and civilians really taking the hit and being in the crossfire on those attacks in recent months and of course your own prison guard is mind is really concerned about the setting up to the elections to the point that he seemed in the national army to afghanistan's fifth biggest city in jalalabad to take control from the place to train sure up security for civilians. zimbabwe's opposition is claiming fraud in monday's election that gave president emerson mung just over fifty percent of the vote but also says the results were manipulated and he's promising to go to court over it was a defended the election process he says it's being credible and his call for peace and unity has more from. rights police dropped a press conference about to be given by the bobbies main opposition leader nelson chamisa of the order the journalist to leave saying they have no permission to gather the hotel. sums of bobby and say scenes like these reminded them of the

days when robert mugabe was in power. when freedom of speech was stifled and media reporting was to stick to. the country's information minister eventually tells the police to leave. when allowed to speak to me so i didn't hold back on his words if they wanted a city. equally one there. and . shortly afterwards the president elect. himself spark criticizing the police's heavy handedness but insisting the vote was free and fair to nelson is a. crucial role in zimbabwe's president. folding future. for this. you know our lessons. getting back to normal after wednesday's

violence but something that tensions could rise challenges that results in courts. to be a president. but many need convincing he was defense minister during the years when thousands were killed and the fact that. the president is promising a fresh start but changing decades of. institutions will take time. and when i have to persuade the international community that scenes like this and

now a thing of the past. promises of political and economic reforms. but he more ahead on the news hour including. from satirical videos and social media to street rallies frustration in iran over poor social services and a worsening economy. why opposition leader has been barred from returning home to democratic republic of congo. and in sports in england and india and locked in a tight contest and their first test match is going to be here with all the details . china is poised to impose more than mortality on sixty billion dollars worth of american goods the foreign ministry has said new levies will go into force if the

u.s. follows through on its threat to impose more tariffs of its own the u.s. accuses china of unfair trade practices and is using tariffs to pressure them to reform well the u.s. has already imposed a twenty five percent duty on chinese goods worth thirty four billion dollars in many targets industrialized ins china has responded with its own twenty five percent levy on the same amount of items it imports from the u.s. the trumpet ministration is now preparing to up the ante with a twenty five percent tough on two hundred billion dollars in chinese goods the u.s. says china's chinese friends steal technology and benefit from unfair government subsidies robert scott's a senior international economist at the economic policy institute and he's joining us now from washington d.c. thanks very much indeed for your time sir what is the tipping point would you say at which point both sides actually have to stop just racking up the levies and start talking. well unfortunately i think this can go on for some time

particularly for the united states trade is a relatively small part of our economy and so far the tariffs have not begun to to bite on either economic growth or inflation the the job numbers came out today they continue to be strong g.d.p. is growing at four percent a year so there's been no evidence so far that the tariffs that had a broader negative impact on the economy does not mean they're a good thing but so far they're not being deeply felt i mean china's currency the yuan is already dropped by about nine percent against the dollar as far as china is concerned given the fact that its economy is predominantly export driven what do you think would be the trigger for it to to if not capitulate then at least make some sort of overtures towards the u.s. and starts negotiations. what china does hold the

ace in the hole in this case it does control its own currency and the currency moves that we've seen to date will offset not just the tariff so trump has already imposed on thirty four billion dollars worth of imports but on the whole two hundred billion dollars worth of goods that he's threatening to put tariffs on so. currency movements can overwhelm the effect of even these very broad tariffs and that's the core problem and that's the issue which we should be addressing what is the appropriate level of china's currency it's falling when in fact the value of china's currency needs to increase by twenty five or thirty percent that would make imports more expensive and that would hurt but we would also get the benefit of increased exports not just to china but to every other country where we compete with china and so we're getting all of the pain but none of the gain and that's the problem having said all of that they original trade policies if i understand it correctly and please correct me if i'm wrong that they originally say paul this is

