You mentioned their expectations were heightened with the surprise meeting on the d. M. Z. Between donald trump and kim jong un just nearly a month ago now with the announcement that say yes things were back on track were going to have working level talks to get negotiations underway again were still waiting for those working level talks to happen my pompei o has said that they could well happen in july while july is running out and what you do get a sense that patience on the north korean side is once again running out kim jong un has given a deadline of the end of this year for some sort of resolution of the ongoing ongoing sanctions against north korea and so this does seem to be a further warning that yes these are only short range missiles were not seeing a return to the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile testing or Nuclear Testing so it still gives donald trump the chance to say that his. Signature piece of Foreign Policy is still on track but it is a warning that time is running
To balance surgery when i went to investigate the chinese battle to get in shape on al jazeera. Hello im adrian for the get this is counting the cost analysis here your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week on patrol off the coast of west africa nations step up their naval presence to counter the scourge of piracy and hostage taking. After 6 years of treading water gold prices are on the rise we find out whats behind the move. And ill tell you what a great impress record morning on production rather than import. A decade ago no ship was safe off the coast of somalia men armed with machine guns in small boats would target vessels including aid for the World Food Program the menace of piracy continues to plague the region impeding its security and economic develop. But its also increasing in other areas that you hotspot is the gulf of guinea an area that covers 6000 nautical miles or 11000 kilometers of coastline from angola to senegal west african countries lose 2
Sovereignty and that is an issue that is very close to the government here in beijing ok lets take a closer look at the white paper Andrew Thompson as a visiting Senior Research fellow at the National University of Singapore Still equine new school of Public Policy and joins us from singapore so as we heard our correspondent there he was talking about china now focusing on sovereignty as a huge part of its white paper can you explain why this has become the focus for chinas Defense Strategy now. Well i think if you look at the last paper in 2015 it really focused on chinas maritime interests and its security situation on its periphery and with its neighbors this paper much more is turning towards internal issues i mean its actually quite different than the 2015 paper in that it really reflects xi jinping has continued grasp of authority and his continued oversight of the p. L. O. So it also very much underscores the is a party army its the armed wing of the communist party and its very
A potentially more realistic view about how possible all of this is look hes promised price johnson to take britain out of the e. U. By the 31st deal or no deal well on the deal side of things the only way to do it is by resuscitating somehow to raise a maize deal 3 times and failed to pass through parliament he would have to do away with the hated Northern Ireland backstop of what hes promised to do at least thats the one thing that European Union has absolutely said it will not do that leaves the idea of no deal there is an established majority in the house of commons against no deal assuming of course that given the opportunity to vote on it at all the opposition is marshalling itself senior cabinet ministers preparing to resign in the next couple of hours rather than be pushed by Boris Johnson people like for the common the chancellor david gold the justice secretary for rory stewart his former. Opponent in the leadership race the International Development secretary they will go to
Now the leader of the press a party in all but name and thats what he has to deliver or itll all be over very very quickly Boris Johnson famously prepared to news paper columns favoring both leave and remain before opting to support the leave campaign ahead of the 2016 referendum some wonder now whether hell be persuaded to opt for a softer briggss compromise one of the realities facing his heart breaks it promises become clear i think if faces a huge challenge i mean any any party takes faces huge constraints in terms of both what the e. U. Will agree to and what parliament will agree to and he might say that hes going to leave the e. U. On the 31st of october to deal with delhi or fundamentally that is not an issue entirely in his gift and it wouldnt surprise me at all if behind the scenes his team are preparing for a possible general election in the autumn because it might well go wrong supporters compared johnson to Winston Churchill a crisis leader. The e. U. Wont called hes bluff