zero. three. zero. shall carry this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. stepping up the offensive syrian and russian forces launch more airstrikes over terra endangering three quarters of a million civilians. opening salvo of the trade war the u.s. and china start imposing tariffs on billions of dollars worth of imports. and head of u.s. environmental protection agency resigns after scandals about his spending habits

and alleged misuse of office. and the race against time rescuers in thailand work out how to extract a football team trapped in a cave before the monsoon rains of dry. syrian and russian forces are pressing on with their offensive to capture the south west of the country launching hundreds of airstrikes on rebel to held areas the united nations says the fighting is putting the lives of three quarters of a more million civilians at risk about three hundred twenty thousand people have been displaced in syria and russia began their offensive in the derren container provinces more than two weeks ago now sixty thousand displaced people are camped at a jordanian border crossing and thousands more are along the border with the israeli occupied golan heights jordan says it's managed to get syrian rebel to go shaders back to the table with russia the talks collapsed on wednesday prompting the escalation in fighting the same to hold. the reports from they were. rebels and

did have province say they are ready to fight to the death but at the same time they say they are ready to return to the negotiating table several rounds of talks to end the fighting and restore government rule in the southern province peacefully failed jordanian mediation has yet again succeeded in bringing the warring sides together earlier the opposition said the terms demanded by the russian military negotiating on behalf of the syrian government are unacceptable and humiliating to listen. didn't even begin the negotiations and the russians were not even ready to listen to our demands the russian side insisted on their own terms and left the meeting during the meeting we insisted on guarantees before we give up our weapons because how can we give up our weapons without an international guarantees. the relative lull in the fighting has been shattered the military offensive resumed in full force. civilians yet again the victims activists say there were hundreds of

airstrikes in the few hours following the breakdown of talks mistrials and barrel bombs battered what's left of opposition controlled territory. the rebel held areas have shrunk since the almost three week long russian backed syrian government offensive began government troops continue to take ground moving closer to the jordanian border with the capture of the town upside down it came at a cost dozens of soldiers were reportedly killed the opposition says it will continue to defend the remaining villages in the province under its control. your thoughts are going to you are welcome the revolutionaries managed to prevent assad's forces from advancing into toughest on salman for the fifth consecutive day this will be the graveyard for the regime and the russians we tell bashar al assad that the revolution started here and his end will be here. there is defiance but there is also a reality the opposition is surrounded and is abandoned by its allies. people are

afraid of what happens next. people are afraid of returning to their homes if the regime is president they're afraid of being forced to join the army in a risk to join the opposition rusher in the regime accuse them of terrorism there's a lot of fear the offensive has created a humanitarian crisis hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced the number is growing with the escalation in the fighting the opposition says it is afraid to hand over their heavy weapons without security guarantees from a third party they fear reprisals from syrian government troops if they enter their towns and villages those who don't want to live under president bashar assad's rule are demanding safe passage to rebel held areas in the north and opposition to go she does want the us and involved in talks about the fate of southern syria all those requests were rejected the intensity of the bombardment is being described as the heaviest since the offensive began just like in previous military campaigns the

pro-government camp is hoping to bomb the opposition into submission senator beirut as i mentioned the fighting has displaced three hundred twenty thousand people. more from the bear crossing on the jordan syria border. there has been a steady stream of syrians fleeing dara coming here for treatment with a wide variety of injuries many of them conflict related and the jordanian military has set up three separate tents in what are extremely challenging environments hot and it's dusty and it's very difficult for people to work there are a lot of frightened people here frightened children bright man frightened women. this five year old girl clearly in a lot of pain just fell over as she was running away from the fighting and she's being given stitches by the doctors but you can see the very difficult conditions that working in and you can see that this is very frightening indeed most of

injuries here we did. cut the wall and saw her bare bones. and describe the environment in which your working out challenging is this environment and why it's. something this is a before any people want to do in his life the jordanian military says it's treated hundreds of syrians here in the last few days for a wide variety of injuries and illnesses to women unfortunately who are pregnant try to make it here for treatment lost their babies because of the great distance they had to travel an indication really the very stream dangers the syrians are facing as they try and flee the bombardment of a province now while jordan is not opening its borders to refugees to allow refugees in it will give treatment to any who need it and then they will be sent

