national crisis he's blamed on usually warm temperatures for the unprecedented spike in the number of fires to resign has that story from rio de janeiro. facing criticism both at home and abroad brazilian president jalal natter went on national television friday night to answer critics who say he's not only letting the amazon burn but encouraging the ranchers and luxuries who environmental groups accused of setting the fires. forth images were going to act firmly in order to contain and control the fires in the amazon it is important in the other hand to act with serenity and not to spread out founded messages in brazil and abroad as they do not help solve the problem they only learned themselves to political propaganda. war scenario said the military will assist in fighting both the fires and other illegal activities that are destroying the environment but on the streets

of rio de janeiro people say it's walls one under himself who deserves the blame he's being acting like a child since he started. the government so i don't think so i think he's acting really. south really selfish ways over 70000 fires are currently destroying the world's largest tropical rain forest. the number is up 80 percent compared to 2018 people here environmental groups among others are blaming jade was on i don't for the amazons plight thing. no girls and farmers to clear the land of international pressure is forcing the government to think it's credit that is now announcing extraordinary measures in order to fight the fires affecting the amazon rain forest images of the rain forest dying have triggered a global outcry the european union has expressed concern over the situation in

brazil friends has threatened to pull out of the recently signed free trade agreement with the merkel through trade bloc but includes brazil that the best tools that we have. you marcus are agreement which for the 1st time uncursed brazil into the paris agreement and it's actually the 1st trade agreement which contains binding commitments trifecta fully implement the paris accord as well as other multilateral environmental agreements it's a way of working with brazil and others to push and encourage each other to live up to the commitments we have made together in the paris agreement and work together on other environmental issues and i think that there are also instruments with regards to the enforcement of these commitments or even the world's tornado accuses the e.u. of colonialism in a matter of days he has gone from blaming environmentalist for the fires to announcing measures to fight them since taking office also natto has said he wants

to open up the amazon for business for many the ongoing devastation is the outcome of his words that he said will defeat at rio de janeiro brazil. has been tracking the fires in one of the worst affected states and brazil he has the latest for us from portugal. but there are still some fires raging we've been out and about in the state of wrongdoing here which has been one of the the worst hit regions of brazil we've seen a lot of devastation many of the fires have now been put out certainly in the region around where i am the capital of the state. but as i say a lot of black scorched earth everywhere we drove and we went about 20250 kilometers out of the town to go the smoke in the distance but work here was being done to try to contain the fires certainly in this region no protest against the government or president job also now or in this part of the world this is been an

area which supported him overwhelmingly in the campaign for the campaign of elected him as president late last year these are people who have come to this region to develop. the forests to do cattle rearing it's very much a pioneer sort of regions where peoples agree very much with what president jabal sonando has been saying and they support him in return so as i say we would be seeing demonstrations here but this situation is resonating throughout brazil they are very well aware of the international pressure that is now mounting about what is going on here the smoke some of the suits from the region has traveled thousands of kilometers has affected places like south power which is thousands of kilometers away from this region so people are aware of what is going on but job also not a very much playing to 2 audiences knowing about the international condemnation the condemnation from cities around brazil but also well aware of the fact that he must play to the audience to the supporters he has in this part of brazil still to come

here on al-jazeera ramping up tensions orders the russian military to respond to the u.s. tests and you saw. also ahead in the news his coffee growers are in trouble there's been a bump across knocks on the paycheck. hello that mostly hot and dry across much of the middle east if temperatures all set to rise but in the mean time to be more ching this area of cloud the showers and thunderstorms what they way along northern coastal areas of turkey still some of those in the forecastle south today in fact those showers and thunderstorms pushing eastwards into areas of georgia and also armenia but me want to baghdad $46.00

celsius in south l.a. but for sunday very hot indeed a high of 48 degrees and even for baghdad that is hold on well above the average for this time of year now further to the south is also holes we've got some quite nice on szell breezes into coastal areas of oman so $27.00 in salalah i mean doha the temperature $38.00 but on sunday around 40 celsius but still feeding pretty humid with these lower temperatures and then heading south into southern africa madagascar we've got quite a bit of cloud along the east coast that may just be a stray shot but we could see a shot into the eastern coast of mozambique as we go through saturday meanwhile durban south africa these how much is already quite a bit above the average for this time of year look at this on sunday $32.00 celsius in dublin and that's around 8 degrees above the average cape tell me while we've got some cloud in you for calls it should stay dry with a high there of 60 degrees celsius. sponsored by.

