come out of my car in the exclusive documentary al-jazeera and examine the extraordinary battle for justice in donna. i mean this was difficult not just about whether someone telling someone a spirit is part of any true thing it's how you approach an individual and that's it is a certain way of doing it a conscious. story and trying out. just. some journalists decided to sacrifice their integrity for our code in the media opinion the listening post at this time on al-jazeera. a foreign policy shakeup at the white house former u.s. ambassador john bolton is the new national security adviser as donald trump pushes out mcmaster.

james atlas is live from how it was a coming up shares fall on fears of a trade wars beijing retaliates against other tribes moves to introduce tariffs on chinese imports. police in south korea raced former president the back of the charges of corruption. hapless and helpless why attempts to save whales stranded on an australian beach could be fatal. there's been a major shift in the foreign policy agenda of the white house donald trump has introduced his new point man on national security matters while saying goodbye to the man he will replace the us president tweeted i'm pleased to announce that effective ninth of april john bolton will be my new national security adviser i'm

very thankful for the service of general h.r. mcmaster he's done an outstanding job and will always remain my friend. john bolton is a former u.s. ambassador to the year and he's been an advocate of military action on north korea and iran wants the white house to take a tougher stance on russia you know twenty fifteen new york times opinion column he called for air strikes on nuclear facilities in iran bolton released a statement saying it's an honor to be asked by president trying to serve as his national security advisor except the office of the united states county faces a wide array of issues and i look forward to working with president companies leadership team in addressing these complex challenges in an effort to make our country safer at home and stronger abroad well that kelly is a professor of political science and diplomacy a person university in busan south korea he says chump's administration is increasingly looking like a war cabinet it doesn't mean that we're sort of around the corner from a conflict but this does mean that president trump is going to be getting

a lot more hawkish advice than he got in the first year and we're coming up on some big things like the summit with the north koreans for example the talks themselves will probably be a bust because there's only about two months to prepare for them in the issues between the united states north korea are gigantic the strategic and political divisions are very large so i would be amazed at the trump team which is sort of in turmoil right now right a lot of these guys are sort of new can suddenly pull this together in the next two months my concern is i think what many people worry about is that if the talks with north korea go poorly trump will walk out and say you know that didn't really get us anything and done john bolton and say look i told you we should strike north korea john bones but on the record he said twice in my six months u.s. should attack north korea and he said this on the editorial page of the wall street journal major mainstream publication and that's what i think a lot of people are worried about is that you know john bolton will see only you know sort of a few meager diplomatic steps say they failed and then will strike stock markets in the u.s. and china have plunged of affairs of a trade war between the world's two largest economies beijing is hitting back at

don't trump's order to impose sixty billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese imports scott hyla from shanghai. firing back china responded within hours to president donald trump's announcement of the tariffs beijing said it's planning to impose three billion dollars in tariffs of its own targeting one hundred twenty eight u.s. goods bound for china focusing on agriculture wine fruit nuts and pork products but also recycled aluminum and steel pipes this is china vowed it will not back down from a trade war while insisting the friction should be resolved through negotiations if the dispute continues china says it could damage the broader picture of cooperation between the world's two largest economies it's telling the us to pull back from the brink. it's a destructive move china and the us so will trade lead i think it's going to escalate gradually it will damage the economic relationship between the two countries and that will have

a negative impact on the global economy both nations have said they're going to start legal action through the world trade organization here in china's commercial capital shanghai there's growing concern over a trade war with the u.s. they're worried about jobs in their worried about chinese businesses. so it may affect the employment in china since export is a big part of china's economy there's a lot of low and industry for the many people's jobs a dependent on exports. so i watch a lot of news of course china will fight back but the point of doing business is that we both we it doesn't work if america is the only leader china has to protect is. the increased trade tension could prove to be a challenge for chinese president xi jinping who by a measure passed during the national people's congress earlier this month can remain as leader indefinitely a big trade war with the u.s. could slow china's rapid growth critical to his long term vision it's got harder

