Crisis has exposed dangerous kurdish divisions we explore how we got here and the impact on the wider region. Also on the great charting the course of a rising superpower chinas president xi jinping looks beyond the traditional five year plan as he outlined his vision for Global Leadership will look at how hes already laying the foundations and ask whether china can overtake the u. S. And a defiance on the streets of tokyo opposition supporters ignore a Government Order a strict in protest to demand the president s resignation and an end to his familys safety a role thats been met with tear gas in the capital alone may the u. N. Says togos government needs to address the demands of its people and to u. S. Federal judges block president Donald Trumps latest attempt to restrict immigration sparking yet another round of divisive reaction online a major supplier connect with us throughout the show using the hash tag its in your spirit. He with his great live on air and streaming online for you to Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com thank you for joining us the iraqi army says its mission has been accomplished after a lightning operation against Kurdish Forces they and their shia militia allies swept through parts of disputed kurdish held territory that you can see shaded here and its left Kurdish Forces almost entirely confined to their autonomous region the iraqi army conquests include the contested city of kirkuk where theyve taken control of Significant Oil fields and processing facilities without those economic asss secession becomes even more difficult for the kurds is all goes back to a kurdish referendum held last month which resulted in a resound being yes for their region to break away from iraq the government in baghdad declared the vote illegal and it was opposed by regional and world powers aljazeera as John Stratford has more from a bail in Northern Iraq. Iraqi Government Forces are in full control of the oil fields around kirkuk one of iraqs two main Oil Producing areas vital for the economy. Before the Peshmerga Forces withdrew the Kurdistan Regional government was pumping around six hundred thousand barrels of oil a day from wells like these. This is one of the main processing units of the by has and feel it used to be exploited by the Occupying Forces of coke now thank god the fields have been handed over to the iraqi authorities when the peshmerga controlled this area the Iraqi Government accused the kurdish leaders of not sharing oil revenue with baghdad so it stops sending the seventeen percent of the federal budget as per the two thousand and five constitution to the region. Now with the oil fields back under Iraqi Government control the oil ministry has vowed to increase production to one Million Barrels a day. And its threatening legal action against the Kurdistan Regional government if it stops the flow to the turkish mediterranean port of jihan through a pipeline across the kurdish region of Northern Iraq the oil ministry isnt taking any risks. It plans to repair and reopen a pipeline that was damaged in two thousand and fourteen during fighting against eisel one that doesnt cross kurdish territory. As militia and iraqi Government Forces fill the streets in the nearby town to debase the shia song echoes from the loudspeakers. Dont underestimate mr kurd we are the ancestors of the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad would be an accurate translation. Prime minister hyderabadi says in taking back control of the Kirkuk Oil Fields he has acted according to iraqs constitution for the benefit of all iraqis the kurdish government says its being punished by baghdad and the International Community for holding a referendum on eventual secession from iraq which was the kurdish peoples right we are disappointed at the reaction of the International Community they should not have let down the people of color to stop they have abandoned us at the time that we have done exactly what they have been preaching that mean people preaching of democracy human rights rule of law transparency and openness going to the public going to the source of legitimacy is this a crime the Kurdistan Regional government is around seventeen billion dollars in debts and revenue from Kirkuk Oil Fields was vital to compensate for the seventeen percent of the federal budget the baghdad stopped sending this region in two thousand and fifteen now baghdad has not yet said when know if it will restart sending the money but with the oil fields firmly under government control the Economic Situation of this region could get even worse aljazeera. Now whats happening with the kurds in Northern Iraq has ramifications beyond iraqs borders take a look at this map on al jazeera dot com up to thirteen million kurds do not have an official country a homeland and they reside primarily in the mountainous regions of iran iraq syria and turkey and in each of these four countries kurds have had years of unstable relationship with government so one of the questions now is where does this crisis in Northern Iraq leave ah the kurds in the region well lets bring in Peter Galbraith now is a former u. S. Diplomat and author who is also an advisor to the kurdish Regional Government he joins us on the news great from new york thank you very much for your time sir the kurds have no doubt lost a lot of territory in Northern Iraq and there are those who say today the kurdish dream of independence has no chance whatsoever now what do you say to that. I think that kurdistans independence is inevitable the issue is that you had a referendum which was a completely well run transparent election with a huge turnout ninety two percent voting for independence under those circumstances its really impossible to see how you keep kurdistan within iraq over the long term that the people of the country have absolutely rejected that so the only long term way to do it is through the kind of brutal repression that you had under Saddam Hussein and i dont think the Iraqi Government has the capability to do it maybe it doesnt have the will to do it and certainly the International Community wouldnt tolerate it so there may be a standoff for some period of time but i think the destination of independence is inevitable but ironically the let you know it is a phase territory let me its easy its inevitable independence it is navigable and sorry to interrupt you but mustnt barzani the Kurdish Regional president underestimated is he not the death of International Opposition to this referendum hes weakened today there are divisions among the kurds he some say he cant even remain in power how is independence still possible if there are divisions among the kurds on the way forward well i mean the reality is that basically almost every country thats become independent and twenty eight new countries have emerged since one thousand nine hundred one has had internal divisions the United States a third of the country supported britain during a revolutionary war so that compared to that the kurds are in fact relatively united and the point the other point i was going to make is that what was happening i listened to listen here to right you see that when there are accusations amongst themselves about what happened in these last forty eight hours and theres a blame game going on right now about what led to this current crisis. Well for sure and there were there was a faction of one of the parties that basically cooperated with the iranians who were the masterminds of this attack on care cook. To arrange for the peshmerga to to withdraw when i spoke of unity i didnt mean of the unity of the leadership i met the unity of the population in desiring independence others other societies that have become independent have tended to be more divided with a segment that doesnt want independence that that doesnt exist in kurdistan the other point if i can come back to it is that the loss of territory while its a huge blow to the to kurdistan and an economically to lose the care cook