people across the middle east and south asia are also marking out quids also known as jerusalem day demonstrators have been held in various pakistani cities baghdad's damascus to her on the annual event is a protest against israel's rule of jerusalem iran says a days that cation to express support for the palestinians and emphasize the importance of jerusalem for muslims well could stay protests in the capital of indian administered kashmir have turned violent indian security forces used tear gas to disperse demonstrators who were throwing stones at them muslims in kashmir have been fighting indian rule there since one thousand nine hundred nine ninety nations is warning a quarter of a million civilians could die in the yemeni city of her data if saudi led coalition forces attempt to take it from me who if you are bulls are now within twenty kilometers of the red sea ports which is the main entry point for food and humanitarian supplies into the water and country stephanie decker has more yemen

was already one of the poorest countries in the world before the regional proxy war took over the country the saudi led war on yemen is now into its fourth year and hospitals are struggling to cope three hundred model american lawyer numbers we're in the good hands of god people are sick for years we have done nothing to be in the situation we're just citizens here we have nothing but god. this hospital is in the hooty controlled port city of had data vital to getting aid and supplies into the country but fighting nearby is threatening to close the lifeline to millions of yemenis the. short term coordinator in yemen is grounded says that a military attack or siege on her data would encourage hundreds of thousands of even innocent civilians humanitarian organizations have rushed to the will of a contingency plan in a prolonged worst case we fear that as many as two hundred fifty thousand people may lose everything even their lives the u.s. is war in the united arab emirates which is part of the saudi led coalition against

attacking the port city these pictures are said to show military vehicles belonging to the u.a.e. that have been captured by the who sees all sides keen to showcase their victories in what is just as much a propaganda war some aid agencies such as the red cross have sensed off home because of security concerns leaving millions at the mercy of a political war with no end in sight and aid agencies describe what is happening in yemen as the world's worst humanitarian crisis stephanie decker al-jazeera still to come this half hour lebanon's growing rift with the un refugee agency which it accuses of spreading fear to discourage syrians from returning home and some other ones falling out from the forget volcano could pose a threat to flights. how

it's fine and dry across the middle east no surprise is that we've got a few showers having said that just between the black sea and the caspian sea you see the areas of cloud which will bring somewhat weather into georgia mania maybe also into azerbaijan and that's going to be the case as we go on through the next day or two a little wet weather in play here northern parts of iran could catch a few showers and i just want you to lead to some localized flooding to send you something to watch out for here for the most part it's hot sunshine forty four celsius there for baghdad pleasant sunshine around the eastern side of the mat we'll see temperatures getting up to around twenty nine degrees in by reach over the next couple of days pacing up and around thirty four degrees still a few showers a little further north that's pushing up towards the black sea the caspian sea still some wet weather there it's in the apostle of iraq what's not forty celsius in kuwait thirty degrees the chance of wanted to show us that in kabul not just any showers across the region potential high over the next couple of days meanwhile it

was still running hot to be around five six celsius above average here in doha to around forty five degrees on saturday quite a keen wind coming in over the next couple of days and his little cloud just around the southern end of the red sea so you might just catch one of two showers here.

welcome back reminder of the top stories here and i'll just sarah the international criminal court has overturned the conviction of four mcconville vice president of. the band but couldn't be held criminally responsible for what his forces did in neighboring central african republic in two thousand and two u.s. president donald trump has arrived in canada for promises to be a ten day g. seven summit the talks are expected to be overshadowed by a potential trade war after the u.s. stops tariffs on steel and elemental imports and four people have been killed and more than six hundred injured in gaza after israeli forces fired tear gas and live bullets appetite palestinians protesting at the border. as strikes on

a rebel held village in the syrian province of idlib have killed of these fifty people and injured up to one hundred of those the strikes on the residential neighborhood were reported to have been carried out by russian warplanes moscow house tonight and the involvement on thursday russian president vladimir putin said during his annual phone and that he has no plans to withdraw from syria. lebanese officials have been repeatedly calling for refugees to return to areas in syria they deem safe and they blame the un for preventing that from happening they've gone as far as to accuse the international organization of deliberate deliberate they can describe discouraging refugees to return another cataca foreign minister gibran sale has decided to suspend residents say up the cations submitted

