it's all right so you see i don't think there's anything thing the the europeans can do to help the radians continue with their trade i mean if the deal collapses it will be a huge blow to the credibility of the european union he said nothing the e.u. can do at this stage within the next sixty days the big problem is that if the europeans want to have really run the hump to get in to trouble with the united states you know there's something they're not ready to do or to really have to accept the salary situation that what is going to get into trouble in the united states mean as far as you're concerned and why can't the e.u. act alone why can't they go without the u.s. . no touching is something which is. done to to identity this is this living with the united states which was created the second world war and the united states of. her europe to build that

you know to europe and union would not exist without the protection of the u.s. during the cold war you know we have this is something really strongly green you know in the identity of the europeans and the really our allies when it comes to resist the resister to oppose the united for to it was it was possible if you will years ago when the. european members you know when there were fifteen the there were the capacity of resistance but now with the rise. of the new europeans. from east central europe it's impossible really to draw. up a policy which would be a. very strong link between europe and the united states this very visit

a situation very good to talk to and hear thoughts about this some bass or afonso on the kolo former french ambassador to iran joining us say from sanity so mad in france thank you very much for your time thank you and other world news libya's un recognized government has suspended the operations of forty foreign firms french oil company to a tile in germany siemens are among them the decision comes a day after libyan prime minister pfizer visited paris to discuss the recent fighting for control of the capital tripoli they've been accusations the french government is helping their wallet haifa have tom and his offensive for tripoli that speak talk are spawn and in libya's capital mahmoud abdel why hide so muddled a band of on more than forty companies how significant this is and why these companies in particular. will fully that seems very significant especially for the french companies on top of them the famous energy company. but the ministry of economy

and industry. the government says that it's suspending the operation for those companies because as the ministry says the companies violated libya's trade laws and it also said that. the contracting activities of those companies have has expired and it seems that the ministry is demanding certain there could be sophisticated procedures to. resume work with these companies but remember fully this is very ironic because it's total as you know as an energy company in libya it controls or around fifteen percent of libya's energy sector including oil and gas and it's the fittest competitor of any the. energy company and as you know that

france generally is backing the eastern camp led by the warlords. while italy is backing the west in the camp led by faith and this is a bit ironic i mean suspending those companies and on top on top of them to attack is very ironic because. as you know this this comes only twenty four hours of. you and the good news did prime minister face a large met with the french president will mark on him paris yesterday he had talks about. was trying to gain international support and french support against the military campaign on tripoli by war by forces loyal to the warlords who for her so i think that this is very ironic because it seems that if i may say that the meeting between so large and did not work out could be

because he was talking to michael yesterday and today to tell is being suspended fully thank you for that. correspondent live in tripoli there plenty more ahead on this news hour including bombings in airstrikes in northern syria as government forces continue their push into rebel held areas. plus trade talks resume between the u.s. and china but can a cool after wise in tensions between the world's biggest economy and bucking their way into the next round of the n.b.a. playoffs details are. coming up. first south africa's governing african national congress is on course to win the general election but with its lowest share of votes since the end of apartheid twenty five years ago early results suggest the a.n.c. has won fifty six percent of the votes counted it's

a huge setback for president serial rammer who. after a series of corruption scandals threatened to erode support for his party and main opposition democratic alliance currently has twenty five percent of the vote the official results are expected on saturday malcolm webb joins us now live from pretoria the vote counting. stand center there tell us how things are going where you are come and what the trends are and whether we're expecting to see any changes in the coming hours. within the data coming in on these big screens up here in the blue panels we can see the results of the provincial elections people cited provincial governments at the same time and in the sense that we see the results of the national results so that tells us when it's finished that will dictate which party gets how many seats in parliament and any party with a majority leader will be the president there are officials from the electoral

commission here processing some of the data so far just over half of all of the votes are being counted so that means that things could in the hours ahead could change quite a lot still fifty percent of the votes yet to be counted but the results that we're seeing so far are pretty much exactly what was expected what the opinion polls showed as you said we have the ruling african national congress keeping its majority but so far with a smaller margin levels for the moment it's nearly fifty seven percent and the a.n.c. and all the other parties have their desks and their agents here they're monitoring the results as they come in the democratic alliance which is the largest opposition party at the moment is about twenty three or nearly twenty three percent of the votes counted and the fast economic freedom fighters as agents are sitting just over here nearly ten percent vote share and the other ten percent of the votes have gone to the other smaller parties of which there are about forty but you have an

