cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. zero. hello i'm maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes russia takes on a new role securing syria's border with jordan as a deal is reached for rebel forces to withdraw. washington's multi-billion dollar tariffs on china take effect prompting fury from beijing state media compares the trumpet ministration to a gang of hoodlums. and the death of a former navy diver helping to rescue a football team trapped inside

a cave in thailand raises serious doubts over just how safe it is to bring the boys out. and with all the latest from the world cup where france's first team to reach the semifinals they beat your guide to anelka and will face either brazil or belgium with that quarterfinal match just kicking off. welcome to the program our top story opposition forces in syria's southern province of agreed to a cease fire deal brokered by russia fight has a agree to hand over their heavy weapons in exchange they'll be given safe passage to rebel areas in the north russian military police will be deployed to guarantee the safe passage and the russians rather than president assad's forces will also be involved in securing a key border crossing with jordan al-jazeera and it smith reports now from jordan

syria border. 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 connla province at the front or with the israeli occupied golan heights recovering control of this area because our side's next goal. nearly three weeks of fighting but 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 but the russians will be expected to protect the syrians from any fear regime reprisals burnitz with al-jazeera on the jordan syria border. well joining

me now is tell her a researcher at university of exeter strategy and security it's you thanks very much for coming in to speak to us so we have a development here with the cat capture of this border crossing politically and economically important but if we just go back a bit how did the capture of the nessie border crossing in two thousand and fifteen impact series economy and president assad given that at the time he had also lost control of the town's border crossing with iraq i mean when you look at the border crossings and what's been going on there for the past several years is literally kind of it's a symbolic and representative of the complete disintegration of the sort of state so if you cannot control your own borders and you've got the rebel forces controlling various border crossings with us with iraq or jordan or turkey what does that say about use a government which is you know to say that everyone internationally is looking at the assad regime thinking you can get a grip on this of course with the introduction of the russian intervention tide has changed completely in assad's favor and he's now reclaiming the border crossings

saying this is my state i'm now controlling this area and speaking of that the crucial turning point of russian intervention in two thousand and fifteen would you say that then for the last few years since then that the fighting apart from what we saw in violence in dare and violence in the golan heights that in southern syria it was perhaps less so less intense than in other parts of the country i think that's also part of the overall russian strategy in terms of. winning a victory in detail so that they want kind of going all over the place in different regions they were focusing on priority areas first so mainly for example. that was a key battleground in other areas around the country so it's kind of winning things piecemeal and then building up to kind of centralizing all of the rebel forces in libya and that will be kind of where the hammer falls on the anvil and now we have the. jordan syria border crossing it's going to be for the time being

secured by russian troops but how long might it take before this border crossing is open presumably there's been a fair bit of damage caused by the fighting there i don't think it would take too long i mean at the end of the it's fairly easy to get these kind of road networks up and running but what the issue is a political one more than anything else so the jordanians kind of with the americans in terms of being against the assad regime but as this stance of softened you found that so for example americans and the groups that they have been backing they've been cutting deals actually with the assad regime in order to kind of move back into the states sphere of influence and away from the free syrian army away from the revolution so once that's kind of the major news all sorted out i think you'll find the border crossing will be open for any you know fairly quickly and so then what how would you describe the political significance of all of this in terms

of an acceptance that assad for now is here to stay i think internationally speaking that's kind of been the status quo and that's kind of been the way of thinking for quite some time now the americans actually you know you could say they said that the assad regime and the russians should not kind of bomb the deescalation zones and then within a couple of days they completely changed their tune and they said to the rebels you know you're on your own you've got to sort this out of your own interests so withdrawing all of that support it's inevitable that i was going to fall and the surrounding region of the up and all the border crossings and if that's the case then this is kind of the beginning of the end of the revolution and like i said once the shift all the revolutionaries into the lived region is going to be a complete nightmare in a catastrophe for the revolution all right thank you very much to her door as a thank you. now to our other top story this hour a trade war between the worlds largest economies officially starting with the u.s.

