i can help them with lots of things but mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life it part of life is culture. on the benefit of saddam people. so bad they see being bored and all the other guys. who witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. another foreign policy shakeup at the white house the new national security adviser john bolton has previously backed attacks on iran and north korea.

this is a live from the heart was a british diplomats are on their way out of russia and the latest move in the spy round with britain. has fallen on fears of a trade war as beijing retaliates against donald trump's moves to introduce tariffs on chinese imports thus are a mind of a bygone era iraq tries to get its rail system back on track. it's been a major shift in the foreign policy agenda of the white house donald trump is introduces new point man on national security matters while saying goodbye to the man he will replace the u.s. president treated i'm pleased to announce that effective ninth of april john bolton will be my new national security advisor i'm very thankful for the service of

general h.r. mcmaster has done an outstanding job and will always remain my friend. the new united states national security adviser is making his return to politics next month john bolton brings with him vast expense and a lot of criticism of the test game has more on this controversial pick to join the trump cabinet. john bolton has worked for three republican presidents and caused controversy even among members of his own party now he joins a trumpet ministration apparently in turmoil analysts say bolton is a hard liner and donald trump is sending a very clear message by choosing him instead of a more moderate voice mr bolton didn't see a war that he didn't like you know when he was at the united nations as an acting ambassador there because he couldn't get confirmed by the senate he said you know diplomacy is useless it can might as well float out into the sea and sink i think

what we can see is an escalation of tensions bolton has a history of imposing american military might he advocated the invasion of iraq in two thousand and three while embassador to the u.n. he took a hard line against north korea and iran by pushing for sanctions in two thousand and seven the united states has followed a policy for over four years centrally deferring to european efforts to negotiate with iran i think it's clear that that policy has failed the season politicians return to the front line of foreign policy gives him an opportunity to shape the president's views on north korea and iran at a critical moment trump has spoken of wanting to rip up the iranian nuclear accord and he's due for a much anticipated meeting with north korean leader kim jong un in may the talks with north korea go poorly trump walk out and say you know that didn't really get us anything and done john bolton to say look i told you we should strike north

korea john bones but on the record he said twice in the last six months the u.s. should attack north korea even within trump's inner circle there's disagreement. whether bolton is the right man for the national security job is ideology is thought to be aligned with his boss he's already tried to ease fears that he pushed the united states into another conflict saying he will be one voice among many who are advising the president and there should be a free exchange of ideas as an ever growing number of trumps right hand men and women have learned bolton's biggest challenge may be keeping the continued faith of president trump and his job natasha. bolton released a statement soon after his appointment saying it is an honor to be asked by president trump to serve as his national security advisor except the office of the united states country faces a wide array of issues and i look forward to working with president trunk and his leadership team in addressing these complex challenges in an effort to make

a country safe at home and stronger abroad i mean here is a senior fellow at the ism fire as institute for public policy at the american university of beirut he says bolton's appointment reflects the trump administration's america first ideology. it's going to be good for the right wing ideological hardliners militant america first people. neo conservative types who used to be much more powerful ten years ago and now have having a bit of a resurgence in places here and there there is a kind of ultra nationalists pro israeli groups will be happy anti immigrant to muslim groups will probably be happy he has taken clear public positions on all these issues and most of the political establishment in the us thinks that he is a bit too much on the right hardline right his support like trump's is probably

maybe around thirty percent among among the public and we'll probably hear people in the republican party speak up occasionally here and there. but the reality is that he is the national security adviser. and some people think maybe the responsibility will temper him but that wasn't the case when he was at the united nations on the us ambassador some years ago. now we are getting reports of a hostage situation in southern france involving a man claiming to eisele police are responding to the shooting in a supermarket in the town of trip it's believed a policeman has been hurt in the incident those of the dea says we have so far but is trying to have more on this when a correspondent joins us now from paris what he hearing about what's going on in attachment. well details are just starting to come through it

seems that there could be two incidents here in southwest france but they are connected the first reports from local authorities were that there were four riot police who were out actually exercising so they weren't in their uniforms but they were out exercising early this morning near the city of kept on when a man seemed to approach them it seems according to local authorities that he was actually following the policeman and he opened fire now one of the police officers was injured some time later around eleven o'clock local time in another town called tubb i should say or no it's excuse me this information just coming through it's about five kilometers away from calcutta and a man it seems then took some hostages in a local supermarket a super you supermarket now a large police operation is ongoing local authorities say that they believe it is the same man that opened fire on those police officers some time earlier and now