between the u.s. and china were predominantly based around the fact when they were put into place that china's economy at that time was a nascent economy it was just growing it was just in its first stages now of course china's economy is a globally dominant. and significant economy there is an argument isn't that donald trump is correct that these negotiations have to take place and things have to change. there's no question the u.s. had to act against china we were being hurt by unfair subsidies in industries like steel and aluminum as well as by much broader unfair trade practices in a whole range of high tech industries they threaten not just to old technologies but the leading industries of the future so we had to act of the problem is that there doesn't seem to be a plan for solving the problem and that's what the currency option would give us it would give us a plan to reach an agreement which i know that would rebalance trade not help help

not just the united states but other countries that suffer from trade deficit with china as well if china does go into talks is there a danger that if it does so as a result of pressure because of these types that it's setting itself a poor precedent that the message being sent is essentially if you stall on china then it will be forced into negotiations with that is the risk china sees itself as a powerful country and wants to be treated as an equal but we've had this problem before we've encountered these large trade imbalances twice in the last fifty years president reagan can try to confront this situation last in one nine hundred eighty five he negotiated something called the plaza accord with the countries in europe and japan. again and like in a similar way they agreed to raise the value of their currencies lowered the dollar and allowed our trade balance to to rebalance with the rest of the world president

nixon did the same thing in one thousand nine hundred ninety one when he imposed an import surcharge the difference between today and those prior actions is that in those earlier cases there was a plan for solving the problem today i see no evidence of a plan i see a president who doesn't like international agreements who wants to get tough with countries but doesn't seem to have a plan for getting from here to there robert scott of the economic policy institute thank you very much indeed. but its prime minister theresa may has met french president emanuel micro-loan in a bid to soften his resistance to her brags that plan they deal is matter of macro's summer residence may have been facing growing pressure to win allies in europe after a white paper dubbed the checkers plan prompted two senior ministers to resign in protest last month france is seen as taking a hard line in bragg's it negotiations as david chaytor explains it's very very clear from french officials and from briefings of record in the least say that

a man your macro is one perhaps of the hardest line leaders out of the twenty seven members of the e.u. on the on the other side of the channel now he is made europe his ideal he campaigned for it he got elected on it and he's very very clear that the united kingdom will not get a back door deal what they're calling here a semi detached deal where they will get a customs union but have none of the obligations that are at the heart of the european union also he's very clear that the negotiations will not be handled between political leaders it's the michel barnier a main negotiator for the european commission who will deal with this macro is very clear he does not want to undermine him opposition leader morsi khatami has

been barred from returning home to return run in democratic republic of congo's presidential elections it comes as another rival of president joseph kabila former rebel leader and ex vice president john pierre bemba also returned home to launch his own bid catherine sawyer has more from can shell said. voice got to be arrived at the border between sandy and the democratic republic of congo the key supporters filming his journey the government has denied many journalists access to the border area that to be managed to get to no man's land the police quickly forced him back across the border into zambia. and we went into exile in twenty sixteen after fooling out with president joseph kabila he was accused of trying to topple the government using foreign mass neris and later sentenced in his absence to three years in prison for real estate fraud government officials say he will be arrested if he manages to return tension is high in his strongholds. if.

there will be no elections will make sure there's. a novel position figure on p.r. bemba is watching closely his just free time and they live in years in the netherlands ten of them in prison as he face trial at the international criminal court for war crimes after his recent acquittal ben but also has ambitions to be president situation a very sad and i feel very sorry for mr khatami. who they don't allow him to to come back to his own country i think this period of time is very important for the election for me everybody should be able to participate in the election is christian is not to the government official that noise a. procedure to get into the country and he's just trying to cause trouble that's only insists that he just wants to come to the capitol hill and face the electoral commission presidential hopefuls have until wednesday to father documents with

a commission many congolese are concerned about how katun the supporters will react if the government continues to kick him out catherine sorry al-jazeera. protests in iran are growing over poor social services and the worsening economy videos are being shared on social media. demonstrations. recently in larger cities including the capital from there reports. protesters in iran have been chanting against the religious and political elite but for these men and women what they say is the government's mishandling of the economy is their main grievance. this summer identified woman remove her headscarf and increasingly common way for iranian women to protest and began addressing others. let's build a country with our own hands people do not be afraid if we stand together and united neither internal or external powers can confront us we are a rainy and it is not our business what is happening in palestine syria iraq or

