right. this is al jazeera. watching the news live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes russian forces bombing eastern ghouta office safe passage to fighters

but rebels say they are being pushed out. by hopes of improved relations as korean delegates return home after meeting the north korean leader in pyongyang. sri lanka declares a nation wide states of emergencies violence between muslims and buddhists. also this hour trapped inside a church the people seeking safety from armed groups in one of the most dangerous towns in central african republic we'll have an exclusive report from. in sport brazilian striken neymar begins his race to be fit for the world cup the world's most expensive player is on crutches after surgery one hundred days out from kickoff in russia. the russian military has offered a guarantee of safe passage to syrian rebel fighters and their families if they

leave eastern ghouta but rebels are accusing russia of a military escalation and imposing force displacement about seven hundred people have been killed in the rebel enclave since the syrian government intensified an offensive more than two weeks ago government airstrikes killed at least eighty civilians on monday it is the deadliest day since the un adopted a cease fire resolution more than a week ago and russia began a five hour daily ceasefire another pause was. meant to allow people to leave but that doesn't stop and it was also meant to ensure safe passage for aid deliveries that were the world health organization says about seventy percent of medical supplies have been blocked by the government russia's military says at least three people have been injured by rebel shelling on damascus suburbs in the past three days it says government held areas have been targeted from rebel controlled territory and western media are ignoring the attacks moscow says the shelling taking place during the russian pause is

a war crime it says rebels are using civilians as human shields and not allowing them to the east and to top joins us live now from beirut this russian what's what's the reality of that on the ground. oh yes the russian military saying that there is a way for the bombing campaign to end and that is to leave with their families really putting pressure on the rebels telling them that they are key to end the suffering of the civilians and in that statement the russian military saying that you know if you leave will no longer suffer and there will be aid now the rebels have not directly responded to this offer a statement was issued saying that the russian military is only concerned about the military escalation and and displacing the people and rebels are also calling for a general mobilization to defend towns and cities the rebels are not under enough pressure to surrender at this point in time yes there has been immense suffering it has been the civilians who have been suffering so far the rebels have lost

territory in the east of the country but like i said if we compare this to aleppo they're still not confined to a very small pocket of territory so they are still in a good position if you'd like so right now they're not accepting this offer the russian military cornering the rebels telling them that you know to end this campaign you need to lay lay down your arms you mentioned you know i guess we are days perhaps weeks or maybe not at all. the idea of what's happening in eastern becoming the template that became aleppo where we saw those people being bussed out of the area. yes everyone is comparing it to aleppo aleppo we have to remember the rebel held the east of aleppo city surrendered after a month long siege and then we saw a full blown military offensive bombardment airstrikes and a ground offensive in and pro-government troops sliced the area into different pieces and the rebels their supply lines were cut and they were under so much

pressure that thousands of people were put in those green buses and sent off to the people of eastern with are afraid that this is going to happen to them they don't want to leave their homes now even if the rebels do decide to leave with their families who is going to stay behind a lot of people are wanted by the government simply because they were media activists or if they were you know civil defense workers they're called terrorists in the eyes of the government so are we talking about hundreds of thousands of people leaving an area a force the placement has happened throughout this conflict and really this is one of the reasons why no peace settlement amount no political settlement will amount to peace if these people are forced from their homes and what do we make of these reports about rebel shelling on damascus. well this is the way rebels have been retaliate thing since the bombing campaign began at least thirty people have been killed in damascus and it is one of the reasons why the government says it is attacking it is one of it has been a thorn in the side of the government one of the last rebel major rebel strongholds

around the government seat of power yes there's a small pocket of territory in the hands of isilon the south of the capital but. really a thorn in the side of the government and there have been numerous attempts to retake bhutto over recent years but this time around the government has taken this decision and it is able to do so because it is no longer active on other front lines it's no longer overstretched at least it's the military and the manpower you keep us posted i'm sure but in the meantime thanks very much for let's stay with the developing story for you. dean is an activist who live. inside east and he joins us now on skype from there. can you just walk me through what life is like today. my friend the sort of raising thing today if there is no cease fire from nine. o'clock as usual maybe there is shelling and bombing with. airplanes and rockets

