make sure that. there is no bloodshed in afghanistan and even if these steps are smaller steps we will come to those we will come down on. and we hope that the. committed to implement their announcement on the ceasefire which is hours before that truce announcement taliban fighters killed at least seventeen police officers in an early morning raid one hundred fifty five to stormed a military checkpoint in herat province eight of them were killed by afghan army soldiers the second attack by the taliban also killed twenty four police officers in the northern couldn't do his province gunmen targeted several road checkpoints in the morning hours ahead of the ceasefire agreement it's stuck up here in algeria we meet the survivors of guatemala's for a volcano who say that lucky to be alive. longer than anybody else why one man has dedicated his life to australia's most iconic building.

more of the hot sunshine across much of the middle east but we have got some showers that's still lingering around turkey pushing up towards the black sea the caspian sea you see how they are just drifting from west to way so see a little bit of wet weather into armenia georgia round into southern parts all over russia as well if you show us to just around afghanistan took many stand was because stand him betraying there's the hot sunshine we're getting up to forty one celsius in kuwait city and also into baghdad northern iraq to see some showers here over the next few days a lot of the ones that that could lead to some localized flooding and nice fresh breeze there across the eastern side of the med glorious conditions in beirut at about twenty eight celsius similar values to when to where jerusalem. for the south

well some real heat in place to go back into dust a dusty and windy just around that eastern side of the arabian peninsula haricots a temperatures getting up to forty seven celsius on sunday little colder that's how should we say forty five degrees for monday high for the winds easing back a touch but still looking very breezy meanwhile a little bit of useful right hopefully making its way into cape town over the next day oh say the southern cape the western cape seeing more in the way of cloud that will drift its way from west to east as we go through the weekend.

ard. and i get him out of the top stories here on al-jazeera and u.s. president donald trump has ended his g. seven summit in canada with a call for a tariff free world he said the talks with fellow need to have been extremely productive but that the united states must be treated. well trump is not on route to singapore for tuesday's highly anticipated meeting with kim jong il be the first time serving u.s. president at a north korean leader have ever come face to face. and the afghan taliban has

announced a three day seems to mark the end of ramadan the first such true since the group was toppled by the u.s. led invasion back in two thousand and one. three is a war in yemen has displaced hundreds of thousands of people who now live under harsh conditions in remote areas aid agencies say most of yemen's twenty nine million population is in need of humanitarian assistance. as more. some of the millions of victims of the war in yemen refugees living in makeshift camps in. the province is under control and so is her data poort the main and trip point for food and aid shipments. but government troops and their allies are on the offensive to capture the area forces led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates are within twenty kilometers of the red sea poor and.

most of these families fled their homes and villages during the last three years of fighting they say they aren't able to return and can't live in such poor conditions any longer. we have nothing no blankets no food no flowers no cooking oil officials come and take our names but never show up again the strategically positioned coastal province is crucial for yemen's feuding factions as the conflicts continue yemenis are losing hope of returning home. from time to time time people from the area activists hoot but aid agencies and charities have forgotten us. the health of the yemenis has drastically deteriorated childminder tradition cholera and other in this why in her day i guess we are all sick here i have

a kidney problem one of my brothers is diabetic and the other has tuberculosis. as well as disease and hunger strikes have killed many civilians coalition commanders this base allegations civilians are being targeted and they insist they're aiming for who thier brambles hideouts. more guatemalans are being ordered to leave their homes to escape. the volcano has been spewing a toxic cloud of ash and lava for the past five days david muscle has been speaking to survivors. as painful as his burns might be that knows how lucky he is to be alive he his wife and father in law were at home in the moment brought a mollusc volcano erupted that even his wife managed to escape but the memories of that day will haunt them forever. was forming inside our house when we

went running out my father in law was swept away the ash was boiling mud mixed with people were running and the hardish came down on top of them killing them people were trapped inside their houses and couldn't escape they were cooked inside. six children with severe burns were airlifted to the united states where pediatric burn center offer state of the art treatment not available in guatemala. and now one of those national disaster agency is coming under fire for possible negligence public prosecutors have ordered an investigation into whether evacuation procedures were properly followed is a little bit of the official say they warned the public after sensors picked up an increase in volcanic activity hours before the eruption everybody i mean to the mayor of all of the communities received warnings and obviously we don't have the authority to order an evacuation we make recommendations and it's the residents who

