so she'll have revisited. this is an opportunity to understand a very different way where there. is a we don't leave. a major escalation in the trade war the us names china a currency manipulator as the one drops to a new low. level raman you're watching over their lives my headquarters here in doha are coming up in the next 30 minutes ramping up the pressure on the president the duo reports that donald trump is imposing an economic embargo on venezuela also the u.n. calls for calm along the india pakistan border to new delhi revokes the special status for the disputed kashmir region and scientists say july was the hottest

month on record raising new concerns over global warming. welcome to the program there's been a new escalation in the u.s. china trade war washington is designating beijing of of manipulating its currency after it lowered the value of the one stocks have dropped nearly 3 percent on wall street beijing says it will stop chinese companies from buying u.s. farm products alan fischer has more from washington d.c. . well donald trump said he was going to call china currency manipulator on his 1st stay in office it's taken until now you certainly were expecting from the treasury said just evolution some sort of ruling on whether or not he thought china was a currency manipulator in october it's been brought forward just in the last few hours donald trump said on twitter that he believed china was manipulating its currency

to try and gain an unfair advantage against the united states now when they made this really could have years one of 2 laws they could have gone with the 2015 law or the one that was drawn up in 1908 they decided to go with the 1988 there's a reason for that it's a slightly broader remit it gives them a wider option on how they can declare china to be come see manipulator what it means know is that stephen ition with donald trump's backing will go along to the international monetary fund and see china is essentially blinking the rules and you need to punish them but this is something donald trump has promised for a while and as you say we were in a trade war no we're also in a currency war. done wearing years and list of the economist intelligence unit access china's service there she says an escalation of this kind was inevitable overall the spirit is still the same the us want to eliminate its trade deficit

with china but from this point on it looks very difficult because china is willing to take one mile or 2 that in its current and that means we might see a more of a longer lingering are below 07 and that means in fact working from china and searching many of the u.s. companies will continue to import from china or we have exacted from last year that china would brewster's 7 exchange rate as a psychological is lie. anyone who think they can short chinese yuan in the future there are armed reception because the central bank has signaled that it's willing to take more volatility so the 7 regions that means inevitable but for it to float further like $7.00 or 8 under central government would not let that happen while staying in the region south korea says that all those fired what appears to be 2 short range ballistic missiles launched took place in the south on hey province earlier the north korean government condemned joint military drills

between the u.s. and south korea describing them as hostile moves north korea has generated an estimated $2000000000.00 for its weapons program using cyber attacks and that's according to a new u.n. report seen by the waters news agency says the pyongyang used increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks to steal from banks in crypto currency exchanges the report was presented to the committee of the u.n. security council sanctions were imposed on north korea in 2006 in a bid to stop funding for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs andrea one cough is a professor a queen university he says north korea is trying to put pressure on sold with these actions. the north koreans want sounds scary in government and south korean president to feel very very uncomfortable because south korean president is actually quite positive towards not scary yet mungy in and he said ministration would like to have some exchanges but they can not do anything about the qana mean

because of the un sanctions. can not be engaged in economic cooperation so they want basically something symbolic and not scary as door need something like joint concept or football match of each other they need money and south koreans cannot deliver it so badly but at an increasing pressure on selves on the expectations their south korean government we'll fewer itself uncomfortable and we will be even harder for partial or complete lifting of the current economic sanctions targeting no scaredy and if it happens ers are going to hear a lot of nies of what's wrong but not now us media is reporting the trumpet ministration is set to impose a complete economic embargo on the venezuelan government it would target any company or individual that does business or offer support to anyone affiliated with the government of president nicolas maduro but it would be the 1st measure of its

kind against a government in the western hemisphere in more than 30 years on monday washington froze all venezuelan government assets in the united states really is a venezuelan national a violent reviser he says the sanctions will affect everybody including countries that are doing business with venezuela well i think is escalation. must be a reflection of the position that the united states. and also the european union there is the nor wary mediated conversations that dial change did not jewelry out. there was a ratchet up sanctions so this by itself was already an indication that the agreement or that that those conversations came to a stalemate on the remaining almost mulatto remaining in power before an election so there is an apparently agreement on the presidential election but not on what

