promises that greece will invite the former yugoslav macedonia to join nato next month for the nato summit even though that invitation is conditional. on the former yugoslav macedonia ratifying everything in parliament or a referendum and passing constitutional amendments when the time comes for final ratification and full access into nato if every other member of nato has abandoned the greeks on this and has gone ahead and done so without the lesser of this agreement being on in the north then the greeks will be isolated within nato and it will be politically very expensive for them to hold that position for very long they will effectively be surrounded they will be the ones in the minority within nato not the northern macedonians that is the concern that scenario is the concern of the conservative opposition who said that once you've issued this letter of invitation conditional or not you've effectively allowed them in and it is

a going to be extremely difficult should they really need on obligations to dislodge them. in yemen saudi and u.a.e. coalition airstrikes have targeted data international airport and the campaign to seize control from who the rebels now five days of finding new yemen's main seaport as cut off an important aid delivery route unfolds thousands of just to escape. gupta reports. put it 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 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 they're gaining ground. now the un special envoy to yemen martin griffiths has flown into the yemeni capital sanaa to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in her there. the port city is a lifeline not only to the who these but to the entire yemeni population we are just the 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 this all the a democratic led coalition want to tease to hand over control of the port either to 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. 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 worse to come we are very fearful that any kind of blockage. of the free flow of humanitarian food also commercial stocks particularly food and fuel could have a major impact on people who are already highly vulnerable as some of the middle east's richest countries fight the region's poorest the u.n. special envoy is reinforcing the international appeals to stop the destruction

practical al-jazeera. the oscar winning actress and u.n. special envoy angelina jolie has visited the iraqi city of mosul to meet families left destitute after the defeat of ice old the old group was pushed to a list a year ago it was willful three years to get into a stronghold of the so-called caliphate this is the worst devastation i've seen in all my years that you need to see our these people have lost everything and the trauma and the loss that they have suffered is unparalleled they're here on their own with very little support next to nothing and they're rebuilding themselves with their bare hands they're moving the rubble with their bare hands and their bodies in this rubble that stay here and you can smell the bodies and some of them have family members that are here and they're unable to move them . we're just getting news in from afghanistan that there has been

a blast where ten people are being killed it's the second attack apparently in the province and now in twenty four hours that the incident occurred. near the office of the governor the t.v. station is also nearby and it comes after and eisler time in the same province that killed thirty six people on saturday still ahead here on al-jazeera is getting support from young voters but will not be enough to starve or petro to become colombia's first left wing president. political backlash grows as the u.s. continues to separate migrant children from their parents. welcome

back across northeastern parts of asia we've got a frontal system which is clearing out into the syfy but it's going to link back further towards parts of japan so we could well see some rain developing at times across some of the southern islands generally areas of low pressure across this region so the tail of cloud and that low system is going to be pushing up across southern parts of japan cheer in the course of monday and on into tuesday so you could see some rain develop in tokyo before that rain clears later on choose day at that stage frontal system across northeastern parts of china into the far east of russia beijing should be drive visibility still pretty decent further towards the south i would like to be seen some rain for shanghai the across more southeastern parts of china it's looking pretty white i think hong kong just on the edge of this rain band so i think showers will always be threatening you could see some rain at times certainly for taiwan it could be very wet indeed with the rest possibly of some landslides as a result of that heavy rain for much of indo china looking rather cloudy still a threat of showers but pretty warm and humid there four hundred for southeastern

parts of asia it's looking pretty good across much of borneo java bali plenty of sunshine but up through the late clincher and into the gulf of thailand reaching some heavy showers and likely it could well be a wet one in bangkok with highs here of thirty two degrees celsius. i don't miss it when i was a kid. was a pleasure and oppression which is one thing i always found about slavery i told in the living room. but i had to pick out one player who's made the difference to me gee i have to write music. to make things happen people can make things change you know thank you for touring embrace on al-jazeera world.

welcome back you're watching officer arms the whole rom the reminder of our top stories the migrant carrying ship aquarius as docked at the spanish quarter valencia a week after its early and malta turned it away it's the second of three boats carrying hundreds of people who are seeking asylum the third and final ship is set to arrive in the coming hours. a preliminary name change and good grievance being signed on the border between greece and macedonia it will become the republic of north macedonia both parts of my approve the deal which is fiercely opposed by nationalists. saudi and the eco strikes have targeted yemen's or data international airport in their campaign to seize control from heathy rebels five

days of fighting near yemen's main seaport has cut off an important date to delivery routes and forced thousands to escape. colombians will choose their next president in a runoff election on sunday the choice is between conservative candidate ivan to decay and his left wing rival gustavo petro petro has to tackle inequality but some fear the guerrilla turned politician could turn colombia into another venezuela and the galahad reports from bogota. petro has captured the imagination of colombia's young voters his stance on tackling inequality reducing reliance on carbon fuels and ending the status quo of right wing politics appeals to a new generation eager for change it's sort of all got to get it's time to end two hundred years of the same families governing us this is the chance for free citizenship and equality for all i think is the only candidate that has a long term vision for our country when it comes to fighting climate change and

