this is newsday. i'm rico hizon in singapore. the headlines: the trade war between china and the us heats up. beijing retaliates to new american import taxes with another $60 billion of tariffs. all smiles and a toast for the summit of both koreas. the leaders of north and south continue their talks in pyongyang. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: europe's amateur golf champion celia barquin arozamena is found dead on a golf course in iowa. hopes fade of finding any survivors in the philippines mudslide caused by typhoon mangkhut. good morning. it's 1am in london, 8am

in singapore and china, where the trade war with the united states is intensifying. beijing has hit back after the us announced the biggest round of tariffs so far against some chinese goods. now china has said it will impose new trade tariffs on a range of american goods. in a moment we will hear from our china correspondent, jon sudworth, but first we begin our coverage with our north america editorjon sopel. it is a good time to be in the container business in the us, as more and more goods pour in from abroad. but it is not good for the deficit, and donald trump, from well before he became president, has railed at the unfairness of trade between the us and china. we are the piggy bank to the world. we have been ripped off by china,

we have been ripped off by the european union, we have been ripped off by everybody. in 2017, us imports from china amounted to $506 billion. tariffs have so far been applied to $53 billion worth of chinese exports. the tariffs announced today will now affect $200 billion worth of goods from china, and there is a warning that might rise by an additional $267 billion if china attempts further retaliation. because chinese action is already taking its toll on exporters. farmers on land and farmers of the sea are feeling the effect. lobster fishermen in maine are finding a big drop in demand for their luxury produce, which is exported live to china. it is becoming too expensive for consumers there. and, across america, this is starting to hurt all sorts of businesses. this is a trade dispute that donald trump started, and donald trump believes that he can win. the us calculation is this. because the deficit is so huge, china will soon run out of products on which it can impose tariffs, or as commerce secretary wilbur ross put it, they will run out of bullets. at this trade fair today, china

was showing off its latest gadgets. it is all part of a plan to create a world—beating, high—tech economy, a plan it believes the us tariffs are designed to stop. for policymakers here in china, every line in this latest and extremely long list of us tariffs will read as proof of a real threat to the very economic model on which this country's success has been built — exports and state backing for industry. the response has been swift. translation: china has no choice but to retaliate, in order to firmly defend our legitimate interests, and the global free—trade order. in 2017, china imported $130 billion worth of us goods. the first round of tariffs this year hit $50 billion of that trade, and today, almost all remaining imports, $60 billion worth, were targeted. but, while china may

have few options left, many us businesses don't think the trump tariffs are working. we had a survey recently. only 6% currently were considering moving back to the us. so the us is hoping forjob creation. we don't really see that happening. it is the grim prospect of economic pain with no political gain. jon sudworth, bbc news, beijing. more analysis on the trade wars coming up, and don't forget you can go to our website for a breakdown of the issues, including more on what's happened so far. that's at bbc.com/news. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has expressed his regret at the loss of russian lives, after a surveillance plane was accidentally shot down by syrian forces on monday.

russian officials had earlier alleged that israel was indirectly responsible for the downing of the plane, saying israeli jets had used the russian plane as cover for airstrikes against syrian targets. sarah rainsford has more from moscow. there has been a very fierce reaction response from the russian defence ministry today. all of the anger has been directed at israel, not at syria, for supposedly provoking this incident by using the russian plane as cover for its own airstrikes in syria. russia has called that a "hostile act" and all day today is that pollution officials who have been debating and discussing how russia should retaliate. there have been calls, some of those calls were for imposing a no—fly zone in syria, we are talking even about supplying israel's enemies with sophisticated defence systems. it was quite clear that russia was never going to blame syria

outright, at least publicly, given its support for president assad. but vladimir putin has spent an awful lot of time cultivating good relationships with israel too, it's part of a delicate balance of alliances in the middle east, and i don't think vladimir putin wanted to unsettle that. in fact, when he did come out and speak about this, it was too diffuse, rather than to escalate the crisis. also making news today: president trump says he feels badly for brett kavanaugh, his supreme court nominee, who's been accused of sexual assault. republicans have scheduled a us senate hearing for next monday to consider the claim, by christine blasey ford, that she was assaulted by mr kavanaugh in the 1980s. but in a written statement, the one possible witness to the alleged incident, a high school friend of mr kavanaugh, says he does not want to speak publicly about the matter. south africa's constitutional court has ruled that the personal use of cannabis is not a crime. the unanimous judgment decriminalises adults smoking the drug at home, as well as growing enough for personal consumption. now this video of venezuela's president,

