water sanitation and pumping area in her data that gave what i most of it's water that was destroyed or severely damaged at least and as a cause that has meant that the water that people are now drinking a lot of data has been polluted but it's malnutrition as well that is particularly concern and the fear that mao nutrition ultimately is it gets more and more severe end up leading as well to famine as the people just run out of food has been to the north of yemen there are areas in the north of yemen that over the last four years i've hardly seen any aid a tall and one aid group that did make it recently said that many people there are just given up on life. you can safely bet with a spoon at the ready this girl is thinking of her next meal but she doesn't know when it will be where it will come from in northern yemen as many as a million people are living in camps beyond the reach of age groups while yemen

isn't officially in a state of famine it must feel like it here. lunch has been cooking for two hours and it's not ready yet we have no gas or proper firewood here under siege and we have nothing some of these crimes have been here for four years sprouting up as people escaped fighting in towns that fell under who the control let's say i don't go to school because my father has no money to buy a sports and pings when i see girls come from school i get jealous i want to be a doctor aid agencies so a combination of armed groups checkpoints airstrikes and bureaucracy often make it impossible to reach these people. we appeal again to the international and humanitarian organizations to respond rapidly to displaced people and effective communities many of whom sleep on the ground out in the open with no shelter from the summer heat or the called of the winter today's only mirrors a plate of plain boiled rice between the family and some days there's not even this it's nowhere near the amount of nutrition these children need if they're to have

any chance of surviving through this conflict. what the way the agencies in places like do as you say about their ability to not only get in to yemen and deliver a but even to do things like fix water sanitation stations that you've been damaged in airstrikes. problem for all of these aid agencies is access first of all this fighting going on and the challenge for them is getting into places where the fighting is going on first of all some places so dangerous because of the risk of a strikes aid agencies that go and then this bureaucracy on the ground sometimes deliberate attempts on both sides from the who things in the saudi led coalition say aid groups to try and stop them doing their work delaying the process of aid getting through all of these issues really can only be resolved by some sort of a ceasefire that is what all the aid agencies groups want the only way going to get a cease fire is if you can get of course the warring parties around the table and

that is why the u.n. special representative martin griffis priority to get all the sides talking again sami all right thank you very much bernard smith. still ahead on al-jazeera. bolivia loses it is due with chile a over access to the pacific ocean that dates back to centuries. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecasts we're here across europe we do have a lot to talk about first of all going to start in the mediterranean because we do have our old system that has been pushing through greece causing a lot of flooding across the region things are looking bunch better across that area clear skies across many of that many in the region but where we are going to

be watching is here in the central part of mediterranean we do have another low pressure area that we are watching you can see that spin right there across much of that region we're going to be seeing some showers and because the system is moving so slowly the potential for flooding is definitely going to be in the works or talk a little bit more about that when we get to know then africa but here across north europe we are looking at windy conditions of the frontal boundary pushes through right there with berlin a windy day for you with a temperature there of about fourteen degrees where we go i want to show you what's happening across parts of algeria as well as tunisia of the next few days and that is where our focus is going to be in terms of the flooding here across the coastal areas we potentially could see seventy five to one hundred millimeters of rain over the next few days and of course in this area that does mean flooding potential for you as we go towards the next couple days here on wednesday the rain continues but down here along the coast towards tripoli we are looking at twenty six degrees there and bergonzi it is going to be a cloudy day view with a temperature of thirty two.

one suffer because wealthiest country together with an i am great libya is now told everybody wants to have his share of authority and the money it cannot be ruled centrally just from one city like to put it in the big picture that dissects the roots of the conflict and asks who's to blame in the last for libya the only job fortunately is to be called a militia members. coming soon on al-jazeera. welcome

back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap headlines more than twelve hundred people are now confirmed dead after friday's earthquake and tsunami in the indonesian island of sort of way see first pictures have emerged from the city of. raided shops in search of food water and medicine but sea workers are also trying to reach survivors in the city of. cholera cases in the gammoning city of her day that have nearly tripled this summer save the children report says one thousand three hundred and forty two cases in august many of them children under the age of five has been intensified fighting in for data since june was the saudi in iraq tonight coalition battles over the rebels. the health ministry in garza says israeli gunfire is wounded thirty seven palestinians as a protest on the beach thousands of palestinians gathered near the land and sea front here with israel to demand their right of return fisherman raised palestinian

flags to protest against the blockade of gaza fishing restrictions by israel the deadline has passed for a village of palestinians to leave their homes under orders from israel bedouins in the heart of lamo are told to pack up and leave by midnight on monday israel wants to demolish the village in the occupied west bank to make way for more illegal jewish settlements amnesty international says it would be a war crime to forcibly remove them. ron han joins us now live from hartnell amada so the village still stands but i guess residents must be very anxious about how long it will stand for. that's absolutely right they're very very concerned about when the israeli army might come in to do those demolitions is going to be a very big operation and when they do come in let me just show you the levels of.

