the truth is that i will double the jobs bill. beijing has to fight back against what it calls trade bullying after the u.s. imposes new tariffs on chinese imports. of unwelcome on peace adopting you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up a rescue workers died in northern thailand where the pressure is mounting to get a trapped football team out of a cave. in twenty years after a sarin gas attack in japan that killed at least thirteen people the cult leader and some of his followers are executed. also ahead stepping down the head of the u.s. environment agency resigns after a series of ethics controversies. china

says it will take countermeasures against the u.s. after washington impose new tariffs on some of its imports the taxi's target 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 let's take a closer look at what's been actually tax now more than thirteen hundred chinese products will be affected in particular the trumpet ministration is targeting china's tech industry imports of flat screen t.v.'s semiconductors electric vehicles and medical devices will all be taxed extra as for china's retaliates three terraces drawn up a list of one hundred six u.s. products it plans to target they include imports of soybean cars whiskey and aircraft drop mcbride joins us live now from beijing so rob we know that the

terrorists of kicked in from the states to china when do they kick in going the other way. very good question peter we if this is a trade war if it has officially begun then it is a one sided one for the moment at least because as of this hour we still haven't had an official announcement from china that it will put in place its retaliatory list of tariffs as you mentioned there we are expecting that china has said that it will do that but what we did get within a few minutes of the deadline for the terrorists to start on the u.s. side we had a condemnation appearing on the website of the ministry of commerce saying that the united states would potentially starting one of the biggest trade wars in the history of the world trade organization the organization that governs world trade saying that yes it will be forced to fight back it will protect its industries and

saying that it will report this whole matter to the w t o we as you outlined there china has earmarked a whole list of u.s. products that it will place tariffs on matching exactly the same terrorists of twenty five percent that the u.s. imposed and to the same amount this figure of thirty four billion dollars they are products a lot of farm products are in there especially soybean pork there is also automobile parts other machinery and chemicals it has to be said thirty four billion dollars given the size of the world's two biggest economies does not equate to a huge amount but as you've mentioned there it is more the toke at the gesture and what it might lead to the united states has said that it is prepared to put tariffs on hundreds of billions dollars of more goods and china has said of course it will

match that all of this has not played very well to the general business sentiment stocks in china have been slightly down today by around a third of one percent in. shanghai that's not a great deal but then i think it's true to say that a lot of the pessimism has already been factored in with over the past couple of weeks prices share price is gradually going down as the realisation has set in that part from being a war of words this does not seem to be a trade war peace or rob thanks very much well despite warnings that the extra terrorists would do more harm than good donald trump has refused to back white house correspondent can really help at how small he already stands accused of implementing trade policies that mainly end harm the united states and its allies 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 back to 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 it's a loaf i mean we have tariffs on aluminum and steel it appears cars too 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 . for as long as the united states issues

a so-called tariff list china will take necessary measures to firmly protect the interests. u.s. 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 troubles 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. has taken to thailand because

one of the divers has been working to rescue a football team stranded in a flooded cave in the north of the country has died twelve boys and their coach have been trapped in chiang rai for almost two weeks now launching rains are just days away and the pipes and pumps are being taken in to drain millions of liters of water scott hietala 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 in that's why we're here this is the football field where 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. dozens of chinese tourists who went missing when their boat capsized off thailand's prepared highlands are believed to be trapped inside the sunken vessel that's according to the governor of pickaxe at least forty eight people were rescued after the accident on thursday the time for it is a sending divers to search for the fifty six people who are still unaccounted for the former leader of a doomsday cult that carried out a sarin gas attack in japan in one thousand nine hundred five has been executed. was hanged for the took you subway attack japanese media say six of his followers civil suit been executed thirteen people were killed and more than six thousand

were injured in cult members released the gas in five coordinated attacks on the city's metro system michael palin is president of the sing it soon news agency in japan he explains now why it took more than twenty years for the executions to happen. a trial and the. burden and we're now told that there were a number of appeals and passed them. execute anybody until all of the accomplices as well had all of their appeals exhausted and that's why we heard in january and here so basically after january we were part of expecting something that. nobody knows the whole apartment building where are the people who are going to be executed all the way that it works is that in get row all of the inmates and their lawyers and their relatives the authorities don't tell them when

