is being made but we're not there yet peter president trump himself who was in ireland earlier on thursday said quote something pretty dramatic could happen but he didn't elaborate on exactly what that was on the other hand you mentioned vice president mike pence with some sort of optimistic sounding comments about this tariff issue but he also told reporters on thursday that at this point tariffs are going to be imposed on monday that's june 10th and that the president is fully prepared to start with 5 percent on the 10th of june and then ratcheted up by 5 percent month on month all the way to 25 percent in october that's something that has got a lot of business leaders and lawmakers here in the united states worried here's more of what vice president pence had to say. our best fix.

our best our best next. time is next act the size work with the united states of america. or our laws by forcing their along. their border and we've made clear to them the president from going to continue to stand firm so we bring this. crisis of illegal immigration and our southern border to an end. so robe full mr trump how important is it to get these concessions i mean it feels as if it's turning into a colon a stone policy issue for him. i think peter it's been a cornerstone policy for a long time immigration is the core of trump's political. identity really from the time that he announced he was going to run for president when he made disparaging remarks about mexican migrants through last january

and february when he single handedly shut down the government because the democratic controlled house wouldn't give him billions of dollars to build the wall his pledge well received by his crowds during the presidential election in 2017 that he would 2016 that he would force mexico to pay for the wall all of this has become really central to the trump brand as you will as you would and it is very well received by his base supporters but there's a kind of a double edged sword here you've already seen that president trump's tariffs against china have heard some of his supporters who are rural area residents farmers and so on a tariff on goods made in mexico could also hurt manufacturing workers who are

presumably part of his base at least some of them more farmers especially in places like texas so it is a very difficult issue for the president but he likes terrorists he likes to use the blunt instrument of terrorists to achieve political ends and that's what he appears to be determined to continue to do thanks rob. well the mexican president. says which in agreement is in the best interests of both countries. 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. john coleman who's in mexico city for us here on the news so john what are the authorities there saying about this. well that sound bite you just played from

president lopez obrador now seems like a very long time ago that was this morning when he was calling for a rally this saturday into one part of that was in defense of make the mexican dignity he said as long as well as in favor of friendship with the u.s. people and he seemed to be striking a slightly more thorough tony has done before in terms of confronting president trump something that he hasn't really wanted to do in the 6 months that he's been in power he's wanted to step away from that he also said when he addressed the media this morning that he wouldn't act in prejudice of anyone just to please a foreign government and he talked about the struggles of migrants that were coming from countries like honduras el salvador what the mali said the long term solution here is for investment for support for those countries so that people didn't have to leave so it's quite a humanitarian message now as the day has gone on mexico has been sending other

signals there's been the arrest and this was yesterday of quite a prominent activist who's been helping to guide the caravans these big groups of people from central america through mexico he was arrested yesterday also news from the interior minister she seemed to hint that mexico could be in agreement with reinforcing its southern border with guatemala so people couldn't get through from central america so there's been a couple of those things and then we heard some leaks to a certain amount of publications saying that mates could might be willing to put 6000. members of the national guard on the border we've got some other we haven't been able to confirm that with the foreign ministry so there's been signals as the day goes on that mexico is moving in its position that it seems to be offering the united states something and now it's a case of where the. wouldn't trump more than anyone that feels that that's enough

john thank you very much let's talk to laura carlsen director of the americas program at the center for international policy she was recently in siana to research the crisis on the u.s. mexican border she currently insists is oregon where she joins us on skype laura welcome back to the al-jazeera news hour how much real progress are they making with these discussions. 1st peter i think it's very important to talk about what is . because mexico has a different plan for how to deal with this increase in migratory flows from central america than the united states does and if the united states were to twist mexico's arm and force it to carry out a border crackdown to accept u.s. asylum seekers we would then doubt at least have much more border tension a worse situation both in terms of human rights and in terms of the rule of law of law that we have now that's why mexico is insisting that instead of knuckling under

the threat of tariffs of donald trump it will cherry out this regional development plan in central america in order to try to stop the roots of the migration that is a plan that would focus on development and would focus on creating jobs and better conditions in the countries of origin it's a longer term plan but it's it has much greater chances of success enduring success than the short term crackdown that donald trump is ordering largely for electoral reasons ok on paglia's for me when you talk about the countries of origin ins there is speculation that in effect what those countries are going to have to do is change individual sets of laws that partain the pertain to how people move or don't move across borders if donald trump is now a kick in the backside away from getting honduras guatemala police to change the legislation but it's a win win for him particularly when he plays that to his base that rob reynolds our

