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the high a tax on soybean imported from the us some of which is used for pig feet could ultimately drive up the price of domestic pork. but the tariffs could also hurt american farmers if china the u.s. is largest buyer of soybeans finds substitutes elsewhere u.s. president donald trump has been hammering china on trade for months with protection everybody take. a hundred fifty one billion dollars for the. child if you look at you just going to look at something and we have six countries militarily and. what point does it stop the u.s. tariffs target industries tied to china's made in china twenty twenty five a blueprint to dominate high technology industries they're also intended to punish the chinese for what the u.s. calls intellectual property theft and unfair trade practices one trade expert says a u.s. trade battle with china will impact global markets it creates instability. reduces
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particularly investment uncertainty for long term investors private business capital expenses and these types of things trumps summit in singapore may have strengthened his determination to act for years the u.s. looked to china to help restrain north korea but convinced he has built a relationship with north korean leader kim jong trump perhaps feels he's in a stronger position to be tougher on trade with china the trade war seems to have only just begun trump has threatened to slap taxes on more goods if china goes ahead with the tariffs chinese state media meanwhile says china has taken note of the statement and reserves its right to take corresponding measures torrence three hour jazeera beijing and mike hanna has more. well the trumpet ministration appears intent on pushing through this new round of tariffs despite deep concern being expressed by many within the united states soybean farmers for example deeply
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concerned their biggest market is china sixty percent of soy products goes from the us to china but to quote one example as well earlier this year washing machines a tariff was placed on washing machines by the trumpet ministration within two months that price of the machines had increased by twenty percent just an indication of how damaging trade sanctions can be to the country implementing it but there is some wiggle room all these new tariffs are only going to be implemented on july the sixth as well as the chinese to tariffs so there is still time for the parties to talk however it must be remembered u.s. treasury secretary steve newton has held a number of talks with his chinese counterparts at one stage he said a truce had been reached but clearly given the latest round of sanctions a truce would appear to be far away indeed. soon activists in the u.s.
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are traveling from coast to coast rallying support for more comprehensive gun control measures following a series of deadly school shootings robin also reports. who are months after seventeen of their classmates and teachers were gunned down the activists students of marjorie stoneman douglas high school are on the road. seeking support for gun control measures and showing solidarity with other young people victimized by gun violence all of us is no matter where you come from your community your economic background matter your voices are strong and in this movement every single voice no matter where it comes from. chicago was the first stop on the park when florida students nationwide bus tour through the city is one of the highest homicide rates in the u.s. and many children and teenagers have felt the trauma of gun violence firsthand.
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attending the rally at st sabina church on chicago's south side where native chicago and entertainers jennifer hudson will i am and former arizona congresswoman gabby giffords who was gravely wounded in an assassination attempt in two thousand and eleven these are scary. stories. sexism is. it is time to stand up for what's right it's time for her we must do something we must stop gun. is stolen douglas students are urging young people to register and vote in the midterm elections in november they want to oust congress members who oppose gun restrictions and receive campaign funds from the national rifle association. nation
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hah in the weeks following the february school attack the stoneman douglas students spearheaded a nationwide movement culminating in the massive march for our lives rally in washington d.c. . public opinion polls indicate only modest movement in favor of stricter gun laws president donald trump has paid lip service to preventing school shootings but has done nothing nor has the republican party controlled congress the portland student activists are not done they plan to visit seventeen states on their summer long bus tour with seventy five stops they call their journey the road to change rob reynolds al-jazeera. still had on al-jazeera. a surprise phrase expect a star that's coming up at chalons point. a
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man. on october the sixth one thousand nine hundred seventy three when muslims were observing ramadan and jews were celebrating young people. egypt and syria known to surprise war against israel. primitive so to get into this situation there's asked now in the first of the three part series al-jazeera expose what really happened during the first week of the war in october on al-jazeera. history is so often told through the eyes of leaders but in amritsar india just thirty kilometers from the border with pakistan this old building is being transformed into
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a new museum mallika ahluwalia is the driving force behind sars partition museum it's really shocking because if you think about the fact that within a few years of nine eleven happening on nine eleven museum was that and they are now numerous holocaust museum this is not beautiful i mean it's and so on she has it on the wall. have walked to memorialize these events that have shaped that partition is not about the political events that led up to partition it's about the impact on each person who went through it it's really important that we highlight the stories of humanity hopefully one outcome on this would be that we remember our shared humanity and the shared history. story generates thousands of headlines cooperation with different angles from different perspectives. russia was responsible for this separate
