come my daily struggle. i have no words we were trying to find the things he needed the medicines trying to keep him happy i have no words. minutes will had signed an agreement with it that allowed children like to receive a bone marrow transplant abroad but 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 giovanni's 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 alaina the seven years old she also needs

a bone marrow transplant she has a twin sister that could be compatible with her. readiness can order for the tests that look at your name and 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 to hospitals to get what we need because nothing is working. venezuela has a free health care system that expanded during the government avoid chavis but with a drop in oil prices and a failed economic policy the system has collapsed so. if a state can't guarantee the life of all these children then it can't guarantee the life of the country this is tim 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 interest 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. a senior argentinian politician is in a serious condition in hospital after a gun attack in which a provincial official was killed when a side as police released footage of the attack which took place just before seven

in the morning at the only virus the representative of province was walking on the pavement alongside his friend. dawn who was killed is the first such attack on a politician since the end of argentina argentina's military dictatorship in one thousand nine hundred eighty three. results in south africa's general elections suggest that the ruling a.n.c. party will retain power with a sixth successive election victory but of reduced majority with results in from nearly seventy percent of the voting districts the a.n.c. currently has fifty six point five percent of the vote its nearest rival that's of them a practical alliance has twenty two point six percent and the economic freedom fighters led by a former president of the a.n.c. youth league is third with nine point nine percent well a record forty eight parties took part in wednesday's election the see is one every

election since the end of apartheid twenty five years ago but voters have expressed frustration about corruption unemployment and racial inequality. shares of the right hailing at will be listed publicly for the first time of the new york stock exchange on friday at forty five dollars each they'll be priced at the low end of its targeted range for the company at eighty two billion dollars but it's still one of the most profitable businesses ever to go public christmas salumi reports now from new york. every. hoover app has changed how people get around available in sixty three countries and seven hundred cities around the world its name has become synonymous with ride healing and now is looking to raise money on the new york stock exchange its initial public offering is likely to make billions of dollars for founder travis cowen ik and other early investors including the

saudi arabian public investment fund this looks always to be the i.p.o. of the year that said the recent public offering of lift closes competition fell short of expectations and lowered its valuation estimate in the lead up to the sale like lived or has yet to make a profit in fact it's lost more than a billion dollars already this year and the whole the sort of grail in the valley has been growth growth growth growth growth growth growth growth growth i think that's beginning to i think losing money on a whole bunch of i.p.o.'s where the growth story is great and route to profitability is uncertain is starting to weigh on the markets. over says driving for the company is a flexible way to earn some extra money but it's come at the expense of full time drivers in particular yellow cab drivers here in new york they say it's increasingly difficult to make a living so much so there's been a rash of suicides among them one driver actually shot himself in the head right

here outside of city hall to raise awareness of the problems. that led new york to impose a minimum wage for drivers and a moratorium on new vehicle license is raising concerns that other cities might follow suit. many of the drivers came out to protest the i.p.o. some want to be treated like employees not independent contractors a move hoover says will prevent the company from becoming profitable. or has always true. drivers as if they are expendable they're now looking to cash in on that business model and raise enough revenue to take drivers out of the cars all together with the use of ride apps continuing to grow worldwide and investing heavily in driverless cars that may be exactly what investors are counting on kristen salumi al-jazeera new york was. still ahead in this news hour the

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a night of high drama at stamford bridge on thursday as twenty thirteen europa league champions chelsea school week to into this year's final the blues took the lead against anthrax frankfurt in this one through reuben loftus cheek that made a two one on aggregate but lou could you have it equalized for the bundesliga club so it finished one one that forced thirty minutes of additional time and chelsea would go on to win the shootout for three the second match of the evening a little bit more straightforward had trick from america obama young guiding arsenal through their second leg in spain against valencia the gunners won four two on the right seventy three on aggregate alexander luck as they scored the other will go with kevin going to go on target twice for valencia it will be arsenal's first european final since they were beaten in the two thousand and six champions league final by barcelona. it's one thousand two hundred career wins for twenty time grand slam winner roger federer although he was made to sweat for it he was up

against gilmore feeds looking for a place in the quarter finals of the madrid masters on tuesday the frenchman was holding a four one lead in the deciding set but missed out saved two match points and came through on the tie break you'll now play dominant team of austria for a place in the series. no such problems are top seed novak djokovic shoots looking for his third title in madrid jeremy shockey in straight sets to set up a meeting with matt in chile each second to refound the bell with a stand of rancor after knocking out front to see africa. but the women's top seed has gone the world number one the soccer was knocked out by belinda bench in the quarter finals the swiss player taking it seven five in the deciding set. makes up the bench which it's the world number three simona halep who is looking for her third madrid title she was made to work in a quarter final against ashley barty of australia trading some fairly epic corelli's the romanian would go on to win in straight sets. i. brazil's president

