but i also think that because it is and this is a really surprising south africans are going on with their business and waiting for that final declaration yes the african national congress has lost some support when five years ago it had about sixty two percent of the vote and it's now sitting at about fifty seven if we look back over the last ten years it was as high as seventy percent so this is a significant drop for the a.n.c. but for south africans for the a.n.c. itself this is expected given the allegations of corruption the factionalism within the party as well as the the changes in terms of the president of the a.n.c. are no thursday we did hear from the the person in charge of the election campaign of the a.n.c. . and he spoke about the change in presidency he spoke about jacob zuma being removed he actually resigned but that came from after a push from the a.n.c. being removed and then being replaced by sauron up was that he had said that not

happened the a.n.c. would have done even worse but i think what observers here are looking at is the performance of the opposition parties while the a.n.c. supported might have dropped opposition parties haven't done particularly. compared to previous years the economic freedom fighters who people have been watching the is an improvement there but the official opposition is rather static and i think this is really key around the south african elections that people have perhaps stayed home and not voted for the a.n.c. rather than shifted away from the ruling party from the miller thank you for that update from pretoria still ahead on al-jazeera opposition politicians run as well and seek sanctuary ostrow the arrest of a key figure in the movement to oust president nicolas maduro and the e.u. is accused of caving in to u.s. bullying after denouncing iran's plans to resume nuclear war.

we're snowed for hours in the european alps covering up the roads some which have been scraped only a few days ago when you don't expect much snow this time the end is certainly moved all night and this massive cloud now of course is giving re not snow is going to keep moving eastwards to give a disappointing day for germany through austrian down towards the black sea after it will move a bit the end is up to about twenty degrees but guess what's happening next that's quite spelman london fifteen degrees direct at sixteen but the next storm is already winding up and bring your northerly wind with it talking that in behind the temps will drop again so once more we're down to low teens windy and quite often wet weather for france germany dancers switzerland as well avoiding his fate in portugal won't stay on here and probably stay around the twenty mark from austria south was as well but the good part of europe is still what you might call

unsettled it's not extending into the mediterranean diet it's quite quiet here so there's not much of a breeze on shore temperatures up into the middle twenty's the quite high to this twenty i might appear as thirty you come saturday is holding out through morocco as well and throughout our g. area so it's i think you'd probably say properly summary care of the surprisingly is only thirty three. leverage years. of duction killings and announce it questions we don't know what happened so we can't. fault lines investigates why native american women vanishing into disproportionate numbers in the us the search. missing and murdered indigenous women. on al-jazeera are still searching.

look. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. has more than doubled terrorists on chinese goods us trade talks between the two sides head into the second day china's commerce minister says sober gretz washington's decision and val's to respond with similar countermeasures north korean state media has released pictures of the latest missile tests in the country's western region it's the second missile test in under a week the launches come over just two months after the summit annoyed between the north korean leader and the us president donald trump that ended in failure with

nearly eighty percent votes counted the a.n.c. is in the lead to win south africa's general election it's won about fifty seven percent of the ballots well ahead of the opposition democratic alliance. the vice president of venezuela's opposition controlled national assembly has been arrested by intelligence agents in caracas but since being taken into custody his family says he's nowhere to be found he's a top aide of opposite. who tried and failed to overthrow president nicolas maduro government last week so risible reports from caracas. so late summer and he's going to every public office he got access to try to locate her father ever got a somewhat i know the vice president of the opposition controlled national assembly at the time. we don't know where he is he was kidnapped by this government and taken illegally he's innocent they talk about treason he has been defending democracy in venezuela because the national assembly is the only democratic

institution left in venezuela. somebody i know was taken on wednesday night he did not want to leave his vehicle so intelligence officers used a tow truck to take him at this point nobody really knows where it ever got some but i know he's being held his lawyers that he's been detained in this prison it's known as the. it's where political opponents and students for example that participated in protests are being detained on rights groups say that prisoners here are tortured and abused by. the government controlled constituent assembly voted to strip of immunity to several opposition lawmakers somebody i know is one of them to arteries had to seek refuge at the tallinn embassy and another one is hiding at the argentine embassy. the government is accusing them of treason and rebellion but has provided no proof here. but it's not just lawmakers the