to the ministry by the un. he said the action is a first step against the organization the un is rejecting those accusations they know how the has more from lebanon. seven years in exile in lebanon mahmoud i use is now getting ready to go back home he's from the syrian town of mara in the khaled region. can't go back because he's not considered a security risk by the syrian government it's a decision not every refugee can make you know we are fed up and have been humiliated the united nations told us that there are no guarantees when we get back home but we want to go back that advice has caused tension between the un's refugee agency and the lebanese foreign ministry which says the u.n. h.c.r. is discouraging refugee returns a claim the u.n. denies it says it is carrying out its global mandate which is to provide support to refugees and help them we establish their lives in line with international standards. are is not deterring returns you any are

you know has expressed many times that it respects the government of lebanon's decision that local integration is not an option. lebanese authorities say a few thousand refugees displaced by the seven year long war have already signed up for what they call voluntary returns and that thousands of others are willing to go home lebanon which is hosting more than one million syrian refugees has long complained of the burden it carries official say it cost the country about eight billion dollars a year many refugees now have economical political or security reasons for. foreign ministry officials say much of syria is now safe. specifically. which is not. what they say. but what what is actually happy happening is much more than that the ministry has

now decided to suspend residency applications submitted by u.n.h.c.r. for its staff in lebanon the foreign minister is acting in a caretaker capacity but it does belong to the ruling alliance so his decisions could be a sign of future state policy. some officials are using the refugee political capital they play on fears about the impact of the prolonged presence of refugees in the country those officials belong to the pro syrian government camp they want refugee returns to be coordinated with the authorities in damascus as a first step toward restoring relations with the assad government. refugees are caught in the middle and what could become a contentious political issue a large scale returns gives legitimacy to the syrian government which wants the international community to provide badly needed funds for reconstruction the u.n. insists it does not encourage or discourage returns but it is not organizing them

while discussions with damascus continue on safeguards that still need to be put in place. five days off the mound said killing at least one hundred nine people got some all in officials have warned that falling ash from the volcano poses a threat to flights and majesty services. agencies in the country are still on the massive strain most reports from the disaster zone has been meeting relatives of some of the victims. a community in mourning in the mountains of what a lucky day there was one of more than one hundred people who died after a volcanic eruption buried the town of days after days of not knowing lucky will finally be able to put her mother to rest it's a small consolation during a time of immense grief. i give thanks to god that they found my mother's body

they were looking for her for three days for three days we didn't know anything until they told us she was in the morgue it's hard to so many are still missing many people in my family are still missing. since sunday the deadly eruption dozens of bodies have been handed over to relatives some people here have been able to get some closure but two hours away in the city of a square others are just starting the challenging and sometimes long process of trying to identify their loved ones was told relatives of missing persons come to the city's morgue family members describe important physical characteristics blood samples are then taken for d.n.a. analysis the work being done here is essential for people's peace of mind this info they gave the sense of that i feel sad i feel sad because i want my family to be found and brought to my house even if it's just the bones i want them in my house i want to give them a funeral and a proper christian burial this is my wish. identifying

the dead is a laborous task while might have enough qualified staff forensics officials say their budget isn't enough to respond to a disaster of this magnitude it is the same for the cadavers have been exposed to high temperatures well being buried for days because his kook dead bodies tissues which could mean the bone cells have died it's possible will have to repeat some of the t. shirt and bone samples to get a genetic profile. that means it could take weeks or even months to identify the dead and with hundreds still missing from the eruption that cost many residents off guard watermelon prosecutors will investigate whether in vacuum a should procedures were properly followed. david mercer al-jazeera one of. the austrian government is planning to shut down seven mosques on expel him alms is fond of measures by the right wing channels think it's to target what he calls

a political islam in the country so many can reports from the. in the six months since becoming chancellor civil courts has taken an even tougher line on immigration and what he says is the threat from parallel societies forming his country and now he's turning his sights on what he calls political islam due from even though it did become as we can announce to you today a decision from the office of religious affairs that will lead to prohibit should not dictate ities of seven mosques this means dissolving the greywolf mosque and secondly showing down the arabic cultural community to operate a total of six mosques. in addition to the closures these measures could also see dozens of him arms face expulsion from austria several of whom ministers in vienna believe are funded by elements inside turkey a spokesman for the turkish government has condemned the move as racist and anti

islam courts as long and located a toughening of approach but forming a coalition with the far right anti islam freedom party last december seems to have been the catalyst for him to act in april his government announced plans to prevent girls in nurseries and primary schools from wearing head scarves we have. a new climate of political climate here in australia a sense of last election and with the new government that has been in power or little more than half a year you see. various measures taken against foreigners against him a ground against and sounds of all this is just one more step. one more match for. and their policy. and that's what will interest far right movements across europe particularly in france the netherlands and here in berlin where the alternative for

