hello standard summer weather at the moment in the u.s. sending calendar which means it gets hot and you get some big thunderstorms they have been gathering down the east coast in the last couple of days with a bit of flooding in new york and they're gathering again in the plain states so here's the picture for friday the place to watch might well be down in atlanta or florida this here is quite a mess to even it might even develop into a tropical depression and some so whether it does or not it will increase the amount of rainfall we have discusses 6 potentially flash flood territory and that's running into the carolinas as well you've also got this dark green here over texas potential for big thunderstorms there and surprisingly still it is dry to the west the very woman san francisco's no heat warnings out anymore for the central valley so again what is it about florida the place to watch the next 24 hours is going to be for the bahamas in cuba for big rain showers but i think following on behind you might get the same again in haiti dominican republic frederica and beyond all the

smaller hours of the caribbean also in quite an active trade wouldn't bring frequent shows that might must develop into something more maybe the heaviest the rain there is reserved for the ground between east and west so panama northwards. america is divided like never before inside is so convinced that they're absolutely correct that the other side is dangerous people in power investigates how partisan politics only raiding the civil norms vital to american democracy every indicator shows america to be to least well functioning democracy of any establish democracy . one of the strange death of american civility on al-jazeera.

again let me take you through our main stories and al-jazeera japan has dropped south korea from a list of favored trade partners called the white list the route was sparked by world your world war era dispute with south korea demanding compensation for victims of forced labor under japanese occupation hundreds of products could be affected and there's concern the decision could affect bilateral security cooperation. the south korean military says north korea has launched an unidentified short range projectile from the country's eastern coast now if confirmed it will be the 3rd launch and just over a week. almost 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 have also claimed to have far to missile at a military facility in the city of. the u.s. is ending its participation in the key arms control agreements it signed with the former u.s.s.r. during the last years of the cold war now the i.m.f. treaty was signed in 1987 by the trumpet ministration says russia did not keep its side of the bargain our white house correspondent kimberly harkin has more. it's a treaty u.s. president donald trump has repeatedly accused russia of violating right guys not adhere to the agreement they should have been done years ago the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed in 1087 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.o. 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 interests and we can no longer be restricted by the treaty while russia shamelessly violates them announcement prompted russian president vladimir putin in the united states against deploying new missiles in europe well showcasing next generation russian weaponry because 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 a new russian missiles have been raised 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 now and with the attitude of mr ball with the lack of interest and focus of president trump we end up with out 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 syrian state media says a conditional cease fire has been reached in the last rebel held province of idlib but there's been no response yet from the opposition at least 2 children were killed in fighting in the war on thursday this video is believed to show syrian and russian forces bombing villages in nearby hama more than 400 civilians have been killed in northwest syria since late april. u.s. president donald trump has announced more tariffs on goods from china 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 ellen fisher as more details from washington. the chinese u.s.

trade talks have been going on for more than a year and the americans thought they had a deal a few months ago but see that the chinese suddenly changed their position and that put everything into a state of flux and created the climate where more discussions were needed they also brought 25 percent tabs on $250000000000.00 worth of chinese imports into the united states no further tired of swer put on hold when the 2 leaders donald trump and the chinese president met at the g. 20 in japan but after trade talks in shanghai over the last couple of days produced no real advancement donald trump said that he was going to impose far the tariffs on u.s. goods this time 10 percent on $300000000000.00 worth of imports speaking before he left for a rally in cincinnati he said he believes the chinese want

a deal they're simply not moving fast enough now i think i think presidential somebody i like a lot i think he wants to make it but frankly is that going he said he was going to be buying from our farmers that he said he was going to stop it all from coming into our country it's all coming out of there he didn't do that well is it thousands of people felt at all and this was 2 things to highlight 1st of all the united states believes that china is dragging its heels on making a deal for 2 reasons 1st of all that the longer this goes on then the u.s. economy me we can and make donald trump very keen to do a trade deal with china the other with the 2020 alexion on the horizon they wonder if a different president might be easier to negotiate with the other thing is that donald trump has proven that yet again at the rally in cincinnati in ohio he doesn't quite understand what. seeing that china is pouring money into the u.s.

