groups and that of course includes chinese catholic. the first chinese came here from east and west, north and south in the gold rush. despite intolerance, discrimination and many difficulties they have endured, thrived and contributed and warm asleep. new waves of chinese continue to arrive today, and today we will talk with father peter's i a priest of the divine word society who directs the diocese . you will learn a little history and find out what is up currently, and try to peer into the future. after this break please join us for a conversation with father peter on chinese catholics. [ music ] maria, so how's work? maria: it wasst't gtiiod biology.our s how easily viruses spread. so ms. bell and i had them role play a zombie virus outbreak. by the time they had all learned the lesson, all the living...were dead. hey, how's your job going? carlos: oh, that big sales meeting i planned? next year, i might get to go. kid: cool! >>> hello and thank you for joining us on mosaic. our guest today is father peter zhai and he is the director of chinese ministry. smack yes, i am the dir

francisco has always responded towe rve 18immigrgrou and ics. o the first chinese came here from east and west, north and despite intolerance, discrimination and many difficulties they have endured, thrived and contributed enormously. new waves of chinese continue to arrive today, to study, to work or stay permanently. today we will talk with father peter zaidi, a priest of the divine word society who directs the chinese archdiocese. to find out a little history, and perhaps. into the future. after this brief break priest join us base they should -- please join us for a conversation. [ music ] hello and thank you for joining us on mosaic, our guest today is father peter zaidi. and he is director of chinese pastoral ministries. >> yes, i am director of chinese ministry here in arch diocese of san francisco . >> along of you been doing that work? >> for five years. >> and you live in the city ? >> yes, i live in the city, in st. anne of sunset. >> and that is one of six or seven parishes that have chinese mass ? >> yes, we have sunday mass, actually saturday at 12 pm. >> is your mass in can

east turkestan is cultural revolution on steroids. the chinese government has been so brutal, particularly in the last 16, 18 months, locked up more than 10% of the population according to various reports. we are talking about a population of 10 million people so you are talking about io%, i million uighurs in detention. the numbers could be higher. a human rights organisation published a report recently estimating 3.3 million people affected. the chinese government has been carrying out this internment camp, so—called re—education programme in three ways. one, they lock you up and impose a heavy sentence of 10—15 years. you basically go through jail time. the second group of people who have been subjected to this is daily re—education. you go there and come home at night. and the third one is the ones who are kept in high walls and barbed wire. they go to a daily routine pronouncing their religious background, studying the thoughts of xi. that is the president, xijinping? exactly. and watching anti—separatist video. singing chinese communist songs, stuff like that.

some chinese goods. president trump has threatened $257 billion more if china retaliates. south korea's president moonjae—in has been discussing denuclearisation with the north korean leader kimjong—un at their summit in pyongyang. and this story is popular on bbc.com. the korean—ca nadian actress sandra oh may not have come home with an award from the emmys, but her mother has won over the internet. young—nam 0h accompanied her daughter to the awards night, wearing the hanbok, a traditional korean dress. thousands tweeted their approval. and the top story in the uk: an official report says it should be made easier for highly—skilled workers to come to the uk after brexit. the migration advisory committee also said eu citizens hoping to come here to work should not be given preferential treatment after brexit. here's rico. . retaliates against the administration, escalates the trade war. “— administration, escalates the trade war. —— tit—for—tat. and asia assessors have the cost of the destruction left from the typhoon. good morning asia, hello world. it is

history this after washington slapped a new round of tariffs on chinese goods from handbags to rice coming into effect today. also coming off the heads of germany's top automakers failed to reach a deal with chancellor angela merkel as the fate of their pervasive but diesel powered vehicles remains unclear. welcome to d.w. business the latest round of u.s. tariffs on chinese goods kicked in today at the stroke of midnight to washington started imposing tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products beijing retaliated by targeting sixty billion dollars of u.s. goods with extra duties and this is the latest escalation in a bitter trade dispute that's rattled financial markets and so far neither side has signaled a willingness to compromise. workers in a chinese factory making flags and banners for donald trump's reelection campaign in twenty twenty if you want an idea of the irony and complexity of the trade dispute between the world's two biggest economies here it is in a nutshell the dispute has escalated dramatically since this meeting between the american preside

