East not long after a civil war that killed 300000 the now retired un human rights chief Al Hussein called Burundi one of the most prolific slaughterhouses of humans in recent times but Amber has now told the u.n. Rights office in the country to close within 2 months a spokeswoman told the b.b.c. The un regretted the development but was keen to continue helping promote and protect human rights the report by Charles Havilland the Eiffel Tower will be shot on Saturday amid a large French security deployment in response to possible further street violence involving the yellow vest protest movement ministers have appealed for calm as he was go through reports from Paris the Elysee Palace has briefed French journalists about the presidency's fears for Saturday release she said that there was a hardcore of several 1000 activists who could come to Paris to smash and to kill on Facebook there are numerous calls on yellow vests sites to stage other day of demonstrations in the capital and one of the leaders of the movement has appeared on television urging protesters to March on the alley say words like insurrection and civil war are being bandied around and it's widely expected that revolutionary groups of the far left and far right will once again try to exploit the moment by joining the protest and attacking police the Netherlands has ordered an investigation into illegal adoptions by Dutch couples of foreign children with the possible involvement of government officials it will focus 1st on the adoption of children from Brazil but will also look at cases from Colombia Indonesia Sri Lanka and Bangladesh over the 3 decades up to the late 1990 s. a Police investigation in the early 1980 is found more than 40 suspicious cases but no action was taken Well news from the b.b.c. The United States Department of Defense says it's flown a plane over Ukraine to reaffirm Washington's commitment to the country's security the Pentagon said what it called Russia's unprovoked attack last month on Ukrainian naval vessels in the back see was a dangerous escalation. The union of Hungary and journalists says it will challenge the government in the constitutional court for establishing a pro-government media conglomerate and for exempting it from scrutiny the Central European press and media foundation was established last month by the authorities comprising hundreds of print and online titles as well as television and radio stations they thought reports from Budapest the National Association of journalists in Hungary said they are turning to the constitutional court because the new media empire undermines the constitutional duty of the media to report objective late on Wednesday Prime Minister Viktor Orban signed a decree exempting the merger from the scrutiny of media watchdogs or the competition or thirty's the government says the move was necessary to ensure the survival of print media which critics say the conglomerate represents a powerful propaganda instrument not seen in Hungary since the demise of the Communist Party Facebook says Indian advertisers who want to run political purposes here on the social media site will have to confirm their identity and location to help prevent abuse of the system the decision comes as India prepares to hold national elections before May next year a statement by Facebook said by bringing more transparency to advertisements the company could better defend against foreign interference in India's elections Spanish police say they have sent back to Argentina a member of a violent gang which supports book a journey as one of the queerness areas football clubs playing in the final of the cup at the better Doris a massive security operation is underway in Madrid where the 2nd leg of the final is due to be held on Sunday the shuttle final in Argentina was cancelled after river fans attacked the book at team bus b.b.c. World Service news. Hello and welcome to News from the b.b.c. World Service coming to you live from London I'm Julian Marshall today in the calm of rural Sweden a brutal war is being discussed but will the 2 sides of the conflict in Yemen make significant progress towards peace also how much of a security threat is the Chinese telecoms company while way to western countries a u.s. American Senator Ted tells us it's a big threat there is a concern that because while way is ultimately an instrument of the government of China that they will be used for espionage purposes and how to walk on water what we can learn from the humble Gekko. But we go 1st to be Swedish capital Stockholm scene of the latest attempt to try to end the devastating conflict in Yemen which is widely seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran 4 years of war along with a blockade disease and massive poverty have created says the United Nations the worst humanitarian crisis in the world the Sweden talks are the 1st time that the warring parties a met in 2 years they've managed so far to agree a prisoner swap but as yet no agreement on securing a truce in the country's main port of her dead or the talks were going under way the Swedish foreign minister Margaret valid strum urged the warring parties to find compromises the people of Yemen want least children have already waited far too long for peace far too long for the humanitarian disaster to be a mediator and for steps to be taken to words a renewed political process but I speak now to our chief international correspondent leads to set who's some at the peace talks and leaves who exactly is at these talks and what's their structure. Judy you know listening to you describe the litany of crises now confronting Yemen the many circles of hell I think our listeners would think My goodness isn't that enough to push the warring sides towards peace but it's not in here it is in the Swedish countryside you have a Yemeni government a delegation and a delegation of who the rebels sitting down earlier today around the same table for the 1st time in more than 2 years but it's not clear how much time they'll spend sitting around the same table for the next week that's how long they're hoping that these talks will go on what we're told this is quite it's going to be quite an open sort of a structure that on some of the issues for example