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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

sources of foreign revenue it follows an announcement by president donald trump that beijing has ordered its banks to stop dealing with pyongyang the chinese government has since denied that or korea on thursday responded to the pressure with more threats saying it could conduct a hydrogen bomb test in the pacific so adrian brown is following all this live from beijing for us so adrian how significant is this move by china to limit oil exports . i think what has happened richelle is this china has simply confirmed what it did read to at the united nations security council in terms of the sanctions that it must now in force against north korea because of course china accounts for ninety percent of north korea's trade so the onus is really on china to enforce those sanctions so between now and essentially october the first china will stop exporting liquefied natural gas it will limit exports of oil it will cap oil exports at two hundred million barrels a year that effectively means a ten percent cut its all go also going to stop the export of refined petroleum products but most importantly

force firing shrapnel at the driver and passengers it around has more now from beijing. rush hour in beijing a reminder that this is the world's largest auto market with almost thirty million vehicles on the road but now some of these vehicles having to be recalled because of problems with their airbags specifically the airbag deployed has now according to some reports the air bags have been exploding when they come under too much pressure and they've been linked to sixteen deaths worldwide although no deaths so far here in china but general motors is worried and on monday it announced it was recalling two and a half million vehicles manufactured here that have been fitted with these airbags models including buick and chevrolet which are very popular here in china now this followed a similar recall by volkswagen last week affecting almost five million of their vehicles produced by their joint venture companies here in china so this is a serious setback for car manufacturers now manufacturing here in china. egypt's foreign minister says the four gulf arab countries blockading qatar ar

beijing has been one of pyongyang's biggest backers adrian brown is standing by for us in beijing first to kathy novak in the south korean capital seoul these added sanctions this time cathy from the united states not the united nations and the language what kind of impact will that have on south korea. well south korea as you would welcome these sanctions it has long said that the way to deal with north korea is through sanctions and pressure president moon was speaking at the united nations saying that the unanimous support of the latest round of u.n. sanctions demonstrated that the world is speaking with one voice when it comes to north korea and he above all does not want to resort to military options he wants to do deliver a message to north korea that repeated provocations will not be tolerated but he says that it must be through peaceful means that the situation will be resolved we heard a little bit more of the south korean response from the unification ministry spokesman today as well for kind of praise on the progress toward north korea should immediately stop reckless p

china and here moscow and beijing reiterate that they have no third country in mind when they carry out these drills which have happened every year for the past five years but analysts here in beijing say actually the real target is china and now we have seen really over the past four five years president vladimir putin and president xi jinping becoming much much closer and of course these exercises enable them to demonstrate just to the united states as well that actually russia and china are becoming much closer allies now russia and china have no formal military alliance as such but these exercises are i think going to become something of a more permanent fixture in their relationships both countries have both land and sea borders those sea borders make them quite vulnerable and that's why we're seeing the focus of the moment on submarine exercises. china of course depends on russia for that submarine technology but the timing of these exercises of course come as you have the armies of south korea in the united states carrying out the exercises in the south the peninsula and now in t

specifically of course to fit with the korean peninsula it is mr tillerson second trip to beijing this year aimed of tightening an economic squeeze on north korea over its nuclear weapons program the u.s. sees china which is pyongyang's main ally as vital in forcing kim jong retreat from his nuclear weapons ambitions adrian brown has more now from beijing. well with tensions on the korean peninsula still at a very dangerous level rarely have relations between china and the united states mattered as much as they do now rex tillerson had been due to arrive in beijing on friday night but his visit was delayed because of mechanical problems with his plane on saturday he had a brief audience with president xi jinping that is significant because china's president doesn't always grant an audience to visiting dignitaries from overseas that's a measure of the importance they place on rex tillerson presence in china and also of the importance they place on president donald trump visiting china in november that was confirmed by the white house at the weekend both china and the united states have

they're accused of stealing land from unsuspecting commons and the pressure grows on pyongyang beijing on its north korean businesses in china shot by the end of the here. from the waves of the south. to the contours of the east. hello and welcome to international weather forecast now we've still got a battle going on across europe with this high pressure across eastern areas not a cloud underneath and quite chilly conditions meanwhile across the west we've got low pressure sensors moving in and some deep lows expected to form in the coming days it's all looking a bit unsettled across more western part of the united kingdom but ahead of it we're still getting a southwest the first of temperatures for this time of year pretty good paris there at twenty three moving on into the start of the weekend but high and that cold front will see temperatures dropping quite sharply meanwhile across more central areas we've got some dry weather down in the south in the mediterranean through the ionian sea we've still got the risk of some big storms here you know says as he's still struggling moscow

