or chairman powell i don't think he will be a man typically federal reserve chairman guard their independence very very carefully so i don't think it's going to work but. certainly looking for scapegoats he's worried that the economy is going to slow down and frankly he doesn't have a lot of tools for his disposal at this point in the business. as a scott thank you very much for that for now and that is robert scott live in north post mack maryland thank you. now as of the trade walden's large g 7 leaders are gathering in france this weekend for their annual summit of global challenges on the table range from the economy to climate change and diplomatic editor james baines brings us the details from dads just hours before the g 7 started and the iranian foreign minister was in paris mohammed job it zarif met with president mcchrystal new pictures of the meeting were released properly so as not to anger president trump. the meeting behind the closed doors of the palace highlights the

very different approaches of the u.s. and europe towards iran however there is a new face at this year's g. 7 u.k. prime minister boris johnson some are speculating with breaks it looming he may want to consider taking a tougher position on iran in order to win favor with trump if forced johnson's fertile ground for a new deal it really is true and if what he's been doing in berlin and paris has really been a ruse of sorts then you're going to see the u.k. pivot towards the u.s. they're going to see you case agree more of the u.s. than is european neighbors and they're going to start seeing a much more aggressive. level of posturing from boris johnson who will be in the company of trump and he will almost be egging him on to start behaving in a way that's more u.s. friendly than you friendly iran is just one of an increasing number of global issues whether 7 leaders are likely to have very difficult discussions the french

president has already taken the unprecedented step of deciding not to seek a final communique at the end of the summit because he knows there are no words that will be able to sign up to. a number of other countries have been invited to this year's g. 7 prime minister narendra modi of india will be attending and the growing tension between his country and pakistan over kashmir is bound to be discussed growing trade wars are also leading to fresh rifts the u.s. and china's difficulties could further destabilize the global economy and here in france the new digital services tax which targets big u.s. tech companies like amazon and google has angered president trump who's even threatened to retaliate with higher tax on french wine. ever since trump took office the issue of climate has been one that's cause divisions that global summits it may well again be 6 of versus one with president macro and the canadian prime

minister justin trudeau leading calls for the thousands of fires burning in the amazon to be treated as an international crisis james bays out 0 the ritz. including progress in paris surrounds. had positive talks on sound reaching the 25th a nuclear. ramping up tension what is the russian military to respond after the us tests. and a strange family on top against engler and in the 3rd ashes test would have to detach from sport. japan says north korea has fired what appears to be 2 missiles into the sea off its east coast the south korean military says 2 projectiles were fired from sandakan south province japan says they caused no damage it is the 7th such test in

a muppet comes a day after pyongyang corti us secretary of state mike pompei o a poisonous plant of american diplomacy and north korea is expected to benefit from they sell the decision to stop sharing military intelligence with japan saw made the move after japan downgraded its trade status they have been embroiled in an increasingly bitter dispute which began over forced labor during the japanese occupation of korea problem of pride reports from seoul south korea says it had been hoping until the last minute to avoid pulling out of the pact blaming japan for what's now become the most serious deterioration in relations in decades young japan created a green change in bilateral security cooperation we have determined it would not serve our national interest to maintain an agreement to exchange sensitive military information the intelligence sharing agreement was set up 3 years ago to counter

the nuclear and missile threats from north korea its breakdown comes at a time of increased missile testing by pyongyang. the south korean decision completely misjudges the current regional security environment it's nothing but a disappointment and i find it extremely regrettable disappointment to from the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o who's called for the 2 u.s. allies to settle their differences relations have soured just as regional rivals china and russia seem to be moving closer together militarily. this dispute began with a south korean court ruling in favor of victims of forced labor used by japanese firms during the 2nd world war japan retaliated with the restrictions on the export of materials and components needed by south korea's high tech manufacturers south

korea then responded with a campaign to boycott all japanese goods and cancel holidays there. it's now started another campaign to support south korean firms hurt by this dispute this company making and fresheners had spent 3 years trying to break into the japanese market and was all set with 3 major orders which have all now been canceled. back to you as citizens we need to support our government's policy given the current mood with japan will need to find an alternative solution for now exports to japan are difficult. this deepening trade dispute comes at a tough time for south korean exports has already caught in the middle of the trade war between the us and china trade figures show exports this month are down more than 13 percent compared to the same time last year extending a slump that's gone on now for more than 8 months many here fear the next move by

