more than thirty billion dollars in u.s. tariffs on china kicks in and donald trump is threatening to raise it to five hundred billion dollars. in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a former time navy seal dies trying to rescue the trapped football team and their coach from a flood in a. mounting pressure of a series of scandals forces scott pruett to resign as head of the u.s. environmental agency. and more than twenty years after sarin gas attack in japan that killed thirteen people a cult leader some of his followers are executed. china

has responded with. just hours after the trumpet ministration impose duties with thirty four billion dollars on chinese imports beijing as accused washington of launching the largest trade war in economic history china has also called the u.s. a trade bully with a tit for tat terms of set the stage for a prolonged showdown between the world's two biggest economies are rob mcbride joins us live now from beijing rob so not surprisingly the chinese have responded. they have indeed daryn it's come within the past hour or so at the regular ministry of foreign affairs briefing a spokes person confirming that china will retaliate with its own list of terrorists it is what has been expected and it is what china had always promised that it would meet any u.s. tariffs head on with exactly the same level of tariffs only exactly the same

quantity of products and produce going back and forth it follows on from earlier very strong statements from the chinese just after the u.s. terrorists were announced they were announced here midday friday beijing time within a couple of minutes of the confirmation that the u.s. was going ahead with these tariffs the ministry of commerce came out with its own condemnation saying that the u.s. is guilty of the possibly starting the worst ever trade war and promising to fight back. china has always promised it will match exactly u.s. tariffs with its own list thirty four billion dollars worth of goods will be affected from farm products to automobiles chemicals and medical equipment as those u.s. products become more expensive china has been looking for other countries to supply them china has been trying their hardest to diversify suppliers of energy of

agricultural products especially when all the heat focused on saudi being on china has been boosted its investment in a lot of other unconventional countries for soybean exports such as russia in so doing say critics of the u.s. policy beijing has been forging deeper trade links with u.s. competitors so there will be no winners the question is will there be something lose more than anybody else right now though it looks like the united states is doing the opposite of what it intended it is in essence rallied the entire world against it and u.s. tariffs could ultimately hurt u.s. firms as well as chinese that's because far from being a straightforward take for tat easily winnable trade war it's complicated for example some of the chinese semiconductors the u.s. is putting terrorists on use microchips that are designed and made in the u.s. so those companies will also be hit what's more some of the chinese firms targeted

are actually foreign owned including by some u.s. companies. the u.s. measures are attacking global supply in the value chains to put it simply. opening fire on the entire world including itself. china suspects this is about far more than trade and that the u.s. is trying to thwart its ambitions of becoming a high tech manufacturer to challenge one day the dominance of the united states now tariffs on thirty four billion dollars worth of trade on each side is pretty small stuff there and when you compare it to the size of the world's two biggest economies but of course it's the threat of the we are getting into a deepening trade war which worries many people in the business community here it has to be said the shanghai stock market actually ended business slightly up on the day but that's after the past couple of weeks where we've seen the market heading

steadily in a downward direction largely fueled by fears of a growing trade war and there is concern that nerves will be set jangling even more and you can expect to see a much bigger downturns in the markets if we start to get into a second much bigger round of terrorists or to rob a bribe then beijing rob thank you well and decades head of research on international trade at china policy he says there's to uncertainty in beijing over donald trump's motivation for starting the trade war. a few weeks ago they thought it was about tariffs but this is not really affecting china it's not punishing them then they thought it was about china's industrial policy but the tactic for that is all saw not making sense and then they thought it was about a power game of influence with a new trade will see in the future and that's also a lot of make sense because then the u.s. will team up with their allies and now they worry if this is even more serious if

this is an attack on china's institutions the communist party china's culture their way of life also on the chinese side they are not really worried about the effects on their overall economy but they are concerned about certain interest groups certain cities who might be exposed to these export industries now they're answer is to increase domestic consumption diversify say to other countries and restructure their economy which has been their plan for many years already anyway so this trade war doesn't change their. national strategy in thailand one of the divers helping with the rescue of a boy's football team trapped in a cave has died a former navy seal lost consciousness and a lack of oxygen on his way out of the cave had been delivering oxygen tanks to the twelve boys and their coach rescuers on

a race against time to get the team out with monsoon rains forecast for the weekend . if it is to do put is so dangerous that a former seal died in that. does that not mean it is too dangerous to bring children through yes yes yes so it might. be. everything for the. best the big three. has more 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. and in southern thailand the bodies of fifteen chinese tourists have been recovered off the resort island of puke it they were in a boat that capsized in rough seas on thursday with one hundred five people on board navy seals are continuing their search for forty people who are missing. u.s. president donald trump has accepted the resignation of the head of the environmental protection agency scott pruitt had been accused of misusing his office and public money john hendren has more from washington. scott pruitt was the

environmental regulator industry ollie's 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 produce 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. 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 aides 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 be great pruitt leaves a legacy of unraveled regulations an unprecedented support among the regulated john hendren al-jazeera washington tough break here not just iraq when we come back. it is now time that the russian state comes forward and explains exactly what has gone on britain points the finger at russia again and says on the poisoning of an english couple more that say this. i. mean the weather sponsored by.

