historic levels along the southern border of the united states and mexico overwhelming u.s. services but this is an issue that has been a problem in the united states for some 20 years that congress has also failed to address and that is something that the trumpet ministration is also pointing to namely his political opposition democrats for not doing more but we should point out in the midst of all of this even republicans members of the president's own party don't believe tariffs are the way to resolve this ongoing dispute there is fear this could hurt u.s. consumers u.s. businesses donald trump doesn't seem to be standing down though in fact just the opposite telling reporters today that he believes tariffs are a beautiful thing ok kimberly holcomb there in the washington d.c. thanks very much and. now the president of france is calling for global unity while praising multilateral organizations such as nato and the e.u. in manama my crew has been speaking at ceremonies commemorates the 75th anniversary

of its own day monday on the beaches of normandy. diversion means to see the film we must never allow the alliance of 3 peoples to die that's what the victors did assume is germany and japan capitulated when they created the united nations it's what the united states did when they created nato it's what european leaders did a few years later when they created the european union we must refine the meaning of the promise of normandy we must seize again this and gauge meant what we owe to our country what we owe to our alliance of states that share the same values democracy and freedom. still ahead on al-jazeera the russian president accuses the u.s. of avoiding talks on extending a major nuclear arms treaty. seeking answers in sri lanka security officials briefed on the positions on the easter sunday domains that left more than 250 people dead.

hello there we've seen some very heavy downpours over the southeastern parts of china recently and it does look like that what weather is going to stick around the satellite picture showing these bright white areas of cloud that have been developing and then marching their way eastwards and again this whole region is at risk of seeing yet more ferocious downpours as we head through friday and into saturday those downpours of also affecting us into the northern parts of it now as well as the one way is looking pretty soapy too meanwhile out towards the west and we've got some pretty monsoon showers here in the city big about this one a huge one over the eastern parts of indiana through bangladesh some of us have reported away over 100 millimeters of rain from this system there's also been this one over the southern parts of india and again this one's given us some very lively amounts of rain too this is going to stay fairly unsettled as we head through the next few days just pre one seem showers here to the north just staying hot so neck

poor 46 force in new delhi around 45 as we head into saturday so not quite as high as it has been but still incredibly helpful as we head across towards doha hope for us to our temperatures over 40 comfortably at the moment and staying that way as we head through the next few days so around the south coast of yemen there's more in the way of cloud that is likely to give us some more violent thunderstorms this saturday. 115000000 trees disappeared. every year into the clothing that we all wear from uk cycling to save the forests the famous yellow dress fades from blue jeans. to conserving the world's dwindling wetlands 3 of the aids world's global bird migration watch intersect right where we are the basic discovered a treasure trove it is one of the most special low clouds on the planet after ice

ecosystems elaborate on al-jazeera. here with al-jazeera quick to mind over the top stories for you this hour the african union has suspended sudan in response to the crackdown on protesters by the military jointer more than 100 people were killed as paramilitaries broke up a protest camp. president donald trump is calling for mexico to take more action to curb migration at the southern u.s. border x. can and u.s. officials will continue trade talks in washington in an effort to strike a deal that would satisfy trump he stressed uncertain post tariffs on mexico if it

does not limit the flow of migrants. and the president of france is calling for global unit seymour praising multilateral organizations such as nato and the e.u. emanuel mike ross to be speaking at ceremonies to commemorates the 75th anniversary of the d.-day landings on the beaches of normandy. now russia's president is warning the treaty with the u.s. on limiting the number of nuclear weapons is at risk of breaking down speaking as an economic forum and petersburg that's a person accuse the americans of backtracking on the start treaty he also warned the u.s. against military intervention in venezuela mistresses cars and. we have said a 100 times that we are ready for talks on extending the new start nuclear arms reduction treaty but no one is holding any talks with us in the goetia process hasn't been arranged all and then 2021 will be over should we draw your attention