either side in this continuing to it for tat will only be further deterioration robert bright al-jazeera sold. iran's foreign minister says he's had positive talks with french president mannion that call on salvaging the 2050 nuclear deal john and zarif says they discussed how to move forward after the u.s. hold out of the agreement last year but previously said that he'll either try to soften the impact of u.s. sanctions or come up with a way to compensate the iranian people and they are has more from paris. but the iranian foreign minister described his talks with the french president here in paris is constructive but at the same time he's reiterated that it won't be possible to renegotiate what's known as the j c p o a the nuclear deal signed between iran and 5 powers back in 2015 in which of course the u.s. withdrew from unilaterally last year since then they've reimposed sanctions on iran

and countries that do business with it now the french have been making it clear that they want to offer iran something possibly. ways to soften the impact of those sanctions credit lines to the government possibly temporarily allowing certain countries to buy iran's crude oil a way of getting it talking again at least in the short term they've been criticized for doing so by washington the u.s. has called and said that france is sending mixed messages to tehran which iran has said that they want to see all the other signatories bakkies and everybody meet their obligations they say that they're willing to reverse measures taken recently which include breaching the levels of enriched uranium that they're allowed to produce but that means everybody doing their part to meet their obligations we believe they are moving in the right direction will do we are not definitely there

year we had a good discussion today we discussed possibilities this more of this morning or early this afternoon in my discussions with the president and he now is going to. discuss with his european partners other partners to see you but we can go from here the french would like to take these talks and go into the g. 7 summit in b. of its over the weekend able to sell the idea to the americans that something should be offered to. ron is it a sweet no no the british in the form of an unnamed diplomatic source on friday march saying that the deal is the best way to prevent iran acquiring a nuclear weapon and has to be supported but it's very unclear whether president trump and his national security advisor john bolton will actually bite and will actually go for this diplomatic approach to resolving the crisis russian president

vladimir putin has ordered his military to respond after the united states tested a new missile on sunday the modified cruise missile would have been banned under the cold war era nuclear forces treaty but both russia and the u.s. have withdrawn from it the u.s. cited russian violations which moscow denies persians to the nation's lot shows that washington wants to deploy previously banned missiles around the world. because i would and i mean maybe the fact that we developed the nervous systems of modern weapons which are on parallel out in the world was caused and we can say provoked by a unilateral exit by the us from the antiballistic missile treaty in 2003 we were forced to we had to guarantee the security of our people and of our country we are doing it now and we will be doing it in the future when. it was nature as you know we have never wanted to do not want and will not be drawn into

a costly economically destructive arms rice that judging by the defense spending russia is on a modest 7th place of the united states chinese people's republic saudi arabia united kingdom france and japan. now russia has lost the world's 1st floating nuclear power plant the academical among us began its architecture any on friday and environmentalists fear the plant could become what they call a chernobyl on ice step vos and reports from moscow. a nuclear power plant sailing decease russia says it's one of the safest and cleanest ways to provide energy to remote areas the academic luminosity of combines both the technology of a nuclear powered icebreaker and that of a land based nuclear plant it took 10 years to design and build the power plant will be towed by 3 boats 4 more months to the region of chukotka 5000 kilometers

away on a journey that could take up to 6 weeks depending on the ice the 2 reactor unit is one of the key projects of president put in so-called northern sea route a fast the sea connection between europe and asia which has become accessible due to a melting arctic despite safety concerns russia's nuclear agency sas there's very little chance of a nuclear accidents the nuclear station is very solid and is not vulnerable in case it. tsunami or another disaster happens tests have shown the chances of a gigantic asteroid destroying the earth in the future is twice as high as internal damage to this reactor but greenpeace is not convinced in april 2017 the environmental group protested against a project calling a child noble on ice referring to the nuclear disaster in the soviet union in 1986 because. of if the focal shima nuclear station was damaged by a tsunami we can only guess what could happen in this case the place can be flown

upside down it can be thrown onto the shore or get damaged in a recent nuclear accident in the north of russia which cost a spike in radiation has also raised concerns with several nuclear accidents happening in the past few months and a government that just by political about what exactly has happened people are growing increasingly suspicious that like in the time of chernobyl your forty's are trying to cover up incidents of leaks radiation even though the academic don't know folks who travel only to the party populated areas its journey will be closely watched russia's plans to sell floating nuclear plants to other countries have also rung alarm bells according to greenpeace offshore reactors will be harder to monitor and they can fall into the wrong hands academic will stay in be effect and you've got got for at least 10 years before going back to more months for maintenance and to dispose of its nuclear waste step fastened al-jazeera mosco.