both sides have agreed that they will release hundreds of prisoners then it seems that the 2 sides will sit down for those talks because they've already agreed to take that step but on other more sensitive issues where there are further apart they will meet the u.n. Team including the envoy Martin Griffiths in separate rooms but it's hoped that since there are so far away from any distractions as this as the one u.n. Official said there is no room service in the castle they will have to be in the same room for breakfast for dinner after lunch and it's the you when you see Yemenis they do talk to each other except that when they talk they don't really move a very far in the right direction towards peace obviously the ultimate goal is to end the conflict but is it also to create any political structures in the future Lee's. Yes they're talking about nothing less than to use Martin Griffiths phrase he talks about a comprehensive framework repeat for peace in other words a roadmap for that elusive peace that is going to be very hard to achieve again to use the envoy's word he says I'm being over ambitious and yet every small step is a start and there's talk here about how the mood in the room how positive it was to see the Yemenis around the table after so long a time so when I sat down to one of the Yemeni journalists who actually covers both sides of this conflict Tariq biter I asked him what was his reaction when he saw the opening ceremony and believable I can't imagine when I saw them it was amazing you know we knew just we are very keen to see this moment since 2 years until now we did not do any decisions me as a normal Yemeni before I become a journalist as a normal Yemeni we have just keen for peace so when we saw them just sitting in one table again without oh this is the time I think this is the time for peace and we will not go out of this country without peace as one of the few Yemeni journalist I think I can say who covers both sides of this conflict you know both sides of this conflict very well you know they don't trust each other do you really think these talks are going to make progress aside from sitting together for the opening Well to be honest with you and very optimistic. 1st of all Actually it's the it's the end of the war so what would what would be we have to focus we have to know all of us that human is our 1st priority of our leaders believe in this then they will make a solution people are suffering people are dying in Guinea and you can't imagine how is the situation in Yemen for 2 years. I mean our son out of port was closed and people they don't have celebrities I work on both sides of the conflict from the north to the sorrow than from the worst of this people in any break of famine So this is unfortunately this is not something that comes by nature it's a human made you say that the the war is over it's coming to an end but some fear that it's going to get worse that the biggest battle for the lifeline of Yemen the battle for who the Ada is going to get worse if these talks don't succeed No I think it's the end of the world as I do I believe in that either no it's sounds very optimistic but. You know in her day there the people in her that are very poor I mean poor since long long time in the most cost now we let's discuss about the worst cause so these people they used to relay and fishing and like a normal guy wake up in the morning go fishing and have of the fish he will sell it in the market and really get some money and half of the quantity will eat it with this family now these people in these religious and the was of course they can't go fish in the sea because of the bloke a them because of the war so that's why this could get a big famine so when we say famine in Yemen we can say there is no food we say that people can't afford food and it's very expensive. And that was the Yemeni journalist stabbed I'm a target biter and it's quite extraordinary Surfaxin on the end of this 1st day and that almost every Yemeni I spoke to if they Kate whether it's the journalists or members of civil society members of a Women's Advisory Group you know women are not sitting at the table all of them expressed some kind of hope and optimism that something would come out of this and perhaps it is that when you've lost so much as a people the last thing you hold onto is hope Leigh's Many thanks absorb chief international correspondent Elise Doucette speaking from the Yemen peace talks in Sweden we're joined now from Brussels by the United Nations Children's Fund regional director for the Middle East he had a top a ladder who's just returned from Yemen including a visit to the flashpoint port city of data and tell us what you found in Yemen what you saw. Well thanks Julian I can only but they call what Alex at least . You know we are describing up times the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in terms of statistics from a children's perspective every single of the 15000000 children in Yemen has today scars of the current crisis but you only understand the depth of that goal of that crisis d.m. Backed it has upon children when you are in Yemen when you talk to the children when you talk to the families when you're sitting with beneath him as he ate that poor girl lying on the sick bed asking the mother why it took so long for them to seek help the simple answer we don't have the money anymore a brutal choices families have to make whether or not they keep their child dying at home or render risk crossing the front lines and seek. Help from a health center a few kilometers away the across the front line you know I heard stories. This week in the south of people who have to sell everything people from all day than I sold everything just to pay their rate to safety and not necessarily just to pay for transport but for paying the numerous bribes they have to do they have to cover on their way speaking to to these girls boys who have lost limbs who are battle eyes a boy 10 years old herding his goats trapped the law on the on a land mine lost both legs. Girl bottle eyes. Are entire bottom bottle eyes because of suffering from diphtheria beetroot could easily prevent if at least children could be vaccinated is awfully this unprecedented and . Children