it's a political economic performance how do you toss al-jazeera had. china says it may impose tariffs on a further sixty billion dollars worth of american goods its foreign ministry says the new levies will go into force if the u.s. follows through an aids threats to impose more tout of its own the u.s. accuses china of unfair trade practices and it's using tariffs to pressure china to reform the u.s. has already imposed a twenty five percent duty on chinese goods worth thirty four billion dollars it's mainly targeting industrial goods china has responded with its own twenty five percent levy on the same amount of items it imports from the u.s. the trumpet ministrations know preparing to up the ante with a twenty five percent tariff on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods the u.s. says chinese firms steel technology and benefit from unfair government subsidies robert scott has a senior engineer arsenal economist said the economic policy institute and he says

china can limit the impact of u.s. tariffs. china does hold the ace in the hole in this case it does control its own currency and the currency moves 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 all two hundred billion dollars for the goods that he's threatening to put tariffs on so. currency movements can overwhelm the effect to be having 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 the u.s. is pushing for more sanctions on north korea has asked the u.n. security council to add a north korean bank executive and a company to a blacklist which in force is travel bans and freezes assets the united states also wants a russian bank and a chinese company hit with sanctions for allegedly dealing with north korea the u.n. has kept sanctions pressure on pyongyang even though kim jong un says he will walk towards denuclearization you know secretary of state mike pump a has been addressing the association of southeast asian nations summit in singapore he's called on all nations to keep the diplomatic and economic pressure on north korea it's worth remembering this isn't just an american security goal it is clear our present allies with an i know how important the denuclearization both agree is for their own security i called on them to strictly enforce all sanctions including the complete shutdown of illegal ship to ship transfers of petroleum

destined for north korea we have seen reports. that russia is allowing for joint ventures with north korean firms and granting new work permits to north korean guest workers if these reports prove accurate and we have every reason to believe that they are that would be in violation of un security council resolution twenty three seventy five but of more ahead on the news including. the satirical videos on social media to street rallies frustration in iran over poor social services and a worsening economy. while position. has been barred from returning home to democratic republic of congo. and in sport england and india locked in a tight contest in their first test match peter is going to be here with all the details.

british prime minister theresa may has met french president emmanuel mccrone in a bid to soften his resistance to her brags that plan leaders met in moscow in the summer residence may have been facing growing pressure to win allies in europe two of her senior ministers resigned last month in protest at her latest bragg's a proposal france is seen as taking a hard line and brags that 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 has made europe his ideal he campaigned for and he got elected on it and he is 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 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 the leader of the opposition in democratic republic of congo has been barred from returning home to run in the upcoming presidential elections another rival of president joseph kabila the former rebel leader and ex vice president his own p.r. bemba has also returned to launch his own presidential bid catherine sawyer has more from can sasa. voice good to be arrived at the border between sandy and the democratic republic of congo to support his filming his journey the d r c

government has denied many journalists access to the border area there to be managed to get to know months lined the police quickly forced him back across the border into zambia. and we went into exile and sixteen after forcing 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. tension is high in his strongholds. if the turn could be and there will be no elections will make sure of this. and i will position figure. is watching closely his history time and the eleven years in the netherlands ten of them in prison as he faced trial at the international criminal court for the war crimes after his reason to quit them but also has ambitions to be president. very

sad and i feel very sorry for. him to come back to his own country. i think these period of time is very important for me everybody should be able to participate in the election is christian is not a government official. procedure to get into the country and he's just trying to cause trouble at. that he just wants to come to the capitol hill and get me to pay for the electoral commission presidential hopefuls have until wednesday to file their documents with a commission. concerned about how to be supporters. of the government continues to mount catherine. protests in iran a growing over poor social services and the worsening economy videos are being shared in social media demonstrations in small towns and more recently in largest cities including the capital tehran 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 some identified woman remove her headscarf and increasingly common way for iranian women to protest and begin addressing others. let's build a country with our own hands people to not be afraid if we stand together and united neither internal or. 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 media is angry some are trying to keep their sense of humor about their financial circumstances posted a video to show how it feels when your money disappears right before your eyes. even the cleric seemed to be showing some compassion delivering this week's friday

sermon 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 said mattie. that seriously when it comes to fighting violators there should be no exceptions regardless of their position on 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 security forces too strong. but people say they're losing faith in their leaders and. in my opinion people should rise up because this government won't be fixed the poor will just get poorer if more efficient people take jobs in government it would work but everybody is after their own interests. and i said oh my god. 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 participate both this are not something that we should not look at it from a mystic perspective but as i learn job protesting doesn't work many are just pushing people to move forward but they themselves don't come out 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. the old is iraq different. to human rights groups are accusing the syrian government of faking the cause of death of thousands of prisoners the syrian foundation's platform on the human rights and justice movement i've been presenting their findings in istanbul in the past week the syrian government has released information on eight thousand prisoners they say died because of heart attacks cancer or other health reasons the groups are condemning 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 that crime. 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 tells the family that their relatives

have died just to close this chapter of the tension 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 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 hitting the country and the support they get is starting to disappear like with other war had reports from misrata. it's time for people who fled the water but was he 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 the city for 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 the charities we were asleep in the street if they don't find a solution for us what can we deal with that only ten days ultimatum to leave. since have to launch it his military campaign back in two thousand and fourteen more than one hundred thousand people have fled their homes after the forces took full control of the city in december last year but many here are still afraid to go back more than two hundred displaced families have lived here on this beach. and 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. those remaining say they also struggle with a complicated civil registry procedure you know not 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 as he have been voicing their demands but they say no one is listening and so far efforts by the united nations support to 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. or the.

