goods also worth fifty billion stars in july alan fischer reports from the white house. u.s. president donald trump has been hammering china on treat for months and a morning on the white house north lawn where he held the surprise news conference he confirmed he was going to act we need protection everybody take care of the european union made one hundred fifty one billion dollars you know where she would be if you look at the total you got china if you look at your job or you look at somebody and we help these countries militarily and over the years but what point does it stop you know the u.s. will impose tariffs an additional tax on goods imported from china the industries to be impacted agriculture or to undertake sector. the white house says it's not targeting foreigners t.v.'s and computers for no that would mean higher charges higher costs for consumers one trait expert says a u.s. trade battle with china the world's two biggest economies will impact global markets it creates instability uncertainty it reduces particularly investment uncertainty for long term investor

comes just days after a cabinet secretary was forced out of a mexican restaurant by protesters alan fischer has more from washington d.c. . good afternoon she's the public face of the trumpet ministration the press secretary an almost daily presence on the nation's t.v. screens when souter sanders turned up to eat at this restaurant in virginia she was politely asked to leave unit said she did it because staff were uncomfortable with trump policies and i believe his briefing she touched on the issue and appealed for greater tolerance and understanding healthy debate on ideas and political philosophy is important but the calls for harassment in place for any trump supporter to avoid the public is unacceptable america is a great country and our ability to find solutions despite those disagreements is what makes us unique. elitist incident comes just days after homeland security secretary kissed the nielson was forced to leave a mexican restaurant in washington d.c. because of protesters angry at the administration's border immigration policy. and a prominent trump supporter florida attorney g

alan fischer al-jazeera washington. now the united arab emirates has told the international court of justice that claims made against it by qatar without merit and should be dismissed. ledges the u.a.e. violated human rights through its ongoing blockade but lawyers acting for the u.s. . has misled the court the blockade on the cutter by the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt began nearly thirteen months ago. the u.s. vice president's arrived in guatemala the final leg of his tour of central america the region's migrant crisis will top the agenda during my pence's talks with the presidents of guatemala el salvador and honduras manually apollo has more but. when it comes to u.s. support for latin american countries dealing with an influx of migrants it appears humanitarian assistance can depend on just where those people are heading in brazil u.s. vice president mike pence met with venezuelan migrants and announced ten million dollars in humanitarian assistance to the brazilian government for their continued role in ac

support the bill because i say donald trump can solve the problem with a simple executive order alan fischer reports from washington d.c. today the president went to capitol hill to discuss immigration as the crisis on the southern border escalates system is broken for many years the immigration system that's been really. interesting probably the words that they were the word of we're going to try and see if we can fix it as he went into a meeting with members of his own republican party democrat staged a protest outside but on a number of bills doing the rounds which deal with various immigration issues trump wants an end to children being separated from the pimps and funds for his promised border wall so while he wants a comprehensive deal the problem is there isn't comprehensive support no republicans in the senate a working on not only focused legislation on just the separation issue congress can step in and pass this this week i'm a urging congress we can fix this problem we can fix this and i've been speaking with both republicans and democrats we can come together we are all be united

no clear idea of what might get enough votes to succeed and this issue isn't about to go away alan fischer al-jazeera washington. seven former detainees of prisons run by the united arab emirates in yemen have described what they call systematic sexual torture they told the associated press they were raped and abused by yemeni guards working under u.n. offices there a trust president says he's ready to put a decades old dispute with neighboring ethiopia to rest comes up to ethiopia as prime minister announced his country is ready to accept the terms of a deal from eighteen years ago more than seventy thousand people were killed during a two year border war that began in one thousand nine hundred eight the u.a.e. euan into american commission on human rights say they've received invitations to investigate violent protests in nicaragua since april at least a hundred seventy people have died in anti-government demonstrations anger over plans to reform the welfare system started the violence security forces have been accused of using excessive force hungary has defied the european union and pa

no clear idea of what might get enough votes to succeed and this issue isn't about to go away alan fischer al-jazeera washington ashley pratt is a u.s. news and world report contributor she says the trumps order does little to solve the wider immigration problem. this is all resting on an executive order from president trump who we know his administration is not very supportive of immigrants coming to this country it was one of the core tenants of his platform when running for president of the united states so i do think there needs to be some bipartisan piece of legislation that comes out of this that really does something to address the crisis at the border or else we can see this maybe continue to happen there's really no plan or infrastructure in place at this point to reunite these children with their families and i think that that will become a point of contention over the next few days as this plays out but in this situation today it's almost as though he created a problem so he could come out the hero but the problem here is that he is not a hero in the situation he has allowed thi