al-jazeera shanghai. syrian rebels in eastern goods have agreed to a truce in the southern part of the enclave the area was one of three parts controlled by rebels but fighters in herat surrendered on thursday the latest ceasefire deal took place in urban and and in duma further north thousands of civilians continue to escape heavy airstrikes the fighters from harassed are on their way to live which is the last rebel held province in syria russia brokered the deal and is involved in negotiations elsewhere in eastern guta. attention of cease fire earlier this month broke down the area is undergoing renewed meant to say dozens of people have been killed by white phosphorus. as a story from beirut. there is an uneasy calm in the southern pocket the rebel controlled southern pocket. that ceasefire seems to be holding there were reports of violations overnight but in general it is holding. the rebel

faction that is controlling this southern area is in the with the russian military the cease fire was agreed to allow both sides to quote finalize the talks this is according to. they're saying what they're seeking from the russian military is safe . for the civilians but they are close to a deal and that deal is going to involve the fighters and their families and civilians who want to leave. the northern and north western province of. this is what exactly is happening in harasta that's in the west of. the rebel factions there are one hundred agreed to lay down their arms and more than one thousand five hundred people have already been bussed. up to seven thousand five hundred people are expected to leave these evacuation deals really amount to a surrender of the united nations criticize the search deal saying this is forced displacement but we've seen these in the past when the government to an area and

bombs that into submission really have little choice the rebel factions saying that they had no other choice they were surrounded and the suffering of the civilians were really enjoying a lot of suffering hundreds more than a thousand people killed so the situation is catastrophic for those trapped inside these rebel pockets but no we are expecting the russian military to announce a deal any time today more than fifty thousand people have fled in recent days aid agencies say conditions in camps are basic and people are living in fear. you know people have endured four years of siege and been without access to humanitarian aid and education health care medical attention for a prolonged period of time and what they're telling us is that they're not only fearful of what they've just experienced but they're very concerned about what yet to come and what they've endured in this evacuation process demonstrates a lack of options in terms of accessing safety relocation to areas that are outside

of ongoing hostilities they fled amidst ongoing shelling and only through humanitarian pas can be really begin to be safe in orderly evacuations and many of the people that were serving have not been able to flee under the same circumstances they've lost children they've lost family members and they've endured dramatic levels of violence particularly in the past couple of weeks in eastern we've seen a pause in certain areas but i think the duma in particular demonstrates that there is still ongoing very active and violent still ities and people continue to be displaced there's really no safe place in a lot of these areas this point families report that they've been sheltering in underground shelters in basements that even have not been able to be limited from the violence so there's a lot of uncertainty about about what the future holds but i would say that what we really need to see now is an immediate and sustained humanitarian positive cross the entire on clean that's been split up into a number of parts and

a lasting cease fire is really the only way to ensure we are protecting civilians and ending human suffering for those within eastern ghouta and elsewhere protests against the latest police shooting of an unarmed black man in the united states has disrupted a major basketball game demonstrators block the entrance to the sacramento kings stadium in california and blocked russian traffic police shot stephen clock twenty times because they say they feared he had a gun but he was unarmed. tens of thousands of students in the u.s. will converge on major cities on saturday to demand gun reform organizers say the march for our lives demonstration could be one of the largest of its kind and as andy gallagher reports it will be led by students from a florida school where seventeen people were shot dead last month i'm not saying they're not anybody else. in the week since this community lost seventeen lives to one of the worst school shootings in u.s.

history the push for change has been relentless the march for our lives demonstration will be the biggest protest to get a one led by the students from marjorie stillman douglas high school you guys are the change that is going to be the tipping point to help that happen as they make their way to washington to demand gun reform many are excited about the global response to their cause just to see the unity of our our country and our world because the march is now on seven counts all seven continents that i think is awesome so i'm just glad to see that all happen. right away but. the national debate these children started has led to good reform in florida but students say they won't stop until assault weapons a band it's an ambitious goal but want to organize a say isn't beyond this generation and someone underestimate you you can come in from a position of power that they're not expecting and that's really what's happening so i'm just you know riding the tide and watching and it's awesome to fight for

what campaigners call common sense gun reform will be long and difficult parents say the march for our lives protest is just the beginning they're very aware of what's happening in their surroundings what has happened what they've made their own we're proud of them speaking up and really. hurting in the hours before the march the message from these students is simple i hope that this gets to every single person as much as we can so we can finally get make a change in this country for the students of marjorie stoneman douglas high school getting here is taken weeks of planning. dogged determination many of the students and still dealing with the grief of losing friends and teachers with their eloquence and determination has brought them this song and on saturday their voices will be joined by countless others their message will resonate like never before. washington as was led on al jazeera the. support behind britain in the escalating round of the poisoning of a russian double agent. plus

