kong protesters want china to respect the rule of law and the city's semi autonomous that but will beijing give them the freedom they're demanding talking about that coming up on the point britain's. quadriga next on d w. how's. view of the world. where i come from and not only that glitters is gold it's just like this chinese food doesn't matter where i am always reminds me of home after decades of living in germany chinese food is one of the things i miss the most but that taking a step back i see things i need to live differently now. many of you expressed as american nations that exist the other part of the war haven't been implemented in china the cats leave not the time of people wondering if they're going to take it but if you have the right to learn reading is this is the job just understand my how i see it and understood why i had nothing my job because i tried to do it exactly the hour a day my name is the name too and i was added up to. 2 a lord welcome to quadriga international talk show coming to you from berlin i'm brian thomas on our show today you've seen them for about 3 m

i don't think promoting democracy is the job that kerry has been given by the beijing government the basic law said that potentially hong kong could have free elections it's not very definite there is it's a it's unclear no but that is what hong kong people have been hoping for the longest time that at one point there will be full democracy and beijing has made it very clear in the last couple of years that that is not going to happen and it's carried . through to no squash these protests in pismo taking says it could happen but. it should have causing the basic law is that eventually and gradually it would have but not put tension is so we believe that in the end it would happen and we're looking forward to this ok cerium you also pointed to earlier social media very much part of china's propaganda warfare aimed at not only the people inside all gone but the mainland chinese as well it shows that beijing really wants to get control of this process the protest process quickly as possible is there a fear in beijing in how this question would apply the use well that that the protests w

i don't think promoting democracy is the job that kerry has been given by the beijing government the basic glow said that potentially hong kong could have free elections it's not very definite this it's a it's unclear no but that is what hong kong people have been hoping for the longest time that at one point there will be full democracy and beijing has made it very clear in the last couple of years that that is not going to happen and it's carried. through to no squash these protests some peeps more peking says it could happen but. it should have both because they know the basic law is that if in chile and gradually it would have been well put tension is so we believe that in the end it would have been and we're looking forward to this ok cerium you also pointed to earlier social media that's very much part of china's propaganda warfare aimed at not only the people inside all gone but the mainland chinese as well it shows that beijing really wants to get control of this process the protest process quickly as possible is there a fear in beijing in how this question would apply the us

ok to 2 countries to use 2 systems one country one of the systems is clearly totalitarian the one in beijing hong kong has been frayed to this point bernard you say hong kong is on its way to becoming a police state. at least the police have played a role in the last couple of weeks that i think has surprised a lot of hong kong is because in hong kong there was a lot of trust in institutions and the police and the police violence that we've seen and that hasn't been independently. researched is something that has shocked. hong kong and is really at the heart of this conflict which for hunk owners and knows better than we all do is a conflict about what is our city going to be like in the future is it going to be just any chinese city or is it going to remain. a different system ok let's one of our viewers that it's 2047 right that reverts to complete chinese rule so there's this window of opportunity there a cherry as a hong konger how is this city different from the rest of china. in that race in hong kong. people from there we always say. at. almost the same standard as how the us of woe i

but what beijing has promised is a promise, and so we are simply asking the beijing government to do something that is clearly stated in this contract. see, i'm not sure it has promised that. let me quote to you from five years ago, this is quoted in the south china morning post. sir richard 0ttaway mp, who was then chair of the british pa rliament‘s foreign affairs committee, who had been banned from visiting hong kong by the chinese when he wanted to investigate the trouble that was there a few months before. he said, "the sino—british joint declaration is considered by chinese officials now void, and only covers the period from the signing in 1984 until the handover in 1987." lu kang, who was then at the chinese foreign ministry — "as a historic document has no practical significance. it is not at all binding for the central government's management over hong kong." the uk has no sovereignty, no power to rule, and no power to supervise hong kong once the handover had happened. well, we do not agree with that, of course. it is up to beijing to defend their position. but again,

it takes its orders from beijing a number of the trucks shown in the video. to end up in a stadium in. what looks like. the sports center. and this appears to be satellite images from a u.s. based space technology company that. bucked in the stadium. but could they be given orders to drive into hong kong if so it would take them long to do to do so sean john is just 27 kilometers from hong kong and well connected to the special administrative region the presence of miniature vehicles so close to hong kong is raising questions about beijing's intentions but how do hong kong protest as we've been described as temporist by beijing. spondon phoebe kong spoke to one of them so as a home call and support has this are you worried that beijing would actually into fim to protest on the street home. i think they would during the thing we do all the way he can do it so i put but i don't scare so you are just come never never mind. so what is the reason behind like you're saying you're not scared was the reason behind it and we used to carry on to protest even if this ha

