tokyo and beijing in a moment, but first, yogita limaye in seoul. it was a perfect success, the newsreader declared, as she announced north korea was close to achieving its nuclear goals. the country says it has detonated a hydrogen bomb small enough to be fitted to an intercontinental missile. this is kimjong—un inspecting what north korea claims is such a device. if true, it would mean that pyongyang is now capable of launching a nuclear attack on cities in the united states. this unprecedented threat prompted president trump to say... any threat to the united states or its territories, including guam, or our allies, will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming. it is a strong message to south korea's president, who for months has said talking to north korea was a solution. today, he expressed outrage and disappointment. translation: north korea has made an absurd tactical mistake by committing a series of provocations, such as launching icbm missiles and conducting a nuclear test, which has heightened tentions on the peninsula and

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of state rex tennyson is this weekend holding talks in beijing on what is his second visit to the world's number two economy since taking office. is plenty to be discussed notably be balance of trade between the two countries. as well as laying the groundwork ahead of president donald trump's own visit to china in november. but topping the agenda that the dangerous stand off from the bellicose exchanges between washington and pyongyang. let's france twewenty four s brian quinnnn reports washingtgton insist that beijing takes a. roll in handling. korea. wned worth korea now even more isolated. china has told north korean businesses operatingng withn its bororders t that they mt cease operations byy early january jointly run chinese north korean companies must also close. the ororder comes as part of intensifying un sanctions over pyongyang's most recent test of a nuclear weapon. and several ballistic missile launchers. china is north korea's mean trading partner and diplomatic protector. its participation in sanctions is crucial to their effectiveness. but china's says it will take

in beijing and moscow for the latest reactions. you and investigators have accused a release government of crimes against humanity, including executions and torture. they are urging the international criminal court to open a case as soon as possible. ♪ host: let's go to our top story and the un security council said to hold an emergency meeting in the coming hours. south korea says it detected signs that north korea is preparing another missile launch. pyongyang's detonation of its six nuclear bomb over the weekend prompted the trump administration to warn even a threat to use a weapon against the u.s. and its allies would be met with a massive military response. simon harding is the latest. reporter: more missile launches. that is what south korea's defense minister predicted on monday, just a day after north korea reportedly detonated its largest nuclear warhead to date. >> we predict north korea could fire and intercontinental ballistic missile to show they have obtained the means of delivering a nuclear bomb to the united states. reporter: in the aftermath of the test,

the headlines from singapore. beijing gets tough on north korea. as businesses will be kicked out of china by january. and as businesses will be kicked out of china byjanuary. and could a dna breakthrough by chinese researchers pave the way to preventing genetic disease? and from london, also when the programme, calls grow for action to help the rohingya in myanmar, we reveal the un failures over the conflict. and waiting and watching. over 100,000 people are now 0ver100,000 people are now displaced as bali's volcano threatens to erupt. it is seven a.m. here in singapore, midnight in london and this is newsday. we begin with china and north korea. long—time allies who have hit a rough patch in their relationship as beijing gets tough on its regional partner. china has announced new measures to greatly increase the pressure on the regime in pyongyang. north korean companies operating in china will have to close down by the end of the year. the moves have been welcomed by the us government which believes chinese policy is now shifting. this is the scion north korean friendship bri

what approach to take. the chinese ambassador said beijing would never allow war and urged dialogue between the parties. but his us counterpart, nikki haley, said only the strongest sanctions would work, and claimed north korea was "begging for war". from seoul, the bbc‘s yogita limaye starts our coverage. a day after north korea's most powerful nuclear test, the south displayed its might. missiles were launched from the ground and the air. it was a test drill. south korea showing off how it could attack pyongyang's nuclear site. this is a strong reaction from a country that for months now has been desperately trying to avoid conflict in the korean peninsular. but in new york, at an emergency un security council meeting, south korea's closest ally said pyongyang seemed to be heading the other way. nuclear powers understand their responsibilities. kim jong—un shows no such understanding. his abusive use of missiles and his nuclear threats show that he is begging for war. across the room though was an opposing view from a country often seen as north korea's friend. china urged a d