decide whether to evacuate or not. but residents who escaped the gases and volcanic mud said that only those close to the highway heard the warning you know that. if we would have received a warning we would have left our house earlier and many people's lives would have been saved i don't know about the others but they didn't warn us we. didn't know about the eruption until the lava was coming down. that again on friday expelling large quantities of pirate classic material and nearby homes were evacuated authorities hoping to avoid another disaster david mercer the squint. refugees in one of the world's largest comes have been beamed around the world to the rare web streaming event to tell their stories the cooma company kenya house about one hundred eighty five thousand people from south sudan somalia

ethiopia and other countries. for the event. it's been an extraordinary day here at the cooma refugee camp here in north western kenya this is a refugee camp that houses around one hundred eighty five thousand refugees in this ted x. cacouna camp talk today this is something that's really been inspiring for a lot of the residents here the organizers are hoping with this event to showcase the positive impact that refugees that have had made not just in this camp not just in this country but all around the world now earlier i spoke with melissa fleming she's the chief u.n.h.c.r. spokesperson also one of the co-hosts of this event and i asked her how an event like this was going to help try to reshape the narrative around refugees and how refugees are perceived around the world most europeans or americans are astray and think that all the refugees are coming their way frankly most of them are in countries like kenya eighty five percent and yet they're invisible and we were hoping with this event today can't we could really eliminate the camp but not only

that the extraordinary refugees and the talents and the ideas they have by putting them on as powerful a stage as the ted stage many of the speakers here today are refugees among them actors singers musicians poets there was one young woman in particular the twenty two year old refugee from south sudan her name is mary mark here she spoke with me and told me that she came back to this camp after she had left off so that she could teach children here and why that was so important to her. i look at the population in the. especially that population of the most of them a whole class and seeing me as their teacher who is almost their peer will actually encourage them to to move on to push on to see that life is not about the company life is something mall ahead and that's what i want them to believe it and

every time i'm in my class teaching them biology our business. i'm not just teaching business. i'm teaching business the set of statistics that will help them everybody i've spoken with here today has told me they believe an event like this is extremely important not just because it counteracts negative stereotypes about refugees but also because it will inspire so many refugees around the world to. supporters of the british far right activist tony robinson have marched through london calling for him to be released from jail robinson whose real name is steven yaxley lennon is serving thirteen months for content of court his critics have accused him of encouraging islamophobia is not in baba now reports. with a crowd of several thousand supporters of a man known as tommy robinson former founder of the english defense league made their way from safaga square in the heart of london to ten downing street the official residence and offices of prime minister to resign may the calling for

tommy robinson's release from prison and there was a petition of more than half a million people supporting that some of the speakers at ten downing street highlighted what they say is an infringement of sprit speech the dutch far right politician can't build it's got a warm reception from toby robinson's supporters as he said robinson was prepared to talk about issues others won't highlight in the past tommy robinson has really done a lot of campaigning on paedophile gangs involving mostly men in certain parts of britain but the fact of the case last month at leeds crown court where he was like streaming and was found to have been in contempt of court something he'd been given a three month suspended sentence for before with a warning he'd be jailed if he. found it well he admitted doing so so now he's in jail his supporters say that he's being silenced but he has many critics and calls

being including the anti racist groups who got protested here in smaller numbers on saturday say that in fact he is very one sided and doesn't highlight similar issues among people convicted of similar crimes on the far right and more more than that his supporters they say are using the the current conviction to try to increase divisions between communities here in britain. and then sion muslim practice during the month of ramadan is under threat in jerusalem the practice involves men banging drums on the streets in the night reminding muslims to eat before the fast well now it's jewish settlers have complained that they make too much noise but it's myth reports from occupied east jerusalem. oh no. it's a wake up alarm that dates back centuries. just before dawn during ramadan

