and said that he wishes that the continued smooth cooperation between the united states and china that could very well that rhetoric could very well change that based on the overnight news that president trump has put on it has announced more tariffs against china that rhetoric could change so again we might see a little bit more news a little bit more editorial meat if you will because of what's been developing but when it comes to progress i'm not sure we can categorize it as that but definitely these topics that have been kind of discussed on the sidelines and discussed just kind of you know are on the side they are going to be front and center when these meetings take place today here on friday house skulled thanks very much the south korean military says north korea has launched an identified short range project from the country's east coast that was just talked about if confirmed it will be the 3rd launch in just over a week earlier on thursday north korean state media released these images of leader kim jong il was seen the test firing of

a new rocket launcher system on wednesday but south korea says it fired 2 short range ballistic missiles. on nearly 50 people have died in 2 attacks in yemen a military base and a police station were targeted the rebels have claimed responsibility for one of the attacks the rebels also say they fired a missile at a military base in the saudi city of demand is stephanie death. it started as a military parade. it ended in this the result of what he said was a missile strike in aden the seat of the saudi backed government the campus a base for amorality trained and supported units among those killed the senior military commander brigadier general monied seen here earlier in the week wearing the red bray but it wasn't the only message the hooty sent on thursday they also said they'd fired a long range missile at the port city of demand in saudi arabia hundreds of

kilometers away a 1st in this saudi led 4 year long war 2 brazen attacks with a very clear message they are layers you know true to this military action by her and i think that one of the 1st thing that they want you to do is that the moment in conway the new reason actually during ramadan i think they want you to show up when they are losing support and there and allies there who are we all quite capable of actually hitting them and he didn't quite where they fell them with calls to go where they fell but they had a stronghold in the saudi led war was launched to remove the iranian backed 2 things from yemen or to weaken them at least there seems to be no end in sight the latest attack is going to the message that. the buck to voters is going to come under attack under the are a legitimate target because the are working with the saudi about forces no political achievements on either side saudi's ally the u.a.e.

is pulling back its presence and even held a rare meeting with an iranian delegation on cheese day to discuss issues in the strait of hormuz it's a political stalemate in a conflict this killed thousands of civilians left tens of thousands of children starving and crippled what was already one of the world's poorest countries stephanie decker al-jazeera. iran and the united arab emirates will strengthen and expand their maritime border security cooperation a deal was signed in tehran by iranian emma rotty border police commanders as the 1st meeting between the 2 sides in 6 years and it follows a number of recent incidents in the gulf. all the. meeting was practical with the aim of coordinating between iran and the u.a.e. for border security agreements have been breached in this area fortunately we were in agreement on hunting security at the border between our 2 countries one of the important points agreed upon was holding continuous annual meetings between leaders

of the border guards and of the 2 countries in tehran and abu dhabi meetings every 6 months in one of the border areas and in emergency situations communication via phone or fax and meeting of the buddha. and plenty more ahead on this news our fears of the. democratic republic of congo force a neighboring country to take drastic steps. why this video from china is being seen as a warning to hong kong's protesters. and later in sport australia put on a fight back on day one of the 1st ashes test against the test coming up later in the program. still ahead but 1st medical sources in sudan say at least 4 people have been killed after security forces opened fire on protesters that happened nationwide marches

against the killing on monday of at least 6 other protest as the transitional military council is blaming paramilitary forces for those deaths saying they shot at high school students who were protesting about the cost of living says some soldiers have been arrested. we have detained all the guards there with even though they've also been fired from the record support forces based on guidance from the prosecutor they were handed over to the public prosecutor in north could have done to try them we will also be looking into the security procedures that lead to the incident. i just it is banned from reporting in sudan so i have a morgan is following events for us from neighboring ethiopia once again there is anger on the streets of khartoum and various other cities across the dam protesters responding to the calls of the sudanese professionals' association and joining what is called as a 1000000 man rally to demand a transition military also deliver justice and accountability for those who have

