even the targets that the israeli army chose it was an indication that it's to not want the conflict to to worsen or to escalate the lebanese prime minister was on the phone with american and french officials to try to deescalate tensions it was a nobody's interest for this flare up to lead to all out conflict in 2006 it was a devastating war between israel and hezbollah now hezbollah did promise to retaliate against the killing of 2 of its fighters in syria in neighboring syria and israeli air strikes but it also said and it also promised to prevent israeli drones from violating lebanese airspace it says that it's going to start defending lebanon's airspace so the question is what happens next will it take another action that could lead to a similar flare up or or worsen tensions between the between the 2 the 2 parties but it's not just that what happens is linked to tensions in the region the tensions between the u.s. and iran iran and israel israel saying that it wants to go after iranian iranian

allies across the region it wants if it wants to prevent it from expanding its influence and hezbollah of course being an iranian ally so if israel continues to target for example iranian and iranian ally targets in syria and kills hezbollah fighters are we going to see a similar a similar response from the lebanese group so the situation is still tense in light of the developments in the region. which has been another attack in afghanistan just as talks ended in catacomb between the u.s. and the taliban. 11 people were injured in the taliban's latest offensive and baghlan province the afghan interior ministry says the fighters have been battling security forces in the city of. 5 gunmen were killed while 2 fighters were arrested during a clearance operation the u.s. envoy for afghanistan said washington and the taliban were on the brink of striking a deal to end the war here with the news hour live from london much more still

ahead coop. the double blow for germany's governing coalition is the far right just to 2nd place in 2 elections as trump escalates his trade war with china we meet one golic farmer in california who stands to benefit from trump's punitive measures. and in sport the glasgow dobby lives up to its reputation as being one of football's most fiercely contested getting us. the we. were just as an all gong to have again targeted the city's disrupting travel in one of the world's busiest terminals the demonstrations came a day off to some of the what worst violence the city has experienced since protests began nearly 3 months ago when he reports. this isn't the welcome people

expect when arriving to check in at hong kong airport was. for the 2nd time in 3 weeks and to government protesters tried to block access to one of the busiest terminals in the world in some areas they succeeded confusing and worrying travelers and you cannot will that the diverse place where you wanted to go. and that people are afraid because of what's happening here i called in place designed to prevent just as coming anywhere near it clearly didn't was that legal action was taken after the last raid on the airport which people can put inside the terminal for several days. or they do it all hong kong airport is very important to the economy and chose here to try to paralyze at a makeup point instead of randomly picking street talk e.p.i. it's most better to come up with a little i this time the site of the police moving in was enough to force

a retreat for most and that those not quick enough were arrested it was in the end the protest to stay at the airport was a relatively brief one but again they proved they can strike at what they say is a soft target before the police moved in to retake the area. still it would be a long time before transport began to return to normal meaning long walks for many travelers. the demonstrators may have moved on but they weren't done seemingly frustrated by the closure of a neighborhood train station they vented their anger leaving it in disarray. as night falls to put those does fanned out to different locations and the police don't seem to be able to match the agility of those not trying to chase arrive there are and when it's time for a police retreat loitering parties does and many people are living in areas where some of the ballance has taken place final group says again as the officers leave

the not cheated as keepers of the peace instigated jihad as the enemy and symbols of a system many here are trying to challenge when hey al jazeera. in the u.s. a 17 month old baby girl is among 22 people wounded in saturday's mass shooting in texas officials are saying the child was shot in the face by the gunman who killed at least 7 people in attacks started when a man in his thirty's was stopped by police between the cities of midlands and adesa failing to signal a left turn the gunman then hijacked a mail truck and i can fire passes by it was like a shot dead by police u.s. president donald trump dismissed the role of background checks in preventing gun violence after the shooting which was the 2nd in texas in less than a month. when the fear that a lot of different things were looking at a lot of different. ideas concepts that are going for

a law are background check i will say that for the most part sadly if you look at the last 4 or 5 going back. 5 or 6 to 7 years for the most part as strong as you make your background check they would not have stopped any of . you know a big problem it's a mental problem it's a big problem. let's get more on the story now with heidi jo castro who is in washington and of course heidi we were just saying that 7 people were killed in this attack but also some $22.00 injured including a 17 month old baby go any any updates on the injuries. well the texas governor actually gave a press conference earlier and he said that according to the mother of this young toddler this child is expected to survive she was apparently shot through her lip and her teeth and her tongue undergoing surgery and very thankfully didn't the