interesting thing that we're learning is that the turnout has been about sixty five percent lower than it has been in the past and that figure doesn't actually include a quarter of eligible voters who chose not to register in the first place and has. decreased over successive elections. what we've seen as well is the turnout decreasing as well and that's because a lot of people if they feel disaffected by the ruling a.n.c. haven't necessarily been picked up by the opposition there are some opposition politicians who've been caught in scandals or the people corruption scandals as well as people from the ruling party and also a lot of people who don't find the opposition to be any more convincing than those people who are in power thank you for that malcolm way of reporting there live for a vote counting center in pretoria the u.s. and china have resumed trade talks hours before washington is due to increased tyree sign chinese imports the world's two biggest economies have been locked in

a trade war for the past year trump's promise to increase duty is from ten to fifteen percent on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods accusing beijing of backtracking on a trade deal but china says it's kept its promises and has vowed to retaliate with similar meshes by the way you see the terrorists because they're broke today. they broke up. so they're flying good advice for me or to mars flying a good man but they're broke. they can't do that so they'll be paying we don't make the deal nothing wrong with take it in over one hundred billion dollars a year. hundred billion we never did that before we won't back down or jail china stop stealing our workers and stealing our jobs and that's what's going to happen otherwise we don't have to do business with them we don't have to do business we can make the product right here if we have to like we used to. like we used to.

his al jazeera is brown now with reaction from beijing. well a mildly defiant message from china's commerce ministry on thursday a spokesman was pressed several times by foreign journalists for his reaction to a report in the overseas media detailing it seems how china has essentially backtracked on just about everything it had so far agreed to in these ongoing trade talks with the united states talks that began more than ten months ago where the official simply said they were in china gives its word it sticks to it but he also repeated that china is prepared to take countermeasures if the united states presses ahead with new tariffs trayvon she what the u.s. has assigned a lot of labels such as backtracking on going back on one's word and so on lots of promises have been foisted on china the chinese side has valued credibility and has

kept its promises this has never changed analysts say there is now a grim realisation here in beijing that that is going to happen there is precious little time left for chinese negotiators to avoid that it's possible there could still be a surprise deal if there isn't and the talks break down the question will be will those talks resume or continue if they do it might be enough to stabilize markets if there is a complete rupture then we could see the stock markets here in china plummeting again once more as they did earlier this week and live not alan fischer in washington d.c. alan this trade war between the u.s. and china seemed to be nearing an end and suddenly it's escalated. well the first thing to see is that it's clear that when donald trump speaks in public in the way he did at a rally in florida on where the it seems that he doesn't quite understand this work

he keeps talking about how much money they're bringing in from china let me give you an example on average since the terror of someone introduced washing machines in the united states around one hundred dollars more expensive the chinese hearing that the american consumer is paying that because steel and parts that are used in those washing machines are more expensive certainly seemed as if everyone was moving towards a deal but it suggested that the chinese first of all think that when donald trump is seeing to the head of the federal reserve the federal buying saying you should lower interest rates the chinese are taking this is an indication that the american economy isn't as strong as donald trump is seeing and all saw they believe that donald trump will just do anything to get a trade deal with china so he can present the political when they're for their stance has become slightly stronger in the last few weeks so negotiations are due

to get underway again later on thursday but as aegean we're seeing if there is no sign of a deal this is going to impact stock markets not just in the finals but also here in the u.s. which haven't moved too much at the moment with the threat of an america china trade war but if it seems more real than that all undoubtedly start tanking the big markets all right allan thank you for that alan fischer in washington d.c. for us. francis has issued a new rule making it a compulsory for all clarity in the catholic church to report cases or cover ups of child sexual abuse the law requires for he said nuns to report such crimes to their superiors but not to civilian authorities however crimes here during confession are excluded it also requires all charges to have abuse reporting systems and a way to deal with victims in place by june next year michael walsh is a papal historian he thinks it's a step in the right direction. the one criticism you might make of this document is

it doesn't actually say what the penalty is all. for clergy or any of the no bishops. who commit to abuse or attempt to cover it up it doesn't say how they should be punished but they could remove them from this. from their office. they have done recently have the bishop or or a priest i think there are issues still remaining which in a sense are outside the pope's remit first of all obviously the o.b. opposite i imagine that will be off into this room some some people will be foot dragging but because of one of the things the bishops will now have to do is to set up protocols where they don't already exist which they do already in many countries since the united states and the united kingdom for dealing with the situation within the within the church but there are places where they don't exist in the maybe people who has the bishops who who are slow to slow to implement these reforms that the pope has is asking for not asking for requiring for the head on