the minister of the interior ministry i should say here in france has put out a message. people to stay away saying that there is a large police operation going on and local authorities and french media are reporting that the man in question has has said that he is. carrying out this hostage taking in the name of eisel but as i said that information is just coming through really is early days but it does look as if there is quite a critical situation happening now in the southwest of france doesn't it possibly too into the sort of thing yet obviously we know that the security alert is high in france and people have been warned be alert we'll get back to natasha we'll get more details thank you. twenty three british diplomats expelled from russia are on their way to the airport they were told to leave in retaliation for the u.k.'s expulsion of the same number of russian diplomats in the wake of the scribal

poisoning britain has accused the kremlin of been behind the nerve toxin attack on a former russian double agent and his daughter in england earlier this month when a challenge as in all from moscow moscow is is carefully curating its message at the moment and the message that it wants as many people around the world to believe is that it is the injured party in all of this to. come to the men and women were hurt in a foreign land and they just want some answers themselves and they want to cooperate and they're basically being sprues announced by the british with its kind of anti russian hysterical position so the russian position today regarding the recall of the e.u. ambassador is that this is a deeply regretful move it says that the you know i think kingdom is essentially convincing countries to go along with it and the russian position and

russia doesn't have any idea what's going on because the u.k. is just not talking to it and is doing things behind russia's back and it wants that to change one of the phillips's more from brussels where the european union's recalled its ambassador to russia. it diplomatically things have gone very well for britain here to leo varadkar of the irish to shock the irish prime minister britain presented its evidence to resume a presented her evidence intelligence evidence when the e.u. twenty eight sat down last night it seemed that that evidence carried some weight and it moved both him and mccraw of france has a micro france to urge everyone around the table let's let's change the language that let's make it tougher then as you've said they've also agreed to recall the e.u. and bastard and what's interesting is we're hearing from european heads of government

that they will look at the possibility of taking similar unilateral action in the coming days to that which britain took of expelling russian diplomats from london diplomats who the british say were intelligence operatives in plain english spies and the british have been urging e.u. partners here to take similar measures that would disrupt russia's intelligence network across europe and you might say despite breaks it britain has managed to show that the e.u. will show solidarity on this issue and is convinced by the british argument syrian rebels a nation go to have agreed to a truce in a southern part of the enclave not the area was one of three parts controlled by rebels but fighters in harasta surrendered on thursday the latest cease fire deal took place and been an. and in duma for the no one thousands of civilians continue

to skate heavy air strikes the fighters from iran on their way to live which is the last rebel held province in syria russia brokered the deal and is involved in the gauche ations elsewhere in eastern. a tentative ceasefire earlier this month and duma broke down the area is undergoing renewed bombardment activists say dozens of people have been killed by white phosphorous then harder as more from beirut. a cease fire is now in place in the southern pockets of eastern that rebel enclave now divided into three pockets as a result of the government offensive a cease fire in place to allow for negotiations between the russian military and the rebel faction in control of those southern towns. the group issuing a statement saying that they're entering these negotiations to end the suffering of the people they're refusing to say whether or not they're willing to surrender but they do say we are ready to make any deal at whatever cost at the end of the day we

know that the russian military in the syrian government has only one proposal on the table and that is a to surrender. man if they do surrender they will be the second group because already. has reached a deal with the russian military the evacuation of fighters and their families this is going from the town of how they're being bussed to the town of in the north of the eastern enclave in the town of duma which is besieged by government forces which is in control of that area still refusing to surrender still putting up a fight is being bombed into submission there is no cease fire is there civilians who are not afraid to cross into government controlled territory are streaming through the government corridor or the crossing but like we mentioned there are civilians who do not dare cross into government controlled territory because they want to buy the state so it looks like that in it's just a matter of days before the pro-government alliance recaptures eastern at the end

of the day this bombing campaign now in its second month they launched this bombing campaign with this intention in with this intention to recapture the last rebel stronghold really close to the seat of the capital the u.s. has launched a complaint to the world trade organization of a china's alleged theft of american intellectual property it comes a day after president trump announced he was imposing sixty billion dollars worth of tariffs on chinese imports china's. planning to retaliate with three billion dollars worth of taxes on american exports including pork and steal billions of dollars are being wiped off the value of the stock market shares across the globe as investors fear a trade war between the world's two largest economies some people called america tariff or a mere attacks just use the word reciprocal if they charge us we charge them the same thing that's so it's got to be that's not the way it is for