day just to beijing. -- tweaks to beijing. officials promised overwhelming military response if north korea were to attack the u.s. or its allies. we are expecting a risk off start of the week. look at how u.s. futures are the -- are trading, down 0.4%. looking at the set up in asia, we have a pretty boy and look in sydney, expecting the classic risk off safe haven to dominate the day. let's get the latest on this story. yvonne man is there in south korea. let me start off with you. what is the mood where you are in seoul? yvonne: the rhetoric has escalated. -- not even not surprising at this point, pretty much business as usual. morning traffic coming in here, the business district. we continue to hear the south korean military confirming they are conducting live fire exercises along north korea's nuclear test site. president trump as well as south korean president moon had a phone call overnight talking about the latest threats from the north and saying they have agreed pyongyang's nuclear test and violating the sanctions is a great provocation, and they will react with air force as

this is d.w. news live from berlin their buddies in beijing it seems but will china and the u.s. crack the north korea crisis the u.s. secretary of state gets a warm welcome from his chinese counterpart and tillerson says the u.s. is in contact with north korea also coming up. confrontation in catalonia as the independence referendum approaches rallies take place and both madrid and barcelona to oppose sunday's vote for the catalonian government insist that the vote will go ahead. and in the bundesliga better braman and hamburg's inability to score has cost them points can tonight's match spark life into their attacks. i'm happy quite often welcome to the program u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says the u.s. is in contact with north korea over its nuclear weapons program and is probing the country's willingness to talk tillerson made the remarks in beijing where he's held meetings centering on north korea and trade the u.s. use china as crucial to attempts to stop nor. korea developing nuclear weapons china has strong economic ties with the anyang accounting for about nine

matter what he is we're going to handle it folks believe me. adrian brown is live for us in beijing so a.j. we heard the u.s. president there talking about the banking industry but hasn't china deny that they put banking sanctions on north korea. yeah there is confusion once more here in beijing because on friday as you rightly point out the foreign ministry spokesperson here in beijing said that donald trump's version is not conforming to china's understanding of what has been agreed so it didn't really specifically reject or deny what donald trump had said but china hasn't actually spelt out or confirmed actually that it's going along with these new banking sanctions against north korea we've had no official statement from the bank of china remember president donald trump on thursday said that the bank of china had told its banks to no longer deal with north korea so it is far from clear at the moment and it's saturday here in beijing where the beijing is necessarily going along with what donald trump has outlined to that audience i think it's fair to assume though that the united

communist party convenes in beijing. the purpose of these party congresses is to establish or set out a party line, update the constitution, and most importantly to select its senior leaders. given the opacity of chinese elite politics the prelude to every party congress always involves officials falling from grace or rising from obscurity. the leaders who will emerge in the ccp, standing committee and the central military commission are the products of intense internal jockeying for power in the world's largest party state and army and will have significant consequences on the policies of the people's republic of china. the highest party official and thus the most powerful person in china is the general secretary of the ccp. by convention the general secretary serves two five-year terms for a total of 10. general xi jinping took power in 2012. now, all eyes are set on the 19th party congress slated for this fall. the leaders of all the all-powerful standing committee and bureau offer material signals into the direction of how the prc policy will be conducted for at least the next five

listen is in beijing for talks with his chinese counterpart wang louis and is to meet president xi jinping later the u.s. views china as crucial to attempts to stop north korea developing nuclear weapons china has strong economic ties with pyongyang accounting for around ninety percent of its foreign trade. for more we're now joined on the line by correspondent felix li who is standing by for us in beijing felix it's good to have you with us now the u.s. is china as critical to preventing any kind of military confrontation with north korea but what exactly do they want to china to do. yes and teaching is now sharply also criticized someone could not. be more clear action from. washington one china to put enough pressure on kids who used to bring oil to the negotiation table and in order to achieve this china would have to implement really painful sanctions i think this is what washington really wants you're describing them as painful sanctions and i know you've been at the border between china and north korea is it evidence that the functions are being imposed. or are have just bee

will go ahead . also coming up their buddies in beijing it seems but will china and the united states crack the north korea crisis the us secretary of state gets a warm welcome from his chinese counterpart and tillerson says the u.s. is in direct contact with north korea also coming up. in the bundesliga verda braman and hamburg's inability to score has cost them points and tonight's match spark of life into their attacks. i'm happy quite often welcome to the program tensions are rising as catalonia prepares to hold its independence referendum on sunday spain's central government is calling the vote illegal and has sent thousands of police officers to the region but catalan authorities say everything is in place for the. to go ahead however there are plenty of voices in catalonia and elsewhere in spain but do not support the referendum. protesters in madrid demonstrating against sunday's referendum on catalonian independence the spanish government is determined to make the vote impossible because a lot of fishes are pushing ahead with the banned polling and friday night of his