for centuries. the latest, the chinese. we have explored their ambitions, asking whether dreams and far off beijing match those on the african continent. "belt and road," china's trade super highway. mombasa is seen as the gateway to africa. relylandlocked nations on this port to get goods in out. railway is the big est infrastructure project since independence from britain in 1963. kenya paid $3.8 billion. china arranged the financing and built a railroad network deep into the heart of the continent. it cuts the journey to kenya's capital to five hours down from eight for cargo transported by truck. >> the initiative is i believe a good initiative for the region. -- railway link mombasa to nairobi, it's creating immense opportunities. the railway link, i have reservations about the price that was paid. however, the fact that we have a rail link now is creating immense opportunities. resulting in reductions in supply times and so on. >> there is no one else who can compete with the chinese. >> when we look at it with an african or kenyan perspective, investors are welcome. whether i

. washington's announced new 10% tariffs on $200 billion worth of chinese goods, warning beijing it'll raise them to 25% if it retaliates. and this story is trending on bbc.com. the tech billionaire elon musk is being sued for libel and slander by a british diver who helped rescue 12 thai boys trapped in a flooded cave. vernon unsworth says the tesla founder falsely accused him of being a paedophile on social media. and the top story in the uk. the chancellor philip hammond has warned that leaving the eu without a deal would put at risk the substantial economic progress britain has made in the past ten years. now on bbc news, live to singapore for asia business report. tensions between washington and beijing gets worse as president unveils tariffs on an additional $200 billion worth of chinese goods. we have the latest reaction from the us and china. and denuclearisation isn't the only hot topic on the agenda between the leaders of north korea and south korea. samsung's de fa cto korea and south korea. samsung's de facto boss moved from jail. it's tuesday, everyone. good morning, asia. hello

ports the chinese government is backing large scale projects across africa as part of its so-called belt and road and negative and the leaders of around fifty african countries have been in beijing for a two day summit china's president xi jinping offered them sixty billion dollars in new financing deals and says the investments come with no political strings attached is also promising to waive the debts of the poorest african countries as our china correspondent adrian brown. well this has been a summit which in many ways was more about symbolism than substance it lasted really less than two days but of course china has committed itself to giving africa another sixty billion dollars that's on top of the sixty billion dollars that was pledged at the last africa china forum three years ago china's media actually doesn't call this you know loans it talks about aid that way it doesn't seem as though china is making a profit out of extending financing to africa but of course you know these are loans now president xi jinping said that you know fifteen billion dollars of that sixty billio

one way ticket out of the country it already has for one foreign correspondent and chinese journalists have it worse threats violence in some cases prison sentences the story is the alleged mass incarceration of weekers and other turkic muslim minorities more than a million of them in the shin john we go to top of this region and twenty three million people there are now being tracked by a high tech surveillance system the chinese media echo their government security narrative on this that the measures are necessary given separatist movements in the area prone to violence and the terminology can be telling what the international media called internment camps forced indoctrination the chinese media described as political education centers counter extremism training schools our starting point this week is the resource rich news rich region of sion job. it's not as though she and john. is a black hole for news if it was it would be a big one since the region is twice the size of germany what should and jong is is a black hole for a certain kind of. the official narrative and h

this along. have a look at this one. obviously, chinese currency very much in focus. what we noticed the from overnight into this morning, 9:00 a.m., 30 modest before the cash market opened, up before 24 basis points. what we're looking at here is one month forward points. in a lot of ways, you can almost intercut this as perhaps china looking to add an anchor to the currency in case things kick off later on. across the short, it's a bit hi gh. is it going to be worth the wait? we'll see. paul allen is with us in sydney with an update on our first word news. paul: the south korean envoys who met with kim jong-un said he wants to remove nuclear weapons during president trump's first term. officials say he told them he would accept measures to curtail the nuclear program and wants to bring the korean war to an end. president responded with an optimistic tweet that the state 's muchent says there to remain done. departures and 12 arrivals are scheduled for today, thank you joe says international flight -- kyoto says international flights will return tomorrow. campaigning begins