many many years for many decades it has not been that way and i will say the people we're negotiating with smilingly they really agree with us i really believe they cannot believe they've gotten away with this for so long following trumps and nonsense the dow jones in the u.s. dropped ninety three percent and p. five hundred fell two point five percent investors in asia also gave it a thumbs down hong kong's hang seng closed down nearly three percent and china's shanghai composite index dropped three point four percent japan's nikkei suffered the worst losses fourteen four point five percent here markets have been too weak start and fight in the major indices in germany france and the u.k. all done around one to two percent it's got high there's more from china's financial capital 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 a world trade leader 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 they're worried about chinese businesses. so it may affect employment in china since export is a big part of china's economy there's a lot of low and industry but in many people's jobs at the penny 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 its own interests to. 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 still ahead on. happy birthday mr president to be the man he's about to take on prue's top job

returns have. us helpless and helpless why attempts to save whales stranded on an australian beach often. however we've got lots of spring sunshine across much of north asia now big area of high pressure and that's keeping things settled and sunny at least for the next few days we'll see some decent temperatures coming three fifteen celsius there for some of the value to or sockeye and also across the korean peninsula they go with a big expanse of sunshine as is the case to as we go on into sunday a couple of lovely days in store here even sapporo getting up to eighty degrees celsius not quite as lovely into central parts of china but not say bad here on either southerly winds picking temperatures up in shanghai to about twenty degrees

celsius twenty four there twenty five maybe into hong called but some places of rain intensify you notice and spring showers here as we go on through sunday but to the south it's just a fine and dry and that dry weather comes down across northern parts of the philippines luzon not fancy paddy but for central and southern areas there will be the usual lively showers in the forecast over the next couple of days still some very wet weather into some montra into job more big downpours as we go on into the second half of the weekend but by this station notice for java to cough around thirty two degrees similar temperature in bangkok we should be lucky dry but a little cloudy. scanned the nation to its core and exposed hundreds of cool to fishing. in brides just to show the most dangerous cold movie q one and sometimes take this.

difference to go up a personal fine. as. i have. come back in an exclusive documentary al-jazeera and examine the man extraordinary battle for justice in donna. again a quick look at the top stories and more on the breaking news coming to us of a man claiming allegiance to eisele taking people hostage in southern france it's happened at the supermarket in the town of trip reports a policeman was hurt by the same man in an earlier incident. u.s.

president donald trump was named foreign policy harder than john bolton as his new national security adviser human places a child mcmaster and is the third appointee in just over a year bolton has been an advocate of military action in north korea and iran. twenty three diplomats expelled from russia are returning to britain they were told to leave in. the u.k. as expulsion of the same number of russian diplomats following a spy attack dispute. martin vickery is said to be inaugurated as prue's new president on his fifty fifth birthday the vice president has arrived in the capital lima to fanfare from his supporters he's ready to succeed president petro. to step down on wednesday following corruption allegations but people have been protesting in lima calling for new elections but in the songes a small from the capitol. hill against a.b. are your e-mails at the way that president barack obama will be in the game levels

they say it's a shameful thing for the contrie a president that had promised to love but there's very little they're also furious that congressman they say that the political class is all corrupt and they want all the congressman to leave the most of the. we are angry at so much corruption in the country we don't agree with the president's resignation because now there is instability so if there's no president congressmen should also have to leave all the corrupt congressmen should go all the better said look we're fed up we're tired it's about time the people rise to make a new constitution to have new leaders. well funded and personal approval. for both sides resolutely mindful of the person who would have to take over the presidency and call for the general election an apartment fire in vietnam has killed at least thirteen people some jumped to their deaths or were suffocated by smoke hundreds of firefighters in which human city eventually brought the blaze

under control and the cause is unclear. going to restaurants in somalia has become more expensive and customers don't like it they are angry at the government imposing a five percent sales tax the first for nearly thirty is the tax is a key condition of the international monetary fund to relieve somalia's debts mohamed other reports from 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 that i was any higher i just paid three dollars of tax yet i don't trust the government they have mismanaged revenue from other sources including don't know if child this tax will not be different is 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 get by the government's ancestors that they paid the value added tax up front for the mother most of them and we had meetings with the prime minister in his finance minister to voice our complaint 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 of the last we explain that there was no going back on the stacks 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 are 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 semblance of to exist from now in place this optimism that somalia might up and backed down the road to solve reliance but in taxing a nation that has seen little or fish or lives in almost three decades officials admit they're facing a daunting task mamadou all jersey into mogadishu. a shark has been issued to western australia after one hundred thirty whales died stranded on

