it's in the trade war with the u.s. where earths are 17 natural elements used to manufacture a variety of products including smartphones electric car engines and even fighter jets trying to process as much as 70 percent of the world's a rare earth minerals last year and tariff or changes to the supply chain could impact many u.s. companies particularly apple and that's gives beijing leverage during the trade negotiations adrian brain has more from beijing. it is not what president xi jinping is saying right now that's interesting it's what he's been doing for the past few days he's been touring central china and earlier this week he visited junge c. province to go to a rare earths mind now china at the moment controls about 90 percent of the world's supply of rare earths one of the country's exports to the united states but so far the trumpet ministration has not been slapping tariffs on rare earths as it has

been on just about everything else that china exports to the united states so this visit was filled with powerful symbolism now last week one state controlled newspaper suggested that perhaps it was time for china to start reducing rare earth exports to the united states as one way of hurting the trumpet ministration the other message that's been coming out from president xi jinping this week and it's a message that's been loud and clear is that it's time for china to become self-reliant when it comes to technology he feels that china has been left to vulnerable too dependent on what the united states makes things like microchips and that's why he is determined to press ahead with his made in china 2025 policy this is his signature economic policy that the trumpet ministration is desperate to dismantle but china regards that as one of its core interests and it's one

concession it's simply not prepared to make. still to come on al-jazeera and aviation regulators gather to decide whether the boeing 737 should ever fly again. and we'll tell you why illegal drug production is on the rise secretary of the occupied west bank. hello again it's good to have you back well we are looking at some very heavy rain that's on the increase your across parts of china now we did have a break in the rain particularly up here towards the east and the northeast here on friday things are still in quite nice but the temperatures are up there we're talking about shanghai at 34 will han at 31 degrees hong kong 29 degrees there would some rain coming into play but then as we go towards saturday more rain for hong kong shanghai you do get

a break in the temperatures but you also get more rain coming in as well as anywhere towards the north so that's going to continue as we go through the rest of the weekend well here across parts of south india as well as into sri lanka we are looking at rain showers continuing this is the beginning of the monsoon season as we make our way at the end of may and into the beginning of june and those showers will be on the increase as we go into the next couple of weeks where we are seeing the dry conditions here across much of the central interior no per $44.00 degrees through there new delhi at 40 we don't expect to see much of a change there but over towards the paul it is still going to be quite rainy with a temperature of 31 degrees and then very quickly here across the gulf where the winds have died down but the temperatures are going to be into the high thirty's across much of the area abu dhabi at $35.00 degrees and over here towards miska we do expect to see a day with a temperature of $33.00. the universe is

a tipping point and has are telling us right now that we have just 12 years as the world's leaders to agree on a solution. taking into the. evening . which is to get people to understand that it kills people and that it kills people now it's ridiculous both fronts were to the people. he was a quick reminder of the top stories this hour indian prime minister narendra modi's governing party has claimed

a landslide victory in the biggest election on earth morsi arrives at the party headquarters where he's thank supporters for giving him a 2nd term chinese president has been touring factories in china which make products vital to western ellen tronics parents the trip is seen as a message to washington as the next possible front in the china u.s. trade war. and the northwestern syria rebels have launched a counterattack against pro-government forces fighting has been intensifying in a province to spites a cease fire brokered by turkey and russia. the u.s. federal aviation administration is hosting officials from around the world in texas there to discuss the boeing the 737 max but the meeting isn't open to the public or the media. it comes a week after the plane manufacturer said it completed a software update $346.00 people were killed when boeing 737 mix aircraft

crashed twice in less than 5 months she reports. the global fleet of nearly 400 boeing 737 max has been grounded since mid march the federal aviation administration in the u.s. says thursday's meeting will provide international aviation officials to any questions they have as they weigh whether the jets should fly again representatives from boeing will not be present however since the 2 recent 737 max crashes in indonesia and ethiopia scrutiny of the aircraft development of some wondering whether the f.a.a. and boeing should a century be treated as a single entity for example members of congress wondered why the f.a.a. took so long to ground the 737 max the public perception wise and it what took so long for us to do that because f.a.a. was just too cozy with. the 737 max was reportedly rushed to market off to airbus surprised boeing with a new fuel efficient plane in 2010 instead of developing a new aircraft boeing updated its 737 model with larger engines that needed to be

