rely on they just renewed the free trade agreement with the u.s. and canada. and that is supposed to you know eliminate all there is between the 3 countries so i don't know what they're hoping for but i know they put themselves in a weak spot obviously at the margin there is there are things they could do they can try to enforce the their their own southern border but ultimately what the u.s. is asking them to do is to turn themselves into some sort of east germany where they they build walls and whatever else to make it impossible to leave mexico and that seems. completely reasonable the band to make well let's not take a closer look at the escalating trade war between the u.s. and china beijing is imposing tariffs ranging from 5 to 25 percent on $60000000000.00 worth of american imports it's also planning to unveil a list of foreign companies that it considers unreliable seen as a response to u.s.

attempts to block the global expansion of chinese tech giant while away and china is threatening to restrict exports of rare earth minerals that many u.s. companies rely on and a tongue in is a china analyst and economist he says china is responding carefully in order to avoid hurting its own people. for china they see this is a multi front case of the united states taking security and trade and politics and combining them in and all kind of pressure front donald trump seems to be taking a blunderbuss or a shotgun to these particular issues not only in china but around the world for china it's much more of a issue of a rifle what they're doing is they're being instituted new tariffs today but those are very carefully calibrated to make sure that this is not going to rebound or there will be very little effect on chinese consumers there are no winners in a trade war and in this particular case it's not only the u.s.

and china involved it will be the whole world because what you're starting to see is this kind of contagion which is going to affect not only companies in the u.s. but other places if china goes ahead with any kind of reduction in the numbers of in the amounts of rare earths that are going to the united states that could be very very damaging specially over the short term it's very difficult to see how this is going to end if this kind of tit for tat thing goes on but beneath all of this it seems to be a tremendous amount of anger and concern in the united states i think mostly driven by the fact that over the last 30 years 90 percent of the american public has experienced 8.4 percent decrease in their real income meanwhile during that same period the u.s. was the lion's share of 2 thirds of the world's profits which are flowing to the developed world it just seems that this is that china is feels that it's being

singled out. plenty more ahead on this news hour including a disgruntled employee is named as the suspected gunman in the united states west mass shooting the cia plus. i'm jim allen dogon reporting from yami island or mobile it's on the northernmost tip of the philippines we'll tell you how the philippine military is efforts to build a defense zone here in greatly influenced other territories in the south china sea . victims of a canadian genocide that's how a landmark government inquiry will describe counted as missing or murdered indigenous women the report leaked to the media looks into the deaths and disappearances of $1200.00 indigenous women since 1980 but the exact number is the ought to be much higher and blames deep rooted colonialism and state action for a disproportionate level of violence faced by indigenous women founded in us women

make up 4 percent of canada's population but account for up to 24 percent of homicide victims more than 2000 witnesses took part in the inquiry into tng survivors and relatives of the missing women she have a chance he has more from also. the commission is in charge of this inquiry said they're going to talk about the findings of their report until monday when the report is officially released at the building behind me they say that's in deference to the thousands who took part in the inquiry and meetings around the country over 2000 people sharing what they call the truth is with the commission has some who called for the inquiry some of those in the indigenous community have welcomes the use of the word genocide but the same question that hung over this inquiry when it began hangs over it now now or so this isn't the 1st inquiry in the problems plaguing indigenous communities in canada we've had several in the past

that do seem to come up with the same convergence of factors social and economic exclusion official racism official violence official indifference the cultural war that was declared on in addition to just communities in canada but in the past off those reports despite promises from prime minister justin trudeau just 3 years ago after the truth and reconciliation commission to implement all the recommendations off the inquiry of the commission nothing or very little has actually happened the question this time around once again is so what's going to be different this time once again prime minister today says he will implement some 125 recommendations in this report but it is difficult to believe. now police in the u.s. state of virginia say the suspected gunman in friday's mass shooting appeared to have courses weapons legally the way in cradock was an engineer for the city of virginia beach police say he shot and killed 12 of his coworkers and the west mass shooting in the u.s. this year how does a pastor. the community of virginia beach

remembers the 12 killed in friday's attack the military veteran who worked for 28 years as a city engineer the contractor visiting the government building to file a permit to their families to their friends and to their coworkers. they leave a void that we will never be able to feel police say the shooter was doing craddick he'd been working in the public utilities department for 15 years and had no criminal record police declined to give a possible motive officers killed craddock at the scene although they didn't have. engaged with him once they are identified him he identified. we immediately returned fire the weapon was a $45.00 caliber handgun with a silencer and magazine extenders such extenders were once banned in the us but