happens to the little between now and the presidential election. why do all governments watch model to exit immediately and have the elections be conducted other decision government and clearly mother who want to stay until the election so this escalation is that credibly sharp. ratchet of the pressure that will be put on the next one that will affect everybody secondary sanctions will affect also countries 3rd countries that are doing business with that as well can south asia now where u.n. secretary general untenured terrace has appealed to india and pakistan to exercise maximum restraint on monday india said it's revoking kashmir's autonomous status abruptly upheaving a 70 year old agreement in the coming hours the government in new delhi will move a bill in the lower house of parliament for discussion and vote. well i can tell you that we are following with concern the tense situation in the region we're also

aware of reports of restrictions on the indian side of kashmir and we urge all parties to exercise restraint i would add that over the past few days the un military observer group in india and pakistan otherwise known as on mortgage has observed and reported an increase in military activity along the line of control the indian government says the cultural changes are necessary to integrate the region into india but opposition politicians say it's a dark day for democracy paul brennan reports. a wide ranging security clampdown kept people largely off the streets in indian administered kashmir on monday thousands of troops have been deployed and internet connections were cut to deter any opposition to the sudden revoking of article 371 it was certainly uproar in the new delhi parliament when the decision was announced by home minister ahmed shah. the opposition leader angrily accuse the governing b j p of murdering democracy by

revoking article 370. this isn't many ways a black defendant democracy we have seen if not the letter of the constitution certainly the spirit of the constitution and the soul of indian democracy being shamelessly violated but those who've been elected to protect it article 370 allows the regional government to make its own laws except in finance defense foreign affairs and communications residents of kashmir live under different laws from the rest of india in matters such as property ownership and citizenship now the central government plans to split up the region into 2 parts kashmir and jammu and led back which will both be directly governed by new delhi. reaction has spread along religious and political lives despite the security clampdown in jammu and small groups of hindus celebrate at the end of what they. as 30 years of banishment. the

kashmiri muslims complain bitterly about their rights and identity being stolen from them and they have been opposition demonstrations in indian cities such as calcutta and new delhi. the hindu nationalist party came to power in the elections in may this year with enhanced majority based on promises that it would remove these special provisions which they see pander to the muslims of india so there is a clear political polarization here with the ruling party trying to pander to its hindu vote bank. as part of the government security crackdown 3 prominent kashmiri politicians have been placed under house arrest 2 of them former chief ministers. kashmir is one of the most militarized areas in the world and both india and pakistan claim it is their they've gone to war more than once of a kashmir since their independence from british rule pouring yet more troops into that contested region now may not necessarily be

a recipe for calm paul brennan al-jazeera. pakistan's government is condemning india's move and says it's ready to exercise all possible options. administered kashmir. white spread across pakistan raid protests taking place in major cities or what the indian moves or what the judge and kashmir region the pakistani foreign office summoning the high commissioner of india to the foreign office and lodging a strong protest and complain about the indian moves now there are tensions which have been growing up over the past few weeks also because of the fire by lation just on the accused india of using cluster munitions the indians of course denying that but pakistan had been taking foreign diplomats and even the united nations military observer group for india and pakistan showed them the evidence of the

indian artillery barrage in the needham valley and wasted munitions were used now it is going to be important to see what happens within the next few days of august on intent to go in a diplomatic offensive to try and rein in the international community that the only way forward a tradition that did require that in order to defuse this dangerous crises although project on in india had been a main back in $1702.00 to discuss andhra dollars all outstanding issues including 2 bilateral talks that particular pod had been closed because of india and a few were going according to pakistan to come to the negotiating table the pakistani prime minister start taking office just a year ago had already said that if india wants to take one step forward that pakistan ready to take to. the u.s. envoy to afghanistan says excellent progress has been made in the latest round of

talks with the taliban. has left for india now for further consultations to build international consensus he says a final deal of u.s. troop withdrawal will be reached soon the taliban has also been optimistic saying it's ready to negotiate with the afghan government wants foreign forces withdraw a ceasefire in syria's rebel controlled province has collapsed the government has resumed its offensive with strikes reported in the southern parts of the province syria's government has accused rebel forces of violating the terms of the truce and is blaming turkey for not enforcing it cease fire was agreed in kazakhstan last thursday. has the latest from garcia and tap on the turkey syria border. the ceasefire has collapsed the airstrikes have resumed the syrian military is announcement that it would resume military operations in that rebel controlled province in northwestern syria came as a surprise really because the ceasefire seemed to be holding since friday night