says that rio will host a formula one race in twenty twenty when the city's new racetrack is ready the circuit will be named after a former driver. the brazilian grand prix has been held in sao paolo for the last thirty years but the into largo circuit has run into financial problems. sell paolo had public investment and a big hit with that it became impractical to keep formula one of their they are 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. ferrari driver sebastian vettel is hoping car improvements will help ease team catch up to miss avies at sunday's spanish graeme premier sadie's have taken one two finishers in all four races for the season and vettel says it's time for ferrari to step up their challenge. we're introducing a new engine as well so yeah we've got some some stuff that we think should help us

to be stronger than the last races and the spirit is good so compared to previous years i think at this point last year we were in a better place we've won some races and overall we've been more competitive but nevertheless i think the spirit is as good or better than last year. thursday witnessed a landmark in the world rally championship as the sport came to chile the shakedown runs all warmups took place ahead of the country's first ever race and this mickelson set the pace ahead of reigning world champion sebastian o's year as the driver's test of this skills on the roads around concepcion. olympic organizers have opened the ticket lottery for next year's games in tokyo with b.m.x. one of the event said in twenty twenty japan's top riders showed off his skills at the ceremony the lottery is only open to the country's residence for now fans overseas will have to wait until june the fifteenth to grab the seats and out of

the catch of the day in major league baseball the baltimore orioles thought they had a game winning home run against the boston red sox but one outfielder had other ideas . i should be proud of but i. was i was i. was god a super human effort by jackie bradley jr acknowledged with the hats off by better trained seanie at the capitol it was boston who went on to win two one s s more sport later back to barbara in london. pete thank you now just before we go into they is high tech world spelling mistakes should be a thing of the past but it appears australia's central bank has failed to invest in a spell checker so it's been left hugely embarrassed by what appears to be a typo on the nation's most circulated bank note the word responsibility on the

fifty dollar note is missing its third letter i forty six million of the notes had already been circulation for seven months when the mistake was finally spotted by a listener to a radio station australians are hoping next on the x. then please add an extra zero that never happens if for the news hour more news in a few minutes a bike. once welcome now fear. dividing the nation. al-jazeera explores germany's long term economic strategy of pursuing immigrants from the arab world i

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so. moving story of two young girls in afghanistan. at last able to get an education after you suppress it taliban occupation. but what has become of their treats. rewind pencils and bullets. on al-jazeera. we were getting very close to a deal then they started to renegotiate a deal which didn't have the the u.s. and china resume talks to end their trade war with the threat of imminent new tariffs hanging over beijing. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up

the e.u. rejects iran's sixty day ultimatum to protect it from u.s. sanctions but says it is still committed to the nuclear deal for reported dead after an explosion at a market in baghdad's southern city suburb and pope francis issues a landmark the creative requiring all catholic priests and nuns to report sexual abuse and cover ups. trade talks between china and the u.s. are underway in washington with president. threat of new tariffs on chinese goods looming china has rejected accusations that have backtracked on trade commitments with the us a spokesman for beijing's commerce in the story says the country has quote kept its promises as hopes of reaching a trade agreement fell this week president trump has threatened to hike tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of imports from china if

a deal cannot be reached he's accused the country of going back on earlier commitments we were getting very close to a deal then they started to renegotiate a deal we can have that we can have that so our country can take in one hundred twenty billion dollars a year in tariffs paid for mostly by china by the way not by us a lot of people try and steer it in a different direction julie pace ultimately is paid for by largely by china and businesses will pour back into our country so instead of making the product it'll be the old fashioned way the way we used to do it we made our own product it's got more now from jordan in washington d.c. so rosalind a standard talks are on the way any news of what might be coming out from them. so far nothing to report from those talks which are taking place at the offices of the u.s. trade representative robert light ties are those talks to get under way in the past hour barbara but certainly there is this growing sense here not just in washington

but in new york as well where investors do their trading on wall street that the new tariffs a twenty five percent tariff on some two hundred billion dollars worth of goods will be coming into effect at twelve o one am eastern time here in the united states and the chinese government has already said barbara that it plans to respond in kind if this increase in tariffs does go through. and just tell us a little bit about the way that it's perceived really the way that donald trump has been very publicly criticizing china accusing them of backtracking they of course denying but what's being made of in washington and new york all of that strategy of his of dealing with the chinese. well there's a real sense that certainly among those in the business community that the president's public criticism of the chinese decision to basically say that for

example they could not commit to changing their laws in order to basically make this trade to take effect is quickly as possible their feeling is that they're going to well lose business from us customers because a twenty five percent tariff means that you're going to see companies passing on that tax as it were to their consumers to make up what they're having to pay out of pocket you've already seeing some companies looking to law perhaps move their production from chinese factories to factories in other countries in order to keep their up prices are very competitive u.s. consumers are very used to spending very little money on pretty much anything they want mainly because the cost of production in china is quite low compared to that in the united states and that's the other point that both the business leaders and economists are raising that you're not going to see this resurgence in u.s.

