every. in fact both sides will pay both sides will take and these things. one of donald trump's top economic advisers admits americans will also pay the price for u.s. tire of some china. slowing down jordan this is out there on live from also coming up calling their bluff an iranian military commander accuses the u.s. of playing psychological warfare. why syrians living in the world's largest cluster of displaced people are facing yet another crisis. and cracking down on colombia's cartels we look at how the fight to eradicate hotelling trafficking is an uphill

battle. one of president trump's top economic advisors is meant to that american businesses will suffer from tire of some chinese goods now he could lose comments contradict trump's claim that it will only be china that pays the u.s. placed a $200000000000.00 tariff on chinese imports on friday that amounts to a 25 percent tax on goods it coincided with a failure by both sides to reach a deal in the latest round of trade talks in washington both sides will take and these things and of course it wouldn't be such a tariff on goods coming into the country the chinese are paying no but the chinese will suffer g.d.p. losses and so forth with respect to a diminishing export market and goods to day may need for their own eyes this transition because the president says china doesn't china it pays the terrace they may suffer consequences but it's the u.s. businesses and u.s.

consumers who pay correct and yes to some extent and you know i don't disagree with that again both sides both sides will suffer on this. meanwhile trump percents restated his claim that it will be the u.s. that benefits from the new import tax a few hours ago he tweeted we are right where we want to be with china remember they broke the deal with us and try to renegotiate we'll be taking in tens of billions of dollars in tiresome china by as a products can make it themselves in the usa or buy it from non terrorist countries or rows of jordan joins us live now from washington d.c. so ross there was also a stern warning to the u.s. from beijing not to underestimate china in this trade war so what's pushed china to make this warning now. well basically it is a message to the u.s. president donald trump that to complain at this being really tough game and while the note in an official newspaper did not indicate that china is getting ready

to issue its own tariffs on u.s. products that would be intended for the chinese market pretty much every economist who is watching the situation says that would be a likely step for the chinese government to do so really to send a message that it is not there to simply give washington everything it wants in this negotiation over a new trade agreement certainly this is the kind of situation where as we heard from larry kudlow he is intice a painting that such a retaliatory move would happen but is that going to actually up in the process of negotiating deal that's the real question as i say the white house economic adviser larry kudlow says he expects china to retaliate after trying more than double those tariffs so where are the trade talks now what's what's next. well khaled did indicate during that interview that the chinese have issued an invitation to

both the treasury secretary steve and to robert light hisor who is the u.s. trade representative to come to beijing for another round of negotiations when that's going to exactly happen kudlow said he does not know but he did say that there are talks under way in order to get this next round of negotiations on its way but in the meantime there is a real concern that the tariffs that have been imposed in the last 3 days by the u.s. government may end up being permanent and not be rolled back as donald trump has indicated that he would consider doing if there is a trade deal actually reached with the chinese and so this idea of using tariffs as a form of leverage or a way to control the other side to was perhaps give up more at the bargaining table could end up being a permanent factor in u.s. economic life and that is something that could raise all sorts of issues

particularly for u.s. consumers down the road rose thank you. the commander of the ron's elite military unit the revolutionary guards is the u.s. does not have the ability to wage a war against his country it also described the deployment of extra u.s. warships and fighter aircraft in the region as psychological warfare the pentagon says a reign of aggression is reason why it did so increased u.s. military presence was discussed in the iranian parliament on sunday president hassan rouhani urged unity in the face of pressure he calls unprecedented same bus route he has more from tehran. while it is a matter of routine for the new head of the islamic revolutionary guard corps to address iranian members of parliament and answer their questions major general hussein salamis turn comes at a time of heightened tensions with the united states the new i.r. g c chief assured m.p.'s that a war with the united states is unlikely because americans know the closer their military hardware comes to iranian territory the more vulnerable it becomes to

iranian defenses and iranian firepower the head of the air force was also present and reinforced his boss's comments saying warplanes and warships that represented a threat in the past have since become an opportunity and potential targets since moving closer to iran shores following the briefing a senior m.p. and the head of parliament's national security and foreign policy commission said iran can hit targets up to 2000 kilometers away and estimated that american ships are at most 500 kilometers away that might put them somewhere in the arabian sea or perhaps in the gulf of oman so the message this day is that iranian forces are watching and waiting and are ready to respond to any perceived threats from u.s. forces at their doorstep. the us president donald trump's tightening sanctions on iran a miniature deployments to the gulf are being criticized by former defense secretary robert gates said washington and tehran need to return to the negotiating table. i

