because of trump's policies and tariffs and his readiness to withdraw from trade climate. the unity presented at the is in stark contrast to the g. seven summit in canada where dog trump refused to endorse the final communique some analysts say the unified message from china also presents a challenge to the west in that. florence al-jazeera. german chancellor angela merkel says the european union will respond in kind to us tiresome european steel and aluminum she was speaking after a chaotic g. seven summit in canada and a series of angry tweets from u.s. president donald trump also in jordan has more. usually once a g. seven summit is over that's the last time at least for several days that the leaders of the world's most economically powerful countries will talk to each other in public well that's not the case after this year's g. seven summit and canada the united states is accusing canada the host of this year

summit of acting in bad faith on trade issues the canadians for their part are accusing the americans of doing the same meantime the german chancellor angela merkel is saying that she is quite sobered and surprised by the of the helmets with which donald trump the u.s. president is attacking his fellow members of the g seven however she said that does not mean that germany and other members of the european union are going to back away from retaliatory tariffs on u.s. products this is in response to the u.s. his plans to impose tariffs on european steel and alan minium as well as perhaps on german vehicles which have become very popular here in the u.s. of course it does raise the much bigger question is the g seven about to lose perhaps its oldest and most influential member well normally people would suggest that that would be impossible because the u.s.

wants to be very much involved in all things economic globally however with an administration that has already pulled out of the powers climate agreement as well as out of the iran nuclear deal there's really no predicting how the trumpet ministration will proceed well let's bring in peter cox he's an international trade strategist who joins us live from the canadian capital ottawa peter clock this is an extraordinary war of words between donald trump and justin trudeau but the canadian prime minister says he won't be pushed around by trump but why is trump taking such a hard line with trudeau. because trudeau showed that he wasn't be prepared to be pushed around he was prepared to respond to trump's bully tactics on steel and aluminum and the president just doesn't like people to push back on canadians are certainly not known for being confrontational i mean so how are people in canada viewing this spat between trump and their prime minister

well we get trump every day on television morning noon and night we're sort of used to him now. wasn't totally unexpected ok so we know that canada is harder on happy ok but you know we're saying that canada buys half of us still exports and trudeau now says he'll impose a twenty five percent tariff on u.s. steel products but how far is canada likely to go with retaliation do you think well you know we buy more steel from the united states than then they do from us but it's both both sides are very big canada is about five million tonnes in us is five point six million tonnes it's going to be very disruptive to the automotive industry on both sides of the border because then it's an integrated north american market they get a lot of steel from us and other g seven partners have been stunned by donald

trump's reaction the e.u. has has listed retaliate trade tariffs on us taking the us to the w t o how effective peter will the european countermeasures be do you think well what the president. said he was going to do was that if we retaliated and the europeans retaliated against him for his tears which are totally illegal he would just pile on and retaliate some more i'm just a final thought from you donald trump has described the us as a piggy bank that everyone keeps robbing and he says he could easily win a trade war so how do you see this playing out in the longer term. it's going to probably get a lot worse before it gets better. you recall that when china counter retaliated against the united states trump piled on twice as much in retaliation

from the u.s. now actually two hundred times what he already. threatened and he seems to be going ahead with that he's determined he's not you know he claims to be a builder but he's much better at being a destroyer that's what his record is over peter thanks for talking to us. also to come here on news hour we'll have more on the summit between trump and kim. and we'll hear from a canadian pastor was imprisoned in north korea and what he hopes to see from the meeting in singapore and it's just weeks before women are given the right to drive in saudi arabia but some of them could be behind bars when the ban is finally lifted. and in sport the king of clubs will take his throne in paris rafael nadal makes it eleven with the french open.