nicol s maduro, eating in a high—end restaurant in turkey has caused outrage in venezuela. it shows a turkish celebrity chef, popularly known as salt bae, carving steak for the president and his wife. mr maduro has said, they were chatting and having a good time. almost two—thirds of venezuelans say, they've lost weight due to worsening food shortages. let's get more on our top story now. china's retaliatory move, imposing $60 billion of tariffs on us imports after president trump announced more taxes on chinese goods. karishma vaswani joins us from tianjin in china. if you are at the tory initiative either chinese, it is less than a

third competitor of the american. what does this mean now all the mainland people? —— if you have a look at the retaliatory. it is important to point out that china doesn't have much more in the way it to retaliate because itjust doesn't buy that many product is, or that value of product, from the united states. that is at the heart of this trade disagreement, if you will, between the us and china. the us keeps saying that china sells far too much stuff to the united states and the other way it around it is not a fairer or level playing field. and us wants the chinese market to be more open to american companies. having said that, i think china is really under pressure and has been recently, to defend its position on the international stage. later today in about two hours time we will be hearing from the chinese premier,

who will be addressing the delegates at the world economic forum here and it will be interesting to see what he has to say about this trade war that has really taken centre stage at this forum. in the lead up to this, of course, china has consistently positioned itself as the victim of this trade war and whenever the chinese officials go to international forums they consistently say that they are championing globalisation, they want a multilateral world, they want a trading system where everybody abides by the rules and they don't believe president trump is doing that. really interesting political dynamic underlining the trade tensions between the us and china. 0ver tensions between the us and china. over the past decade china has risen to the second biggest economy in the world and they have global ambitions. how does this ongoing trade dispute with the americans impact that? well, you know, again

this is at the very heart of the trade war. what president trump says is that a lot of what china has done over the last four decades includes things like the allegations he has made, are things like chinese companies benefiting from american technology and, in fact, stealing american technology. whenever i put that allegation to chinese academics 01’ that allegation to chinese academics or business people out there, they say that is absolutely untrue. what has happened has been the sharing of knowledge and that indeed china has been able to benefit from that. there maybe some instances, i have been told that chinese companies that have things perhaps not in the most transparent way in which they could have, but that is not under the auspices, chinese officials say, of the chinese government. it is not written in the war in china anywhere. it is really interesting to point out as well that the government is very much trying to

distance itself from that position because it wants to put forward a new face of china, that china is changing and that is how it should hejudged changing and that is how it should he judged today. police in the american state of iowa have charged a twenty—two year old man with the murder of a young spanish golf champion. celia barquin arozamena won this year's european amateur golf championship. she was found dead on a golf course in the city of ames on monday morning. cbs news' tommi clark has more. new details today after an iowa state university student athlete was found dead on a local golf course. 22—year—old celia barquin arozamena was a 2018 big 12 champion golfer, and the school female athlete of the year. this morning, we sat in a local courtroom and watched as the man charged with her murder sluggishly walked in for his inital appearance before a judge. colin richards is charged with her murder. he is 22 years old. the initial appearance lasted just two minutes. judgejames malloy set the bond

at $5 billion, cash only. the county attorneyjessica reynolds saying that he is a danger to the community. today we receive his court documents that you see here. these entail exactly what led to the arrest. now, police say that they found barquin arozamena's body in a pond at just after 11am yesterday near a cold water golf links golf course. police say she had several stab wounds to her upper torso, head and neck. a man walking near the scene told police that richard had told him that he had an urge to rape and kill a woman. the two had both been staying in tents across the creek from the golf course. a boon county sherriff canine unit later tracked the scent from where arozamena was found dead, to that tented area. while there, officers were approached by richards, who had fresh scratches, they say, consistent with fighting and a deep laceration on his hand.

richards told police he stayed with another man during the day, officers located the man, who said richards showed up at his home near the golf course saying that he showed up at his home disheveled and covered in blood, sand and water. officers found in that tented area bloody clothes and a knife. police say a crime like this is shocking. now, witnesses dropped richards off in that tented area, so there are a lot of moving parts here and many people that we can see future charges with, i asked police in a press conference today, they say they just don't know, we will see with this investigation. they say they continue to look into it, but they do not believe that richards knew the victim. i'm tommi clark, eeporting for cbs news for bbc news in ames, iowa. the death toll from typhoon mangkhut has reached 7a in the philippines, with dozens more feared dead. rescuers dug through mud to retrieve bodies buried by a massive landslide in the mining town of itogon. authorities say it's unlikely anyone surived. the typhoon is the most powerful to strike this year. it also battered hong kong and southern china with fierce

winds and heavy rain. typhoon mangkhut is now weakening over southern china. a short time ago i spoke to gjeff lamigo, the communications manager at world vision in the philippines. i asked him for the latest information from his team on the ground. well, just recently i checked on the reports coming from them. and it is pretty staggering. increasing number of affected families, counting out to about 230,000 families affected based on the trail of the storm. after that, about 61,000 families... how are these families coping? how is your organisation helping them? yes. at the moment, we have reached at least 1,000 families in two separate areas. you should understand, northern philippines was really affected in ca bagan, isabela and even benguet, where we are getting reports

about these increasing numbers of deaths in mining areas. what kind of aid to these families need ? is this aid getting to the affected families? yes, absolutely. but surely, the help is reaching these areas, which we give to the government for taking the lead on this, and humanitarian organisations like us would want to compliment them. just yesterday we have reached more than 700 families the landfall site in two towns. the people are pretty much grateful that the help are coming in.

