u.s. imposes tariffs on the e.u. mexico and canada for steel and aluminum imports and says it's not afraid of any reprisals. on our intake of this is al jazeera live from london coming up good morning i just want to tell you we're doing very well with north korea. a message of optimism from donald trump as his secretary of state meets top north korean official came. fed up with corruption in kenya hundreds take to the streets in protest. to god the whole god is it sinking ship and the red cross sends war surgeons into gaza to help

treat thousands of palestinians wounded in clashes along the border with israel. and iran a move lucky 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 will the ross says the twenty five percent tariff on steel and a ten percent tariff on a million imports will come into effect at midnight on thursday but he says the door remains open for negotiations but he didn't specify what measures could be taken. over production of the oil. city 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.

what's going on now shaun white house correspondent kimberly committee is this it then was that a room for maneuver well there seems to be some room for maneuver but the position of the commerce secretary is that there are prepared the united states have is is prepared for retaliatory measures that they expect and anticipate the fact that there have been steps to mitigate that but at the same time there was a frustration on the part of the united states with discussions with its allies when it comes to canada and mexico as there were negotiations of the north american free trade agreement in the words of the converse secretary he said those discussions were taking longer than i hoped when it comes to the european union he admits there was some progress but it didn't warrant the continued exemptions that had been in place for the last couple of months so as a result we have this announcement now of the tariffs that have been put in place that take effect friday on steel and aluminum now we know this is going to be uncomfortable the converse accra terry said because there's going to be

a video of course next week of some of these top allies in canada of the g. seven but again the secretary shreiking these off saying look at their periodic disagreements between the countries but they feel in the eyes of the united states that they can still have productive conversations moving forward can really be. expressed his displeasure and threatened its own counter measures what about the u.s. talking about this in terms of national security does that does that really mean that they perceive the e.u. kind of in mexico as a threat. right that was a question that came up with reporters as the cover secretary was talking from paris about this is the suggestion surely you don't think that canada mexico the european union is a threat to u.s. national security but in fact that's what the commerce secretary said but he explained what he meant by that under the act to the trade expansion act of nine hundred sixty two gives the commerce secretary the power to do investigations into terms of what threatens the u.s. economy the idea being if an economy is not strong this in turn risks and u.s.

national security and there's the feeling that the practices the trade practices that currently are placed by some of these nations are threatening the united states and so that is the argument that the united states is currently making can really help thank you very much indeed. u.s. president donald trump has praised talks between his sexual state and a senior north korean official as a very positive specter state might compare as meeting the north korean leader's right hand man kim yong show in new york for a second day it's part of efforts to pave the way for an historic summit between trump and next month trump 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 it will be very positive i think it will be very positive the big separate very. surprised

that all a process will say and hopefully we'll have a meeting on the twelfth that's going along very well but i wanted to be meaningful it doesn't really gets all done in one meeting maybe after every second or third and maybe we'll have done but. it's in good hands. on diplomatic editor james bays is live for us at the u.n. in new york james this visit of told to washington now as well as new york how significant is that. i think it's very important we had all assumed and been led to assume that this was just a new york trip and that the meetings that took place in an apartment block owned by the u.s. government not far away from here at the u.n. that went on in the last couple of hours for two hours and twenty minutes were really going to be the end of it and then the word would be given back to the

president on what had been achieved and he would then decide on the summit but now as often is the case for the trumpet ministration a quite dramatic change another day added and that day will see general kim traveling to washington d.c. special dispensation because he has sanctions on him for to go to washington d.c. where he will deliver a letter from his leader to the president of the united states we are not aware of what is in that letter but clearly it is trump in the end who will make the final decision as one u.s. official put it going to singapore he'll decide fly or no fly in the meantime james what does the u.s. make of the role the russian maneuvers on north korea are they worried about that at all. well there are lots of different players that all have different interests with regard to this you have the u.s. working pretty closely with south korea even though their positions are not

completely aligned because south korea is very enthusiastic of the idea of this singapore summit you have japan that's much more hesitant about what's going on in this whole diplomatic process so there you have the allies and some tension among those u.s. allies you have china and i think the u.s. excepts that china has a close relationship with its neighbor north korea and tolerates that but i think we're going to be a little bit annoyed about russia getting involved as well particularly as when he was in pyongyang sergei lavrov said that this would probably be a drawn out process to get rid of north korea's nuclear program over various phrases that's certainly not the way the u.s. administration has been pushing it they said they want to do all happen at once they want to do a complete denuclearization to happen very early on and james just on that issue there denuclearization is anything it will blend any little tidbits from the talks they've had so far is that many progress on that issue well it is the main issue

