trial because of the publicity which was similar to the publicity in this case to a mostly white suburb that affected the makeup of the jury the officers were acquitted in that set off riots throughout los angeles and across the united states in vats what they don't want here in minneapolis the f.b.i. has released new security footage of a suspect they believe planted 2 explosive devices outside the democratic and republican party headquarters in january 2 pipe bombs were placed in an alley behind the r. and c. headquarters the night before the u.s. capitol hill riots they were discovered and diffuse the following day in the new videos the person can be seen wearing a face mask a reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect stands at $100000.30 people have now been charged in connection with the capitol hill riots. the u.s. state department says it's repulsed by the military's increasing use of lethal force against protesters dozens have been killed since the military coup on january 1st. a report by 50 leading human rights experts is accusing china of genocide it says the government has breached every single to the un genocide convention and its treatment of way goes in. it's believed around a 1000000 people have been imprisoned in camps describes them as reeducation center as the by the ministration has already described the persecution of the week as as genocide and says it meant it's judgment. brazil's supreme court has adjourned a decision on throwing out more evidence against former president luis and i assume it is silva on monday his conviction for corruption was overturned. greece's prime minister is appealing for calm after a 2nd night of these protests in athens thousands of people have been rallying after a video emerged on social media of officers beating the young man who was allegedly breaching social just assume it's those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after one of them so watching. the sun down telling. very challenging place to work as a journalist you're always. part of the market always on the long. rambling from miles. we go there. madam speaker the president of the people's republic of china. when china's president xi jinping visited in november 24th chain australia's relations with its biggest trading partner strong the future brought. our relationship has reached a new and higher starting point. but just 6 years in a pandemic later relations are broken the virus began in chawner and will happen next. after stray led the world in calling for an investigation into the origins of corona virus last year china slammed crippling sanctions on a strain export industry. chinese state media blitz a war of words and teeth for tat retaliations erupted. you would call that a kind of political manipulation more that's a matter for them to try will do what's in our interest. but the truth is the diplomatic crisis has been brewing for years one on one east looks at what caused it and the fierce debate now raging in a story about how to handle an increasingly powerful and assertive china 'd. sherrilyn andrew horta know all too well what it's like to endure the role of china that's not what you expect. expect to confront it in your eyes and in your own country. for more than 4 years the melbourne couple have been continuously harassed surprising things happen all the time heading out the. washing and just to normal tang and annoys me i looked up. an object scott. the object was a drone and cheryl managed to film it to $4.00 a day out of sight. to the rescue and began of the 2016 rio olympics when the sun mag a champion swimmer spoke out against one of china's greatest ever athletes soon young. 2 years earlier soon it being banned from competition for 4 months following a positive drug test. a vehement opponent of drugs in sport described his main rival as a drug cheat. ah. he is an athlete that has tested positive for life we. very quickly what happens when you off so i had the largest country in the world. max social media was bombarded to suddenly get hit by 680 south. messages and death threats in a 45 minute period this got a very sophisticated structure to that where aware that. cultural level mysie just been sent to the australian government and maybe an apology the strength of government in short that for the rest of the talk that we were actually in that we had protection. back when on debates on taking the gold medal. different picture because. the thread then moved beyond the elite big city. his parents received a message from neighbors back in history alerting them to a break in at their family harm and that wasn't. at the site i'm talking. threats were coming through to the school where our youngest boy was i had to move him quickly and secure him. away. when they go back to melbourne they found themselves under siege. just back again one morning about to head into the office and he's popped out of the bushes took a bunch of photos i was quick enough obviously to pick up a file and take a photo of him so he jumped out of these bushes correct chris it's not an uncommon thing we can be with. somebody. yell at obscenity it's a long laundry list. the house with bucket of broken glass it was put in asked swimming pool so we'll put quick cement into the filter box of the swimming pool. the more frustrating is the no actually we call them a pop bang and say breaking all the back fence and setting off the dogs and it's not uncommon for us to go you know for 56 knots without getting a reasonable amount of slight. and there's more trees poisoned roof tiles smashed the daily newspaper regularly causing half. strain just standing at the back fence with colleagues at the ready. others monitoring andrew's business meeting you know often by will do something in apologize for and explain to us that you know they really sorry they didn't want to do or die they know it's to do it which is. this is serious serious assault. on democracy and the rights of people in the stratosphere to go about their daily life where that intimidated by the. farm path. academic clive hamilton investigates how the chinese communist party uses its united front work department to wield influence in australia and beyond he regularly gives evidence to the astray in parliament and has written books on the subject the consulates in the capital cities i've united front operations and that includes paris much of enemies of. by jing i have no doubt whatever that they terrorists meant and intimidation of the horton family is baying at least can and probably directed by the melbourne concert. consulate officials didn't respond when we put the