economy that is not true it is businesses and people here in the united states who end up paying the tab of the reserve port just last week the see the trade war with china which you'll remember donald trump said should be quick and easy to when it's costing the average american family of 4 somewhere in the region of $2000.00 a year. and to mozambique now where the president has struck a peace deal with the leader former rebel movements and the years of hostilities fully near as he signed the agreement of the day who leads an opposition party its i'm doing is disbanding as part of the deal charlotte ballots reports. mozambicans have waited more than 40 years for this moment since the country gained independence in 1975 the government has for most of the really good turned political party known as. the support

means mozambique commute. times are. we are here in good in gaza to tell mozambique in 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 in gosa national park that's been the group's remote military base for more than 40 years ago was is very symbolic. it was everything started and everything should stop that this is symbolic for every muslim because. 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 an estimated 1000000 people talks initially in 1902. this is big you speak fission for. peace. therefore we speak that this meeting will lead us to the weak peace. that peace deal redefined as a political kashi thousands returned to mozambique but the group always kept. an armed wing fighting his fleet 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 of the pows and we confabulate this is a historic date because of years of conflict we as brothers are committed for the greater good. their commitment will be tasted in not coming national elections which will see the peacemakers and political rivals pitted against one another at

the polls bellus al jazeera doctors in sudan say least 4 people have been killed after security forces opened fire on protesters it happened during nationwide marches against the killing on monday of at least 6 other protesters the ruling transitional military council is blaming the paramilitary rapid support forces for those deaths saying that they shot at high school students who were protesting about the cost of living. some soldiers have been arrested. others are as banned from reporting in sudan and so morgan is following these events from neighboring ethiopia. once again there is anger on the streets of harlem 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 others have been wounded as a result and protesters are demanding that the opposition for mission 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 the 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 the vote and i haven't. 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 brazenness 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 is 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. rwanda as we opened its western border with the democratic republic of congo it is briefly close to prevent the latest ebola outbreak from spreading to more cases have been reported and the border city of goma doctors are trying to track down anyone who had contact with the victim the u.s. envoy for afghanistan has been pakistan's prime minister and other senior officials in islam a bad meetings are taking place before a crucial round of talks between the u.s. and the taliban and doha qatar hyder has more on this from islamabad it has taken

almost a year of intense diplomatic efforts as a u.s. special envoy has been shuttling between beijing islamabad new delhi and called was also important or nor did for the 1st time there was room for optimism body of one taleban and the united states upbeat about the prospects of reaching a final status in maine to end an 18 year old war and of understand recently the progress on the prime minister who was invited to washington by the u.s. president was a story by the united states that the united states would be appreciative of bogard sons role in trying to come to some sort of an agreement by fertility dating that drugs would be of around dollar bond also important in order to their state of doctors which has given the taliban representation in their country and therefore also acting on their fertility in order to find a solution today is decades old wall more than 100 people have died in weeks

of flooding in bangladesh and 7000000 are at risk that's according to the red cross as waters recede authorities are concerned about the spread of disease the town ricciardi reports. thousands across bangladesh have lost their homes due to heavy flooding and landslides over 7000000 people have been affected and 163000 hectares of cropland damage in 28 distinct according to bangladesh red crescent society families have been struggling with the impact of the floods the worst in 2 years many are now facing the elements without any kind of protection shilpi begg a mother of 6 children is finding it hard to cope with the situation. so it's hard to compete the children a full square meal when there's so much water still around and their father can't find work when there's a flood we somehow manage to survive on dr rice pops many communities are finding

it difficult to access food and little aid has arrived so far. if we got some financial help then we could rebuild our home somehow we could then manage to live a normal life that's all we want. over $40000.00 children are been kept out of schools which have either been too damaged to access or are being used as makeshift shelters and. there is water everywhere in my home and at school i can study at home and now we are lagging behind in study. the majority of bangladeshi lives in rural areas most of home rely on every culture for their livelihood and it's this communities that have been hit the hardest according to environment experts bangladesh is becoming increasingly more vulnerable to climate change especially those living in river islands and coastal belts severe flooding has left many bangladesh is at risk of disease and hunger crops up then washed away

a life stock and fisheries room although water is receding in some places what effect that communities have lost their means to make a living and which are very well just set up for bangladesh. to where a state of emergency has been declared in 6 provinces a series of wild fires have destroyed more than 30000 hectares satellites have so far detected 96 separate places on sumatra and borneo islands many may have been deliberately started by farmers to clear land for planting. you're watching are just there and these are main stories south korea's threatening to retaliate against japan for imposing trade restrictions so has decided to remove south korea's preferential status or route was sparked by a world war era dispute with south korea demanding compensation for the victims of