the al-jazeera news we are in venezuela to look at be obstacles transplant patients off a saying in sports and then line up for the n.h.s. conference final say that polls have more coming up to stay with us we're back after the break. we do still have the chance of some bits and pieces afraid to the middle east over the next couple of days a little bit of clout there showing up around iraq pushing across into iraq start to someone or whether it was a fetus where across northern parts of saudi arabia for the time being the wettest weather is up around the caucasus still gerami knows about john could see some showers long spells of grey cells to some rainfall so pushing its way back into that western side of iran over the. diot say getting the season showers into

pakistan by the odd showers into afghanistan for a time issue quite enough as we go on is as dire as that cloud just drives its way across iraq to be a few showers as we go on through the weekend then i would say was iraq over towards the levant is lossy fog and dry middle of the coast side of the bay right temp just pick back to around twenty one degrees celsius meanwhile it'll be a little colder across northern parts of the arabian peninsula here in kata thirty six celsius winds coming in from the from the se from the gulf that i suspect in those temperatures back it'll feel a little more humid but it should be largely dry over the next day or so you can see it shows a wanted to showers or into central areas of saudi arabia i was towards the red sea a much as cash possibly putting down into that west side of yemen. russia has jeopardized the united states security interests we know what you are

doing and you will not succeed perceptions from the outside looking. into the picture from the inside. i think russia's foreign policy is too soft to keep most russian greens have you trying not. to be full russian coming soon on all juicing. in a two part series. zero observes the lives of two children. over twenty years. where insights into circumstances that shape lines. in a rapidly changing world. twenty years of mean starts with blood and land the story on how to zero.

again you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me for the bad people our reminder of our top stories european union leaders have rejected iran sixty day ultimatum to protect it from u.s. sanctions and save the twenty fifty nuclear deal from collapse but they say they are awfully committed to the agreement and have cautioned the u.s. against taking any action that would harm their efforts maybe is un recognized government has suspended the operations of forty four and firms french oil firm to a top and german company siemens are among them the decision comes a day after the libyan prime minister pfizer raj visited paris to discuss the recent fighting for control of the capital and vote counting continues in south

africa's general election the ruling african national congress body looks set to retain power by its with smallest ever a vote share since the end of apartheid. returning now to our top story on iran and as we mentioned president donald trump left the twenty fifty nuclear deal last year but that's not the only major agreement he's walked away from in january twenty seven teen abandon the trans-pacific partnership trade deal that was created to balance china's economic influence after speaking out against the north america free trade agreement or nafta for months trump renegotiated the terms and signed a new deal with mexico and canada the paris climate agreement is one of the biggest accords trump has abandoned despite international criticism he said it was poorly negotiated and the u.s. has also withdrawn from bodies of the united nations include. unesco the u.n.h.c.r. and the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees and in february trump told russia that it's

suspending compliance with a landmark one nine hundred eighty s. weapons treaty that banned certain nuclear missiles after both countries accuse each other of violating the agreements but it's not speak to steve clemons is editor at large at the political website the hail he is live from washington very good to have you with us steve on the news hour so president has abandoned quite a number of treaties and agreements what is the u.s. administration's strategy here on the stage and who is their intended audience. will donald trump and his supporters believe that all of these deals and american being so imbedded in international institutions many of which america launched and helped create are binding and constraining of american power they are making a bet that america withdrawing from these treaties with drawing from some of its historic partnerships will be perceived to be a more powerful nation somewhat alone than with all of these others you know i've

been calling this plug nation is nationalism but his supporters really believe in a kind of hyper american sovereignty that that scares our foes and makes our allies a bit less certain and the audience is a political one the audience is his his base that once the see american muscularity in the world unconstrained by all these deals when it comes to iran steve who is foreign policy is it really who's directing all these moves against iran is it donald trump's or is it national security advisor john bolton who we know has made a case in the past for military action against iran. well that is a very interesting question and the best way to answer it is to look at right now some trouble that has just been reported between president trump and john bolton over the issue of venezuela trump has reportedly said that he felt misled by by his national security adviser john bolton that he thought regime change in venezuela