allegation to them. hamilton says he also experienced communist party coalition after his 1st book was published we had a spy sitting out there with a device expert so it was a sniff of fire which is capable of picking up all electronic communications in a building like this. in the past decade australian authorities have become increasingly alarmed by china's covert activities we've had the successive directors general of a z our internal security organization side publicly that the pace of foreign espionage an australia is now actually higher than it was at the heart of the cold war. a former strain in defense an intelligence official ross babbage consults with the government on security issues and it's certainly a lot of traditionalist you know break ins attempts to recruit people all sorts of 5th of intellectual property but also very active cyber operations we're seeing on a daily basis. in 2015 china was blamed for a massive cyber attack on the bureau of meteorology its system is linked to the defense department. and then in 2018 chinese hackers allegedly infiltrated the i.t. system at these training national university a center conducting sensitive research for defense strategic and commercial organizations. exactly what data was stolen on each occasion remains unknown. the wardens also found themselves becomes a cyber attack after the 2019 rules winning championships in south korea this time mack came 2nd to soon. making yet another protest against drugs in sport he's training refused to stand on the podium next to the chinese swimmer. i was with the crowd cheering back on and then just going yeah that was fantastic i was thinking this is just going to have enormous repercussions and it certainly did and the arrest macis went up quite a few degrees crip heavily into my distance. andrew's company is a leading producer of software for university online learning. business primarily. through digital attacks but we block traffic from china. because it would bring. within minutes. and according to authorities there's evidence of more direct forms of coercion we're seeing a lot of other activities as well in terms of bribery and corruption attempts and we're seeing attempts to subvert politicians. mistake and i'm sorry in 2017 the high profile opposition center says sam dastyari was forced to resign was accused of accepting money from a chinese billionaire in exchange for speaking in support of china's actions in the south china sea contradicting his own party's and a straight his policy for. the government stripped the businessman of business trade in residency barring him from the country and the next brought in wide ranging foreign interference are all those for the 1st time legislators defined foreign interference in acting. why a. half of a foreign power to attempt to influence a political process and this is what by jingo us in australia and in fact around the world. one of the 1st known to be investigated under the new laws is chinese is trained in business man john john he worked as a part time advisor furnace trainee in him pay cuts muslim main. offices for i. think. there's a current of which. chain home is in shanghai watching in a straining television reporter. in june 2020. he knows them both well and was in a way with them in some kind of a noose the reporters there was saying to the australian. suspect that it was used to influence. by mr jones our i think. the do this conjecture if you want to do something coverts you do it's covertly not on social media. chen has a long association with a stranger in 994 he was the interpreter when a stranger is former prime minister polk visited china. and as the director of the strain study center chain high's east china normal university he used to travel to australia every few months but no more his visa was revoked in september 2028 on national security grounds so i sent back a reply saying that some kind of across mistake embedded to be contacted and to me to clarify or 2 for me to provide any evidence to to to tell them the truce but. never received any response this is required goes against my previous. any of australia as open tolerance and vibrant society. chen spoke on several occasions at the new south wales state parliament and invited show. to speak twice at his university last year the m.p. praised ping's leadership and china's response to code 19. is garbage and. actually. parachuting speak out this appreciates spoken this i think actually in australia there is a kind of you know cultist a witch hunt against a positive you know you know you know comments about what about china we have to be alert to the situation and be a little bit concerned if we see individuals for no obvious reason starting to parrot chinese communist party lines on various things everything from the south china sea to the weavers to human rights issues generally all for that matter even on trading issues you know you can ask yourself why. the m.p.'s advise a joint junk allegedly attended a propaganda training course in china in 2013 that was sponsored by the united front department. you know to france departments as being very grotesque or a demonized in the west chan hong is a party ideologist i mean that's his job that's what he believes he is doing what you see jinping once he's diplomats another apologist to do so he's out there doing what the diplomats do. chancing floozy. by labeling it as kind of sinister i think it's the kind of like the tactic in the west to demonize or stigmatize a particular group or particular country. a few days after chain homes visa was river. clive hamilton and another astray in china security analyst were banned from the communist state not that we would go of course because we'd be back in the mire we stepped off the plane or probably beforehand. nov 2020 so the 1st arrest under the foreign interference rules oath or g.'s alleged issandr or sunny do on this he calls himself has a relationship with the foreign intelligence agency and that action was taken at an early stage now out on bail dong is vietnamese chinese arriving in a story or is a refugee 42 years ago he was a member of a straight his liberal party from the early ninety's until his arrest in 2001 he received a prestigious queen's and 10 remain the services to the indochinese community he declined to be interviewed but a long term associate agree as long as he wasn't identified. group of the government. this man knows drawn from the oceania federation of chinese organizations from vietnam cambodia and laos. has been president for more than a decade. never . in june last year the federation raised $37000.00 astringent