bullet didn't hit any vital organs but we do know that the death toll rose overnight to 7 people who are among the victims as for the shooter himself police have released his name as 36 year old seth at tor they don't they haven't released any more information about him besides the he is a white man now we know that also mung his victims who are work hild was the postal worker who's van he apparently hijacked during this killing spree when he was shooting at random people who were passing on the street police are saying that they do not suspect terrorism as part of the motive here but they're not sure exactly what drove this individual to commit this crime and in fact they were hesitant at 1st to release his name because as the police chief said he didn't want sefer torah to gain notoriety he didn't want other people out there to be motivated

to want to copy what he has done and in fact the f.b.i. says that every 2 weeks there is one active shooter incident in the united states right now as he was saying this is the 2nd mass shooting in texas in less than a month of course that was the mass attack in el paso as well texas has long had this aversion to any restrictions on that gun laws i don't suppose we can expect that to change. right the indication is if you look over the last 3 years in fact including what's happened this month there's more than 70 people who have been the victims of these public mass shootings they've happened in churches in schools on streets during protests and ironically rather than trying to restrict gun access the very opposite has happened today it so happens there were 8 new texas

laws that took effect that now allow licensed gun holders in texas to bring weapons on to school campuses on to school parking lots into foster homes and into houses of worship now those slew of pro-gun access laws were passed prior to these 2 ladies shootings in taxes but there have been some calls for the republican governor of texas to call back lawmakers and perhaps take a 2nd look at these he did not heed those calls in fact governor greg abbott said today that he has convened a commission to look at how to stop these mass shootings in texas he didn't strictly rule out restrictions on gun access but he also said that he would remain focused on safeguarding 2nd amendment rights to bear arms for texans thank you very much from washington why did you castro. following all the developments with the report suggesting hurricane dorian has inflicted devastating damage in parts of the

bahamas often making landfall a few hours ago dorian is the most powerful storm to ever hit the go with winds of more than 295 kilometers per hour a category 5 hurricane is expected to deliver 2 days of tarantula rain before very northwest towards florida and he gallagher joins us now from miami with the latest on this story what can you tell us about the position at the moment. well it's just started to hit the northeast islands of the commonwealth of the bahamas as you said this is the most powerful storm in history to hit that region and we're talking about sustained winds of 300 kilometers per hour with gusts of up to 350 kilometers an hour and at least surges in the region of 6 meters so the next few hours and even days because forecasters say this storm is going to linger over the bahamas for at least 2 days could be vital for people there i heard the leader

of the bahamas talking earlier about how some people ignored the warnings to get to shelter he made a last minute plea for people to get to higher ground as soon as possible but we understand that some people are deciding to ride this storm out which officials say essentially puts their lives at risk what's in store for the days ahead. well that's the big question at the moment the forecasters are saying once dorian passes slowly over the bahamas it should take a sharp right turn and go up against the east coast of florida and essentially go all the way up past georgia the carolinas and then twist back out into the atlantic but the cone of uncertainty something you've heard me talk about many times before is still over large parts of the state of florida so they're taking no chances here in places like palm beach county they are putting mandatory evacuation orders orders in place for people in mobile homes in low lying areas but any deviation in this storm over the next few days could have catastrophic consequences for not just

florida but also georgia and the carolinas because right now here's the coast of florida here's the eye of the storm if it deviates even slightly that could be a landfall impact and officials here are taking no chances whatsoever saying if you're not ready now you need to be ready over the next few days because remember the storm is intensifying but it's actually slowing down it's doing about 10 kilometers per hour at the moment that could go down to virtually 0 which means this is an event is not going to be over in a few days it could last. up to a week and remember it's going all the way up to possibly even virginia so this is something that residents and officials are all watching very closely indeed. predictable few days and possibly weeks ahead thank you very much from miami andy gallacher. the trade war between the world's 2 largest economies is heating up united states has started imposing another round of tariffs on chinese imports and china has just raised import taxes on $75000000000.00 worth of american goods

