spain's prime minister money on little horn addresses parliament ahead of a no confidence vote this hour which he is largely expected to. welcome to alan's as they are on life from my headquarters in doha with me elizabeth purana also ahead the potential for a global trade. as america's closest allies threaten their own tariffs against the u.s. . 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 donald trump on friday and. i

don't even know if we still have a house or if it was destroyed millions of displaced syrians rescues in their homes of a property nor implemented by the government. spain's parliament is about to stop voting in a no confidence motion against promise to muddy on the whole the whole his party has been struggling to restore trust after a court ruled that it profited from an illegal scheme the votes being brought forward by the opposition socialist party leader is this hoping to take over as prime minister well the whole address to parliament and the pasta. let me start to look at the show the most for the most but i will be very short we presume this motion will go ahead and as a consequence mr sanchez will be the new head of government and i want to congratulate him first of all it has been an honor to be the prime minister of spain it has been an honor to leave behind a better spain than the one that i found when i took over government i wish my

substitute will be able to stay the same i think i have improved the wellbeing of the people standing if anyone has been offended by my actions. i think everyone especially my party without whom none of this would be possible thank you to all spaniards for their support and understanding and good luck to all of you and to spain well let's get more on this now correspondent joining us live from the spanish capital madrid the vote about to start taking place any moment now named after that address from the hallway which almost sounded like a farewell letter. oh definitely it was it was absolutely a valediction in budget if you notice the tali there it was black so the symbolism is very clear indeed very out of the void knows that his days as prime minister of very much numbered and that means that pedro sanchez is only moments away we strongly believe from making history here in spain by becoming the first politician

to unseat a sitting prime minister in a vote of no confidence of course what happens next will be largely a formality a vote of no confidence the results will be known shortly afterwards we assumed it would be electronic voting looks as if it's being done the old fashioned way one hundred seventy six m.p.'s out of three hundred fifty here congress need to support it on thursday one hundred eighty from six party said that they would throw their support behind the vote of no confidence so it looks very much like by the end of the day at least we'll have a new prime minister and shortly afterwards a new government here and never mind as you know why the pederast sanchez brought that no confidence motion against roy forward to corruption allegations that have led to the high facing his second no confidence vote in parliament. we're pretty censures along with some of the other political parties here accused mariano rajoy of undermining democracy of undermining the health of the economy

by a whole raft of different issues related to corruption and key figures within the people's polity twenty nine c. the members of his center right party were convicted on a whole raft of different. locations of fraud and corruption dating back to campaigning in the late one nine hundred ninety s. and early two thousand is among them lewis barr send us the former treasurer of the p.p. party a close ally of mariano rajoy he on monday was sentenced to thirty three years in jail and fined fifty one million dollars i've just received word that the voting has actually begun now so we can officially say that that is under way we'll have a clearly a result a bit later on but going back to what i was saying marianna will jorge and his posse of also being told to repay two hundred eighty five thousand dollars for financially benefit seeing as a result of this ford carried out by people close to him he's remained defiant throughout he says that this is largely an attempt by the political opposition to

unseat him to destabilize his government and he says this will not benefit the country in the long run as i said voting has now begun we are minutes away from knowing exactly what the final result will be but it looks very much like pedro sanchez will indeed be confirmed as the new prime minister here in spain we're moments away all right may thank you very much for that for now that's me barca joining us live from madrid and movement of course be going back to him for any developments. let's move on to other news from ellen some of america's closest allies are threatening retaliatory measures off of the u.s. imposed tariffs on steel in an alum many and imports the trumpet ministration refuse to accept the european union canada or mexico they are now fears that the decision could spark a global trade war committee how could 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 a remeron again very firmly every country does with others is one thing weird about . the will get over it 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 the letter of

measures when it comes to its. credit france's jr trade minister promised a similar response suggesting the u.s. president may be misinformed. no more for the 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. it risks 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 get al-jazeera at the white house and u.s. trade partners in europe denouncing the new to have french president emanuel the american action illegal and while his foreign minister said america is becoming america alone the german finance minister said the tabs may violate international law and that it was not a good day for transatlantic relations the british government expressed deep disappointment saying the u.k. and other u.s. allies should get a permanent exemption let's go straight to our correspondent who is joining us live from the french capital and the president's statements natasha suggesting that mccrone is taking a tougher approach to donald trump now on this issue. indeed because what we're seeing as these tariffs come into effect here and begin is the beginning of not just those tariffs and what looks like a trade war but

