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main power brokers in syria's war lay out a vision for the future of the country but it's short on details. indonesia's national oil company takes the blame for a huge oil spill and file borneo. and marking fifty years since the assassination of martin luther king we look at his legacy. the growing spot between china and the u.s. over trade tariffs is playing havoc on american markets stocks on wall street took a tumble on the opening dropping by more than four hundred points the selloff was triggered by china's announcement that it will tax fifty billion dollars worth of u.s. goods let's go live now to gabriel elizondo who's in new york tell us more about what's been driving the markets and why they've been so volatile today. yes one economist put it he says this seems to be the opening salvos in what could

be a big trade war between the world's two biggest economies the united states and china there's a lot of worry here on wall street wall street does not like uncertainty and that's certainly what they're seeing there's many factors that are affecting this define the markets but it's certainly clearly the anticipation is based on a potential trade war let's look at the dow it's about twenty three thousand right now and numbers mean nothing without perspective the dow was under twenty thousand when donald trump took office at its peak it reached over twenty six thousand it's dropped about three thousand about twenty three thousand so it's still higher than it was when trump took office but they've seen the sharp drop. in the last several weeks and months really it's really this opening trade war that we're starting to see now that's causing this let's remember that trump in imposed three billion in tariffs on steel and aluminum around the world then followed that up with twenty

five percent tariff proposals on fifty billion dollars on chinese imports and then of course on wednesday china retaliate ng in a big way hitting back responding in kind announcing twenty five percent tariffs on fifty billion dollars on american imports these could in effect major companies that exchange on the stock exchange including boeing among others all of this leads to wall street basically very nervous and that's why you're seeing these sharp declines in the market it's important to note that right now from the u.s. perspective these are posed to tariffs that it has to go through a public hearing and then if it passes and goes beyond that these tariffs could go into effect as early as middle may so we'll have to be watching this over the coming weeks there's still potentially time for both sides to negotiate and back out of this. but right now wall street's considering that this could go forward and

it could have ramifications not only for the u.s. and chinese economies but for the global economy and that is the fear in these markets right now isn't it with president trump showing no signs of backing down on certainty around the goshi ations how much of a threat is a deterioration in the u.s. china relationship to the global economy. yeah people are worried again because these are the two biggest economies in the world six hundred fifty billion dollars is traded just between the u.s. and china so there's a lot at stake there the roughly fifty billion dollars in tariffs that were announced by each side that in of itself will not bring down the global economy most analysts say but it's a foreshadowing to potentially more tariffs that could and that's really the real potential problem here and a lot of people are saying that this affects many big companies on the your new york stock exchange and that's why so many people are worried right now let's

remember trump promised that he would do this during the campaign so a lot of his advisors are saying he's just basically doing what he's been promising all along of course trump has said that that that china simply does not trade fairly on the open market and that u.s. companies can't compete and so he's trying to level these tariffs to bring them back to the negotiating table all right thanks very much gabriel elizondo with the market reaction to that story well meanwhile more and more people in china are calling for a complete oil costs for american products as tensions rise over the trade conflict adrian brown has the view from beijing. it's food since china began to open its economy to the world be encouraged ironically by the united states as a result their brands revealing the first to benefit now chinese government officials awarding the full decades of cooperation is being recklessly endangered

but the old wednesday they responded with carefully targeted countermeasures that will hurt a wide range of industries to poor people the tariff ruling committee of the state council decided to impose a twenty five percent tariff on one hundred six types of products in fourteen different categories including soybeans cars and chemicals made in america. of aviation. but on the commerce ministry website it says aircraft between fifteen and forty five tonnes will be subject to the twenty five percent levy a boeing seven three seven eight hundred falls into that category soya bean sales to china are worth fourteen billion dollars a year general motors sells more cars here than in the united states earlier this week china announced tariffs on a more modest three billion dollars worth of chinese imports including nuts fruit wine and pork that was a response to new levies on chinese steel and on

