al-jazeera. if ever you are. u.s. tariffs against china are coming into effect setting the stage for a potential trade war between the world's two biggest economies. logan here in doha you are watching al-jazeera also coming up a rescue worker has died in northern thailand where the pressure is going on to get a trapped football team out of the cave there. in twenty years after a sour and gas attack in japan that killed at least thirteen people a cult leader and some of his followers have been executed. pointing the finger at

the u.k.'s interior minister demands an explanation from russia after two people were contaminated with the navi chopped nerve each. as we go on a u.s. tariffs on chinese imports are coming into effect it's estimated will be imposed on thirty four billion dollars worth of goods for months now the trumpet ministration has been threatening the twenty five percent extra tax raising concerns about a trade war between the world's two biggest economies so let's take a closer look at what is actually going to be taxed more than thirteen hundred chinese products will be directly affected now in particular the trumpet ministration is targeting china's tech industry imports of flat screen t.v. semiconductors electric vehicles and medical devices will all be taxed extra as for

china's retaliates three tariffs has drawn up a list of one hundred six u.s. products it plans to target they include imports of soybean cars whiskey and aircraft brought joins us live now from beijing so rob as of what two minutes ago is this now a trade war. well that's right we are waiting for confirmation of these terrorists indeed as we they are expected and have been put in place by the united states china has been adamant from the start that it will meet them and match them exactly midnight in washington it is midnight midday here in beijing and we're waiting for confirmation that china will respond in kind that confirmation is likely peter to come very quickly china has said that it will match exactly what the united states is doing it will put tariffs on exactly the same amount of goods

thirty four billion dollars to be precise and to the level of twenty five percent now thirty four billion dollars is actually as a percentage of the of these two vast economies is actually pretty small stuff it's not a huge amount of trade but the concern obviously years what happens next whether this does develop into a much wider longer more protracted trade war which could potentially affect hundreds of billions of dollars worth of goods the trumpet ministration has said that it is prepared to put into place more tariffs china has said it is prepared to match them clearly the markets are jittery about this the shanghai composite index is down just over half a percentage point this morning but it has to be said that in the past couple of weeks as people have realized that this war of words is indeed seeming to turn into potentially a trade war the sentiment has been working its way into the market and we have seen

the markets here in china gradually head downwards over the past couple of weeks so the risk concern peter about just where we go from here and in terms of where we go from here rob i mean difficult to find something in one's cart one's case that you take to work in one's house that doesn't have made in china written on it so the the impact around the planet could be huge for a lot of people. that's right and it also it's complicated stuff it is very difficult to try to work in isolation for the united states to try to really punish the chinese companies and lever that punishment just in china because of the way the commerce works and the way that the economies are integrated people talk about the supply chains of moving components from one part of the world to the other for their use parts of the production process for example

semiconductors that are made here in china quite often they will incorporate microchips that have begun other parts of asia or indeed microchips that are designed and built in the united states they will be in some of these components that are now facing these higher terrorists from the united states so u.s. companies will also be affected so it is complicated stuff but china given the fact that it is a top down economy there's a very high degree of government control they have been preparing for this looking for alternative suppliers of things like soybeans it's a very important staple here in china and they have been looking around not only for suppliers from other parts of the world but going to the. more profound measures of actually getting good hiring farmland in neighboring russia where they can grow their own soybean to make up the difference so this could have profound

long term effects peter robel talk to you soon i'm sure in the meantime thanks very much well despite warnings from allies that the extra tariffs would do more harm than good donald trump refused to back down white house correspondent kimberly hellcats reports. he already stands accused of implementing trade policies that main the end harm the united states and its allies the president donald trump is threatening even more we're not planning anything now but if they don't treat us properly we will be doing something fact the united states made the first move in this trade dispute imposing tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum imports now it's also considering doing the same when it comes to foreign made vehicles and auto parts imports this despite warnings it could hurt america's car industry lead to countermeasures by top trading partners on wednesday german chancellor angela merkel sounded the alarm on a looming trade war. we have tariffs on aluminum and steel it appears

