united states imposes tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the european union canada and mexico. and this is al jazeera live from london coming up. i think it will be very positive i think it will be very proud of the big separate. us president donald trump claims talks are going well as his secretary of state meets north korea's top diplomat. under pressure spain's prime minister fights for his political life as a corruption scandal for his to remove him and his party from power. and waiting more than twenty years to inherit the land stolen from his parents we meet one of

the thousands of tenant farmers in south africa seeking their birthright. and only move lucky to provoke more fears of a global trade war they're not just states has decided to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the european union canada and mexico u.s. commerce secretary will the ross says the twenty five percent tariff on steel and a ten percent tariff on aluminum imports will come into effect at midnight on thursday but he says the door remains open for negotiations they didn't specify what measures could be taken. over of production of the oil and those overcapacity throughout the world. so we needed to deal with the in a very global. you can't just deal with the dealing with one country. european union is reacting strongly to move threatening to impose its own countermeasures

this is a bet they put the word twit european union cannot. react to that we've called and you kind of reaction so we immediately introduce a set of a dispute. on that of the on the w t o level and through the knowledge in the next coming called the balance in measures of what they can do we are able to do exactly . the same it's totally obvious at the bit that it can't we use impose unilateral measures when it comes to its. credit. let's go live now to our white house correspondent can really help get it to me is this it then or is there still some room for maneuver. well according to the commerce secretary wilbur ross who held a call with reporters and making this announcement he was in paris when he made that. this is not the end what this is in the eyes of the united states is

something that can still be ongoing in terms of discussions now does that mean that the united states is not expecting retaliatory measures it certainly is and it says that it is already particularly when it comes to farmers another big port part of donald trump's support base not just the manufacturing sectors of steel and aluminum but certainly there are some steps have been put in place to mitigate this but the feeling of the united states in the words of the converse secretary he said that as sensually when it comes to canada and mexico there were ongoing nafta negotiations that were taking place and that's why the two month exemption was there with regard to the still looming tariffs those talks he said were not progressing as he had hoped were taking longer that it hoped and same with the e.u. again it was the feeling that look at there was an exemption in place but the talks were being taken seriously to the satisfaction of the united states and so that's why the u.s. says it took this action removing those exemptions now what does this mean going forward in the words of the commerce secretary he says that there could be some

flexibility going forward but it will depend on the actions of they sions like canada mexico and also the european union one of the u.s. central cities are doing this in the interest of national security does that mean they perceive the e.u. canada and mexico as a threat. right well certainly this is a question that came up a number of times reporters saying are you calling your allies a threat to u.s. national security in essence the commerce secretary saying yes but the answer is convoluted what he's saying is that when there are actions that are taken by nations in this case with regard to steal aluminum that are what they call transshipments in other words they don't believe the products coming to the u.s. are threatening in any way but that there are other nations like china contributing to the product that then is shipped to the united states that's one concern the other concern is that there's the feeling that the actions of these nations have an impact on the overall u.s. economy the idea being if there's an unstable or not secure and strong economy in

the united states that is also under the act of nine hundred sixty two the trade expansion act a risk to u.s. national security so this is the argument that's being made there is a recognition that the united states will be meeting with many of the chief seven partners in canada next week there could be some uncomfortable moments but at the same time the words of the converse are traces periodic disagreements but it all depends on how the nations act moving forward can be how could thank you. u.s. president prays talks between his secretary of state and a senior north korean official as very positive secure state might mean meeting the north korean leaders right hand man came in new york for a second day is prospects to pave the way for an historic summit between. next month says he's expecting the north korean delegation to travel to washington on

friday to deliver a letter from kim confirming the summit. i think will be very positive i think it will be very positive the meeting separate very. surprised at all a process we'll see hopefully we'll have a meeting of the twelve that's going along very well but i wanted to be meaningful it doesn't mean it gets all done in one meeting maybe after every second or third and maybe we'll have done but. it's in good hands. the plan to get to james bays is live outside the hotel in new york where the talks have been taking place james how significant is this news that is going to washington. i think it is important we had been told that this was going to be a series of meetings here in new york between the secretary of state and the emissary of the north korean leader. and now there is another phrase been added to

