how to make it back and build a prosperous community some of them invest the money into other businesses school from the downtown part of the rebel education series on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. watching the news hour live from a headquarters in doha i'm terry navigator coming up in the next 60 minutes the trade war boils over the u.s. declares china a currency manipulator and global stock markets feel the effects. pakistan's army chief says the military will go to any extent to support the people of kashmir and as india revokes its autonomous status. health officials in rwanda and the

democratic republic of congo are meeting to decide how to stop the spread of ebola and out of school former england captain wayne rooney is leaving the united states the 33 year old has signed as a player coach with 2nd to english side darby county. hello the trade war between the u.s. and china appears to have accelerated dramatically over the past 24 hours on monday the u.s. government formally declared china a currency manipulator that's a mostly symbolic action but it is likely to raise tensions between the 2 economic giants and the move came hours after china devalued its currency the one which caused the main u.s. financial indices to fall by more than 3 percent that was after the trump administration announced increased tariffs on a further $300000000000.00 in chinese imports last week and when that. when he

comes into effect next month it will mean virtually every product china exports to the u.s. will be subject to extra taxes let's bring in our white house correspondent kelly hawkers joining us from washington d.c. on the president's been up and tweeting and defending the decision to label china a currency currency manipulator can really yeah the view of the trumpet ministration of the president specifically is that the united states is in a stronger position in this tit for tat trade war turned currency war that has been escalating for quite some time in comparison to where china stands right now the feeling is that the united states economy is still strong resilient enough to withstand some of the bumps and bruises that seem to be as a result of this back and forth and that's what the president was talking about on social media on twitter specifically this morning making the case that the universe united states so far has benefited from this trade war not everyone would agree with that but that he's saying that companies that had been located in china are

now looking to the united states more favorable conditions for doing business and also that the united states is benefiting from those tariffs that are put in place on chinese imports into the united states that also is being debated still the white house is defending at the top economic advisor larry kudlow speaking to reporters in the driveway behind me here at the white house in the last couple of hours saying that the bottom line is that the the united states cannot tolerate not only currency manipulation but also intellectual property theft from china and as a result it has drawn a line in the sand it believes this is the right approach and it also knows the her least the argument is being made is that the president believes the bigger the risk the higher the stakes the bigger the reward. this is a transformative president. who is going in many places where prior presidents and both parties have fear to tread. he is determined he's rebuilding the american

economy which is going very strong. and i think part of that has to be trade. now the president sent out 2 tweets about this escalation between the united states and china the 2nd ones address the concerns of farmers specifically now this is where there has been a big pinch being felt here in the united states american farmers really caught counted on china for particularly soybean exports as a result of this escalation china's just in the recent days ordered at state run companies not to purchase u.s. agricultural goods this is going to hurt american farmers even further then these trade war tariffs that have been going back and forth we've already seen the united states give american farmers 2 aid packages the president in his twitter tweet today saying that there could be the potential for another aid package saying he

will stand with farmers what i can tell you in the midst of all of this is we've seen the stock markets tumble concerns about the strong u.s. economy suddenly starting to take a hit with a possible concern of recession but this is a big political gavel for the president on top of everything else american farmers make up a big part of his base so he's taking a huge risk here not only just in terms of up ending the global economy but potentially putting his reelection in 2020 at risk all right so it can really help that thank you scott heiler has the view from beijing. the trade war between the united states and china has reached concerning new territory the u.s. treasury department for the 1st time since 1994 has labeled china as a currency manipulator this is because over the last couple of days the you on the chinese currency has gone up to over 7 per u.s. dollar now that's a territory a symbolic territory that hasn't crossed in quite some time that raise concern that also had knock on effect with markets around the world after that label was issued

by the united states treasury department's pushback from the chinese government refuting that claim and also it seemed as though the chinese government on tuesday pump the brakes a little bit because offshore chair trading of the yuan went down below that symbolic 7 yuan per dollar mark so obviously a lot of back and forth this of course comes after what we heard just at the beginning of the week president trump announcing a new round of tariffs on $300000000000.00 of chinese goods going to the united states now this is something you know there was a discussion last week in shanghai here in china negotiations between the 2 countries that really didn't go anywhere no real announcements until we heard at the beginning of this week and obviously a lot of firing back and forth now obviously this is very concerning territory in this trade war and also there's concern global markets were going down as a result of what we've been hearing there's greater concern what kind of knock on the effect it could have in global economy and some very strong words coming from beijing responding to what president trump was saying they said this is very

