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The United States and China have implemented new tariffs on a range of each other's goods intensifying the trade war between the world's 2 biggest economies $100000000000.00 worth of new Chinese exports are now subject to an extra charge of 15 percent is the B.B.C.'s Kitty Prescott this is the 1st time that American households are really going to start to feel the effects of these tariffs these tariffs coming in on things that households buy all the time which walking about nappies food clothes shoes and so American consumers actually going to be able to see the impact of these price rises it's very unlikely that retailers will be able to absorb this cost it's a 15 percent rise and so most of them are said these are going to get passed through to consumers Indeed I've spoken to academics who say that households could see as much as $800.00 added to the average spend because of these new tariffs the German president Frank Valdez Steinmeier has asked for Poland's forgiveness as an event marking the eighty's anniversary of the start of the 2nd World War He was speaking of the Polish town of vellum which was the 1st to suffer aerial bombardment during the conflict. The WHO THINK rebels in Yemen say 60 prisoners were killed when a Saudi led coalition air strike hit a detention center in the south western city of them are there's been no independent confirmation of the casualty figures is Alan Johnston residents in them are say there was a series of 6 and strikes during the night powerful blast shook the city and the sound of ambulance sirens could be heard in the streets until dawn the rebel official said dozens of bodies had been pulled from the rubble of the prison and that the casualty figure could rise further the Saudi led coalition told a different story it said if the tank destroyed a site where drones and missiles were stored world news from the B.B.C. The UN sanctions general and Tanya good Terry shares in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is due to visit the area where currently the current Ebola outbreak began since the 1st case was detected in man Gino just over a year ago more than 3000 people have become infected with the virus and over 2000 have died. A Pakistani Christian woman cleared of blasphemy charges and given refuge in Canada has called on the world not to ignore the plight of victims like R C R B B spent 8 years on death row in Pakistan after being accused of insulting the Muslim prophet Mohammed in an interview with a British newspaper she called for blasphemy laws to be revealed. I reckon Dorrian is expected to hit the Bahamas in the next few hours and the southeastern coast of the United States on Monday the U.S. National Hurricane Center says the storm has maximum sustained winds of nearly 240 kilometers an hour and is extremely dangerous and life National Florida's governor on the scientists said islands in the region were particularly vulnerable the Bahamas are going to get absolutely leveled by this thing because this thing's a strong storm the Bahamas are flat they've got no defense to this storm and it's going to churn over there it's going to dump perhaps 2 feet of rain on the Bahamas I don't lot of good places to evacuate in the Bahamas I mean so say a prayer for the people there because there are there are about to face something that's mighty strong elections are taking place in 2 states in Eastern Germany with middle ground parties expected to lose support to the right wing populist alternative to Germany sex and he is run by Angela Merkel says right Christian Democrats while Brandon has been governed by the sense less social democrat since German reunification 3 decades ago the party is the coalition partner the Christian Democrats in the national government B.B.C. 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World Service I'm Rebecca be welcome to the program in this edition are they fled the so-called Islamic state what have the years Edis who ventured back to singe are found in their old hometown in Iraq some surprising conversations with French speakers from Africa who are trying to reach the USA via Costa Rica and the sneaky tactics which can win or lose a game of pay tongue in the south of France but 1st many people in Afghanistan are nervously waiting for news of a peace deal between the Taliban and the United States over the past 18 years of conflict in the country there have been hundreds of billions of dollars spent and fountains of lives lost trying to root out the Taliban fighters at the height of the U.S. Military presence back in 2011 there were more than 110000 American troops in Afghanistan and although most of them have since been polled out there are still more than $14000.00 there the White House would like to scale back that commitment even more but there are concerns that whatever agreement might be reached it won't halt the fighting between the insurgents and the Afghan government and there's worry that the Taliban could still insist on reintroducing their hardline version of Islamic rule succumb to come on he has been talking to people in the Afghan capital about their hopes and fears the God the football stadium in Kabul was where the Taliban used to carry out public executions back when they were in power a photograph of an executioner pointing his assault rifle at a burka clad woman kneeling on the pitch is one of the most emblematic images of their rule Nowadays the stadium is host to a lively Football League though the conflict is Delong growing and never far away there was a major attack by the Taliban just down the road last month. I stopped to speak to a street vendor selling sugarcane juice nearby and asked what he thought about the peace deal that U.S. And Taliban the Goetia it is are understood to be on the verge of reaching in Qatar I hope it will bring an end to the suicide attacks he said gesturing in the direction of last month's blast but I don't want the Taliban to end up back in power they were too brutal last time. That