across the middle east men known as most a hierarchy call people to pray and eat before the fasting begins. but here in the muslim quarter of jerusalem's old city for the first time police have been detaining and finding the most a hierarchy for disturbing the sleep of the jewish settlers living here. to learn. from some of the police are always harassing us i've been detained four times accused of making noises that disturbs the settlers the settlers get annoyed by everything we do even the decorations we make for ramadan annoys them. the old city is split into the muslim jewish christian and armenian porters but for the past fifty years jewish settlers have also been moving into the muslim quarter now appear is where while settler families live and the guys stop the music as they go past the house but that's not been enough to stop the settlers complaining to the police. over that of. the settlers complained again tonight there are

jewish homes here this woman says this is going to go on all month. jerusalem police told al-jazeera in a statement that they are constantly trying to maintain the delicate balance between allowing in ensuring the freedom of religion and worship and maintaining public order and quality of life for local residents the police see offenses of noise and disturbing the peace is one of the most serious offenses that cause harm to the public and the quality of life for our local residents the police presence is provided for settlers who choose to live in the heart of the muslim quarter. finals running into the hundreds of dollars how much wish to continue this ramadan tradition suddenly become very expensive. burnitz made out to syria in occupied east jerusalem after half a century the longest serving staff member at the sydney opera house is calling it a day steve carlip migrated to australia from greece and soon began work on the

opera houses construction it's weeks from retirement he reflects on his many is working inside one of the world's most famous. my name is steve scotland's and i'm working in my twenty's over the sydney opera house i've you know started in ninety six before i was nineteen years so and i come to work quite as five every morning for the last fifteen years i was single out with the open it was in eighty six the heat i started on these beautiful building the icon of the of strata i come from a small island south of greece and my face when i started hearing or seeing the drama theatre when they finish that i start on the scaffolding we had the lot of greeks a lot italians from ireland time i had my wife and we met in one hundred sixty in

the same year i start here of course we go to the opera the hair was so i was in love with the op but i had no so. three quote of the billy c. on the water on the scene in the material they put that time there was not last for long i saw of the kong. to suffer with the cancer and the homes to change the colony and i remember my grandmother the used to do the floor with a casting solar i say to my wife get me a packet of baking soda and i have a little close the kong in the slightest stir and then i thought i was thinking a bill that brought us my grandmother used to have it i q a was bombs killed they get there a wreck with the only voice. i make assemble they was very impress you come to work not to pass your time you come to to join me in the beautiful

building peace card to put in my mind i'm going to leave the job i'm seventy three you know i've got three grand charles in waiting for me and that. i wish we find that i'd people to continue to protect the building gently with the love because i love this ability. so then the top stories here are not zero and u.s. president donald trump has ended the g. seven summit more kind of there with a call for a tariff free world he says talks with fellow leaders of the major industrialized nations had been extremely productive but that he was determined that the united states was treated in his words fairly. trump has now left the summit it is all

routes to singapore for tuesday's highly anticipated meeting with kim jong un it will be the first time a serving u.s. president and a north korean leader i've ever come face to face president said he felt positive about the decay see ations. it's a one time shot and i think it's going to work at very well that's why i feel positive because it makes so much sense and we will watch over it will protect and will do a lot of things i can say that south korea japan china many countries want to see it happen and they'll help the world so there's a great there's really a great time this is not happened in all of the years that they've been separated by a very artificial bantry it's a great opportunity for peace and lasting peace and prosperity the

taliban in afghanistan has announced a three day ceasefire to mark the end of ramadan it is the first such true since the group was toppled by the u.s. led invasion in two thousand and one taliban fighters say they will stop all offensive operations during the muslim eat off it's a holiday later this month except against foreign forces follows a similar announcement by the afghan. refugees in one of the world's largest camps have been beamed around the world in a rare web streaming event to tell their stories they could make camp in kenya houses of about one hundred eighty five thousand people from south sudan somalia ethiopia as well as other countries the tx organization arranges lectures around the world to try and change perceptions mall guatemalans have been ordered to leave their homes to escape an eruption of mt volcano has been spewing a toxic cloud of ash and lava for the past five days at least one hundred nine people have died in two hundred are missing after

a major eruption on sunday. well you're up to date with the top stories a full news are coming up and run about half an hour's talk of. chasing the world order china host the shanghai cooperation organization as g seven canada russia is also a major player in the eurasian group eight countries which include some of the largest populations on the planet so how much power does the organization wield this inside story.

welcome to the program of a problem at the top of mix messaging from donald trump from russia and china appears to be drawing ever closer in an anti u.s. alliance they're at the forefront of the two day shanghai cooperation organization eight countries seeking to expand economic and strategic links with some of their neighbors well president vladimir putin's already announced new trade and investment agreements with his chinese counterpart xi jinping is calling the russian leader his best friend 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 u.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. and i see. we 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 that 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 corporation in the denuclearization. a closer lion's 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 u.s.