became legal again in 2004 democratic presidential hopefuls expressed outrage on twitter calling for more gun control but as images of the newest mass shooting played out on american television screens the public remains divided on what to do next. guns don't kill people people kill people. such attitudes still dominate washington where republicans swayed by the powerful n.r.a. gun lobby have consistently fought to preserve gun ownership rights i'm just going through a lot of emotion because it's way too much killing going on and i'm just glad that they alert. enough time the thoughts and prayers continue to pour in adding drops to a sea of grief in a nation where the pace of these mass shootings has dramatically accelerated but the political will to stop them has not. castro al-jazeera virginia beach virginia . the philippines is building its 1st military base on its northernmost island it's

uninhabited and taiwan is just a sea kilometers away jamila traveled with the philippine military young island and tells us why it's considered so important. people here say it's talked about like mythical islands in the children's book a place. so remote many thought there was no way to get there. but the philippine military invited us on the trip. and after almost 2 days of travel we finally arrived at the island. yami is also known as. the northernmost to put the philippines taiwan. for the last 2 years the philippine military has been quietly building a maritime zone here it's not in a contested area as it's well within the philippines exclusive economic zone but the philippine military is thinking ahead to.

the very. other naval forces. yummy the island is highly strategic it's facing a key waterway that connects the pacific ocean the east china sea and the south china sea at a time when the administration is highly criticized for its. braving the rough seas. has been fishing here for more than 50 years he says foreign poachers with larger fishing vessels have been bullying local fishermen like him

for decades he says he is grateful for the shelter that's been built here for them . for more i never imagined that this was possible in my lifetime before. foreigners throw dynamite in front of us. food security is a growing issue not just in the philippines but in a region with competing claims over territorial waters and analysts sea this may well be the next flashpoint. as the flag is raised and the national anthem reverberates on this now occupied island the philippine navy promises to increase its patrols here on the northern front. dogon al jazeera mobilise island northern philippines. the british government says it's intercepted 9 boats carrying dozens of migrants trying to cross the english

channel says it's a record number of vessels attempting the crossing in a single day the 74 migrants are undergoing medical examinations and or therapy is our working to establish their nationalities. and u.s. president on track to arrives in the u.k. on monday kicking off his 3 day state visit but he's already making has presence felt by wading into the conservative party's leadership contest reports from london . president trump has a keen interest in power who has it who hasn't he also has his own ideas on the next british prime minister in an interview with the sun newspaper this is what he said about the export and secretary and hardline boris johnson i. know they're different but i think. they could be. had he also said he didn't think johnson's well publicized extramarital affairs would harm his chances johnston's been complementary of donald trump's presidency in recent months but when he was

mayor of london he was anything like how times change i would invite him to come and see the whole of london and take him around the city except that i wouldn't want to expose londoners to any unnecessary risk of meeting donald trump. foreign secretary jeremy hunt another leadership contender also got the trump seat of approval because of his pledge to spend more on defense the right but it thumbs down for environment secretary michael gove the leadership front runner who recently accused trump of saber rattling over his iran policy trump's words fall short of a full endorsement of johnson but they've been seen as a bombshell intervention in british domestic politics and a breach of diplomatic protocol also claims that other leadership contenders have approached him asking for his public support the guessing game over who these contenders are has already begun all in all the u.s.

president believes that he has the potential power to impact who will be the next occupant of number 10 downing street it is a crowded contest with 12 m.p.'s vying to replace to reason may the race may be on . with may will still be prime minister during trump's 3 day state visit to the u.k. beginning monday to resume i am boris johnson of had a fractious relationship over breaks it. also told the sun he was really loved in britain given the huge demonstrations during his working visit last year including the appearance of this claim may be up for debate the barca al-jazeera london. and still ahead on al-jazeera missing and mexico respond to the families of victims and behind the violence. and getting slapped around one found on the west of a cyclist after causing him to cross more with mia enforce.