constitution amending the constitution. as well his. given his boost to the economy using cheap chinese loans for large infrastructure projects such as the chinese maltese friendship bridge opened last month after four years of construction. the apparent reliance on large chinese loans has raised concerns about china's increasing influence as the chinese buy with india for a say in the strategically situated indian ocean archipelago. topless. the vatican has settled a seventy year old dispute with china pope francis has agreed to recognise seven bishops who were appointed without his approval pope francis says he hopes the deal will heal wounds of the past and bring about for catholic unity in china china has some ten million catholics. this is the end of a process that's really the beginning it's also important to remember that while it's come to fruition under pope francis if pope benedict had a letter to chinese catholics in two thousand and seven he was working for the same goal. john paul the second had made legitimate a number of illegitimately ordained bishops so this this is really th

inching jang these camps of a turning muslim minorities into chinese patriots and over a million people are thought to be detained there kyra is trying to ensure that the world does something about it. not long ago it would have been dangerous for kyra to watch a video of a kazakh hit on his phone he was in a reeducation camp until march he's an ethnic but was born in china he lived in kazakhstan for a few years before being detained. but i was in the village they summoned me to the police station. i went there on the nineteenth of october so they kept asking me what i had done in kazakhstan who i had met and they searched marshawn my social media user name was k.z. short for kazakhstan they told me i was to first only with here. in chinese communist party jargon someone who is two faced is loyal to their own ethnic group and not to the chinese nation cairo it is trying to show the activist kid a rally or as early exactly where the camp was located. now look. i want to talk about what i know so the situation of muslims in china improves. shinji in china's north west is home to ma

chinese goods is about to kick in, as the trade war between the us and china escalates. and this story is trending on social media. ajournalist in saudi arabia has made history by becoming the country's first female news anchor. weam al dakheel presented the main news bulletin for al saudiya, a state—run tv channel. she received praise on social media that's all. stay with bbc world news. and the top story in the uk: police say there's no link to terrorism after a man was arrested at the visitors‘ entrance to buckingham palace. the 38—year—old was stopped by security staff on suspicion of carrying a taser. now on bbc news, live to singapore for asia business report. as of noon today, around half of all chinese goods exported to the us will be subjected to president trump's tariffs. will american consumers finally feel the effects of the trade war? and we look at how a small state in india's northeast is kicking off india's northeast is kicking off india's organic produce revolution. hello and welcome to this monday edition of asia business report, i'm sharanjit leyl. edition of as

companies, is that chinese companies will often win or come out on top. >> in the next 10 or 15 years, the world will invest about $90 trillion in infrastructure, mostly in emerging and developing countries. so whilst that, to some is a very large sum, it is only a couple of percent less than the world's infrastructure investment and it might be 3, 4, 5% of the infrastructure investment in asia. so it is very big, but we shouldn't overdo the magnitude of this come in the context of infrastructure investment. ♪ stephen: in its simplest form, china is looking to revive the roots of the inch and soak road with a modern infrastructure, economics road and rail by linking major ports, joy and went to a maritime road that circles back to china. but the reality is much more complicated. >> when we have 86 countries, it is very hard for me to say, which country is in part of the belt and road initiative. >> also, for instance, when you think about it, maritime, it could be westbound. but given the increased relationship between asia and latin america, it could be eastbound, or southwest boun

into chinese reeducation camps human rights groups describe the detentions as a form of ethnic cleansing d.w.b. it's a former inmates who fled to neighboring kazakhstan also on the program. fears of more and see migrants on rest in eastern germany a small time shaken after a man dies in a fight with two afghans far articles thousands of demonstrators missed out on some strict. general election leaves the country's two main political blocs in a dead heat and sees a surge in support for the anti immigration far. i'm phil guy welcome to the program. united nations' new human rights chief has called on china to allow money says to investigate allegations of large scale and detention of muslim minorities the allegations which michelle bash let describes as deeply disturbing appear in a report published today by human rights watch it says more than a million muslims have been detained in so-called reeducation camps in china's north west since jan jan region details of the internment system are emerging slowly because the chinese government controls access to the area but the w corres

