i hope that because the nature of these tires all staggered perhaps there will be room for negotiations in the meantime so i think what works what we're looking at now is whether the talks next week that we're being prepared for between vice premier you and the treasury secretary all of this will now go ahead the chinese or the mission he said if the u.s. imposes this round of tariffs those talks would be off but they haven't said that since the u.s. tariffs were imposed they still say they're under review so i think now everyone's is wondering well will these talks continue is there room for negotiation but is this even really just about trade or just about why did geo political political issues in which case things get really really crazy in the coming months and see how what industries will these latest round of tariffs actually affect. well it's kind of a continuation i mean some goods were spared because i think there is this fear as the november midterm elections comes up of the effect of these tariffs on consumer

confidence in the united states the republicans want to run on the economy they don't want to start making all the chinese goods that are imported which the u.s. consumers buy even more expensive to some electronic items and things like that were taken off the table but but certainly the chinese at least as far as the u.s. tariffs on trying to go the chinese tariffs doing compass agricultural goods once again which is interesting because all trump says that if they go after i agree cultural sector will go after them well the chinese did once again go off the agricultural sector with these tariffs but also some industrial goods or ules of industrial chemicals and things like that but the u.s. is presenting this as not being having a huge effect on consumer confidence because it's spread out over so many different chinese goods saying that the u.s. consumers shouldn't feel too much of an impact we had we were not i mean the markets seem to be mixed on that all these economic analysts and you mixed on that and there are those fears among some republicans that if they want to run on the economy they don't want to start making consumer goods even more expensive for the u.s. consumer ahead of the november elections all right thank you israeli forces have

killed two palestinians who were protesting at their base honeymoon crossing guards are hundreds of demonstrators have been gathering along the border fence with israel from months demanding the right to return of palestinian refugees more than one hundred seventy palestinians have been trail since the wave of protests began in march. here's what's coming up on the news hour deep in the mud rescue workers hope they can still find survivors three days after typhoon man got brought have to the philippines victim or perpetrator defense lawyers for a former ugandan warlord make their case at the hague in sport rael madrid are going for a fourth champions league title in a row peter will be here with the latest from their camp. but first the north korean leader kim jong un says he wants to produce a big outcome during three days of talks with the south korean president in kim

treated moon giant to a special concert after spending the day discussing north korea's nuclear program it's the first time a south korean leader has traveled to pyongyang in more than a decade mcbride reports from seoul on the historic occasion. if talks over north korea's nuclear stockpile were in trouble you wouldn't know it from the smiles and hugs. the meeting between. south korea and the war so for. a full on the and equal providence given to the flags of north korea and the blue flag of a reunified korean peninsula. the last meeting between these two men led to the historic summit between him and u.s. president donald trump but moon knows this visit must deliver some evidence of north korea's commitments to denuclearize ation if talks with the us are to his use

they want perhaps disclosure of inventory facilities and this is a kind of thing that morning really needs to get going to come out and say when the two leaders arrived at the state guest house they seem to accept the strength of the welcome is evidence of a growing desire for change. even the people in the apartment behind us they welcomed us with such passion i was genuinely touched. when i think we should not forget the people's hopes and expectations but have to work at a faster pace and make bigger achievements. the first into korean summit between these leaders visit the panmunjom true spillage on the border between the two davids in april it's produced tangible results reunions of families separated by the korean war in the one nine hundred fifty s. have restarted. the remains of more than fifty u.s. soldiers killed in the war have been returned by north korea. and the liaison

office to keep officials from the north and south connected. but the last visit to pyongyang by a south korean president roh moo hyun eleven years ago and that attempted reconciliation would ultimately fail. south korea says this time it's different. for the first time key moments from this summit are being beamed live into north korean homes it's one of the ways this summit differs from those of the past say south korean officials who are also hoping this one can succeed where others have failed. but critics believe the nuclear concessions the u.s. wants and what north korea is prepared to give may be too great even for the smiling president mood to deliver mosconi sitting on the stockpile of the nuclear weapons would like to me mice is the amount of sings they will have to surrender to

