why are people more consigned. to the first. this is news coming to you live. president tightness the screws in his trade dispute with china imposes new tariffs on billions of dollars worth of chinese goods. threatens what it calls counter-measures what impact will this have on the global economy also coming up. through says he was tortured in

a high security turkish prison. triggered a diplomatic crisis between germany and turkey. and in. refugee and foreign embassies in caracas fearing arrest by the government of president. so-called opposition leader. remains free. hello and welcome. good to have you with us the trade dispute between the u.s. and china is heating up and could have far reaching consequences for the global economy the two sides have been in intense negotiations in washington all week but u.s. treasury secretary steven says his talks with chinese vice premier league are done . today beijing says it will take what it calls necessary counter measures after

washington increased tariffs on some two hundred billion dollars of imports from china this international trade war is escalating. and let's go over to our correspondent in washington all of a sonnet one of the trade talks have ended for the day not long after they began what happened. you know those who are brief talks in fact but that did not come as a surprise. the negotiators said even before hand that it would be unlikely that a that an agreement would be reached today in spite of that treasury secretary minutiae and talked about constructive talks he then went to the white house together with a group of negotiators to discuss the outcome with the u.s. president who by the way makes a very relaxed appearance today he's been tweeting all morning long that he's not

afraid of these terrorists he is genuinely convinced that they would be good for the u.s. economy and he's also doubling himself the tariff man so he finds himself in a very comfortable situation right now however economists in the united states are challenging that stance they believe that in the end of the day it will be the u.s. consumers as well as u.s. businesses paying the bill for for this terrifying certain goods will become more expensive that will be employed in ported from china among them are consumer electronics and other goods however though all of these goods that are currently on the way that are currently shipped from china to the united states say on a container ship for instance those goods are not included and so technically at least if the two negotiating groups would get together soon again there would still be some chance to find an agreement all over we're hearing words like constructive and amoco ball being used to describe the negotiations. obviously there are

sticking points what are they. although apparently there are sticking points or also within the communist party in china there are two groups that are basically fighting reformers and hard liners and that's led to a very late decision off of the chinese president. to walk back certain parts of the agreement that were made in the first place when they were very quick progress in here and the major sticking points were the question of intellectual property as well as certain laws in china restraining american businesses and now eventually this all led to a clash over the question which hard's all of the agreement should be made public and essentially china is trying to avoid to agree or to admit that that intellectual property laws would have to be changed because that would

mean also that they were wrong in the first place over thank you very much to washington correspondent. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today a militia set up to fight the islamist terror group boko haram has released nine hundred children and that it had quote enlisted the civilian joint task force a regional militia allied with the nigerian military as sign an agreement to end child soldier recruitment. the ruling african national congress is heading for victory in south africa's election despite gaining its lowest ever share of the vote with the counting almost complete the a.n.c. has won fifty seven percent party's worst performance in twenty five years president cyril ramaphosa replaced scandal hit jacob zuma last year. a tie activist jailed for sharing an unflattering article about the king on

facebook has been freed after all royal pardon just who caught. spent over two years behind bars become says three time activists facing charges of insulting the monarchy disappeared after reportedly being arrested in vietnam. german turkish journalists dennis you chose has claimed he was tortured in a high security prison in turkey giving evidence to a court here in berlin and you just said that he was kicked and hit the journalist spent a year behind bars without being formally charged the case triggered a diplomatic crisis between germany and turkey. a correspondent for the german newspaper de baets says he was systematically abused while being held in turkey. they physically beat me by kicking my feet and beating my chest and bank even though there were observe ation cameras in the hallways there were none inside the

prison cells the amount of violence used against me was low level it wasn't about inflicting physical pain they want to do humiliate and intimidate me maybe they also wanted to entice me to react but by the way this was definitely a case of torture. now let's bring in our correspondent box million akashic here in berlin. is standing by for us and let's start with you might know what sort of hearing was this in berlin today why was dennis future in a german court a whole. well he was physically in a german court but the case he was giving a statement for was in fact for the prosecution trial that he's currently facing still in turkey so he was incarcerated in turkey until two thousand and eighteen and then was allowed to leave the content of return to germany and he's now allowed to give evidence and statements here in germany in front of german courts and these statements of and given forwards to the turkish trial and that is also why he has

been giving his statement today in turkish not in german because this is for turkish trial shelia in istanbul serious allegations they're being leveled against turkey any response from turkish officials so far. well syria's allegations leveled against turkish president add on he. said today that it was added on who is personally responsible for the treatment he received here in the istanbul silly very prison to quote him here again today this is possibly on direct orders of the president or his closes aides but in any case as part of the defamation campaign that he launched against me let's remember out on back then publicly called din is you joe a terrorist no officials so no official reaction so far from that might be due to the fact that they want don't want to give this and these accusations too much