lost their lives in support as began in december in sudan now security forces opened fire on protesters in the city of on demand and the sudanese central doctor's committee says at least 4 people have been killed and dozens of others have been wounded as a result and protesters are demanding that the opposition pollution which represents them and the talks between with the military council to form a transitional government holds all kinds of negotiations they're saying that there should be justice and accountability for the 2 sides the opposition coalition as the forces of freedom and change and the plans of military council have met so as the evening but on thursday morning the opposition coalition said that was not the differences between the 2 sides have been ironed out and that there is a few points remaining before a final deal is reached about an argument. we have agreed on the mechanisms of forming liesl from to council the powers given to the council conditions of slightness members in addition to the reasons leading to the loss of membership

we've also agreed on forming a government the government powers on the reasons leading to the loss of the ministerial post we've also agreed on the parliament and its powers. but protesters are saying that any deal that was reached between this was sites has to be preceded by justice and accountability they're saying that so many lives have been lost since the protests began in december and that if the transitional government is funk without any just it's delivered then they will continue with their protests and they will continue with their revolution. a mozambique president has struck a peace deal with the leader of a former rebel movement ending years of hostilities filip a new c signed the agreement with or so for a who leads the renamo opposition party its armed wing is disbanding as part of that deal shala bellus reports. mozambicans have waited more than 40 years for this moment since the country gained independence in 1975 the government has for most of guerrilla group turned political policy known as.

a peace accord means mozambique commute. times arky. we're here in gaza to tell the world that we've just given another step showing that the march towards effective peace is really reversible that the a certain team this peace they hope and the future of mozambique is promising it says the mozambicans which is to bury once and for all armed confrontation the deal that will see thousands of anomalies members disarm was signed and going gosa national park that's been the group's remote military base for more than 40 years ago was is very symbolic is a city. it was everything started in the everything should stop that is a symbolic for every mozambique. and i mean this is not the 1st time mozambican leaders have come together for namo was formed after the country gained

independence from portugal in 1985 for the government in a civil war that killed in east a major 1000000 people talks initially in 1902 ended the war does it begin to speak fission. peace. therefore we speak to this meeting will lead us to the week peace. that peace deal redefined as a political kashi thousands returned to mozambique but the group always kept an armed wing fighting has flared in recent years something the group has now promised to end. the 1st of august 29th is marked in our history as an unforgettable date the day of the reunification. we confabulate this was a historic day because of climate years of conflict we as brothers are committed for the greater good of. their commitment will be tested in upcoming national

elections which will see the peacemakers and political rivals pitted against one another at the polls charlotte bellus al jazeera. of the mayor of somalia's capital mogadishu has died in hospital 8 days he was seriously wounded in a suicide bomb attack. or smart was being treated in a hospital in qatar the capital doha why he was airlifted after the bombing 6 more people were killed in the attack by the al shabaab group but it missed its primary target the united nations official james swan a u.s. president donald trump has announced more tariffs on goods from china in a bid to raise the pressure on them to reach a deal he says he's not happy with the progress of trade talks and wants a 10 percent tariff on the remaining $300000000000.00 worth of chinese imports or troubles back on the campaign trail for his 2020 reelection bid held a rally in cincinnati ohio along with vice president mike pence how does joe

castro's there. president trump's attack on democratic candidates for president began even before he left washington to attend his reelection rally on twitter earlier in the day he said that if one of them were to win in the white house that u.s. foreign adversaries would then be able to take advantage of the u.s. in his words to rip off the country he followed that with another tweet and noun cygnus 10 percent tariff on an additional 300000000000 dollars worth of chinese goods he says because china has not followed through on its promise to buy more american agricultural products and that line of attack has been followed through here at the rally he has been arguing toward his supporters of some 17000 people who packed the stadium behind me that only he can continue this america focused foreign policy on trade as well as attacking inner cities in the united states

who are controlled by democrats he had been handed in for his days for his attack of the city of baltimore calling it a rat infested place today he went further and said without providing evidence that baltimore's homicide rate is greater than that in the country of afghanistan now another topic that the president has discussed a lot at this rally is him and ration he says that his water policies have been effective in lowering the number of people arrested trying to cross the border illegally but during that part of the speech he was interrupted for about 5 minutes by hagglers carrying signs that says america at that says rather immigrants built america they were escorted out of the reach. of the u.s. is ending its participation in a key arms control agreement it's signed with the former u.s.s.r. joining the last years of the cold war the i.n.f.