solidarity people are showing here that's actually the solidarity tent right there that's where people from israeli community from the international community from. various other delegations come and show solidarity with the residents of now that's the school just there that's really where all of this started a decade ago right wing israeli settlers said that that school was a permanent structure and therefore illegal and that sparked and the ten year battle to get the residents of. removed now when the demolition takes place it's likely that it's going to come from over there and people are going to come into the village the israeli army come into the village with those bulldozers and start to really push the residents back the residents here say that they have a plan to try and stop the bulldozers from coming in by putting his benny activists and residents in as possible before they can before they stop trying to stop the

story. or if there's a call. let me just wrap up very quickly to try and stop any bulldozers recovering in the going to put as many people as possible in those villages around if i could jump in there are you actually now seeing bulldozers coming in it seems like you're asking someone to stop i mean if it's a no to go on explaining what's going. no no stop bulldozers coming in what we're saying is just a card is just wants to get across a live shot now what we're seeing is when those bulldozers will come in they'll likely park along that road there it's a very very big operation so it won't be done in any kind of secrecy it may well happen at dawn which is when we've seen demolitions take place but it is a very big operation or it will look to go and sort out what's going on there thanks so much in manhattan cancer experts one hundred fifty countries are meeting in malaysia to discuss the latest scientific breakthroughs related to the disease the world health organization says cancer is the world's second biggest killer an

estimated one in six people will die from cancer related diseases it also says a third of cancer deaths are the result of our behavior like smoking or drinking too much and eating badly after half of cancers could be avoided by living a more healthy lifestyle what hole or sanchia around is president of the union for international cancer control she says why the political will is needed to address the problem. so what we're saying is as countries rise up the development index cancer becomes one of those diseases that is more prevalent and the absence of early detection systems so particularly screening for bell breast and cervical cancers and inherently the infrastructure to provide surgery right a therapy and came with therapy remains that most people are diagnosed late and therefore died so we see the biggest. difference in something like childhood cancer

where in a developed country the survival is between eighty and ninety percent and in the least developed parts of the world survival is less than twenty percent and those those differences are just not acceptable we say some political will around things like tobacco control and that's a really important strategy but cancer treatments are saying as being far too expensive and part of their treatment for campaign is to show that there is economic benefits in preventing premature mortality for the social systems it's one cancer another in cities and things that tip people into poverty and they listen able to be productive citizens and in addition to that we also have a city cancer challenge that's running that shows how you can bring governments civil society and the private sector together to create solutions at a city level that really can make these treatments available at an affordable cost bolivia has lost

a legal battle to force to give it access to the pacific ocean the leaders of both nations traveled to the marilyns for a hearing at the international court of justice lion long bolivia lost its coastline to today in the war one hundred thirty five years ago today is a boat reports. from early in the morning people in the believe in capital waited for a ruling that be clean would help landlocked bolivia regain what it's not had. for well over a century access to the pacific ocean. one of those in the crowd they made daniel said he was bitterly disappointed with one of the killer morse. we only want to be able to sit at the same typo and to negotiate. five years ago believe us president when what i took to the international court of justice in an attempt to force his country's neighbor to negotiate over access to seal its link to the ocean

was lost to chile in the aftermath of what was dubbed the war of the pacific. since then the andean neighbors have held occasional talks about a possible corridor to the sea. but judges ruled that she is not obliged to actually negotiate one for this reason is because. by the voters two or three. find this that the republic of chile did not undertake a legal obligation to negotiate is sovereign access to the bus if you go ocean for the brewery nation of the state of bolivia. even what alice olivia's first indigenous president attended the call truly in the hague and said his country will never stop fighting for see your operatives that. is never going to give up its prosecution the bolivian people know the people of the world know that through an invasion we've been denied so often access to the pacific ocean. for the last forty

years and will leave you have not had formal diplomatic relations. in spite of this allows bolivia duty free access to the poor very near its northern border with bill just. insists on continuing on that path to access chilean territory sea or land then we will have nothing to discuss but if bolivia understands that treaties are signed so that they are honored they will always have the door open. for now that door to the pacific will not be controlled by will live in its fight to break the landlock it's not just about national pride it's about delivering opportunity and economic growth because our. white house has ordered the f.b.i. to expand its investigation into sexual assault allegations against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh president donald trump has been accused of trying to

