fear tactics targeting iranian people and they have continued to maintain that a military conflict is unlikely or even impossible supreme leader ayatollah ali come in a reinforced that idea in a speech on tuesday evening to senior civilian and military leaders in his government he said that iran and america are locked in a battle but that it is a battle of wills and that the upper are coming from the united states need not be fear he said that their real power is less than their outward shows of grandeur essentially that america's bark is worse than its bite but at the same time he also reiterated iran's position that even though iran won't back down from u.s. pressure the country does not want a war with american forces in the region. i know news there is not going to be any war neither we nor them seek war they know it will not be in their interest negotiating is poisonous as long as the us continues with the same course of action and to go shooting with the present american government is twice as poisonous. the

supreme leader's latest statement comes of course as the 2050 nuclear deal continues to unravel the atomic energy organization of iran that oversees the country's nuclear activities and nuclear sites confirmed that as of wednesday iran is no longer abiding by the limits on the stockpiling of enrich uranium and heavy water things considered potential bomb making materials iran's nuclear agency said that its announcement on wednesday is keeping in line with the announcement of president hostle rouhani made last week saying that iran would start rolling back its cooperation with the nuclear agreement. also to come here on news hour including anger in alabama the governor signs the toughest u.s. abortion ban into little. more rest in sri lanka after a series of attacks against the muslim community. and his food run and some around the world try to conquer new york's most iconic tower that's all still to come.

the u.s. is place china's tech giant hallway and 70 of its affiliates on a trade blacklist the announcement came just minutes after president trump signed an order banning u.s. companies from using equipment made in countries deemed foreign adverse or is. the executive order signed by president trump wednesday does not name the foreign adversaries whose telecommunications equipment is being banned in the u.s. but the commerce department immediately moved to add why wait to its blacklist all but confirming that the cell phone titan and jewel of china's telecommunications industry is now banned in the us nothing chinese firms do can be independent of the state. the pentagon has warned while ways technology could be used by the chinese government to potentially spy on americans or access sensitive networks let me be clear there is no way or z.t.

equipment in our network today there never will be the ban is not likely to impact the telecommunications industry in the u.s. an issue that has come under congressional scrutiny as much as other countries more heavily invested in huawei secretary of state micron pale has been putting pressure on allies not to use chinese equipment as the world gears up for the rollout of 5 g. networks the next generation of mobile technology what's imperative is that we share with them the things we know about the risks that the. presence in their networks presents actual risks to their own people to the loss of privacy protections for their own people but cutting ties with huawei could be difficult for countries like canada as their top telecoms providers say replacing their equipment could cost them more than a $1000000000.00 you know by way executive mon one joe was arrested there at the

request of the united states on charges she helped her company evade u.s. sanctions on iran she is awaiting extradition to face charges in the u.s. if the united states has legitimate security concerns with weiwei i think the allies are prepared to listen in consider seriously what the trumpet ministration is saying but if it looks like this is all just gambit to try to improve the outcome and trade negotiations with china much of which may not benefit other countries then i think the administration risks losing allied support including close allies like. last week the u.s. and china escalated the trade war by implementing hundreds of billions of dollars of additional tariffs on each other now the ban on huawei could be another bargaining chip in a conflict that's further soured. how did you castro al-jazeera washington well let's bring in tongan he's an economic and political affairs analyst and joins us live now from beijing. many people book quite surprised by the vagueness of donald

trump's executive order as it failed to specifically mention hawaii or china but clearly trump in his sights when he declared this national emergency. absolutely little doubt and as the commerce department confirmed there was all aimed directly at huawei i'm surprised it in throws in there but that will soon follow i mean this is part of a number of different ideas that are floating around in washington the 1st one is maximum pressure this is donald trump's way of asserting you know a new impetus on his trade negotiations 2nd it's a bipartisan issue as to seeing congress was very willing to see. china as you know the kind of black hat in this type of situation in 3rd this is a further attempt by washington as since unilaterally dictate what the security

standards are for not only them but all those who share or part of their security blanket and many people are already asking the questions what does this actually mean on the ground because the u.s. out already banned its federal agencies from using a while we quit and most of the u.s. telecoms giants don't even use all the infrastructure anyway. well i think it's a signal one once it's illegal in the united states and it's on this blacklist then the next step is to do what trump in the administration has been doing in the last couple of weeks and that is to reach out and say look we ban this stuff we can't use it we don't want you to use it so in essence a the 5 eyes but also extending beyond that any country which is involved with the u.s. they the u.s. now has a formidable array of not only icing them out of security and intelligence sharing and protection but also this idea that the swift system the international payment system can be weaponized now to say look you're in violation of our standards we

