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a trade war as the us is heavy on steel and. at least eight turkish soldiers killed in syria's african region and offensive against kurdish fighters. hollywood gears up for the oscars we turn the spotlight on bias against women in the industry. and the united states and russia squaring off over their military capabilities the trumpet administration says it plans to sell ukraine hundreds of anti-tank missiles to help it defend its territory from russia this after vladimir putin unveiled plans to develop his country's nuclear weapons arsenal which included a video depicting an attack on the united states. it certainly did not enjoy watching we don't regard that as the behavior of a responsible international player president putin has confirmed what the united

states government has known for a long time that russia has denied prior to this that russia has developed been developing destabilizing weapon systems for more than a decade in direct violation of its treaty obligations president trump understands the threats facing america and our allies in this in this century and is determined to protect our homeland and preserve peace through strength u.s. defense capabilities are and will remain second to none but mr putin speech came in the run up to this month's presidential elections in a hall ripple from moscow. an hour in and a speech that had seemed relentlessly domestic and suddenly took an explosive turn . no one expected flooding at putin's annual address to parliament to involve advanced missile systems and strategic weapons and many talk of job creation and better roads in the years ahead it was

a response he said to years of unchecked advances by the united states in missile defense. russia has always been a big nuclear state no one wanted to speak constructively with us in the past and no one wanted to listen well listen to us now one missile in development putin explained could travel the globe with unlimited range and entirely undetected by radar defense systems but those three weeks before the presidential election it was all greeted with ecstatic applause by russia's political elite president putin made a strong message to. russian audience which can be spelled out as the fall of any of this occasion in the world this prevents surrounded by aggressors but you have to be rest assured that till the country is run by a person whose name is of light given to putin. you will have nothing to worry

about as well as showcasing these extraordinary new defense capabilities let me a putin speech was full of inspiring promises of investment lifting people out of poverty improving their lives in what was expected to be his last major speech before the election this was putin presented to the russian people as a pillar of political stability economic stability and perhaps above all security its full impact may have been intended for a domestic audience but there was more than a hint of menace in putin's warning that any outside threat would be met with annihilation russia's current defense spending its only. about one tenth of that of the united states obviously combined defense spending. is even much larger than that of the u.s. the trumpet ministration announced plans to increase defense spending. and russia with its economic conditions is unlikely to be able to spend much more than it

currently does. i don't think there will be a real arms race after eighteen years in power this was not to me a putin reminding russians that their country is a world power once again the strength of its conventional military on full display in syria he said its nuclear capabilities now soon to be more than a match for us might join a home al jazeera moscow. asian stocks of for the president trump announced plans to impose steep tyrus on steel and aluminum imports are the plans a spit to investors the members of the u.s. president's own republican party with fears of a global trade war christen salumi reports. president donald trump announced steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports after this white house meeting much to the delight of visiting industry representatives who say they've been hurt by a flood of cheap imports they've been very unfairly treated by bad policy by bad

trade deals by other countries they've been horribly treated by other countries. they have not been properly represented more importantly because of that our workers in our country have not been properly represented the president promised to impose a twenty five percent tariff on steel and ten percent on aluminum going to bring steel back he was making good on a campaign promise to revive u.s. manufacturing and address a trade imbalance with china a position that saw him win big in so-called rust belt states like pennsylvania where he promised to bring back. jobs but it's unclear if the tariffs will apply to other trade partners like canada from whom the u.s. imports the most steel some of trump's cabinet are said to have fought against the tariffs the announcement catching a staff off guard when i can to get into any more details until those fire those details are finalized and it angered canada's foreign minister who said any

increase would be unacceptable any restrictions would harm workers the industry and manufacturers on both sides of the border she said the steel and aluminum industry is highly integrated and supports critical north american manufacturing supply chains and while steel and aluminum makers saw their stocks soar on the announcement the market overall sunk on fears of a trade war and harm to companies who would be hit by higher prices the president promised a formal announcement of his plans and presumably more details next week christine salumi al-jazeera. right so what's china making of all of this is go live to our correspondent adrian brownies in beijing and china obviously being one of the largest producers of seal will be watching events in washington with a great deal of interest. that's right marcin china currently produces more than half the world's steel but actually not

a great deal of chinese steel really goes to the united states according to chinese officials they say that if fact one percent of the steel that the united states imports currently comes from china but what u.s. officials will tell you is this china is actually still exporting steel to the united states but it's going via third countries i think the question now martin is what is the what is china going to do how is it going to respond we've seen in the past that china has at its disposal quite a formidable arsenal because you know it buys a lot of cars from the united states it buys airliners from from boeing chinese tourists go to united states in their droves in their millions and last year when china had a falling out with south korea south korea suddenly found that chinese tourists weren't going there anymore consumers here in china were boycotting south korean stores so you know the chinese consumer is a very powerful weapon but as yet the chinese have been fairly measured in their