would be easy and he's afraid of being caught in a deeper conflict it's very clear to observers that john bolton and also secretary of state mike palm pale are more eager than many others in the president's cabinet for some form of where the call a collision but a much more coercive foreign policy with iran than perhaps president trump is we don't know the exact details that you just ask but we can look at the fact that the president may act with a lot of bravado may puff up but he's not gotten america into any wars and you may see something where john polson right now and secretary of state of my pump a.o. are calling the shots more than the president himself interesting you know you talked about nationalists in a little while ago steve how does this nationalism transnationalism change the world in your view what impact has it had on traditional allies like the europeans and do you think it's changed the way america is huge in the world for the long

term. i think it is had a dramatic impact on both allies and enemies of the united states i think an america that is unconstrained that is doing something can can look more impulsive look potentially more emotional i think it has made the global system more fragile and i think the chance of escalation from a misunderstanding or an accident much much higher today than in recent years it also creates a real problem for allies because it makes america less dependable during their dark days and the kind of traditional historic alliances we have had are now ad hoc relationships and so whether you're whether you're japan or saudi arabia or germany or france or canada any of these countries south korea all have to build into their scenarios for their own national security the possibility that the united states will not be there with them so it's created some real shocks to traditional

alliances and this is a gamble that the president is making in my view it's a very dangerous one because america will face a crisis one day and when we do face that crisis we're going to have to call on allies and they be maybe less willing in that moment to help us because we've abandoned them on climate change on trade and many other global challenges out there as we've withdrawn ourselves from these treaties and institutions interesting times indeed thank you so much c. for sharing your views with us steve clemons joining us live from washington. you know news thirteen people including two russian secret service agents have been jailed for plotting to overthrow montenegro's government in an effort to stop it joining nato russian's edouard she's markoff and. jailed between twelve and fifteen years to serbian opposition politicians received five sentences and it said marian of a child's been following those court proceedings in the capital political rica and sent us this updates. two russian secret service agents. in the middle of

are sentenced to fifteen and twelve years of prison for creating criminal organization and attempt of terrorism in montenegro in two thousand and sixteen from a montenegrin prosecutor they pointed out as main organizers and finance service of a group of serbia and montenegro citizens two of them leaders of opposition democratic front strongest opposition qualification in montenegro parliament which mainly represents ethnic serbs in this country according to a very they were planning to arctic montenegrin parliament. elections with weapons take to building capture and kill prime minister immunological kind of each and installed pro russian and antenatal leadership in order to prevent point an integral from joining nato even though these were strong accusations against russia moscow denied any involvement in these events. the international court of justice

is here in qatar case against the united arab emirates so violating human rights says the u.a.e. targeted its citizens and expel them after an economic blockade was imposed in twenty seventeen seventy deca has more on the hearing from the hague. it is the final day of a three day public hearing brought at the request of the united arab emirates they are all skiing for provisional measures this basically means an injunction saying that qatar is stopping it from implementing the provisions made by this court last year and that is to allow the return of custody citizen students and families to the united arab emirates it all has to do with the website that it alleges qatar is blocking qatar is saying that it is concerned about malware that's just one of the items that's being debated here by top lawyers on either side of the company team and morality team the bigger picture of course is that qatar has brought the emirates to the international court of justice why because it says its citizens are

discriminated against in the context of that blockade by four countries of the most two years into the making it says it's become personal and this is why is trying to highlight the issue through this court it's going to take quite some time before we have a ruling from the court either on the application of the emirates and also on the bigger case when it comes to whatever the ruling does it have any power to change the facts on the ground i think many people will tell you no and certainly at the moment if you look at the political situation the blockade certainly doesn't seem like it's going to end anytime soon. a sixth round of talks between the u.s. and taliban aimed at ending the war in afghanistan has ended here in qatar negotiators say some progress was made on a draft agreement for when foreign troops might withdraw the u.s. has been pushing the taliban to agree to a cease fire and talk with the afghan government. government forces in syria

continues to push into rebel held areas in hama and provinces they've captured the town of cut in the northwest and. this has sparked fears of a offensive the seventh another day of airstrikes. and more civilian casualties. as a rescue workers move the wounded and take away the debt was it's been almost two weeks of relentless bombing in northwest syria denied it nation says at least fifty opposition controlled villages have been targeted in northern hama north a lot and southern provinces. we want to see these people running away from country to help these families with food with much or says people are under the rubble until. rebels have lost what opposition activists call the first