to pyongyang's missile and nuclear tests on thursday beijing ordered all north korean companies and china to shut down by january china correspondent adrian brown has more. well rex tillerson was last in beijing just six months ago but during that time of course an awful lot has happened tensions on the korean peninsula have now entered perhaps the most dangerous phase so rarely has the relationship between china and the united states mattered more than it does now north korea of course will be at the top of rex tillerson agenda but he's also here to lay the groundwork for the expected visit of president donald trump to china in early november the white house confirmed at the weekend the president from would also be visiting south korea japan the philippines and vietnam another vexed issue of course is trade the fact that china still exports far more to the united states than the united states sends to china and the united states says that trade relationship is a lot sided at the moment and he wants it to change this will also be an opportunity for the secretary of state to get guar

thirty minutes off the journey time from beijing to shanghai but there are concerns about the cost of china's high speed rail ambitions as adrian brown reports. china's high speed rail waves 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 drinking a run at 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 speed of two hundred fifty but china's government is in a hurry to build more both in china and abroad. nobody predicted that the high speed rail between beijing and shanghai

correspondent atrium brown is covering this friend beijing and when this happens and it seems to happen often now the eyes do turn to china for some sort of reaction what are you hearing adrian. well as always happens when north korea carries out a missile or a nuclear test there are strong words from beijing condemnation and once more there has been today but the words after a while start to sound a little hollow to some people the foreign ministry spokeswoman said that china condemns north korea's latest actions but there was also a slight tetchiness to her language today it was directed not just at north korea but also very much at the united states she said that china is not the core issue china is not raising tensions on the korean peninsula sanctions are not the ultimate solution everyone knows this so the language directed at both appear on yang and particularly his state a little bit stronger this time china as we know is in something of a bind it reluctantly has gone along with tougher sanctions against north korea but it refuses at the moment to turn off the oil completely rem

unprecedented scale well china to announce sanctions against north korea beijing has been on the pyongyang's biggest backers in the past adrian brown is standing by for us in the chinese capital b. jing but first to kathy novak in the south korean capital seoul kathy how's this being viewed and reported there. well we just saw the statement being read out as you mentioned on north korean state television that's blocked here in south korea we're able to see it here at the al-jazeera bureau but most people will be reading about this second hand in south korean media and what the foreign minister of north korea in new york was talking about there was the question around what kim jong un specifically meant when he was talking about the highest level of hardline countermeasure in history and suggesting it could mean anything including the detonation of a hydrogen bomb in the pacific now the south korean unification ministry was asked about this here's a little bit about what the spoke of the what spokesman had to say. please on the progress toward north korea should immediately stop reckless prov

world recognizes that any deal with pyongyang has to go through both beijing and d.c. and trump sees. a further way that he can. draw the chinese into doing more against north korea and the chinese so far see it quite differently one of the issues in all of this of course is going to be transparency how easy is it going to be to make sure that china and china and its banks are actually keeping their side of the bargain when it comes to sanctions. i think that's a really good point you raise there it's going to be near impossible and i think the there's two different issues to think about with that one is how much beijing actually juan's actually means when they say we're going to take these steps to sanction chinese entities that work with north korea or we're really going to try to crack down on this and the second issue is how much those entities across china are actually going to listen to beijing there's a chinese expression the mountains are high and the emperors far away and it's very possible for something like this because even if beijing says ok these are the ways that you're g

state is back in beijing wanting more from china to stop north korea's nuclear ambitions. and i'm far as small have all the day's sport including on beating manchester city score a win over english premier league champions chelsea. if their warm welcomes the news hour spain's government is cracking down on the bands the session vote in its catalonia region on sunday describing it as a mockery of democracy it's one volunteers a polling stations could be fined more than three hundred fifty thousand dollars they have already begun deploying ahead of the ballot and sealed off more than half of the. schools designated as polling centers they will. in the spanish capital madrid thousands of people in savior of the united the rally either side shows any sign of backing down. reports not on. schools have become a decisive political battleground families and so-called defense committees are camping out to ensure school stay open and double as polling stations procession volunteers here are. to information through. the few square meters at stake the spot where a ballot box will be placed. becau

twelve hundred kilometers from beijing to shanghai can be done in just under four and a half hours in the world there are twenty two countries that operate similar high speed trains japan launched the original bullet train in one thousand nine hundred sixty four it's showing council network operates at maximum speeds of two hundred forty to three hundred twenty kilometers per hour and links major cities in the islands of honshu and q shu british rail which launched its own high speed train service in one thousand nine hundred seventy six is able to reach two hundred one kilometers per hour while france began using their own version the veil on commercial lines three years later it runs at speeds of two hundred thirteen to three hundred kilometers per hour the united states by comparison has been slow to adapt its only line is the amtrak linking boston new york city philadelphia and washington d.c. with top speeds of two hundred forty kilometers per hour adrian brown has more now on china's rail ambitions. china's high speed rail ways are a potent symbol of its economy today the networ