situation where washington, beijing, tokyo, seoul really need to join forces and unite in trying to first stop pyongyang's further testing of missiles and nuclear device in, nuclear weapons, and also to a situation where we can somehow try to stop the north‘s nuclear missile programmes or roll them back. i think it is fair to say though, isn't it, diplomacy and sanctions don't seem to be working on north korea. well, we have not had a good track record, that's for sure. but there were many factors and variables are played out in the reason behind ourfailed policies in the past. one of which actually is that time ran out for the bush administration, time ran out for obama, time ran out for clinton, and now is the time when we really need to test all of our options, all of oui’ to test all of our options, all of our diplomatic options, and our sanctions options, there are a lot of sanctions would still have not been implemented yet, including secondary. and on the diplomatic end, we have not, this is now the time to test everything we can at oui’ time to test everything we can a

story for you from two angles this hour agent brown is in beijing where the chinese government is toughening its stance against north korea but first let's go to kathy novak in seoul kathy tell us more for us about what the international atomic energy agency has been saying about their concerns. yes the head of the eye is here on a three day visit to seoul he has been meeting with south korea's foreign minister and talking about the north korean issue they've both expressed grave concern about the most recent six and most powerful nuclear test which as you mentioned north korea claimed was a hydrogen bomb of course the i.a.e.a. hasn't had direct access to north korea's nuclear facilities since its inspectors were kicked out of the country back in two thousand and nine but you know says the most recent test shows that north korea is making a progress when it comes to its nuclear program we do not have the capacity to determine if it is on. but it is over to my old is much bigger than the previous one it means that. north korea made a very rapid progress. combined with other element

struggles to recover from hurricane maria. u.s. secretary of state is back in beijing wanting more from china to stop north korea's nuclear ambitions. and joining hands against racism in inequality two separate civil rights movements march in washington d.c. . well this just hours now to go until polls open in the catalonians to session referendum and spain's government has been continuing its crackdown describing the vote as a mockery of democracy it's one volunteers at polling stations could be fined more than three hundred fifty thousand dollars a piece of already begun deploying ahead of the ballot to morrow and sealed off more than half of the schools designated as polling center officers say they will move in the spanish capital madrid thousands of people in favor of the united spain held a rally near side shows any signs of backing down whole reports now from wasilla. schools. the become a decisive political battle ground families and so-called defense committees are camping out to ensure school stay open and double as polling stations procession volunteers here in barcelona of v

are long—time allies, but now they've hit a rough patch in their relationship, as beijing gets tough on its regional partner. china has announced new measures to greatly increase the pressure on the regime in pyongyang. north korean companies operating in china will have to close down by the end of the year. the moves have been welcomed by the us government which believes chinese policy is now shifting. david campa nale reports. this is the sino—north korean friendship bridge, across it flows many goods that the communist satellite state relies on. in return, the north relies on china for over 90% of its international trade. for the locals along the border, jobs and prosperity are heavily dependent on this relationship continuing. but pyongyang's missile tests have prompted beijing to promise to act on un sanctions after america accused it of not doing enough to rein in its neighbour. translation: security council resolutions gave a buffer period for implementation of the ban on coal and seafood imports. china's practice is in accordance with the resolutions and china's laws and re

revolution in people's thinking. we went to beijing. mao joined we went to beijing. maojoined us in the middle of the night. file: inspired by mao, the red guards went wild in to keep the revolution alive. they worshipped mao as their leader and followed his instruction without question. they consider long hair and western—style clothes un—communist. after reports of rattings, beating up and even murder, the red guard seem to have gone too far. their leaders have told them to cool off. and go and help with the harvest. a man who has forged a new life himself and his family in the us. for decades, communist china's relationship with the us was difficult, to put it mildly. but things started to change in 1972 with president richard nixon's visit to meet chairman mao. the former diplomat winston lord was part of the delegation that travelled to china. file: today, president nixon is visiting china. the first american statesman to have set foot on chinese soil since chairman mao came to power. frankly, many of us were a little those appointed in the arrival arrangements. this was a

