guinea says at least 15 people have died in accidental explosions at a military base and 400 others were injured the president says the blasts were caused by the mishandling of dynamite explosions tore apart houses around the base saudi arabia's confirmed another attack on its energy facilities by hutu rebels in yemen the government says a ballistic missile was fired at the iran co will facilities in the. earlier drone hit. one of the world's largest oil shipping ports riyadh says the damage was minimal in both the rebels say it was much bigger. joey was saying the artillery and drone divisions were able to conduct a y. defensive in the depths of saudi arabia with 14 drones and 8 police. we targeted around. port and other military facilities and the mom more military sites were targeted in a theater design than the strike was precise. the reports from in moscow police have raided young guns general hospital and arrested several people security forces maintaining or hospitals and universities the violence against those protesting the military coup has only been escalating u.k. prime ministers demanding the permanent release of a british iranian woman who was jailed in tehran on spying charges now the names i got are iraq close 5 year sentence has ended but her lawyer says she's been summoned to court next week on another charge american markel has said the british royal family failed to protect her and were concerned about how dark her son's skin color would be do you conduct were interviewed by oprah winfrey for a 2 hour prime time special on the u.s. network c.b.s. . you are up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera this hour one hour when he is next australia's china dream. on counting the cost of rising seas to millions but where is the money to go defense. big investors hand out billions to start women and ethnic minorities are missing out rich americans are moving to florida to avoid. counting the costs on al-jazeera. madam speaker the president of the people's republic of china. when china's president xi jinping visited in november 24th again australia's relations with its biggest trading partner strong the future brought. our relationship has reached a new higher starting point. but just 6 years in a pandemic later relations are broken the virus began in chawner and that's. after stray led the world in calling for an investigation into the origins of corona virus last year china slammed crippling sanctions on a strain export industry. chinese state media blitz is a war of words and tit for tat retaliations erupted. you can call it a kind of political manipulation more that's a matter for them try will do what's in our interest. but the truth is this diplomatic crisis has been brewing for years one on one east looks at what caused it and the fierce debate now raging in a story about how to handle an increasingly powerful an assertive china 'd. sherrilyn andrew horta know all too well what it's like to endure the role of china that's not what you expect. expect to confront it in your eyes in your country. for more than 4 years the melbourne couple have been continuously harassed surprising things happen all the time hang out. washing and just to normal tang. annoys me i looked up. an object in the sky. the object was a drone and cheryl managed to film it to $4.00 a day out of sight. to the rescue and began of the 2016 rio olympics when a son max a champion swimmer spoke out against one of china's greatest ever athletes soon young. 2 years early as soon as being banned from competition for 4 months following a positive drug test. a vehement opponent of drugs in sport math described his main rival as a drug cheat. lab. is an athlete that has tested positive for life and we. very quickly what happens when you off so i had the largest country in the world. max social media was bombarded to suddenly get hit by 680 south. messages and death threats in a 45 minute period this kind of a sophisticated structure to that we're aware that. cultural level messages been sent to the australian government and maybe an apology the strength of government in short that for the rest of the talk that we're actually in that we had protection. back when on debates on taking the gold medal. to favorite target because. the thread then moved beyond the elite big city. his parents received a message from neighbors back in a straight alerting them to a break in at their family home and that wasn't. at the site i'm talking. threats were coming through to the school where our youngest boy was i had to move him quickly and secure him. away. when they go back to melbourne they found themselves under siege. just back again one morning about to head into the office and he's popped out of the bushes took a bunch of photos is quick enough obviously to pick up a file and take a photo of him so he jumped out of these bushes correct. it's not an uncommon thing we can be walking down the straight and somebody. yell at obscenity it's a long laundry list. the house a bucket of broken glass that was put in asked swimming pool so we'll put quick cement into the filter box of the swimming pool. the more frustrating is they don't know i played we call them a pop bang and say breaking all the back fence and setting off the dogs and it's not uncommon for us to go you know for 56 knots without getting a reasonable amount of slight. and there's more trees poisoned roof tiles smashed the daily newspaper regularly causing half. strain just standing at the back fence with cars at the ready. others monitoring andrew's business meeting you know often do something in apologize for and explain to us that you know they really sorry they didn't want to do or die they know us to do it which is. this is serious serious assault. on democracy and the rights of people in the stratosphere to go about their daily life where that intimidated by the. farm path. academic clive hamilton investigates how the chinese communist party uses its united front work department to wield influence in this trade and beyond he regularly gives evidence to the astray in parliament and has written books on the subject the consulates in the capital cities i've united front operations and that includes paris mint of enemies of. by jing i have no doubt whatever that they terrorist meant and intimidation of the horton family is bang at least can guide and probably directed by the melbourne concert. consulate officials didn't respond when we put the allegation to them. hamilton says he also experienced communist party coalition after his 1st book was published we had a spy sitting out there with a device expert saw it was a sniff of fire which is capable of picking up all electronic communications in a building like this. in the past decade australian authorities have become increasingly alarmed by china's covert activities we've had the successive directors general of a z our internal security organization cite publicly that the pace of foreign espionage an astrologer is now actually higher