a minium proposal. and this is not the smoke before the fire this is the real fire the real trick the war the war is ongoing your don't necessarily need to impose the tariff or the ban imports to start a trade or. the latest us terrorists apply to industries at the heart of a trade strategy called made in china twenty twenty five part of president xi jinping same to turn china into an advanced manufacturing economy in doing so china has been challenging the big us tech giants who accuse china of stealing and replicating their technology. u.s. business executives complain that the price of doing business in china means they have to partner first with a local company they say that puts them at an unfair disadvantage because they're required to hand over sensitive know how know how but the chinese side gets to keep

even if the venture goes sour we have a problem with china that's what president trump means when he accuses china of stealing intellectual property and he doesn't have to sign off on the latest terrorists for sixty days that leaves time for negotiation but not much adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. iran turkey and russia have promised a what together to ensure a last thing ceasefire in syria speaking at a summit in ankara iran's leader hassan rouhani blamed the u.s. for backing eisel fighters in syria you also called on all policies to respect syria's independence and territorial integrity that his president said this could only happen if it distance itself from what it called terrorist groups. what other will earn. as a guarantor country it's important to attain the territorial integrity of syria

these fights have to be ended in the country has to be rebuilt on this we are in agreement the syrian public the civilians of those who are losing as a result of these fights there is a difficult process ahead of us but the light at the end of this tunnel is getting brighter we will not allow the face of syria to be darkened by terrorist organizations yet tad as. we stressed the territorial integrity of syria the sovereignty of syria and the unity of syria the independence of syria should be set as a very high priority on this is what the people of syria want. as i'm now joined in the studio by a senior political analyst marwan bashar and so we have two leading back as of president bashar al assad meeting with what has been perhaps up until now one of his leading opponents turkey why are they having this summit now of course i want categorize. the turkish president a supporter of bashar assad an opponent yes

a point to just focus what we have now at this point in time is three parties that have problems with the united states indeed with the west. turkey has called peace with the united states and the rest of the europe. iran has major hostilities with the united states and bit of europe and of course russia is somewhere in between so what they have in common is that the three of them are heavily involved in syria the three of them could be involved for a long term in syria and the three of them have issues with the trump presidency or with the united states policy in syria and i think here i mean you have to give them some sort of a credit in terms of diplomacy in the end of the day is not about people agreeing diplomacy is about managing disagreements and i. i think we've seen these three leaders acting a statesman meaning while they will talk about the humanitarians and they talk

about peace one of the symptoms bombarding and fighting in syria they still find it in themselves to be meeting and summits in order to advance their interests are a goodly not the syrian interests but they claim that they're also advancing the cause of syria and with u.s. involvement we've had comments from trump calling for an immediate withdrawal the u.s. doesn't want any sustained they don't want to stay in syria but they don't seem to be ready to pull out completely either. this is what you call president from prophetic to candidate trump you know he's always feel comfy is more comfortable campaigning so good in the campaign he said what the heck are we doing in syria we need to get out of syria. clearly the entire establishment in washington including his three senior national security advisers mattis and defense and bolton national security adviser as well as pompei with the secretary of state all

three of them do not want to leave syria to iran or to russia certainly israel and its allies in the united states do not want to see trump leave and clearly from what we've heard from from saudi arabia doesn't want to leave syria so while he himself wants to leave everyone else seems to be pushing him to stay that is the ultimate is a convoluted statement from the white house saying well we are kind of finishing the job in syria but we would stay longer and we would consult with the olives and said then briefly marwan does that mean that iran might be closer of tuckey wants to contain the y.p. g. which has been the america's main supporter and then america's main aim in staying involved is to reach east iranian influence absolutely reducing iranian influence is the most important thing for the united states they're hoping russia would do it but it's not doing it but to be honest with you in miami i've never seen a situation where one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter i mean this

is a situation where everyone seems to be blaming everyone else's client to be a terrorists the y.p. g s firestick is going to is a terrorist for the united states its freedom fighters hezbollah for the united states is terrorist for iran is a freedom fighter and go figure. on not hearing much more on a still to come for you a war of words between russia and the u.k. over the nerve agent attack is heating up we'll have that story also thousands of athletes nineteen different sports representing some two hundred billion people will have the latest from the commonwealth games and australia. well we're barely into april barely into spring really but the heavy rains to start