all over. today from where you are. bombardment with helicopters with. many injured. some on fire. as commission today so today there is no cease fire i think it's because of the. point. that entering that. day yesterday ok can you tell us if you know the answer to this question there are questions being asked as to whether the u.n. aid operation has been temporarily suspended or has been stopped and whether the i.c.r.c. aid operation has been stopped or suspended. my friend. the most. confusing thing that yesterday when the convoy she was backing

in. there was an order from the regimes to evacuate the convoys. so nine trucks of these convoys. evacuate. of course part of the order of the regime. the regime prevent entering. and medicine. convoys was targeted to. twenty seven. thousand people here anything good in this. city only one hundred thousand people so it's not enough also probably not a question i think it will be suspended due to this campaign and this escalation on

the eastern ok as you're talking we're going to put in a plane some pictures of a government controlled checkpoint can you confirm for us as well these reports that there's fighting between government forces and jaish al islam and if there is fighting is that fighting ongoing today. yes there was a deadline there was fighting. due to appear ground attack by the regime in the eastern area. ok one last question if i could just ask you to back up by a couple of minutes you seem to be saying that somebody is deliberately targeting the aid convoys do you stand by that is that a direct claim that you're making they're going very much they are targeting the aid convoys themselves. my friend as we see the.

last few years. this. voice we was afraid for getting this voice and the. very thing now you know. and even that. yesterday there was. a more yeah. b m yeah eleven pm with. bell lorien we know that every time the convoy entering you think that there was a punishment with such a threat like a glowing or any chemical weapon ok. thank you very much and just for the sake of clarity if you're just joining us here on the news our. dean he's an activist who lives in duma making very strong claims there saying that they are deliberately and explicitly targeting aid convoys and also they're talking about the use of chlorine gas we here at al-jazeera have no way of authenticating those claims but we did

want to put him on air for you so we can get a sense of what we think is going on on the ground there in the round in and around about the area of duma and eastern guta. thank you very much we move on a high level south korean delegation has returned from pyongyang with him at the north korean leader kim jong il state media says kim wants to advance relations and ease military tensions with the south and other talks were focused on averting a nuclear war. joins us live now from so rob how do they do it. well the plane carrying the delegation has touched down a short time ago here tuesday evening in seoul it's a little over twenty four hours peter since this delegation has left seoul to begin this mission and a lot has happened in that time as we know the leader of the delegation the chief envoy for the president moon jay in the young he was seen to be smiling he seemed to be happy about something we know that there has been

a certain amount of success achieved from this mission we know from statements for example issued by the state run media of north korea that they met with kim jong un and that kim jong un said that he had given an agreement to go ahead with one of the main thrust of this mission which is to set up a summit with a traveling in theory to meet in north korea and now the team has gone to the blue house that's the official residence of the south korean president to brief president moon we understand that's taking place now we the media should be getting to hear exactly what's been agreed within the next hour or so peter and if the summit does take place right i mean that in itself will be front page news because kim jong un i mean there aren't many pictures of him meeting foreign leaders foreign dignitaries.

i think we've lost the line there too rob mcbride we will go back to rob if and when we can plenty more still to come here on the news hour including these two stories for you. a warning that the ethnic cleansing of bringing the muslims in myanmar has taken on a new dimension plus a former russian spy lies critically ill in a british hospital. and in the sports news arena williams steps up the preparations for a return to top level singles action. now turning our attention to. where the government has declared a ten day state of emergency to stop the spread of violence between muslims and buddhists the military's been deployed to the city of candy and a curfew imposed after muslim owned homes and businesses were damaged in riots the

unrest began after the funeral of a truck driver from the majority buddhist community who died days after all to cation with four muslims smell fernando's joins us live now from candy province in real terms what does this mean. basically the authorities have clamped down in a big way with a very visible security presence all throughout the affected areas this is in the area of beginner and held in here which is within the candy district in central sri lanka now basically what the government is trying to do is prevent any further flashpoint we have that incident which by the way when it started it happened very much as a as an altar cation between two groups it was not a communal clash it was not a sort of a regional or motivated attack between two groups but it's something that bin snowballed. the groups them serves that kind of come to an understanding with sort

of the tragedy of the truck driver being killed but things had been settling down when it did flare up again after his death just before his funeral peter and now we see this heavy police presence is heavy military presence basically a local police curfew in the area still tomorrow morning to wednesday morning and basically the government also reported to be considering the standing of emergency to keep a lid on any for the possible tensions peter to get the feeling of the situation is still pretty combustible. it certainly felt that way peter when we were there this morning we were at the side where there was a c.v. drop andro of muslim houses and businesses that had been attacked by what we hear is a sort of an organized a big mob that set upon the area last afternoon now at that stage they had also