line of defense of it lip syrian government forces have taken ground and in northern countryside of hama the loss of the town to foreign and are seen as strategic wins rebel supply lines are now vulnerable and the m five international highway linking government controlled cities is a few kilometers east the government wants that road to revive trade and help the economy in nearby aleppo syria's commercial capital remains cut off from most of the countryside and poorly connected to the rest of syria russia which is backing the campaign says its military is implementing the sochi deal that was agreed with turkey in september foreign minister sergei lavrov said that memorandum is not about protecting what he called terrorists and yet another verbal attack against turkey for not creating a demilitarized zone around. lover of statements indicate the scope of the military operation implementing these sochi deal does not mean

a full scale assault to retake the entire province of idlib moscow knows that would threaten its alliance with turkey which wants to prevent a humanitarian crisis along its border and prevent a new wave of refugees crossing into its territory. turkey which has military positions around it live under its agreement with russia has not responded to the latest escalation but it too has criticized russia for failing to remove the syrian kurdish group the y. p.g. from tel rafah in northern aleppo turkey considers the y. peachey a terrorist organization. trying to find. russia will give them more. but. which is on the table. or supporters are trying to tell us which other. but serious power brokers are unlikely to push far enough to break an alliance they both benefit from

neither side wants a large scale assault on it lip but even a limited operation is enough to destroy the lives of many. beirut. in yemen the un recognized government has accused the united arab emirates of sending nearly one hundred separatist fighters to a remote area many island soaker try is a unesco world heritage site in the arabian sea the u.a.e. which is fighting with the rebels along with saudi arabia has denied the accusations ever in reports the u.a.e. has been competing to take over the island by carrying out humanitarian relief activities it was accuser seizing the island when it sent time central upset. sudan's opposition leaders are threatening to launch a nationwide civil disobedience movement after accusing the ruling military council of delaying the transfer of power to civilians the military leaders a warning about holding elections in six months if an agreement can't be reached with the opposition mom advantage has the latest from khartoum. deadlock and

threats of escalation marked what is these talks between the opposition and the transitional military council in khartoum along with the forces of that the collision of freedom and change the military had invited dozens of other political parties to the top. they have all presented ideas to get sudan out of the crisis. we received one hundred seventy seven proposals we analyzed and research them and that can give indication of a compromise policy solution on the transitional issues of the transitional government the meeting with the political committee of the transitional military council in sudan aims to review the visions of the entities of the governing mechanisms in the transitional period. the protest leaders criticize the broadening of participation in talks as a delaying tactic by the m.t.c. designed they say to drag the process out and break that evolutionary momentum. how

will the military council is trying to twist revolutionary choices and use the same old ways to control and maintain power this contradicts what the council said in the beginning when they took power when they said that they don't want to stay in power and that they took the protester site now we have doubts about this because they have spent their whole months progressed in aiding. the military council says it found holes in a constitutional documents submitted by the forces of freedom and change earlier this week including your mission of sharia law as the source of or legislation the f d f c says the document wasn't meant to be conclusive and ridiculed those remarks saying there were merely intended to derail the negotiations the t.m.c. said it would call a general election within six months if no agreement is achieved a measure which to the protest leaders means a certain and full return to power by the deposed regime with the help of the deep

state which they say is still in from troll. of the fit with the we agreed to continue demonstrations and escalate our activism escalation in itself is not the goal the revolution has yet to achieve its demands we have not yet transitioned to a civilian government and we are yet to remove many of the elements from the old regime it is clear that the reappearance of security services and their resumption of their activities just like in the old days means that change has not happened. to address this issue of the protest leaders say they have not only going to continue the sit in. they may soon call for civil disobedience across the country until their demands are met by a desire. south korea's military says north korea has fired two unidentified rockets or missiles and launchers penned in call song in the north kyung our province south korea says a projectiles were directed towards the east. now replacing bone marrow can promote

the growth of healthy cells and fight cancer for many children a transplant is their only hope but a fading one for children in venezuela the government says it can't pay for treatment because of u.s. sanctions and the opposition blames inefficiency and lack of resources to support has a story from us. giovanni fida was six years old he died two days ago he was suffering from leukemia. he's father says finding medicines to treat him had become a daily struggle. i have no words we were trying to find the things he needed the meds and trying to keep him happy i have no words. when a swell had signed an agreement with it that allowed children like you have on to receive a bone marrow transplant abroad by johnny never made it johnny was part of a group of iran thirty children who were awaiting