they an incredible price the UN's welfare program has said that ending the conflict in Yemen is not going to necessarily end the humanitarian crisis so what's needed for that to end. Well that in a peaceful settlement is absolutely needed and urgently so the efforts of Martin and his team in Sweden are we critical but indeed it is needed but not sufficient What will Yemen needs what the Yemeni children need is a investment of governance that puts the interest of Yemeni people and the poorest of Yemeni people at the center of the discussions at the center of the efforts for making children the center and what not the sort children the center of the investments not any other economic politically or political or military interests that has been dominating Yemen's agenda for decades now. For the time being though what success are you having in getting food supplies medical supplies through to those that need them. Well in the saddle strange to talk in terms of successes but you know being in Yemen. Seeing in fact that the investments of organizations like Unicef are paying off not that for example we are able to day to the crease the high levels of extreme malnutrition but that least or efforts are contribution to stabilize the levels of malnutrition we are fighting call around acute watery diarrhea we haven't really eradicated the yet but it is rewarding to see that today we have only 10 percent of the hundreds of thousands of cases we have lost here so it is paying off some thanks to the international community thanks to organizations like Unicef Julian. The health system the education system is still operating partially if we wouldn't be there there would be no health system anymore it would be. Schools anymore because it is it is organizations like Unicef that base for the operational expenses we pay for the incentives so health workers 'd speeches or haven't received at. Least it is as paying for the supplies it is so little success a little bit of hope a similar of hope for 40 millions of Yemeni children mishap a levy Many thanks haven't here papillary the United Nations Children's Fund regional director for the Middle East who's just returned from Yemen. Coming up we'll hear from Pakistan were 18 international aid agencies have been told to leave but the government direct impact is that the most vulnerable people in Pakistan will have less access to services and also will lose their ability to benefit when our approach which is a rights based approach to organize people to come together we power themselves and to claim their rights to a better life and the latest headlines from the b.b.c. News from global stock markets a fall in with investors worried that the arrest of a Chinese tech executive may fuel a further escalation in tension between the world's 2 largest economies the Rwandan opposition activist e n rigourous been acquitted on charges of an Suresh and and forgery we'll hear from her in a moment and the Eiffel Tower is to close in line with French government plans to repair Paris for further possible violence by antigovernment protesters on Saturday . You're listening to the b.b.c. World Service this is news on. The un regarding an outspoken critic of the Rwandan President Paul Kagame use been acquitted of charges of forgery and inciting insurrection both charges arose out of a bid to challenge Mr Gummi for the presidency in elections in July 27th team for allegedly forging signatures in support of her bed and for remarks she made about the president during her campaign after more than a year in prison choose her trial in November and was told then the chief faced more than 20 years in prison but today a panel of 3 judges dropped all the charges against Ms regarding her mother and 4 other Kohak used saying that the prosecution had failed to prove forgery and the Rwandan Constitution guaranteed freedom of speech I got her reaction the court system in the Rwanda is very predictable so I didn't know what to expect so yes I was surprised because the judges said that you and your mother didn't have a case to once or over the forgery under the Rwandan Constitution guaranteed free speech and yet you've always said that the charges against you were politically motivated Yes there were or is it what you really the only reason I was sent to prison is because I tried to run for presidency and I found it movement and they criticize the government and challenge it's always sees I'm happy that I was found innocent because I'm innocent I was innocent Anyway what I was trying to get from you was this idea that politically motivated charges in your view have been dismissed by a court in Rwanda does that mean Rwanda has an independent judiciary or was the court in your view directed. To deliver that verdict I do not think that the random court system is independent I do not that's all I'm going to say you're not going to say the other bit which is the likelihood is that the court was told to acquit chew from higher up and if that is the case the question is why I think you you should ask that question the person who gave that order I don't know why you give that order but I'm happy he did and by he you're referring to the president himself or you yes I'm referring to President Khatami has he been under a lot of pressure as far as you know to acquit you and your mother there has been people speaking out about our case and yes I do believe that that kind of advocacy influenced today's court decision how do you see all this is just a beginning of a new political Dorna in Rwanda or of free speech or of freedom to criticize the president we see we'll see what happens because there are still many political prisoners who have not been released the problems I was talking about before went to prison are still there I'm happy that we got released this to a lot that needs to be done but you yourself are you intending to continue with your criticisms of the president and the political system in Rwanda the Fall Into these are founded on movements that the people salvation movement. And I'm counting on continuing with it I wanted to be the platform where we can all come together and hold the government accountable the channel through which we can finally have a voice is heard so yes to answer your