discovered basically the body of a muslim youth who his family see was trapped in a burning house he couldn't get out his body was found this morning so it caused a lot of tensions among people in the region in the area which is why there was such a palpable a visible military presence you saw at some stages sometimes more military personnel than civilians particularly with the curfew being imposed as well so it does seem touch and go but authorities very keen to make sure that the sort of blanket this place with the military to ensure that it does not have any further flare ups and also that it doesn't spread like here i am in the city of can be a very famous tourist destination a religious a revered religious sites a buddhist and here tourists going about their business they don't even seem to actually nor that there is sort of

a flashpoint you know twenty thirty minutes away but that's how the seem to contain this peter thanks very much talk to later a senior u.n. official says myanmar's ethnic cleansing of revenge of muslims is continuing the u.n. assistant secretary general for human rights and group since tactics have changed from mass killing and rape to forced starvation and he was visiting refugee camps in bangladesh where nearly seven hundred thousand drooping seeking refuge from similar to crackdown began in august says there is a systematic effort by meanwhile to destroy the ring just livelihood. nobody wants to reward the ethnic cleansing on the myanmar side who have driven them out but at the same time one cannot afford to go back into what could well be certain that what is going on at the moment not only are they still killing are they still rapes on a large scale not only are they driving people out with force and threats but also

there is it seems almost systematic attempt to destroy the future livelihoods. in the central african republic a nine month long ordeal for hundreds of muslims shows no sign of ending they're trapped inside a catholic church compound after the town of benghazi was overrun by a christian group last may as catherine saw in our reports the muslims risk being killed if they leave the protection of un peacekeepers friday prayers for muslims in a compound of the largest catholic church in bangor around fifteen hundred people have been trapped since last may when fighters from a mainly christian group stormed into the town leaving the compound can be fatal for. the last i do shows as where his brother was abducted then killed two weeks ago as he looks for firewood. these gunmen are always fighting and waiting for us

it is an issue at the compound one bullet went through my tent where i was with my children. the world food program supplies a comp every ten days u.n. peacekeepers guide them either aid agencies help but getting medical supplies is a major problem. is just over a year old she's sick but it's too dangerous to take her to the hospital in town even the roads are not possible because they are controlled by the armed groups therefore we as humanitarians have to fly the assistance from benghazi to this location and sometimes the transportation cost is very expensive than the food or the other we are carrying to provide these people they were forced to flee their neighborhood after which is just about two kilometers away their homes and the mosque they first took refuge and destroyed the area is now an operational base for the mainly christian group which now calls itself the fonts and is

a vigilante group that was formed in twenty thirteen to fight against the mostly muslim seleka group with coming here at a time when there is a lot of tension fighters from their group in control of congress who are quite nervous after what that another rival group is planning an attack. this is one of the most dangerous towns in central african republic people are always on edge they say the other group which is just outside town wants to come in to rescue the muslims taking refuge in the charts compound. guns they don't comprehend the church because they see that the church is the one who is keeping the most muslim people so they also against as you see and also the muslim people also they don't understand us because for them. i don't know. the godfather of the people want guns so the church easy in the middle. the u.n.

is leading efforts to return the displaced to their homes it's a delicate process that involves talks with the communities and gunmen people in this camp are oppressed hence they have but hopeful that maybe they may have their lives back some catching sight al-jazeera. central african republic. to the u.k. now where counterterrorism police are investigating the suspected poisoning of a former russian spy script l. and a woman in her thirty's are both in intensive care after exposure to an unknown substance sixty six year old script has been living in the u.k. for the past eight years after being freed from prison in a russian spy swap. we have access to a wide range of specialist resources and services that are helping us to understand what we are or aren't stealing with at this time the focus at this moment in trying to establish what has caused these people to become critically ill and we are working with partners to prioritize this diagnosis and ensure that they receive the

most appropriate and timely treatment ok we're covering both ends of the story for you here on the news hour in a moment we'll talk to a challenge in moscow first let's get the latest from the barker in seoul spring in the west of england need for the police for the authorities what's the number one question for them today. well the number one concern i think peter more than the host of questions that they have yet to ask and yet to provide any information on is to make sure that public health and safety is protected as you can see as police cordon remains around the bench where surrogates cripple and the female companion with him reported in some newspapers in the u.k. as being his daughter were found according to a possible when she alerted the emergency services they were in a so-called semi paralyzed state foaming at the mouth the woman then collapsed she became unconscious collapsed onto the shoulder of surrogates cripple she was then

