alan fischer live for us there in a washington. in hong kong it's been another evening of tense standoff between police and anti-government protesters police in riot gear fired tear gas at some demonstrators who turned violent a police station was vandalized and protests against the now suspended extradition will have morphed into a wider call for democracy and the resignation of the territory's leader andrew thomas has more. than other nights and another area of hong kong is the site of confrontation this time the shopping district of kaolin on the northern side of hong kong harbor. protests that started calmly tens of thousands walking a route approved by place but thousands branched off and they'd clearly come prepared for violence you come with a gas mask with a helmet you've hidden your face white. afraid and after all the protests porters and i mean. our become the one who'll be arrested aren't you provoking the place by coming dressed like this in. you wanting violence no i don't want titles but only protesting. these protes

election 15 months away changing america's gun laws may become part of the bigger conversation alan fischer al-jazeera. well let's get more on this we're joined now by barry ballot professor of political science at georgia some. in university and he's joining us from states and the u.s. state of georgia very good to have you with us on the suspect in the apostle saying as we've been reporting might be charged with domestic terrorism how new is this charging a mathilde's responsible for mass shootings with domestic terrorism domestic terrorism of course terrorism is a very difficult concept to define and understand you know we try to and we try to do that internationally for years and we basically look at terrorism as having some sort of political component to it but in the domestic case we we see in this particularly in the all paso case perhaps or is that a political component here in terms of targeting particular minority groups and so forth but terrorism can take many guises those who are the targets of terrorism tend to feel you know terrorized for years afterwards and that can be from

accused of creating a culture where white nationalism and racism can flourish i was here as alan fischer reports now from hampton virginia. it's the bells rang for 4 minutes. one for every century since the arrival of the 1st african sleeves in the english speaking colonies that would become america taken from what is knowing gola they were sold for food to the struggling colon ists the fust of hundreds of thousands that would follow creating history changing history don't let other people in the fire who we are and who we were who our ancestors were because when you read the bible history books it's in their version of history they do not tell you about the good things that we do they tell you about our ancestry was all about slavery and our africans were not slaves we were enslaved and we are here today to pick up those broken pieces and try to heal from the wounds of slavery everyone was infected slavery was an international trade and everyone profited many people profited from the slave trade and many people were broken by it this is for years ago where my ancestors came across an ol

alan fischer al-jazeera hampton virginia. some people have been killed in a helicopter and an ultralight plane crashed in midair over me york now the crash took place near in the north of the popular tourist island off the spanish coast 5 passengers including 2 children were on board the helicopter while the other 2 victims were on the small aircraft. this is al jazeera these are your top stories iran's top diplomat has made a surprise visit to the g. 7 summit in beirut as the foreign minister mohammad javad zarif flew in for talks with the french president emanuel macron france has been trying to salvage the 2050 nuclear deal that the u.s. pulled out of last year zarif said the road ahead would be difficult but it's worth trying. the german chancellor angela merkel says every opportunity should be taken to resolve tensions between the u.s. and iran well this could get let's intentionally fogger in the end the question is can we succeed in finding a way to prevent a further escalation because if nothing happens then we will h

trump certainly wouldn't want and hitting other important markets as well thank you very much alan fischer in washington also saying a spike in trade tensions between japan and south korea where a political standoff is continuing to unfold south korea says it will remove japan from its list of preferential trading partners that's in response to tokyo's added decision to drop south korea's fast track export status from bride explains now from cell. at an emergency cabinet meeting call to discuss the deepening rift with japan president moon j.n. of south korea laid the blame squarely with his neighbor. japan's decision is a reckless decision that projects diplomatic efforts to solve the problem and rather worsens the situation i express my deep regret he was responding to the latest escalation in the trade dispute with japan removing south korea from the so-called white list of countries allowed to receive exports of sensitive strategic components that it needs for its high tech manufacturing. it comes on top of restrictions last month on the export of raw materials for the production of sem