response a short time ago we heard from the foreign ministry spokesperson here in beijing he was quite restrained in his language he said that they want the united states to contribute positively to world trade and called on china to refrain from punishing countries like china and indeed other countries who have found themselves in dispute with the united states over trade and at the same time there are there are quite high level talks going on on trade out there between the chinese and the administration. you know there is a very senior economic advisor in the united states at the moment lou hay who's actually tipped to become the next governor general of china's central bank and he's been in washington since tuesday he's been holding discussions with trump ministration officials those talks we're told have been very blunt very direct that's to be expected and i think what's also to be expected martine is you know

china had anticipated that it was going to be wrapped over the knuckles over steel and other million president trumpet warned continually that he was going to take action against china he said it was costing the united states you know a lot of jobs but there is also a lot more at stake here because the value of trade between these two countries currently stands at around six hundred billion dollars so the question is is the trade friction really going to lead to a trade war which would be so damaging not just for the economies of china and the united states but of course all server economies here in the asia pacific region which depend very much on trade with the united states and china all right agent thank you very much aaron brown live in beijing. turkey's military says eight of its soldiers were killed another thirteen were injured on thursday this took place in syria's northern african region making it one of the deadliest days for turkish forces since they began

a cross border offensive against kurdish wife p g five has started in journey let's go live now to a solid binge of aid he's our correspondent who's in gaziantep that's on the turkish syrian border and i'm just wondering whether the turks are fearing that they might have bitten off more than they can chew insofar as when they started this operation president ed or one suggested that it was going to be pretty much in and out they thought that he could take it take his forces out after a couple of weeks but it's looking to be a lot more tricky. well it is the this incident just goes to show how complex the terrain is that the turkish troops are fighting in present day of the gun about two weeks ago said that it would be a matter of days before his forces would reach the city center which has not happened yet in this incident details more details are emerging about what happened when turkish forces went in to try to take a hill over a village they were led into believing that they were going in with our persistence

and then a number of fighters using tunnels attacked them and also attacked a helicopter that was being used so after that incident eight turkish soldiers were killed and turkish artillery and air strikes targeted the area turkey says more than twenty five years were killed in that in that particular strike and other air strikes it carried out also strikes on reinforcements that were coming to the y. p.g. these are the kurdish militias from the syrian government side the popular forces or the shia militias who've been coming in to try and help the kurdish fighters here so yes it is a complex arena turkish forces specialized forces have been going in who are who are specialists in urban warfare but this is quite different to the terrain that they've been operating in because. this is a mountainous region and the fight is no equal and they've been using tunnels and other secret hideouts to try and attack turkish forces and meanwhile further south the five hour break in hostilities surrounding the eastern district doesn't seem to

be working insofar as we haven't had any reports of people leaving receiving the aid that they desperately need nor any of those critically ill people receiving the medical attention that they need. for martine on day four what really hearing is that even the airstrikes and shelling hasn't stopped at least three neighborhoods of eastern huta so this five hour pause is not actually a pause as what people have been telling us they've been saying that they can't really trust the same people who bomb them for nineteen hours a day and then pause for five hours and say come over there are no internationally guarantees the united nations or the russian government has not provided any third party confirmations that these people will be safe when they cross over they haven't come out with mechanisms with which aid convoys can actually go in and the critically injured can move out you have to remember that there are more than a thousand people that have the names have been pending the cases have been pending

with the united nations for months now and doctors have been saying that they need to be taken out because their medical capabilities in these are very limited and in this latest onslaught not just medical supplies are running out medical facilities have been taken out as well all right to some a binge of aid live in gaza and have thank you. now at least one person has died and nine others have been injured after a suicide blast in the afghan capital kabul police say the bomb was detonated in an area that's close to the foreign embassies so far there's been no claim of responsibility. to come here and out there including venezuela's president nicolas maduro and his fragile hold on power wire delayed fate could help the president's chances. reelection. training mission helping the central african republic rebuild its national army.

