has died all this follows last month's bombings targeting churches and hotels during easter. donald trump insists economic talks with china have not collapse calling the trade war between the world's 2 largest economies a little squabble the u.s. president says a trade agreement is still possible if china wants to strike a deal new tariffs imposed by both washington and beijing of rattled global markets the last round of talks between chinese and u.s. trade officials ended on friday with the 2 sides unable to reach a compromise we're having a little squabble with china because we've been treated very unfairly for many many decades for actually a long time and just have been handled a long time ago and it was it handle it now i think it's going to be i think it's going to turn out extremely well we're in a very strong position we are the piggy bank that everybody likes to take advantage of or take from and we can't let that happen anymore the u.s.

state of alabama has passed a bill outlawing nearly all abortions including in cases of rape measure was approved by the state senate it will now go to the governor to be signed into law she's expected to give her approval as part of an effort to have the supreme court reconsider the constitutional right to abortion. joe castro has more from washington d.c. this measure passed by the alabama legislature on tuesday is by far the strictest of these anti-abortion laws passed recently by conservative states this rule and particularly would outright ban abortions for almost every instance except for when a woman's life is in danger notably it makes no exception for cases of rape or incest and it would punish a doctor who performs an abortion in alabama with 99 years in prison now opponents

to the law have have been very vociferous in their outcry saying that this would punish rape victims and it would push women to seek abortions underground in unsafe procedures even supporters of the laws of those say that they doubt this will ever take effect why because they expect to be challenged to have this law be challenge in the courts almost immediately now the goal here of the drafters of this alabama law is for the u.s. supreme court to use this as a test of roe versus wade that is the law of the land for the most for the last 40 years in the united states that gave women the constitutional right to an abortion now the drafters of the alabama law is seeking to overturn roe versus wade and they are among this wave of conservative states that have tried to push abortion back

into the supreme court since the supreme court became more conservative thanks to the appointment of 2 judges by u.s. president donald trump. venezuela's supreme court has called for 4 more opposition m.p.'s to be stripped of ability so they can be tried for treason police lockdown the opposition controlled national assembly in the capital minutes before position neither one was set to leave the session this in human has more from caracas. it was his last chance to speak in public before going underground minutes earlier opposition deputy cameras but only had been stripped of his legislative immunity so that he can be tried for subversion. all the regime knows how to persecute the national assembly but we want to render it won't fall to its knees and give up the struggle for freedom that we have begun. with with that he left joining 13 other opposition deputies who by their gone into hiding asked for political asylum

in embassies or been imprisoned since losing their immunity just in the last week. for opponents of president nicolas maduro the day had begun badly they discovered they'd been locked out of the now powerless legislature the only institution they control the national assembly building is directly behind me but since early this morning police and national guardsmen have been allowed anybody to go inside one officer told me that it's because the bomb squad is inside but according to opposition deputies who were due to be meeting there today this is just a ploy another attempt they say by the government to intimidate them. the deputies gathered in an adjacent building as a handful of government supporters shouted insults. we are here to raise our voice against those traitors. president madugalle has targeted the deputies who form part

of the opposition leader tightest inner circle but why the remains defiant vowing to convene the assembly again on wednesday. if. we have to hold our stations on the streets we will but the federal legislative palace belongs to the parliament to the people of venezuela and we want to announce it do they have brute force on this side obviously yes but that will not dissuade us no matter what they do to us. why doest says his representative in washington will be meeting with the head of the u.s. southern command on monday to discuss possible u.s. military cooperation. mother did not immediately respond but while attending a military ceremony in honor of those who helped for oil in uprising against him on april 30th he said the armed forces are prepared to defend venezuela against any outside aggression this as members of the 28 nation venezuela contact group