still ahead on the news hour the strike on a weapon step over in iraq is being attributed to israel and it would be the 1st known israeli strike in iraq since $981.00. and an asian coffee growers are in trouble there's been a bumper crop bought not a paycheck to match and courts right handed a russian athlete who also competes in the u.s. a suspended for doping openly a coming up in sports. and they're pretty good case guys across much of central and eastern china at the moment however that is about to change this massive cloud it can see here this is a tropical storm by lou now preparations already in place across much of taiwan

this is taipei the river all these paddle boats are being brought in for safety because this storm is heading in that general direction the rain is beginning to really impact much of taiwan through friday into saturday this is a storm here right now winds at about 85 kilometers an hour gusting to $100.00 but it is forecast to strengthen before it actually makes landfall that will be happening throughout south a day it will spread the rain oversea really quite widespread across much of taiwan but also push into the eastern sections of china into fusion province they will keep an eye on this storm system but we could see winds gusting about 140 kilometers an hour to the south away from that we have got the rails he still impacting in the philippines from that storm system rain showers and cloud across much of borneo a similar story really across much of the roman a peninsula it's funny a way to end the weekend 30 celsius apiece there in k.l. and singapore plenty of rain across central and eastern sections of india the india met office of our she got the warnings in place for additional states as we go through saturday that's where the heaviest rain will be but more rain in the forecast into carola but a dry couple days. new delhi with

a high for. the weather sponsored by qatar and. millions of people across india missed out on medical but a hospital train is delivering doctors and hope to those most in need what i want to east towards india is a lot fun explained on the al-jazeera. al jazeera explores prominent figures of the 20th century and how rivalries influenced the course of history steve jobs a much better marketer bill gates. is going to reinvent stuff build made software what it is to train the world to high tech visionaries whose breakthroughs

inspired the digital revolution jobs and gates face to face on al-jazeera. and is the problem and the top stories this hour brazilian president job it's an hour says he'll send the army to fight the fires in the amazon rain forest he blamed to draw than usual weather for the spike in fires meanwhile the french president has threatened to block a trade deal between the european union and south america of brazil and doesn't do more to protect the amazon. us president donald trump says he'll again raise tariffs on chinese imports it follows beijing announcing plans tout some $75000000000.00 worth of u.s.

goods and japan says north korea has fired what appear to be 2 must solve them to the sea off its east coast the south korean military says the launch is happening on the dock in south province that is the 7th such test and the moment. now israel has carried out an air strike on a weapons to iraq that's according to reports quote. when u.s. officials they attack on july the 19th targeted a base belonging to the shia alliance known as the popular mobilization forces who are backed by iran they have been at least 2 other explosions at sites belonging to the group earlier this week they accused israel of carrying out the strikes and threatened to retaliate and iraq a military official has confirmed that a base was hit 3 people were killed including an iranian now in an interview with an israeli television channel broadcast on thursday promise to benjamin netanyahu said his government is operating against iran in many areas. and.

we do not give immunity i don't give immunity to iran anyway iran is a country a power which is declared its desire to annihilate israel it is trying to establish bases against us everywhere in iran itself in lebanon in syria in iraq in yemen believe the moon is. with the meaning that it needed israel parades in iraq nor can we are operating not just if needed we are operating in many areas against a state that wants to annihilate us. well let's get more on this now a joined by kenneth katzman he's the gulf and that's for the library of congress and he's joining us live from arlington virginia very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so 1st syria and now iraq is israel expanding its campaign against iranian military involvement in the region thank you of course i'm speaking a. lot. israel are you know basically they

want to prevent any strategic iranian build up in the areas near israel and i think the israelis assert that iran is using your iraq troops brandt's for. that range ballistic missiles and other weapon rates to militias in syria through lebanese hizbullah or even perhaps positioning the missiles to be fired from iraq itself and so israel has expanded this definition or what it means to be strategically entrenched and israel they've tended to iraq and even if iran as doing that is that in a conflict israel to carry out things and strikes an op accompanies well i think that's you know obviously a complicated question to get into whether there's an imminent threat i mean

