peanut butter have also been hate so too has american dead in u.s. companies have enjoyed major growth in europe in recent years but many smaller companies fear their products will now become too expensive to export. the e.u. is responding to donald trump's decision earlier this month to introduce tariffs of twenty five percent on european steel and ten percent on alimony a trump said the measures are meant to protect national security interests e.u. commission president jiang called junker said the move makes no sense to trade to believing it's cost. too much at stake the decision to push tariffs goes against it in fact it goes against the logic at least. the e.u. says is also identified another four billion dollars in u.s. products for further tariffs if the world trade organization court where it's lodged a complaint against the u.s. rules in the e.u.

favor the european union is carefully steering clear of the expression trade war largely over fears about where these tit for tat measures could end up instead the e.u. is referring to it as a rebalancing measure still this is about making as much noise as possible about sending a symbolic message to the white house by targeting some of america's most iconic brands donald trump said he's now considering introducing twenty percent tariffs on european cars but analysts say anything further measures against the e.u. could harm the u.s. produces in the long run. it's not something smart enough not to go too far he knows very well that if you start the tradable the american pharmacy voted him will be up in arms when they see where we can call isn't selling as well globally as it was before. but damage may already have been done the use now looking for alternative markets in australia and new zealand major producers of beat wheat and

corn putting longstanding trade ties between the us and e.u. under mounting strain. al-jazeera london. they want yards their life in london still coming up on the program there were hugs on day one but south sudan has now told rebel leader rick mitchell it's had enough his peace told bring down. and how saudi arabia and iran reach compromise aver decision to boost all production. how the showers in georgia and turkey are becoming like and like to this to rhyme but that's the only relief from the heat now typically come to the south of that and it's just the breeze with high twenty's on the coast the mediterranean high thirty's inland in iraq and in most of iran of course is

a federal breeze which is quite a dusty one running as far as iraq security and beyond in the gulf it's a fairly strong doesn't change the temps you very much just brings the dust in through riyadh across two was bothering you think it would go all the way south if that's the southwest monsoon affects the armani coast and we just started to her before she was probably be in iraq move more in the night for the next two three months which means cloudy drizzly stuff particularly in salalah the lower temperature southern africa should be drawing and fine and to be honest this is a satellite picture you're looking at spot the clouds there all that many so for cost wise you'd expect not much change and you'd be right by day he's breezy in the western cape cape town sixteen degrees temperatures typically in the low twenty's at best buy a sunny day now there is a possibility of some writing rain returning to the western cape but you know it's it's a very small about everything it's all. on

counting the cost a stronger dollar spells trouble ahead for developing market economies digital addicks we look at how the tech industry uses human psychology plus the fight for control of libya's oil prices. counting the cost on i'll just. get a reminder of the top stories here and how it is there and some of the migrant children

separated from their parents at the u.s. mexican border in recent weeks have been reunited with their families still appears to be confusion among government agencies on how to unite thousands of other families. the u.n. human rights office says the rule of law in venezuela is virtually absent the report is detailed more than five hundred killings carried out by government forces which have gone uninvestigated and unpunished. donald trump is threatening to impose a twenty percent tariff on all the e.u. call imports it's a retaliation to the european union's decision to impose a three point two billion dollars worth of judaism hundreds of u.s. goods. peace talks between south sudan's government and the opposition have broken down after two days of closed door meetings in ethiopia new dates have been set for more talks but the differences between the two sides suggest that a deal will be difficult to achieve even morgan as this report. it was their

first meeting in nearly two years when president salva kiir and opposition leader rick machar last met in found sudan's capital juba the talks ended in failure and renewed fighting between the sides this meeting a neutral ground offered hope of a breakthrough in the conflict but it broke up without any agreement after two days there is no. i or how. this tragic humanitarian crisis after or how many arguments. before. the journey we have is delivering on the commitment to us and. in those agreements the children who have been having is one of leadership and political with. the civil war in faster than began in twenty thirteen when president kiir accused his then deputy my char of attempting to kill tens of thousands of people have been killed and a third of the country's twelve million population has been displaced

a peace deal in ten to fifteen so much our return to his position but that lasted for barely three months before fighting resumed now machar as opposition leader is demanding a return to his post and with his own army south sudan's government says working with him is not an option we are no longer as a government for the two armies the opposition are for the two armies and this is not a supplement this is a red line to the government as the people of south sudan not the president alone but other people are saying enough is enough and if he wants to be the president he should wait for elections seven million people in south sudan are facing starvation after five years of conflict they are desperate for peace but each new round of talks doesn't appear to be bringing back any closer. people morgan al-jazeera. donald trump's son and lauren sr. has met israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu

in jerusalem they've been discussing the israel palestine peace process and the ongoing tensions in gaza palestinian leaders are unlikely to meet with rank on has more now from west jerusalem. special advisor and special envoy jason green lots of concluded their meetings here in israel they met at the prime minister's office it's been part of a whistle stop tour of the middle east which is seen them go to the arab allies saudi arabia jordan and egypt to talk about what's likely to be a perceived or proposed rather peace plan for the israelis and the palestinians now we say likely no details been given as to what this peace plan might include other than donald trump saying it's the deal of the century and that's what they've been working on the reason for these meetings with arab allies is to likely try and persuade the arab allies to buy into this peace plan and then present it to the israelis who also the u.s.