a general claim is on his way to washington d.c. on friday where we believe he's going to meet president trump in the white house deliver the letter from his boss chairman kim search adding another phrase to these crucial meetings with time running out before the data that singapore summit and obviously adding a row of unpredictable element in president trump himself of course as president trump himself who. called off this summit it's him who must decide whether now to go to singapore which is less than two weeks away one u.s. official said trump will make the final decision fly all no fly and what about the talk has been going on today what more can you tell us about those. we have got very limited details coming from the state department they've been very very cautious in what they've say which is interesting because the most information

we've had has come from president trump himself has given a running commentary of how things ago it's very unusual way to do diplomacy but this is the trump administration and we used to a very unusual way to do things interesting that clip you heard of the president talking about maybe a series of meetings with regard to singapore that's not how ministration officials had been presenting it they had been presenting it as a one off summit and trying to get what they said was a historic agreement now trumps presenting a different idea a process a series of summits change phases that new york thank you very much. however in pyongyang it appears that russia is trying to position itself as a player in any development between north korea and the united states foreign minister sergei lavrov of how talks with the to kim jong un he told him that russia wants peace and progress on the korean peninsula and also inviting him to moscow at

the request of president putin doesn't provide reports from seoul. this was kim jong un's first meeting with the senior russian diplomat since coming to power. another first in the diplomatic dance of increasing complexity foreign minister sergei lavrov invited kim to add to his busy summit schedule and visit moscow but it was lavrov the parents' support for kim's position in readiness for his summit with u.s. president donald trump that will be the most welcome outcome for north korea. said north korea must get relief from sanctions and quickly. it is absolutely obvious that starting any discussion of the nuclear problem and all other programs on the korean peninsula they cannot be complete without repealing all sanctions on north korea how that will go ahead will be a question of the skill of the negotiators but it cannot be done in one sitting

u.s. officials based in seoul have been in near daily discussions with their north korean counterparts at the truce village apartment john that's in the demilitarized zone separating the two koreas how much progress has been made is unknown or whether north korea's stated commitment to denuclearization comes with a specific timetable and a process for verification that's acceptable to the u.s. i think north korea wants to strachey this process of democratization for as long as possible the very i can now you magine them agreeing to a near term timetable or line to completely dismantle their nuclear weapons but sensing a possible historic breakthrough russia doesn't want to be left on the sidelines just as chinese president xi jinping recent meetings with kim the russians want to exert the kind of influence they feel they deserve. lavrov also brought to

pyongyang the tantalizing prospect of future economic cooperation between the two careers and russia such as connecting rail systems and the gas pipeline running the length of the korean peninsula that would boost development not only here but in the russian far east but all that depends on a lasting peace and the key to that is a successful summit in singapore robert bright al-jazeera sole spain's prime minister mariano hoy's expects to be toppled as leader in a no confidence motion on friday the basque nationalist party says it will vote against in a move that will most certainly force him out of office and nation is being brought forward by the opposition socialists over a corruption scandal involving the highest party it's going to need back in madrid so not looking good for what's the latest. it's looking increasingly precarious indeed for mariano rajoy what we've heard in the last couple of hours or so is that

there is more more support now for the socialist plans to stage that vote of no confidence or on friday of course the socialist know full well that they can't do this alone they've reached out to their political rivals we've heard form the most party the leftist party have said that they will back a motion of no confidence the centrist feel that honest party says that it won't but it looks as if two smaller parties the castle and basque nationalists parties are now promising to back of no confidence we know that the last party only house five m.p.'s here the two castle and nationalist parties have sixteen between them for this motion to be successful one hundred seventy six m.p.'s in the three hundred fifty seat congress need to back it and it looks very much as if we are reaching that number zero already and that of course is bad news for prime minister so what kind of scenario is he now facing. well if the no

