it's not just about museums about forming a new part of life it's culture. u.s. and chinese trade talks and with a warning from beijing that all deals are off if washington imposes sanctions. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up. protests continue to rock jordan as anger grows over income tax and price hikes. more than forty migrants drowned and dozens of rescued as they try to reach europe . this as an anti immigrant party is tipped to win in slovenia as election faces a struggle for coalition partners. and then leaning tower of baghdad

a symbol of how iraq's rich heritage is crumbling from neglect. trade talks in beijing of wrapped up with china warning the u.s. that any agreements between the two will be off if trump goes ahead with his threatened tariffs u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross has been holding talks with chinese leaders in beijing earlier in the day he praised his meetings with china's vice premier as friendly and frank last despite the two countries threatening to attack tariffs on goods worth up to one hundred fifty billion dollars each let's go live now to john hendren in washington so it looks like the chinese are digging their heels at. that's right president trump has been sending trade representatives all around the world trying to make a better deal for the u.s. and he's really focused on trade deficits some economists would say too focused on

trade deficits after all i've got a trade deficit with ralph lauren i buy their suits they don't buy anything for me but in the end we both get something of value and in the case of china there's a three hundred seventy five billion dollars trade deficit wilbur ross tried to get china to negotiate that down by two hundred billion dollars the chinese did not feel comfortable giving a number like that and then russia told them the u.s. was planning on renewing twenty five percent tariffs on some fifty billion dollars worth of chinese electrical goods now this comes at a time when the chinese are trying to develop their own electronics industry with a china two thousand and twenty five policy that did not go over well and they said if you're going to institute these tariffs then we have no deal at all so ross comes back empty handed in that deal did not go well and of course all this comes as a head of a g. seven meeting in canada with prime minister justin being particularly outspoken in expressing his frustration with this tariffs policy that's right there was

a similar meeting ahead of the g seven meeting coming up in just a few days and this is the case of u.s. allies allies in europe canada and mexico all of them upset over u.s. tariffs on steel and aluminum that trudeau was in particular upset eat but he thinks that the candidate has been taken advantage of he was diplomatically upset on american television this is what he had to say today. first of all we're putting the same kinds of tariffs exactly on on steel and aluminum coming from the united states into canada to be directly reciprocal but we are also putting a number of tariffs on consumer goods finished products for which canadians have easy alternatives one of the either made in canada or made from another partner with the tariffs one of the truths about terraces they drive up costs for consumers

and on top of that these tariffs are going to be hurting american workers and canadian work for the idea that we are somehow a national security threat to the united states is quite frankly insulting and unacceptable so that's trudeau being very upset with one of canada's biggest and longest allies is feels that canada has been taken advantage of in these negotiations and he has offered retaliatory tariffs a long list of them and that would be in addition to the tariff that the europeans are levying the europeans have announced tariffs on such iconic american goods as harley-davidson motorcycles oranges levi jeans and bourbon and all of those things are manufactured in the red states the republican states the president trump needs in this year's midterm elections in order to keep his party in power in congress that's good for his policies it's also good for the investigation pursuing possible wrongdoing by the president many people in his campaign because of the republicans

running congress that helps him out quite a bit so this is they are trying to hurt trump we're it really counts that we may find out in the coming days that there is some kind of agreement that takes the heat down on all of this topic thank you very much for the overnight is from washington john hendren. has been another night of angry protests across jordan after the government and unions failed to end the standoff over a new tax will demonstrate is a calling for the prime minister to resign after he refused to withdraw the law which would significantly hike taxes on employees and companies how to hawke's the has more i had the largest anti-government rallies in five years in what's regard as one of the most stable middle east countries the protest movement initially started by trade unions has swelled nationwide as to show their frustration i.

