after months of threats and negotiations the u.s. launches a trade war the targets some of washington's closest allies. hello i'm adrian sun again this is how it is here on live from doha also coming up a real troll is now planning to travel to washington to deliver a personal letter from chairman kim jong il a senior advisor to north korea's leader to meet with donald trump place on friday . pakistan to swear in a can take it government head of july is election. and citizens it and steps down as the manager of rail the dritte just days after the champions league victory.

the trumpet ministration is imposing tariffs on steel only minium imports from the european union canada and mexico u.s. trade partners are threatening to retaliate with terrorists of their own as fears grow over global trade war kimberly health reports from washington. u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross made the announcement from paris where he was attending an annual trade forum. tariffs of twenty five percent on steel and ten percent on aluminum imports into the united states from canada mexico and the european union all go into effect friday the move potentially sets in motion a trade war with some of the united states most important allies a claim the u.s. commerce secretary brushed off everybody has every known again very firmly

does every country does with others who is nothing weird about i think everybody 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 unacceptable that it come to easy because you look through measures when it comes to. create france's junior trade minister promised a similar response suggesting the u.s. president may be misinformed. no more forget that issue there 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 the 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 can really help him al-jazeera at the white house where as you heard u.s. trade partners in europe at the non-singing the new turfs the president of france and grown called the american action illegal and his foreign minister said that america first is becoming america alone germany's finance minister all of scholtz

said the tariffs may violate international law and he said it was not a good day for transatlantic relations and a statement by the british government expressed deep disappointment in the decision that said the u.k. and other u.s. allies should get a pub and exemption which of stacy is a former state department official in a bomb as a ministration he said that there is a high chance of a trade war. we're already hearing direct responses from the e.u. from japan from canada about what they're going to do reciprocal tariffs coming at the american economy and that means that if we respond again in kind this could go several rounds and lead ultimately to a very sizable trade war that will be detrimental to all of us what we are hoping is that the administration will think twice here this is what our allies are hoping this is what the leaders in japan in canada and all across europe are hoping it seems that this cabinet and this president in particular have things kind of

reverse in their minds what they don't understand is that protectionism and mercantile isn't is a very bad thing for all parties involved the u.s. secretary of state says that he's made great progress in his talks with one of north korean leader kim jong un's closest aides mike compares met kim yong choi chole rather in new york for a second day the talks are supposed to smooth the way for a summit between donald trump and kim jong un in less than two weeks pompei or refused to confirm that it will actually happen diplomatic at its a james pace reports. a second day of intense diplomacy between the u.s. secretary of state and the north korean envoy who met for almost two and a half hour as reporters watched the comings and goings at the apartment block where the u.s. government owns a residence on the thirty ninth floor state department officials were very cautious in what they said but one man was not as restrained the u.s.

president who spoke as the meeting was still under way revealing for the first time that general kim will now head to the white house good morning i just want to tell you we're doing very well with north korea our secretary of state has had very good meetings he's meeting again today. i believe they'll be coming down to washington on friday and a letter is going to be delivered to me from him john. the president said the summit in singapore if it takes place could be the first of perhaps two or three meetings between him and kim jong later secretary pump aoe sidestepped questions about whether the two sides have the same definition of denuclearization and seemed well aware of the scale of the challenge ahead this is going to be a process that will take days and weeks to work our way through there will be tough

moments there will be difficult times i've had some difficult conversations with them as well. they've given right back to me to reporters had been led to believe that these crucial negotiations would only be taking place here at this apartment block in new york but now there is another phase and an unpredictable element president trump himself at the white house general kim is carrying a letter which he will open there from his leader kim jong james bios al-jazeera new york out of there as went hey joins us now live from from seoul when closer to where you are there are more meetings taking place what's been happening. yes well certainly it's a case of the diplomatic activity continuing in many parts of the world including of course here on the korean peninsula on friday we are seeing a high level meeting between representatives from north and south korea meeting in the demilitarized zone this was a meeting that was supposed to take place just over two weeks ago but the north

koreans withdrew from there because it was in protest really over military exercises that were taking place at the time between the south koreans and the united states so according to the unification minister from south korea this meeting these talks are all about ensuring items that were agreed upon in the two into korean summits will be implemented seamlessly and quickly all indications are over the past couple of hours since that meeting started that everything has been positive that both sides are in agreement on most things in the two key things that they have agreed upon so far is that they want to see a joint liaison office as soon as possible in the song industrial park which has been closed for some time and they also want to stage an event sometime this year a celebration to mark the anniversary of the first into korean summit in