mix of hope and fear is one shared by many Afghans the exact details of the deal on yet known but it revolves around a commitment by the U.S. That foreign forces will withdraw from the country in exchange for assurances from the Taliban not to allow groups such as al-Qaeda to operate in Afghanistan the Taliban with then begin separate discussions with an Afghan delegation including representatives of the government about how the country will be ruled in the future and about a comprehensive cease fire for the moment it looks possible fighting may only be suspended in the areas foreign troops are being withdrawn from that continue elsewhere a major concern is whether the Americans will ensure the Taliban have reached a detailed agreement with the Afghan government before pulling out all of their forces if not many fear the country could return to all out civil war. Women's rights activists are among those most worried that one way or another Afghanistan is being handed back to the Taliban and that the progress made in the last 18 years might vanish sacrificed to allow America and exit from an expensive war that shows no sign of ending in the countryside where many people share more of the conservative and patriarchal values of the Taliban and where much of the fighting takes place the priorities are often different on a recent trip I made to the south one man whose family had been caught in the crossfire between government and Taliban forces told me he didn't really care which side took control as long as one of them put an end to the fighting in Kabul opposite Ghazi stadium I watched a group of young men playing cricket on an empty plot of land I sat down with some of them and was taken aback at how much anger they expressed towards the Taliban by contrast others I've spoken to in the past have called the insurgents brothers who need to be welcomed back by the rest of society one of the group perched on a cricket bat asked how can you trust people whose hands are covered with blood they have now been 9 rounds of talks between the Taliban and the Americans and he was fed up if they really wanted peace they would have reached it by now he said another was a policeman which in Afghanistan often entails fighting on the front lines he had seen colleagues and friends die in front of him pretty imagine seeing the Taliban openly walking the streets alongside him I asked. It would be very hard he said but we are just pawns in a game of chess despite or perhaps because of everything he had seen he was optimistic about peace but insisted it needed to be on the terms of the Afghan government not the Taliban and worried the group would never be willing to compromise another of the cricketers a 15 year old visiting from the north told me how whilst visiting relatives in a more rural district recently he saw the bodies of 5 policemen the Taliban had beheaded but he was still hopeful peace will be good for the economy he said his family had been forced to borrow money just to eat sitting beside him was his cousin he was older but quieter his feet in sandals caked in dust fidgeting with a tennis ball wrapped in masking tape used to play street cricket his brother had been in the Afghan army and had been killed by the Taliban he told me the death had forced him to drop out of school to work as a laborer and the end to the violence will come too late for him and his family I lost my only brother he said his eyes filling with tears I'm getting married soon and he won't be next to me my cousin here will have to stand in his place. Across Afghanistan there might be hope but it's cautious and to changed with bitterness 2nd the Kamani in Kabul. It's been 5 years now since the group calling itself Islamic state tore across northern Iraq killing 5000 of years Edis Christians and other Iraqis destroying places of worship and in slaving 5000 more women and children the fighters of I-S. Have since been driven out from the territory they overran but cities destroyed in the battle against them a mostly still in ruins they include singe are where communities of Yazidi Christian and Sonny and Shia Muslims once lived side by side as Lizzie Porter has seen houses they're still largely empty and their former residents reluctant to return in the various paint light of early morning a field of sunflowers shines amid the shells of homes on the outskirts of single city these blooms of one of the few real signs of life save some bored looking guards at a checkpoint the sun cast shadows over the single mountains where tens of thousands of people sought shelter at the so-called Islamic State overran their homes 5 years ago most of the surrounding farmland lies black burnt by recent fires the cause of which remains a mystery sunflowers feel to happy this place. Singe up on the rolling NATO warplanes of northern Iraq was once home to Shia and Sunni Muslims Christians and Jews Edis an ethno religious minority the militants of I.I.S. Considered to be devil worshipers in August 24th teen the terror group overran the city massacring scores of people and kidnapping some 6000. They were murdered sold as sex slaves were sent to jihad as training camps Iraqi Kurdish forces rechecks and Jotham I-S. In a vendor 2015 but since then just a quarter of the population has returned to the city that's just over 4000 families according to an international aid organization working in the area. You could call it a ghost town roads lie empty and some buildings are totally pancaked thanks to the missiles that helped oust I-S. You have to be careful where you tread there are landmines elsewhere once Grandville is still stand the stack of stories wide balconies and pastel pink and mint green hues reminds me of mansions in Miami but they're abandoned their windows smashed and fancy coalitions grimy and broken some have messages painted on the front walls you see the house one proclaims alongside a phone number it's one way for homeowners to protect their property and try to deter unwanted squatters. Before Sunset I walk down a street where