a new tax on the menu in somalia as the. custom isn't business. the usual scattering of showers across southeast asia be a few downpours coming into central parts of the philippines but the philippines shouldn't be too bad there is some pleasant sunshine coming through scattered across northern parts of borneo interest. that's a western leg of smartest still seeing some lives just up around the gulf of thailand some wet weather making its way across here by kolkata around thirty three degrees further south i suspect that's where the heaviest downpours will be into malaysia back down into more big downpours as we go on through sunday then heavy rain continues across northern parts of australia here because we do have

tropical cyclone nora flirting with us just around the gulf of carpentaria loss of clout have begun violent storms heavy downpours and then this system here that is of course marcus very close to western australia should stay offshore but it's said he pulling in a lot of wet and windy weather in the process there we go with nora swirling away across northern parts further south still very warm down into adelaide but twenty two celsius in melbourne almost making its way through twenty one celsius this week on through sunday but some places a cloud of rain make their way towards new zealand has of course affected the cricket dry. by sunday. lost and a bender. found and saved. one when he's reveals how one charity is giving pakistan's lost children a new chance and luck on al-jazeera. al-jazeera

. where ever you. and watching out is there a mind of our top stories this hour u.s. president ali trump has named foreign policy hardline a john bolton as his new national security adviser he replaces a chart macmaster and is the third appointee in just over a year bolton has been an advocate of military action on north korea and iran. china is planning to impose thirty three billion dollars worth of tariffs on

american products it's in relation to the u.s. president's order for sixty billion dollars of levies on chinese imports u.s. and asian stock markets have plunged over fears of a trade war. syrian rebels are nice to have agreed to a truce in the southern part of the enclave fighters in another part of a roster surrendered on thursday they are on their way to which is the last rebel held province in syria. another former president of south korea is in jail accused of corruption lee myung bak has been placed in solitary confinement because prosecutors fear he may destroy evidence the seventy six year old success is also awaiting trial after she was impeached last year kathy novak reports from seoul. he's yet another former south korean president accused of abusing power prosecutors arrived at lehman buck's house in the middle of the night to arrest him over corruption allegations he denies the charges but in

a written statement says he feels a guilty conscience and that responsibility lies with him not others he apologized to the south korean public as he faced prosecutors last week. when i stand before you with a tragic i offer my deepest apology to the people who are causing worry amid times when the economy is in hardship and the security situation on the korean peninsula is serious the charges against him include among other things bribery embezzle meant and tax evasion please accused of improperly receiving about ten million dollars from people and institutions including the country's spy agency as well as send sung south korea's largest conglomerate corruption allegations were first made during the two thousand and seven election campaign despite that the popular former mayor of seoul won and became president the following year he faced challenges almost immediately with protests over american beef imports and later the killing

of south koreans which was blamed on north korea after least served his five year term as president fellow conservative puck in haye was elected she was impeached and jailed last year a verdict in her corruption trial is expected next month. all of the seven former presidents who led south korea since one thousand nine hundred eighty have faced some form of corruption scandal either directly or because of allegations against their family members five including li and park have had to personally face prosecutors mass protests that led to parks impeachment seem to demonstrate support for powerful politicians to be held to account and a recent public opinion poll taken before least chance trial found almost eighty percent of south koreans want to stern punishment. a shared understanding is being created among the public and politicians the mechanisms should be built to check if the person is a power reasonably official and i think it will improve one by one lee myung bak

says he hopes to be the last south korean president to face this kind of prosecution kathy novak al-jazeera saw. bruce vice president martin visit car as arrived in labor to be inaugurated as the new president is due to replace president petro public kocinski who stepped on a wednesday following corruption allegations prove his congress is still debating whether to accept the resignation people protested in lima on thursday to call for new elections and the removal of corrupt politicians twenty three british diplomats expelled from russia are on their way to the airport as the deadline for them to leave moscow approaches they were asked to leave in retaliation for the u.k.'s expulsion of the same number of russians diplomats over a spy dispute britain has accused the kremlin of being behind a nerve toxin attack on a former russian double agent and his daughter in england earlier this month of the year appear in the union has recalled its ambassador to russia e.u.