a war of words the french president a man or mark or spoke to donald trump on the telephone and his words are very strong indeed calling these tariffs illegal and i'm mistaken now for a man or mark all these terrorists are illegal p cause they basically bypass international regulations on trade and the w t o they are a mistake because the french president says taking these sort of unilateral decisions never works out he also took some sort of swipe at donald trump by suggesting that if this was an appeal to voters in america then it is also a mistake because such decisions often lead to high unemployment and high prices and that will end up punishing many of those who did vote for trump in the first place so many obviously extremely frustrated with his u.s. counterpart and this is the french president who spent much of his first year in office trying to develop a good relationship with donald trump in order to influence him on key issues but

in the policy donald trump has pulled out of the climate deal he's pulled out of the iran deal and now slapped these tariffs on the european union and i think that the french president is going to perhaps really take a much tougher line than he has in the past with the u.s. president he is now calling on the european commission to see what it can do and he is saying that in fact what needs to happen are retaliatory measures. but you see double measures are different. i deplore the american decision on the album in yemen steel tariffs levies today the news yesterday i clearly expressed myself on the same topic will have to take a european decision and the european commission had was only since the beginning of the crisis which is a position that i am totally defending the one which is to come within the scope of the international law in order to defend european interests and to defend rules that we jointly created and so what more do we know in atocha about the european response and what they can do here. well there's no doubt the e.u.

officials feel that they simply have no choice that they have to hit back with her toiletry retaliatory tariffs we know the european officials are very busy up until the last minute with their us counterparts trying to come up with a last minute deal or perhaps see that the us doesn't put some sort of limits on these terrorists but we have twenty five percent on steel ten percent on our the mini m so what the e.u. is saying that it's going to look at tariffs on u.s. goods such as motorcycles blue jeans cranberries orange juice and they're very strategically targeted tariffs they are tariffs that might really have an impact on areas in the u.s. that have traditionally supported donald trump's a very strategic move by the european union there is no doubt here that officials are united the french finance minister said they're not only united but the response is going to be firm a junior french minister said that these types will probably be in place by the

middle of june so this frustration is anger but there's also a real sense of defiance coming from europe because so much is at stake europe is one of us is big trading partners it's also the second producer or still in the world of china three hundred twenty thousand jobs across the european union rely on the steel industry so the europeans as you heard from him on a mark or are really going to do everything they can to defend their interests natasha thank you very much for that for now that of the very latest live and paris well canada has one of the largest exports of steel to the u.s. and there's been strong reaction from them to we find ourselves the target of punitive tariffs on canadian aluminum and steel under the pretext of a two three two national security provision let me be clear these tariffs are totally unacceptable. now peace talks have taken place between north and south korea in the truce willage of job let's go live to our correspondent wayne hale

he's joining us from seoul with the very latest on this the two parties have issued a joint statement way in what's come out of the meeting. yes well elizabeth obviously a lot of attention on their possible summit between the u.s. president donald trump and the north korean korean leader kim jong un but the talks that were held in the demilitarized zone separating north and south korea on friday were a very important step in terms of improving relations between the two it was a delegation representing north korea that mitt's their counterparts from south korea and this was really all about practical steps to build on the issues that were discussed in the into korean summits between the south korean president and kim jong un from north korea one of the practical things that they have decided to implement already is a joint liaison office to be situated just across the border in north korea in the

case on industrial complex that complex has been closed since two thousand and sixteen because of the missile tests a nuclear test that north korea was undertaking at the time so they'll have a liaison office there that will be manned all the time so it's an important step in terms of communication between the two countries have also agreed to discuss the idea of staging an event possibly in south korea to mark the anniversary of the first into korean summit back in the year two thousand that anniversary coming up on the fifteenth of june and looking beyond that agreed to discuss the idea of military talks to continue to ease the tension on the korean peninsula and our rig cross negotiations as well these are about the family reunions that's a process that is also stalled because of the tensions on the korean peninsula these are families that were separated during the korean war so certainly some

positive developments in these discussions between north and south korea certainly weigh in but do they depend on how much do they depend rather the progress on that summit between kim jong un and donald trump. yes well i certainly again the air coming out of these meetings throughout friday was that the two sides were getting along well and they agreed on most things and it was definitely a positive environment but there is at the same time a sense that while these are important practical steps that they're taking that a lot of it perhaps most of it really does hinge on the possibility of that summit taking place between donald trump and kim jong il and we still don't know if that summit is going to be held at all those negotiations are ongoing of course between the americans and north koreans in the united states and even if it is held we don't know exactly what will be agreed to in that summit possibly on june the twelfth in singapore if anything will agree agreed at all we've heard from the u.s.