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consulate worker in hong kong has not been released by the authorities on mainland china to be contained at the border he's simon chang he disappeared on august the 8th during a business trip to gen the police in china said on saturday that chang had been detained for 15 days for violating public security laws. donald trump says he will again raise tariffs on chinese imports now that follows beijing announcing plan tariffs on $75000000000.00 worth of u.s. troops. and the brazilian president. says he'll send the army to fight the fires in the amazon rain forest he's blaming drier than usual weather for an increase in the fires the french president has threatened to block a trade deal between the e.u. and south america if brazil doesn't do more to protect the amazon. now japan says north korea has fired what appears to be 2 missiles into the sea off its east coast the south korean military says they were fired from song. yong province japan says they cause no damage this is the 7th such test in

a month. donald trump says he's not concerned by the missile tests no i don't think so i think that we have a very good relationship we'll see what happens that could always change but we'll see what happens kim jong un has been you know pretty straight with a i think. we're going to see what's going on with the what's happening he likes testing missiles but we never restricted short range missiles we'll see what happens many nations says. we tested a very big one the other day as you probably know meanwhile the russian president vladimir putin has ordered his military to respond to the u.s. missile test on sunday modified cruise missile would have been banned under the cold war era nuclear forces treaty with both russia and the u.s. have withdrawn from the u.s. cited russian violations which moscow denies mr putin's at the latest launch shows washington wants to deploy previously banned missiles around the world. it was in

a book and i mean maybe the fact that we developed the newer 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 after united states chinese people's republic saudi arabia united kingdom france and japan. russia has launched the world's 1st floating nuclear power plant the academic. again its arctic journey on friday environmental activists for the plant could become what they call. ice step vasant 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 for more months to the region of 2 caught 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 accident the nuclear station is very solid and is not vulnerable in case a tsunami or another disaster. ins tests have shown that 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 but those. of before if the fukushima nuclear station was damaged by a tsunami we can only guess what could happen in this case the place can be thrown 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 in u.k. accidents happening in the past few months and the government that this pipe live 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 academics don't know for travel only partially

populated areas its journey very 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 not self will stay in 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 iran's foreign minister says he's had positive talks with the french president emanuel macro on salvaging the 2050 nuclear deal javert serif says they discussed how to move forward after the us pulled out of the agreement last year mr mayor on previously said he'll either try to soften the impact of u.s. sanctions or come up with a way to compensate the iranian people not in baba has more from paris. but the iranian foreign minister has 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 where we can go from here the french would like to take these talks and go into the g. 7 summit in b.r. hits over the weekend able to sell the idea to the americans that something should be offered to. tehran is a sweet no now the british in the form of an unnamed diplomatic source on friday

have backed them up 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 bites and will actually go for this diplomatic approach to resolving the crisis coffee farmers in indonesia are expecting a bumper crop this year but with prices at a low some growers a warning they'll go bankrupt if things don't improve florence levy has that story from jakarta. for her the harvest time at this coffee plantation in sumatra and it's plenty for promise would normally celebrate but not. the other world's 3rd largest growers of the repairs to a variety of coffee beans but the market price staffordshire is at an 8 year low but. if the price of coffee stays like this we can't continue we might not attend

