official champion no nine hundred ninety two teams two reflections in which has it all there the parents read the qur'an and i happened upon some growth process and one dream dashed by sectarian politics up and stop being about sports it became pure politics zero world looks back at the rise and fall of lebanon's golden age of basketball time out on al-jazeera. and i said you want to say maybe they have to pay. donald trump so just saudi arabia may have to pick up the bill for u.s. forces and sylvia. to al jazeera live from my headquarters in doha with me elizabeth also ahead.

iran's leader hassan rouhani joins the president of turkey and russia for talks on syria's war. beijing promises to head back to the u.s. hikes tariffs on fifty billion dollars worth of chinese imports. and fifty years after the assassination of martin luther king jr we'll take you back to the city where he was killed. donald trump has spoken again of his desire to pull u.s. forces all to servia suggesting that victory is imminent he says he expects to make a decision very quickly but declined to offer any specific timetable well the u.s. has about two thousand troops on the ground in syria and almost every day the

pentagon says there's still a lot of work left to be and stabilize the areas recaptured from it trump says if allies like saudi arabia want america to stay in syria they may have to pay for it alan fischer reports now from washington. the president insists he's never been keen on america's foreign military adventures seeing the cost too much money thank you at a news conference at the white house with leaders of three baltic countries donald trump insisted as a citizen on withdrawing from syria is coming quickly i want to get out i want to bring our troops back home i want to start rebuilding our nation think of it seven trillion dollars over a seventeen year period we have nothing nothing except death and destruction. it's a horrible thing so it's time it's time. to fish really the u.s. mission in syria is to provide advice and support for forces battling against isis the president's latest statement marks a shift from a comment he made just last week at

a political rally in ohio and we're not going the hell out of isis will be coming out of syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now very soon that caught many in the administration by surprise given senior figures have been talking about an extended syria mission as unfinished business as he was speaking across town a senior state department official seem to back up that idea we are in syria fight isis and that is our mission and the mission isn't over and we're going to complete that mission but the u.s. presence costs hundreds of millions of dollars and during the news conference the president turned up the heat on his allies as a single have to share the financial burden saudi arabia. is very interested no decision and i said well you want to say maybe they'll have to pay. oh the idea of the situation in syria could be one of the things discussed during an anticipated gulf meeting hosted by the u.s. this has disappeared reports coming out of washington suggest the unannounced

summit has been shelved there are a number of reasons for any potential delay first of all the u.s. doesn't have a secretary of state at the moment rex tillerson still hasn't been replaced donald trump is planning to meet north korean leader kim jong un in the next couple of months that summit will take a lot of preparation and with a real prospect of no breakthrough in the g.c.c. dispute the americans are why need to invest a lot of time and effort with nouriel return any potential summit could know take place later in the year alan fischer al-jazeera washington. well pro-government airstrikes have targeted a marketplace and serious northwest province and it's reported that dozens of civilians have been killed the town of dahab was hit on tuesday it's hosting hundreds of recently displaced syrians from eastern growth or. father. whether. we are in the city of in the city's open market this market was targeted

by three airstrikes by the syrian regime's jet fighters as we are filming now a number of jets are holding over our heads alongside blaring across the city at. this particular market has always been the target of strikes over there you can see the aftermath of tuesday's shelling this market is the destination of not only the city's residents but also for the people in the neighboring towns and villages dozens were killed and others injured as a result of the bombardment that. as i said this marketplace has always been the prime target and on every occasion it's mainly civilians who are killed or injured and this is also the third day in a row where the city of has come under aerial bombardment and it follows the arrival of a number of evacuees from the one. the city is now back with residents and those displaced from elsewhere in addition to people evacuated into the area.