to the fact that we will no longer be any instruments limiting the arms race will step in the has all the latest forms in petersburg. president putin has used this forum here in st petersburg to lash out again against the united states and the breakdown of nuclear forces treaties there were 2 major treaty still in place but the one the intermediate forces treaty has collapsed earlier this year because the u.s. is. accusing russia of violating the treaty then there's one other treaty still in place which is the new start treaty and that's the one last standing treaty to protect people against a nuclear war in the world so it's very crucial that this is going to be really negotiated and putin has been asking the united states to open these negotiations for a while now and he said there was a little room when he talked to president trump on the phone earlier and it was also some discussion about it when michael bay you visited russia a few weeks ago but now he says nobody is talking to me meaning that no negotiation

no negotiations have started basically that. threat to global security and he sat at this forum of course there's a lot of lot of topics being discussed but he also talked about venezuela still supporting my dual saying that this opposition leader would be a disaster for the country yes touched upon so many topics but of course the main guest here is the president teaching ping from china he brought a huge delegation of a 1000 delegates to the meeting here lots of deals have also been signed and will be signed between russia and china here at the forum in germany a hospital nurse who murdered dozens of his patients with lethal injections has been sentenced to life in prison. is believed to be germany's most prolific serial killers in modern history known to have killed 85 patients they suspect he may have selected more than 200 victims at random to mccain has more

from berlin. in passing its verdict on new year's hogle the court said that the crimes he committed for a particular gravity of guilt in other words that he could not expect this life sentence to have any parole that he would spend the rest of his life in custody point here is that he has been in custody already for 14 years having been arrested 1st in the middle of the last decade in 2005 the point with these $85.00 he had already admitted last year many of these charges saying he had killed these people but he couldn't couldn't recall entirely all the details of the cases for the families of his victims this does bring finality they now know that german law has found this man guilty of killing their loved one but for the prosecution in this case they now say they want to focus their attentions on those in the hospitals where mr hogle worked what was their role were they in some sense culpable for

allowing him to carry out the activities that he did. in sri lanka m.p.'s investigating the easter sunday church and hotel bombings have been told that repeated warnings were received including one just before the attacks happened itself member special parliamentary committee had had the director of state intelligence made phone calls warning that something was about so happened with the 250 people were killed in the coordinated attacks in april which are blamed on a group lengths to eisele an al francis has more from colombo. the 3rd day of the special parliamentary select committee on the easter sunday bombings has been hearing from the police chief inspector general. for the last couple of ours he has been coming out with some interesting information we've heard about the timeline leading up to that easter sunday carnage now there are things that beggar believe

familiar centrally intelligence warnings repeated intelligence warnings that kind of knowledge of something impending something big about to happen that the security the intelligence arms knowing it but not doing anything about it the police chief said the director of the state intelligence had called in the night before these to sunday bombings to say something dangerous could happen tomorrow he called again on easter sunday morning saying something dangerous is about to happen the question is now what exactly was done about these things we also had the police chief talking about all the information that was available he's also basically told the select committee that the president repeatedly asked him to resign going as far as to say that he was offered an ambassador post in exchange for his resignation so as we continue with the hearing we've also got the former defense secretary here mr him a set of financial who will go before the committee shortly. palestinians are

accusing israeli settlers of setting fartsy hundreds of olive trees in the occupied west bank either abraham reports from the town or. olive trees that have been here for the past 60 years have turned into ashes after the recent arson and village north of the occupied west bank. israeli settlers were seen attacking the school in the village ahead of the fires locals say they started it they will submit the surveillance camera footage to the israeli police but they don't expect a fair trial has been that they it's difficult to imagine that they would hold certain layers accountable usually the israeli justice system stands by the settlers the phrase deterrence from the israeli forces and police they wouldn't repeat their attacks every year there's a problem of the sort and. human rights organizations say less palestinians are reporting settler attacks and accuse the israeli system of biased towards settlers there is really a human rights organization yes dean says that 93 percent of cases regarding olive

trees attacks were closed due to israeli police investigation fear people here say that secular violence and lack of accountability are meant to establish feed and push palestinians out of their lands they believe that this will help the expansion of illegal israeli settlements members of the united nations security council are due to hear more about last month's oral tanker attacks of the coast of the united arab emirates america sees saudi arabia and snow waging diplomats are expected to make an informal briefing iran rejects accusations that iranian mines likely caused the tanker damage saudi arabia is reported to have improved its ballistic missile capability by buying technology from china a us media report cites 3 on name sources for the previously on reported classified intelligence it describes a suspected missile factory west of the capital riyadh president donald trump is