asked i won't believe how local while the citizens now have no power the searching for the children's t.v. food women are looking in garbage containers to feed their kids and every day we are surprised by rising prices of new taxes the problem is not just the tax law the jordanian citizen right now. his pockets are empty are completely empty. saw the government has to listen. to the sound of the people jordan is one of the most expensive. countries in the region and on the top of the wards too with no resources that's unjust to the people of jordan. the increase in sales tax and employees being tax move has infuriated the protestors and they want the government to resign. king abdullah has stood by prime minister hani milky despite calls to fire him the king's been instead calling for talks between m.p.'s and government ministers but moki is under international pressure to reform jordan's economy and

cut its thirty seven billion dollar debt that is equivalent to ninety five percent of g.d.p. . the international monetary fund approved a seven hundred million loan to jordan two years ago to lower public debt and increase growth jordan relies heavily on financial help from the u.s. u.a.e. and until recently saudi arabia which has cut funding king abdullah is a key u.s. ally in the strategically important region which borders syria israel and iraq regional term or has worsened the kingdom's money problems and it sheltering one point four million syrian refugees that according to the hashemite government and those refugees look no closer to returning home. it's also has a large population of refugees from the war in iraq plus two million palestinian refugees have settled in the kingdom. the king recently reversed plans to raise petrol prices fall in protest and these latest protests against austerity measures

are further demands for change. as there. israeli warplanes have targeted fifteen hummus sites in gaza as tensions rise along the border as was the moment to weapons manufacturing and storage sites were hit israel says the attacks were in response to earlier rockets fired towards it from gaza the strikes come after israel and armed palestinian factions reached an informal cease fire following a recent flare up of violence harry for said has more from gaza city. well this latest exchange between israel and fighting factions here inside gaza began late on saturday night with mortar fire coming out of the gaza strip israel said that there were four projectiles fired in total three of them intercepted by the iron dome system one of them falling short within gazan territory and overnight we've seen a pretty extensive response from the israeli air force fifteen science they say they've targeted within gaza the latest of those strikes on an empty military

training base belonging to the hamas military wing the alka some brigades no casualties on either side but it does come after what happened on tuesday into the early hours of wednesday morning last week when we saw the biggest exchange between the israeli air force and the israeli military and forces here inside gaza since the twenty fourteen war beginning with mortar fire into israeli territory about one hundred projectiles in total according to the military were fired into into israeli territory during that period and sixty five targets here inside gaza were struck so since then an informal cease fire has been prevailing one which egypt took a major role in trying to secure this seems to be a relatively limited breaking of that situation but obviously there is always the possibility that these things can escalate it does seem according to some that the

factions here inside gaza hamas in particular may well be trying to provoke or remind israel of the situation here as we understand there are efforts underway to get some kind of longer term ceasefire brokered between israel and hamas that remains a very difficult objective both sides remain far apart in terms of what they would want in any such deal and in the meantime there's always a possibility for these kinds of exchanges to escalate further than either side would ideally want. tunisia's defense ministry has confirmed it's recovered thirty five bodies after a boat carrying refugees and migrants sank just off the port city of so far as the navy and national guard responded to a distress call and managed to rescue sixty eight of the people on board to measure is becoming an increasingly popular starting point for illegal boats heading across the mediterranean to southern europe and in a separate incident nine people including six children have died after their speed

boat sank while crossing from turkey to the greek islands five people were rescued by this card and fisherman the head of the catholic church has called for dialogue in nicaragua where weeks of anti-government protests have left more than one hundred people dead at least fifty people have been killed this week alone in the demonstrations against president daniel ortega and propose changes to social security critics have accused the government of targeting protesters with a shoot to kill policy pope francis called for talks cheering sunday mass to we didn't work i joined my brother bishops of nicaragua in expressing sorrow for the serious violence carried out by armed groups to suppress social protests which of course the dead and wounded i pray for the victims and their families but the church is always for dialogue but this requires an active commitment to respect freedom and above all life and i pray so that all violence could see so and so the conditions for the resumption of dialogue could be found as soon as possible.