creating a modern liberal democracy no stranger to politics gustavo petro is a former member of the nineteen rebel group four years ago he became the mayor of bog atop one of the most powerful political positions in the country his tenure was marred by controversy critics say autocratic style was abrasive a supporter of the historic peace accords with the far rebels this intellect of the left has emerged as a real contender. whatever happens gustavo president has the distinction of being the most successful leftist candidate in this country's history he does however face some stiff opposition particularly from those in the business community say a petro presidency could lead to economic ruin. so when we meet mario hernandez at his factory in bogota he's enthusiastically handing out caps emblazoned with the name of petros opponent even ducking and mendez is one of the biggest manufacturers in colombia like many in the business community he's concerned that petros policies

are antibusiness. i don't know what he hears against the productive class he wants to tikal land found to be gone and give a small plots of land to farmers that's not how you run the country you have to generate employment doxies and consumption. to winnow through needs the support of undecided voters like artist gabrielle or sanchez she's leaning towards the fifty eight year old and tells us she's feeling pressure to decide i've seen it in this social media. so people all the time say if you vote for. people like this. and a lot of hate. for decades colombia's forty against leftist guerrillas now one is a leading presidential candidate with a chance of shaping this country's future and together. colombia. and hausler nicaragua as competent have killed at least eight people shattering

a shoulder of truce between president i will take a and protesters who want him gone among those killed and when i go with six members of the same family including two young children paul today as well. police in managua say a group of hooded men threw a fire bomb into this house. a family of six killed in the fire included two children medics failed to resuscitate. my two cousins survived one was burned and the other was hit she fell onto the balcony she was thrown and glass toward my body my hands my head as we got out of here he got out by for his neighbors assisted firefighters and dousing the blaze while helping survivors escape from the balcony they say police surrounded the house and burned it after the owner refused to let them place a sniper on the roof to guard a nearby checkpoint. you see the owners had nothing to do with this they were christian people in the policeman if the porch they wanted to burn the house and

they managed to burn it police say they will investigate the cause of the fire. protests began two months ago after a decision by president daniel ortega to cut pensions. ortega's critics say the former revolutionary leader is running a corrupt government protesters want him to step down and the government to implement democratic reforms the opposition really won't be happy with anything less than a premature departure from the presidency of ortega human rights groups say at least one hundred seventy mostly young people have been killed since mid april and confrontations between heavily armed soldiers and demonstrators armed with rocks and slingshots. protesters are calling on ortega's government to end the violence which the president blames on foreign agitators and drug cartels the latest violence flared hours after troops have been signed between the government and

civic groups right now there's no external institution no internal. real leadership that can bring about a change here who does one leg name in the president has yet to respond to demands by the catholic church for early elections ortega's third term as head of one of the poorest countries in the americas is set to end in two thousand and twenty one the violence meanwhile has splintered the country between loyalists and protesters slowing down towards them investments and grinding the country's economy to a halt culture durgin on al-jazeera the us president has used his weekly address to blame rival democratic party politicians for all closing loopholes that allow gang members into the country donald trump says the democrats of protecting immigrant criminals connected to violent groups like and miss thirteen his administration has adopted a zero tolerance policy for immigrants crossing the border illegally and it's

something particular criticism for separating children from parents is that detained castro has more from washington d.c. . facing mounting criticism over his new policy of separating children from their parents who are caught crossing the border illegally president donald trump sought to offer another justification for his so-called zero tolerance policy saturday the president says this policy which aims to criminally prosecute every adult caught crossing the border without authorization is a deterrence for keeping central american gay members out of the united states just weeks ago and a legal mess thirteen gang member was arrested for allegedly murdering a man and burning his body the gang member reportedly edgard our country through glaring loopholes for unaccompanied alien minors the

democrats allow those loopholes to be there they could change him so easily but they don't want to do that for strictly political reasons democrats say the immigration system needs to be fixed but taking children away from their parents is not part of the answer the trouble ministration separated nearly two thousand children from their parents in the first six weeks of the zero tolerance policy the kids are being held in privately run detention centers like this one in california this is video shot and released by the government reporters were allowed to briefly tour the facility but were banned from taking pictures or speaking with the children. old is there a seen her children in bangladesh some barely at school age all being paid a dollar a day to make cigarettes human rights groups the government to enforce child labels but that's difficult because the children's families are so poor they rely on the