the year two thousand the north koreans are proposing that event should be held in south korea so all indications again are that these discussions have been positive so for the north in pyongyang itself the russians have also been making a play. yes they certainly have while all attention has been of course on the united states in that possible summit with the north korean leader kim jong un in singapore in on june the twelfth the chinese and the russians now seemingly wanting to remind everyone of course especially the united states president donald trump that they have a vested interest in this they both share a border with north korea they have an economic relationship with north korea or at least they did before the sanctions came on following that aggressive activity from north korea last year so on thursday we saw the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov in pyongyang the north korean capital meeting with kim jong un and that they

discussed a wide range of issues of course the denuclearization of the korean peninsula which they both agreed should be the aim and there was also an invitation from sergei lavrov for kim jong un to travel to moscow to hold a summit with the russian president vladimir putin according to the north korean official news agency kim jong un accepted the invitation and there is some hope that that summit will take place in russia this year which would mark the seventieth anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries where many thanks indeed let's get the thoughts now of evan resnick who's a u.s. foreign policy expert. roger up in the school of international studies at nanyang technical technological university joins us now live from singapore. scope evan another day of meetings there are statements are we getting any closer do you think it's a confirmation that this june twelfth summit will actually happen. all indications

seem to be that this summit is back on track i can't speak to the past the the likelihood of there being real substantial. truths to come out of this summit but it looks like at least there will be some sort of meeting held here in singapore on the twelfth and looks like it's been resurrected i just don't know what the outcome is going to be and it's unlikely to be anything earth shattering diplomatic correspondent was talking about one of the latest developments today this letter that we expect to be delivered from kim jong un to president trump what's that and i said that he says rather quaint way to do diplomacy isn't it. it is it's the reciprocation of the letter that president trump sent directly to kim simple days ago canceling the summit my guess is that it's going to be some sort of. goodwill gesture hoping to. suit you to get to

reach a. summit meeting this is very much in president kim's interests to be seen personally sitting next to the president of the united states so want to seems that this is a favorable positive letter hoping to true to route to reset the summit meeting so if president kim and trump do actually sit down together in singapore on june twelfth how much negotiation negotiating will they actually do at that summit is the hard work being done now. well typically summit meetings presidential level summit meetings are represent the culmination of a long diplomatic process and the results are already sort of baked in before the two leaders even even meet one another we know in this case things have been sort of words in that the summit meeting was scheduled without there being any

actual diplomatic trade luger negotiations to actually produce results to be to be announced at the summit so this is all kind of taking place on the fly these are sort of frantic last minute negotiations to try and come up with something to not only the logistics of the meeting itself but also to come up with some kind of substantive agreement this is not usually the way things work incompetent the u.s. administration might propose sartre say talking about. using quite tough language with north korea he said he got that the same back from them if you were a fly on the wall what what what what are the sticking points here what do you think that they're arguing about the big sticking point is north korea's nuclear arsenal and that arsenal happens to be the sole insurance policy that the kim regime has against regime change war led by the united states to topple president kim from power so the likelihood that he is going to give up those weapons under

any circumstances irrespective of whether he agrees to or not as he has before i says. father and grandfather had before not to give them up and so this is going to be largely a p.r. stunt it may lead to negotiations that's good it's better to be talking than to be fighting but the likelihood that there will be real sort of verifiable irreversible nuclear disarmament on the part of north korea's see could start to have an many thanks indeed evan resnick there live in singapore via skype. we'll get a weather update next here on al-jazeera then at the u.n. security council a warning for south sudan sanctions are coming if the fighting doesn't stop. and spain's parliament set for a confidence vote the prime minister not a holy seems likely to lose.

how i'll bet or the unusual storm is still visible hard to believe on has been over land for three days but there it is that little circulation there as it moves up across the great lakes is still inside just to the northwest of toronto on this particular satellite picture is brought out with a mass of warm and now within that warm air not much has happened recently occasional thunderstorms possible the temps of all obviously risen look at chicago at thirty trying to one hundred five this is all warm or even hot but it's about to change as it will barrels all fs through the eastern side of the u.s. an eastern kalar temps are coming in behind all the air coming behind is cooler but down to twenty three in chicago but that green there suggests a big downpours running through new england down through the appalachians as well and the circulation also developed over the counter the northern rockies i think

a few showers a lucky from that and then the sun comes out the ones off to it and then this looks potentially quite dangerous running through the the plain states steering saturday to the south a lot of the obvious of the showers and this is quite rapidly in the last day or so is running out through costa rica where it has been pretty wet. to some an honest politician to others an alleged war criminal who was responsible for the murder of kosovo serb statesman oliver evanovich what does it reveal of the sectarian divide within this ten year old country and how has it affected relations between pristina and belgrade kosovo people in power investigation on al-jazeera.