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welcome back to the top stories here on al-jazeera china has responded with a retaliatory tariffs just hours after the trump of ministration imposed duties with thirty four billion dollars on chinese imports beijing's accused washington of launching the largest trade war in economic history china's also called the u.s. . in thailand one of the divers helping with the rescue of a boy's football team. a former navy seal lost consciousness from a lack of oxygen on his way out of the cave he'd been delivering oxygen tanks to the twelve boys and their coach. and u.s. president donald trump has accepted the resignation of the head of the environmental protection agency. had been accused of misusing his office and public

. now a new round of talks is set to begin in southern syria between opposition rebels and russia which is that which is allied to the government of president bashar al assad it comes after assad's forces backed by russian airpower gained more ground in the contested province of there are their offensive launched more than two weeks ago a force more than three hundred twenty thousand people to flee their homes many of headed for nearby borders but have been refused entry by israel and jordan was in a hotel is monitoring the situation in syria from neighboring lebanon and she joins us live now from the capital beirut news that the warring sides are going to sit down and talk again so what's on the agenda and is there any chance something will actually come out of this meeting. well a new round of talks a jordanian mediation succeeded in bringing the warring sides back to the negotiating table we have to remember on wednesday the rebels walked out of the talks and said these conditions that the russian military is demanding of us are really unacceptable and humiliating so now they're back at the negotiating table

what we understand is that there is some common ground we have spoken to opposition they go shaders and what they've told us is that the focus of these talks are going to be on the issue of handing over heavy weapons now in principle the opposition is ready to hand over their heavy weapons but they don't want to hand them over in one go they want to hand them over in phases as the government restores control over rebel controlled towns and villages it is some sort of a guarantee that the rebels are demanding at the same time a we understand is that six thousand fighters along with their family members they are requesting safe passage to leave that out and head to the north of the country to other rebel controlled areas in the north of the country this is the first time we're hearing of you know this demand for safe passage and according to the opposition the russian military in principle is accepting accepting for this to happen now of course the number of six thousand could change the bottom line is this the opposition is in a very difficult position it has been abandoned by its allies it's surrounded they

have lost a lot of ground now seventy percent of that are provinces under government control and since yesterday the government really has been making advances on the ground so a new round of talks and it seems that there is some common ground and there could be a deal say no thank you. britain's home secretary is demanding answers from russia after a man and a woman are exposed to the nerve agent not a jog police believe that dawn sturgis and charlie riley collapsed off the handle of a contaminated item in the small town of ames re well that's near the city of salzburg where russian double agents script on his door to unia touch with the same chemical peter shop reports. 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 dawn sturgis and charlie rally both in their forty's collapse in a house of a mystery twelve kilometers from salt break officials at porton down who had it done to fire 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'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 show up al-jazeera in salzburg the french prime minister has called for calm after a second night of violence in the western city of knocked cars shops and a library was set on fire following the fatal shooting of a driver by the police during a traffic stop the officers since been taken into custody for questioning to talk about reports. from young people set fire to cars buildings and fruit with riot

police while dozens of firefighters battle blazes the second night of violence unarmed 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 just he says the case is 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 happens 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 say he gave a fake identity then a properly reversed as if fleeing prompting another officer to open fire ridiculous said the fact that this individual has been joe jackson's june two thousand and seventeen from the restaurant issued by the creative court for organized robbery was a group of criminals that maybe this would explain the logic behind the driver's attempt

to flee. 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 or 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 norm's will spread to the capital and to other cities it's actually bottler al jazeera. venezuela's president nicolas maduro has put its armed forces on guard after reports of a potential invasion by the u.s. last august president donald trump asked as foreign policy advisers why he couldn't send forces into venezuela is branded materials government a corrupt left wing dictatorship during independence day sermon on wednesday medea urged his troops to remain vigilant. according to syria

fisher donald trump insisted various times during a private meeting with the president of colombia with other allied right wing presidents one by one the cumbersome so they would accept his idea of military intervening in venezuela we rejected this we repudiated this at the time and to our national armed forces admirals generals you cannot let your guard down not for one second. years ago the saugor of thirty three chilean miners trapped in a cave captivated the world after spending two months underground they defied all the odds and were rescued alive well now as the world watches again to see the fate of the football players trapped in thailand the miners are offering messages of support america reports. these days. tourists the site where he and thirty two other chilean miners were trapped for