is live in beijing with more on that. good morning >> reporter: good morning. well, sources are telling reuters that the central bank has instructed the banks here to abide strictly by the u.n. sanctions against north korea. reportedly we're hearing that the banks are being told not to take on new north korean customers and to wind down existing ones. they've also been told and warned about the economic losses, as well as the reputational risks that they could take on if they defy the order. there's been a document that has apparently been circulating among the banks which said that north korea related business has become an issue of national level politics, and national security however today the foreign ministry dismissed that report at a regular press briefing in beijing. the ministry said what you mentioned now is not consistent with the facts china always implemented the u.n. security council resolutions in their entirety. they also weighed in on trump's executive order to expand the ability for the u.s. treasury to impose new sanctions saying china is always opposed to uni

are nations prepared to act from berlin to beijing from rome to the syrian border an investigation into trafficking that's at the heart of an economic cultural and diplomatic war. paris february two thousand and nine crowds flocked to the ground parlay to admire the treasures contained in the private collection of eve son of home and pierre ballsy one of the most prestigious in the world a few days later these precious works were to be auctioned off by christie's. dozens of masterpieces will be changing hands including these two eighteenth century bronze hides a rat and a rabbit which had once been housed in the imperial palace in beijing their sale sparked an uproar in china. was. the. but the present owner doesn't agree. that she too has given due credit it is there is there. is no mark show me shake a fellow miners of your book will be today cryptic on that lake it actually. except that these heads were stolen back in the nineteenth century it was in eight hundred sixty june the second opium war when french and british troops plundered the forbidden city and ransacked the summer

that beijing had ordered its banks to stop dealing with pyongyang the chinese government has since denied that said that's not quite right north korea responded on thursday with more threats saying it could conduct a hydrogen bomb test in the pacific ocean so it ran brown continues to follow all of this live for us from beijing so adrian this move by china to the limit oil exports but that in some sort of context for us how significant is that. well the announcement significantly or not was made on saturday by china's ministry of commerce they issued a statement on their website basically saying that china was now implementing what it had to agree to at the united nations last month that means that as of now china is no longer importing textiles from north korea that's significant because textiles are a very important source of hard currency for the regime it also says that as of now china is no longer exporting products like condensate oil as well as liquid natural gas now again these are very important for north korea but more importantly china is going to significantly limit the

is due to the news live from berlin and their buddies in beijing it seems about both china and the u.s. cracked the north korea crisis the u.s. secretary of state gets a warm welcome from his chinese counterpart to find out what chance they have of bringing kim jong un's rogue states to heel also coming up. confrontation in catalonia as the independence referendum approaches rallies take place in both madrid and barcelona to opals the sunday's vote of the catalonian government insists the vote will go ahead. and in the wonderous legal battle plan and hamburg's inability to score has cost them points can tonight's match spark life into their tax. money welcome to the program growing tension between the u.s. and north korea is at the top of the agenda in meetings between chinese officials and u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson now to listen is in beijing for talks with his chinese counterparts wang ye and with president xi jinping the u.s. feels china is crucial to attempts to stop north korea developing nuclear weapons china has strong economic ties with pyongyang accounting for

country's willingness to talk tillerson made the remarks in beijing where he was meeting with president and other officials he's also calling for calm the u.s. use china as crucial to attempts to stop young and developing nuclear weapons china has strong economic ties with north korea accounting for about ninety percent of its foreign trade. earlier i spoke to steven burrill wake our correspondent in seoul south korea i began by asking him how important china's role is in developing channels for communication between the united states and north korea. if u.s. and north korea are in some kind of direct contact and presumably that's a diplomatic process that's going ahead without china's direct involvement and whether or not that you site sit down to talk will depend on a variety of factors particularly the preconditions that they place on any kind of talks north korea has historically resisted talks that were predicated upon its taking steps towards the nuclear as they should that being said china is of course very important to any sort of approach north korea given the amount of economi

be held in north east asia. and twenty eighteen tokyo in two thousand and twenty in beijing in twenty twenty second. i aspire for these three olympics to become an opportunity for promoting peace and economic cooperation in northeast asia where remnants of the cold war and hope for the future as well as confrontations and cooperation co-exist with. the republic of korea is ready to make every possible effort for that. cease imagine for a moment. people from all around the word who love peace and sports will be gathered in pound which is only one hundred kilometers away from the demilitarized zone the symbol of divisions and confrontation on the korean peninsula. has of states and governments from all corners of the word will exchange greetings of friendship and harmony. my heart is filled with great joy when i imagine north korean ass less marching into the stadium during the opening ceremony a sow's north korean joint cheering squad enthusiastically welcoming them alongside the brightly smiling faces of people from all over the word. it is not an impossible dream. to turn this