a few families who've returned to living nearly all of the ME is Edis and exhausted looking man and here sells chocolate cake as well as whiskey and Arak a potent aniseed spirit from a tiny convenience store we came back one year after the liberation He says his eyes sullen We had fled with nothing except the clothes we were wearing. Amma tells me he now occupies a house that once belonged to Sunni Muslims feelings between communities a better many easy to blame Sunni residents for siding with I.R.S. Against them they are demanding that tribes in surrounding Sunni Arab villages handover the names of individuals responsible for the killings some villages have cooperated others haven't this reluctance means many is Edis who fled from singe are don't feel be safe to go back only one city district functions properly with a fruit and vegetable market closed shops and small cafes strung from lamp posts and roundabouts are pictures of some of the dead fighters killed in the battles of the previous years celebrating them as martyrs. The posters point to another of the problems facing Sendai the city lies in territory disputed between Iraq's federal government in Baghdad and the semi autonomous Kurdistan region a plethora of security forces with varying tees vie for control here in an office surrounded by rubble a local activist maps them out on a diagram for me they include Shia paramilitaries allied with Iran Kurdish Peshmerga troops and P.K. K. Another Kurdish armed group which Turkey considers to be terrorist as well as the Iraqi army and police a broken line shows an unsteady relationship the activist explains a solid line shows a good relationship. Once he's finished joining up with the bubbles containing the different groups names it looks like a tangled spider's web. Sometimes these complicated security arrangements play out in Monday in ways on our way into us into our we stop at a checkpoint it's jointly controlled by several of these groups some of them are willing to let us drive on others demanding an extra permit don't have off putting in some coals we waved through it's one small sign of the conflicts here but for some just former residents it signals a far greater problem a lack of real security it's ironic given the number of armed groups here here security is one of the things people most want and need to be able to return to their homes Iraqi politicians of many stripes have made grand promises about rebuilding Sen John but little action has been taken is a city destroyed its people are equally crushed and the some flowers kind of smile for them. And that was Lizzie Porter you were listening to from our own correspondent on the B.B.C. World Service with me Rebecca. Over the past year there's been increasing attention given to the number of refugees asylum seekers and migrants presenting themselves at the border between Mexico and the United States many of the people arriving there come from the so-called northern triangle of Central American countries beset by gang violence poverty and corruption on jurors Guatemala El Salvador Nicaragua but a little further south in Costa Rica which doesn't have the same problems with or as he's of also noticed a growing number of foreigners traveling north they're coming from all over the world and some have made extraordinary journeys Katie long sat down with some of them to hear how they'd made it this far it's the beginning of the rainy season in La Cruz Costa Rica and the sudden sharp downpour has flooded the small town surrounding streets even residents stranded until the torrent recedes to escape the flood I've taken refuge in the town's bus station where the sound of the rain hitting corrugated iron above us is deafening it is not a promising setting for a conversation let alone a conversation in a foreign language when words have a habit of twisting and slipping away still the reason I'm here in spanish speaking Costa Rica is to talk to people like the man sitting next to me in this bus station so I conjugate the verbs in my mind take a deep breath and bigot excuse him on this year but leave a fancy for the man sitting next to me in the bus stop is not that not even Latino His name is grass and he is Congolese. Grass is one of a growing number of migrants from Africa in Asia nearly 100-2018 who pass through Costa Rica every year on their way north to the United States as Graf speaks neither Spanish nor English and I do not speak Lingala we settle on talking in my rusty French drawing a barely remembered vocabulary I asked him about his journey grass 1st flew from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Brazil and stayed for a few years but when the political winds in Brazil changed he decided to head north he's already traveled through Peru Ecuador Colombia and Panama a headline Nicaragua Honduras Mexico and eventually the U.S. But right now grass is stuck in this little town has run out of money I hear versions of this tale from nearly all the migrants I meet in Costa Rica not only in French but in Ghanaian accented English in Portuguese inflected Spanish the language differs but essentially it's the same story heading northward they've no cash left now they're just waiting to see if family members will bail them out grass has time to kill and so over the course of an hour sitting in a cruise is concrete bus station as I try to remember which friends birds take and which I've watched and as the rain thunders down I learn that grass was once an electrician in Congo and then what is a plumber in Brazil he left Kinshasa to escape poverty and violence left Brazil when he was racially abused by his colleagues grass' articulate and thoughtful your politics is for the state of his French as I stumble over my words the African and Asian migrants who make it to Costa Rica an educated middle class with an international outlook. But you don't learn Spanish in Kinshasa So now grass and his friends find themselves trying to negotiate money transfers and onward transport with muted voices suddenly illiterate though