president donald trump saying that it may not just be about one meeting it may require two meetings or even three meetings announce some sort of significant agreement but when it comes to the major goal of denuclearization of the korean peninsula it has to involve the united states it cannot be something that is agreed just between north and south korea the united states after all it wants to see north korea remove destroy its nuclear weapons in its nuclear weapons building capability but also it's about the u.s. nuclear umbrella that it has over south korea in terms of protecting south korea from any attack that may come from north korea so still a long way to go in that regard thank you very much for that for now that's wayne hale with the latest from seoul thank you. still ahead on the bulletin we take a look at the contenders in part found upcoming elections and what it would take for any political party to win. and panic on the streets of nicaragua why the fears

that violence against anti-government protesters will continue. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across southeastern parts of asia there are some big storm clouds across this region at the moment as a chance of a tropical storm development taking place off on the palawan see the sort of rainfall totals we're getting from kota kinabalu in borneo and would like to see further heavy rain affecting this area in fact this circulation is likely to in choose a lot of heavy rain across parts of vietnam and cambodia and really across the philippines generally further towards the south where the conditions look into bit quiet across more southern parts of borneo and once you get into java and bali away towards west proper weather conditions are looking fine out this time of the year and it's looking fairly good up through the mail a potential certainly for singapore and kuala lumpur should be plenty of sunshine

but showers are like around the gulf of thailand and bangkok may see the odd shower heading down into a straight here we've got some pretty stormy seas affecting the coast of new south wales as a result of the presence of this area of low pressure but the high pressure is continue to push pretty chilly air in many parts of the country so temperatures overnight being quite low some record temperatures been set at the moment not too bad from a certain twenty one degrees but personal notice just seventeen degrees as a mix of as we head through into saturday sunday not a great deal of change in that low pressure center is like to give some heavy rain at times across northern parts of new zealand. 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 on al-jazeera and this was different not to say whether someone is going for someone is very rich it doesn't

matter we need three i think it's how you approach an individual an athlete is a certain way of doing it you can't just inject a story and fly out. good to have you with us on al jazeera these are our top stories spanish prime minister money on that a horse has addressed parliament before a no confidence vote which is held against him m.p.'s have now begun to voters and have one hundred seventy six out of three hundred fifty support the motion it's likely socialist party leader petro sanchez will take over as prime minister at a horse party has been struggling to restore trust after a court ruled that it profited from an illegal scheme. some of america's closest

allies are threatening retaliatory measures after the u.s. imposed outside state in the alimony and ports the trumpet ministration refused to grant exceptions to the european union canada on mexico there are fears that could spark a global trade war and peace talks have resumed between north and south korea and the truthful edge of pardon one charm both delegations simply to set up a new joint liaison office working together on military talks to defuse tensions and to hold red cross discussions over separated families. well this comes a day after north korean leader kim jong un's right hand man met the u.s. secretary of state in new york to try and pave the way for a summit with donald trump from new york here's our diplomatic editor james ray. 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 of the apartment block

where the u.s. government owns a residence thirty ninth floor state department officials were very cautious in what they said but one man was norse's restraint. the u.s. president he 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 kim jong. 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 james by zero new york. now nicaragua's neighbors and other latin american countries according to an end to the killing of anti-government protesters at least sixteen have died since wednesday more than one hundred in the past two months president that will not take as accused of ordering snipers and armed groups to shoot at protesters demanding his resignation. nicaragua lived through another tragic day yesterday

a day of repression violence and death and we condemn the murders committed yesterday by the repressive forces in the armed groups and we are in solidarity with the victims' families we call on the state to stop the violence from these repressive forces that now millions of displaced syrians are at risk of losing their homes new legislation allows the government to seize property of people can't prove on a ship say mahalo has more from lebanon's bekaa valley. is afraid that her stay in lebanon could become permanent she fled the war in syria in two thousand and thirteen her hometown a typey is now under government control she says the army hasn't allowed to billions to return yet and a new law passed by the syrian government is threatening to confiscate homes of those people who don't prove ownership not out of and i don't even know if we still have a house or if it was destroyed and when we fled we left with nothing so i don't have

any documents with me there are millions of syrians like him ahmed who escaped from the fighting with nothing long number ten as it is known means they may be stuck in exile international aid agencies say just nine percent of refugees and displaced have their property title deeds with them this is worrying host nations like lebanon where there are over one million refugees. it's very worrying because when you when you think that would encourage the displaced or investment to come back to the country not measures to discourage them from the syrian government says the new law is needed to begin the reconstruction of areas damaged by war human rights groups disagree they say damascus passed similar laws in two thousand and twelve to confiscate property without due process or compensation many syrian refugees no longer have valid identity documents they will not be able to prepare the types of