question I am continuing with my political journey that was Dionne regard an outspoken critic of the Rwandan. And poor Gami who was acquitted today on charges of forgery and inciting resurrection inciting insurrection should I say. On Friday in Germany will see the beginning of the end of Angela Merkel's preeminent position in Germany Germany indeed European politics should stand down as leader of her c.d.u. Party although she continues her dime being as chancellor of Germany in the past weeks the 3 main contenders to replace her have been trying to gain the support of party members up and down the country and now it's up to the 1001 delegates gathered in Hamburg to choose a successor Jenny Hill reports. There's a thing this German saying everything has an end only the sausage has to the expression comes to mind now is the smell of frying meat drifts across this Christmas market and mingles with the have mulled wine there is an air of finality in Germany now a sense that as the year begins to do it with closed so too does the medical error Garza's this this has been is because whether it's right she's been too long of a job it would be better to have a 2 term limit like in the us as it finds a good issue for me she was good and must say I'm sorry to see her leave it was bad luck for have this it definitely Holocene but for me she was the tents in the Schweizer because that was on the campaign trail I hope would be a replacement this isn't a girl's party it's about to choose its new leader I watch closely that person may get him out to be the next German chancellor in Germany the situation is that you know unlike in the u.k. The part he leader is not automatically then also the prime minister candidate in all those 2 functions can be separate in this country under our. I'm young it's not a list of the German Marshall Fund traditionally it's always been good for a chancellor to also be the person of his or her own party and so you know heading into a situation where those 2 jobs are separate again Merkel stepping down as part of job of staying on as chancellor builds a friction into the system that is possible but you know not really I think I 3 candidates have to go to the country holding her things for the party faithful to get out you know I'm on the losing end of it there's health minister Yes Xan ambitious and a Jessica unlikely to win if he gets against without causing the. There's the Merkel choice and a gret cramp carnival or a k.k. a Former regional prime minister and the apparent favorite among the pharmacy in your story you both seem to use that don't rule out Friedrich now a millionaire businessman once sidelined by Mrs Merkel is fighting hard. There's still an elephant in this room and it's the one person who isn't here I'm going to Merkel has let this party for nearly 20 years she still commands considerable all respect and so the challenge for those who would replace her is this concept embody change also representing I continuously I was a pretty mundane delegate is tight. We're looking for someone who can keep the party together and who will encourage lively debate but who can also achieve results and someone who will in the medium term be able to replace Mrs Merkel as chancellor in Dallas then though she leaves a big gap we might need all 3 candidates to fill it. Many have tried to right angle in our courts political obituary and found themselves private sure she remains a top. During figure on the world stage did I sing fans in Argentina at the g. 20 conference. About why she intends to stay Chancellor until 2021 a few including Vantec I'll think it likely now the moment the new child is in the Conservative Party. A poll of base will erode even thought the father the authority would diminish and you know depending on who it is that person will seek the standoff and will seek the decision rather some of the night's sleep. In a country where leaderships nost and changes slowly the political season is beginning to tell. Jenny Hill with that proposal from the German city of Hamburg to stay with us here on News Hour a lot more to come in the next 30 minutes. Distribution of the b.b.c. News are in the Us supported by t. 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Coming up on news on the next 30 minutes as the chief financial officer of Huawei is arrested in Canada why Western governments so suspicious of the giant Chinese technology company Spain exudes the body of the dictator Francisco Franco Why is it so difficult to bury its parsed and the animal that walks on water that's out of. B.b.c. News with Jonathan Izod there's been a renewed sell off on Wall Street with traders alarmed about the arrest in Canada of a senior executive from the Chinese technology firm Holloway the u.s. National security advisor John Bolton admitted that he had known of the arrest in advance he said Holloway was one company Washington suspected was being used as an arm of the Chinese government Rwanda's high court has acquitted the political activist Diane we got her and her mother of charges of forgery and inciting insurrection was regard to serve more than a year in prison after being disqualified from running in presidential elections she said the charges were politically motivated the hunger area National Association of Journalists says it will challenge the government in the constitutional court for establishing a pro-government media conglomerate and for exempting it from scrutiny the Central European press and media foundation was established last month by the authorities who said it was in the national interest. The Eiffel Tower and a number of Paris museums and markets will be shut on Saturday amid fears of further street violence involving the yellow vest protest movement the demonstrations began in protest of fuel tax rises but have broadened the myth anger about rising living costs the Netherlands has ordered an investigation into illegal adoptions by Dutch couples of foreign children it will focus 1st on the adoption of children from Brazil but will also look at cases from Colombia Indonesia Sri Lanka and Bangladesh over 3 decades up the late 1990 s. . A leading human rights group says it's received credible reports that a 4th Saudi women's rights activist has been