government is going after this is a video from april thirtieth and involved members of the volley varian national guard that the government believes sided with the opposition leader attempted insurrection. can be seen in the video he doesn't know where his son niece. i don't even know what he was doing there. told he was detained i know there is an investigation going on but i don't know where they have him or where he is. is demanding the government releases those detained he says the government is the one who is not respecting the rule of law in venezuela. the government wants to talk about a coup but the real coup is here but it's maddening of the rule of law and with the constant attacks against the only legitimate body in the national assembly. there is a crisis and they can show the people results that will empower their lives. human

rights groups say that with the current situation in the country it is difficult any of those detained will stand a fair trial i mean. we know there are reports of planned or stein detention centers they are not in regular prisons and prosecutors are not demanding that those imprisoned charge within forty eight hours of being detained people are being abandoned with nowhere to turn. and you know say there are almost eight hundred political prisoners in venezuela today prisoners whose future is uncertain so long as the institutions are controlled by the government. and just as european powers have denounced iran's threat to resume nuclear work drawing a sharp response from the iranian foreign minister mohammad javad zarif tweeted the e.u. statement today is why the way is where it is the u.s. has bullied europe and the rest of the world for a year and the e.u. can only express regrets instead of demanding that iran unilaterally abide by

a multilateral accord the e.u. should uphold obligations including the normalization off economic ties was there is tweet came after e.u. leaders rejected iran sixty they also made him to protect it from u.s. sanctions that's how so butler has more from paris. iran wasn't officially on the agenda at the e.u. summit in romania but following tehran's move on wednesday to says. when 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 forced us france's 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 investments

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 in israel 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. seeing this fail and potentially making war more possible defense ministers said that if iran breaks the deal the e.u. could impose sanctions european powers could be gambling only wrong will want to risk more damage to their economy or lose strategic allies as the stakes are raised on all sides the future twenty fifteen

a cool it looks increasingly fragile. paris at least four people have been killed and six injured in a suicide bombing in iraq's capital the bomber carried out the attack at a market in eastern baghdad the district is predominantly populated by muslims and is the target of frequent sectarian acts the cia has warned friends and colleagues of murdered journalists. that their potential targets of the saudi governments the report by time magazine says three people have been given security briefings in recent weeks they include activists living in norway. and canada a third person is in the united states but to be named security services warned they may be targeted for continuing calls for reform in the. hundreds of protesters have tried to stop the transfer of french weapons to saudi arabia the

demonstrations were organized by rights groups following an investigation that says french weapons have been used by saudis against civilians in yemen president so many one macaws under increasing pressure to review arms sales to the kingdom. the un security council has held an informal meeting on the continuing growth of illegal israeli settlements member states say that building on palestinian land is unlawful and violates un resolutions the palestinian foreign minister riad maliki says the current u.s. policies aren't helping the stalled peace process our diplomatic editor james bass has more from the united nations. the meeting was organized by indonesia the current president of the security council but because it was a controversial subject israeli settlements in the west this wasn't a formal meeting of the council instead an informal meeting to which all security council members were invited surprising then that the u.s. special representative jason green blatt one of the architects of the trump peace

plan due to be presented soon came here in person to the meeting he presented a case that was very supportive of israel. we hope to prevent our visions soon and in the meantime we will continue to speak the truth even when it is not welcome the truth is that israel just days ago came under a vicious cynical unprovoked attack that was intended to terrify kill and maim israelis the truth is that there has been no effort in the halls of the united nations to hold the terrorists who perpetrated that attack accountable also the meeting the palestinian foreign minister riyadh maleki he said the forthcoming plan looked to him more like a surrender plan for the palestinians at the end of the meeting i asked him whether he was any more upbeat about the forthcoming proposals having heard him again speak today mr foreign minister does it give you any hope for this quote absolutely not

