canada's dark secret. and live from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters in doha i'm. going to the news the diplomatic spat between the u.s. and turkey goes from bad to worse as president donald trump doubles medals terrace pressure on turkey's economy after the value of its currency at the lira further against the dollar turkey's leader rest of. his country is under economic attack also on the grid outrage ripples through global capital and right across social media after an air strike in yemen kills dozens of children the saudi military coalition admits it's responsible but says it was trying to target the rebels as

the young victims are buried the u.n. security council is the. calls grow louder for a full investigation also on the grid the daughter of palestinian immigrants who set to make history as the first muslim woman elected to the u.s. congress democrats and also. as no one will run against her but can see be counted on to be a strong voice for palestinian rights we'll speak to her live coming up. a demolition spree in kenya's capital as the government brings down. businesses built illegally on safe ground. connect with us using the hash tag. you're with the news grid we're live on the air we're streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thing. for joining us the u.s.

president donald trump has announced he's doubling steel and aluminum tariffs on turkey piling economic pressure on the country after its currency went into a tailspin so trump delivered the news via twitter here's what he tweeted i have just authorized a doubling of tariffs on steel and many and with respect to turkey as their currency the turkish lira slides rapidly downward against our very strong dollar will now be twenty percent and steel fifty percent our relations with turkey are not good at this time or earlier the turkish president urged people to support their struggling currency the euro by exchanging any spare foreign money they have and he says that turkey is facing a quote economic war the there are plans as much as fourteen percent against the dollar on friday as worries about worsening u.s. relations snowballed into a market panic the u.s. has been pushing turkey to release an american pastor who is being held on

terrorism charges. of a. dollar will not stand in our way do no worry about it i see it again i call on you all citizen to change the euros to dollars and to gold that you are keeping beneath your pillows into lira banks this is a domestic and national struggle we will not lose his economic will we will respond to those sure we make an honest source against us with our national currency. like alan fischer of covering the story for us out of washington d.c. so as we're saying alan simmering tensions for many years between the two countries talk us through this latest move by trump and this latest tweets. well things haven't been good for a long time between the united states the terry and turkey they're certainly deteriorated over the last few months you'll remember it was just a week ago that we saw that the united states sanction two senior cabinet members of the turkish government because they want to try and get the release of this

american pastor andrew bronson who is currently being held in is men under house arrest and no that didn't seem to have an impact in certainly there were turkish officials who were in washington just over the last week in fact they left on thursday they were talking to treasury department officials they were also talking to state department officials it seems that no deal could be done to get over this impasse and so donald trump has no tweeted seeing that these sanctions are going to kick into place with higher being put on steel and aluminum essentially doubling the tide of on both of them and know who is andrew branson well he is a pastor that was arrested in his mirror just after the failed coup attempt in twenty sixteen if you're of the united states you see he's an evangelical ministers but to many people in the area around there and they didn't care where they were from if you're the turkish side then you see that this man was one of those figures who was very important in for mentoring the coup in twenty sixteen and therefore

had to be put in prison and will go on trial and turkish justice will do what turkish justice does but there's also simmering diplomatic problems with the united states and turkey that really an undercurrent to all of this there's the problems with the united states using kurdish fighters in syria there is the turkish position in syria and whether or not it contradicts what the united states are trying to do there there's ongoing trade disputes as well so all of this builds into what donald trump has done in the last hour the white house has clarified to say that what donald trump essentially is saying in the tweet is that the documents are. being prepared so it's not officially kicking in yet but the documents are being prepared to make sure that these targets are implemented and this is all being done under. the risk of of national security so they're targeting turkey under a very narrow law which says that if you are

a threat to national security the president has the right to do this and clearly donald trump is hoping that this will put extra pressure on the time the turkish economy is struggling slightly and it will lead somewhere along the line to the release of a hundred brunson already to alan fischer that is the viewpoint from washington thank you all sin and cos of all blue is in istanbul and she gives us more background about turkey's struggling currency turkish economy is made to be one of the fragile economy is like many other emerging markets and since the failed coup attempt in july two thousand and sixteen turkish clear out was under pressure the rate for one dollar was three point five last year around this time and today it's more than six neeraj however the latest political dispute between united states and turkey over their arrest of pastor bronson is actually challenging because it's turkish government supporters and the government itself