our plantations anymore because we can't afford fertiliser we don't have enough money to pay our work is in my case i still have to pay for my son's high school. robusto is used mainly in instant coffee and demand has been increasing but prices have dropped this year because of the success of the 2 largest producers brazil and vietnam while indonesian fama struggle to make money there's a growing demand domestically as more indonesians get a taste for what they produce growing affluence and urban ideational are driving the rise of the so-called coffee lifestyle and many more coffee shops are opening up some are part of a chain but others like this one in jakarta independence i mean i come here 2 or 3 times a week the price of coffee for what i get is well worth it not cheap but not too expensive. indonesia is one of the top 4. 5 fastest growing coffee retail markets

and has the lowest coffee consumption type person in southeast asia so there's plenty of room for growth there's so much confidence in the industry that one coffee chain received 28000000 dollars from venture capital firms in the past year for its expansion plans you misunderstood the local market to absorb a large amount of domestically grown coffee only 30 percent of coffee grown here was exported but if the price of coffee keeps dropping farmers will stop planting coffee and i'll be a huge loss for everyone was the. demand from indonesia coffee has so far helped cushion the blow from falling export prices back at his plantation owner is hopeful the price of coffee beans for the cover in the meantime he's planted other crops just in case florence li al-jazeera.

this is al-jazeera these are the headlines so far there's a u.k. consulate worker in hong kong has been released by china after being detained at the border simon chang disappeared on the 8th of august during a business trip to shenzhen the police in china said on saturday that he'd been detained for 15 days for violating public security laws u.s. president donald trump says he will again raise tariffs on chinese imports now that follows beijing announcing plan tariffs on $75000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods brazilian president. says he'll send the army to fight the fires in the amazon rain forest the french president has threatened to block a trade deal between the european union and south america if brazil doesn't do more . vamos up to our 4th dimension we're going to act firmly in order to contain control of the fires in the amazon it is important in the other hand to act with

serenity and not to spread out founded missus's in brazil and abroad as they do not help solve the problem they only lend themselves to political propaganda. japan says north korea has fired 3 missiles into the sea east coast to the south korean military says they were fired from sawn dog in south hand beyond province the 7th such test in a month. donald trump says he's not concerned by the missile tests. no i don't think so i think that we have a very good relationship we'll see what happens that could always change but we'll see what happens kim jong un has been you know pretty straight with a i think. we're going to see what's going on we're going to see what's happening he likes testing missiles but we never restricted short range missiles we'll see what happens many nations test the missiles we tested a very big one the other day as you probably noticed there's lots more news of course for you whenever you want it on our website the address. al-jazeera dot com

you can get more on our top story the list of also narrow this ending in the army to fight those huge fires visible from space in the amazonian rain forest up next talk to al-jazeera public the leaders of the 7 most powerful economies in the world meets in paris this august the climate crisis high on the agenda. but trade was brick sit on the tension with iran will be vying for their attention how much progress a mine might follow the g. 7 summit on al-jazeera. deep in central mali children are dying of starvation. dulled by hunger it is a slow and agonizing death. these health ministry says so far hundreds of people

have died from what it describes as a manmade famine. this is happening in the central region of mali. what was supposed to be harvesting season for villagers has been a season of death and destruction. here farmers and herders. are fighting over land. it is an ancestral conflict that takes place at the height of the dry season on one side or the traditional farmers and hunters known as. on the other side the semi nomadic herders of the sahara all the full on these. domes accused of over stepping on their farmland to feed their animals. accused of killing and stealing their cattle. now they're killing each other.

the violence is not limited to mali in neighboring countries have been in conflict with other tribes as well. fueling this conflict are armed groups stepping in and taking sides some have been fighting in the war in libya. well mostly mean an al-qaeda affiliate is calling on full on these to join their ranks in exchange for protection. so is the slum mixtape in the greater sahara who are gaining a foothold in the region and into burkina faso. despite 14000 u.n. troops known as when you smile among them british canadian in german soldiers and 4000 french combat troops and the regional force g 5 hell made up of armies from the region the violence is spreading spiraling out of control not further down this road is where g 5 the hell officers are stationed people here want to see them out

of this neighborhood and also out of this country this is a feeling that many have towards the security forces whether it be the u.n. peacekeeping force the security forces or that he finds the help they're not a source of protection but a source of danger. this is because insurgent and rebel groups are targeting security forces launching suicide. attacks and car bombings. has become the deadliest u.n. peacekeeping mission more u.n. troops are dying in mali than anywhere else for at any time before. president. says the country is being torn apart with its unity at stake who profits from the state of instability and how can the violence be brought to an end this week talked to al-jazeera meets with. the leaders to try to understand this complex conflict.