placed further forward on the plane but that meant the aircraft could pitch upwards in some circumstances and lead to the engine stalling to compensate boeing developed a software fix em cas or the maneuvering characteristics or mentation system however not only did the system rely on just one sensor with a record of malfunctioning boeing didn't highlight the new system to the f.a.a. or to pilots part of being sales pitch was that despite the major design changes this was fundamentally the same plane as the 737 so the reset of a cation process was speedy and costly additional pilot training would be minimal the f.a.a. took boeing at its word they make changes that you $1005.00 that but that did lee handed over all the service station process to the money back. and i thank you. you know there's there's very little evidence that shows that boeing is in any way gauging any kind of robust testing of m.p.'s the challenge for boeing and the

f.a.a. is to reestablish that credibility the c.e.o. of ethiopian airlines for one says he'll take a lot of convincing to use the 737 max i cannot fully say that they are paying when for my back on it here paralyzed some wonder whether the economic importance of returning the $77.00 marks to the skies will drive the plane swift recertification in the current system that we have the wobbly wien airbus and boeing there's a sense that this is all too big to fail you know the airlines need to get these airplanes because the airlines need to upgrade their fleets they need to better fuel economy of the airplanes so there's an inevitable 80 of the plane coming back to service it's actually to the old days of dying in a plane crash are one in several 1000000 none of us what we've learned from the development of the 737 max is cause for concern i'm shihab rattansi al-jazeera

a 16 year old cos i'm all in migrants has died in texas after a fall and yell and the largest part of the tension center in the u.s. he's the 6th child to die in the custody of u.s. border guards since september well planets reports. the largest border detention center in the u.s. has stopped taking in new migrants for processing after a large number of people at the center came down with high fevers and flu symptoms officials say the closure came shortly after the death of 16 year old carlos hernandez vasquez on may 20th the guatemalan boy who traveled to the u.s. without his parents spent 6 days at the macallan texas processing center before he was diagnosed with the flu he was transferred to another facility and given medication but was not hospitalized he was found dead on monday hernandez vasquez was the 6th child to die after being apprehended crossing the u.s.

border since september late wednesday u.s. official said the texas iselin he had resumed normal operations in the rural guatemalan village of san jose down or dale the boy's family mourned and asked questions you know not a open though i am fighting for them to send me the body as soon as possible because why do they want him there why do they want him because they did not take care of him one can or they can move him how or from what to say. they won't get clarification something must have happened or they did something to him or it's conditions in migrant detention centers sparked this exchange at an oversight hearing on capitol hill at this point with 5 kids that have died 5000 separated from their families i feel like and the evidence is really clear that this is intentional it's intentional it's a policy choice being made on purpose by this administration and it's cruel and inhumane and thank you mr chairman i act as that's what i'm trying accusation down

our men and women fight hard to protect people in our custody every single day record numbers of families and unaccompanied minors are fleeing violence and poverty in central america and seeking asylum in the u.s. in some cases. nearly overwhelming government border and immigration agencies robert oulds al jazeera. a hardline buddhist monk jailed for contempt of court and accused of inciting violence against muslims has been released from prison in sri lanka the heads of the buddhist power force organization received a presidential pardon while serving a 6 year sentence in elfin and this has the latest on his release. a lot of excitement surrounding the release of now a hero the secretary general of the board all the buddhists powerful now for more than 3 hours there were a couple of 100 people his supporters who congregated here outside the valley could

a prison where he was serving basically a 6 year prison term for contempt of court he had to been slapped with a 19 year prison sentence of rigorous imprisonment but this was compounded for him to serve it in 6 years now the reasons for concern at his release which comes following a presidential pardon from prison policy center is that this was a buddhist monk who had been essentially identified with being behind a key campaign several years ago against the muslims that also what many people say led to and to muslim violence down in the south in 2014 so given the current situation in the country which is just recovering from some violent and riots in the northwest part of the country his release by a presidential pardon is seen as sending the wrong messages in terms of sri lanka way stands its commitment to ensuring. interracially into common olah sectarian