back into syria. child's track perhaps more from the israeli occupied golan heights . one of the questions being asked is why the refugees have come to this border when israel has never opened its borders to refugees throughout this war and recently said that that policy wasn't going to change now one of the main reasons is because this area was occupied by israel in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven it was a few years later in one thousand nine hundred eighty four that the so-called disengagement plan was put into place by israel and syria which basically makes this area a demilitarized zone if you look over my right shoulder in the distance there you'll see. around those trees there is a you base the u.n. monitors this area and you can see how close that basis to these camps we understand that many of the refugees have come here because they feel a lot safer now the small warnings throughout the morning we've heard what sounds to be either air strikes or to marry strikes close by there are is around ten

kilometers to my left could nature to my right. the israelis say that they will continue delivering aid when and where is necessary we know that the i.d.f. the israeli military delivered around three hundred tents and approximately seventy tons of aid in a special mission across the border last week we understand that there are plans for a similar mission in the next few days but as you can see here and with respect to what we are hearing which sound like artillery strikes which sound like strikes it just shows you how vulnerable these refugees are after months of threats the trump ministration is imposing tariffs on thirty four billion dollars with the chinese kids starting a trade war between the world's two biggest economies twenty five percent tax applies to products including cars machinery and electrical equipment the penalty officially takes effect in two hours cried joins us now from beijing so. months of

bluster it's finally here on how china expected to react to this. that's right we are rachelle fast approaching the midnight hour two hours from now of course it's the midnight in washington the start of the sixth of july the day the trumpet ministration says it will impose these tariffs china has said it will respond exactly in kind exactly the same amount of goods thirty four billion dollars to be precise and at the same tariff levels of twenty five percent we are approaching midday here in beijing we could expect that the retaliatory terrorists from china will come straight afterwards we will wait and see the terrorists from china's point of view will be on a range of imports from the us there's a lot of farm products in their particular particularly staples such as soya beans but also automobiles other types of machinery some chemicals and so on so

a range of goods and of course as you mentioned there this is the first round of tariffs. ministration has warned that it will be prepared to impose tariffs on potentially hundreds of billions of more products coming to china and china has said it will match match it and do exactly the same china believes that is its rights are being attacked here by the united states that yesterday the department or the commerce ministry said that it's its economy and its security were trying to be undermined by these tariffs and of course china is a top down economy there is an awful lot of government control here and they have been preparing for this finding different sources for example for soybean imports if soybeans now cost twenty five percent more if they come from the u.s. then china has to find alternative sources they've been doing that even richelle to

the extent of leasing farmland in neighboring russia to. it's own soybean so these are long term fixes and once you put in place long term fixes like this and build up a deeper trade ties with your neighbors you might not need to go back to those same u.s. soya bean farmers should this ever be resolved in the future resell that maybe a lot of and intended consequences rob mcbride life for us in beijing thank you. yes president has accepted the resignation of the head of the environmental protection agency scott purdy been accused of misusing public funds and mr saying his office he's also anger conservation is by rolling back lost to protect the environment and the fight against global warming john hendren has more for scott pruitt was the environmental regulator industry always want it it's the e.p.a.'s objective my objective is the minister of the e.p.a. to come in and make sure that people's health is protected the former oklahoma

attorney general went from being one of the agency's most aggressive opponents suing it fourteen times to running it to file two lawsuits challenging the e.p.a. mercury in air toxics standards you filed a lawsuit challenging the e.p.a.'s two hundred two thousand and fifteen national ambient air quality standards for ozone never since president richard nixon created the agency in one nine hundred seventy his corporate america had a stronger or more controversial ally in it scott proteins done an amazing job that it was a very short period of time and most people left couple. that. pruitt has declared war on regulation dismantling dozens of obama era protections on clean air chemicals in cars i think the focus in the past has been on making manufacturers in detroit making manufacturers in various parts of the country make cars that people are going to buy these gold global warming hopes infuriating progressives in congress if that's the kind of. e.p.a.