see this as a political movement as a man a fallacious speculation over the turkish lira but the analysts say market analysts warn that turkish economy has structural problems and turkey's finance minister and the treasurer minister battled by rockets trying to deliver messages that turkey is committed to independence of the central bank well we've also spoken to jane foley who is head of rebel banks foreign exchange strategy she says the turkish government has a huge task ahead to earn back investors trust. well many of us is do believe that and this is really about i think a crisis of credibility certainly with respect to the central bank and also at the fact that the finance minister is at a concern a little radicals is the impact of many people's. idea of credibility in the economy to say that what he needs to do is really assert the ideas of structural reform and certainly for the central bank this is very interesting because of

course the market just a few weeks ago thought the such about would be needed to hike interest rates high by one hundred basis points they didn't meaning that at the market assumable this is no longer an independent bank and now the speculation in the market that if that central bank is to retake credibility it may need to hike interest rates next month but by five or ten percent huge measures which of course since very unlikely given the early going is very much against higher interest rates in turkey so breaking news out of saudi arabia and it says it's intercepted missiles they say were fired by the rebels in yemen while that is happening the u.n. security council has been meeting behind closed doors that's after a saudi him out on the airstrike in northern it yemen hit a bus full of school children some of the fifty victims were just under ten years old with the u.n. and the u.s. are calling for investigations into the strike live to her mother though he's covering the war in yemen from neighboring djibouti we'll talk about the

investigation in a moment but what are you hearing about the comments made by saudi arabia that they've now intercepted missiles fired from yemen into their territory. well that in just a little while ago both you said that they had fired ballistic missiles to two. so did if you had the heart on. this so do all fischel say they have intercepted the missiles fired at bob north made any mention of those fired to dot on an industrial city in the salt and part of the contrary it was also the target of ballistic missiles on wednesday which the so didn't that say that it will sort of tell you well when it cut it out. on the market in the hay yun of course you sold the false time to the fighters not targeting not only so that it be a but also the you. believe the results book will hold drole not tox last week they

cut it out on a talk on the q. khalid airbase where they say they have targeted a runway used by fighter jets from. the whole lucian the top been targeting their positions in yemen and we know now that the un security council has been meeting to discuss that attack that took place just about twenty four hours ago killing school children is it going to be comforting at all to yemenis that the u.n. security council is meeting and there are calls for an independent investigation since many of them do feel abandoned by the international community. indeed that is the feeling all over yemen and particularly among the supporters who fighters who say that there's been so many civilian casualties yet there has not been and not into motional aprile about what the sodium about equalisation is doing

there on this kind of attention the u.s. the cuticles in discussing the war in their country as well as the growing chorus of condemnation of the talk about happened on thursday. is some sort of mobility to the people of yemen and for some they say it's bringing back whole. point of it the saudi you a whole nation could be reined in somewhat here is the look of the aftermath of the talk of the market. it's hard to imagine a more disturbing and sickening image of the futility over war in the you know. the scene of an ass strike by the sooty immorality cornish body parts us tomorrow i'm on hold for you but. what is his guilt what is his crime he wonders why target these students this is the walk of the american soda coalition strike

school children why we will seek revenge no matter what he says. these children were in a minibus full of students heading from a school some a company in yemen. but as their boss drove through a busy market in. the province it was thought that by the strike they do what they can here at the hospital which is under his holst of a well. and what effect will it have on this young minds dozens of their classmates were killed in the strike there's now a growing chorus of condemnation a rare thing in the. it took the images of these children drenched in blood and reeling from shock to move the world we deplore says days attack in yemen where a coalition air strike he's a pass carrying children in die on market in reportedly killing people and injuring another sixty eight the u.n.

secretary general and tonio. a swift investigation into the time the conflict in yemen pits the richest countries in the region so that it be on the united arab emirates against the poorest. now that the civilian casualties caused by crack is not the only constant in the yemen is also another. effect. themselves which is the destruction of yemen's water and sanitation facilities something that has already caused outbreaks of cholera before and now the aid community in yemen are warning that if the immunization program that was started by the world health organization when they ask for those three day cease fire is. not going to be completed as well as. i mean this fight is not going to be tamed to a cutty out and now until all of our activities then the country could slip back

into a cholera epidemic and this time i'm all for you to want because but you're a top the population. and the immunity is really low ok mohammad the dough thank you for that update from the beauty our social media producer and here in the u.n. children's agency unicef says many of the young victims were wearing backpacks provided andrew how is the agency responding to that attack. well in a word during their horrified and unicef sweep did out this simple animation showing a falling bomb which reveals the words children are not a target that sentiment was echoed by a twelve year old girl in yemen we spoke to who shared her thoughts on what's happened to so many young children younger than her they didn't just murder them but also to their happiness to children just got school backs which they were in seemingly sighted to use them but before they could try anything or use anything