placate dormant prop this has been an impressive display of friendship after so much animosity yet it remains to be seen how much of this is just a show and how much is of consequence of mcbride al jazeera so the saudi erotic coalition says it's lost a large scale operation targeting areas under houthi control in her data the alliance says it's captured two areas on the outskirts of the point city since the advance began on tuesday the day that is the main gateway for relief supplies and commercial goods into the country and are simmons has more from djibouti just across the red sea. martin griffis may have flown out of sun are having reach some agreements with the who three leadership but there appears now to be another hitch there was agreement with him and with other un officials for the un describes as a humanitarian bridge that transport for chronically sick people to get medical

treatment over scenes forty five patients showed up with their documentation but they were apparently barred from flying because they had no clearance from the yemeni government they're suffering from a number of conditions including leukemia early stage tumors cervical cancer fibroid cancer and those needing bone marrow transplants and kidney transplants. i was younger i fell and that caused internal bleeding and today it turned into a tumour i need to travel to egypt or to any other country for treatment i'm told by my doctors they need a surgery i'm quite tired of all this i need to travel and be treated so i can survive in the world i'm some of them. actually around so many countries you can treat a ranking back last time i was in trouble again in three months but without regard to where i was forced to go back to yemen now we cannot travel at all because all

the airports are being blocked now officials from the saudi a morality led coalition have been stressing that those who think leadership has no legal right to sign a document with the u.n. because it is not a legal entity as such and the who thing leadership is saying that this is another major setback. this is all because of the saudi led coalition i hope the silent world stands with the oppressed people of yemen overseas treatment is a right for all patients this is their human right could this incident possibly scupper the attempts by griffis to get some dialogue going it isn't clear but as the fighting carries on in her data it is a situation that gets more tense by the day he's under pressure more whatever he intends to speak to the saudi leadership next but we're not clear exactly what his actions will be just five days before voters in the mall deaves go to the polls

a new piece of investigative journalism is raising questions about the sitting president the story by a watchdog called the organized crime and corruption reporting project builds on revelations in a twenty six thousand al-jazeera documentary it's based on government documents banking records on the contents of three i phones owned by a now imprisoned former tourism minister ahmed a db he least several islands to various property developers siphoning away at least seventy nine million dollars in the process the new evidence implicates president abdullah yamin in the scheme something he's always denied leaked messages from his deputies phones show the president intervened to clear at these twenty four of those deals many of the islands are now home to major projects led by international hotel chains and it's leading to questions about who's benefited from the leasing of the islands and development of the hotels well jordan made the twenty sixteen documentary for al-jazeera. so you need to understand that over

forty thirty five years in the maldives they only built about one hundred resorts and within the space of just a few years they approved almost the same number again and this data and this research by the o c c o p now offers us a breakdown of which islands were least for what prices what money went missing and who is now building which results on those and that will raise some very difficult questions not least for the president who appears to have been to being to make sure these were approved and what would run through the paths through which money could be embezzled rather than the official part of an open tender where various companies would bid to develop resorts instead this was all done one on one in a joint venture with the government which was a new poll allowed them to divert the main process aubrey belford who coordinated the findings is the regional editor of the organized crime and corruption reporting

project and he says the former tourism minister has downplayed the corruption allegations ahead of elections. the way that andy of and his associates did their scam was they instead of leasing out islands through a public tender it was done through a state company that was headed by its friend as a lease fees were paid and then the money was embezzled some of the records that we found show that the president's office and that means the president into being about two dozen times to reassign the violence of the tourism ministry he also gave permission for these islands to be leased by the state company which was the channel for embezzlement we also have records from text messages that show him discussing with the at least one of the deal we've got no response we sent out questions well over a week before we were planning to publish and we got nothing in reply the president

went on to be in television on sunday night and gave an interview where he did answer some questions that we had we're not sure if he was answering our questions indirectly but he did for the first time acknowledge that he gave these commissions a lot of these islands to be released he still claims to have nothing to do with the embezzlement of the money or any corruption but you know he did and some. rescue teams in the northern philippines are there going through moans of mud looking for survivors of saturday's landslide that killed at least seventy four people many locals have been sheltering from typhoon rango it's one that landslide happened to marilyn duggan reports from it's all gone in bangor province. it's a steep dangerous descent down to reveal well rescuers continue their green search . this is a to go in in big province where super typhoon man could cause the major landslide