. in syria now tropical wood is being lobbed on a massive scale chinese businesses are breaking the profits. and on the indonesian island of lombok people hit hard by an earthquake are trying to reclaim their lives . it's the world's most seismically active area extending from new zealand to japan to alaska and chile the ring of fire along its forty thousand kilometers are at least four hundred fifty active folk a nose. and ninety percent of earthquakes take place along the ring of fire in recent weeks japan and indonesia have been hit particularly hard a major quake in august had its a piece center in indonesia's island of lombok the devastating shocks claimed hundreds of lives and caused enormous damage. a warning from god that's how local residents describe the catastrophe on lombok. five severe earthquakes hundreds of aftershocks. and new tremors almost every day. beauty eagle has lived on the indonesian islands for a year and a half the german national works at a diving school on the island of. near lombok once a party destination and diving paradise today it's a ghost island.

america applying tariffs on $250 billion worth of chinese imports. sky tells its shareholders to back a takeover bid by comcast, putting the american cable firm in line to control one of europe's most profitable tv companies. and on the markets... a quieter day in asia. japan and china are closed for public holidays. hong kong is open. and of course, those tariffs are now kicking in. today sees a dramatic escalation of the trade war between the world's two largest economies, as a new round of tit—for—tat tariffs between the us and china comes into effect. the trump administration will slap 10% duties on another $200 billion of chinese goods, taking the total to $250 billion. the rate is due to increase to 25% from january unless a deal is reached. china is hitting back with taxes on another $60 billion of us imports, meaning it's now targeting us products worth a total of $110 billion. but it may not stop there. donald trump has warned that chinese retaliation would trigger "phase three" — tariffs on the remaining $267 billion worth of chinese imports to the us. beijing has

vietnam will be laid to rest on thursday. a chinese says and has been arrested in chicago on charges of spying on behalf of beijing twenty seven year old cho is accused of trying to recruit u.s. engineers scientists and even some defense contractors to work for the chinese government she faces up to ten years in prison if convicted u.s. intelligence agencies have accused china off a super aggressive spy campaign against washington. now china is accusing the u.s. of holding and life to its neck by imposing its biggest round of trade tariffs yet the chinese trade official says washington's actions made it impossible to resume negotiations the u.s. has imposed duties on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports beijing vitaly gaited with some of the taxes on sixty billion dollars of american products . maybe from. the u.s. side has turned its back on the agreements abandon the consensus and adopt a tried restrictions which made the negotiations impossible to continue in order to make negotiations effective first of all we must treat each other equally and respect each other n

war between the world's two biggest economies. and we hear what the chinese premier li keqiang had to say about this and other issues as he opened the world economic forum in tianjin and on the markets: some relief in the global markets that the latest round of us tariffs against china is less damaging than initially feared. some tech products are excluded and the staged introduction has left the door open to a deal, with presidents trump and xi expected to meet at the 620 in november. let's take a closer look at what the us stands to gain and lose: there's a revenue benefit. the treasury department says there has been a $5.1; billionjump in customs and duties collected so far this fiscal year. but some of that is simply due to more goods entering the us. a 10% tariff on $200 billion of chinese imports should theoretically raise $20 billion forfederal coffers but the risk is that the flow of goods will slow. 0n the downside, there'll be inflationary pressures though consumers will only feel the full impact injanuary — well after november's mid—term elections — when the price of