business community is beginning to feel the heat off of cooler heads prevailed at the weekend's protests beijing is increasing pressure on western companies to distance themselves from the protests. and 2 years after the war against islamic state has ended the economy of the kurdish regions of northern iraq is finally showing signs of a revised. this is t w business i'm good how else is in berlin welcome. protests in hong kong continued over the weekend but remained largely peaceful but hong kong is gearing up for more protests this week meanwhile beijing is putting pressure on big companies to distance themselves from the protesters central government government has taken an increasingly firm tone over the protests accusing foreign countries including the united states of inciting unrest u.s. president on notrump on sunday want to china that carrying out a tiananmen square style crackdown protesters would harm trade talks between the 2 countries china agreed to allow hong kong to keep its unique freedoms when the former british colony was handed back in 1907 but many homeowners feel those freed

our beijing correspondent spoke earlier. beijing is that losing patience although they are keeping to the official law that they have been holding since the beginning of this protest that this is the responsibility of the hong kong government and they support the hong kong government and police force to deal with ththis on thr owown terms but they are showing that if they deem it necessary, they will step in to resolve this situation. a little bit of context on this video. anniversaryhe 92nd of the people's liberation army which is the communist party's army which is behind the foundation of the people's republic of china, since 1949, it also is being aired about a after theter a week -- about a week after the -- the people's liberation army can intervene in hong kong at the request of local authorities, so again flexing their muscles, showing that this goes too far, they will step in. there is also another thing that has happened in the last week which will show beijing resolving this issue is the fact militaryuesday, a dri

the continuing protests over the past 9 weeks after um to the harshest warning yet from beijing well quality here and i warn all criminals not to misjudge the situation and mistake our restraint for weakness. well now high i shun it here we want to warn the handful of violent criminals and the meddling hands behind them her apartment be holding her usual that those who play with fire will perish by it. while. the punishment will only be a matter of time. joining me now joining is authors understood and i reweigh in the studio thank you very much for coming in i really rate we just heard young going there on a shipment will only be a matter of time is this beijing's way of telling protesters that the beijing government can step in directly to stop them well unless they tells the truth of what's in their mind they have been doing that since. you know they have been seen and you play is the land of china they would do it as oh crash it. tanks or a military or whatever they have and there they can be very brutal and the very bloody and the but this is hong kong so they're really bluffing

intentions but how do hong kong protesters who've been described as tempest's by beijing see it. spawning phoebe kong spoke to one of them so as a home call and support has this are you worried that beijing what ashley intervened to protest on the streets of hong. i think they were during the thing we do all the way he can do it so i thought i don't scare so just come never never mind. so what is the reason the highlight you're saying you're not scared was the reason behind and we used to carry on to protest even if this happened if our core my my poke my or my protest ok. it is not chance to recap if you don't. i don't i don't know you don't run how freedom how how much freedom we got this moment i tried tried our best to cry against. the press. but we also seen some balance happening at the airport like last my some of the force has to come pick up questions with the police and also some of the. some of the people like el paso and yeah right now we have to balance over the last few days so i speak as a homo how do you feel about that i think. the police nice to have i think for

way of telling protesters that the beijing government can step in directly to stop them well a least a tells the inner truths of what's in their mind they have been doing that since that gets you know they happened seen and you play as we see in the land of china they would do it as oh crash it in this tanks or a military or whatever they have and there they can be very brutal and the very bloody and but this is hong kong so they're really bluffing you know they are the in the situation is much beyond they can imagine and under those young people are not scared they are not easily you know to be. forward or to you know this is their life struggle so do you mean a situation like the 1989 telamon square protests would not happen in hama i would not see a war not and i predict it can happen but alby have a heavy cost on china and that may be come opportunity for time not to change but do you think china of what is about this cost. or is deeply and then narrow facing problem such as is interesting a game you know it's not is supposed to be one country 2 system. and that car they played v