irresponsible this is the central government here in beijing irresponsible and they're holding the u.s. administration's holding america's families hostage during this trade we're obviously it's going to have a drag on the global economy that's something that china is underlining you have to see what happens next but there's been some very strong tit for tat at the beginning of this week. let's also talk to tara jackson she's a financial analyst and author of she's joining us via skype from wilmington delaware thanks very much for speaking to us on the news hour so this the session china as a currency manipulator could that be a justification to impose more tariffs in september or is this a way for the trumpet ministration to gain more concessions from china i think it's a way for them to gain more concessions during the exactly what you said they've been itching or the president's been itching to call them a currency manipulator for a very long time this yesterday their move which i consider a chess who is pretty much what gave them the reason to do that on one hand they

were saying that their economy is really good on the next hand they're saying they're doing it to protect their on a me and so they pretty much are as the united states what's crna they reached that act that would control that so that gave united states the power at that point to call out currency manipulator as a chess move they made one now with the other players calling foul and saying they're cheating and china is coming back and saying we're not cheating we did it just to stabilize our markets which it did because everything is up today and we have no more intention of doing any more just minutes yeah but what about this tells you that the china is willing to engage in more negotiations because we know that the u.s. and china have been involved in trade talks there has been no results so is it possible to see how this particular designation is going to change that situation. so really i think this is the biggest pair of testosterone fight i've ever seen and it's causing so much uncertainty in the market and so it's too it's like 2 fathers

that are fighting against each other and their families are getting the hit from it i'm hoping in september they can meet if they do need so that they can come to some resolution to avoid the havoc it's going to cause in the markets in the future i say that we need to wait and see what september is going to bring if they actually went back to me but given that just 3 weeks ago jackson the international monetary fund itself said that they won accurately reflects china's economic fundamentals i suppose the question is what do you think the ultimate game plan is here for the u.s. treasury their u.s. treasury is to get the i.m.f. involved so it stop any other adjustments or any other moves from china so their ultimate goal if they can legitimately call them a currency manipulator they can get the international monetary fund to do an investigation and halt any other movements and right now it seems like it's on founded i don't think anything's going to happen of it i think we call them

a currency manipulator too soon i think we waited 24 hours to see it was going to happen what they were going to say the one thing is because they did call them out they china now said ok we're not going to do any more movements we don't need to because what we did did what we wanted to do and that was to correct the market arises her in jackson we thank you very much for joining us on the al-jazeera news hour thank you. now pakistan is vowing to exert maximum pressure on india over the crisis in kashmir that's after new delhi stripped indian administered kashmir of its autonomy so pakistan's prime minister imran khan called on the world to take notice of india's move to change the status of the disputed region. you know india went against the 17 resolutions of the united nations security council she went to get a united nations general assembly resolution and they went against the agreement they have taken a decision in which they want to change the demographics of kashmir meanwhile india's lower house has rubber stamp legislation to split indian administered

kashmir into and indian troops have the area on lockdown as you can see internet and phone lines are down curfews are in place and local political leaders are being detained we have correspondents both in india and pakistan in a moment we'll speak to come on in pakistan administered kashmir but 1st over to phase dimia who's joining us from new delhi and as we're saying fay is the lower house in india has passed that resolution this was expected. this was completely expected daryn given the indian government's majority in the lower house was a poor gone conclusion that it was passed but the interesting thing what we didn't expect was how much opposition support there was many opposition parties and members of parliament openly said went against their own party some of them some of them the entire party latched on to the government agreeing with them on this proposal on this bill which is now passed and even some opposition members that

were criticizing the means of how they legally maneuver to get this resolution and then get this bill passed did agree with the ends so it was very interesting to see that that there is wide support in parliament and in the public for this now on the other side mary's living outside of the region ones that we've spoken to in delhi say they're still worried about their families the shutdown is continuing in indian administered kashmir phone lines landlines broadband internet mobile phones they're all shut down and people can't even get to touch with their families they want don't they don't even know where they are but india's home minister ahmed shah says this will all be for the better and will actually bridge the divide between kashmiris and indians making them one and will better be better for them and the country all together all right so if i is to me with an update from new delhi thank you let's bring in come on haidar he is and was a far about in pakistan administered kashmir and when pakistan says it will exert