think that. there's a conflict between the united states and iran would have tremendous unforseen consequences in the middle east i think would be very dangerous so i think that the that the strategy needs to be how in fact do you get the iranians back to the negotiating table and understanding that the agree that whatever agreement emerges has to be broader and has to deal with some of these other issues the united arab emirates has confirmed an attack on 4 cargo ships off its eastern coast the government says the commercial ships were in its would subject to sabotage early on sunday it happened close to the port of pajama happen reports of explosions on 7 ships in the port on sunday morning which officials denied of the time authorities say nobody died of the gulf cooperation council issued a statement condemning the attack georgia fan was a fellow with gulf state analytics he says the incident raises the stakes in an already tense region. as the white house is intensifying its so-called

a maximum pressure campaign on the islamic republic officials in tehran are also considering what options they have to put pressure on iran as adversaries for a long time people have speculated about as soon ario whereby eat running as close the strait of hormuz located right next to this incident and this is certainly something that raises the stakes for all players internationally given how much oil transits this artery separating the arabian peninsula from iran but i think there's no doubt that you're going to see. many voices not only in sort of media but also in social media trying to spin this episode to further their own narratives in their own interests during this very sensitive period of time more than a dozen you anything to aid groups have suspended their operations in syria's rebel control in the province several hospitals and buildings. longing to aid agencies of

colombia talk in recent days more than a 1000000 displaced people are believed to be sheltering in the last major opposition stronghold the u.n. says since late april a syrian government offensive in the area has forced a 180000 people from their homes but david swanson's the un regional spokesman on the syrian crisis he says the government offensive in the north has put severe strain on hospitals and schools that are providing critical aid and shelter. we've had since april 28th more than 180000 people becoming newly displaced and on top of that we've had since april 28th we've had 18 hospitals that have come under attack and that are remain out of service so the situation on the ground is particularly dire so providing assistance in the context of that is going to prove credibly difficult challenge for all of us in the humanitarian community while cross border operations from turkey will continue which is credibly important for the people in

the area sadly 16 n.g.o.s have suspended their operations in the area which will of course have a knock on effect impacting tens of thousands of people in the area well i think it's pretty interesting i mean included cell we currently have a population of about 3000000 people this is against a pre-war population of approximately one and a half 1000000 people now all of the 3000000 people living in this area approximately 1200000 people are displaced and this is an area approximately double the size of luxembourg but 5 times the population so it's a particularly densely populated area which puts and increases and hansen's the levels of vulnerability for these residents even more so. the united nations says it will draw of yemen's who the rebels with 3 major ports is going according to plan but the yemeni government says the pullout is just a ploy it accuses the who these of handing over control to their allies the redeployment of fighters as part of

a un brokered deal and is expected to continue over the next few days more blood money reports. heavily armed and defiant pleased with the fighters and leaving the vizsla important port of high data under a u.n. mediates agreement they have 4 days to leave 3 ports data salif and russia. and the u.n. says the deal is going to plan but he say they're moving under a unilateral u.n. agreement so coalition forces led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates should also move. the agreement in sweden actually stipulates that all forces must be withdrawn from her data completely we have withdrawn our forces from the 3 ports it's a partial withdrawal and of course will continue with hearing and implementing the swedish agreement in full will withdraw our ports from the red sea by one kilometer and this will continue. some government ministers have accused the hoodies of

faking a pullout and handing the port to some its own fighters but in a tweet government negotiators subject a wait noised it was implementing the stockholm agreement he wants clear time frames for the un to inspect ships clear mines and remove military installations. plans for the who the fighters to withdraw were brokered by a un led committee under the stockholm agreement a pakistan placed between rival combatants last december. but after 2 similar agreements failed the ceasefire deal was fragile sporadic fighting studios even in and around have data. fighting between rival factions has caused the world's worst humanitarian crisis with more than 2 thirds of the 28000000 population in need of 8 the u.n. will assess on tuesday whether the 1st redeployment is