prepared to arrive in caracas this week to attempt the seemingly impossible a negotiated settlement to the increasingly explosive political conflict you see in human i just got back. north korea is demanding the return of a cargo ship seized by the united states the vessel was detained in indonesia last year and towed to american samoa on saturday washington says the vessel was carrying coal in violation of sanctions against north korea. rob mcbride has more from the south korean capital seoul. the cargo ship the wise honesty is one of north korea's largest and it's now been towed to the u.s. territory of american samoa in the south pacific it was originally seized in indonesia for allegedly breaking sanctions against north korea by exporting coal which is one of north korea's biggest money so it's easier comes as

a major blow your korea's foreign ministry has demanded its immediate release saying that its seizure goes against the spirit of the summit in singapore last june between kim jong un and donald trump meanwhile north korea's a weapons testing and missile launches of last week seem to have put a strain on the whole process of dialogue and reconciliation the world food program's director david lee has been in seoul trying to organize a food shipment for north korea but finding problems with moon j.n. south korea's president coming under domestic political pressure not to give such a gesture to the north after north korea's apparent provocations of last week north korea's food problems meanwhile seem to be getting worse it was confirmed recently that last year's harvest was the worst for 10 years and choose days edition of

wrong symon the official party news paper confirming that things are no better this year with the whole of the country suffering in the 1st part of this year very badly from drought quality levels in mexico city of reaching stream really unhealthy levels in recent days that's being blamed on wildfires in the south of mexico al-jazeera as mine you are apollo reports. a nightmarish haze has taken over the skies above mexico city already see the dense cloud of toxic air is the result of dozens of wildfires burning in southern. and central america is it's the season for high temperatures and this year has been especially hot on the other hand we've all seen periods of prolonged drought. the air quality in the city has gotten so bad the local government has urged people to stay indoors as the air outside is unsafe to breathe apart from breathing it really stings your eyes it's

very annoying see isn't that a little later it's incredible you can see it in the air the air looks cloudy the amount of pollution you can see is amazing for. the mask because of the smart it's painful to inhale it i read days i have start levels of pollution. more than 20000000 people live in this metropolitan area making it the most densely populated space in north america. exhaust from the nearly 6000000 vehicles that regularly transit the city isn't making things better. but some people are taking matters into their own hands been out of the world recently won a lawsuit against the city after proving air pollution from hydrocarbons is causing medical problems among residents and we will never work on that basis i mean there's no doubt this is an environmental crisis by any standard there are so many air pollution particles in some parts of the city that this would be considered a high contamination of fine particles. mexico's capital was once known as the most

contaminated city in the world and although improvements have been made the city appears to be struggling to curb back pollution this lookout would normally guarantee a beautiful view of the mexico city skyline instead what we can see today is little more than a smoky haze you can even smell it and it could still be several days before the air quality begins to improve. the smoky air has turned the sunsets over the city blood red and with wildfires continuing to burn in surrounding states the problem appears to be far from over. mic. city. let's go through the headlines now here now to syria sudan's words really does have agreed to a 3 year transitional period with opposition groups is the country slowly moves closer to civilian rule the military council and coalition for freedom and change

held a press conference to announce the agreement after weeks of deadlock the 2 sides say a final agreement on the makeup of the sovereign council should be reached within $24.00 hours with general yasar lots of from sudan's transitional military council promised to work quickly to secure a complete deal with offices groups. we pledge to our great people that our agreement will be completed and we will achieve the ambitions of our proud people within less than $24.00 hours god willing so that our proud people will celebrate the victory achieved by the people and the army in order to achieve the goals of the great revolution. russia's president has told the u.s. secretary of state he said says president donald trump wants to repair relations the comments follow talks between delighted me and putin and u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o in sochi on tuesday earlier pompei 0 told russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov the u.s.