a beach rescuers are trying to refloat twenty others which are still alive stranding in hamelin is nine years to the day since eighty whales and dolphins. under 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 go back in the water they actually come back. again i watch one of them happen three times and still you wouldn't see local government workers brought trucks onto the beach to remove the carcasses. but. people are like. the whales beached themselves in exactly the same place as

a group of eighty did on exactly the same day in two thousand and nine no one knows for sure why whales beach themselves these did in new zealand last year some think it group tried to rescue a single whale and get stuck themselves others speculate they get confused by submarine sonar rough weather is another possibility scientists will carry out autopsies 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 eighty you as well as the different sizes if there was a family say a lot of females 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 whites. shops close to shore and people police are warning them not to go swimming

andrew thomas al jazeera sydney in iraq plans are being made to revive the war damaged rail system foreign investment and expertise is needed but any modernizations not expect to drive all what older iraqis say was the network's glorious past in one can reports from baghdad. this was once the pride of iraq baghdad central station. home to the realm network the once reached far and wide across iraq to syria and connecting on to turkey as recently as two thousand and two. iraqi railways began in one nine hundred twelve taking over a small local route built in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine. the invasion by u.s. troops in two thousand and three and then the occupation and the war against eisel since have all taken a toll. a touch of faded glamour remains but we just two services a week to the southern iraqi city of it's a shadow of its former self. in two thousand and ten foreign investors came in the

iraqis bought twelve new chinese trains but i suppose a tax put paid to that reinvestment and rebuilding plan. that so what happened after i still took control over the three major sunni provinces in iraq back then is the deliberate sabotage against the vital railways in the neveh salon had seen and the size destroying the trains and freight trains including the stations and associated workshops and buildings where we are aiming to rebuild what was destroyed by terrorism in collaboration with the ministry of finance and planning and i.m.f. . critics say it's an optimistic assessment so far nowhere near enough money has been allocated for the rail revival the deal with the i.m.f. to provide a five billion dollars for reconstruction has yet to be finalised passengers a few and even then the complaints are many. while we filmed the train broke down

and the service was cancelled. by the moment they usually got out of the trade has not even moved yet and then they told us it's broken down they told us there were no services we only take the train to avoid car accidents on the road as we believe it's safer now the operating staff keep relocating us to other trains there's a lot of missed out when it comes to iraq the roadways the old remember them fondly and the young as part of iraq's history but with the road and travel crucially more convenience and it's unlikely that iraq's roadways will ever match their international. the best rail fans and government leaders can hope for is a regular and well maintained domestic service that might be able to make a profit on al-jazeera baghdad.

the top stories on al-jazeera a man claiming allegiance to i saw has taken people hostage in southern france it's happened at a supermarket in the town of tab the town's mayor told french media that two people had been shot reports a policeman was hired by the same man in an earlier incident let's bring in paul brennan he joins us now live from paris one of the details are you getting about this paul. a fast developing situation here down in the south west of france and it appears that two instance we can now link the both of them the first incident appears to have happened to. a group of police officers were out jogging and a man who was standing next to a car pulled out a weapon a gun and shot at those police officers wounding one of the police officers in the shoulder from the early accounts that we're getting from caucus on it appears that the gun man claimed to be a soldier. i still one saw one officer was wounded in the shoulder

we understand then the incident then appears to move to a nearby town of treb a super supermarket there where we understand there have been two people shot we understand wounded although conflicting reports say they may be very seriously wounded and talk of a hostage situation ongoing that french counterterrorism investigators are now heading down to that area and are taking charge of the investigation for obvious reasons because of the reports about what the man said and it is a an ongoing and very fluid situation the details are kind of emerging as well on i'll have further details for you during the course of the day but yeah it's a serious situation and the police are throwing everything at it yes all right so let's leave it there as we know can turn is terrorism prosecutors are investigating

this incident in southern france seem to be two incidents but they are linked by the same man who claims all appears to be a security officer for eisel in france in ted at the moment at a supermarket where hostages are being held will be keeping an eye on that inside stories up next. saudi arabia and the united arab emirates buying influence in the white house the saudi crown prince is reported to have boasted that he has donald trump's son in no way to his pocket and leaked documents allege a major fundraiser for the president was off of business deals from the gulf to influence us.