u.s. buys four times more products from china than it sells to the chinese and how is it proposing to reduce this trade deficit well two ways as you mentioned one is to get the chinese to buy more u.s. products now there were is already a very commitment by the chinese to substantially increase its purchases of u.s. agricultural and energy products this was a greet two at the last meeting which took place in washington d.c. in may now and so u.s. officials here in beijing are expected to push for a more specific commitment from the chinese in terms of perhaps the target for us for purchases of u.s. goods as well as perhaps an agreement to enter into long term contracts which chinese officials have so far been reluctant to and then there's also the issue of structural changes to the economy now the u.s. and other countries have long complained about unfair trade practices in china which is that an entry barrier to foreign companies and a large part of this complaint centers around intellectual property rights now and

foreign companies wanting a presence in china usually have to do it via a partnership with a local company which they are then compelled to share technology with so what happens then is foreign company think this is effectively a forced technology transfer they also allege that china does not do enough to protect intellectual property rights and then there is the issue of chinese government subsidies which they say encourage overproduction especially in heavy industries thereby flooding world markets with cheap products so these are the sort of structural changes to the economy that u.s. officials say they want to change but these are going to be very difficult. to agree to especially even in the longer term when we're talking about the world's largest economies right now there's a lot at stake no doubt for the whole world in what happens in these talks right. absolutely now and this these talks are really meant to reduce the trade deficit

between china and the u.s. but also to avoid a an all out trade war because as you've mentioned they've threatened to retaliate three to attack targets of two hundred fifty billion dollars each on goods now and the. if there is an all out trade war nobody is going to win at the moment we're already seeing a possible trade war between the us and western countries what more a trade war between us and china now there are some economists who say though that the u.s. really doesn't have the clout anymore to make demands on china at the moment the chinese ex the chinese exports about eighteen percent of their goods to the u.s. and four fifths of china's exports go to other parts of the world so there really isn't a lot of leverage for the u.s. if there is an all out trade war u.s. consumer and u.s. companies are standing to the also other countries and other companies in other parts of the world especially those companies that rely heavily on trade with china now if china is going to be selling less goods because of tires then these

companies that demand on that depend on chinese manufacturers are going to see a reduction in their orders as well but they can be some when it for example companies that step up to fill the void of u.s. companies. if the u.s. companies are going to be selling less products to china then there could be other companies that take that place soybean exporters in latin america for example fuel exporters in the middle east but by and large an overall trade war is going to see very few winners alright florence louisa thanks for that. the u.s. says north korea will only get sanctions relief after it takes verifiable and irreversible steps to denuclearize ation defense secretary james mattis was speaking on the sidelines of a major defense conference in singapore he met his south korean and japanese counterparts to discuss the upcoming summit between the u.s. president and north korea's leader. we can anticipate village and

a bumpy road to the negotiated solution no different than me for a while the little event of civilians that we would enable or give commands to go to the promises of the vision of wrinkles in this predicament wire. cutters deputy prime minister also address the security summit saying the gulf nation is stronger now than it was almost a year ago that's when saudi arabia egypt the united arab emirates and behave imposed a diplomatic and economic blockade accuse of fostering terrorism denies the allegations through the unwavering resilience of the top of the people and the sound leadership of his highness the emir we were able to weather the storm and emerge from it stronger than ever before in the years since the blockade was imposed oil production of national product including medicine and food grown

exponentially we have built on our bilateral relation and have explored the new and promising partnership to grow and develop. israeli military says its jets have targeted ten sites belonging to hamas in the gaza strip it says two munition manufacturing and storage sites were hit earlier israel said it intercepted at least one rocket fired from gaza over the city of steroid rocket sirens have been activated in southern israeli areas bordering the gaza strip earlier on saturday thousands of people attended the funeral of a young palestinian paramedic shot dead by israeli forces at the gaza border on friday twenty one year old as i'm not jardin vons hearing since the weekly demonstrations began in march since then israeli soldiers have killed at least one hundred twenty one palestinians protesting for the right to return to their homes perry force it was at the funeral of han eunice in gaza. the body was on the march