germany party made a parliamentary breakthrough in last year's election on a platform of opposition to islam dominic k. al-jazeera. the news broke that negotiator says the british plan to avoid a hard border in northern ireland raises more questions than answers michel barnier he said the u.k. had made welcome progress but the rest of the country won't get the same terms of access to the single market that northern island has been offered other backstop cannot be extended to the whole u.k. why because it be designed for the specific situation of national nine and what does it do. and customs notion of ireland would form part of our a customs territory what is feasible which a territory the size of national island is not necessarily feasible for u.k. . catholic bishops and the corregidor have stepped into trying to end the political

crisis there they've met president daniel ortega and are pushing to broker talks between the government and protesters. reports from the capital and that for. another day of unrest in the get out one means another funeral this time it's a thirty three year old opposition demonstrator killed during one of the latest confrontations with pro-government forces in messiah his body was carried past a checkpoint to the nearby cemetery. with tensions continuing to rise in messiah all the roads leading into the city have been blocked by demonstrators forcing thousands of people to walk for hours to the next town. we have a walk in looking for food they don't have the government i said calmly having dinner while you go hungry. political violence has become common in this part of the country some of those leaving the area say they're not coming back any time soon but. we're walking to managua to see if we can make it to the border with one

doris we don't know if we'll be able to make it all the way there. despite the relative calm demonstrators are quick to react to any activity that might suggest an assault from armed groups behind me is just one of dozens of barricades set up by anti-government demonstrators now these barriers that are set up aren't only here to shield protesters from pro-government forces but also to prevent the free flow of commercial traffic into the city of messiah which has become a symbol of the resistance against the government. the only traffic allowed to pass through the barricades or emergency vehicles humanitarian aid workers and members of the catholic church and that if you talk about. where has seen violence has seen deaths the city is totally paralyzed there is no commerce it's not present have left so many dead in messiah. the catholic church continues to act as the primary mediator in the ongoing crisis on thursday bishops in met with president daniel

ortega presenting to him a set of conditions for renewing a national dialogue a dialogue the church says will only continue if the government can guarantee an end to the violence and lit up. when i. can that the senate says that it's a legalized recreational marijuana a pledge made by prime minister justin trudeau during his election campaign the changes will allow cannabis to go on sale for people to go up to four plants at home father and us. a second quick look at the main headlines now in the international criminal court has overturned the conviction of four mcconville is vice president. he was found guilty of crimes against humanity two years ago for atrocities committed by his forces in central african republic in two thousand and two he was sentenced to

eighteen years in prison but in the latest decision the court said bamber couldn't be held criminally responsible for their behavior it is from the group of seven nations are in quebec for a two day summit with the u.s. looking increasingly isolated from its allies on a number of fronts u.s. president trump arrived a short time ago the summit is expected to be overshadowed by a potential trade war after the u.s. slaps tariffs on steel an element of imports trump also broke ranks with his allies by calling for an answer russia's expulsion from the g. seven four palestinians have been killed in gaza after israeli forces fired tear gas and live bullets at protesters at the border medics a more than six hundred others have been injured in the violence on thursday israeli military planes dropped leaflets into the enclave urging residents to avoid the border area israeli forces have killed at least one hundred eighteen

palestinians during weeks of demonstrations that began at the end of march. we are ready to deal positively with any real initiative to end the siege completely on the gaza strip but not at the expense of the palestinian cause our resistance is related to the march of return and to breaking the siege the marches will continue until we achieve our goals firstly breaking the siege on the gaza strip. five days after mt forager erupted guatemalan officials are warning that falling ash from the volcano poses a threat to flights the volcano claimed at least one hundred nine lives when it's a ruptured on sunday courts amala has warned the aviation authorities to take precautions with flights the austrian government says it will shut down seven mosques and expelled sixteen moms as are funded by turkey it's prompted a furious response from one career where the move has been branded racist austria's home to around the six hundred thousand muslims that's it for me up next inside

story. donald trump versus the rest of the world the stage is set for a g. seven summit showdown america's allies are angry about trump's trade towers and threatening to hit back so are we closer to a trade war that could derail the global economy and america first leave america behind this is inside story.