issuing threats before i think i'm not sure beijing has a clear strategy or has a clear idea what to do at this moment we have also seen more soft and softening. comments the week before by the governing body that is responsible for hong kong the hong kong and macau affairs office. this i think they they're keeping them all the options open right now they're putting all the threats on the table and they will decide later what they are going to do interfering cliff it's not bad of course a big risk to them as well they've been shuttling back and forth between beijing and hong kong if you're still with me there mathias what impact do you think that these warnings from the chinese military likely to have on the protest movement in hong kong. feel afraid we have lost our line to beijing again but if you can still hear me mathias thank you very much and of course to clifford kuhn in our policy our china policy analyst here in our studio thank you to now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world in yemen dozens of people are dead after 2 separate bomb attacks struck th

twitter and facebook take action against chinese government propaganda targeting hong kong protesters beijing has been trying to counter the pro-democracy movement with social media dissin from asia some 200000 accounts linked to that campaign have now been suspended by twitter also coming up. germany agrees for the very 1st time to take back the children born to german islamic state fighters in syria but will their parents becoming back with them. and a landmark case in el salvador court acquits the young woman accused of murder after suffering a miscarriage a 21 year old was facing 40 years in prison. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us also show media platforms twitter and facebook have shut down accounts targeting the pro-democracy movement in hong kong the platforms said the accounts were part of a chinese government disinform ation campaign aimed at groups and individuals facebook as close a number of accounts as well now some of the posted images showing protesters as terrorists and cockroaches twitter suspended about 200000 accounts and plans to ban advertisements from stat

now the chinese government is putting pressure on companies and what beijing views as this agreeable ads joining me in the studio now is china expert clifford kuhn and clifford good to have you here. the examples that we just talked about aren't the only ones what other companies have been in the crosshairs of beijing here but i've been going through the list and it's a bit like it would make a really good fashion show actually you've got for saatchi calvin klein coach dolce and gabbana as you've known she wearing sorrel ski jewellery and also with their samsung phones in their pocket and driving their numerous c.d.'s the list of brands that have managed to to anger at ticals widespread public anger in china is lengthy and prestigious now let's look at the reaction here i mean surely having your country's territory visually diminished i mean that surely isn't cool but when it comes to other instances would you say that beijing is reacting rather thin skinned here i think i think there is definitely things going reaction here i mean a lot of this is very innocuous in the west but in c

a journalist for chinese state media who is seized balland and beaten by anti beijing protesters at hong kong airport whose fate went viral on state controlled social media presented as an assault on all of china's 1400000000 citizens. while the demonstrators say they are defending human rights but they deny journalists their right to enter the airport i give that journalist a big thumbs up for the courage he showed footage of sure we don't get that propaganda is especially effective when it stirs up deeper feelings this side of demonstrators throwing the chinese flag into hong kong harbor triggered outrage on social media and in response an outpouring of patriotic fervor from chinese citizens branding hong kong's pro-democracy movement as an attack on their national pride will soon trollish a city it is a great honor for me to be one of the 1400000 defenders of our flag and i will do my best to ensure it is always respected but as you well know it's interesting. in china isn't only flying drones at the border close by and the paramilitary people's armed police has been holding drills th

of protests in hong kong police charged protesters of surrounded a police station in a city district beijing has also warned punishment is only a matter of time but how and when will it act get the view from chinese artists and dissidents by way way also coming up. the last charge with general thomas time to follow a 10 year old spends wrong days not at school but working to support his family we speak about the pervasive problem of child labor. i'm going to welcome to do the news asia it's good to have you with us but i suppose in hong kong are in no mood to relent and if anything's clear it's that they aren't afraid to confront the police either these what the scenes of this week in china are special administrative region crowds of protesters surrounding police facilities unafraid of police warnings projectiles what also hold of those inside police responding with tear gas and arrests. estimates put the number of injured in these clashes at around 41. the continuing protests over the past 9 weeks have prompted the harshest warning yet from beijing well quality here i warn all criminals not

beijing knows that it would be drastic if the p.l.o. a people's liberation army actually went into hong kong and i don't think it's necessary nowadays because the party has different means of putting people on the pressure that has all the technical means it has the companies that are being put under a lot of pressure now cathay pacific and many others so i don't see a big likelihood at the same time i don't see a very good outcome for the hong kong people it's going to be a very unhappy ending a very unhappy ending ok what do you think that means sure what would be a very unhappy ending have you excluded as has the possibility of another gentleman square i think hong kong people they're very well aware that china is trying to scare people with violence and the possibility of sending me i think many of them just try to ignore the fact or even if they know about this they would think that they have nothing to lose if it ends up like this they would they would take other action but that for now they only get to have answers from the government what do you think oh i don't think this is. t