storing them money from emerging markets and investing in the united states instict. chinese president xi jinping has just announced that his country is to provide sixty billion dollars in financial support to africa and expand its imports from the continent especially when it comes to non resources products well the move comes in the wake of growing concerns from economists that by building costly infrastructure on the continent it's also saddling it with debts african leaders accounting meeting with the chinese government at the forum on china africa cooperation in beijing. african leaders have high hopes for what chinese investment can do for their countries beijing's presence in the region has grown exponentially since its emergence as a global trading power now africa has become a cornerstone in beijing's global belt and road project in sierra leone for example president julius mudder b o c s china's thirst for investment as a way for his country to catch the wave of globalization. and there are so many benefits to globalization so force we want to be a part of the world

chinese imports monday's announcement is the third time this year the u.s. has imposed penalties on chinese goods in july twenty five percent were applied to thirty four billion dollars worth of imports a month later sixteen billion dollars worth of goods were targeted in both cases beijing responded in kind imposing equal tariffs on the goods that it imported from the u.s. and now the latest round of tariffs the biggest yet ten percent will be levied on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods rising to twenty five percent in january now despite its response china is increasingly on the back foot it's sensible or than five hundred billion dollars worth of goods to the u.s. imports just over a third of that amount from the u.s. already penalizes the u.s. than most of its imports so we'll need to find new ways to retaliate in future scott had learned has more for us from beijing. within hours of the u.s. announcing a second round of tariffs on chinese goods beijing responded. the chinese commerce ministry saying it had no choice but to retaliate and it hopes the u.s. change

, trump slaps a 10% tariff on another $200 billion of chinese imports with a height of 25% at the start of next year. chinese stocks surge in afternoon trade, shrugging off trade worries. were investors already planning for this? meetskorea's moon jae-in kim jong-un in pyongyang, hoping to revive talks on denuclearization. matt: less than half an hour from the start of european trading, let's take a look at what's going on in futures across the continent. we are looking at equity index futures that are for the most part down, although in asia overnight we saw index is down, with the exception of japanese indexes, which have been on fire for the whole session, doing quite well. but we have seen a bit of a recovery into the close, so you might see something like that with the european trade as well. take a look at treasuries, right now hovering close to the 3% level. we were over the 3% level briefly on friday. this was the last three trading sessions. friday, monday, today. yesterday we eclipsed 3%, right now at 3.01%. a big, round number for the rates market. we will see if it hol

week. beijing vows to respond. chinese stocks slip after the white house announcement. the yuan hold steady. make or break summit. south korea's moon jae-in meets kim jong-un in hopes to revive talks on denuclearization. good morning, everyone, and welcome to daybreak europe. it is 6:00 a.m. in london. let's catch you up on what happened overnight. the msci asia-pacific index in the green of 0.5%. a mixed picture. the shanghai composite headed. 2014. close since imposition united states is putting on chinese goods at 10% is coming next week, it will rise to a 25% levy next year. we are seeing the msci index higher nonetheless. the yuan stronger. the bloomberg dollar index is a steady as well. we saw a selloff across the london metal exchange yesterday. we and copper dropped 1.5%. and has recouped some of those losses. markets taking the latest news on the escalation of the trade war in stride. joins us, howard shore after 9:30 a.m. u.k. time. that is something to look ahead to in surveillance. for now let's get the bloomberg first word news. >> the u.s. supreme court nominee brett ka

case of truth and their. the - d- dar. e. the president said of the chinese retaliated, he would impose additional sanctions. 200 billion going into effect next week. and the chinese retaliated and been opposed tariffs on another $60 billion in u.s. goods, now at $110 billion on the chinese side. we only exporter $130 billion to them last year. the exports are up this year a little bit, so maybe a little bit of room, but if the president goes ahead with another retaliation, we will have to wait and see with the chinese would do. the chinese calling their tariffs today forced response to the u.s. unilateralism and a trade protectionism, according to that statement they put out a short time ago, and say if the u.s. insists on increasing the rates further the chinese side will respond. only a is where we are, third of the way or maybe half of the way through this. vonnie: we are talking about thousands of individual goods. side,5700 on the u.s. over 5000 on the chinese side. vonnie: if the president was going to reverse course, what would that mean? is it possible? mike: it does not