than it was at the heart of the cold war. a former strain in defense an intelligence official babbage consults with the government on security issues. and it's certainly a lot of traditionalist you know break ins attempts to recruit people all sorts of 5th of intellectual property but also very active saga operations we're seeing on a daily basis. in 2015 china was blamed for a massive cyber attack on the bureau of meteorology its system is linked to the defense department. and then in 2018 chinese hackers allegedly infiltrated the i.t. system at these training national university a center conducting sensitive research for defense strategic and commercial organizations. exactly what data was stolen on each occasion remains unknown. the audience also found themselves becomes a cyber attack after the 2019 rules winning championships in south korea this time max came 2nd to soon. making yet another protest against drugs in sport he's training refused to stand on the podium next to the chinese swimmer. i was with the crowd cheering back on and just going yeah that was fantastic i was thinking this is just going to have enormous repercussions and it certainly did and the harassment just went up quite a few degrees crip heavily into my distance. andrew's company is a leading producer of software for university online learning. business primarily. through digital attacks but we block traffic from china. because it would bring. with him minutes. and according to authorities there is evidence of more direct forms of coercion we're seeing a lot of other activities as well in terms of bribery and corruption attempts and we're seeing attempts to subvert politicians. mistake and i'm sorry in 2017 the high profile opposition center says sam dastyari was forced to resign was accused of accepting money from a chinese billionaire in exchange for speaking in support of china's actions in the south china sea contradicting his own parties and this trade is policy for. the government strip the business man of business trade in residual barring him from the country and the next brought in wide ranging foreign interference are all those for the 1st time legislators defined foreign interference of acting. why a. half of a foreign power to attempt to influence a political process and this is what by jingo us in australia and in fact around the world. one of the 1st known to be investigated under the new laws is chinese as trillian businessman john john he worked as a part time advisor furnace trainee an unpaid muslim main. offices for i. think. there's a current of which. chain home is in shanghai watching in a strain in television reporting. in june 2020. he knows them both well and was in a way with them in some kind of a noose the reporters there were saying. you know suspect that was used to influence. by mr johnson i think that's. the do for us conjecture if you don't want to do something coverts you do it's covertly a lot on social media. chen has a long association with a stranger in 994 he was the interpreter when a stranger is former prime minister polk visited china. and as the director of the strain study center itching high's east china normal university he used to travel to australia every few months but no more his visa was revoked in september 2028 on national security grounds. sent back a reply saying some kind of across mistake. to be contacted and to me to clarify or 2 for me to provide any evidence to to to tell them the truce but. never received any response this is required goes against my previous and. any of australia as open tolerance and vibrant society. chen spoke on several occasions at the new south wales state parliament and invited show. to speak twice at his university last year the m.p. praised ping's leadership and china's response to code 19. is gouging. immediate action. parachuting speak out this appreciates his outspokenness i think actually in australia there is a kind of you know cultist a witch hunt against a positive you know you know you know comments about what about china we have to be alert to the situation and be a little bit concerned if we see individuals for no obvious reason starting to parrot chinese communist party lines on various things everything from the south china sea to the weavers to human rights issues generally all for that matter even on trading issues you know you can ask yourself why. the m.p.'s advise a joint junk allegedly attended a propaganda training course in china in 2013 that was sponsored by the united front department. you know to france departments as being very grotesque or a demonized in the west chan hong is a party ideologist i mean that's his job that's what he believes he is doing what you see jinping once he's diplomats another apologist to do so he's out there doing what the diplomats do. chancing floozy phoria by labeling them as kind of sinister i think it's the kind of like the tactic in the west to demonize or stigmatize a particular group are particular countries. a few days after chain homes visa was . clive hamilton and another astray in china security analyst were banned from the communist state not that we would of course because we'd be back into the mire we stepped off the plane or probably beforehand. nov 2020 so the 1st arrest under the foreign interference rules oath or g.'s alleged issandr or sunny do on this he calls himself has a relationship with the foreign intelligence agency and that action was taken at an early stage now out on bail dong is vietnamese chinese arriving in a story or is a refugee 42 years ago he was a member of a story his liberal party from the early ninety's until his arrest in 2001 he received a prestigious queen's and 10 remember the services to the indochinese community he declined to be interviewed but a long term associate agree as long as he wasn't identified. with the government. this man knows drawn from the oceania federation of chinese organizations from vietnam cambodia and laos. has been president for more than a decade. in june last year the federation raised $37000.00 estrangement dollars for the royal melbourne hospitals could that appeal sunny percent to the chick few years ago to vote 5 we don't know if i just. care about what's happening to australia and there's no way we right away from rising for. it's it's one of us are use liberal government ministers alan tudge was there to offer his congratulations. i would give you a big hug but not all the lads who we met and even. sunny's associate was questioned by the strain in federal police about the event charged what os. sent. it. to. the park. was. scant information about sonny drawings case and interference rules in general is creating an ease and suspicion within the strain in chinese community i think this is the chinese community is that they don't know what's constitutes periods. fesses just having a meeting attached transcripts because i'm sure a lot of people do that. and so does the stat. interference. with a child as a member of the strain in labor party