a convicted war criminal seeks out the survivors of a prison camp to apologize for the crimes of his past i just can't believe that even better as showing. the unforgiven a witness documentary on al-jazeera team ask beth. that outlet. share volatility in tit for tat tariffs trade tensions escalate between china and the united states. hello i'm ari i am the mozzie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up

iran turkey and russia promised to work towards a last a cease fire in syria white house says the u.s. military mission is coming to a rapid and. indonesia's national oil company takes the blame for a huge oil spill and file for neo. and tensions increase over the spy attack in the u.k. britain and russia are accuse each other of duplicity. the growing spot between china and the u.s. of a trade tariffs is causing volatility on american markets stocks on wall street took a tumble on the opening dropping by more than four hundred points but have managed to regain some ground now settle for was triggered by china's announcement that it will tax fifty billion dollars worth of u.s. goods live now to gabriel who's in new york for us and we might have reversed some

of the losses in trading but the fear about the economic impact of this is still very much driving these markets. yes and it's really this tariff back and forth that you're seeing between the world's two biggest economies china and the united states and lot of economists here are some on wall street are saying is this a trade war not quite yet but what they're saying is these are the opening salvos of what could be a trade war that could spread to the global economy and have devastating effects and that's why you're seeing these markets fluctuate so rapidly like you said they stabilized after opening sharply down on wednesday morning stabilizing now but there's still a lot of fear we saw this same up and down of the markets on monday as well again what you're seeing here is after trump proposed roughly twenty five percent tariffs equaling about fifty billion dollars on more than a thousand different goods imported from china on wednesday china did something

called reciprocity they said they were going to do the exact same thing roughly twenty five percent tariffs or. equaling about fifty billion dollars on american products that are imported to china things like soybeans an auto parts this is affecting the market for many reasons because some of the tariffs are against airline parts for example that affects what boeing one of the biggest aerospace airplane makers in the united states so you saw their stocks tumble as well so you're seeing this tit for tat back and forth here and again this is what a lot of economists are saying is opening salvo here it's important to point out that from the u.s. perspective these terrorists have not gone into effect yet there's still going to be a public comment period there be some brief hearings about them but we'll have to watch the coming weeks closely because if it goes through these tariffs they could

actually go into effect as early as the middle of may so what you're seeing on wall street now is a lot of trepidation about what's to come in the coming weeks thanks so much from new york. more and more people in china are calling for a complete boycott of american products as tensions rise over the trade conflict adrian brown has the view from beijing. it's forty years since china began to open its economy to the world encouraged ironically by the united states as a result their brands are among the first to benefit now chinese government officials are warning that four decades of cooperation is being recklessly endangered but on wednesday they responded with carefully targeted counter measures that will hurt a wide range of industries to employ 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 no

mention though 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 mini i'm supposed. to tell this is not that there's smoke before the fire this is the real fire the real trick the war the war is ongoing here don't necessarily need to impose the tariff or the ban imports to start a trade or. the latest u.s.

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 to turn. 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 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 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 to work together to ensure a lasting cease fire in syria speaking at a summit in ankara iran's leader hassan rouhani blamed the u.s. for backing eisel fighters in syria he also called on all parties to respect syria's independence and territorial integrity to act as president said this could only happen if it distanced itself from what it called terrorist groups. of aid has more from ankara. these are the three parties who have the most influence over what is happening inside syria but ironically neither the syrian government or the opposition was present in the meeting where the future of syria was being decided this is in continuation of the peace process of the dialogue process of a solution for syria that was started in our stand we saw these leaders meeting in november in sochi and they have been again telling the world that about the

achievement that they've been able to achieve in the last few months inside the country leaders of russia and. iran saying that they have been able to establish deescalation zone zones and bring down the suffering of the people of syria and they are now more hopeful that a peaceful solution can be achieved turkey on the other hand saying that it is still concerned about the humanitarian suffering on the ground it is still concerned about the violations that have been happening on the ground but it is also hopeful that the darkest days might be over. 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 it may be a coincidence that these three leaders have met on the anniversary of the chemical attack in the area of. where dozens of people were killed and according to the united nations it was an attack carried out by the same governments air force sarin was dropped on these people so when these leaders meet and when we asked the syrian people on the ground about their hopes and aspirations and how hopeful they are of a lasting peace and solution they say that they don't have much hope left in the process which excludes the actual players on the ground visit the opposition fighters which were we saw an attempt in sochi by the russian government to bring them together but did not work and as long as these sides continue to talk in isolation of the people on the ground inside syria the opposition fighters who oppose the assad government as well as the assad government itself there is it's