katrina you has more on this now from beijing. shoppers come to beijing send you and lee market to buy all kinds of imported food including american greg cherries but it's fast becoming a casualty of china's trade with the u.s. tariffs have already gone up twice pushing the price of a killer to around $25.00 and from to temper the 1st tariffs on us cherries will be raised from 50 to 60 percent then it is looking for cheaper alternatives to what the chinese fruits are very good the price is much cheaper than american products the quality is also very good so more and more people are choosing local foods higher prices are the only reason shoppers are considering buying less from the u.s. . for me being pretty arctic is something more important for me to consider than the price we are trainees and we are all affected that by the training us treat war cherries may be the most popular american product at this market but it's not the

only for it that will receive high it's harris new jerseys will also apply to things like american palms graves and apples $75000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods will see tariffs of between 5 and 10 percent china will also reinstate import taxes of 25 percent on u.s. cars in december the hikes of the chinese government's response to the trumpet ministrations latest trade was over 10 percent tariffs on 3 $100000000000.00 worth of chinese goods also coming into effect in september and december analysts say the u.s. president has been a confusing and unreliable negotiating partner i don't think the president trumps remarks here is the chorus for is changing here are some very the stick figure in order to push through let's talk there you must give you. much big stick. china's comus ministry says it doesn't want to escalate tensions and is open to more talks with the u.s. but it's would against underestimating china's willingness to dig its heels in for

the long fight if you fight through a fog if your talk good there's talk but we have principles we will never yield on principle by weakening its currency and developing new trade partnerships china is taking steps to ensure its economy is less vulnerable to any new moves by truck in the trade. and as demand for things like the u.s. cherry slower china is finding cheaper alternatives from countries such as pakistan and chile are ripe for the picking katrina you al-jazeera beaching. let's just take a look then at the background for these latest attack tariffs that we in the u.s. and china which they're imposing on each other last year total trade between the 2 countries amounted to just over 7 $137000000000.00 since then it's dropped considerably despite trump's stated aim to rebalance trade the gap has actually widened with chinese imports from the u.s. dropping more than 30 percent in june the targeted items in the new round of

tariffs ranged from cheese to clothing and accessories it's estimated to cost the average u.s. household an extra $800.00 a year the trade wars also putting pressure on the global economy the international monetary fund is cut its projections for global growth to 3.2 percent this is its lowest level since 2009 of course when the financial crisis hit well done why is a china unless of economics intelligence unit she says that china's economic growth is mainly relying on its own market. well if we look at the trade or impacts us so far the direct impact is actually very small so part of the reason is that the negative impact is mitigated by the devaluation of r. and b. . if we look at a regional economy we can see that some of the regional impact have already started to show especially for coastal exports or province like. food in

so a lot of the smaller factories in those areas are consolidating and it's speeding up but fortunately a lot of those laid off workers are actually absorbed by the growing services sector so the paying of unemployment caused by the trade war is actually not as painful as president trauma suggested i'm not too pessimistic about this prospect to yet at least not in the next 2 years the main reason is that china's demand and a growth is mainly relying on its domestic consumers and domestic investors so so far we have observed that some of the longer term investment how they halted mostly from foreign investors because they don't want to place a plant and then it stopped then it's subject to a tariff but overall the consumption pattern suggest the tariff resulted reduction in consumption is relatively small. still ahead for you on the news hour are.

gearing up for a decisive week and westminster in which dozens of members of parliament will try to force the government's hand on bricks it. will have that story will also reporting on the brazilians who are trying against the odds to preserve the amazon rain forest and protect the dozens of species that live in sight and in sport find out if the world number 2 could claim a 2nd title win in 7. plenty of warm sunny weather across much of south eastern europe and across eastern sections meanwhile the central areas out across the west this is where the storms are continuing to push in however having said all that the old the suspension catalonian some very very nice sunshine just to round out the weekend for most

people before of course they have to head back to work this is a situational monday we've got that widespread rain across the central areas it's also trading down into the central mediterranean this is where we could see some thunderstorms really anywhere along this line we've got some woman ahead of this system across into the southeast a little bit cooler and fresh it very nicely behind this system another system there pushing in to the northwest of the u.k. pushing across tools on the navy some pretty brisk winds in the annals of that rain is fairly stepan so staying in the same place really for the next couple of days meanwhile that system across central regions it is edging further east was pushing through much of central and southern spain as we head through tuesday now the same system though that is also bringing the rain showers across northern sections of africa also the chance of a few showers across into morocco as we go through monday and as i say we could see some showers even a thunderstorm into northern algeria and tunisia monday but by choose day is a carriage drive day that woman to the.