regulations alan fischer i'll just say that. you can keep up to date with all the stories if you head over to our website al-jazeera dot com. let's take you through some of those stories now thousands of protesters are gathered at hong kong's airport for a 5th straight day monday's rally caused a shutdown at the busy international travel meanwhile hong kong's leader carol-ann says weeks of antigovernment protests are damaging the rule of law. more than i have the siple it violence no matter if it's using violence or condoning violence will push hong kong down a path of no return we plunge hong kong society into a very worrying and dangerous situation i believe that those who heard my words previously might have only half believed me but the situation in hong kong in the past week has made me very worried that we have reached this dangerous situation in indian administered kashmir hundreds of protesters have defied the security lockdown as residents of the disputed territory celebrate the muslim holiday of demonstrators marched i

this year and as alan fischer reports. heavily armed police moving through a shopping center in texas after reports of an active shooter in other parts of the mall in el paso shoppers were held in place while people try to work out what was going on. you know where you are they can't give you the. right you don't have. you there are not there then there was what has become common in america lines of people being led from the scene of another mass shooting on on a day that would have been a normal day for someone to leisurely go shopping. turned into one of the most deadly days in the history of texas. lives were taken. who should still be with us today. 20 innocent people from el paso. have lost their lives and more than 2 dozen more. are injured. we as a state unite and support. police have arrested one man a 21 year old who allegedly posted a reese's grand online on an extremist website just an out or so before the shooting but needless to say this scene is arifin unfortunately because of the nature of the situation the

regulations alan fischer al-jazeera. dominance of the planet and die hard with the headlines on al-jazeera hong kong's leader carrier and says weeks of antigovernment protests are damaging the rule of law speak to the media on tuesday morning the chief executive said hong kong is seriously wounded and war the territory will take a long time to recover from the violent demonstrations. more than a 100 so people are violent no matter if it's using violence or condoning violence will push hong kong down a path of no return will plunge hong kong society into a very worrying and dangerous situation i believe that those who heard my words previously might have only half believed me but the situation in hong kong in the past week has made me very worried that we have reached this dangerous situation. meanwhile operations are slowly resuming at hong kong international airport but many flights remain cancelled after protests shut down the travel hub on monday passengers have been queuing to check in less than 24 hours after demons

alan fischer al-jazeera hampton virginia. and our web site right there is al jazeera dot com we have news there from around the world i did see the front page there is about the cheese 7 summit we'll continue to cover that stay tuned for headlines. i'm richelle carey these are the headlines on al-jazeera president has once again insisted washington is not looking for regime change in iran he made the comments at the g. 7 in france a day after iranian foreign minister job at zarif made a surprise visit to the summit and trouble so says chinese officials call the american trade negotiator on sunday and wants to resume talks to resolve their trade dispute no word from china on that stock markets across asia have closed in the red after the trade war escalated in the past few days because benchmark nikkei index plunged by more than 2 percent on monday china's currency the yuan dropped to an 11 year low. i mean business in one. it's very important. for them but it was really a. lot of things that happened is why resolution is a gr

out of there's been any sort of official word of that out of the united states and bring in alan fischer who's joining us from washington allan what are you hearing. well not so sure reaction or told from the state department or the defense department in washington what we've heard in the last couple of days is a statement from donald trump via its 2019 twitter of course he tweeted out the united states is learning much from the field missile explosion in russia we have similar though more advanced technology the russian skyfall explosion has people worried about the around the facility and far beyond not good critics of donald trump suggesting that he may have given that we state secrets by seeing we have similar or more advanced technology although it's unlikely that the russians didn't know that the americans were working on something like this if they are but of course this is been technology that has been pursued by the united states in the fifty's and sixty's if the experts are to be believed that what russia was working on was a missile that could be fired to anywhere in the world

