Hello, and welcome to Asia Business report. Im steve lai. Chinese president xijinping has kicked off his first trip to europe in five years. Hes arrived in france, and will make stops in serbia and hungary later this week. His visit comes as some countries in europe are taking action over what they perceive to be Anti Competitive Practices by china. For more on what we can expect, lets speak David Weddell has more. President xi arrived south of paris with his wife. French is the only major eu company which. Here at the airport he was greeted by frances prime minister, he will also be meeting a man with whom he has very warm relations, the french president. President xi hosted president macron at the chinese City Of Gong Show last year, where president macron was rapturously received, and in turn, president macron will be hosting his chinese counterpart in french pyrenees, a place where he spent much time as a boy visiting his grandmother. But first on monday, its down to Business Trade
One of the few routes to get aid into the territory. It comes as the Israeli Government forced the News Network Aljazeera to shut down its operations in israel, calling It A Mouthpiece for hamas. From jerusalem, Frank Gardner has the latest. In a country that prides itself on free speech and democracy, Israeli Police shut down the offices of aljazeera today, seizing its broadcast equipment. If you are watching this pre recorded report, then aljazeera has been banned in the territory of israel. This was one of its final broadcasts from jerusalem before the police arrived. The government accused the qatar based tv channel of incitement to terrorism, calling It A Mouthpiece for hamas. Its bureau chief called it a dangerous move. Israel cannot claim all the time that it is a democracy, and at the same time they are cutting, and preventing the journalists to do theirjob. Meanwhile, down on the gaza border, close to rafah, a deadly rocket attack by hamas, on the very crossing point through w