and china imposing tariffs on each other washington fired the first shot with tariffs a thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese goods beijing has 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 run 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 u.s. terrorists were imposed china promised to be true to its word shooters 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 its investment in a lot of other unconventional countries for so i mean 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 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 in both garia chinese premier league co-chairing 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 step up interests uphold the authority of the world trade organization and save the multinational trade order as relations with the u.s. continue to serve china's leaders appear to make new friends wherever they can probably bright al-jazeera beijing. let's go live to our white house correspondent kimberly how could since i can believe these threats have tariffs have now become

a reality but the indication from president trump is that he won't stop that that's right he's threatening even more speaking to reporters aboard air force one in the last twenty four hours he said not only are these coming into effect the ones that we're talking about of the thirty four billion of chinese imports into the united states but at the ready is another sixteen billion if the conditions remain the same in terms of the trading related relationship which dollar terms believe this lopsided in favor of china then there could be another two hundred billion at the ready and on top of that three hundred billion more what you can surmise from all of that is that this is a major escalation in this back and forth between the world's two largest economies so certainly this is concerning for many around the world who are watching this global trade relationship stabilize or destabilize in the midst of all of all of this there are really have been an effort to try and avoid this but it doesn't

appear the united states is backing down there but high level talks that have been going on since early may there was also this message sent to the u.s. congress by donald trump look this is a concern we have the theft of international our rather intellectual property rights intellectual property and also the concern too that in fact there has been this unequal trading relationship so this was the message from donald trump and april that something needs to be done does it appear that there was any remedy to that and so now we're seeing this escalation in this tit for tat trade war and how significant how important is the political risk here for donald trump given that the chinese retaliation is focused on those crucial swing states. it in the short term donald trump seems to have calculated that this is worth the political risk because essentially his poll numbers seem to be doing well in this confrontational approach we've seen it not just in trade but we're also seeing in immigration in recent weeks and the numbers seem to be for the most part in his

favor his base is solid there's even a little bit of a bump in his poll ratings but in the short term that might be ok we've got the november elections coming up congressional elections that might play well the problem is in the long term we've got major consumer groups concerned and there could be blowback for the american consumer as they see the prices rise for things that they've counted on being subsidized in some way in terms of that cheap labor in china where a lot of this is made and brought into the united states so in the long term this is a risky political calculation and also from the business standpoint we're seeing these relationships trading relationships that have been in place for a half century now at risk because the up ending of the global trade order is taking place thank you very much kimberly hall kit in washington well now to thailand where 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 he'd been

delivering oxygen tanks to the twelve teenage boys and their coach rescuers have been in a race against time to extract the team as monsoon rains a full cost of the next few days scott hyder is at the 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 under water a fellow diver pulled him out and attempted to resuscitate him he died from lack of oxygen and 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 east 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 caves 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 use this to send and receive wife signals we can gather information that can be used to find the boys 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 what 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 and their coach to be completed it was supposed to be up and running days ago got other al-jazeera. you know at the news hour live from london much more still to tell you about european powers try to cobble together an economic package to keep iran in the nuclear deal that trump is ditched . the music app that kids in

indonesia can't get enough all but the government is blocking it we'll tell you why and then later in sports arena williams fights back to stay on track but eight wimbledon title. one person has been killed during violent clashes along the gaza israel border israeli soldiers fired tear gas and live gunshots at thousands of palestinian demonstrators who were burning tires and throwing rocks at least two hundred fifty people were injured with several being sent to hospital overall at least one hundred twenty six palestinians have been killed since protests against the israeli occupation began in late lunch. a global chemical weapons watchdog says it's found evidence of chlorine used in an attack on the syrian city of duma which killed dozens of civilians in april a report by the o.p.c. w.