at least African and Caribbean migrants the 1000000 with English or French can often pick up a working knowledge of Spanish quickly others from places like Eritrea Nepal or Bangladesh and even familiar with the Latin alphabet so are especially vulnerable to smuggling gangs locals in La Cruz spotter with indignation as they tell me how they see these migrants being treated they can't speak to us directly so the smugglers just tell them lies pure lies put as many did as. In the bus station the rain slows and then stops grass heads out into the town stepping carefully across the puddle slicked street he waves goodbye then he's gone. I'd like a tidy ending to grass' story to say that the gaps in our conversation didn't matter to end with some comment about how communication is so much more than language but that would not only be trite it would also be untrue but there is so much aggressive story that is at some level simply unfathomable Instead I leave Costa Rica with more questions than answers disgress find the money to move north where is he now I don't know and I'm never going to find out but after grass leaves that afternoon I stay sitting in the bus station watching the buses on their way to the border arrive idle for a few moment and depart and I like to imagine that if he hasn't already one day grass will board one of these buses and move slowly closer to a final destination to some place somewhere that might in any language be called home. Katie long where now in the south of France the long afternoons of summer are often while away playing pay tunk a variation on the game also known as bull in pay don't play as must stand still in fact the name comes from a local phrase meaning fixed feet when pitching their metal bowls as closely as possible to a small wooden bowl called a caution on the ground it might not seem like a dramatic sport but it's treasured by fans and village matches can get surprisingly heated a game is often accompanied by a glass of local liquor called pastiche but pay tongues governing body now wants to make the game more professional and that means a strict dress code and no alcohol not everyone's happy about it says Chris Bachman you will forgive me I've come to do this assignment in shorts and sandals It's 2 o'clock and already close to 35 degrees not a cloud in the sky and no prospect of a breeze but that means that officially I'm not allowed to mingle with the very people I've come to interview Welcome to the modern world of Potomac. I've come to the small picturesque town of mirth village just north of Toulouse where an official 3 day League competition is taking place where in the bridge to him the pitch with a game is played there are around 180 participants 56 of them women in this region events like this take place every weekend from February to October where the game is strongly associated with must say the strongest contingent of the top players in France is to be found in the Department of. So when the players around here grumble the body that runs the sport has about it and right now the feeling at the grass roots is as hard as the surface they play on the unease within the sport can be traced back to Paris winning the bid to host the Summer Olympics in 2024 P. Terms governing body thought this would be a great opportunity to promote the game and began lobbying to make it and the lympics sport and that meant new rules to make it more professional and give it a more modern look back to the dress code shorts for men must now extended below the knee sandals or out toes must be covered T. Shirts which expose armpits a Bantu for women skirts and dresses are out they have to play in long shorts or trousers when I point out to Christiane Paki who organized the weekend competition that in such hot weather competitors Shorty turned up dressed as lightly as possible he smiles and says Of course they do but they always keep a spare professional outfit in the car in case we impose the regulations and of course we do the other big change involves alcohol the sport is historically associated with pasties of the local and east flavored spirit. And the alcohol makers have sponsored the sport 3 years to well that's out now no more alcohol allowed during the games when I suggested Michel about the vice president of the French he talked Federation that that's a little harsh he snaps back why football players aren't allowed to drink beer whether playing so why should ours be in all counted alone more than $100.00 surprise breathalyzer tests have been done on players this year a few tested positive are excluded sometimes there are separate random drug tests there are 2 paid umpires overseeing this competition one is usually not he tells me the alcohol ban has made his job a lot easier people drinking under the hot sun are likely to cheat more he says there are some classic tricks sneeze when an opponent is about to throw the ball or suddenly talk very loudly or drop their cloth that's used to wipe dirt off the bulls. The top prize of this event is just under 200 euros not exactly worth cheating over but just in case the umpire shows me the 3 cards he can use to sanction players one is yellow warning the 2nd orange means that player forfeits one throw and the red instant expulsion is only shown one yellow today nevertheless many players feel the game is losing its soul John Paul Polak who crisscrosses France most weekends to take part in competitions told me the changes were in his words nothing less than catastrophic they've gone too far and too quickly but the people who run the sport say that it's getting more and more T.V. Coverage so it has to move with the times. As it is didn't make the lympics dismissively tells me skateboarding breakdancing were selected ahead of his sport that just trying to chase young viewers he snorts and rest assured at the end of the competition. I see a makeshift standing room only ball has been installed next to the. It's packed and both beer and pasties a very popular Chris Ball. And our own playing time has run out