i'm really disappointed with that to be know it does you know what to expect if at any time in the in the future they will they would release. a plan but you know it's very clear that you know it's. his thinking you know his his mind is set to be exclusively and the palestinian peace until logic as he left the meeting special representative green blatt was taking no questions from reporters he would give no more details about the timing of the release of the peace plan something that president trump has called the deal of the century other than to say it would come soon as really soldiers have killed hundreds of palestinians and left many more for life during more than a year of mass demonstrations of the israel gaza border fence holliston hands are demanding the right to return to the land they were forced out of but is not house

of a name reports from the gaza strip the ones who have lost limbs now have no hope. jaime's food you is what you might call a wounded veteran of the march of return protests in gaza on a friday last august he was shot in the left leg he came one of the growing number of protest amputees. i'm not disabled being disabled is a state of mind i believe if my mind is disabled i'm disabled but if i lose a part of my body i'm not disabled and i'm at the food you is one of twenty people who will soon be fitted for a state of the art prosthetic leg at the newly opened how mad hospital for rehabilitation and artificial limbs there are already forty people on the waiting list the executive director of the hospital says there are six thousand eight hundred amputees living in gaza since the march of return protests began last year

one hundred thirty six people mostly young men have lost their limbs. patients can now get free treatment at the qatari funded hospital it's the first public rehabilitation facility in the gaza strip. the aim is to provide more advanced prosthetics and treatment programs that are currently available but given the land sea and air blockade it posed by israel and egypt since two thousand and seven there are many obstacles to overcome the deficient and sometimes also bring it to two into gaza city because of for some but it's a cut on some security issues that's why it'll take time for the one hundred bed hospital to be fully operational. but who is hoping by the one year

anniversary of his amputation he'll have a second leg again. well. my life will change after i get a prosthetic leg and i can walk up and down the stairs to my fourth floor apartment drive a car ride a motorcycle and go outside without crutches. losing his leg hasn't deterred food from attending the protests each friday. he says all palestinians must make sacrifices in their fight for a return to the land they want called home and for a life better than the one they have now under siege natasha going to al-jazeera the gaza strip. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. has more than double tears on chinese goods as trade talks between the two countries head into

a second day china's commerce minister says it regrets washington's decision in val's to respond with similar countermeasures the top negotiator for china said it terrified doesn't serve the interests of either nation or. i've come here in good faith given the current particular circumstances i want to reasonably and frankly exchange opinions with the u.s. side but china believes given the current circumstances adding further tariffs is not a good way to solve any problems it's not favorable for china nor is it favorable for the us nor is it favorable for the world so our way out of this whole thing is a principled solution to realistic problems which finally points in the direction of the only result of cooperation with nearly eighty percent votes counted south africa's governing party is once again on course to win the general election but with the lowest share of votes since the end of apartheid twenty five years ago the main opposition democratic alliance party has almost a quarter of the vote official results are expected on saturday and the u.s.

says it sees the north korean cargo ship for violating international sanctions justice department officials say the ship one of north korea's largest was trying to transport coal it was detained in indonesia a year ago and is now being taken to american sammul. north korean state media has released pictures of the latest missile test the second in a week the launches come more than two months after the summit in hanoi between the north korean leader and us president donald trump ended in failure. venezuelan opposition politician has sought refuge in argentina's embassy in caracas richard blanco was one of several opposition figures stripped of their parliamentary immunity last week another was arrested on wednesday. the cia has warned friends and colleagues of murdered journalists. that their potential targets of the saudi government their report by time magazine says three people have been given security briefings in recent weeks those are the latest headlines on al-jazeera inside story

is coming up next they with us. the subject of more than hot dogs an investigation . of dog stone from ages some. one on one investigate how the nation's coffers grew up on al-jazeera. could trade talks between the u.s. and china collapse donald trump says beijing is breaking the deal while china and says it won't be pressured into making more concessions so who's winning the trade war this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm wrong attempts to end the u.s. china trade dispute that appeared to be making progress but just what