and welcome to the program on elizabeth rodham the leaders of seven of the world's biggest economies are in canada for what could be the most acrimonious g. seven summit and years donald trump's tariffs on steel an atom many of imports of caused outrage and a war of words with other world leaders but u.s. president also finds himself virtually isolated on the iran nuclear deal and climate change and john hendren reports from quebec city. inside and outside the g. seven summit disruption has workplace diplomacy on the streets demonstrators are descending on the back city where canada's leaders intend to avert a repeat of the two thousand and one summit of the americas where these streets erupted in riots this time nine thousand police are taking no chances even national assembly is shut down if it is bad. get pretty nasty.

shopkeepers have boarded up buildings as the first protesters filled the streets. the first demonstration of the g. seven began peacefully and it turned into a march as you can see there were speakers people eight baguettes and hundreds of people demonstrated peacefully but when the police came they showed that they were prepared in case there was trouble. concerned that they've completely secured the summit site leaving demonstrators to gather one hundred forty kilometers away and get back city at the gathering itself leaders are calling it the g.'s six plus one the us against the rest all six u.s. allies in the group of seven of the world's largest economies opposed donald trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum and hope to avert a trade war but that. perhaps trump doesn't mind he's being isolated today here at

matters because these six countries here represent values they represent the economic market with a strong history and certainly also represent a true force on the international level it's the diplomatic equivalent of a family intervention as donald trump prepared to arrive french president and canadian prime minister just to talk about how to talk to the u.s. president there's no question that on trade on climate change on some other issues there will different be. this is a perspective but the role of the cheese seven is to provide a context to highlight the ways we work together and work through some of the differences in perspectives trump fired back via twitter saying in part please tell prime minister trudeau and president mccrone that they are charging the us massive tariffs and create non-monetary barriers the meeting good indian is show of unity or a showdown if you're going to carve the world up and you're going to have united states

versus rest of world the rest of the world is going to be bigger and it's going to be more important. as the leaders in protesters gather in quebec those watching the g seven around the world remain in suspense wondering whether history will be made inside that meeting or outside john hendren al-jazeera quebec city. well let's bring in our panel now all scott from the robertson a former canadian diplomat and vice president of the canadian global affairs and is to shoot from london and the g.'s padma from the department of international politics at city university of london and via skype from she's a worker in japan. then at the school of management and information at the university of she's a welcome very warm welcome to all of you mr robertson let me start with you while the g seven summits be dominated by a trade for al. well it certainly can be the backdrop and certainly the media has

put the focus on it and that will be the subject i think of the most animated discussions amongst the leaders but as we know at these two sevens there is a kind of schedule and there are big issues that many have been which discussed which will be at least looked at but i think the focus is certainly going to be on trade and protectionism and how the leaders grow the world economy when their principal member united states is taking a very different approach mr palmer what do you think how much of a shadow is the trade dispute going to cost over this g seven summit although it is the probably the most contentious of several major issues as you know the there are challenges to the international system and its various regimes climate change and so on as well so i think it's going to be specifically around trade i think the most animated as my colleague in canada said but i think there's kind of an underlying worry about the existence and the persistence of the

international system and it seems to be under a lick great deal of pressure at this moment in time mr fact is she there how do you see the prospects for this g. summit going into it with the trade dispute. to be very very gloomy to say the least and i think we were ready have the taster of that when we look at the finance ministers' meeting as well it's extremely clear as the two gentleman has clearly depicted that the irrational i would say claim and actions by the united states who actually should be the pillar of these meetings is causing quite a lot of turmoil and the problem here is that i think it is disintegrating a lot of cohesiveness that were build over decades in the western hemisphere and this is a very very bad timing in the sense that we're seeing a lot of job political risks involved particularly for example like in asia so this

is an area where we do not want to see regression of protectionism thus leading to trade war this is a very very bad timing for that i think mr robertson as well as being irrational as this fact is she the said how shortsighted all misguided do you think president trumps policy is given that you know a stale in the menu make his employer what some one hundred forty thousand people in the u.s. but some six point five million poison businesses that use steel and as many i'm and whose costs will go up and this is just talking about the impact on the u.s. economy let alone the global economy. no you you're exactly right and let's not forget that this was tried in two thousand and two by george w. bush and pressure put on him to impose similar kind of policies he did it last expansively canada was exempted but within a year he dipped to the terrorist because as later econometric studies showed