there's clearly no necessarily united nations resolution i don't think that would necessarily endorse this strike or permit or strike or say however of course races are allowed through the firm still says israel if they're asserting that the these weaponry is going to actually be used against israel that israel certainly would have an argument to strike on the popping in my eyes a shameful sense obviously on tapi they're accusing as had of carrying out the attacks they are also blaming washington they say washington allowed these attacks to happen can they attack israel or u.s. assets and trysts and iraq and response to this the iran backed militias are certainly capable of acting against the united states' interests in iraq. the 1000000000 targets such as the u.s. embassy consulates the consulate boss or been closed due to security threats

u.s. consulate in erbil conceivably. you know u.s. advisors yes they have are tremendous capability to strike. there was some attacks i believe on the exxon mobile housing compound yes southern iraq so there is a that capability so these attacks put that put u.s. and trusts and iraq in a delicate position not to mention the iraqi government to a stop between the u.s. and iran hand well that's that's the main concern i think is you know these perrott iraqi leadership as said we don't want to be in the middle between a conflict between the united states and iran now israel's gotten involved certainly israel is perceived as closely allied with the or not since so what this

what this what these israeli strikes appear to be doing is bolstering the argument that the that the iran backed militias and their commanders i'm making that the united states should not be allowed to stay in iraq that it is you know helping israeli strikes arguer. efforts against the iraqi sovereignty and so this does not help those who are arguing not to just iraq from iran and it doesn't help iraq either doesn't mr katzman which is still very much for covering from so many years of violence. well the fear you know obviously if you play the scenario out in the united states is asked to decrease its troop presence in iraq. the iraqi leadership does distance itself from the united states as the u.s. to draw down the consequences could be. against the islamic state

is all arms and the islamic state is allowed to regenerate which it's been doing already. so there's a fear of the islamic state sir. mr katzman we thank you very much for your time and expertise on this we do appreciate it that is kenneth katzman live in intimate jenea thank you. you now the gazan health ministry says at least 100 palestinians have been and judging protests on the border with israel at least 50 of them by live fire several 1000 people demonstrated along the border fence the protests and a tense week that saw 3 incidents of rocket fire from gaza and strikes by israel as says it's been restraint in the use of live 5 as well as a teenage girl has been killed in an attack me and legal settlement in the occupied west bank she died of wounds from an explosion and donna have a mama the israeli army says it suspects the palestinian was behind the blast and has sent more troops to the area. now the syrian army has seized

a pocket of rebel territory in the north west reclaiming towns lost early in the war the most recent offensive intensified in late april hundreds of people have been killed the northwest corner is all that remains in rebel control after more than 80 years of war but at smith reports from on talk in near the syria turkey border. no sooner heard family thought they'd found somewhere to stay the landowner moved them all this is how it's been for hundreds of thousands of syrians throughout the 7 years civil war traveling further and further north to escape the fighting while this displacement is never ending i never expected to be in this situation no one knows what will happen next the fighters don't seem to know if they should advance or their idiom with advance on them the traffic is mostly one way as people head away from the advancing government forces towards the last rebel

stronghold of italy a province the syrian regime now controls all of the countryside in hama province south of it live after taking over with the russian help the last villages and towns that had been in rebel hands it's all happened under the noses of turkish soldiers they're behind this wall in one of a dozen observation posts a stop wish to monitor what is supposed to be deescalation zone. is more than you don't know the other mismarked of the our observation posts are not besieged b.n. nobody can besiege our troops or observation posts i want to clarify it yes there are attacks in the region of adlib the regime is active around our observation posts we are discussing this issue with russia and iran. turkey is also worried the regime advances to push more than a half a 1000000 syrians to its border. taking everything they're giving us a kicking up 36 helicopters over our heads forced us to leave all my durbin's

bombing because checking on that our legs turkish president has told his russian counterpart that syrian military attacks in northwestern syria are causing a humanitarian crisis type one told bloody putin that what's happening there threatens turkish national security it's one of the reasons turkey is so keen to get a safe zone up and running on the syrian side of the border but so far there's still no indication that turkey has agreed with the u.s. military on who will patrol with zone and how deep into syria it will go burn it's a al-jazeera untac you now want to see as most prominent presidential candidate has been arrested on corruption charges and i believe he was detained just outside the capital tunis on friday a t.v. channel owned by the media personality broadcast the video of the arrest members of congress party are saying it's an attempt to exclude him from the election the