accused of not scores in the intelligence to congress which is infuriating democrats as trump refuses to rule out military action with iran the saudi missile reports heightens concerns of a middle east arms race edge and brian has more from beijing. the comments from china's foreign ministry were significant on thursday because earlier this year the chinese government denied helping saudi arabia develop its missile technology but now on thursday a spokesman for the foreign ministry confirmed that actually the cooperation between china and saudi arabia in this area was now quite strong china has been selling missile technology to saudi arabia since the late eighty's that was when it sold them the dung fung 3 medium range missile then a few years ago china sold the saudi arabians the dung func $21.00 long range missile and that was part of an arms package worth more than $100000000000.00 so

it's quite clear that saudi arabia is becoming a very important customer for chinese arms and of course the united states also sells a lot of arms to saudi arabia now the foreign ministry media briefing on thursday i also spokesman. how china was helping saudi arabia develop its ballistic missiles program it was interesting there was like a a 15 2nd delay between my question and his answer as he looked on his desk to find his prepared answer because this was a question he was expecting here's what he had to say. the chinese government has always opposed the use of weapons of mass destruction as well as their proliferation trying to has been very strict with its export of missile technology to china and saudi arabia are strategic cooperation partners we've maintained good cooperation in many fields including the arms trade and this cooperation does not

violate any international law and does not involve any proliferation issues of weapons of mass destruction so what china was a century saying on thursday was this the weapons that china sells to saudi arabia are not defined by china as being weapons of mass destruction are china right now is the world's 5th. largest arms exports are the middle east is becoming an increasingly important market for china and of course when it comes to the middle east china has pulled off something of a country trick because it has very good relations with saudi arabia very good relations with iran and very good relations with israel now architects from around the world are meeting in las vegas at the american american institute of architects conference to discuss the latest trends in design and form well this year's theme is blueprints for a better future and it seems that words may play a leading bow john hendren has this report if

a new generation of rogue architects has their way the era of the concrete and steel skyscraper might be over the future they say lies in a millennia old building material would be challenges actually believe it or not not structural it's more of a psychological barriers of getting over there were working in the new buildings are made with cross laminated timber stronger because the layers of wood are stacked in opposite directions check knology has been used for years in europe wooden buildings like the airy 80 story river beach project in chicago might just be a blueprint for a new era in architecture the reason this is kind of exploding right now is because it's an engineered what technology that uses small diameter trees but are combined to make massive panels. wooden buildings go up faster and cheaper a concrete floor takes at least 2 weeks to dry for each story timber weighs 80 percent less than concrete so it takes fewer trucks to deliver the wood which is

cut in the factory in snaps together with not a saw on site but there's another more pressing reason to use wood timber buildings are greener both ice caps are melting and storms are getting worse it we all have to step forward and do what we can and in my profession what i can do is change my material choice for what i'm going to build with and build with something that's more socially and environmentally responsible the manufacture of concrete and steel emits planet warming carbon dioxide would absorbs carbon actually cleaning the air i fell in love with a building i love their windows the view is at 29 meters this is the tallest cross laminated timber building in the united states but the architect who designed it is already designing another one at 137 meters and he says with these materials the sky's the limit the growing industry faces to nagging questions is it

deforesting the planet they say by using smaller trees from certified renewable forests there would supply is sustainable what about fire architects a wooden buildings can be as fire safe as any other is treated mass timber char's rather than burns. the biggest open question is whether builders and consumers will buy into the idea of living in a wooden building towering into the sky john hendren 0 portland oregon. well remember you can find lots more on our website that is of course al jazeera dot com. this is al jazeera and the other top stories the african union has suspended siddons membership in response to the crackdown on protesters by the military jinsa

more than 100 people have been killed since monday to a youth says they are investigating the deaths go through for that besides that should it's a military council feared to hand over power to civilian authority without any affordably. automatically impose predictive measures on individuals and entities that out of stocks in the establishment of a signal that. mexico's president says he feels confident an immigration deal can be reached with the u.s. to prevent donald trump from living heavy tariffs next week trump is calling for mexico to take more action to curb migration at the southern u.s. border and stressing to impose tariffs by monday if mexico does not limit the flow of migrants. i'm calling all the mexican people from all classes sectors and cultures to rally in defense of mexican dignity and in