here gas petrol bombs and the territory's government but hong kong is officially a part of china and beijing is now signaling it may take a different tack on the 2 months of protests and start to crackdown. the protest against already he said late being cold and treated like cockroaches by the police. the hong kong dollies have been doing their duty according to the law you because such dehumanization is a psychological money collation that was one seized by hitler's regime the jungle demonstrators have repeatedly used dangerous weapon we see them to attack police officers the police are also suspected chief incited until the bitter frauds and framing the protesters for the sax. it's not just became early some critics because. some recent not very good. also on the day a slight easing of restrictions in india administered kashmir but security forces for the most part kept the dispute it reaches the biggest city center and i got our lockdown on the 2nd day of the islamic holy festival. the week among many using up emotion that one moment you might even might with the next moment you will have

and beijing has announced it has to stop purchasing u.s. farm products prompting fears that the trade war is set to get even nastier. could china be weaponize ing its currency in the increasingly hostile trade war between washington and beijing the chinese who won unexpectedly crossed the psychologically important 7 print dollar mark for the 1st time since the global financial crisis he won slumped to an 11 year low could be good for chinese exports they could remain competitive despite the tariffs that's why some see it as retaliation to the additional 10 percent tariffs on $300000000000.00 worth of chinese imports u.s. president donald trump announced last week for china's central bank blame the yuan slump on unilateralism and trade protectionism. huge of the complicated international situation and uncertainties we must pay great attention to handle the relationship between further reform and opening up and risk prevention hodge's regime which we don't phone china has denied it is devaluing its currency in retaliation its official respons

really the kind of things the chinese government are saying about the kind of information that needs beijing season they have the problem old fashion used to understand each other in order to find a way out at the moment we're not seeing that happen tom having listened to what steve just said do you believe that beijing no matter what their rhetoric might be no matter what moves they've made do you believe that beijing really understands what lies at the heart of these protests and these demands from protesters i don't think is coming from abroad i think those favors the wacky at best and wild conspiracy wildly conspiratorial or worth looking at some of the videos and things but out by state media it's quite comical there is just no evidence for meetings with officials like consulates and and others abroad are pretty normal including meeting those of the opposition i've seen videos of kazan to present at the protest and we know a lot of them as journalists or local residents and most comically we've seen local lawmakers point to some of the good protests that they are using like walk lead or

in beijing. if we look at the past we look at what's happened in tibet what happened at tiananmen square the interminable week gore's i mean. beijing is not adverse to at reverting to force at the end of the day it could work because local has nicer legal framework. this is the part of another system the legal frame with says the purity could be sent to hong kong if the seed the leader of hong g kong. officially off pigeon to do that but not sink. a carrot damage leader of the city is going to do that. okay well how was the west a responded there's been a mixed response french and german leaders. called for dialogue about the situation the us congress has been damaged by this heavy handed police response for drop. as call. on the chinese president to exercise restraint. for the trade deal that we're talking about. i believe it's only donald trump who's responded to this in terms of a high level a world a politician is the u. s. the only country you can bring pressure to bear on beijing i think lo

treasury department accuses china of currency manipulation beijing denies that is speculation china has been allowing its currency to devalue to support exporters and offset the latest threat of even more tariffs from u.s. president donald trump analysts say it is only drives a wedge between the 2 economic superpowers and makes a deal even less likely. talk about the latest developments in the trade war right now berridge joins us an analyst at money foreign exchange specialist in london how would you describe beijing's currency moves so i think what we're seeing really from the p.v.c. and chinese authorities in general this week is something of a warning shot the signal that is sending is really very simple firstly the yuan is no longer off the table in the event of a worsening in trade tensions secondly the indicating quite clearly with the leaning against further weakness today that your forty's remain strictly in control of the currency that they have the resources to prevent what they see as a disorderly or excessive depreciation in the currency what if they lose control of the cur