a success but it's taken 5 months to kick start the whole data deal and with the fighting continuing across yemen there's no clear plan on how the country will and the 4 year war. nor about him on the out is there a. time for a short break here in al-jazeera when we come back as indians vote in one of the most onerous elections ever we find out why prime minister narendra modi is being called india's divided in chief. journalists and saddam hussein they have never felt more free to their jobs in a long time and that status. hello again welcome back to international weather forecasts were here across china we are seeing quite a bit of rain particularly up here towards the central part of the country down

towards the south is going to remain quite warm we're talking about temperatures into the low thirty's but there is the rain right there across much of the central areas we're talking about temperatures and the rain keeping into the low twenty's in some locations shanghai at about 25 but it's going to be quite nice for shanghai as we go towards tuesday because the wind's going to be coming out of the north it's going to stay about $23.00 and plenty of. sun in the forecast there also plenty of sun over here towards for show you're going to go time to though about $32.00 degrees well as we make our way down here towards the south there is a lot of thunderstorms to speak of across vietnam cambodia laos as well those thunderstorms are acting up in the heat of the day as well and bring some heavy rain across much of that area we do expect to see bangkok temperatures coming down you were into the mid thirty's coming down to about $33.00 degrees there with a lot of rain still in the forecast as we go towards tuesday maybe tapering off but for the central parts of indonesia things are looking a little bit better live a drier across much of the area so for bali we're looking at plenty of sun and then very quickly across parts of northern india we are seeing some showers pushing

through into new delhi we do expect to see a shower or 2 in clouds with a temperature of about 38 degrees. the weather sponsored by countdown a. 0 world goals and an incredible journey to 1st hand accounts and extraordinary archive footage to the cities of palestine as they were before $948.00 and the impact the creation of israel had to. witness the vibrant commercial and cultural lines of now and paint a close and the heritage that many of today's palestinians have never. lost cities of palestine.

welcome back i'm out of the top stories here this hour one of president from stop economic adviser says that u.s. businesses will suffer from tires on chinese goods could lose comments contradict trump's claim that it will only be china that pays us up to $200000000000.00 tariff on chinese imports on friday. the commander of iran's revolutionary guard says the u.s. doesn't have the ability to wage war against his country he described the deployment of extra u.s. warships and aircraft in the middle east as psychological warfare the pentagon says it's in response to a rainy and russian. and more than a dozen u.n. linked aid groups have suspended their operations in syria's rebel controlled it lived province several hospitals and buildings belong to aid agencies have come under attack by government forces and their russian allies in recent days. there's been violence and they put ultimate phase of the 6 week long parliamentary

elections in india a caliber to the ruling party the b j p was targeted in the opposition ruled state of west bengal almost 60 seats are up for grabs on sunday including those in the capital new delhi more than 100000000 people across 7 states were eligible to vote the 1st round of voting on may the 19th and counting will take place on the 23rd. well one of the candidates running on sundays a self-styled ultra nationalist hindu she's got a ticket from the b j p but what makes progress campaign unusual is that she's facing terrorism charges stop the reports from both. is a 1st time candidate running for parliament in the central indian city of bhopal. under the ruling. party or b j p banner she the party the prime minister and then there are modi have centered their campaigns on hindu nationalism. but also has passed last year terrorism charges laid against her as a suspect in the $2008.00 mosque bombing that killed 6 people she's out on bail due

to poor health. visiting a hindu temple for a cleansing ceremony she adamantly maintains her innocence in the case and points to the opposition although there are many from the opposition congress party out on bail and also fighting the elections these people want to break the country but i am 100 percent innocent. on these attorney explains it's illegal for her to run as she is not yet convicted but it brings into question the decision by the b j p to field a candidate facing terrorism charge. but little if it's proved that she is implicated by the court and gets a prison term then she would never be able to run for elections and. it's not just the b j p that's pushing hindu nationalism in bhopal albeit a softer version the congress party candidate has also been promoting hindu ideology in this community with

a 20 percent muslim voter base 35 years ago one of the worst industrial accident in history happened here in the union carbide ghastly thousands were killed and now more than a 3rd of 2000000 residents are still affected and some who work with victim support groups feel that the ruling party due to its nationalist agenda are ignoring them and other minorities. even though abdul-jabbar is health is failing he still runs an organization that trains women impacted from the ghastly. get out but it's creating a toxic atmosphere and the hate speech is just like that the $94.00 poisonous gas leak in bhopal. i hate speech that destroying the mix between hindus and muslims it's creating that engine of creating hate. so when the people of bhopal cast their ballots they are not only choosing their next leaders they could also be deciding whether their community will become more divided it's got harder al-jazeera bhopal