misrata. police in denmark have issued their first fire under a new law banning face coverings in public hundreds of people marched through copenhagen on white in the state when the ban came into effect on friday i want to wearing the niqab headscarf was fined around one hundred fifty dollars she was involved in a scuffle with another woman who tried to tear off her scarf repeat offenders could face up to six months in jail. still ahead on al-jazeera try to crush protests in nicaragua president or take invokes a new antiterrorism law. brazil's supreme court holds hearings about the country's restrictive abortion laws. and in sports peter is going to. be here with action from the cop a cinematic con of including this stunt of a strike. from

cool brisk knows in few weeks. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia. and there's been some usefully heavy rain in sichuan recently and some of the remains of junk as it went through shanghai but you can't pick up any of that here in the forecast for saturday the rains are the further south in sichuan no further west in shanghai so we're back to the normal situation and late summer big showers one about anywhere in central all sudden shot i'm kidding possibly hong kong although typically the south coast a little dry you may have cold a secular nation on your screen developing in the central philippines we look at the massive white cloud that made big no big surprise or certainly three areas of interest in the western pacific and one turning itself around the south i'm in the manila might turn out to be one of them so that's the construction of right which means you come through the sides almost all of the days are his knees are effectively dry though i have to say in sumatra maybe singapore showers are quite

likely otherwise rain is generally speaking to the north the monsoon is munch mature now if everything is just tipped over top still raining heavily there in india particularly in uttar pradesh that was always a forecast and we still got figures approaching the two hundred millimeters per twenty four hour mark in that general area that's not going to stop the same is true for the next day but hopefully it will ease afterwards. the weather sponsored by cataloging race. capturing a moment in time snapshots of other lives other stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's work. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers everybody's going to be.

on al-jazeera. well away when this idea popped into it when they're on line it's undoubtedly chief call. of opinion equality in our society today or if you joined the sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like bring you have to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to be the speakers first change joining the colombo conversation announces iraq. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour a day agencies are demanding a ceasefire in yemen

a day off the airstrikes in the port city of hadera killed at least fifty five people the world health organization wants to deliver half a million color of vaccines to the north of the country it says there's a risk of another opening. zimbabwe's opposition leader has rejected the results of monday's presidential election doesn't semi's says his party is ready to form a government he says the results have been fogl and i believe he's accusing the government of intimidation. china is poised to impose more tired of some sixty billion dollars worth of american goods the new levies will go into force if the u.s. follows through on its threat to impose more targets of its own the u.s. accuses china of unfair trade practices it's using tariffs to pressure china to reform. while there's just over two months to go until presidential elections in brazil and the campaign is already in turmoil polls show many voters are

disillusioned confused and undecided about the candidates the most popular one is the former president luiz inacio lula da silva but he's serving twelve years in prison for corruption and it's still not clear whether or not he'll be able to stand up reports from sao paulo. opinion polls suggest that he's popularly known would win october's presidential elections if that is he went in prison serving twelve years for corruption for accepting work on this beach house he says he's the victim of a campaign to keep him out of office you. know i'm not hiding i'm going to go there and see their faces so they know that i'm not afraid so they know that i'm not going to run until they know i'm going to prove my innocence they need to know that. many supporters are still passionate about a man credited with lifting millions out of poverty. who left office at the end of two thousand and ten as the most popular politician in brazil's history his

workers' party has launched a new electoral program to they say revitalize brazilian democracy. at the helm. of this program meets the demands of the brazilian people who identify lou as a commander who will navigate this ship through the turbulent stormy days that lie ahead. but the lore and the might of the brazilian establishment seem stacked against him determined to keep him out of the political fray lula has been a prominent feature of brazil's. landscape for more than forty years so it's difficult for many here to imagine life without him he's continuing to pull strings exerted influence from behind bars inspiring his followers aggravating his opponents to this legal team has been trying since his imprisonment in april to have him released so he can continue appealing against the sentence and electoral court must also decide whether he's eligible to stand in the elections or. the population does not understand

a complicated situation which only increases the disillusion in brazil's institutions the situation is unclear and that is not good for democracy or the legitimacy of the elections. but love him or loath him to this absence has left a void his rivals are struggling to fill and the electorate unsure which way to turn. brazil's supreme court has started public hearings about whether the mainly catholic countries highly restrictive abortion laws should be changed but have been repeated protest in london that abortion should no longer be a criminal offense and for a woman to have more control over their own bodies current laws only allow abortions in exceptional circumstances breaking those laws can lead to sentences of up to three years in prison rights groups say about one in five brazilian women have secretly had an illegal abortion ask according to his could you martyr to buddhism the women in this room are not the ones at risk or who died or are