their shakes came to murder them murder their happiness measured their hopes and dreams this is just a brief example about everything that happens in yemen stop killing you many children stop war against yemen now the arabic has tag you see here it translates to die young students massacre it's one of the top trending has tags in the capital sana and this is one of the most it's actually the most popular post with that hash tag and i think it speaks volumes and it's from a man named the stuff of who actually lives in oman but he says a heinous crime against humanity that torpedoes all the values and principles of the hypocritical international community who moved heaven and earth for fifteen children trapped in a cave in thailand while turning a blind eye to dozens of innocent children whose little bodies were torn to pieces

by war planes now a third of twitter traffic mentioning yemen over the last day or so has actually come from the united states and the state department's has called for an investigation but has also offered a defense of the saudi emirates he coalition. let's look at some of the things that have been happening in yemen you have the who the rebels who continue to attack saudi arabia they continue to do that with a rainy and weapons missiles and rockets and they continue to try to attack civilian infrastructure in saudi arabia for example and that is part of the reason why these actions are being taken but we are seeing a lot more criticism on social media about the u.s. role in this effort samuel oakford he works at air wars they monitor civilian casualties from these kind of air campaigns he tweeted this sort of comparison to explain the u.s. role in yemen he says if an airstrike was a drive by shooting and killed someone the u.s. would have provided the car the wheels the servicing and the repair the guns the

bullets help with maintenance of those and the gas or petrol now i mentioned that much of this traffic on yemen was coming out of the united states several prominent senators have been tweeting out condemnation of the strike and these pictures also played prominently on national cable news outlets like c.n.n. which decided to show these graphic images on its domestic and international channels and take a listen to what was on innocent b.c. our government our public dollars are paying to kill you many children and it's our government and our representatives that can stop it. so let us know what you think as always we want to hear your thoughts you can send us your thoughts using the hash tag edge and he's going to message me directly on during well just to pick up on what andrew was saying it's a conflict described by amnesty international as the forgotten war yemen has found itself in the news this past week though due to coalition attacks but what about the u.s. and the u.k. whose weapons sales and military assistance have enabled the coalition to carry on

the war so the team at the listening post examines flaws in coverage of the wider war in the yemen you can head to al jazeera dot com to watch this show and we are getting questions and comments to us here on the news grid on facebook one of our viewers says saudi arabia is proving itself not able to win this war does not want to recognize it can't decide isn't it and elizabeth asking what will the security council decide decision have any concrete effect will it have a concrete effect on the war and yemen so ramana tiring security council meeting will bring you any of the latest lines here on the newsgroup when we get them and keep your comments coming to us if you can send them to us to any one of our online platforms you can tweet us at a.j. english we're also on facebook at facebook dot com slash a.j. news grid you can send us a whatsapp message at plus nine seven four five zero triple one one four nine just a reminder to use the hash tag a.j.

news grid now a tense calm has returned to gaza and neighboring areas of israel after an egyptian brokered truce ended a two day surge in violence so the cease fire which hasn't been confirmed by israel could be tested though by another round of friday protests along the gaza barrier fence on wednesday at least three palestinians including a pregnant woman and her eighteen month old baby were killed by israeli airstrikes let's speak to charles stratford's he's joining us from gaza as we look at the live scene behind you charles tell us so what you're seeing and what you're hearing. well certainly in the last hour or so a lot more people have arrived here and a petition plaiting in these protests we understand according to the palestinian ministry of health that at least ten people various locations have been injured we've just seen literally five minutes ago or so somebody who appears to have been

shots taken away on a stretcher there's a lot of to gas being fired the israeli military using drones to fire that as we've seen in previous weeks yet this is the twenty as week all of these protests. hamas is saying that these palestinians have every right to continue protesting in what they describe as a peaceful way we have seen balloons and kites carrying these incendiary devices that israel says of burnt last areas of israeli land across the builder but of course as you say this week comes off one of the worst escalation is indeed the worst escalation of violence between hamas and israel since the two thousand and fourteen rule so they're all fears here that any kind of provocation by either side could result in yet another escalation and of course israel sees these kind of protests as a provocation and hamas says that these people have every right to protest for the

lifting of this twelve year old kate and if there is no escalation then charles what happens next. well it's difficult to say i mean the first the first challenge is trying to establish trying to maintain some sort of lost in truce after last week's last week's escalation these protests we understand will continue and i saying that they will continue until israel lifts the blockade on a political level it's interesting we're going to be looking at seeing how these ongoing efforts we understand it reconciliation between hamas and the palestinian authority the fatah dominated palestinian authority go how mice have actually accepted already the latest to gyptian proposal. towards some sort of reconciliation with thoughts and we understand that proposal is now in the hands of abu mazin the