that's all for this edition of from our own correspondents but we'll be back again next weekend so do join us then. Is very possible by American Public Media as the largest public radio organization in the U.S. Offers award winning content to audiences everywhere the B.B.C. World Service connects audiences to the world from international news to arts and culture programming listeners here stories and perspectives not heard anywhere else . Spondon Kirk Siegler you've heard me report. On the campfire and rebuilding the town of Paradise our national reporting and local reporting is made possible because listeners support the stations reporters editors and hosts with membership support. Keep supporting that. This is B.B.C. Trending with me Marco Silva coming up on today's program what is it like to be on social media in China people talk about everything basically except for all politics. We need Chinese writer I'm journalist Caroline can and hear how the Internet and social media are being censored to supposedly meant tain social stability that's B.B.C. Trending after the news B.B.C. News with Jerry Smit demonstrators in Hong Kong are attempting to disrupt operations of the territories airport in their campaign for more democracy but says have gathered outside the terminal building causing long queues of passengers trying to get inside the metro line to the airport has been closed and there are traffic jams on surrounding roads the United States and China have implemented new tariffs on a range of each other's goods intensifying the trade war between the world's 2 biggest economies for the 1st time since the dispute began 18 months ago American oil faces a 5 percent duty the German president Frank voter Steinmeyer has asked for Poland's forgiveness at an event marking the 80th anniversary of the start of the 2nd World War He was speaking in the Polish town of vellum which was the 1st to suffer aerial bombardment. The rebels in Yemen say 60 prisoners were killed when a Saudi led coalition air strike hit a detention center in the southwestern city of the Maher there's been no independent confirmation of the claim. The U.S. Envoy to Afghanistan. Says American and Taliban negotiators are on the verge of a historic agreement to reduce violence and open the door for peace he said he would travel to Kabul today to consult the Afghan government. A Pakistani Christian woman cleared of blasphemy charges and given refuge in Canada has called on the world not to ignore the plight of victims like her. Be spent 8 years on death row in Pakistan or to being accused of insulting Prophet Mohammed comment came in an interview with the British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph. Aurukun Dorrian is expected to head the Bahamas in the next few hours and the southeastern coast of the United States on Monday the U.S. National Hurricane Center says the storm is extremely dangerous B.B.C. News. It's been a summer of discontent in Hong Kong. At 1st there were protests against plans to allow extraditions to mainland China but then as anger grew in the streets people started calling for broader Democratic reforms. 7 Beijing has watched the protests unfold worry dissuades of political unrest might spill beyond Hong Kong state media has been quick to portray the protesters as file and thugs criminals but it has also accused western countries of meddling in China's domestic affairs and on social media censors have been working at full speed filtering out words pictures and post that might relate to the protests. With almost 1400000000 people in a booming economy China remains one of the world's biggest markets for social media companies but Facebook Instagram Twitter and new tube are all blocked in China so we never place Chinese on platforms have thrived you may have heard of a few of them there's the microblogging website wakeboard the messaging app we chat all the video sharing app do you as Dick talk is known in China but these platforms have only been allowed to exist in China because the agree to abide by laws that keep them under the government's watchful eyes which in turn has made them some argue a powerful tool for social control. And Marco Sylvain You're listening to B.B.C. Trending the program that takes an in-depth look into the world of social media today we're hearing from Caroline can she's a Chinese writer and journalist based in Beijing who believes the Internet in her country too tightly. Control as a millennial who grew up in China Caroline has what her home complicated relationship with the web to evolve the years she documents some of that experience in her new book under red skies I spoke to her recently in London shortly before the Hong Kong protest started I began by asking her about her 1st memories using a computer back in the late 99. Every student in my school had a course called computer there is even the special room a classroom full of the computers sitting there and they were like a treated ice great treasure and each time we went to the classroom we put our special slippers and what did we do I basically just typing use computer to like John pictures what about the Internet itself what was it like at 1st for you to go on the Internet as a Chinese citizen every kid about my age use A Q Q What is that. They like Facebook Messenger you know like instant messenger app and you make friends internet friends you never met that says to me I still remember it was such a mysterious And the interesting exciting time but the same time we were kind of forbade him from using it too much because you had to focus on your anxiety and also like our parents didn't have the experience or using internet like a freaked out sometimes like what is Internet and who is my daughter like making friends that I could present behind the screen I'm sure that's an experience that really tons of people around the globe had but at the same time did the Internet at 1st allow you to do things that perhaps weren't possible offline the year I went to university to Beijing was just after the