Been avoiding travel to the United States since april of two thousand and seventeen when they became aware of the investigation and furthermore that they have been moving u. S. Based employees out of the country who could have been called to testify in the case thats why when they became aware of her travel to canada on november twenty ninth they requested her extradition monza arrest comes amid mounting trade tensions between the u. S. And china and news of her arrest rattled investors the dow closed down more than five hundred points for the week racing games for the year but experts say the case is not about trade i think its very much sanctions issue and the desire to make sure that people know that we arent kidding when the u. S. Imposes sanctions nevertheless it could complicate trade relations as the two countries attempt to work out their differences kristen salumi aljazeera. Bushell nichols is a security reporter they register a Technology News and pinioned website he says the timing of the arrest seems to be political the start of the sanctions this is something thats been under investigation since i believe two thousand and twelve this is been going on for a while the timing on it is pretty suspicious i believe john bolton recently said that when the arrest was made they were actually having dinner with president xi so this was something that the u. S. Seemed to have lined up pretty well and it does look like well its kind of being caught in the middle of of this trade argument here its going to be a concern that the the idea that this is shes now being used kind of a trade ship in the. I mean the Trump Administration has been if nothing else unpredictable i think in some of these actions so i think were kind of in New Territory on this and i it might be hard to say what the long term impact could be there are a number of barriers to Companies Like google entering the chinese market. You know both own employees expressed concern about sort of chinas policies theres also questions like intellectual property issues these sort of things that have been going on for a while but this is not going to help obviously its another concern for companies but i think what what theyre going for in this as far as the u. S. Government is to kind of address some of these other issues so if this leads to breakthroughs in these other areas where Technology Companies have concerns. It could impact that but in the short term its definitely going to be one more hurdle one more headache well a tree branch joins me now from beijing adrian that china has remained relatively silent professing mengs innocence but in the lines of the charges made really in a Canadian Cold i mean what more can the chinese do at this point. Well i think judging by the tone from state controlled media here in china so the belief of chinas government is that these charges against mung are politically motivated they feel this is all part of a conspiracy to try to keep china down the the global Times Newspaper for instance says that this is happening to mung because the United States is unable to compete with huawei and its five g. System so yes certainly there is that feeling this is all part of an effort to try to contain china now that said the story in state controlled media is still not running that prominently on friday for instance when it was made aware that she was going to be appearing in court the story was actually relegated to the Technology Page of the china daily which is the main english language newspaper here in china that said online there is pretty fierce debate going on with a lot of people saying that canada is no more than the United States dog and saying that the United States is behaving like a despicable rope so youre going to see a lot more of that i think in the coming days and weeks but i think youre also going to see perhaps a lot of Senior Executives of u. S. Companies perhaps thinking twice about traveling to china we know at least one major u. S. Corporation is now telling its senior employees not to go to china for the time being i dont think china wants to retaliate or indeed would retaliate i think for a number of reasons we have a a couple of very important anniversary is coming up in a few days time itll be the fortieth anniversary of reform and opening up opening up here in china and president xi jinping is due to deliver an all important speech and then on january the first would you believe its exactly forty years since china and the United States of stablished full diplomatic relations i wonder how that can a verse three is going to be marked in light of all thats happened in the past few days. And of course you know china really is is to a certain extent you might say agent trying to really fight this battle on two fronts i mean i was as you discussed whether it wants to or not one is to protect its own national and an executive of one of chinas Largest Companies in the country but also its a p. R. Battle isnt it to try and block away products in a range of countries in asia pacific in europe and thats a battle that they also have to fight despite whats going on with the United States at the moment yet how it has been sending out a message to all its suppliers around the world saying trust us we can get through this but clearly this is very damaging for our way especially at a time that governments in new Zealand Australia have essentially been locking out our way from their five g. Systems by not using their equipment the same thing could be happening in the United Kingdom as well and this is why china feels that it is unfair it says that holway is