is based on a policeman or a analysis inspectors who were sent to the town near the capital damascus say they found evidence of coronated organic chemicals into locations the u.s. u.k. and france blame the syrian government for the attack and launched a series of air strikes in response british police and ems brain salt spray is searching for a small vial feared to be contaminated with traces of the deadly nerve agent novacek authorities believe dawn sturgis and charlie rally have been poisoned by novacek may have come into contact with a contaminated vial or other item in a public place it's believed the item may have been thrown away by whoever carried out the march attack on a former russian spy sergei scrip and his daughter or members of cabinet in the u.k. a meeting of what's expected to be marathon talks as they attempt to resolve their differences over brics it prime minister to resign may appeal to ministers to perform their duties out of discussions a country residence pressure is increasing on may to unite government over plans to

leave the block with a march twenty nine thousand deadline fast approaching neve baka has more from westminster. well later in the week we heard her speak in berlin in which she talked about increasing the pace of the intensity of negotiations with the e.u. the only problem is that the british government has no united negotiating position over several key things to do with trade at the heart of that that's why she's assembled her leading ministers at checkers her official residence outside london to hammer out. supports for her latest proposal there's been two proposals in the past they've both been rejected the latest one she says she believes will satisfy both camps the breck cities and the remain as it's called the facilitated customs arrangement is full of technicalities but at its heart it would see the u.k. imposing its own import tariffs on goods coming into the u.k. from outside the european union that's been one of the break cities key demands

allowing the u.k. to forge trade deals with other parts of the world on the other hand it would satisfy in the remaining see some degree of alignment going on with the e.u. policies here in the u.k. mirroring e.u. rules as well especially when it comes to goods and services when it comes to quality control or health and safety issues one of the brics it is of rejected that saying that when it comes to dealing with the united states that doesn't have the same kind of standards when it comes to health and safety maybe this is a bad idea have been divisions from the offset between different camps within their own cabinet we know david davis the secretary has written to reason may saying that the plan is unworkable as part of the plan goods going through the united kingdom to the e.u. would still be subject to e.u. tariffs but the u.k. would simply collect them on the behalf of brussels and have them over to the e.u. that's a plan david davies thinks is not going to work in practice well to reason may has

basically until the end of the day to come up with a solution she needs her cabin up. she needs to prove that there is real momentum what it comes to trade talks going forward. 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 equipment earlier this year but for mrs appeared to make no concrete breakthrough in their efforts to provide terror on with an economic package to compensate for u.s. sanctions joan hall has more from vienna. you may recall shortly after the u.s. withdrew from the nuclear deal in may the remaining five powers signatory to it said that they would uphold the deal if iran agreed to honor it and iran said it would as long as they would protect and guarantee its interests essentially compensating it for lost revenue as a result of the reimposing of u.s. nuclear sanctions that begins now with and secondly u.s.

sanctions threatened against any company or entity continuing to do business with iran well i don't think as a result of this first meeting there's been much of a breakthrough either in convincing iran of the benefits of staying in the deal or of coming up with mechanisms to compensate it indeed one big question is whether they can compensate iran for the loss of oil revenue and company investment as a result of those u.s. sanctions high cost the german foreign minister spoke to us a little earlier and admitted they can't. correct the starvation statistics or we will not be able to compensate for everything that arises from companies pulling out of iran which feel their american businesses 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 that 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 so they may not be able to provide full compensation but they are determined to keep iran connected to the international financial system through the swift payment system and investment channels open through the european investment bank among other things it's a beginning these are the proposals on the table the iranians don't seem wholly convinced muhammad job adds the reef the foreign minister keen to go she ate it in the original deal praised his partners here for their will to resist the united states but he said the proposals were as. they stood in complete iranian president hassan rouhani i don't first even call them disappointing i don't think much of what happened here in vienna on friday will alter that view. l. a popular chinese music video tick-tock has announced it will set up a team of two hundred sensors in indonesia to monitor uploaded content this comes after the indonesian government banned the app accusing it of spreading

pornographic and blasphemous content step vasant has more on this story from jakarta. thank you. tick tock has become popular because even young children can easily use the application to create their own music videos it is operated both out shout one of the fastest growing tech startups in china. pick talk called godin in china was the most downloaded app in the first month of this year and indonesia is its fourth largest market but the government in indonesia is concerned about all the unfiltered videos on the platform the minister of communications as he has received hundreds of reports of pornographic and blasphemous content and this side to block the application i have only to request that i'm number one cleaned up existing that they want them and second we have to get us some sort of our students for the future there won't be any negative condemn any more. thirteen year old per