or has just opened in beijing artworks old and new are being shown hit eight different museums throughout the city to bring the diversity of germany's art scene to chinese audiences there's more. this something new within the walls of beijing's forbidding city german a lot more of it than it's ever been displayed in china from post-war paintings to contemporary works to photography of hilla and bent on driskill ski and the political portraits of undress. the exhibition includes three hundred twenty works by fifty five artists spanning seven decades and it's a sensation visitors to beijing can see the city transformed into a temporary german art gallery. is displayed in at different locations throughout the city and kuhn gallery districts and old factories and there are plenty of young artists involved the chinese people are obviously curious they want to know what distinguishes germany what is real what is illusion sebastián makes negative images from the paintings of cats but david flay do this. yeah as if you have china you can best sing someone's praises by copying them the

round of un sanctions against north korea for its nuclear and missile programs beijing also defended china's recent imports of north korean coal which is banned under the sanctions by saying there is a grace period for their implementation. of the so-called islamic state has released an audio recording it claims is from its leader abu bakr al baghdadi you know he says he will continue to fight just by recent setbacks baghdadi had been rumored to be dead this most recent recording released last year u.s. officials say they're working to verify the authenticity of the message. diesel gay investigators get closer and closer to the top of scandal ridden folks who are going to finding out who ordered the brigade of millions of vehicles worldwide also coming out why an ash as nosedive as investors come to terms with the cost of thousands more cancellations. and on the winter and this is your business update another diesel gauge arrest an allergy employee this time media reports saying the suspect is a former member of the comic board hats you can see here he was also on the board

petrol and diesel fuel vehicles in the coming years. it was a similar announcement by beijing last week that could tip the scales. china is now the largest market for car sales in the world. our correspondent since report. rush hour in beijing. the chinese capital has five ring roads. but built around an ancient city the modern roads are not enough. the city's roads are inundated with traffic on a daily basis. today is sunny. but in general. beijing is wrapped in a blanket of toxic small. gas powered vehicles are blamed for a good portion of the problem. across china personal vehicle sales are surging. fourteen percent in a year. which is the equivalent of twenty four million new vehicles. tortilla. electric. their battery life can be s. for a long journey. is there a possible. everywhere. we electric cars are good for your wallet. he about getting one. a transition beijing considering us. moon. banning every gas powered car by twenty forty. at b. y. de the main electric carmaker in china. this is welcome to the stat. the measure has not been confirmed yet. be why the stock rose by

briefing books for the president for his trip to china. my first impressions of beijing was a very bleak and rather depressing place. it was very drab. everyone is dressed the same. very few cars — mostly bicycles. we arrived at the guest house and to our surprise, they announced that chairman mao would like to see president nixon right away. this was mao acting like a traditional chinese emperor — not giving you any warning when you're going to be summoned to his presence. i've worked for many presidents, including several close up. president nixon was by far the most well versed and strategic in international relations. he was extraordinary. whatever his flaws, one has to grant him that. as a person, he was quite shy. he was always somewhat ill at ease in engaging in banter or small talk. kissinger and i agreed that chairman mao would always have exuded power and attraction. this is not to glorify him, he was a monster in many ways. we immediately recognise the significance of the meeting. the chairman was declaring the visitor success chairman was declaring the visitor succe

buddies in beijing it seems but will china and the u.s. crack the north korea crisis the u.s. secretary of state gets a warm welcome from his chinese counterpart to find out what chance they have of bringing kim jong un's rogue state to heel also coming up. confrontation in catalonia as the independence referendum approaches catalonians is this the vote will go ahead there occupying polling stations to make sure madrid's police do not close them down. and in the bundesliga vanda women and how borgs inability to school has cost them points can't deny financial stocks life into their tax. money welcome to the program growing tension between the u.s. and north korea is at the top of the agenda in meetings between chinese officials and u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson to listen is in beijing for talks with his chinese counterparts and with president xi jinping the u.s. views china as crucial to attempts to stop north korea developing nuclear weapons china has strong economic ties with pyongyang accounting for around ninety percent of its foreign trade. and for more let's bri