taken to hospital by an air ambulance cripple was taken by road to salzburg hospital where also forensic teams that sealed off that area that is now safe i was there a few hours ago was able to go all the way into the intensive care unit there was no police presence there whatsoever the suggestion being that the two of them may have been moved to another unit but we are waiting now an update on the state of their health the police of course. are operating a full investigation it's all happening very much behind closed doors we know that specialist teams are on the ground we know that the teams have also gone to his house here in the center of souls prepared if this is indeed a highly sensitive case if they see it is. as many see another echo of the

litvinenko situation a few years ago that of course the authorities are going to be very cagey they're going to keep sensitive information close to their chest as long as they possibly can do to the moment need thanks very much that's a good life subarea who's in moscow for us here on the news i was mentioning the clear parallels with what happened to mr litvinenko a few years back it was the russian reaction to this being. well today the kremlin is wearing its world weary here we go again nothing to do with us hats it has said in a statement earlier today coming from dmitri peskov who's the kremlin spokesperson for the you know claims in the u.k. of a russian connection here haven't taken long in coming that the u.k. or thorazine is haven't yet to moscow for any help but that moscow is always open to interaction that is something that i think will raise eyebrows in london given the history of the libyan yanker case beyond that the kremlin says that it has no

more information and can therefore give no more comment we have had something a little more pithy from a duma deputy here called on great lugovoy now he says that the britons suffer from phobias and that if something happens to a russian they immediately start looking for a russian trail one cannot rule out he says that the media will try to stir up another scandal around this putting further forward accusations against the russian special services now if lugovoy is a familiar name for any of our view is that is because he is one of the two russians that is wanted in the united kingdom for the murder of alexander litvinenko in two thousand and six ok rory we will leave it there for the meantime thank you sunday's general election in italy has caused a political deadlock the euro skeptic party did best among a group of right wing parties the strongest single party was another populist

movement the n.t. a step five star that in baba reports from rome. just five years after they first got into parliament the five star movement the anti politicians party and the clear individual winners in italy's general election after a campaign that saw them valve's to fight corruption their vote share was more than ten points ahead of any other single party. or a political force that represents an entire nation we can't say it is the same for the others which instead a more geographically based this is very important because representing the entire nation yes it projects us unavoidably towards governing the country towards governing italy. but to form a government they'd have to betray their promise not to go into a coalition. formally the northern league led by matteo salvini also appended the established order with its hardline anti immigrants euro skeptic policies it would

be the biggest player in a right wing coalition led by former premier silvio berlusconi but that group still falls short of being able to form a majority. salvini though insists the result is proof that italians fed up with the status quo the juvekar books. i read in brussels that some people are worried they are wrong european people with the italian vote have taken a step forward towards liberation encloses in cages which are bringing hunger job uncertainty and insecurity. one of the clearest outcomes after five years in power the center left democratic party's popularity has slumped and on monday matteo renzi stepped down as party leader. but they are still the second biggest party in the absence of any other solution they might stay on and governments until another voting system and elections are organized we had the referendum. to change an institution on c.-span and these are free so now we will see for

example what their pipestem want they want to do on these things because in the past they were against it but now the the we are there we know about we were outnumbered. meanwhile silvio berlusconi who had looked like be kingmaker in an extraordinary political comeback seems a diminished figure it's clear that many italians sent a message in this election that they were unhappy with the state of politics here what's not clear is he's going to be in power in the short term and italy has a history of governments that don't last long the next one may be no difference nadine barber al jazeera right. now in a few moments we'll have the weather for you with us and also still ahead here on al-jazeera ethnic violence escalates in the democratic republic of congo as tens of thousands of people displaced. in the first of two reports we look into the lives of people living in poverty in china and all the government is doing to eliminate

it. you are a victim of sexual abuse it's ok it's not your fault alone his plea after a gymnast becomes the first man to accuse a jailed u.s. doctor of sexual abuse. skies by the time half. hour is the sun sets in the city of angels. well the winds are now easing down in madagascar in places searchable cycling demoiselle makes its way further south which you can still see the the eye of the storm there but it's starting to fall apart the winds easing away as it moves down into the colder waters but still follow the legacy of plowed into northern madagascar hundred sixty nine millimeters of rain in the past twenty four hours for the heavy rains that stay in the forecast over the next twenty four to forty six forty eight hours actually more heavy showers then as we go on through wednesday