favor of friendship with the people of the united states. saudi arabia is reported to have improved its ballistic missile capability by buying technology from china a us media report says there's a suspected missile factory west of the capital riyadh donald trump is accused of not disclosing the intelligence to congress in contrast trump is refusing to rule out military action with iran for its weapons program. russia's president wants a treaty with the u.s. on limiting the number of nuclear weapons is at risk speaking as an economic forum instant petersburg vladimir putin accused accused america of backtracking on the starts treaty he also warned the us against military intervention in venezuela and the president of france is calling for global unity while praising multilateral organizations such as nato and the e.u.

the man or micro made the comments ceremonies see mark the 75th anniversary of the d.-day landings. to cope with our growing population we have tripled our exploitation of natural resources in just 40 years as

a result of the vast expansion of mining industrial scale farming fishing and other human activities natural ecosystems have lost nearly half the area and $1000000.00 plant and animal species a facing extinction without the ecological networks which regulate our planet's from cleaning and water to providing food we simply cannot survive but there is still time we meet the pioneers striving to protect 2 of our most valuable remaining ecosystems. britain sweden where an inventive clothing company is using groundbreaking technology to fight the forestation and i'm a man to borrow in tacking where one man is fighting to protect a wetlands haven for migrating birds why.

the fashion industry is worth $1.00 trillion dollars every year textile manufacturers make billions of garments why only be worn once a choice before ending up. in landfills the so-called fast fashion is incredibly resource intensive and perhaps surprisingly one of the key trial is biodiversity loss and deforestation. i'm in sweden where one company is working on a green solution to this global problem but 1st i want to understand the impact of fast fashion. so just 20 kilometers of states is to try to meet in the forest a forest that we're on our way there to meet the cool write a book she's conservationist and she's on a mission to protect against forests around the world to them it's. great to see to see you thanks so much we come to stockholm to do a story about fashion why every night for it so there's 115000000 trees that disappear every year into the clothing that we all wear and slated to double within

the next decade i've never heard of that connection between the train and the fashion and then a 4th street yeah well it's not an intuitive like that something that soft and silky next to risk and actually it starts off as a tree many of these trees come from endangered forests thousands of years old known as primary forests around the world 50 percent already being lost due to human impacts such as logging. nicole brown's canopy an organization dedicated to protecting those still remains it's a complete breakdown of the ecological function of the area and is a massive release of carbon into the atmosphere and disrupts species have attacks even though trees can grow back ancient and in danger of farce or clay simple. after the forest to clear the wood is poked and processed into fabrics called rail

and viscous but it's shockingly wasteful. as much as 70 percent of the harvested wood is dumped or incinerated. just 30 percent ends up in the gods to be where. kind of people works with businesses that source from primly forests to point to green alternatives one of their main focal points is the global fashion industry what's your strategy how you're going to make a difference in this my experience is that it's some of the speed global brands they have the ability to actually engage their suppliers to stop them from logging in ancient and endangered forest ecosystems and if we can redirect it to be more sustainable now using recycled fabrics rather than ending up in landfill and for the current capacity that's already in production let's just make sure it's not coming from really important ancient endangered forest regions i lurk there so you're talking about kind of a 2 prong approach one is the kind of conservation stopping that deforestation in

the 1st place and the 2nd one is this recycling element so reusing what's already been produced so that's a big priority for canopy is to really help kick start commercial scale production on things next generation solutions like recycled clothing being used a confession to make i have to get thermal because i was terrified we're going to freeze and i look to the label and the way here is that there is 3 percent this go there we go i wouldn't feel bad i was surprised when i 1st discovered the link between ancient and endangered far some discos. can appear helping to transform the fashion industry. one of their partners is a recycling company in the town of christian called you so. they've invented a pioneering technology that promises to transform textile manufacturing. it came of age in 2014 when a cap was modeled on that yellow dress made from 100 percent chemically recycled