they'd actually lost far more jobs than the created and in fact what he had done by closing these tariffs on steel milliman and it hurt the american economy much more than it helped it and the american steel industry is close to capacity now and these require major investments and it's not going to bring the jobs back because increasingly when you go to steel plants it's the man in the dog the dog watch the man who watches the robots and mr palmer as mr robertson the saying i think when george w. bush impose tariffs on steel imports in two thousand and two you know some studies say that the move cost the u.s. about two hundred thousand jobs again that's just the impact nationally. as we heard from an analyst and reporter if you have the u.s. on one side and six of the world's biggest economies on the other they are going to be bigger and more important so how damaging could this be to the u.s. but also whether for talia tree measures to the global economy. yes i think it would be damaging to the united states but i think what i would say

that we have to look at as well is that this global system with its various regimes trading security and other. they're supposed to deliver for the populations of each of those countries certain amount of kind of economic and other security and the thing is that when you look at bragg's it you look at populism of left and right in europe and and trump's rise in the united states you see growing levels of nationalism somebody on the left somewhat on the right and i think what trump is trying to respond to is that kind of nationalism which says the global globalization has impacted lots of communities developed devastated them of course technology has played a big role too but i think he is trying to play to that political gallery is not the midterms coming up in a few months yet and i think he wants to try to say look i promised you these things i'm delivering on them but in the long run this is not actually helping the united states those people and it's not really helping american businesses either

so it is very shortsighted and is mainly politically driven i would say and this is actually the how much of this is because trump does seem to be treating trade as a sort of zero sum game where they can only be one winner and because the u.s. does have a trade deficit meaning it imports more than it exports he sees taxing imports as a way to win but if this escalates into a trade war who wins does anybody when. well actually nobody wins with. scintilla of doubt this is just throwing mud at each other at the end of the day when we come in to retired three measures the fact of the matter is that we're all concerned about the huge a hundred billion dollars trade deficit in the united states but that is exactly where we come into negotiation not coming out with very outrageous you know supposition as we saw in the aluminum steel deal or the likelihood of the old to

a deal that's coming up to raise the tax from two point five percent to twenty five percent the problem here on the steel aluminum and possibly on the other side that's coming is that there is no rationale behind his argument at all this is where it is basically shaving off the appetite of many of these coalition countries to help the united states because of course we do need a very strong cohesiveness if we are going to see any kind of financial system break down which some people are suggesting yeah so this is again something that we really have to work on and america might be in has to really wake up mr robertson it is because the other countries don't believe that there is a rationale behind the policy that they are planning to take their case to the world trade organization bought them off areas that the w.t.r. body what she is appeals might not actually be able to function because the u.s.

has resisted new appointments to that body. that's correct and in fact one of the positive outcomes if you were going to look at what might come out of this g seven meeting would be if the leaders including donald trump were to agree to say yes we still need the w t o as as the both the place for discussion but also its role now is the kind of arbitration body and you the president i's states have got to agree now to the appointment of more judges on that appellate body that's important that could be a potential outcome of that should be and asked by the other leaders president trump that would be constructive i think increasingly we've got the leaders are now going to have to try and find constructive solutions to the problems that mr trump is raising so certainly populism is there there is a sense that trade has only benefited the few so the progressive trade agenda that justin trudeau is bringing forward which says already there's got to be adjustment policies there's got to be

a focus on labor and the environment standards i think that's probably where leaders are going to have to come from if we're going to restore in some way respond to mr trump. and world trade is and of course the only area that they're likely to disagree on at this g. seven summit there are plenty of other big issues on the table climate change is fueling tensions between the u.s. and its allies donald trump announced last year he was pulling out of the international climate accord another point of contention is the u.s. withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal it's now hanging by a thread as america also threatens to boycott countries doing business with iran global security and defense funding will be debated all g seven countries apart from japan and they too are members and then the next week's high stakes summit between trump and north korean leader kim jong un on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula so let's talk about some of the other very important issues that are likely to come up at the summit mr parmar you know french president a man who has said that all engaged in conflicts in syria iraq we are allies and

that you cannot among allies in this international context start a trade war if countries can't work together on trade could that affect other areas of the relationships like security. it could put i don't think it necessary will because i there are they are to some extent separate questions as well there has been a great deal of collaboration over the syrian question for example and in other areas well if you look at ukraine and so on i mean there are some national differences so i don't think necessarily that's going to be the case but what it does do it it's ours those relations but in the end i think if you look at the way in which all these different regimes have operated there has been a sense of change from the beginnings of the g. six in the seventy's anyway the jesus came about partly because the situation after nine hundred forty five had radically altered japan was much stronger west germany