weeks of mass process to hong kong show no sign of coming to america but how long will beijing put up with you more than a few weeks ago a few days ago that if things got worse the chinese army might consider taking to the streets you said when there's trouble in hong kong when things turn sour there's violence in our street our fear is that if the police are now able to control what is happening here there's a remote risk the chinese army would get involved how remote is that risk if it's so well known of the why why did you why did you mention no i hope you will never happen why did you mention if it was a remote risk trying to frighten people you know it's a fact everybody understands you you don't understand it. hong kong is a place where it is being operating is operating under the one country 2 systems it is a not very successfully is it calm it's a huge political compromise we are part of china under the basic law china has a responsibility to ensure that hong kong is stable everybody who is doing business here want to see hong kong to be stable all right so yes under the basic

we're starting with the ongoing protests in hong kong which are now also impacting westen a company is beijing has taken any cli sing a firm tone over the protests accusing foreign countries of inciting unrest and this president on a trump on sunday want to china that carrying out a tiananmen square style crackdown on protesters was home trade talks between the 2 countries beijing has pressured businesses to tell the line and to condemn the protesters and a surprising number of big companies comply out of fear of losing access to the chinese market most of the hundreds of thousands of protesters braving the hong kong rain are employees somewhere this makes life difficult for big firms beijing is not happy and seems to be tightening the screws on business. signs of pressure over the protests appear in different ways. chinese state media reported public anger after stuff from hong kong airline cathay pacific took part in protests on friday cathay c.e.o. rupert hogg resigned cathay shares rose on the news investors clearly do not like to ruffle feathers in beijing and markets are banking on easin

farm imports says beijing setting the u.s. and china even further away from resolving their train work that story of north coming up next in the interview business jeanette will be here with that stick around. i'm secure that volume or not hard and in the end is a me you are not allowed to stay here anymore we will send you that. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers with clients and. what's your story. ready on what numbers and women especially in victims of violence. take part and send us your story you know a train always to understand this new culture . or not of a little or nothing yet you want to become sitting. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. up. your group washington china counters strong tariffs with the cheaper you want leading the white house to cry currency manipulation hours later beijing announces it will no longer buy foreign produce from the u.s. . i also want to show a canadian company that wants to socks the o 2 out of the air and turn it into fuel . and how syrians fleeing th

calls a breakaway province not the chinese government is putting pressure on companies over what beijing views as disagreeable ads joining me here in the studio is china expert fairford coonan clifford good to have you on the show the examples we just we just talked about they aren't the only ones but other companies have been in beijing's crosshairs i think it's almost like a roll call of the greatest russian bronze for example we've seen code. calvin klein versace and not just fashion we've got sore all steve jewelry footwear we've got a 6 telephones we've had some song and cars more c.d.'s have been in trouble and also we've seen things that aren't even brand related as much as you know facebook is by twitter is by. google is beyond so there's a lot of there's a lot of pressure on some of the biggest companies in the world on the cover real real make a real difference to your bottom line and how exactly is beijing applying this pressure and are companies giving in well it's not there have been been relatively little relatively few direct interventions for how it happens is through thi

that is a statement from beijing. still having difficulties getting hold of arin again at the airport. while we wait for further developments, we will keep an eye on the scene. it has calmed down a lot, the scene. it has calmed down a lot, the pictures from an hour ago where a very worrying when scenes of some panic and chaos in an airport which is normally a model of order and efficiency. just at around 11 o'clock, as we were saying earlier, ...the o'clock, as we were saying earlier, the pictures were coming in of the disorder there as trolleys were being pushed in the way, as i write police were coming in, some pepper spray, some arrests, a police officer or a man down, spray, some arrests, a police officer ora man down, it spray, some arrests, a police officer or a man down, it was unclear whether he was a police officer. a mainland undercover operative, some doubt and suspicion in the minds of protesters because they have had confirmation early today that some police officers were involved in presenting themselves

she was then harangued by journalists who want to know whether she's following beijing's orders speaking to d.w. news pro-democracy activist joshua one thinks beijing won't send in the people's liberation army standing you know into a hall call might just result in the damage on hong kong calling me at it would not only trick at this contact of hong kong people but also record high current y.p. if they stuck this by because does dock. financial market life 1st a serious crime when p.l.o. a were sent through a hall called protest sold it's crystal clear now well what we just pay attention to all call they should not let people walk alone. but images from across the border suggest a showdown a visible military build up just 30 kilometers away over the border in stands in the question now is is this just a threat from beijing or will the chinese military actually move in. and felix at least spent 6 years as china correspondent for the berlin daily detoxed sayto he is with me here in the city here to talk about these very dramatic developments in hong kong let's pick up where that report lef