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. well the shanghai cooperation organization has eight members as and four observe the states as well as china and russia the other countries a cosmic star and kyrgyzstan to take a stand and back of fun as well as the newest members india and pakistan as we mentioned north korea is a major concern so is the us withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal iran is one of the observer states and is seeking for membership for the organization and so as of gone some president of ghana has called for more economic and security support from

the s.c. and the shanghai organizations being seen as a platform for india and pakistan to engage with each other over their disputes including kashmir china's massive belton road construction project is also up for discussion the trade plan spans more than sixty countries in asia the middle east you have and africa boss india refuses to be a part of it well let's bring in our guests now from singapore by skype is graham on the web a research fellow at the s. rajaratnam school of international studies from beijing china tangan a china political analyst who advises the chinese government on economic and development issues and from new delhi by skype is job and jacob associate editor of china report very warm welcome to all of you mr tag and let me start with you there are a lot of important issues many of which are also being discussed at the g. seven summit in canada where there is a lot of discord because of u.s. president donald trump's trade policies how is that disunity being viewed in china

. well quite frankly it's not just china it's around the world i mean you have a tale of two summits one is full of strife and discord strife between the members and twitter tirades and then also issues about trade on the other side you seem to have a very well organized well oiled gathering in china headed by china but part of this c.e.o. grouping and for the first time pakistan and india there and it's going to be a very interesting event mr webb what do you all thought say you as optimistic as mr tang and could this be a basis for an alternative to the traditional willed order that's represented by the seven countries meeting in canada do you think. well perhaps that remains to be seen i still think that the shanghai cooperation organization still has

a lot of things to work out taking into account the relationships within the organization between countries in particular china and india have only been able to forge closer ties of late has or hasn't always been the case the story of any seventeen between china and india was quite different until we saw the meetings between prime minister narendra modi and president presidency changing the course of this year only of late and me india and pakistan also have outstanding issues with each other not least because of kashmir but also because of other issues as well that are outstanding the china pakistan economic record of for example is something that is a flaw on india's side and saw where as well as you it does have a lot of promise perhaps in some sort of alternative mechanism one could argue the same time this is still an organization that has its all in attentions and you know and issues that have to be worked out in order for it to go in some sort of cohesive direction and make

a contribution to regional order and little bit talking about all of the issues that you raised in more detail in the program that message take of what do you think of the sort of emerging proximity that frat developing between these countries china russia and india is it a good start to work on some of the world's major issues right now and not just the ones between those countries. well russia and the leaders of the chinese media you know all well what they get now. and this they just it should not be india and pakistan to be a c.e.o. well it's you know looks good right now in comparison to seven right now because all trump is going on just. like. it was nice but all that he represents the commonality of values is much easier it much more broader vision than the us you know and you mentioned i think that

it's about standards that yes you know and to use the space being you know those that we're not looking at the c.e.o. . or or you know pakistan who thought which we had i think wants to meet scholars talk about that but eleven if you want to get you shouldn't this. it's all this is not you know the indians are getting c.d.'s or are the leaders organizations. you know. so perhaps there won't be much progress on the issue between india and pakistan but what about china's quaked one belt one road project that india has been opposed to because of one of the one of the elements of the project is going through disputed the china pakistan economic corridor or do you think that we can expect any progress mr jacob on that

issue because this is such a key. plan for china so i think the government position. the government position is that this. well i think that it is often so the opposition is still very strong but. you know they'll be a. part of the seals agenda. and i mean there's no running away from it. and the iraqis will have to find a way to deal with it and if you look at the record last year or even as late as early this year in europe will simply not sign on to anything that. what are you know all the forums you know it was an opportunity for conversations on the say. maybe. we. used to call it you know right some sort of project or it