india. filipinas of the gun voting in the mid-term elections seen as a test of rodriguez to test his presidency more than $18000.00 posts are up for grabs including half of the senate wins for candidates allied to detect it will make it easier for the president to push through his policies his critics say he's using violence and intimidation to influence voters. with the way his prime minister has been knocked out of the presidential race of analysts conceded defeat a few hours after the polls closed a runoff vote will be held on the 26th of may an economist who's promising to build a welfare state will be up against a conservative former finance minister a month that you had $6.00 earthquake has struck panama and its border with costa rica the epicenter was 50 kilometers northwest of panama is coastal city of devon there are parts of several damaged homes and businesses at least one person has been injured so far there are no reports of fatalities. now for some villages along myanmar's border with tyler the promise of

a new road is an opportunity but others see it as a threat to life as they know it's al-jazeera as mama june has more now on how a chinese construction project is threatening a fragile peace and when miles curran's faced. when a road was built through his property to transport crushed rock from a nearby quarry sounding in few decided to take action. because. the vibration of the mine explosion is very strong and the neighbor houses and wells cracked with the series 5 gratian from the explosions these houses are a few yards away from the quarry whatever the situation is they didn't come and see the damage to grow all that to follow all the way. to save his crops he's attempted to break up the road on his land and is now being sued by the contractor. the quarry began operating in 2070 and people here say their landscape is now being chipped away at a rapidly increasing rate. the area is under a fragile ceasefire agreement between warring ethnic groups and government forces

after decades of conflict while some people were compensated for damage to their properties by the road construction most were not which is added to preexisting tensions between villagers. most cory's on the mountain are small and locally operated but the much larger chinese quarry was never assessed for social or environmental impact. the asian development bank suspended funding for the project and has stopped which has left some without work. what i would like to demand now is to restart the mining process we've been praying for this and people work in mining their livelihood is in good condition but now they're facing challenges everyone is in a difficult situation. numerous attempts to contact the china road and bridge corp were unsuccessful civil society groups say the chinese state owned company has been doling out excuses instead of compensation. they chose to

disobey laws that are already in place with the c.r.b. c came to construct a road they didn't respect the rights of the local population. while smaller quarries continue to supply road builders observers say large scale projects in korean state should wait until a final peace agreement is reached between the government and the region's armed ethnic groups until then a project meant to unite is instead sowing seeds of division. and disease. now colombia is infamous for its cocaine cartels and the latest estimates from the united nations suggest something more than narcotic than ever before us despite the army specifically targeting coca farmers and destroying hundreds of the bar trees hidden in the jungle. to reports on how the end of the war against fox rebels is feeling the supply of the drug worldwide for from the sky the coca fields that scarred this once virgin jungle. tell

a story of failure the inability of the country's government to control the cultivation of coca plants remaining greedy and for cocaine. according to united nations. and it's we're dealing with the 171 had to there's more than 1000 metric tons of possible cocaine our president ordered a frontal assault against drug traffickers. producing more cocaine than ever before as a new criminal groups fight over territory under the control of gravels who signed a peace deal with the government in 2016 i the conservative government. years elections calling the drug traffickers an extension trade and promising an iron hand. but it wasn't enough to avoid the ire of the united states president whose blame to colombia the u.s. is best ally in the region for flooding his country with drugs and i'll tell you something colombia you have your new president of colombia a really good guy. had about the white house he said how he's going to stop drugs

more drugs are coming out of colombia right now than before he was president so he has done nothing for. response colombia launched one of the largest. operation in recent years going after poor farmers making a living cultivating the coca plant as well as the drug traffickers selling the cocaine. since the beginning of the year the colombian troy $8000.00 of these smaller bora tori's farmers use to process the coca leaf and. the larger ones to produce the final product cocaine that it's then sold on the streets of cities across the world. but most experts say the increase in drug production is being driven by a number of global factors from the rise of the u.s. dollar to an increase in demand. the previous government created an integral