a legitimate company and that it is being smeared by the United States i think what will happen next is that you know we we think that these trade negotiations from china and the United States are going to continue for the time being both the Commerce Ministry here in china as well as the white house are saying that progress is being made in those negotiations but its hard to imagine there could be a successful outcome if mung ends up being extradited to the United States this extradition process though we are told here in china could take weeks possibly months even years so this could all drag on in the background for the current crucial negotiations taking place between china and the United States to resolve their their their many trade differences over them and it will leave it there in beijing thank you. White nationalist to rand his car into a crowd of protesters in the u. S. Last year has been found guilty of first degree murder james feels killed her the higher left dozens of other people injured in the attack in charlottesville it follows violent clashes between White Nationalist protesters and counted demonstrators. Oh plenty more ahead here on the aljazeera news hour including negotiations between yemens warring sides hits a snag at the talks in sweden over the port of the data and in sport event is extend their lead at the top of the Italian Football League peter well have the details later in the program. To europe now where germanys Ruling Christian Democratic Union party has elected i think that. To succeed Angela Merkel as party leader the fifty six year old was favored to take over and merkels choice to succeed her dominic came reports stuff from her book friend for not the person in the end it was a close contest decided by a margin of just closely five votes out of almost a thousand some wondered whether an eclipse come closeness to angle america would be a help or a hindrance with her victory the cd you can now expect a period of evolution not revolution. Yet isnt one time. If we have the courage we will live in the strong year it will complete open towards the inside and security with the outside if we have the courage we will live in a europe which will finally make the year a stable and he will live in a year with the European Security council and the European Army which does not just articulate but implements a Common Security interests her closest rival melts that spent a decade on the sidelines forced there by Angela Merkel despite there once having been allies he returned with a promise to take his party to the right and with straight talking both domestically and on the International Stage once even for more you can i mean you probably know im a true friend of the United States but from time to time the americans need a clear message and that message is credible when its not just germany delivering it but when the entire e. U. Says this isnt. Not how we want it americans except strength not weakness matt says strong showing means he can now expect to have much greater influence in the party if he wants it in one sense winning this election is the easy part now and then that come come our nest persuade voters in germany states and in a general election to come and she and her party are the ones to vote for. But thats for the future right now the c. D. U. Is witnessing the passing of an era albeit one in which the chancellor will not be handing over ultimate power any time soon dominic came out zira hamburg. The french government is deploying thousands of Police Officers onto the streets in anticipation of another weekend of antigovernment demonstrations it comes as the police are being heavily criticized after a video over the arrest of a group of students went viral David Chaytor reports in paris. The students have taken to the streets of paris in force openly a new front of protest against president i and outrage were growing at the tactics used by riot police gets High School Students demonstrating outside the french capital all day. This video shows them being forced to kneel with their hands behind their heads a Police Officer can be heard saying now theres a clause as behaving well youngest amongst them a people aged twelve the French Interior minister said the images had to be seen in context we feel those rules agreeing the pure observer is over the past few days the students having joined by about the one who risk with it yields are met with clubs an incendiary devices and attorney to pick a fight with the police to have a little. The french Education Minister described the pictures a shocking but said the violence convulsing france justified the heavy handed policing it was not an opinion shared by the students in paris morning when has always been a country where we can say with people being gay and going this tweet saying. And imitate and. Now with my point like they were hard to demonstrate because the. Police Police Officers are very. Very likely to enter and inflict their students joining the protests were just here in the parish but right across the country is adding a new dimension and a new momentum to the best protests the interior minister went to inspect the armored cars that will be deployed by the police for the first time in paris at saturdays demonstrations that were used to clear barricades and burning roadblocks. He said these last few weeks a monster has been born that has run away from its creators. Dozens of Tourist Attractions will be closed down in the capital for what the l a vessel calling act for of the revolt the authorities have also ordered the shutdown of scores of luxury boutiques