russia takes on a new role securing syria's border with jordan as a deal is reached for rebel forces to withdraw. hello i'm maryam namazie this is al jazeera live from london also coming up washington's multibillion dollar tariffs on china take effect prompting fury from beijing state media compares the trumpet ministration to a gang of hoodlums. japan executes a cult leader and six followers behind a deadly gas attack on the subway more than twenty years later. in france advanced french football fans celebrate as live week here and quite reach

the wells cup semifinal. opposition forces in syria southern province of agree to a cease fire deal brokered by russia figes of agree to hand over their heavy weapons in exchange they'll be given safe passage to rebel areas in the north of the country russian military police will be deployed to guarantee the safe passage the russians rather than president assad's forces will also be involved in securing a key border crossing with jordan there is bennett smith reports now from jordan syria or. for the first time in three years the syrian regime is back in control of its from two with jordan this military convoy flying russian and syrian flags rumbled towards the nasi border crossing minutes after opposition fighters agreed to surrender terms they had little choice in the face of overwhelming russian

firepower the fighters will hand over heavy weapons and thousands of them and their families will be given safe passage to opposition held areas in the north of syria syrian government forces swept through down a province backed up by russian as strikes but as part of the surrender terms they'll leave for villages they captured earlier these and the rest of the border area will be supervised by the russian military for bashar al assad it was a small price to pay for taking back the border this is a vital trade route that the regime would eventually want to reopen with jordanian agreement data covers most of the area held by the opposition in southwest syria one of their last remaining strongholds they still hold kinetic province at the front it would be israeli occupied golan heights recovering control of this area because our side's next goal. nearly three weeks of fighting which data has displaced more than three hundred thirty thousand syrians according to the u.n.

tens of thousands of them headed to the jordanian border where they've been stuck with little or no access to food water and sanitation. the jordanian government says the return of syrians massed along its border is now a priority and those displaced people will need to feel confident that it's safe to return home so the jordanians say they've discussed guarantees with concerned parties that's the russians who will be expected to protect the syrians from any fear regime reprisals burnitz with al-jazeera on the jordan syria border. european powers have been meeting with iran in vienna to try to salvage the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal it's the first time they've come together since the u.s. controversially pulled out of the agreement earlier this year but foreign ministers appeared to make no concrete breakthrough in their efforts to provide to iran with an economic package to compensate for u.s. sanctions let's go through the starfish did this or that we will not be able to

compensate for everything that arises from companies pulling out of iran which feel their american business is threatened by sanctions for companies which still want to invest we would like to keep payment options open and create securities with an extended mandate of the european investment bank due to the u.s. sanctions the situation has become difficult but we try to make clear to iran the completely abandoning the deal would cause even more harm to iran's economy therefore i hope we will move a step further today by making it clear to iran that we will deliver as far as that is possible. a trade war between the world's largest economies has officially begun with the u.s. and china imposing huge tariffs on each other washington fired the first shot with tariffs on forty four billion dollars worth of chinese goods by aging is accused president donald trump of starting the largest trade war in economic history state

media even comparing his administration to a gang of hoodlums from beijing rob mcbride reports. china has always said it will match any u.s. tariff with its own at the ministry of foreign affairs briefing just hours after the us terrorists were imposed china promised to be true to its word searches are i want to stress that we never want to see the escalation of trade frictions into a trade war a trade war is the last thing we want to see because as we've said many times no one country will benefit. 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 his 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 the u.s. competitors 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 tariffs on use microchips that are designed and made in the u.s. so those companies will also be hits. it's thought the u.s. is imposing tariffs to punish china for what it says are unfair trade practices and stealing american intellectual property rights but attending

a gathering of sixteen central and east european leaders. garia chinese premier league coach earned said foreign firms were safe in china so. our view is that trade war is never a solution china would never start a trade war but if any party resorts to increase of tariffs then china will take measures in response to protect the interests uphold the authority of the world trade organization and see if the multinational trade order as relations with the u.s. continue to serve child is readers appear to make new friends wherever they can robert bright al-jazeera beijing. let's go live to our white house correspondent ken lay how it in washington in just picking up on some of the points you were hearing there are reports are there fears or concerns there in washington about how this might unfold. it doesn't appear initially that there are sort of broad fears about how this might unfold outside of the business community the

business community itself is very concerned because donald trump is very clear this is the beginning of an escalation with china we know that in two weeks there will be another sixteen billion of chinese imports subject to additional penalties and then after that if there is not sort of sufficient yielding in terms of the the desire of donald trump to try and get a better trade policy in place with regard to the exchange of goods back and forth with china then there will be another two hundred billion and after that another three hundred billion that could be in terms of chinese imports that could be subjected to additional trade penalties so this is certainly significant this is the business community very concerned because as rob bride reported there there are a number of american companies operating inside china that could be hurt by all of this but here's what you have to understand donald trump promised this he promises on the campaign trail he announced it in april said it would be coming and gave the