restrict the inquiry on friday the senate judiciary committee now really voted to advance cavanagh's confirmation to the next stage trump says the f.b.i. should talk to whoever they wish but must finish by friday. i think the f.b.i. should interview anybody that they want within reason but you have to say within reason they should interview but they should also be guided and i'm being guided by what the senators are looking for lebanon's government has taken diplomats and journalists on a tour of beirut to disprove israeli claims of hezbollah bases prime minister binyamin netanyahu told the un general assembly the armed group had hidden missile sites near the international airport but lebanon says these are false allegations to justify an attack on a whole the reports from beirut. lebanon is on a diplomatic offensive its foreign ministers should brown persil invited

ambassadors and the media to tour sites that israel says are hiding has been our misfiled production facilities there within an area controlled by the iranian backed lebanese armed group in beirut's southern suburbs among them the a head football stadium but a political ally of hezbollah is accusing israel of lies to justify an attack against lebanon on this rule but there are many statements made affirming the procession of a curate as well however this does not mean that present the vicinity of beirut airport. israel's military says the facilities used to convert regular missiles into more accurate guided ones are still not operational but under construction with iranian supervision. israel is accusing hezbollah of knowingly jeopardizing the lives of civilians and using them

as human shields the three alleged missile sites are located in densely populated areas close to the airport there was no immediate reaction from ambassadors of western countries but russia's envoy is calling for calm. we want to prevent war that's why we are deploying new weapons to syria there should be no escalation. russia's decision to deploy s. three hundred anti-aircraft missiles follows the downing of its plane last month over syria moscow is blaming israel for the incident. russia is sending as three hundred netanyahu is telling hezbollah this doesn't mean you can operate we will continue to argue against your activities. over the years russia gave israel room to act in syria it carried out hundreds of strikes targeting alleged iranian bases and suspected iranian arms shipments for hezbollah the lebanese group however says

the israeli strikes have been effective. i tell israel no matter what you did to cut the route it is over it has already been achieved we now have position and not position weapons and all the capabilities to arm. lebanon says the tour is about assuring the international community that israel's allegations are false it is not about refuting what hezbollah and its allies believe is it's a right to arms senator there beirut. i'm sam is a van with a look at the headlines here now to syria more than twelve hundred people are now confirmed dead after friday's earthquake and tsunami in the indonesian island. first pictures of emerge from the city of daraa where people have raided shops in search of food water and medicine emergency workers are also trying to reach

survivors in the city of al-jazeera and organised in the port city of moore on sort of. a look at the whole devastation no matter what strategies policy measures emergency response measures they're been put in place before the devastation everybody is affected as you know police officers rescue workers medical workers those from these commuting become victims themselves so the whole area is incapacitated basically there were three br eight down order of the government you know and basically the emergency response all the help must come out from from externally and brought in cholera cases in the yemeni city of data have nearly tripled this summer save the children report says more than thirteen hundred cases in august many of them children under the age of five there's been intensified fighting in a day there since june as the saudi

a morality led coalition battles the rebels. bedouins in the palestinian village of qana lamarr are bracing for israel to demolish their homes they were told to pack up and leave for midnight on monday many are still in the village israel wants to demolish to make way for more illegal jewish settlements the health ministry in gaza says israeli gunfire is wounded thirty seven palestinians at a protest on a beach on monday thousands of palestinians gathered near the land and sea from two with israel to demand their right to return fisherman raised palestinian flags to protest against the blockade of gaza and fishing restrictions by israel. the white house has ordered the f.b.i. to expand its investigation into sexual assault allegations against supreme court nominee brett cavanagh president donald trump has been accused of trying to restrict the inquiry trump says the f.b.i. should talk to whoever they wish but must finish by friday as the headlines the

news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story. it was the world's most wanted underworld banker. until a year long undercover operation finally took him down. when he goes inside the billion dollar bus and how does it. salvaged at the last minute a new trade deal for canada up with the united states and mexico and replaces the contentious north american free trade agreement but is it a win win situation and have serious compromises been made this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan it was billed as the world's

largest free trade area affecting five hundred million people when the north american free trade agreement on nafta was signed in one thousand nine hundred four were removed and trade boomed but critics argued that it decimated several manufacturing hubs in the u.s. with companies taking advantage of low wages in mexico to shift operations south u.s. president donald trump promised to rewrite nafta or get rid of it completely high pressure negotiations followed an unpopular outgoing government in mexico struck a deal in august long time ally canada was left out and relations deteriorated between trump and canada's prime minister justin trudeau but the countries need each other economically and both appear to have found things they like in the new agreement to be called the united states mexico canada agreement or u.s. m.c.a. well the us and canada in a joint statement said that us m.c.a. will give our workers farmers ranchers and businesses

a high standard trade agreement that will result in free markets fair trade and robust economic growth in our region it will strike. from the middle class and create good paying jobs and new opportunities for the nearly harf a billion people who call north america home so what was agreed upon well canada is giving us farmers greater access to its dairy market but it gets to retain the trade dispute settlement mechanism established by nafta washington that earlier demanded that american court should rule on cases filed by canada against u.s. duty's on imports both canada and mexico one protections against president trumps threat to impose twenty five percent tariffs on cars buses under the deal forty to forty five percent of any car completed in mexico needs to be built in countries where workers are at least sixteen dollars an hour only then will the car qualify for duty free benefits let's bring in our guests for today's discussion from washington we're joined by chris can see he is the c.e.o.