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from the facts that's why i own. the misinformation from the journalism. one. with the listening post on al-jazeera. the un works to end the crisis in the yemeni port city of data. and it. also coming up. greece's prime minister survives a no confidence vote prompted by another country's name. turned away from its three
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ships to bring more than six hundred refugees to spain on sunday. and we go inside a factory where children are being paid a dollar a day to make cigarettes. i began in yemen where u.n. envoy has arrived in the capital after talks of data griffiths wants to stop the battles between the iran backed with the fighters and government forces supported by the saudi and alliance is expected to propose that rebel scene control of the ports to a un supervised committee preg up to reports. what they're the international airport clearly damaged but the who these insist still very much in their hands that despite claims by the saudi. military coalition that they're now in control here i'm about this is the whole day the international airport today is the second
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day of. and the claims that they took control of the airport baseless they are just spreading lies and rumors. but if the saudi in every rotten led coalition is did control of the airport its forces aren't far away and ground. now the un special envoy to yemen martin griffiths has flown into the yemeni capital sanaa to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and heard there. the port city is a lifeline not only to the who these but to the entire yemeni population we are judged to war any fighting in the city of her data we want for peace to be employment that across the nation. we the residents of a data city want to live in peace and security we don't want war we don't want fighting of any kind enough is enough to solve the caller should want to tease to hand over control of the port either to
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a un supervised committee or yemen's government. the accused rebels of importing weapons from iran saudi arabia says it can seize the city quickly enough to avoid interrupting flows of aid to a party's proposed new humanitarian aid plans aiming to make sure the external humanitarian assistance can access human through her data. the saudi led proposal is a nonstarter and a suspicious of any attempts by the un envoy to broker peace. the war in yemen has already caused the world's worst humanitarian crisis and there are fears of course to come we are very fearful that any kind of blockage. of the free flow of humanitarian food also commercial stocks of particularly food and fuel could have
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a major impact on people who are already highly vulnerable as some of the middle east which is countries fight the region's poorest the u.n. special envoy is reinforcing the international appeals to stop the destruction priyanka fell. for mary as the norwegian refugee council spokesman any m. and he says most civilians can't afford to leave her data since yesterday morning there were lots of babies just flying over the city however it seems that this question made it to the city so we are really worried because of the population in the city that around six hundred sixty thousand people. most of the french that we should know that most of them there will not be there will not be able to leave the city they cannot afford to leave the city they don't have resources money to leave the city. we must protect their data also considered one of the one of the biggest
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. open additional needs done a quick emergency response in terms of food assistance clean water was also clear. creek of the stricken plea. we have to support those people unfortunately the. clashes of this coalition of which the city hundreds or thousands of people would be affected by the escalation. celebrations of a temporary peace between the afghan government and the taliban have been cut short by a car bomb attack at least twenty six people died when the certified last truck a gathering of taliban and afghan security officials in the east some province of dunga ha eisel says it was responsible for the attack to have a glass has more from kabul. a joyful site the taliban the afghan military together celebrating ied and the conflicts perced cease fire these taliban fighters
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came to the capital from wardak province afghan soldiers search them at the gates to the city there is a real sense of brotherhood the fighting set aside for now a time to revel in peace because according to some of the journalists here i woke up this morning and learned the taliban could go to the city without harm my heart is bursting with happiness because of this ceasefire. but they must not tell specialising what we are so happy because today is a celebration we gathered here happily with our brothers who have been unhappy for so long. as were the gathering spreads the crowds with afghans sensing this might be a turning point a moment in history. that we hope for a peaceful and stable afghanistan we must be proud of this peaceful moment and we hope it will last forever. the scene to repeat it in many provinces around afghanistan opponents coming together in a show of afghan solidarity raising hopes this is something that could last the