populist candidate has been leading in recent polls the government has denied the charges are politically motivated a ship carrying 350 refugees and migrants has docked in malta after 6 countries agreed to take them in maltese military vessels took those on board from the ship to shore on the ocean viking had been stuck at sea after malta and italy and the denied for quests to land. and a spanish war ship has arrived at the italian island of lampedusa to collect 15 refugees and migrants from the charity vessel open arms they are spain's quota of refugees and migrants as agreed with france germany portugal and luxembourg the vessel was initially not allowed to dock in italy as part of the government's closed ports policy but an italian prosecutor all of the ships seizure and evacuation on tuesday. to nigeria now where fighting has been going on for decades in the center of the country fueled by ethnic and religious differences as

well as the battle of inland resources and thousands have been killed or those who've escaped hoped to find safety in camps but as muhammad all reports they face another terrifying threat. going to come in the city or is one of dozens doughty big sponsor of been with state in central. its inhabitants are just a fraction the 171000 displaced across the street by the violence between tribes in this bottle. while the comp was supposed to be a refuge for the people most don't feel safe here anymore a sharp increase in reported women and young girls is deeply wounding this community. and. i fear for my daughters there those who send their kids to go work in the city but not me the current situation is too dangerous people here complain but become so widespread that women come along

to live the compound accompanied a mystery and so much no notice and report detailed how girls as young as. 10 years were being tweaked at times by the very security personnel charged with protecting . news that a 10 year or displaced rape victim has delivered in a new it a few days ago has sent shock waves across nigeria we met the girl and her baby girl at one of mccord schools patrols look to educate michael help with the delivery of the 3 days of labor we need to do this is a reception because there was no we little enough it was for them so we couldn't risk much to me but some units of blood on the internet it turned into an event to be this social worker was one of those who brought the girl to hospital and told us that she grew up an orphan and was raised by her grandmother but was forced to flee

how home when her grandmother and called tried to force her to marry a blind man that is when she fell prey to the man who raped her. despite what she's been through the young mother already has dreams for her baby. i don't want my daughter to go through the same suffering as i did when she starts walking both of us will go to school. police say there were arrested the man suspected in her rape last december but they have this plea for families of rape victims punishments for a friend us can serve as deterrents to orders intending to do the same but when family members tend to make good shit to climb to receive more news from from suspects all to try to prevent prosecution we family members can come up to help course let the prosecution process we conclude that. the plight of the little girl prematurely propelled to motherhood is 1st becoming

a rallying cry for the action on rape in nigeria's displaced people's camps many hope that her case will spark the authorities to take action to and such horrendous crime once and for all $100.00 well jessica. officials in chile say say the capital and its outskirts are suffering from the worst drought in decades the government has declared an agricultural emergency and heart of it's just tricks chile is among the country's most affected by a warming in december it will host a global conference on climate change. hong kong is bracing for another day of mass rallies as protesters aim to block roads and trains and then out of the airport and comes a day after a court granted and definite injunction to prevent protesters from demonstrating at the terminal again now on friday more than 130000 people formed a human chain across the city by and hey reports from hong kong. with hong kong's

iconic skyline shining brightly the city's defiant protesters student solidarity they formed a human chain that stretched for kilometers around the city the chosen day was symbolic it came on the 30th anniversary of the baltic way when around 2000000 people in a stoney a lithuania and latvia held hands to call for independence from the soviet union this protest was not about independence but was an attempt to show that the people of hong kong are united and will continue their fight against china's increasing influence even we have higher rates austerity made some of us but we are still going on we are not giving up right now this was a peaceful protest with no police in size the days ahead may be different though as protesters again target hong kong's airport they say they won't try to go into the terminal as they did 2 weeks ago but will try to disrupt transport routes to and

from the airport there is no sign that these protests are slowing down but at the same time there is drawing concern about the impact on the economy tourist arrivals are down hotel room rates are being reduced and the airlines are being affected in particular hong kong's main carrier cathay pacific which is coming under increasing pressure from beijing. the chief executive resigned and at least 3 employees of cathay pacific and its subsidiary cathay dragon have been fired after they showed support for the protest movement among them a former union representative who says china is creating a culture of fear. in the company i know all the colleagues feel so depressed and sad because of what happened to me but it's not just about terminations. of the job but it's also the whole issue is so it's terrifying all my colleagues are all terrible. it's that fear of china is evolving influence and control over

the city that continues to motivate the protesters to come out week after week wayne hay al jazeera on.