well drive the whole world. >> zhou: you like chinese food? >> anthony: very much. yes. >> zhou: okay. what do you want? >> anthony: please, uh, order. of course. yes, some good -- some dumplings. [ zhou speaking mandarin ] >> anthony: professor zhou lin is an economist and the current dean of the college of economics and management at shanghai jiao tong university. like so many people you meet here, he's chinese, but was educated in american universities. and has taught at yale, duke, and arizona state. so, you'll forgive me, um, economics are not my area of expertise. i wallow in ignorance but, um, china looks different every time i come. it's changing so, so, so quickly. how did that happen? >> zhou: china enjoy, you know, this long period of peace -- no serious enemy, no, no major wars. >> anthony: right. >> zhou: so the manufacturing industry really took off. internally, it's reform and an open-door policy. every country willing to trade with china. >> anthony: there's certainly no doubt that, at this point, we -- our destinies are inextricably bound up. we are hopelessly in, our

as chinese transgressions, there's been public consultation on how to punish them, and there've been exemptions. with the us economy apparently booming, american consumers may hardly notice tariffs imposed on chinese imports. but what about china? there are signs that its economy is slowing. from monday, at least 44% of its exports to the us will be affected. isabel, you are literallyjust back from china on friday night. we are very grateful for you staggering into the studio after a journey like that. what was your impression of china's economy? the economy was scheduled to slow, there is a planned slowdown. that is not surprising. china has to move through the middle—income trap and transform its economic base. that has been long anticipated. at the same time, it has a number of problems like a towering massive debt, and some difficulties in getting the consumer and innovation part off the ground. but that is all growing. i think it would be a big mistake to attribute the incipient trade war for creating the slowdown. i was at the world economic forum meeting last week where the

economies, as president trump slaps more tariffs on more chinese goods. live from london, that's our top story on tuesday 18th september almost 6,000 chinese products will be subject to import duties, in the biggest round of us tariffs so far. we'll get reaction live from tianjin in china. also in the programme: the president of south korea arrives in pyongyang to huge fanfare, he has with him leaders some of the country's biggest conglomerates including samsung. what are the opportunities and obstacles for them 7 and what are the obstacles? financial markets are trading in europe, they look like this and at the moment seem unfazed by the new ta riffs the moment seem unfazed by the new tariffs coming from the us on chinese goods. also in the programme. . . its mission is to help the world's businesses run better and improve people's lives. the company? it's the business software company called sap. we'll get the inside track on how it tries to do that. as last night's emmy awards in la made clear — there's plenty of top tv choice right now. so today we want to know — is this the gold

there just weeks after her piece was published by buzz feed she was expelled from the country chinese officials want to limit information and imagery coming out of the region controlling access is central to their strategy but there are some cameras they cannot control the ones in space for the satellite photos of the detention centers and featured in the international media will not be seen on chinese television domestic reporters there are tightly controlled as a leader of journalist. reports on the story from washington he is the director of the u.s. funded radio free asia has weaker surface. it is impossible for a week or reporters on the ground there to do with any kind of reporting on those issues because we have already reported ourselves that now we go rioters and we are scholars who in any way spoken out against china's repressive policies have been detaining this camps for chinese journalists this is an extremely use house of so. they are required to follow the chinese government's a line they have to repeat the same thing so they cannot independently report on what is happe

up, please. first speaker, come up. good morning, commissioners. chinese hospital is small non-profit community hospital located in chinatown offering wide range of medical services to a multi cultural community for over 100 years. our clients are low income asian immigrants. many of them are monolingual speakers. 90% are medicine' care, medicine' calmedicare and medics flourishes through the years with over 50,000 birth recorded. and i have a display that shows you in 1998, limited by only being able to provide level one labor and delivery services, chinese hospital partnered with cpmc and relocated its labor and delivery services along with its nurses to cpmc. to provide a community direct access to both primary o.b. care. cpmc agreed to charge the chinese hospital and its affiliates reasonable market rates. we respectfully ask the commissioners to help facilitate that reasonable market rates. which are consistent with the cpmc development agreement for chinese hospitals and its a fil it's a and maffiliates. >> next speaker, please. >> good morning, my name is julie. i have a