this hour the u.s. secretary of state is back in beijing wanting more from china to stop north korea's nuclear ambitions. another setback for nepalese villages affected by the twenty fifteen quake as heavy rains cause more destruction. and in sports a best a treat for any magic formula one stop the long drive isn't celebrating. 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 forecast over the next as i said one of the towards georgia just extending out to come further south this financial i just around syria lebanon jordan twenty four beirut similar value to for terror go on into monday here comes that cloud of rain that all the way through armenia pushing across georgia over to 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 thoug

well china correspondent adrian brown has more on what this latest test could mean for beijing. well it's getting harder for china to resist now the growing calls for even tougher sanctions against north korea china in the past has been reluctant to cut off the oil completely to north korea it has gone along with limiting exports of oil to north korea and of course it's no longer allowing north korean workers to come to china to work imported north korean labor is a very important source of hard currency for north korea now and next week at the united nations general assembly china will be sending a delegation led by the chinese foreign minister wang the north korea will also have its foreign minister there so it's possible the two men could meet given that in the past china has supposedly been the only country that has been able to exert any real influence over north korea the problem china has at the moment is this they don't really have a point man in north korea as they have done in the past someone they can talk to directly that person in the past was the uncle of kim jong un bu

correspondents craig leeson in tokyo mike hanna in washington and adrian brown in beijing first let's cross live to seoul and thomas andrew what do we know about this launch. well that missile was launched at six fifty seven local time on the korean peninsula that is just over three hours ago in fact exactly three hours ago that missile was in the air it flew for nineteen minutes we're told by the south korean military and it flew for three thousand seven hundred kilometers in a north west easterly direction now had that missile being flown in a south westerly direction it would have flown towards a quorum where the united states of course has a big military presence so that in itself is significant the distance it flew very very significant north korea had made it clear after the united nations part its resolution at beginning of the week that it was not going to be deterred from testing missiles and from nuclear tests this seems to be evidence of that a test so swiftly after that u.n. resolution was passed is clear provocation by the north and clear suggestion that they are not going to be put

beijing for us let's cross live to our correspondent in tokyo craig leeson so sins are producing some very strong statements there what else is even saying. yes well he arrived back from this summit that he was attending in india and was greeted by this missile launch he's called for an emergency meeting of the un security council and for the un security council up to that point to implement the strong sanctions or stronger sanctions that would imposed against north korea on choose day and that was bought by the united states and backed by south korea so clearly they don't very happy with the current state of affairs but he did say that japan was prepared for it in that they tracked the missile and that in fact they were able to issue a jail which is a public warning to people in the north of japan shortly after that me saw it was launched and what that does is it sends a message to people's mobile phones it also makes radio and television announcements and gives fair warning that a missile is trekking across the country their main concern was that something might fall from the miss a

has revealed washington has been in direct communication with pyongyang he's in beijing for high level talks on the crisis the u.s. has been looking for china's help to tighten an economic squeeze on north korea it in bronze in beijing. well with tensions on the korean peninsula still at a very dangerous level rarely have relations between china and the united states mattered as much as they do now rex tillerson had been due to arrive in beijing on friday night but his visit was delayed because of mechanical problems with his plane on saturday he had a brief audience with president xi jinping that is significant because china's president doesn't always grant an audience to visiting dignitaries from overseas that's a measure of the importance they place on rex tillerson presence in china and also of the importance they place on president donald trump visiting china in november that was confirmed by the white house at the weekend both china and the united states have a very different approach as to how to deal with north korea rex tillerson wants to make sure that china delivers on

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counterpart in beijing on his second trip to the chinese capital this year the u.s. want to china to increase the economic pressure on north korea over its nuclear weapons and with our program on thursday beijing ordered almost korean companies in china to shut down by january adrian brown reports from beijing. well with tensions on the korean peninsula still at a very dangerous level rarely have relations between china and the united states mattered as much as they do now rex tillerson had been june to arrive in beijing on friday night but his visit was delayed because of mechanical problems with his plane on saturday he had a brief audience with president xi jinping that is significant because china's president doesn't always grant an audience to visiting dignitaries from overseas that's a measure of the importance they place on rex tillerson presence in china and also of the importance they place on president donald trump visiting china in november that was confirmed by the white house at the weekend both china and the united states have a very different approach as to how to deal