those showers continue woodsy just run across a similar area pushing across the mozambique channel for a good part of this week ahead so we are going to say that rain extending into were northern mozambique once again pushing across into southern parts of towns never even seen some lovely showers over the past few days continuing into was empowered by sixty six millimeters of rain here again in twenty four hours they'll be a few showers down towards the eastern cape western cape town that states right showers continue across the maybe pushing up into zombie a big downpours here as we go on through the next few days in a few showers to southern parts of angola say some lively showers into god i recently seventy millimeters of rain here in twenty four hours and the showers that set to continue over the next few days anywhere from liberia to the gulf of guinea . the weather sponsored by qatar airways. two often under street. are victims but

a new force is that plane. female police officers are combat sexual assault and domestic abuse. but changing society is a challenge and so is life behind the badge for india as. i described. an act of youthful defiance we've ruled your turn next of the loss of the school will they arrested me at home at four in the morning the electric shock treatment was the worse that triggered a revolution. the arrest of those children sparked it all off which became a battle without and that was the beginning of beyond struggle in syria. the boy who started the syrian war this time on al jazeera.

welcome back you're watching news our live from doha our top story so far today rebels in syria ceased to have rejected a russian offer of safe passage accusing moscow of force displacement russia's backing a syrian government offensive in the rebel held district a short he's eighty people killed on monday. a high level south korean delegation has returned from pyongyang after meeting north korean leader kim jong il state media says kim wants to advance relations and ease military tensions with the side of the talks were focused on averting uclear war. and sri lanka's declared a ten day state of emergency to stop the spread of violence between muslims and buddhists the military's been deployed to the city of candy and a curfew has been imposed after mr moment homes and businesses were damaged once.

aid agencies say tens of thousands of people have been displaced by ethnic violence in the democratic republic of congo seventy nine people were killed in recent days when fighting broke out between rival tribes in northern it to the province and charlotte dallas. a two day march every step taking these homey tribes people further away from their enemies the lender's tribal violence has pushed tens of thousands to leave the villages seeking safety in the provincial capital witnesses say six villages were raised by the rival lendu tribe over the weekend they say linders went house to house killing him is before burning their homes unicef says more than forty six thousand children are on the run. it could be going up lenders are chasing us from our village with their arrows and guns machetes and deadly weapons if you're not able to run they kill you many people

weren't killed i'm only alive because i was able to run away we left so many dead bodies in the bush where we were hiding. now they are hiding in borneo next to the main hospital more than sixty thousand people have set up camp here and less than a month many more a sleeping with host families in the town and sheltering in schools and churches over two years some two hundred thousand people have fled their homes scared of lendu hema clashes. we don't see peace in our region or even in the presence of a government we don't feel safe because we're suffering and dying from insecurity as women we don't have peace at all this is however by leaving everything behind burned by militias. hey mccaskill herders lenders of farmers the long standing in amaze who often fight over who owns what land they first clashed in one thousand nine hundred ninety two before it is still a hit with tens of thousands killed in the early to thousands the conflicts amid on

but this is an escalation not seen in years. d.-r. sees a minister of the in teria visited the area on monday he said to provide solutions to the upsurge in insecurity bahamian youths don't trust the government they say the army has lift the front line leaving borneo vulnerable to attack. they want guns to defend themselves all they have is bamboo. shallot ballasts al jazeera. zimbabwe has banned imports of processed meats from south africa following an outbreak of listeria there the world health organization says the problem is the largest in recorded history with at least one hundred eighty deaths in the past year botswana zambia and mozambique have already stopped bringing in meat products from south africa. zimbabwe's president. has been in office for one hundred days now and ever since he took over from robert mugabe last year he has been trying to attract foreign investment to revive the economy however. now reports from harare

zimbabwe ins have mixed feelings about his progress so far. charles my log i was laid off years ago he used to work business which was once one of africa's largest deal factories. charles is now a part time handyman in his neighborhood he says not being able to properly provide for his family is humiliating but we've been living from hand to mouth most of the days. and you know it's so odd for father not to supply for his family. from two thousand and eight up to today the steel factory where charles worked is now an industrial graveyard it used to employ more than five thousand workers and produced a one million tons of steel annually now zimbabwe imports four hundred million dollars worth of steel every year the president is under pressure to deliver his administration insist it is making progress repairing relations with western powers