restaurants and businesses in the seans of easy David Chaytor aljazeera paris. The state department has accused russia and syria are falsely accusing opposition fighters of a chemical attack in aleppo last month the alleged gas attack injured up to one hundred people on november the twenty fourth the u. S. Says it has credible information that pro Regime Forces likely used tear gas against civilians it also says both countries are using the attackers not particularly to undermine a ceasefire in rebel controlled it live province. Day two of talks aimed at ending the war in yemen of hit a wall some progress on thursday there are still disagreements over reopening of the airport in the capital sanaa and managing one of yemens most important ports. Reports from rimbaud a Village North of stockholm where those talks have been taking place. Yemen talks hanging by a thread as the government delegation toughens its stance against who the rebels. President other than obama so hard is loyalists have told you and all boy Martin Griffiths they werent allow reopening airport to International Flights the government delegation insists all International Flights must be strictly through airports and its control in aden and how to molt that if an item we came here in order to find a solution to open the airport of santa we cannot just prejudge everything what we are asking is is this in the interest of the people or not we are not here to reward the malicious we are here for peace. The sun airport was one of the first targets of the coalition in two thousand to fifteen the military Alliance Later closed the airport to stop what it said was a flow of weapons from iran to the who these. Another Sticking Point in the talks is the port of her data which accounts for more than seventy percent of food imports to yemen the government asked the huth east to pull out immediately warning it will resume the offensive to take control of the city if they dont the whole thing is had agreed to partially hand over management of the port to the United Nations in exchange for a cease fire to be implemented in the one hell if we are to agree we need a governing authority that represents all of yemen and to which all parties will hand over weapons. The first day of these talks so a rare agreement among yemens rivals for president Exchange Deal it is widely seen as a significant step forward to and a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world its unclear if the u. N. Will be able to narrow differences between the two parties as the resist calls to solve the dispute now the whole thing is insist on a president ial council to replace had the and leave the country for an interim period a move that has been rejected by the government as a who the tactic to further expand their influence over yemen has. The town of rimbaud on the outskirts of stockholm. The hundreds of jordanians have been protesting against what they describe as the governments corrupt economic policies. They gathered outside government headquarters demanding Prime Minister omar resign to step down theyre angry over an income tax hike thats due to take effect in the new year and the early attack spight planned led to massive protests forcing the resignation of the previous Prime Minister in june. A deal to cut Global Oil Production has been struck in vienna the socalled Opec Plus Group of nations agreed to hold back a combined one point two Million Barrels a day theyre trying to prop up the price which has fallen from eighty five dollars in october to sixty this week but it needed the agreement of not opec member russia to seal the deal paul brennan explains. For more than forty years opec controlled the Global Oil Industry the groups near monopoly keeping a tight rein on supply and on prices the events of this week in vienna shows those days are truly over despite consensus that a cuts in production is needed to stop a slide in the oil price thursdays gathering of just the opec Member States failed to agree to tail numbers and so on friday as the meeting expanded to include non opec members all eyes were on Alexander Novak the Russian Energy minister but should do spoke was after thorough analysis which we have been conducting of the market situation will be ready to come to me to understanding on how to take corporation further. The final figures opec members will reduce output by eight hundred thousand barrels a day the nona pick countries will hold back a further four hundred thousand barrels iran libya and venezuela will be exempted the prospect of cutting one point two Million Barrels a day was enough to push brant crude above sixty three dollars from below fifty nine dollars the previous day go back to the supply demand we believe that there are substantial volumes out there as a result of releasing the Spare Capacity that you to be. Withdrawn and we hope that we will come to an agreement where all. Producers will contribute with. Equal cuts across the board there was significant transparency and who was going to be doing a cut so for example the saudi government laid out their path to basically removing barrels the russian government also gave us in the window about what their with options would be so i think the statement was actually more transparent than expected i think it actually is a more robust cut than we expected to last couple days but what happens here in vienna is only part of the picture the United States is now the worlds biggest crude oil producer now really eclipsing russia and with saudi arabia in third the fact is. Opec no longer calls the shots this is been a hard fought compromise deal