state heads to beijing for talks. but first, we start in the estonian capital tallinn, where european union leaders are gathering for a digital summit. they'll be talking about the opportunities of new technology but also some of the risks of increasing digitalization. let's show you some of the details. digital business is already the fastest—growing area of trade in the eu, but it could be a lot bigger. the eu says almost $9.5 billion a year could be saved by removing barriers to data flowing across borders. but there are also huge risks. according to the eu presidency, by 2019 cybercrime will be costing $2.1; trillion a year. the challenge for cyber security is getting bigger all the time. it's estimated that over a third — 36% — of the entire global population will be using a smartphone by next year. and these days, it's not just our computers and smartphones that are vulnerable to hackers. the number of connected devices is expected to triple over the next decade as everything from household appliances to cars are linked to the internet. this week, the eu police agency euro

state rex tillerson telephone is in beijing for talks with the chinese counterpart and is to meet the president xi jinping later the u.s. views china as crucial to attempts to stop north korea developing nuclear weapons china has strong economic ties with pyongyang accounting for around ninety percent of its foreign trade. for more let's bring in correspondent felix lee who is standing by for us in beijing felix good to see you so the u.s. is china as critical obviously in preventing any conflict between north korea what especially do they want with china well yes china has been traditionally the protector of its neighbor north korea but since beijing is not also sharply criticizing pyongyang for its nuclear tests the u.s. government wants to create action from b.g. so washington wants to put enough pressure. to the issue you know. it's you first have to remember. this is what washington what's now speaking of sanctions you've been to the border between china and north korea is it clear that sanctions are being imposed. it's all what they should really focus attention are. seriously i

from the trauma itself it. has secretary of state is back in beijing wanting more from china to stop north korea's nuclear ambitions. if anybody out there is listening to us. we are dying. puerto rico are just the u.s. to speed up aid as it struggles to recover from hurricane maria. one welcome to the program spain's government is cracking down on the ban secession vote in its catalonia region on. someday describing it as a mockery of democracy it's worn volunteers that polling stations could be fined more than three hundred fifty thousand dollars base have already begun deploying ahead of the ballot and sealed off more than half of the schools designated as polling centers offices say that they will remove in the spanish capital madrid thousands of people voted in favor of a united spade and held the rally neither side shows any sign of cracking jann carl pinhole joins us live now from barcelona hi there carr what's the situation right now have many of those polling stations been able to remain open. well judy i think one of the key things right now is that spanish police have an ey

correspondent adrian brown joining us live from beijing so what they're about one hundred thirty kilometers from the border into the symbolism must be clear that's right the timing is very interesting because these naval drills are happening as the militaries of south korea and the united states have been carrying out war games but both moscow and beijing say you know don't read too much into these naval drills they have happened every year for the past five to six years there is no you know third country we are targeting but actually analysts here in beijing say there is a country that's being targeted and it is japan and that in a sense underscores the complicated tensions in northeast asia right now monday also marked actually the eighty thicks anniversary of japan's invasion of northeast china a very very sensitive anniversary here in china now there is no formal military alliance between china and russia but what these exercises i think demonstrate pretty clearly is that militarily china and russia are moving much closer together so it's possible also there was a message here for the u

to come on al-jazeera the u.s. secretary of state is back in beijing wanting more from china to stop north korea's nuclear ambitions plus. i mean i remember ministre new pontiff valley to become. the prime supplier of the country by paul thank you. i would say more pretty lively downpours across central parts of china recently in a long line of cloud and right pushing right out into the east china sea the sea pushing up towards the japan over the next couple days it will sink its way further south which shanghai had a pretty wet week last week i'm afraid that the heavy downpours in the forecast over the next few days and i think we are likely to see some localized flooding as to just pushing up towards the south china hong kong all the age of so humid it thirty three degrees celsius as they continue to stretch their way across india china thailand that particular seeing some really nasty weather recently heavy showers too into the eastern side of india that into central and southern parts of the country and there's heavy showers to persist the west still pretty disturbed long li

hour thirty minutes of the journey between beijing and shanghai. china's high speed rail ways are a potent symbol of its economy today the network has more than twenty thousand kilometers of track the largest in the world and it's all happened in less than a decade the link between beijing and shanghai is one of the busiest experts say the new service is about more than just the lure of speed or hunger for. the purpose of raising the speed is merely symbolic that trying to run at a speed of three hundred fifty kilometers an hour the fastest in the world this implies the stress of chinese twenty. foot high speed trains are expensive to operate one international think tank estimates that it cost ninety percent more to build lines for trains that reach three hundred fifty kilometers an hour than four ones that allow a speed of two hundred fifty but china's government is in a hurry to build more both in china and abroad than. nobody predicted that the high speed rail between beijing and shanghai would be profitable when it was built but after seven eight year development it gains so it