and international financial institutions what was been sold by this government is the promise of change that although they have been part of the old regime seem to be committed to some form of change and some traction and also to be fresh out of the eighty three promises we've seen fluxion around thirty three issues but opposition politicians say not much has changed in the one hundred days as when i got took over from robert mugabe so you missed that opportunity by failing to affirm a government that was consistent with the spirit of the people really does been downward now it's business as usual the public is very skeptical reviving dilapidated infrastructure needs foreign direct investment the us has extended targeted sanctions for another year say not much has changed since managua took over the sanctions were imposed nearly twenty years ago for alleged human rights abuses economists warn this could scare away potential investors industry experts

a real economic recovery could take at least three years right now people can access money from banks and the unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world after years of neglect some roads are getting a facelift some people say that's a small positive. fine but political analysts say the road to real economic recovery in zimbabwe will be long and bumpy. saudi arabia's crown prince says met egypt's coptic pope in cairo during a three day tour of egypt is the first time a saudi leader has been to the spiritual center of the egyptian orthodox christian community it's also the first trip abroad for mohammed bin solomon since he became heir apparent last year he's due to me in london on weapons day. evidences suggesting a businessman with links to the united arab emirates tried to convince the u.s. president to sack rex tillerson leaked e-mails obtained by the b.b.c. found elliot brody a major trump fundraiser wanted to listen out for not supporting the u.a.e.

backed blockade against castro his roster of. u.s. citizens have the constitutional right to lobby the government but they have to obey the law when they do so on behalf of another country please write news reports say the special counsel for the russia investigation robert muller has expanded his work to include those who may be lobbying on behalf of the united arab emirates the new york times says muller has already interviewed this man businessman george nader about his ties to the iraqi government and his meetings with white house officials the news reports also say nader knows another u.s. businessman elliott brody brody too has u.a.e. ties according to the b.b.c. broidery reportedly lobbied to president donald trump in october to support the blockade against qatar to hold secret talks with the crown prince and to fire

secretary of state rex tillerson because he opposed the blockade to be clear there is no indication moller is investigating broidery. what analysts like interesting is the extent of the influence the emirates hold inside washington it seems to have invested so much good is now this overconfidence that they can have their way into the us administration and to the extent that. they were trying to get to the head of some because of his position toward the gulf crisis at the same time what is a lot of is not an act of regular or national role being part of the game in washington but it's rather you have two agents any of us. and george made that hole or trying to establish a diabetic can link between trump and mohammed have been is

a good. there's also the question of whether the president's initial support for the blockade was in any way influenced by his son in law jared cushion or news reports say a few weeks before the blockade began a family business tried and failed to get a businessman from a car to reinvest or all of this comes as it becomes clear muller is investigating the communications of everyone close to the president and wants trump's communications to on monday one of those former aides repeatedly turned up on american television to say he would not comply with out so we would take it what they want i think it would be funny if they arrested thank you very much we nunberg runs the risk of being jailed if he doesn't cooperate in fact that can't be ignored as the mole or investigation grows beyond the russia question and into other countries as well. al-jazeera washington. thousands of teachers have

gone on a forty eight hour strike in argentina on the first day of school they march towards the education ministry to demand better salaries new schools and more resources the president has offered a fifteen percent pay rise but teachers say that's not enough and doesn't keep pace with inflation. venezuelans have remembered president will charge on the fifth anniversary of his death leaders of latin american countries that are part of the n.t. u.s. bloc or among those attending the event in caracas they rejected peru's decision to ban president from next month's summit of the americas and neighboring countries are alarmed at the deepening economic crisis and food shortages and murderers call for an early presidential election without any credible opposition. canada says u.s. plans for tariffs on steel and imports are absolutely unacceptable the prime minister justin trudeau has told donald trump's has told donald trump that tariffs