and the fact its been so difficult emphasizes the limits now of opecs effectiveness and there are still question marks as to how long the deal done here will actually last paul brennan aljazeera vienna. Well still ahead here on the aljazeera news about two high profile changes in the u. S. Government President Trump names two choices for u. N. Ambassador and attorney general also how a doctor strike in zimbabwe is affecting patients in the middle of a cholera outbreak. New zealands cricket is achieved by historic first against pakistan peter well have that story in sports straight after the break so do stay with us. From long flowing on in the winds to an enchanting desert breeze the. Hello again welcome back to your International Weather forecast well here across china the rain the snow the clouds are on the increase over the next few days lie here on the satellite image but the forecast maps look like this here on saturday a lot of rain down here towards the southwest even affecting parts of vietnam so there we could be seeing some localized flooding over the next few days so we will be watching that but as we go towards sunday a lot of that rain begins to push towards the east and so hong kong that also means you a cool rain at sixteen degrees up to the north shanghai rain turning to snow in the overnight hours a High Temperature you of about ten degrees there well down towards the south heavy rain has been a problem for the last couple of days across parts of tight island as well as indonesia you can see that on the satellite image but we are going to be seeing that rain really continue to stay in the forecast over the next few days of bangkok thirty degrees colon poor at thirty two as well as singapore seeing rain across the board all the way through the weekend with a tempter there about thirty one degrees as well and the rain is going to be a problem for sri lanka but not for india over the next few days bengal is going to sing a lot of clouds and we are going to be watching this for the potential of a tropical disturbance making its way towards the north rings of clouds along the coast but otherwise much nicer up here towards the north where new delhi at twenty one and kolkata at about twenty six. 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Federal prosecutors are directly implicated donald trump in Campaign Finance crimes during his president ial bid they also say moscow reached out to his associates as far as back as twenty fifteen special Counsel Robert Mueller and government lawyers have recommended a substantial prison term for trumps former lawyer michael cohen. Also u. S. Prosecutors are seeking the extradition of a chief Financial Officer of the Chinese Telecom company hardway. Was arrested in canada and is facing charges of fraud accused of violating u. S. Sanctions against iran. Germanys Ruling Christian Democratic Union party has elected to get. To replace angle of merkel as the party leader are is michaels protege but will lead the party into the next general election bid a surge in support for the far right. Us president all truck pass name several new people to key government positions they all need to be confirmed by the senate first so lets take a quick look at who they are. Attorney general Jeff Sessions fired last month is set to be replaced by william barr and hes no stranger to the job he already held a position back in the early one nine hundred ninety s. Under george h. W. Bush Joseph Dunford is wrapping up his second term as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff a group of Senior Defense leaders there are reports that trump will pick mark milley whos currently the army chief of staff to replace him and he haley is stepping down as u. N. Ambassador after two years in the job but trump was chosen state Department Spokeswoman heather knew it to be the face of washington that the u. N. Well knew it was previously an anchor with fox news and had little diplomatic or government experience before joining the administration was in jordan reports for washington d. C. Good afternoon its been rumored for weeks that state Department Spokesperson heather now it would be named the next u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations on friday the u. S. President confirmed the speculation. Are. Now or. Never. Nauert had no Foreign Policy experience before she joined the state department in early two thousand and seventeen she was a t. V. News presenter and correspondent most notably at the conservative Fox News Channel that background made it easy for critics to pelt after podium gaps such as this one looking back in the history books today is the seventy First Anniversary of the speech that now announced the Marshall Plan tomorrow is the anniversary of the d. Day invasion we obviously have a very long history with the government of germany and we have a strong relationship with the government already some senators and Foreign Policy experts are calling nauert supremely unqualified for the job it which detail nuance and context or key to negotiating matters of Global Security and stability but not so says the israeli ambassador to the un danny de known quote miss nauert has stood by the state of israel in her previous positions and i have no doubt that the cooperation between our two countries will continue to strengthen as she becomes ambassador to the u. N. And quote if confirmed by the senate now word would replace nikki haley the former state governor who was also a Foreign Policy novice spent her tenure pushing trumps America First policy demanding Institutional Reforms at the u. N. And defending