of vic a financial he was early a deputy director at the u.s. department of commerce on the president trump and from also a cohen robertson a former canadian diplomat who was part of the team that goes it nafta back in the one nine hundred ninety s. gentlemen welcome to you both chris let's start with you is this a good deal for all concerned or just for the u.s. . you know it's a great deal for everyone frankly i think this is why all three parties have now reached this agreement today october first the us mexico canada agreement has tackled several issues that again twenty five years ago perhaps could not have predicted intellectual property rights have increased worker protections environmental standards have increased frankly the u.s. has more access now to the canadian dear dairy markets as you've mentioned and we're having more auto parts and auto beals frankly made in the united states mexico and canada and this is truly a tradition i would say a complete reorientation of the supply chain away from southeast asia back to north america i think all three nations can be proud of that ok conan a deal between

the two of the sides the canada a and the u.s. side appeared to be slipping out of reach is least recently as well last week when donald trump made those those disparaging comments about canada is to go see it is that that press conference what's changed. well i think as you point out donald trump at the united nations last week it one of his we call it trump or options but in a way it's straight out of the playbook of art of the deal if you read his book he puts maximum pressure there's bullying there's bravado there's bluster before a deal is reached and i think the cain ago shaders and the canadian prime minister mr trudeau in our no shader who need it also slammed christopher even our foreign minister and just park that and said ok this is just this we are now more used to this after a year and a half of the trump administration what was important for us was to retain that access to the united states because we over the past year that our governor bank

and our major companies of all said there's been a chilling of investment in canada yes we now have access to the european market through the new comprehensive european trade agreement and we are of course with mexico part of the trans-pacific partnership that mr trump pulled out of and what's interesting adrian is that this agreement that we've just signed with united states and mexico most closely resembles the trans-pacific partnership both in language and informant as chris points out is an updating of it my own sense it is with the trade offs a win win win for all three nations chris under this tail us fall is going to get access to three and a half percent of canada's sixteen billion dollars dairy market now to me three percent doesn't sound a lot why is that being touted as a success. i think it's greater than the three percent that was sent creates and that's transpacific partnership i'm not sure if that's the actual number that is

coming out of the announcement that's being made today but i know that that is significantly more than we have now i think canada is quite protective has collins pointed out of its of its dairy markets they want to ensure that of course the canadian farmers do not go bankrupt united states has similar protections in place for our farmers here we want to take care of our own we want to take care of our heartland if you will but i think that moving toward even if it's a few percentage points at a time toward a more free open and reciprocal trading arrangement in areas like dairy and access to canadian dairy markets i think that's an ultimately a step forward rather than a step backward but again in exchange for that you know we're also getting our actions say in addition to that we're also getting access to more parts production more automobile production in united states i think that is a major major victory for both the u.s. and canada that can the sixteen dollars per hour requirement on the thirty percent of vehicle part production must be done of course with labor of above sixteen

dollars per hour that is about three times the price of the average mexican labor wage per hour i think that's a major victory for the u.s. and canada so again ultimately i think what we're looking at is a win for both u.s. workers american workers i think the american the mexican economy as well this is where we really see president trump's leadership in. action to completely distinct different leaders in mexico and canada and yet president trump was able to bring them together with his negotiators who are empowered to get this deal done conan you talked about president trump and his bluster and the fact that the canadian leadership despite the fact that they they appeared not to be getting on very well president trump and justin trudeau but the canadian leadership has sort of become used to this this this bluster and bravado donald trump likes to. to talk himself up as being that the deal maker one could imagine that he was a pretty tough negotiator all that his team would be on the his direction. did

canada have to make any big concessions here or was this deal is perhaps easier to reach than than than they thought it would be. you know it was this is been tough and. indeed. even last week our ambassador united states gave it a kind of five out of ten and he's our kind of quarterback in the field along with our foreign minister so you know this was this was hard fought so are we going at it in a tense fashion now for a little over a year remember we had been through this with the united states negotiators many of them the same people at the working level in the transit partnership and as i point out the agreement itself most closely resembles the trans-pacific partnership with adjustments relating to the interests of canada mexico and the united states. i think that it was for mccain perspective kind of the optimum time because there