a bone marrow transplant that whole program depended from venezuela state oil company with a week's other problem experienced as currently being affected by sanctions imposed by the united states and that's why the venezuelan government is saying that the united states is to blame for any staff. who went to divine his funeral with some of the mothers whose children are also waiting for a transplant. they see the public health system has been failing long before the sanctions were imposed. in a status as daughter elaina the seven years old she also needs a bone marrow transplant she has a twin sister that could be compatible with her. but he missed canada for the tests . your name of the health system has deteriorated there's no medicine the tests are too expensive and we depend on private foundations to help us i want hospitals to get what we need because nothing is working very sweetly has

a free health care system that expanded during the government of which i have this . but with a drop in oil prices and a failed economic policy the system has collapsed so want to see the lawyer that if a state can't guarantee the life of all of these children then it can't guarantee the life of the country the system was already failing before the u.s. sanctions they suspended the transplant program a year ago but full scale sanctions against were imposed in january this year from now on u.s. policy is certainly going to have a huge impact on people's lives so many. government officials say menace will is a victim of donald trump's foreign policy. so entrance trouble is very much because most companies do not want to risk angering the united states the world is a globalized economy and the company has links with the united states and what we're seeing is that there are many companies who simply do not want to deal with

us because they don't want to be punished by the united states. children are particularly vulnerable in this crisis in venezuela giovanni was not able to survive but there are many others who are hoping they will have the chance to receive the treatment that will save their lives.

time for sports his folly thank you very much another stunning semifinal comeback talk hotspur through to the champions league final for the first time in their history they trailed i.x. one nil from the first leg and found themselves three nil down on aggregate as the dutch side scored twice spurs did fight back in the second half with two quick goals from lucas mora and with the amsterdam side so close to taking it the brazilian completed his hat trick in the six minutes of injury time to make it three three on aggregate so spurs go through away goals. the best moment in my career for sure everyone does their business to the coach list of the president because this club is amazing and i'm still hoping to be part of the top in him family and to give his to this reporter saw joy and and.

think about the final. i said before they are heroes to you in the last six more no you've been a repeat these sentences i thin there are superheroes no. gold . the globes the final of john belleek i thin nice. maybe goes to a meter going well after two straight days now of stunning european semi final fight backs where about to find out if i'm tracked frankfurt's can pull off another one this time against chelsea in the europa league the german side are level at one one going into the second leg at stamford bridge but conceded an away goal last week on track to looking to reach their first major european final in thirty nine years and your fellow just been involved of it well maybe it would be a wonder if frankfurt did get to the rope or league finals we are the team least expected to be the semifinals but to achieve this wonder you just have to play

absolutely great you have to really put chelsea in the right position it's got to give everything you've got to be really passionate about the way you play. the other semifinal sees arsenal take a three one lead to form up winners valencia gun his boss in ny emery is hoping to win the europa league for a fourth time after three trophies during his time at severe. in tennis top seed novak djokovic is through to the quarter finals at the madrid open he beat jeremy shockey in straight sets on thursday and will play marin church in the last state the women's world number three some i know how it is looking for her third madrid title but she was made to work in her quarter final against australia as ashley barty trading some fairly epic rallies including this one. the remaining would go on to win this in straight sets like seven five seven five how it will quite a win the bench in the seventies after she knocked out the top seed on world number one irony of soccer. i the milwaukee bucks have reached the

n.b.a.'s eastern conference player finals for the first time in eighteen years the bucs ended the celtics season on wednesday with a hundred sixteen to ninety one flow out when the game five younus to cawnpore the lead with twenty point eight rebounds on dates assess the bucs will now play either detroit to raptors or the philadelphia seventy six is. while you're in the west the golden state warriors kevin durant's limped out of game five against the houston rockets the two time reigning m.v.p. got a card straight in the third quarter even without him the warriors battled to eight hundred four to ninety nine when play thompson made twenty seven points to help him over the line for a lead the series three two you learn how to treat. your skill the news out there and what you saw on the fourth quarters so you know what you're going to have to see going forward you know. there would have to find a way olympic organizers have opened the ticket lottery for next year's games in