and is now being brought to once a mosque near hungriest there is a huge mixture of emotion here we've seen some of her colleagues crying quietly to themselves but here as the body comes in we're hearing shots are dying and defiance there has been a huge reaction publicly across gaza to the death of this young woman she was shot on the friday protests as she went to be aided somebody himself he'd been shot near the border fence and she died of her injuries that are listed in medical association saying that she was shot through the chest and she died of her injuries that we spoke a short while ago to a colleague who was right next to her when that fatal bullet struck her and she little reason our hands who were in our uniforms were about twenty meters from the fence in they could see us easily so we thought they would shoot at us as we arrived they shot two bullet one had resigned in the chest and the second went

through my other colleagues and then hit me in the leg two bullets he had three of us killing resign. motions are running very high here at the cemetery where rosa. has been. buried and we've been seeing people trying to stop others from what he wants or good grades we've seen a father come in his face entirely awash in tears when we spoke to mahmoud her colleague earlier on he said that she was a young woman of sweet nature someone who never tired of risking your own life to help others the israeli army says it is investigating the reports of her death but as far as people here are concerned they are outraged that someone who was volunteering as a medic trying to help other others who'd been injured by israeli sniper fire her self so victims are. and israeli soldiers of shot dead a palestinian man in the city of hebron in the occupied west bank he's thirty five year old rami savana israeli forces say troops fired when savannah tried to run

them over with his car. jordanian police have broken up protests against proposed income tax increases demonstrators one ministers to resign after the approval of a new economic policy influenced by the i.m.f. accuse the international monetary fund of interference of well even though most of the good side demands a simple withdrawal the income tax law this law is destroying the citizens living capabilities this law will increase poverty and unemployment in jordan is unelected undemocratic government must withdraw this law and conduct dialogue with all civil societies and parties. also ahead an al-jazeera. nobody understands what we're feeling because many people there are in their homes their own came. hundreds of still homeless federal aid is running out. plus the fight against the abode of

virus democratic republic of congo. welcome back to a look at the americas this time we have a very active cold front stretching always down across canada and through into the mid atlantic region of the united states is active all the way down so some severe storms particular across more northern areas and see the change in wind direction the southerly ahead of it the northerly behind it and the frontal system itself will head towards the eastern seaboard as we head on through into monday and you see a big drop in temperatures for new york highs which is fifteen degrees or quite a change there compare with recent days largely fine across the florida peninsula some of thirty one in miami and it should be fine across much of the west coast with eighteen the high in san francisco down into central parts of america we still

have this massive cloud extending all the way from the isthmus through towards western parts of cuba and the bahamas still a chance of few showers here but generally weather conditions improving many of the islands further towards the east are looking dry and fine but really all that through panama costa rica nicaragua and put it in guatemala it is going to be pretty wet so over the next twenty four to forty eight hours so let's head down into south america lots of showers across northern areas all the way from venezuela across towards parts of ecuador and southwards through peru and down into oblivion that could be a few heavy showers affecting the pass. the i.m.f. said riyadh's breakeven oil price of twenty eighteen is likely to be around eighty eight dollars a barrel why is argentina again turning to the i.m.f. for help now we bring you the stories of the shaping the economic world we live in

counting the cost on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap the headlines france has warned the u.s. it is only a few days to avoid a trade war leaving it up to washington to deescalate tensions over tariffs g. seven finance ministers have sent a message of concern and disappointment to the u.s. president the u.s. defense secretary says north korea will only get sanctions relief after it takes

verifiable and irreversible steps towards denuclearize ation james mattis has been meeting with the south korean and japanese counterparts in singapore to discuss the upcoming summit between donald trump and north korea's leader. thousands of people in gaza have attended the funeral of twenty one year old palestinian medical jargon was shot dead by israeli forces of the gaza border she'd been volunteering since the weekly demonstrations began in march. pro-government forces backed by the saudi led coalition are closing in on a major rebel held port in yemen a battle that could reshape the course of the civil war more than one hundred soldiers and rebels have reportedly been killed in less than a week of fighting the. government troops are preparing to launch an all out assault on the already driven the rebels from dozens of nearby towns and villages aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian disaster. data lies two hundred thirty kilometers away from santa

which the houthi seized in two thousand and fourteen but it's the city's location on the red sea that makes it a strategic prize if the sally led coalition takes over it would control yemen's lifeline twenty two million yemenis need humanitarian aid more than two thirds of which comes through her day this port ninety percent of yemen's food and most of its medicine is also imported through the city because alicia accuses the rebels of using her data as a launch pad for attacks on shipping in the red sea and for smuggling in rockets aid agencies say two hundred thousand people that's half of a day this population could be displaced if fighting breaks out. leisel linked group in the southern philippines is expanding its presence just seven months after its fighters were defeated following a scene in the city of merari the group is now recruiting children displaced and orphaned by the conflict general allen dogon reports from around the city.