you can see there are challenges doing this, access has to become an issue also. the government really trying their best to clear the way so that help would reach these areas. you are watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: kim jong—un puts on a show as the leaders of the two koreas meet to discuss denuclearisation. also on the programme: ajapanese billionaire becomes the first spacex tourist to fly round the moon. we'll hearfrom him. 30 hours after the earthquake that devastated mexico city, rescue teams still have no idea just how many people have died. well, there is people alive and there is people not alive.

we just can help and give them whatever we've got. it looked as though they had come to fight a war, but their mission is to bring peace to east timor, and nowhere on earth needs it more badly. the government's case is being forcefully presented by monsieur badinter, the justice minister. he's campaigned vigorously for abolition, having once witnessed one of his clients being executed. elizabeth seton spent much of her time at this grotto, and every year, hundreds of pilgrimages are made here. now that she's become a saint, it's expected that this area will be inundated with tourists. the mayor and local businessmen regard the anticipated boom as yet another blessing of st elizabeth. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm rico hizon in singapore. i'm babita sharma in london. our top stories: china imposes another $60 billion

of tariffs on us imports, a day after president trump announces more taxes on some chinese goods. south korea's president, moonjae—in, continues talks with kim jong—un on denuclearisation in pyongyang. let's take a look at some front pages from around the world. the south china morning post has the south and north korean summit on its front page. it features a picure of president moonjae—in and kim jong—un waving at a crowd during a parade in pyongyang. the international edition of the new york times has a picture from typhoon mangkhut in the philippines. it says rescue workers dug through the mud, sometimes with their bare hands, looking for bodies of mine workers and their families, after dozens were killed in a landslide in itogon. the japan times covers elon musk‘s company spacex sending the first private passenger to fly around the moon in 2023. the japanese billionaire,

tycoon and art collector yusaku maezawa will be the first lunar traveler since the last us apollo mission in 1972. south korea's president, moonjae—in, is still in pyongyang as part of a three—day summit with north korean leader kim jong—un. president moon is hoping to kick—start progress on denuclearisation talks after discussions with washington reached a deadlock. laura bicker is in seoul with more reaction on the summit. in terms of the welcome that president moon received, unbelievable. i mean, i think the scenes in pyongyang when you saw them dressed in their best kind

of hanbok — korean hanbok dresses and best suits, waving, shouting for unification, as president moon and kim jong—un waved from the open—top car — amazing propaganda coup for kim jong—un. president moon looks happy, he looks relaxed, and there certainly seems to be some chemistry between the two. the problem he has is the interest here in seoul doesn't seem to be as high as previous summits. i mean, we went around having a look, to see if anyone was watching, but that just wasn't happening here in seoul. what we're hearing is that they're more concerned about the economy. so president moon, if he's going to make progress in north korea, he has to do it fast. in fact, he has to do it on this visit. babita, i'm also hearing from the united states overnight, certainly according to lindsey graham, who is a senior senator there, he's been tweeting saying that he fears president moon may be undermining us sanctions on this visit.

but, in terms of the optics, it certainly looked good. this week we have been considering some of the most common questions being asked about brexit and its potential impact. today, our correspondent damian grammaticas investigates the irish border issue. what will brexit mean for the union? why haven't we left yet? will we be richer or poorer? will problems with the irish border stop brexit? 0n the way to brexit, the biggest roadblock we face — the irish border. that's it. we've just crossed the border — ireland to northern ireland. no markings, just the signs change. today, it is almost invisible. a century ago, the division of ireland, partition and the building of customs posts led to years of troubles. those ended after the good friday agreement brought peace. the fear is reimposing border checks would risk new violence,

and be hugely complicated. so theresa may and the eu have promised to guarantee there will be no border, under any circumstances. mrs may says she wants no new customs or other checks here. they wouldn't be needed if the uk quits the eu but stays in its single market and customs union. but mrs may says leaving those, too, is a red line for her — it wouldn't be delivering on brexit. the border is this stream here... this family have farmed here for six generations. their fields stretch both sides of the border. ..between the republic of ireland and the uk, the united kingdom. these are both your fields. these are both my fields. ireland will have the uk's only land border with the eu, and a busy one. 30% of milk from the north goes out to be processed, 50% of lamb does too, and from the south comes 25% of beef used in the north.