again you are without a zero our top stories this hour trumpet ministration is opposing tariffs on steel and only medium imports from the european union canada and mexico u.s. trade partners are threatening to retaliate with tariffs of their own stoking fears of a global trade war. and the u.s. secretary of state says that he's made great progress in his talks with kim jung one of the want to north korea's leaders closest aides it comes as high level meetings between north and south korea resuming the demilitarized. pakistanis to

swear in a caretaker government ahead of elections late in july a former judge will run the country until the votes the three man the three main political parties are looking to convince voters that they can improve the economy and create jobs and run com takes a look at the contenders. election time in pakistan and the country's big players are preparing for voting. the last government led by the washer is in disarray as he was forced out of office in july two thousand and seventeen by the anti corruption court who accused him of not disclosing foreign investments he said it was a coup against his government despite that his party is confident of a strong showing the pakistan muslim league n. wants to do well in the province of punjab traditionally its stronghold another big player is the pakistan people's party led by twenty nine year old. he inherited the party leadership after his mother and former prime minister benazir bhutto was assassinated in two thousand and seven the party's popular in the southern sindh

province and he hopes a good result there will give his party a say on the national stage. then this is the former cricketer time politician his party held mass rallies during the government's last term accusing it of corruption and electoral for. some pundits suggest this pakistan movement for justice party could be in line for a big win this time around. but behind all of this is pakistan's deep state institution the armed forces it is said that without only support no party can form a government but the army says its role is simply security and stability in the region bug sign is the nuclear test and mentors are all has always been as a stabilizer and to be honest we can say that the healthful do facilitate create conducive environment peaceful environment for any type of event. for the electorate there are other concerns including the economy jobs and

a young population with few career prospects but those issues affect the urban population in rural areas by far the biggest voting bloc it's often the village elders who dictate the float the values that are to these sayings of their tribal elders these all are the things which matters a lot in pakistani elections and our common water definitely despite what about a promise is given by any political leader in the public good on died in a public speech right saud that may not matter they think the saying off is. but there is another block with increasing influence over the last ten years the religious groups through networks of religious schools those parties can mobilize votes for any political party that they choose given this election is wide open it may well be their support that swings the final result but there are concerns religious parties are intolerant of other minorities and women's rights i want to

see pakistan governed by religious law rather than civil war imran khan al-jazeera . the u.n. security council has given south sudan's warring factions a month to reach a peace deal or face possible sanctions it's voted to adopt a u.s. led resolution which threatens an arms embargo against the defense minister and five other officials south sudan descended into civil war in twenty thirteen when the president salva kiir accused his then deputy shah of plotting a coup more now from morgan who's in juba. nine countries have voted in favor of renewal of sanctions against south sudan officials and six countries have abstained now to get those votes the u.s. which has been pushing for the votes had to water down there was aleutian and did not get what they wanted what they wanted was harsher sanctions more officials in south sudan which they have accused of derailing the peace process and those officials include the minister of cabinets affairs as well as the minister of defense what they got instead was a forty five day technical rollover of the existing sanctions and that the

secretary general should report within thirty days about violence in the country as well as a political agreement now to reach a political agreement seems like a bit of a tough challenge. to governmental authority on development which is a regional bloc which has been trying to mediate between the warring sides have had several rounds of peace talks between the different sides and all round including the last one which ended on the twenty third of may feel to produce any results and to bridge the gaps between the different parties so at the moment the u.s. the u.s. seems to think that what they have done is better than at the u.n. security council is better than nothing but what they are hoping for after their forty five day period is that they will be able to push for stronger sanctions should there be no peace in south sudan the red cross is sending two teams of surgeons and medical supplies to treat casualties injured by israeli forces one hundred fifteen palestinians have been killed thirteen thousand wounded since the

process began on march the red cross teams will prioritize gunshot wound victims it's middle east director says the health system is on the verge of collapse. imagine some one thousand three hundred fifty people with complex cases will need three to five operations each so per patient a total of more than four thousand surgeries half of which would be carried out by the i.c.r.c. youth i think such a case load would overwhelm any health system in the world including in geneva or harris forces been to a hospital in gaza to find out more about the situation on the ground just a warning that 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 is 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 and three hundred women are in badly to three to five a complicated this is by the end festive that peeling today with five point three million dinars still in the hat thirty one to the accutane at the health reform in gaza to increase the capacity of the third to can and if that is with education and if they get hospital with them and also free food fed jails and there are things

one hundred eleven team members were not there then for now that in becoming clear that month this is just one among 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. that been nationwide protests in argentina calling for the decriminalization of abortion. they follow months of nationally broadcast hearings on whether to allow women to terminate a pregnancy within the first fourteen weeks a congressional committee is to use a vote on the bill which would then still have to pass both houses of parliament at