harmony and this is what many people are beginning to question one constitutional lawyer basically saying that this presidential pardon was a slap in the face of an independent judiciary given the basically reason he was convicted so as sort of the whole thing begins to sort of seep in for sri lanka many questions being asked about his release. palestinian police say illegal drug production is increasing across the occupied west bank and much of it is destined for use inside israel the homemade reports from the occupied west bank. as a young carpenter that's not his real name couldn't make ends meet so it was difficult to turn down the chance to make some quick money when the opportunity presented itself but it landed him in prison. when. a

palestinian living in israel rented the 2nd floor of my shop he brought soil seeds water tanks everything needed he told me all the medical plant and it takes a month to grow and i would get 10000 dollars in exchange i don't have to do anything i barely have any work i don't have a permit to work in israel so except. $2500.00 plants were found on the upper floor of his family business now he's facing up to 15 years behind bars after being charged with growing cannabis plants and drug trafficking police say that illegal truck plantations have been spreading across the occupied west bank ever since it became more difficult to import the drugs through discern a bigger. believes is due to an increase in demand in israel where mary one is tolerated for recreational use but production is illegal.

but me explain over the past 4 or 5 years there's been this trend to plant drugs like this in the west bank especially synthetic cannabis known as hydro it's this one here they grow this and greenhouses are in secret labs at home this started when it became more difficult to traffic from sinai. drug rates were stepped up by 30 percent in the occupied west bank last year about $33000.00 plants were seats that's with an estimated market value of $7000000.00. it was the prospect of getting some of that cash that pushed some years to accept an offer to grow the plant a 31 he's unemployed and has 5 children to feed. and i did produce for the local market it was all for export but the seeds come from israel to the bedouin they put them here at someone's place for a certain period of time depending on the type they could take 2 to 5 months to make sure i planted them in a valley which is hard to access authorities suspect there are many more money

$1.00 of fields out there but most would be in the so-called area c. which represents about 60 percent of the west back but palestinian police are not allowed to operate there without prior consent from israel making it more likely that illegal drug production will continue to increase as the economic situation among palestinians continues to deteriorate but at the al-jazeera in the occupied west bank. a country that song to nearly a 3rd of africa's elephants has decided to lift a ban on hunting but so far as government says the numbers of the way around them or have increased to a point where they're threatening the livelihoods of small scale farmers conservationists estimate there are around $130000.00 elephants in the country well the largest animal on earth is considered vulnerable conservationists warning that porch ing is pushing it closer to extinction the world wildlife fund says the

elephants population has fallen from 10000000 at the beginning of the last century to just over 400000 today or botswana as population is growing those in east africa have been reduced to nearly half over the last decade by poaching world traverses the president of the born free foundation he says he doesn't understand what swan is trying to achieve by lifting the ban. the 1st thing is to remember that there is one of the wealthiest countries in sub-saharan africa with that g.d.p. of over $800000.00 us dollars a year it does have around $100.00 pounds but it's a down by 14 percent since 2006 and the zimbabwe story the parts a lot of governments own position here is that trophy hunting will increase numbers this isn't there in spain published yet they try to think how many will increase but most and non trophy hunting will also increase numbers so it doesn't appear to be about money it doesn't appear to be about reducing numbers because everyone who

knows anything about trophy hunting knows that that's not a population control measure so my question is what is it about outer stands that the president of what's one other documents he wants there to be a so it's a sovereignty issue he's been very democratic he's reached out to the communities to n.g.o.s to experts in the country and has come to this decision but i think you have to recognize that while he is entirely inside to manage what's one of the population in the way that he sees fit countries that import trophies are also entitled to say no they will not allow the import of elephant trophies into their countries such as the united kingdom and met with michael gove's the environment secretary only a few days ago pressed him to ban the import of elephant trophies not just from botswana but from all other countries not possibly doing the same with the european union but at other prices.