continues to escalate but the will still need to be approved by the european parliament will alan fischer joins us live now from washington so alan american beef potentially for the europeans what do we know about this deal and how it would work. well this whole battle going on for about 10 years american farming has wanted to sell hormone treated beef to the european union unit pinioning consumers have said we don't want that what they've decided now is that around 30 $5000.00 tons of non treated beef will be sent to the european union the european union see this as a goodwill gesture donald trump says it's the 1st break in about a year with the european union particularly as he's also talking about imposing talents on cars coming from the european union into the united states so he sees this as a win for the u.s. but he also sees it as a big win for u.s. farmers know they have been struggling terribly during the continuing trade war that's going on with china at the farmers are considered part of donald trump's base he is the vet of money into the farming industry so no he can say look

is ready for something new from someone whose roots go back to before america was america alan fischer al-jazeera washington. let's take you to the headlines now on al-jazeera syrian government forces claim to have advance near the strategically important town of can share who in earlier an air strike narrowly missed a turkish military convoy advancing in the area and turkey is strongly condemning the incident in other news sudan's former president omar bashir is gone on trial on corruption charges he's accused of possessing foreign currency and accepting bribes the court heard he had received 90000000 dollars from saudi arabia's government the share denies the allegations. presenting the head of a country to trial proves that there is rule of law in the country and that no one is above the law this message is not just for the ousted government but to the incoming government the case will resume next week we can't tell you what the outcome will be but we can say that we are assured that the case is going in the favor of the defendant iran is warning the u.s. not to seize its oil tanker

alan fischer hampton virginia. richelle carey with your headlines on al-jazeera president has once again insisted he is not seeking regime change in iran and says it's too soon to meet iran's foreign minister he made the comments a day after job and zarif made a surprise visit to the g. 7 summit they will talk to them i believe that in order to secure our country's national interests any instrument should be used if i know that going to a meeting and visiting a person will help the country get developed and solve the people's problems i will not miss it the principle is the national interests of our nation are on says it's deployed its most sophisticated warship to provide security for its ships in the gulf of aden that's one of the busiest shipping ports in the world iran has also announced it has sold the oil that was on board that tanker that was detained by british forces enter prawle terror attack iran did not say who bought the crude comments if the rebels say they've attacked a military target in the saudi c

let's bring in our desire is alan fischer who's with us live from washington d.c. alan president trump called paso shooting an act of cowardice there are no reasons or excuses that will ever justify killing innocent people he wrote on twitter but there are those who would accuse the president and his rhetoric of being part of the problem. the those who would suggest that his failure to call previous incidents lead to white supremacy domestic terrorism has helped fuel this certainly the democratic presidential candidates who are very angry at the pres that one of them is better or who comes from el paso itself a former congressman from texas he said that donald trump has been enflaming hatred by his language saying the way he describes immigrants as a threat to people in the united states it just sends people to commit violent city also suggests that the president is in fact racist julian castro another democratic candidate said the whole tenor of the discussions at the moment would be markedly different if the person responsible had been a muslim how of the republi

whom coach fischer bravely put his glasses back on but it soon got worse to move them on a bus through to make it 3 nil just before half time. to sniff and conclude graft a 4th after the break. who knew my heart broken at the end it will be a tough season for the press. lynas the coach club's supporters will keep on singing. so you know in berlin their 1st game against the club could not be any more different to them red bull backed rb life seeing met let's start with you you know what makes this newly promoted side you know in berlin so special how much time you go across i mean the bundesliga prize itself on foreign culture and find involvement and in your own embodies that here's a prime example back in 2008 the kastrup club needed a new stadium to comply with division regulations 2300 fans volunteered for an incredible 13 months and that was the end result we saw i mean they're invested yeah and it's a club that has anti establishment in their blood very vocal protest club even in the former east german republic and the philosophy of defiance we saw that about protests won't change

so far this year alan fischer has more. heavily armed police moving through a shopping center in texas after reports of an active shooter in other parts of the mall in el paso shoppers were held in place while people try to work out what was going on. you know where you're. going to be. right you know every one of you there but it got there and then there was what has become common in america lines of people being led from the scene of another mass shooting on an on a day that would have been a normal day for someone to leisurely go shopping. turn into one of the most deadly days in the history of texas. lives were taken. should still be with us today. 20 innocent people from el paso. have lost their lives and more than 2 dozen more. are injured. we as a state unite and support. police have arrested one man a 21 year old who allegedly posted a reese's run on wind on an extremist website just out or so before the shooting but needless to say this scene is a riff ikhwan home fortunately because of the nature of the situation