now more flows of lava and ash from the volcano in guatemala forced emergency teams to abandon the search for survivors rescuers say there's now little hope of finding anyone else alive after last sunday's massive eruption new evacuations have also been ordered a week after the initial explosion that killed at least one hundred ten people in the two hundred missing and thousands of homes have been destroyed marianna sanchez joins us live now from close to where the volcano is marianna we're hearing that emergency services have now abandoned their search for survivors what more can you tell us. yes they are and they have abandoned the search for survivors but they are still going to the epic that area by the eruption of last week's will cain and earlier this morning we were at that look. too good most affected area and you could see that the the way that the rescuers are so keen of finding the

remains of the people that died trapped in their homes or even in the area where the lava the wind or through the the town of a lot is it we've seen rescuers going in digging through ash into holes that there were about seventy degree centigrade they were telling us to be able to reach victims and they were finding victims we saw them they told us they were they had found two girls one in one house another one in another one so it's a lot of a lot of very difficult work with the rescuers but also the families families of people who are missing were up there near the volcano they were risking their lives of everyone else was because the volcano is very active still and they were standing by in an area where they plucked their families whole were these were

homes that were completely destroyed or there was nothing left to their worries even people trying to see were the homes were and of the rescuers digging one place and another trying to see where there are homes where to dig then and be able to reach the remains of their loved ones so it's a very hard very hard situation for everyone there a lot of emotional situation a lot of emotions there running with the families and the rescuers themselves there and and marianna just briefly the government seems to have got itself mired in some controversy about how it's responded to this disaster that's being accused of sending to heed advance warnings about the volcano. that's right well there's a lot of finger pointing scientists pointing that the emergency agencies didn't act fast enough emergency agency saying that they were not told this was really a very dangerous municipal leaders who did not go to the municipality to their

village abilities as a guard evacuation and. many questioning the fact that there was a golf club everyone was evacuated from the gulf three hundred people juris and employees they were evacuated in time and so that was because a person there who knew the whole case of how the book interacted said it's time to leave so people are asking why didn't people in the government that did the same thing and got all these people out in time marianna thank you. a fire swept through a building which houses half of baghdad's ballot boxes from iraq's disputed parliamentary election the prime minister body described the fire as a plot against iraq's democracy parliament had already demanded a nationwide recount of the votes now the records for the may election to be rerun and has more. thick black smoke over the recent for districts in eastern baghdad

iraq's ministry of interior say the fire started in a building used to store ballot boxes and electronic voting machines from the disputed parliamentary election a month ago iraq's parliament voted last week for a countrywide to manual recount of ballots after allegations of voting fraud. one in piece of the fire was started deliberately and cooled on the government to better protect buildings where ballot boxes are being stalled and imagine this three warehouses there are important but it's books and firefighters are inside trying to put out the fire earlier in the day nine judges were appointed to oversee the manual recount of votes nationwide the process is expected to take at least a couple of weeks the government sacked senior members of the election commission which oversaw the vote counting prime minister hydrilla body has banned them from leaving the country and warned that anyone suspected of being involved in election

fraud could face criminal charges iraq's first election since the defeat of eisel was praised for the lack of violence in the run up to and during polling day on may the twelfth but since then much has changed allegations of fraud leading to parliament's vote for a countrywide manual recounts of throwing the transparency of this election into doubt a fire at a building containing potential proof of how people voted will already make accusations of voter rigging even louder. baghdad italy has threatened to close its ports to rescue ships if the island nation of malta doesn't take in more than six hundred migrants say this week old has brushed off the request saying it had nothing to do with the rescue off the libyan coast they were picked up by the italian navy and a european humanitarian rescue about italy's new interior minister any campaign strongly against immigration and the recent parliamentary elections. u.k.

rights groups say saudi arabia has arrested two more activists in a campaign for the right for women to drive my answer ronnie was arrested after publishing a letter of support for detained campaigner. nineteen activists been arrested in the kingdom since the fifteenth of may. the saudi arabian traffic department releases a video showing women in riyadh receiving their driver's licenses it's been decades in the making with just two weeks before women are free to drive. but some women's rights activists will not be behind the wheel but behind bars has was the first to be arrested in a government crackdown began on the fifteenth of may. security forces then swept up blogger him and the activist and professor as easy use of human rights lawyer abraham moved a mic and one of the kingdom's early feminists money and she took part in one