palestinian president sorry the p.l.o. leader and palestinian president so we're waiting to hear any kind of movement on that front and of course there are suggestions that if there was any kind of movement towards reconciliation then that would push israel into a corner of potentially easing some of the restrictions on this ongoing siege but as i say the first priority at the moment is trying to keep this truce in place after say the worst escalation of violence we've seen here between hamas and israel in four years right fred thank you in their life pictures as you can see from the gaza israel border palestinians coming out once again another friday to protest their conditions in gaza well since these protests began more than four months ago israeli forces have killed at least one hundred fifty palestinians in gaza you can find all the latest updates on this page including that cease fire deal that trolls is talking about that's currently being brokered by egypt as well as the united nations had to al-jazeera dot com and search for gaza protests. fighting

has been going on in the central afghan city of the for most are friday where taliban fighters launched a huge offensive they burned police checkpoints they took over parts of the city before being pushed back by u.s. backed forces and at least fourteen police officers have been killed charlotte bella's has details from kabul. this is attack began at about two am local time here in afghanistan the taliban launching a heavy assault on the place headquarters in the city the capital of the province residents saying that they heard rockets hitting the police headquarters just after two o'clock this morning the taliban they moved in took up positions around the police headquarters and from there they moved out throughout the city there were heavy gun battles through the morning between taliban and afghan police and afghan security forces the taliban then moved into a residential area where they remained for most of the day that's where they'd

watch a lot of their assault from a centrally taking human shields in people there terrified as they heard gun battles outside they saw bodies on the streets they were hearing rockets at one point the u.s. seem to be one bomber of a hit and cellphone towers were down so they really had no way to figure out what was going on in the city the taliban however was sitting out statements throughout the day claiming various successes saying that they killed one hundred forty afghan soldiers and police officers the government steered fastly denying that throughout the day saying it's simply not true we are in control of the city yes there is an attack but we are in control and have been throughout the day we maintained control of government ministries and buildings they said this in a statement earlier. there has been fighting in gaza the province for a long time in the entire province of gaza as well as gaza we have defeated the taliban and our enemy has sustained significant casualties last night the taliban

storm from packed. and my done wardak province as you know unprecedented attack on gaza. it's very important for the government to maintain an air of confidence for the public here in afghanistan make sure that people feel secure because we have elections coming up here on october the twentieth yes speaking of those elections security a major concern for officials ahead of the parliamentary vote later this year followed by the presidential elections in april twenty one thousand so in this article or online team looks at some of the other challenges as well the security facing afghanistan as it plans to head to the polls. now there's a wave of demolitions going on in kenya's capital nairobi including the westgate mall and other buildings the government has decided were built corruptly on unsafe land and yours back again what is the story and you will during this four thousand buildings in all that are being reduced to rubble they were constructed on river

banks and wetlands and the government says that they break many laws including regulations that are designed to protect the nairobi river all of this has provoked a big conversation online about corruption and building safety as kenyans share videos like these of bulldozers destroying some of the buildings the building managers mall owners are crying foul saying that they obtained all the necessary paperwork before starting construction. but there was yet a site is not going to anybody you can even just buy by yourself they're not rubbish and they put. one in just one display to some other people's property did they take to send one because maybe they just he got the see the name of. this thing he's really like but that's people this is what he means what you have done him. you don't mind if he has done anything what what

what. does he play on the. president who kenyatta says those who approved these buildings illegally in the first place must also be held accountable so we're not just going to punish those who bitch because i know in many instances many of them are claiming they were given the public's with those permits and whatever they were given were given if they did but they were given by government offices so i want to assure you that we have going after all those who issued those funds so if you're in nairobi let us know what you think because some of the viewers that we spoke to earlier are firmly behind the demolitions but i fully support. the steps that the government has taken to bring down the constructor's in this and to put a very long time with the. loss of life due to these buildings that are standing on dented as

a grounds. but as non know. that isn't for corruption i'm the best way to fight corruption i think he's to fight in unity. they are also the demolitions along the river. if the president will who cannot i please show we can the e.c.g.'s a boat ginned up full so i think a minute can receive a decent you know positive way but others are firmly opposed this user says demolitions could not have happened without corrupt construction efforts aided by corrupt lawyers and courts others shared photos from inside one of the malls showing water flowing in as the building was brought down now one of the houses being torn down actually belongs to governor he says that he's happy to lead by example adding that it does not matter how well connected you are if you have built

