that both sides are working on the outlines of a deal that would head off president trump's terror threats against mexico the reuters news agency citing an unnamed mexican official said that the american side has proposed that it be allowed to deport immigrants or migrants from guatemala immediately to mexico without offering them the customary asylum hearings once they get to the u.s. border but there is no agreement from the u.s. from the mexican side on that as of yet now president trump who was earlier on thursday in ireland spoke to reporters saying quote something pretty dramatic could happen so that's a hopeful sign in terms of. heading off this potential trade war it was but he was also very adamant about the june 10th deadline for imposing tariffs that's next month monday and his spokesperson sara sanders also said the u.s.

is standing firm on its demands no what the u.s. wants is for mexican authorities to do more to prevent migrants from guatemala el salvador honduras and other countries from passing through mexican territory en route to the united states where once they cross the border they customarily ask for asylum in this country what is president stressing that this is that one. well he's certainly playing hardball. as you know tariffs are a favorite tactic that president trump has used with china with european countries and now with mexico he believes in tariffs as an effective negotiating tool and that's despite opposition from lawmakers in his own party who are fearful of the economic effects of a trade war with mexico the president again speaking in ireland earlier on thursday

said those lawmakers quote don't know what they're talking about when it comes to tariffs also business groups in the u.s. are opposed to the potential tariffs they say they would disrupt manufacturing supply chains and leave u.s. farmers and other business is open to potential retaliatory measures from mexico mexico is the biggest trading partner with the u.s. at the moment and there are also many people who are pointing out that consumers in the united states would lose out too because they'd wind up paying more for mexican grown fruit and vegetables a host of products that americans are typically used to buying in their supermarkets that would become immediately more expensive but the president is not budging he's got a hard line on this of course immigration has been the centerpiece of his political appeal it's very important to his political base and i'm sure that the

news that the record numbers of over 100000 migrants crossing the u.s. border in the past month has made him quite upset and determined to try and do something thank you very much rob reynolds in washington let's head to mexico city john holliman is standing by there where authorities have announced what it controls and an effort to show that they are trying to tackle immigration tell us precisely what these measures involve john. well it's all pretty vague actually that was from the interior minister. has called there and it was in response to a question and she just said that mexico was well within their rights to reinforce their southern border with somalia after a caravan that was into pass through and that was then incepted by mexican authorities yesterday but you played at the start sound bite there from president

lopez obrador calling for a rally in one no where there is a huge border very busy border crossing point one of the busiest in the world with the united states and that seemed to strike almost a defiant tone at the start of the day that seems a long time ago now as the days goes on there's been sort of a few actions that have come out of mexico that shows a sort of willingness to engage with the united states they've frozen $26.00 people's accounts that could be involved in people smuggling they've also arrested this was yesterday. an activist who was very prominently involved in helping to guide migrant caravans coming through mexico and then is called that all sort of hinted of what they could do at the southern border and there's a couple of media outlets now reuters and also the washington post reporting that mexico could also be prepared to send 606-0000 sorry 6000 of the

national newly created national guard down to the southern border we've been trying to confirm that with the foreign ministry but they've been very tight lipped as these negotiations continue so there is a sense today that mexico is sort of moving in its position it's trying to engage with the united states ahead of these tariffs. and they're trying very hard because the deadline for the imposition of the tariffs is on monday we know it's going to be damaging for both economies but it will have a disproportionate impact on mexico. you're exactly right about that about 80 percent of mexico's exports go to the united states so this 7 ex ambassadors from the u.s. to mexico actually signed a letter saying that this was going to be lose lose it was going to affect both sides and while that's true analysts agree obviously this is quite a david and goliath sort of relationship the u.s. is far more powerful than mexico so it's obviously going to be especially damaging

for mexico's economy which is why mexico seems to be budging on this obviously more than the other side the united states now what president lopez obrador said at the start of the day is he said we need a long term solution to this we need to be talking about the roots of migration in honduras el salvador guatemala and that's poverty and people suffering violence has a lot of gang held territories there and we need to be injecting money and resources and we need the u.s. to help with that there's little sign that that's getting a lot of traction in washington instead it seems to be mexico that sort of coming up with solutions something that president lopez obrador at the start of the day he said in his press conference we're not going to act against anyone to please a foreign government but the events of the day seem to be playing out slightly differently thank you very much for the latest from mexico city john heilemann we're going to bring you much more on this news hour from london