thousand nine hundred campaign to lift the driving ban they could face up to twenty years in prison the saudi state news agency did confirm a wrists on the eighteenth of may saying seven suspects were charged as foreign agents reporting they did to violate the country's religious and national pillows and last week the saudi public prosecutor reported coordinated moves to undermine the security of the kingdom seventeen people had been arrested eight were released . the government has not said what threat to security the activists pose but analysts say saudi leadership want to ensure the lifting of the driving ban a seen as a gift rather than a concession to domestic or international pressure they are telling the women in so that you should not ask for more including you know ending male guardianship this. or that right of women to issue their first or without merit console and so it's

very alarming and we are very. much concerned about what's going on in saudi arabia . right now the kingdom is trying to modernize but it has come at the cost of a crackdown last year academics religious leaders and activists were detained well riyadh's ritz carlton hotel became a prison for some assad's wealthiest mean the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon promoting a more modern kingdom globally well neutering challenges at home charlotte dallas al-jazeera for short break here not as iraq when we come back. there are you know it's. a song for freedom another region and spain has its eyes on a chance for independence. and a big show of support for the democratic republic of congo's exiled opposition leader ahead in an election shuttle for december in support sebastian vettel takes the lead in formula one championship after winning his fifteenth romper on stage.

hello there are a few pretty big storms in the u.s. and they haven't used in the white top class but they are by no means gathered together making a bidding big impression this is a frontal system you can draw in there which means to the south it's probably warmer and indeed for overlay the temp should you'll see it is twenty five plus from d.c. down to florida and back through texas and that warmth of the tongue the western side of the plain states as well as cold air coming in across the rockies where the two meet usually get some pretty big showers that's the case and we've gone to monday here from the dakotas northward into canada and again eastern sides a dusting of big showers around in georgia is cooled down with more persistent rain really answers the northern oblations back to the great lakes and through

washington d.c. but i'm sort of struggling to find some to say about the u.s. a big nation is not what's going on to be honest this rather more action down here the want to cloud from panama through to mexico hide at least two tropical storms one of which we'll watch it goes towards baja but in the meantime we're just looking at daily shows of some great nature and i'm afraid guatemala is right in the heart of it at unisa darkest green them not one degrees but at least the amount of rain you probably need to watch. cut down. and under pointed one of. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already

a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. in afghanistan billions of dollars of international aid have been donated to girls' education but where has the money gone when east meets girls desperate to learn and asks why is the system failing them on al-jazeera.

welcome back up your mind at the top stories in the news are donald trump and kim jong un have touched down in singapore ahead of the first of a top spot in a serving us president and a north korean leader hopes to win a legacy making deal it seems the full denuclearization of the korean peninsula. the german chancellor says the e.u. will respond in kind to us tariffs on european stephen alinea he was speech he was speaking after a chaotic g. seven summit in canada on the tram pulled out of a joint agreement he'd already signed white house advisers say it was because the canadian prime minister i think in bad faith diplomacy. and fire swept through a building which houses half of baghdad's ballot boxes from iraq's disputed parliamentary elections the prime minister described the blaze as a plot against democracy aliments had already demanded a nationwide recount and now the recalls a rerun of the may election. two hundred thousand people formed a human chain across spain's basque region calling for the right to decide whether they wish to be independent the country still dealing with the failed to session

bed from the catalonia region in october but it's called pennell reports on the doria people hope the new central government in madrid will be more sympathetic to their demands. already. it sounds a little sweet to be a protest song yet it is a call to be free. this demonstration in the basque region marks the start of a new bid for greater self rule or maybe even to break away from spain together. we've been calling for our rights for years and today is another chance to see that there's a significant percentage of citizens who want to vote and these type of putin. last month the armed separatist organization announced it was disbanding that you. peaceful campaign is the chance to draw a line between themselves now violent uprising which lasted decades these are the

last links in a human chain that stretches from here more than two hundred kilometers or one hundred twenty miles away right up to the border with france it wound along the highways and byways through one of the richest corners of spain the north-east basque region already has wide ranging devolved powers over health education and even taxation but some like quantrill of scores who came with his grandson dream of having their own country when. there are steps to be taken first self-government and so fraught and then independent i'm not sure what that will look for but it needs to recognise our people's progress an issue moment. sunday's event comes amid turbulent times the dispute over catalonia as attempt to declare independence from the rest of spain is far from over and earlier this month the central government in madrid was toppled by

