a claim the u.s. commerce secretary brushed off everybody has a remeron and very firmly every country does with others whose loathing. he will get over this in due course in brussels the head of the european commission called it a bad day for world trade promising counter measures that could include retaliatory tariffs u.s. goods into the e.u. on everything from blue jeans to motorcycles what they can do we are able to do exactly. the same it's totally up to the it come to be she pulls you look through measures when it comes to. the crate france's junior trade minister promised a similar response suggesting the u.s. president may be misinformed. no more forget that issue comes a point when one needs to look at the figures and i'm surprised that maybe president trump stuff haven't shown him how much those european companies have

invested in the united states created jobs that to assemble and produce that now those u.s. jobs could be at risk just as president donald trump seeks to fulfill one of his top campaign promises to protect the jobs of his supporters in america's steel and aluminum manufacturing sectors it's not just international partners criticizing donald trump's decision to oppose steel and aluminum tariffs on top u.s. allies domestically members of president trump's own republican party are also criticizing him fear of the effects of a global trade war despite white house efforts to downplay those concerns kimberly helped get al-jazeera at the white house. well now to italy the country's getting its first populist governor and his stablish meant five star movement in far right lead r.t. have succeeded in forming a coalition just happy county as prime minister content his ministers will be sworn

in on friday ending weeks of political deadlock and he barbour has more from ryan well after many days of uncertainty italy it seems does have a new government and it looks extremely like the government we thought it was going to have last weekend that was when president sergio mazzariello vetoed the nomination by five star and bullied for economy minister paolo some boehner now mr sivana is in the cabinet but he's e.u. affairs minister so probably some scope for him to still ruffle feathers with brussels. why do them that there's a new foreign minister who served under a previous technocrat government who will be seen perhaps as a more moderate figure by other e.u. leaders but just on thursday night as it emerged that this deal had had gone through matteo salvini head of the league said that he was fed up of seeing italian

governments go to brussels putting out the begging cap that came just a few hours after. the head of the european commission said that what it's really needed was less corruption and more hard work so there seems to already be a war of words between the incoming government here and top officials in brussels that might worry not just other heads of government but again the financial markets if they think that there's going to be a big clash coming up there's a big summit in the u. summit in june where we're likely to see a lot of friction but in the next few days what we know is that the new government is expected to be sworn in to pass a vote of confidence here in parliament the first step on trying to get some stability back in italy. oh political crisis in spain as well the prime minister mariano rajoy is expected to be toppled as leader in a no confidence motion set for friday while his party is struggle to restore trust after it was implicated in a major corruption scandal nieve baka reports from madrid. defending his leadership

prime minister mariano rajoy arrived at parliament where a possible no confidence vote against him and his people's party is looming the motions being brought by the opposition socialist party leader pedro sanchez the motion calls for sanchez to replace the whole way as prime minister but if you're a boy are you going to resign mr a horny or are you going to keep clinging to the position weakening democracy and weakening and appreciating the quality of the government institution the motion follows the jailing of twenty nine high ranking members of the party for illegally financing campaigns in the one nine hundred ninety s. and early two thousand. became the first prime minister in office to give evidence in a trial last year. former people's party treasurer lewis was among those convicted on monday once a close ally he was given a thirty three year jail sentence and fined fifty one million dollars royal insists

the corruption allegations don't affect anyone in government less in the theory the sentence doesn't say i blame the people's party for being corrupt or creating an institutional corrupt system it doesn't say this will be helpful to read the sentence and read it well one hundred seventy six m.p.'s out of three hundred fifty hear it spain's congress would need to support a vote of no confidence for the motion to pass the socialist no they can't do this alone so they've drawn in support from their political rivals the leftist but their most party says it will back a vote of no confidence the centrists the other battles party says that it won't so we could all boil down to two smaller regional parties a council and i'm past nationalist parties to force the prime minister out of office both regimes say they'll now support the no confidence vote. nationalist egot a punishment for coming down hard on the region separatist movement after catalonia declared independence last year. and one of the longest political careers in

spanish history. and he is indeed a political survivor the pressure in the media the pressure in the street is to know most suv thing that he can stay for another two years is difficult to envision now but it's possible money is already survived one attempt to depose him he has the backing of his policy. but his leadership's looking increasingly for. the balkan al-jazeera madrid. much more to come for you on the program gaza the whole gaza is a sinking ship. the red cross sends war surgeons into gaza treat thousands of palestinians wounded in clashes along the border with israel and the journalist who faked his own death to survive a murder attempt reveals how we did it and why. hello