to pound some parts of central china and there's more to come this is the forecast on thursday a circulation was indicates a concentration in showers anywhere from chengdu research to shanghai quite as big sways that can be pretty wet destroys the south that onshore breeze so humid in hong kong twenty seven degrees but the rain is spreading further cyrus probably would influence northern vietnam as well maybe more than those in vietnam so this is a big shot in myanmar also the cloud you see over the sub tones of india it's more especially been given some rain in the far northwest maybe it's afghanistan in nepal in the poorhouses some decent downpours india itself largely a picture of dry weather very well scattered showers his courses the pre monsoon heat building if i just transpose that color on top to just get an idea up until the himalayan foothills it's hot and it's been particular helped in rushes to carry on that way the next day or so now the heat is rather more usual in the arabian

peninsula but here too we've got a bit of april cloud building the next day or so you could see significant showers does iran through saudi arabia bahrain and even qatar. our. own the benefit of. documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera.

back a quick look at the top stories now shares on wall street have been sliding on renewed fears of a trade war between the u.s. and china the world's two biggest economies. beijing has imposed on more than one hundred u.s. products announcement comes less than eleven hours after president tariffs on chinese goods. images of turkey russia and iran of an else they'll work together to ensure a last thing cease fire in syria a free countries are the biggest power brokers in the syria conflict. indonesia's state oil companies admitted a ruptured pipe is responsible for a massive oil spill off borneo island at least five fishermen have died in a fire related to the spill and a state of emergency has entered its third day as local officials warn residents to

not light cigarettes in the area step boston reports from jakarta. oil polluting the bay of the city of balad and several mia by villages the spill has spread over an area of around twelve square kilometer us residents have complained of a strong smell of fuel in the area hundreds have reported health issues such as north and for meting fully self warrant against lighting fires. on saturday shortly after the spill was first notice of fire broke out in the water near a chinese cargo ship with five fishermen who were in a small boat in the bay at the time died. but up on this home to one of indonesia's largest oil refineries the country's state energy company back there mena initially denied the oil leak was from one of its on the water pipelines but now says it was . off to be investigated further we found that this is

a crude oil leaking from a broken pipe by fishermen held a protest at the mayor's office demanding compensation the spill stopped them from earning a living if boats have been damaged and they can't reach to fishing grounds almost two hundred fishermen are affected the impact of the pollution on marine life still needs to be investigated residents are working with emergency services to get rid of the oil and right amount of this out urgent police to speed up the investigation and bring those responsible for this bill to justice they also want the government to act fast to clean up the oil and limit damage to the environment step by al-jazeera that now events are being held across the united states to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader martin luther king jr at his memorial in washington thousands of people gathered for a rally calling for an end to racism king was standing on the balcony of a memphis motel when he was shot dead on april fourth one thousand nine hundred

sixty eight also in jordan is live for us now in memphis tennessee. this is one. of remembering the law. perhaps the. civil rights leader. and old sense of recommitment. who are trying to. slide. well apologies for that we'll try to reestablish a connection with rosen and jordan in memphis tennessee where commemorations are being held among the anniversary of the assassination of civil rights activist martin luther king more on that later and now moving on israel says it's arrested ten palestinians suspected of planning an attack against a navy ship off the gaza coast israeli security service says the palestinians have planned to adopt israeli sailors the disclosure comes amid growing tension in the

region eighteen palestinians have been killed by israeli fire since friday in mass protests on the israel gaza border israel's defense minister has warned that anyone who gets too close to the fence risks getting killed. egyptian authorities have shot down an independent news website and arrested its editor in chief us happened a day after president abdel fatah sisi won a second term in office with ninety seven percent of the vote reports are obeah website was fined and its offices were raided after republican article from new york times on alleged election irregularities. russia has requested a un security council meeting to discuss last month's nerve agent attack in southern england burton says it's highly likely moscow is behind the poisoning of a former spy and has rejected a russian proposal to join investigate the incident warrants the reports. who tried to kill the script weeks on from the incident there remains no determining piece of evidence that puts beyond doubt the question as to who was