tortured while in detention Saudi Arabia denied earlier reports that 3 leading women activists detained this year have been assaulted and sexually harassed a protester been taking place in Bolivia in 8 of the country's 9 regional departmental capitals after a court ruled both the president Evo Morales and the vice president would be allowed to stand for office in primaries in January b.b.c. News. Welcome back to new czar and in a moment a u.s. Senator spells out American security concerns about Chinese technology giant While way as the company's chief financial officer was arrested in Canada we'll also hear that a rest has been greeted in China but 1st diplomats have expressed concerns about the expulsion of more than a dozen mainly Western aid agencies from Pakistan agencies whose work has benefited millions of people the NGOs include Action Aid Plan International and World Vision the Pakistani government says they've simply failed to complete the necessary paperwork but there are concerns the move is part of a wider attack on civil society where journalists and activists complaining of increasing censorship the B.B.C.'s are going to come on he reports from outside the northern city of Mansoura. Mohammad Derek comes to this small spring in his village 4 or 'd 5 times every day to collect water in a bucket for his family. Some of his other neighbors have large blue plastic containers installed outside their homes to collect rainwater so they don't have to but the charity Action Aid which was distributing the containers is one of a number of N.G.O.s that it's been forced to close in the country. It means Mohammed will have to keep getting water from the spring John record together but that effectually could continue working that would be great lots of us have problems with water families were given water tanks everything really hoped by them 18 international N.G.O.s have been told to stop their operations in Pakistan but none it seems have been given clear reasons as to why they're being forced to leave they will be allowed to reapply for registration in 6 months time but many Western diplomats a furious there are fears this is part of a wider crackdown on civil so. Have gone excellent or. In Pakistan and have walked for 28 here. Is the chief executive of Action Aid direct impact is that the most vulnerable people in Pakistan will have less access to services also will lose their ability to benefit when our approach which is a rights based approach to organize people to come together we empower themselves and to claim their rights to a better life. International N.G.O.s have been viewed with suspicion in Pakistan since allegations save the children took part in a fake vaccination campaign to help locate of some of Bin Ladin the charity though has denied that. But his funny officials have rejected claims they haven't been transparent enough in ordering the NGOs out they've said more than half of those applying for registration have been granted permission. And their decision to stop the work of charities like Action Aid though will be felt most keenly here in deprived unities. I was a resume a bad correspondents are going to come on the reporting from the northern Pakistani city of Mansura. You're listening to news are from the b.b.c. I'm Julian Marshall. Huawei is at the center of Western concerns that Chinese telecoms companies pose a national security risk it's the world's number 2 smartphone work maker but also at the world's top maker of telecoms equipment the United States along with the stroller in New Zealand already has a ban on our way of selling its profitable network equipment now the u.s. Has secured the arresting can identify ways chief financial officer Mung one jaw a daughter of the company's founder she's expected to be extradited to the u.s. To face charges not of espionage but that Huawei has violated u.s. Sanctions by selling telecoms equipment to Iran while ways denied the charges calling the arrest of Miss monk a violation of our human rights and demanded her release in a moment an American senator would outline his country's security worries about Huawei but 1st let's hear from Carrie Allen China Media analyst to b.b.c. Monitoring She's been looking at what social media users in China make of the arrest there's been a lot of anger and people have been taking this very very personally I mean the been tens of thousands of comments today on scene away which is what Chinese people use instead of Facebook or Twitter in the country there's been comments saying that Donald Trump is shameless that the u.s. Is shameless there's one comment that describes Canada as the leg of a dog and the saying that you know Canada's doing everything that the u.s. Wants it to and they're being calls for a boycott of u.s. Telecoms products like Apple in retaliation for this now there's no indication at the moment what the details of this arrest star but Chinese social media uses a seeing that this is an attack by the u.s. Based on China's supremacy with 5 g. And it really wants to show just how good China's technology can get what you seem to be saying is that there isn't just anger at the specific or a spurt more generally towards what's the. Used to be Western hostility towards Weiwei and its attempt to dominate the market absolutely and this is something that I've been seeing more and more of from the Chinese media a lot of anger from perceptions that these countries or these companies are bullying China and are not recognizing its excellence so yeah a lot of the media that I've seen that have been talking about this one way story today big papers like people's daily or global times they've been saying that this is the u.s. Antagonism it's hooliganism even so there's a lot of pride in China in power way yes absolutely a lot of pride is constantly being promoted as this big successful organization that's growing and actually there was an amusing instant a while ago where are the foreign ministry does a regular press conference and they were responding to a tweet that Donald Trump had left and one of the foreign ministers watching Young said oh maybe Trump should get a Huawei and social media user the time with saying gosh it's almost as if the Chinese Communist Party is directly