had been there was pressure within the united states from the business community the farm community to put to include canada in this and with the clock ticking under the legislative mandate of congress to the administration they had to submit something today to congress and the preference was to do it canada us mexico because and let's be clear on this we're strong and i think chris would agree that the big challenge now is going to be the implementation legislation in the congress and that's going to happen sometime next year because in the meantime will be an assessment economic assessment of this agreement by the international trade commission and then the new congress that's because the midterms will be the congress responsible for implementing the new agreement and that's not a slam dunk chris is it that a done deal ok so so we've we've come to an agreement but it still has to be ratified by congress could anything upset this bill's passage i'm thinking about the midterms in the. sure of course well the united states of course has the major

midterms in november twenty eighth seen we're looking at likely to have a at least the odds are showing that there may be a flip in the house democrats may retake the house that's the historical precedent at least every president lose the house in the midterm elections i think it's only been two presidents who've lost who've kept the house in the midterm elections since i think two thousand the year two thousand and so i think frankly looking at this that the senate as well senate looks increasingly as though the republicans will keep will keep the senate but you have many congressmen in both the house and senate senators in the senate that have districts that rely and would benefit tremendously by the influx of jobs by the increase in wages for many of these manufacturing jobs that would require as i mentioned earlier the sixty dollars per hour labor on many of the components in a significant percentage of the auto parts that are made so it would be in their favor whether you're republican whether you're democrat to vote in favor of this

and so i think that you know it looks very likely looks increasingly so that with trade promotion authority the president trump has that they would that the congress doesn't fact vote favorably in in for this deal calling to close one of the things that helped to sour relations between canada and the united states was earlier this year president trump slapped a bunch of tariffs on canadian steel and aluminum imports does this trade deal this this new north america free trade agreement under under a different name does that deal with that issue or those tariffs stay in place. you know the way i read the agreement remember it's a thousand pages and i'm still digesting it and there are some side letters my understanding is those terrorists remain on place both canada and mexico although there is pressure in the united states from steel users because canada's the biggest supplier of foreign buyers steel and particularly of aluminum which is used particularly in the in the defense industry so our prime minister has said american

airplanes and tanks use are minimal and so what they're the americans are still buying if they're of course paying now the tariff and the the border similar situation with our softwood lumber we're selling as much softwood lumber as before but the american the average american is now being a twenty five percent surcharge and that of course raises the the cost of housing united states so that one isn't done let's be clear adrian we're not out of the trumpet ministration is protectionist and we're likely to see more protectionism by this administration agreement gives us a belt and suspenders but we're not. we're not free and by the really continue to get out of my station is not protectionist at all gone chrystia most resources are great but if you're just going to freshly here that's not protectionist well what we're we are a free trade administration and frankly this is why and this is something you would i think you would agree with paul and we have had a a significant breakthrough with the nafta deal back in two thousand back and back

and twenty five years ago when when you negotiate it it was a great deal for many people however what that did as it moved many jobs overseas it or it reorients of the supply chain away from north america to southeast asia united states is simply saying let's bring that back to let's bring the manufacturing back to united states the tariffs frankly are not and then another themselves there are there a way to get the parties that have taken advantage of the united states and frankly those are taking advantage of canada as well back to the table to renegotiate a more fair deal this is not what the president wants he's a free trader his trade across our free trade. as you say the trump of ministration is a free trade administration why then. his own party republican speaker of the house paul ryan so opposed to the tariffs that he's imposed on i mean staunch allies canada the e.u. well i'll tell you why it's because you know the many establishment republicans are are giving a selling out so they're selling out to industry they're selling out the industry

the same industry the same corporations that have built their empires on the backs of american labor that have been treated so unfairly american workers have been treated so unfairly and so a lot of individuals a lot of establishment republicans and many democrats are simply corporate elitists that have sold out to many of their donors in corporate. you know corporate interests what president trump has done is say i'm looking at this through the eyes of the average american worker what does it do to my community when mike entire heartland the entire heartland of the united states has been hollowed out by these trade deals that ship jobs overseas let's get jobs back to the united states and frankly the record that he's produced so far i think isn't indicative of that we've got four million jobs that are back in united states four hundred thousand manufacturing jobs that the previous president obama said we're never going to come back to the united states so i think that we have to understand the underlying issues here and give the president the benefit of doubt when we look at just the facts and what you make of that. well i would just say that it's at the end of the

day a good day for canada the united states and mexico mr trump has his wins as chris points out on manufacturing can say to auto workers he can say to farmers that he's delivered for them and for mccain perspective having secure access to what is our largest trading partner and worth pointing out i think is chris would recognize that america's largest trading partner is canada and also worth pointing out that in fact united states has a surplus with canada. in everything except energy which of course is used to fuel the manufacturing industry in the united states so i think. all three countries can be satisfied that north america as a platform are not going to call it a north american market canada us mexico relationship is it is it is competitively placed to build a can do you compete with the rest the world and if that brings jobs into canada united states mexico that's a good thing colin do tariffs and other put them in inverted commas protectionist

