on direct contact with taiwan officials last week william yang's a journalist and vice president of the taiwan foreign correspondents club he says this move by beijing is a message to the biden administration. this is a continuation of from the policy and the strategy that china has adopted since last year of the last year the taiwanese government has been deploying its fighter jets for more than 300 times throughout 2020 in order to respond to all kinds of different incursions by chinese fighter jets into the a.z. id and then today we saw the biggest number of single day incursion. prompted by the chinese fighter jets and i think this is a very clear sign that china is standing to the u.s. it is very unhappy with what the trump administration has done before it left the

decision to lift restrictions on its relationship with taipei as professional rugby is about to resume in new zealand a legal case is said to have a major impact on the game details coming up later in the show. but in the coming hours moves will gather pace to take action against u.s. president don't trump over the sea capitol hill u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says 2 motions will be presented from monday one calls on vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment declaring trump unfit to carry out his duties forcing him effectively out of office well i like my 5th amendment because it gets rid of him he's out of office but there is strong support in the congress for impeaching the president a 2nd time this president is guilty of inciting interest insurrection and he has to pay a price for that. if pence doesn't agree then pelosi says the democrat led house would move forward with impeachment 5 people died during the violence on capitol hill the pentagon has confirmed 25 cases of domestic terrorism are being investigated the hunt continues for others involved in the attack as

. >> a senior member of the group, chee 89 min-yen, held a news conference in taipei on friday. the group is helping people who want to move from hong kong to taiwan. chee yang cited the transition of power in the united states and broad trade agreement with the european union as reasons beijing considers pressure is easing. prominent hong kong activist nathan law attended from britain, where he is based. are in darkness and repression. we have lost hope for the future and feel powerless. >> most of the 53 who were arrested on wednesday have been released, but two other activists were arrested on thursday. >>> japanese have a phrase they like to say before eating a meal. it's an expression of gratitude to the person who cooked the meal and to the animals whose lives were sacrificed to make it. in our next report, we find out why a young photographer wants to spread this phrase around the world. >> reporter: takimi akiri calls herself a livestock photographer. she photographs farm animals -- cows, pigs, and chickens. her works are much more personal than that job description may

life in taipei can be lonely for hong kong as the culture and spoken language are different so it's deferred any often comes through this hong kong cafe forte stuff. i come here to remind myself that i'm a hong kong or here. i don't think i can go back while it's under communist rule i might live in taiwan for the next 1020 even 30 years i or a lot of people the same. home is always on her mind her friends who are already in prison and those who are 2 young to leave by i mean just like me many hong kong protesters are young many of them a still in high school and they need to wait for 2 to 3 years until they're eligible to study here can you imagine how dangerous it is for them to go it alone often or they may feel. noakes of mutual support between political exiles offer some comfort but they cannot reach the young teenager stuck back in hong kong. on don't choice sleep that's it for today there's of course more our website www dot com forward slash issue and you can follow us on facebook and twitter as well we leave you today with a look at a day in the life. of the c.b.s. tram fighting cab

on this for more on what's at stake for both sides we have joyce lee out of the east asia bureau in taipei and joyce the perception has been that the joint china have had a pretty good relationship during this covert pandemic crisis what's happened yes it has been a lot of analysis thing that the actual has been the union to us china because it hopes to. give some time for china to you know more transparent data and information to the. whole but then it has not worked well with a strategy because this is not the 1st time the expert team has been denied to watch the origin plays of the outbreak of the endemic so how much can an investigation team learn travelling to china one entire year after the earliest known outbreaks there many people are probably wondering isn't it already too late. it is probably too late to go to the wet market to collect evidence and data regarding the you know how the fire from animals to human but then this is exactly why china it's not so welcoming for the team to go to 100 because china authority is trying to reshape the narrative of how d.c. originated this by

refuses to communicate with the government in taipei which seems to be the case even if the epidemic were to directly threaten the taiwanese. taiwan sure toward taiwan is part of china there is only one china not to me or you go to war you go to taiwan are saying that every international organizations including the w.h.o. and the united nations and the vast majority of governments all admit that the people's republic of china is the only legal representative their only partner. which means they all agree with the one china policy just. taiwan has to agree with this principle if it is to become an observer of the w.h.o. without any problems for grammy or good confidence. paradoxically that exclusion may well have saved taiwan from a worse fate the island nation was obliged to develop its own warning and response systems in december 29 teams with the w h a receiving no information from beijing the time when these government immediately took steps to protect its population. despite its proximity to mainland china taiwan among the 1st countries affected has seen minimal deaths since the

you can see otherwise just think cold and sunny with out about 70 is max again in hong kong 114 in taipei as for india the persistent cold and fog spreads those stars of the border in punjab further north it goes right up to the foothills of the himalayas and it's not just fuck of course it gets very cold by day it does briefly get reasonable but by night we're down to single figures down to 2 degrees yesterday in new delhi that's colder than average another might be a small improvement by the time to get to monday's the esters a bit but not much basically it is cold dry and often 40. sponsored poll qatar airways. the 2nd episode of the series exposed the rise of the major drug cartels and their reign of terror and 19 sentenced a mexican government to little and told the traffickers we have to produce the body because they know it is good cut america's public enemy number one is drug abuse and the launch of the international war on drugs drug trafficking and politics and power. of drug lords on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories a powerful earthquake has