we alan fischer washington well for migrant families president trumps backdown provides little clarity only confusion they want to know when they'll be reunited and when that will happen or what will happen when the twenty day detention limit expires al-jazeera is gay but as underwent looking for answers in brownsville in texas near the border with mexico. after washington announced an end to family separation of asylum seekers at the border there was no celebrating in brownsville texas instead only confusion the law states families seeking asylum that are arrested in the u.s. can only be kept together in detention for twenty days trumps legal team says they'll go to court try to extend that and the so-called zero tolerance policy it remains in place so there is no change in policy on arresting asylum seekers and charging them with the crime the thing that concerns us the most is that ultimately what this will result in as far as we can tell is indefinite detainment of families sounds like you don't think this is the solution absolutely not a lot of confusion still in the days ahead ye

their parents this fight as president trump says he's sticking with his zero tolerance policy alan fischer reports from washington. one mother the pain of separation over seven year old darwin was taken from me here at the border in arizona. we come from guatemala know after more than a month to finally win again she sued the government for some for tom and one look a lot like i started crying when i saw him because he's the only child i have i think god because i have him here with me he's now sad but nobody's going to separate us again. but though donald trump signed an executive order faulting the separation of children from the families those ins still face the pain of separation and no one knows when they will be reunited the executive order president trump does not solve the problem we still face the reality of at least twenty three hundred of these young children who have been separated and there's nothing they said nothing about what we're going to do to reunite them or to take care of them during this period of time thought charm started the day with a series of tweets arjan repub

since i was trying to bring home japanese citizens believed to have been abducted by pyongyang alan fischer has more from washington d.c. the japanese prime minister will see donald trump but the upcoming g. seven summit in canada the chin zoabi made a detour to washington to ensure you get some private time with the u.s. president to discuss north korea is a to settle down in the oval office the president admitted he didn't feel the need for a lot of preparation before his historic summit in singapore i don't think you have to prepare very much it's about attitude it's about willingness to get things done but i think i've been preparing for the summit for a long time prime minister be wants to make sure key japanese demands aren't lost in the moment that any deal isn't just good for the u.s. but its allies i hope the upcoming meeting in singapore represents the beginning of a bright new future for north korea and indeed a bright new future for the world. the denuclearization of the korean peninsula would assure in a new era of prosperity security and peace for all koreans north and south a

once trying to bring home japanese citizens believed to have been abducted by pyongyang alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . the japanese prime minister will see donald trump but the upcoming g. seven summit in canada chin zoabi made a detour to washington to ensure you get some private time with the u.s. president to discuss north korea is a to settle down in the oval office the president admitted he didn't feel the need for a lot of preparation before his historic summit in singapore i don't think you have to prepare very much it's about attitude it's about willingness to get things done but i think i've been preparing for the summit for a long time prime minister abby wants to make sure key japanese demands aren't lost the moment that any deal isn't just good for the u.s. but its allies i hope the upcoming meeting in singapore represents the beginning of a bright new future for north korea and indeed a bright new future for the world. the denuclearization of the korean peninsula would i share in a new era of prosperity security and peace for all koreans north and south and

continue to see that what is happening on the southern border is cruel unacceptable and un-american alan fischer al jazeera on capitol hill in washington so the separated migrant children at the center of this controversy they're being detained in at least three shelters across southern texas one is in brownsville right on the mexico border and that is working every elizondo filed this report. welcome to ground zero donald trump's zero tolerance immigration policy for asylum seekers welcome to brownsville texas. this is the border crossing many migrants fleeing poverty and violence to cross legally to ask for asylum. the lines are long recent weeks most asylum seekers get turned away so they try other means to cross into the u.s. illegally or the dead are often arrested and families are separated. and then the children often here more than one hundred of them that were detained here in this shelter that was once a wal-mart store journalists are not allowed to film and so this is how close the people of brownsville texas are to the immigration issue this is the border fence where i'm standing now

talks since trying to bring home japanese citizens believed to have been abducted by pyongyang alan fischerreports from washington. the japanese prime minister will see donald trump but the upcoming g. seven summit in canada the chin zoabi me to detour to washington to ensure he gets some private time with the u.s. president to discuss north korea is a to settle down in the oval office the president admitted he didn't feel the need for a lot of preparation before his historic summit in singapore i don't think you have to prepare very much it's about the attitude it's about willingness to get things done but i think i've been preparing for the summit for a long time the prime minister wants to make sure key japanese demands aren't lost the moment that any deal isn't just good for the u.s. but its allies i hope the upcoming meeting in singapore represents the beginning of a bright new future for north korea and indeed a bright new future for the world. the denuclearization of the korean peninsula would assure in a new era of prosperity security and peace for all koreans north and south and fo