wants to get a buy in from as well and then present it to the world but what's missing from all of this is the palestinians and palestinians say that the u.s. isn't an honest broker anymore that it's on the side of the israelis because it recognizes jerusalem as the capital of israel so the palestinians on involved in any way shape or form with this peace plan so what does that mean well it means the likelihood of the peace plan going through is quite slim considering the palestinians aren't involved but let's see what happens when they try and present the u.s. try to present the peace plan to the world what sort of reaction they'll get and this is really what we're hearing is this being discussed when is the right time to reveal this so-called deal of the century this proposed peace plan for israel and palestine. the man who claims to be the leader of all you saw in indonesia has been sentenced to death for his involvement in a series of bombings judges say that rahman who's been in prison since two thousand and ten mastermind of the attacks from his cell reports now from jakarta. security

was tight for the verdict at the court in south africa hundreds of police and soldiers were on guard among a black man was convicted of planning a gun and bomb attack on a starbucks coffee shop in two thousand and sixteen. in which four civilians were killed and four other attacks he was in a maximum security prison at the time but use mobile phones and the internet to spread his teachings and the men who carried out the attacks visited him in prison beforehand. therefore sentencing a man rahman alias abdul rahman with the death penalty. last month more than thirty people died including the bombers in a series of suicide attacks at churches and at a police station in the city of. families with young children carrying suicide belts were held responsible police have said they were members of month's group

jemaah. a d about the may month. there is fear among police that this verdict could become a trigger for revenge attacks by sympathizers who are not really involved in j.t. but can operate as lol bulls who have been soft radicalized. more than four hundred suspected members of j a d have been arrested since the beginning of the year this verdict is not only seen as a strong message to those involved in para tax in indonesia but also to their ideological leaders to counter terrorism laws have recently been revised to make it easier to prosecute those inciting violence but above all this case has put the spotlight on in loonies yes present system notoriously lacking security firm filner was injured during the attack at starbucks judges decided to say compensation should be paid to him and out of victims of attacks but not as much as they wanted to becoming more at ease with this situation this is just a time factor and. the time heals the wounds and the memories

of the past. the closure will come more because of the decision by the judges or the panel of churches to grant compensation and thereby contributing to the closure than the actual conviction. in court. down and kissed the ground after the verdict was read out he said he won't appeal step fossum al-jazeera jack after. the opec group of oil producing countries has agreed to a modest increase in production after saudi arabia persuaded its arch rival iran to cooperate it is a change in the policy of the last eighteen months which had seen the fourteen countries cap their output major oil consumers had been calling for increased production to prevent shortages and rising prices paul brennan is that the meeting in vienna coming into this there were two distinct camps within the opec grouping

there was saudi arabia with the opec member russia which wanted to increase production of oil by between one point five million barrels a day to one point eight million barrels a day essentially to plug a shortfall in supply that's predicted by the end of this year but in the other camp was iran and a couple of its allies venezuela among them who were concerned that the drop in the price of oil that that would create the extra pumping would hit them hard they're already going to be hit in iran for example is going to be hit by u.s. sanctions the last thing we need is a double whammy of dropping oil prices to coming into this there is a very real prospect of a rift in the last couple of days there was then a glimmer of compromise in what appeared to come up with is a rather elegant. compromise deal which which answers both they're going to pump extra oil but only to fill the shortfall that's been created by the market conditions at the moment and in effect opec is overcompensating or has done rather

better than it is expected to do at limiting production and so by pumping extra oil it actually brings it back to the status quo that it originally committed to do back in twenty sixteen thereby both sides it seems are happy but the devil's going to be really in the detail. now turkey's president reza toppled one will face his biggest electoral challenge on sunday when historic parliamentary and presidential elections get underway and called the vote early hoping to seize on his popularity but you know position is gaining ground in just a moment but first the tour again be explains the voting process no than fifty nine million turks will vote in the elections and for the first time they'll be selecting both new members of parliament and a president turnout is traditionally high it was eighty five percent in the last parliamentary elections in november twenty fifth this time around though tng will