by the skyline of an asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. how that feels because of late winter continues we still got a mass of cold air sitting in the most of europe and a busing it is the stuff that came from the atlantic so that white cloud you see along this cold front that's put a lot of snow over the british isles and down through france all the way down to western italy now cause everything my site is already cold some of these white top clouds are dropping stone anyway and there's more to come is the temperature regime with subzero in austria where up to fourteen in rome to somewhere in here is to cut off line but you can see how it's warming up over spain but it is up to ten paris is up to about plus nine by the end of friday this is a very thin line of that snow before it turned warm and wet so this is the picture then for the next twenty four hours probably more than that snow throughout british

isles through france dance for the alps a mass falling in the balkan states at least for a time and then disappearing up into ukraine and belarus and that will be a lot of stuff it hasn't yet finished with switzerland or northern italy but there's rain to the south of that in the picture that is slowly a thaw after that for british isles and for france there was all the action out there this should be some spilling down toward derian tunisia and indeed varies. the weather sponsored by qatar raise. the scene for us whether online what is a very nice time in yemen that peace is possible but not what happens not because the situation is. because no one cares or if you join us on set there are people that are choosing between buying medication and eating base is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist who's close to the story joining the global conversation at this time on

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killed. the deadliest day. against. the forces from the european union have been training soldiers in the central african republic in an attempt to rebuild the national. international effort to stabilize the country after years of conflict the skepticism remains about just how much progress can actually be made with most of the country still under rebel control as. catherine reports from a training camp in the capital. it's an intense six month program by the european union training mission in central african republic this men and women will eventually be deployed across the country

much of it controlled by armed groups after the training they'll be given new weapons from russia following an exemption to an arms embargo by the u.n. security council when you have a civil war or a crisis in a country. the rules become. less and less leading to file so when they are in a situation of stress and when the military in situations of stress of combat. you have to be real trained and well trained to remember the rules in the same camp more training but for ex competence they've recently laid down their weapons as part of a disarmament and bring to gratian. they're about a hundred and sixty foremost fighters in this phase here lining up. they get basic training and also important tours about human rights. but implementing the program

has been slow it's strapped for cash and some groups are opposed to it not means that. it is going to cause we want to consider people. ibrahim allow what is one of the leaders of the popular front for the renaissance of the central african republic a group that controls most of the north he said the government has fields too on a previous agreements. right now ten thousand un peacekeepers are holding the fort without them the security situation would probably be much worse but the forces of a stretched readers in accusations of human rights abuses and peacekeepers are working in perilous conditions fourteen were killed in fighting last year. the road conditions are very bad the forest. will roads. into. the truck

the government wants to take control of the country and having better trained and equipped soldiers will help. but with more than eighty percent of the rebels regaining control is clearly a difficult hoddle catherine. bond central african republic. israeli media is reporting that for the first time police have questioned prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his wife over allegations of corruption they said that are near his accuse of giving favors to a telecommunications giant company in exchange for favorable coverage on his news website is already a suspect in two other corruption cases that denies any wrongdoing. italians go to the polls on sunday to vote in a hotly contested general election many analysts predict that the former prime minister silvio berlusconi his party is likely to be part of any potential coalition lawrence league considers the impact of

a hard right wing coalition. central italy very old very pretty and people are very angry. stuck in the fields outside the town the government has housed one hundred asylum seekers they're about as popular as a moldy listen you. want to go on the floor i mean. in the summer so many women have complained that the euro dating in the street should we wait until something bad happens fair enough we have to protect the immigrants but who will protect italians the town has forty five thousand people living in it so it isn't as though it's being overrun but cashin which had a left wing local government for seventy years since world war two recently voted in the right swing northern league it wants to deport four hundred thousand undocumented migrants from italy and on to the it is on our immediate active care

he's running to get out and of course we don't want to deport all of them it's only the right immigrants who work here who are integrated the right criminals coming here who take houses from italians and we pay tax for them to do nothing. immigration of course is always fertile ground for the right wing in european politics as indeed is a general this in charged with the state of the european union and longstanding concerns about the economy and it's all particularly good news for one man who dominates italian politics for so long and is increasingly being seen as europe's on to donald trump. at the age of eighty one silvio berlusconi is back his plastic skin and rictus grin all over this election despite his criminal record he still has his own political party and media empire there is every chance he could get to choose the next prime minister it's like he never went

away. cause. we are united force pushing back against all the bad things the left wing has done to our country we're going back into power because the left has put three million people into poverty and three million unemployed the third party in this potential coalition is called brothers of italy one of several groups with fascist roots that have a chance of seats in parliament even given italy's history it appears immigration has made the electorate ready to consider what the european union dreads the most the far right in government. was we are committed to stopping migration flows and paying more attention to a tally in families other governments already do it is the italian state won't spend more on asylum seekers than italian pensioners. if you asked the far right how they would actually deport nearly half a million people they talk about putting them in boats and dumping them in libya