and we know that the definition of what is meant by that is very different from the u.s. and north korea north korean official statements for years have said they'd like to see a denuclearization of the korean peninsula as a as an eventual am that there are no nuclear weapons there but as well as their own nuclear weapons they also i think are referring to u.s. forces stationed in south korea which could if they needed call on the u.s. president to use the u.s. has nuclear arsenal so i think very different definitions on that will need to watch very closely because i'm sure is going to be asked about that in an hour's time when secretary of state might pompei was jus to give a news conference here in new york james bales thank you very much. protests as a rallying in kenya a corruption scandal at a government agency set up to help young people tens of millions of dollars and gone missing her national youth service dozens of civil servants are under

investigation catherine sora reports from. the kenyans are making their voice hard loud and clear. they're 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 supplies inflated costs and payouts for services that were never delivered in the fast place a man will give up his business to join the protest. has become very difficult. yet. president has said all the manning will be recovered and

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 in its fight 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 case in two thousand and fifteen almost eight million dollars was stolen in a similar way printer four people were taken to court and only one was destroyed so twenty three of them walked away scot free. if you look at the opposition we've been given the here i.q. of the ministry the palin ministry and why is itself to a fairly good analysis. it's unlikely that you can do no such as come to. these

protestants say they're tired of having their money stolen they march to the high court with the police keeping their distance for a few tenths minutes they blocked a convoy car in the chief justice calling for 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 pacts hope those in power will finally start listening. and will be kenya. still to come on the program. last gunman opened fire on demonstrators nicaragua some of whom were taking part in a mother's day. and i'll be reporting from roy room on how some politicians are trying to cash in on the public's antipathy towards the euro currency.

how i would say some rather lively showers longer spells of right into turkey recently war the same as we go on for the next couple of days a fair amount of class standing across much of the country i'd even say a little bit weather wet weather affecting aside for us to feel good measure there you go that's friday's picture cloud in the rain pushing up towards armenia. easing over towards. a little bit of wet weather here but elsewhere it is going to be hot and sunny forty one cells just for baghdad hot enough a couple temperatures here thirty six degrees thirty four celsius for karateka and plenty of sunshine by the time it comes to sas day you might just see want to just slide in. way down to lebanon so i could see a little bit of wet weather coming into beirut at twenty six celsius nose on a cloud and rain out of the arabian peninsula is a hot one temperature is ok five six degrees above the seasonal average here in doha it could touch forty three celsius on saturday really starting to ramp up on

the unpleasantly hot weather that we will see in the coming months then but lots of sunshine of course lots of sunshine to across south africa a good deal cooled a little bit of cloud just scraping its way across the western and southern could see a few spots of frank cape town with the top temperature of sixteen degrees. ard .

among the top stories here the united states has decided to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the european union canada and mexico. threatening its own countermeasures. donald trump has praised the meeting between his secretary of 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 confirm the historic summit . and hundreds of people have marched in kenya's capital nairobi against corruption president who are kenyatta is under increasing pressure to take action after a number of recent scandals implicating major government ministries. gunmen have

opened fire on anti-government protesters in the nicaraguan capital killing six people five all those were killed in violence in other parts of the country the demonstrations in managua are rallying for president i don't know tiger to step down of what they say are his autocratic practices least eighty people have been killed since the rest began in april when you're a photo reports. hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of managua in the largest anti-government protests in decades the demonstration was organized in solidarity with the mothers of students and peaceful demonstrators who have been killed by police and pro-government militias since the start of a nationwide political crisis on april eighteenth get em up get there oh yeah we want this government to have a conscience and stop killing our cute. it's mother's day. but instead of celebrating at home with the family so i learned. is mourning the death of her son

jason he was shot and beaten to death during a student led protest he was twenty four years old that has not yet he used to come home at seven thirty three morning to have breakfast with me that's what hurts the most because now when i make breakfast. better better he was my only son and you know you go out oh that's why i want justice for my son you get a will. over the last month unrest has become common after a peaceful protest against a national pension reform policy were met with deadly force by the government of the day now even some of the president's staunchest supporters are calling for his ouster really jane i learned when i was a university student i thought i use my voice my energy to boot out the somoza dictatorship and we dreamed that there would never be another dictatorship in this country but over the last few years a new dictatorship formed that's not what we fought for that's not all my friends died for they died for a real change