trump on the next batch of tariffs on chinese goods, sources saying they could be 10% tariffs on $200 billion worth of goods. investors sought refuge in industrials and energy stocks, but not enough to pull the markets up, with the dow falling and the nasdaq going down 1.4%, led lower by amazon, microsoft and even apple falling despite the fact we got news some of their products might be spared from the next round of tariffs on chinese imports. lets the how things are shaping up in asia. sophie: like in the u.s., trade will take center stage in asia as well as waiting on the announcement which ups the chances china will bail on the talks with washington. tech will likely be the weaker spot, as from apple suppliers like you pointed out, so we are looking at futures pointing lower, although the nikkei 225 may open to the upside. although japanese markets may be playing catch-up to the declines of late. on the agenda, the south korean president kicking off his three-day trip to pyongyang, where he aims to salvage talks between the u.s. and in the north. and also watching for today in syd

of tariffs on chinese goods from handbags to rice coming into effect today. and the heads of germany's make its failed to reach a deal with the chancellor the fate of their dirty diesels hangs in the balance. i've been for all and let's do business financial markets are increasingly bracing for a pro long trade war a lot of the key asian and european indices falling this monday washington's latest tariffs have kicked in for two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products beijing retaliating by targeting sixty billion dollars worth of goods with extra. workers in a chinese factory making flags and banners for donald trump's reelection campaign in twenty twenty if you want an idea of the irony and complexity of the trade dispute between the world's two biggest economies here it is in a nutshell the dispute has escalated dramatically since this meeting between the american president and his chinese counterpart cheesing ping almost a year ago so what's happened since then and what it meant for both economies let's take a look at last year the u.s. imported five hundred five

chinese travelers are known as an avid buyers of luxury goods just before departure. since recently they've also been able to pay with early pay or we chat chinese payment systems. this watch merchant process is the transaction through the wire card company. germany's why a card takes a one point six percent commission for the service. on the phone thanks to begin with it looks relatively easy and all the trader has to do is integrate a little software like that you also have to look very closely at the security angle when you hear about how much data gets stolen we have to look after the data that means we have to make the corresponding tests in the data centers and get it all set up. and why a card is growing along with it the company employs five thousand people what piece i t specialists at its headquarters are discussing their expansion plans for the u.s. . under short while ago wire card acquired a transaction banking provider in india. to boom an online retailing is boosting wild card profits all over the world as retailers line up for the company's software solutions. and ca

to chinese rule on the basis of an agreement that would guarantee its rights and freedoms for at least fifty years now pro-democracy campaigners charge that china hasn't lived up to its commitments my guest this week here in hong kong is horace chong vice president of the largest probating party and a member of the city government's executive council will he stand up for the rights of people here or allow china to curtail the. forests are welcome to convert their thank you last year the beijing government made it crystal clear that it no longer feels bound by the joint declaration it signed with britain in one thousand nine hundred eighty four why didn't you stand up for the rights of the people of hong kong when they said that. our fame to the officer pushed position is that after signing the joint decoration hong kong has been returned to china and then the hardcore fans will be in town or for some of our home country but there's a binding international agreement which china signed and these rights and freedoms are supposed to be respected for fifty at least fifty years sure th

. we can observe how the chinese and others are behaving. and i was in mozambique india china japan and saw how resources are being exploited there's no transparency no local investment in the country's young people or fees or taxes paid which would benefit the country. we have to stop that. was and we are . telling us there's very calmly but it angers you doesn't it. of course it does. we can exploit the african continent and its resources its people. its nature for own prosperity or and leave africa's population in poverty but. i read a quote of yours recently you said we can say that the situation in africa has nothing to do with us if we do even more people will head here to claim what is rightly there is. indeed your c.s.u. party chairman. call you up and say what are you talking about as if african refugees had a claim in europe. for support to me and my work completely. he simply hasn't received the connections. the first ten points of the master plan state that we have to change our africa policy. what motivates me primarily as a christian we can't just leave people in pover