the eu's proposal is that if any checks are needed, they won't happen along the line between northern ireland and ireland, but between it and the uk, northern ireland staying under most of the eu's single market and customs rules. but for theresa may and northern ireland's democratic unionists, who support her in parliament, any new border within the uk is unacceptable. however, the uk government has not put forward any alternative legal text to the eu's version. that is the only one in the negotiations. mrs may hopes a future trade deal built around the chequers plan will make border checks unnecessary. but the eu wants a border guarantee now. without one, it won't agree an exit treaty. without that, the uk faces a no—deal brexit. this is the final point of our journey, the port of warrenpoint. we're in northern ireland.

the republic is just over the water there, and this handles a little over 10% of northern ireland's trade. some believe technology can erase the borders, but both the eu and the uk say it can't remove the need for checks. so the dilemma — is there any border solution acceptable to the eu, uk, unionists, and other brexiteers alike? the eu's hope now to is to tweak its plan to make it more palatable, by making any checks that would have to happen here less obtrusive. the question is, could theresa may sell that to her party and mps in parliament? if not, any brexit deal may be in trouble. elon musk‘s company spacex has named the first private passenger it plans to fly around the moon. the japanese billionaire yusaku maezawa will be joined by eight other people, including artists, designers and architects. maezawa declined to disclose how much he had paid tojoin the mission, but he did share his reaction with the crowd

at the spacex headquarters in california. yeah! finally i can say, i'm very glad to be here, and i'm really excited and really honoured, really appreciate to be able to share with — to share this announcement with you. we don't know how much he paid. what is your we don't know how much he paid. what is your gas? you know what, maezawa—san looks like a very nice quy- maezawa—san looks like a very nice guy. iam maezawa—san looks like a very nice guy. i am sure he can take you and i to space, if anything. thank you for joining us. we will see you again soon. goodbye. good morning. there is some disturbed and potentially dangerous weather on the way through the day ahead. the met office has issued an amber be prepared warning for the strength of the wind across northern ireland and central and southern parts

of scotland, and it's all down to storm ali. the satellite picture shows how it develops. this hook of cloud here, a rapidly deepening area of low pressure, and if we look at the pressure chart, you'll see a lot of white lines, a lot of isobars really squashing together across north—western parts of the uk. when you see all of these isobars on a pressure chart, well, it tells us that the winds are going to be really brisk, and as we go through wednesday morning, we'll also see some heavy rain across northern ireland, southern and central parts of scotland. but it is the winds that are of most concern. this is the amber warning area. we could see wind gusts of 60—70, perhaps 75 mph. in fact, in the most exposed spots, the winds could get a little higher than that. couple that with the rain, well, it looks like some travel disruption is quite likely, and there could be some damage, as well. and remember, the trees are still mostly in full leaf. now, even further south, it won't be as windy,

but north—west wales could see gusts close to 70 mph, 40—50 mph further south. so a blustery day for all of us. as we go through the day, the winds only slowly easing, the rain pushing northwards across scotland. this frontal system bringing some patchy rain south—eastwards across england and wales. to the south—east of that, still, a little bit of warmth. but further north and west, a much coolerfeel, especially when you add on the strength of that wind. and it remains quite blustery during wednesday night. further showers packing in towards north—western areas, and then this lump of heavy rain begins to show its hand across the south—west of england, wales, into the midlands, parts of eastern england as well by the end of the night. pretty humid to the south—east, much cooler up to the north—west. so low pressure still in charge on thursday morning, but it's this weather front that gives us most cause for concern on thursday. look at it wriggling back into the atlantic. pulses of moisture willjust continue to run along this weather front, so as we get into thursday afternoon, it looks like the rain will pep up again across parts of the south—west, but particularly wales, into the west midlands,

north—west england. heavy and persistent rain, which could cause travel disruption and localised flooding. to the south—east, some dry weather, still a little bit of warmth. much cooler across scotland, northern ireland and the far north of england, and all of us look cool as we head into the weekend. it remains unsettled, with some wind and rain at times. i'm babita sharma with bbc news. our top story: china has anounced $60 billion of new import taxes on products from america. it comes after the us said it was introducing $200 billion of tariffs on some chinese goods. president trump has threatened $257 billion more if china retaliates. south korea's president moonjae—in has been discussing denuclearisation with the north korean leader kimjong—un at their summit in pyongyang. and this story is popular on bbc.com. the korean—ca nadian actress sandra oh may not have come home with an award from the emmys, but her mother has won

over the internet. young—nam 0h accompanied her daughter to the awards night, wearing the hanbok, a traditional korean dress. thousands tweeted their approval.