policies as a chris will disagree but the tariffs and perfect protectionist policies actually work or do they lead ultimately to unforeseen adverse effects for for consumers and for for workers well i think the economists would suggest the latter that is they lead to adverse effects of actually a tariff as a tax on a consumer and so as i point out in the case of steel aluminum tariffs and in the case of the tariff son suffered lumber the american the average american house now cost an extra five thousand dollars it's going to cost more to make the cars and planes out of the steel moment well you know you pass that through means you have probably less money for other other things but these are decisions governments take what we've been moving towards was to track to reduce those tariffs and i think chris would probably agree that the biggest change is not the mexico canada it was more china coming into the world trade organization. and i think there's no doubt

that china did take advantage of a situation and that's a separate issue that the president is trying to address cohen criswell the cohen says it's that's a separate issue but does this deal the fact that all three of canada mexico and the u.s. a praising it to how does this impact upon president trump's threat to withdraw the u.s. from the w t well this this definitely plays to president trump's overall strategy and again just to repeat tariffs are not something the president is looking to implement long term nor are his trade advisors nor have his trade advisors informed him that imposing tariffs in the long run are going to be a smart idea they're simply a way to bring back the the bad actors to the table if you will or or to have some of our allies even in the case of the the nafta renegotiation have them come back to the table to reciprocate some of the the or develop more of a reciprocal and free open trade agreement how this plays into present terms overall strategy with china is that we now have

a really strong position of course economically speaking the united states is doing extremely well our markets are up the chinese market is down but this this new deal this new u.s.m.c. a deal allows us to be in unison with our allies north of the border and south of the border as we then turn our gaze toward china and tackle some of the more serious issues like ip theft like forced technology transfer like like outright you know tariffs and barriers to entry and even the europeans the europeans have said ok you get this done we'll make some noise about china in the w.c. oh so i think ultimately this is a this is a tactic this is simply the use of tariffs if you will in this hard bargain that the president has driven is a tactic to bring parties back to the table and guess what in the past you had diplomatic solutions that were never thought to be the answer will in the last two decades we've been getting ripped off in many occasions nothing's happened and the diplomatic solution has not worked but guess what today now we have a more fair deal for the united states. we have we are better off american workers

are better off and we're not worse off color i'm going to ask you to put your diplomats has on for a moment you'll notice that we don't have a spokesperson of anyone commenting from from mexico everyone we reached out to today declined our invitation to to appear so i'm going to ask you the mexican side of this deal was negotiated by the outgoing administration president and rico pena nieto to what extent does it tie the hands do you think of the of the incoming leftist administration oh it very much ties their hands and in fact. pres incoming president has obrador had a very senior members likely to be in his cabinet a present at the negotiations particularly in later august remember them the outgoing administration of pena nieto with their trade minister the consequent hard of negotiated it actually began around the issue that president hyde you know the rules of origin relating to autos and their wage component was a piece of that they negotiated through august and then suddenly they got

a sort of breakthrough and they they negotiated an agreement but the incoming administration is part of that remember the incoming administration has already taken office in congress but they've got this kind of convoluted transition period in mexico the new president doesn't take office until december i want to eat my my words now because lo and behold we have got someone from from mexico joining us on the program in mexico city is fernando give us was a professor of international trade at the monterey institute of technology higher education in mexico city it's good to have you with us and welcome to with the inside story better late than never as they say mexico's side of this deal was agreed long before the standoff with canada was settled is it a good deal for mexico. well first of all yes i mean this is good news because as you said it is better for the three countries having a nafta you also a two point zero or than nothing so it. in general is good news of course we have

to review the text of the agreement in detail to know to what extend we have improved our. benefits and privileges as as parties to the to the nafta before but in general as is good news so in fact here in mexico i we have welcomed the news that canada has joined the both. this is certainly better having it to a lighter agreement instead of bilateral agreement and now it seems that other markets are reacting positively as well. so yes this is this is good for mexico ok and the question i put to colin just a few minutes ago to what extent does this tie the hands of the incoming administration well i mean i would say that it is also good news for the new administration because having. to start a new government with the uncertainty of no knowing whether there will be enough

and in what terms. it's certainly something that would have caused. a problem to the new administration so it is good for them knowing that that problem is behind. now. as it was mentioned previously by by the previews. is picking your your and your show yeah a very senior official participated directly in the. negotiation room during this process i mean a senior official of the incoming government so that means. that they have been closely following these these negotiations so it's not that they will be. giving a teg their own entirely unfamiliar with to the contrary they they probably know very well what makes you go has committed to with these not.

