it's because as they pointed out they have tried weapons of their own to to retaliate it absolutely has and we are expecting that it's something that they have said kind of going through this whole process you know there have been negotiations going on there been meetings in washington the meetings in beijing and there was supposed to be another round there are just organizing another round of meetings in the next couple of weeks obviously that's left to be determined based on the news coming out of washington but beijing and chinese officials have been saying straight the way through that they will not negotiate while under pressure one chinese official even characterize it as we're not going to go shit when there's a gun to our head that's referring to these these rounds of tariffs and we've seen that the second large one coming out and even a preemptive threats if you like he said that if china retaliate the united states says they will go again with another round so we are anticipating that there will be some type of announcement we don't know just yet when that will happen but what

it will be indications are is that it sounds like china is going to hit back with about sixty billion dollars worth of of tariffs that's a work spectating that's what's been reported and they're going to focus on supply chains now obviously a lot of american manufacturers really rely on supplies components coming from the united from china manufactured in china to put together whatever of ever the final product is in american manufacturing companies so that is seems to be where they're really going to hit back those are the indications but again you know we've had this back and forth with the meetings going on there's supposed to be announcements in the next couple weeks of another round of meetings high level meetings obviously what came out of washington monday probably will put that on hold expecting to hear some kind of word from beijing in the coming hours housing for the moment scott highlight for us there in beijing thanks. well we've got plenty more ahead on this news hour the four margin time leader charged with corruption we take a look at the political future of cristina kirchner. clouds on the

a rise in. not become lighter but darker the international monetary fund warning of recession for britain if it crashes out of the e.u. with no deal. and later in sport india get ready to start the defense of their asia cup cricket title. so all that still ahead but first russian state media is reporting that they have lost contact with a reconnaissance plane over the mediterranean sea just off the syrian coast fourteen russian servicemen were thought to be on board the plane as it was returning to letterkenny a province all this happening as syrian air defense forces intercepted a number of missiles fired at the city of latakia they were targeting a state run industrial compounds not clear who launched the strikes but israel is

suspected is thought to have been behind a series of earlier strikes targeting iranian and hezbollah forces that are joined syria's war fighting alongside the government there stephanie decker has the latest from an attack here in the turkey's border with syria. a lot of mixed reports soon after the reports of these explosions multiple explosions but soon after the syrian official state news agency sanna putting out a statement saying that its air defense systems had intercepted multiple missiles quoting a military source saying that they were missiles that came from the sea so that will rule out reading between the lines the rebel forces putting it more on to a state actor because it was in the mediterranean you have various the presence of u.s. naval vessels the brits the turks and also israeli submarines believed to have to be placed there israel has been accused in the possibly using it submarines of targeting latakia of course these things are never confirmed israel does confirm

however that it does target iran when you know backed forces on the ground or weapon shipments or shipments it believes are deemed to the group has bought a lot so again nothing confirmed but we do know that a technical institute was hit this is according to syrian state use agency the russian media spot nick saying that it was syrian army infrastructure so things not exactly clear what exactly was hit but the video showing large fireballs in the sky multiple missiles used but again it just shows you how complicated syria's war is with all the talk is about the last a rebel held stronghold in the last stand of the opposition you still have various state actors with a lot of interests when it comes to syria russia and turkey have agreed to set up a demilitarized zone in syria's last rebel held province of its hold this will keep government forces and rebel fighters apart russia's defense minister says that

means they'll be no military assault which many were fearing were a challenge reports from moscow. for weeks it labor has been bracing itself for the assault that seemed imminent damascus and moscow both signaled it was coming but they wanted to clear out syria's final rebel stronghold and after a low bombs had started forming again but following america meeting in sochi it looks like turkey's president has persuaded liberia putin to try something different for a while at least the assault is off now that they are. joining the meeting we took a close look at the situation and decided to create a demilitarized zone along the contact line a syrian government forces and the armed opposition fifteen to twenty kilometers deep by the fifteenth of october of the current year. it's a success for reptile purdah one who has mounted an urgent diplomatic campaign to avert what the united nations said would be a major humanitarian disaster one merged together we will ensure the protection and