cars to will be imposed with tariffs when they're imported into the united states ladies and gentlemen this has the character of a trade conflict. but the trade conflict isn't limited to america's european allies after the united states announced it would implement tariffs on up to thirty four billion of chinese imports china is also taking action to protect its own interests . as long as the united states issues a so-called tariff list china will take necessary measures to firmly protect them and interests us trading partners including the european union china and japan have voiced their concern at the world trade organization there's fear of a potential collapse of the rules based global trading system in general people want trade to be under a set of rules so that there is certainty and predictability and what trump has

done is totally undermine the system so it's not just what he's actually put in place it's what he's threatened to do and what that does to trust that trust faces further erosion trump has long made clear his dislike of the w t o which governs the rules of international trade now league draft suggest the u.s. president wants to pull out of the w t o actively appending the global trading order it's been in place for more than half a century kimberley health hit al-jazeera washington one of the divers has been working to rescue a football team stranded in a flooded cave in northern thailand has died twelve boys and their coach have been trapped in chiang rai for almost two weeks on scene rains are just days away and pipes and pumps of now being brought in to drain millions of liters of water scott hardly has more now from chiang rai. one of the dozens of divers involved in this rescue operation died at one am friday morning we're hearing now from the seal

commander here on site commanding their operations in this rescue said that he died from lack of oxygen and it happened at one am on friday morning his diving buddy brought him to one of these chambers tried to resuscitate him but was not able to he was still alive when they brought him out of the cave then he was taken by helicopter to a military hospital here in chiang rai province where he died now but they're also telling us because of the dangerous situation that they know there could be something like what we saw overnight but they're continuing with the operation the operation hasn't stopped because of this death overnight they continue and they're dedicated to getting those boys in their coach out now you know we look at the options that are on the table right now that dangerous operation of getting the boys in their coats out this system where this diver died that is still obviously the main one that they're looking at right now we know that this diver was actually bringing in more oxygen tanks because throughout the process there are different risks and there are different conditions there some they're completely submerged

some partially submerged and some that are dry they deposit supplies and oxygen tanks through out that's what this diver who died was doing and now also another option that's being explored that has been kind of for the last several days but now there's focus on it because rains are coming because obviously it's a very dangerous situation to come out the way they came in and that is looking from the top down into the cave trying to drill and that's why we're here this is the football field with the boys were practicing before they went into the cave on the twenty third of june these helicopters what they're doing is they're serving from a top but also they're going to bring in geological instruments up there to see what the geology is below the surface to see if it's possible to drill in so the clock is ticking they're going through these two options as best they can but right now you know even with this death overnight they say the commanders here say it's continuing. a court in south korea has refused to grant an arrest warrant for a korean airlines chairman under investigation for embezzlement and tax evasion

show young hope left the court in seoul after a judge and charges were disputable the move is a setback for the prosecution investigating show and members of his family over a variety of charges involving their business empire. the former leader of a doomsday cult that carried out a sarin gas attack in japan in one thousand nine hundred ninety five has been executed. was the first to be hanged for the tokyo subway attack japanese media saying six of his followers were also hanged thirteen people were killed and more than six thousand were injured when cult members released the gas in five coordinated attacks on the city's metro system. michael pan is president of the news agency in japan he explains why it took more than twenty years for the executions to happen. a trial and. there were a number of appeals. for. well

. he offered no hope while we're young here so. we were a. nobody. all the way there were in the row although we. don't know when the executions. people who were home this morning no idea it was probably the last now. we're. going to be. a long. britain's home secretary is demanding answers from russia are after a man and a woman or exposed to navi check the police believe dawn sturgis and charlie rowley

collapsed after they handled a contaminated item in the small town of amesbury that's next to the city of souls bery where the russian double agents and his daughter were attacked with novacek samples are being analyzed at the u.k. military's porton down chemical research lab which is halfway between amesbury and souls bring his people shop. the couple remain in a critical condition at seoul's breeze district hospital but police and counterterrorism officers 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 dawn sturgis and charlie rally both in their forty's collapse in a house in a mystery twelve kilometers from salt 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 very 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. al-jazeera in salzburg. and russia has dismissed all allegations of involvement as being merely speculative still ahead here on al-jazeera a major change of the top of the u.s. environmental protection agency. demanding justice is the families of the victims green fiona's charged with manslaughter. in the weather sponsored by cattle. welcome back we'll start by looking at the weather in the levant and western parts of asia again a few showers in eastern areas but otherwise not much to say in terms of general