a free and just nicaragua. across town president spoke to supporters claiming the dissent against his government is part of a right wing conspiracy and denying any involvement in the deaths of demonstrators the violence is the worst this country has seen since the overthrow of the samosa dictatorship forty years ago and with the continued crackdown on peaceful protests demonstrations like these with thousands of people marching on the streets of managua have only grown. just before sundown masked gunmen opened fire against a group of demonstrators at the engineering university several were injured others ran for cover civil society organizations continue to add names to the list of those killed nearly nine hundred others have been injured one a drop a little. spain's prime minister and i enter a ho is expected to be toppled as leader in a no confidence motion on friday the basque nationalist. he says it will vote against her hoyer in

a move that would almost certainly force him out of office the mission has been brought forward by the opposition socialists over a corruption scandal involving party needs barca has more from madrid. there are three different possible scenarios ahead over the situation here for prime minister . is getting increasingly bora-bora precarious when the vote of no confidence goes ahead on friday that could of course be successful we may see at the end of the week a new prime minister and a new government if it's unsuccessful which is looking increasingly unlikely the opposition put them all simply a bit off policy say that they'll continue pressure on mariano rajoy going forward to initiate snap elections later on in the year the other option is that the prime minister's sensing defeat on the horizon and decides to resign is unclear which of these scenarios will play out most certainly the prime minister is under mounting pressure there after two smaller parties because

a lot of class nationalist parties say that they will support friday's vote of no confidence one hundred seventy six m.p.'s in the three hundred fifty seat congress here behind me need to support it and it looks like gradually that number is already being reached nine people including two children have been injured in croatia after police opened fire on a van carrying refugees and migrants around twenty nine people mainly from afghanistan and iraq were traveling in the van when they tried to crash to a roadblock he said set up the barrier after the van trust the border illegally from bosnian creation police have defended their actions saying the officers opened fire because they thought their lives were in danger. denmark's parliament has voted to ban full face veils in public spaces it means women who wear burkas or kneecaps in public spaces will be fined when the nor comes into effect in august france germany and three other european countries have already in fermented similar laws denmark's justice minister has previously said the veil is not compatible with

danish values. the red cross says it's sending two teams of surgeons and medical supplies to gaza to treat casualties from recent clashes along the border with israel since the protests began on march thirtieth one hundred fifteen palestinians have been killed and thirteen thousand wounded the red cross says it's prioritizing three and a half thousand victims who suffered gunshot wounds but says the health system is in crisis. the whole guy is a sinking ship if you look at all all parameters and all that is needed to maintain a population in good shape so whatever angle you take of the problem it is that we could problem it is systems are at the brink of collapse you have no electricity you have a. suffocating economy you have unemployment rates skyrocketing you have water systems. not able to cope with the increased demand you have sanitation

systems not able to treat the sewage and therefore. the charge him into the sea very force it went to a hospital in gaza to find out more about the situation on the ground and a warning 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 appealing today with five point three million donors to a how to respond to the ask you to me at the health reform in gaza to increase the capacity of the fed to can and if that is for surgical unit and if we get hospital with. hundreds of people said jones and their families one thousand eleven team members were not there then you know that in becoming clear that month 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 every 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 there also of course concerned that there could be further injuries in protests which could take place in the coming days and weeks. in our nations has made an urgent and critical appeal for donations for its aid budget to help refugees and the agency has received less than a third of what it requested from donors in twenty eighteen and. money is meant to help with nine million people with food shelter and education five and a half million of them are syrian refugees programs in jordan and lebanon particularly low on funds even though they have more refugees per capita than almost anywhere else without more funding the u.n. warns that one point four million refugees will see their food rations reduced with complete cuts in egypt lebanon and jordan by august and education cuts could for students to drop out making them vulnerable to early marriages and child labor really mean a senior communications advisor at your next c.r. she says money can be found to help the communities affected by war especially when

considering the trillions spent on military aid. the line is there's enough money put into making these sward especially the war in syria there should be some money put to help those who are suffering by it the u.n. secretary general used a figure and he said that one point seven trillion dollars are spent have been spent last year on arms and arming that is almost eight hundred times what is needed to help all those who need help in the world so if there is enough money to keep fueling the war in syria there should be enough money to help those refugees and displaced people who are suffering the most out of it over thirteen billion dollars have been poured into the human a third one humanitarian world to help the refugees and the host communities who also need help in order to carry this burden however this is not enough and that's our line we need more very grateful to have what had been given but we need more because we what we need what we are saying is that in fact cannot be looked at as

if it's just short term it's not about just not meeting the humanitarian needs that the refugees need now it's not about just giving them enough food now it's about the long term impact you know when a family a refugee family cannot have enough money to spend it's kids to school in five years we're having a whole generation who have not been to school and even with the figures i'll give you a figure for example in lebanon about sixty percent of children who are at the age of elementary school grades they do go to school however when you go to secondary and higher school education only five percent of refugee children are in gold at this stage and that's a major risk to the future and to the future of syria and the region. initially the country is five star movement and the right wing league party have announced that all conditions have been met to form a new government. is in room for assert with the details so nadeem who they decide is going to be the prime minister and what's the make up of this new government.