senator fischer. >> thank you mr. chairman.administrator martinez, one of the primary issues that i've heard about from drivers and carriers from relating the trucking regulations, is the need for more flexible hours of service requirements. as you noted in your testimony and fm csa process of completing and notice of proposed rulemaking related to the hours of service. when you expect to submit that an prm for public comment question mark. >> you for that question senat senator. this is been an interesting process. we have gone out within a an prm to the stakeholders and received as a federal 5200 substantive comments that really inform the ages. i believe are in the final stages as you know it is a process. with the office of management and budget. i really do believe that we are in the very final stages of that process. i am hopeful that it will be in short order. i hesitate to put a date certain on it. >> it would be good. i met yesterday with our state director of agriculture, and in that meeting we had stakeholders from t

shopping mall in the city of el paso police arrested a 21 year old man after surrounding the more alan fischer reports. heavily armed police moving through a shopping center in texas after reports of an active shooter. in other parts of the mall in el paso shoppers were held in place or people tried to work out what was happening. you know where you are. right you know everyone has their trucks out there then there was what has become common in america lines of people being led from the scene of another mass shooting we have 20 confirmed fatalities and we have 26 wounded unemotional democratic presidential hopeful better ork who is from el paso and almost he was heading back to the city and so i just ask for everyone strength for a passing right now everyone's resolve to make sure that this does not continue to happen in in this country the president has been informed and is following developments from one of his homes in new jersey this is the 13th math shooting in the united states this week alan fischer al-jazeera our correspondent rob reynolds has just arrived at the same rob bring us up t

believe may be a hate crime president donald trump has called the shooting an act of cowardice alan fischer reports. heavily armed police moving through a shopping center in texas after reports of an active shooter in other parts of the mall in el paso shoppers were held in place while people try to work out what was going on. you know your column here right in. there and it got out there then there was what has become common in america lines of people being led from the scene of another mass shooting on on a day that would have been a normal day for someone to leisurely go shopping. turn into one of the most deadly days in the history of texas. lives were taken. should still be with us today. 20 innocent people from el paso. have lost their lives and more than 2 dozen more. are injured. we as a state unite and support. police have arrested one man a 21 year old who allegedly posted a reese's grand online on an extremist website just a note or so before the shooting but needless to say this scene is a riff equivalent unfortunately because of the nature of the situation the scene will be in

regulations alan fischer al-jazeera. u.s. attorney general william barr has criticized what he says were serious irregularities in the prison where disgraced american financier jeffrey epstein died in the parents' suicide on saturday guards were meant to check on him every 30 minutes because of a previous suicide attempt steamer's awaiting trial charged for sex trafficking of under aged girls kristen slimmy has more from washington d.c. . jeffrey have seen maybe dad but the investigation into his alleged sex trafficking crimes will continue with top u.s. officials calling for justice for his alleged victims and accountability for the prison that failed to prevent his death the f.b.i. was spotted searching epstein's estate in the u.s. virgin islands on monday even as u.s. attorney general william barr promised that his justice department will go after any so-called coconspirators epstein's former girlfriend ghislaine maxwell has been accused by the victims of helping to recruit under-age girls a charge she's denied speaking at

is ready for something new from someone whose roots go back to before america was america alan fischer al-jazeera washington. just ahead on the calls for indy cars make changes ought to get another major across the details coming up. in the spalls . time for sports. thank you very much meant to say nice would have dropped the 1st points of the english premier league season they drew one all away to wolverhampton will pull paul could have a want to go for them but he missed the 2nd half and ulti the draw means united to have 4 points from 2 games already going assault has now failed to be to all the hunton in 3 attempts in all competitions as united boss. or you venters begin the syria campaign this saturday against parma but it remains unclear where the new boss sorry will be in the dugout the 60 year old has been diagnosed with pneumonia him missed training on monday as well as a pre-season friendly over the weekend sorry only joined in june of following a season at chelsea in which he won them they were plagued. german football champions by munich have completed the signing of a new