pacing Olympic Games 2008 is issues drug. Stingray tunics banging traditional Chinese drums and an explosion of fireworks of got the opening ceremony and the way you happen to be the time when the Internet you Halep to so fast in China so China was at that time trying to show on. Image to the world and suddenly there were more like a platform sound line that allow young people people doesn't matter what age actually to discuss about social You sure international affairs and certainly like to me at least I feel like wow this is freedoms I don't like. In the year 2009 I was there twenty's and I was 3 or 4 of the world remembers the moment 20 years ago when a demonstration was brutally suppressed in Telamon Square China is doing its level best to pull the spotlight away from the anniversary 2 decades and of course you wouldn't really learn about it in your classroom Well if they don't learn all the details. By using Internet to get a sense of what happened also there are some many different version of the story BART to me that was important because I learned something about it you describe there quite a strong sense of hope almost or so these younger generations who are discovering the Internet who are discovering those social media platforms they used those to get access to knowledge that wasn't available elsewhere they use it to have debates that weren't necessarily happening elsewhere is that a fair assessment that people were seeing these tools with hope yes I will say yes I also remember oh dear family members I think time they also use the internet to read Chinese. News but not produce that you meant China so news about China but news about it right now not necessarily produced by government yes government run media outlets Yeah exactly and I remember they were excited to read about it at the same time as they were how worried they are asking me as a student he learned studying both seem like this is illegal to read but just a reading for US News and I was the answer I said I think I am quiet like well maybe not as careful as many people as they all cost me is this legal like well it was not blogs and you are reading it there is not any law to ban you from reading it but laid her of course. I can mourn the more of those wives side gradually all blogging Google could not operate in China and Facebook was banned I still remember the time when Facebook was banned in China I already had an account in the university and I had some friends our Facebook then away but we boys it's a bit like a microblogging the 4 years when I was in university probably wave was. Age. And I remember spending a whole afternoon reading baiting a discussion away when the bullet train crash happened busy. Chinese media said an express train between July and when John lost power and was struck from behind by a 2nd train people are trying to hold the local government accountable and discuss the what went wrong China is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on its high speed rail network but there's growing concerns that corruption has compromised the safety of the networks construction when the crash happened I spend a whole afternoon that I could reading what people say and this think I got really sad really emotional busy. You cannot go to the street and the protest in China that is the biggest couple probably in China so I think that is why the Internet I that time Chinese people feel so so much hope and suddenly you feel you're not alone like in sharing certain values of certain opinions. Very important attorney ponder will cause these changes the leadership. It's a name you're going to hear a lot of thanks for the 2nd most powerful. U.S. President wheels more in thank ready the head of China's Communist Party and its vast military. This power to confirm to Mr President it was I that time gradually people few that it is not going to the same direction she should be paying says he's a leader with a dream that China dream to make China prosperous one night just so crowded in 2012 and later 2013 it was from that time when the US censorship get stronger in China every day a little bit well you see you some journalists got detained and gradually you lose all those Whitesides for people who may not be familiar with the reality of censorship on Chinese social media can you explain to us how exactly when it is done how does the censorship manifest itself on social media. Most of the time to be honest those companies like Tencent constant Owens we chat with Ted is another social the largest social media platform in China which I believe has some similarities with what's up and but also incorporates certain several elements of Facebook or functionality that you'd find Facebook so 10 cent they if they want to operate in China they have to do a lot to censorship themselves rather than got direct a call from the related author ity Department saying you have to open up the site that so they have a. Sense of the river's database so each time when you send out something that is regarded sensitive then either you guard or warning or sometimes you accountable be blocked for some time. What kind of words are we talking about could be anything for example Of course there are a few words that if we see. Here we can mention like a dream 4 hours of. Sitting King's name even I suppose and so we're talking about words that might be perceived by the government as subversive words words that might be used in a context that is critical of the government and what it stands for so every now and then it's different. During play so China's most important and you know. The least my become bigger I once during this years long when I tried to is a friend and to me that was really like normal conversation I talk about economic development on. My hometown and after a few hours here came to my home and like knock the door and say I'll you post something. Wow Yeah so the thing is that worried me I even didn't know that was that sense the word how did it make you feel I felt lost because I said journalese I feel you I kind