treaty effectively banned both sides from using the medium to in. immediate range land based missiles it was signed in 1987 but the trumpet ministrations says russia did not keep its side of the bargain white house correspondent kimberly how could well for. it's a treaty u.s. president donald trump has repeatedly accused russia of violating right guys not adhering to the agreement they should have been done years ago the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed in 1987 by then u.s. president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev for 31 years it's ban both sides from deploying medium range land based missiles halting the arms race between the 2 superpowers but washington and moscow clashed for years over russia's development and deployment of a cruise missile system the united states and its allies say was prohibited under the cold war pact in february us secretary of state mike pump

a 0 announced that of russia did not begin to comply with the agreement the us would withdraw on august 2nd russia has jeopardized the united states' security interest and we can no longer be restricted by the treaty while russia shamelessly violates them announcement prompted russian president vladimir putin to warn the united states against deploying new missiles in europe well showcasing next generation russian weaponry its i'd like to tell you about the hypersonic missile which can travel at about 9 times the speed of sound has a range of more than 1000 kilometers for months nato leaders urged russia to comply with the deal to prevent its collapse the u.s. concerns on nato concerns about the new russian missiles have been raised through there with russia over several years but last minute pleas to keep that deal intact failed in july putin signed a law suspending russia's participation in the agreement now hopes are diminishing

for preserving the last. remaining arms pact between the united states and russia the new start treaty signed in 2010 and set to expire in 2021 trumps national security adviser john bolton has called the treaty flawed i fear that without i am now and with the attitude of mr ball with a lack of interest and focus of president we end up without a new start treaty as well we go into a nuclear arms race like we saw in the 1960 s. only more expensive and more dangerous the pentagon has announced it will begin flight tests of new intermediate range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles by the end of this year and it's requested funding to develop new missile systems that previously would have been prohibited under the eye enough treaty kimberly helped get al-jazeera the white house still ahead on a attacks on hospitals in syria now

the u.n. chief says he'll investigate. by saudi arabia relaxes rules restricting the lives of women but do they go far enough. and arsenal pull off the english premier league's most expensive signing this preseason all details later. however remains of what you can now tropical depression will make themselves felt by rainfall which is always going to be the case although there was some minor wind damage along this coast for ground 0 this still obviously swirling cloud no longer has approached the center to be honest the circulation which might give you winds of 30 or 40 kilometers per hour that's not damaging but the rain is likely to be

quite heavy in southern gornji northern vietnam. hi nan for example and it looks like we're going to redevelop shazahn or far east as hong kong in southern china the whole lot then infecting much of southern china so the rain's going to gather again but the flooding is like to be in the west or maybe africa in sichuan that's the seasonal stuff still going in sichuan south of all that it's a lot quieter now there are a few showers around in the philippines in particular west papua but bourne is largely free on the satellite picture and sulawesi all of indonesia looks fairly dry and says most the rain is further north particularly in myanmar and thailand where it's becoming rather more and hans to over the next couple of days in fact that's where most of the monsoon rain is for the moment coast of me and there is still a good infill in places like that but it's not as wet as a couple days ago. the weather sponsored by cattle railways.

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and again you're watching it is there a reminder of all top stories this hour japan has removed south korea from a list of favored trading partners called the white list around a spot by world war era disputes with south korea demanding compensation for victims of forced labor on the japanese occupation hundreds of products could be affected and there's concern the decision could affect security cooperation. almost 50 people have died in 2 attacks in yemen a military base and a police station the targeted rebels have claimed responsibility for one of the attacks they also claim to have fired a missile at

a base in the saudi city of damascus. mozambique's president has signed a peace deal with the leader of a former. who now heads a political party the renamo group was formed after independence in 1975 and 4 to civil. with the government to 1992 its armed wing is clashed with the military in recent years. now syrian state media says a conditional cease fire has been reached in the last a rebel held province of idlib but there's been no response yet from the opposition at least 2 children were killed in fighting in italy won thursday this video is thought to show syrian and russian forces bombing villages in nearby hamma more than 400 civilians have been killed in increased violence in northwest serious since late april hundreds of thousands of fled their homes. and the united nations will investigate attacks on un supported facilities in northwest syria secretary general antonio good television out of the inquiry after 2 thirds of the security council petitioned for