weather looking fine although this area of share right to vittie of the caucuses could give some really big downpours at times that could be some flash flooding there is very hot in baghdad indeed across much of the right temperatures pushing the fifty degree mark once again hot weather conditions across the eastern side of the mediterranean saved by the fact you get a little bit of a sea breeze there for beirut it should be quite nice with temperatures of thirty degrees now we haven't got much in the way of a sea breeze here in doha winds are pretty light at the moment and so the humidity is quite high so forty two or thereabouts i think over the next a few days on the other side of the plane temperatures in the mid forty's much should expect from mecca medina and riyadh so let's head down into southern parts of africa where we have got some showers on the coast of mozambique but otherwise weather conditions fine across much the region should be a bright day and there with highs of nineteen degrees from you not much changes ahead on. through into saturday for central parts of africa we've got plenty of heavy showers here across parts of sudan towards the gulf of guinea reaching out

across west africa to share it so it is quite intense at the moment for the north it's largely dry in bamako in mali. the weather sponsored by cattle waste. waiting. when they're on line it's undoubtedly chief call of poverty inequality in our society today or if you join the sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like bring you to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to be the speakers for change join the conversation announces iraq.

welcome back let's just have a quick recap of the top stories for you the u.s. to start imposing tariffs on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese goods as accused washington of opening fire on the entire world and warns it will retaliate . one of the divers who's been working to rescue the football team stranded in a cave in thailand has died as a former navy seal was because of a lack of oxygen it was part of the efforts to bring supplies to twelve boys and their coach. the former leader of a doomsday cult that carried out against attack in japan in one nine hundred ninety five has been executed. and six of his followers were hanged for releasing saturday it's to his metro system thirteen people died. syrian and russian forces are pressing ahead with their offensive to capture the southwest of the country launching hundreds of air strikes on rebel held areas the u.n. says the fighting is putting the lives of three quarters of

a million civilians at risk about three hundred twenty thousand people have been displaced in syria and russia began their offensive in the garage and clinics are a problem says more than two weeks ago sixty thousand people are camps jordanian border crossing and thousands more along the border with the israeli occupied golan heights jordan says it's got syrian rebel negotiators back to the table with russia and the talks collapse on weapons state that prompted the escalation in the fighting as in a hot and i reports from beirut rebels entered our 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 will 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. before we 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 their 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 missiles 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 consequent 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. that the revolution started here and is and will be here. there is defiance but there is also a reality the opposition is surrounded and 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 recess who 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 u. 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. beirut. the u.s. president will trump has accepted the resignation of the head of the environment protection agency scott pruitt have been accused of misusing his office and public funds and also anger conservationists by rolling back laws to protect the environment and the fight against global warming john hendren has more. 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 protos done an amazing job that it was a very short period of time and most people left thoughtful. writer 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 cold 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 saying 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 bad. through it being the head of the e.p.a. is 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 he 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 probes 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. u.s. immigration officials are using d.n.a. testing to reunite more than three thousand children separated from their parents on the border with mexico. one mother was reunited with her eight year old daughter in boston often nearly two months apart the trumpet ministration has removed migrant children from their parents and put them into shelters but last month a u.s. judge ordered the government to stop the practice and to reunite the families by tuesday we're going to claim the base of new york statue of liberty to process against donald trump's immigration policy has denied trespassing charges to riza

was on the famous monument for about three hours on thursday before the police arrested about four thousand tourists were evacuated from the liberty island just as a precaution i would not do it again the judge told me not to of course i would not do it again but i think the message was sent no child belongs. to do and should not be separated from their parents especially on the holiday like it is not ok. has been a show of force from bone as well as president after reports of a potential invasion by the united states the military marked independence day celebrations with a parade in the capital caracas nicolas maduro 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 branded matilda's government a corrupt left wing dictatorship. at least twenty four people including the emergency workers have been killed in

a series of fireworks explosions near mexico city the aid agency the red cross as firefighters the police and paramedics are among the dead at least thirty one others were injured while four warehouses were destroyed the town of told to patch is known as mexico's fireworks capital the owner and a director of a dam that collapsed in kenya killing forty seven people have been charged with manslaughter there are also accused of failing to make a report assessing the environmental impact of the facility catherine sawyer returned to the rift valley to talk to the victims of the soul a disaster. buried his wife and child close to where their home once to do it was swept away after down collapsed during hearings in many many people here remain traumatised they say compensation given by the owner is not enough and they were duped into signing forms they weren't allowed to read so. one hundred fifty thousand i was given fifty nine hundred dollars for each unit but there's no price