earnings as a voice for triples. this is a cigarette manufacturing factory in bangladesh but there are a few if any machines working. al-jazeera secretly filmed these pictures the reason the factory owner refused to spy mission to film is because of the children working here the bangladesh government says it's doing all it can to crack down on child labor but there is little evidence of that in this factory. some of the children making these cheap cigarettes non-locally is beauty's look barely ten years old. but the money they earn helps their families survive many children work at home making the paper choose which is sent to the factory to be filled with tobacco they get around forty cents for every three thousand chooks the average wage is around a dollar a day fifteen year old was some of the sheets a cartoon who works with her younger brothers and sisters making babies four days

a week. but unlike many others in the industry she also goes to school a guy's got a bar we work to help our family this is how we survive my parents taught me this line of work at a very young age i don't like doing it you have to sit in the same position and work long hours we don't even make that much money. according to the bangladesh labor law the minimum legal age for employment is fourteen united nations children's agency unicef says in force mode is difficult because of where most of the children work in small factories workshops from home all the big global. people there should be a different choice of jobs for these people other than the tobacco industry they are at least two million people working nationwide in this sector this should be alternative employment opportunities provided by government for all these workers then we ourselves have been willing to shut down this sector. but in the dishes

finance minister has repeatedly called for the beauty factories about one hundred twenty of them to be closed down. a recent study by the human rights organization praga focused on nine factories it found around fifteen thousand of the twenty one thousand workers with children some as young as four years old child stratford al-jazeera. you what you are just there i'm still robin these are all top news stories three ships carrying refugees arrived in the spanish port city of el and syria this is the scene live where the third ship has just arrived within the last half of the immigrants had been turned away from by italy and well to i spent more than a week in the mediterranean. a potentially historic name changing deal has been signed on the border between greece and macedonia it will become the republic of north macedonia if both parliaments approve the deal which is fiercely opposed by

nationalists the greek government won a no confidence motion in parliament before the deal was signed. that issue of are now done up to shine your toes him out by signing the final agreement for a settlement of the name dispute and for a strategic partnership between our two countries indeed we have moved mountains at times when many voiced their doubts we have proven that yes it can be done it is possible today we are putting an end to a dispute we are putting an end to a years long difference that has risen a wall that has burdened the friendly relations between neighbors and some breaking news coming out of afghanistan at least ten people are being killed in a second attack in one gar province in the last twenty four hours now the incident occurred near the office of the governor and a local t.v. station it comes after an isolator in the same province killed thirty six people on saturday because of all of those stories on our website at al jazeera dot com that was the news from al-jazeera about more news in half an hour next elizabeth piron

is here with inside story to stay with us. on the brink of a trade war china and the united states the world's two biggest economies beijing hits back at donald trump's new tab so what has america first approach backfire and what will it mean for global trade this is inside story.

and welcome to the program the pradhan the last ten years so i'm up to prove much in trade between the united states and china but the battle of the tariffs is threatening that and there are fears of an all out trade war the us has fifty billion dollars worth of chinese imports the president says he wants a fairer trade with china but beijing's five back with a tit for tat response it's published a list of more than six hundred american products it plans to hit with its own taxes is it a case of who blinks first of this economic brinkmanship we'll talk to our guests in a moment but first laws louis reports from beijing. tit for tat that's one way to describe the first shot in what's brewing to be a tariff war between the world's two largest economies the us struck first with a twenty five percent tax on certain chinese imports worth fifty billion dollars china's counterpunch an announcement that six hundred fifty nine types of u.s.

goods also worth fifty billion dollars will be subject to tariffs the first round comes into effect on the sixth of july and affects products ranging from soybean to seafood to costs there china feels like it's been the strong it's at the strongest point that it's been in hundreds of years it feels like it's ascendant and so it's not likely to back out. some of the terrorists will likely bite chinese consumers 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 buy of soybeans find substitutes elsewhere u.s. president donald trump has been hammering china on trade for months for the protection everybody takes us to be appearing in a one hundred fifty one billion dollars enough for us to get the work that i told you that china if you look at japan the shelf going to look at something and we

help these countries militarily and have a serious but 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 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 uncertainty reduces particularly investor 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. look 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 florence three hour jazeera beijing. the well let's have a look at the amount of trade between the u.s. and china last year goods and services were worth a total of seven hundred eleven billion dollars china was the third largest market for u.s. exports and all time high u.s. exports to china were worth one hundred thirty billion dollars while u.s. imports from china exceeded five hundred billion so the difference of the trade deficit was also a record high of three hundred and seventy billion well let's bring in our guests now joining us from london is philip le grain political economist and former special advisor to the director general of the world trade organization and beijing is on the tangan china political analyst who advises the chinese government on

economic and development issues and from birmingham in the united kingdom is scott lucas professor of american politics at the university of birmingham a very warm welcome to all of you mr tang and let me start with you you know president make so much of this trade deficit hadn't one of the biggest reasons for imposing these terrorists but is that as simple or even as big as he's making it out to be. well is he seems to have a very poor understanding of what deficits are he keeps insisting that he has a deficit with canada when in fact that is not true and in terms of china it is not as simplistic as he things there are over three hundred fifty billion dollars a year that are is being sold and trying to but produced in china by u.s. companies that is also under threat when you start putting it all together what you have is actually a very early even trade balance china has only about ten billion dollars worth of things that it produces in the u.s. and sells in the u.s.