a german who killed his patient so he could try to resuscitate and is convicted of murdering 87 people. also hundreds of migrants are rescued from the mediterranean we will speak to one of the last 8 groups directing search operations. in sport ahead of african football is questioned by police in france called the story. it was the largest sea and air invasion in history involving 160000 troops on a single day western leaders gathered with world war 2 veterans to pay tribute to those who charge the beaches of normandy on d.-day 75 years ago are reports now in commemorations of the day that helped give birth to a new europe. as they met american d.-day veterans emanuel mark or donald

trump put aside their political differences the presidents of france the united states paid tribute to american troops simply 5 years after allied soldiers landed in normandy to help liberate france and europe from nazi powers trump often inject personal politics into diplomatic occasions this time he avoided controversy on this day 75 years ago can 1000 men shed their blood and thousands sacrificed their lives for their brothers for their countries and for the survival of liberty on june 6th 1944 american canadian british and french troops would joined by those from other nations including poland and south africa and enduring symbol of international cooperation in the face of nationalism mccall praised international alliances his

multilateralism has put him at all does with trump and is america 1st policy. devotion me says in the film viva we must never allow the alliance of free peoples to die that's what the victors did as soon as 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 75 years ago the franco american alliance was so strong that the united states and allows the use of young soldiers to fight and die for frogs that relationship today. disagreements between one micron trump milds. talks after the ceremony the gulf between the 2 leaders was apparent with a little common ground on iran trade or climate change. some veterans who fought for peace so long ago say they worry about the future.

so far neo living today. things are good and others wrong. we can't choose room pick and choose exactly what i mean in the world after world war 2 nations pledge never to allow political divisions to lead to conflict again a promise being tested by growing diplomatic differences natasha butler al jazeera moment de france. a german nurse has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of murdering 85 of his patients kneels hogle was already in prison for killing another 2 patients is thought to be one of the most prolific serial killers in germany a judge described his killing spree as in comprehensible on it came reports now from berlin. this is one of the worst serial killers since the 2nd world war a relatively nondescript man to look at her goals crimes are anything but investigators believe he may have killed hundreds on thursday he was convicted of

85 murders a shortfall. several in court deplored as this is a bitter and this is the it's very very bitter we've gone through i'd say 2 and a half years really through her it's hard to bear at the moment that's what it is that her goal 1st began killing patients after starting work at this hospital in book in 1909 here he would inject patients with drugs to make their heart stop and then try to resuscitate them colleagues called him the resuscitation rambo because he would manhandled them out of the way so he could get to the sick but a high death rate among his patients made colleagues suspicious and he was forced to leave so in 2003 he moved to work at this hospital in delman haast 2 years later a colleague saw him administer a fatal dose of a drug to a patient who died within hours arrested soon after he's been in custody ever since during this trial it emerged her induced cardiac arrest in 90 delman host patients

so he could enjoy trying to bring them back to some relatives thursday's judgment is not enough they believe the hospital thora he's failed in their duties it's not conscious not true to the original i hope the connection of the deal was made clear i believe it's very important for all of us to bring those responsible to justice for logic to become a series of murders. hogle is already serving a life sentence for the murder of 2 patients during his time at the 2 hospitals in handing down the verdict on thursday the judge told hogle the scale of his crimes made the mind boggles meaning that one of germany's most prolific mass murderers is unlikely ever to be released dominic came al-jazeera. fiat chrysler has withdrawn its proposal for a $35000000000.00 merger with france's rhino reversing plans to create what could have been the world's 3rd largest car maker italian american company blame the