forced labor during japanese occupation hundreds of products could be affected u.s. president donald trump has announced more tariffs on goods from china 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. and south korea says north korea has launched a new short range missile blissed tech missiles from the country's east coast on friday if confirmed it will be the 3rd such launch in just over a week earlier on thursday north korea's state media release these images of the leader kim jong un overseeing the test firing of a new rocket launcher system on wednesday so says the latest launches could impact any future talks on denuclearize ation. expressed deep regret that north korea's missile launches including ballistic missiles could negatively affect if it's to

establish peace in the korean peninsula so we will keep a close eye on the religious movements and prepare. the fighters in yemen have killed dozens of people at a military parade an aide to the rebels targeted forces loyal to yemen's government which is backed by the saudi arabia and the united arab emirates earlier in the day a suicide bomber killed 11 people at a police station but the attack wasn't claimed by the who these doctors in sudan say at least 4 people have been killed after security forces opened fire on protesters it happened during nationwide marches against a killing on monday of at least 6 other protesters the ruling transitional military council is blaming paramilitary rapids to force forces for those tests and the u.k.'s near parliament prime minister boris johnson has suffered his 1st electoral defeat its governing conservative party lost a by election in britain and wales to the pro european union liberal democrats it

reduces the prime minister's working majority in parliament to just one of those other headlines stay with us now for people and power. the saudi u.a.e. war on yemen has led to thousands of deaths and left millions hungry what role has the u.s. played in the world's worst humanitarian crisis on this is the entity that has the right to begin and end wars robert malley a top advisor on the middle east to president obama told to al-jazeera. america seems more disunited going to any point in recent history its politics undermined by partisan divisions consensus on almost anything impossible to achieve so what's with the bonds that once held this huge democracy together where could the disbelief in the 1st of 2 special reports that has been to investigate.

america today is a house divided now by slavery which abraham lincoln warned would lead to the u.s. civil war between sixty's but by toxic partisanship between democrats and republicans the nation's 2 main parties i'm angry at democrats because of what they do to our country right now we have people in congress that hate our country. we have a president who intentionally purposely is trying to go boy a dog club by the cold always scared by our agenda republicans have become

complicit in bringing down the character of the united states president trump keeps just fooling knowing it that character and our republican friends think your shrug their shoulders. partisan rancor has worsened since the release this year of special counsel robert motors report on his investigation of president trump and russian interference in the 2016 presidential race appreciate very much what mr muller did for the country. i have read most of the report for me. it is republicans believe that the most the report cleared trump the real scandal they claim is that the f.b.i. spied on his campaign has the f.b.i. ever launched a counterintelligence investigation of another president that you're aware of not to my knowledge that's the real crisis here if this can go on to the united states of america we don't have a democracy anymore democrats counter that mothers report provides ample evidence

that the president obstructed justice and committed other misdeeds that warrant is impeachment we took an oath to protect and serve the constitution of the united states of america and the way we do that is we began in pietschmann proceedings now . each side is so convinced that they are absolutely correct that they are morally . and surely correct that the other side is dangerous liana mason is a professor at the university of maryland a recent book on civil agreement examines why partisan polarization in incivility are so extreme now in the united states trump isn't the cause of a lot of discord that we're seeing he probably makes it worse but one of the things he has done is actually to bring out into the open these divides that have been accumulating between the parties so you argue that the democrats and republicans represent 2 mega identities today we've seen

a process of what i call social sorting and what that means is that basically between the 1960 s. and now the parties have grown more socially distinct from each other their public and party has become largely white christian rural somewhat more male and the democratic party is sort of everyone else and so it starts to feel like every election isn't just about our parties competing it's about our racial groups and our religious groups and our geographical groups and if you lose it's not just your party that lost it's all the things that make up your individual identity all the groups that you feel attached to it's almost like they've all lost to this sorting of people into 2 political camps fuel stereotyping and distrust in the 2018 poll by nielsen 70 percent of republicans and 60 percent of democrats agreed that the opposing party is a serious threat to the united states as we become more socially distinct as

partisans it's a lot easier to dehumanised the other group and so we start to think of the other side as not only opponents but actually enemies and dangerous why is the rise of partisan mega identities a threat to democratic norms but the constitution wasn't written for parties if you care only about whether your party wins or loses and you care about nothing else then there is no. running there is no accountability there's no impeachment the only thing that matters is beating the other side and being winners again. in order to investigate political division in the us what americans think about toxic partisanship and where it's taking the country we headed to north carolina the state is a hotbed of partisan conflict north carolina is ground 0 when it comes to polarization and that's been true for decades now rob christiansen is a political author and reporter and worked at the rally news in observer for 45 years the problem trying to figure out the state of the strategists is that the