tokyo with b.m.x. one of the events of it in twenty twenty japan's top rider remote nakamura showed off his skills at the ceremony a lotteries only open to the country's residents for now fans overseas will have to wait until june fifteenth to grab their seats. brazil's president says that rio will host a formula one racing twenty twenty when the city's new racetrack is ready the circuit will be named after a former driver and senna the brazil or brazilian grand prix has been held in sao paolo for the past thirty years but the into last circuits has run into financial problems. they'll. sell polo had public investment and a big hit with that it became impractical to keep formula one of their but coming to rio de janeiro the race track will be built in six seven months formula one next year will be held in brazil and in rio de janeiro the san jose sharks of sets up

a meeting with the slowest blues in the n.h.l. western conference finals the sharks captain joe returned from a gruesome head injury to score a goal and an assist in the first period that helped the sharks to a three two win over the colorado avalanche in game seven of their seventy five it's. now from the sharks to the catch of the day in major league baseball the baltimore orioles thought they'd hit a game winning home run against the boston red sox but one outfielder had other ideas. i. should. say with. a superhuman effort by jackie bradley jr acknowledged the hats off by train mancini and to cap it all it was boston he went on to win two one that field his dad was there as well and that's all your sport for now peter will have more later

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the french oil giant tom the u.s. ramps up its rhetoric against china president trump says new ties will be imposed on friday and pope francis issues new rules designed to crack down on sexual abuse but in the roman catholic church. european leaders have rejected iran sixty day ultimatum to protect it from u.s. sanctions and save the twenty fifty nuclear deal from collapse e.u. leaders say they are fully committed to the agreement and have cautioned the u.s. again saying any action that would harm their efforts but in the past twenty four hours president donald trump has imposed new sanctions on iran this time targeting its metals industry the second biggest source of export revenue after all and in gas meanwhile a u.s. a craft carrier battle group has passed through the suez canal and is on its way to the gulf the white house says it deployed the carrier and a bomb

a task force to counter what it calls a credible threat from iran that has more now from paris. european leaders say that they have been doing and will continue to do everything they can to try and save this deal but there's no doubt there's a growing sense of frustration that they are caught in the middle if you like between the u.s. on one side and iran on the other than you could sense that frustration in a joint statement which was put out earlier today by the foreign policy chief's office and the foreign offices of britain france and germany in that statement said we reject any ultimatums and what they were referring to was the fact that on wednesday tehran said european powers have sixty days to come up with some new plan or solution to try and shield the uranian a quantum me from u.s. sanctions now of course european officials and leaders have been trying to do that

already so of course there's a sense of frustration that they are being dictated to if you like and are the moment e.u. leaders are and remain your they are at a summit where iran wasn't supposed to be on the table but it is now leaders forced to discuss the issues it really continues into something of a of a crisis and leaves the whole deal looking increasingly fragile with the french president emanuel markhor said that the u.s. in the first place by pulling out one year ago has in a way caused the situation in other world news libya's u.n. recognized government has suspended the operations of forty four and firms french oil company total in germany siemens are among them the decision comes a day after libyan prime minister visited paris to discuss the recent fighting for control of the capital tripoli have been accusations the french government is helping warlord tally for half time in his offensive to take tripoli. has the latest from libya's capital. it seems that the ministry is demanding certain

could be sophisticated procedures to. resume work with these companies but this is very ironic because it's total as an energy company in libya it controls around fifteen percent of libya's including oil and gas and it's the fittest completive to of. energy companies and as you know that france generally is backing the eastern camp led by the warlords who for have while italy is backing the west in the camp led by face and this is a bit ironic i mean suspending those companies on top of them to is very ironic because this comes only twenty four hours after the prime minister faced a large met with the french president will mark on in paris yesterday and the had

talks about. so much was trying to gain international support and french support against the military campaign on tripoli by the world by forces loyal to the world so i think that this is very ironic because it seems that if i may say that the meeting between saddam and did not work out could be because he was talking to michael yesterday and today to tell is being suspended. or let's speak to jason pak now he's the founder of libya analysis dot com and author of the libya situation report of the tony blair foundation is via skype from washington thank you so much for being with us what do you make of this move by libya's un recognized government to ban these foreign companies including to tara do you think this will for some of the countries like france and i've been accused of backing war tiny for have time to reconsider their position. i wish it was as simple as that what seems likely to have happened is exactly as your presenter in

the previous segment said so iraq is on a european diplomatic to where the fighting over tripoli has entered second month he is getting weaker over time he doesn't have much he can do he doesn't really control the militias were fighting against off tar it appears that he went to my home yesterday in france and said hey please back me please stop supporting how far what we have an international conference or something or want to box software out of the negotiations i guess mum didn't say what he wanted to do and then he wanted to actualize a threat that he probably made in that meeting unfortunately and this is what was not dealt with in your segment. so iran doesn't have the power to just turn off the oil that flows to tall tall and it's little things. who have that power. that powers with the i don't see the it's not really a country right now it's a collection of different semi sovereign institutions the n.o.c.