both sort of nations opportunity to have these high level talks that have been going on for weeks but ultimately was determined by the united states they were progressing fast enough and as a result we've seen this action unilaterally. outside of the. plans and the fact that he was in advance that this was going to happen why else is the trump administration taking this action now. yeah couple of reasons first of all the u.s. congress has been slow to act on an issue that has been pressing in the eyes of both democrats and republicans for years and that is the concern that there has been intellectual property theft on the part of u.s. companies who are creating ideas as the united states alleges it's being stolen by china now it's not just the u.s. alleging this in fact there are countries around the world but collectively they have not been able to come up with a solution to remedy it congress did have time in recent weeks to try and come up

with something it didn't so that's the first reason but the second reason has a lot to do maryam with domestic politics that's what's really at play here donald trump's getting a lot of strong poll numbers for his confrontational approach when it comes to immigration and he's decided to take a similar approach when it comes to trade because we have those november congressional elections looming and the president is very concerned about how the makeup of the congress could go in those elections so he seems to think that this is the way to play it out the problem is what's happening in the midst of all of this is the short term calculation the long term could be devastating because what we're seeing happen in all of this is really an up ending of the global trade rules that have been in place for a half century thank you very much committee i'll get in washington. when i'm members of the cabinet here in the u.k. meeting what's expected to be marathon talks as they attempt to resolve their differences over bricks it prime minister to resign may appeal to ministers to perform a head of just cautions and

a country of residence pressure is increasingly made to unite government of the plans to leave the blog with the march twenty nine hundred deadline fast approaching. to thailand now i want to the divers helping with the cave rescue of the trapped youth football team has died a former navy seal lost consciousness on his way out of the cave he had been delivering oxygen tanks to the tall teenage boys and their coach rescuers have been in a race against time to extract the team as monsoon rains a forecast of the next few days scott hyder is at a rescue site in chiang rai so mancow don was a retired navy seal diver who was brought back to help with the operation to rescue the stranded football team and their coach he was part of the seal team with the british divers who found the boys' early friday morning he was ferrying air tanks deep in the cave he passed out on the water a fellow diver pulled him out and attempted to resuscitate him he died from lack of oxygen his death underlines just how risky the conditions are it takes six hours to

reach the boys and their coach and involves a series of complicated dives the effort to find another way to get them out is picking up pace by the drilling is ongoing on the western side of the mountain and aiming to reach the location where the boys were found we can't yet to pinpoint exactly cation using global positioning systems otherwise we could drill into the cave and bring them out. but another team is specifically focused on finding their location above ground using technology and equipment that can detect fault lines underground. because we descended receive wife signals we can gather information that can be used to find the boy's location in the cave from above the ground even with all the technology being deployed and the hundreds of rescuers working around the clock the biggest threat remains to be something that nobody has any control over the weather one heavy rainfall could undo days of work and the families continue their wait at the mouth of the cave hoping for

a communication line with the boys in the coach to be completed it was supposed to be up and running days ago scott how to al-jazeera. much more still ahead for you on the program police in the u.k. a race to find the source of the deadly nerve agent as the latest victims remain in critical condition. climate change is blamed for escalating conflict in nigeria as the fight of thailand and war intensifies. welcome back as we take a look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia we've sort of a few showers in the east but otherwise the main features a very hot weather across iraq certainly for busser we could well see temperatures again in excess of fifty degrees these aside to the mediterranean generally weather

conditions looking dry and find we have got some really heavy showers across the caucuses where we've had some extremely hot weather in recent days record breaking conditions and i think some big storms may cool to cool things down but it could be some flash flooding associated with those moving down into the arabian peninsula it's pretty quiet here at the moment we've got to find conditions everywhere temperatures into low forty's forty five here in doha temperatures stuck around about forty to forty three mark but with very high humidity a moment with very light winds and then moving across into southern portions of africa we have some showers for the from mozambique further south it's looking fine for much of cape town and northwards through and the maybe a towards zambian zimbabwe all akin try and find term which is nothing special really for this time of the year and then into central parts of africa a few showers across the central belt but it's west africa where we're seeing the bulk of the heavy showers and see the showers extending as far north as liberia guinea and guinea bissau.