least sixteen people are now confirmed to have been killed in nicaragua since wednesday as anti-government demonstrations continue nationwide the latest surge in violence began when gunmen opened fire on a march paying tribute to the mothers of students that were killed in the rest of his errors manuel apollo reports from the capital managua. on the streets of managua gunmen opened fire on anti-government protesters in the ni-cad out when capital many demonstrators took shelter in a nearby cathedral when up at the at first we were inside the cathedral then we went outside and saw how the shootings took place in cold blood right in front of the cathedral. in this but it nicaraguan farmer who traveled to my now i want to take part in the demonstrations says even under the care of faith leaders he still fears that more attacks are coming still to be in or not it because we're going through oppression despite staying at the cathedral because these people don't

respect anyone that respects priest so human rights only god can help us here. it's not the first time police officers have fired on demonstrators standing on the grounds of this cathedral since the unrest began nearly six weeks ago pro-government paramilitary groups continue to face off with protesters some wielding homemade mortars demand barricades and keep a close watch over who they allow pass snipers an armed groups believed to be under the command of president daniel ortega left at least sixteen people dead and another seventy nine injured after a protest that drew nearly half a million people to the streets of managua president ordered to go however continues to deny any involvement in the violence. well in my book humanitarian organizations have condemned the government crackdown on dissenters. of amnesty international says the evidence of human rights abuse by the government is clear they use of these paramilitary groups to create the couse the use of. police the

use of lethal force by police i mean we saw this sniper this you know very well positioned it is stadium ready to kill people some of the patterns that we have seen and and and that make us believe that this is so systematic and so intentional that it's becoming a policy to shoot to kill almost every bell despite the government agreement to allow an independent commission to investigate the violence of the past six weeks the political unrest sneak out i was shows no sign of ending soon there have been about one hundred confirmed deaths since the start of the crisis and ended up a little dizzy when i was. in a letter addressed to catholics in chile of pope francis to never again ignore the culture of clergy sexual abuse in the country it comes after the pontiff announced plans to send his two top investigators back to chile to gather more information about the crisis the pope also praised the victims of sexual abuse in chile for

bringing the truth to light despite attempts by church officials to discredit them spain's prime minister mario raha may lose his job after a no confidence vote in parliament on friday his party has been struggling to restore trust court ruled that his posse profited from an illegal scheme the votes been brought about by the opposition socialist party leader pedro sanchez who's hoping to take over. real madrid's manager. dan has quit the european champions after winning an unprecedented third straight champions league title the frenchman called a surprise news conference earlier ending a three year managerial career with the spanish club sedan says it felt like the right time to make a change. look at. this club needs to keep winning and for that it needs a change after three years it needs a different voice a different working method and that's why i made this decision because i really

love the club and also the president who gave me the chance to come as a player to real madrid this great club and for that i'll be forever grateful i mean. i would have liked to have convinced him but i know his character and the only thing that i can do is to offer my love support and recognition and remember although he knows it at this club will always be his family. it is good to have you with us holloway very unforgiving here in the top stories this hour on al-jazeera the trumpet ministration is imposing tariffs on steel an early many of imports from the european union canada and mexico u.s. trade partners are threatening to retaliate with tariffs of their own stoking fears of a global trade war. the u.s. secretary of state says that he's made great progress in his talks with kim yong one of the north korean leaders close estates it comes as

a high level south korean delegation met north korean counterparts at the demilitarized zone between the two countries. our two countries face a pivotal moment in our relationship in which it could be nothing short of tragic to let this opportunity go to waste. in my conversations with chairman kim jong un to be on young and today with vice chairman kim young troll i've been very clear the president arrived in the united states objective is very consistent and well known the complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the korean peninsula pakistan is to swear in a caretaker government ahead of elections late in july former judge nice little mole quill run the country until after the votes the three main political parties are looking to convince voters that they can grow the economy and create jobs the un security council has given south sudan's warring factions a month to reach a peace deal or face possible sanctions it's voted to adopt a u.s.

led resolution which threatens an arms embargo against the defense chief and five other officials the red cross is sending two teams of surgeons and medical supplies to gaza street casualties from recent violence along the border with israel one hundred fifteen palestinians killed more than thirteen thousand wounded since the protests began on march thirtieth red cross teams will prioritize gunshot victims and rail madrid manager citizens a dan has quit the european champions after winning and i'm president of third straight champions league title sudan says it felt like the right time to make a change and as the headlines of these continues here on zero after people in power next. seven million lives in this each mine is still a. demonstrably. true

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