there have been no air strikes the warring parties have been shelling each other along the front of shelling at each other along the front lines but a far apart from that there was really no indication that we were heading to a collapse of the cease fire in fact earlier on. on monday the pro syrian government website quoted a military official as saying that the government would give the rebels until august 16th after the muslim holidays in order to comply with the truth so sudden announcement that this ceasefire is now over it really raises a lot of questions and we've been speaking to people here in turkey turkey of course. it's a message to turkey this is how it is being felt here because in the syrian military statement they they blame turkey saying that its proxies on the ground are violating the truce well still ahead here a little just a week ago said it cools off a vote to confirm the new government plus. i'm charlie rangel at the edinburgh

festival west some artists at putting the most painful experiences on the stage. how we have no shortage of hot sunshine as per usual across the middle east little bit more cloud up towards the caspian sea it will see the black sea to try to coax just catch your live shot but they will be few and far between i think the main feature to watch out for over the next couple of days will be this increasing wind spilling out to syria down across iraq and it puts. this way further south was it is going to fade a fair bit of dry air lifted dust and satirized across the eastern side of saudi arabia down across us here in casa other side of the potential i just notice the 3rd few show is over towards the red sea on cheese day where the state looks

a somewhat drier and brighter affair if $4546.00 celsius in doha meanwhile fina dry across much of southern africa with mcleod just around the southern cape i might even see some welcome by in full just nudging in here as we go on into the middle part of the week but for much of southern africa well dry and sunny pretty much sums it up the harare around $26.00 degrees celsius you can follow that fine with the further north up around the if you have been highlands pushing up towards the whole of africa just around the red sea eagle that area cloud and frame that extends its way right across into the gulf of guinea there's plenty of showers for west africa. the palestine national orchestra was 1st founded in the 1930 s. but has had to be revived in 2010 always very important thing in palestine now musicians from all over the world come together to perform in the occupied

territories so good for the theme it's like every palestinian living in the aspirant felt it was the 1st time they perform using their identity al-jazeera world hears music as a force for unity the diaspora orchestra. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera with me it's a whole robin a reminder of our top stories the u.s. has accused china of being a currency manipulator as the trade war between the world's 2 largest economies intensifies stocks have dropped nearly 3 percent on wall street after china let its currency sink to an 11 year low also the u.s.

media are reporting that the trumpet ministration is set to impose a complete economic embargo on the government of venezuela and president nicolas maduro it would be the 1st measure of its kind against a government in the western hemisphere in more than 30 years. a ceasefire in syria's rebel controlled provinces collapsed the government has resumed its offensive with airstrikes reported in the southern part of the province syria's government has accused rebel forces of violating the terms of the truce and is blaming turkey for not enforcing it. a u.s. defense department delegation is in turkey for a last ditch effort to set up a safe zone in the northeastern syria turkish president reza one has said that his country is running out of patience with washington on sunday he announced troops would be sent to an area controlled by the kurdish y p g that the y.p. g. has been an important u.s. ally in the battle against deisel but ankara sees it as a terrorist group or staying in the region the u.k. has joined the u.s.

on an international maritime security mission to protect cargo ships in the strait of hormuz britain has been giving u.k. flag vessels in the region and they've less course since iran seized one of its oil tankers last month european nations have been reluctant to take part in the u.s. naval mission. that iran's foreign minister says the real reason for the united states has sanctioned him is because that he refused an offer to visit the white house and hold talks earlier this month javid serif made the comments at a news conference in tehran on monday us of beck has more from tehran. well it was a very passionate and animated foreign minister the press conference went on for about 2 hours and he took questions from local and international media in fact this was his 1st public press conference with the media since the u.s. face sanctions on him last week on thursday the u.s. says that he's not an honest broker and that he acts on behalf of the supreme leader ayatollah khamenei but the reef says that these sanctions won't affect him because he has no assets outside of iran but today he also added this matter.