correspondent in washington was talking about. the point is that a win win for donald trump on immigration issues is a lose lose not only for immigrants themselves but for the other governments what central american countries have to do is change their social policies so people don't feel like they're forced to flee because of the high rates of violence what we're seeing from my talks at migrants and from the studies that have been carried out is that people are literally fleeing for their lives as such they have to they have a right to request asylum wherever they're going to feel the same fence and we're talking here about more than 2 thirds families and unaccompanied children international law dictates that every nation in on birth has a responsibility to protect children if we go to this crackdown he said it will be over will be basically ignoring that responsibility the u.s.

administration is clear as well it wants this migration not only to be stopped or could tailed it once it stopped in totality but surely the reality is that is an impossible go to. yeah and it goes back to the previous question to peter in the sense that. there are laws that make central america. an area of stream of ability and. when you start talking about having a country lock of its own citizens you're talking about an authority in terror to an authoritarian state is that really what we want in our region as a democratic nation so there's a there's a real need to examine what the asks of the u.s. government are in order to determine how this negotiation content place laura i'm interested can you talk about when you offset short term goals. against long term

anes i mean organizations and research bodies such as your own they're all coming up with roughly the same figure they're saying there are about 8000 people in limbo in mexico just now but surely in the short term that number's going to grow anyway because there are more people already on route there trying to get to that place of sanctuary i.e. the mexican us border. absolutely $8000.00 is just the number that every trip been returned after seeking asylum in the united states under this remain in mexico program there's another $18000.00 that are waiting to request asylum in the united states and there are people coming up all the time over the border so this is a level of tension there at the border can't sustain it's not an explosive situation because these people are not violent as i mentioned before and it's not on the issue of national security it's really a humanitarian crisis however if they don't have achieved his goal of

expanding mexico supplications in terms of accepting asylum seekers from the united states in particular as well as the steady stream of mexicans who are being deported and there is anti immigrant policies then we're going to see a serious strain on infrastructure and it's a real question about whether mexico can assume that burden lawrence request. understood laura thank you so much for breaking that one down for us laura carlsen the on sky insistence oregon good structure thank you. 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 weapons days rescues shows several days overloaded with people trying to get to europe the migrant rescue n.g.o.s says at least one of those dinghies deflated and sank it's not clear if there were any survivors. plenty

more still to come for you here on the news hour include putting the blame game starts in sri lanka as officials testify over the easter sunday attacks that killed hundreds of people. in sport the head of african football has been questioned by the police in france paul we'll have that story in about 25 minutes. demonstrations are taking place in buenos aires right now where the brazilian president is on his 1st official visit to argentina protesters a critical of balsa not as conservative policies with many accusing him of homophobia and fascism brazil's leader help talks with the argentine president. regional trade and the crisis in venezuela. joins us live from one of the demonstrations in the argentine capital what's the atmosphere like there.

well the loud music has just started shortly before you came to me this is a demonstration with many of those groups who feel under attack from. groups of groups representing environmental organizations they are here expressing solidarity with many of the brazilians that live. out here outside the presidential palace. with the. president earlier in the day talking about solidarity against the kind of power. the seas being being expressed by. rights across latin america they're saying it's more than just an issue that affects brazilians these are issues that affect people right across the continent and they're getting together they're expressing not solidarity at demonstrations like this trying to make job also now don't feel i'm welcome on his 1st visit to argentina what are the issues in the areas in which the 2

countries are in agreement. on most they talked about the issues they always talk about which are things like cross border cooperation energy they're talking about trade deal even a trade deal with the european union they're both members of the. trade organization in south america but the big issue the issue that dominated their souls is that of venice way tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of venezuelans as we know have left the country many of them are living in brazil many have come here to argentina as well neither of these 2 countries wants to see more migrants leaving that their troubled country both of them have expressed their desire to see president nicolas maduro removed from power and have say express their support for the self declared interim president one why don't they joined other regional groups expressing what they say is their support but the pussy in

venezuela again some in venezuela would say they were to have democracy depends on which way you want to look at it but they are expressing that solidarity with one another but a swathe of i say the big issue daniel thank you. still to come for you here on the news hour emergency measures in south korea as a battles to stop the biggest animal disease outbreak. i'm john hendren in portland where they're building skyscrapers out of wood i'll tell you why coming up. with a sports news find which she was able to hold and at the ticket booth. hello again what here across united states we have been dealing with historical flooding and widespread flooding that continues as we speak all the clouds here

