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Dialogue with the u. S. On how we can develop our cooperation and deal with the many common challenges we are facing. Well for more on this lets bring in the White House Correspondent Kimberly Hall could kimberly our julie this is quite a measured response both from donald trump and from the Prime Minister as a self herself in terms of a diplomatic incident is this really a big thing are we making more of it than than actually is. I think the initial shock led many people to believe this was perhaps a larger diplomatic spat but the bottom line remains that this is an important strategic relationship for the United States as well as denmark and so as a result given their partnership particularly when it comes to nato that this is something that i think the 2 sides will be able to weather through but it certainly did catch a number of staff at the white house off guard including the u. S. Ambassador because this was a scheduled meeting set to take place september 2nd a 3rd of the preparations were underway and then there was this abrupt cancellation but its not the 1st time that weve seen donald trump inject his background as a Real Estate Developer into diplomacy in fact weve seen it a lot on display in recent months and years as hes tried to work out a deal with the north Korean Leader kim jong il and hes repeatedly trying to sell the enticement of Economic Prosperity opening up the opportunity for real estate north korea if there is a willingness to give up Nuclear Weapons so it seems to be Donald Trumps default setting its his muscle memory he spent his entire professional career as a Real Estate Developer in new york and thats how he approaches diplomacy in a very transactional sort of way and as you security i mean it did raise eyebrows when there when the suggestion was 1st made but there is a history to this is that this is the 1st time the u. S. Has attempted to make some sort of bid for greenland. Absolutely and donald trump himself injected humor into this that made people chuckle because it did seem so absurd he seemed to be having fun with it on twitter he posted a picture of sort of a desolate space in greenland and said i promise not to do this to greenland putting in the picture there was a very tall sort of garish trump tower with trump and blazed on the top very gold and obviously an odd juxtaposition but youre right historically in terms of the 1st president to make the suggestion of this type of sale because not only does the United States have interest because of the vast untapped Natural Resources of greenland but also there has been a bid to do it in the past in 1906 under us president harry truman and also the 100 years before that right after the United States had just purchased alaska in this particular case why is u. S. President on top interested well there are some strategy involved particularly when it comes to defense there is an airbase located there and is home or is utilized by the u. S. Air force Space Command as well as north American Aerospace Defense Command so presumably in the context of discussions about security with the white house staff donald trump got it into his head that perhaps the United States would find things easier if they could just buy greenland and solve many of the problems of negotiating and working out defense coordination and again this goes back to Donald Trumps background as a Real Estate Developer thats how he thinks and thats how he approaches every aspect of his Presidency Committee thanks very much and. Well betty more ahead in the news including profiting from war new figures reveal the extent of u. K. Arms sales to the. Coalition fighting in yemen joy and relief as refugees and migrants land in italy after a 3 week long standoff at sea were going to have an update and in sport thinking outside of the box were going to tell you how the shipping containers will become part of the 1st reusable world cup stadium. Testers are back on the streets of hong kong after a sit in at a train station activists wearing black have flooded into un long station to commemorate the attacks that put on protesters that happened in july these are live pictures from the station earlier on we saw the some of the protesters firing off. The fire extinguishers and apparently coating the floor in oil in order to try to prevent the police from moving forward. All those scenes for the demonstration in front of the british consulate in hong kong there appealing for the release of consulate worker simon chang Chinas Foreign Ministry has confirmed hes being detained on the mainland the Ministry Says hell spend 15 days and what it calls administrative detention jan went missing on august the 9th while in a business trip to the city of sendai. China hasnt provided for the details about the detention but its Foreign Ministry is urging the u. K. To stop interfering. So you know. This u. K. Consulate employee is a hong kong citizen he is not a u. K. Citizen in other words that means hes chinese so its entirely in internal matter for china so with regard to the recent series of mistaken comments the u. K. Has made regarding Hong Kong China has openly expressed its stern position we want to once again urge the u. K. To stop making indiscreet remarks and stop stirring up trouble on the hong kong issue and scotland has more