a deal was looking more likely a rift is opened up between the world's two biggest economies the u.s. says china is backtracking on promises such as protecting intellectual property and stopping unfair trade practices president donald trump is raising the tariff on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods from friday beijing is promising to retaliate and says it won't buy out to pressure to make any more concessions both sides are taking an aggressive stance as china's vice prime media heads to washington for the latest round of negotiations that broke that. 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 and we won't back down until china stops cheating 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 remember like we used to. let's hear from all correspondent a german brown in beijing. well this was supposed to be the week of popping champagne corks after ten months of often torturous negotiations eleven rounds of talks the united states and china were apparently going to finally sign a deal that would end those differences but on sunday night president donald trump detonated an art of the deal grenade just as he did over north korea he seemed to be saying that the chinese side had now begun to drag their feet they were playing for time the talks he said were going to slowly his trade representative robert light hisor went a step further a few days later he said the chinese side had now essentially written aid gone back on just about everything they had agreed to in those previous negotiations with the

united states now the question is if china has started to backtrack and to backtrack in such a significant way then why well analysts say this is almost certainly down to intervention by president xi jinping who may well feel that his negotiators have been conceding too much giving too much away and this is a year remember when china's president china's leader has to look strong stronger than usual because on october the first china will mark the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china not a year then when a chinese leader can fall to appear weak so president xi jinping once a deal but he doesn't want to deal at any cost so what happens now i think here in beijing among you know most experts analysts you talk to there is a a grim realisation i think that these terrorists these new terrorists are going to

happen and that chinese negotiators have precious little time to avoid that happening these negotiations after all and on for. now it is of course possible that there will be a surprise breakthrough but most you know analysts i've spoken to say they feel that you know there possibly is going to be a deal eventual e not just now. the question is the key thing is will the two sides continue negotiating if they do i think that'll be enough to stabilize stock markets here in china which have suffered their biggest full incidentally in more than three years big falls as well of course in hong kong but if there is a rupture then of course you know we're going to see market volatility for days if not weeks to her car in the meantime china is saying that it's promising

countermeasures against any new sanctions without specifying what they are but it's fair to assume that china has anough in its arsenal to made life very difficult for us corporations here in china if it wants to adrian brown for inside story while campaigning for president donald trump accused china of stealing u.s. jobs he ordered a review of the u.s. trade deficit and its main causes once he entered the white house in march last year trump imposed the first round of tariffs directly targeting chinese products china soon retaliated by july both countries were imposing more than three hundred sixty billion dollars of levies on each other in december the chinese and the us president agreed to hold new tariffs and begin talks but before any agreement could be reached trump renewed his accusations and threats of new tariffs.

joining us are our guests in beijing dan one analyst at the economist intelligence unit access china's service on skype from taipei russ feingold and asia political risk analyst attorney. and republican political consultant and also in beijing i know a tongue in a china political risk i know this who is advised the chinese government on economic and development issues i'd like to begin in beijing with. china and the us have had a fruitful relationship for the last thirty years ever since china shall we say pivoted away from communism and became a global economy the deal seems to have worked however soon as donald trump takes power they seems to be an issue can you just explain to us what's at the heart of all of this. i think it is a combined a result of a shift in power and the interpretation of it because in the past forty years china is probably the largest the largest beneficiary from the current trading system has

benefited more than a us with a double digit economic growth almost every year so now and live to the millions out of poverty and it's becoming the second largest economy in the world but always look at it on the u.s. economy is doing ok not nearly as impressive as china does and again quality has become a major issue in the u.s. and the politics is very divided so facing the especially after president xi jinping has took office the relationship between us and china has really changed we saw that the u.s. labeled china as a revisionist and then as a competitor so from their original follower of the us china started to arise as this major producer a manufacturer in the world and now it seems that a within ten years it's probably going to become the largest economy in the world all competing with the u.s. even the most advanced technology and this is something that i don't think the us

are are ready to accept yet let's bring in russ feingold in taipei. telling is about to become the biggest economy in the world that's just fact competition isn't it as well that it's not china's fault that the us has an issue with that so why pick a fight well you've mentioned to keep words and that's fair competition so what's changed recently or in the time that president has been in office since the beginning of two thousand and seventeen is a consensus in the united states across industry and frankly across both republicans and democrats in in government that china is government and its companies don't always follow the rules of the global trading system and that's where there is actually a lot of support in the united states for some of the policies that president trump has implemented president trump is been very clear that he wants a trading relationship and he wants u.s. companies to export to china if he wants u.s. companies to do business in china but there has to be some observance of reasonable rules and laws and we see