two point chris last week the u.s. agreed to begin bilateral talks with japan and it did the same with the e.u. back in july and yet the trade war continues with china is that dispute hurting the u.s. in any way where is that going to end well it will only hurt the united states if china continues to refuse and we and we reach a stalemate frankly i think that that's not going to happen and has much more to lose than united states as we had mentioned earlier we are in a position of strength relatively speaking our economy is thriving it's booming the jobs are being created business of being started profits are seeing all time highs markets are seeing all time highs in the united states it's not the same case in china frankly what we're seeing is china sensually getting caught red handed with forced ip transfers outright ip theft i mean china's entire r. and d.

department is just ip theft they don't really invent a new thing there and you see the president calling them on that bluff ok now the beauty of this strategy is that the e.u. and our allies north and south of the border especially now after this new nafta two point zero deal has been struck is that we see them joining us now in in attack i guess approaching china and trying to get them to actually change some of these practices so i think frankly the united states does not have much to lose but we will ultimately find a solution of an amicable solution which do you agree with that china has more to lose the u.s. to us. i think both countries have a very good to lose but i think that as chris points out the china was taking unfair advantage talking about ip theft in the rest of course over production particularly of steel was part of what got us into the steel tariffs and things i think that the chinese are sort of recognizing you know i think that we look to

leadership usually from the united states it's to it's rather strange leadership but if the european canada mexico and others can come together there's already negotiations in the o.e.c.d. and other places to sort of say arre china you come into the club of the w t o but now we expect you to truly live up to the spirit of the of the agreement but of course the identity here gets complicated mr trump is taking a different view on it as well but i think that this after all was a us creation these international institutions and i think these international institutions are still the best way to manage new members into the club china gentleman there i'm afraid we're going to have to leave it thank you very much indeed for being with us today chris garcia color robertson and fernando consulates russia's very briefly that was the end and thank you as always for watching you can see the program again at any time just by going to the web site at al-jazeera dot com for further discussion join us at our facebook page facebook dot com forward

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the effects of his demise october on al-jazeera. al-jazeera where ever you are. desperate for help in an indonesian city the people having to fend for themselves as the death toll tops twelve hundred. and sam is a down this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up wondering where the next

mail will come from now fast rising cases of cholera adding to famine concerns for millions in the amman. bracing for the demolition of their homes in the palestinian village of qana as an israeli that line passes plus. i'm charlie rangel at the tate modern in london where visitors will have to walk together to reveal the new artwork about migration that's hidden underneath. the death toll has risen past twelve hundred in the indonesian island of three and a half days after it was struck by an earthquake and tsunami and the desperation is starting to show among the thousands left homeless and hungry well there's still not enough rescue equipment to search destroyed buildings much of the focus has been around the city of pellew it was little contact with the city of dongola in

the first seventy two hours pictures are now emerging from a local television station residents there have swarmed shops in search of food water and medicine they say they're worried they've been forgotten with attention focused on easier to reach areas like palu even getting into part of the city there remains difficult with many roads blocked by landslides we'll hear from our correspondent andrew thomas in a moment but first this report from germany island dog. rescuers on the indonesian island of silhouette see. they're trying to find survivors homes and buildings like this eight story hotel in a little. later on monday one thousand rescue. old still conscious and talking. giving them hope there are others who may still be

alive but they're also break for the worst indonesian government is preparing mass graves to bury the dead and to stop the spread of the. good but when we find the bodies of the victims having been exposed to several days the bodies give off a bad smell we must bury them fast and some two and a half million people live in the areas affected by the seven point five magnitude quake and tsunami that followed these drone pictures show the devastation from the six metre wall of water that pushed inland many survivors of spent the last days that's probably searching for loved ones there are reports of children showing up at medical centers searching for their parents in need. my relatives are still missing and i hope the government can help find them the sun was shining and then it suddenly rose up and buried the houses in my heart i said if this is the time i

die what more could i do i just pray to god. some desperate survivors are looting shops for food and water indonesia's government is working with international agency you china and the e.u. to bring in aid experts say it will take weeks until the full extent of the devastation is no in some of the areas are still not acceptable and getting aid in is now their first priority roads have been cut off by landslides major bridges broken down so physical access is a real challenge the other one is information i mean electricity is down so the communications are down many people the first process simply family tracing in two thousand and four is so now i mean struck about the asia killing some hundred seventy thousand people in indonesia alone in the aftermath of the recent quake and tsunami many are asking why warning that after after the disaster appeared to have

failed or in germany and in the room is in the port city of newcastle on soloway sea island joins us live from them so clearly people getting desperate what sort of a plan are authorities putting together to help those in some of the remote areas. for what it captures are you asking about a plan of the national government what they are insured basically priority is medical aid food and fuel these are really top critical things that will help pave the way for a more calmer situation on the ground today this morning we've spoken to rescuers who are trying to make their way to blue they're also struggling with flights as you know many of the civilians trying to escape the area are also at the airport hoping to get evacuated what we also know is that the national government through the philippine military has been sending much needed fuel personnel and evacuating civilians there but it is easy sami if you just look at the whole devastation that