the prevention of provocation of third parties and violations of the agreement with this aim russia and turkey will carry out coordinate patrols on the borders of both sides of the demilitarized zone that will be designated. all heavy weapons will have to be withdrawn from the buffer zone and what putin called radically minded rebels including. would have to pull out the details are to be agreed with damascus according to russia's defense minister yet again it's been made clear that despite all the talk of syria's territorial integrity its sovereignty that it's syrians themselves that should be deciding the fate of their country ultimately it's outside powers that are calling the shots but those outside powers have their limitations to russia can't ignore turkey and monday's developments show that things russia needs to call it syrian intervention a success the return of refugees reconstruction the political process would be all

but impossible without ankara's involvements turkey terrified of a new wave of homeless syrians put its foot down moscow listened and did lip gets a reprieve for now. how does iran moscow. in yemen pro-government forces backed by the united arab emirates say they've launched a new phase of their offensive against the rebels in her data fighting flared again in the red sea port city last week after the hoop these failed to turn up for peace talks in geneva and the saudi u.a.e. coalition has condemned a cooperation agreement between who tease and the u.n. humanitarian coordinator for yemen to move the injured people out of sun our province which the who these control. this corporation is unacceptable the signing by the humanitarian coordinator in yemen with the militias is an implicit recognition by u.n. organizations of the militias as defacto authorities this is contrary to what was

stated in resolution two two one six the who the militia is a militia outside international and humanitarian law such movements are acceptable only if the who the militias are able to control the un and also impose itself on the principles of the united nations. the u.s. supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and his accuser will be called to testify before the senate judiciary committee next monday while his fate hangs in the balance the u.s. president has been defending his pick kimberly how he reports. u.s. president donald trump's nominee to the highest court in the country the supreme court is in doubt spite of that the president is standing with brett kavanaugh he is one of the great intellects and one of the finest people that anybody has known cavanagh is at the center of an explosive allegation that threatens to derail his nomination it came this weekend by this woman christine blasi ford who says cavanagh attempted to sexually assault her in the one nine hundred eighty s.

a charge he vehemently denies this is a completely false allegation i have never done anything like what the accuser describes to her or to anyone for it's lawyer says her client has taken a lie detector test. and is now prepared to testify before congress this is not a politically motivated action in fact she was quite reluctant to come forward and she was in fact outed after she had made the decision not to come forward ford is now a professor in california she says when she was fifteen a drunk seventeen year old cavanaugh pushed her into a bedroom at a party groped her attempted to remove her clothing and held her hand over her mouth to prevent her from screaming republicans say they'll give cavanagh for the chance to be heard by the senate judiciary committee the timing of this nomination is also important to any delay is a problem for the white house with just weeks until the midterm election to

determine control of congress needs to get a conservative on the bench before it's too late kimberly health at al-jazeera the white house i want to take you live now to pyongyang in north korea where the delegations of the leaders of north and south korea arriving now they said guest house. where they will lead begin a luncheon presumably get down to business talking about the issues in front of them denuclearization of the korean peninsula south korean president. in arriving in pyongyang just over an hour ago for his third summit this year with north korea's kim jong un as he tries to reboot the story denuclearization talks between north korea and the united states a great deal expected from this third round of talks as the various members of the delegation arrived into that guest house not. now

argentina's former president cristina kirchner has been charged in a corruption scandal the judges asked for parliamentary immunity to be lifted so she can be detained in is accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes during her time in office last month the senate partially lifted her immunity so she could be investigated or any pet is the senior director for america's market intelligence he joins us now from miami sir thanks for being with us so how serious is this for cristina kirchner or you have to understand that this is actually the logical step of a long investigation is candle the started several months ago or there's already been more than a dozen people investigated and i fully indicted on these cases what happened is that the former chauffeur of the minister of planning under the current administration that kept track of the series of the deliveries of cash to this is

especially the presidency under the current administration is it we're talking about eighty seven occurrence of cash delivery and this is potentially money that was provided from a large infrastructure company looking to gain some contracts in argentina and i was probably for a campaigning phones and personal embezzlement from the kercher family and christina kirshner still has her color of supporters from when she was president of argentina how are they likely react going to react to this especially in the context of what's happening in argentina right now with the state of the economy and the challenges that the current president is dealing with there. you know obviously you actually point out a very important element which is the timing of this charging right now argentina through the travel time right now my creatively scimitar plan to be able to your gather more support from the i.m.f.