beijing had ordered its banks to stop dealing with pyongyang but the chinese government has denied that our career responded on thursday with more threat saying it could conduct a hydrogen bomb test and the pacific ocean so as all of this continues to develop atrium brown follows it all for us from beijing so china limiting oil exports can you put that in some context for us adrian. yes china has said that it's going to cap the amount of oil that it sends pumps across the border to north korea it's going to cap those exports a two hundred million barrels a year what we don't know rachelle because there's no data on this is how much oil china sends to north korea i've seen one figure that suggests it could be as much as six million barrels a year but if it's going to cap those exports a two million barrels a year and that of course could have some impact but to be honest we're not going to know for months what the effect of these sanctions are going to be on north korea now a century what china has now done it's basically announced that it's begun implementing what it agreed to at t

types of petroleum and natural gas beijing would also ban textile imports one of north korea's main sources of foreign revenue on thursday vs president donald trump announced that china had ordered its banks to stop dealing with pyongyang but the chinese government has since denied that the white house is also targeting north korea's energy medical mining and transport industries and the u.s. treasury says it could sanction anyone who owns or controls a port of entry there adrian brown has more now from beijing. well china has now essentially begun implementing what it agreed to at the united nations security council on saturday a statement appeared on the website of china's commerce ministry it said that as of now china was no longer importing textiles from north korea textiles have been until now an important source of hard currency for the regime also as of saturday china is no longer exploiting things like liquefied natural gas as well as condensate all while and significantly china is going to limit the amount of oil that it exports to north korea those exports will be capped a

minutes off the journey from beijing to shanghai there are concerns about the cost of china's high speed rail ambitions adrian brown looks at that. 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 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 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

warships are taking part in the exercises china correspondent a dream brown from beijing. well the timing of these naval exercises come as the military's of south korea and the united states have also been holding war games now both russia and beijing say we shouldn't read too much into these naval drills they've been happening every year for the past five or six years but of course it does underscore once more that militarily russia and china are moving much closer together even though formally they have no military alliance now analysts say that perhaps the intended target of these war exercises involving russia and china was japan and that once more underscores the complicated tensions in northeast asia right now and of course monday marks the eighty sixth anniversary of japan's invasion of northeast china a very sensitive anniversary in china now these naval exercises involve not just warships but also submarines and once more it demonstrates that china and russia are very close and that is borne out by the increasingly close relationship between president xi jinping and presid

correspondent adrian brown is in beijing as james was just talking about there the u.n. security council planning more meetings to discuss this one would guess that china is going to be under a lot of pressure at those meetings. yes and i think you could possibly see some of that pressure actually in washington because a senior chinese minister a state councilor wang teacher is currently in washington he's china's top diplomat and he's been meeting the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson and of course north korea will almost certainly be on the agenda now one is there ostensibly talking about the planned visit president donald trump is due to make to china in november he's trying to finalize those details but of course north korea will be very much the focus of their discussions i would imagine on friday china of course will see what north korea has done as once more another provocation and also it will seem to outsiders once again a reminder the china really is impotent in trying to rein in its old i did logical ally and neighbor people have always said that china in many ways is the

from beijing well the fact that china's central bank has now told chinese banks to no longer deal with north korea represents a significant tightening of the economic news around paean yang because of course ninety percent of the north's trade is with china china has been worried for some time that the u.s. treasury might want to blacklist a chinese bank because washington feels that china has not been doing enough to rein in pyongyang and remember four of the world's biggest banks are in china and china's leaders want to avoid a situation where one of their big banks is excluded from the u.s. financial system that would cause not just economic damage but also a loss of prestige also on friday a war of words not just between p.r. nyang and washington but also between p.r. nyang and beijing the official north korean news agency launching a withering attack on the people's daily newspaper accusing china of being in the armpit of the united states it is a reminder if you needed it the china and north korea are no longer as close as they once were. japan says it backs the u.s. in putt

missile and nuclear weapons tests on thursday beijing announced that all north korean companies in china have been ordered to shut down by early twenty's eighteen president trumps first official visit to china is expected to take place in november. the u.s. government has ordered sixty percent of its staff in cuba to leave its embassies because of what it describes as specific attacks on u.s. diplomats after embassy employees reported mysterious health problems the u.s. president says some very bad things have happened in cuba but have on us as washington's decision to pull out some staff has been made to quickly. we consider the decision announced today by the u.s. government through the state department is hasty and will affect bilateral relations especially cooperation in the matters of mutual interest between both countries and the diverse exchange that takes place between cuba and the united states. i want to reiterate the willingness of cuba to continue active cooperation between officials from both countries to clarify these acts completely and for that it is essential to ha