of know what you are as I should use directly Oh I shoot like describing a different the way to make sense all what I should and most not all Oh my social media app and people can also get quite creative once the censors have indeed stepped in they can get quite creative in the way they talk about certain topics right you know like you can use you don't actually instead of a certain word because they use that anyway is that managed censored by machines I think most of the time unless you are a person in their black least some of the time like most other people their conversations are censored by these machines so they can tell. Exactly word if you use a different way to express it then you can escape from it so there's nothing back to your question how does it work the thing is sometimes they really unclear how it works or what you can say or what you cannot say it's very interesting that you say that because I suppose also from the Chinese government's point of view and here I'm looking at a news stories that have you published about this president Xi Jinping it himself has talked about the need to strengthen public opinion guidance to crack down on internet crimes the government has in the past deployed thousands of monitors to crackdown on what they describe as immoral subversive contemn so from the Chinese government's point of view and perhaps for many of its supporters this is just about keeping society safe keeping society together stopping crime stopping all these dangers that could affect people's lives personally I think this is a really ridiculous like why. I'm not growing up woman and I don't need a person to tell me like what I should say or not say Oh just a few more I am like a child have to have a guidance to the thinking in certain ways but I think if you grow up in China in the years of your education you keep hearing about how important social stability is on some weeks some polls are always brought up like Iraq war striking selected targets military importance undermined Saddam Hussein's ability to look at the Syria like oh if the country is now saved then like nobody will be saved. Syria's regime is trying to crush the revolution so those examples are everyone's are mentioned and also about China's past the schools the teachers and government always say now you have to have stability to enjoy life or to develop your own life look at 80 years ago when the country is not stable and nobody could enjoy this kind of life I think many people ask you how does a memory to Mr A memory of the past so when you aren't I teachings them how important social stability is they tend to I think that's right but I think to many many young people it's not the same story anymore so we don't have that kind of memory but the we feel they are it's so annoying like there is again I cannot play my game on this since the date. You want to always tell me what should I do wish I say or should I think so I think maybe in 20 years you would not work as it is working today by the way we did ask whether they would like to comment on the points Caroline raising you seem to view but you didn't get back to was we also asked the Chinese embassy here in London for comment and sent a statement in which he pointed out that China with 800000000. Of what it calls netizens is the country with the world's largest number of Web users it also said China's Internet sovereignty must be safeguarded China is fully entitled according to cyber security law to take technological and other necessary measures against overseas websites that transmit illegal and harmful information there's one phrase that often pops up in the media this great firewall of China a combination of laws and technology that has limited what Chinese citizens can do on the internet not the Internet most of us know but a closed internet heavily censored heavily controlled heavily regulated Beijing argues that it has a right to shape the Internet within its borders but as Caroline says not everyone in China wants to stay to determine what you should or shouldn't see online so the question is can the Great Firewall of China hold. That's all for today Special thanks to writer and journalist Caroline canned for their interview a book under red skies is out now our production coordinator was Sarah JACKSON Our editor Mike Wendling production help came from Edwin Maine Marco Silva and if you'd like to get in touch about anything you heard here today send me an e-mail to Marco that's M.A. Our C.E.O. Dot silver S. I L. V.A. At B.B.C. Dot SEO docs U.K. We'll be back next week thanks so much for listening. B.B.C. World Service and now sporting witness with me SIMON WATTS to mark this year's edition of the Ultra 2 or the moment plonk the biggest ultramarathon event in the world I've been speaking to Britain's Lizzie Hawke she's won the grueling race more times than anybody else. It's cool because 2005 hundreds of runners gather in the main square in the French mountain resort of shell money they're about to take on $1.00 of the greatest challenges in sport so I was standing there in the church schools surrounded by this mass of people and the thought that ran through my mind was the quote from Alice in Wonderland just sort of the beginning go on and then stop when you come to the end and so that was kind of my mantra Lizzie Holker would be trying for the 1st time to race 155 kilometers all the way around the long Massif and back to Chamonix the route crimes and fools 8500 metres the equivalent of ascending and descending Everest from sea level I turned up with absolutely no idea there was something that I could even do I just read an article about the race I tend up with my O.E. . A rucksack that was found to pick me up or get my friend normal heavy jacket and. Reading what was coming ahead closely followed in Europe the ultra told him Oh you T.M.B. Is the pinnacle of achievement for mountain run as the Alpine part of this wine for you from Switzerland and Italy the athletes use specialized lightweight kit and torches to find their way at