the execution is coming so the seven people who are home this morning i have no idea it was probably last night just the guards sure that the door they were taken away to the home and that's when the system's function for a long time. still to come here on al-jazeera pointing the finger britain's interior minister demands an explanation from russia or after two people were contaminated with a nerve agent also ahead. we have the suffering ones we have to complete a brighter future for the future generations to come the battle for votes in zimbabwe candidate sign a key group of voters ahead of elections there. 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 shower 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 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 in capetown there with highs of nineteen degrees friday not much changes ahead on through into saturday for central parts of africa we've got plenty

of heavy showers here across parts of the down towards the gulf in the region and across west africa share it it is quite intense at the moment for the north it's largely dry in bamako in mali. captaining a leading used team at sixteen years old takes determination. add to that staying on top of your game at school. the whole family bands together and shares the sacrifices necessary for a son to have a shot at becoming a professional footballer. by tunisia the home game on a jersey about the.

watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour china's accuse the u.s. of launching quote the largest trade war in economic history rather reaction from beijing follows the u.s. position of tariffs on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese goods beijing says it plans to take countermeasures. one of the divers has been working to rescue a football team stranded in the flooded thailand has died was a death is believed to be a lack of oxygen the former navy seal was part of efforts to bring supplies to the twelve boys and their coach. and the former leader of a doomsday cult to carry out a gas attack in japan in one thousand nine hundred five has been executed. and six of his followers were hanged for releasing saharan into the tokyo metro system killing thirteen people. the u.s.

president donald trump has accepted the resignation of the head of his environment protection agency scott pruitt has been accused of misusing his office and public funds he also angered conservationists by rolling back the 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. mercurian 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. later 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. is the same as new york's food inspector being a rat with a clipboard he's there to take a good piece allana get the most money out of it it's 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. when 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 protests are you support i hope he's going to prove it leaves a legacy of unraveled regulations in unprecedented support among the regulated john hendren zero washington. 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 now 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 since syria and russia began their offensive in the iraq and queen three provinces more than two weeks ago sixty thousand displaced people are camped out a 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 the talks collapsed on weapons state prompting the escalation in fighting as in a hold on our explains from beirut rebels indeed 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 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. 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 that 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 a 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 continued to take ground moving closer to the jordanian border with the capture of the town of site 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 the revolutionaries managed to prevent assad's forces from advancing into toughest on salmon 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 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. beirut. turn our attention now to the u.k. where the home secretary is demanding answers from russia are after a man and woman were exposed to the nerve agent novacek the police believe dawn sturges and charlie really collapsed after they handled a contaminated item in a small town called amesbury that's near the city of souls it was there that a russian double agent and his daughter works out with nabil chalk samples being analyzed at the u.k. military's porton down chemical research laboratory which is halfway between the

amesbury and souls bre pizza shop is there. the couple remain in a critical condition at source 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 in a mystery twelve kilometers from salt break officials at porton down who had it done to fight the nerve agent as novacek 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 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.

and russia has dismissed all allegations of involvement as being merely speculative . at least twenty four people including emergency workers have been killed in a series of fireworks explosions near mexico city the aid agency the red cross says firefighters police and paramedics are among the dead it happened in the town of tool to patch which is known as mexico's fireworks capital at least thirty one people were injured and four warehouses have been destroyed. the french prime minister has called for calm after a second night of violence in the western city of moment because shops and a library were set on fire following the fatal shooting of a driver by the police during a traffic stop the officers being taken into custody for questioning is that. young people sent prior to cars buildings and fruit with riot police while dozens of firefighters battle blazes the second night of violence in nonce was sparked by the killing of a twenty two year old man by police on tuesday france's prime minister condemned

the unrest and said an investigation has started it is to see the cases in the hands of the justice system and it will do its work thorley and with full transparency because everyone wants to know exactly what happened and i will make sure this is the case the man killed was driving in this neighborhood when police stopped his car for a check police said he gave a fake identity than a properly reversed as if fleeing prompting another officer to open fire ridiculous said the fact that this individual has been judge jackson's june two thousand and seventeen off and the restaurant issued by the credit court for an organized group of criminals and maybe this will explain the logic behind the driver's attempt to flee and i think the. people here say tensions often run high between police and young people but the fatal shooting has shocked many. for a so-called routine traffic stop because it can happen to anyone to be pulled over