be held under a state of emergency which was imposed after the twenty sixteen failed coup in kurdish areas in the southeast this means some people will have to travel long distances to vote because the government has moved polling stations for security reasons meanwhile turkey's main opposition party say they plan to deploy more than half a million monitors across the country to prevent possible her old candidate sam parties have been campaigning on a range of issues but it's the downturn in the economy this dominating the headlines well turkey's so positions as it turned a half million people turned out for a rally in the city of his mirror on thursday when her arm in jail is seen as the most serious opposition challenger to the president but other candidates are climbing up the polls despite getting hardly any attention in turkey's mainstream media but it's myth is in istanbul. just put a thought in the chaos and crush of

a turkish election campaign there must always be time to stop for the national. i i. i. i this is meryl action and she's a presidential candidate from a nationalist opposition party called or good party. for all the opposition parties street campaigning is one of the few ways they have to get their message across the ruling party dominates television coverage which is trusted as a source of news more by turks and social media or newspapers according to recent surveys i don't like it or not yahoo i've only been interviewed five times action are says she got twelve minutes of television time last month according to turkey's t.v. watchdog. in comparison the governing party our president reggie uptight thirty one got sixty seven hours the main opposition c.h.p.

was given seven hours to get out of buskers a realtor were under so much pressure we can only express our views this way we have no media access it's totally one sided. so the rights campaign on the street is fiercely defended here a local deal but no loud music would be played crumbled when the a.k.p. brought in a van blaring songs about. so the c.h.p. called in its own bands. while the pro kurdish h.t.t.p. down stay in opposition when it is the other day that. we can get into millions of prunes a variety so we do it on the streets by looking into the people's eyes by touching them. here we just tell everyone how it is with no exaggeration and we're telling them just the truth in our project. all the opposition parties know they have

little chance of unseating president but they also know polls suggest that his ruling ak party might lose its parliament to majority and even forced into a second round runoff for the presidency. that they feel is worth shouting now about sixty seven percent of the electorate have yet to decide how are they going to vote according to the latest polls but that's about three and a half million people and in a race as tight as this every vote. but it's about al-jazeera it's double. every couple headlines here a non-zero and the u.s. government is continuing to be criticized for its treatment of migrant children despite saying it's ending the practice of separating them from their parents at the border still a lot of confusion about how government agencies will get families back together this course my mother was back with a young son baltimore's airport on friday after more than

a month apart but only after she filed a lawsuit she says other immigrant mothers like her must fight for their children. all of that. i'm very happy to found my son i'm very happy and thankful especially to college i started crying when i saw him because he is the only son that i have nobody will separate of again i don't regret coming here i'm proud to have made it to this country the united nations says the rule of law is virtually absent in venezuela the u.n. high commissioner for human rights says government forces are cracking down on protesters with almost total impunity and five hundred five killings apparently not being investigated or punished properly. yemen's rebels say they may be willing to consider hand they have a management of her date as port to the united nations that's according to the reuters news agency meanwhile international rights groups say that yemen's warring parties are structuring crucial aid that enters the country via the port thousands

of civilians have already fled the fighting seeking safety in the capital sana talks between south sudan's president salva kiir and opposition leader have broken up without agreement on wednesday the two rivals met for the first time in two years in addis ababa new dates have been set for more talks but the differences between the two sides suggest that a deal will be difficult to achieve. the apec group of oil producing countries agreed to a modest increase in production after saudi arabia persuaded its arch rival iran to cooperate it's a change in the policy over the last eighteen months which had seen the fourteen countries cap output. here as president donald trump is threatening to impose a twenty percent tariff on all e.u. car imports unless it lifts its trade barriers earlier the e.u. imposed a billion dollars worth of jew cheese on hundreds of u.s.

goods in retaliation to u.s. steel an outlet minion tariffs imposed in june. that europe's they had lines inside story around it. motorbikes orange juice and whiskey the e.u. strikes back at the u.s. with terrorists targeting republican states bringing us closer to an all out trade war so how will this dispute hanged and will it mean a change to the global trade system this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm a dentist now it's the latest round in a looming trade war on friday the european union impose three point surgery billion dollars worth of tiris on u.s. goods now it's a direct response to recently impose u.s. tariffs on imported steel and. european leaders try to change president trump's mind about tyrus during the recent g. seven summit in canada that meeting your remember didn't go down well at all in with the new round of e.u. levies now taking hold relations seem destined to become even more tense we'll get to our guests in just a moment but first neve baka sets up a discussion from london. the e.u. has described the decision to slap tariffs on almost three billion dollars worth of u.s. imports as a rebalancing measure falling short of in any way referring to this as a trade war however this is all about making as much noise as possible about