lebanon why should all our resources go to them social media messages suggest she was arrested. not every iranian media is angry some are trying to keep their sense of humor about their financial circumstances. video to show how it feels when your money disappears right before your eyes. even the clerics seem to be showing some compassion delivering this week's friday sermon the preacher said the economy is affecting everything and fixing it is the key to happiness for everyone he blamed government mismanagement and high level corruption for iran's economic troubles that i had say mathy corruption that seriously when it comes to fighting violators there should be no exceptions regardless of their relatives or their contacts these traitors must be that this. many iranians see the government of president hassan rouhani as being out of touch with them protests aren't expected to topple anyone

anytime soon the demonstrations are regarded as being too small and the government as well as security forces too strong. but people say they're losing faith in their leaders and as an american in my opinion people should rise up because this government won't be fixed the pool will just get poorer if more efficient people take jobs in government it would work but everybody is after their own interests. and i'm out of pocket people have the right to protest economic and social issues are all connected and people are really under pressure how much more can they tolerate it arising in that if protests result in a government action and have a positive impact on people's life why not i would part speak both this are not something that we should not look at it from a mystic perspective but as i learn java protesting doesn't work many are just pushing people to move forward that they themselves don't come out but the latest

protest come days before the next round of american sanctions are due to be imposed on iran the cleric addressing worshippers at friday prayers this week took the opportunity to take a swipe at the american president donald trump is not human he said he's a wolf disguised as a human while trump may have alienated america's allies by pulling out of the twenty fifty nuclear deal if his goal was to hurt iran then from what people here are saying he's managed to hit his target same bus robey old is iraq differ on. the syrian government has been accused of faking the cause of death for thousands of prisoners in a report published by two human rights groups the syrian foundation's platform on the human rights and justice movement presented their findings in istanbul in the past week the syrian government to release information on eight thousand prisoners they say died due to heart attacks cancer or other health reasons the groups condemned what they call fake death reports. the conflict in

syria will soon come to an end assad's government is trying to find new ways to avoid being judged at the international criminal court. to justify their crimes to their supporters they have reported that thousands of people died because of health reasons it's clear these reports are fake. while i am talking there are thousands and thousands of people being tortured without food and without medical care in assad's prisons the regime terms of the family that their relatives have died just to close this chapter of detention this is very dangerous and this is the reason why we came here today to tell the world that thousands of women children old and young people are still detained and tortured and lost their lives because of their opinion and political activity while the world keeps silent still ahead on al-jazeera trying to crush protests in nicaragua president i'll take a pass is a new antiterrorism law. why activists say president trumps plans to roll back fuel

efficiency standards will hurt consumers and the environment. and in sports pete is going to be here with all the action from the copper sort amerikana including this stuff the strike. and it was still raining down the eastern side of the u.s. and canada this cloud has been for quite a while now the still flooding in west virginia i think bits of the geneva pennsylvania as well and out to the west that matter cloud does not much is given some pretty sharp shot down in arizona as a result that has been flooding has also been a bit of a habit now that will carry on but i think michelle's ability you tend to move into the plains states at the same time this is good news if you want to listen sean and not rain that rain is slowly moving offshore may not succeed on saturday but by

sunday you should be in the sun shines or all the eastern states the showers further west particularly in the midwest well to further south but it dries picture to be honest on its way for this weekend not so everywhere south of the i mean florida actually probably won't see a particularly dry kiba shout a regular big and that's true through mexico particularly the gulf coast but you mix good self they can see more and more big showers building some hail certainly some big rain showers flash flooding is a possibility mexico city held at twenty one degrees as a result eclipse got some fairly heavy rainfall cost from honduras down through or guatemala nicaragua and down towards costa rica that onshore breeze it's no big surprise. lead their lives that is that that. created the modern world.