now the leaders of iran russia and turkey amazing and for a summit on syria's seven year war. and budget five and one a key power brokers in the war and. military presence in syria. russia has are going to speed up delivery of a powerful air defense system to turkey which is alarmed nato allies and the two countries put their woman relationship on display construction of turkey's first nuclear power plant. reports from ankara. it's a special occasion for turkey to be part of the nuclear power generating club this is the site of the twenty billion dollars a q u which is scheduled to begin operations by twenty twenty three the leaders of russia and turkey said it will have a workforce which is already under training in russia it's the first foreign visit by president vladimir putin since he was reelected last month he chose nato member

turkey which has become a staunch russian partner in recent months or so which is it would know when today we're not just inaugurated the first atomic power plant but we're laying the foundations for turkey to have an atomic industry so we're building a whole new sector turkey is a highly developed economic state but this is a new step in the history of a turkish republic. with the power plant the two countries are forging defense economy in strategic ties both countries are working on a major gas pipeline which will provide hydrocarbons with growing energy needs the accused purges of russian s. four hundred missile defense system has been criticized by its nato allies to them between the two countries is worth more than twenty six billion dollars a year and the turkish president is hopeful with russian help he can push the economy to be among the top ten in the world by twenty twenty three trucks or thirty we are enacting many strategic projects together with russia the s four hundred strategic missile defense system and the turk stream pipeline are just some

of the projects we're working on the nuclear power plant is another and we will also address the terror threat and conflict in syria. civilian nuclear technology defense and the economy are sectors where turkey and russia have common interests turkey's geopolitical position plays an important role in its relationship with moscow but ankara is increasingly having to play a difficult balancing act between being a nato ally and partners with a country which many in the alliance see as a threat. and car. or person also commented on this five points an invalid russia which has led to the expulsion of dozens of diplomats he says up to twenty countries can make the nerve agent that was used to poison former double agents. and the u.k. last month. scotland yard because. scotland yard is on record for saying they need a couple of months to complete this investigation within the framework of information i have been given the head of the defense laborde treat which is based

eight kilometers from the location where the incident took place told news agencies that they were not able to detect the country of origin that the agent was from they could not tell if it was manufactured in russia and they were not able to make that clear. well the head of britain's defense laboratories says they haven't tracked down the profiles source off the nerve agent used in salisbury. our job within the whole of this investigation is and was to identify the agent used which is from the family of nova choke their visions we provide that information to the government who have then used a number of other sources to come to the conclusions that they have an end to the diplomatic steps that they have i can only emphasize that our job within this whole . episode if you like is to provide eight scientific facts and evidence and into. which was identification of the agent and that's what we've done. now the threat of

a trade war between the two world's two biggest economies the u.s. and china has escalated after the white house proposed twenty five percent tariffs on billions of dollars worth of chinese imports washington has put out of this target and thirteen hundred chinese products mainly in the technology sector china has promised to head back with measures of the same strength we'll hear from beijing in a moment but first john hendren tells us more about what the u.s. has announced the u.s. trade representative has announced fifty billion dollars in new tariffs on chinese products this is the latest salvo in what threatens to be a trade war this round is over the future of technology the u.s. has targeted thirteen hundred products in the aerospace information technology communications robotics and machinery industry they say this is necessary due to harmful chinese policies that is a reference to china's china two thousand and twenty five plan in which china plans to replace technology imports by domestic products by the year two thousand and

twenty five but the u.s. says that china has misappropriated us intellectual property through requiring joint ventures by unfair licensing rules through buying u.s. tech firms with state funds and through outright theft this all began when president donald trump announced tariffs on aluminum and steel coming out of china china retaliated with tariffs on poor fruit nuts and wine that was specifically tailored to her trump supporters in the farming industry in the middle of the us where he got a lot of his support whether this will result in a rising trade war or whether negotiations will end up with a negotiated solution that remains to be seen about china correspondent agent brown has been monitoring the reaction from beijing. we heard first from china's commerce ministry which issued a statement at six am local time warning that china would respond with

countermeasures of equal intensity we also heard from the chinese foreign ministry which issued a statement warning that the u.s. action was unrealistic and protectionist and was recklessly endangering trade cooperation between china and the united states it seems that the trumpet ministration is targeting industries the form part of president xi jinping made in china two thousand and twenty five strategy this is a move to turn china into a modern manufacturing economy within the next seven years in doing so though he is challenging the big tech icons in the united states and they say that the reason why china has got to the position it's out now is because it's been stealing and replicating their technology u.s. executives here though worry that it's not so much further terrorists that are the big concern it's whether this trade friction could turn into a consumer boycott and we've seen in the past that the chinese consumer can be