even assonance boycotted that and the next step is that if you are using this company we can take sanctions against you and that's an important point you make because the u.s. has been urging its allies to to shun countries like australia new zealand say they won't use who will wait for the next gen 5 g. networks but is the u.s. like them to put more pressure on other allies to follow suit. absolutely i mean there are sabotaging a legal basis and they say look this was an act passed by the president this is not a request we're telling you how we feel about this you must listen and if you intend to be part of our intelligence sharing in our security apparatus you have to fall in line if you don't then you're outside it and then of course the last step although at this point farfetched would be to start putting some sort of economic sanctions on those countries which do not fall into line just a final point from you i mean you mentioned it earlier but this latest move by

president is like it's a further inflame tensions with china i mean the u.s. and china as you say already in a trade war and those talks have stalled. yeah they have got i mean donald trump likes to throw busy you know something in at the very end of all negotiations we saw that with north korea you know the letter requesting that north korea give over to the u.s. all of their nuclear weapons and allow inspectors to come in that was a surprise that's how he likes to do things you keep his opponents off balance i think in this but hurricane has kind of mapped out all the different scenarios and it's actually you know this wall way thing and this kind of perpetuating a tech war or tech cold war or act of war has been one of those things that they have anticipated so i don't know other than the you know the usual response that this is you know outrageous and things like that that this is somehow unexpected in beijing on a tongan thank you for talking to al-jazeera now the governor of the u.s.

state of alabama has signed into law or a controversial abortion bill that outlaws the procedure in almost all cases that's cost of it's a bomber where the gallic is live for us now what does this little mean going forward do you think. well the law was signed into place in the last few hours by the governor of alabama it doesn't go into effect until about 6 months time but essentially it outlaws all abortions in this state with one exception not being if there is a threat to the woman's health so essentially that means if i were in becomes pregnant through rape or incest in this state if the law passes it will not be allowed it is one of the toughest abortion laws in the country but many other states are following suit with these so-called heartbeat bills let's look what unfolded here in alabama and what's happening in other states. will emotional you know you don't know she didn't even know come up alabama's new abortion law will be

the toughest in the u.s. unless there are a successful legal challenges performing an abortion even in cases of rape or incest will be a crime those kinds of exemptions of angered the state's democrats who say the consequences for women's reproductive rights will be dire this bill would you would doctor up to 99 years in the class a felony instead about them if they perform an abortion in even if there is no abortion this deal will put it down to 25 years and so it is wrong this bill would basically run doctors out of the state of . alabama isn't alone in legal moves to effectively ban abortion in all more than 2 dozen states are considering new restrictive laws georgia's governor brian campus already signed a bill that will ban the procedure once the heartbeat of a fetus is detected it said to take effect on january the 1st if you look at a child in the womb with a beating heart with a distinct blood type yassir

a preschooler small child what are you looking at they say that they would look and say that's a big we recognize what science law and common sense told us to do those in utero in georgia with a human heart with a 4 circulatory system and all the components of humanity. should get for protection there was supporters of alabama's bill expect legal challenges but with 2 new conservative judges in the supremes court there's a renewed push to challenge a landmark floor known as roe v wade that legalized abortion in 1973. alabama's new law will allow women to have an abortion if their pregnancy is a health risk but the battle lines are now being drawn in one of the most polarizing issues in u.s. politics. so i just took us through what the bigger picture here is. well essentially conservative lawmakers across the country are feeling emboldened especially because president trump has appointed 2 conservative judges to the

supremes course so their ultimate goal is here that they know this law will be legally challenge or not may mean it gets before the supremes court with this new makeup of judges with this particular political leaning towards the conservative edge salta matley they know what the next step will be people at the a.c.l.u. people like planned parenthood will launch legal challenges which may then get it before those judges this essentially is the best chance the conservatives have had in decades to challenge roe v wade which legalized abortion in 1973 so that's the path we are all now i think this will become a huge issue in the 2020 presidential election but it certainly is one of the most divisive dividing issues in the united states and the thank you. now the u.n. security council has met to discuss the withdrawal of who think rebels from 3 major yemeni ports it's all part of a deal hammered out almost 6 months ago the worsening humanitarian situation was also highlighted un brokered talks between the warring sides are taking place in