confidence vote is successful on friday then it could mean by the end of the week we have a new government and a new prime minister most likely pedro sanchez the man who tabled this motion in the first place there is still a slim chance perhaps that the motion will not be passed to carry on as it were regardless but other political parties including the other than also have said that they will continue putting pressure on going forward continuing to perhaps push him to call for snap elections later on in the year although this still needs to be confirmed as being an even a possible option another third option could potentially decide to resign before he's pushed perhaps a face saving measure a way of keeping his party the people's party in power we wait well see the deputy prime minister step up to the market take a different role all of these scenarios will be clear within a day. thank you very much indeed. still to come on al-jazeera teams of war

surgeons prepare to head to gaza to treat casualties from the recent violence along the border with israel. as the corruption scandal it's seen millions can use this and brought angry protesters to the street. how low we've had some record breaking heat in southern china hong kong in particular wednesday after a typical of thirty seven celsius and you may record will see hordes of around thirty four here as we go through friday a little more cloud coming in plenty of cloud down towards the southwest has been absolutely throwing it down show is there longer spells of rain over towards the eastern side of the countries clear away turning away from shanghai you notice twenty six celsius here the west which it does make is where little further south

which is we go on through our saturday and it will to wet in hong kong at this stage the temperature is a sticky thirty three degrees it really is going to be humid and pretty muggy will also cloud you notice up towards the northeastern corner of india myanma seeing a fair bit of cloud lots of rain in play now over towards a southwestern corner of india as well monsoon rains these of course in the monsoon rains have also been stretching their way across sri lanka this is the same in young where we've seen some very heavy a rainfall recently away from here across northern parts of india into northern and central parts of pakistan hosts enough to take take it go for a little swim just to cool down it really has been a roasting hot and that heat does continue as we go on through the next few days new delhi getting up to forty four celsius and rising. they help build clean and feed the capital but they're not welcome anymore. one of

the nice witnesses the mass of victims and demolitions forcing two hundred thousand of beijing's poor from their homes. on a desert. where every. amount of top stories here. united states has decided to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the european union canada and mexico the e.u. has criticized the move is unacceptable and is threatening its own counter measures

. u.s. president donald trump has praised a meeting between the state and a high ranking north korean official as positive he says he's looking forward to receiving a letter from leader kim jong un on friday which would confer a historic summit. spain's prime minister money i know who is expected to be toppled as nida in a no confidence motion on friday. united nations is calling for urgent donations to help syrian refugees saying it only has about twenty percent of the money it needs for its yearly budget since war broke out in twenty eleven harf of syria's population has been displaced including more of five million who live outside the country so how to reports from beirut in neighboring lebanon. was these syrians are some of the millions forced from their homes by war who receive meals from local charities during the holy month of ramadan there are tens of time. thousands who arrived in the opposition controlled province of idlib in recent weeks with nothing they don't have homes or jobs they are among the seven million

syrians who are refugees in their own country and who the united nations says are vulnerable syria still bearing there are pockets of fighting throughout the country seven million people live their homes and they remain internally displaced the borders are closed people are trapped inside their situation is dire there are millions of syrian children who are not going to school there are people without shelter without water sanitation health coverage food their fetching for themselves people are moving from one place to another u.n. agency is responsible for humanitarian action in syria are warning of consequences if they don't receive the funds they need so far the international community has donated less than one third of the five point six billion dollars required funding . will have a direct impact on the nutritional. people mainly women and children but not only that we've seen the result of food. education which is

something extremely important in this region and we don't want to end generation the seven year war has been particularly hard on children thousands have been killed tens of thousands disabled some of the displaced attend school in tents many others don't go to school at all and about half of the five point five million refugees in neighboring countries are children. in seven years. close to five hundred fifty thousand. syrian children have been born. in those countries hosting them as refugees and those host nations countries like jordan and lebanon for example are dealing with their own economic problems and many cases refugees coming in settling in locations that are already poor and impoverished and one of the examples for four lebannon particularly there are two