endorsing Holway you know what they don't how much money they paid to get this much kind of support so that's interesting because it seems to suggest that a lot of Chinese regard Huawei as an independent company as opposed to an arm of the state which which I imagine it would have to be in China Exactly and there's a lot of pride for working for a company like Chua way as self development so people don't really kind of think about it in terms of whether it would be tied to the state or anything they're thinking this is a fantastic you know the skills that I could learn by being in a company like Chua way or one of these of the tech industries and it's the place to go really for people to develop themselves and to be at the forefront of the future really was Kerry Allen trying to media around listed b.b.c. Monitoring what is what is banning Huawei from the American market the United States is really put out of business where ways main Chinese rival Zed t.-e. In a probably was Commerce Department bands or t. e For music compare. And it's made in the United States upon which the company is heavily dependent I've been speaking to Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen Firstly his reaction to the arrest of highways chief financial officer Well with respect to while away many of us have long had concerns about its espionage activity and the threat it poses to telecommunications systems in the United States and elsewhere so it is very important that we take appropriate action against Weiwei with respect to the specifics of this arrest I do not have any additional information beyond what's been reported and so I do not know to what extent Ms Maying is personally involved in some of the decisions to evade u.s. Sanctions against Iran or North Korea obviously we want to hold while away accountable just as we need to hold c.t.e. Accountable but I do not know the specifics of her particular conduct what's America's evidence for these security worries that you have about well wait Well there's been widely reported statements about their general activities the intelligence committees have also looked into this there was a report conducted by the House of Representatives looking into why way which is why the Congress has banned u.s. Government agencies from purchasing Weiwei products and there is a concern that because while way is ultimately an instrument of the government of China that they will be used for espionage purposes I mean you say that categorically Weiwei is an instrument of the Chinese government again what evidence for that well the evidence again I would point you to a report that was done in the House of Representatives after a series of hearings on this subject it's been pretty clear in the case a while way as well as I should say c.t.e. That there have been very strong. You know connections between the government of China and their activities I don't think that's unusual in China I think you find a lot of companies in China that are subject to government control and if not outright control certainly strong government influence and direction I just want to you might be able to be a little bit more specific about what sort of damage way could do to the United States if it was allowed access to your market Well the concern is that through their telecommunications technology they could essentially monitor listen in and collect information that would otherwise be prohibited by u.s. Law the Asli our greatest concern from a national security perspective is their ability to do that in a way that you know steals secrets but ultimately that they would have the ability to eavesdrop listen in conduct espionage in the United States and this is all about security worries is it Senate and not as some critics have suggested to do with trade in a desire by the United States to protect its own telecommunications markets from Chinese in Rhodes Well I can certainly say speaking for myself this is a national security issue and we should not be you know mixing the 2 I will say that in the case of ziti and I don't believe also Weiwei there is considerable evidence that many of their technical capabilities were based on technology stolen from us company in fact there have been multiple lawsuits that were filed by those u.s. Companies for patent infringement so there is that connection to the extent that companies in China are gain a competitive edge not through normal market systems but outright theft that is both a national security and a commercial concern. Just back briefly to the arrest of the chief financial officer of way would you expect that to have any impact on the trade war truce currently underway between the United States and China at these to greed in Argentina at the weekend well look to me these have to be distinct issues because in my view in a rest based on the allegation of the violation of un sanctions laws is a national security issue whereas any discussion regarding tariffs is a separate commercial issue and in my view it would be inappropriate to be using one as a lever for the other as u.s. Senator Chris Van Hollen on the rest of our ways chief financial officer in Canada and we did try to speak to somebody from Huawei but nobody has a vailable they sent us this statement the company is being provided very little information regarding the charges and is not aware of any wrongdoing by Ms Monk of the company believes the Canadian and us legal systems will ultimately reach a just conclusion. Not geckos pieces of liver lizard found in some of the woman climates of the world then most distinctive feature is that they don't blink but for their size they also move very fast not just across land but across water and Jasmine a radio from the Rockefeller Institute University in New York has found why 1st say though how fast our Get goes they go about 10 and a half body length per 2nd which is approaching their running speed on land which if you've ever seen a get Coast get Earth pretty pretty darn fast but I mean how does it compare to other lizards species on the surface of the water by orders of magnitude more how does the get go move so fast for across water we've known for a long time that very small things can move on the surface of water using surface tension