behind this. of course the samples taken from the scene could help british scientists determine what's the poison was but that isn't the same thing it was not a chalk they said but don't ask us which country it came from because it isn't our job we are one hundred percent certain that this is from the nova chalk family of nerve agents a military create nerve agent who provided the information to the police and to the government and that has really been our role in the us it's not for others to advise on who me who made the near vision or weird indeed it came from. all of which is a bit embarrassing for the british foreign secretary who apart from comparing vladimir putin to hitler in recent weeks had seemed to suggest that he'd been told by the same scientists that the poison had come from russia they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no

doubt which was seized on by the russian embassy in london it's pointed out that over the course of four nights the british side seemed to have changed its story nor did it help the british case that some tweets from the u.k. foreign office on the same subjects had been to lead it or the russian side roundly accused by the u.k. and its allies of dissin from ation is by now in full flow arguing that the u.k. can't stand up its arguments and along with its allies in washington has made the whole story up to conjure up a new cold war but it. is washington has become fixated with the fight against a nonexistent so called russian threat this is reach such proportions and acquired such absurd characteristics that it's possible to speak of a return to the dark times of the cold war. in the middle of all this the experts from the organization for the prevention of chemical weapons met at the hague at the behest of the russians moscow has said all along that many countries have

novacek the neither the british nor anyone else will be able to prove that the nerve agent came from russia the seeming lack of a consistent argument from the british side has only strengthened them. in a court of law the burden of proof rests with the accuser and while it is true that most of the british parliament and indeed many european governments seem satisfied with the british assertion that it was overwhelmingly likely that the russians did it the russians can still say you can't say for certain that it was us and they will continue to do so until and unless the british can provide categorical evidence laura. slee al-jazeera. a criminal investigation has started in russia after the second deadly mall fire in just eleven days or an employee was killed and six firefighters injured in the blaze at a four story shopping center in moscow investigators say they're looking into whether the fire was caused by negligence last month sixty four people most of them

children died in a fire at a mall in the siberian city of kemah over millions of french commuters a facing a second day of travel chaos as a result of rolling strikes by rail workers travelers in paris had to push their way on to the few trains that were running while many platforms lay empty estate on the cat rail company s.n.c.f. says eighty six percent of trains were canceled nationwide on wednesday work as a protest against the government's proposed labor reforms. now the commonwealth games have officially opened on australia's gold coast while the games aren't as well known as the olympics countries of the british commonwealth battling it out across more than a dozen different sports with two billion people being represented is plenty at stake as andrew thomas reports from the us. australia's gold coast has a new multicolored village six thousand athletes and officials will live in these apartment blocks and use their services for the next ten days the athletes

permanent homes of seventy one countries or british regions or territories of the commonwealth i am from pakistan i originally thought i looked barbados most places represented were once part of the british empire the games are a colonial legacy of course some of the world's biggest sporting nations like the united states china france germany japan they're all missing some athletes don't think that matters a commonwealth medal may not be as prestigious as an olympic one but in certain sports the commonwealth games can hold their own in my field hundred metres there's a local rep in countries he was some of the world's best to make all. suffer africans of foster marvin as well so you know if you look at the olympic final there's those i mean you know two or three amount to americans and there's the rest of the world and a lot those who come off nations the commonwealth games also reserve spaces for

sporting minnows yet jim cook will box from the roof a tiny pacific island nation most famous is the place australia sends on wanted refugees its entire population is thirteen thousand people is quite a big deal back in the role and since everyone knows everyone everyone will be they will have their eyes on to win the competition starts. the games which include a flat six hockey mountain biking shooting and even lawn bowls are spread across venues that stretch the length of australia's gold coast. and into the neighboring city of brisbane as well ticket sales have been slow only gymnastics has completely sold out but along the beach front on wednesday there was still infusing awesome we came from the united states of america and we're absolutely excited to be here man this would have been no other time we would have came out you go you know we play we leverage ratio but we don't want to pay for it and don't just generate so much if he has a genuine i trust and i thought he was going to do the right australis another