on a road reserve or waterway that structure has to go down for many kenyans this is a moment to remember. the late environmental political activist and nobel laureate who years ago was chased away by police when she and fellow activists protested against buildings like the nakumatt souquet sensor and a nearby temple which were built on the path of the river the demolitions they so badly wanted are expected to take a couple of months to be carried out so we'd like to hear from you as i said especially if you're in nairobi you can tweet me your thoughts directly i'm at endor chapelle or just use the hash tag it's a newsgroup during andrew thank you well a palestinian and merican who was once kicked out of a trunk campaign event for heckling is set to become the first muslim woman elected to the u.s. congress. defeated five rival candidates from the democratic party to win the primary race in the state of michigan now no republican candidates will stand against her in the election meaning she'll run unopposed will speak to her in

a moment after this backgrounds are from a.j. plus. i don't want anybody whatever their faith who is be muslim being catholic being atheist whatever it is i don't ever want anybody to feel like they have to hide in . their like why do you want to run for office as like because i want to change the world and they're like what i'm like that's exactly what i want to do. the faith that alone islamist so misunderstood by so many and that's why it's important that i'm out here door knocking the biggest barrier is that wanting people to see more than just oh this is a muslim woman that oh no she's

a hard worker she's the eldest of fourteen she went to public school system she didn't speak english when she started school and like look at her now i so happen to be an activist woman that cares deeply about people's lives and so happened to be muslim. and one of my colleagues in a committee hearing he pauses to ask me for my birth certificate as a joke and everybody gasped the worst part no was nobody really called him out on it. two years ago one of my all former colleagues became a state senator and he texted me that somebody introduced a into shari'a and he just goes i just want you to know i thought if you and i put it in a committee where it's going to die the fact that i'm exposing our faith to public service that in so many ways outweighs all the negative that comes.

they got up you know and i yelled have you read the constitution you need to read the constitution as they're dragging me out and. really want to go take on trial like if there's any believe that i want to take on and i've taken on a lot in detroit from the billionaire that owns the bridge to the koch brothers it's like i've been right should just take on this guy and i'm ready for it and i'm going to be in his face as much as i can be. and we can now speak softly that's on the if she's joining us from detroit thanks very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera it's a have you with us you say in that video that we just the played by our colleagues at a.j. plus that you want to take on trump so just the broad question before we get into the specifics what will you be taking on as a matter of priority what policies are you concerned about the most.

look my district we're probably one of the poorest in the country and one of the things that i want to really want to work hard on a proposal i put forward called justice for all act where really trying to make sure that my families have equal access to economic justice issues the fact that right now some of my communities don't even have some of my cities don't even have very good school districts some don't even have a school district at all and some of the inequality in education funding and some of the kind of access to loans to buy your own home and that kind of access to just being able to uplift families out of poverty or be able to not have to worry about you know where am i going to be able to get my next paycheck how am i going to be able to take care of my families that is going to be key and priority when i say i'm taking on trump it's not just him as a person but what he represents right the fact that over half of my colleagues in the congress are millionaires these are people not experience or have the same

challenges i did growing up may not understand why it's so hard for an african-american family to get access to a home mortgage loan because of the discriminatory practices that continue by big banks and so those are the key things that i want to work on when i get to congress and your policies binion roots have certainly made headlines internationally for international viewers may be curious to know where you stand on the israeli palestinian conflict where many are saying that this is really occupation has no end in sight and the prospect of a two state solution is now pretty much dead so where do you stand on the. i can tell you i'm optimistic primarily because i grew up in the city of detroit where every single corner in my neighborhood was a reminder of the labor rights movement where we were able to organize workers and fight for you know safe place to work. a minimum wage health coverage i also every corner is

a reminder of the civil rights movement i've watched just to continue discrimination and push back on my african-american neighbors and again that lens and what i've been able to be surrounded by that's what i take to the palestinian israeli issue i mean every single person i've spoken to understand when i say you know why are we integrating the school system there why are there walls everywhere why is it that now if i go back when i was eleven twelve years old i remember being able to play basketball in this israeli settlement near where my grandmother was not even knowing it was a settlement because there was no fence there was no you. really and what do you make of the u.s. and the susan going to recognize through slimmest israel's capital and move the u.s. i mean do you support that decision i completely oppose that president trump is reckless he doesn't really care what that really means to the palestinian people or what even means to us getting for moving forward towards peace in the region you