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welcome back a quick look at the top stories now opposition forces in syria have been battered by a massive government offensive since mid june in southern dare i have agreed to a cease fire deal brokered by russia. china has accused u.s. president donald trump of starting the biggest trade war in history with the world's two largest economies imposing tariffs on each other. and in thailand one of the divers helping with the cave rescue of the trapped youth football team has died a former navy seal lost consciousness on his way out of the cave. when all the news the french president has retreated his call for an end to the saudi that blockade against castle he's been holding talks with the country and they're in paris. we've heard many political messages from the emir of qatar to me but how about fanny and french president eman well. with her. expressing his sort of diety with the qatar is against the backdrop of the embargo imposed by saudi arabia the united

arab emirates egypt qatar and also a commitment from both parties to move forward when it comes to consolidating political economic and military cooperation in december the time the analysis and friends signed a multi-billion dollar deal the deal comprises the purchase qatar of fighter jets and also armed vehicles now france has also expressed in the past a desire to be able to get involved in the choir says and encourage all the parties to negotiate a political settlement but that is not likely to happen anytime soon we've heard reports about saudi arabia asking the front government to interfere and stop the purchase of a s four hundred anti-aircraft missile system that qatar intends to buy from the own going tension and escalation is an indication that we're not likely to see

any way out of the crisis in in the g.c.c. crisis but from a political perspective for qatar and its emir shift i mean one hundred thirty the most important at this particular moment is to consolidate political relationships with key player in the players in the world to send a signal that qatar is breaking the embargo imposed imposed on it by saudi arabia and these are lies. israel's supreme court has suspended the demolition of some palestinian homes in the occupied west bank on thursday thirty five people were injured and eleven detained in han as they fought with security forces to prevent their homes from being raised rights groups say israel is attempting to clear the area of palestinian homes to allow for the expansion of illegal settlements the un and the e.u. say the demolition would be a would have been a violation of international law authorities want to relocate residents to a village near a landfill site police in the u.k.

are frantically trying to find the source of a nerve agent that has poisoned two people authorities believe dawn sturgis and charlie rally collapsed after they handled a contaminated item in the small town of amesbury that's near the city of salzburg where russian double agent sergei script ball and his daughter were attacked with the same chemical in march a number of sites are being searched in the town where the couple fell ill be to shop has more now on the police investigation from salisbury. what tendering the police and counterterrorism officers in this operation is the fact that novacek the nerve agent has a dangerously long shelf life it was first deployed in march against the ski poles now four months later it's remained as deadly as ever the couple fours and on saturday are critically ill police said they can't rule out that more people could fall ill if they get in contact with the nerve agent the police are working on the

strong assumption that the couple made contact with the nerve agent at a location that was not part of the multi-million pound cleanup operation that lasted weeks here and if that's the case the police are no closer to finding the actual location of the nerve agent. the leader of the japanese james de cult that was behind the one thousand nine hundred five chemical attack on tokyo subway has been executed as well as six of his followers at least thirteen people were killed and thousands more injured when sarin nerve gas was released in several underground stations fadi salaam as well from tokyo. it was one of the longest and most complex criminal trials in japan's history authorities have executed choko asada the leader of a religious group called. which slows the sarin gas attack on several talk your subway stations in march one thousand nine hundred ninety five. at least fifteen

people were killed in that attack and thousands were injured some of them with berman and disabilities it was japan's biggest attack since the end of forde war two. hundred or sentenced to death in two thousand and four but his execution was delayed because of complications after he claimed insanity during the trial. some welcomed his execution by long with six of his followers who carried i would better . do to name one of us today i'm glad that the execution was finally done because it will bring peace to the souls of the victims who have been waiting for justice for twenty three years little. but the execution of us one hundred doesn't end the story of former group which had done his summated ten thousand members its followers established a new religious group eighteen years ago under the name of a life which has no about one thousand members. how does execution has reminded

some citizens here of the dangers of some groups that are trying to spread their ideas especially among young people they are smart they are things. most young people do not have strong religious backgrounds that make it easy to control their ideas therefore our universities constantly send messages to us that we must stay away from extremist ideas and be careful not to fall victim to them he did it . very lucius a group that succeeded or says it doesn't promote assad as violent approach but this has not listen then this surveillance of its members by the japanese police who lost the raid on their headquarters at the same time as assad was execution the execution of course right up puts an end to another long chapter in the one nine hundred ninety five starting guys attack incident and it reminds the japanese authorities of how vulnerable the country could be to terrorist attacks but he said

our margins here are talking. a court in pakistan has given a ten year jail sentence to ousted prime minister nawaz sharif in a corruption case is daughter received a seven year jail term both were found guilty of buying luxury as properties in london with undeclared income sixty seven year old was removed from office last year over other corruption allegations and banned from politics for life come on hyder is in islamabad. i have been full of protests. showing the anger the ruling of the national accountability court which are taking over nine months. at a conclusion then painting mr sharif to ten year then president had ordered to seven years in prison and a son in law gap two hundred. to one year in prison now no washo dever and also said to be fined eight million pounds his daughter marian know was getting awarded a candidate for the upcoming election two million pounds fine they did indeed