tests on thursday beijing announced an all north korean companies in china have been ordered to shut down by early twenty one thousand president trumps first official visit to china is expected to take place in november let's get more now from adrian brown he joins us live from beijing adrian rex tillerson i was just in beijing six months ago so why is he back there now. well daryn an awful lot has happened during the past six months tensions on the north korean peninsula have reached really unprecedented levels and of course there remain still deep trade friction between china and the united states but of course rex tillerson is really here a century not just to talk about north korea but also to lay the groundwork for president donald trump's first inaugural visit here to china that's going to happen sometime in the first two weeks of november so a lot to talk about there he really does carry a very heavy agenda even though he's here for really a very short time no more than a day but north korea as i say is going to be top of the agenda you know in many ways these two countries ne

thursday beijing announced at all north korean companies in china have been ordered to shut down by early twenty eight team president trumps first official visit to china is expected to take place in november let's get more of adrian brown who joins us live from beijing adrian rex tillerson as you were saying was just in beijing six months ago so why is he back there now do we think. well daryn an awful lot has happened during the past six months tensions on the korean peninsula have now perhaps entered their most dangerous phase and rarely has the relationship between the united states and china mattered as much as it does now so i think rex tillerson comes here with a very full agenda i think it's fair to assume that north korea will be at the top of that agenda but of course he also wants to lay the groundwork for the visit here in november by president donald trump it's been confirmed by the white house the president from peru is to visit china vietnam the philippines japan and south korea during the first two months of november so there's an awful lot for both sides to plan and i thi

korean companies operating in china to shut down by january. it's part of beijing's efforts to enforce un sanctions punishing north korea for its nuclear weapons development. and this video is trending on bbc.com... a huge white diamond found in angola has been displayed in hong kong ahead of its auction in november. 163 carats, it's by far the largest cut diamond of such quality to come up for auction. that's all from me for now. stay with bbc news. and the top story here in the uk: ryanair has been told to correct its compensation policy for passengers by friday afternoon after thousands of its flights were cancelled. the uk's civil aviation authority accused the airline of persistently misleading passengers. now on bbc news all the latest business news live from singapore. could be a dramatic saga over toshiba chip unit finally be over? indian engineers shoot for the men ina race indian engineers shoot for the men in a race to build a new rover. hello and welcome. toshiba has finally signed a deal to sell their memory chip unit to a group led by us investor for close to $18 billion.

country today craig leeson al-jazeera tokyo are china correspondent a train brown is in beijing so age and we are now hearing from china saying that this the latest launch is regrettable what else what else are you hearing there. well of course the big question now richelle is given north korea continues to thumb its nose at the international community and also china its one and only ally will china now go along with the sort of sanctions that the united states wanted to impose on north korea like cutting off the oil china has always been reluctant to do that i think possibly china might agree to something incremental and gradual against north korea i don't think china would agree to something that was major and certain because that's not really beijing style on friday the language was certainly more pointed at the china foreign ministry daily briefing the foreign ministry spokeswoman said that it wasn't china's fault that there was a crisis on the korean peninsula she got quite defensive and techy and her language and she made plain once more that sanctions had so far failed let's lis

the train will shave thirty minutes off the journey time between beijing and shanghai since trying to eleven speeds have been capped at three hundred kilometers now following a high speed crash that killed forty people while worries of a safety may have eased concerns remain over the cost of china's high speed rail ambitions adrian brown report. china's high speed rail ways are a potent symbol of its economy today the network has more than twenty thousand kilometers of track the largest in the world and it's all happened in less than a decade the link between beijing and shanghai is one of the busiest experts say the new service is about more than just the lure of speed or hunger for. the purpose of raising the speed is merely symbolic that the speed of three hundred fifty kilometers an hour the fastest in the world this implies the stress of chinese twenty. foot high speed trains are expensive to operate one international think tank estimates that it cost ninety percent more to build lines for trains that reach three hundred fifty kilometers an hour than four ones that allow a spe