ibrahim is fourteen years old and lives in an evacuation camp with his father he says a group of men approached him a few weeks ago they told him they were police officers and invited him to join training and he said the prospect of taking revenge against the eisel inspired mao to group that attacked what are we city and kept it under siege for months appealed to him so he said yes his bother as a side knew they were not police officers but now the supporters in this guy's. they wanted to take my son that there were no plea burst the same i am thankful i managed to save my son. they told me that after training i will start to receive money during five months of conflict the city was severely damaged around two hundred members of the mountain had taken control hoping to create

a caliphate. st mary's church was a symbol of religious tolerance in the country's only city under islamic law but when the war broke out this was one of the first places to be seen them out to specifically targeted christians hoping to create a religious divide more than a thousand people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. the philippine military declared the victory in october last year but the war is far from over because the mouthy appears to be regrouping this information is going for it we have had several intelligence reports that the trying to recruit more members. and then training them to be harder to fight because you're fighting for the hearts and minds of the people because did not die with the liberation of. the philippine

military accuses the moutier of playing on the emotions of children especially those traumatized by the battle for morale we like fifteen year old ricky who lost his parents in the war now he lives alone moving from one evacuation camp to the next. and i don't know who to trust anymore i don't go. it's a sentiment shared by many young boys displaced by the war aid groups say they are the perfect recruit spur armed groups like them out and they need to be protected unless there are for the hope of a brighter future they could be part of the hundreds of children in the southern philippines who are falling victim to the disciple of poverty and violence. city southern philippines. farmers in northern india have taken to the streets to demand

a fair price for their produce. some of them are on a ten day strike they want traders to pay more for their crops and financial aid from the government more than half of india's farming households are in debt italy's new interior minister is valid to begin work on creating jobs and expelling migrants a day after the country's first populist government was sworn in earlier the new prime minister just a picante attended a military parade marking the founding of the italian republic and his first full day in office leads a cabinet formed of the anti establishment five star movement and the anti immigration league hansie. thousands of opposition supporters in macedonia have taken to the streets of the capital skop here to demand an early election they say the left wing government is devastated be economy since taking power a year ago were also angry at the prospects of the country's name being changed

today only and recent been holding talks to resolve the twenty seven year old name dispute athens objects to the name because greece has its own northern problems called macedonia and it fears name wide territorial ambitions a building has collapsed in kenya's capital it happened in a residential area in northeast nairobi there are reports one person is dead four others have been rushed to hospital the rescue operation is ongoing riot police in mali have fired tear gas at opposition supporters during a band rally ahead of next month's presidential election authorities in the capital bamako said saturday's march couldn't go ahead because of a state of emergency in place at least sixteen people including two candidates were injured in clashes with security forces. seven new suspected cases of e. bowl have been detected in the democratic republic of congo there have been fifty seven cases of ebola since an outbreak was declared in because nearly four weeks

ago twelve patients have died from the virus while nine victims have been cured shala ballasts reports. the school carries on in the c. bowl a hit corner of the congo but it's hard for students to concentrate as they study health officials and n.g.o.s study the aim this boy is under quarantine separated from his friends due to a high fever this girl under the care of the united nations children agency after being orphaned by the outbreak in love all up we are here for psychological and social care of victims carers and the population we are here for everyone well children are at school psychologists to the homes of the widows. i felt really bad when my husband died i said if i scream i'll also cry the authorities were going to wrap him up in a daisy state so my older sister ran for water i cleaned him i washed him and i

dressed him and then i covered him with the sheet that my sister gave me when i first found out that he was ill. irene has stayed home since refusing to take a new experimental vaccine she doesn't believe her husband died of the boma. most people here in the car and maybe in book or o. and elsewhere are still ignorant they have not yet understood that ebola really exists ignorance is ebola as ally in the congo health authorities fighting a battle to educate people in rural areas about the virus and how to protect themselves their medical strategy is called ring finger saying they want to vaccinate people who may have come in contact with ebola invests in eight a second ring of contacts one step removed from those potential sufferers that list numbers more than one thousand people since the vaccine was introduced two weeks ago will the nine hundred have been vaccinated. one of the biggest challenges in belgium acceleration is community involvement because belt vaccination is happening