which destroyed the community i hear bodies continue to pile up as the rescue effort turns into a recovery operation i think. this is the bunk house where more than thirty miners sought shelter here they thought they were safe. i thought they were engulfed by the rolling mud and bolters and were buried forty feet deep. we've been working double time to ensure that the process is faster but this is a system that we've had in place even before with blasters coming in now to hold so to see this of course is to understand the enormity of this operation the stench of human flesh is present and we feel that we are standing on precarious grounds behind me are rescuers who have been working nonstop while others are family

members or come here to look for their missing loved ones their man really digging through the rubble it doesn't matter how long it takes piece by piece rock by rock . pogo who clapp is seventy years old somewhere buried in the rubble is his nephew he says the agony of waiting is unbearable so he is helping out clearing three we will. you feel me old if we can't find my nephew alive at least i hope we can bring him home and bury him so that we can see him for the last time was another body pulled out from the rubble it is already in the event state of the composition the local government admits it cannot account for all the deaths here i know for the men who lost their lives you need to go and will be part of an ever growing statistic in the philippines because as it may seem disasters like this

one have become a familiar story in a country of grinding poverty. dog an al-jazeera to go and get province northern philippines so heads in the news hour to the moon and back the world's first lunar tourist is revealed and one of europe's top amateur female golfer is found dead on a u.s. course peter will tell us about that murder investigation. hello there we're still got a few showers over the northern parts of turkey there showing up very clearly on the satellite picture grazing the north coast here and then just drifting their way eastwards affecting us in back who is well that unsettled weather just pushes

a bit further southwards as we head through wednesday and behind it the winds are feeding down from the north so it's a little bit fresher than it has been here is the thunderstorms though there across the northern parts of iran and they'll stick with us as we head through thursday as well to the south of that though it will stay very hot with baghdad up of forty three degrees kuwait at forty two temperatures here actually a little bit lower for thursday and that's because the humidity will be rising is already humid here in doha and no major change for us over the next few days either there is a feeding in from the east that's why it's humid and it'll stay that way as we head through wednesday and thursday with a top temperature of around forty degrees around the south coast of oman around the lower here expect more clouds and a few breaks of drizzle it times two now as we head down towards the southern parts of africa we've got yet more cloud working its way across cape town that's giving us some fairly heavy rain so expect it to be a wet cool day on wednesday a maximum temperature there just of thirteen degrees ahead of that rain though it is a lot warmer for us and it will be up at twenty two the rain reaches us overnight.

with. twenty five years after the signing of al-jazeera world tells a two part story of norway's role in the oslo accords whether salute the government of norway or for its remarkable role in nurturing discipline in the secret negotiations and why its promise of peace has remained unfulfilled a strong decided tone of the negotiations no way could do as a show trial or go home the price of all is low on al-jazeera. is a popular filming location in france when it comes to stories about drugs crime and radicalization tired of negative stereotypes into work arabs managerially is reclaiming its image by putting its young residents behind the camera. the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them.

this is europe on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour the russian president vladimir putin has moved to content sions after hours of accusations over the downing off a russian military plane off the syrian coast russia's military says israel's at fault because their fighter jets use the russian plane ask cover after carrying out a bombing raid israel blamed inaccurate syrian fire and expressed sorrow for the deaths says the incident seems like

a tragic accident but added that israel's air force was breaching serious software and see with its operations an anti corruption n.g.o.s says it has evidence that at least fifty islands in the mold were illegally leased out for tourism by the government with millions of dollars embezzled the o.c. c.r.p. report builds on a twenty six thousand al jazeera documentary stealing paradise it implicates president on down the yam in the scheme something he's always tonight. china is imposing levies on another sixty billion dollars off an american made items off to the us president donald trump announced increased tariffs on two hundred billion dollars of chinese products trump says he's open to talking to beijing but won't let it take advantage off the u.s. . so president trump spared some products from his tariffs sold by america's first