alan fischer al-jazeera hampton virginia. this is al jazeera these are your top stories iran's top diplomat has made a surprise visit to the g. 7 and b a it's the foreign minister mohammad javad zarif flew in for talks the french president emanuel macron france has been trying to salvage the 2050 nuclear deal that the u.s. pulled out of last year. the german chancellor angela merkel says every opportunity should be taken to resolve tensions between the united states and iran well this could get envision the father in the end the question is can we think they didn't finding a way to prevent a further risk l.a. ssion because if nothing happens then we will have to see if that iran reneges even further on its commitments in september or can we manage a reverse development in which iran read here to their j c p o i. class step by step for the talks with iran are tens of thousands of brazilian soldiers are heading into the rain forest to join the fight against the wildfires military planes and dumping water on burning forest in ra

monetary interests with major biotech and pharmaceutical companies so for example let's consider linda fischer here was someone who was with the e.p.a. and then she went to join and become the head of government affairs at monsanto and now she's the vice president of safety health and environment and chief sustainability officer dupont so her interests are not only to ensure the advancement of dupont but she also used to be at the e.p.a. and she understands all the loopholes within the e.p.a. to advise her organization of how to get through safety issues another example is terri medley here's a person who is an administrator at the u.s.d.a. and at the f.d.a. and now serves of the director of regulatory and external affairs of dupont corporation's agricultural enterprise you can also look at someone like clinton uter who is also at the u.s.d.a. and was a u.s. trade representative and he's on the board of my kitchen which is a wholly owned subsidiary of dow chemical but perhaps for the most egregious ones is michael taylor who was appointed by the obama administration prior to joining as deputy

regulations alan fischer i'll just see them. still to come on the out is there a news out of the australian tennis player geoff count stop playing. the crowd in cincinnati will be the. last. it's over the schools he's now with my team thank you very much but sing primary to haiti hearn has defended choosing saudi arabia to host the world heavyweight title rematch between anthony and jr and human rights organizations have criticised that decision hearn is only focused on the sports and says the negative publicity could actually help boost viewing figures. thank you just not connick moment for the sport you know we can't be naive enough to think that boxing exists in britain and in the usa this is a chance to really change the landscape of the sport saudi arabia have invested in a make a fight but not for the 1st time you know that invested in smaller fights to get themselves prepared for that some of which i've attended i'm not a politician i look at it commercially from a sports event perspective obviously they have a vision to

to suffer its worst day of the year on monday more now from our correspondent in washington alan fischer well donald trump said he was going to call china come see manipulator on his 1st the office it's taken until no you certainly were expecting from the treasury sexist evolution some sort of ruling on whether or not he thought china was a currency manipulator in october it's been brought forward just in the last few hours donald trump said on twitter that he believed china was manipulating its currency to try and gain an unfair advantage against the united states now when they made this really could have years one of 2 laws they could have gone with the 2015 law or the one that was drawn up in 1900 they decided to go with the 1988 there's a reason for that it's a slightly broader remit it gives them a wider option on how they can declare china to be come see manipulator what it means no is that steve mission with donald trump's backing will go along to the international monetary fund and see china is essentially blocking the rules and you need to punish them but this is something donal

is opposite number of course fischer at his spirits immediately dancing in his 1st bundesliga fixture not least when seeing his keeper ruff out the kitchen gets the ball away to marcel house and there he set up marcel savita just inside the box to know. when to cheer on site looking at the 2nd goal we basically scored it ourselves the team once able to go forward with any structure. harsh words but truthful once the spirochetes berliners were being played off the park. for all their ruckus 12th man support me on never really got a look and against what 6 defensive prowess which last season saw the concede only 29 times. leipsic do have a problem it's getting t.-mo berna scoring their 3rd on sunday so can a new deal his contract is set to expire next summer and fire and liverpool are among his admirers. awkward for light sake but not the end of the world not when you have just a fair and cuckoo in your ranks the french sensation sport for this 1st touch in the bundesliga. whom you own on the other hand hardly even got a shot in all match. and never in the series of the bundesliga is a