that the slave trade had language geography and the very fabric of human civilization upon it were built the great western palace and was constructed and hierarchy of races but how did it come about and what became of it the birth of the slavery is coming soon on al-jazeera. capturing a moment in time snapshots of other lives other stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's work out inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers that everybody's going to know well will be. sacrifices that may. be so miss the. old. witness on al-jazeera.

i want to go to zero a reminder of our top stories this hour aid agencies are demanding a cease fire in yemen and day after air strikes in the port city of kut data killed at least fifty five people the world health organization wants to deliver half a million cholera vaccines to the north of the country but it's warning of another potential outbreak. zimbabwe's opposition leader has rejected the results of monday's election and says his party is ready to form a government nelson chamisa says the results were fraudulent and illegal and he's accused the government of intimidation. china is poised to impose more tower of some sixty billion dollars worth of american goods the new levies will go into force if the u.s. follows through on its threats to impose more tariffs of its own the u.s.

accuses china of unfair trade practices and is using tariffs to pressure them to reform. the u.s. government and advocacy groups still don't appear to have a clear plan on how to reunite migrant families separated under the trumpet ministrations zero tolerance immigration policy around four hundred parents have already been sent back to their home countries with their children court documents appear to show the government is shifting the responsibility of reuniting the families onto the american civil liberties union mike hanna is joining us now live from washington d.c. what's been happening in court mike. well rob essential what was happening was a report back to the judge of federal judge on the progress made in its reuniting these parents these children in custody with their parents there were papers filed by the justice department as well as by the a.c.l.u.

in those papers from the trump administration it was contended that it's up to the a.c.l.u. to leave the process in reuniting the children with their parents the federal judge was absolutely outraged by the suggestion and she said that this is unacceptable she said sharply criticized the trumpet ministration for its failure in meeting her earlier deadline to reunite these children that was back in july the twenty perth and she's given them another week to come up with some way or plan a clear plan as to how these children are going to be reunited with their parents now the issue is quite simply that nearly six hundred children are still in custody this weeks after the federal judge ordered that they be reunited and to the administration says it is only tracked down so far thirteen children's parents so there are still hundreds of parents and accounted for most are out of the u.s.

they were deported from the u.s. attempting to cross the border at the point at which they were separated from their children so very harsh words from the federal judge in terms of the administration's inability to reunite these children with their parents despite the order from the court mike it looks as though there's every chance this is not going to be solved even within weeks deadline because because of course the government couldn't even track down parents and children inside its own borders let alone trying to track down parents who are crossed the border. well exactly that is why the government is attempting to contend that the a.c.l.u. must lead the son to the judge as i said completely rejecting this but it is very difficult to see how it is within the week set have expired since the judge's initial order the government has failed to track down so many of these parents the fact that they are out of the country actually makes the government bore a sponsible says the judge the judge was adamant that it was the administration's

policy that led to the separation in the first place therefore it has the prime responsibility to make this reunification happen the government as well has the resources far greater than any n.g.o.s human civil rights union to actually find the parents despite the fact that they may be in another country so the judge is insistent that it is now up to the government to come up with some form of coherent plan that can lead to this reunification in terms of his court order thanks mike brazil's supreme court has started public hearings on changing the country's highly restrictive abortion laws it follows repeated protests calling for decriminalization and for women to have more control over their own bodies the current laws only allow abortions in exceptional circumstances and breaking them can lead to sentences of up to three years in prison rights groups say about one in

five brazilian women have secretly undertaken and illegal abortion. but as well as government has started conducting a census of car owners which it says will help determine how best to use fuel resources that are being protests against the census with many worried it could lead to rationing fuel shortages are common in venezuela five years of recession has led to steep falls in oil production still some people are hopeful the census will lead to cheaper fuel prices. nicaragua's president daniel ortega is using a new anti-terrorism law to crush a nationwide uprising against in the began in april it targets students and others who take part in street protests and human rights arm of the organization of american states says three hundred seventeen people have been killed so far in america editor alysia newman has more from managua. until a few weeks ago twenty year old lester was