government officials in kenya say residents of a building which collapsed early on sunday morning and been evicted but they sneak back in even after it was condemned in march for demolition three people were killed when the five story residential building crumbled rescuers are still looking for survivors it's not clear what caused the collapse but with housing in high demand developers often bypass building regulations in two thousand and fifteen the national construction authority found fifty eight percent of buildings in nairobi were unfit for habitation. inspection is being done strict only to ensure that those. that the public feel that are on serve public. must admit that some of them will be knocked down. while these machines on the ground. north korea's state news agency has been

speaking actually and speaking specifically about president bashar assad and a visit that is being planned to kim jong un in pyongyang now the comments have been confirmed by damascus and there's no indication that the trip has been set out the two countries have maintained good relations for decades united nations monitors accused north korea of cooperated with syria on chemical weapons a charge the north denies. so i have for you on the program how isolated fighters in the southern philippines are recruiting children to join the battle. and out a groundbreaking study finds little need for chemotherapy and up to seventy percent of breast cancer patients. hello the weather is about to get pretty vicious in the south china sea and all

neighboring countries we have a developing tropical depression here huge circulation has a lot of moisture this time of year cause a lot of heat and the potential for rain is great along the vietnamese coast and come not so much monday but tuesday that will settle down to southern china as well probably including hong kong as a big circulation that has a lot of rain to come out of that they will be flooding and some of the spring rains that spare us through shanghai still quite significant but you know it's a sharp line there north northern china to including beijing is still warm but it's not humid and certainly sunny and the monsoon trough burst a little early in contactor for example is rather ragged now so it has to go for then drop back for a while he's done that and coincidentally three places to pick up some of the heaviest rain india they're all reporting seventy seven millimeters that's not a huge amount considering the time of year we are out nevertheless i will be running up the western side of the peninsula and still in the next round about now

raining as monsoon rain in bangladesh of course the primo and soon heat still exists in but your profession back towards central pakistan in the middle to high forty's. they help build clean and feed the capital but they're not welcome anymore. when he's when this is the massive vacation and demolitions forcing two hundred thousand of beijing's poor from their home is one of many east. we do not and will not tolerate with people who fund terrorism go he really is necessary we need to achieve the one yeah into the gulf crisis al-jazeera examines its political economic and human impacts join us for special coverage on june the fifth.

a come back quick look at the top stories china is one the united states that any agreements to end their trade dispute will be void if washington goes ahead with threatened. more angry protests taking place in jordan after the government and unions failed to strike an agreement over a planned income tax law which would increase taxes on employees and companies. a nine people including six children have drowned in a boat accident off turkey's mediterranean coast in a separate incident thirty five bodies were recovered off tunisia's port city of. slovenians are voting in an early parliamentary election the right wing anti immigration party led by the former prime minister. is expected to secure the most

seats but not enough to win outright but all the parties refused to enter into a coalition his anti immigrant stance seventy a center left party led by a former comedian could also secure a large percentage of the votes. joins us live now from so clearly his party enjoys a great deal of support why are they going to struggle to form a government. yes he is going to struggle to form a government he mean being positioned to you know lead the polls and win the most of the seats in the parliament a but he won't be in a comfortable position to form a new government because there are not many of the political leaders we've heard of who said we are going to you know go with the young as younger and form a new government because of his rhetoric and other things they are trying to you know distance themselves of. at least in public so it is going to be

a very uncomfortable position for him to form a new government if he doesn't receive more than twenty or twenty five percent of the vote which paul suggests a right and now we are still awaiting the results after seven pm local time central european time mr bush will probably be summoned by the president of the republic to be asked to form a new government bartz it won't be a first time that somebody did most of the seats in parliament fails to put a coalition forward and we know that he's campaigned very strongly on an anti immigration platform describe to us public perceptions of refugees and immigrants in the country. all right very interesting question when i talk to people here in slovenia analysts professors they wouldn't say they