alan fischer al-jazeera hampton virginia 7 months after he took office the president of the democratic republic of congo felix has to carry has named a new government less than a 3rd of the 65 member team have been selected from his direction for change party arrestor from former president joseph kabila as party 3 quarters of the power sharing government are serving for the 1st time. ever shall carry these are the headlines on al-jazeera china's currency the yuan is in an 11 year low amid concerns about beijing's trade war with the u.s. a short while ago president said chinese officials called up the american trade negotiator on sunday and the hopes of restarting talks to resolve the dispute. you mean because they want you. there you were. the one to them but they weren't really sure whether they should have been his wife resolution is a great leader and it's going to be great and it's going to be very good between the rubio. and he's able to do things that other people already will soon. call and will be destroyed were sure. to go she will see what happens but it will be really good a

tricky situations often heinz fischer will put in 11 goals his that says that he predicted share last season but he managed 61 bonus i think shelf. for this position just 6 attempts in every 100 before they went in as an acute angle of 16 degrees it's little wonder that bill bill has 2 options as we see from the speeches perspective. poses the more promising option which bill for deal doesn't take instead he drove the bull in at the near post at over 100 kilometers an hour the shopkeeper does have a chance but suppose the following dispatches outcast there is in a league of his own to get annoying cold blood to keep his average do the spanish gold grab a roughly 80 total to light the top and double trouble right then see. how castle is free kick against houseboat from $28.00 metres out at a 6 percent likelihood of ending up where it did in the back of the net from a perfectly executed shot. that probability drops under the radar to around 2 percent for another effort against frank burns from this distance and this angle with 5 opponents in the way but it is clinical and ingenious 3 ke

rich fischer, michael hartnet, thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> pleasure. >>> morence that the u.s. economy remains steady. according r to a newort companies added more jobs than expected in july. adp says private payrolls increased by 156,000, showing that firms are still willing to hire despite economic uncertainties such as the ongoing trade fight withchina. >>> but there are more signs of slowing growth overseas. for example,he eurozone's economy expanded by just .2% inu the second ter. it was half of what the prior quarter's growth rate was. this latest report increases the chances that t european central bank will launch stimulus measures this fall. and then in china, factory activity there contracted in ght for the third str month, deteriorating global demand led to a decline in export orders and total new orders also moderated. >>> over in shanghai tde talks between the u.s. and china eed with few signs of progress. ayman javers is at the white house. >>> it was smiles and handshakes in shanghai as u.s. and chinese negotiators wrapped up two days of conversa

night and thought that they'd go home safe and they didn't happen in a moment we'll be live with alan fischer in washington d.c. for more on the political fallout with rob rentals in el paso but 1st his reps reports on how the shooting in texas unfolded. heavily armed police move through a shopping center in el paso texas after a gunman opened fire in a crowded area in other parts of the hall shoppers were held in place while people tried to work out what was happening. you know your. heart you know have you there there and then there was what has become a common scene in the united states winds of people being led from the scene of another mass shooting. on a on a day that would have been a normal day for someone to leisurely go shopping. turned into one of the most deadly days in the history of texas. lives were taken. who should still be with us today. 20 innocent people from el paso. have lost their lives and more than 2 dozen more. are injured. we as a state unite in support despite reports of multiple shooters police say only one man is in custody and will face charges that could if he

so far this year alan fischer has more. heavily armed police moving through a shopping center in texas after reports of an active shooter in other parts of the mall in el paso shoppers were held in place while people try to work out what was going on. you know where you are.