should know i believe in justice for all and quality and no one no one should be able to be denied human dignity soley based on their faith and you see that now with these really government moving tours saying that you have to show you're mother is jewish for you to actually get access to good health care to housing to all those things that i think are really core important issues that need to be addressed before we even start having conversations about peace negotiations in that region you can't. make people less then and expect them to have a really thoughtful conversation about peace and about being able to live near each other and that's what i think i want to bring that voice that kind of personal experience as having my family in palestine still experiencing those challenges with the checkpoints not being able to get access to good health care and quality education and so that's what i'm going to really work hard on you've also recently said that your decision to run was prompted by increasing attacks against american muslims an immigrant since the election of trump so when you see statistics like

this one there's been a reported fifteen percent increase in islamophobia related crimes in the united states this is just last year what do you think and do you believe that the trumpet ministration has failed its moral obligation to muslims and what do you bring to the table. you know our president right now is increasing that the hate crimes not only just with american muslims but i see it with a b t q my latino neighbors getting attacked separated from their families that kind of device is this that you see coming out of the administration that's what's really hurting our country the most that i don't think people really realize what a slippery slope this is and how it really impacts not only how the world sees us but how we feel as americans as being part of this country when we see those kinds of policies breaking up families tearing us apart a pastor in my district said it beautifully pastor steve said we're not a country that's divided we are country that's disconnected and this president is

completely disconnected with what the americans believe and want us to be working on tours and that's comprehensive immigration reform that's a quality that's looking at people past their faith past the color of their skin past their sexual orientation past the fact that they're woman or man i'm tired of us thinking that this is some sort of fruitful debate we know who we are as a country and i'm not going to stand by and allow trump and some of the people surrounding him to try to define it completely different from who we really are. about to leave we thank you very much for joining us on al-jazeera good to get your thoughts and for our viewers you can head to al-jazeera dot com where you can read more about. when as well as her upcoming plans we feature her on. dot com and just take a look at these live pictures now coming to us from the gaza israel border as we're seeing friday protests going on. out on the border protesting their living conditions in gaza so we're keeping an eye out on any developments from there for

the time being we have gopalan there she is joining us from london with more of the international news hides of you. thank you very much straight to news here at least four people including two police officers have been killed in a shooting in eastern canada police say one suspect is in custody and is being treated for serious injuries the circumstances of the shooting in the city of fed fredericton are still unclear and officers had urged people in the area to remain inside their homes with the door slaw. russia says it would consider it an act of economic war of the u.s. imposes sanctions on russian banks and currencies prime minister dmitri medvedev says he will take retaliatory measures if necessary the u.s. state department has announced new sanctions over the poisoning of a former russian spy in the u.k. or rory challenge has the latest from moscow. talking about u.s.

sanctions against russia as part of some sort of economic war is language that we've heard before from to be true of just over a year ago when donald trump signed in the countering america's adverse the reste through sanctions act many various said that this is part of a full blown trade war what this kind of language does is frame american sanctions as part of general geopolitical economic competition and not a direct response to the behavior of russia what russia is going to do about this though i think is still being discussed in moscow the responses are being mold over at the moment russia has a problem in the disparities in size between its economy and the united states mean that the leavers it has at its at its disposal to retaliate economically are fairly limited that's why dmitri medvedev said that they could respond economically

politically or if needed by other means now that's keeping things deliberately vague but russia has a problem in that it's some of its other means approach the more kind of on the hand aspects like election hacking or espionage that sort of thing which have got russia into the sanctions program in the first place zimbabwe's opposition is challenging last month's presidential election results in court a lawyers for the movement for democratic change alliance have just filed the paperwork of the supreme court in harare they say they have mammoth evidence of fraud and that the election was rigged in favor of president emerson money the case could delay the president in our inauguration which is scheduled for sunday. fifty five thousand people across europe are facing travel disruptions because of a pilot strike at the budget airline ryanair one hundred six ryanair flights have

been canceled at the low cost carrier struggles with trade unions over pay and work conditions that medicaid has more from berlin. here at burning shona felt airport normally and on friday in the middle of august it would be packed with passengers coming and going to and from holiday destinations but for ryanair thirty one of their flights from the sample have been canceled some are going but the vast majority are not and so lose passengers who come to the airport for the first thing they do when they walk into this terminal to look at the departure of or to find out if their flights are going you can see one or two flights are departing but as i say the lion's share of these flights have been cancelled and you can see from the check in desks here quite clearly that there are staff here a very few passengers indeed and for those passengers who are unfortunate enough to have flights here to the airport which did operate they landed here but then found that they had no follow on flight we spoke to a couple earlier on from dallas texas who had flown through the night across the