maximum pressure on india over that crisis in kashmir what are we to read into those comments what are pakistan's options. pakistan's options of course are limited cade but at the same time the language coming out of the military high command that august on will go to any level when it comes to their support of the media freedom struggle so progress on making that great a clear interesting lead up against any prime minister who was speaking on the floor all thought parliament where there were joint emergencies station he said he expected he said i'm going to predict that once dissipation is unleashed on the population in india and by fish meat axe pakistan likes to call it he said that there would be a reaction and once again india were to blame bog it down like they did. by

scapegoating bog us down which could lead to an indian incursion in and then pakistan would react to dags so indeed that situation vay warner tied it into water awards strong rhetoric and it's going to be important to see what kind of shape everything takes me and what's right what's sort of shape this will take because dayton apprehension. water awards and actions on the ground even the leaders backcourt perhaps start a big configuration and this region all right thank you. plenty more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including don't mistake restraint for a weakness china wants. its army will defend every part of its territory. the u.s. increases pressure on venezuela as the country's foreign minister denounces a criminal economic blockade. and tributes from teammates as writers pause to remember the belgian cyclist killed on monday during the tour of poland.

but 1st the health ministers of the democratic republic of congo and rwanda are meeting to work out a plan to fight the latest outbreak it's hoped that the sky will lead to the adoption of a joint plea which can be presented to the world health organization stephanie decker is in the wrong density of just send you on the border with the do your see . everyone is on edge this border guard is making sure these people join the queue. no one can come in to wander from the democratic republic of congo without a health check but monitoring so many people is a challenge temperatures are taken hands are washed people are scared. ebola is killing badly this lady tells us. you stop bleeding in your head

you get a fever and a cough that's why they tell you to wash your hands you know well firebird oh yes i feel a birla the blood comes from were head to our eyes and mouth and from everywhere in your body it makes me afraid so i wash my hunt. for people who are diagnosed with the bowler in the border city of goma over the last few weeks it's escalated concern here in rwanda because the highly infectious disease has never come so close we are on the border between iran and the democratic republic of congo this is goma and just a few meters really right next door is the seine rwanda so this shows you just how close the 2 cities are and the problem is the mass movement of people thousands of people are crossing this border every day which is why i health workers will tell you it's a real challenge when it comes to checking people temperatures they have to wash their hands it's very difficult to contain. rwanda's tighten screening and security

measures along its border it's a health workers nightmare i think you saw the traffic is. it's a huge number of people over 60000. and that is this screening is not easy you so we have the numbers but they're not sufficient enough to do this we need. has managed by science we don't manage it by panic and fear so what you have to do is to ensure that we do the right thing at the right time protect our borders it get to the masses the population tell them you've heard about a good sikh what to do. doctors in the d.r. c. say they're only discovering around 50 percent of the cases sharing their knowledge with their one counterparts here in the seine it's the 1st time the 2 sides meet to discuss how to fight the disease together experts report an increasing number of ebola cases and say much more needs to be done to be able to stop the outbreak spreading and let's bring in stephanie decker she is joining us from just sonia

which is right on the border as we're saying between rwanda and the democratic republic of congo so 1st tell us the funny what the plan is for health ministers if they've come up with $1.00 to $5.00. yes we've just come out of the conference hall they're about to sign an agreement we've been speaking to the assistant director general of the w.h.o. the world health organization who's based in the eastern part of the democratic republic of congo he tells us that what they've agreed upon are things like allowing rwandan doctors to go into the congo and to help and to learn also to tighten up security and those health screenings that you saw in our package there because it is such a chaotic situations it's a serious situation on that border and also in terms of information sharing because of course this is all about identifying people who they've come into contact with you know you're talking about one infected patients and then you're dealing with hundreds of potential others so it is incredibly incredibly difficult so this is

something that they're saying you know this is the 1st time this kind of senior delegation is meeting from both countries to show you how concerned they are and how seriously they're trying to take in trying to implement things that may just you know help a little bit to contain it yeah and stephanie we saw in your report you were right on the border challenging has been for the health workers there and those that you spoken to what are they telling you are the priority that they need right away. yeah the priorities is a they need to be able to check everyone and from what we saw certainly that's very difficult there are so many people that are lining up there with and close contact with each other the 1st thing they tell you about it is just as to not touch people because it can be transmitted by sweat and things like that it's hot people are moving across this border every day also a lot of major challenge really is the security situation in the eastern part of the d.r. see a lot of these hotspots where this virus started and where