it mike hanna has that from the united nations. the focus of the inquiry will be the attacks on 14 u.n. supported the buildings in the it live bridge and a number of them hospitals the secretary general was careful to establish his legal right to call for the investigation well aware that it would be questioned by a few security council members russia was quick to condemn the s. g.'s decision but was saying that it was a mistake. and regret that there was a pressure on the secretary general from from the parts of the countries that really don't want to bring peace to syria there is a lot of fake news about this a lot of fake situations like the recent ones so without very much that this is for the sake of investigation this is for the sake of blaming syria and russia of the things that we do not do live fully respect the rights of the russian federation to these agree with me as i also respect the position of 10 other members of the

security council that the opposite opinion and i believe that these inquiries can produce an important result and they can get into that every single be done to make sure that these board of inquiry acts with full objectivity not to prove anything but to simply say what the troops he's done earlier this week the u.n. aid chief mark locata raised the possibility that information provided by the un was being misused by some parties the un director of human rights watch has now addressed that directly. in a written statement to lose charbonneau says and i quote the inquiry should determine whether russia and syria have used coordinates provided by the un to target hospitals he continues to be effective the investigators should attribute

responsibility for any war crimes and make their report public the push for transparency is another point of controversy in the already tense debate about this inquiry mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. a saudi arabia says it will now allow women in the kingdom to travel without the approval of a male guardian change is a part of sweeping reforms led by crown prince mohammed bin men the amendments also grant women the right to register a marriage divorce or childbirth for the 1st time despite the reforms women in saudi arabia still face many restrictions they continue to be considered legal minors and will still be under the authority of male relatives in other areas of their lives to system makes it virtually impossible for victims of sexual abuse all domestic violence to file reports as women would still need to be accompanied by a male and last year the kingdom stepped up

a crackdown on women's rights activists many of them are still behind bars human rights groups reported some were tortured. if the heart is an international human rights lawyer and he joins us via skype now from sterling virginia thanks very much for being with us 1st of all your reaction to this latest move by saudi arabia. well hasn't. let you know travel restrictions on women from a human rights group brings them firmly into the 20th century while the rest of the 21st century. in you know in the grand scheme of human rights it's. our. home i mean mentally for women but again there's a lot of political repression going on when it comes to political dissidents women right women's rights. and use and propaganda and so again i think that this should be with a grain of salt where this decision does come. in

a time of increased international scrutiny of women's status in saudi arabia with several young women reports of several wrong young women who fled the country. and that's that's got a lot of global attention you think there's a connection there with the timing of this decision. well i think you know recent history of how do you you know just a few months ago. $39.00 political dissidents $33.00 of whom were minorities you know she has only represent 10 percent of the boom some population they represent 92 percent who are executed we are we still have you know the blowback from the aftermath of the assassination of washington post journalist jim martin short do you wish to see them so publicly i was ordered by muhammad a man and so again even though this is a small step for saudi women in terms of getting the right you know to travel

freely in terms of human rights in saudi arabia we have a long long way to go you mentioned the killing of the journalist. and initially after after that there was seeing creased scrutiny on saudi arabia but long term it doesn't seem to have made much of a difference in the way saudi arabia behaves then and in the in the level of business that other countries do. with the kingdom. how does that make you feel well. you know you did that you know the lifting of the travel restrictions facebook and the company also announced so here you have been operating a profiles over 35350 fake profile 1400000 followers tellings propaganda and in targeting dissidents again you know if you don't you know. get a passport which they should have always had the opportunity that the other hand

you know creating a fake news and you know all these profiles like a bloody mirror you know really part of human rights and we were good to get your perspective on this arsalan iftikhar thanks for being with us. facebook says it's shut down a propaganda campaign linked to saudi arabia's government $350.00 accounts were banned from the social media platform for boosting state propaganda and attacking the kingdom's rivals it is the latest wave of takedowns which is also targeted russia iran and hate groups andy carvin is a senior fellow at the atlanta council's digital forensic research lab he says the saudi government is not alone when it comes to this kind of practice. this isn't a unique situation many governments on their own are creating these coordinated and authentic networks online in order to spread their messages and and attack their