a corruption scandal the incoming socialist administration has no majority no room to maneuver on key issues such as greater self rule for space various regions but among but organizers except it may be along the campaign on. different factors mean we're closing one chapter and beginning another you must base this new chapter on democratic values and the will of the people is seen in our status and often first. it's hard to see how government leaders in madrid would ever accept moves to carve up spain into independent states. but ask these basque demonstrators join together they chant the power in the future is in their hands karl penhall al jazeera victorious spain. protesters in ramallah demanding the palestinian authority lift sanctions against gaza saying they hurt both israelis and palestinians that cole and palestinian president mahmoud abbas to end

salary cuts for officials also demanded reconciliation between the west bank and gaza strip gaza suffering from a shortage of basic goods and electricity after israel cut its power supply by almost half. of his fourteen people have been killed after syrian government air strikes in a rebel held village warplanes struck the northern province of idlib in one of the so-called deescalation zones is thought to be in retaliation for rebel assaults on towns moyle to president bashar al assad activists say a truce agreement was respected and it lived for months until a government strike killed forty four people on friday. sixteen fighters have been killed and eleven others wounded in the eastern libyan city of dern are fighting has intensified between forces loyal to the renegade general hurley for have to our local fighters after us forces say they've taken control of about seventy five percent of the city would otherwise it is in tripoli. explosions

and the firing of bullets or at least sounds to be heard in there in the. street battles continue between forces loyal to any gay generally for hefted and that they're in a protection fighters a collection of groups which are against his control of eastern libya intense fighting in control of neighborhoods change from day to day. have his forces supported by the egyptian any united arab emirates air forces. have seized several districts red crescent or stuff in derna say they found nine and identified bodies and buried them in a mass grave the fighting has forced it thousands of civilians to leave the city some fear revenge attacks if there are no falls the red crescent says eighteen hundred families have been rescued during the last three days dozens of libyans colluding civilians have been killed since have to receive up the battle for there

now on may the seventh following two years of see huge mustache. and hospitals are desperately in need of medication first aid kits and blood packs especially after al had a shot spittle was targeted by a rocket or the medical staff left the hospital meaning the wounded people were left without medical care that didn't there is paralyzed schools hospitals and other vital infrastructure all damaged by fighting two years of siege by have to this forces to the city have taken toll on civilians food water and medical supplies are scarce have to accuses fighters in their honor of being terrorists the night that and say they have defeated eiseley in the area people fleeing there now say they are fed up with the war and want to return home as soon as possible no matter who the city in the future and who are rights advocates are planning to file

a lawsuit against after at the international criminal court for what they call crimes against humanity. tripoli the european union's foreign policy chief has announced twenty three million dollars in financial aid for jordan federica mazarine said the e.u. would continue investing in an ally and what she called the most heated and difficult part of the world comes as leaders from saudi arabia the united arab emirates and kuwait meet in the saudi city of mecca to discuss possible help for jordan's struggling economy the u.n. says a quarter of a million people are in extreme danger saudi led coalition forces prepare to take the yemeni port city of her data coalition warplanes and warships are attacking targets and u.a.e. led troops on just ten kilometers to the south and moving in full today reports. as the u.n. lobbies to stop a saudi led coalition assault on the who the rebel held port city of how data

regional rivalries do not matter for tens of thousands like the outdoor family their father ahmed is only worried about how to keep his six kids alive amid hasn't let them go to school since the worst outbreaks of defeats in color were recorded in the world hit his city the u.n. says hold data has the largest number of sick people in yemen with more than seventy percent of its population specially children at risk of malnutrition now i'm going to encase any of my children get sick they would have to stay here at home so i managed to borrow some money because i have almost nothing and the situation is difficult and life is not proper home for the of the family is a shanty made from sheets of corrugated iron and straw covered with plastic tarps and worn out blankets this situation in the port city has gone from bad to worse since the start of power struggle between the saudi backed and internationally

recognized government and iran back to the rebels. the who took the capital of sanaa in two thousand and fourteen pushing the government into exile a year later they took the strategically important port city of her data which has been the only source of relief supplies for millions. while the warring sides spent billions of dollars trying to take control of one of the region's poorest countries families like the up does struggle to find a few dollars a day for food the monastery and i make a living by writing a range of motion cycle there's no patrol now every day we need two dollars to be able to have food and water nearly nine million people are on the brink of starvation twenty two million out of the twenty eight million yemeni population are now in serious need of aid millions have been internally displaced and more than ten thousand people have already been killed now ahmed worries what an all out