so it's not going to be this one sided idea that he has that he can sort of force doing this this kind of bully playground idea plus remember he is not only at war with china he's at war with the e.u. and in mexico as well as a host of other nations including russia mr crane i know that you've written extensively about this is the trade deficit as black and white says donald trump seize it. well i mean he seems to see a trade deficit as somehow a loss of american inc which it isn't in the main reason and he seems to see it as a sign of that other trade unfairly and that's not necessarily true either i mean the main reason why the u.s. has a trade deficit is because it doesn't save enough and that is something which is own irresponsible fiscal policy is only going to make it worse and in terms of the

trading relationship or one of the reasons why there is such a big trade with the u.s. which big trade deficit with china according to official figures is because there are many parts and components which are assembled into finished products in china and then shipped to the u.s. and therefore the trade is this thinks they count as an entirely chinese exports but in the case for example of the i phone which is merely assembled in china the value added actually comes from china is roughly about six percent and that's an extreme example but it tells you actually the deficit is smaller than he says it is more importantly in a bilateral trade deficit with china in and of itself is not a is not a problem mr lucas let me bring you in now the u.s. administration you know also says as well as the trade deficit that the tabs are in effort to protect american intellectual property that china is stealing is china stealing american intellectual property and if so are these tariffs

a way to address that issue. well i the question about and watch for probably is a long running issue it predates the trump administration and the question is when china has american companies that operate is it in some white taking information from them learning about practices learning about technology is it doing the same by trying to get into america and by some means getting technology from u.s. companies but there is a proper way for addressing that which is for example through the world trade organization there is a proper way for addressing that indeed in talks with the chinese let's be very clear here the trumpet of the stray ssion is only using information. or intellectual property as sort of an excuse this is not a policy driven by that as much as it is by political considerations and by trump's misunderstanding fundamental misunderstanding about how economic trade works and i do want to talk about the political implications that is going to have nationally

for donald trump especially in a year when there's mid-term elections coming up but mr tang and let me come to you now is this i mean they were talks with the chinese government with the trade representatives before donald trump announced that he would go ahead with these tariffs so why didn't why wasn't anything resolved in those talks do you think. well there's a number of theories about that and one of them is that trump is using it's basically sucking all the oxygen out of the air by dropping these media bombs on a weekly basis to keep the press attention away from some of the investigations and ongoing lawsuits that he seems to be embroiled in it is certainly working from the perspective that his approval rating is high the american public likes president who appears to be doing things that seem very very strong i don't know if they'll feel the same way when farmers and manufacturers start going out of business or

losing it remember every time you institute one of these tariffs on things coming in the u.s. you're just simply raising the cost of doing business and american products become competitive and this is of course going to have an impact mist and a grain u.s. trade representative robert life has a said that they hope that this leads to further negotiations and not a rash reaction from china we've already seen the reaction so how likely is more negotiations and not a so-called rash reaction. well i mean this trade war has been on then of and now it's on again the negotiations of started a deal seem to have been reached and then trump overruled his treasury secretary these tires won't be imposed the first francia to the states is a lie and it's quite possible that before then some kind of deal will be reached i mean i think the big problem is that trump is so erratic you know he says one thing

and then the next day says another there's very little incentive for anyone actually to negotiate history with him why make any kind of concession if either a he'll go back on it the next day or be. asking for more very soon so i think that what what's much more likely now is that we're going to see an escalation and you know the chinese have time on their side they can afford to buy their time ultimately trump faces difficult midterm elections later in the year he faces a difficult reelection in twenty twenty the chinese don't face obviously electoral pressure and they can afford to suck up the pressure and just and allow him to wear him self out mr lucas do you think that if these the policies have a negative impact on american people if they drive up costs for american consumers manufacturers then could this backfire politically for donald trump do you think.

oh it could but we're talking about the trump administration already donald trump on a tight rope here and that is that the american economy right now as well as much of the global economy is actually doing quite well i disagree a bit with i are in the sense that i don't think it's leading to an overwhelming surge in approval for trump i think it's more that with his base of supporters who are a minority maybe thirty thirty five percent in america it gives them something to shout about we're still doing well we can take on anybody china canada and when but if the economy goes down before november if the terrorists begin to buy before november that of course that advantage erodes i think the gamble here is by trump and his advisors is look we may suffer from the tariffs but if it doesn't occur so for the next six months we're ok because we can ride this into the elections most of the brain how long do tariffs like this take before you see of.