leaders backed britain's assessment that russia was likely beyond the poisoning of surrogate scripts to be phillips joins us from brussels now where many of these leaders are meeting tell us more about this tit for tat and how it's playing. the support that the u.k. is now getting. will i think the u.k. jane will be very pleased with the support which it's received from the other e.u. twenty seven countries despite the fact that the rights that negotiations are going on the e.u. has managed to show that when it comes to security and what it perceives as the russian threat it can get other countries to rally behind it we were just hearing some mention remarks from leo varadkar of course the the prime minister of the republic of ireland on his way in and he said that britain had presented its intelligence evidence to reason may have presented our intelligence evidence other countries had presented their intelligence and that there had been unanimity amongst the e.u.

twenty eight about upgrading the language making it tougher against russia and he said he and other e.u. countries will be looking next week at following britain's example and expelling what are officially diplomats the british believed to have been in this case intelligence officers or spies in plain english looking at making similar expulsions from other european countries in a bid to disrupt russia's intelligence network across europe so that might be an interesting development to follow next week and as far as brakes is concerned what sort of developments are we looking at that. will on bret's it to reason they won't take part in in those discussions schill leave we expect that will be a rubber stamping of the transitional arrangements which were agreed in talks last week frankly britain has given ground on so many crucial issues how much money they're going to give how they're going to accept e.u.

fishing quotas the rights of e.u. citizens during that period that it's not to be too much that's very contentious there and then in theory give michel barnier the e.u. breaks it negotiator the green light to to start top. about a future trading arrangement with the u.k. and that is something that the u.k. has been waiting for for a long time it does suggest that there is some progress on the way but lots of caveats difficult cans have been kicked down the road not least of course the irish border question and in e.u. parlance nothing is agreed until everything is agreed by bonnie raitt thank you. families of people killed in tunis is revolution say they are still seeking justice seven years on. a mother who says the regime is responsible for her son's death in a law office in tunis a mother grieves for her son. fatima says she'd originally sent her two boys to

europe because she was worried about what might happen to them in tunisia amid her oldest child had only returned home for a short visit as to how do you that. he wanted to stay for two or three months and then the revolution happens the regime of ben ali killed him and the regime that i made my son's escape from my son came back and they killed him the lawyer let me out for a hand he represents fatah my and many others who lost family lives and want to see them held to account let me as brother was also killed during the revolution and it's an honor for me to defend these people because of my belief in this case that before everything else it's personal for me. many tunisians have for years now also demanded the government issue a formal list of those killed in the revolution and while the preliminary list of names was prepared in two thousand and eleven it was never released the issue is a huge bone of contention for relatives of those who died in tunisia's revolution

they can't believe an official list has yet to be published and say their loved ones won't get the justice they deserve until the matter is finalized. those wounded during the revolution are also seeking redress come out to honey says he was shot by security forces during a protest. he shows us his wounds and explains how he won't be able to get proper medical care unless the government includes his name on a list of those injured during the revolution. and look better every time i knock on the door the ask me why i'm coming now and tell me that i have to wait until the final list gets published see have been said that even who heads up tunisia's truth and dignity commission tells us a list of those injured and killed during the revolution should have been released years ago she says that her group which is tasked with investigating crimes that go back decades will publish a register of victims spanning from one nine hundred fifty five until the end of two thousand and thirteen the high yet the victims of what happened during the

revolution will find themselves included in this register of victims of persecution which will be published by the commission in the unified register as a victims of persecution. back at the law offices the work will continue and the grief will go on seven years after a revolution that shook the region they say that for them not much has changed. tunis tunisia going to a restaurant in somalia has become more expensive and customers don't like it they're angry at the government imposing a five percent sales tax the first for nearly thirty years the tax is a key condition of the international monetary fund to relieve somalia's debts reports mogadishu. we're going to shoes leave the beach is a sign of somalia's growing sense of optimism at its coffers with shaded table sit clients mainly middle mogadishu's welfare elite sipping expensive coffee but these

days they're having to pay more for their food and drinks the government has just introduced a five percent sales tax for the first time in almost thirty years many are unhappy . i just paid three dollars of tax yet i don't trust this government they have mismanaged revenue from other sources including don't know if child this tax will not be different from the reaction of somali traders to the tax has been more dramatic. shops and stores in mogadishu spalling but car market which is a lifeline for the city and surrounding areas remain closed for days the traders were particularly and good by the government's insistence that they pay the value added tax up front for the mother said we had meetings with the prime minister in his finance minister to voice our complaints the meetings was inconclusive we then decided to shut our businesses in protests and businesses have since really opened signaling a fast round of victory for the government in one of their last we explain that