in a typical trump cliffhanger watching him and the world to stay tuned to see what comes next alan fischer al-jazeera washington. paul carroll is a senior advisor to the nuclear security think tank and square where he's worried about the trump administration's priorities leading into the summit. i'm very pleased at the summit is happening and that it's still on track i think this is an amazing opportunity what i'm a little less enthusiastic about is the way in which the united states has seemed to handle this it goes on this sort of seesaw effect from day to day it's on it's off it we're going to promise you the moon and the stars or we may turn on our heel and walk away what i would like to see more of is some evidence that secretary of state pompei o is in fact sincere when he says i've been briefing the president i'm explaining it to him and that the president's himself in his statements doesn't say yeah we may walk where the peace treaty while a peace treaty is a very complicated thing and it's not just for the u.s. and north korea to broker it's a united nations multinational instrume

for up to twenty days but on a trip is now claiming he wants to keep them together even longer alan fischer reports from washington d.c. you can have a lot of happy people faced with growing outrage a real retreat from president. on his controversial policy of separating families who enter the u.s. illegally we're going to have strong very strong borders but we're going to keep the families together i didn't like the site or the feeling of families being separated. those who enter the u.s. illegally will still be prosecuted the continuation of trumps the zero tolerance border policy but families will be kept together while they wait for a hearing before an immigration judge but the trumpet ministration can't keep children in detention indefinitely under u.s. law in what is known as the florida settlement you have to be placed with a close relative or friend normally within twenty days and those who are in custody have to be kept in the least restrictive conditions possible the executive order that the administration announced today is going to set up family incarceration camps on department

part in a typical trump cliffhanger watching him the world to stay tuned to see what comes next alan fischer al-jazeera washington. well as alan mentioned g seven leaders are in calendar for washed up to be a tough summit of the trump ministrations trade tariffs is trying to split the club of wealthy nations at seven hundred reports from quebec city. inside and outside the g. seven summit disruption has replaced diplomacy on the streets demonstrators are descending on québec city where canada's leaders intend to avert a repeat of the two thousand and one summit of the americas where these streets erupted in riots this time nine thousand police are taking no chances even national assembly is shut down if it is bad. get pretty nasty. shopkeepers have boarded up buildings as the first protesters filled the streets. the first demonstration of the g. seven began peacefully and it turned into a march as you can see there were speakers people eight baguettes and hundreds of people demonstrated peacefully but when the police came they showed that they were prepared in case there was trouble. concern

comes just days after a cabinet secretary was forced out of a mexican restaurant by protesters alan fischer has more from washington d.c. . good afternoon she's the public face of the trumpet ministration the press secretary an almost daily presence on the nation's t.v. screens when souter sanders turned up to eat at this restaurant in virginia she was politely asked to leave eunice said she did it because staff were uncomfortable with trump policies and i believe his briefing she touched on the issue and appealed for greater tolerance and understanding healthy debate on ideas and political philosophy is important but the calls for harassment in place for any trump supporter to avoid the public is unacceptable america is a great country and our ability to find solutions despite those disagreements is what makes us unique. elitist incident comes just days after homeland security secretary kissed the nielson was forced to leave a mexican restaurant in washington d.c. because of protesters angry at the administration's border immigration policy. and a prominent trump supporter florida attorney

on all has arrived on capitol hill to discuss his immigration policy with republican lawmakers alan fischer is monitoring this for us and so is there the condemnation of the recent policy of separating migrant families continues what seeking to do today at capitol hill. while he's over on the house side of me speaking to lawmakers over there there are two bills in the works the fine details are still being worked on one is fairly conservative and gives a lot of what donald trump wants but doesn't the widespread support want to slightly more widespread support and talks about things like funding for the border wall also giving the dreamers the young children who are brought here illegally by their parents a pathway to citizenship is a problem with the right these bills are being watched through and we think the more moderate one also considers the idea of stopping the separation of families here's the problem with that donald trump on friday the white house said whatever bill comes out of the house and then is approved by the senate we will sign he's now saying whatever we see from the house

sight a new clarity of what needs to happen on the border next week isn't looking good either alan fischer washington. speak to immigration attorney alan or in new york he's a member of the executive committee of the american immigration lawyers association good to have you with us live on al-jazeera seven how flawed is the thinking i mean where is the evidence that everyone crossing to the u.s. is a criminal. there is no evidence i mean as a matter of fact people are crossing asking for asylum is a legal way to enter into the united states it's one of the many options for becoming part of the fabric that make america great so they're not illegal and and alan for asylum is not illegal asking for asylum is not illegal so none of those individuals who are now categorized as a legal illegal intending immigrants are illegal right now they're all seeking asylum indeed of course instead of sort of capitulating president trump sort of counterattacks and the arguments he has been sort of in this particular case finding families of those killed by undocumented migrants as a way of sort of justifyin