rivals or in some cases as we're seeing here with the u.a.e. pages that came down a p.r. company was paid to post messages in. support of the. policies and so it's certainly not new but it's becoming much more prevalent and like you said it's not just facebook we recently observed similar patterns happening on twitter with around 100 twitter accounts working in coordinated fashion to support the u.a.e. u.s. interests in the region i wouldn't say what's going on right now is unprecedented in fact if anything it's happening more often in recent months we've seen facebook take down pages that have been associated with supporting interests in russia pages that were coming out of thailand out of 100 or us there was also a recent large number of pages in fact that were connected to a political campaign company in israel called archimedes group in which they were

posting information in support of different politicians and different causes all over the world but they were all in each case they were all pretending to be someone they actually warned and so whether it's a. a government actor that's organizing these and off at it you know authentic campaigns or in some cases their commercial interest being paid by someone else to do it it feels like it's becoming a weekly occurrence and that's because it pretty much says at this point. our wanda has reopened its western border with the democratic republic of congo after briefly closing it to try to prevent the latest break from spreading into its territory 2 more cases were reported in the border city of goma the other one year old daughter and the wife of the man who died of a ball on wednesday catherine sawyer has more from nairobi in kenya. on a normal morning this main border crossing between the democratic republic of congo and rwanda is busy with people going back and forth 15000 people use this crossing

daily as families visit relatives and traders stick their goods to the market millions of dollars a maid in buda trade every year but for a few hours on thursday the barriers were closed the rundown government saying it wanted to evaluate a boiler situation in the congolese city of goma. in that position taken by a 200 closed the border is not a good decision but people. haven't checked it yeah on the border. that. we crossed over yesterday and we didn't have any problems here but a large quantity of corn but this morning we came back to get our goods and they forbade us from crossing into rwanda because the customs office was not working quiet about it and he said just because of the color. health workers in goma say they're well prepared and are continuing to trace people who could have made contact with a boiler victims when the world health organization declared

a bola in the d.r. c. a public health emergency of international concern of the souls want countries against closing borders saying people may start using informal crossings where there are no proper medical check points and this could just make things west we're talking hundreds of process if not more. so that's kind of it's counterproductive because it interferes with that and then secondly people find another way or more remote here is where if you can go across the knee border you can find a different way. a vaccination campaign is under way and other regions in the eastern d.r. c but a controversial proposal by the world health organization to deploy a new 2nd vaccine for clinical trials is raising concern this new maxine that's being discussed is one that requires 2 doses about 56 days apart so there's

a lot of discussion about if we know we have an effective vaccine that's being used and has taken so long to get acceptance by the population if there's enough of that dexie and we know it's effective why introduce another vaccine into into this outbreak for now at the border travelers are relieved that operations are back to not only but many people decision of around 2000000 are afraid that the disease that has arrived on the doorstep may spread catherine sorry al-jazeera nairobi kenya. a new video circulated by china's army appears to be a warning to protesters in hong kong beijing has been relatively quiet about the growing unrest in the semi autonomous region andrew thomas has more on this from hong kong. this video has been released by the hong kong garrison of. china's people's liberation army and given the timing and the context it's clearly aimed at those thinking of taking part in the protests it starts with

a zoom in from space directly down on to hong kong. and then it plays out like an action film full of pumping music quick cut edits and dramatic shots of soldiers training explosions guns but a big section in the middle of this 3 minute video focuses in on how the army would deal with protests and riots. so just shouts out all consequences are at your own risk and then you see soldiers with riot shields marching down the street clearing a protest involved tanks or a water cannons used as well so far china's army the military has not gotten involved in any of the protests but clearly they are showing that they are prepared to and at an event to mark the anniversary of the army the head of the hong kong garrison here chang dao shan he said that the protests of the damage they've done to the prosperity of hong kong should not be tolerated.