the web than sponsored by cattle and ways. very persistent areas of rain a string of showers exists across china extends back into his vietnam and myanmar down the main mar and it's not particularly us you see from the lack of cloud but on the chinese and 70 to 90 minute meeting study typical in 24 hours from ground 0 and northwards now that us repeats for and probably will be repeated come sunday and indeed monday so humid often wet in hong kong same shares of in for john as well shankar is looking fine and not green light extends down towards vietnam exactly as you might expect pretty persistent for the next couple of days. of all this is a huge amount of cloud and much of malaysia in southeast asia there are showers not

as heavy as those in china for the most part that are there all the same indonesia looking largely dry good for talking and i've been singapore's in the showers and kale not far away from it i have to say but further west is west is still. as the monsoon sinks about gastric now it's not coming in yes a little bit late there are big showers ahead of it for example this massive cloud his just on the borders bangladesh in one of the wettest parts of the world 162000000 bases. but the heat is still building to the north we're now above 50. the weather sponsored by cattle and ways. the pollution is palpable. delis shares the symptoms of many modern metropolis but it's unique features of be gotten a crisis. people in power investigates the toxic mix feeding the city's invisible killer and asks why more is not being done to relieve its citizens the least

deadly air on the jersey of. a journey of personal discovery by a great grandfather he was a slave of the lead property al-jazeera is james gannon expose his family's legacy to the slave ownership you know like my family status and wealth has benefited from their choice to enslave people and america's debt to the black people today some over soul star we even ski the speak out this is a problem. al-jazeera correspondent a moral debt. and

again i'm. reminded of the news this hour one person has been killed and 10 others injured in saddam's capital after security forces opened fire on protesters they've been camped outside the military headquarters for weeks demanding a civilian government. mexico's president has hinted that his country could tyson migration controls to diffuse u.s. president donald trump's threat to impose tariffs on mexican goods meanwhile american ports have started collecting 25 percent tariffs on several goods coming from china. and a national inquiry into missing on murdered indigenous women in canada has described them as victims of a genocide a government investigation looked into more than 1000 deaths or disappearances since the 1980 s. . well it's been 6 months since mexican president under lopez obrador came to power now one of his main challenges tackling the violence that's plagued his country for more than a decade has also made the issue of missing people

a priority 40000 people have disappeared in mexico since 2006 that means each year more than 3000 people are reported missing 26000 bodies remain unidentified and morgues and other locations and well over 300 bodies have been found in more than 200 hidden graves in the last 6 months alone as part of our special series marking 6 months of operators government john heilemann travel to send a lower to talk to the victims and perpetrators of mexico's violence. loose movie is sifting through the mud from the bottom of the canal trying to find the remains of her son he's been missing since armed men burst into his house and took him away that was 5 years ago finding pieces of his body is probably the closest to closure . to think about. my wife's gone through a 360 degree spin i don't have peace i can't sleep you're waiting for someone to

come and tell you is there he was dumped here but 1000 questions were no answers. those questions are being asked by groups of relatives who are scouring the country looking for the 40000 missing the 1st time we had the chance to put those questions to a man who admits disappearing people he works for the signal lower cartel i asked him why they hide their victims the answer he says is simple we're more than without a body there's no crime that's why nobody knows we're. it's a common belief in mexico's criminal world it's not completely accurate but the lack of a body doesn't make any murder investigation much harder but that's not the only reason gangsters disappear people it's also meant as a warning to kruger we have a saying it's a dodgy business but we play straight so when someone's given a chance to work on his own to sell the product they don't pay their dues we make

an example of them and say the other's work rate well the same is going to happen to you oh no but of course many of those who disappear in mexico as simply innocent bystanders that hasn't stopped the gangs from inflicting on thousands of families and then ending punishment afterwards when you when you seen the results for the family how was that made you feel when they're still looking for their lost their lost relative and you know where they are when you know that at least they're dead but you don't tell them i mean how does it feel remorse. it's something that we know was painful for the families sometimes they come and ask us and i know where their relative is but i can't tell them because i'll probably end up just like the victims maybe you feel bad because they could be your friends or people you know but there's nothing you can do. now the government has a new plan to find the disappeared it's said on limited funds will be made available to searching the forensic facilities to identify bodies. but that won't