trillion dollar company and that's apple apple smart watch the wireless headphones and smart speaker aren't on the list of items published on monday though some products will still be affected the c.e.o. tim cook lobbied the president directly telling him tariffs are the wrong policy and consumers will end up being hit by higher prices other tech firms like cisco hewlett packard and dell all expect the terrorists to hurt their bottom lines and lead to job losses. and we'll take you to the white house that is where president trump is hosting the polish president andrei duda and they're holding a joint press conference let's listen in for a couple of minutes. during my visit last summer i had the privilege to stand before the monument to the worst so uprising and address the people of poland about our shared commitment to defending our heritage and our civilization it was an

experience i will always treasure and i will never ever forget not far from where we stand today another monument in another square the statue of general concierge disco in laffy at park reminds us that the bonds between our people go all the way back to america's revolutionary war this year the united states and poland are celebrating one hundred years of poland regaining its independence and nearly one hundred years of u.s. polish diplomatic ties a long time i'm thrilled to say that the alliance between our nations has never been stronger. with you and i at the helm you agree with that thank you mr president larry said yes. in our discussions this afternoon the president did and i agreed to bolster our robust defense ties we will enhance cooperation in

military relations intelligence missile defense technology and training i'm proud to report that poland has recently purchased a state of the art patriot missile system which is a great system we make the greatest military equipment by far anywhere in the world and it's made right here in the usa we are grateful for poland's leadership on defense spending and burden sharing in nato i want to commend poland for meeting its nato defense spending obligations and i am glad that it plans to increase spending beyond the two percent minimum obligation thank you very much for that at like to share my gratitude to the people of poland for their contributions to nato as resolute support mission in afghanistan and the coalition to defeat isis we've made tremendous progress with respect to the defeat of isis as you've seen we also

understand that you can't have national security without border security both poland and the united states understand that strong nations must have very strong borders the president i likewise are exploring opportunities to advance energy security for the united states and poland are deeply committed to energy diversity all across europe no nation should be dependent upon a single foreign supplier of energy poland has worked tirelessly to increase energy independence nationally and across central europe it is constructing a new pipeline the highest technology. from norway to poland and it recently built a liquefied natural gas import facility last year the united states was proud to send its first export of l.n.g. to poland and soon our nations will launch

a high level diplomatic exchange on energy security and mr president we are now as of a few months ago the largest producer of energy in the world so that was that's a big statement president dude i also. just want to. talk to you about the three c's summit where central european leaders were working hard to increase energy market access reduce energy trade barriers which is something we have to get done with respect to the european union the trade barriers that make it very difficult for the united states and to strengthen energy independence the united states firmly supports these goals and we are eager to expand commercial ties all across the region of europe in our meeting today the president and i discussed our bilateral economic relationship at length poland has experienced more

than a quarter of century of uninterrupted economic growth which is a very big statement very few can say that and we look forward to further enhance ing trade investment and commerce between our two great nations my administration is committed to realizing a future of prosperity and opportunity for all americans this month we celebrated the highest employment level in u.s. history we're right now employing more people we have more workers in the united states that at any time ever in u.s. history. i look forward to partnering with president duda as we grow our economies together mr president thank you for joining me today poland has chosen its place among the free and independent nations of the world and is a loyal ally and strategic partner of the united states and we greatly appreciate

that we welcome the next one hundred years of friendship between our two nations mr president thank you very much like. excellence here some of the running presidential thing which mr president and of you by storm distinguished ladies and gentleman. i am delighted that. that in this year is so important to poland and the year of poland regaining its independence we celebrate our one hundredth anniversary of it i'm able to be hosted here that i'm at the state of the president of the united states at the white house at washington. and also from this perspective from the perspective of the centennial of poland regaining its independence this fact is of huge importance for poles both those living in poland and those living abroad especially that ten

million poles living in the united states this is a huge symbolic importance one reason for that is that matter polish independence was one of the in part and points of the policy of the u.s. president wilson it was precisely president well such that it was the middle before nineteen. he was the one who put his polish independence on his agenda on the agenda policy that happened among others thanks to a great polish politician a composer and musician ignites a young but at ski it is a fact that paul's. experience back then a lot of good from the united states and from the president of the united states because there are no other words to describe the fact that that great state indicated to poland and to find poland as the country who should be a reign stated back on the map of europe and on the back of the world and it was it

