foreign ministry says the sanctions will further damage relations which are already strained farcical haim has more now from washington d.c. u.s. president donald trump complying with something congress told him to do last year after the poisoning of surrogate script all the u.s. congress passed a measure saying the because chemical weapons were used russia has to be sanctioned in less they can certify that they would never do it again and allow for inspections the state department months ago said that didn't happen so now congress has basically just been waiting to see if the president would impose these sanctions he in the law says that he has to pick 3 from this list of options the president is picking to win the 2 that are least likely to cause damage to the russian economy he's forbidding financial institutions in the u.s. from giving loans to the russian government and also international financial institutions from doing business with russia he could have taken such extreme steps as banning russian planes from u.s. airspace limiting imports and exports breaking off diplomatic relations the

president chose not to do this no if you're soonly we know that the president had a conversation with bladder where putin thursday when asked what they talked about the president's didn't mention the sanctions didn't mention the i.n.f. treaty he said listen they talked about forest fires and the u.s. is offering to help russia. also to come here and al-jazeera including hong kong's pro-democracy movement widens as a new protest is cool in defiance of government mornings. in south korea japan restricts trade relations in that stay with us. hello again more flooding across much of the southern china and this time it is ready to do with what is tropical storm what we pay now this ystem is mixed in with all this count here it will continue to weaken the winds will certainly weaken over

the next few days but the rain very evident as you can see particularly. heavy these dokic colors indicating that pushing into these northern sections of it a wet couple of days ahead in 227 celsius on saturday and also west into hong kong the winds sunny easing in hong kong over the next couple of days but again the rain isn't and in fact on sunday the rainy sunday right the way you can see up but east coast even shanghai with a high of 32 you will likely see some rain and then india while the monsoon rains have been very heavy across central regions for the last few days down the west and gas as well and he say again these prices indicating those heaviest falls over a saturday it is very widespread we have got some very heavy rain in the $4.00 cost mumbai $29.00 with those rains now a poor $28.00 to much as a course on low when we have the rains in the 4 cars this sunday on sunday as well you'll see those rains really don't take much of a break in fact right the way through much of the pool and again down is northeast

of india and also very heavy down into much of myanmar as well 29 again in the pool . like qatar airways experienced economy class like never before qatar airways going places to get.

up. back a quick amount of our top stories here this hour syrian government representatives and the opposition have agreed on a ceasefire the last rebel held province of idlib the opposition says it has already withdrawn its heavy weapons under the sochi agreement. yemen's who the rebels have for the 1st time released images of the ballistic missile system they're using to target saudi arabia who they say the medium range birken missile is domestically produced in yemen they say they'll continue launching attacks until the saudi coalition stops its airstrikes. and the u.s. impose new sanctions on moscow over the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter in england last year russia says the sanctions will further damage relations which are already under strain. but conflicts around the world last year killed or maimed a record number of children and its annual report of the united nations says 1800 children were killed or seriously injured in syria mainly from pro-government and

strikes including the use of barrel bombs and cluster munitions attacks on schools and medical facilities where the highest since the 8 year war began in syria and elsewhere children continue to be recruited as soldiers more than 2000 in somalia where hundreds of cases of sexual violence or reported and 65 percent of all child abductions worldwide happen in that country michaela has more the report is now under discussion in the security council and the secretary general has already expressed his deep disappointment at the terrible figures illustrated in the report the rise in the mouth treatment of children in places around the globe indicating that previous reports have had no impact whatsoever in terms of reducing the level of risk to children this is what the secretary general's special representative that's just told the security council. into india 18 very fide cases of children killed and maimed to reached record levels since the creation of the m a m i echo

the think at the dinner is concerned that unprecedented numbers of our relations with attributed to national and international forces it is vital that this council redoubles it if wants to ensure that all parties abide by the principles of this think of proportionality and military necessity the major point of debate of the 2 annexes to the report list a and list b. the so-called list of shame now list a contains parties and countries that have taken no action to reduce the risk to children and are responsible for such acts let's be and nominates countries or parties that have taken some form of action in a bid to improve their record but what is significant and what many have pointed out is that within the body of the report and large number of parties are listed as being responsible for every gate in children's rights including the u.s.