collapse of the deal on current political conditions in france the french government has a 15 percent stake in renault in early trading shares in both companies tumbled along with japanese comic and the sandwiches rhino's largest stakeholder. another boat with migrants has been rescued by a merchant vessel in the mediterranean a day after nearly 400 people were saved by the maltese military footage released by sea watch international of wednesday's rescues shows several things overloaded with people trying to reach here at a migrant rescue angio says at least one of those days deflated and sank it's not clear if there were any survivors. or rueben noida is head of mission for sea and research operations with sea watch international joins us now via skype and so obviously it's very fortunate that hundreds of migrants have been rescued but then your operations have been monitoring dainties in the mediterranean some of

them have gone missing with people. feared to have drowned tell us what you have been seeing in recent days. what we have seen in recent day is we are reaching the good weather periods off to some of that means that a lot of people trying to escape watch but i'm going to be right at the moment i mean there's 5 ongoing in tripoli and as a lot of people try to escape the role of top jury and prosecution in the camps of libya so there is a lot of crossings in recent days we have faith that the tradition that is also new to us. and. the way that we have a lot of poets now. making the crossing all the way to the marquee star so on and nearly reaching matalon to do so so that more that new pattern we haven't seen in the last months however as abrupt than with the is that

the dinghies they are trying to escape and they are in a really really bad condition on the need so they can deflate and sink it more that any moment and also that is something that will cure it in the last day so we do not know how many people have drowned in the last few days. however we know that the situation is pretty severe. that we know that that molten if you have close that ports to catching ships that pick up migrants off the coast of libya tell us about your operations and what i want you and to do. so what we are doing it's we are patrolling in the central mediterranean softphone busy with 2 surveying and the aircraft anomaly of a chopper used to be to coordinate rescue efforts. to inform ships that are in the

vicinity distress cases and to lead them to the correct position to carry out a rescue. if this chart becomes more and more difficult because since there is. criminalisation off rescue at sea and the closure of busy ports in europe more and more. vessels turn a blind eye on this tragic case that we have recently had this press kit with for example the italian navy stood by with all of carrying out the rescue operation for more than a day had such situations put human lives at risk and sometimes even the truth situation with people grow and we have shown that in one location well well thank you very much and of course we wish you the best of luck with your wet with the night galahad of mission seen research rescue operations see watch international thanks a lot. there is most to land for

a. good look at how a rise in gold mining which started a decade ago may have poisoned thousands of children in nigeria brazil's president jabil sonora makes his 1st official visit to neighboring argentina that doesn't get a warm welcome from everyone and then a transport find out which team why able to hold that cricket wild caught. hello again and welcome back to your international weather forecast or here across europe plenty of weather to talk about out here towards the east we have a lot of instability as those temperatures are rising into the high twenty's in some locations even into the low thirty's and a lot of thunderstorms will be popping up across this region over the next couple of days temps wise from warsaw all the way down across parts of the black sea and

even into turkey we are talking about temperatures above average for this time of year even moscow is seeing about 30 there out here towards the west though it is a different story we have a system that has moved up towards the north across parts of the u.k. here on friday really causing a lot of problems in terms of rain as well as windy conditions in that area by the time we get to saturday maybe moving into the north sea but still causing a lot of problems particularly in scotland there down towards the south though things are improving for switzerland we're going to see zurich at $22.00 degrees and still quite warm across parts of spain at 30 degrees there well across the mediterranean things are calming down and across the northern part of africa we're not seeing too much in terms of weather maybe some clouds down here across parts of libya from gazi some winds out of the north there with 29 degrees as your forecast high here on friday getting a little bit cooler by the time we get toward saturday and for algiers it is going to be cloudy and maybe rain at 26.

a horrific crime that shocked the world 51 people queued up mosques in christchurch new zealand why want to investigate the full force could have done more to prevent this massacre on 00. i mean this was different to say whether someone is going for some of his favorites it doesn't mean it's true i think it's how you approach an individual and often it is a certain way of doing it you can't just buy a story and fly out. in 2008 rocky traveled across the united states discovering what it was like to be both a patriotic american and a devout muslim can you be muslim and american you have to be american 1st i didn't hear much appreciation for why it would be a big deal that a muslim would be elected to the united states congress. rewind islam in america on al-jazeera.