a very powerful weapon still ahead on the bus and thousands rally in brazil calling for former president to stop his presence sentence for corruption and. about carrying dozens of the homes of refugees finally lands in malaysia. hello and welcome to international weather forecast well spring is stuffy in the air for many parts of your opiate is going to come with showers as well but temperatures up into the twenty's as we look at the weather conditions through wednesday but sorry some heavy rain across parts of the u.k. into france and switzerland to bright conditions across the iberian peninsula and the somebody flows take a warm up across austria through into parts of poland there with nineteen in warsaw

and even moscow not looking too bad six right into tennessee head on into thursday so about stay still some snow over the northern alps and some more dry conditions moving across western areas for the next hour of low pressure heads in to get towards friday so on the other side of the mediterranean we've got fine conditions along the coast from morocco algeria tunisia looking fine for the towards the east as well less in the way of dust in the air things are generally improving physicality wise car look at highs of thirty one as we head through thursday further towards the south bristol plenty of dust around parts of chutney mali into northern parts of nigeria carry through on the trade winds otherwise some heavy showers across cabal in the bill that could be quite wet at times not across west africa would like to see some scattered showers but lagos in nigeria should enjoy some sunshine with highs of thirty two.

good to have you with us on al jazeera these are our top stories u.s. president donald trump has spoken again of his desire to pull american forces into syria suggesting victory of all i said was imminent trump says if allies like saudi

arabia want america to stay in syria they may have to pay for it the leaders of iran russia and turkey have meeting an encore of four summit on syria seven new war all three a key power brokers in the conflict with a significant military presence and syria and the threat of a trade war between the world's two biggest economies the u.s. and china has escalated after the white house proposed twenty five percent tower of somebody and five dollars worth of chinese imports washington has talked in thirteen hundred chinese products mainly in the technology sector china has promised to head back with measures of the same strength and take a case to the world trade organization. a boat carrying nearly sixty one hundred refugees has reached malaysia the group's journey began from a bang that they should refugee camp as bizarre the refugees were sheltering there among hundreds of thousands of others who fled violence of myanmar lebeau teta through sultan seaver it was intercepted by the time navy stopping on an island in

the krabby province the group was given supplies and escorted on its way the vessel was then spotted and to septa by malaysian mouse hamann for spent in. the waters were docked and stayed there the refugees were given food water and medicine they're now being processed by malaysia's immigration department. has more from blood taken malaysia's state where the one hundred being processed. the rabindra refugees mostly women and children have been brought to this detention center and belong take on the mainland of peninsular malaysia now at this stage they are being held by immigration authorities officials will question them and try and determine whether they were trafficked by human trafficking networks whether they are who they say they are the un refugee agency will also try and determine whether these people are in need of international protection now malaysia does not recognize refugees is not a signatory to the un convention on refugees and as such even those refugees may

have un states as they are not able to access public services such as schools they're not able to. even so many were refugees continue to make their way to malaysia because they see this country with its muslim majority population as a safe haven they already about sixty thousand living in malaysia. now i mean on the record has delayed ruling on the fate of two russians journalists who are currently being detained the decision on whether to dismiss the case has been pushed back to next week and a trial of soyou focused of possessing secret government documents their lawyers say there isn't enough evidence to support those charges or rights groups so they're being targeted for reporting on the crisis well we're joined now by matthew the head of the asia program of article mind in that thrill is ation campaigning for freedom of expression and he's joining us live from baghdad most of you are

very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so as we've said it said that the government is saying that they are possessing illegally possessing secret government documents what do you make of that. would say that the that the details of these this case is murky is probably giving the gun the government the benefit of the doubt we've seen witnesses come into the trial with key facts written on their hand so that they won't forget it these are state witnesses so this seems to be a very clear targeted attack on brave journalists who are reporting on atrocities by myanmar state security forces and what do you make of the use of the official the colonial era official secrets act being used not just in this case but the number of cases that this. government has used to prosecute journalists. yeah that that's right we what we're seeing time and again