a lot of people who are infected are in areas that are still torn apart by conflict the health workers and these are really the ones on the frontline during the ones that are in these villages dealing with these people are under threat they've been attacked by people themselves who are suspicious by militias in the area which makes it such a difficult situation which is why there is this now international push to try and see how they can work together but having said all that they do say that they do have methods in place. they are of course containing it to certain areas particularly hasn't crossed into rwanda at the moment from from you know everything that the fischel is here i've been able to confirm but it's a challenge and they are worried ok stephanie thank you. china's government has condemned protesters in hong kong as clouds and promised all those involved in violence and those behind the scenes will be punished tuesday was relatively quiet in hong kong but as andrew thomas reports that doesn't mean the widespread protests

are over. for the 1st time in days hong kong on tuesday was free of protests and free of canisters of tear gas instead the words were being fired in beijing a spokesman for the hong kong office of china's government condemned what he called the protesting fogg's and promised they'd be punished we are called the e.u. i would like to warn all these criminals don't even misjudge the situation and mistake our strengths for weakness. don't ever underestimate the firm resolve and the immense strength of the central government and the people of the whole country to maintain hong kong's prosperity and stability and safeguard the fundamental interests of the nation. and hong kong representatives of the protesters were asked whether they thought china's army the p l a could be deployed from their base in your territory under certain whether it will have time to tell the whole course was certainly reacted and the economy to. the police is news

conference was interrupted by a protest from hong kong journalists who accuse them of heavy handed tactics towards reporters. place say they fired more than $800.00 tear gas canisters on monday almost as many as own all the previous days of protests combined $148.00 people were arrested. close to 600 people have been arrested in weeks of protests which started against proposed changes to the extradition law and grew into wider condemnation of china's control and allegations of police brutality as pl whether the police wanted support can hong kong's place cope with these protests . if they keep going with the same intensity they have been and if you can't would you welcome the chinese army to come and keep law and order the chief executive of foot as well as the government official had already clearly. stated to start stop

the government about the. way. you will have to supplement hong kong's chief executive said on monday that online rumors of involvement were aimed at dividing people and shaking confidence in her government but she did not rule out requesting military help the streets of hong kong have been wired on tuesday everyone protesters and the police is having a day of relative arrest but there will be protests on wednesday and at the week. many will still andrew thomas al jazeera. the united states has frozen all venezuelan government assets the measure blocks all u.s. companies and individuals from doing business with president nicolas maduro is administration and as well as foreign ministry has called it a criminal economic blockades it comes as delegates from 60 countries including the u.s. meet in lima the u.s. national security advisor john bolton is part of the delegation. president trump

has taken a very strong move here imposing these sweeping sanctions putting a full block of full freeze on all assets of all parts of the government of venezuela in the u.s. and also imposing sanctions or setting the. situation to impose sanctions on any person or business that goes significant business with the government of venezuela so this goes well beyond anything we've done before and it really is a very strong move by the president to risible was joining us from kotok us on the issue of the additional sanctions what impact are they expected to have to resolve . well let me tell you 1st where i am i right outside the peruvian confident where there are dozens and dozens of people who have been waiting for months to get what is known as a humanitarian visa in order to leave the country and their lives stories are

filled with hardship about an economic crisis that has been hitting this country and where they want to go is through an imperial right now there is this conference for the democracy of venezuela as you just mentioned that where where the united states is present with john bolton there another 60 countries who are discussing the future of this country and that's where bolton also compared venezuelan called that i rolled the state comparing it with iran and countries like north korea and also announcing more sanctions sanctions that are definitely going to make the situation much harder in this country again he was banning american companies from doing business with when it's away at war and also for in company seizing venezuelan assets in the united states among other things of course venezuela is denouncing this as a criminal act a criminal blockade as they called it that most of the analysts we have spoken to are warning about the fact that this type of sanctions have and the population it would definitely import impoverished the country damage there. population i most

definitely and in most cases it has been provoked any type of government change as a situation for example that we're seeing now in cuba iran and other countries so most of the people we have spoken to believe that to the impact that this sanctions won't have any impact at all in venezuela and there is currently a negotiation going on between opposition members and the government what impact does the sanction announcements have on the at all. well that's correct there is right now ongoing talks between the venezuelan government and the opposition the mediator is norway but what we have heard so far is that this talks warm be affected by this latest announcement that's what the government is saying and what the opposition is saying but most definitely this type of sanctions will pressure the venezuelan government and many are saying that that the objective of this talks are very secretive we don't know really what's