jordan but wednesday saw more fighting near the southern city of. diplomatic editor james bays reports. the port of who data the humanitarian lifeline for yemen a place where the u.n. once again has access after an inspection by the head of the international monitoring mission general michael lawless guard who declared the who thiis had carried out a key part of the redeployment of their forces something it 1st agreed to do it talks in stockholm 6 months ago for the un this is an important step as this will allow us to start supporting the management of the ports the saudi led coalition is very skeptical claiming that who 3 fighters have handed over to the coast guard but the that unit itself is under the effective control of the hoof these but in new york at the security council the u.n. special envoy martin griffiths was positive about recent developments mr president

this moment is significant and it's worth cherishing such moments which are not as frequent as we would hope that this of course is only the beginning. these redeployments must be followed and i'm sure will be followed by concrete actions of the parties to deliver on their obligations under the stockholm agreement the security council also heard from top humanitarian officials from the un who warned that life for people in yemen was still very difficult with the specter of famine and cholera cases on the rise this year this meanwhile with growing tensions between iran and the us the search for a wider political settlement in yemen could be even more difficult the acting american ambassador fighting used his speech to attack those who fees and iran who are these must cease you avi attacks against their fellow citizens and their neighbors iran needs to stop supplying the who these with weapons to do so attacks

this week against saudi infrastructure are just the latest example of how destabilizing that is the un are hoping that developments in her data will give diplomacy in yemen fresh momentum but the situation inside the country is extremely complex and the regional dynamics are becoming more difficult and dangerous james zira of the united nations in all the un's humanitarian chief says that despite recent progress the humanitarian situation in the country is diet the specter of famine still looms 10000000 yemenis are still reliant on emergency food assistance to survive a resurgent cholera outbreak has already affected 300000 people this year and just as a point of reference that compares with 370000 in the whole of 2018 in the 1st quarter of the year more than $900.00 civilian casualties were reported and it's

a sobering fact of the war in yemen mr president. that civilians are more likely to die in their own homes than anywhere else go back in a man where the talks between the who things and the yemeni government are taking place there been demands that the revenue earned by the who is from the port of the data be handed over to the central bank as a look at it in magickal their worship meetings are taking place and directly with the un special envoy to humans office with a grade on suit and measures in order to put pressure on the delegation regarding the central bank the stop crime agreement was clear in this regard all revenue belonging to how data must be seen to the central bank accounts also to coming on al-jazeera including as the stars descend on can we look at how product placement plays an increasing role in the film festival. and the leaders of france and new zealand join forces with tech giants to fight online extremism and in support bangladesh are building up a mentor and the head of the cricket world cup details coming up in sport more in

that state of. the web and sponsored by cattle. we've got plenty of clouds snaking its way across china at the moment we take a look at the satellite picture we can see the cloud here as it makes its way across and we province and over shanghai there was a more wet weather as we head through the next few days and it's all a bit messy really so many of us really from shanghai southwards can expect to see some were all the heavy showers during the day there's also a fair amount of cloud over parts of the philippines as well particularly over luzon and that's giving us a few outbreaks of rather heavy rain today but to the south of luzon it's largely fine and dry just a couple of showers later on during the day a couple of showers also through borneo through parts of java and up through some macia even further north as you head up towards thailand is looking fairly

unsettled at the moment expect want to roll the heavy showers at times as we head across towards india we've seen some heavy downpours here recently as well look at this great big area of cloud but also brought to some rain over new delhi so breaking off a bit now with the still the chance of seeing a few more outbreaks of rain or even snow as we head through the next couple of days so also for us in the northern parts of india and all the possible to stand i think that's why there's a chance of seeing a few bits of unsettled weather the better for the south though it is just hot as you'd expect getting up to 43 degrees that will be a sticky day for us in the south of where we want to showers here. when. anything you say tight grounds can be held against the. lines investigates how governments are using israeli software to turn critics into the un too much. exposure of your personal world doesn't just stop what you write it extends out