wouldn't agree the. refugee crisis or crisis with migrants is a crucial question for them but it's missed that young some hole drilled this question to the campaign he's of experienced politician only here for twenty eight years of slovenian democracy then the conclusion somehow got tainted by you know scaremongering and a phobia even and all professors should an a-list should remind us that slovenia was only a transit zone for refugees people who fled their homes back in the middle east and travel in awhile slovenia and the balkans to germany austria and other parts of europe western europe europe particularly but everybody is here to remind us that mr young is barely very good friends with the prime minister of hungary or bitter or one who will remind you barbed wire to his country because of refugees trying to

stop them hungry indeed thank you very much. there with all the latest on that parliamentary election in libya now. army commanders in the southern philippines say gunmen linked to i celebrate quipping and try and tricking children into joining their fight jamil alan dugan reports now from the ruin city of murali where mount a gunman were defeated by the army seven months ago but haven't gone away. in a bitter him 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 he told him they were police officers and invited him to join training and he said the prospect of taking revenge against the ice will inspired mao to group that attacked but are we city and kept it under siege for months

appealed to him so he said yes his father as a side knew they were not police officers but now the supporters in this guys. they wanted to take that the there were no plea burst the sign i am thankful they managed to save my son. 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 confirmed in fact we have had several intelligence reports that the trying to recruit more members. and then training them is a harder to fight because you're fighting for the hearts and minds of the people because the reserve 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 all a noise that i am. it's a sentiment shared by many young boys displaced by the war aid groups say they are

the perfect recruits for armed groups like the mouth and they need to be protected unless they're offered hope of a brighter future they could be part of the hundreds of children in the southern philippines were falling victim to the disciple of poverty and violence. southern philippines. well italy's leaning tower is an icon and well architecture of course is not the only one of its kind. with over a thousand years of history but like much of iraq's rich cultural heritage the building is suffering from neglect. has more from baghdad the sixteenth sixty the year when there was either mosque was built but this is all that's left of it the cracks in the arches and fading tiles are reminders of the

golden days of baghdad this is the victorian facade of the iraqi capital old government building it was damaged during the two thousand and three u.s. invasion and has been abandoned since this is part of the ottoman military complex on the banks of the tigris river it's decrypt state symbolizes the degree of iraq's rich cultural heritage. and many people nowadays are not aware of the importance of these sites and the reason is that recently iraq has faced violence and internal fighting which led to a weak government the conscription zone baghdad's old minaret are feeding the compound is over a thousand years old built by the us after centuries of war than invasions the minaret is the only original structure left. and it didn't always lean the government to seal the mosque because of the dangerously rapid tilting of the minaret but there are no real efforts being made to repair it the government's

priorities are the provision of basic services and with a struggling economy preservation efforts inevitably take a back seat there are no worshipers in this compound which is hundreds of years old because of the fear that the minaret would fall on the whole these days when people pray they do it in the courtyard spiderwebs have replaced the curtains inside and we are told there are no books left in the library upstairs. we need to value the sites not only there were but also historic sites like the assyrian and babylonian sites it would help to strengthen the national identity and that iraqi national identity has been blurred by years of sectarian strife corruption and mismanagement these two dorms envelop the symbolic eternal flame of the iraqi flag this monument built in the one nine hundred eighty s. used to represent iraqis now many government departments claim ownership of the

multi-million dollar landmark the martyrs monument was used by u.s. forces and then the iraqi military at the base like much else of iraq's heritage its museum and library were also looted these days the halls remain empty and the general public is not allowed in. baghdad's rich tapestry of ancient and modern history is fading fast many people are afraid that unless action is taken to protect and preserve it it could be lost forever. that london is marking one year since a deadly van a knife attack at london bridge prime minister to resign may and the mayor said dick on were among those taking part in the services of the cathedral before laying wreaths to the scene eight people were killed and almost fifty injured in the attack which was carried out by three men we've barker reports it was a warm evening around ten o'clock at night when a white van driving at high speed to the pavement here in london bridge standing