in march 160 follow on the villagers were killed in a massacre in. no one claimed responsibility. bari was hiding while his village was torched and his family killed. he called the un peacekeepers known as for help. these villagers say the un came but a day too late for the un peacekeeping force says its sense of britanny ins and helicopters on the day of the attack this is. if the head of the mission.

have you failed your mission to protect the civilian population there. and the law protection d.c. or civil way luck or civil voyeur mandagi live in a small village distin a problem nor. if you know if you want i mean a prosecutor pos on or documents obtained by al-jazeera show that the un were documenting villages being torched before you go saga massacre and yet he failed to intervene and don't know militia groups continue to attack for lonnie's mahmoud togo is the chief representative of mali's do go on people the. attack. is not to go on my dog and hunt is the investigations still going on so who is behind these attacks some of. the neighbors

even before learning some c. is that people came from somewhere because. the person they hear speaking they were speaking english but isn't it easy to blame outsiders rather too to look at the reality that there is tension between the full army and the do go on community that's right i agree that there was still is sentient but did then unless i will made that the clear ration. from this. i would act but that do go on militia group has added fuel to the fire has attacked full on you villages. why they have attacked for any religion no you say they haven't they haven't done any attacks they're not responsible for any attacks so who is attacking them what i know religious or what

i know and i said to the president of the republic to diminish that to the prime minister and to everyone i say no one people. never go and attack a village person but when another people come and attack the dog and. they retaliate so there are brevet attacks led by the dog and by your dog on militias is that right which at that you're saying that they retaliate when they do don't retaliate when they get attacked who did they retaliate and you are admitting that it took only those that are involved in those violence who come to attack them and i myself used to tell of her that she's here we cannot sit and watch people come and

kill us and go back. without anything you said no this is only. when they come. on people the hunters or the people in the village. the run after them and if they come to seize one they kill. that's normal i say that's normal to kill they did a kind of there's no humility when you come to kill me. and i am not dead but in sense if i can i will kill you. that's normal. we've seen videos where they're gone hunters have decapitated heads a full on these holding them like hunting trophies do you not feel that is exacerbating the situation rising the tension between the 2 communities the videos

you see. where you feel any themselves what the globe once. is. more than a lot of the do go on to do to people for instance. they kill a dog. and. they put mines in the border of the. one of the or the guns come. to try to take. the day. and it was just. and if that $1020.00 and so on. that's what you need to do. why are you taking justice in your own hands of our the dugongs arming themselves you say to defend

himself what is it that the government isn't doing. government. will do the that. but i will government has not yet. fully done what he should do. we had a talk with the prime minister. we told him. first of all. we need say clearly key in the country. the security is not enough. second we need food the dogon people who remain in the villages they have nothing. the food have been. stolen. or. their

cattle. stolen and even what they have in their houses. as something so as you are saying this is all the 1000000 security forces are not providing security not enough. not enough. this is what is left of the doggone village of savannah where 100 of dawn villagers were killed in another massacre an apparent revenge attack although no one claimed responsibility for this an al qaeda affiliated. one was lee mean has called on for mani's to rise up against the militias and the state. mama diego is a full on e. and a powerful leader of the high islamic council the accuse the philosophies for being behind the attacks if a man is accused the doggoned behind the other attacks how these 2 communities have lived side by side for centuries how do you explain this mistrust. more should

government keep. their brutal force and busy brought skills. from pull of the stability to class real. issues and disability. numbers. to be a little bumpy for c.t.'s still the gamble on severe political fellow. ready it. signals a set of views on you and probably a month of the liberal. homebody and the liberal. overkill. on the liberal side to liberal a lot. of 1st convert. it to comment to know why you didn't listen. to them to for a level with some. mechanism portability through them to move.