sending a symbolic message to the white house in response to donald trump's decision last month to slap tariffs on imports of alum medium and steel here into the european union that probably explains some of the brands that have been chosen to have these tariffs like to pull them including the american jeans for levi's to staff flagship store regent street in central london also harley davidson motorcycles florida orange juice cranberries a bourbon from kentucky and some u.s. metal imports as well donald trump has already suggested that european car manufacturers could be targeted with more terrorists and the e.u. has also suggested that it may have some ideas in reserve suggesting that it's earmarked around three point six billion dollars worth of. u.s. products to slap tariffs on in the near future that's if the world trade organization trade court rules in favor of the european union's latest complaint

against the united states the e.u. all in all the has made it very clear that it's going to do what is necessary to protect its consumers and its produces but before it gets any more complicated before things develop any further potentially into dangerous territory what the e.u. really wants is to bring the united states possibly in the company of china to the negotiating table right now though nobody seems to be talking. well as need highlighted there the new e.u. terrace a carefully timed hit on states that support president trump and the republicans there's kentucky for instance where the famous babbin whiskey is produced it's all say the home state of senate majority. leader mitch mcconnell harley davidson motorcycles and artists and cheese both of them produced in wisconsin the home state of republican house speaker paul ryan and orange juice one of the most

important crops in florida a swing state is republican governor rick scott is in a tight race for a senate seat. right let's introduce our guest now in new jersey we have seen raj is a member of the donald j. trump for president advisory board in kuala lumpur we have deborah is executive director at asian trade center and in london we have sam low international trade expert at the center for european reform welcome to you all very much stephen can i start with you in new jersey the e.u. commission president john called. says judy is imposed only e.u. by the u.s. president go against all logic and history what is president trump hoping to achieve let's put this in perspective none of the actions that president trucker's take is punitive in nature what the president wants to do is make sure that everyone is on the same playing field tariffs against united states have been out

of control they've been unfair and interesting the president really never blamed the leaders of the e.u. for this he has blamed past us and ministrations for making deals and i'm kind of sorry can i just get a little bit more clarity on that because as i understand it generally speaking european union tyrus are around the three percent mark and u.s. tariffs are around the two point three percent mark so what would president trump actually like to see would he like to see both sets of tyrus come down would he like to see them removed completely is he for free trade. well yes it is for free trade and i believe he wants to see them come down but come down and you've mentioned or you reported mention something interesting at the end of their monologue at the end of the day everyone is going to come to the negotiating agreement look president trump is famous for being the great negotiator the art of

the deal is what he counts on and at the end of the day everyone is going to sit at a table and i believe that the tariffs are going to come down quite significantly let's go to sam then sam in london the e.u. seems to have been quite measured in terms of its response with these terrorists targeted specifically at key states particularly of course in midterm election year two in november a better designed then to have maximum political effect rather than economic yes i think that's correct i think the important thing to understand about terrorists is that it actually your punishing your own consumers when you levy them so so that you use response as being strategic it's been political and it's been designed to cause as little damage domestically as possible and i think i think it's legitimate you can't just have

a president marching around the world making demands of other countries under threat of future tariff increases and i think it's time that someone stood up to him and i think the e.u. is one of the few economic powers that can do so effectively and sam the e.u. is retaining obviously a lot more power up its sleeve as it were i mean if indeed come come the beginning of july when we expect the impact of these terrorists to to take effect if come that particular moment in time do you think that the e.u. would go still further and unveil a new tranche of of terrorists. i think it's been an ongoing debate in the european union not as to whether the e.u. should retaliate to trump i think that's that that's fairly fairly well agreed but between the french and the germans the discussion has been how seriously should we

retaliate with the french backing quite a fierce retaliation and the germans being slightly more measured however the german sentiment is shifting because up until now they hoped that this could be resolved through dialogue and that it wouldn't escalate further on to the one product the germans are really worried about cars but because donald trump seems to be going ahead with his national security investigation into car imports now and is threatening future tariff rises on cars i think the germans are starting to come around to the idea that maybe this is a man that can't be reasoned with and only respects displays of force and deborah k.l. how does it look from there because of course we've got the u.s. china sanctions dispute which is many people are already calling an all out trade war how does it look from where you are. well i think the challenge and i apologize in advance for my voice we've had too many trade disputes and too many speeches about trade. i think the challenge here in asia in particular is that we are all

very tightly connected through supply chains and so what appears to be fairly targeted responses to different kinds of measures often has fall off into other unrelated sectors into firms that didn't even know they were part of a supply chain and so as these measures and counter-measures in different sectors starting with washing machines and solar panels escalating to steel tariffs and aluminum tariffs the countermeasures in agriculture and other products fishing boats and so forth and now with the fifty billion dollars worth of tariffs on three zero one disputes between the u.s. and china coming very quickly where discovering just how interlinked firms are all around the world but especially here in asia into supply chains that we didn't even know existed and i think while you can say these are political acts you can't forget that there are real world implications for the firms that are affected by