pedestrians running for their lives among them was forty five year old frenchman who was knocked into the river thames his body was found three days later further up river. sides of the three attackers who are in fake suicide vests and carrying twelve inch hunting knives they were later identified as kareem shah's a but moroccan rashid american born yousef he was twenty two years old the van crashed just over there in the attackers came running down the steps into bar a market at the time it was packed full of people involves restaurants and cafes what happened next has been described by police as a frenzied knife attack lasting only eight minutes but in those eight minutes eight people were killed they were french italian spanish british canadian and australian forty eight people were injured many of them critically. minutes after receiving the first emergency call specialist armed officers arrived on scene and shot the

three attackers dead among those killed ignacio edge of area who tried to fight off one of the attackers with his skateboard this was the third of five similar attacks in the u.k. in two thousand and seventeen only two weeks after the manchester arena bombing in which twenty two people were killed many of them children. among the first anniversary of the attack a procession from nearby saw the cathedral to london bridge the prime minister and other dignitaries survivors and first responders as a londoner this really disgusted me and why i'm here as well just to commemorate obviously the victims of that talk but also to come together as a group at night and to show that you know well beyond hatred to be bothered rather than trying some division within people this shows what happens when it's really bad and it also shows the good things that happen and i think overall that has to be. a year on and the you case national threat level remains severe meaning the

possibility of another attack is regarded as being highly likely the head of britain's foreign intelligence service m i six has described the threats from eisel and eisel inspired. groups this being unprecedented a report by the e.u. says that fifteen hundred fighters have returned to europe with orders to carry out more acts of violence london has recovered the remark it is as busy as it's always been but the cost of keeping london and the rest of the u.k. safe is very high indeed and the threats hasn't gone away. thousands of women with early stage breast cancer may be able to avoid chemotherapy after a groundbreaking study found there is little benefit in the treatment in many cases more than ten thousand patients were tested for the research which showed that those with a low or into media risk of cancer recurring responded just as well to hormone therapy in theory means up to seventy percent of patients won't need chemotherapy

after surgery the data was presented at the world's biggest missing of cancer doctors. quick recap of the headlines this hour china has won the united states the any agreements to end their trade dispute will be off if washington goes ahead with threatened tariffs u.s. commerce secretary will be ross has been holding talks with chinese leaders in beijing he said the meeting so far been friendly and frank two countries have threatened to attack tariffs on goods worth up to one hundred fifty billion dollars each meanwhile canada's prime minister has called the new u.s. tariffs insulting and says canada is ready to impose its own tariffs in retaliation . the idea that the canadian steel that military military vehicles in the united states the canadian aluminum that make

sure your fighter jets is somehow now a threat the idea that we are somehow a national security threat to the united states is quite frankly insulting and unacceptable. it has been a fortnight of protests in jordan against austerity measures bank by the international monetary fund crowds gathered near the prime minister's office calling for the government to resign the i.m.f. is recommending an income tax increase to lower the budget deficit the biggest antigovernment protests jordan has seen for five years. israeli warplanes have targeted fifteen sites belonging to hamas in gaza as tensions increase along the border this was the moment it says two weapons manufacturing storage sites were hit israel says the attacks were in response to earlier rockets fired towards it from gaza the strikes come just days after israel and palestinian factions reached an informal ceasefire following a flare up of violence last week and tunisia's defense ministry says it's recovered thirty five bodies after

a boat carrying refugees and migrants sank off the port city of so folks the navy and national guard responded to a distress call a managed to rescue sixty eight of the people on board and then in a separate incident nine people including six children have died after this the boat sank while crossing from turkey to the greek islands five people were rescued by the coast guard and fisherman and government officials in kenya say residents of a building which collapsed early on sunday have been evicted but they sneak back in even after it was condemned and marked for demolition three people were killed when the five story building crumbled as the headlines coming up next on al-jazeera it's one i want to east.

the chinese authorities call them the low end population. like women workers who came to beijing to build clean and feed the capital. but they no longer fit the dazzling image president xi jinping wants for his show piece capital. so the city is getting rid of its poorest residents. and steve cho on this episode of one of one east we witnessed the massive dictions and demolitions reshaping beijing. during the beijing suburb ocean jan it's outside the fifty three rugged about fifty kilometers.