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welcome back to the top stories here on al-jazeera the head of sudan's ruling military council says he suspended negotiations with the opposition coalition for 3 days he said the decision was made because of an escalation by protesters who he says continue to block the roads on a wednesday shots were fired at the main protest site wounding several people. the u.s. state department has ordered all non-essential government staff to leave iraq immediately follows a warning by the u.s. military of a threat from iran linked groups. to u.s. government decision to place 70 of its affiliates on the trade block list calling it unreasonable earlier president from u.s. firms and using telecoms equipment made by companies a piece as national security. donald trump has signed a full pardon for the former newspaper publisher conrad black he was convicted in 2007 of fraud and obstruction of justice and spent 3 and

a half years in prison block has been a vocal supporter of trump last year he published a biography of the president in which he described him as a personal friend. for u.s. treasury secretary steven lucian says that it's up to the courts to decide whether to release trump's tax returns evolution was testifying to senators before a congressional committee in washington he has previously blocked requests from congress to hand over trump's tax history mike hanna has more now from washington d.c. . once again steve facing questions about revealing president trumps tax reports this has been a call from democrat members of congress in both senate and in the house democratic senators during this appropriations hearing repeatedly asked the treasury secretary whether or not he agreed that the congress had the power to request the i.r.s. to explain how it was adjudicating the tax returns of

a sitting president democrats arguing that congress does indeed have this right pointing to previous precedents in particular that involving richard nixon but the new chin continue to argue that the justice department had to advise the treasury that this was not the case and that there would be disagreement over this issue which would probably be up to the courts to decide this is what he had to say there is a difference in interpretation between congress and us in the department of justice around this law that not only impacts this president in this congress but has a very big impact on every single taxpayer and weaponize in the i.r.s. in this is why there are 3 branches of government so if there is a difference of opinion this will go to the 3rd of branch of government to be resolved well the house has subpoenaed the treasury secretary to produce these tax

returns of the president that to deadline that they set in that some pina apply as ends on friday at the treasury secretary making very clear that this is an issue that in all likelihood will go to the courts to decide. there been violent protests in rio de janeiro of a cuts made to brazil's education system security forces fired tear gas into crowds of demonstrators many of them students and teachers a bus was set on fire by protesters tens of thousands gathered all across brazil in the biggest rally since president jalal tomorrow took office last march classes at universities and colleges were suspended in sao paolo brasilia and 17 of the country's 27 states. colombia's attorney general has resigned he's upset over a decision by a peace tribunals to stop the extradition of a former rebel leader to the u.s. relations between the tribunals and the right wing government of president even to k. i've been tense as i was on the run petit now reports. the special tribunal known as

paper has jurisdiction over all the crimes committed during columbia's decades long civil conflict but it has been increasingly at odds with both the government the conservative government of president. and the attorney general mr dean is a very powerful but controversial figure here in colombia where push martinez to resign he says is the fact that the tribunals decided to release his $0.02 creature former fark leader who is accused by the attorney general and united states prosecutors of conspiring to send tons of cocaine to the united states but it's a beautiful insist that the evidence they have been provided doesn't show that this conspiracy indeed existed or that it happened after the signing of the peace deal the attorney general instead insists that this shows that it tribunals is biased in favor of far gravels. leading and increasingly 80 legal state of

affairs are consolidating in colombia which conspires against the rule of law and exposes their society to crime despite the prosecutor's warnings. now martinez has also been dodging calls for his resignation for allegedly being part of a huge corruption scandal here in latin america known as the other brett scandal but what's clear is that this is definitely another chapter in the ongoing battle to train this mantle the peace tribunals the government since the beginning of the year has been trying to change the law governing tribunals what's clear is that there is growing polarization a growing political battle here in colombia over the very difficult implementation of the peace deal envoys from venezuela's opposition and government of travel to norway for talks on resolving the political impasse in the country many governments are recognized opposition leader one as the country's de facto leader. on wednesday he defied

a military blockade to enter the national assembly in the capital caracas assemblies controlled by the opposition. and as well as ambassador to the u.n. says his government does not quote exterminate its opponents his comments came just days after amnesty international accused security forces of committing human rights abuses the rights body wants the international criminal court to step in some of the editor of the sea and human as more from caracas. for nearly 3 weeks catalina gado has been looking everywhere for her missing brother. killed gado is an opposition parliamentarian who was supposed to have legislative immunity and was eating in a sandwich shop when security forces took him away on april 23rd she says and he hasn't been seen since i really don't know where they are taught maybe they've done something to him and they want to hide it because at this stage he should at least have been presented before a judge my mother says that she feels that his son is still alive but that he's