with federal politics in asides she says the chinese community now feels targeted so often you are labelled as approach china in china depending on your interest and especially also paint chinese if you are not anti china people assume you influence. last year when she into all the chinese are strains fronted a senate inquiry to talk about increasing their communities engagement in politics they came under attack from a conservative government senator eric abetz. and i asked whether they are willing to unconditionally. the chinese communist party. so that was a shocking question from the senate and says that if you die i pledged loyalty therefore we can't trust that's basically the underlying assumption that the question was so in the house to 3 chinese australians not the other papers who were . discussing exactly the same issue so you don't have to wonder why it was only tug 3 chinese strains. my feeling is that there is a lack of proportionality and context in this whole china threat. geoff raby is a former strain ambassador to china there's nothing wrong with having of the faults city which is risk averse but that doesn't need to be. a point by which we attack. the legitimacy of the chinese communist party and i really think there's a very fine line of this for chinese community so it doesn't feel as if somehow it's being free to mars. australia's actions over the past few years have clearly angered the communist state the chinese embassy hasn't responded to our numerous requests for interviews but late last year it took an extraordinary step panning out to a major organization a list of 14 grievances beijing has again see straight in government. they included australia's 2018 ban on 5 g. technology provider one way. accusations a cyber attacks by china spreading disinformation about china's covert 19 aphids and the 2018 foreign interference laws targeting china in the absence of evidence it's a bit ironic every time anyone suggests that there should be chinese within china they complying with your want to do fear with chinese internet it's the 14 points people talk about as coercive as bullying what's wrong i can see what's wrong that is actually a kind of like a free candid exchange of all of us i think we did a little ourselves for talking about being bullied by china we have interest to the famed protect and we are doing it i believe but we need to be smarter in other places see. covert travel restrictions have confined raby to a stranger for the past year normally based in beijing he's on the board of china controlled australian company yeah. it's also been heat on. to china banda strain in cold following the straining government school for an investigation into covert 19 april last year ships are sitting off ports in china likely cool piece and i will try to take her cold. more than 50 ships carrying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of coal and at least $1000.00 seafarers have been stranded for months let's have a covert investigation why would a stray go alone and without consulting allies without having a group of like minded countries but what happened we know the prime minister of australia spoke to talk trump former president of the us the day before. and the next time there's a big public splash that we had demanded from the chinese. i kwara into kind of 19th. at the hanging rock vineyard in the south eastern state of victoria maybe sentiment echoed loudly johnny you go out to dinner and you drink a lot yeah you're not the old you know kind of macarthur with all the junk well. john ellis and his family have been selling wine to china seem to me 19 through chinese exporters like ray john. why risk dollar digestion with china. or his to more of that one day soon yeah the president. yeah. yeah. about half of the wine reste has come from exports to china but in november the communist state slapped import taxes of up to 212 percent on a strain in wine after alleging it was being dumped. according to one astray via sales to china fell from $132000000.00 in december 29th teen to just $3000000.00 a year later it was just a blip. it's not something that we david and the water for the analysts or. ellis is critical of these training government's handling of relations with china as someone whose brain working with chinese people for 26 years on important subjects you don't stand up and broadcast it to the world if you want to get into strife or for your hand or behind closed doors. so it's pretty that etc politicians didn't actually get very irritated with the wine industry and here's why. they have the last 10 years the wine industry has made shed loads of money from china is well known that by aging leverage is business dependence for political gain. well yeah be a good business person insure yourself diversify don't strike against a 2nd feis their sovereignty because you made foolish business decisions. i think it's important that the government give this show to be the opportunity to work out for itself if this is the price of parts of the pie or for the so-called china threat this is not a defense of china's use of economic coercion it's just saying that's the reality we live in. the horan's are paid a high price for their son max public stance against china's greatest ever swim along with the most common trait that claim that i feel they reflected. on the world trade badly they miss a country but to call some into question has. to america is an enemy of the state. that's a very sad said to. the hortons case highlights the challenge australia faces balancing its values interests and sovereignty against maintaining stable relations with the communist state. and i think that china. for it to be an important try to partner with the stroller. we need to protect solve the issues but that doesn't mean going on the attack it means resetting the relationship to a sensible foundation and i think that is just the coming of age of a struggle. need to take over a 1000000 miles of us cable so mistrusts want to one east is on the ground investigating what it means for the future of the southeast asian nation on al-jazeera. i've been covering all of latin america for most of my career but no country is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why. it's one of the biggest clubs in south america. but its greatest rival is just a few blocks away. a mutual dislike between funds formed from a class divide sustained over generations for. most book a junior supporters of born into these club colors. in an epic few to rich versus poor the fans who make football on al-jazeera. it is 600 hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera i'm kemal santa maria and these are the headlines a series of explosions at a military base in equitorial guinea killed 15 people more than $400.00 others were injured and the government says it is negligence that caused the blasts in city. hall. after the 1st explosion. that killed the mark a 2nd one and then i mean the then a 3rd and 4th each stronger than the other.