hundred fifty one most affected municipalities that they have identified for the last four or five years without adequate funding for livelihoods and social cohesion sector our ability is the only cover twenty four of those two hundred fifty municipalities the fighting has subsided across the country but the humanitarian crisis remains millions depend on aid to survive and their situation is worsening in the absence of a political solution that. beirut. the red cross is to send additional medical specialists and supplies to gaza to treat casualties recent clashes along the border with israel there was action is warning that gaza is facing a major crisis after all the thirteen thousand palestinians were wounded in weeks of protests very force it has more than just to warn you some of his report was filmed inside an operating theater. the red cross team here the surgical team is operating on a young man who was shot several weeks ago in the leg just above the ankle and what

this is is a follow up operation designed to remove fragments of bone which are still in the wound and could present a threat of further infection now this is this is very much the kind of thing which is at the heart of this new i.c.r.c. appeal for more funding they want to more than double the number of staff that are here in gaza for the next six months now this is despite the fact that the height of the protests for now at least appear to be over but the long term nature of these injuries is what they're concerned about one thousand three hundred when are in bad need two three to five a complicated this is by the end festive that khelein today with five point three million donors to a how to respond to the accu me at the health reform in gaza to increase the capacity of the fed to can and if that is of surgical unit and if we get hospital

with them and also three of the said jones and their families one thousand eleven team members were not there then he was out in becoming clear that month so this is just one among the three thousand six hundred people who have been injured by israeli sniper fire in the last few weeks during the protests which started on march the thirtieth early more than thirteen thousand injuries in total and so this is why the i.c.r.c. says it's important to maintain and indeed increase its presence here in gaza to look after those people going forward they're also of course concerned that there could be further injuries in protests which could take place in the coming days and weeks and days of italy's five star movement and right wing league party holding last ditch talks to resurrect a coalition government by terror so we need future on thursday to meet five study the new egypt in my ear. italy was thrown into crisis last week when president sergio what r.l. are rejected a proposed coalition government that's raised the prospect of

a snap election and has rattled markets around the world. or maybe analysts urania have been found guilty of hosting secret cia prisons that held detainees illegally and european court of human rights said that a saudi and palestinian were detained for more than a year as part of washington's so-called rendition program a palestinian man was held under suspicion of planning the september eleventh attacks remain here and they fear and you have not officially admitted the cia held prisoners on their soil denmark's parliament has voted to ban full face veils in public spaces it means women who wear burkas only cabs in public spaces will now be fined when the new comes into effect in august france germany and three other european countries have already implemented similar laws than mark's justice minister has previous to see said the veil is not compatible with danish values. protesters are rallying in kenya over a corruption scandal at

a government agency set up to help young people tens of millions of dollars have gone missing from the national youth service dozens of civil servants are in the investigation conference or imports from nairobi the kenyans are making their voice hard loud and clear the they are protesting against corruption triggered by a scandal involving a government agency ninety million dollars is missing from the national youth service we just set up to help the young unemployed by providing training dozens of people including senior officials at the agency are being investigated some have been charged allegations include payments for dubious supplies inflated costs and payouts for services that were never delivered in the past place. a man will give up his business to join the protest. has become very difficult.

yet always will be. president of. all the man he will be recovered and those found guilty will be held to account but many on this march say that previous such scandals have never been properly dealt with valerie and many protestant yeah but their frustration felt by most kenyans want the government to do more against corruption they say that more people should be going to prison than their assets frozen and that all the stolen money should be returned. oh i don't know it's not the first time the national youth service has been at the center of a corruption in two thousand and fifteen almost eight million dollars was stolen in a similar way quinta four people were taken to court and only one was to storms so twenty three of them walked away scot free. if you look at the opposition even within the here i.q. of the ministry of foreign ministry and why is itself

a fairly good analysis. it's unlikely that you can pull off such as. these protesters say they're tired of having their money stolen they march to the high court with the police keeping their distance for a few tense minutes they blocked a convoy car in the chief justice. trials they finally ended up at the gates of parliament. this is just one of many anti-corruption rallies that have been held in recent days those staking pat hope those in power will finally start listening. and will be kenya. south africa now on the controversial issue of land redistribution and the ruling a.n.c. promised twenty two years ago to give black people give back black people land which was owned by white farmers need twenty thousand south africans are still waiting for the promises to be fulfilled ok web report.