borman doctor has more than seven hundred thousand followers on tick tock and his fans follow him everywhere. but his fame has also led to bullies who threaten him online his model is so worried she won't allow him to go to school this is going to destroy the small if they pull in reality them say whatever i want i don't want to feel upset about it. after dick took was blocked bore out in labor as he calls himself online now uses another similar application thirty years old i'm rapidly becoming a national star because of the news a video application from china. child wives will say his story shows that uncontrolled an unlimited access to social media makes children for rable abuse or worse. local rights groups have urged the government to enforce a strict age limit of sixteen to access the site and make sure its content is strictly filter before it allows stick talk to operate in indonesia. that if.

it is far too open in this case opportunities for people with bad intentions like paedophiles rapists child traffickers people with bad intentions always find a way while these children only think about the fun they have there it think about the consequences. the application has also caused controversy in china last april that country's media watchdog ordered the owners to clean up the content on their platforms cyber security experts have criticized the company for a lack of privacy settings tick-tock has announced it wants to hire two hundred people in indonesia to help filter its content so it can operate here again stop france and al-jazeera jacka. a french president has reiterated his call for an end to the saudi led blockade against cattle it's been holding talks with the country in marin paris. reports. we've heard many political messages from the

emir of qatar to me but how about that phony 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 and in august and front 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 quantities and encourage all the parties to negotiate a political settlement but it's not likely to happen anytime soon we've heard reports about saudi arabia asking the french government to interfere and stop the

purchase over s four hundred anti-aircraft missile system that 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 image shift i mean but how about the most important at this particular moment is to consolidate political relationships with key players in the players in the world to send a signal that qatar is breaking the embargo imposed imposed on it by saudi arabia these are lies. stay with us here on the news hour much more still ahead a former leader of a japanese doomsday cult has executed more than twenty years after releasing sarin gas on tokyo subway systems. climate change is blamed for as an escalating conflict in nigeria as the fight of thirty. land and water intensifies. and it's

party time in france as their national team celebrate their wild cup quarter final victory. welcome back as we take a look at weather conditions across the levant some western parts of asia was to the few showers in the east but otherwise the main features a very hot weather across iraq certainly for bass or we could well see temperatures again in excess of fifty degrees these aside the mediterranean generally weather conditions looking draw and fine be 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 the forty two forty three mark but with very high humidity 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 the maybe a towards zambia and zimbabwe all looking draw and find temperatures 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. a new series of rewind a care bring your people back to life i'm sorry and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues book from bottom to no use

distance rewind continues with the return of the lizard king steve charles and one east upwards of two hundred species are going extinct every twenty four hours and a lot of that is attributed to wildlife trafficking rewind on al-jazeera and monday put it world on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of the days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the you're.

welcome back a quick look at the top stories for you now opposition forces in syria have been battered by a massive government offensive since mid june in southern province of agree to a cease fire deal brokered by russia and. china has accused u.s. president donald trump of starting the biggest trade war in history with the world's children just economies imposing huge tariffs on each other. and in thailand one of the divers helping with the cave rescue the trapped youth football team has died a former navy seal lost consciousness on his way out of the caves. now it was eight years ago the saga. of thirty three chilean miners trapped in a cave captivated the world after spending two months on the ground they defied all odds and were polled out alive now as the world watches again to see the fate of

the football players trapped in thailand the miners are offering messages of support a latin america and it's only seen in human reports. these days what he shows tourists the sites where he and thirty two other chilean miners were trapped for seven 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 nineteen thousand kilometers away in thailand. stick together never give up hope and stay calm god will see you through this that's what i want to tell them. franklin lobos was 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. her faith that they'll be find the football players and give them mental physical strength it certainly helped me. this psychologist to help the chilean miners while they were trapped says lessons learned from their experience can be applied in thailand so. you can implant post-traumatic stress by reinforcing the idea that they lived a horrible experience by treating them like victims. above all i recommend that the youngsters be given daily tasks and allowed to turn their initial fear into a challenge and adventure at their age it's absolutely possible today what's left of the collapse 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's sent to signal the twenty first century technology combined