them many of these firms could potentially go bankrupt people can lose their jobs even if the tariffs are relatively short in nature even if the the the pain appears to be somewhat manageable there are consequences to these these kinds of things which is why we try not to have these kinds of tariff escalation in the first place and stephen coming back to you these perhaps unintended consequences of this tower if wall that is now being unleashed could impact upon u.s. consumers themselves and as i mentioned already this is a highly sensitive time for president trump isn't it given that you've you go to the polls in november and there is battle for control of the senate and of these a house of representatives at stake. well let's talk about that the political implications the e.u. is making a grave in this church and about the american people especially in those republican districts that you mentioned earlier president trump is very very popular despite

what the mainstream media here are saying the economy is growing and getting stronger every month so that at the end of the day he has promised he would look out for the interest of the american people first and that's the way they're saying this now but i think that person right that we're finding out that there is a lot of interconnection worldwide and that's why i said earlier as we begin to make these discoveries it's hard out we're interconnected economically we're going to all have to go to the table and sit down and have a conversation about this but the president has made it clear that it's got to be fair above and beyond anything else fair for the american people so sam in london this says stephen is suggesting that this could all be sorted out fairly amicably at a sit down around the table how likely is that and if so when i think i think it's already been proved to content be sorted out i mean key around the table and i

think i think other countries have a point when they say they don't want to negotiate with a gun to their head and i'm just to go back to one of the points made earlier about we're finding out about all of this interconnection i think there's actually an argument to be made that trump or at least his team are weaponize ing uncertainty in the hope that all of the different you know that one day terrorists are going up one day they're going down we don't know what's happening in the hope that american business is actually repatriate supply chains from around the world to within the u.s. and this is this is a theory that been put forward by meredith crowley of cambridge university and i think and i think there's something in it but this i do hope that this can be resolved ultimately discussion but at the moment i don't think anything about trump's actions where he just continues to escalate even further. suggests that he's interested in that and some can we even go so far then as to suggest that the powerful transatlantic alliance is over no course not i think i think there's more

than just trade that the bombs the us in the you but is certainly under strain it's certainly not in great shape at the moment and i think it would be. quite bad for both parties if if if if the trajectory was to continue on this on it's done with pop and deborah are we witnessing then the young raveling of the of the established world order the conventional way of doing things a system that's been in place a seventy years also largely put in place by the us and its western allies is this now unraveling well that's how it looks to many people and i think that is what is causing such concern among many people who have watched the system it's it's a couple of things so one is is it unraveling if so it seems to be unraveling quite quickly it took seventy years to build the system to where it exists today it can all topple over very very fast and we may be reaching

a breaking point much sooner than people anticipate i know we're counting on for example the world trade organization to help stabilize things but the u.s. is also undermining the w.t.f. ability to do that and we reach a critical point here in october where the the w t o itself is going to struggle to to handle these disputes that are being thrown at it because the judicial system at the w t o is going to be hamstrung in its ability to resolve these cases so if that system stops working then we revert to a sort of you know law of the jungle which is what we had in the you know one nine hundred thirty s. and forty's and i think for people who study the trade system the alarming thing is how long it took to get us to this place where trade is consistent and relatively stable and where risks can be medicated and where companies large and small

can trade with one another where consumers get the largest amount of benefits and if that tips over how long does it take to to rebuild that system i think that's that. danger and that's why people who are trade folks are watching this all unfold and just can't even figure out how to address the challenge because it has. where do you even begin i mean you can say i would we can all resolve this if we sit down around the table who's sitting around what table there really aren't a lot of places to do that the timelines are very very short the system itself is not set up to handle this kind of threat from the largest power that has traditionally gained the largest benefits from that system what do you do in response and i think everyone is struggling to figure out where do we go from here and stephen so we know that president trump is is perhaps more comfortable in

a bilateral setting he's not a motor naturalist at all but there are many people around the world who a pretty concerned about the damage that is being done by his administration to the multilateral institutions that have governed the world pretty much safely and kept away an awful lot of the chaos that deborah has has eluded to for the past seventy years is he aware of the last thing damage that is being done. well i believe there's a lot of overreacting and i'd like to experiment expand upon what sam said we've got a lot more in common with each other we have a long history with our allies we're all involved in fighting terrorism around the world where we're involved with all sorts of other things other than the terrorists and the economic implications so i kind of look at this as a big family squabble but stability then to do this is the ability to sorry to sorry to interrupt but it does seem very much as though president come who is as everybody now knows is the transactional president to him but actually everything