and asked for his papers in the car it should be simple maybe a search of something but i don't think there's a need for weapons the victim was from a paris suburb where nearly two hundred people have marched in protest against what they call police violence the concern for french authorities now is whether the arrest in new orleans will spread to the capital and to other cities it's actually butler al-jazeera. now there's been a show of force from the venezuelan president after reports of a potential invasion by the united states the military mountain dependence day celebrations with a parade in the capital caracas nicolas maduro troops to be vigilant after reports the us president asked his foreign policy advisers in august why he couldn't send forces into venezuela donald trump has branded matilda's government a corrupt left wing dictatorship will not get a feeling you're not 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 a period. political candidates in zimbabwe are trying to attract younger voters who make up the majority of the electorate how has more now from the capital harare on this month's election the first since the veteran president robert mugabe was deposed eight months ago. linda is one of several young zimbabweans running for office in the general election at the end of july she wants to win a seat in parliament the thirty six year old says the youth should stop complaining about how bad things are and do something to save the country the biggest mistake that the older generation has done is that. it's always been about self

aggrandizement and what they'll get out of it but we have the suffering ones we have to create a brighter future for the future generations to come the parliamentary and presidential elections will be the first since robert mugabe resigned last year appealing to young voters is crucial for perspective m.p.'s sixty percent of the more than five million registered voters under fifty jobs are scarce many try to in a living selling second hand goods on the street there are no reliable opinion polls or the outcome of the general election is hard to predict the rulings on it here party has won every election since ninety eight among the frustrations with voters is a poor state of the economy president emma said when i got what took over after the army for some bob was former president out the government recently open was described as an empowerment bank which the president hopes will help young people get loans so they start their own businesses. to.

we are really rather like this. to come challenge the elections are seen as a battle between the younger generation and the old guard such as when and who's seventy five years old his main rival opposition leader nelson chamisa is fourteen he's telling voters corruption and the crippling shortage of back notes will end if he becomes president but the youth vote isn't one hundred much in this group young world is divided into two. i'm stronger persuaded that the opposition as urban youth votes and the rural youth vote might dislike for the only parts linda is looking forward to the elections and wants more young people to actively

participate in politics. she believes young new blood is what it's. there. this is al jazeera these are the top stories china's accuse the us of launching quotes the largest trade war in economic history the reaction from beijing follows the us imposing tariffs on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese goods brought has more now from beijing. donald trump has promised that he may well put terrorists on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of more products china has said it will retaliate in kind all of this is not very good for business sentiment share prices have fallen only slightly here in china but it follows the last couple of weeks which have seen

a gradually share prices moving downwards as people have realised that what was just a war of words is now materializing into a trade war one of the divers who's been working to rescue a football team stranded in a flooded cave in thailand has died the former navy seals death was because of a lack of oxygen he was part of the efforts to bring supplies to the twelve boys and their coach dozens of chinese tourists have been missing since the boat overturned off thailand's prepared islands are believed to be trapped inside the sunken vessel that's according to the local governor forty eight people were rescued after the accident on thursday the former leader of a doomsday cult that carried out a gas attack in japan in one thousand nine hundred five has been executed shock or sahara and six of his followers were hanged for releasing saharan into tokyo's metro system killing thirteen people britain's home secretary has called on russia to explain itself after a man and woman collapse from exposure to a nerve agent in southern england the couple fell ill close to salzburg where

a former russian spy and his daughter were targeted with the same substance novacek syrian forces backed by russia pressing on with their offensive to capture the country's southwest they've bombarded rebel held areas around iraq with hundreds of air strikes the u.n. says the lives of three quarters of a million people are at risk. donald trump has accepted the resignation office environment chief off a series of scandals scott pruitt was under fire in recent months for his spending habits and accusations of a misuse of office. you are right up to speed with all the top stories the news continues here on al-jazeera off to my tune is here i will see you very soon. the story of a friendship between a filmmaker and a seven year old girl but this is me. giving to her a few cheap being the syrian war. in the face of deep rooted tension between the

lebanese and the refugees. my syrian friend. bisect on al-jazeera. going to say. that in the stuff in the stores. and a high living lives here almost that's just.