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welcome back you with the news hour a quick look at the headlines stories now the u.n. secretary general special envoy to yemen martin griffith has condemned in as strike that has killed thousands of people and saudi that coalition says it targeted who see rebels in the city but the say the facility was a prison housing inmates loyal to the u.n. recognized government. the u.s. is saying it fully supports israel's right to self-defense after an exchange of fire between the israeli military and the lebanese armed hezbollah israel says the fighting is over for now but a minister benjamin netanyahu says his forces are on

a high state and that. and protesters in hong kong of again targeted the city's airport disrupting travel the demonstrations have been a day off to some of the worst violence the city has seen since the protests started getting 3 months ago. to germany's support there for the far right alternative for germany posse has surged into state elections in the east of the country johnson i'm going to merkel c.d.u. and her coalition partners the s.p.d. of both see the vote share drop significantly in brandenburg the s.p.d. managed to cling on to 1st place in the state gaining 27 and a half percent with the f.t. in 2nd on 22 and a half percent just south and saxony it's a similar picture with the f.t. securing $27.00 and a half percent of the vote behind merkel c.d.u. posse all 32 percent is a significant drop from the last election in 2014 dominic has been following the story for us from potsdam in brandenburg. was the day

after you had hoped its far right agenda would persuade east germans to put it 1st in the event the party came a close 2nd but more than doubled its vote in the process and struck deep into the mainstream parties heartlands was i would have hoped the cake we would become the strongest party but this result this exit poll shows one thing they have to has come to stay politics without us will no longer be possible their opponents in saxony with the center right christian democrats who governed there since 1990 but who lost more than 80000 votes to the f.t. and yet still emerge clear in 1st place for them there now begins the difficult process of trying to build a coalition with parties of the center and the center left out of this shaft we did it and this is a message that we send from saxony a large majority of people want to represent a state in a positive way and want to achieve things differently side of saxony has won. it

was also a difficult night for the social democrats who run the center left of german politics they've governed pound inboard ever since the fall of communism 30 years ago yet on sunday they lost votes and were very nearly beaten by the far right as. it was a tough election campaign it was an intensive discussion and i would like to thank all of you that we succeeded in showing that the state has one party which people trust and that remains brandenburg. one of the key factors for voters in this election had been nostalgia 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall how did people view the past 3 decades of democracy and there was the role of immigration even though these 2 states have relatively small immigrant populations compared to the rest of the country this result shows the a.f.d. is now a force to be reckoned with across east germany and although it will not enter government its presence will make coalition building difficult and it throws up one

more central question with so many voters now desert ing the 2 main parties how long can their grand coalition continue at a federal level dominic came al-jazeera in brandenburg. well at a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of world war 2 germany's president has asked for poland's forgiveness for the tera inflicted on the country during the nazi era frank walter made the play alongside his polish counterpart under a duda in the city of wilen where the 1st german bombs fell commemorations are also taking place in the capital also attended by the german chancellor angela merkel and the us vice president my pants around 6000000 polish citizens were killed in the conflict including 3000000 jews. and. i stand before you enough for those who have survived before the descendants of the

victims the old and the young wizard and in view. i am humbled and grateful. i bowed to the victims of the attack in vienna loued and i i pay tribute to the polish victims of german tyranny and i ask for forgiveness. for. the british prime minister has gathered his allies ahead of a looming parliamentary showdown over his decision to suspend parliament johnson met with key conservative figures to discuss the government's stance that the prime minister's country residence in buckinghamshire johnson has pledged to take person out of the e.u. on october 31st with or without a deal and next week is seen as one of the last opportunities for british members of parliament to stop a no deal brecht's it when m.p.'s returned to work on tuesday those opposed to no deal are expected to try to take control of the parliamentary timetable they want to pass new legislation which would force the prime minister to request an