and that really big things can. Move On the surface of water because they can slap the surface with such power that they generate air pockets to be able to maintain their weight but geckos fall kind of in this very awkward intermediate regime where they shouldn't really be able to do either so when we 1st saw them darting across water we had no idea how they were doing it but it turns out that they kind of ingeniously combine and multitask both of these tactics in addition to having super hydrophobic skin which allows them to kind of skid on the water surface like how motorboats can skim the surface so can I paraphrase you. Create pockets with their feet yes their skin is water repellent Yes and they use that term rather like an alligator to propel them yes so it's kind of just amazing multi-modal strategy what why did you think to investigate this precisely because we've for a long time known of 2 distinct modes of interface locomotion one being surface tension which there was an upper bound on size on where if you're too big you can't maintain your weight on the surface of the water using surface tension and a lower bound on large things running along the water because the smaller things can't generate enough force to create air pockets and so when we saw things that fell in this intermediary gene like geckos being able to perform this behavior it was pretty shocking because we'd never even thought that anything of the size could do it what do we need to run across water mostly it's over I would say for one of 2 reasons they can't do it for a really long time and we've tried after a certain amount of time that they will just give up it's really energetically taxing for them so it's most likely either an escape mechanism or a prey catching mechanism all the really technological application sort of what you've observed Yes so I always think about how we can kind of learn from things that evolution is slowly over billions of years made and how we can kind of utilize . Those adaptations and those skills to engineering tasks for instance these geckos are found in regions in Southeast Asia which often flood over during the monsoon season so they have to kind of navigate these very complex environments where they're switching between trees and deep puddles and rocky surfaces which for us can be maybe akin to a flooded area which we might want to excavate using exploratory robots and so we can learn a lot from what these geckos they're doing and how they're doing it so efficiently to design or own machines to do similar things that is Jasmine a ready from the Rockefeller University in New York talking there about a speech to get us. Distribution of the b.b.c. 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Remind of our top story this hour peace talks have got underway in Sweden between Yemen's warring parties the United Nations Children's Fund regional director for the Middle East here to top a lot is to return from Yemen he told us why the fighting needs to stop every single of the 15000000 children in Yemen has to the scars of the current crisis but you only understand the depth of that crisis the impact it has on children when you war in Yemen then you talk that the children the latest headlines from the b.b.c. News from global stock markets to fall in with investors worried that the arrest of a Chinese tech executive may fuel a further escalation in tension between the world's 2 largest economies and their wanton opposition activists Deanne regard has been acquitted of charges of in Sarette and forgery. Spain today celebrates the 40th anniversary of its constitution adopted in the transition to democracy after the death of the fascist leader General Francisco Franco the country's current socialist government has promised to remove the taters body from its mortally I'm one of a number of movies made in a country still trying to overcome its buried divided past James Reynolds reports from Spain. If the 2 archaeologists are working at the bottom of this pit. Dusting around half a dozen skeletons put labels next to each set of remains. This is a bullet. Come across this cove a scientist points to the bullet mark in a skull in San Fernando in southern Spain a mass grave is being excavated. The bodies here were shot by General Franco's forces during the Civil War in the 1930 s. a Small group of family members watches the excavation you're on the Vega has inherited an 82 year long family search for her grandfather Domingo a union worker. It's a powerful feeling she says My mother died 4 years ago it was always her dream to find her father's remains she was only 5 when he died his death broke the family of . General Franco The Shot Show the days of his success he had a good run for it while it lasted a General Francisco Franco one The Civil War and ruled Spain until his death in 1975. He made sure that his family had no need to search for his grave his tomb at the Valley of the fallen outside Madrid's his half mils limb half empty a bunker. Just walked through the tunnel the mountain 100 meters long. And here's the. Here's the tomb. It's got 4 bouquets of flowers on it. Just says. Francisco Franco. Nothing more. There are several dozen visitors here most of them posing for photos in front of the monuments it's difficult to know whether or not to call them tourists or pilgrims place kicker they're going to be damned if they should leave him where he is this woman says it's part of the history of Spain and the. General Franco's 7 grandchildren do not want his body to be reburied their lawyer is Luis Philippe. They are really worried about the situation they have very good memories of their grandfather they loved him very really use a bury friend Lee bury simple and they don't want their grand father to be used for political reasons were her there were the threats of re burial has provoked Franco's followers they recently demonstrated in Madrid and openly gave the fascist salute her brother who was just out of the Istari area and the last illness this left wing is reopening once which had been forgotten it was 80 years ago Franco himself has been dead for 43 years now they reopened the wounds of people who were peaceful who could no longer remember Franco So the Franco supporters have