the president is accused of creating a culture where white nationalism and racism can flourish alan fischer reports now from hampton virginia. it's the bells rang for 4 minutes. one for every century since the arrival of the 1st african sleeves in the english speaking colonies that would become america taken from what is knowing gola they were sold for food to the struggling colon ists the fust of hundreds of thousands that would follow creating history changing history don't let other people in the fire who we are and who we were who our ancestors were because when you read the bible history books it's in their version of history they do not tell you about the good things that we did they tell you about our ancestry was all about slavery and our africans were not slaves we were enslaved and we are here today to pick up those broken pieces and try to heal from the wounds of slavery everyone was infected slavery was an international trade and everyone profited many people profited from the slave trade and many people were broken by this is poor years ago where my ancestors came across an old

regulations alan fischer. well u.s. attorney general william barr has criticized what he says were serious irregular irregularities in the prison where disgraced american finance here jeffrey epstein died in an apparent suicide on saturday guards were meant to check on him every 30 minutes because of a previous suicide attempt epstein was awaiting trial charged with sex trafficking underage girls. saudi arabia says it's offering its full support to yemen's government after 7 separatists took control of the port city of aden. in samar and king solomon have met leaders from the u.a.e. and yemen the u.a.e. is now urging dialogue despite backing the separatists who launched a major offensive at the weekend a saudi erotic coalition has been fighting yemen's 40 rebels for more than 4 hears . now people in northern syria marking their holiday against a backdrop of increasing violence government forces have been bombarding targets in northern hama. since last week's shortlived cease fire and that's in stark contrast to festivit

alan fischer al-jazeera hampton virginia. u.s. president donald trump will be facing a 2nd challenge in the republican primaries for the 20 twentieth's white house nomination but. of course it will be an easy task to unseat a president the massive approval wheezing in his own party. president trump recently bragged that 94 percent of republican voters believe he's doing a good job in office independent polling shows that number closer to 80 percent which is a strong showing all the same and pretty consistent throughout his presidency that has all but quieted the so-called never trumper as a former republican rivals who once ridiculed trump during his 1st campaign but then fell in line after he took office but now there are 2 republicans who have announced that they will formally challenge trump to become their party's next presidential nominee. in the united states no one has successfully challenged an incumbent president for his own party's nomination in more than a century and a half and president trump with his approval rating

alan fischer al-jazeera hampton virginia. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories iran's top diplomat has made a brief surprise visit to the g. 7 summit in beirut the foreign minister mohammad javad zarif flew in for talks with the french president emanuel micro france has been trying to salvage the 2050 nuclear deal that the u.s. pulled out all of last year after mr zarif left beate ritz he went on twitter saying iran's active diplomacy in pursuit of constructive engagement continues matter manual macro on the sidelines of the g. 7 after extensive talks road ahead is difficult but worth trying. hezbollah's leader hassan nasrallah says the group's in a new phase of its conflict with israel after 2 israeli drones crashed in the lebanese capital beirut hezbollah says one drone damaged a building housing its media office when it crashed in beirut's southern suburbs another israeli drone came down in the same area after exploding in the air and then i'm enough is enough we will never allow israeli aircraft to attack lebanon

house i ding his weight to what many people see as a growing problem in the united states right alan fischer there live from washington d.c. thanks for that. so the head of al-jazeera kyrgyzstan police raided t.v. station owned by a former president facing charges of corruption and abuse of power the u.s. trade war with china could prove to be a huge benefit to mexico and there's a strain in nigeria is making a return to cricket details coming up in sports. hello welcome to another look at the international forecast because dry weather across the middle east apart from pakistan missing another search is those monsoon rains into the far south of pakistan some central areas up towards the north as well could see a little bit of wet weather not affecting afghanistan i suspect kabul at around 34 degrees in the sunshine 10 degrees warmer than that sin by that pleasant sunshine this is where looking pretty lovely actually the eastern side of the med $2930.00 celsius for beirut and also into jerusalem a little bit of a breeze still feeding out of iraq though easing across the eastern side of saudi