a pattern of chinese companies involved in intellectual property subsidies from the chinese government which really results in an unfair playing field and that's what president trump's policies are seeking to address let's bring in. in beijing also. the u.s. seems to be suggesting that china is cheating that it's not playing fairly. well those are nice talk points but you'll notice that our my colleague hasn't brought forth any particular evidence to that fact the issue is that since donald trump came forward and became president he has been largely involved in a what he does best which is trying to shade the reality of what is happening china has been rising for quite some time if you look at what the u.s. has been able to win at the w t o we're talking in excess of three quarters of the

time if there are real cases out there where where are they and where have they been lost where has china been stealing there's this narrative that goes on constantly and that seems to be on challenge that china has been doing all these nefarious things yet there isn't a scintilla of proof the instances where you had intellectual theft have been very simple to explain individuals have been stealing things in order to make profits for themselves i know that's a stark revelation but you know it happens everywhere. reality is less or no they seem to vidual actors these are often people acting at the urging of the companies that they work for or in some cases government agencies and the number of prosecutions that have occurred in the united states not just recently but this is an ongoing problem going back before the trump administration even if the tribe the ministration is is more aggressive about bringing prosecutions but to say that there is no evidence of intellectual property that they're being the fact show

otherwise and similarly an important issue for us companies in the u.s. government in huge trade talks is what's often called forced technology transfer now the reality is is that american companies in the technology space to do business in china are often have no choice but to work with a chinese partner and again this is something that the u.s. government is trying to address but to say that there's no evidence that the playing field is in level or that there isn't cheating going on by the chinese corporate world or the government and the factions don't show that they show otherwise can you give us an example ross of what you're talking about a concrete example well that if there are be besides the number of prosecutions which are well documented it is an ongoing problem but there are rules in china that require a foreign partner to have a chinese partner or the american company or european companies or other nationalities they cannot do certain types of business on their own with china in

china they're required to have a chinese company as a partner so their option is take on a partner or they're unable to enter the market and certainly from an american or european perspective this is not a level playing field and it is really meant to ensure the chinese companies have the upper hand and that they can acquire technology from foreign companies done. in beijing i want to bring you in the head like a lot of pain if i may. let me see let me also corset let me bring in diane i was just going to add a small point. let me bring in here from beijing done you've heard what the other two guests have had to say a lot of this seems to be about technology technology transfer and what the americans are calling technology fixed china is about to move up in sectors it's about to move into the tech world and that seems to be what's driving this is china

stealing technology. well. i'm in no intention to defend a lot of practice is the chinese government does it does give unfair comparative advantage to a lot of state owned enterprises but in terms of stealing technology i think there are different interpretation of it because if we're talking about protecting the domestic industry this is an industrial policy and many countries have adopted in their earlier stage of development so we're talking about development policies here you can just open up the market say like the south african one nine hundred eighty s. because before your you have industrial base opening up the market to foreign investors there's bluntly will cause a very devastating results because then you will pretty much lose all your industrial adventure advantage that you could have had because those domestic industry needs some time to grow and for those foreign competitors for investors i

think it's fair to say that they use technology in exchange to in exchange to get access into the chinese market and it is fair play i know in beijing interesting point that you protect markets in the infancy you develop them but this chinese market isn't in its infancy this is we're talking forty years on now so maybe it's time to have a level playing field will maybe it's time to do a new deal with the us. well i don't know if a new deal with the u.s. on the current terms is in the cards but yes i would agree that china for its own benefit needs to open up and they're doing that exactly i mean the belton road initiative is not contrary to public opinion u.s. international media opinion something that's the fairest aimed at trying to subvert countries into a debt trap it's simply the only current economic plan to increase basically what