from beijing. The ministry of Foreign Affairs here in beijing on wednesday confirming that simon chang is in detention something thats called Public Security Administration Detention down in shin gen thats a border town just across from hong kong we know that a part of this detention is 15 days they can be extended theres no indication that thats going to happen just yet we know maximum is at this stage 15 days so that should be a couple of days before simon has been released by the Police Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman saying any details about the specific case need to come from the police themselves and kind of passing that off to them you know whats interesting he went on to say that he is a chinese national. So this is an internal matter and he said that theyve been irresponsible comments coming from the United Kingdom and officials there about this case and that they should just essentially saying mind their own business now this is kind of an ongoing theme with how the Chinese Administration has been handling with hong kong situation these protests over the last several weeks that theres been International Western meddling so obviously feeling this is an opportunity to make a comment about the situation with this detention and Hoda Abdelhamid words that the support for simon chang in Hong Kong Simon chen is a hong kong or who holds a British National overseas passport about 3000000 of them congress have a similar passport we know from his girlfriend that all this he went to change and for a business trip and he was supposed to return that same day on his way back in the evening he was on a high speed train several messages with his girlfriend the last one was around 10 pm in which she said that he was about to cross back into hong kong we also know from a Statement Issued from his family that he was held at the west train station it is actually on hong kong territory but it is manned by chinese immigration officials only shannys officials operating. In hong kong now this goes really right at the heart of what protesters have been calling for over the past 3 months that much contested extradition bill that they want to see with drone one of the protesters here was saying this is it this could happen to any one of us being picked up by chinese officials and then we dont know what happens to the family of the child simon chen says that they had they hired a lawyer in change and he went around 3 different Detention Centers but no sign of simon now the protesters here are actually in front of the british consulate because theyre calling on the u. K. Government to put pressure on the hong kong authorities to try to resolve this issue and also to put pressure on the authorities in beijing to try to say where it is. Why is he held and what will happen to. Any 100. 00 refugees and migrants have spent their 1st night in weeks on dry land up to the rescue boat docked in italy the prosecutor ordered it to be seized ending a standoff between the Spanish Charity operating the ship and the Italian Government hardline migration policies are amongst the issues at the heart of its of these leadership crisis which forced Prime Ministers up in quantity to resign song and video has more from the italian island of lampedusa. Several e. U. Member countries have agreed to take on the nearly 100. 00 or so people who are on board the open arms vessel that would be spain portugal luxembourg and france they have been willing to take them on and so they will now be able to claim asylum in those countries as well the prosecutor did immediately order the disembarkation after having visited the vessel and saw for himself the state the condition that the vessel was in which we are told that were were in poor hygiene conditions as well as the very fragile condition of the people on board both physically and mentally as well but there is also another ship is not too far away circling the Sister Island of lampedusa the island of the noise it has been circling the area for several days now with 356. 00 people on board this is already another cause for concern because they will have to at some point go to adopt for a safe landing they have already requested that an executive with the European Commission has already called out the e. U. Member states to show compassion and try and so you could provide a solution with which these people can be taken on and given the opportunity to seek asylum in e. U. Member countries but of course this is all part of the process which has been happening in these islands here even though the interior minister met there salvini has said that he has banned these landings from taking place the reality of the of the matter is that they keep turning up while there are people who are desperate to try and escape the conditions that they found themselves in libya they will do anything they can. Possible to try and find safety in the European Union country the u. N. Special envoy to yemen Martin Griffin this has arrived in sun which is controlled by rebels on tuesday griffiths told the u. N. Security council that yemen was at risk of falling apart if an agreement to end the conflict was not. Found urgently elsewhere in yemen prost protesters have been out on the streets of thais in the southwest there showing their support for the internationally recognized government of president out to everyone so hadi that opposed to the takeover of the port city of aden by u. A. E. Back to separatists the u. S. Military is investigating reports that one of its drones was shot down by who the rebels in yemen who thin say they attacked them on problems of the capital sanaa a spokesman for the who says the missile used was developed locally. And you reports revealed that the British Government has sold billions of dollars worth of arms to the Saudi Led Coalition in yemen since 2015 london based campaign against the arms trade says the u. K. Has made 7 point 6000000000. 