administrator you will be. you're not going to get my vote he's drawn the fire of environmentalists scott pruitt playing taxpayers and president trump and dangerous to your family's health his alleged ethical lapses pricey first class flights hiring a small army of security agents and running a cut rate condo from the wife of a lobbyist have drawn the barbs of late night comics got through it being the head of the e.p.a. . the same as new york's food inspector being a rat with a clipboard he's there to take a good piece a landing get the most money out of it about time the environment got a pen and we got one now being used aids to try to get his wife a job in a chick fil a franchise he was recently confronted by this mother holding her son in a video that went viral i would urge him to resign but he had the support of the deregulator in chief then he got what white house watchers call the kiss of death

a statement of lukewarm support from the president scott prudes are you support i hope he's going to prove it leaves a legacy of unraveled regulations an unprecedented support among the regulated john hendren zero washington britain's home secretary is demanding answers from russia after a man and woman were exposed to the nerve agent of a talk in england. charlie rally collapsed after they handle the contaminated item in the small town of and very it's almost thirteen kilometers from the city of solsbury where a russian double agent and his daughter were attacked with no bitch out samples are being analyzed at the u.k. military support and on chemical research laboratory which is halfway between aims are in salisbury peter sharp reports. the couple remain in a critical condition at seoul's priest district hospital but police and counterterrorism office is investigating the second poisoning say it's unlikely they were deliberately targeted but were caught up in the fallout from the previous

attack the couple don't sturgis and charlie rally both in their forty's collapse in a house a mystery twelve kilometers from seoul's break officials at porton down who had it done to fight the nerve agent as number chalk say it's designed to be highly persistent five sites are now cordoned off as they trace the couple's movements before they succumb to the poison. a park pharmacy house and church are still being searched for any trace of the nerve agent police urging people who also visited these areas to wash their clothes and take precautions britain's counter-terror chief warned that there still remains a low level risk to the general public but through it all the people of soulsby remain surprisingly upbeat i don't think it's put fear into anybody that it's always we still buzzing as you can see is a shame that it's happened who is it what is it does anybody really know it's just unfortunate soulsby just picking itself up again and now it looks as though we're

back to square one the british government has always held russia responsible for the attack on the script and the interior secretary has asked them to come forward and explain what exactly happened the eyes of the world are currently in russia not least because of the world cup it is now time that the russian state comes forward and explains exactly what has gone on there is speculation here that those responsible for the march attack may have dumped chemicals on their way through a mystery to be the quickest route to the motorway to shop al-jazeera in salzburg. russia has dismissed the allegations of involvement is being merely speculative or a challenge has more from moscow on russia's reaction to the poisoning. the kremlin has come out with some comments the spokes person dmitry peskov says that he regrets that two britons are in

a critical condition and hopes they recover swiftly the kremlin says it is very worried about this new poisoning incident in britain worried that a nerve agent has been used once again in europe it says that cit categorically denies any involvement in the original source three incidents and that it proposed a joint investigation into the original attack britain unfortunately didn't agree now this line that the russians are still british to let them into the investigation into this crippled poisoning well that has been resurrected by russian parliamentarians as well in the center of the move now on to this new incidents and there's a man called of love the mere show man of who's the state duma defense committee chairman he says that russia should be allowed to help investigate this latest incident there is a need for thorough and professional work he says in the efforts that british his

security services will not be enough russia should get involved among other countries. claymore head of the news hour including. the united did last that many migrant children separated from their parents in the u.s. may not be together again for quite some time. and the cult leader behind a deadly gas attack in tokyo more than twenty years ago is executed plus. i mean richardson at the world cup in russia where after eight years of preparation we now just have an eight teams and eight games left in the tournament. rescue crews in northern thailand are in a race against time to get a football team out of a flooded cave and rains are just days away and pipes and pumps have been brought in to drain millions of liters of water told boys in their coach are now being taught the basics of scuba diving scott heide lawyer has