fabrics the 1st time i. see your math is johnson is offered to show me how old works. starts right at the beginning yes this is the post consumer this is this is the blue jeans that people have a where the chair and them just both off so what's next for this it goes into our frederick that the protests and riots stage will be separate any home and then it goes into what stage we just sold it didn't just lowering that it would take out some of the color we believe and then we draw it what would be happening in itself if you guys weren't using it you approach it most of it would be a landfill or we're getting from evil no from you guys i think if we don't weed in the machine i don't know that to break down. every stage of the process is being carefully considered. the dyson chemicals are all recyclable. and the

water is we used to. after the drawing process the fabric is pristine packed into people like sheets. surprising to me they could be the end product this is what i found the basis on things i'm not a fan of that and that's one of those really good start for making people go for. this is to roma to you from which the fiscus fabric is plainly made. and this is the best job you can put it like a normal fiber then you don't go on but it could be woven into any our clothing. when we go here this is the famous yellow dress and this is the world's 1st chemically recycled piece of garment well ok it's made from blue jeans you know from the same stuff it doesn't look like it would be environmentally friendly garment this looks like any other garment you would see in the high street

absolutely and that's why we necessarily call this recycling we call it absolutely right. i'm inspired by. seen here when you sell hoping to open another 3 plants within the next 5 years manufacturers are taking steps towards reducing the pressure on primary forests for all this to make a real difference that needs to be demand and that demand starts here highstreet. we are aware that there is a connection between the fashion industry and deforestation actually do nothing to both of you know what briscoe's is. you know it's synthetic material right more yanick material and you know where it comes from no i know you're aware of this connection between the fashion industry and the forestation no i have no idea. but judging by these shoppers there's some way to go before awareness to drive to my.

goals organization kind of be working to bring suppliers like we knew so together with brands can stalk their products bake fashion brands they are driving a lot of the the problems that we're seeing how do you dress that sure seems to be a bit disconnected clothing touches all of our lives on a daily basis it produces 100000000000 gallons every year it has a big footprint and you can not have a big footprint when you're that big and it's exactly because of that reason that we need them to be part of the solution so it's fun to be here i think on on a high street name a tween and canopies brand partners kampala and who are part of $170.00 plus brands that we're working with in the fashion sector to transform the discourse on rails on change so he said you've been working with them and we see some of the stuff you've been working on yeah absolutely let's just go inside and have a look. kind of the success is growing all the time because who soon every

store will stock research clothing. so this is a frac of clothing that has a variety of different environmental quality so this. addict here is really interesting as far as you can tell just a pair of denim jeans has cut 20 percent recycled caught renu so we saw them producing a kind of a feedstock that was 100 percent recycled quote and you think we're going to get to that point i do and i think you know in the short term this is what's available today and when you sell is hopefully next season it's clothing so that this moves from having 20 percent recycled cotton to 100 percent recycled. recently partnered with 3 new cells to support continuing research this is part of the clothing joints plates to use 100 percent sustainably source of clothing by 2030 which should be praised the same cost as non-sustainable items and in-store customers are encouraged to drop of unwanted garments to be recycled by companies like what you

sell. i'm quite serious to see if there's anything in here if there's that's the only thing in your own look at that they can be any quotes they can be any brands of clothing we have been working with big global retailers and designers on ensuring that this recycling program actually continues to increase so that it gets fed back into the calling supply chain and ultimately becomes next season's fashion so literally a kind of closing loop that's where we want to get that's that's where we want to get to. discovering the link between the fashion industry and deforestation was deeply shocking i think with organizations like canopy and when you say oh raising awareness there is hope for the future it's a massive challenge but i think in the public are armed with the right information they'll be able to demand more from the retailer is and then we might see pressures forests stop being the victims of fashion.

ecosystems. are just like the systems of you but as long as they are looked after and managed well in the body is in good shape and if they're mismanaged and not cared for the body could potentially die. ecosystem collapse is akin to organ failure in our own bodies if enough of the organs that make up the terrestrial body are removed or are made sick the body dies the again the earth is no different. of us has a role to play in fixing this problem. we could have a world that is beautiful and vital and alive or one that is quite bleak.