having a hard time. even on may 7th. the vice president of the national assembly was taken away by security forces car and all and hasn't been seen since his family too is demanding proof of life they have reason for concern. last year an opposition councilman to numb blood ben allegedly jumped to his death from intelligence police headquarters where he'd been taken authorities say it was suicide but his family and government opponents believe he was thrown out of the window to disguise his death by torture. this week amnesty international issued a report saying it had found evidence of extrajudicial executions arbitrary detentions and deaths and injuries due to excessive use of force by government especially earlier this year when venezuelans took to the streets demanding regime change. in january and february received many reports from

working class areas where people fled their homes when the police special forces group arrived because they are an extermination group people run for their lives because they aren't afraid of being arrested but they're being assassinated. them a little government is adamant that it does not persecute or exterminate opponents . but this 30 year old activist who asked not to be identified says she's terrified to appear before a judge next week in her home state of syria where she's being accused of political crimes. when you're a political prisoner the treatment is much more harsh there are reports with foreign objects i've heard horrible testimony a police officer says my case was political i had to prepare for the war so that's why our flag. it's a fear that the u.n. commission on human rights among many others believes is well founded. to see in

human i'll just got access the leaders of france and new zealand have launched a global campaign to get companies to combat violent web content their so-called christchurch call comes in response to attacks in the city in march when a gunman killed 51 people at 2 mosques with reports from paris. at the least say powerless the french president a new zealand's prime minister who stood a summit aimed at encouraging governments and tech giants to crackdown on violence and hate speech online representatives of internet companies including facebook twitter and google and world leaders signed a pledge called the christ church call the pledge to better regulate online content was named after the city where a gunman killed 51 muslim worshippers in march and live streamed the massacre on facebook if you decide our objective was simple that what happened in christ church should never happen again it was not merely unacceptable terrorists attack but it

was promotion what that internet into mushing aiming to destroy any form of cohesion in. order and said facebook had already responded to the pledge by announcing it would limit lifestream access for some users she also said tech company officials promise to do more to remove violent posts impose new standards and review the way in which he uses are directed to content online never before have countries and companies come together in the wake of her africa tech to commit to an action plan that will deliver collaboratively work in new technology built to make our communities ultimately safer 18 governments signed the pledge but not the united states white house officials said it would curb free speech the decision by washington not to sign up to the pledge will no doubt be disappointing for our den and macro nevertheless they will hope that this summit needs to better

international regulation of online content but the pledge is non-binding it leaves in force mint and the setting of rules up to the good will and motivation of tech bosses and political leaders this internet expert says it's not only companies and governments that must act more responsibly but also individua. we've all witnessed online harassment violence racism so it's up to people not to show discontent and act by reporting it as a company's they've got algorithms that they can target negative content should favor positive content but the christchurch cool highlight is growing frustration amongst governments and citizens with relatively unfettered online powers of tech companies are doing is campaigning for what she calls a humane internet and not one that fosters real and devastating violence that's al-jazeera paris palestinians have held rallies to mark 71 years since they were

forcibly evicted from their land it's known as the nakba that's the arabic word for catastrophe and demonstrations are held annually one of the largest was in ramallah that's where the palestinian authority is based. israeli forces have fired at thousands of protesters at the gaza border garza's health ministry is reporting that $47.00 people were injured. at least $31.00 people have appeared in court in connection with attacks against muslims in sri lanka they are being held in police custody while awaiting charges in the area of the north of colombo will be more overnight curfews in 2 provinces are the days of sporadic violence that targeted mosques and muslim owned businesses at least one person was killed someone there respond with maximum force for any further violence but of smith reports. ah here we are going to get out of it an appeal for calm from one of the 9 mosques attacked in a wave of violence across northwestern sri lanka this week. and from these catholic

priests a show of solidarity with they told us their 1st visit to a mosque 3 weeks ago on easter sunday suicide bombers targeted churches and hotels in sri lanka killing 253 people. it's so sad that things like this had happened. but the church had been digging. hips in order to the previous working in these it's become the people don't you can never know. there are certain room groups you know we don't leave you more days you know and but the government months put a stop to these sri lanka's minority muslim population is now living in fear they break the ramadan fast behind drawn curtains there's no visiting friends and neighbors a curfew empties the streets the mosques usually busy in this muslim holy month a closed knowledge in another whole of the year we're not sure.