would be w t t o two point zero and that means physical connectivity in addition to the idea that you have these trade alignments so you know i noticed my colleague did not was not able mr fine go was not able to point to any specific advantages talking about numerous prosecutions. this is the narrative that china is facing i mean whether you agree or not with this idea that china has is a developing country that is trying to protect its interests reason grow much as the u.s. was back in the late eighteenth hundreds when it was battling europe as a new entry into the economic sphere and used to routinely dismantle. looms in great britain and then ship them overnight to the us in order to break the monopolies that the british had especially on woven goods these are things that

happen in the comics but china all right and i'd like to hear from mr fine gold on this has been observant of the w t o this idea that china has been a you know a routine lawless entity and roaming the world and doing not a bang any laws is nonsense every time they have been ruled against at the w t o they have complied and that is more than the u.s. can claim russ feingold your response. well we have to be careful about mixing different issues a dispute over the built in road initiative and whether or not it's nefarious or creates a debt trap for the countries that participate it is also very much a political question or international security question that's not really what's on the table in discussions about market access in china or protection of intellectual property but to get on the intellectual property issue the number of prosecutions the ongoing ones some of which are very high profile including the the one that

gets a lot of media attention so she swallow it she's accused of stealing intellectual property you know it's so good to say that there's no evidence of an attic that's not accurate but you had to say the china complies with the rules in some situations again that that is not the heart of the dispute or what the united states or europe are trying it in their negotiations and if they're trying to address market access issues i want to bring you in the head again a guest in beijing are not saying and said that yes it is probably time for a new deal to be made but this one that the u.s. is currently offering all that the u.s. and china are currently trying to negotiate isn't the right deal what do you think is the right deal. because this is true the war or trade tension was started by the us if we think about what happened two years ago it was where they threw away must occasion and that was in terms of calling china

a thief. for intellectual property and its lack of production of ip and to be fair over the past to one year we have seen china strengthening its ip protection and also widen its market access so now it looks like the new deal with that the us very much one wants to achieve is for china to do more industrial policy change and this is something that actually exactly the thing that china cannot budge because we all know that the u.s. want china to do to go with the market economy this line and then to become more democratic over over time but for china it is a very different political system and has a very different social climate from the us so by just a simpler introducing those market based or rules doesn't the really guarantee us the first past the market economy that the u.s. has been drawing so i thing for china to defend its baseline of protecting its

domestic industry there's a lot of justification justification to that but in terms of opening more of a domestic market i do think more outside pressure is good for china because from trump's tweet if it's accurate it is actually a reflection of the lack of consensus on the china's top leadership over how much to compromise and what aspect of china should compromise and opening up what what area and how much of the domestic market is the sticking point and i think the more china opens in a faster it does it actually is more beneficial to his future economy russ feingold in taipei this is something that i hate quite a lot and i've been speaking to people about this there is a deal to be done with china. but this isn't one because this is simply fall too aggressive and it's too much for the time for the chinese to actually do and the time frame the you would like to give them all you being too aggressive is your

administration there's this trumpet ministration being so aggressive well the two sides have been talking for over two years so it's certainly likely are that they want to deal president trump wants a deal yes domestic constituencies that very much want him to reach a deal most notably the agriculture x. borders but if they ask for too much then obviously the chinese side is going to walk away one thing we've learned over the last few years is that the governments and specifically the two leaders they seem to be have a certain risk appetite and i think as analysts are the public we often underestimate their risk tolerance for prolonging this dispute until they get the deal that they want. what happens if china walks away from any hope for the u.s. what happens then. well first off china isn't walking away they're the ones who have gone to washington with one hundred man team in order to try to figure this thing out and that is after

a very aggressive move by donald trump now let's look at this step back a second i mean this is the second time that we've seen donald trump throw something on the table he did it in with young kim and say you know give me everything and then saying oh we broke the deal because he didn't give me everything i mean this is a very standard practice for him now let's step back even further here you have the the most powerful political economic and military nation on earth a nation who has enjoyed part of you know the sixty six percent of the entire world profits over the last thirty years but yet over the last fifteen years. you know the population the middle class population has actually declined ninety percent of the united states is experience minus point four percent drop in real income now they're coming out donald trump leading the charge saying somehow we've been a victim that's we've been taken advantage of well and they're blaming the people