states not one thing it's many things that has a little bit of alabama in it state has a little bit of silicon valley in it state has a little bit of berkeley in it the state has little bit of harlem in it i mean it's a really interesting mix and am very volatile mix in 2020 the republican national convention will be held in north carolina underscoring the state's importance in the presidential race north carolina has been very very close and almost every presidential election in recent decades barack obama carried north talented $1008.00 but it was a small slaughter of any state kerry and so the closeness of races in both parties think they can win it one day we're going to win the great state of north care. 2016 donald trump campaigned hard in north carolina and won it by 3 and a half points donald trump was in part a backlash against barack obama i think it was just total shock and an acceptance by some substantial minority of the population to see

a black man as president states in 2007 whites in the us were just as likely to identify with democrats as republicans who bites fled the party during obama's presidency by 2016 there was a difference of 15 percentage points do you think race is at the core of polarization in north carolina and the nation as a whole race is certainly. a very very powerful issue of women having yet come to grips with north carolina played an important role in the american civil rights movement in 1964 african-american college students in greensboro sat down in a white only lunch counter at all worst apartment stores daughter coffee they were arrested sparking a bunch counter sitting that lasted for 6 months so how old were you when you participated in the greens were i was 19 years old student at binik college and we had just gotten the word that yvonne johnson picketed at woolworths and sat at the counter herself she currently serves on the greensboro city council. when i look

for gas that around here we were so excited that it was an opportunity to get rid of some of that injustice that we had been experiencing all our lives what was life like for african-americans here in north carolina in 1960 i'm the product of segregated schools there gated waiting rooms colored and white water fountains sydney in the back of the bus so it was it was horrible it was terrible how did the word sit in come to an end it came to a new when the mayor and the powers that be get together and they began to open businesses to african-americans to restaurants and facilities to and it spread like wildfire this tactic that could work the woodward sit in was a catalyst for a youth led sit in movement that helped create momentum for the passage of the civil rights act of 1964 in the 1965 voting rights act moderate democrats led the

fight for the legislation setting the stage for the regional sorting between the parties that we see today i do date this back to the mid 1960 s. when the democratic party chose to be the party of civil rights that really angered a huge portion of the people who identified as democrats namely white southern democrats the changes a gradual for some people but it helped pull away a lot of conservative democrats into republican for they started voting for people like george wallace who was a democrat although he ran some point this a 3rd party candidate and then essentially they began crossing over to voting for richard nixon overall reagan or down to that this is happening all across the south dividing up along racially polarized lines but you know that's true down. a good example of this racial shift between the parties took place in the north county north carolina there were once plantations with slaves here and in kinston there is a replica of a confederate gunship in the center of town at the visitor center we met up with

mike parker the commander of the local chapter of the sons of confederate veterans all of us are descendants of confederate soldiers more manned in the civil war than died in all the other wars we've ever fall put down here it involved almost every family and this is one reason i think why in the south the civil war is such a big deal there are about 800 sons of confederate veterans chapters across the american south how big a battle was it here the lines went on for several miles too bloody civil war battles were fought in kinston are you concerned about the divisions in american society today yes i'm concerned because it shows a tremendous lack of open mindedness and respect down here is there a racial split between the parties i would say most african-americans are a service democrats and probably 2 thirds of white voters are registered as

republicans so that's a shift from years past yes do you think that racial tensions got worse as a result of president obama being elected to the presidency it's too easy to just say well he was a black man therefore white people didn't like him. there are there are people who just say look we don't want socialism we don't want these huge government programs but i think obama also put in you know he constantly seemed to me to play a race car what race car do you think he played i think he played a card i think he played the blackguard. do you support president trunk i support him oh many things i think his economic policies are sound i think his position on trying to secure our borders is signed on. and parker supported president trump's response to in august 2017 unite the right rally in charlottesville virginia trump acquitted white supremacist organizers of protesters who came to confront but i

should be. i think is blame on both sides and i have no doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it either graue he was organized to protest the removal of a statue of confederate general robert e. lee violence or rocked it in more than 30 injured when a counter protester dead. but you also had people that were. very fine people on both sides he wasn't talking about there being good people among the white supremacy and clay and there were a lot of other people who were there that were defending that monument who were the good people that were there defending the monument i'm sure that there were some people who were just history buffs i mean not everybody who thinks a monument should should stay where they are is a racist one doesn't need to be racist in order to. still be ok with a system that systematically oppressive nonwhite groups.