attack on his city will mean yemeni government forces announced they were moving in on what data last year but they backed off after significant international pressure the u.n. is once again lobbying the warring sides to negotiate a cease fire it warns any tack on that port would have a catastrophic impact. al-jazeera. egypt's president. has agreed with ethiopia's prime minister ahmed to resolve the nile river dam dispute ethiopia is undertaking a four billion dollars hydroelectric project on the river which cairo says threatens its water security leaders say they'll work on an agreement to improve bilateral relations and increased investments in infrastructure. we have come a long way to achieve confidence and to enhance bilateral cooperation and we will continue and on his efforts in order to overcome any mutual challenges at the forefront is to reach

a final agreement over the renascence dams to secure egypt's use of water from the river nile which is indisputable because it is the only lifeline for egyptians and at the same time contributing to achieve ethiopia's development and prosperity. opposition supporters in the democratic republic of congo have declared their backing for more is could soon be the exiled opposition leader is seen as the main rival to president joseph kabila his seventeen years in power could end in the presidential election due in december john monahan reports. thousands gathered to hear the man they believe is the democratic republic of congo's best hope for change but moyes could tumbi hasn't set foot in the country for more than two years in this video message sent from exile he promised to unite the opposition and bring an end to the rule of longtime leader joseph. oh. this was a demonstration to everyone showing that moyes is alive and he's preoccupied with the situation of all congolese and also to say that we have

a project which can properly resolve all these problems we want to transform the congo and restore its greatness but also we want to unify the congolese people the support today about people is showing that we will overcome them. let the d.r. see in two thousand and sixteen when prosecutors accused him of hiring foreign mercenaries one month later he was sentenced to three years in prison for real estate fraud he denies all the charges against him as promising to return for a presidential run. president joseph kabila has ruled that the r.c. for seventeen years his term in office officially ended in december twenty sixth team but elections have been repeatedly delayed was brought forward protestors are accusing him of trying to hang on to power the constitution bars him from seeking a third term but could be still hasn't confirmed that he won't run again elections are now set for december but whoever emerges as leader will have major challenges to deal with more than

a million people have been forced from their homes in eastern province as the military battles armed groups the chaos has left nearly eight million people on the verge of starvation. the opposition are optimistic but there's still a great deal of uncertainty. will risk arrest to be returned home it's also still unknown it could be a will seek to hold on to power or if the election will be delayed once again since monohan how jazeera. tens of thousands of people have marched in britain to celebrate a hundred years since the first woman won the right to vote the suffragette movement campaigned for decades for women's rights using protest and direct action but in baba reports. a river of green white invite. the first letters of those colors used by the suffragette movement g w v signifying give women the vote one hundred years ago some british women finally got it and these women are remembering their struggle with a unique march in the u.k.

to national capitals edinburgh cardiff belfast and here in london community groups have been working with professional artists to create some are you catching bonus we commissioned a hundred artists each to work with a group that could be women imprisoned kids and schools. muslim women's federation sisters lots of different people you see behind me clean break here prison survivors of domestic violence so lots and lots of different organizations that we can rate a particular artist to go into factory to work with them to make a banner in a series of workshops they also explored the history of the suffragettes as well as the later fight for things like access to birth control some of these women were extremely radical women who were prepared to accept deeds not words and make decisions that perhaps nowadays might like pretty long. many of the themes are obvious. others less so and adequate

time to take workshops making the coming up with the parents the teacher coming up with the. idea well kids except that it defies description we're hoping because i think if if things come because supply is equally controlled the marches also saw homemade efforts and some definitely too young to vote came along to bear when. and together doing the. right to do something with my daughter. to take. with the women motion have come from all over england in the pan as they've made highlight a whole range of issues but what they're all doing is looking back to the achievements of the suffragettes and looking forward to a more equal future. and they're hoping the younger generations will be as bold as those who came before them with the or her.