the eighty six percent of the rest of the world who received one third of the world's profits over this period of time yet whose middle classes boomed and saying that somehow they are at fault the issue here is the inequality in the inability of western nations europe and america to distribute their income in a way which benefits society and so you have a lot of anger but it's misplaced anger and you have populists like donald trump who are trying to aim that at the rising nations like china ross i want to bring you in half and type a we all running out of time so but i do want to bring you in very quickly is this don't trump distracting from domestic issues as a guest in beijing seems to be saying. well the president. has been very good at controlling the narrative when it comes to trade disputes and frankly he's

been very good at isolating it from other domestic issues obviously the miller investigation has just concluded there's still a lot of action by democrats in that regard but democrats actually are very supportive of first person who trumps trade policy so you know it's not a situation where he's trying to distract and this is something that american companies in beijing i want to ask you are you confident that ideal can be done between these two very powerful economic countries. i'll be very surprised if there is no deal even if it's a very limited d.-o. it will be good for both sides and these to before the coming alexion that's something that donald trump can tell his voters it's because if you work out a magic and for china's side if there is no deal in the short term as economic performance will be suffered by a lot mainly through the lack of confidence in consumption any investment and also for twenty one thing it's a cheapie growth probably will slow down

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leader oversees the latest missile tests south korea says it's a message to donald trump south africa's ruling a.n.c. loses some support but retains its lead will be live in pretoria with the latest general election results and looks for a five star review from investors and it's partly anticipates old chair in the state. hello the us has more than doubled tariffs on chinese goods us trade talks between the two sides head into the second day duties on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports have increased from ten to twenty five percent china's commerce ministry says it regrets washington's decision and val's to respond with similar countermeasures chinese vice premier lou he and u.s. treasury secretary steven chu chad will meet again on friday adrian brown has the latest from beijing. well in the days leading up to this eleventh round of

negotiations between representatives from china and the united states beijing has repeatedly warned that it's not prepared to offer concessions in the face of threats from the united states that. it said president trump has now said he's received what he calls a beautiful letter from president xi jinping president xi jinping knows what sort of leavers to pull with president from a times like this and this was a letter it seems full of a moly and soothing language so it seems that the the mood is perhaps changing that said china is very nervous this hike in tariffs comes at a time when china's economy is continuing to slow and this is a very important year for china's leaders because in october they will mark the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china not a time when chinese leaders can appear to be weak now china has said it's prepared to respond with countermeasures to this increase in tariffs what they are hasn't so

far been specified but china could certainly make the business environment here in china very difficult for american corporations it could also stop exporting key components and equipment that u.s. companies need for their businesses but for the moment we have to wait and see where china will take this dispute. well the new twenty five percent tariff applies to a wide range of products from chemicals and processed food to electronics that fall under five thousand seven hundred categories but those that left the poor before the deadline will still be subject to the original ten percent duty and the i.t. industry took the biggest hits war than twenty billion dollars worth of internet modems and routers and twelve billion dollars worth of printed circuit boards will become more expensive furniture lighting products also parts vacuum cleaners and building materials are also high on the list of imports subject to higher duties

let's bring in dong he's a senior research fellow at the china institute for international studies he's joining us live from beijing thanks for speaking to us on. china vowing to take countermeasures in retaliation what might those countermeasures be because they are unspecified at this point. and you know when the. imposed sanctions higher terror of sound chinese exports to the united states china to counter measures against the u.s. and i guess that china may resume its. higher tariffs are u.s. products or products which come for a larger part of the u.s. trade with china and a lot of u.s.

farmers a church depend on china to market and also chinese and the chinese side may take measures against imports from the united states in terms of its automobile parts so i would say lacerates do you think china. boy in china does trying to have. enough leverage at this point or is big leverage as the united states has because the u.s. has imposed two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of tariffs on china in return china as opposed to one hundred ten billion dollars. yes of course we know all know that the chinese export to the us is a much bigger than us exports to china in terms of sheer trade volume and china of course cannot. match each of the us a higher tariff against chinese. goods hiver china is china is

a huge market for us for united states not only in terms of goods but also goods and export of technology so also china has a growing market for us that is huge. leverage and saw a lot of the u.s. business actually very much are concerned with a looming to resume trade war a major trade war between the two sides certainly china doesn't want to see that but however china will not allow the united states to dictate its economic policy however here every day for example is opening a wider how will this terrified by the u.s. and the threats of countermeasures by china impact negotiations going on does this mean now that a potential for a deal between the two countries has gone down significantly.