with determination can deliver unexpected results. those who survived the new tragedy here are convinced that the world will again witness another remarkable rescue of those trapped underground you see in human i'll just see that in the at the camera desert chile 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 along with six of his followers at least thirteen people were killed and fowls and more injured when sarin nerve gas was released in several underground stations fardy salaam hours more from tokyo. it was one of the longest and most complex criminal trials in japan's history of executed. the leader of a religious group called. which lowers the sarin gas attack on several talk your subway stations in march one nine hundred ninety five. at least thirteen

people were killed in that attack and thousands were injured some of them with berman and disabilities it was your burns biggest attack since the end of ford war two. sato was 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 bet out. to film in my own office 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 it'll be there but the execution of us one hundred doesn't end the story or form a group which had done this to mated ten thousand members its followers established a new religious group eighteen years ago under the name of a life which has now about one thousand members. how does execution has it or

minded some citizens hear of the dangers of some groups that are trying to spread their ideas especially among young people they are smart they often stories 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 fall victim to them he didn't give the money to the. villages a group that succeeded or seize it doesn't promote assad as violent approach but this does not listen then this surveillance of its members by the japanese bodies who knows the raid on their heads go to the same time as assad execution the execution of truck or start up puts an end to another long chapter in the one nine hundred ninety five starting as a dark incident and it reminds the japanese authorities of over and over the country could be the terrorist attacks but he said our margins here are booker. 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 by not sharing his properties in london with undeclared income the sixty seven year old was removed from office last year of a corruption allegations and banned from politics for life both he and his ruling pakistan muslim league policy have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. at least two hundred people have been killed in an escalating conflict in central lie geria over first thailand hundreds have been forced to flee their homes as indigenous farmers battle cattle herders a growing population climate change and a scarcity of food of all exacerbated the conflicts from joss and nigeria's plateau state. reports. orphaned by a conflict she knows nothing about this toddler fighting for her 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 by the very real shock to me that this same community will visit. attacks again and was will lead to even if it does number of killings in blood is that there must be total investigation on us the root cause of this case 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 has been was a casualty he didn't leave when others fled she's in causal level. neurons will burn in labor i feel powerless without him

knowing when i don't know what will happen to me or the kids who are in school i don't know but people do this is the grave of the only victim of the attack on cockroach fish witnesses say when the religious sense then they moved us in from the kitchen protected by the security forces but many vulnerable villages once are lucky only say eighty four people were killed in the attacks that lasted days but community leaders insist the total is more than two hundred. curiously the crisis in the central state of play two is between two ethnic groups the bureau who are mostly farmers and the floody had been blaming each other for igniting the conflict the full unease judges came behind the church with a number more than a hundred people in blood over block and they came. from last august to today we lost over two hundred fifty possums cyclical is some on the road some in the reordering field and so most of what's we continue or

receive in these killings and killings and killings 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. but really also say that with nigeria's campaign season opening politicians are exploiting the situation to their advantage. al-jazeera central nigeria the u.s. secretary of state my pump is in north korea to discuss the country's plans to dismantle its nuclear program his first visit to pyongyang since the start summit

last month between president donald trump and the north korean leader kim jong un and there were also discussed the remains of u.s. troops missing from the korean war on his two day visit. lot fitzpatrick is the executive director of the intel and international institute for strategic studies americas joins us now from washington thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us of course i was saying just that one tayo is in north korea to look up plans for them to dismantle the nuclear program but the problem is that recent reports suggest there is absolutely no evidence that they are reducing their nuclear stockpile all that they plan to do so. right that alone should not be too surprising since there's no deal you know what was struck in singapore was not a deal it was just the bare bones of a future agreement so it's not surprising north korea continues to expand their building leverage that they could then trade away the key thing will be will pump