to mind a government employee like me what does it mean to impose sanctions on the foreign minister it means the failure of dialogue the failure of diplomacy it means they disagree with talks our security and stability has never been course it is not. he was also asked about dialogue with regional countries here specifically the united arab emirates and saudi arabia he mentioned the conflict in yemen and what that shows is how vested everybody is in that conflict he said if saudi arabia and the u.a.e. were to revise their policies in yemen and choose negotiations over conflict that iran was ready to talk basically saying take a step back from yemen and we will sit down and have a dialogue with you and possibly restore ties you also mentioned the blockade and he said that it was unacceptable that regional countries were present this blockade on got there and also for 2 discretion on a fellow member of the gulf cooperation committee so

a very passionate today is still out there putting his message out despite the u.s. sanctions against him and in fact the establishment here in iran has rallied behind the foreign minister. no u.s. president all trump has condemned bigotry racism and white supremacy following the shootings in texas and ohio that left 31 people dead speaking at the white house he blamed social media and mental health issues for the country's increase in gun crime and he called for new legislation to run background checks on gun owners. for 2 rico has no leader politicians have decided to delay the vote to confirm and governor the country's senate will now wait for its supreme court to decide if the man who came into office on friday is even eligible to take office but this comes after a scandal and weeks of protests forced his predecessor to resign gabriel and zundel has more for someone. chaos that's how one senator described the political situation in puerto rico after more than an hour of debate the senate decided to

cancel their confirmation vote of pedro pierre lucy an interim governor and let the supreme court decide his fate when he began hearing the case on tuesday appear louis c. was sworn in friday night but the senate filed a lawsuit with the court saying he's illegitimate since he was not confirmed by the senate the government is paralyzed waiting for a decision the longer this political crisis goes on in puerto rico the more it could impact the average everyday puerto rican people let's remember puerto rico is a island territory of the united states and already washington has said they could withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to the people here until this crisis is resolved it's a huge crisis right now in the middle of its biggest bankruptcy. we have a huge financial fiscal crisis but then we also have. so there are many families

thousands tens of thousands of families that are still waiting to recover. and a whole mess we don't have a government we have a governance crisis the sun set on another day a government filled with uncertainty lawmakers unable to solve it and a governor many is illegitimate. san juan puerto rico. well 2 african the break in the democratic republic of congo and doctors without borders says nearly 2 thirds of those who've been infected. briefly shut its border with the. patients in the border city of goma tested positive for the disease stephanie deca has just sent me a little one side of the border. these people are coming from goma in the democratic republic of congo that is goma that you're looking at and this is how

close the border is when it comes to practically the same city the way it's described here in rwanda which is why the authorities here the government got so nervous when it was discovered in cobo look at the amount of people that are crossing the border this is happening every day people will cross in the morning whether it's to work whether it's to pick up the goods whether even children to go to school and then they were tired during the day and what they're having to do now is a set up these stations to get people to wash their houses because of the way that the farmers transmitted and they're also taking their temperature you know of the here and now the speaker in the background while that's telling people to wash their hands not to shake people's hands i'm also that if they feel guilty september the burning man things like fever to go to one of the stations of the government has set up so we got it gives you a sense of the proximity of the 2 cities of ever having been discovered in goma and this is why this art is here are taking it so seriously because certainly nobody

wants the virus is just. it was the warmest on record for the planet that's according to scientists at the european union's cold copious climate change service who say it continues a worrying put trend in global temperatures this year is there a science and technology editor around the home to explains. global temperatures in july i usually hot but never before have they climbed this high scientists at the use copernicus climate change service analyzed temperature data from across the world and observations from satellites and ground stations they say july was the hottest month albeit by a small margin rising from the previous record in july 2006 days scorching record temperatures and hate waves in europe the united states and the arctic coincided with a major ice melt in greenland data from scientists at the danish me to

a logical institute shows melting on almost 60 percent of greenland's ice sheet that released 197000000000 metric tons of water into the atlantic ocean in july we are seeing now see a. signal of. climate change global warming the arctic is actually warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world and now there's a very clear signal that this warming is actually driven by too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so as this year 2 increases. temperatures around the world we're going to see more of these type of heat wave. these heat wave the vents are behind large wildfires since early june wildfires in the arctic pumped out more than $100000000.00 tons of greenhouse gases that's equivalent to belgium's carbon dioxide emissions in