right organizes have to meet high expectations under thomas al-jazeera on a strike is gold coast and i'm all on the anniversary of the assassination of martin luther king king's assassination when the news broke and initially that were riots across the united states but not in indianapolis where robert f. kennedy calmed the angry crowds it became his most memorable speech and now the u.s. house of representatives has voted to make it a site of the site of the speech a national landmark john hendren reports on this now from indianapolis it was an uneasy alliance a wealthy white patrician and a charismatic black preacher martin luther king considered robert kennedy timid on civil rights kennedy was privately supportive making calls to get king released from a georgia jail but publicly kept his distance. right up until april fourth one thousand nine hundred sixty eight his kennedy campaign for the presidency in

indiana martin luther king jr was killed a night in memphis tennessee kennedy's aides warned him to cancel a stop in indianapolis to dangerous the set there was mixed feelings of the. people that were angry i was angry myself from the back of a flatbed truck wearing his slain brothers tweed coat thinking about martin luther king he broke the news to a mostly black crowd. martin luther king was shot and was killed tonight in memphis was it was the first time he'd spoken publicly of the assassination of his brother president john f. kennedy but those of you who are black. and are tempted to feel with be filled with hatred and distrust of the injustice of such an act. against all white people. i would only say that i can also feel in my own heart

the same kind of feeling. i had a member of my family killed but he was killed by a white man or he had to use his words to calm the fury they felt in their own hearts and he was really the only person who might have been able to do that at that time in that moment in history last week his words were commemorated on a plaque on that site a reminder of how far the u.s. has come and how far it has yet to go that statement right there on the wall resonates right now today as to where our community should be with the and with him and comparison and dealing with those who are still suffering we're still suffering two months later robert kennedy also was killed by an assassin's bullet two voices of hope silenced forever relegated to a world of what might have been. half

a century later america's still converses with racial tension but for one volatile night is one major city after another burned at night riding broke out in one hundred thirty american cities it was a quiet night in indianapolis john hendren. indianapolis indiana was warned everything we're covering right here here that you'll find the latest on our top stories and of course analysis that takes you behind the headlines as well . but look at the top stories now shares on wall street have been sliding on renewed fears of a trade war between the u.s. and china the world's two biggest economies stocks dropped more than four hundred points upon opening itself was triggered by china's announcement that it will tax fifty billion dollars worth of u.s. goods or beijing's announcement came less than eleven hours after u.s.

president donald trump unveiled tariffs on chinese goods china says it's introduced a twenty five percent tax on products including soybeans cars alcohol and tobacco. the leaders of turkey russia and iran have announced together to ensure a lasting cease fire in syria the three countries are the biggest power brokers in the syria conflict and they met at a summit in ankara iran's leader hassan rouhani blamed the u.s. for backing eisel fighters in syria turkey's president called on all parties to respect syria's independence and its people the syrian public the civilians are those who are losing as a result of these fights there is a difficult process ahead of us but the light at the end of this tunnel is getting brighter we will not allow the face of syria to be darkened by terrorist organizations as. we stressed the territorial integrity of syria the sovereignty of

syria the unity of syria the independence of syria should be set this is a very high priority this is what the people of syria want. indonesia's state oil company says a ruptured undersea pipe cause the massive oil spill off borneo island at least five fishermen have died since the slick caught fire on saturday a state of emergency has entered its third day as officials warn residents not to light cigarettes in the area events are being held across the u.s. to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader martin luther king jr at his memorial in washington dozens of people gathered for a rally calling for an end to racism king was standing on the balcony of a memphis motel when he was shot dead on april fourth one thousand nine hundred sixty eight. and millions of commuters in france have gone through a second consecutive day of travel chaos as a result of a series of planned strikes over the next three months the state run rail company s.n.c.f. says eighty six percent of trains were canceled nationwide on wednesday you're up

to date with all of our top stories coming up at the top the next hour i'll see you in about twenty five minutes time that's off the witness which starts now. and head covering both china really. important to. point three first of all is around the pool.