atlantic hoping to go on to greece only to find their flight had been counseled. and when we landed here in berlin right yeah i mean really they told us that the ryanair flight to athens that we had booked are being canceled because the. pilots on strike so we just went through a couple different ways of getting that this is the airline rebooked scaling the vessel we need tonight and then tomorrow morning bouncing from that's leaking to the fs ryan are employees about four hundred pilots here in germany they are members of the pilots union cockpit and for the union issue with ryanair is very clear they want improved terms and conditions and they say ryanair really needs to reform. the mystery is not about wanted to beat ryanair and it wouldn't be possible anyway against a. runs atlantic employ but what it is about is to signal to management that there needs to be an end to them trying to beat their own staff today even to send a clear message to dublin ryanair must change the financial hit the airline is

pretty clear on a usual friday in the middle of august they would hope to generate a great deal of revenue all of them is gone with all these flights that have been canceled the question for the airline will be does it want to keep facing this strike action potentially losing revenue as i say or do they want to make an improved offer to cockpit to the pilots union that would end this industrial action a lot of from a lot of it let's take you back to daryn and. divya thank you well police in the u.s. city of chicago are being accused of entrapment and racism with very use of a so-called bait truck officers have been parking that truck in poor black communities living it unlocked and full of expensive goods they then pounce when people try to steal it from chicago here's john hendren with that reports. no lock on the back of the truck at all she's a pole yeah yeah that's holding

a truck. police pull over the bait truck on locked and loaded with boxes of nike shoes they look at on the side of the road in one of chicago's greenest neighborhoods locals say sometimes the back is round up to reveal the one thousand shoes inside the yard chasing crime drama great drug crime then they wait for the young men of englewood to discover on this you tube video posted by anti crime activist charles mckenzie outraged residents call that entrapment. is the basis of the baby and probably want to be like from the streets of chicago's south side are among the city's most violent but neighborhood activists say the bait truck preys on poor black children tempting them to steal what they wouldn't touch of police hadn't put it there oh and probably want to be like you trying to make me like you but in the ghetto. in the ghetto this young man apparently took the bait each year across the u.s. the f.b.i. says cargo theft costs twenty seven million dollars in losses but local activists

say police tactics here are racist they say there are no reports of bait trucks being parked downtown or in the affluent white neighborhoods of chicago's north side many here are now asking why no hound it's hasn't seen police officers of park a truck full of phones and mac books in a white neighborhood. one how many white kids actually go today and is trying to start looking through the gram enough all the math books you know get a word or go over there do the same thing and like he had to do it in his statement chicago police told al jazeera quote the operation was conducted by norfolk southern railroad police the chicago police department assisted with enforcement as necessary but i think this is bogus and also the trouble. in real life they committed but you gotta wonder people are just i don't know how. to live with that this time neighborhood activists persuade police to move the truck along and thus

whatever it is it looks like good job people and on it goes to the next neighborhood john hendren al jazeera chicago while still in the u.s. where the environmental protection agency is now considering allowing companies to introduce as best into their products in a new way andrew what's the story. well a lot of people are angry about this proposal from the u.s. environmental protection agency it's called the significant new use rule and will would allow special uses of the natural mineral now especially this is particularly known for its fireproofing abilities and pretty much everyone used to use it in construction but then in the one nine hundred seventy s. the world health organization announced that all types of a specificity cause lung throat and ovarian cancer as well as other diseases just by breathing in their tiny fibers and because of that at least sixty countries including the u.k. and australia have banned the mineral outright the u.s.

instead strictly regulates it but this new proposal from the u.s. environmental agency would weaken those regulations by letting companies find new and creative ways to use a specificity in what he serves battery parts and vinyl tiles just to name a few of the products that could be made with the mineral now all currently banned specificity will remain banned but activists say that new products could mean higher cancer rates if they're simply tossed away in the rubbish they're thrown away carelessly and then they could contaminate water or soil now on the other hand us president donald trump has long supported the use of a specialist he actually wrote about it in one thousand nine hundred seven saying that i believe that the movement against a specif was led by the mob because it was often mob related companies that would do the a specialist removal great pressure was put on politicians and as usual the politicians relented now a lot of trumped critics on twitter in particular and facebook are sharing this image this post showing the president's face stamped on especially packaging in

russia what does this mean while since other former exports of the mineral have now banned it russia is likely or would likely be america's number one provider of a specialist so let us know what you think about the e.p.a.'s new proposal you can get in touch with us using the hash tag agent's crude and to thank you all joe is here in just a moment to talk of. sports n.f.l. player. to give us his thoughts right after. stay with us.