was much stronger europe in general so you form a g six and later on russia was involved as well and became a g eight but the world situation changes so i think these international relations and organizations and regimes they do shift over time but i think in regard to the other security in other questions there is a dish you about the kind of international agreements but i don't think there's necessarily going to be a major change on the security front because of the trade dispute when another international agreement that donald trump has of course is the iran nuclear deal mr takeshita french president has also said that the u.s. presence abrogation last month of that deal casts doubt on the credibility of a nuclear agreement with north korea does he have a point there. well i would say that all this turmoil is certainly causing again it will regress back into the relationship of doing business at the end of the day because obviously like you say there's an indirect sanction that will be

imposed immunities european nations and for that reason i can clearly see that for example the japanese are backing off quite rigorously from making any further investments because they can see the further turmoil and uncertainty and degree that is that is rising quite rapidly so certainly it is not helping at all in any hand under this situation and again the move from europe we can also see that there will be a lot of cracks at it appearing maybe from political side but that will definitely impose cracks on the economic issue as well so again it is not doing anybody any good and certainly i don't see any advancement the positive one that could be seen at this moment and the president trump is also having a bilateral meeting with japanese prime minister shinzo that's expected to focus on north korea just four days ahead of the summit between president trump and kim jong

un how is prime minister going to maintain that sort of more hardline stance against pyongyang with out on the line in japan's most important partner at the summit. it's a really really tricky question there because basically he has to fight back with against mr trump on possible imposition of leichardt tax which she is thinking about raising from two point five to twenty five percent because japan is being unfair the fact of the matter is that our imposition of tax to american car is zero and the level of for example you know export have halved over the years because we're you know progressing in local production so all the things that you know mr trump is accusing japan for example is totally wrong instance to school means but mr abbott can't go too far because of the political issue that you were mentioning about we are under the umbrella of united states as far as security is concerned and especially with the north korean issues the indirect imposition of pressure by

the united states to china is probably the only big key japan here is the bystander virtually so it's very very difficult for mr ave to go excessively strong in these trade issues because there is the political issue with north korea syria at the table as well and mr robertson i imagine that promise to isn't the only world leader who would say like that they can't go a particularly strong against donald trump at the summit toys m a has one precious with rex it. oh they've all got pressures on them but what the beauty of the g. seven is a new member it this is a combination of a year long process a lot of the issues that are discussed of in a sense been precooked because we've had development ministers finance ministers central bankers foreign ministers meeting in the process that leads to this the summit or the pinnacle of the g. seven movement it is growing now for forty four years so the the sky sions that

will take place are meant to provide the leaders and then this was part of canadian invasion of justin trudeau his father peered over informally yet we don't see a lot of what was behind the closed doors there they're talking privately they've all met each other only a new person there is prime minister conti of italy so i think there will be frank discussions on these issues and mr trump has already signaled through his tweets where he's coming from and this department you know at the end of the summit the group usually releases a statement a joint statement these hailing their policy positions that they agree on fonts in germany have already warned that that they won't sign the final agreement unless the u.s. makes some major policy concessions what will those concessions have to be and do you think that the u.s. will make them. well i think it is such some public statement which is going to come out that i think donald trump cannot afford to look weak and i don't

think he's going to be able to. pull back too far on the kind of tariff that he's already announced there may be a little bit of compromises or transactional east after all but in the end this is a big power play the u.s. knows it's got basically three big power advantages it's got market access it's got the dollar and it's got the military and i think what donald trump is trying to do is try to show the world that is people themselves that he is going to leverage all of those yet to try to benefit what he argues is his political base and i so i think that final statement is going to be a very tricky issue indeed mystified to see that do you think the group will be able to reach consensus on any substantial issue. i think it would be very difficult in many sense considering what the two gentlemen also have depicted already the fact of the matter is that mr trump probably knows that he's being very unreasonable but he has

a reason for being unreasonable because of the coming election. the fact is that he utilize these cards as a strong hold and one of the worries that we have under these kind of situation is that once you've shown your sword and you have basically threaten your opposition your basic and put the sword back but the fact of the matter is that it's a situation where there's a retaliation that's coming meaning that he may have to use that sword now that is when we see the blood shit of trade wars and unfortunately at this point i think it would be very difficult for other nations to come back to say that they do not disagree with they agree with you know mr trump so i think we very difficult to come with the consensus that includes the united states gentlemen we don't have a long left in the program and i would like to ask a very quick question to all of you if there is no consensus of the final joint statement as missing signatories what does that mean you know does it matter given that it's only a symbolic show of unity it's not