comes down to cost even when it comes down to issues of fighting terrorism of security and defense he wants nato his fellow nato members to pay more for that defense and so when he's even suggested that the joint exercises with south korea suspended as a result of cost as as as a result of course yes and he's made it very clear that the united states is not going to pay everybody's way anymore whether it be true military might whether it be true economic issues and that's what he promised the american people as i said in my opening statement you want fairness i think the american taxpayers are certainly in agreement with you that they just don't want to carry the load for everyone worldwide and there's nothing wrong with that that's called fairness and deborah i'm just wondering whether this system that we have had in place for seventy years or so whether it is actually in need of

a reboot perhaps it it's served its purpose is now time to change it because as we now know there are many people who have not benefited atoll from this period of globalization from the seventy years of bretton woods and so perhaps it is time for it to be shaken up. well i i think there is some merit to that but i'm not certain that you want to knock over the whole system and think that you're going to get a better outcome especially for those who haven't seen benefits over a period of largely peaceful global economic growth i mean if you didn't have economic benefits during seventy years of peaceful economic growth then i don't see how you're going to get economic benefits from a period of economic nationalism that rarely works out in people's favor so this is the challenge i think one of the consequences of an america first strategy is that america will find that there are costs to be paid from putting america first and

one of those costs is that other countries will seize the initiative and start setting rules that are less favorable to the u.s. more favorable perhaps for other countries and other regions and certainly here in asia there is multiple efforts underway to try to write new rules for trade in particular. that exclude the united states that are available for u.s. companies who want to capture the largest parts of the growing economic marketplace in this region we have almost four billion consumers in asia growing middle class and so forth those rules will be written without the united states and i think that that is going to be very interesting. the more that the united states challenges the existing status quo the more attractive those alternative possibilities become and you know i'm not so sure that people who are triumph and cheering behind

trump's ideas now will be equally happy with the results at the end you know to write one year to year live years down the road let's put that to stephen then stephen there's a real danger that given the new world order that is being created from the turmoil that is in ceiling as a consequence of the trumpet ministrations policies and a new world order is emerging the rules of wish are being written by somebody else and they're not going to include you in washington d.c. that's a real danger. well let's wait and see but i could tell you that when you look at west virginia virginia and pennsylvania and other states where the steel mills of close and that are going to reopen and thousands of people are going to go back to work and our economy is growing well we're a very resilient nation you know that we bounce back and meet any challenge that comes our way no one wants to be isolated from the world neither goes president trump but i go back to that word fairness we need to make sure that everyone in

this case especially in the president's mind and in the minds of the american people that the united states is treated fairly well and so i go back to my original case there will be i believe in that at the end of the day a sit down with everyone around a table and we're going to work these things out so that everyone is treated with fairness let's put that to you then sam clearly president company has to pull it has believed that the united states is being treated unfairly are they being treated unfairly and they say by whom and what can be done about it. it's a slightly bizarre situation when you see sort of the one global superpower sort of masquerading under a victim complex i mean who is treating the u.s. so unfairly it's the rules based system that we operate on was dodged lead driven through at the behest of the u.s. and it's largely largely works when we're talking about terrorists as you said at the beginning of the program e.u.

and us import tariffs in terms of on a trade weighted basis around two to three percent they're about the same so so so it's sort of it's just difficult to understand where this where this complex is it has arisen from but going back to one of the earlier points as well does the u.s. is retreat from the world provide opportunities for other other other nations other groups of nations to take the initiative i think yes i think trump pulling out of the trans-pacific partnership allowed the e.u. to finalize its agreement with japan you've just seen the e.u. open up negotiations with australia or new zealand we've seen it's just upgraded its agreement with mexico in all of these agreements is pushing and export is exporting its own regulator frameworks its own way of doing things and i think and i think there is something to be said that the us is going to find that if this continues and isn't resolved soon in the retreat into itself into isolationism into its own victim calm for a cop complex continues it's going to find that the world around it changes and

perhaps not in the way it likes steve having having heard that and how apprehensive are you that perhaps there's been a miscalculation on the part of the president and his team and that this this could indeed escalate into a full scale trade war of which perhaps nobody actually benefits from armed aren't going to operate at all in fact are optimistic that it will not go into a full scale troop works i believe there are a lot of book cool heads in the tropic ministration in the e.u. . at the end of the day everyone's going to be sitting down as i said and say look we've got a choice here we go down a road where everyone gets hurt as you said or we go down a road where everyone is going to be able to come together solve this problem and work together so that everyone benefits i'm going to have to just look donald trump has made a lot of promises that he's kept those promises are remember with north korea he