and the shawl loan money including a series of different strong measures of the reduction of subsidies to energy prices and increase our potential die of taxes on exports for argentine producers so a series of austerity measures to be able to gather support from the from the i.m.f. and i was supposed to be the basis on which our crystal kirsner was aiming to you build a future political campaign for the upcoming elections of may twenty ninth seen so obviously these are charging from the from the prosecutor in the in argentina is arriving at a time where also my queries actually you're of limiting the potential support of the opposition although in argentina the opposition is not as united under kirton right they had been in the past as a series of different additional political candidates that were already fighting kirsner to be the opposition voice against my korea in seven months from now good to get your thoughts on this joining us there from miami how the head of the international monetary fund has warned that

a no deal exit from the european union will come at a big cost for the united kingdom christine and god says britain's growth rate will be less than half the global average even if a smooth breaks it transition is agreed paul brennan reports. at one point in her news conference christine legarde described herself as a desperate optimist but delivering the i.m.f. latest assessment of the u.k. economy her tone was repeatedly downbeat about britain post rex it so whatever the deal is will not be as good as it is at the moment and asked about the seemingly growing prospect of britain crashing out without a break to deal now clearly that was to happen our assessment is that it would have very dear economy consequences it would be a shock to supply. and it would inevitably have a series of consequences in terms of. reduced growth going forward.

increased deficit most likely depreciation of the currency and. you know in reasonably short order mean a reduction of the size of the u.k. economy the bracket deadlines are approaching fast for britain to depart the european union in an orderly manner next march they really need to agree the e.u. divorce bill by the end of this year and a year leaders are braced for an emergency summit mid november but the british prime minister theresa may is facing considerable opposition to her compromise proposal the so-called checkers plan and if that is rejected by the u.k. parliament then the very real prospect of a no deal bracks it looms boris johnson resigned from the government over bracks it and has taken to sniping from his regular newspaper column the whole thing is a constitutional abomination he writes and if checkers were adopted it would mean

that for the first time since ten sixty six our leaders were deliberately acquiescing in foreign rule the presidency of the e.u. is currently with austria and its leader is visiting paris for talks with the french president. i think there we agree that we have to do everything possible to avoid the heartbreaks it to make possible that there will be a strong cooperation between the u.k. and the european union even after the u.k. leaving the e.u. the e.u. chief negotiator michel barnier is in madrid with little to add i don't want to ask how sorry i don't want to answer my question because we. can bring it up this week . a spirit of good cooperation with the final words there mr ban a we'll give a fuller assessment when he brings ministers from the remaining twenty seven member states back in brussels on tuesday whole brennan al-jazeera london. the u.n. human rights commission on south sudan is calling on the government to set up

a special court to try suspected war criminals south sudan's government signed a peace deal last week to end nearly five years of civil war commission says those who committed crimes during the conflict must be held accountable carol morgan reports. it's only days since south sudan's were in parties agreed to end a war which has ravaged the world's youngest country but the united nations is keen for the government to take the next big step as soon as possible form a hybrid court to put on trial anyone suspected of committing atrocities during the conflict on what we said in ari or the south sudan is a country at war with the citizens because the attacks continue the violations until new the asked internally displaced persons and refugees continue and course the number of children were affected by the continued to go on the increase.

work began in ten to thirteen when president salva kiir accused his then vice president riek machar of attempting a coup tens of thousands of people have been killed and a third of the country's twelve million population displaced the un has reports of ethnic killings reap and recruitment of child soldiers and has no guarantee those activities want to continue the signed peace deal rebels for among other things the formation of a court so those accused of crimes can be held accountable. but south sudan's government which has denied committing any offenses says the immediate pirates should be on building peace in the country south sudan is now looking for a way out from the conflict to peace and peace agreement has been signed so the international community should now give time for the government and the other political parties that signed the agreement to make sure they implement the peace agreement electorally spirit they show. of accountability doesn't come off the

accountability should come as part of the implementation of peace agreement but for many people if justice is seemed to be done it will enable them to move on from the horrors of the past and rebuild their lives here morgan al-jazeera. well still ahead on al-jazeera when we come back we'll look at how climate change is threatening the livelihoods of farmers across iraq. and the search for survivors in the philippines after the typhoon manhood triggers landslides plus later in the iranian champions leave it late to progress in asia's hot club competition and he's here with us. through tranquil a radiant can you. can feel it seems and if any should go on dylan. how is still reading fairly heavily in southwest china widespread