the end of world war ii. we'll report from beijing and tokyo in a moment — but first yogita limaye in seoul. and tokyo in a moment — it was a perfect success, the newsreader declared, as she announced north korea was close to achieving its nuclear goals. was close to achieving the country says it has detonated a hydrogen bomb small enough to be fitted to an intercontinental missile. this is kim jong—un inspecting what north korea claims is such a device. inspecting what north korea if true, it would mean that pyongyang is now capable of launching a nuclear attack on cities in the united states. this unprecedented threat prompted president trump to say, "south korea's talk of appeasement with north korea will not work. "they only understand one thing," he declared. any threat to the united states or its territories, including guam, or our allies, will be met with a massive military response, a response both effective and overwhelming. it's a strong message to south korea's president, who for months has said talking to north korea was the solution. today he expressed outrage and

beijing must do more. top tradeent's negotiator has hit out at china, describing it as an unprecedented threat to world trade. he says of china's model creates andnatural competition distorts market, saying that he has received many complaints from american business leaders. bloomberge telling that equifax learned about a major hack in march, a must five months before the date it has publicly disclosed. the company says the march breach was not related to the hack that compromised the privacy of 140 million users, but we are told that that reaches involved the same intruders to read at the same time, they say that the investigation into whether senior officials wrote trading brokehen they sold -- trading laws when they sold their shares after learning about the hack. i am stephen engle, this is bloomberg. david: steve, thank you for that update. of the fed's latest meeting, the markets are under pressure. the fed's latest meeting, the markets under pressure. we are joined by kathleen hays. this, bondell me markets have been under pressure in the absence of no big economic reports out of

beijing on the repercussions for failing to comply plus styne rocketing ceiling of the national debt hits a new milestone twenty trillion dollars for she tells us how everyday americans are affected by spending spinning out of control standby we have all that and more and boom bust starts right now. the compromised credit reporting company at with facts is facing dozens of federal lawsuits since exposing one of the largest banks in history last week equifax revealed may have stolen the personal information for one hundred forty three million americans since then the lawsuits have been piling on more than thirty and counting as of monday in a securities fraud lawsuit equifax is accused of misleading shareholders about its ability to protect consumer data the agency knew about the hike more than a month before the truth came out and this lawsuit claims the company inflated by. anshul statements and share price before being exposed overnight after the announcement about three billion dollars disappeared from equifax market value and shares dropped as much as seventeen percent in one day and

cases here. you are watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: assessing beijing's role in the north korea crisis. we get views from the chinese side of the border. and another palace pregnancy. the duke and duchess of cambridge are expecting child number three, to join charlotte and george. she received the nobel peace prize for her work with the poor and dying in india's slums. the head of the catholic church said mother teresa was a wonderful example of how to help people in need. we have to identify the bodies, then arrange the coffins and take them back home. parents are waiting and wives are waiting. hostages appeared, some carried, some running, trying to escape the nightmare behind them. britain lost a princess today, described by all to whom she reached out as irreplaceable. an early—morning car crash in a paris underpass ended a life with more than its share of pain and courage, warmth and compassion. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm in singapore. i'm in london. our top stories: the us has accused north korea of begging for war after its latest nuclear te

strafford al jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera a u.s. secretary of state is back in beijing wanting more from china to stop north korea's nuclear ambitions. and another setback for natalee's villages hit hard by the twenty fifteen at quake as heavy rains cause more destruction. how i we've seen some very heavy rain recently into northeastern parts of turkey that has led to some extensive flooding still a fair amount of cloud just straddling the black sea pushing over towards the caspian sea i'm afraid yes there is more rain in the full cost over the next as i said want to show i was there ever towards georgia just extending out to come further south this financial i just around syria lebanon jordan twenty four beirut similar value to four terror and go on into monday here comes that cloud of rain that all the way through armenia pushing across georgia over into the caspian sea northern parts of iran could see some wet weather further south still pretty hot in baghdad at thirty five celsius and hotter still in kuwait city. thirty two for not too bad though it does feel pleasantly war

announcement by president donald trump that beijing has ordered its banks to stop dealing with pyongyang the chinese government has tonight that north korea responded on thursday with more threats saying it could conduct a hydrogen bomb test in the pacific ocean is kathy mentioned there so let's go to adrian brown now live fresh in beijing in a journal get to these sanctions in a moment first are we hearing anything out of china about what this this potential earthquake was. well state controlled media here in china in particular the evening news on chinese television is calling this a suspected explosion that says far as they're going you know they haven't confirmed whether it was an artificial tremor or indeed a nuclear detonation they're still calling it a suspected explosion they say it happened at about four twenty local time here in china it was detected by seismologists in china of course china's seismologists have been paying really close attention to the testing ground where north korea tested its or said it tested its hydrogen bomb in early september but i'm sure that this news