forward to bring in felicia was a problem. in april the government faced countrywide protests. demonstrators carrying signs calling for president bashar k tak to leave office in response the entire government of mali resigned in a serious accusation mama diego accused the prime minister of supporting the doggone militias. we asked a leading member of the government the foreign minister to explain how the government is responding to the violence which is not limited to mali but is present in neighboring countries as well you're for yourself far from the center of the country an area that's been hit by ethnic tensions that we spoke to some of the villagers both in. they say that they called for the 1000000 forces to come and

help them and they didn't see any 1000000 soldiers now until 24 hours of the attacks why aren't your soldier able to stop the violence in the center of the country not able to call for these reports what of his thoughts of nice of defunct was sent on the sports to coordinate forces action in the villages and between villages. to appease the situation to get stability between villages this is extremely important this is why able to tell you today that a number of people have been put under arrest by. police but also by armed forces who are supported by and equipped is in order to be in swansea's to villages and to money and

people living invest something they know that this state is not far from the state is a present to its forces that you think you've arrested people does that mean that you know who is responsible for the violence in this area the forces that is the people are very suspect and. brought before the general this is just before just this in order to. conduct an investigation in order to know who are responsible for this criminal actions of the full line is that we've spoken to say that the government backs these doggone militia groups that are active in attacking forlornly villages is your government supporting dogon militias you know that we have a new government in this country from may 5th following the

signing of a political agreement which will come on may 2nd we have a new government we a new political agreement we think there will be. the 1st point of the road map is to organize a national conference to give you opportunities to mullions political forces civil societies but all 6 of the population to discuss about the burning issues the country is confronting is facing the sick and is you is the implementation of a peace agreement signed 4 years ago you know i'm coming now to refer point which interests you is the situation of a center of a country in terms of stability and security is an issue this is extremely important for us. to deal with visitation and to treat the situation of the

sun in terms of getting more stability in this case no one time imagine our government siding with one part of the population against another so you're not the government is not supporting any any militia groups the governments of the political agreement is a sitting to find a solution to what is going on in the sums of the country and it cannot side waif somalians against it until you know you said that strong measures are in place in the material what are the strong measures in place that would prevent the violence because just a few days ago there was another bout of violence you know that the root of the problems of this crisis in the sumter of mali started to us from a few patients of a model by totally a school bus. one group which the completed go known has the

mojo movement for one and just succeeded in west africa and each extended it to do nation 2 part of the stunt and recruited local people. and get the venom to be with it the violent sector and to learn to use. guns in the mullion traces is a bag the link to the situation in libya. to the collapse of libya into forbes and 11 what they would like to stress is that that he that the link between. the did all these groups which occupied my early. in 2012 and 14 and

the situation in the some type of country this is very clear who profits from this situation. be. safe and that. those who profit from the situation. there are some mighty ends. that most of the. people or country that profit of this situation is fronts. for us. the the why france why i'm coming i'm coming the government and government members. will not tell you the truth about this one. france and once the 2. recall a nice begin. is gone.

because of a new left on the ground. why do you say that i mean france came to the rescue in 20122013 when there was an invasion of the country in the french forces were no here maybe look to mali and. nation wouldn't exist as i now see. i agree with you you see. when you want to exploit. a person. you start by being friendly with him. and. you try to end his 10. his mind and how he's doing. once you have got. all of these. and you ex to yeats. what you also have come.