human rights haley also had something important to lean on trumps confidence in her she made that clear when she announced her resignation in october no i am not. Running for twenty twenty i can promise you when ill be doing is campaigning and thats when heather howards confirmation hearing will happen early in the new year like nikki haley before her she has the president s strong endorsement but now its going to need much more than that to persuade senators that shes the right person to represent and to defend the u. S. His interests at the United Nations rosalyn jordan aljazeera capitol hill. Crew is fine as you reduce pollution but. Enough to deal with the problem. Of the countrys pollution comes from sun it. Explains. Wearing masks to filter out this has become the norm for people in south korea especially during the winter of the World Health Organization says the daily average standard. That can be loud and damaging his twenty five micrograms per cubic meter out here in south korea in november weve seen that number hit as high as five times or more of that daily average standard. The city does enjoy the occasional blue skies but just days after china turned on its public Heating Systems in november that blanket of air drifted across the yellow sea to the Korean Peninsula and the air pollution numbers in seoul were in the red again. When the air quality gets worse an advisory warning is enforced forcing businesses and construction sites that emit air pollutants to stop and also battling big age diesel vehicles from entering the city. A hundred of these special vehicles are also dispatched to suck up dust off the streets over the past twelve months they removed sixteen point five tons of it equivalent to pollutants generated by over thirty six thousand diesel fuel cars. But despite such efforts to calm domestic root causes pollution still blankets the skies and enjoying to report with shows that one third of souls find dust from china even during seasons with relatively low pollution pushing the south korean government to seek for closer cooperation with china to curb air pollution in the country. To reinforce cooperation with foreign cities weve been hosting an International Forum to improve quality in northeast asia in particular and we signed in the. Greenman with beijing and have been conducting joint policy studies to improve quality china has lowered as targets and how much went. Down compared with the structure measures imposed last year analysts say that may be reassessing its priorities while its in the middle of a trade war with the United States by focusing more on Economic Growth than fighting air pollution. Problems. Are likely to get worse. Rescue Ship Operating in the mediterranean is ending its Mission Doctors without borders. European governments. Asylum seekers lost its registration in september and explains. Packing up the ship thats been a big can of hope for thirty thousand people over the past two years. Making the treacherous sea crossing between libya and europe migrants and refugees risking everything for what many of us take for granted a safe place to call home the aquarius can no longer work the Charities Doctors Without Borders and. Say thats because of european interference weve been subjected to a Concerted Campaign of harassment intimidation and obstruction its taken the form of criminal investigation on the basis of spirits allegations and weve been shot at and harassed by the libyan coast guard which is funded by european governments including including that of the u. K. Aquarius has been blocked in the French Quarter say since october after panama revoked its registration the charity say it was at the request of. Government then last month the Police Ordered its seizure for allegedly dumping toxic waste the charities denied the allegations. More than one hundred seven thousand people arrived in europe by sea this year at the height of the crisis twenty fifteen more than a Million People made the voyage. Crossings have dropped. Dangerous restrictions on search and rescue boats like the aquarius. Earlier this year there were weeks of wrangling over who would take the aquarius and the six hundred people it had rescued. Refused entry and the International Condemnation that politics was taking precedence over peoples lives. Spain later welcome to the bars being at risk. Facing a day or two. To see what is happening today. No one is at sea and no one is here to actually see. The u. N. Says more than seventeen and a half thousand people have drowned or gone missing in the mediterranean since january twenty fourth tain. Last year there were five risky boats there now they are now on the charity say theyre looking for a replacement boat for the aquarius its crew fear that there are Vulnerable People out there possibly in danger and no one to help them. Aljazeera. Break of cholera has killed at least five people infected hundreds in zimbabwe and its. Darwin a strong by Junior Doctors has crippled the already struggling Public Health system. Health workers to speak the cholera outbreak in started here they say a gold mine is used water from a nearby river thats believed to be contaminated. The area where he works is remote and the roads are bad thats why he said some people didnt get to hospital until it was too late. After i finished eating i started feeling strange i knew something was wrong but they kept on working in the mine thinking it wasnt serious when it became serious i came to us bitter tears to it down and confirmed that they call in. More than two hundred cases have been reported so far in the modeling area