a binding document with concrete policy mr robinson i'll start with you well i think the fact there will be some things i think there probably will be a communicate maybe short like it was in italy i think there are there are already agreed on things like gender women's empowerment cleaning up the oceans these are small but not insignificant you know thirty years ago climate really wasn't on the agenda the g seven leaders helped put it on the agenda so yes on trade we're not likely to reach consensus but on a number of other things what is important about the g seven is it is a process and it is the top table for the big democracies mr parvana. you know i think of that the g seven is symptomatic of the way in which the world world power is structured it doesn't include everybody like china india for example but i think in the end it does reflect a degree of interdependence and we shouldn't forget how interdependent are these economies their financial systems their policing intelligence and security systems

so although there is a spot there is a kind of degree of centrifugal forces going on but i think in the end those those elites which maintain those broad systems i think they're not going to necessarily dissipate entirely so there will be a communique and so on but there are some ruptures clearly emerging which have been coming along for quite some time particularly the end of the cold war really. well with the emergence or possibly emergence of the worries of financial. turmoil that's rising for example like in argentina or in italy i think we do need to find some kind of consensus communique but that said i think what we're seeing is the fact that in the six of the seven nation agreed to disagree rather than anything else at least on the bottom line of the trade issues. or a message like issue thank you very much for that and thank you to all of our guests that is collin robertson and oscar were in there in london and seijiro

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a potential trade war after u.s. president donald trump slapped tariffs on steel and aluminum imports chubb also broke ranks with most of his allies by calling for russia to be part of the g. seven. well trump is expected to face considerable pressure from the leaders of the of a six countries over his decision to impose metal tariffs before leaving for the summit he told reporters he would straighten it all out we have a massive trade deficit with almost every time. we break that out i don't and i'll tell you what it's what i do it won't even be hard in the end we'll get along but they are to say that you know they're trying to act like well we fought with you in the war three they don't mention the fact that they have trade barriers against our farmers they don't mention the fact that they're charging almost three hundred percent tariff what are all straight we'll all be in love again. name open

source says have been back on the streets of quebec city over one hundred kilometers away from the g seven and charlevoix thousands of police in riot gear have been deployed to prevent any violence. let's go live now to john hundreds who is in quebec city john have we seen any interaction between any of the leaders send far we still just examining the body language. we have seen some interaction it was interesting to see donald trump shake hands with justin trudeau all smiles both of them to those wife by his side when he arrived especially after trump made statements like the one that you just played there he had been tweeting rather bitter tweets about the u.s. being mistreated in his eyes by canada and by european countries when it comes to trade and of course you had justin trudeau and emanuel mccrone meeting a day ahead of this in talking about how they were going to talk to trump in saying all these things in

a press conference being an avid television watcher despite his protestations to the contrary was certainly aware of all those things so you have people saying all of these things a head of this summit about you. other and then meeting and they're all smiles so predictably there was some tension here but not tension that you could see on camera but you also had meeting with a man well mccrone in his first bilateral that was postponed because the meeting got started a little bit late so there's certainly a good deal of tension trade is the big issue that they are contesting here and everybody wants to get trump on the same page of course all of the other leaders meeting just days before this agreed that they wanted to move trump on those trade tariffs to get him to reverse them on the new minimum steel whether they're able to do that it's going to be a we're going to find out in the next day or so and it won't be a long period because trump is leaving early on saturday hours before this meeting ensue they usually sign a statement to the end of this i mean it's

a real chance that they won't actually get to do that because they're not in agreement or is this more than just posturing and and really looking for when they do sit down with each of us have had that positions already laid out. well yes and yes on the one hand there could be a signing of the agreement at the end of it always have here usually everybody signs on to that but a minimal emanuel mccrone said yesterday that it's possible they might have one with just six signatures and it might not include president on the tram and i suspect that that was a bit of bluster you heard trump saying we're all going to get on the same page i suspect they will find some way of wording this final agreement so that they can all sign it interesting lee you know that trump is a climate denier and he refuses to talk about climate change people in his administration talk about environmental resilience instead it's possible that they'll use that kind of fudge wording in order to get everybody on the same page