a white us from chiang rai has been there covering every twist and turn in this so what is what is the latest there scott. well we show we're just getting some news know a source close with the military is telling us that one of those divers involved in this operation though it's a massive operation dozens and dozens of divers are in the water at any given time one of them has died we don't know too many of the details as to how he died we know that it happened according to this source close to the military that it happened at one am friday morning very early friday morning we don't know too many of the details we're hearing that the governor. province who has taken command of this rescue operation he's going to be giving giving the details very soon but again this is a close source to the military telling us that in fact one of these divers he wasn't a seal team diver he was a former seal team diver our source telling us that he died during the operations

he was part of the massive team that ferrying supplies into you know you have different sections of this cave where there depositing supplies in there have they have personnel inside the cave and then you have where the thirteen stranded thirteen are at the end of this there depositing supplies along the way we're hearing that this diver was part of that process again details should be coming out shortly so as you said we don't we don't really know we don't know if it was a result of the operation of a some sort of medical condition we don't know that but nevertheless if you're a parent one of these boy's parents and you hear this it's got to just remind them of just how dangerous everything is that is surrounding their children what do we know about this process about where things stand right now. absolutely it underlines just how dangerous taking the boys and their coach out the way they went in you know there are different stages and different levels of risk if you will you know there are spot spots that are completely underwater that they have to

as you said you know they're getting trained on the basics of scuba they'll have to scuba dive out sections then there are sections where they can get up and walk or sections where they'll wade through water possibly it depends on the height of the kid you know sometimes it could be up to their chest sometimes it might be over their head as well so they have to be carried out at different stages and the reason everyone is so very concerned about the weather is those can take those situations those conditions can change very rapidly if it starts raining again and we're at the football field where those boys were having a practice match before they went in the cave the reason we're here you see military how helicopters behind me they are back up in the air surveying the top part of this mountain range that houses the cave system and the reason they're doing that now more favorably is because of the dangers involved in taking the boys out the way they went in but also because they know where they are now you know we when they were discovered they're exploring the top of the mountain range just above where the boys are seeing if they can drill down in obviously that is a very difficult process but it's much more favorable if they are able to find

a way than bringing them through all these different dangers that they would face as they come out the way they went in michelle such a long long journey ahead. thank you. messages of support for the boys are flowing from around the world eight years ago thirty three chilean miners survived they are pulled out alive after spending more than two months underground . the youngster some words of advice. these days. tourists the sites where he and thirty two other chilean miners were trapped for seven seven hundred meters beneath the earth's surface. the drama played out in front of the world's media eight years ago one by one the men were pulled to safety looked like a space capsule it was dubbed the biggest rescue operation in history today can't help identify youngsters and their coach trapped nearly nine hundred thousand

kilometers away in thailand. stick together never give up hope stay calm god will see you through this that's what i want to tell them. frankly a professional football player before retiring and becoming a truck driver in the san jose mine where as fate would have it he too was trapped he's convinced the worst is over for the thai youngsters. i have faith that they'll be fine the football players and give them mental physical. it certainly helped me . this psychologist to help the chilean miners while they were trapped says lessons learned from their experience can be applied in thailand so. you can implant post-traumatic stress by reinforcing the idea that they lived a horrible experience by treating them like victims. above all i recommend that the youngsters be given daily tasks and allowed to turn their initial fear into

a challenge and adventure at their age it's absolutely possible today what's left of the collapse stands as a symbol the chilean government's refusal against all odds to give up the search for the thirty three miners and their seemingly impossible extraction are seen by many as a turning point. it sent a signal the twenty first century technology combined with determination can deliver unexpected results. those who survived the near tragedy here are convinced that the world will again witness another remarkable rescue of those trapped underground the sea and human in the at the comma desert. its immigration officials are using d.n.a. testing to reunite more than three thousand children separated from their parents at the border with mexico. i mother was reunited with her eight year old daughter in boston after nearly two months apart from ministration

have removed migrant children from their parents and put them into shelters last month the u.s. judge ordered the government to stop that practice and families by tuesday. i do not have words to express the happiness that my heart feels because the whole of my life is here today with me the most beautiful thing that i've received in my life despite that tuesday deadline many families will have a long wait before they're reunited. brazilian asylum seeker whose nine year old son was taken away from her at the mexico border every elizondo has a story. she is so scared she would only speak to us by telephone she came to us with her nine year old son seeking asylum cleaning her native brazil in an interview said husband who threatened to kill her when she crossed the border into america her nightmare began border guards pride her son away from her grasp listen