welcome back a look at the top stories this hour now the african union has suspended sudan over the military gente as brutal crackdown and protest as the health ministry has denied reports that 108 people were killed saying the real figure is 61. mexico's president has expressed confidence that a deal can be reached to avoid a u.s. trade tower of his interior minister says the country's southern border will be reinforced after hundreds of migrants were blocked by armed police on wednesday. and the courage and sacrifice of those who gave their lives in the d.-day landing

75 years ago has been on it in ceremonies in person and fronts. and now more on top story the crackdown in sudan jonathan allen is the u.k.'s deputy ambassador to the united nations he joins us live from the u.n. and we are indeed starting to learn more about the violence that's been unfolding in hard to these sort of tactics that have been deployed by the rapid support forces formally known as the john jawaid we've been hearing about right taking place. ritual humiliation bodies being thrown in the nile what is your spawn's to this. well the news is absolutely horrific and it's terrible and i think it's a shock to all right thinking people not only in sudan but also in this region and across the world i mean we have been extremely clear that this violence must stop.

the british minister for africa harry baldwin today called in the sudanese ambassador to tell him so there needs to be a transition to a civilian led government the military council was in negotiations with the protesters who have been there for some time now saying recently were 95 percent agreement so under what possible pretext like a lot of this sort of horrific violence hung over a 100 people killed to take place is beyond me and so clearly there has been condemnation from the international community but very little action general committee seems to be emerging as the most powerful man in sudan we know that he has the backing of some very powerful countries in the region saudi arabia the u.a.e. in egypt and perhaps it's not in their interest to to see the talks or flourishing democracy necessarily unfold in sudan. where seems to be a lack of international consensus or perhaps pressure on those countries.

well 1st of all i think things have been happening and perhaps the most important of those has been what's been happening out is out of the today with the news that the african union suspended sudan from membership in issued a very clear statement about their expectations going forward and we are very supportive of that statement and those actions and we agree that it's primarily we want to support the african union as they attempt to get the transition to civilian led government back on track and i would urge anybody with influence over the military authorities in sudan to be using that for the right turns now i've seen statements by some gulf countries expressing their concerns calling for calm. call on all of the partners in the gulf anyone with influence over the author it is to make clear that this sort of violence is unacceptable and it's also self-defeating i mean it's very difficult to see how any sort of stability comes

from this sort of crackdown clearly those those calls are not working are they because there is. now at the moment that the problem is that communication has been blocked it's very difficult to get information from the country meanwhile there are reports of these human rights abuses taking place will there be an international inquiry will and rights council in geneva and other un bodies commission and investigation to find out exactly what has taken place and to hold those behind the violence accountable for their crimes. well there clearly should be accountability not only for what has happened here in these incidents but for instance going back a long time in sudan unfortunately so the un has a history a troubled history of conflict and we all know about darfur for example but i mean these are questions we're taking forward with our colleagues both here in new york and in geneva i do think that the international pressure that we are all placing

whether it's bilateral pressure whether it's the pressure of the african union whether it's what security council countries can do when they come together it is very important in it and i think it can have an effect and the main thing here of course is that sudan has a choice the the authorities have a choice for many years the country has been mismanaged economically that's what's behind the protests that were launched and was successful in sweeping the former president from office it's been a country which has been some would call a pariah state at times so there is an opportunity here for the authorities to make the right choices to transfer to civilian load growth government and to bring on stream the resources and support that they need to resolve some of the economic fundamental problems and some of the issues underlying the the conflicts that the remain in the country and that is a choice that they should take thank you very much for joining us jonathan allen new deputy ambassador to the united nations want to take you to malawi now where

police have fired tear gas at hundreds of opposition supporters in the capital on the 3rd day of protests demonstrators are calling for president the teller to recur to resign after what they say was a rigged election last month protest to say bullets were fired at them and a police spokesman said a child had been accidentally shot the u.s. ambassador to malawi it was also caught up in the arm rest while meeting at opposition headquarters she was quickly escorted out of the building. doctors in northwest nigeria say thousands of children have been poisoned by lead aid groups believe an increase in illegal coal mining in the region is largely to blame for this hundreds of people have died in the last 10 years as i've met interest reports now from. here in nigeria some for a state these children are sick from lead poisoning but it's difficult for their parents to get the help they need tensions between farmers and herders of access to