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wood the laid. out he walked in the because of the significant signs of peace in afghanistan and seeing the strong desire of afghans for peace i am announcing the extension of the ceasefire by afghan security and defense forces. the piece was shattered by an isis suicide bomber in eastern afghanistan killing and wounding three would come to reconcile a reminder it's more than just the taliban fighting here taliban fighters say there can be no peace in afghanistan until foreign forces leave the country the afghan president continues to try to bring the taliban to the negotiating table announcing the release of dozens of taliban prisoners and saying the government is willing to talk to the taliban any time anywhere jennifer glass al jazeera kabul at least four people have died and nineteen have been arrested in southern turkey after election campaign erupted into violent clashes began when
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a politician from president ruling party campaigned in a kurdish town near the syrian border state media says abraham does and his supporters came under attack from opponents armed with knives and sticks opposition groups say the politician security opened fire after he received a hostile welcome. after more than a week stranded at sea six hundred twenty nine migrants a jew to sail into the spanish port of valencia plight sparked international outcry when asleep denied their rescue ship access to its ports culpable reports from valencia. this will be the safe haven in of an odyssey. a key side of valencia activists are already preparing to greet the six hundred twenty nine migrants due to dock this weekend that they will this. are a nice to give a warm welcome to these people who have been passed around like a football europe is trying to turn
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a blind eye but we want to respect their rights and offer them a whole our land is their land. red cross teams offloaded food rations and hygiene kits the migrants will get a health check to be registered by police in the original cases especially pregnant women and children will head to hospital most will go to a shelter for a square meal in a clean bed. spain's red cross assists thousands of undocumented migrants each year. for them in the us some of you have to understand this is a huge drama these are people who need help and we must find a solution for people who are just like you and me cannot be floating around for days without knowing where they're going in these conditions they just had the bad luck to be born in a place with more complicated political or social situations. volunteers of volunteers food bank. something for every hungry mouth regardless of religion
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or dietary requirements the charity already feeds ten thousand of the city's neediest each week and says there's plenty to go round for a few hundred more. found a high miss grew up in an orphanage himself and he's passionate about helping those less fortunate. but in view of the real people in valencia are kind and want to stranger arrives we ask them to sit at our table and so i'd like to say welcome and that they will get our love and support you've come from a far and had a tough time but now it's time to sit down and share with us. the spanish government says those landing this weekend will be processed like other asylum seekers no preferential treatment these migrants may still face a rocky road ahead based on last year's figures spanish or foreign likely to grant refugee status to only one third of the new arrivals the others could get right
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back to where they came from. this may be journey's end for a lucky few but it's just another chapter in the ebb and flow of europe's unresolved migration crisis call pinhole al-jazeera the lindsey of spain. greece's government has survived a no confidence vote in parliament over a deal to change the name of its northern neighbor in macedonia but as alexis a press have been accused of making too many concessions for the dail which will be signed on sunday macedonia will not change its name to the republic of north macedonia and a twenty seven year dispute with greece john threw up last reports from athens. i think evening ended in acrid smoke and acrimony protesters who tried to enter the parliament compound were met with tear gas that sent hundreds of peaceful demonstrators running for cover some were overwhelmed as what had begun with a crowd which included children and the elderly ended with rights the government
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has agreed to allow the former yugoslav republic of macedonia to call itself northern macedonia but that's not what the opposition finds most dangerous our main objections not the about them the name it's about the macedonian language in the dunny a nationality that it's been recognized by this name. and this is not an acceptable from the for the greek people it's something that nobody in the past has been there except that there is no much the language and there is no much the nation the government says the agreement recognizes only a macedonian nationality not an ethnicity haling back her legs under the great but people here feel the finer points of law won't be respected in pathnames can much matter when these macedonians travel abroad are they really going to introduce themselves saying i'm in macedonia and of slavic background and my language is slavic and i really have nothing to do with alexander the great these things a difficulty guarantee why didn't they pick another name like america for example
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with greece lifting its veto on nato's invitation to northern macedonia next month many people believe the deal will be irreversible many greeks feel that if they give in and the other side will take a mile they don't trust the northern neighbors to shut their. claims on greek heritage and territory and once their leverage is gone it's gone forever so they are unhappy that the government has rushed into what they see as a bad agreement the government says the agreement is the best possible following greek blunders and inertia going back decades and could lead to good things yeah mash eventually mush for us this government the priority of our national judy is to develop the role of greece in the regions to escape the crisis and to head towards growth in line with the whole.
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