manufacturing because just the cost of labor alone here in the u.s. makes the price of those goods made in the u.s. that much more expensive and so they're questioning why the president is taking this tack when it does seem that even though the chinese have been saying that they want a change in terms in part of this contract why he's raising the ante so much when there is a real risk of perhaps hurting consumer demand which is of course seventy percent of how the u.s. economy functions because in jordan with the latest on that story from washington ross thank you. iran's foreign minister says the european union should uphold its obligations under the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal and that includes normalizing economic ties with tehran jadzia reefs tweet comes hours after leaders rejected iran's sixty

day ultimatum to protect it from u.s. sanctions and saved a landmark agreement from collapse the live reports from paris. iran wasn't officially on the agenda at the e.u. summit in romania but following tehran's move on wednesday to suspend some of its commitments to the twenty fifty nuclear deal european leaders were forced to discuss the crisis the french president said europe still supported the accord known as the j c p o a and he urged iran not to break it but. france has stayed in it and will stay in it and i deeply wish to iran will too it is up to us to work to convince everyone and iran to stay in it. the e.u.'s foreign policy chief was one of the deals main negotiators it's a matter of security for us and for the entire world the european union investment in nonproliferation continues to be a top priority for us so far we have first see iran fully compliant with all its

nuclear related commitments frustration is growing among leaders would be caught between the u.s. and iran as tensions on both sides mount before the summit the e.u. rejected an ultimatum from tehran given european powers sixty days to come up with a plan to shield iran's economy from the impact of u.s. sanctions in a statement they said we strongly urge iran to continue to implement its commitments under the j c p o a in full as it is done until now and to refrain from any escalatory steps we reject all ultimatums the statement also criticized the u.s. for imposing sanctions on iran and pulling out of the deal one year ago european powers have been battling to save the twenty fifteen deal they want a payment system which allows for some trade between iran and the european union to so far is limited to only humanitarian items things like medicine and food and it's

failed to persuade multinationals to resume trade with iran and risk u.s. penalties so unless e.u. leaders come up with some new solutions some say that tehran might decide that the deal is simply not worth saving. what europe needs to do is first approach the remaining. participants russia and china and urge them to take steps commensurate with what europe is doing but also they need to to find solidarity with aliments in the united states you can push back on this new conservatism that is hell bent on you know seeing this into your fail and potentially making war more possible fraud says defense ministers said that if iran breaks the deal the e.u. could impose sanctions european powers could be gambling on iran not want to risk more damage to their economy or lose strategic allies as the stakes are raised on all sides the future the twenty fifteen a court looks increasingly fragile. al-jazeera paris. president

trans says for the first time the u.s. sees the north korean cargo ship involved in illicit coal shipments in violation of american and u.n. sanctions this is south korea says pyongyang has fired what appear to be two short range missiles from the northwestern city of casals it's the second such test in less than a week south korea's military says the missiles were directed towards the east pride has more now from seoul south korean defense officials confirming that two projectiles were fired within half an hour of each other on thursday afternoon local time and assuming that these were short range missiles one of them travel just over four hundred kilometers the other just under three hundred kilometers landing in the sea separating the korean peninsula with japan it comes as the u.s. special representative on north korea stephen began is here in seoul meeting with

his counterpart looking at ways of trying to restart the dialogue between north korea and the united states this obviously makes that a lot harder the south korean government has said it's very concerned saying that this does nothing to help ease tensions on the korean peninsula and it comes of course five days after similar provocative firing of rockets and a missile off north korea's east coast taken together this does look as though it's a ratcheting up of the pressure and seems to indicate the growing frustration of north korea the way that negotiations between itself and the u.s. have stalled but as observers will point out if it continues with these tests then it risks derailing that process altogether. a suicide attacker is reported to have killed four people after detonating a bomb in a market in the southern city district of baghdad the bomber assault have detonated

his explosive belt while surrounded by security forces the district is predominantly populated by shia muslims and is the target of frequent sick taheri and sectarian attacks rob matheson sent us this update from but that news of this attack coming as a shock here in baghdad not least because we're only just a few days into the beginning of the holy month of ramadan security forces here in baghdad saying that several people have been killed after a man wearing an explosive belt detonated those explosives when he was surrounded by security forces in a wholesale market in these a million area of saddam city a sort of city to the northeast of baghdad and it was named after a prominent cleric muhammad sort of started after the fall of saddam hussein and it's become a center for the saddest movement which is now developing into a political party led by the prominent shia cleric. the son of muhammad sadat.

now we now know the eisel is claiming responsibility for this attack but it's also interesting to note that at the end of april i will back it all but daddy the leader of eisel is said to have appeared in a video for the first time in five years claiming revenge for the land lost by i saw in both syria and iraq. the head of the roman catholic church has issued a new law making it compulsory for all clergy to report cases of sexual abuse but francis issued the landmark to create which makes priests and nuns directly accountable for sexual abuse or covering it up they'll be required to report any abuse to their superiors for not necessarily to civilian authorities so they go reports. as head of the catholic church pope francis is a guide for one point two billion people.