come back. To him I was at the beginning of December a far right party called the Fox one seat in a regional parliament for the 1st time since Franco is death. The Posse's progress worries much of mainstream space. At a bar in Madrid I met another woman who's written about Spain's recent history so Frank is still playing a part in politics although 40 years after he does it's current of Europe it suits you kind of discuss that about it but somehow it's like Franco is that you know you're trying to take him away and he's like and here how does this all end I think . It will take probably whole generation our parents up there where I think it's going to take a whole another generation the next generations my children there will be high. For decades Spain tried to forget its last dictator and his victims but perhaps the Franco era can only truly finish when the last generation affected by the civil war is gone when today's search is finally joining the bodies of their missing grandparents and great uncles somewhere in the grounds of Spain. James Reynolds reporting from Spain on the day that it celebrated the 40th anniversary of its constitution. If you've seen Stanley Kubrick's film 2001 a Space ordered Odyssey all know that confrontations between man and machine in outer space usually don't end well for the human involved and robot robot that's being installed on board the International Space Station is showing signs of being argumentative a German astronaut Alexander guest asked the robot known as Simon to play his favorite song which it did but then began to ignore his master when he asked it to stop you know I like your favorite hits to. There we go. They stop playing music. Simon take a video stream with your front camera Ok you can see the video going along those favorites but he's still in the. Music mode cancel music. I love music you can dance to. All right I think we're getting coming cancel music else can I do for you. He really likes the music I understand that I understood do you like the music I understand that. I did fake it before but he's already playing a video stream I mean he's showing the video same but still talking about music. The night. I am nice he's accusing me of not being that I. Well there is a mystic guest had told Simon to play was appropriately man machine by craft Vec we certainly don't want to get on the wrong side of Simon So here is a man machinery. And get if you want to listen to news of the miss the live broadcast of pod cost of the program is available updated twice a day. Go find it there you can also subscribe to the feed if you want to receive it on a regular basis that's it though from this edition of News on. This particular man when your machine. You're listening to the b.b.c. World news on k. Or c c 2 Southern Colorado's n.p.r. Station broadcast sun 91.5 f.m. 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World Service sign Julian Marshall the 1st talks in 2 years between Yemen's internationally recognized government and those a taking place in Sweden and this cautious hope when we saw them just sitting in one table with this is I think this is the time for peace and we will not go out of this country with these We'll find out what progress has been made on day one that I want an opposition activists stand disqualified presidential candidate Deon regard has been acquitted on charges of insider Wrexham and forgery we'll hear from her plans to read very General Franco in Spain how long was his legacy last parent but where I think it's going to take another generation the next generation my children there will be high and will assess the candidates hoping to replace the German chancellor Angela Merkel as the leader of her party that's after the latest world news. This is the b.b.c. News Hello I'm Jonathan Izod there's been a renewed sell off on Wall Street after falls on stock markets in Europe and Asia traders have been alarmed about the arrest in Canada of a top executive from the Chinese technology firm Holloway the u.s. National security advisor John Bolton said he knew in advance about the arrest of Monk one job but would not be drawn on whether President Trump was aware of the move before the meeting President Xi in Argentina last week he said the subject would continue to be discussed we've had enormous concern for years in this country about the practice of Chinese firms to use stolen American intellectual property to engage in forced technology transfers and to be used really is arms of the Chinese government's objectives in terms of information technology in particular so not respecting this particular arrest but while ways one company we've been concerned about there are others as well Rwanda's high court has acquitted the political activist Deanne we gonna and how mother charges of forgery and inciting insurrection are when the government said it would study the implications of the ruling as we're going to serve more than a year in prison after being disqualified from running in presidential elections she had faced up to 22 years in jail the charges she said were politically motivated after the acquittal she vowed to fight to fight on. That needs to be done you know. Everything that back in the past but did not because. Since her arrest her family have been interrogated and the assets or cautioned the Hungary a national association of Journalists says it will challenge the government in the constitutional court for establishing a pro-government media conglomerate and for exempting it from scrutiny the Central European press and media foundation was established last month by the authorities comprising hundreds of print and online titles as well as television and radio stations now. Reports from Budapest the National Association of journalists in Hungary said they are turning to the constitutional court because the new media empire undermines the constitutional duty of the media to report objective leaped on Wednesday Prime Minister Viktor Orban signed a decree exempting the merger from the scrutiny of media watchdogs or the competition authorities the government says the move was necessary to ensure the survival of print media its critics say the it represents a powerful propaganda instrument not seen in Hungary since.