room too much space for public a debate but that's speculation on my part the political situation here in istanbul and in turkey in general is quite tense right now the vote in istanbul has been canceled a vote that prison ad once candidate narrowly lost so we kind of are back in an election campaign mode now so maybe doesn't want to turn this into a bigger issue but one parliamentarian one politician part of with the a k party present ad one party said that he doubts these accusations are true and i saw a report on a pro-government t.v. channel accusing done as you job of lying and leading a defamation campaign quote against turkey. and here in berlin but it's a million dollar question thank you very much to you. there's been another tragedy

involving refugees from africa in the mediterranean sea it's one of the deadliest incident so far this year in which migrants were trying to reach europe as many as seventy people are now feared to have drowned when their boat sank near the tunisian coast a bessel was in international waters off the coast of spots south of the capital tunis the tunisian defense ministry says the boat had set sail from the libyan port of zoara aiming to reach italy with more on the story we're joined now by joel milne and he's with the international organization for migration in geneva and he's in touch with his tunisian call leagues dealing with the situation joel first of all bring us up to date with what happens when we're hearing both from tunisia and libya is staff that we have on the field understand there were two rescues separately this afternoon or during the day one of them was the one you mentioned we figure at least fifty ragland's have drowned in that incident we think

we know that sixty of survivors are recovered we don't know how many more are confirmed deaths we will hear about also surely there after shortly after this was reported there was a rescue on a libyan coast guard of a boat carrying about one hundred one migrants were on the stand all these two of them women and they have been taken back to rid of the city clubs so through our understanding with this incident we're talking about four hundred ninety three confirmed deaths on me mediterranean this year through tuesday may. one of. well over half of those are just in iraq between libya and italy ok let's talk just for a moment about that first vote you mentioned that first incident for we know there is a high number of casualties who were the refugees that were on that boat we know they sailed apparently sailed from libya but do we know where the refugees themselves

were from. well we don't know for sure that's the kind of information we usually get from survivors not three hundred chance to speak with them it's a little early in the day for that generally these incidents for the past year for quite a few years now have been dominated by sub-saharan africans some countries are more prominent than others could certainly have you know a large farm but a country like nigeria along with a lot of british drug pattern of migration to the south to europe eritrea and ethiopia stand out sort of by with their split away so you really were never surprised to see a pretty broad mix but it really it's been how it's entirely sub-saharan africa joel thank you very much for bringing us up to date there that was joel millman with the international organization for migration in geneva thank you. embed a swale or two lawmakers have sought refuge in foreign embassies as the government there widens its crackdown on the allies of opposition leader one wide though this

comes a day after authorities arrested the beis president of the opposition controlled national assembly the arrests have put renewed pressure on wider whose attempted uprising last week failed to oust president nicolas maduro. for supporters of one quiet though the aftermath of last week's coup attempt is proving dangerous stripped of their immunity by the supreme court richard blanco of the brief people's alliance and they could not see a of the radical cause party sought safety at the embassies of argentina and italy . they're trying to avoid the fate that befell edgar's on the vice president of venezuela's opposition run national assembly he was thrown in jail on wednesday charged with treason for supporting why those uprising. this video shows the moment his car was hauled off to prison with some brownouts still inside. some broadness family was defiant after his arrest. you know you've done today my

father is giving up part of his life to defend venezuela and to defend democracy and freedom soon there will be justice not just for us that those who are doing a bad things will be held to account echoes of discontent also evident on the streets of caracas even amid fears of government reprisals. well the public protesting but we're afraid there will tell you it's against as is they've done to the deputies with edison with all those they want to take prison on up on it but i thought. why don't you send some vandals arrest is part of a government intimidation campaign. when it no to get i mean the goal because all it is the only tool they have used somebody that was you and that's accusing terribly well the state terrorism to be clear. because that's what they were doing it all and selling terror among the people of the middle east and what they're going to do it though i don't feel quite though has called for fresh protests on saturday but with his uprising flagging some brunell's arrest could demoralize the

opposition and enfold and president nicolas maduro and his loyalists. up next it's business africa would get hot i'll be back in the top next hour but first just going to be here and tell you a little bit about her in africa comp to go and night shiria were of course having just launched its i.p.o. . and he's going to be looking at the dreams of the richest man in the world was flat. i'm secure in the value we're not tied and in the end it's a me you're not allowed to stay here anymore we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers would lie and six of the.