00 worth of sales to the coalition and it comes after the British Court of appeal ruled that the sales were unlawful because the government hadnt properly assess the risk to civilians the United Nations says yemenis are facing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world more than 20000000 people dont have access to food and more than 3000000 suffer from acute malnutrition. Well andrew smith is Media Coordinator for a campaign against on trade hes joining us now from glasgow in the United Kingdom thank you very much indeed for being with us i want to ask you about a clarification if you wouldnt mind the u. S. Court of appeal a cake court of appeal had ruled that the sales were unlawful because the government hadnt properly assess the risk to civilians but if i understand it correctly there was evidence submitted to the u. K. Government that the Saudi Led Coalition had covered up human rights abuses in yemen where does the fault lie when it comes to assessing what the what the eventual outcome of these arms sales is going to be. But the full ultimately lies with government because on paper u. K. Arms export trade is very strict it says for if it is a clear risk it weapons might be used in a c. D. S. Violation of International Humanitarian law from an arms sales shouldnt go ahead now since 2015 sadia Led Coalition has been accused of some of the most serious possible violations of International Humanitarian law they have bombed schools hospitals and homes is created for the worst humanitarian crisis in the world and yet the government has continued the arms sales and has licensed billions of dollars worth of arms sales since this war began i mean to you to you and i and the people watching this as a humanitarian crisis but to be Arms Companies its a Business Opportunity and the government has done nothing to stop that so without wanted to be too simplistic about what is quite clearly a very complex situation how do you Police Something like this which of course is not just involving the u. K. Government but is involving many governments and many Arms Companies around the world. I think the 1st thing which has to be asked is for risk of these weapons being used to violate International Humanitarian law and when reports from the United Nations from Amnesty International from a number of the most respected n. G. O. S in the world have all failed and that this a delayed coalition has been routinely violating International Humanitarian law and that should be a cause for concern instead for u. K. Government and of arms dealing governments have done everything they can to maximize the sales and next month the u. K. Is hosting cia arms fair which is one of the biggest arms fairs in the world and being tired of this idea that coalition are being invited to london to buy weapons that is not the same if the government is taking its obligations seriously that is the same for the government there is preaching arms Company Profits over human lives the u. K. Government and Arms Companies would say that they are in the business of selling arms as long as they do not cross the lines that you have specifically mentioned but if a conflict then develops into a widespread humanitarian crisis their argument would be that they cant be held responsible for the arms that they have already sold being used by the end users in that humanitarian crisis there seems to be a very significant gray area how do you think that can be cleared up if that development happens into a humanitarian issue. Ultimately these arms feel should never have been allowed in the 1st pleased to say the regime which is by far the largest buyer in the world of u. K. Weapons it is also one of the most repressive dictatorships anywhere in the world today and it is a dictatorship which is committed to trial cities into pieces against saudi people for decades these arms sales are not just a sign of military support theyve been a saying of Political Support for regime the u. K. Government should start from a position of a denial of all arms exports to regimes of poor human rights records and that should have ought at that should automatically bar arms exports to say to your abs to United Arab Emirates and to the other regimes which are taking part in this terrible war because ultimately the arms which are being approved today we dont know how a very going to be used in the future but by selling billions and billions of planes worth of weapons already in for bottled fees weapons could be used in atrocities for decades to come and isthmus from the campaign against the arms trade we appreciate your time thank you very much indeed. Still ahead on aljazeera im the clock reporting from valan dam in the netherlands on efforts being made to combat europes largest illegal wildlife trade