there was no going back on this tax and that it must be paid for the sake of the nation of somalia people relented and now more and more people are stepping forward to register for taxation government officials say revenue from taxes will be distributed across the regions of the country to fund health care education infrastructure and security tax collection is also a key condition for that relief for somalia from the international monetary fund and the world bank. somalia also around four billion dollars most of it interest and penalties or nearly three decades all made to the former military government whose overthrow in one thousand nine to one plunged the country into years of lawlessness. that makes it almost impossible for mogadishu to access money from international organizations like the i.m.f. forcing it to rely almost entirely on aid for its budget with some some soft exist

please the optimism about somalia my top i'm back on the road to solve reliance but in taxing a nation the little office or maybe some almost three decades officials admit they're facing a bill into. it alters you know. at least thirteen people have died and twenty seven more injured during an apartment fire and vietnam's city hundreds of firefighters were needed to get the blaze in the control after broke out early on friday morning local reports say most people died from suffocation or from jumping out of the building. and shockingly has been issued to some as in western australia after one hundred thirty whales died after becoming stranded on a beach rescuers are tempting to refloat another twenty which are still alive the stranding in heaven and bay is nine years to the day after eighty whales and dolphins died in another mass breaching andrew thomas reports. a fisherman found the pilot whales in distress early on friday morning. volunteers

ran to the beach but couldn't save many one hundred thirty have died the ones i see go back in the water they actually come back around and beechen cells again i watch one of them happen three times and still he wouldn't see local government workers brought trucks onto the beach to remove the carcasses. but why people are bringing up. the whales beached themselves in exactly the same place as a group of eighty did on exactly the same day into. thousand and knowing no one knows for sure why whales beach themselves these days in new zealand last year some think it group tried to rescue a single while and get stuck themselves others speculate they get confused by

submarine sonar rough weather is another possibility scientists will carry out all top seeds on the carcasses to look for clues an opportunity like this is one that vets and other marine experts will definitely take on board so they can learn more about what these animals a.t.u. as well as the different sizes if there was a family say or a lot of fails males young calves this provides really good interesting information that scientists will benefit in the long run the priority now is clearing the carcasses before they float away dead whales in the sea attracts great white sharks close to shore and people police are warning them not to go swimming andrew thomas al jazeera sydney. the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. president on his name foreign policy hardline a john bolton a new national security adviser he replaces h.r.

mcmaster and is the third appointee in just over a year bolton is a former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. he's been an advocate of military action on north korea and iran. professor robert kelly from tucson university in south korea administration is increasingly looking like a war cabinet. nikki haley you want to basser of the united states is a is a woman talk at this point might pump a are the likely replacement board secretary or secretary of state who was just recently fired is also a hawk on north korea and iran and john bolton the new national security advisor is to this doesn't mean that we're sort of around the corner from a conflict but this does mean that president trump is going to be getting a lot more hawkish advice than he got in the first year and we're coming up on some big things china is planning to impose three billion dollars worth of tariffs on american products it is in retaliation to the u.s. president's order for sixty billion dollars of levies on chinese imports fears of a trade war already wiped billions of dollars from the value of stock markets in

the u.s. and asia twenty three british diplomats expelled from russia are on their way to the airport they were asked to leave in retaliation for the u.k.'s expulsion of the same number of russian diplomats ever aspired to spew to britain is accuse a criminal of being behind a nerve toxin attack on a former russian double agent and his daughter in england earlier this month. proof vice president martin his car has arrived in lima to be in or great as the new president is due to replace president pedro public step down on wednesday following corruption allegations peru's congress is still debating whether to accept the resignation of. syrian rebels a nice to go to have agreed to a truce in the southern part of the enclave fights as in another part harasta surrendered on thursday that they are on their way to lip which is the last rebel held province in syria russia brokered the deal and is involved in the gauche

ations elsewhere in eastern. those are the headlines the news will continue in half an hour's time but first of all it is one on one east. this is really an attack on the truth itself is a lot of a sudden the standing of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. in pakistan thousands of children are abandoned on city streets every. day are the countries wanted children babies born out of wedlock are considered shameful some even after dark on piles of rubble.