very unlikely that we will see a lasting solution a peaceful solution where all sides can come together and find peace in syria. or president trump is instructed military. just to prepare to withdraw u.s. troops from syria he says the u.s. mission should not extend beyond defeating i still al-jazeera senior political analyst marwan bashara says america's allies will not want them to leave. this is what you call president from professing to candid that from you know he's always feel a 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 mathis and in defense and bolton national security adviser as well as from 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 indonesia's state oil companies admitted a ruptured pipe is responsible for a massive oil spill of 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 now as local officials warn residents not to light cigarettes in the area step lawson reports from jakarta. oil polluting the bay of the city and several nearby 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

nausea and vomiting fully self warrant against lighting fires. on saturday shortly after the spill was first notice a fire broke out in the water near a chinese cargo ship of five fishermen who were in a small boat in the big at the time died. but up on this home to one of indonesia's largest oil refineries the country's state energy company back that mena initially denied the oil leak was from one of its underwater pipelines but now says it was. off to be investigated further we found that this is our 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 oil and right amount of this out or don't release to speed up the investigation and bring those responsible for this bill to justice they also want the government to act fast the clean up the oil and limit damage to the environment stopped by al jazeera. so a convoy on the program fifty years on from the assassination of martin luther king examine the role of bobby kennedy and commemorating the civil rights leader. and thousands of accolades for nineteen different sports representing two billion people will have the latest from the commonwealth games in australia. after the african dust has blown right across iran to turkmenistan tajikistan it's

this piece of cloud here but there's another frontal system running slowly into western iran that'll produce a little bit of rain it'll move slowly eastwards as well leaving the temperature at nineteen in terra with some big showers around it's not fade away completely out of that cloud bands still exist through iraq and by across to north nishi for the shop potential look at the contrast in turkey in the caucasus up into the warm early spring twenty one degrees or so because it's twenty six in tashkent all that all water now the clouds thickens by the time we get to friday shall seem likely iraq western iran the real focus possibly some in kuwait as well given the things of the cloud you might find the same developing in next day or so across eastern saudi down through to bahrain qatar probably not the u.a.e. and back through the western side of saudi significant thunderstorms possible here and you know what that means but of what the flooding we've seen a bit of rain recently just teasing you in the western cape not really affecting the the drought in cape town but anyway the clouds fading away into and if anything

it will be largely dry picture on thursday in south africa but not so for a girl and so i this does look quite wet. what makes this move to this era we live in for so unique this is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding big a distortion of what free speech is supposed to be about the context it's hugely important level wise to publish if you have a duty to be of things that will provoke if there would otherwise people did. this stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. welcome

back with al-jazeera recap the top stories now stocks have rallied on wall street since taking a tumble on the opening bell so over a new fears of a trade war between the u.s. and china the world's two biggest economies the leaders of turkey russia and iran have announced they'll work together to ensure a lasting cease fire in syria. and indonesia's state oil company says a ruptured undersea pipe calls the massive oil spill off borneo island at least five fishermen have died since the slick caught fire on saturday. russia has lost of a calling for a joint investigation into last month's nerve agent attack in seoul spree the motion was blocked at the. chemical body investigating the incident person also dismissed russia's offer of help saying it was highly likely likely moscow was behind the poisoning of a former spy laurence the reports. who tried to kill the scruples

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 that help british scientists determine what 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's really been our role in the us it's not for others to advise on who me who made the nerve agent or where 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 subject had been to lead his. the russian side roundly accused by the u.k. and its allies of disinform 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 an 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 night of 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 largely al jazeera in london. a criminal investigation has started in russia after the second deadly mall fire in just eleven days one 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 camera. well now to sri lanka where the prime minister has survived a no confidence vote in parliament a vote was brought by a group led by formally demanding rajapaksa they have accused runnel with crimes singer of appointing a foreign national a central bank governor so he could leak inside information to son in law about a treasury on sale. and as joins us now from colombo and as you were saying the prime minister has survived this motion but has the damage been done. absolutely mannion ultimately with the prime minister won this vote of no

confidence against him is is in the detail the ultimate result is that the government has had a crippling blow we can by this entire process the fractional ism that has crept in it has been building up over the last three years when the national unity government of the president and prime ministers parties came together but again at the root of this no confidence motion would divisions divisions obviously capitalized on by the joint opposition and ultimately a lot of mistrust a lot of distrust the press the prime minister actually won one hundred twenty two wards against the no confidence motion whereas seventy six parliamentarians voted for that vote with twenty six abstaining so ultimately as we said earlier it is all a numbers game the prime minister has come out of it on top he just appeared before the media a short while ago very tired at the end of more than twelve hours of debate