jinping and i have just discussed the development of russian chinese relations. there's been this is not the great wall where in russia. the closest. thanks china and russia both bad the responsibilities of maintaining world peace and stability fund. consider a growing cooperation between our countries and international organizations. we have the same all similar views on international affairs. we can train like this if you want. to leave the. place. also coming up tonight bob woodward's exposé of the trump white house goes on sale but not everybody is appalling. there's been so many but snowflake that. for we begin the day with two old rivals meeting on the battlefield as new friends today are russia wants the military exercises the largest war games since the end of the soviet union but this time russian troops had some company chinese soldiers are joining them now this is happening while russian president vladimir putin holds talks with chinese president xi jinping and it's important to remember that russia and china have never been well this is happening while russian president

president has taken. overwhelmingly he is correct about trying to focus on the chinese use of theft of intellectual property, violating of u.s.ements, in terms businesses doing business over there, the requirements they put on those businesses. overwhelmingly in that area the president is correct. concern that many of our businesses have is if they have an economic stake and use steel or aluminum in manufacturing, or if they are an apple grower, they are concerned about the uncertainty that the trade disputes we are having both with the eu and canada and mexico are having on their businesses. they want to see this concluded quickly. that is the overwhelming thing. they like the fact the president is standing up for u.s. business but they also want this to not last very long. david: another issue that has come up is taxes, the tax cuts the republicans put through, got enacted last december. at the same time it's not clear the republicans are getting credit, if that is the right word. a survey shows, if anything, the tax cuts are becoming less popular overtime. somewhere down in the 34%

dollars worth of chinese imports have gone into effect is there just a not just levees and a growing trade will between the biggest and the world's two biggest economies can't hide there has been launching reaction from beijing the latest round in this escalating trade war between the united states and china going into effect on monday that's another round of tariffs and very big numbers here two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods going into the united states will now be tariff that's in addition to fifty billion they're already implemented before so two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods going into the united states will now be tariffs on the other side you have another hundred ten billion dollars being a tariff from the united states going into china now this is the latest in a big round in this ongoing trade war and it's going to be ongoing for quite some time now because the discussions the negotiations that have been going on this really started in earnest in the summer there have been talks still going on between washington and beijing those now ha

has just slapped tariffs on another $200 billion of chinese exports to the united states. we will take up the details with white house trade policy director peter navarro tonight. >>> and democrats trying to use a decades-old allegation of sexual assault to derail the nomination of judge brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. in a late-breaking development tonight, hearings for kavanaugh and his accuser are now set for monday. >> he's an outstanding intellect, an outstanding judge, respected by everybody. i wish the democrats could have done this a lot sooner, because they had this information for many months, and they shouldn't have waited until literally the last days. they should have done it a lot sooner. lou: and former vice president joe biden and former attorney general eric holder, well, they went on a tirade today against president trump, attempting to smear the administration and trump supporters. >> some of his most ardent right wing supporters from the ku klux klan and the alt-right. >> this sort of thinking, this make america great mindset, is not only flawed, it's roo

monday. the nikkei 225 really leading the gains by 1% but it is what we have been seeing in the chinese stocks. ground zero as david had mentioned. the large cap is to resilient, up one third of 1% but we are seeing the likes of the aussie market down 1/5 of 1%. let's flip the boards and see what we are seeing when it comes to chinese markets. we did hear from the pboc about injecting a little bit of liquidity in this system ahead of the holiday. that is certainly going to be helping some of these markets as well. the japanese markets right now. nikkei 225 up 1%. we are seeing these rush to safety buys fading a little bit. here is what we are seeing when it comes to china. up about 4/10 of 1%. eight shares pretty much flat. the hang seng continues to be on the downtrend. let's take a look at the currencies and what we are seeing so far. the offshore is what we have been focusing on. 6.9 -- we are getting closer to that. also continuing, although we are off the lows of the session. the rush to safety actually fading a bit when it comes to the dollar-yen. gold futures falling back after t