well lauren according to this written statement as you say put out by those two parties jointly in the last half hour or so it's remarkably like the lineup that they came up with before last weekend but of course their choice then of economy minister paulose of owner was effectively vetoed by the president sergio because he was a well known euro skeptic and according to the president that would have spooked the markets when the markets did react negatively because of the prospect partly of fresh elections now it looks like we're not headed for more elections if this is confirmed and if it goes through the statement says the new government will include not only five star and the league the so-called populous parties but a third right wing party called the brothers of italy who are in a coalition with the league and with silvio berlusconi's tallia party in the campaigning for the march election so a new

a new party on board but without any ministries crucially though the local media are saying that this agreement includes a different economy minister with the previous nominee paolo sub owner possibly given european union affairs now of course that will still be problematic to some people here and in brussels given what he's written in the past certainly then there is still going to be a lot of commentary about the what the foreign policy will be coming out of this new government in terms of trying to renegotiate rules with the european union there's been even speculation that the league try to to get rid of the euro in the long term all of the parties involved say that that's not their aim for now what we're looking to next is the man the technocrats that the president had asked to form a government to really officially handing back the mandate and then perhaps in the

next twenty four hours we will see an announcement of that new government lauren and just briefing him does it would matter allan the president still have to approve this lineup. absolutely he would but i don't think behind the scenes that this would have been put out there had very not got the backing of the president there have been talks going on here in the middle of rome all day long on thursday involving virtually all of those figures with president or no one to one basis in formal talks everyone keep stressing but i really think it would have it would be highly embarrassing if they did not know that their lineup would now be approved although there has been speculation that the league had been playing hardball and that they would insist on renominating mr cell phone or so let's not rule anything else we mentioned nominating palace of honor but if he then goes to european affairs a premier he'll be

a thorn in the side of the of the european union because of his you're skipping years as you mentioned. he certainly would it's not just the single currency the euro which has got people rattled it's the whole idea of italy trying to demand more from the european union and also there's been a lot of anti german sentiment expressed during the campaigns by by a lot of people. particularly in the league that plays into that plays into campaigns by euro skeptics in countries like france of course the brics it. can in britain and so on and there are if that does continue that really does worry a lot of governments around the continent let him live in rome for us thank you very much indeed and just a reminder there. bring us great breaking news that italy's. five star movement and

right wing lead have now agreed to the conditions are in place to form a government and that still needs to be formally approved but some progress there in achieving a new government in italy. now remind of the top stories here now jazeera 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 aluminum will come into effect at midnight on thursday he says the door remains open for negotiations or he didn't specify what measures could be taken the european union is reckless strongly to the move threatening to impose its own countermeasures this is a but the for the world trade you putin can look. react to that

we've all had you kind of reaction so we immediately introduce a sort of a dispute. on the 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 the bill that it come to is you pose you look for measures when it comes to. create. us president donald trump has praised the talks between your sector state and a senior north korean official as a very positive social state might more peo has been meeting the north korean leader's right hand man kim yong troll in new york for a second day it's part of efforts to pave the way for a historic summit between front and kim jong un next month. hundreds of people have marched in kenya's capital nairobi as public anger grows over corruption president

hu kenyatta is under increasing pressure to take action after a number of recent scandals implicating major government ministries friday's protests were triggered after it was revealed that nineteen million dollars went missing from the national youth service. and it is italy's five star movement and far right knee party say they've agreed on a new cabinet to form a coalition government might. have lost ixtoc so to avoid a new election president so much of it georgette to that earlier cabinet proposal which included a euro skeptic nominee for economy minister that is your headlines do stay with us next it's inside story by for now.

it was an election that was high on symbolism if iraq voting for the first time after the defeat of vice and look now the outcome of what should be done and that reduction is under scrutiny with hopes of a peaceful transition to power in iraq be dashed again this is the inside story. hello and welcome to the program. it's been more than three weeks since iraqis went to the polls but the result was split and no single political bloc has been able to form a government the u.n. is urging a quick solution to be found so the country moves forward much neal.