will hinder renegotiation of the north american free trade agreements the latest trade deal talks ended in mexico city with little success has gone home. even from three thousand kilometers away washington d.c. president trump managed to attend the seventh round of nafta negotiations we are renegotiating nafta as i said i work and if we don't make a deal terminate nafta that would be i would imagine one of the points that we're going to go she added will be tariffs on steel for canada and for mexico. he already announced plans to impose tariffs on steel imports from around the world that kind of durham mexico felt that as the us is partners in the nafta free trade bloc they should be sent to canada was especially displeased should restrictions be imposed on canadian steel and aluminum products canada will take appropriate response of measures to defend our trade interests and our workers they've been

decimated president trump indicated he could be flexible if mix going canada capitulate another sticking points in the negotiations they include an increase in auto parts made in the us better fix can labor standards to make the u.s. workforce more competitive and the clueless ending nafta every five years the common ground on those issues has been extremely hard to find the us has indicated that the time is running out president trumps announcement as made already tough and slow moving the go show even more difficult unless canada and mexico give the united states exactly what it wants the future seems uncertain for nafta john homan how does it or mexico city. chinese leaders are trying to further reduce poverty levels by encouraging millions more people than were all areas to move to the cities but not to be where migrant workers are being forced to leave others who remain in the capital are struggling to cope with the high cost of living in china correspondent. you zong you is having

a good afternoon he reckons he'll of made around ten dollars by the end of it he collects discarded clothes plastic and scrap metal anything he can sell to recyclers. you shows me his home a room measuring just over five square metres in the rent one hundred dollars a month to economize the electric heater stays off which means it's as cold inside as out a dangerous smash of exposed wiring loops around the room he washes outside where there's also a public toilet. my father had to share this but it was me last the sama my children also visited five of us have to live in this tiny room some of us have to sit on the floor. magine five people squeeze in this room.

he came to beijing almost ten years ago because there was no work in his home province of chandon his wife two daughters and a son all in other cities he see them just once a year. so i first daughter and my second daughter a both in college now the reason i'm working here is to save money for their education lost the chinese new year i didn't go home because i didn't have enough money. he's not bitter about his life and accept it's his choice to live this way. poverty in china is defined as anyone living on around three hundred sixty u.s. dollars a year you makes twelve times that but in beijing costs are much higher than elsewhere . his future though is now uncertain in recent weeks the homes of tens of thousands of migrant workers have been demolished on the grounds they violated

safety codes for years china's rural poor have been encouraged to move into the big cities but here in beijing officials now want to cap the population of twenty three million and that's why so many migrant workers are being forced to leave neil on illegal i don't have any pension or medical care when i have to look after myself or with the no one really cares about you to be honest and never thought about my future china's economic transformation has for now passed him by down the road there's a new shopping mall and apartment complex aimed at beijing's permanent residence a world that you is unlikely to ever know a dream brown al-jazeera beijing. and from urban poverty to rural poverty in the second of our two reports on that series of stories for you adrian brown will report from show and she province the northwest of china where some farmers

a surviving by burrowing into the clay hillsides that's wednesday from seven hours g.m.t. here on al-jazeera. now the wreck of a u.s. aircraft carrier has finally been found seventy six years after it was sunk in a second world war battle video shows the u.s.s. lexington is remarkably well preserved three kilometers below on the seabed lady lexa she was known in the battle of the coral sea in one nine hundred forty two when the u.s. prevented the japanese invasion of australia wreckage was found off the coast of queensland by a search team led by the us billionaire paul allen's. still to come here. with the football tournament the trouble so from the political front line how do you have that story and many more when we come back.

so obvious was going to be that thank you so much pizza world science one of the favorites for football's world cup won't want to say just a hundred days out from kick off at the games showpiece event in russia the most expensive player on the planet's brazil's neymar is on crutches that after surgery on his fractured right foot the two hundred seventy million dollars perry sanjay around striker has now left brazil to begin a three month recovery program doctors say the operation on his mets it's also on sprained ankle but perfectly but he still racing to be fit for brazil's opening well kept going that's coming up in mid june meanwhile is of course missing pearce jeanne's champions league match up against holders royal madrid p.s.g. three one down from the first leg. sampras you always have two

options sit down and cry look it up and make it happen it's true that with naima p.s.g. is much stronger and without name it is still strong but there are other players it's true that it's impossible not to feel the absence of such a player but i insist we are the sit down and cry or we might do and we fight and of course i choose the second option. i think neymar is a unique player with a world status and of course he is important for the team he plays with we have suffered from this in the past years not only since he's been playing with petty things i mean but even before when he was playing a bar stuff i know very well the player that could replace him angel di maria he's a great player so it doesn't change anything for us we have to continue with the same approach and maybe with the marea he will bring more in defense he brings more to the back while being a very complete player just as neymar can be as well liverpool have the option of resting some key players for the second leg of their time with pole side the