today and we're going to see that continue over the next few days bringing much more rain across much of the region as you can see here on friday anywhere from texas all the way across towards the eastern seaboard we're going to sing thunderstorms and this is in areas that are already flooded right now the rivers are overflowing their levees and we are seeing a lot of farmland and communities flooded because of the very heavy rain as we go toward saturday a little bit of improvement over a year towards parts of texas but still quite active across much of the southeast up towards the northeast oh new york isn't quite nice with attempted there of about $25.00 degrees well cross cuba for the next few days it's going to be a little bit wet for you for have and we do expect to see a high there of $32.00 degrees also heavy rain is expected anywhere from costa rica down here towards panama that will continue as we go towards saturday temperatures into the high twenty's for money but bogota it is going to be a chilly day with a temp there $16.00 degrees and then very dry across much of the amazon basin right now all the way down here across parts of brazil we may pick up

a few clouds across parts of one as i was with a passing shower there at 16 degrees but 3 additional it is going to be a nice day with a temperature of 26. shallow cause of all the. growth is. seriously wrong with. a crossover minister the king missed.

a european judge tasked with imposing nor new order and a trial testing the nose of a new from the nation. whitney. highway on al-jazeera. welcome back let's recap the top story so far here on the news the african union today suspending saddam over the military terms as brutal crackdown on protesters the health ministry has denied reports that 108 people were killed saying the real figure is 61. the u.s. vice president mike pence says mexico has offered to reinforce its border with quota mala in order to control the flow of migrants into the u.s.

but says it's up to president trump to decide if the steps are enough to avoid tariffs on monday demonstrations are taking place and when as iris where the brazilian president is on his 1st official visit to argentina protesters are critical of his conservative policies with many accusing him of homophobia and fascism. an attack on for oil tankers off the u.a.e. coast last month was quote a sophisticated and coordinated operational likely carried out by a state actor that's what the u.n. security council has been told by the u.a.e. saudi arabia and norway ships were targeted however their preliminary investigation didn't apportion blame they said the attacks required fast boats and trained divers who likely placed limpid mines on the vessels the u.s. had previously blamed iran. in libya an air strike has targeted the runway operational airport in the capital tripoli al-jazeera has been told the warlords

only for half talk ordered the attack on the airport no casualties have been reported after us forces have been fighting for weeks to post the un recognized government and seize control of tripoli. as mourner from tripoli. have to his fighter jets targeted the civil locations in tripoli on thursday including get the only operational airport in the city and. airport along with other locations in southern tripoli and also locations in the city of that's around 50 kilometers to the west from the capital tripoli and airport was targeted and officials there say that because the airport is located in populated areas so the explosion of the attack caused a state of panic among civilians and passengers their passengers there were awarded

that could be suspended because of the attack made to get airport the only operational airport in tripoli has been attacked several times by you have to as a fighter jets since they have to launch it his military campaign to take control of the capital tripoli on april the 4th also in the city of zawiya that's around 50 kilometers to the west from tripoli have to as fighter jets targeted a public park a forest that includes his club and the mayor of the city of zawiya reported that a number of horses were killed and wandered by the attack or he also said that that popular park which is called. a forest has been recently used as a makeshift camp there displaced people. who have been forced out of their homes in southern tripoli because of the fighting. in tripoli are accusing have the forces

of committing war crimes by targeting civilian areas. the interim president of algeria wants the government to prepare legislation to finalize a date for a presidential election protests on the streets of continued despite the resignation of the longtime leader abdelaziz bouteflika 2 months ago protesters want all those associated with him to go before a fresh election can be held they've demanded the interim president step down as well poland for july the 4th was cancelled after the only 2 candidates in the fray were rejected well in a televised address algeria's interim leader called for a political dialogue. this situation is a chance to mobilize our national forces to deal with their country's legislative and organizational issues therefore i call upon the political establishment the civil society and the citizens who care for this country and its future i call upon all of you to find the comprehensive dialogue in order to organize the forthcoming

presidential elections this is in order to have coherence and consistency the country's in need of reforms in all political fears and this is what our people have expressed in a very clear and peaceful manner. the french president emanuel mccraw is calling for global unity while praising multilateral organizations such as nato and the e.u. has been speaking at ceremonies to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the d.-day landings on the beaches of normandy the largest marine land invasion in history is not. as a met american d.-day veterans him at all mark or donald trump put aside their political differences the presidents of france the united states paid tribute to american troops 75 years after allied soldiers landed in normandy to help liberate france in europe from nazi powers trump often inject personal politics into diplomatic occasions this time he avoided controversy on this day 75 years ago

