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newsroom starts right now. our top story, u.s. president donald trump fighting back against the latest accusations from lhis former attorney michael cohen. the president again denied having prior knowledge of a 2016 meeting at trump tower between his top campaign advisers and russians. according to our sources, cohen says the president knew about it. if cohen is telling the truth, it could be problematic for the white house. there are at least 20 instances over the past year in which mr. trump and his advisers have said mr. trump was not aware of the meeting. here are just a few examples. did you tell your father anything about this? it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. donald trump jr. put it all out today. did you he know the time that they had the meeting? no, i didn t know anything about the meeting. let s focus on what the president was aware. nothing. it must have been a very unborn meeting because i never h
Challenges of the global tensions. right. so in some respects, is that helping africa? china has particular interest in investing in africa and perhaps looking for new ways to do that to circumvent what is going on with the united states. well, i would say if you just take a step back, it is already 12 years since the african president s converged on beijing for the 2006 summit. it is also by the way ten years now exactly a decade since the formation of the brics which saw the standard bank investment by icbc for $5.5 billion exactly ten years ago which i was closely involved in. so you ve seen and ongoing attempt by the countries to take advantage of this unfolding african focus of the chinese. i must say the last few years have been particularly hard for