was born here one hundred and four years ago his parents worked without pay for a white farmer who grabbed this land near pietermaritzburg in south africa a few decades before he was born. these stones mark where he buried them. in exchange for their labor they were allowed to live here and grow their own food he lived the same way now the current landowners want him to leave. my father was born here i was born here he married my mother here where will i go if they want me to move from this place i'd rather they take a gun and shoot me so at least i can be with my ancestors in die on the. a nine hundred ninety six law backed by nelson mandela intitled and others like him known as labor tends to own the small plots of land they occupy he applied twenty years ago he still doesn't have to title. their lives in this shack he lets in the rain so the land rights organization tried to build him

a new home from concrete blocks the landowners didn't allow it his grandson lives just here on the same plot but if no title is issued before the dies he won't be able to inherit the land there are tens of thousands of people in similar predicaments waiting since the one nine hundred ninety s. for titles to be issued. see above this is why he works for a rights group that's representing one thousand three hundred of their claims for land the whole process is about the liberty that using the portion of land they've always been using so that then currently is not useful to land owners anyway so what we are pushing is the processing of the cream so that these people can be looted owners of the land the descendants of the white farmers do have titles many owners are reluctant to give up the small plots where the claimants live and many claimants say the government lacks the political will to address the past injustice it's actually not a matter of political will we are now processing their pick asians they are pulled

out of the department in the past was that rather than subjecting the people to all of those all of that let us rather use alternative ways of securing their tenure if young standing up locations are ever processed it may take years but as a will be around for many more his ancestors shed this land communally all he wants before he dies is to own a tiny part of it malcolm webb al-jazeera near pietermaritzburg south africa. now a robotic bird of prey has been developed to help tackle bird strikes during flights the row bird was developed by a dutch company clear flight solutions they say it's robot can help scare birds away from air traffic and discourage them from nesting near runways the current model it's be operated by a controller so far the row bird has been used in airports around the world

including southampton airport here in england and a quick reminder you can always catch up with all the stories we're reporting on checking out our website the rest of that is our dot com. top stories are there in a move likely to provoke more fears of a global trade war the united states has decided to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the european union canada and mexico u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross says the twenty five percent tariff on steel and a ten percent tariff on iranian imports will come into effect at midnight on thursday but he says the door remains open for negotiations the european union has reacted strongly to the move threatening to impose its own countermeasures this is a but they probably work straight european union can look. react to that

we've all had you kind of reaction so we'll immediately introduce a settlement dispute. on the lower on the w t o level and knowledge in this country or was called the balance in measures of what they can do we are able to do exactly. the same it's totally obvious that but that it can't we suppose you look at measures when it comes to. create. us president or trump has praised talks between a sector of state and a senior north korean official as very positive sector state my pump air has been meeting at the north korean leader's right hand man kim young in new york for a second day it's part of efforts to pave the way for an historic summit between trump and kim jong un next month spain's prime minister mariano hoary is expected to be toppled as leader in a no confidence motion on friday a basket nationalist party says it will vote against the hoyo

a move that would almost certainly force him out of office socialist leader pedro sanchez needs an absolute majority to become spain's new leader. the un is calling for urgent donations to help syrian refugees saying it only has about twenty percent of the money it needs for its yearly budget since war broke out and twenty eleven half of syria's population has been displaced including more than five million who live outside the country the u.n. says millions of refugees depend on aid to survive and lack access to water food and medical services as you had nine straight day with astronomers or they stop at a sea off that ifa.

the. way they will see in antarctica the site of an extraordinary bridge to create the largest protected area. for this special episode of earthrise we're going on board the greenpeace icebreaker optics on rights following one of the biggest campaigns in the environmental movement is ations history witnessing the specs.