Ive been challenging those in power asking tough questions demanding jobs. As conflicts intensify ill be meeting with kid players on the ground in the centers of. Cutting through the rhetoric holding the powerful to account past the conflict zone. Conflict zone with Tim Sebastian on t. W. This week on world stories. Camerons refugee news a conflict forgotten in. China pitching up at the campus. We begin in syria where its estimated that some two thousand fighters belonging to socalled Islamic State are sheltering in a small town near the iraqi border. Kurdish arabic militias are preparing an attack. These recruits are here to liberate the last areas in syria held by Islamic State in just a few days the young men from the Syrian Democratic forces will be transferred to the front about fifty kilometers away. Marching shooting practice and tactics the u. S. Estimates that up to two thousand as a still entrenched in hygiene. The twenty four year old commander of the Kurdish Militia is rall
And just a reminder of the top story that were following for you right now people in the german state of bavaria are voting in a pivotal state election that could further destabilize chancellor Angela Merkels Fragile Coalition government polls show her conservative allies the c. S. U. Are likely to lose their absolute majority. Youre watching news from berlin stay tuned theres more the top of the hour and for the latest updates you can check out our website thats dot com or follow us on twitter thanks for watching. Where i come from we have to fight for a free press i was born and raised in a Military Dictatorship with just one divisional and a few newspapers with official information as a journalist i have worked off the streets of many can trust and their slogans are always the same fourteen social inequality
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the world and u.s. economy. the dow goes up and down because the outcome of these negotiations matter for u.s. companies and u.s. consumers. now, if you look at the raw numbers, the u.s. should have the leverage. u.s. exports to china are less than 1% of gdp. their exports to us are about 4% of gdp. but having leverage is one thing. knowing how to use it is another. the u.s. needs to be careful that what it asks for is deliverable. on that list, there s a whole continuum. some things are easy. china says, you want us to buy more soybeans and liquefies natural gas, easy. you want us to end joint venture requirements, lower tariffs, well, yeah, we can probably do that. and then there are things that are really hard. a big problem is forced technology transfer. the chinese say, we don t force anybody. they do it voluntarily. and if you are saying, give up our what s voluntarily? china says it s voluntarily. if you want this amount of money
thank you. bought the s.t.s. might not be an easy partner for the us locals accuse the militia of forced recruitment when question s.t. s command is tennis. well you heard it ok we don t force anybody to join. the commander prefers to talk about how well cooperation is going with the us and that the n.t.i. a skull alicia it will be needed on the ground in syria for some time. we need stability in this whole area we cannot achieve this without coalition troops. this message is echoed to us by the u.s. commander even after a victory in hygiene the mission here is far from over u.s. troops will still be needed. over there so then the remnants of isis left there are
thank you. bought the s.t.s. might not be an easy partner for the us locals accuse the militia of forced recruitment when question s.t. s command is tennis. well you did ok we don t force anybody to join. the commander prefers to talk about how well cooperation is going with the us and that the n.t.i. a skull ilish and will be needed on the ground in syria for some time. we need stability in this whole area we cannot achieve this without coalition troops. this message is echoed to us by the us commander even after a victory in haji in the mission he is far from us troops will still be needed.