flooding from the rains of non-court which is spread itself out and is dumping the remains of the most in southwest china prospers final says this is on tuesday the time we get to wednesday should all of the be flooding on the grounds to those already is you know will start to drain away still a fairly warm and humid picture in hong kong and indeed up in shanghai but not a huge amount of rain by this time forming to the sas so we are seeing an increasing likelihood of showers in jakarta could ching and across in singapore been the sun's going sas or was it the possibility of showers certainly a likelihood in singapore anywhere in the next couple of days so i cannot keep jakarta roger any more showers in java order turning now as the monsoon trough disappears slowly sas out of india you this time you can get second cycle is something develop he in for example the bay of bengal it's still a possibility in the next day or so and if it stays on the water doesn't do

a great deal of damage it doesn't haunts the rain on the coast of near some back on the eastern coast of india for the most part where we're looking at dry and less humid weather but it's still a pretty help thirty five up in delhi. the weather spawns. cats on race. when they're online for humanity has been taken out of its goals of this would hold you down. on a spreadsheet or if you joined us on say i guarantee no one has a back story like yours this is a dialogue i'm just tired of seeing negative stereotypes about native americans everyone has a voice. and that's your comments your questions i'll do my best to bring them into the cell join the global conversation on how to zero one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story as he'll we cover this region better than anyone else would be pushes you know it's thirty tendency to believe but to be because you have

a lot of people that are deployed on political issues. people believe to tell the real story i'll just mended is to do the work journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. and again you're watching i just you know a reminder of our top stories this hour south korea's president. is in pyongyang for his third summit with kim jong un as he tries to revive stoled nuclear disarmament talks it's the third summit between the two leaders this year and the first time a south korean leader has traveled to the north in over

a decade. syrian state media says its air defenses have intercepted missiles fired at the coastal city of latakia they were targeting a state run industrial compound on the eastern outskirts israelis says. spectate a russian reconnaissance plane is also disappeared off the coast of syria. the us is escalating its trade war with china with another two hundred billion dollars worth of tariffs on imports on the world's second biggest economy ten percent hike take effect from next monday they'll then increase to twenty five percent on january first next year. let's talk about this more then with tang in is a political analyst on china and an investment bank and joins us now from beijing so what do you think the effect of this is going to be then for china well a quite frankly it's kind of shooting themselves in the foot i mean as we've all

seen donald trump seems to have a fairly different idea of economics and i think bob woodward's book has confirmed that the problem here is that the greatest opposition to this is not in china it's actually with american businesses who are really feeling the pinch there was a meeting two days ago in beijing and they were talking about the effect of this sixty percent of the companies here said they're being very adversely affected and in the u.s. there's a poll out that says seventy percent of the businesses there believe that if this two hundred billion dollar additional tariffs are put in it will also affect them it's basically putting u.s. products out of competition while the trumpet ministrations justification for this is did that the hope is is that that this will force china to the negotiating table and that's it's debatable whether when it will do that but what they're also saying is that china doesn't play by the rules many times when it comes to the whole

international trading system what do you say to that. well quite frankly china has made a lot of progress in that area and i don't think that's the real issue here i think if you start looking at the timing what we had was paul mann of ford indicated that he was was going to turn to the state and start cooperated with the investigation in the next very next day you had this very quick step announcement that this two hundred billion dollars in tariffs was going to be implemented i think this is merely an attempt by donald trump to try to change the conversation in d.c. to eat up air time as we are doing right now the fact is that you know this is going to bite very hard to expect these tariffs to hit incept immediately it's going to drive prices up and this is just prior to an election it just seems like pure suicide what effect is it going to have on the chinese economy.

well it's going to have a fact but you know i was receiving the fact is because of the depreciation of the of the yuan a lot of the impact has been absorbed so as you seen in the lot of us few months actually the number of chinese goods is increasing and the fact is that as american goods become more expensive due to these tariffs both outgoing and incoming chinese goods are actually a better bet because they're still the cheap low cost provider of many things for everything from clothes shoes and electronics good to schedule thoughts on this on a tang and joining us there from beijing thanks very much the u.s. is also slashing the number of refugees it wants to admit twenty nine thousand u.s. secretary of state monk. announcing that announcing that only thirty thousand refugees will be allowed inside the country that's fifteen thousand fewer than if