now let's get more on this from our reporter in taipei song so so so what's the reaction been from the u.s. government to this move by the new york stock exchange. according to many sources the n.y.s.e. could still go ahead with its listings because the u.s. treasury secretary steven loosing phone the n.y.s.e. until tuesday to tell them that they did he disagree with this issue and to change the course of the day liston's so to the 3 chinese companies is nothing but a merely political decision to use the cost of the national security to suppress chinese companies and also to them it shows that how chaotic that the chump and construction is for the last 2 weeks they have in the white house so the 3 chinese companies would hope that the biden presidency could be more predictable and even change is that of order a so that they could be strong of the certainty of the u.s. rules but in the meantime we now also have this executive order from president john bunning transactions through a chinese ups if it takes effect what sort of an impact is that going to how well we know that. they have al

let's look at the fireworks show at taipei 101 skyscraper to mark the new year. in north korea, crowds attented while wearing masks. in australia, sydney's famous fireworks display lit up the sky, but the harbour area was mostly deserted. there were bigger crowds in new zealand, with fireworks at the sky tower. happy new year. our other main story here on bbc news — the united kingdom has completed its transition from the european union's single market and customs union, bringing an end to a partnership that lasted almost 50 years. bell chimes. as big ben chimed 11pm at westminster, midnight in brussels, the transition period ended. for more on what it means for the uk, here's our political correspondent alex forsyth. it's almost five years since this moment — the date set for a referendum that would change the country's course. one of the biggest decisions this country will face in our lifetimes. fast forward through what came next. there were campaigns, promises, heated protests. democracy! now! prolonged negotiations, high—profile resignations. the count

rare that's a general picture in japan as you bring the flow for the southeast warming things a bit taipei's up to 20 not 70 new got a few showers here the big issue as a result of that colder air pushing down the northeast monsoon of these here which in the flow will head down towards while malaysia should we say kuala lumpur maybe singapore and then after that and they cross to somalia those are be big downpours and drop the temperature as well. the cold wave is still in the north of india and northern pakistan but this is an interesting development this will help to clear the formula help to clean the air i missed a lot for this time of year but it's good if you happen to be in new delhi because the focus there where it will produce you would produce better conditions. the one sponsored paul qatar airways. in the far reaches of the new siberian islands gold rush fever is in the hands. of hunters searching for priceless woolly mammoth tusks of on earth the holy grail. an incredible journey into the realms of science fiction where cloning and synthetic biology have scientists playing god. w

too much nearer nor when they were maija things a much warmer than hong kong sunshine and 19 degrees taipei's up to about 20 needs to got showers in that northeasterly breeze which is picked up the wet weather in the central philippines and possibly in southern vietnam but the real thrust of the heavy downpours heading down towards the peninsula of malaysia singapore and then eventually into sumatra with a good widespread wet season rainy season elsewhere throughout indonesia and malaysia i'm also still got right in time when they do and sri lanka we've got an increase interesting brick of sherry stuff somewhere in northern india so interesting is a is out of season and based this sort of thing that improves your air quality has been so poor with long term fog and smoke in the cities in northern india and northern pakistan so the forecast for new delhi is a sherry one that will improve things somewhat equally in the whole the weather's changing quite substantially for the next 3 days. sponsored by qatar airways would escape city has become a major label issue then demand. just going straight

see frost in taiwan and middle east americans aren't and here you're seeing a very pretty picture no taipei is rather warmer 70 degrees we were just inland and higher up and also temperatures are slowly on the rise is still got plenty of showers generated in eastern taiwan and the sunshine doing its work albeit slowly giving hong kong 60 degrees still for below normal more or less in seoul and still plenty of snow to be found in honshu and hokkaido for the next 2 days despite the fact the wind is generally weakening and temperatures are trying trying but not succeeding to come up that we have had a change in the fortunes in northern india punjab's a bit warmer than it was for is pretty cold still in the north which for many places means persistently fog and disappointing as well those are the fog just tend to lift for very long as to few hours each day this destruction in the pattern taking place now and in the forecast could be good news so you got proper rain further south this is just occasional shouting around and you know what that has a tends to stir up air improves the air quality te

administration to increase official ties with the sell fruit island while also provoking china we go to taipei for more also coming up his presidency ends next week just enough time.

entered the southwestern corner of its air defense identification zone tensions between beijing and taipei are at an all time high after the u.s. lifted a decade's old restrictions on direct contact with taiwan officials last week. the u.s. state department has called on china to stop exerting what it calls military diplomatic and economic pressure on taiwan it comes as a u.s. aircraft carrier group has entered the south china sea on a mission to promote what the u.s. military is calling freedom of the seas ultra orthodox protesters a battle with the police in 2 major israeli cities after regulators tried to shut down religious schools the police moved in to try and close the schools for violating the current coronavirus lockdown restrictions 5 police officers were injured and at least 4 people have been arrested harry forces joins us live now from west jerusalem harry what's the latest on the clashes between the police and these protesters. oh yes they took place in 3 different cities around israel during the course of sunday and in one instance in in been a brac which is sort of a satell

i woke up this morning in taipei, you're never sure what's going to happen overnight in the united states. we're certainly expecting strong words from the ministry of foreign affairs in beijing at any moment and now if it is not happening while i speak. we've already seen in the past year or so an increasing sort of aeroplane activity, military aeroplanes, doing sort of what i think is the equivalent of my young children in the backseat of the car saying "i'm not touching you", and we may see some that activity. i'm hopeful though that beijing will be somewhat restrained in hopes of recognising they're really going to be dealing with the biden administration in a matter of days. it is odd timing to do this, what, ten days before the end of an administration which has lasted for four years. yes, it is unusual to have major foreign decisions made in sort of international affairs while you're in a transition period, let alone with an issue as sensitive as taiwan, us and prc, that triangle, but we've learned to expect the unexpected and certainly, there was rumours that we were going to have