to life but fifty nine hundred mg my little boy could have grown up to be worth more than that we were just told that their money was an apology the sunlight tragedy in this village happened just when many were prepared to sleep more than two hundred families leave some decided to bury their loved ones on the sport where their homes were to serve as a reminder of what happened. the government has said that the dam was built illegally and hadn't been inspected for years the director of public prosecutions has ordered their arrest of nine people including the owner of sunlight and government officials will be charged with manslaughter people here think they're happy about that they want to see a quick and fair trial they also want to get a better compensation package. the owner of the dam perry months super tao. and a government official with their water resource management authority pleaded not guilty

to manslaughter as well as charges of negligence and failure to file an environment assessment report. will be closely watching the court proceedings al-jazeera visited him back in may he had just lost all four of his children this is what now remains of their home and belongings. they do up. every time it rains i hear my children screams my wife has never recovers i can never bring myself to come back and live here but. this is still very much a village in mourning they want a proper apology from the dam owner adequate compensation and justice for the dead catherine sorry al jazeera so lie in kenya's rift valley five senior ethiopian prison officials have been fired for alleged torture and abuse at one the tories jail as part of a reform program by the new prime minister he took power in april human rights watch says inmates at the prison and gita known as jail will be used for years

among those tortured were members of three opposition groups that have been put on a list of so-called terrorist organizations and abstain laws to prevent sexual assault at spain's running of the bulls festival in pamplona users will be able to report the crimes to the police by pressing a button since then the cation the police in pamplona have been cracking down on sexual abuse. exactly half past the hour let's just recap your top stories new u.s. tariffs on chinese imports have now come into effect they've been imposed on thirty four billion dollars worth of goods a twenty five percent tax applies to products including cars machinery and electrical equipment china is expected to retaliate one of the divers who's been working to rescue a football team stranded in a flooded cave in thailand has died the death is believed to be due to

a lack of oxygen the former navy seal was part of the efforts to bring supplies to the twelve boys and their coach scott hardly has more from chiang rai it was due to lack of oxygen he was in the water when he became incapacitated his body the divers swim with a body the body took him out to one of the chambers tried to resuscitate him he wasn't able to do so and then still alive but not resuscitated the diver this is according to the military now here the diver was taken out of the cave and then he was helicoptered to a military hospital here in chiang mai province that's where he died we're also hearing that the king of thailand has said that all honors will be paid to do this this man from the sun we know eastern province we know that he was a former c.e.o. diver he came back into service because of what's been going on because of this rescue operation dozens of chinese tourists have been missing after their boat overturned of thailand southern coast are believed to be trapped in the sunken vessel that's according to the governor of new cat he says forty eight people were

rescued before weather conditions forced the search to be suspended the tiles thorazine say they'll send divers to search for the fifty six people who are still unaccounted for the former leader of a doomsday cult that carried out against attack in japan in one thousand nine hundred five has been executed show us a horror and six of his followers were hanged for releasing saturn in tokyo as metro system killing thirteen people. britain's home secretary has called on russia to explain itself and woman collapse from exposure to a nerve agent in the south of england the couple fell ill close to the city of seoul. the u.s. president has accepted the resignation of his environment chief after a series of scandals scott pruitt come under fire in recent months for his spending habits and accusations of misuse of office those are your headlines the news continues after the scream also he said. getting to the heart of the matter if. the supreme leader calls you today and says let's have would you accept facing new

realities what do you think reunification of looked like there were two people peace for unification is the only option for prosperity or for south korea hear their story to al-jazeera. for me ok and your industry we are live right now on al-jazeera and you tube today we explore three stories making headlines around the world in denmark new york mandating so-called ghetto children to be trained in danish values have critics accusing the government of promoting seen a phobia a mosel we look at the state of iraq's second biggest city almost one year after i saw with the feet ahead but first there were here tens of thousands of refugees living in camps on the borders of me a mile and bangladesh are threatened by flooding and monsoon rains are just there with muhammad jumping isn't cops is bizarre.