case files that they will need to show that they are property owners within the timeframe that has been given under law number ten. the syrian opposition says the law is part of the government's efforts to bring about demographic changes by repopulating areas with loyalists. many of the refugees in lebanon come from areas that were battlegrounds under rebel control before being recaptured by the government places like the damascus countryside homs and the color mon region they may be considered safe by some but political economic and security reasons prevent others from returning. and now the law is an obstacle to those who want to go back home even if it means living under bashar assad to rule mohamed farah so how is one of them his hometown has been all but destroyed and he has no documents to prove ownership of his land. i don't have any papers i don't even know my property number that is because i inherited it from my father i don't know if my house is still

standing i have nothing by god it's estimated up to fifty percent of syrian land was not officially registered before the war for many permanent displacement is becoming a reality. because lebanon the red cross is sending two teams of surgeons as well as medical supplies to gaza to treat casualties. shot by israeli soldiers one hundred fifteen palestinians have been killed and thirteen thousand wounded since border protests began at the end of march the red cross health system is on the verge of collapse. part of phones former chief justice has been sworn in as the caretaker prime minister ahead of july's election. and an interim government on the country as part of three main political parties campaign to win over voters iran context and look at the content of. election time in pakistan and the country's big players are preparing for voting and. the last government led by the

washer ethe 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 bhutto 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 there's emraan the former cricketer turned politician his party held mass rallies during the government's last term accusing it of corruption and electoral fraud some pundits suggest as 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 all the support and no party can form a government but the army says its role is simply security and stability and given the region on is a new created in. role has always been at the stability and to be honest we can say that helpful to facilitate create conducive environment peaceful environment for any type of event. for the electorate there are other concerns include. in 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 vote the values theater to show these sayings of their tribal elders these all are the things which matters a lot in box on the elections and our common water definitely despite what about

a promise is given by any political leader in a public get out in a public speech right soledad medart not that 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 in iraq on al-jazeera . now finally this bulletin a fourteen year old boy has discovered how an eight letter word can be worth quite a lot of money. and. i mean there is i call known here means community joint participation and

sharing. the national spelling competition in the u.s. state of texas and along with the trophies it took home a check for fourteen thousand dollars trophy to kahrizak nobody from achille texas . thank. you no again i have a problem and the headlines on al-jazeera spanish prime minister money on the whole has addressed parliament before another confidence vote is held against him of more than one hundred seventy six one hundred seven. out of three hundred and fifty and pay support the motion it's likely that socialist party leader pedro sanchez will take over as prime minister at a horse party has been struggling to restore trust author a court ruled that it profited from an illegal scheme. i will be very sure we presume this motion will go ahead and as

a consequence mr sanchez will be the new head of government and i want to congratulate him first of all it has been an honor to be the prime minister of spain it has been an honor to leave behind a better spain than the one that i found when i took over government i wish my substitute will be able to stay the same i think i have improved the well being of the people of spain if anyone has been offended by my actions. i think everyone especially my party with none of this would be possible thank you to all spaniards for their support and understanding and good luck to all of you and to spain. some of america's biggest allies are threatening retaliatory measures after washington impose tariffs on steel an alum minium imports the trumpet ministration refused to extend trade exemptions for the european union canada and mexico there are now fears that the new u.s. policy could spark a global trade war peace talks have resumed between north and south korea and the truce for the age of one drum both delegations agreed to set up a new joint liaison office working together on military talks to defuse tensions

and to hold discussions of the separated families and interim government has been sworn in in pakistan ahead of july's election reform a supreme court justice to see to look cool now around the country as the caretaker prime minister until the vote pakistan's three main political parties are campaigning to when voters with hopes of a stronger economy and more jobs. they will deny is ation of american states is calling on nicaragua's president to stop the killing of anti-government protesters at least sixteen have died since wednesday more than one hundred since april. and we're taking you live now to the spanish parliament where there are reports that prime minister the hoary has not survived a no confidence motion against him again these are live pictures from the spanish parliament where m.p.'s have been voting on

a no confidence motion that was brought against prime minister on the hallway by the socialist party leader pedro sanchez. pedro sanchez brought the motion of no confidence after politicians linked to the people's party convicted of corruption. i believe we have a translation of what's happening in the spanish parliamentary let's listen then prove it by majority. and we laid there king no. so now we can see there mr scientifically invested so the new place you can. thank you very much. thank you very much mr president thank you very much.