was being condemned ridiculed and criticized it look where we are today with the korean consulate we just got about everything that we want the chairman kim got the things he wanted why because at the end of the day everyone sat down and said we're we going to work this and i believe we're going to see a good outcome with regard to the right steve i mean obviously stephen there are those that point to the fact that nothing has actually happened when it comes to denuclearize ation on the korean peninsula having said that let me get the final wet please to deborah because i think perhaps i'm a stark contrast of course was the scenes from the g. seven in quebec and then the shanghai cooperation organization meeting in complete harmony i'll say it would appear and achieving an awful lot in terms of does look that contrast i think resonated around the world i think it did and i think you are going to see and we're already seeing right now particularly here in asia. surprising amount of unity and different things that have been blocked for

a long time so as an example we have a sixteen party trade agreement here in asia called our step that has been not stalled but it's been moving very slowly for quite some time i think it will accelerate tremendously and they are trying to have this substantial conclusion before the end of this year i think we're going to see that done the transpacific partnership was going to be brought into force early next year many countries are fast tracking it it will probably be in force before the end of this year that would not have happened had we not had such an acrimonious g seven meeting that got everyone's attention. and they said wow it's not just it's not just the things like the two three two arguments about national security it's the rhetoric it's the language it's the turning your back on allies that has caused people to say in asia particularly we have to take care of ourselves clearly and so we will do so we will pick up whatever pieces we can in whatever format works for us and we will create

whatever situations we that we think work to keep open the path to prosperity to keep open the jobs opportunities for ourselves because we can no longer count on an unreliable ally of the united states and i think that is an entirely new ball game that we have never faced before all right thank you all very much indeed deborah thank you for powering through with a with a bit of a dodgy straight thank you very much indeed steven rogers thank you very much and sam lo thank you very much and as ever thank you for watching the program you can see it again anytime you like again to the website al-jazeera dot com she will further discussion go to a facebook page facebook dot com full with such a j inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. inside story i'm at this from the whole team here in doha it's by finance.

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the guatemalan mother is reunited with her son a month after they were separated at the u.s. border but she had to sue the government for it to happen. the u.n. accuses venezuela security forces of carrying out hundreds of unjustified killings with impunity. civilians take advantage of a lull in fighting around the data to flee the find any port city. and the e.u. hits president trump spring in retiree three tariffs on. u.s. goods. from us with the latest from the twenty eighteen at five time when as president will keep their world cup holder alive after scoring two goals in injury time against costa. so we begin in the united states where the trumpet ministration is continuing to

come under fire for its treatment of migrant children despite saying is ending the practice of separating them from their parents at the border so a lot of confusion about how government agencies will get families back together one guatemalan mother was reunited with her young son baltimore's airport on friday after more than a month apart but she had to file a lawsuit against the u.s. government to get him back she had mothers to fight a lot explaining how it felt to be reunited with her son. i'm very happy to have found my son i'm very happy and thankful especially to call it i started crying when i saw him because he is the only saw in the time i have nobody will separate of again i don't regret coming here i'm proud to have made it to this country. is following the story for us in washington and tell us more about this and how much of an ongoing issue this is going to be for the administration.

it's been a very difficult week for donald trump that's because he's changed his position on immigration on several occasions you remember at the start of the week you were saying there was nothing he could do that the separations on the border or because of laws that have been introduced by democrats which wasn't exactly true and that it needed congress to fix it then he decided that he would sign an executive order to fix it which he actually didn't really need to do he could have just picked up the phone and said the policy that we've implemented of zero tolerance of people coming across the border has got to stop but he signed this executive order no one's entirely sure how to implement that at the border and then he tweeted in the last few are saying republicans should give up looking at immigration and trying to fix it until after we've had the midterm elections this is the spite the fact that there is an immigration bill that is currently working its way through the house people are weighing in with their options they were due to vote on friday they

don't have enough support and tiredly for it and so they will be looking to put that vote off to the beginning of next week so donald trump has essentially covered all the bases that he could possibly cover over the last five days we've also seen protests across the country particularly done in the border against this idea or of children being separated from their parents in fact just in the last few hours at her own house not far from the washington capitol christian nielson who is the department of homeland security secretary she had protesters turning up on your doorstep playing the load or do you remember that came from children who were separated from their family earlier this week and then in the next hour or so donald trump is going to entertain so-called angel families at the white house there are people who have lost loved ones who've been killed by undocumented migrants so it's been a very difficult very odd week for donald trump the problem is he's not making this crisis go away and because. there's no clear solution legislatively to the

immigration issue because he's doubling down and essentially saying that we're going to keep going with the zero tolerance policy next week isn't looking great either or out and thanks very much data an official there washington d.c. let's two or three thousand kilometers to the southwest deborah elizondo is in brownsville in texas he's outside what the government call center of a tender age children that's for infants gave up believe it two years old and any idea first of all about how successful the efforts are it's reunite children. well it depends who you talk to quite frankly you're right we are outside of this facility you see behind me it is one of the shelters for what they're calling tender age children which are children like you mentioned usually two years or under we've asked for a lot of information on how many children are in there or what the conditions are but there have not allowed any journalist in to get a firsthand look in there to go to your question on how the process is going of