led coalition in afghanistan the afghan national army yet these bodies are not listed in either of the a dead end to the report equally with israel it is specified a number off. of the children's rights however it does not feature in either of the lists at the end of the report the saudi led coalition in yemen features in list to be for the 3rd year in a row human rights watch contends for example that if the grid remains on this list for 3 years without moving then it is not doing anything to reduce the issue so human rights watch to contends that these disparities within the report itself undermine the recipe of details and facts that are critically important. libya's interior minister has ordered the closure of 3 migrant detention centers after criticism from the un over conditions to facilities in the coastal cities of misrata and combs the 3rd is in touch europe a suburb of the capital tripoli forces loyal to the warlord and even have to hit

that facility in an airstrike a month ago killing at least $52.00 migrants the un has backed the decision to close the sentence. what we are calling on now is for an orderly release for refugees in detention centers to urban settings and we stand ready to provide to you to provide these people with assistance through our urban programs asylum seekers and refugees should not be kept in detention we absolutely oppose any idea of detaining children. in whether they are refugees or asylum seekers or migrant and in france people have been protesting against what they say is their government's support for the war lord harry for have to have been demonstrating in front of the french parliament in paris after launch an offensive an able to take the libyan capital tripoli from the un recognized government of prime minister fires also raj the fighting has killed

more than a 1000 people and forced tens of thousands from their homes to algeria where thousands of people have turned out for nationwide anti-government protests for the 24th consecutive week president abilities but a flicker resigned in april after 20 years in power but demonstrators are pushing for greater change the country's ruling elite presidential elections planned for last month were canceled because of a lack of candidates. so dan's military has dismissed and detained 9 members of a paramilitary group it says are responsible for the killing of protesters in el bade the doctor said at least 5 people were killed during nationwide marches on thursday demonstrators were rallying against the killing on monday of at least 6 other protesters the military is blaming the paramilitary rapid support forces for those deaths. now a year after it was detected in democratic republic of congo the number of cases is rising 2 people have tested positive for the virus in the eastern border city of

goma the 3rd and 4th cases are the wife and one year old baby of the man who died on wednesday the government says he had a family of 10 children and could have infected several people before dying random bridge to close its border with the sea on thursday as a precaution malcolm web has more now from nairobi. health officials talking about how they can ramp up their response to the spreading outbreak now that it's in the regional capital of goma which has a population of at least $2000000.00 people in its adjoined to the neighboring city of peace any basically want to have an area with a border running through the middle and with a growing number of cases on the congolese side people are wondering now how this outbreak of the virus can be further stand with many people live in poor housing in cramped conditions and the health response is already faced challenges throughout eastern congo being able to communicate to people also to be able to convince

people that health service providers are there to help this is an area where people have a lot of skepticism about government and about will forward the following decades of conflict a lack of public services and general of mistrust among the population towards those who are in power in the national authorities have lifted a tsunami warning after a strong earthquake hit off the coast of java the magnitude $6.00 quake hit at a depth of about 40 kilometers people were initially ordered to higher ground so far there's been reports of minor damage but the tremor was felt as far as the capital jakarta. thousands of civil servants in hong kong of defied government warnings and rallied in support of pro-democracy protesters they want an independent investigation into alleged police brutality and for charges against demonstrators to be drawn. follows weeks of escalating protests triggered by a controversial extradition bill under thomas has more now from hong kong. the been

a lot of protests in recent weeks here but perhaps none as significant is this one because things people are really civil servants they would hold the government the government their employer that they have come out to protest against and that is despite an open letter published on thursday by the government to carry land saying the civil servants should not take part in this protest or any other so as to preserve their impossibility but they come out to meet strains of thousands. filling this square here it's a capacity all the main roads around here are blocked with crowds hundreds deep as well people are spoken to here say that they felt they had to come out to show their support for protest as they said it has nothing to do with their employer the government what they do in their free time i spoke to a math teacher i spoke with translates up to this as well say the least he's moving for frankly the whole play do they today in terms of working for the government now this has been a completely peaceful protest or a move right test planned over the weekend to on saturday

a further what on sunday and on monday calls for a strike right across and. now it's a fanatical standoff that's plunged relations between japan and south korea at their lowest levels in years south korea says it will remove japan from its list of preferential trading partners and that's in response to tokyo's any decision to drop south korea's fos truck export status brian has more from self at an emergency cabinet meeting call to discuss the deepening rift with japan president moon jae and of south korea laid the blame squarely with his neighbor jaeger you know on your judgment when you're going quo japan's decision is a reckless decision that projects diplomatic efforts to solve the problem and rather worsens the situation i express my deep regret he was responding to the latest escalation in the tray. a dispute with japan removing south korea from the so-called white list of countries allowed to receive exports of sensitive strategic