for that final signing but we won't know until tomorrow that he thanks john and in that speak interest live from quebec city. after the g. seven summit trump will fly directly to singapore for his summit with north korean leader kim jong un diplomatic editor james bays is there to cover the meeting he filed this report with the latest details we now know that the two leaders will be here in singapore for longer than we don't rigidly been led to believe chairman kim will be arriving on sunday about a six hour journey we think from north korea in his aging russian v.o.i.p. will be about twice the length of time for president trump and of course the u.s. president is coming straight from another summit we assume he won't have much time to prepare as he's attending the g. seven summit and very difficult discussions there with his allies of course the president says he doesn't need to prepare he says he's prepared preparing for the

summit for all his life but there are those including some of the u.s. is our allies who while welcoming this summit as much better than talking about military options they are concerned that the president is perhaps not as knowledgeable about the issues of north korea and nuclear weapons as the north korean leader who clearly knows these issues intimately having lived with them and having been bred as a child to be the leader of his country. russian president vladimir putin is in china ahead of an economic summit in shanghai cooperation organization that starts this weekend if you countries have announced bilateral trade and investment agreements flawlessly reports from beijing. a friendship medal for russian president vladimir putin awarded for what china says is putin's outstanding contribution to china's development it's a sign of ever closer ties between the two men and the two countries both announced

several business deals including a joint investment fund in projects in china and russia the closer relationship comes at a time when tensions with the q.s. have increased. both the russians and chinese have been sidelined from tuesday's planned summit between trump and kim jong il. despite that both are keen to show they retain influence over north korea. but i see. we've talked about the korean peninsula issue russia and china both want to see the korean peninsula and north east asia enjoy the peace we are happy to see the current negotiation process between the d.p. r. k. and the u.s. is in the framework of the roadmap initiated by russia and china in recent communications pyongyang confirmed to us it will carry out constructive cooperation in the denuclearization. a closer law its benefits both russia and china russia is accused of meddling in trump's election and faces sanctions for annexing crimea.

chinese and american negotiators are trying to avoid a trade war and china has been criticized and challenged by the us for its increasingly aggressive moves in staking territorial claims in the south china sea the meeting between china and russia displays of friendship between she and put it all in the words of the russian president in the spirit of overarching strategic partnership a partnership between countries that the u.s. calls economic rivals the agreement signed on friday go a long way in strengthening that partnership florence. beijing the international criminal court has overturned the war crimes conviction of john pierre bamber former vice president of the democratic republic of congo a majority of judges found could not be held responsible for the horrific acts of his militia which he sent into neighboring central african republic in two thousand and two they said judges in bam this first trial fails to consider his efforts to

stop crimes taking place on the hunt as more. from the moment war crimes allegations were liberal to gainst him junk he have been banned sisted he had done nothing wrong he maintained that stance even in two thousand and sixteen when the international criminal court unanimously found him guilty of two charges of war crimes and three of crimes against humanity he was same tints to eighteen years in prison the longest ever handed down by the i.c.c. that court decision has now been overturned the appeals chamber by majority reverses the conviction of mr bin bin but showed little emotion as the presiding judge delivered the appeal ruling but the public gallery reacted enters and it quits all because the errors from two with respect to necessary and reasonable measures extinguished its responsibility in full the judge was forced to pause

may i ask the registry to restore. the crowd in the courtroom bimbo was accused of failing to stop his private army known as the emelle sea from waging a campaign of rape and murder and pillage against civilians in neighboring central african republic over a five month period from october two thousand and two he was a rebel leader the in and had seen more than one thousand fighters to help put down the coup in the cia. the lower court judgment described a series of sick and sadistic rapes and murders and some cases where entire families were victimized but then that never actually issued an order to rape and murder on appeal a majority of judges held that being the could not be held responsible for atrocities carried out by troops under his control and that trial judges failed to

consider if it's he made to stop crimes once he became aware of them the decision overturns what had been hailed a landmark ruling been but was the first ever to be convicted for crimes committed by others under his command and it was the first time the i.c.c. focused on rape as a weapon of war speaking to al jazeera in two thousand and seven before his arrest bin baron assisted he had nothing to answer for you will know that the international criminal court. not of course involved in the of this ng's i rested in two thousand and eight a convicted war criminal in two thousand and sixteen he's now won his appeal but bamber hasn't been freed a separate panel of judges continues to consider his punishment for interfering with witnesses cheering his trial maidana honed his era well for more on this report's go but joins me now in the studio his the director of redress and organize

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