thank. you i don't know we're getting here is joey the sports lead to read thank you and if old players are continuing to protest during the national anthem several of them to can they all sat out the anthem in their locker rooms at pre-season games around the u.s. on thursday and others raise their fists in protest against racial injustice and police brutality players from the miami dolphins philadelphia eagles and the jacksonville jaguars were all those who took action well the

protest in escape the notice of president donald trump who tweeted this the n.f.l. players are the again taking in the when they should be standing proudly for the national anthem numerous players from different teams wanted to show that outrage at something that most of them on able to defy they make a fortune doing what they love and it goes on be happy be cool a football game that fans are paying so much money to watch and enjoy is no place to protest most of that money goes to the players anyway find another way to protest stand proudly for a national anthem or be suspended without pay so trump says they're unable to define it but here's the philadelphia eagles safety malcolm jenkins who was one of the players who raised his fist. i know there are a ton of people look to us as motivation for inspiration. you can see that you know when they have people fighting for. advocating for them it gives you know those

people do this work. mr grimes and fire him in the organ systems of oppression. they they draw. motivation you know inspiration from. us and it's. ok well let's remind you of the background to these anthem persis they've been going on since two thousand and sixteen when former some francisco forty nine ers quarterback calling kappa nick began nailing to highlight racial inequality and injustice earlier this year the n.f.l. announced it would find players who protested during the anthem following a public backlash which featured president trump calling on the players to be follow it bought the n.f.l. was forced to shelve that policy just weeks ago when the players association complained so as it stands players can protest without fear of punishment as well the man who started the protest calling kapanen tweeted this and his support for the two dolphins players who raise their fists in protest and what he describes as

systemic oppression one of the accusations that players often face is the disrespecting veterans by protesting the national anthem from a simple champion roy butler addresses that he says players also have service members and their families i'm begging you the play is not against you and it's not political don't take the bait supportive from n.b.a. legend and civil rights activist bill russell he reposed in all picture of himself kneeling wearing the presidential medal of freedom the eighty four year old says he's with the players in spirit i thought about taking a new photo but i was afraid i wouldn't be able to get up this time round. another story that's building on social media is the u. premier league season which kicks off in just a few i was time manchester united player les stowe the transfer window closed around twenty four hours ago and jayson rainier couldn't secure the defenders he wanted the club's owners vetoed it now is serious stuff

it's not any more about about friendly it's not any more about. about preparation is about points and a point can be can be crucial you don't know what is going to happen in the end of the season you have to try to best to try the best to try to get points and even the difficulties that we have with our pre-season i don't think it's time to be speaking about that well as in respect to james robson who is the bunch of seven city correspondent for the manchester evening news he says jayson when you're needs to be positive now because people don't want to hear him complaining about what he didn't get. the thing about joe's a marine you know is that he's a winner i think and since he's been at united he's not had the squad that he would have wanted these he's made a lot of changes to the squad that he inherited and he's been successful you know last season they got the high spanish since rice folks are retired

a season before that they want to make trophies merino finds a way and i would expect and by the way however when you look back to his last into chelsea and when things didn't start right they snowball and it got wrong went wrong very quickly so we know that can happen but i'm here i expect as a marine unit to be here at the end seizes first game of the season is all about winning them really i don't know any complaints if they win one nail with a known goal in their in the last minute of course united fans they want to see good football that they'd love to see them go out and make a statement when cornell but i think the most important thing is just getting a win if they don't win tonight then the pressure is on straight away you saw a city did last season they raced away and no one could catch them we just cannot support to give them a head start i think if you asked most less the fans ever ask a couple of weeks they would probably thought they would have lost him a quiet journey body is a fan favorite he now with maurice gone is probably best star man he's the one they going to be looking to also spent

a lot of money this summer i think they've got every reason to be really positive about the season. and here's something you won't see in the english premier league although perhaps teams should think about doing this everyone needs a bit of magic after all especially spanish club villareal who will be playing in the europa league this season and now they called in a magician to help them on vale their latest signing santi cazorla in dramatic fashion let's hope the former all snow midfielder can help them come up some trophies this season. that is the magical piece will be back with more at eight hundred g.m.t. but for now hand you back to you so thank you for that and that'll do it for this newsgroup if you can keep in touch with us on social media just a reminder to use the house a to use word we will see you back here in studio four tonight fifty g.m.t. on saturday thanks very much for watching so you don't buy from.

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