take away the motivation for criminal groups and certain authorities to hide their victims while that remains so too will these desperate search is a lost loved ones john home and i would visit a similar and on sunday we'll have more in our special series on the 6 months of the lopez obrador presidency well look at the steps the mexican government is taking to stem the soaring madder rate 20112018 was the most violent here since records began in mexico with 30000 killings. to syria now where government forces backed by russia have bombed several rebel controlled areas in the northwest airstrikes hit the city of as a red than the west and aleppo countryside as well as several towns and hum of province activists also reported bombings south of it led opposition fighters have been pushed back as far as the area you can see here hundreds of people have been

killed since last month including $130.00 children according to the u.n. the world food program says more than $300000.00 people have been displaced by fighting camps are overcrowded and surprise are running low the u.n. has warned that fighting is putting humanitarian operations at risk corrina fleisher is the country director of the world food program in syria she says civilians fleeing is led by in a dire situation we are witnessing a catastrophic on fooling lives are being lost people must flee conflict there on the mall that displaced civilian infrastructure is being destroyed and now we also see farmland being destroyed which will have an impact on food security beyond repair $300000.00 people have been displaced mostly moving from the south of the north of palm arthel we're north and camps and all the program has been able to reach 190000 people with emergency systems which is food that can that is

can't and people can't eat on to. the situation is and it has to stop this is a very densely populated area and the camps are fool the people receive our tents from humanitarian partners but they have nowhere to pitch. you know one man told us that our partners that he has been on the move and he had to carry his aging and wounded mother for hours on his back until he found a vehicle to take. them or another woman is downing us that you know in a blink of an eye she has lost everything and her children i traumatized from the bombs and the shelling from the sky saw that people are moving north to woods to safety to which these camps but they don't find a place to tool to really settle even if temporarily but that while the program is

able to reach the camp with the lifesaving food assistance now muslims across the world are looking forward to celebrating the need festival and for some syrian refugees living in turkey the holiday will be extra special this year trying to reagan has more. heading home for aid for the 1st time in more than 80 years the syrian refugees who have been living in turkey arrive at syria's bab al salam a border crossing in northern aleppo province. among them is abdul razak and his family can understand about the year we have been looking forward to spending the holidays at home who requested a 15 day permit and we hope you will be able to see how parents and other relatives we will be back after the holiday everything is official. buses have been transporting families from the turkish side of the crossing to the syrian side for the past 2 weeks around 1500 syrians have crossed every day i'm in

the. only $100.00 m. a fact we arrange for buses to transport them we have 10 approvals from the turkish authorities to transport syrian citizens inside turkey we've set up a dedicated immigration and cost port control hall we are not as many problems our citizens may face after registration they're taken on buses into syria and then on to their respective hometowns. the countryside in northern aleppo province is now considered stable of the turkish military operations which targeted i saw a fight is and kurdish forces. here out of further southwest in italy province however government forces a battling to retake the last stronghold of rebel forces many families traveling to aleppo from turkey for the ied holidays hope it won't be too much longer until they can return home permanently john kerry can al-jazeera. more than 45 palestinian

schoolchildren were killed by israeli fire last year and the occupied west bank now teachers and pupils are trying to find ways to protect themselves against potential violence from israeli settlers and security forces need to abraham reports from nablus. students he'd known when israeli settlers attacked their school village most of the occupied west bank classes to find safety but it's not always going to. people here say this happens regularly israeli settlers. stones at the school they shot this video november some students threw rocks back but witnesses say settlers are often armed and have the israeli arms protection this includes life and we created added he tells us an israeli settler shot him from a short distance a few months ago the damage to his arm could be permanent we're going to feel his saw we were in class when the settlers started throwing rocks and fire bombs at the

students started defending themselves as we were leaving the school some of the settlers were armed with weapons and sharp tools i was walking went to settle a shocked me with a life bullet that went into my arm such attacks have forced some students to study in other villages or drop out of school. miss with the subtle been a lot i was shocked by the declining number of students attending the school some parents say instead of losing their children to these attacks they protect them from harm and send them to the labor market and said to make money. students you know what if it did at least 14 times since the beginning of the school year the legal settlements are so close to means that this school is exposed to regular attacks yet this is not the only risk palestinian students have to face. children's rights organizations say students are being traumatized by school devilishness checkpoints and harassment this video shows 9 year old isn't it is being detained during a lesson this is really army told the children threw stones at israeli vehicles and