closely to what she says oh you know grab a non-story tagger in crime they're not of we're holding onto mine from work or they got to me and we'll go crying in the us that's what happened and one cell was full of mothers the other packed with children both cells with a thick glass wall faced each other the majority don't think you're going to scream at them and climbing on the ground to criticize mine to get to the front where you feel their parents across the battle in iraq that you wouldn't now would there were even two pretty women but they're what i need to regard being fairly new ninety nine zero zero yes. after two days her nightmare became even worse fear went into the fellow and then all of a sudden i was in there walking with my son thanking him wait that was five weeks ago it was the last time she saw her son. after more than three weeks in detention

she was finally released but her son was not she is now living with relatives in the u.s. and lawyers working on her behalf have filed a lawsuit against the federal government to force immigration officials to reunite her with her son so far that hasn't happened the same immigration officials say that asylum seekers that are detained are treated well but that wasn't her experience you know you wouldn't her critics really bared bickered there was no right to use that phrase and not meant that we paid for campaigns it would member. remembrance now or if there were no working people or anything like that there were one recurrent victim who are over the mouth so because the repacking are things she's been able to phone her son only a couple times the last time she was allowed three minutes one night he would cry.

was he saying he want a home and he's going to come and get him. gabriel is on to. new york. oh it's a promise says he drove his car into a crowd of protesters in the u.s. has pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges james alex fields jr is facing thirty counts including killing a thirty two year old woman is among demonstrators opposing a far right rally in charlottesville virginia last august evidence included feel support of nazi leader adolf hitler he told the court he's receiving treatment for mental illness. there's been a shore forced from venezuela's president after reports of a potential invasion by the u.s. military marked independence day celebrations with a parade in the capital caracas. urged troops to be vigilant after reports the u.s. president asked his foreign policy advisers in august why he couldn't send forces into venezuela donald trump has branded interest government

a corrupt left wing dictatorship. going to chilling dimension out of a multi dimensional aggression has been launched against the people of venezuela but the people of venezuela do not give in the people of venezuela do not surrender the people of venezuela do not give their freedom the people of venezuela are fighting with their love with their smile with their living hope let no one be confused the people have their hope and their rebellion is more alive than ever in the battle that is taking place against the economic criminal war of all of archy and of the period. at least twenty four people including emergency workers have been killed in a series of fireworks explosions for mexico city red cross says firefighters police and paramedics are among the dead at least thirty one others were injured while four where houses were destroyed the town of told to pack is known as mexico's fireworks capital. still ahead on al-jazeera. i cannot interfere.

with what he wants to do. prime minister tells us what he thinks about the corruption investigations into his predecessor. fatal police shooting in france raises questions about the treatment of minorities and that's four of the world's top surfers make waves with the ocean's top predators in south africa. and it's. the weather sponsored by cattle. hello again across central and southern parts of china and taiwan we've got plenty of heavy showers here this time of the year we tend see bands of rain all the way from chain to through hand toward shanghai further towards the south to be some dry weather but showers it was likely very humid weather across much of indochina annoyed just shy of the forty degree mark across los

a scattering of showers but again a lot of share right to fifty coming off the bay of bengal so for parts of me and mar he looks as though it's going to remain pretty wet in the course of saturday then southeastern parts of asia we've got fine weather for java bali and indeed through much of borneo as well where heavy showers for the north across the philippines and heavy downpours here and indeed across southern parts of indochina so much of cambodia central and southern parts of vietnam are looking pretty wet but then southwards through. through sumatra and into java by the weather conditions are looking pretty good at the moment should be a good deal of sunshine here kuala lumpur coming in at thirty one degrees then across into south asia it's looking very lively down through the western ghats heavy showers across in a poor state civilian bangladesh but also an area of low pressure giving intense rainfall across central areas and i think of the next forty eight hours we could see a lot of rainfall falling in night poor. the weather sponsored by qatar airways.

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