watching as to what would come about at this at the end of this debate and thanking everybody for standing by him promising changes you are taking on the lessons he's learned in recent months but ultimately the government is weakened because of all this factionalism and ultimately it's the people that will pay the price marian wright so the government is weak is it going to be able to survive. than to will obviously be have to be seen over the coming days now the sort of almost the rebel group within the government those who are belonging to the president's party the sri lankan freedom party that said that they would not support the prime minister but abstain from voting. they have basically said that they will continue within the government even those as a libya's the government the president's parliamentarians who voted against the

private mr cicare that they will continue in government they have said they're not going to sort of release and give up their portfolios they've said that the prime minister is just one member of cabinet and that it's for the president to decide so all of these things are typically weakening the government and as to how it continues in the coming days remains to be seen alpha nando's will all the latest on that from colombo thank you very much now 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 of planned abducted 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 will 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 dozens of people gathered for a rally calling for an end to racism king was standing on the balcony of a memphis motel and he was shot dead on april fourth one thousand nine hundred sixty eight and when news of king's assassination broke there were riots across the united states but not in indianapolis where robert f. kennedy calmed the angry cow crowds it became his most memorable speech and now the u.s. house of representatives as voted to make the site of the speech a national landmark john hendren reports 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 as kennedy campaigned for the presidency in

indiana martin luther king jr was killed 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. from the back of a flatbed truck wearing his slain brothers tweed coat they go right martin but 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 are black. and are tempted to fail with be filled with hatred and mistrust 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 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 us 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 of them in 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 stool 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 al-jazeera indianapolis indiana millions of french commuters has a face a second day of travel chaos as a result of rolling strikes by rail as travelers in paris had to push their way on to the few trains that were running while many platforms lay empty state run route company s.n.c.f. says eighty six percent of trains were canceled nationwide on wednesday well because opera testing against the proposed labor reforms. commonwealth games of officially opened on australia's gold coast while the games and also as well known as the olympics countries of the british commonwealth of

battling it out across more than a dozen different sports and with over two billion people being represented as plenty at stake after thomas reports from the gold coast. australia's gold coast has a new multicolored village six thousand deaths and officials will live in these apartment blocks and use their services for the next ten days the athletes permanent homes are seventy one countries or british regions all 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 allin pick one but in certain sports the commonwealth games can hold their own in my field hundred metres there's

a little caribbean countries he was some of the world's best to make. there's a lot of stuff 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 of my two americans and it's the rest of the world and a lot of a couple of 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 as 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 and 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 is completely

sold out but along the beach front on wednesday there was still infusing we came from the united states of america and were absolutely excited to be here man this would have been no other time we would occasionally. hugo you know we we we we we we should but we don't want to pay for it and don't use generated so much if he doesn't. trust and he thought he was going to do it right and start easing of the organizers have to meet high expectations under thomas al jazeera on a straight news gold coast was more on everything we're covering right here including analysis that takes you behind the headlines also you can watch us live on the web site as well al-jazeera dot com. quick look at headlines now global trade tensions are growing stocks have rallied on wall street after taking a tumble on the opening bell but concern is still there over renewed fears of

a trade war between the u.s. and china world's two biggest economies stocks dropped by more than four hundred points on opening but have picked up since the selloff 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 the u.s. president unveiled tariffs on chinese goods china says it's introduced a twenty five percent tax on products including soybeans planes cars and beef. the leaders of turkey russia and iran have announced they'll work together to ensure a lasting cease fire in syria speaking at a summit in ankara iran's leader hassan rouhani blame the u.s. for backing i still in syria turkey's president called on all parties to respect series 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 yet. we stressed the territorial integrity of syria the sovereignty of serbia and the unity of syria the independence of syria should be set this is a very high priority and this is what the people of syria want sri lanka's prime minister has survived a no confidence vote in parliament the opposition call for the motion after accusing runaway crime saying of economic mismanagement he needed one hundred thirteen votes in the two hundred twenty five member of parliament to defeat the motion. and then asia's state oil company says a ruptured undersea pipe caused a massive oil spill off in borneo island at least five fishermen have died since the slick court file on saturday 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 cain was standing on the balcony of

a memphis motel when he was shot dead on april fourth one thousand nine hundred sixty eight as the headlines all have the news out in twenty five minutes time off the inside story which is next. hello i'm has i'm seeker this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week as a new way to trade oil a crude futures contract was launched in china find out what it all means for the dollar and oil exporting countries.