in the community and to get the community terje or to the idea of vaccination on an epidemic like polar i think that's a huge challenge. in banda a communal life is threatened under the scrutiny of a global house apparatus where even the youngest must adapt shallop ballasts al-jazeera has been another day of violence in nicaragua where protesters are accusing the government of oppression the red cross says at least two people manning barricades were shot dead in messiah near the capital. weeks of on rest between security forces program and militias and protesters have led to the formation of neighborhood watch groups the u.n. is called on the government to end the violence has killed more than one hundred ten people since mid april. four thirty because health department is being sued over its refusal to release data on the number of people who died following last

year's hurricane maria the families of those killed have held a vigil to highlight the discrepancy between the government's official death toll of sixty four and the latest estimate from a study by harvard university which puts the number up more than four thousand six hundred the government is being accused of a lack of transparency by not properly classifying overall deaths. here. i'm here to pay homage to all these victims that the government in their negligence didn't want to count and there are still more because as i understand it many of them were cremated and there are no records for them here or the families who are brought with them a pair of shoes worn by their loved ones to remember them. tens of thousands of recurrence fled to florida after the horror that a months on hundreds of evacuees are still living in hotels relying on government aid that will end soon this the new hurricane season begins there are concerns forced to recall being unable to weather another storm and they gallacher of course

from florida in the weeks following hurricane maria more than thirty thousand storm weary puerto ricans registered at this disaster relief center on london's airport u.s. citizens by birth they came to florida looking for help months later many are still in limbo like hundreds of others namely gonzales has been stuck in a hotel since january but time is running out for drill assistance programs a temporary and naomi has nowhere else to go nobody understands what we're feeling ok because. many people they're in their homes they're all they could learn they've got their place but when you don't have a place well it gets to you it's really tough for families that have already been in these hotels for months there's the constant fear that government aid will end and that is inevitable many simply don't have anything to go back to in puerto rico but for those that want to make a life here there's an even bigger problem ninety seven percent of all rental

accommodation is already filled that the remains is prohibitively expensive we're getting calls from people who care about others orange county's commissioner says resources stretched and many evacuees who have little choice but to stay face an uncertain future when you lose everything and you can't pay your mortgage and now your credits getting ruined and now you're here in our county trying to find an apartment they're looking at your credit score is and you can't get approved that's just a domino effect from something that happened to them six months ago so what if you can only request from. the community hope centering kissimmee is helping some families find homes say they too can't help everyone resources in this part of florida already dealing with an exodus of puerto ricans who left before the storm the limited as they come in the expectations for the families i feel may be higher than what we actually can provide at times i know that there's there's huge

frustration and i know that there is just there's hurt and trauma hurricane maria hit puerto rico last september but the island is still struggling those that came to florida looking for a new start many are still waiting to go across jazeera kissimmee florida. and let's take you through some of the headlines here now to syria now france's warning the u.s. it is only a few days to avoid a trade war leaving it up to washington to deescalate tensions over tariffs during a meeting in canada the g. seven finance ministers sent a message of concern and disappointment to the u.s. president. over the course last couple of days there was an important difference of opinion the americans have decided to in our mind take an action it's not at all constructive it's actually destructive to our ability to get things done what did

we ask secretary treasury secretary to do we said that we were collectively hoping that he would bring the message back the message the message of regret and disappointment at the american actions and concern that they are not constructive and my sense is that he's going to take that message back to washington the u.s. defense secretary says north korea will only get sanctions relief after it takes verifiable and irreversible steps towards denuclearization james mattis has been meeting his south korean and japanese counterparts in singapore if you discussed in the upcoming summit between donald trump and north korean leader kim jong moon these right the military says it's jets have targeted ten sites belonging to hamas in the gaza strip it says two munition manufacturing and storage sites were hit earlier israel said it intercepted at least one rocket fired from gaza over the

city of still a lot earlier on saturday thousands of people attended the funeral of a young palestinian paramedic shot dead by israeli forces at the gaza border on friday and to run your old resentment in the dark had been volunteering since the weekend demonstrations began. pro-government forces backed by the saudi led coalition are closing in on the rebel held holds of the day there in the yemen government forces are preparing to launch an all out assault aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian disaster. those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the cost stay with us. in this. one it's still. demonstrably. documented.

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