reinstated on that map one hundred years ago in one thousand nine thousand and. absolutely delighted that today as polish president i can be here in washington state at the same table with the president of the united states and sign an agreement which is deepening our strategic partnership and which is renewing that strategic partnership i'm talking here at the agreement on the strategic partnership such agreement was signed in two thousand and eight and to our countries. a press conference being held right now the white house between the u.s. president on the trump and the polish president dude still speaking as you can see and what trump said just a few moments ago is that he and the polish president discussed energy diversity as well as security in europe and he also agreed with the polish president to enhance u.s. polish the friends as well as the intelligence a relationship and did praise poland for nato spending and its support can really help listening in joining us from the white house so what did you make of this

press conference and what are the most important points to come out of it can really. i think some of the most important points may be still yet to come when reporters potentially have a an opportunity to ask questions but certainly there is no question that these two leaders are projecting a strong partnership one that they looted started when donald trump visited poland in warsaw last year where he very clearly underscored the relationship something that is being highlighted by the polish president his he speaks particularly when it comes to trade when it comes to security and energy cooperation and of course much of that comes in the backdrop as there is a shared concern between these two nations about russia's increased military activity so certainly this comes isn't important time because of some of the domestic issues that are occurring here in the united states not only the ongoing russian probe between the presidential campaign of donald trump and that

investigation being conducted by robert muller but also what hasn't been addressed yet some of the criticisms that the polish leader has received for the remaking of his judicial system something that as we sort of talk about the appointment of brett kavanaugh here in the united states there are been similar accusations of donald trump particularly coming from the left that he is working to remake the judicial system in the united states with you. of judges that lean to the conservative side so certainly there is a lot that was probably discussed behind closed doors but when it comes to what they are speaking about vocally it is a shared concern about security obviously a shared concern when it comes to the contribution of highlighting there some of the military purchases that have been made by the polish leader and donald trump highlighting also the fact that he has long pressed european leaders to pay their fair share in his view when it comes to share to spend spend spending when it comes

to nato as sort of acknowledging that he believes that that has been done when it comes to the citizens of poland. can really how can thank you. just before we went to that press conference we were telling you about china imposing levies on another sixty billion dollars of american made items that's after the u.s. president himself donald trump announced an increase tariffs on two hundred billion dollars of chinese products now the apple c.e.o. tim cook personally lobbied donald trump over the latest china tariffs and some of the tech giants products were spared from becoming part of the trade war let's speak to robert scott who's a senior international economist would be economic policy institute he's joining us from washington d.c. thanks very much for your patience with us first of all let me get your reaction on some tech companies like apple for example getting exemptions on some of their products from these tariffs on china what is that down to is it that is a down to personal lobbying efforts of tim cook. i think it's in part personal

lobbying i think it's also about politics trump has structured days tariffs so that they apply to mostly producer goods industrial products like factory machines and raw materials and semiconductors that they use to make other things so consumers have been shielded from the effects of these tariffs on imports from china unfortunately that has the sort of negative impact that it's going to actually make our exports that we produce with a lot of those imports from china less competitive we're going to sell less of the china less of them to the rest of the world so it's actually structured in such a way as to hurt our balance of trade and that in the end is going to make it tough for manufacturing to benefit from these tariffs i'll go back to that in a moment but first just on apple would you say that apple is out of the woods oh i think apple's

a very successful company and even if they had been hit with some of these tariffs they've got a you know it very successful product series of products they've just introduced new models of their i phone and so on and very strong performance in consumer markets and i think these this decision is designed to solidify their place all right you mentioned just a moment ago that trump is trying to shield consumers from all of this but what is it that trump exactly once and why is he doing this does it have to do with geopolitics or does it have to do with trade imbalances i think it's a about the fact that voters and especially workers in the upper midwest in manufacturing industries have been very badly hurt by china i've estimated we've lost three point four million good jobs most of them in manufacturing due to growing trade deficits over the last fifteen.