10000 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 in during symbol of international cooperation in the face of nationalism mccraw 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 3 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 was a mix of young soldiers to fight and die for france that relationship today. as disagreements between one micron trump mounts at 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 funny old world we live in today. something you did good and others wrong but. recount truism and pick and choose exactly what's happening 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. the russian president is warning a treaty with the u.s. on limiting the number of nuclear weapons is at risk of breaking speaking at an economic forum in some petersburg ludhiana putin accused the americans of backtracking on the strategic arms reduction treaty and he also warned the us against military intervention in venezuela. lankan officials investigating the easter sunday bomb attack say repeated warnings were ignored including one just before the attacks happened more than 250 people were killed in the coordinated blasts which have been blamed on a local group linked to eisele when elfin and as has more from colombo. trying to make sense of the easter sunday carnage that killed more than 250 people a twelvemonth special parliamentary select committee heard from police chief budget just in the or who is on compulsory leave for refusing to take the blame and resign

it would be one though there is no practice anywhere with regards to intelligence information that the inspector general of the police should share with the president suicide bombers from a local muslim group attacked christian churches on easter sunday as well as 5 star . more than 250 people were killed and hundreds injured. claimed responsibility for the cordy need to tack. 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. i got a phone call about an imminent threat that something to interest could happen when you are being told repeatedly something i have been something 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. 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 the select committee was former defense secretary him a serious 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 you did to the president we're told by the president himself not to go for the meeting going with a brain minister. you would answer it was answer with words yes yes yes yes

everything the comediennes due to reconvene next tuesday when the finance is 0 colombo. hungary and prosecutors say the captain of a ship that was involved in a deadly collision on the danube river was in another accident in april at least 16 south korean tourists died when the cruise ship crashed into a tour boat last week 12 people are still missing prosecutor says the captain erased data from his mobile telephone after the accident his lawyers deny he did anything wrong. staying in europe a german sumedha dozens of his patients with lethal injections has been sentenced to life in prison kneels hurdle is thought to be one of the most prolific serial killers in german history the judge described his killing spree as in comprehensible dominic kane from berlin. this is one of the worst serial killers since the 2nd world war a relatively nondescript man to look at nears hurdles crimes are anything but

investigators believe he may have killed hundreds on thursday he was convicted of 85 murders a short fall 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 girl induced cardiac arrest in 90 denman 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 these failed in their duties it's not conscious not true. of the original i hope the connection of the deal was but it was made clear i believe it's very important for all of us to bring those just wanted to just as well logic to become a series of murders her goal 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 her girl the scale of his crimes made the mind boggling meaning that one of germany's most prolific mass murderers is unlikely ever to be released dominick kane al-jazeera berlin. police in malawi have fired tear gas at hundreds of opposition supporters in the capital on the 3rd day of protests demonstrations are calling for the president

peter without reka to resign after what they say was a rigged election last month protest to see bullets were fired at them and the police spokesman sort of child had been accidentally shot the u.s. ambassador to malawi was also caught in the arrest when meeting at the opposition headquarters. pig farmers in south korea taking emergency measures to stop an outbreak of swine fever in north korea from crossing the border concerned the north is ignoring calls for joint quarantine efforts florence louis has more. well here on gungho island one of several places designated by the south korean government as a special surveillance area following an outbreak of african swine fever in north korea were really close to the border with the north it lies just beyond the river about 2 kilometers away an endless island that about $35.00 pig farms african swine fever is harmless to humans but it's fatal to pigs to prevent the disease from

spreading south korea's agriculture ministry is taking several measures access to and from pig farms is now on tightly controlled farm workers have been told to carry out disinfection and then fences and traps have been set up to prevent infected wild boars from coming into contact with domestic pigs not many wild boars will be able to cross the bob wire fences or make it across the heavily mined border area but that's a possibility that some of them may be able to swim across the river and get into south korea and that's why the south has proposed to the north that they work together to prevent the spread of the disease and that is the political dimension to this story relations between the 2 countries have cooled considerably since a february summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il and ended without agreement on the outbreak of the disease cannot come at a worse time for north korea which is already experiencing a severe food shortage following its worst harvest in aid.