measures big eventually people from the it's ok so the way of knowing you know what it's. going to get back to started or other nations as well right so we will wait to see how much progress they can make on china's one belt one road project when india might not necessarily agree to some parts of that plan one things to tang and let me bring you in now one issue that these countries do seem to agree on is iran and the iran nuclear deal and not imposing sanctions against the country this is going to be iranian president hassan rouhani as that is his first foreign trip since the u.s. pulled out of that iran nuclear deal do you think that we can expect these countries not just china india and russia which make up you know three of the world's biggest economies three in the top ten but also the other central asian

countries can we expect them to continue to do business with iran. absolutely i don't think they'll be any change i think russia china and india are all in favor of this as are the majority of the g. seven i think it's a really a six six versus one right now but you know i want to go back and touch upon a point that was made about the belton road initiative in order for india to come into its own it needs jobs and infrastructure and i think modi and she are putting together and realizing that they can work together and be far more powerful the fact is that they control forty five forty percent of the world's population and are the fastest growing a large economies in the world and together they could change the way that everything is done today previously we've always looked towards capital to make the

rules but when the capital sixty percent of which is in europe and the united states has to make investments it has to choose places where the money can grow and that right now is india and china and i think you're going to see them cooperating out of mutual interests that does not mean that india will abandon its strategic security relationship and ships with the united states but it does mean that they're going to make their own path as they go through this so you are much more positive than about the india china relationship going forward and also a positive that all these countries will continue to do business with iran and instant. web what do you think these countries going to risk facing u.s. sanctions to do business with iran. possibly this is a very interesting issue it remains to be seen what what the issue of iran's membership is going to be a tele if they as your countries vote for iran's or or for membership inclusion to

the su or from observer status or in the face of the establishment of u.s. actions against iran we'd like to withdraw from the comprehensive plan for action then. of course it's going to be a vote against what the u.s. has been doing you know in trying to be a villain or in a manner which or what turns established norms in not. you know respecting agreements to have been struck before and so that will be completely interesting and i think you might want to do that. if it's at all possible for us to govern eyes international support on the matter and for us to see the reinstitution of u.n. sanctions sanctions against iran mind you iran has failed to become a team full membership status or it has not met to the standards of that because of the fact that it was under u.n. sanctions until the signing of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with the u.s.

and so that has prevented iran from getting full membership and now that the sanctions are lifted there's been a window of opportunity for iran to get film and ship and now maybe the opportunity if the tide of international opinion does go into favor of the u.s. remains to be seen and perhaps a g. seven meeting maybe one of those vehicles to work that out to try and but it the trauma ministration to govern eyes in the national or whether that happens another question but it may be that those attempts to prevent iran from getting in yes you will fully. and the subject have what do you think about india's prospects for continuing to do business with iran they of course have a very long standing relationship and we had from the indian foreign minister just days before the summit that no country can put pressure on them when it comes to doing business with other countries. bottom of the candidate it used to be americans i think we are very determined.

to do our end. because it's practically the only and influential and important player in the region. what i think is going to happen to be american values. and they're all on my back to make exceptions on a case by case basis part of the. issues and so on. and i think. there's not much that the americans are going to gain by putting pressure on india . but i think. they've sort of exceeded lose or gain much out of it and i think that's what it's going to be all or the general relationship with it honest and i don't know if they'll pull. a gun on board you know the white house meetings that policy on iraq mr chang and i want you to expand on how you think china will proceed with iran because chinese companies have experienced u.s. sanctions you know which have driven them to bankruptcy china isn't bilateral trade

talks with the u.s. these are all precious as it looks into investing further and iran surely. well the issue here is currently the us which represents twenty four percent of the world's g.d.p. is at economic odds imposing sanctions or about to impose tariffs on sixty percent of the rest of the world now if you start thinking about that number it makes sense for those sixty percent to do just as was said at the g seven. he said well you know quite frankly we can go our own way in the u.s. can go it's this would be a massive challenge two dollars a trade dollar. to me and it could result in helping europe also in china it would set in place firmly this idea that this is a multilateral world this is not going to be dominated in future by one country in