a familiar face on the streets of managua at massive antigovernment protests. as a student leader he took part in a short lived national dialogue with president daniel ortega mediated by the catholic church where today he's almost a fugitive implicated under a new anti-terrorism law and he says afraid for his life or you know. i peer is under investigation for financing the supposed to takeover of the city of messiah which the lie to pose a system of injustice kidnapping killings and paramilitary groups on the streets does not make you a terrorist. please stand behind of the law and his wife are among the scores of activists arrested and charged under the new law. the un high commission for human rights calls that a mechanism to criminalize opposition to the government the antiterrorism law contemplates up to twenty years in prison and or confiscation of property for those

found guilty the terms are vague and broad even those who have given food medicine or water to protest hers or who encourage street protests calling for a nation could be implicated. that includes her take his former comrade in arms. today a fierce opponent who preferred to speak to us via skype because she says she's received countless death threats apparently and. that's the reality we're living kidnapping assassinations persecution. ortega's a former deputy foreign minister who's also being linked to terrorism says it won't work as long as. we're. in this county. the lack of guarantees of due process is more worrisome than the law itself says a nicaraguan constitutional expert. the courts don't act in accordance with legal

constitutional principles that govern a state of law but rather in accordance with the political interests of those who decide what happens in nicaragua that is daniel ortega and his wife and they don't hide it you can. put or take an apologetic to accuses the u.n. of being an accomplice to terrorists but criticizing a law that could soon see nicaragua's prisons overflow you see in human al-jazeera man our fighting in the libyan city of benghazi has forced hundreds of families who already rely on government assistance out of their homes but now there's a financial crisis hit in the country and that support is starting to fade mahmoud other one had reports from misrata. it's time for people who fled the water but razi three years ago to leave this compound in misrata this man like many others here is worried if he shows his face supporters of the warlord have to might go

after his relatives in. the compound owners have recently demanded the government to return the property because it hasn't been paying its bills jan mahmoudi says her house in bonn was destroyed by the war she and her husband have been living here with the help of a charity's notion we were asleep in the street if they don't find a solution for us what can we do we've got only ten days ultimatum to leave. since have to launch his military campaign back in two thousand and fourteen more than one hundred thousand people have fled their homes after his forces took full control of the city in december last year but many here are still afraid to go back more than two hundred displeased family. have lived here on this beach compellent for the past three years most of them lost their homes during the war in benghazi

but now with the government's decision to evacuate this area many of them say they have to start from scratch others don't know what to do next many families have already left the compound during the last couple of months from others are learners live those remaining say they also struggle with a complicated civil registry procedure that all women if we have been massively as we are now requested to leave the compound we don't have salaries we can't go to benghazi to kasher salaries and we can't get them here if we leave this compound we can't even afford to buy furniture. according to the u.n. estimates more than two hundred thousand people are internally displaced in libya most of them live in misrata and the capital tripoli over the last few years those from have been voicing their demands but they say no one is listening and so far efforts by the united nations support the mission in libya have failed to end their

suffering it appears for now a political solution might be the only way to take them back home. more than. misrata three people have died in spain with temperatures nearing forty five degrees they're being driven higher by a massive hot air moving north from africa sparking fears of further wildfires but as karl penhall reports from bell knows some herders are employing time honored traditions to reduce the threat. whirling takes. dust heat and she. since the day they first learned to walk brothers had been as. i guess. you have to rise early you have time ensure the rain and cold or the extreme heat it is a job that takes up every hour of the day you're

a slave to the arguments. why the brother of the had much time for school yet now they're the ones sharing lessons with agricultural experts about the benefits of traditional grazing methods g.o.p.'s will keep walking. we have to take it little by little but it's very difficult because many people don't know how to do this they always think the hurdles are stupid. they're members of the shepherds association of the mediterranean mountains given the risk of forest fires in this part of southwest spain the organization is promoting the practice of allowing sheep and goats to roam extensively and create natural fire breaks. you have to have everything prepared fires can always break out but if there's no fuel for the far then it won't be so serious but you have to begin the work in the winter we've always said that the technique is as simple as this the more

scrub and undergrowth flocks can eat the less fuel there is for a fire to spread.