dollars for the royal melbourne hospitals could that appeal sunny percent to the chick few years ago to vote 5 we don't know if i just. care about what's happening to australia and there's no way we right away from rising for. we look. it's one of us or use liberal government ministers alan tudge was there to offer his congratulations. i would give you a big hug but not all the lads who we met and even. sunny's associate was questioned by the strain in federal police about the event charged. os. send. it. to. the park. i think that's. scant information about sonny drunks case and interference rules in general is creating an ease and suspicion within the strain in chinese community i think this is the chinese community is that they don't know what's constitutes here it's. fesses just having a p.c. potentially transports because i'm sure a lot of people do that. and so that's the stat. interference. with a child is a member of the strain in labor party with federal politics in asides she says the chinese community now feels targeted so often you are labelled as coach china and china depending on your interest and especially also pain chinese if you are not anti china people assume you've been influenced. last year when she into all the chinese a strains fronted a senate inquiry to talk about increasing their communities engagement in politics they came under attack from a conservative government senator eric abetz. and i asked whether they are willing to unconditionally. the chinese communist party. so that was a shocking question from the senator and says that if you die i pledged loyalty therefore we can't trust that's basically the underlying assumption the question was asked to 3 chinese australians not the other papers who were. discussing exactly the same issue so you don't have to wonder why it was only tug 3 chinese strains. my feeling is that there is a lack of proportionality and context in this whole china threat. geoff raby is a former strain ambassador to china there's nothing wrong with having of the faults setting which is risk averse but that doesn't need to be. a point by which we attack. the legitimacy of the chinese communist party and i really think there's a very fine line of this for chinese community so it doesn't feel as if somehow it's being victimized. australia's actions over the past few years have clearly angered the communist state the chinese embassy hasn't responded to our numerous requests for interviews but late last year it took an extraordinary step panning out to a media organization a list of 14 grievances. against the strike in government. they included us greatest 2018 ban on 5 g. technology provider one way. accusations a cyber attacks by china spreading disinformation about china's coded 19 aphids and the 2018 foreign interference laws targeting china in the absence of evidence it's a bit ironic every time anyone suggests that there should be chinese within china they complying with your want to do fear with chinese internet it's the 14 points people talk about as coercive. act of bullying what's wrong i can see what's wrong that is actually a kind of like a free candid exchange of all of us i think we did a little assholes for talking about being bullied by china we have interest to the famed protect and we are doing it i believe but we need to be smarter in other places. covert travel restrictions have confined raby to a stray year for the past year normally based in beijing he's on the border of china controlled lestrade in company un call. it's also being heat on. to china banda strain in cold following the straining government school for an investigation into covert 19 in april last year our ships are sitting off ports in china likely cause for ph peace and i will try might occur cold. more than 50 ships carrying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of coal and at least $1000.00 seafarers have been stranded for months but have a covert investigation why would a stray go alone and without consulting allies without having a group of like minded countries but what happened we know the prime minister of australia spoke to former president of the us the day before. and the next time there's a big public splash that we had demanded from the chinese. i quietly into care of the 90. at the hanging rock vineyard in the south eastern state of victoria maybe sentiments echoed loudly johnny you go out to dinner and you drink a lot you know off yeah if you're not you know kind of a call to with all the junk well. john ellis and his family have been selling wine to china seems to me 19 through chinese export is like grade john. why risk dollar digestion with china. or his to more than one day soon yeah the president at. about half of the wine reste has come from exports to china but in november the communist state slapped import taxes of up to 212 percent on a strain in wine after alleging it was being dumped. according to one is trading sales to china fell from $132000000.00 in december 29th teen to just $3000000.00 a year later it was just pulled out of the blue. it's not something that we dave and on the water for the. palace is critical of the straining government's handling of relations with china as someone who has brain working with chinese people for 26 years on important subjects you don't stand up and broadcast it to the world if you want to get into strife or you handle it behind closed doors. so it's pretty that at some of our politicians to do that i actually get very irritated with the wine industry and here's why. they have the last 10 years the wine industry has made shed loads of money from china is well known that by aging leverage is business dependence for political gain. well yeah be a good business person insure yourself diversify don't strike against a 2nd feis their sovereignty because you made foolish business decisions. i think it's important that the government give this show to be the opportunity to work out for itself if this is the process wants to pry there for the so-called china through it this is not a defense of china's use of economic coercion it's just saying that's the reality we live in. the horan's are paid a high price for this son max public stance against china's greatest ever so we know where there was contrary that claim that i feel they reflected. on the world trade badly they miss a country but to call some into question has. to america is an enemy of the state. that's a very sad said to. the hortons case highlights the challenge australia faces balancing its values interests and sovereignty against 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