a landmark wardak by the national accountability court mr sharif and adored are now have to appeal within eight days to file an appeal but they really have to do so or alter surrendering themselves judio targeting it is going to be important to see where that mr trevor now returned from england to lead his party through the election retired you on the grainy fifth of july if you don't know it of course really in a heavy political price. for political uncertainty for august on a ridge down being yes war as far as the people of pakistan are concerned that accountability much before all and it should be across the board and should also include all the political party leader. the u.s. secretary of state is in north korea to discuss the country's plans to dismantle its nuclear program it's his first visit to pyongyang since the historic summit

last month between president truong and the north korean leader kim jong un also discussed the remains of u.s. troops missing from the korean war on his two day visit. protesters have been rallying in the south korean capital seoul to protest against a court's refusal to issue an arrest warrant for the chairman of korean airlines among those demonstrating were allies staff want young hota stepped down cho is under investigation for embezzlement and tax evasion but he judged on thursday will the charges were open to disputes and the coolness guarantee his right to defense. at least two hundred people have been killed in an escalating conflict in central nigeria over fur thailand hundreds have been forced to flee their homes as indigenous farmers battle cattle herders a growing population climate change and a scarcity of third of exacerbated this conflict i might address has more now from just in nigeria's plateau state. orphaned by

a conflict she knows nothing about this toddler fighting for life was brought to hospital with broken limbs in standpoint our parents didn't survive the the old villages in troublous were all affected by a conflict that many years old was over after three year break it came of the very rude shock to me that this same community would visit. attacks again and was will lead to these number of killings in blood is that there must be total investigation on us the root cause of these guys it may be beyond what was the government responded by deploying more troops but that hasn't stopped the flow of refugees. but only could areas husband was a casualty he didn't leave when others fled she's in causal.

group neurons will burn in labor i feel powerless without him knowing that i don't know what will happen to me or the kids who are in school i don't know what we will do this is the grave of the only picked him of the attack on fish witnesses say when the religious sense they moved us in from the kitchen protected by the security forces but many vulnerable villages once or lucky eighty four people were killed in the attacks of last of days but community leaders insist the total is more than two hundred. curiously the crisis in the central state of plateau is between two ethnic groups the biro who are mostly farmers and the floody had been blame each other for igniting the conflict the full unease jihadist came behind the church with a number more than a hundred people in blood of a block and they came. from last august

to today we lost over two hundred fifty possums cyclical is some underwrote some in the reordering field and so most of us we continue receiving these killings and killings and killing. the government just blamed for its failure to protect the weak either for political expediency or the failure of the security apparatus to deal with the violence like in most nigerian states affected by killings this year the conflict center mainly on land resources the population has grown so has the demand for food and with the effects of climate change becoming more real the fight over land and water has intensified. again you also say that with nigeria's campaign season opening politicians i exported the situation to their advantage. al-jazeera central nigeria.

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then president assad's forces will also be involved in securing a key border crossing with jordan but it smith has more. assad wants warm day soon to be able to reopen our border crossing the significant trade route allows him to be to start rebuilding syria some time further down the line we know that effective the effectively this is

a surrender by opposition forces and over the last few days the terms of those surrenders as you've talked about the terms of the surrender been being discussed china's accuse us president donald trump of starting the biggest trade war in economic history with the world's two largest economies imposing huge tariffs on each other washington fired the first shot with tariffs on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese goods members of the cabinet here in the u.k. a meeting what are expected to be marathon talks as they attempt to resolve their differences over bracks it prime minister to resign may appeal to ministers to perform their juicy head of discussions at a country residence european powers have been meeting with iran in vienna to try to salvage the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal is the first time they've come together since the u.s. controversially pulled out of the agreement earlier this year in thailand one of the divers helping with the cave rescue of the trapped youth football team has died a former navy seal lost consciousness on his way out of the cave it been delivering

oxygen tanks to the top of teenage boys and their coach and the leader of the japanese doomsday cult that was behind the one thousand nine hundred five chemical attack on tokyo subway has been executed as well as six of his followers at least thirteen people were killed and thousands more injured when sarin nerve gas was released in several underground stations or as the top stories i will be back in about twenty five minutes time with the news hour do join me then coming up next it's inside story with a look behind the day's headlines. the

u.s. imposes tariffs china responds in kind but is the growing trade war a sign that something deeper and more unsettling is happening to the global system of rules and institutions this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian for the last week it was europe this week china step by step us president donald trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum a taking effect and countries around the world are responding but the issue isn't just about trade president trying talks about winning of what he calls better deals but it often seems like his real target is the web of international institutions and alliances that have evolved in the.