some stormy weather briefly in perth on wednesday night to see that frontal system as it went through not apparent for a while so it's rather more active than the cloud might suggest it's a cold front having gone through its left pursed down to sixteen degrees in a quiet sunny day on friday the still like that of few showers running through western straight south australia clouds covering adelaide nobody should be in the sunshine the circulation is off shows to driving a cold breeze into sydney about sixty degrees but the sun is probably the dominant thing in the sky rather than too much cloud though it's not far away adelaide's up to eighteen on saturday a potential shower and still in the cold sunshine but there's a gap between both australia and new zealand where this circulation has been running now for well three or four days that's when most of the righties buddy state so if you're in oakland at fifteen degrees just look out to the west to watch

the cloud build you won't see very much on friday but on saturday the chances are it'll be raining before you've wiped the sleep out of your eyes if you further sas in christchurch for example it's been cooler for a while but rather a blobby more sunny of course if you're out on the water this is looking pretty windy the big circulation. they help build clean and feed the capital but they're not welcome anymore. one of the nice witnesses the massive agents and demolitions forcing two hundred thousand of beijing's poor from their homes one on one east run out a zero. zero . where everyone.

back a look at the top stories the u.s. secretary of state says he's made great progress in his talks with one of north korean leader kim jong un's most trusted advisors but he refused to confirm if a plan summit between president donald trump and kim jong un will take place italy is getting its first populist government and he established in five star movement and far rightly policy have succeeded in forming a coalition with just epic antti as prime minister and canada and france have hit back at the u.s. decision to impose tariffs on steel and alan many of imports saying the move is on acceptable and illegal and that they will impose retaliatory measures.

mexico will be one of the hardest hit by these new terrorist countries one of the world's largest exporters of steel to the united states there is john heilemann has more on this now from mexico city. after the u.s. put the squeeze on a busy trading i'm always mix going canada imposing steel doesn't believe tariffs retaliation quickly follow both amounts dollar for dollar surcharges the u.s. if these tariffs are totally unacceptable canadian prime minister justin through though and his foreign minister chrystia freeland denounce the u.s. is actions this is sixteen point six billion dollars of retaliation this is the strongest trade action canada has taken in the post-war era first of all mexico's economic minister called this the worst case scenario and said the country would put tariffs on some u.s. steel products apple's grapes pull and cheese today that we take action.

to compensate sadly it would be that mr gone to mexico exports from this dilemma but this dispute was the last thing either country wanted with a powerful and until recently mostly friendly neighbor the kind of that the terrorists will hit particularly hard about ninety percent of it still head south of the border it's the u.s. is biggest supplier but mexico also is one of the top exporters of steel to be united states despite that both of it's going canada insist trade flow still works in the u.s. is favor for them the decision by the troubled ministration just doesn't make sense michael vick is no economic justification at the end of the day you see that mexico has a deficit with the u.s. in any lineaments deal that we can see more from them than we're more over in sectors that are essential for their company but there's a lot of the elements of this washington's insist. the three countries are

renegotiating enough their free trade agreement the u.s. won't see more concessions from me. they both emphasize that they still came to talk but added that their italia three measures will remain in place as long as the u.s. terrorists to join the home and how does it a bit scarcity. the right cross is sending additional medical specialists and supplies to gaza to treat casualties from recent clashes along the border with israel the organization is warning that gaza is facing a major crisis after more than thirteen thousand palestinians were wounded in weeks of protests algis there is harry force that has more in just a warning that 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 women are in bad need two three to five a complicated surgery and this is why the ancestry of that feeling today with five point three million donors to the how to respond to the accurate needs at the health reform in gaza to increase the capacity of the fed to can and if that is a surgical unit and they begin hospital with that and also three of the said jones and there she is walking eleven team members were not there when 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. in iten nations is calling for agent donations to help syrian refugees saying it only has about twenty percent of the money needs for its yearly budget since war broke out in two thousand and eleven half of syria's population has been displaced including more than five million who live outside the country then harder ports from beirut. i 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 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 burning there are pockets of fighting throughout the country seven million people live their homes and they remain 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 water sanitation health coverage food there 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 status of the people mainly women and children but not only that we've seen the result of. education which is something is extremely important in this region and we don't want to. see 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.