essence the united states by acting on its fears may have just increased in accelerated the realization of them and this on the web while the united states has pulled out of this iran nuclear deal it is going into a summit with the north korean leader kim jong un which is of course going to be another very big issue at the. summit do you think that russia and china have been sidelined by what's going on between trump and kim jong un. well at least as do we see at this point in time why they see themselves being of course critical stakeholders one of the. members of the six party talks the six party arrangement devil feel that any resolution to the ongoing korean and korean nuclear crisis is going to have to involve them and certainly the few that we. are you know i would argue and other observers would argue and i think this is where

you and the us may be arguing that this going to be a season for everything and right now what we need to focus on these the need to focus on dumbs of the trauma mr asian meeting now john young regime next week is a focus on a bilateral discussion and work on things that pertain to that bilateral relationship or adversarial relationship as it stands and that subsequently there will be. sora for these other meetings in which the russians and chinese can be involved but the opposite has happened in the in the run up to the summit was seeing a range of developments where. we beijing and moscow all talk your saul are all trying to get their interests represented at the table at the table next week at the summit represented by north korea on the one side in terms of chinese interests possibly the russian interests and on the other side of the table the president trump coming into the meeting representing tokyo's and stores interests we're going to be a bit of a. you know

a complex situation except i'm trying to get all that out but this is what we're seeing and some of us feel that this just increases the risks of derailing some of the constructive comes that need to be had from the summitry mr tang and i can see you wanted to comment. yeah i'm going to disagree with my colleague there i don't think there is there's an asymmetrical relationship right now the u.s. will not allow any kind of delay in denuclearization and north korea cannot afford for trust reasons to speed it up so i don't think much more constructive than a handshake could come out of any kind of meeting between these two i do agree that the rest of the countries are concerned that trump might try to do a cowboy and just say look as long as you can't send a missile to to washington it's ok this is something that has been very nervous about because no one can judge exactly where he's going to go or what he's about to

do but this idea that you know we have to get above the looking at the trees and see the forest you're seeing a massive geo political shift here which is being accelerated by washington's fears by trump's actions his unreliability everybody is drifting more and more east not only for markets but for political leadership so at this point i think it's foolish to be talking about sidelined countries in the end this comes back to the six party talks because there's no other way to resolve it there are interests involved by all of these parties and this should be considered settled by consensus not by two cowboys sitting down and trying to figure out how they can do things gentlemen we don't have very long left in the show and i would like to ask a final question to all of you mr jacob let me begin with you is the sort of trumps i isolationist isolationism creation the conditions for a challenge to the sort of world order and what the us at the top where we see more

consensus rather than the sort of uni polo the kind of consensus that mr tang and speaking about. i don't know i think that's a question that we want to get out of that that. get a lot of flak for being you know irrational maybe. acting like a cowboy wacko you know what's up just don't shoot you so big leaves are suddenly. and you know the very fact that example. even come up with this i mean the most i think. shows that the u.s. is not what. the u.s. is and only oxen's so that after you do. what's up. the west is. going to be able to deal with the dangers. u.s. is driving as well that's what china is a very big star i would have to the. business are stronger than it

actually says article bitch the strong web which i like to pick up on that before i get the last lead. you know i cannot i would like to have a word in here i mean just to come back to a point of dumbest thing a minute i'm not saying that russia and china are being sidelined i'm saying that they're perceived to be sidelined that's not helpful clearly i agree with that point and that's where the discussion needs to be steered in the right direction but in terms of the u.s. of the of us behavior yes i think at the baseline of the summit i think what needs to be had is attention to building a report on the working relationship otherwise we will not have a long discussions this will be a one off but it seemed time the u.s. clearly is also realizing the limits of coming up with an absolutist position that there will have to be some give and take and this is going to be a process to quote unquote president comes words having said that i think this idea of this principle realism that the james mattis talked about in the shangri-la dialogue is clearly hurting the u.s. because it's isolating itself it's losing