this is al jazeera a quick time out of the headlines for you know indian prime minister narendra modi's governing party has claimed a landslide victory in the biggest election on earth arrives at the party's headquarters where he is thank supporters for giving him a 2nd chance. during my campaign i appealed to the people to vote for the b.g. for a new india they have responded to my appeal and i am humbled i bow my head and thank them all. well earlier we heard from the main opposition challenger rob hogan's a who congratulated muti on the results many campaign. during the campaign i said the people will decide who will rule the country and they have made a decision so firstly let me congratulate prime minister modi i must also thank my party workers for putting up a tough fight a battle is of ideology and vision and the people seem to have chosen to be j.p.

what we're saying is on their way to in the european union to elect members all 3 european parliament's between now and sunday people from 28 nations will choose any piece to represent them the u.k. and the netherlands are the 1st countries to vote. chinese president has been tearing factories in china which make products vital to western electronics firms the trip is seen as a message to washington as the next possible front in the china u.s. trade or where earth minerals are key to a variety of products including smartphones electric car engines and military equipment it's believed china controls as much as 85 percent of the global rare arsons astri. now a country that's home to nearly a 3rd of africa's elephants decided to lift the ban on hunting that's one us government says they've increased in number in recent years it's a point where they're threatening the life of the heads of small scale farmers

conservationists estimate there are around $130000.00 elephants in the country well those are the headlines these continue after earthrise stay with us. climate change is an existential threat to life on earth. the world health organization predicts that in 30 years it will be directly responsible for the

deaths of over $250000.00 people each year. many fewer governments of failing to respond and it's unlikely that the paris agreement targets of keeping the global temperature rise below 2 degrees centigrade will be mat's. put to time and pressure groups believe change is possible to seeking to push urgent environmental action to the top of the political agenda. and these movements gathering momentum. i mean are all tore and you ask workers are dying activists pushing for a radical shift in government policy in order to avert a climate crisis and i don't like the carbon in the u.k. and i've come to learn c about movement known as extinction with eliot whose members believe that the only route to environmental change is to a people's rights. fearful for the planet they owe and heritage young people around the world are

standing up and demanding a better future in the u.s. a growing and passionate group of youth is campaigning for urgent environmental action in the forcing the. we're talking you know even how. much. this is to summarize movement. in a speech just 2 years this group of activists most of whom are under 30 has grown 210-0000 members on the. earth but not with the miners. their strategy is clear to hot climate change by working within the system and lobbying politicians into pushing through legislative and economic briefing. i've come to boston to find out how the sunrise movement has become a force to be reckoned with in u.s. politics. leading the charge is 26 year old partially percussion.

while studying in massachusetts she joined the university's fossil fuel divestment campaign before co-founding sunrise in 2015. so you've been at the sunrise movement from the very beginning what made you started a number of us young people all under the age of 30 were saying that the hurricanes were getting bigger the fire seasons were getting longer and the floods were getting bigger but there wasn't a movement big enough for young people to win sure that we had a habitable planet for our future generations q talk more about why you feel you need to actually write now so scientists are telling us right now that we have just 12 years to make unprecedented changes to transform every part of our economy and our society today carbonized to get off fossil fuels to invest in or an old bowls and to protect life and human civilization on this planet as we know it and yet our politicians have not done what's necessary they have not built and garnered the

political will that we need and people are dying as a result. of the heart of this and our strategy is the green new deal. a radical environmental change policy the idea for which was conceived in the u.s. in the 1960 s. . the deal's goal is to completely transform the u.s. economy by ending its dependency on fossil fuels investing instead in renewable energy and creating jobs in the process. the green new deal is massive economic mobilization at a scale that we have not seen in this country since world war 2 that is an effort to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs. i'm curious to find out whether real political change is possible with people power alone particularly by those so young. i've come to the sunrise boston.