under discussion but we do know that the opposition wants free and fair presidential elections in this country the government is saying that that won't happen that nichole last month were terms and in 2025 and that's when elections will take place in a way this type of talk the opposition says have benefited the government the government is using them in order to win more time and if you look at the big picture here what we have seen is that even though nicolas motive for larry king is very very low the opposition has also lost popularity one where you go of the opposition leader who is denouncing the government of nicolas maduro has lost support because in a way he has failed to deliver what he promised from the very beginning which is basically to get molto out of office ok it's a risible thank you. still ahead on the al-jazeera news our nato allies the u.s. and turkey warn each other as tensions between increased along turkey's border with

syria. we remember the life and work of nobel prize winner toni morrison who died tuesday at the age of 88. i know they're fairly quiet picture across much of the middle east the winds have been fairly gusty particularly through iraq in the last few days and it will see more of that as we head through wednesday and on into thursday a warm day baghdad 45 degrees celsius the same across into q 8 but to philly pretty nice in ankara wednesday 29 degrees and 29 celsius in beirut not a great deal of change on thursday and it will still staying with you drive across the entire region of often pakistan those monsoon rains back in the forecast that very widely scattered all those showers and thunderstorms further to the south those winds actually making their way down further towards the south across into much of cats are $45.00 in doha but with those winds feeling

a little less humid than it has done recently but we've also got a bit of an onshore flow here into southern sections of oman we could even see a stray shower into over the next couple of days than we had down into southern africa more than a stray shower here which is i think good news for cape town as a frontal system just sliding by you can see the cloud there it is bringing the rain showers certainly on whedon's day 15 degrees is the temperature and is another very warm day off into dub and 25 degrees celsius so again a few degrees above the average and then by thursday the temperature coming down a little bit closer to the average meanwhile drying to cape town of 14 and 23 in johannesburg. through a shared passion for elephant conservation. have become friends. with civil war descending they must protect themselves. deep into the rain forest back

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the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour president. the trade war with china over the value of china. being a currency manipulator the move to market volatility across the world. to do whatever is necessary to support people in the disputed kashmir region his words. administered kashmir of. china has warned protesters in hong kong. those playing with fire will. the comments were made after a citywide general strike turned into another day of violent confrontations between police and protesters on monday. the united states has warned turkey it is willing to prevent any unilateral incursions in syria saying such

a move would be unacceptable it comes as turkish president. announced he would send troops about 30 to 40 kilometers east of the euphrates river which is now controlled by kurdish fighters and the white b.g. a u.s. ally in the battle against eisel is considered a terrorist group by ankara has said he was losing patience with washington over setting up a so-called safe zone in the area in northern syria. we have a lot of mutual interests in northern syria right we we want to sustain the continued to be at least of the fiscal caliphate of isis right that becomes a question if they move in and yes yes this impacted the state holding thousands of fighters isis fighters and so those are some of the some of the things we risk if there is a unilateral incursion into into northern syria in particular so again i'm hopeful work out something to address there are security concerns we just need to take one

day at a time and to work through the process should include zendik you to about talk to the new cookbook it's our top priority to train the terrorists want in northern syria turkey cannot feel safe as long as the structure in the south which is growing like accounts or sell it is increasing with the heavy weapon itself our allies is not eliminated if we don't do what's needed today we would have to do it to morrow by paying a bigger cost he said god willing we will bring our operation so a different face very soon and if marker has the latest from istanbul. a 2nd day of talks between military officials from the united states and turkey they are trying to establish a safe zone in northern syria but so far no signs of any real progress we have heard though from voices from the sidelines including mark esper the u.s. defense secretary who said that it would be unacceptable for turkey to stage any kind of unilateral incursion into northern syria east of the euphrates he said that

it wouldn't be in the common interest of the syrian democratic forces made up largely of kurdish y p g fighters or of turkey itself and also the united states to also him too that the u.s. would be prepared in some way to push back against any unilateral incursion into the north of the country but did say hope for a positive outcome of the talks between u.s. and turkish officials we've also heard from the turkish president president who's been addressing ambassadors in ankara he said that if turkey didn't take action anytime soon that it could later on lead to he said a higher price later he also went on to slap countries double standards very much hinting at the united states when it comes to dealing with the white p.g. regarded very much by turkey as a terrorist organization in the same vein he said as i saw at the white p.g. have been firm allies of the united states heavily armed by the u.s.