the number of of the dead is expected to rise there are also questions as to whether warning systems may have failed and whether there was enough evacuation plan but again in a situation like this when those who are supposed to respond become victims themselves most of the situation and the much needed the help should come externally and this is what they're trying to clear now they need to clear the airports of the flights are becoming consistent and they need to clear the roads that lead to follow in order for humanitarian aid convoys to start trickling sammy generally. how well the issue of heavy equipment that is desperately needed to try and dig out any sign of that coming in. i'm sorry i didn't catch your last. from what i gather you're asking about the much music quip meant to be brought in i think that that's what they're trying to do now from the reports even the andrew there of clearing much needed groups are also

question whether we can do food drops especially in areas where our people are where people are looting looking for shelter looking for food but that is also critical because so many of the areas really are covered in debris so they are also unsafe even for even for humanitarian operators there so again according to the local government about almost fifty percent of the much needed electricity are ready there it remains to be seen how this will work in the coming days there have been foreign pledges with. the indonesian government but at the end of the day in a situation like this everything becomes very basic the need for logistics the need to clear the way for help to come in and to ensure that communications in the very basic facilities are in place femi all right jim alone and. thomas is into bali on the way to publish. this scene is a snapshot of the frustrations of trying to get into politics and trying to get

people out until about five minutes ago nothing was moving here it has been a landslide on the road. from here we're about twenty five kilometers away from pali city and because of that landslide which happened overnight monday into tuesday it's completely blocked the right. direction. now the dream of just in the last ten minutes the first vehicle that i have managed to get through that area. will be watching it for hours while we've been stuck here at throwing mud and rock up the side of the valley trying to play the right and these people streaming past me on motorbikes are all coming. meanwhile you can stop trying to get in through friends relatives volunteers doctors emergency workers have all thought that heavy equipment in this traffic jam there is water there is food for the last four hours possibly more that. it's being stuck because of the very good news in the last few

minutes that traffic is now coming down a hill in theory we should imagine it should be held but this really is a small snapshot of the general frustration of trying to get aid equipment and people into that devastated city. as a new threat for the population of the city of already at the center of a battle between the saudi and iraqi coalition and the rebels suspected cases of cholera have almost tripled this summer smith reports from neighboring djibouti. you can safely bet with a spoon at the ready thinking of the next meal but she doesn't know when it will be where it will come from. in northern yemen as many as a million people are living in camps beyond the reach of aid groups while yemen isn't officially in a state of famine it must feel like it here. lunch has been cooking for two hours and it's not ready yet we have no gas or proper firewood here under siege and we

have nothing some of these camps have been here for four years sprouting up as people escaped fighting in towns that fell under who the control let's say i don't go to school because my father has no money to buy a spokes and pings when i see girls come from school i get jealous i want to be a doctor aid agencies say a combination of armed groups checkpoints airstrikes and bureaucracy often make it impossible to reach these people. we appeal again to the international and humanitarian organizations to respond rapidly to displaced people and effective communities many of whom sleep on the ground out in the open with no shelter from the summer heat or the called of the winter today's only mirrors a plate of plain boiled rice between the family and some days there's not even this it's nowhere near the amount of nutrition these children need if they're to have any chance of surviving through this conflict the u.n. uses various calculations including the percentage of people dying from malnutrition when deciding when to declare

a famine and there are three million children and new mothers in yemen battling malnutrition but declaring a famine makes no difference to people trapped in areas out of the reach of aid groups because of conflict they need a ceasefire and that might only come when the warring parties sit down until bernard smith al-jazeera djibouti. save the children reports from yemen says there were one thousand three hundred and forty two cholera cases in a day there in august up from fewer than five hundred in june according to the world health organization thirty percent of the cases are children under the age of five people in one day this say intensified finding in june damage the water supply which may have caused some a spike in cholera. is postman for save the children he joins us now from the jordanian capital amman good to have you with us so first of all let's clarify the spike that happened in the number of cholera cases this was caused by

an airstrike on water sanitation facilities is that what your report found. well look we conducted this survey a simple survey of our health centers in the summer june july and august data we found as you said almost in the or tripling of cholera cases during that period now sivits and believes that this is due to a number of factors and as you mentioned attacks on water infrastructure is definitely one of them in late july airstrikes were reported on some of the water systems in her data which affected the water supply but we've also seen more than half a million people displaced from her data just since june when the saudi in a morality led coalition launched a new york offensive to retake the port city and that has led to a huge wave of displacement as i mentioned and those people are living in very cramped conditions.