a lot of friends and burning bridges and i agree to a point about the shift towards a more multilateral world in which we don't have to wait for the americans will seek permission to consume more because we can form our own region and blocks and this attack and i can imagine that you would agree with us to on web on that last point. yes i would you have three major countries india china and russia meeting in a meeting it's well choreographed and you have six very unhappy european. excuse me g seven members who are leaning towards. breaking away from the u.s. enemy. mr jacob didn't would do you have anything that you'd like to add to that. i think you know like i said. that is you shoot it almost and much like that and what they did going to lose i

think the no doubt about it disagreements but it isn't those do not necessarily that the u.s. is going to be got out picture or you see somebody that got out you know yes yes yes absolutely the captain's expected to get out but you know the same way that mr trump goes be with. not only our process yeah you know the underling of the do go was this i think you that saw that when i get or at mr jacob thank you very much for that and thank you to all of our guests that is graham on the web and singapore on a tank and beijing and job and jacob in new delhi and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion to go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. and side story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle us at a.j.

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largest economies they had hoped to persuade donald trump to revoke tariffs on steel and i mean that have threatened a growing trade war instead the united states president's call for a tariff free world and demanded that his country be treated in his words fairly one hundred has this report he came late left early in ceded no ground zero knighted states has been taken advantage of for decades and decades and we can't do that anymore i can graduate the leaders of other countries for so. crazily being able to make these trade deals that was so good for their country and so bad for the united states u.s. president donald trump hijacked the agenda of the annual g. seven summit twice first when he raised tariffs on steel and aluminum before the meeting making trade issue number one and second wide ranging news conference minutes before leaving hours early then he said something that seemed to belie the

view of the rest of the g. seven i would really rate it on a scale of zero to ten i would rate it a tenth the president remained empty saturday morning as the day's agenda began with the host of the summit canadian prime minister justin trudeau overseeing a discussion on gender equality trump arrived later this year is likely to go down as the g six with six members on one side and president isolated on the other the host of the event canadian prime minister just had hoped that this would be a celebration of the global economic expansion but in the end trade issue number one. we could not agree with the u.s. with the trade dispute dominating the summit other critical issues on the agenda gender equality clean energy and climate change were largely overshadowed we're very conscious of environmental issues in many ways but in the south people it's a question of life and death there's no more rain in some countries people see that there is repeatedly year after year as the remaining g six members prepared to

continue meeting for several hours departed for singapore and his eagerly anticipated summit with north korea's leader john hendren quebec city canada. well let's focus on a little bit we can speak to felipe mcgrane who is a political economist and a former special advisor to the director general of the world trade organization philip welcome to the program a very important issue this is and it's all a bit upside down now how world trade is going to work it was the way forward off the trucks intervention here trump is completely incoherent i mean he's talking about launching a global trade or he's taken action against his closest allies he's gone through a meeting where it's six against one and then you know blind science people by talking about abolishing tariffs subsidies and other trade barriers i think you need to take that with a huge fistful of salt i mean it's not ideas actions and indeed is rhetoric and indeed his beliefs and so far as he has them i think ratify tickled that one of

those believes is that the united states is getting completely and totally fleeced the rest of the world by the rest of the g six the g seven when he says. does every credibility isn't that if you write well it's true that the us has a large trade deficit that's mostly because americans consume a lot of produce less they don't save enough and and that's that that's the root cause of it he blames it on unfair trade practices and he will single out the odd place where there are tariffs the deuce just immigrate it's americans but the idea that overall you know the us is open to foreigners and that the rest of the world the e.u. and canada in particular are closed is simply not true the average tariff is almost the same in each country so that's the it is a pretty much a level playing field he's just simply not telling the truth yet he's he's confused about the both the source of the trade deficit and the consequence of the trade deficit he thinks that it's due to unfair trade practices and it's actually due

primarily to the consumption behavior of americans and he thinks it means to somehow america is losing out and actually it doesn't and this concept of a tariff free world. could that work but that would be a wonderful thing to get to achieve it you need to go through the world trade organization which he has been trying to undermine indeed threatening to leave indeed his preference has been for bilateral trade agreements on the basis that america is more powerful negotiating individually if you want to go for a tariff free world you have to negotiate with everyone it wants fantastic but let's hope that he changes his you of the world so there for a purpose not that it's a protects nations trade well the terrace of business systematically reduced since the second war or after you know the consequences of the great depression and the protectionism that resulted and now among advanced economies of the g seven they are extremely low except in agriculture and the americans to protect their culture