to in the fight against isaw they often singing very much of the moment from 2 very different him sheets turkey knows that it also wants to create a safe so in the north of syria to hopefully begin allowing syrians who are here in turkey in a large number to return at least temporarily to that part of the country but whether or not they can find common ground and establishing the dynamics for this safe zone is very unclear. at the moment talks are continuing let's face it douglas ollivant is a defense analyst and managing director of mounted international that's a consultancy with specialist knowledge of the middle east joining us from washington thanks for being so again with us on the al-jazeera news hour just to go back to what the defense secretary said mark esper and he said that any turkish operation into northern syria would be unacceptable saying that the u.s. would prevent the unilateral incursion what are the u.s.

options. well the range of options is is very narrow the the turks are a nato ally of the united states we're bound together formally in an alliance and technically where the united states to attack the turks other nato members would be bound by treaty to respond to that so the actual options in terms of physically preventing this are very limited your set up piece did a great job of showing the problem set from the perspective of the turks the p.g. the syrian fighters inside the turkish kurdish fighters sorry inside of syria are not unlike isis or eisel they are a terrorist group and they are responding as if a isis affiliate was setting up a zone on the canadian border say for the united states from the united states' perspective this is the best force that has a chance of that had

a chance in the past of defeating isis eisel inside syria and now holds a number of their person the assumption being that were they to be pushed back by the turks with those prisoners would be either inadvertently or deliberately released so the united states definitely does not want this to happen but we really do have incompatible views of the problems and in speaking of the in that same interview when mark asked where was speaking he was he said that the u.s. did not have any ambition to abandon the but also he really stopped short of guaranteeing that the u.s. would protect them in case of a turkish operation when he was asked about that why do you think that is. well i don't think there's any there's no u.s. there's no mandate for that the u.s. troops that are in syria are there to fight against isis they are not there to interpose themselves between the kurds and the turks that's there's no

congressional mandate for that there's no international mandate for that the u.s. presence in syria is legally tenuous anyway but certainly does not involve getting involved between the kurds and the turks so there's very little that can be done on that point that said i'm very hopeful that cooler heads will prevail we do have active negotiations going on with the turks i think they've offered we have offered them the united states has offered the turks a very small buffer zone they want something much larger you know what i say and not only have we got in there and i would have thought you would so do you think that these talks will actually yield to anything will the 2 sides be able to find common ground and and if not what's at stake what happens then look the turks one about 30 kilometers i think we're offering 5 surely we can find something in the neighborhood of 15 or 20 that one would think that acceptable to both sides what about relations tween turkey and the united states they really have

been sour and you can say over the past few months where do you see them going. well there are certainly a host of issues we we have deep disagreements with the turks over the united states has not only the kurdish issue inside syria but also the recent turkish purchase of the f. $400.00 missile system from the russians which the turks blame on the united states and nato withdrawing patriots from turkey again they misunderstood a different view of the facts on the ground and with the recent attempted coup several years ago the turks believing that the united states did not respond favorably and quickly enough to aid it in that coup in the united states not liking the fairly draconian steps of the turkish government took in the wake of that coup so i think those are the 3 major issues there are a number of other minor ones but those are the big issues that need to be addressed

and u.s. turkish relations and those all 3 are very heavy lifts all right 10 times less on the entry thank you for speaking to us from washington. my pleasure at least 8 people have been killed since a ceasefire in syria's last rebel held province collapsed just days after it was brokered in kazakhstan on monday the army said it resumed its military operations against rebels an adlib province then after that has this report from gaza into. the bombardment resumes on what is supposed to be a demilitarized zone the 4 day old cease fire in northwest syria came to an end on monday yet more civilians have since been killed minutes after the syrian military declared the cease fire dead syrian and russian warplanes again began targeting populated areas across southern italy province and the northern countryside of nearby hama following months of attacks it blamed the rebels and their backers in turkey for not complying with the order to suspend hostilities the turkish

government didn't immediately comment but many here believe the ceasefire collapse was a message to turkey as it negotiates with the united states on the creation of what is being called a safe zone in northeast syria. and the message is turkey if tolkien able to you know conduct a military operation well in the eastern part of the ukraine leiber. is going to you know control. you know very important part of syria the syrian kurdish armed group the white peachey which is backed by the united states controls at least 30 percent of syria in the north east turkey considers the y.p. g a terrorist organization and wants to end its presence along its border by controlling a 30 kilometer deep buffer zone that will allow refugees to return. a turkish presence there would increase its influence its local allies already control