is the government using these arcane laws there's a whole raft of arcane colonial era laws that are being used to drop a veil over allegations of government misconduct and really to target journalists and others who are reporting on human rights issues conflicts in the country so we see these as tools that the government is using to oppress individuals who are reporting on human rights issues and what we'd like to see is the government have the political will first of all to amend or repeal those laws but also to beat back the use of those lost to prosecute human rights defenders and journalists and how hopeful are you that these two voices journalists that the court when it does finally hear. or decide on their ruling what you know what what will happen to them . listen what campaigning really hard to make sure that they are not convicted in

a lot of my colleagues in the human rights community or are doing so as well. the case is a sham the there is not facts to convict these these two journalists and so we do hope that they will be released and i think it's our commitment as human rights activists to keep on raising this case and so thank you also for covering this case most of it thank you very much for your time that is matthew joining us live from bangkok. now a second day of severe transport disruption is underway in france rail workers a strike and in protest against president of argument qualms plans labor reforms only a fraction of trains are running leaving many commuters stranded all unions are planning rolling strikes over the next three months they want the government to drop proposed cuts to benefits and pensions. put the rebels have struck a sell the oil tanker in the red sea off ugandans the main port city of whole day

there the whole thing is say they targeted the tanker after an airstrike there that killed at least fourteen civilians including seven children. the president says he wants to send u.s. troops to the border with mexico to stop illegal immigrants until his long promised water water is build is continuing his tough stance against illegal immigration as he demands mexico prevent a large group of central americans from reaching the u.s. hundreds of men women and children are stuck in southern mexico where officials are trying to determine their legal status. if you want to put troops at the border perfect you can put them there but to use us to enforce his policies of fear as if these people were soldiers look at the women look at the women and children fleeing the violence. now thousands of brazilians have protested across the country calling for former president. of the silva to be jailed following has corruption conviction

they were also rival demonstrations in support of the day before the supreme court decides whether he showed his sentence a latin america editor lucien human reports from sao paulo. demonstrators filled. the avenue demanding former left wing president. be put behind bars without delay. tensions are soaring ahead of wednesday's supreme court ruling on whether to accept loose argument that he cannot be sent to jail to serve a twelve and a half year sentence for corruption until he has exhausted all appeals. if you do that is not imprisoned he will return to power and keep stealing he's the leader of them all. as he's known is still the front runner ahead of october's presidential elections if and when he's allowed to run people here say they won't let that happen that the city say they want to send a very strong message to the supreme court that this is just about the former

president they say that about in favor of the us petition would set a dangerous precedent that could lead to the release of scores of high ranking politicians and business leaders. serving jail sentences for corruption but most of lodged appeals hundreds more who've been indicted for corruption could avoid jail for years of the motion is upheld. many here have lost faith in the supreme court as an brazil's other institutions. but sure they have paid off all the judges. to supreme court so we remain free but we are here trying to prevent that. with political passions running so high there's good reason to feel violence ahead of the ruling last week gunman attacked and shot at a campaign bus caravan in which lula was taking part in southern brazil he insists he's a victim of political persecution as the countdown to wednesday's all important judicial

decision begins the pressure on the court for and against sending lula to jail could not be overstated seeing human. video has emerged of australian police punching and kicking a man as they arrested him in two thousand and sixteen the sudanese born man was having a psychotic episode when he assaulted several people in the city of melbourne before trying to hold up a pharmacy armed with a pair says this and initial investigation found that the officers did nothing wrong andrew thomas has more. the man being arrested in this video had just robbed a pharmacy using a pair of open scissors as a weapon and hitting just three people on the street outside even so when the police turn up their brutal one policeman punches him seven times with one fist then switches to punch him twice more with the other before standing and then kicking him in the head he's got on the ground when the placement stamps on his