well no challenge doesn't want to see higher tariffs imposed by either side on the other side and because they trade or sell liver oil. harm both sides but china is still serious about a negotiated settlement of the disputes between the two sides high over china will countermeasures against the u.s. . to impose. china so you know hope that the u.s. side. liners you near traumatization get take and a reasonable stance and really sit down serious lay and talk with the chinese side or without a resume in this you know a bad marriage and trade war all right we thank you very much for speaking to us from beijing japan is accusing north korea of violating u.n. resolutions following a missile test on thursday north korean state media released pictures of at least

one missile being launched the u.s. says multiple ballistic rockets were also fired it's the second missile test in under a week and the launches come as tensions between the u.s. and north korea rise following a failed summit between leaders of the south korean president when dion says the weapons tests are north korea's way of sending a message to the u.s. . quote of trumbull hungry north korea seem to be considerably discontented it could not reach a deal at the second north korea u.s. summit in a noisy north korea fired missiles do not directly threaten the united states japan or south korea so they appear to be careful not to break down the dialogue but the express their opinion at the same time right mcbride has more from sort. senior south korean defense officials have been briefing lawmakers in the national assembly on thursday's weapons test and it coincides with the release by north korean state run media of images of what it calls

a strike drill of various weapons being used by a number of different units overseen by leader kim jong un now south korea's military says that in addition to what's assumed to be the two short range missiles being fired in one direction and also being fired but this time in a westwood direction towards the sea on that side of the korean peninsula were a number of multiple rocket launchers and also self propelled guns so a serious show of force by north koreans military and it comes just five days after a similar weapons test which was carried out on saturday on north korea's east coast are now coming together this is taken as a very serious provocation but south korea seeming to do all they can not to be provoked almost downplaying the significance and the seriousness of these latest developments and it comes big on who is the u.s. special representative on north korean affairs is here in south korea talking to

his counterparts about what comes next and about ways of moving forward one possibility is humanitarian assistance agreeing to send food aid to the north so while we have these increasing military tensions there is also the possibility of further conciliatory gestures with the whole future of negotiations very much hanging in the balance with nearly all votes counted south africa's governing a.n.c. party is once again on course to win the general election but with the lowest share of votes since the end of apartheid twenty five years ago the main opposition democratic alliance has almost a quarter of the votes an official results are expected on saturday from either miller's joining us from pretoria and we don't have official results yet but we're getting an indication of how that election is shaping up and support for the a.n.c. is falling. the support for the sea

certainly is falling they're sitting at about fifty seven percent now and i think you for the a.n.c. is that sixty percent mark which would allow it to a parliamentary majority and that's been the aim for the party for many years now but fifteen years ago the a.n.c. hits about seventy percent and the that's dropped significantly far behind though are the opposition parties the the democratic alliance is that about twenty one percent while the most recently formed economic freedom fighters and and members and leadership of their party coming from the a.n.c. you once upon a time have now gained about ten percent of the vote which is significant for that opposition party in particular but this really is concerning for the a.n.c. is the party stays in power but this is a party that's had a new president in place for about sixteen months now after jacob zuma resigned and so the showing for the a.n.c. would be very important for still room of course of the president at the moment who

would want a solid mandate from south africans for his party but also form with in his party that has been riddled by factionalism he would certainly want to have the party's full backing we do expect. to visit this election center during the next couple of hours where he's expected to have a look at some of the final results coming in during we'll speak to you then from you don't really learn with an update from pretoria thank you still ahead on al jazeera world patrol with security forces a nigeria where many live in fear of killing and kidnapping and why a founder of facebook says it needs to be broken up.