ambitious plan for crop substitution but this government already said it will not find any more so an effort that lasted only one year only a comprehensive solution can make a difference in. regions get roads. infrastructure access to markets for illegal crops people in there will have no alternative but to grow coca survive military strength made bring results in the short term and help placate the united states but if history is any guide this excess may be short lived at least a little. fun as well as opposition leaders seeking the support of the u.s. military to help topple president nicolas maduro from power one had failed to gain the backing of venezuela's powerful army after an appeal last month in the past few days the material government arrested glider as deputy and stripped at least 10 politicians of parliamentary immunity. allots forced many of them to seek refuge in

foreign embassies. at least 6 people including a priest have been killed in an attack on a catholic church in between a fast with west africa about 20 gunmen into the church near the town of dublin that's northeast of the capital what to do. with this is the attackers locked people inside and set fire to the building. now the opposition coalition instead will work to resolve differences with military rulers by tuesday the 2 sides remain deadlocked over how to proceed with the transition following in a military coup last month ever since that happened journalists have been enjoying long lost freedoms as al-jazeera as mom of the reports from the capital khartoum. on demand television the news coast is preparing to read the evening news the past few weeks ushered in a new era for journalists here with censorship and media harassment gone with the deployed. topic limits anymore the fear of retaliation

journalists just watched at least one. for a long time we festering and controls and injustices from this day but something that made our jobs almost unnecessary before the revolution and there was no media to speak off in sudan and. sudan is ranked 174 out of 180 countries in reporters without borders 2018 world press freedom index the biggest crackdown on the media came last december when up to government protests begun across the country. according to reporters without borders at least 80 journalist was arrested the authorities also confiscated copies of a list 16 newspapers between december approved. the people's confidence in both public and private newspapers television and radio stations is slowly returning now.

we need to be a modest possible media now more than ever before we need bodies to govern us in law as necessary to guide us we have a runaway media who can't hear progress and so doubt. but there are growing concerns about abuse of the newly found freedom of expression by some media organizations accused of censorship of the sea and even spreading fake news let's go to a for have that be done. in the past the state security apparatus used to dictate what a journalist could write or not we're seeing a steady change the media is freer than ever it will ask. a lot of sacrifices have been made by journalists throughout the. recent progress towards a more free and open media has given them hope for greater freedom to report the news sudanese journalists understand too well but that turned over leadership in their country does not necessarily mean an end to their struggle for media freedom

already i'm husband replaced by a military council which they think would take them horse to do once again but now but they have tasted freedom they say buck is not an option for them mohamed atta. for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera one of president donald trump's top economic advisers says that u.s. businesses will suffer from the tires on chinese goods now we could lose comments contradict trump's claim to let me be china that is the u.s. not to $200000000000.00 tariff on chinese imports from fighting. today and these things and of course it was a tariff on goods coming into the country the chinese are paying no but the chinese will suffer g.d.p. losses and so forth with respect to

a diminishing export market and goods today may need for their own destruction because the president says china doesn't china it pays the terrace they may suffer consequences but it's u.s. businesses and u.s. consumers who paid correct and yes to some extent yeah i don't disagree with that again both size both sides will suffer on this the commander of iran's revolutionary guard says the u.s. doesn't have the ability to wage war against his country he described appointment of extra u.s. warships and aircraft in the middle east as psychological warfare the pentagon says it's in response to rein in aggression. more than a dozen and you're handling to aid groups have suspended their operations in syria's rebel controlled evelyn province several hospitals and buildings blogs aid groups have come under attack by government forces and their russian allies in recent days a magnitude $6.00 earthquake has struck panama there is border with costa rica the epicenter was 50 kilometers northwest of panama coastal city of david there are reports of several damaged homes and businesses but no fatalities. filipinos have

begun voting in the midterm elections seen as a test of our very go to to his presidency more than $18000.00 posts are up for grabs including half the senate wins for candidates allied to do to make it easier for the president to push through his policies. as in violence in the penultimate phase of the 6 week long parliamentary elections in india a candidate of the ruling party the b j p was targeted and the opposition rules state of west bengal almost 60 seats are up for grabs on sunday including those in the capital new delhi although 100000000 people across 7 states were eligible to vote all right so those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story of thanks for watching.

it wins the elections in south africa small of knowledge it should be african national congress be celebrating all souls'. and can the president meet the challenges behind the week of victory this is inside story. and welcome to the. south africans of just handed the african national congress its 6th mandate in power but voters also gave the policy a reduced majority in parliament the a.n.c. has ruled south africa for more than 25 years.