oil fields it also simplifies the situation because the territory that is now the kurdistan region is defined as the kurdistan region and it is territory with with basically no population no arab populations dont hop elations that dont want independence right and that makes it much simpler and you know small states tend to do better than big states and a lot of parts of the world right i want to talk to you about the regional and International Reaction now and i have a comment here from one of our viewers a regular viewers on these great mom would say is the kurds are waiting for International Support where is the u. S. In all this of course the back both sides in these crisis why have we seen so little International Support and also weve heard accusations in the last forty eight hours that iran and the regional countries iran and other countries to know to be perhaps made a role in this crisis and the loss of territory that the kurds have seen in Northern Iraq what is your view on that. Well certainly the kurds are extremely disappointed in the United States. You know that they feel that the choice was between them who have been a loyal ally of america and the shia militias that are commanded by general cus im still im amy the head of the iranian al could force and in fact while the u. S. Has not provided m. One tanks and weapons of that kind to the kurdish fighters the peshmerga the unite the trumpet ministration President Trump has permitted the iranian commanded forces including a couple of units headed by by people we call we had out of phase terrorists to use american tanks and other high tech weapons to attack the kurds so yeah theres a a lot of bitterness a lot of disappointment that the United States should be forgetting its friends and siding with people who are not proamerican thank you so much for your time said Peter Galbraith former u. S. Diplomat joining is there from new york and talking to us about the situation in Northern Iraq thank you very much for being on the news great now to other world news and chinas president has declared its time for his country to be front and center on the world stage sheeting being laid out as vision heavy on aspiration but light on detail as he addresses the communist Party Congress which determines who rules china and its direction he spoke for almost three and a half hours using the phrase new iraq thirty six times china correspondent agent brown was watching on. President xi jinping can control a lot of things but he cant influence the weather to the superstitious and many people here are the damp grey start to this congress was perhaps a warning sign. In spite of the weather this was a day of choreographed unity after what has been a tumultuous few years for the party. But there was a stirring welcome for the president. This is as close as the foreign media get to the opaque workings of chinas communist party. She reported on his past five years in office saying the party had achieved miracles he also warned serious challenges ahead. Our country is at a Strategic Point in is development the future is extremely bright but the challenges are also extremely serious all Party Congress must assert their size and the high and the think of a danger in times of safety his address lasted three and a half hours if nothing else it showed that she now sixty four is healthy healthy enough to rule for another ten to fifteen years insists his supporters at one stage former president jiang zemin appeared to nod off think he was chinas top leader twenty five years ago when i reported on the fourteenth Party Congress as china began to experiment with capitalism the new catch phrase is socialism with chinese characteristics in a new openness and economic anything seems to go anything that is political reform twenty five years on the faces behind me have changed but the backdrop remains pretty much the same and the prospect of political reform as remote now as it was then. The congress will now meet in secret for the next seven days of to which chinas new leaders will be unveiled president xi is assured of a second term and this Congress Seems set to cement his position as chinas top leader for a lot longer adrian brown aljazeera beijing. Well lets look more closely now at how she jinping is laying the foundations for china to take more of a Global Leadership role a big part of it is economic diplomacy she calls is one belt and one Road Initiative the project of the century likened to a modern silk road it spans more than sixty countries and involves building roads bridges pipelines ports railways and power plants is also a driving force behind huge new Financial Institutions that are countering the influence of the world bank and under she more chinese money has flowed to some of africas emerging economies as bankrolling the continent for us cross border electric train lines and there are plans to invest sixty billion dollars into other Development Projects lets not bring in our next guest to the news great fossil good mole whos director of the asia and China Program at the European Council for Foreign Relations his rise kai from paris france thank you so much for being with us so china has emerged clearly as a global superpower and more assertive under xi jinping what has he done differently since he came to power and how do you see him executing chinas Foreign Policy over the next few decades. First of all hes ruler and he styles are a complete cut from all of his predecessors since model they emphasized collective leadership of course as a correction after the director ship of emphasizes force the party rule the parties of word he repeated three hundred thirty one times today but it is clearly hes own roots it was a show of strength on his spot it came on stage with his two predecessors in tow these are people who knew as essential the sideline and probably in the case of chum to me he has boats and they sat and listened to him. In terms of how china is going to deal with the world right this is first to talk about the Party Comments everything and the party would be defended and china is equated with a party and therefore to defend china one has to defend the party im sorry to be snobbish about that but the rhetorical matters right he said he had a vision for all of chinas place in the world but he was very short on specifics did we have more detail about what this vision is. We dont have a lot of tears from this speech although he did speak about for investors for example they use all kinds words that Foreign Investors will get more favorable terms that see if this happens. Is talked about the power of the military the military is a term that hes used eighty six times in his speech and he promises that china will have the worlds first army by twenty fifty right experts and i want to talk to think deeply about that about the army president xi has a implemented sweeping reforms to modernize the tinies ami the Peoples Liberation army we seem trying to open its first overseas base in djibouti why is it important for china to have a Strong Military whats the main goal here is it to protect chinas economic interests around the world or are they other ambitions i think there are several distinct goals and its difficult to prioritize them its one of them is relief cation its still about iran and other one is defending what china judges to be its own territory in the sunshine a sea that extends very far and we quite for example the construction of artificial bases that that sea has supervised and mention in the past few years beyond that theres no question that he wants china to be a world that naval power right on par with the biggest navies have also got no i want to take a listen to what president xi had to say earlier on wednesday about Climate Change and about how china may take a leading role in limiting Climate Change take a listen and ill come back to in a second. Ecological Environment Management has been strengthened significantly and the environmental conditions have been impro