extension to the bracks it deadline another option would be to table a vote of no confidence in boris johnson's government and i could see an alternative government formed which would seek an extension to breaks it and then hold a general election either way time is running out the queen has approved bars johnson's request to prorogue or suspend parliament which will happen sometime between the 9th and 12th of september the suspension will last for 5 weeks the legality of this is a pension is being challenged in court on thursday well alex to rita is the director of the center for breakfast studies at birmingham city university joins me now via skype from birmingham so the stage is set for this battle between bars johnson's government and the parliament if if m.p.'s are going to try to stop a no deal bracks it they need to move quickly and they need to do it with a sort of unity they have failed to show so far how important is this coming week in parliament. but 60000000 mccool's the leader of the folks that will leave your

union regrets withdraw agreement on october 1st i'm less government can agree to go back to brussels and request an extension and therein lies the you shoot for those opposed to leaving with no deal is that the prime minister or something that's been resolute saying we believe go 1st. come on. and it is increasingly clear i think that the the government will seek to marginalize parliament so much so that we have key ministers such as michael gove refusing to rule out the prospect that if it were to pass an amendment mandating the government to request an extension to the article 50 period that the government could simply trying to ignore this and there is a key point of difference that the incumbent johnson created since a cruiser managed drive to work or to recruit green. risk government clearly sees prominent as the enemy. with who. i am going back.

for those that don't follow that the details of british politics just to. well not to simplify it but just to make it as clear as possible there are 2 options here parliament can try to change the law and then they can also pass a vote of no confidence in the government now on on on trying to change the law there are 2 issues they have to not just pass one vote but a series of votes and they need to maintain that position as a unified bloc throughout that something that they failed to do so far do you see that as being the big obstacle all the time issue because they just don't have running out of time but i think both i mean because of this probing suspending of parliament lasting 5 weeks only up a matter of days to get their act together looks i'll try and do that on wednesday to get a full scale amendment table to pass through all the stages but that is a big hurdle and i think that would be more likely to have success if you can use

that phrase should we go for it and i'm confident especially because i'm back with you know if the government failed on that regard jeremy call but with the now 2 weeks in effect to try and form a government with a view to seeking an extension from brussels because i do not see boris johnson doing that. you can't even a deal. so there are a number of options before parliament it's going to be very difficult to predict how this is going to unfold in the next few weeks as a situation stands at the moment what is the likelihood in your opinion of the u.k. crashing out of the e.u. on halloween. but i think it's the most probable outcome for the simple reason that time's running out for parliament and she's going to. unable to agree on what they do want so for that reason i think the most probable outcome is that the u.k. will leave with no deal thank you very much appreciate your thoughts professor alex to rita director of the center for breakfast studies at birmingham city university

welcome the fires in brazil's amazonia region of course tension between brazil and the e.u. at least 2 european countries have frozen donations to what's called the amazon fund movies in protest against president gyre both scenarios environmental policies but could negatively impact the work of dozens of groups fighting deforestation to raise a boy reports now from a top lawyer in brazil. every day the his who somebody see there goes into the national park to look for seeds he's trying to preserve the rain forest and the dozens of species that live in it. the threat of deforestation has become a major problem and then goes like this there are fighting back and what do we i mean what we are seeing is really bad and they are burning the bores so we're looking to encouraging families to enroll in comic alternatives i don't destroy the

forests have environmental impact or killed over. there that is growing fountains of trees every year and help locals make a living while also caring for the environment the ngos funded by what's called the amazon fund handled by the government the fundraising is donations to help fight deforestation in amazonia deforestation and the fires have already destroyed large sectors of the amazon rain forest but there are projects like this one that are trying to preserve and re forest the areas that have been already devastated there are more than 40 species here of trees and crops the problem is that projects like this one are now at risk. germany and norway are crucial sponsors of the fund that helps over $100.00 projects like this one but they have halted all payments to condemn president jade also now those environmental policies. well we are better has managed to reforest $800.00 hectares of trees this year. alexander gatos

fears a drop in donations will impact their work. but we're very concerned but we've been working on our projects through the amazon fund and petrobras for a long time that being said sir t.g. clee we're already looking for other sources of funding we want to find ways so that the funds don't go through the government. a long time skeptic of environmental concerns wants to open the amazon to more agriculture and mining yes even a lot of those who has been working to protect indigenous groups living in london for years she has been threatened by loggers and miners but international funding has allowed her to do her work there's a.