there are 204 hubs like this spread across the nation. here every month 60 sunrise members gather to share experiences and get behind the cause. welcome to our 2nd husband. i mean i guess it's the way. they're. every thing. that. i get that was. the hubs give people of all backgrounds an opportunity to come together and voice their concerns every single person who decided to come on the scene and say as a part of this movement as a part of this greater moment in history these are young people need to be heard it's precisely with us and we're teenage. girls. and they want to take positive steps to fix the world we live in bristol ahead of the

folks watching what does. the hops listen to breakout group. where they plan their next actions or do we think will actually make high schoolers and list we just posts like their green background or the words like bring new deal and put a link in our body or something i don't interact so feel free to ignore me dear friends in high school care about climate change because of people i know know that climate change is an issue that that's not a debate to debate is how willing they are to get and i think a lot of young people don't feel like they have the power at all to make any change if we actually come together which totally can change so many things i thought i was coming into a meeting and it's really a lot more than that there is energy. there and gauge you feel this sense of urgency it's not just 6 days reality for them this is are you sure you can feel

like they're. so for all their passion how effective a son has actually been. marshallese invited me to her to show the impacts on rice's had in the top tiers of power. so this was from our 1st action at nancy pelosi office in washington d.c. and as you can see there's literally hundreds of young people lining up the halls and they're carrying signs that say what is your plan our ultimate goal was to share our vision of what the green new deal is all about looking at this or seems to be a sort of plan of action right there's a there's a style that sunrise is using to achieve your goals we're really trying to embody the fact that we are young people fighting for our future and we wanted to be joyous and we wanted to be raucous and we wanted to be serious and we wanted to be

determined and resolved. say that older generations chronic inactivity on environmental issues is inexcusable. the united states will be all implementation of the non-binding paris accord the current republican government refuses to even acknowledge there is a problem so sunrise believe they must act to make change happen that is the lie that can stop here right now and they are being heard the green generation risen a growing number of democrat senators now support the green new deal and sunrise have found influential political allies in socially conscious representatives like alexandria ocasio cortez this is right before representative of causing cortez unprecedentedly joined us on her 1st day of orientation as the new congresswoman to say that we have nancy pelosi in the democratic party's back in pushing for the

most progressive and ambitious energy agenda this country has ever seen this about you know the stuff here and this stuff back here for you me that you. know that it will. but firm opposition to the green new deal remains on the 26th of march 2019 a draft of the deal was mostly rejected by the republican controlled senate how did you feel when the resolution got voted down in the senate the goal of the resolution is for it to be a statement of values to chart a blueprint to lay out the projects of what would be included within the green deal we need an attitude shift we need to put into gear and into momentum these big ideas so that we can write the policy over the next year and get these things to pass. the sunrise aimed to create momentum for their cause by directly lobbying

political leaders to do it very do. sean and his team plan to doorstep andrea campbell the president of boston city council. the gold states get to decide to go fossil fuel body which got it later down the road will work with her several other cultures to craft a resolution for a greener deal that's going to pass the city council. that's the way it's going. the 1st step for the group is to encourage politicians to sign a pledge promising that they will refuse money from possible companies who want them to act in their interests. over $1400.00 politicians have signed so far. as we approached the council president's office i'm struck by this group's confidence they walk straight in. just to meet you and your notion of measure to me you were here to ask you if you could sign the no fossil fuel money pledge absolutely i mean i will say before i even you know sign this thank you for

your advocacy. work this stuff doesn't happen by accident if people aren't showing up so happy simply just to pay happy to do this i just want to say thank you. so it's not just a movement where there and confronting a lot of hostility they're actually getting support and encouragement and warmth really from politicians and. i think we lead by example and i know i do and so by saying let's do this signing on and committing we hope that others will follow our lead it's impressive to see these young people having genuine success in the halls of power having meetings like this is really refreshing because it shows that we do have allies out there that we can be working within the system to promote change that we want to see in the world and this job if you look at. the sunrise movement is clearly influential and it's getting results where it matters most. their ultimate goal is to convince the majority of congressmen and women to sponsor the

green new deal. so when the next government is elected in 2020 the bill has the weight of support to make it policy to summarize movement as a. asking for a lot and they're asking for it quickly critics say they're too idealistic but for a problem as massive as climate change if we do need ambitious radical solutions now. past today's environmentalist site risings of the past is proof that incredible social change really is possible. in 1000 i see the suffragettes come paint for women to have the rights to folks with a rallying cry of deeds not words they often resort to extreme acts. at some racecourse family davidson even gave her life for the course. these tactics worked in 1020 eight's women one equals.