back now this incident was referred to the police's internal complaints system but that found that the placement involved the done nothing wrong and that's why the lawyer for the man has now released this video to the media saying that the complaint system itself is broken this follows another video released on tuesday of another man arrested on his own front lawn police broke down his dog pepper sprayed him in the face and then beats him on the legs before setting him up with handcuffs on and then hosing him with a high pressure hose pipe in the face to get that pepper spray off they seem to be enjoying. now the lawyer for that man said he never referred that incident to the complaint system because he didn't trust it to take his complaint seriously to take it anyway well police now say they're reviewing both these incidents again in the light of this video these videos becoming public. has been fifty years since the death of civil rights leader martin luther king jr and one of the only surviving

members of his entourage says his death is always a source of pain king was shot dead at the brain hotel in memphis and nine hundred sixty eight by jim james ray he led a movement of nonviolent resistance for the f.b.i. still dr king the most dangerous man in america or jesse jackson was with king when he was killed on tuesday he went back to the hotel with his family. fix your mall or steal. something from within a. pillow we've been through the night tragedy there's been a lot. this week. to. get through a few beers before. to sixty three percent african-american. thirty percent probably. for the purpose of. booking was assassinated during a protest to support black sanitation workers in memphis and as. reports of city

sanitation workers aren't enough a standoff with employers today. back rigidity she. said day that was a goal that. won't you know pick the. people who was hit we go back to the people thank you. back to you that show either way the. we have we have. found the jump was also dangerous eckel cole and robert walker were crushed to death while they were waiting out a rain storm in the back of their trash truck the city didn't care so leach and hundreds of others went on strike in february one nine hundred sixty eight martin luther king visited the city three times to support the workers the second march turned violent after police clashed with some of the protesters to gala row by my

day and i have a raven hidden vine i have to enable row but still leach was grateful and asked the mayor may have not thought of me and my family is him right here not even had all her mare right now he really was the guy sanitation worker that i. if we're going to say listen mr coleman is a welcome here some would have been as mayor right now he has no benefits maurice spikey is one of the union leaders for today's memphis sanitation workers black and white the sanitation workers along with the police and other government employees are in a standoff right now with the city over a new contract what they want better pay and health benefits as well as better working conditions still a problem here after fifty years we asked for can you believe it or not air conditioning in our trucks can you imagine working in

a mess as heat when it's one hundred five degrees out here and you have no refuge from the heat. baxter leach received seventy thousand dollars to cover the retirement pension he didn't get while he collected the city's garbage a blessing he calls it still leach says today's workers shouldn't have to worry about earning an honest day's pay or about being treated with respect due to be a man and showed all who will bowl will be a male the same as i am i'm laying what so that. i'm on my lot no boy the quest for fair treatment seemingly neverending. roselyn jordan zero memphis tennessee. hello again as a problem in the headlines on al-jazeera u.s.

president donald trump has spoken again of his desire to pull american forces out of syria suggesting victory over i saw as eminent. says of allies like saudi arabia want america to stay in syria they may have to pay for it. the leaders of iran russia and turkey a meeting an encore of a summit on syria seven year war all three a key prop powerbrokers in the conflict with a significant military presence in syria. now the threat of a trade war between the world's two biggest economies the u.s. and china has escalated after the white house proposed twenty five percent tariffs on billions of dollars worth of chinese imports washington is targeting thirteen hundred chinese products mainly in the technology sector or china has promised ahead that with measures of the same strength and take the case to the world trade organization a boat carrying nearly sixty one hundred refugees from bangladesh has reached malaysia they're now being processed by immigration staff they've been sheltering

there with hundreds of thousands who fled violence and myanmar. myanmar court has delayed ruling on the fate of two voices journalists who are currently being detained the decision on whether to dismiss their case has been pushed back to next week while law and. queues of possessing secret government documents their lawyers say there isn't enough evidence to support those charges rights groups say they're being targeted for reporting on the crisis. the second day of severe transport disruption is on the way in from work as a striking in protest against president emanuel plans labor forms only a fraction of trains are running leaving many commuters stranded they want the government to draw proposed cuts to benefits and pensions. it's been fifty years since the death of civil rights leader martin luther king jr was shot dead in memphis and nine hundred sixty eight by james ray he led a movement of nonviolent resistance. those are the headlines on al-jazeera

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