components that it needs for its high tech manufacturing. it comes on top of restrictions last month on the export of raw materials for the production of semiconductors in south korea with fears of a knock on effect to manufacturing in neighboring countries. japan denies it's linked to a decade's old dispute over its water time record. deal this move was approved to revise japan's export controls appropriately and was not intended to hurt japan south korea relations or to craft counter measures japan has been angered by a supreme court ruling in favor of victims of forced labor during world war 2 with several japanese firms ordered to pay compensation that's despite japan's insistence that an agreement in $965.00 was meant to have result of the issue once and for all. but those studying the history of the turbulent relationship say it's

clear the 2 sides have always held opposing views on the nature of that agreement. up until now they have lived with their separate interpretations but this state of agreeing to disagree has been shaken and can no longer stand after this court decision and now we are at a most critical juncture in korea japan relations and now south korea is saying it will retaliate and remove japan from its list of preferential trade partners further worsening the dispute robert bright al-jazeera sold global stock markets continue to fall a day after president trump impose more tariffs on goods from china wall street opened in red on friday after trump announced a 10 percent tariff on $300000000000.00 of chinese imports and next month major european markets opened their trading but their biggest slide this year there are renewed fears the escalating trade war might lead to a global economic slowdown china says it will not be blackmailed and as warned of a television. the governor of the u.s.

territory of puerto rico is stepping down but his replacement is facing political and legal challenges because there are also your was forced to resign after widespread protests of a leaked obscene messages and government corruption has put forward former congressman battle. to take over but some members of the house of representatives say the senate must approve it. asylum seekers in mexico who've been sent back from the u.s. while waiting for an answer can now use a new shelter in ciudad juarez the center was opened by the mexican government and it's the 1st of its kind that can house more than 3000 people the government says new shelters will open soon into. the radio the u.s. has returned more than $20000.00 asylum seekers to wait in mexico since the program began in january. britain's new prime minister barnes johnson has suffered his 1st electoral defeat his governing conservative party lost a by election reckoning away leaving it with a one vote working majority in parliament was taken by the pro european union

liberal democrats and that will make it harder for johnson to push through his plans for a possible deal. now it's considered the single biggest celebration of arts and culture in the world that is kicking off in scotland this year's edinburgh fringe festival will feature more than $50000.00 performances never ranged from comedy shows to dance and musicals has more now from any of. the royal artists desperately trying to. fly everywhere and that's because there is so much competition some 4063 different countries. in every nook and cranny of the city over the next 3 weeks. cabaret musicals. now the fiend's all political. it's climate change carbon emissions and mass extinctions and global warming forming the

backdrop to a lot of performances one cool 1.5 degrees will feature. climate change report that's going to take. the headlines because they. say they don't see technological political problem anymore but as a cultural one and they're using their voices to try and transform public. a quick check of the headlines here al-jazeera syrian government representatives and the opposition have agreed on a ceasefire in the last rebel held province of the opposition says it has already withdrawn its heavy weapons under the sochi agreement. we withdrew the heavy weapons following the sochi agreement but the regime violated

this agreement and took advantage of the withdrawal so they can launch their cunning criminal attacks if the regime commits to the cease fire we will commit on our end and there will not be any need to talk about heavy weapons in the area yemen's who the rebels have for the 1st time released images of the ballistic missile system they're using to target saudi arabia who they say the medium range birken massaro is domestically produced in yemen they say they'll continue launching attacks until a saudi coalition stops its airstrikes the u.s. is impose new sanctions on moscow were the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter in england last year russia says the sanctions will further damage relations which are already under strain. russia says the u.s. has made a serious mistake by pulling out of a landmark arms control agreement on friday intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed with a former soviet union during the cold war the us administration says russia hasn't

kept its side of the bargain moscow denies any treaty violations. so korea says it will remove japan from its list of countries with a preferential trade status the retaliatory measure is in response to japan's earlier decision to drop south korea's fastrack export status the president moon jane has been tokyo a worsening situation. thousands of civil servants in hong kong and defied government warnings and rallied in support of pro-democracy protesters they want an independent investigation into alleged police brutality and the charges against demonstrators to be withdrawn. now a year after a bone was detected in democratic republic of congo the number of cases is rising 2 people have tested positive for the virus in the eastern border city of goma the most recent cases of the wife and one year old baby of a man who died on wednesday the government says he had a family of 10 children and could have infected several people before died.

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