has the right to declare force majeure and that would be the way to prevent or the flowing from the shore our field in the south in fits and to sow we've got and listings of oil that would be benefiting from its execution agreement so we'll be n.o.c. now you know pay attention to what soraya and the g. and i have said and somehow prevent talk from doing the things of that oil unclear will it be a retaliation by the eastern i don't see again unclear but what this is it is and what's clear about it is it's the first politicization of oil within the conflict that has been now a month go away because for the first month of this conflict oil has been flowing as if nothing has been happening in fact it's at a higher level one point two million barrels a day that any time in the last two and a half years and if the oil is not flowing do you think these outside powers that

have been. you know somewhat playing a role in the other europeans have as we've seen have been divided over how to respond to have ties assault on tripoli countries like france and italy they have competing interests in libya they have different agendas if the oil is not flowing . is their stance going to change you think well so there are two parts to that answer. initially neither how far the aggressor nor the coalition of militias which were opposing him in supporting the g.n.a.t. ice iraq want to be blamed for turning off the oil and this is because it's a it's a very tense political moment in the oil world obviously trumps actions towards iran the conflict in venezuela oil is very tight right now prices are high whoever would be seem to be taking more oil what the market would be losing global support so no one had initially wanted to take that blame but now it seems that we have a stalemate in libya so each side wants to blame the other one for taking the oil

off the market and it does seem that seraph is trying to polarize things blame france for maybe getting some oil off the market because it has been undermining the u.n. process and not condemning hoft are what's going to happen next absolutely anyone can say but the virginity of any of the actors in saying no we are not responsible for politicizing the oil role of this conflict that's now over and it is since it's been taken away what i imagine what happened next is that the ball is in the court of the n.o.c. and huffed are and the n.r.c. is going to want to keep the oil flowing but how far may take the bait and try to use the eastern n.o.c. to smuggle oil in which case then we could see a lot of oil going out both in eastern libya and western chasten very good to get

your insights thank you so much for speaking to us jason pike is founder of libya not of his dot com he was live from washington thank you for your time pleasure. global markets are down ahead of trade talks between the u.s. and china the world's two biggest economies have been locked in a trade war for the past year. promise to increase duties from ten to fifteen percent on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods accusing beijing of backtracking on a trade deal by china says it's kept its promises and has vowed to retaliate with similar measures speaking at a rally in the state of florida the us president repeated threats of more tabs on chinese goods. by the way you see the terrorists because they're broke that. they broke the law. so they're flying in the vice premier to mars flying a good man but they broke the deal. they can't do that so they'll be paying we don't make the deal nothing wrong with take it in over one hundred billion

dollars a year. we never did that before we won't back down until china stops stealing our workers and stealing our jobs and that's what's going to happen otherwise we don't have to do business with them we don't have to do this we can make the product right here if we have to like we used to have like we used to do. in washington alan with the us administration go ahead with this threat from the president to will impose new towers. what i think is important for you the first thing to say is when you listen to donald trump speaking like that and that sort of for him it's clear that he appears not to understand how this work he talks about bringing in one hundred billion dollars from china what actually happens of course is that goods coming in from china to the united states become more expensive so for example at the moment washing machines across the united states at around one hundred dollars more expensive because some of the parts and the steel that choose to make them are hit by the toilets that donald trump has employed but the u.s.

thought they were very close to a deal in fact they thought it would be wrapped up during the next round of talks starting in a few hours here in washington but last week they were told that the chinese had problems because they thought some of the things that were in the agreement could actually break chinese law and therefore they weren't willing to push ahead with that there is some suggestion that the chinese thought that they could perhaps get a better deal one because they think donald trump is desperate to do a deal and keeps talking about how he's friends with the chinese president and the other thing is he keeps pushing the federal reserve here in the united states to drop interest rates the chinese the. think that that is a sign that the economy isn't as strong as donald trump would like it to be therefore from a position where we where we could go what we thought was a deal almost certainly about to be agreed we're now in a position where that is all up in the year and certainly the marc.