president all trump has weighed in on the issue as alan fischer explains from washington. norfolk. the reaction from the state department or the defense department here in washington what we do have is a tweet from donald trump of course it's $21000.00 in the united states that's the only statement we've got from the u.s. government he put out the united states is learning much from the field missile explosion in russia we have similar the more advanced technology the russians skyfall the explosion has people worried about the year around the facility and far beyond not good know there are those who are critical of what the president put out saying that this gives the russians a heads up on what the united states is working on if indeed that is the case there's always some don't when it comes to donald trump's tweets but if they are working on that then i'm sure it will be much of a surprise to the russians experts who've looked at the explosion see what they believe the russians were working on was a missile that could be fired anywhere in the world because it is powered by a smal

farm products alan fischer has more from washington d.c. . well donald trump said he was going to call china come see manipulator on his 1st stay in office it's taken until now you certainly were expecting from the treasury said just evolution some sort of ruling on whether or not he thought china was a currency manipulator in october it's been brought forward just in the last few hours donald trump said on twitter that he believed china was manipulating its currency to try and gain an unfair advantage against the united states now when they made their surely they could have years one of 2 laws they could have gone with the 2015 law or the one that was drawn up in 1988 they decided to go with the 1988 there's a reason for that it's a slightly broader remit it gives them a wider option on how they can declare china to be come see manipulator what it means no is that steve mission with donald trump's backing will go along to the international monetary fund and see china is essentially breaking the rules and you need to punish them but this is s

surrounded these yellow based mole after reports of gunfire police say one suspect is in custody alan fischer reports. heavily armed police moving to a shopping center in texas after reports of an active shooter. in other parts of the mall in el paso shoppers were held in place while people try to work out what was happening if you know where you're ok you're hearing a lot right here there were no he's there and there's cuts out there and then there was what has become common in america lines of people being led from the scene of another mass shooting we can't confirm there were multiple victims i can't confirm their status as yet and i can't confirm the numbers police are no moving through the large complex where there are more than 140 stores at least one suspect was arrested in the immediate aftermath in the states the tenant governor says he's a 21 year old man no more details have been made public and emotional democratic presidential hopeful bentyl roark who is from el paso and i noticed he was heading back to the city and so i just asked for everyone strength for a passer right now eve

shopping mall in the city of el paso police arrested a 21 year old man after surrounding the more alan fischer reports. heavily armed police moving through a shopping center in texas after reports of an active shooter. in other parts of the mall in el paso shoppers were held in place or people try to work out what was.

dropped nearly 3 percent on wall street up to china let its currency sink to an 11 year low alan fischer has more from washington d.c. the global markets don't like the idea of the world's 2 biggest economies going head to head in a trade war even though donald trump said that the cheap and easy to when now the chinese are playing quite cleverly here by targeting agricultural products they know that war heart donald trump because he won a lot of states where farmers are strong and therefore they think this is striking him at his political base donald trump and the white house believe that china haven't really entered into trade talks with the best of graces south korea's the north has fired what appears to be 2 short range ballistic missiles launched took place in the south hong hey province earlier the north korean government condemned joint military drills between the u.s. and south korea describing them as hostile moves and puerto rico said it has called off a vote to confirm a bedrock by the e.c. as governor it will now wait until the supreme court decides on a case concerning his el

us president is accused of creating a culture where white nationalism and racism can flourish alan fischer joins us now live from hampton in the state of virginia so alan how they marking this event there. well there's been a number of events over the last few days and you can see the very large tent behind me which will hold this ceremony on sunday here in hampton that will start in the next 30 minutes or so there will be a ceremonial bell ringing which will last for 4 minutes to cover the 4 centuries since those 4 slaves arrived you can only imagine how they must've felt they were brought from what is no modern day angola in the river here and dropped to the u.k. colony the british colony that existed here. at jamestown they were sold for food and that meant for the rest of their lives they would be in servitude they probably couldn't speak a word of english they would speak portuguese in the local language and they came some of them from fairly advanced cultures into what was a very primitive set up but they changed history those would have been the very 1st african americans and we kno