does not want a war with iran but would respond if attacks. we spoke a bit about the activities that are taking place in the middle east today with particular focus on the actions that iran is taking i made clear that the united states will continue to apply pressure to the regime in tehran until its leadership is prepared to return to the ranks of responsible nations that do not threaten their neighbors or spread instability or terror. saudi arabia's state owned energy company aramco has stopped pumping oil through a major pipeline after a drone attack the government says 2 stations were targeted on the east west pipeline hoofy rebels in yemen say they launched the strikes to warn the kingdom to stop its quote aggression at least 60 people have been arrested after a wave of attacks against muslims in sri lanka one person has died all this follows last month's bombings targeting churches and hotels during easter those are your

headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream stay with us. hi anthony ok and this is the stream today did the united kingdom steal the check or silence we discuss britain's occupation of the indian ocean territory if you want to join the conversation tweet us and i will do my best to include you in the

. british prime minister to the final united nations ruling that britain illegally obtained a child course islands and should return the archipelago to malicious this is our duty as the dean barber explain why we're telling the islands is not that easy. in 1965 britain split the remote islands from riches 3 years before riches gained independence the new ruling says that was illegal under international law then in the late sixty's and early seventy's britain evicted almost 2000 chicle sian's to marisa's in the seychelles that was to make way for construction of a us military base on the largest island diego garcia. decades on many live in poverty in riches where the largest recourse in communities based but several files are now live here in southern england following a decision in the 1980 s. to grant some cigar sian's british citizenship and they've been campaigning

consistently for the right to return. we heard from one of those living living in the united kingdom it talks about what it's like to be in exile physically and psychologically it is. culture it is reporting and humiliating to know that you are being made because of what ledge to make us we are being taken advantage of just because you are a small black community without any network to seek help. so to go sian's are anxious to return home russia's wants it back now but britain has extended the u.s. lease of diego garcia until 2036 what is next here to discuss engram bay malicious rather modern move to is a lawyer representing the uk o.c.n. refugees here in our studio we have david vine he's a professor at american university author of island ashamed of the secret history

of the u.s. military base in diego garcia and what rosen is a retired u.s. navy captain and senior vice president at c.m. that's a nonprofit research and analysis organization denton it's good to have you here let's start with austin's in black and white photographs wrapping thank you for sending them to us and to go back 50 years to see what life was like before diego garcia was the agassi and it was a little archipelago where people actually lived who were involved in the military this picture here talk us through well then why did you send us these pages. i think it shows. a totally normal life which they had their. military base game in you will you will know that. this was an early night in the sixty's when one of the states wanted an island in the indian ocean for foreign

military base and the u.k. said well be be our guest good look for your island. so so the american navy why don't look for an island for their base to found out about bride and 1st. but the bra of was not convenient to them because another brother was a unique total population and they did not want to disturb the turtle population so they went to their 2nd best shows which was there last year. they did not is they to forcefully is the indigenous people on the go last year and on their us by most and we know the rest. this is quite a vicious story in terms of how the brits decided to get people off the island they stop them from coming back if they went off to have hospital treatment they rounded up animals and pets and gas them and they starved them in order to get this prime

piece of real estate you're looking at what happens with military bases around the world is an unusual story. sadly in the case of the u.s. military it's not i've been able to document around 20 cases just in the past roughly 10120 years. where the u.s. military has forcibly removed local populations usually indigenous populations as part of the construction or the expansion of u.s. military bases so let you go seem story is is sadly not unique some people know about the people of the marshall islands who were displaced during nuclear testing . puerto rico okinawa japan and just a few of the many cases in which similar acts of taken place. so i'm just thinking you've been to diego garcia did you have any sense that this was the speech you tell when you were there when you were in the navy no i mean the u.s.

has had a long term 50. well you were generally strong which for 50 years and that was recently extended for 20 years through 2036 i mean the u.s. is is basically i don't want to say exclusively a tenet we are the we are the major occupant of diego garcia however we relied upon the british government in order to provide us access to the base and in so far as some of the meant items that were mentioned by david in all my time working on base issues for the department of defense i mean we always tried to. ensure that there were adequate opportunities for the local population respect for environmental laws.