a significant portion of northern syria. that doesn't just you know that security concerns are true he. understands that. any. to destabilize. their position. of integrity. it limits where russia and turkey which support opposing sides in the war have been bargaining the cease fire was fragile and conditional to begin with russia said discussions with turkey didn't focus on the terms of the ceasefire but on measures to fight what it calls armed terrorist groups but the decision to scrap the ceasefire was unexpected and sudden because there were reports it would last until at least after the muslim holidays next week. yet again it lifted the fate of its

people is in russia and turkey's hands. nobel prize winning author toni morrison has died she was the 1st black woman to receive the nobel prize for literature the judges hailed her use of language and what they called her visionary force her novel beloved won the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1988 other major works included a moment in time in her 1st novel the bluest eye which was not published until she was 39 her publisher said she died monday night in new york morrison was 88 years old. well to chipper elisa senior director of literary programs at the writers' organization pen america he's joining us from new york thanks very much for speaking to us on the news hour what's your initial reaction to the news of the death of toni morrison. well i think i can safely say that everyone

in the literary community everyone who is a member of pen america and everyone who cares about literature is devastated today this is one of the greatest forces of american literature of the past 50 to 60 years she's left an indelible imprint and while we will treasure and have the work that she leaves behind we are devastated to lose a friend a colleague a mentor to many and somebody who i think was a moral leader among the literary community and in our culture and society how do you think she will best be remembered i think she'll best be remembered as somebody is as i said earlier today as somebody who bent the arc of american literature towards stories that that gave us insights that we

weren't receiving at the time i mean toni morrison very famously said she had been an editor at random house i think for 19 years before she published her 1st novel and the reason she turned to writing rather than reading and editing is that she saw a literary landscape that had a gap that wasn't telling a story that she wanted herself to read and she told that story in her 1st novel the bluest eye and continued to tell that story and i think in doing so she shared with us lives that had not been previously shared she entered a literary landscape that was dominated by. white and black voices but mostly white voices and mostly male and mostly urban and she changed what american literature can do and the types of stories that until she created a space for i think a new kind of literature for us to enjoy to appreciate and to be

enriched by and we were just playing a clip of her being bestowed with america's highest civilian honor the presidential medal of freedom in 2012 by president barack obama but let me ask you this what impact do you think her work is going to have long a coming future aspiring writers. again a minor impact that i can assess in such a short time she herself as an editor had a great influence on writers including writers like gail jones but i would hazard and this is obviously for writers themselves to say and for their readers to notice but i would say that there's probably not a contemporary writer today that doesn't fall under the influence of toni morrison and i think particularly black writers i don't think you see a writer. like colson whitehead producing what he did with the underground railroad

without a torn attorney morrison having come before i don't think you see that jasmine ward who wrote. so it was with bones and seeing buried and seeing and sorry. i don't i just don't think you see that work without tony morrison you think of writers like tyree jones there's a whole list of writers that i think oh a legacy a literary legacy to toni morrison and as i say i think that our culture itself is a legacy to what she gave us her problem we thank you for speaking to us from new york thank you very much. prime minister running. testified before a parliamentary investigation into the easter sunday bombings at least 258 people were killed in coordinated attacks on churches and hotels i saw later claimed responsibility senior police and intelligence officers have accused as president.

if not doing enough to prevent the attacks we know from and is in colombo with more . the prime minister the senior most member of the sri lankan government to appear before the parliamentary select committee looking into that april 21st easter bombing taking questions from the inter-party committee trying to explain what he knew essentially what we heard from the prime minister was that he his security people that none of them with privy to intelligence information the warnings that had put the very prospect of such a series of bombings on the table that they did know about it until the 21st of april now the prime minister did say that in terms of the security of protests the defense establishment he did explain to the committee the things work he did that

since the end of last year after that falling out with president mighty policy this in a after prime minister be committing a sect only to be restored after the supreme court said had led to a literal sort of breakdown in relations he said the relationship with the president had been nowhere as cordell as before and that was one of the reasons that this parliamentary cilla committee according to him needed to be sort of an independent body looking into what exactly happened. some of the things becoming very obvious that obviously everyone has been pulling in different directions and the security failings the intelligence failings just absolutely beggars belief the irish prime minister amir of are the chorus deal or no deal talks will take years speaking in belfast car told reporters there is no way the situation will come to a close on october 31st. if there is

a deal we're going to get enter into several years of negotiations on a new free trade agreement with the u.k. and a new economic and security partnership if there is no deal then at a certain point we will have to begin negotiations again and the 1st items on the agenda will be citizens rights the financial settlement and the solution to the border so great social isn't just storm that we weather our severe weather events that we prepare for it is a permanent change in relations between the european union cubing arland and the united kingdom still had on the al-jazeera news hour the sports news so find out who the brazilian footballer is creating this chaotic scenes as he returns home.