he. characterized the refugee ceiling as the sole barometer of america's commitment to vulnerable people around the world. this would be wrong. other countries were noting their humanitarian protection efforts highlight their assistance to both refugees and asylum leads the united states should do the same this year's refugee ceiling reflects the substantial increase in the number of individuals seeking asylum in our country leading to a massive backlog about standing asylum cases and greater public expense of the us will now accept the lowest numbers of refugees since one thousand eight hundred even though a record high of sixty nine people around the world were displaced in two thousand and seventeen a pew research analysis of a un data says the us resettled fewer refugees than all the other developed countries of the world in two thousand and seventeen that's because the year before

president campaigned promising tight restrictions on immigration are not just overall intake the number of muslim refugees admitted to the u.s. has dropped more than other religious groups arsalan iftikhar is a human rights lawyer and senior fellow at georgetown university joins us now from washington via skype thanks very much for being with us so first of all your reaction to this decision. oh well. i'm not really surprised because. we're out of the twenty five point four million refugees and this year most of the research organizations think that about seventy percent of them are muslims and you know don't just somebody who has campaigned and let it sit at the most and travel down. on you know as one suggests an almost certain sense that here is them so i'm certainly not surprised at all

that. resettlement numbers for g's. i wanted my palm payers justifications for this. he says is based on security concerns and he says and i'm quoting here we must continue to responsibly vet applicants to prevent the entry of those who might do harm to our country is there are legitimate concerns security concern here i know there's not a lot. doesn't even know. if you get approved for resettlement as a twenty four months going through this really extreme during the trial but yeah that's when the u.n. you see our new united states department there's a little uncertainly that it's her close to two years before the court on american soil so again this is ten years isn't needed jingoistic you know once a term is this big you know i don't look at. what should we read into the timing of

this because secretary of state pompei as announcement of the of these new figures was was unshared year old and it came on the same day when there is more critical scrutiny of president trump's pick for supreme court justice brett kavanaugh on the announcement that there's going to be more hearings. from from next week now the cynics some omics would suggest that this is being timed to to divert attention from these domestic bad domestic publicist what would you say to that. well i wouldn't give him credit when it comes to his political calculus you know talks of the united states congress in the year ninety eight as the refugee. see it so limit of two hundred thousand refugees which were of which were allowed annually under the obama administration that number was about a hundred ten thousand so his recent statement that they're going to lower the refugees i don't know the thirty thousand is literally an eighty five percent decrease from the original number that congress and you and it's only the united

states we americans can no longer claim any sort of well i don't want to manage syrian crises anywhere on the we're good to speak with you thanks very much for being with us arsalan iftikhar in washington my pleasure thank you has an iraq is running out of water it's planning ministry says about ninety percent of land is now desert and a small amount of remaining farmland is shrinking by five percent a year now pharma say their futures are dying with their crops rob matheson reports from baghdad. this is what's left of this section of the once mighty tigris river. barely enough water to escape iraq's burning daytime heat the tigris and the euphrates rivers were the main water supplies for these ones lush rice fields. farmers like up the roman used to be able to grow up to eighty square meters of rice that's only

a little over one percent of the size of an average football pitch but it helped to keep his family alive now he produces barely a fraction of what you grow before. you have said look how dry this land is we can't get enough water even the water irrigation canals are empty and. iraq's ministry of water resources says that levels in rivers like the tigris here in baghdad have dropped up to forty percent over the last twenty years they say that partly to blame our dams and reservoirs which are being built in turkey to the north and they're restricting the flow of water southwards but also in the last nine months iraq's only had about half the amount of rainfall it normally gets over the course of a year and that's making things even worse it's estimated iraq strategic water reservoirs contain eight billion cubic meters of water less than the minimum the country needs so the government says it's stepping in the minute the fact i didn't feel when we planned to cultivate around fifty square kilometers of rice as well as

sixteen thousand square kilometers of orchards and vegetables for people to use in their homes but we can't provide as much water for crops as we did in previous years. farmers tried digging wells to reach water underground but it's often saturated with salt and that's deadly for plants. in the past we made more profit and we were rich with crops now we can hardly grow enough underground water isn't a solution it's a big problem to not have much water to irrigate your crops many farmers are taking jobs as laborers in the streets and on building sites leaving behind their drilling fields rob matheson al-jazeera back down. more than one hundred people have died in flooding across ten a states of nigeria heavy seasonal rains caused the niger and benue rivers to burst their banks floods are spread across the country over the last two weeks and nationalists.