well beijing beijing needs hong kong it needs hong kong as a conduit for in outside investment from internationally still shanghai isn't there yet as you know it's got its own growth markets and such but it hasn't got quite the level of sophistication of hong kong so they obviously need to prepare this but this could really damage hong kong's image if things escalate further if there's some kind of armed intervention by chinese military at the damage to hong kong's reputation could be irreparable so it's very finely balanced at the moment i think there's an awful lot at stake using our intervention is still on the cards it's still the chinese military still have a barracks there it could happen but for the moment i think it's going to be left to the to the police cliff couldn't thank you very much. now with antigovernment protests raging in hong kong china has become particularly sensitive about its national sovereignty 2 luxury fashion brands for sassy and coach to apologize for their t. shirt designs italian brand for sassy got it into hot water for listing hong kong and macau as

there is rumors that she wanted to step down but that beijing didn't want her to so the legitimacy of the government and her leadership is also in question what about the police in all of this are all of them are those have been heavily criticized by the protesters police tactics father cozen protests to spread. i would think so the police have been a big focus for the protesters they have focused on police violence to focus on the fact that a lot of police officers aren't wearing their badge numbers there have been a lot of arrests they are getting on the streets and there's even video of journalists getting protests so the balance is absolutely incited a lot of the anger there's been there's been a couple protests that have only focused on the police violence and didn't even mention the extradition bill so the police behavior and reaction definitely made it worse and what we're seeing now is that actually local residents who aren't even protesters per say they're they're coming down to break police they're coming down there they're getting into their. heckling the riot police and th

part of an erosion of hong kong's remaining independence or sensible economic policy beijing pushes a plan to make hong kong a key part of a cluster of cities in the cold river delta creating one of the most vibrant economic areas on the planet it's. also coming up germany's chemical in life science companies by itself it's animal health units to counter it being revenues and profits. and fasten your seat belts singapore is getting ready to launch a trial of self driving buses. welcome to new business asia i'm going to get jones in berlin thanks for joining us political unrest in hong kong has prompted china to speed up its vast regional development program the greater bay area projects beijing us long planned this but believes the promise of strong economic growth will ease anger at hong kong which will lose its special status in 28 years so the government wants to make hong kong a key part of a cluster of cities in the pearl river delta creating a vibrant economic area chinese president xi jinping describes the greater bay project as central to trying us greater national reach of an

by the probation politicians outside the beijing spankers they all want the hong kong. it is says that there is a chance but china's government to send troops to handle the crisis in. but most of them they have that's just that this kind of message and i think most of the protest is down already frightened by this kind of message. tell us about the impact that the warnings that we're hearing from beijing from hong kong authorities what impact those are having on the protesters and particularly the public support for the protest movement. was mentioned south was a protest this then on i mean they're not frightened by these kind of mass a stand on its feet just because the ha ha language off the basic science here but not on the this is most of them they actually they don't believe that china's government will. take these supposed to and the crisis of hong kong because this go further on the economy of hong kong and that will be at the sas to do phone calls international reputation was has been all eyes something really ideal form on not only comment on chinese staff and

beijing's decision to let the value of the renminbi slide is seen as a major escalation. the paper notes that the chinese currency now at its lowest level since the 2008 financial crisis. in india, the business standard focuses on the highly controversial decision by the government there to remove the special status of the disputed region of jammu and kashmir. it shrugged off warnings that the state could become another kosovo. here in the uk, there's increasing talk of a hard brexit. the daily telegraph, which is arguably the newspaper closest to borisjohnson's political outlook, leads with the claim that the rest of the eu now expects a no deal outcome at the end of october. the same paper has a worrying story that the number of british adults paying no income tax is now at a record high — 43% of the adult population. by contrast, the top 1% of earners pay 27% of the country's income tax. and, finally, the guardian is one of a few papers carrying allegations by the uk consumers association that facebook is failing to take effective action against floods of fake review