a year climate scientists say there is still time to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels the u.n. body dealing with warming planets the i.p.c.c. has pushed a simple message for governments businesses and individuals to drastically cut emissions by making this one. from burning fossil fuels like oil and coal to claim green renewable energy but since the i.p.c.c. issued a call back in 2050 a carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has continued to rise it now shrouds our planet at a level not seen in the last 800000 he is. activists in france are demanding stronger measures to ensure that cleanup work at the not too dam cathedral doesn't expose people to dangerous levels of lead hundreds of tons of toxic lead melted when we got the church was almost destroyed by fire in april

restoration work has been suspended up to concerns were raised about health risks. staying in europe and to the edinburgh fringe festival the performers are bringing the past and stage the sharing the deepest darkest secrets with the audience through song and downs charlie angela is in the scottish capital. monsters lurking briony show about how she lost her mind a partner almost her son an experience she really lives every night in front of hundreds of people using cabaret and comedy that. was what. was her show is funny heartbreaking and it sold out she says it helps to heal the sox's for me. and i got to process it you know by make it off oh yeah that's how i've always thought that would take myself so yeah i

feel like i figured it all out i guess. now it's so far away it's it was in some ways it's quite nice i go. into that horrible side and then i can come off to say. yes it's good it's good therapy for me there was need to. do. confessions but also make the great comedy of the edinburgh fringe no subject is too personal or too brutal to talk about acrobatics how this performer illustrate the highs and lows of her childhood by domestic abuse but the festival organizers realize that while they can be therapeutic some material can revive. here a friend central they were offering a lot more services to support artists of reformers and to just be really there as well as a wonderful creators on much of their lives and it is also and is also tough for

those artists who are digging deep into their own emotional journeys to share those with other human beings to help. with the frenzy of the friends the festival is offering meditation workshops talks with psychologists and now have mental health 1st aid is on hand to support any artist who feels overwhelmed whether they've suffered for their art all made art out of their suffering. and with energy wit and compassion these refreshing and intensely personal pieces of work shed light on experiences. to the dark how does the. desire of me so horribly remind of our top news stories the u.s. designated china as a currency manipulator as the trade war between the world's 2 largest economies intensifies stocks have dropped nearly 3 percent on wall street and china let its

currency sink to the 11 year low alan fisher has more from washington d.c. the global markets don't like the idea of the world's 2 biggest economies going head to head in a trade war even though donald trump said that the cheap and easy to when now the chinese are playing quite cleverly here by targeting agricultural products they know that war heart donald trump because he won a lot of states where farmers are strong and therefore they think this is striking him at his political base donald trump and the white house believe that china haven't really entered into trade talks with the best of greece's south korea's the north has fired what appears to be 2 short range ballistic missiles the launch took place in the south point hey province earlier the north korean government condemned joint military drills between the u.s. and south korea describing them as hostile moves puerto rico said it has called off a vote to confirm louis c. as governor it will no wait until the supreme court decides on

a case concerning his eligibility came into office on friday after weeks of protests forced his predecessor to resign. u.n. secretary general antonio has appealed to india and pakistan to exercise next him in restraint on monday india said it's revoking gish mir's autonomous status abruptly scrapping a 70 year old agreement in the coming hours the bill will be moved in the lower house of parliament for discussion and a vote. the u.k. has joined the u.s. on an international mission to protect cargo ships in the strait of hormuz britain has been giving it u.k. flying vessels in the region a naval escort since around seized one of its oil tankers last month european nations have been reluctant to take part in the u.s. naval mission those were the headlines here on al jazeera back and more news in half an hour next it's counting the cost to stay with us china has one of the world's highest. but maybe a take up the fight against for military. to balance surgery when i went to

investigate the chinese battle to get in shape on al jazeera. hello i'm adrian finighan this is counting the cost of houses here your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week on patrol off the coast of west africa nations step up their naval presence to counter the scourge of piracy and hostage taking. after 6 years of treading water gold prices are on the rise we find out what's behind the move. and i'll tell you what a great impressive record morning one production rather than import. a decade ago no ship was safe off the coast of somalia men armed with machine gun.