land to armed gangs often attacking people in this region making it risky to try and reach hospitals the money as i see with a lot of his condition deteriorates i'll have to take him to the doctors on a motorcycle in a little come to sleep because of insecurity and that's the scene with all children affected. for years muhammad watched his son's health deteriorate until he was unable to walk or eat today now you can only be fed through a tube grafted into your stomach. there's heavy concentrations of lead in the earth here and aid organizations say many children began inhaling lead dust when a rapid rise in gold mining started around a decade ago. some are contaminated when they work in the mines others when their relatives return covered in dust or when or is crushed at war. health

workers say the levels of lead falling children's blood freeness can often be free tell their range was staggering between $1400.00 micrograms of lead to serious or blood above $100.00 really it is said that most victims die. right but there is no all safe blood lead level even 5 micrograms of lead potus little blood or even below the rust some serious can consequences in terms of neurocognitive. deficit but with the tax now happening almost every day so parents here say all they do is to wait and who and they aren't the only ones who have been advised by security and or truth to it it's not who because it's all of exposure to our team and this is a fake scene the treatment that we give to the children we're very worried that this we did to reach the situation for me seemed more problems with late in the

community nigeria's strict mining rules have forced many workers you know miners underground they are bring their ox home to process exposing many children to contamination idea contamination project carried out in several villages 4 years ago is now at risk. for many here mining for gold is their only way to survive but by making a living this way they are putting their lives at serious risk how many degrees al-jazeera about the north west nigeria. shrunken officials investigating the easter sunday bombing say repeated warnings were ignored including one just before the attacks happened more than 250 people were killed in a coordinated blast which have been blamed on a local group linked to i still when alpha and as has more now from colombo are. trying to make sense of the easter sunday carnage that killed more than 250 people

a 12 men special parliamentary select committee heard from police chief budget just in the who's on compulsory leave for refusing to take the blame and resign. though we were there with no practice anywhere with regards to intelligence information that the inspector general of the police should share with the president the suicide bombers from a local muslim group attacked christian churches on easter sunday as well as 5 star hotel more than 250 people were killed and hundreds injured. claimed responsibility for the coordinated attack. the police chief said the state intelligence service received repeated warnings of possible attack and detailed a series of delays by all security agencies to act in the house i got a phone call about an imminent threat that something to interest could happen you know when you are being told repeatedly something happened something and i wonder

war or been do you ask what steps have been taken because it's not possible for you to just give. one way what i. heard that the police chief told the committee that president citizen or asked him to resign after the attacks he says he was offered an embassadors job if he agreed to resign and he was told that any investigation would find him responsible for failing to stop the attacks the other big name to appear at the select committee was former defense secretary a mysterious finance. he highlighted the restrictions imposed on him by the president was not an independent. instruction from the president for every little thing fernanda told the committee that it was difficult for him to contact the president and said the strain between the president and prime minister affected governance after the incident when the prime minister called for a meeting you said to the president we're told by the president himself not to

go for the meeting going with a brain minister. he was answering words yes yes yes yes. the committee is due to reconvene next tuesday minerva nando's jazeera colombo. thailand's prime minister has called for national unity after the parliament voted for him to stay on as its leader the vote completes his transition to head of a civilian government 5 years after he seized power in a military coup but as wayne hay reports from bangkok the opposition says the military is still in charge. after more than 11 hours of debating and voting thailand's parliament finally elected a prime minister for the next 4 years. general prayuth china chair receives more than half the vote from the house of representatives which means he has been chosen as the new prime minister. but he's not new at all. is the army

general who led a coup to remove a democratically elected government in 2014 and has been prime minister ever since . much of his support in the parliamentary vote came from senators in the upper house who were handpicked by the military it wasn't surprising therefore that they all voted for prior to continue as thailand's leader. the only other contender was a man seen as the new face of thai politics talent on june room run kit led his young future forward party to 3rd place in march's election the 1st since the coup he's now vowing to be a strong opposition voice continuing to fight for democracy and human rights. for the. goods.