english side winning the first leg in portugal five nil now the same in the history of the tournament has recovered from being five goals down so when it's all. if i was in our dressing room i'd want to draw and prove a point and it's very important game for us you know. every every time a political show on there's a expectation of pressure to win the game and we expect to do that every time regardless also for the rest of the season want to keep this wrong going on important a good performance on a monday manchester united leap frogged liverpool into second place in the english premier league to late when a from pneumonia match the sale a three two win at relegation threatened crystal palace united coming back from to melt down to start losing against chelsea is very difficult and to start losing a way of home. against a team that needs points like they do is is very very hard so we kept the faith we kept. we've kept the belief

he made changes the plays the excepts. the risk and then i have to i have to admit that we were a little bit it's. a little bit lucky for us and i think a sure group of players give them one for the club for their teammates. against home plate who leads the world new yorkers and. to come away with nothing from the game as we did on so that it gives to them was the second. for them and proud of the performance or called criticizing really really put every person for the effort to remove the they put in the they disappear in italy. the asian champions league as a football tournament that's found itself on the political front line on monday katz also hosted saudi arabia's our holy in a group game is the first time

a same from a blockading country has been in cats are since the gulf crisis began back in june for a small ripples. a team from saudi arabia in caps hard to play a match with the saudis continuing to impose a blockade on cats our football is breaking through when nothing else is teams from united arab emirates another of the four countries which caught diplomatic relations last june have been drawn against sides from cats are in the continent's top club football competition the asian champions league alley are the first saudi club to play in cats are since the dispute began this current fixture as a home game for the cattery team. the saudi and amorality football associations want it back just like this move to neutral venue a demand that was rejected by the region's governing body asian football confederation. cats r.'s twenty twenty two world cup organizers have urged the

blockading nations to allow their people to play a full parts in what will be the region's biggest ever sporting events. as star player is wesley schneider who's played in a world cup final the milan darby and in el classico for around madrid against barcelona the most capped player in dutch history says politics shouldn't be allowed to interfere with football i still love football every day i'm still driving here with a lot of joy because i still love the game and. i think we we shouldn't think about any political things we just have to be focused on what we are doing on the pitch and nothing on from the side oh alley team members were less keen to talk refusing to comment at a media conference when al-jazeera asked if the team was happy to be in caps are. al graph is chairman is hopeful the asian champions league games can play

a role in easing tensions between the neighbors we should not involve politics to the sport and i'm sure sport is the best thing that can bring the youth you know close up together and i'm sure about it the players to keep all those things behind them their course appearing at the game a late equaliser for saw this game finish in a suitably diplomatic one one draw both teams are in with a good chance of reaching the knockout rounds how do you feel about the result today. on this night the saudi players were happy to allow their football to do their talking far is smile al-jazeera dela the first man has come forward to accuse former us it gymnastics team doctor of sexual abuse and jacob moore says he was being used two years ago while being treated by nasa for a shoulder injury the eighteen year old is one of more than two hundred fifty

alleged victims of nasa has been sentenced to hundreds of years in jail was lloyd a live in a message from the gymnast. but he wants the young men to realize that if you are a thick them of sexual abuse it's ok it's not your fault and you two can come forward with dignity and with strength just like he is answering a williams a step parent sans who competitive tennis with an appearance at an exhibition in new york she appeared in the time bright tends to have a favorite son series the department's week six months on from giving birth to her doll to the twenty three pts on major tournament champion reply at the indian wells events in california. you are going to make your way back starting next week and you've made it a point to set your expectations high which i love why well i think everyone should have high expectations you know you should always believe in yourself even if no one else does and if someone tells you no you just keep going and don't let that stop you so that's kind of how i feel and that's the message i'm spreading on this

journey that ok most sports throughout the day but that i sit and things and thanks very much we'll talk later i'm sure most will use of course for you it's always there al jazeera dot com is the website and it looks more background information to our correspondents will have a live update from zain hold up when we come back in a couple minutes say that. i really felt liberated as a journalist was doing was getting to the truth of that i would say that's what this jobs bill.

the final senator. and then to put it on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dr. five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country haven't truly been able to escape the war. from satellite technology to three d.

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