the only country that can bring pressure to bear on beijing i think home people are trying to. the international community not. only the u.s. but also. to put pressure on china but they also very well aware that only if it's only what it would like. even if international coming. if there are no other action for example economic sanctions all. that was for them mean anything ok what do you say. expressing concerns kind of pressure and china has to syria's taken take taking to consider. sanctions not the way out single we are which would be that beijing hong kong they going to negotiate in the framer bung country to systems about the way the timetable at least how the democrats democracy could be implemented in hong kong like a direct like a general election ok i don't know what i'm listening to terry though that's already been decided is 2047 when china resumes control of hong kong until then the chinese people or the people of hong kong rather want democracy the way i'm hearing you is that gerry that's nonnegotiable yeah because for us we don't believe what we're trying to. the

is africa gearing up to show beijing the cold shoulder china is the biggest investor on the continent and its biggest credit hold up some african countries including ethiopia want to get out of the gate trap. also coming up with germany's chemical and life signs company bias it's animal health units to count to epping revenues and profits. put chill game face on because it's games combine the world's largest gaming event is back with a new focus on smaller developers. but come to you this is africa cajones to have you with us. now china is africa's biggest investor in infrastructure projects invest this good there is a caps with loans was $143000000000.00 between 200-2017 china has also become the largest creditor on the continent international critics have long said beijing is landing african nations in debt tops and encouraging dependency and there are skeptical voices being raised elsewhere to in ethiopia for example leave on motors symbols cars for ethiopia's rapidly growing middle class i think of 444 cars in the blue michael because that they will do the future so that's why we'

the terminal constructed by beijing state owned china harbor engineering company will more than double the ports handling capacity bring it up to $750000.00 containers a year. i'm going to. blue. we're. going. to do. with. zambia angola the democratic republic of congo botswana and zimbabwe are among the main landlocked countries which the ports constructors say will benefit and chinese exporters lining up to exploit the new markets the new port has a dedicated cruise line of birth which should help to boost no maybe as tourist industry africa is the fastest growing tourist destination for the chinese numbers increasing 70 percent each year. global warming is intensifying the effects of heat and drought on africa according to scientists rapid and universal change is vital in changing and limiting warming to one and a half degrees above pre-industrial levels one important strategy is to stop burning coal to generate power germany recently closed its last mine but still the example lignite which is even dosia us president of trump is a big supporter of the coal industry and that's also t

and in beijing. okay for now at thanks so much a professor alessio about on from king's college london for joining. us a and giving us your insight into that situatation. well now calling for tougher ininrnationall action against venezuelan president nicolas maduro washington has frozen his government's assets that with national security adviser john bolton saying that the u. s. can now targets. and sanction anyone including foreigners who support the door was a tortilla any transactionon with the venezuelan government has been banned. orgy foreign affairs as robert parsons give us his view. on just how dramatic he thinks this move actually is. find thathey have not gone beyond just simple sanctions directed against members of maduro's government maduro himself hi i'm too if. extended them to. not just individuals but but countries so for instance on this is clearly what one of the targets in mind russia could be. very much in the united states science if it continues to do businessss as it has been

they saw straight go to beijing and to our correspondent. what is strong words there is this meant to be a shock warning to those china's calling criminals and madness. yes it is meant as a warning you can imagine if you heard these words in a mafia movie you would shudder now and you would expect something to happen however this is not a mafia movie and we can also notice that this these these words did not were not followed by any specific means that beijing plans to implement he did not elaborate on how these people would perish in the fire that they have said as he put it so it is still giving us a hint that beijing has not made up his mind on how to react to these clashes in hong kong on how it should deal with them other than that he has said that beijing stands firm behind kerry land the chief executive and that it would be hong kong's government's task to resolve this issue so in that regard there was nothing new with this press conference but in what he did talk about punishment the beijing spokes line what kind of pressure can in c

now both on social media platforms i just want bot of beijing's propaganda war theater on television is all supplying the road as we hear in our next report. this is the scene on the border of hong kong 600 illuminated drones hover in the night sky i love hong kong and i love china is their message the mainland urging calm and restraint. but state media is sending another more chilling message as well the evening news presenter says the protesters are plunging hong kong into chaos she's the huntington do you think. the demonstrators are like retro things they have angered the people and the powerful in heaven he us. chinese state media feeds the viewers an endless stream of the same images of violence there's no coverage of peaceful mass protests. demonstrators are equated with terrorists controlled by foreign powers and here to prove it is the us flag. to demonstrate as a very young it's very sad that they are being led astray i mean that the most out of. the official narrative features a hero standing up to chaos food how a journalist for chinese state media who was bound and beate