seventy days 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 it would look like a space capsule it was dubbed the biggest rescue operation in history today can't help identifying the twelve 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 find their football players and give them mental physical strength it certainly helped me. this psychologist to help to chill. when 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 a close a mine 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 and not the remarkable rescue of those trapped

underground the sea and human in the at that time a desert chile. now the former leader of a japanese doomsday cult that carried out a sarin gas attack in one thousand nine hundred five has been executed jocasta hora was the first to be hanged for the tokyo subway attack japanese media say six of his followers have also been executed thirteen people were killed and more than six thousand injured and cult members released the gas and five coordinated attacks on the city's metro lines let's go live now to al jazeera was forty salma in tokyo who's outside one of those metro stations that was attacked in ninety ninety five saudi so what's been the reaction in japan following news of the executions of this cult leader and his followers. actually they were mixed reaction people who were kind of surprised by this news from the morning. this this court. this case has been going on for about twenty years now and in two thousand and

fourteen. that followers they were sentenced to death but they were not executed so people are shocked that this new this new is not the reminded them of this accident which was the largest terrorist attack on japan since the second world war and for people who are following this story it wasn't so sort of bright because a few months ago exactly in march the japanese police they transmitted the thirteen that in business to what sentence do it secure they move them around in several detention centers around japan and this is. this is kind of action that would be full of use when you're with execution of such people so this is the only action that we're going to be able to live in but a matter of them that we have witnessed tight security you know specially in this area which i'm standing in this is called because the station which was one of the

stations documents that place in fact and just one hundred meters from here. very on the right side there. what a minute just near to that is the national police agency so this is a very secure area usually you know we have seen border security and actually do they. also they do. it's going to get all but they're going to addition that. one of. them will find if i thought in terms of the general security situation how is japan dealing with the threat of attacks especially with a twenty twenty lympics coming out. exactly this is a very important issue is about who has been preparing to host this lympics and indeed when they won last name from david center and then find they say that. tokyo is one of the safest cities in the world and they want to show their commitment to this by doing more and more details i guess that is the facts and this time they

chose to define that won't if you like that there's a ban is that security city and god knows what this there is that twenty thirty years ago there will be always security and safe funny thank you for. these twenty four people including emergency workers have been killed off to file extolled in for warehouses exploded near mexico city the red cross says firefighters police and paramedics are among the dead it happened in the town of tal to pick which is known as mexico's final its capital at least thirty one others were injured. the spanish city of pump lona has launched an app to help prevent sexual assault at the annual running of the bulls festival it's a bit of pushback against calls to boycott the event which begins on friday users will be able to report crimes to police by pressing a button that sends the location on it police say they've been cracking down on

sexual abuse over the past few years. all the news of course on our website there what is on his screen all the latest on those trade towers in the u.s. and china address al-jazeera dot com. dot com. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera china has responded with terrorist just hours after the trumpet ministration impose duties with thirty four billion dollars on chinese imports beijing is accused washington of launching the biggest trade war in economic history china's also called the u.s. a trade bully bright as more from beijing clearly people in this part of the world are nervous we've seen stock prices only fall very slightly today but it has to be said that all of this negative sentiment has been feeding into the market and we have been seeing share prices generally go in

a downward direction over the past couple of weeks in thailand one of the divers helping with the rescue of a boy's football team trapped in a cave has died the former navy seal lost consciousness and a lack of oxygen on his way out of the cave he'd been delivering oxygen tanks to the twelve boys and their coach and in southern thailand the bodies of fifteen chinese tourists have been recovered of the resort island of paquette they were in a boat that capsized in rough seas on thursday with one hundred five people on board navy seals are continuing their search for fourteen people who are missing. u.s. president donald trump has accepted the resignation of the head of the environmental protection agency scott pruitt had been accused of misusing his office and public funds. and a new round of talks is set to begin in southern syria between opposition rebels and russia which is allied to the government of president bashar al assad comes off to assad's forces backed by russian air support gain more ground in the contested province of. their offensive launch more than two weeks ago has forced more than

three hundred twenty thousand people to flee their homes many of headed for nearby borders but refused entry by israel and jordan the former leader of a japanese doomsday cult that carried out a sarin gas attack in one thousand nine hundred five has been executed jocasta haro was the first to be hanged for the tokyo subway attack japanese media say six of his followers have also been executed thirteen people were killed and more than six thousand injured when cult members released the gas and five coordinated attacks on the city's metro lines. all right those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the street station thousand watching buffet al. jazeera. swear every.

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