france stuff they get is in the corner. all the money ends up road. or none. but now what is going on what is going on. we believe or line and fronts. but it's not france's role to ensure security in mali. democratic republic of the one. that's not france but its culture better here. since 1961. there there. the united states and this. is so you. have there but what about the efforts put forward such as the algiers peace accord that

were signed yeah i'm coming through there are efforts to bring back east by the internet and we think i would have friends i'm coming the people who are in l.t.c. united. nations soldiers. from 19 to 61 today they are there. because of the wealth. is in that. the europeans they have nothing no their finish. what they have to do is to come back and they require a nice. african it fits where they know there is something. moment to go he says the u.n. and what he calls the international community is failing mali what bothers you with

this u.n. mission that is helping those that are displaced in areas where the government cannot access. the dollar. is a problem. for over. the sea. level. though i mean setting for live what. you saw now this is just so everybody. can if i didn't. know. about. this the people couldn't. possibly have done the sunday schools came here. then the 3 men were going to be in the

abstract. i mean it's my little slowly they passed a lot of the smaller. amount of positive work from the 200 it was. going to move you on deposit a 1000000 people are looking for a vision. a rule of leave him as one available is all knowledge. i could release. here but. billy billy mays also reviewed other it's appropriate actually a level. of legitimate that but i have. seen a lot of money a 1000000 put up at least in the world even if you want to support. people give us a method of the school was out of the same detachment. with up us is a thing. we've done the national committee that.

while the $1000000000.00 a year u.n. peacekeeping mission was renewed by the security council for another year mollies government is calling for the creation of a coalition force like the one seen in iraq and afghanistan to intervene in mali. at stake it says the stability of a region and the survival of mali and its people. building a new life on an entirely beach living off the sea and. a dream shared why so many but so few make it a reality for. a family business led by a mockable woman with a flair for cooking and desist. my chin is yeah i didn't catch it

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up raising tariffs on warning american businesses against operating in china donald trump escalates the trade war. brazil's sending its army into combat wildfires in the amazon as president blames dry weather for the blazes to spark international concern. a bumper crop for indonesian coffee farmers but market prices are so low that many fear they'll go bankrupt if things do not improve. the u.k. consulate worker in hong kong has not been released by the mainland chinese authorities after being detained at the border he simon chang he disappeared on august the 8th during a business trip to shands then chinese police chiang and be detained for 15 days for violating public security laws when he joins us live from hong kong wayne what

else do we know about his story. peter this 1st broke social media in fact it was a facebook page that have been set up by the family years chang to raise awareness of this case to call somebody for he's released they released a statement fire that sites on saturday morning saying that he had been released that he was back in hong kong already and they expressed their support gratitude rather for everyone who had shown support for his cause it is now being. confirmed by the police in china that simon chang has been released and again we understand that he is now back in hong kong as you say he disappeared on the 8th of august making a business trip to the city of mainland china soon after that the ministry of foreign affairs in beijing came out with that statement that he had been detained for violating the public public security laws but didn't go into any further details

about exactly what he had done in the last few days we've seen allegations emerge in state media in china that the reason he was detained was because he visited a prostitute now that allegation has been strongly rejected by the family of simon chang but we have yet of course to hear from him the family your asking for some time for them to rest to rest to catch up again before he makes any further public comments and i guess those people that have been on the streets now for 11 or 12 weeks these. government pro-democracy protests that we've seen so much away and i guess those demonstrators will be watching this because the are aware that they are being kind of flanked by the chinese authorities. yes in effect this another rally another march that is starting right now in another part of hong kong a rally that has been given permission by the police to take place so we don't

expect it to be any particular violent incident in that protests but this has been a very unpredictable situation over the past 2 and a top months or so but yes the protesters say that this is exactly what they fear this is something that they are concerned about going forward that the type of incident that we've seen involving simon chang will become more common the allegation the suspicion among people there in particular those people who have taken part regularly in the protests is that this risk the detention of simon chang was part of a wider campaign now perhaps a new tactic by the government in charge. enough to create fear among the people of hong kong there are reports that people traveling from hong kong to mainland china are being subjected to more stringent tests at the border more stringent checks of their phones of their computers with immigration officials in china allegedly trying to find any evidence on those devices that the people may have taken part in the anti-government protests and we also peter have seen in the last few days the