following on top of the sports news with peter greenberg a very much former captain wayne rooney is leaving m.l.s. side d.c. united having just signed an 18 month deal with 2nd tier english club derby county the 33 year old who is england's record goalscorer will join the club in january as a player coach working with both the 1st team and the club's a youth players he will see out the remainder of this year's m.l.s. season before returning to the u.k. really since he is excited by the opportunity and is confident he can make a significant contribution to the side. the world of cycling has been paying tribute to the belgian rider lumper act who was killed while racing in the tour of poland on monday earlier on tuesday his fellow riders including members of his lot of pseudo teams held a minute's silence 48 kilometers into stage 4 as

a mark of respect of the lampard had a fatal crash 48 kilometers into stage 3 tuesday stage has also been deemed noncompetitive by 2 organizers which means they will be no actual racing the 22 year old black was a promising climber who was riding for the 2nd years a pro for the lot as adults when he was named the most promising youngster in june to the france warm up event that criterium did that for me. there's a momentum nobody was expecting such an accident to happen in that particular place there are many dangerous places on the course corners descents where cyclists ride 90 kilometers an hour but there the road was wide the speed was around 30 and there was no collision with another rider he just pulled to the side of the road and fell into a concrete culvert he had such heavy injuries that nothing could be done it. 3 senior german football officials who organized the 2006 world cup of been charged by swiss

prosecutors of a fraud allegations the charges against thier sons ego horst schmidt. and swiss ex secretary-general. relates to a suspected payment of $7500000.00 prosecutors allege the payment was used as a fund to buy votes in favor of germany's hosting before deny the charges franz beckenbauer who led the germany 2006 organizing committee is being investigated separately for health reasons injury has forced one of australia's most successful athletes to retire less than a year before the tokyo 2020 alone pick sally pearson is a former olympic and 2 time world champion in the 100 meter hurdles the 32 year old said after a string of cough achilles and hamstring problems it's time to hang up with spikes and won the olympic title at london 2012 and world championships in 20112017 but he now will not be defending her title of the worlds in doha next month. every time i

want to go fast when he doesn't want to. i don't think i could take any more injuries and i have huge doubts for the next year for me to be able to continue at the level that i expect of myself and also what the country expects of me when i see one picks up the new york yankees baseball team of blasted their way into the record books they smashed 5 home runs against the baltimore orioles on the way to a 96 victory at me lose they've now had 22 home runs with season at baltimore stadium camden yards but most home used by a visiting team at one single venue in the same season yankees played 8 games there so far and still have 2 more coming up on tuesday and wednesday. and it wasn't just the yankees betting that was impressive. for sure. it was a win judge at full stretch out in the field which. is good for you for doing

this having made a stunning catch that went viral in the sense of they have been some big name exits in the 1st round of the rogers cup in canada maria sharapova was one of them a russian one the 1st set but eventually lost a 23 year old in a consummate from estonia to play out a policy others navarro or venus williams the pe had just started being 1st. and another multiple grand slam champion 12 c. then jimmy kerber is also out before the world the one didn't drop again in the 1st set but going on to news that makes 2 against unranked russian daria kosik makes the show face either eugenie bouchard or bianca under their school. and on the main sawed stand of wrinkle continues he's come back from injury turning on the back to be able to neutral 6464 you play russia 60 carbon capture. staying with tennyson joe mss has won gold for brazil in the main singles at the pan american games in lima in peru it's. 32 year old who is ranked $212.00 in the

world beat thomas value of chile 2 thirds to one in the final nearly gave up the game a year ago and described the win as the watershed moment of these career brazil a 3rd in the middle stable with 23. meanwhile in the men's basketball argentina won their gold medal match against puerto rico argentina you were a live picture in 2004 when you very comfortably 8864 it's the 2nd gold in this event having been pan american champions back in 1995. and the world's most successful footballer danny elvis has returned home to brazil to play for south paolo as you can see a couple of people turned up at the airport to welcome him the 36 year old former barcelona defender has more trophies than any other footballer winning the cup america last month with brazil that was his 43rd major honor that's who believe if an olive more support again later during ok we'll see you later peter thank you and thanks for watching the news hour on al jazeera back in just a moment with much more of the day's news of the day's top stories coming your way

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