a will be able to put bones on flesh meet those bare bones of the what was discussed in singapore. i'm very keen to see so what's the best we can hope for from this he is there to try and fill out some of the details that were left out of that the sing a pole summit how much pressure is there on pompei or to get something some kind of concessions from the north koreans where he really needs to get a clearer definition of what north korea means when it says it will denuclearize will it be complete what will it entailed and will it be verified i don't think he's going to get much on verification i think he he may get something more in terms of the definition of denuclearization but what i fear is that the north koreans will shift to a very secondary objective and release a few more bones remains of u.s. service members who were missing in the korean war that's

a very low priority but if he gets that then you know president trump can say that he got something out of the north koreans for their progress and so forth and it really won't be worth very much but the trump administration would be willing willing to accept that. well they kind of have to because trump has put so much of his reputation on the line here he's already claimed this huge success from singapore and he will continue to claim it was a success and any small crumbs from north korea he'll build into this big meal and it's just kind of the big lie that he will continue to perpetuate analysts like me and viewers won't believe it but a lot of americans who trust trump will but the reality is what that the u.s. is in a much weaker position now compared to before the summit in singapore i think so because person in trumpet gave away so much in singapore particularly after the

summit itself in his press conference when he spoke about. suspending u.s. south korean military joint military exercises and then mentioned that he was interested in removing u.s. troops that would be a huge unilateral concessions the north koreans saw that and they know they don't have to give up too much to get trump to make further concessions but the very worst thing that would come out of the pump aoe visit to pyongyang is if pump ale were to make further concessions about the u.s. troop presence i'm pretty sure he won't do that he's much smarter than trump is about this but he has to go along with what trump has its has instructed him to do so i don't think he's got much negotiating leverage frankly and of course president jiang was criticized for the suspension of military exercises in the region before getting any verification or all commitments from the north koreans might that be something that is reversed if this trip comes to nothing is not a cot the u.s.

might still have to play. well they could play that card of course they can always resume the exercises they weren't supposed to start until sometime in august anyway so they could restore the plans for that but that would be a demonstration of a failure of the singapore summit and trump doesn't want to see such a failure so although it's a card it's more of a bluff and i think the north koreans will would call their bluff so instead they'll try to as they say make some progress in some other way you know still be ambiguous but repeat the promise of denuclearization in a way that makes it sound like more than it is and meanwhile they will continue their own suspension of missile and nuclear tests and you know for the world that was so worried about a war erupting on the north korean peninsula last year that's at least something to grasp that there are not is just not a provocation that could spark

a war that's not very much but at least it's something to be positive about ending on a positive note thank you very much not fitzpatrick exact interaction they have to do this is strategic studies americas thank you.

one of the biggest problems facing our oceans and the loss of seagrass meadows one check rule for roughly fifteen percent of the ocean's total carbon storage and perhaps earth they hope to wife as much carbon dioxide as rain forest and they're also crushing marine habitats for many endangered ocean species. but here on elkhorn slew in central california the tide could be turning for sea grass thanks to some unexpected allies. trying to meet there. and. this nine hundred hectare as she wary is where rivers throughout this region meet the pacific ocean this is the agricultural powerhouse of the united states and fertilizer and pesticide runoff threaten the balance of this delicate ecosystem so having farmers so close to the ocean on what what impact does that have on the

water quality well i mean were you coastal environments close to urban centers coastal environments close. you get problems like this. it grows the tarp the rocks it eventually. start composing over half of the world seagrass meadows are in decline but here in al corn slew they're making a surprising comeback. oh wow. at one time there were thousands of sea otters in california but in the eighteen hundreds they were hunted to near extinction for their soft fur pelts. there are now more than one hundred in this as consuming a staggering one hundred thousand crabs per year. this federation's

appetite has helped restore the balance of this ecosystem by triggering a chain reaction known as a trophic cascade. sea otters the crabs lower crop numbers allows smaller invertebrates like sea slugs to thrive and these creatures are crucial for the health of seagrass eating algal build up on the leaves they allow sunlight to reach the plants. because sea otters are so crucial to the ecosystem scientists are carefully monitoring their slow and steady come back. they capture them and tag them with radio devices. finally here work really well. because probably very close. what's the purpose of proper we go out seven days a week is to go out and find individuals see where they are what they're doing.