trying to reunite families from this standpoint here not very well quite frankly will say that as we all know that number about twenty three hundred children have been separated force from their parents who are seeking asylum that's the rough number of the a.c.l.u. the american civil liberties union think that's that thinks that might be as much as four thousand setting that aside though a senior u.s. government official says they think about five hundred children have been reunited with their parents since early may however it's important to note that the texas civil rights project which is a very well established and well recognized non-governmental organization here in texas was on the front lines of trying to defend the rights of asylum seekers says they are currently in contact with three hundred eighty one families that have been separated and they say that not one of the families that they're in contact with

has been reunited yet with their children right you can only imagine how difficult it is to bring. to reunite these families bring these from the back together again describe for us the kind of challenges the officials will face. well if you have an hour i can tell you all the challenges because there are so many of them but also to simply say basically the key ones are how do you read night these families because when they were separated at the border the asylum seekers it were separated were given a number the parents were given a number this is a number that stays with the parents through the criminal process the children were separated at the border and the children were given another number so now that they're separated the question becomes how do you match up those numbers it's a bureaucratic mess involving multiple u.s. government agencies as well health and human services else on the front line of severe trying to reunite them but they are there only can do as much as the

information that they have access to so that's number one it's just a bureaucratic mess of trying to separate trying to match up these children with their parents the other question is what if the children are eighteen months old like in facilities like this how do social workers go to them and say who is your mother who is your father they can't even speak so this is another problem the other issue is what if a child let's say they're five six seven eight years old says yes i have a cousin or an uncle in the united states ok so then the government says ok please give us their number what if the child doesn't have the phone number even if they do have contact with some a relative that's in the u.s. legally then they have to confirm that that a relative really is a relative of the child so you get a sense of the incredible complex nature of trying to reunite families and i'll just summarized by saying the longer this goes on it's becoming clear that there

could be situations in the coming weeks months where there are orphaned children that the government simply can never find their parents hasn't happened yet not that we know about but i'll tell you you talk to people here and they say that is a real possibility. well it is going to be a problem to revel all that's ok thanks very much indeed there were others on day reporting that. people online is still trying to make sense of melania trump strange choice of plaything for her visit to a child detention center on thursday the first lady was photographed wearing a jacket that read i really don't care do you which many considered inappropriate it led to a flood of online responses including drawings like this one of lady liberty wearing a jacket that says we should all care also popular was this edited version of this month's time magazine cover on the right with the image of donald trump replaced by melania in fashion label wildfire released this parody jacket to raise money for

a refugee charity and it has already sold out the number of central american migrants being deported from the united states has risen dramatically immigration officials in guatemala report a forty five percent rise from last year the number of people being forced to return around sanchez has more now from guatemala city. houston what they made a trip that for many marks the end of a long dangerous and ultimately unsuccessful journey to the us migrants escaping poverty and violence in poor neighborhoods in central america their homes and families risking robbery rape and murder searching for a better future. was under these circumstances you can find god you are alive and you'll be able to see those you left behind here in gotham allah. in his second attempt to reach the united states for the two year old mother says things got tough with the it took us three days only to cross the river and then the border

patrol caught us they treated us like animals chased us and held guns to our heads as a result of the us is tougher enforcement of anti immigration laws officers here say they've seen a change in the spirit of what the violence are writing back home and as a veil we see different behavior they are intimidated we know the process and treatment in the us is difficult when they landed in guatemala you can tell they said in an disillusioned many have left the families in the u.s. and they want to be reunited well for years there's been playing loads of the parties coming not only to what they might but also to itself as nearly every day immigration officials tell us there's been an increase of forty five percent in the number of people coming compared to last year. more than twenty four thousand what they were deported through the u.s. this year alone officials here provide them with food water a phone call home. families wait for their loved ones some of whom return

traumatized thirty six year old lily d.s. was detained in the u.s. a soon as he arrived. i've never been in jail before but i was held for three months. blanca son has been arrested for being in the u.s. illegally he's been gone for fifteen years now she dreads what will happen when he comes back in a few. days but i wonder why there's no work here even if people study they don't find jobs it's a disaster there's no work. for many their return is full of shame and figure they come back empty handed but some are still in temporary shelters others will be dropped a bus stations in the capital from there on they will be on their own but innocent just as just what the man. the rule of law in venezuela is now virtually absent that's according to united nations report the u.n. human rights office says it will send its report to the international criminal court the prosecutor there opened their preliminary inquiry into alleged violations

in february well the u.n. high commissioner for human rights says the government forces are cracking down on .