as much as as others do it would be great to move forward with trade deposition if trump words to push forward that agenda i think he would have you know a receptive response in canada and japan and indeed in the e.u. in the meantime in calendar in japan and the e.u. what can they do well at the moment they've decided to retaliate against the steel and aluminum tariffs that he recently imposed and of course he's also threatening to slap tariffs on european car exports where again he thinks of the problem is that the europeans are competing unfairly rather than actually americans like german cars in these negotiations does he have the upper hand do they have the means disease or does canada japan have the means to retaliate what the g seven isn't negotiating for but in terms of the terrace that the united states has imposed on steel and other medium yes both canada and the e.u.

and indeed others are retaliating some of already done so the e.u. will be introduced in the next year next month sorry and they have been targeting sensitive products for the americans so for example harley davidson motorbikes or. for now the products of our culture are producing states that favor donald trump so you know he's going to feel some political pain from that and how to say but as you look ahead how do you think this is going to pan out in the coming months but i think it's we're heading towards i think a bigger trade conflict whether it's on cars whether it's with china and i think that i would i would be extra streaming surprised if we started to have towards. a world of free trade fully integrated respect to this appreciate that very much thank you thank you.

well the u.s. president has now left the summit in quebec and is now on route to singapore for tuesday's highly anticipated meeting with kim jong il it will be the first time a serving u.s. president and a north korean leader have ever come face to face it's a one time shot and i think it's going to work. very well that's why i feel positive because it makes so much. and we will watch over it will protect and will do a lot of things i can say that south korea japan china many countries want to see it happen and they'll help the more so there's a great there's really a great time this is not happened in all of the years that they've been separated by a very artificial bantry is a great opportunity for peace and lasting peace and prosperity well some veteran diplomats of the united states are concerned that the president isn't well

enough prepared for the negotiations scheduled to start on tuesday so he's likely to come out of that meeting the happiest diplomatic editor james bays has been gauging expert opinion in singapore. the exclusive hotel where the summit will be held has already been placed in a close security zone singapore will be the venue for high stakes diplomacy which may go on for several days but it's arguable the fact this historic meeting is even taking place is a victory in itself for kim jong un his country is sort of meeting with the u.s. president for many years and he's achieved that goal without making any concrete commitment on denuclearization i think kim is a much canny or operator than we give him a lot of credit for certainly in the united states in other circles i think that he has got exposure to the outside world you know through his education in switzerland

and i think that he's got advisors who understand the outside world pretty well even if they prefer to live in their relative isolation inside of north korea and i think that he is doing a great job at playing the united states in the fact that we're seen as volatile and risky right now in his interactions with the chinese and south korea those two countries a key to summit meetings now with south korea's president moon jay in the north korean leader has shown a different place to the world smiling and prepared to negotiate and off to reaching out diplomatically to the u.s. experts now believe it will be very hard to persuade north korea's main trading partner china to impose fresh sanctions if the summit is not a success i think it would be very difficult to return to the maximum pressure campaign of last year and early this year because north korea has indicated it's willing to negotiate to work towards denuclearization he's reached out to beijing

and seoul and sort of got them on his side and so i think it will be very hard to get china to cooperate at least on the economic portion of the maximum pressure campaign much of course the patterns on what goes on around the negotiating table trump rides. himself on the art of the deal but kim is the one who intimately knows the secrets of his country and its nuclear program the world will be watching the diplomacy here in singapore in the coming hours and days it could determine the future of the korean peninsula james days al-jazeera singapore or the d.p. r. k. as it's officially called is regarded as one of the most repressive nations in the world the united nations estimates there are around one hundred thousand political prisoners detained in camps while dozens of foreigners are prevented from leaving when he reports now from seoul. in south korea there are many emotions about the changing relationship with north korea among small vocal nationalist groups there

is suspicion about pyongyang's motives that concerned even paranoid that south korea is about to be engulfed.