other part of it is just so we can understand the distribution of orders in this area what are they eating and how are they doing health wise there is one right there that's three four nine six so that beeping is an arm that peeping is from the radio transmitter that's surgically implanted in her. system ok. why don't you take a look right in there. along the west coast of north america researchers have noticed that the return of top level predators is having an impact on restoring all kinds of underwater life and the entire ocean system. what the sea otters do it's kind of it turns the tables against. groupings of facts of sea otters eating crabs essentially the same grass an advantage again so if we

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ninety percent of the world's fish stocks are being fish tomato beyond the sustainable limits growing demand an industrial fishing techniques of pushing some populations of cod in china to the brink of collapse while millions of tons of other less marketable species are being used as a fish food simply discard it i'm sophia rightly in london u.k.

marine scientists are working. together with local fisherman to get consumers hooked on sustainable seafood. based in east london a tiny startup by the name of social is hoping to change london his relationship with fish. the fish for dinner gents. order now this appalling say it's. much for if you want health you want to income and get a flow right so it's a bit like a budget box but let's say. we work with a couple of ensure fisherman we bother him and then handed out to us it's a really good way of just getting ahead of the maze and finish trying things that maybe you haven't tried before and also supporting the got a call to mostyn finot is one of five to three and a half thousand small scale fishermen working in english watches but unlike many others skis families being in the business but generations to come to the trade a decade to get lost in my fish are still a problem was that

a ball it wasn't for the dark fiction of the skill set you know for the stronger for it made me think that what i really rocks down so that was sort of next on the tree they say flights. here on the continent is nothing that they have a part for you know to tell you are the real. fish touches the big fish. the alternate souls are big fish but some of them that's a little small fish as well which are trolling the only thing you know kind of living this life is that the day it. was so cold you could avoid every bit of that . unlike industrial bottom truly minutes which tried to along the sea floor and can kill a wide array of marine life. stay still in the world and the notch holes means he's not undermining future fish stocks by catching the juveniles. those he does

extending that come in and i. so that's legal so it's a low life and i'm worth five backyards back. but. how much more would you get the same for a place if you sent it three don't rub it in just sort of also jack is a flat right for her and the cake. on the house side of the market mail tomorrow to offer in crude for for the sign plights says quite a big difference that is yeah so share members help keep martin in business by giving him a good price and buying a set wait each week of whatever he brings in and you're also going to fishmonger well i seldom i still get a break simon called from provence and sure you know there are three to four friends that i sell more than anything else and they're also some of the most kind of owner fish exactly. everyone at someone's office all which.

is go all day because they're prepared to accept whatever turns up and have a car or different spaces and that spanking first figure given a child. it's only going to congress is going to put it really is invested royale made significant this meant that if we end up in boy. the business is not is missing from a lot of the way that we that we eat today you know it is such a big disconnect between what's on our plates the merits come from. that's that people want to buy didn't that there's something about it we're not so sure i started in twenty thirteen and now has eighteen members in london you buy from martin and a few up a small scale fish and. from the boat to ice box in a matter of minutes the race is now on to get today's fresh catch straight up to social members in london so it's about finding people that care about where the fish come from and linking them with the called the fishermen that can have because

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stowed to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i travelled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat at a touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves or we're finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest evidence suggests they're more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international list of threatened species. from mother to daughter an ancient croft kept alive by a bustling matriarch. from start to finish. all traditions intertwined with new designs making this family's place unique into nazir's

a rich tapestry. the threads on a jersey ago. syrian forces resume control of the country's border with jordan as rebels withdrawal from daraa under a russian brokered deal. this is live from london also coming up in the program washington's multibillion dollar tariffs on china take effect fury from beijing state media compares the trumpet ministration to. a former navy diver trying to help rescue a football team trapped in a cave in time officials say the still no way to get them out.

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