canadians banding the consular staff from traveling outside hong kong on official business so certainly there is a concern that this is part of a campaign by beijing briefly when do we think we'll hear from him a little later today because maybe somebody might want to ask him a question along the lines of look you know you got a sense to drop you work for the u.k. consulate maybe not a good idea to identify yourself on your own facebook page as a social activist. when we're not sure at the moment the only comments coming through that facebook page again set up by his family is that there will be no further comment at this stage no media interviews granted but certainly we expect that we may hear from him or at least his representatives maybe his family members in the days ahead but again briefly this is not an isolated incident we've had. representatives employees from other companies cathay pacific in particular the main airline here in hong kong who've

been fired for making comments on social media in support of the anti-government protests apparently that action against them coming after pressure from beijing so we suspect that we may see more of this in the days and weeks ahead when thanks very much. u.s. president donald trump is raising tariffs on chinese imports by an additional 5 percent this is the latest escalation in the trade war and comes just hours after beijing announced it will impose tariffs on 75000000000 dollars worth of american goods mr trump on twitter saying he has quotes here by american companies to leave china however as heidi joe castro explains from washington he doesn't have the power to do that. the trade war between the world's 2 largest economies just boiled over in the span of 280 characters on friday just after u.s. stock markets closed u.s. president donald trump announced via twitter starting on october 1st the

$250000000000.00 of goods and products from china currently being taxed at 25 percent will be taxed at 30 percent additionally the remaining $300000000000.00 of goods and products from china that was being taxed from september 1st at 10 percent will now be taxed at 15 percent this was trans retaliation after beijing announced a few hours earlier that china will tax an additional $75000000000.00. worth of u.s. goods also starting next month that came at the end of an already to mulch u.s. day earlier friday the u.s. president tweeted in order to american businesses move supply chains out of china immediately trump does not in fact have the power to command u.s. businesses to leave china but he does have leverage he can encourage them he cannot give them government contracts for example that if they're buying things from the

government or striving to sell things through the government but no he can't he can't stop the tweets still spooked investors the dow jones closed more than 2 percent down the tech heavy nasdaq index was off by 3 percent both signs of the importance of the chinese market to u.s. companies all of this comes at a particularly vulnerable time in terms presidency a growing number of economists forecast a u.s. recession on the horizon driven partly by the white house trade policies trump has responded by blaming everyone but himself i think the word recession is a word that's inappropriate because it's just a word that the. the certain people are going to become and certain people in the media are trying to build up because they'd love to see a recession trump also took unprecedented aim at the chairman of the u.s. federal reserve the central bank lowered interest rates last month but not as much as trump hoped that earned its chairman this comparison from trump who is our

bigger enemy jay powell or chairman see the chinese leader president trump will spend the weekend in france at the g. 7 meeting with fellow leaders of major industrialized nations the white house has asked concerns of a global recession to be front and center and no doubt the u.s. china trade escalation will dominate those discussions castro al-jazeera washington. the trade war looms large g 7 leaders are gathering in france this weekend for their annual summit global challenges on the table range from the economy to climate change as a diplomatic as a james bay is reporting from be a rich. just hours before the g 7 started and the iranian foreign minister was in paris mohammed jarbidge zarif met with president mccraw no pictures of the meeting were released probably 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. for no deal it really is true and if what he's been doing in berlin and paris has really been ready a ruse of sorts then you're going to see the u.k. pivot towards the u.s. they're going to see. more of the u.s. than his european neighbors and they're going to start seeing a much more grass of. level of posturing from boris johnson who will be in the company of trungpa and who 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 vs 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 al-jazeera the ritz. well the brazilian president has given the green light for the army to try to contain the fires raging through the world's largest rain forest after weeks of inaction jiah bulls and other came under pressure from france and germany to tackle what they say is an international crisis he's blamed unusually warm temperatures for the unprecedented spike in the number of fires to raise a bow has this report from rio de janeiro. facing criticism both at home and abroad brazilian president jalal matter went on national television friday night to answer critics who say he's not only letting the amazon burn but encouraging the ranchers a log or is who environmental groups accused of setting the fires vamos out to our 40 minute.