that is being discussed at all tells you much about the state of the european union with berlusconi right back in the mix lawrence leigh al-jazeera it's. venezuela's government and opposition parties have agreed to postpone presidential elections by a month to may president nicolas maduro plans around for a second six year term and there's a background of severe economic problems today as a burger reports. venezuela is expected to elect a new president this year but the date of when the elections are expected to take place has been changed once again. this year the government announced they would happen on april twenty second but now they're expected to happen in may. it is establishing the agreement for the election to be in the second half of the next month may of two thousand and eighteen there is no other alternative the only option is an election critics accuse the authorities of shifting the vote forward

to wrong foot the opposition in a bid to improve precedent equal. chances the leading opposition coalition is boycotting the poll describing it as a farce to legitimize a dictatorship however one presidential hopeful and refiled gone has already launched his candidacy. that's the government that we want for venice who are a government of national unity that includes and doesn't exclude a government that can save us from this misery from this tragedy this debacle that the government has turned us into i repeat this incapable inept former state governor believes he can win by taking advantage of widespread dissatisfaction with the ruling socialist over venice way less dire economic crisis that have millions struggling for food and medicines. to strongest opposition rivals among them former presidential candidate and they kick up i barred from standing the united states

a sole so considering imposing sanctions against my buddhist government due to what it says are unfair conditions for the presidential vote. for venezuela it is and now there are attempts from the u.s. to interfere in the country and it's evolving to hold the presidential vote in spite of the criticism from abroad. the u.s. ambassador to mexico has announced her resignation amid strained relations between the two countries roberta jacobson didn't give an explanation for her decision but she told embassy staff that she'll be leaving her post in may the ties between the two neighbors have been tense with president trump pledging to build a border war. hollywood gives out for the office filmmakers a drawing attention to the lack of jobs for women in the industry as a glimmer of hope in this year's academy award nominations but for many change is still coming too slowly but reynolds reports from los angeles. in this

classroom at the art center college of design the numbers of male and female aspiring film directors are about equal and the women feel they have a fair shot at making it professionally the main thing i think as a woman so make is that you have to focus on is really not being intimidated not being intimidated by the amount of male colleagues you have and the amount of the spirit and gender that you would encounter on set outside the classroom the gender disparity in the film industry is stark amy adrian crunched the numbers in her new documentary half the picture over about the past ten years women direct four percent of top feature film so obviously men direct ninety six percent of most movies you see a movie theaters and the numbers for t.v. or a little bit better think it's averages about women direct fifteen percent around of television shows some men direct eighty five percent every single way you looked at

the numbers they were terrible for women that's despite the fact that women make up about fifty percent of film school graduates this year director gretta girl when has been nominated for an academy award for lady bird not you know because i probably couldn't get you definitely. and the cinematographer rachel morrison is the first woman nominated for her work behind the camera in mudbone but those accolades are few and far between director victoria hochberg was part of a group that sued major hollywood studios thirty years ago nothing has changed radically things have changed. very very very slowly and in spurts only when the studios or the production companies or even the unions are threatened in some way and they have to worry about lawsuits in some european countries laws mandating equal representation in industries including entertainment

adrian says a similar approach may be needed in hollywood i think that it's very likely that the industry will need some kind of outside pressure to actually change despite that long history of gender disparity in the film industry many young aspiring female film directors are not discouraged i know it's going to be tough. and i know that us a woman and. two hundred percent determination to succeed in an industry that has stacked the deck against women rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. take a look at the top stories here it out the russian president vladimir putin has unveiled plans for the development of its nuclear weapons arsenal including a video depicting an attack on the united states the trumpet ministrations says it

plans to sell ukraine hundreds of anti-tank missiles to help it defend its territory from russia asian stocks of full and after u.s. president donald trump announced plans to impose steep tariffs on steel and alum in yemen ports the plans of course concern among investors as well as members of the u.s. president's own republican party the fears of a global trade of all is now day four of a partial ceasefire in syria. it follows another day of bloodshed in the rebel clave with at least nineteen civilians killed by the syrian government and russian backed their strikes on. say more than six hundred people have now been killed there since february eighteenth turkey's military says eight of its soldiers were killed another thirty were injured on thursday in syria's african region making it one of the deadliest days for turkish forces since they began the cross border

operation against kurdish y p g fighters in january on thursday nights turkish military jets socketed wife and produce syrian government forces in northern africa and reportedly killing seventeen. at least one person is dead after a suicide blast in the afghan capital kabul police say a car bomb was detonated in an area close to foreign embassies there's been no immediate claim of responsibility. the israeli media is reporting that for the first time police have questioned prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his wife over allegations of corruption missing essen yahoo's accused of giving favors to a telecommunications giant elix change for favorable coverage on its news website is already a suspect in two other corruption cases but denies all wrongdoing right up to date those are the latest headlines from us hear it out as they are coming up next it's the stream.

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