imprisoned they're not even the woman of those well intentioned men who came here to speak on behalf of life and the dignity of women but they are women who face abortion with the complete lack of protection to their fundamental rights from the brazilian state the higher the education of the woman the less the abortion rate is which shows how income and information are efficient instruments in preventing abortion and its consequences when done secretly them skitz also not us but we need to solve the brutal the problems of trial and its misery unemployment that way brazilian women will be so happy and so fulfilled that they won't be scared or desperate when they get pregnant they will be happy again like women with thirty years ago. but this one is government has started conducting a census of car owners says it will help it to work out the best way to use fuel resources there been protests against the census critics are worried it could lead to rationing fuel shortages are common in venezuela five years of recession has led

to steep falls in oil production but some people are hoping the sentence will lead to cheaper fuel prices. nicaragua's president daniel ortega is using a new anti-terrorism law to crush a nationwide uprising against him that 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 are latin 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 anti-government protests. as a student leader he took part in the short lived national dialogue with president daniel ortega mediated by the catholic church. today he's almost a fugitive implicated under a new anti-terrorism law and he says afraid for his life or you know the numbers i

appear 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 street does not make you a terrorist. the. police temple how does 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 but those found guilty the terms are vague and broad. who had given food medicine or water to protest hers or encouraged 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. that's the reality we're living kidnapping assassinations persecution. or take this former deputy foreign minister who's also being linked to terrorism says it won't work as long as. we're. in this country 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 the karada that's daniel ortega and his wife they don't hide it. but ortega is unapologetic

accuses the u.n. of being an accomplice to terrorists to criticizing a law that could soon see nicaragua's prisons overflow you see in human al-jazeera . there's an argument in the u.s. courts over who should be responsible for reuniting families separated under the trumpet ministrations so-called zero tolerance immigration policy around four hundred parents have already been sent back to their home countries without their children court documents appear to show the government wants the american civil liberties union to be in charge but the a.c.l.u. says the government should be responsible mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . the federal judge was essential to hearing a report back from the justice department the trumpet ministration as well as the american civil liberties union on the progress made in reuniting hundreds of children with their parents now what the judge heard is that the administration so far as succeeded in locating the parents of only thirteen of the children nearly

six hundred children remain in custody in the united states and in the court papers the administration contended that it was up to the a.c.l.u. to leave the process in terms of reuniting the children with their parents this outrage the judge he described this as completely unacceptable insisting that it was the trumpet ministrations actions that led to the separation in the first place and therefore it is the trumpet ministrations duty to ensure that the reunification does take place now all of this against a backdrop that the judge originally set a deadline of july the twenty sixth for the reunification of all to happen this clearly not happening the judge very very critical of the trumpet ministration he has now given another week for the administration to come up with a clear coherent plan for the reunification of all the children with all the

parents turkey and the united states have agreed to discuss the recent tension between the two countries turkey's foreign minister. has been meeting u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe on the sidelines of the asin summit in singapore cover solo's described the meeting as constructive the u.s. has imposed sanctions on two turkish government ministers over the detention of a u.s. pastor accused of terrorism turkey says the sanctions are unacceptable. the prosecutors are investigating the fatal police shooting of a twenty year old disabled man in sweden says several officers opened fire at a total who had down's syndrome was shot on thursday in stockholm after waving a toy gun police say they judged the situation as threatening as mothers described her son as the most lovable person she says the toy was a present for his fifth birthday. three people have died in spain with temperatures nearing forty five degrees celsius 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 bombers some herder's are employing time honored traditions to reduce the threat. who takes. dust and she. since the day they first learned to walk brothers had been. a good time to her. you have to rise early grab food if you have time ensure the rain and cold all 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 europeans will keep will keep local police local 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 to do going to get a bit of it out but doing all you have to have everything prepared first can always break it up but if there's no fuel for the far then it won't be so seriously 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. ultimately it may prove difficult to reintroduce traditional know how it's herders get older they cover less ground and youngsters just don't seem

keen to take on such a tough job. now there are more fires these days there's less animals so the land is empty and when there are a few flocks of farmland gets very overgrown and it's going to take a lot of work to recover that. the ruins of farm houses like these dot the countryside and there are a clear sign that the old ways are dying out and the younger generation simply don't find sheep herding profitable anymore. but for these brothers it's their way of life where man and beast blend with the landscape. and all al-jazeera film is spain. sixteen thousand more people have been evacuated in california as the u.s. state battles its worst wildfires in a decade at least ten people have died including four firefighters more than three thousand emergency workers from sixteen states are trying to contain the fires

local officials are warning that strong winds are expected to make the fires even more dangerous over the weekend. nasa has announced the first nine astronauts will head into space on rockets built by aerospace companies boeing and space x. the flights are shuttled for next year to take the food to the international space station and will restore the u.s. is ability to send its own students to space for the last seven years nasa is had to buy flights on russian soyuz spacecraft if you wanted to get to the space station be a part of this crew flying with erik and furry and they have a wealth of experience and so i'm looking forward to training along these two gentlemen and flying in space and i plan to learn a lot from them and we'll bring that back to nasa and then hopefully apply that to .