night most will mix running with Walker. And grab some occasional sleep but aid stations the challenge starts as Task Force. The number of people that were Alps on the streets just to see the runners off as they started that evening was was incredible it was a long time before it actually spaced out and I actually saw thousands running properly and then once I did I found most of kind of in the middle of the night and although I couldn't see obviously as so much as you can during the day you just felt the majesty of mountains and running through the lights I guess it was just this feeling of freedom that that is actually something you can do YOU CAN MOVE OVER quite rocky mountain terrain in the dark all vote Lizzie had only just found out about the U.T.M. B. She did have a background in insurance sport she'd spent time climbing and cross-country skiing she had done hill running in the U.K. And she got used to tough conditions working for the British Antarctic Survey I think I added up to be 18 months my life that I actually spent on board ship probably some of the work that I was doing prepared me quite well for running a long distance races because what used to going without speaking and also while being seasick and nauseous and having to carry only and get the book done anyway and so by the end of the 1st night of the race Lizzie found she was enjoying herself I think I ran into my ear kind of around breakfast time but I was very shocked to be told that I was actually the 2nd lady because I'd had no idea of passing other women during the night we carried on and I actually quote the 1st lady who was running with her husband shortly before the border into Switzerland and then kind of realize that. I had. 3 contests in a race like. I was like OK keep going and see if I can get to the next checkpoint roast and that's how it went from checkpoint by checkpoint always expecting that they would have me anyone in fact Lizzie spend most of the race extending her lead over the other women She particularly enjoyed almost flying along the valley for a valley with its majestic views of the Alps I guess it was the combination of just moving pasta the lights and being in the mountains and just making it a real journey that's what I love to do is just that real feeling of presence you simply completely there in the moment and because you're running in your life in your book you make it sound like a sort of moving meditation Yes in many situations for me I think it is kind of a form of moving meditation sure for 155 kilometers Well no I think those those moments the wall says some more surreal moments French volunteers with flaming torches Swiss villages turning out in the middle of the night to chair the run as the occasional sound of music. I was completely alone and the clouds are downstairs I was running through the clouds and climbing up a sense and then suddenly her. French will playing at night I was thinking was my mind and yet what was going on and then suddenly I did reach in and the sky was just sitting on the hillside playing. Support the run as the possum it was it was peaceful most of the felt a bit like a hallucination as well yes rest it was right strange was that any point it's all when it started getting tough I don't think I was ever really in distress. One incident I do remember I was really wanting a cup of tea or coffee the whole way round but with milk in it all I could get was was back to local peanut no milk till somewhere after that French film playing I arrived at his tiny mansion checkpoint and they handed me a cup and actually what it was was meat the soup with milk in it and I'm vegetarian as well I think that's the only time in the race about sick towards the end of the U.T.M. Be it began to rain but Lizzie still found the last big $700.00 metre climb fairly straight forward at that point you know running up your sense but it's as long as you can keep yourself moving in a good rhythm then you can make up a good distance and it's just the terrain that I like. And I'm riding back a semi late at night I say I guess quickly about 10 o'clock but there was still a huge number of people out lining the streets to think that they wouldn't you know their full of the runners was just overwhelming and when you cross the line as the winner how did that just an incredible sense of while she make managed to do it Jenny like that on my own 2 feet and to come in is the 1st lady was kind of a little bit believe a bill for me. Lizzie's time was just under 27 hours after that 1st surprise victory she dominated women's Ultrarunning taking another 4 U.T.M. B. Titles sometimes despite being in considerable pain so how did she manage that discomfort it's just strange combination of being at so in touch with you so you know how much she can handle whether that pain being hungry or cold and at the same time you also have to you have to disconnect from all of that so you kind of but the pain on one side and try to keep moving through it and I guess the thought I was holding my head is that nothing lasts. But is principle of in permanence that's what I think about during races it won't last with the love of Buddhism and mountains it's not surprising that Lizzie went on to do a series of record breaking runs in the Himalayas She's also written a memoir and now organizes her own mountain Otra Martha in the Alps I guess my focus shifted more to sharing the running in different ways so that's where the book came in and that's kind of the reason you'll be able to to Montrose which is the race that I owe now creating an experience but then to enjoy the British ultra runner Lizzie Hawker was talking to me Simon Watts for the last edition of sporting witness. Your tune to N.S. P.R. Nor State Public Radio K C H O Chico N.K.F. P.R. Reading listener supported public radio for northern California a broadcast service of California State University Chico where on the web and my. Dad I work. 10 hours G.M.T. Welcome to the newsroom from the B.B.C. 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