her parents. and it says it has moved choice but to interrogate an adverse children believes may be involved in violence but you are not going to zeeshan see attacks on schools both her clothes are increasing sometimes backed by israeli forces the military law as a whole is a system of control rather than a system of justice and this is what they want they want to control the daily life all activities of palestinian children personal adults and education is the main tool to control them he didn't leave school the turks could happen any minute what students and teachers try to keep their school life as normal as they can. the occupied west bank. now tanzania has become the latest country in africa to ban plastic bags the measure came into effect on saturday all imports sales and use of plastic bags are prohibited africa is leading efforts to tackle plastic pollution now with 34 countries and opposing restrictions well let's take

a quick look at some of the other countries who have adopted similar measures in 2002 bangladesh is said to be the 1st in the world to declare a ban on thin plastic bags the decision was made after it was found that the bags had a severe impact on the storm water drainage system that same year india passed a law to restrict plastic bag production before the ban about 20 cows died from ingesting plastic each day and it was an important reason hindu communities who view the animals as sacred and in china passed it bag waste became so widespread that many began using the term white pollution but a 4 ban was introduced in 2008 and since then plastic bag waste has dropped by more than 75. 5 percent that's about $40000000000.00 plastic bags will have to suffer it is an environmental policy specialist and she joins us via skype from the university of california in davis how did give us an idea of the scale of the problem of plastic pollution and just how much of a difference

a band like this makes. sirius's don't plastic pollution across the world is enormous there have been studies that have shown that asked to one example by 2050 were predicting that there would be more plastic in the ocean by weight. so it's crucial that countries do whatever they can to act to reduce the amount of plastic production and plastic consumption and to cut down on that and so plastic single use plastic bags are one of the most ubiquitous uses of plastic across the country in cross country and across the world in new york for instance billions of plastic bags are used every year and that's just one city so taking action to cut our lastic bags from the supply side can do a lot to cut down on that particular source of plastic region how'd that come about to africa how strictly is this ban in tanzania likely to be enforced in rwanda for instance they set your luggage at the airport for plastic bags they'll be doing the same thing in tanzania yeah in tanzania has a lot of their own state in this effort for 2 reasons 1st of all tanzania has

a large part of their national economy and vested interest them and when you have plastic bags that are littering the environment and hurt hurting local ecosystems hurting the wildlife that's going to hurt tanzania and a lot of qur'an as well plastic bags also have bad health effects a lot of waste is burned and when you burned out ways to create toxic fumes that can now bristly guys and human and help expert humans and help that's where the environment is you answer me has a lot at stake here and i'm looking forward to seeing them fall around as example in bali. and i believe the tanzania out of the manufacturing and distribution of plastic bags and 2017 and this new band doesn't include plastic packaging the medical services and products the construction industry agricultural sent to texas or a food processing how much of a difference will this actually make in terms of the volume of plastic waste in the country if you make a large difference i mean certainly whenever your clique you are putting one of these policies into effect you have to think about how you. balance the stringency

of the policy with the effects that it will have on industries across the board so when you're putting in this plastic bag ban you want to think about the or any exceptions that need to be made writable industries which tanzania is doing but even just cutting down on single use plastic bags for residential use should do quite a bit to cut down the volume of plastic waste again we see billions of single use plastic bags in use for shopping produced every year in you know just a few a couple cities and wow and so if you cut down on even just that and the other exceptions are worthwhile how i went out looking at 34 countries in africa this is been a challenge and terms of cutting down plastic pollution led by developing countries why is that in your mind and i think that's because we're seeing this inspiring example of the countries that are most affected by the issues being the 1st to act on them i also think about how our country and i'm in the shins are being some of

the 1st to act on climate change very seriously and ramping up their efforts to go 0 carbon to go 0 greenhouse gas emissions and that's because they know that most affected by it similarly here in tanzania a large part of tanzania's economy tenseness human help depends on cutting down pollution cutting down waste burning especially earning a wage that in harmful compounds like plastic bags that's not just the case for cans and yet that is for other african nations as well and so i think that's why we're seeing that charge start there had an environmental policy specialist speaking to us from the university of california thanks for sharing your expertise with us on out is there hanna having. a state funeral has been held in the democratic republic of congo have veteran opposition leader etienne tshisekedi tens of thousands of mourners joined african dignitaries and she's like a son who's now leading the country how to test the reports from concetta. supporters of 18 she said katie being the hero on home soil.