at the southern border but democrats are not willing to support it saying trump can act alone alan fischer reports from washington d.c. this is the president went to capitol hill to discuss immigration as the crisis on the southern border escalates is really broken for many years immigration system that has been really. interesting probably the worst that they were the world we're going to try and see if we can fix it as he went into a meeting with members of his own republican party democrat staged a protest outside that are a number of bills doing the rounds which today with various immigration issues trump wants an end to children being separated from the parents and funds for his promised border wall so while he wants a comprehensive deal the problem is there isn't comprehensive support no republicans in the senate a working on not only focused legislation on just the separation issue congress can step in and pass this this week i'm a urging congress we can fix this problem we can fix this and i've been speaking with both republicans and democrats we can come together we are all be uni

sight a new clarity of what no needs to happen on the border next week isn't looking good either alan fischer al-jazeera washington ok i was under joins us live now from los fresnels texas not far from the mexican border and gave us his latest single harrowing there on these huge efforts to try to reunite all these children with their families. well there's a big problem here there's just people in so many different locations you've got thousands of asylum seekers that are in the criminal justice system right now you've got some children that are separated from their parents that are being held by border patrol including at a border patrol detention center just about half a kilometer behind me here that we're trying to get to and then you have thousands of other children estimated two thousand three hundred that are in shelters run by the health and human services department so there are lots of different people in asylum seekers and their children are being held by different government agencies and that's important understand why there is so much confusion on this let me tell you the latest

reaction from alan fischer in washington so what has the political reaction be now and now that you know the meeting happened a few hours ago and i guess people have had time to digest it. well as american twenty eight hundred so of course the reaction has been divided there are those and democrats among them who believe that this is an important step for the united states and also for north korea they believe that donald trump probably did the right thing by meeting with the north korean leader but they are not ready to jump up and down and say this is a fantastic achievement that this is going to change the entire area of. and southeast asia there what they're suggesting instead is that this should be treated the way that donald trump treated russia which is trust but verify and so they don't want the president to get too far ahead of himself by suggesting that he is going to start pulling troops out by canceling want to. military exercises straight away provocative war games they call him and just essentially with him to see how the north koreans react knows far as those who oppose do

prime minister justin trudeau insisting no one can take advantage of the united states on trade alan fischer has long. as he was making friends with this enemy in singapore u.s. president donald trump also talked about making enemies of his friends the fallout from the g. seven summit in canada has followed him here but the president insists his goal is fear or treat the united states because of bad management because of presidents that didn't care about trade or didn't understand it or whatever reason for many years with china being obviously the most successful at it but the european union the second one hundred fifty one billion with the us they were represented at the meeting and we're being taken advantage of on tray one economics expert says any trade dispute creates problems for everyone the damages are not the case and i said at the beginning trade is something that benefit over all. times and and it has been benefiting all around the world so far the president also talked about that viral photo the one where other g seven leaders seem to be confronting him over his position on key i

stars have skipped a white house in the titian because of an issue with the sitting president alan fischer al-jazeera washington. now can technology play a role in helping to prevent harassment an international charity has launched a website to highlight the places where young women face the greatest danger the hope is that data can be provided to city planners and encourage them to take action and to thomas reports from city for young women city streets can be or see a hostile environment one way to improve things in international charity is to highlight which areas are best and which worst for the last month women in sydney have been encouraged to use a website to mark where they felt particularly safe or unsafe when and why more than three thousand incidents have been uploaded so far doughtery so powerful and it tells a story three numbers which a lot of the time is one of three ways that decision makers can be swayed these women from the charity plan international and now visiting the hot spots taking photographs for an art project to publicize the initiative among them is a woman with

vote on controversial issues but appointing a successor could lead to a lengthy and bitter battle alan fischer reports from washington. and for me kennedy spent thirty years as a u.s. supreme court justice he may have been appointed by a conservative president but he was often the crucial swing vote on controversial issues abortion was one in one thousand nine hundred he rejected a law which insisted parents had to be notified if a minor was seeking an abortion and he supported gay rights writing the majority opinion on all four of the court's landmark rulings on the issue including the constitutional right to same sex marriage his retirement had been predicted he informed the president on wednesday and though donald trump gets to nominate a new supreme court justice his second in less than two years we will begin our search for a new justice of the united states supreme court that will begin immediately. and hopefully we're going to pick somebody who will be as outstanding no no show on the supreme court was an important election issue for donald trump many conservative christians through the

support the bill saying donald trump can solve this problem himself with a simple executive order alan fischer as more from washington. this is it is the president went to capitol hill to discuss immigration as the crisis on the southern border escalates system has been broken for many years the immigration system that has been really. interesting probably the worst they were the word of we're going to try and see if we can fix it as he went into a meeting with members of his own republican party democrat staged a protest outside that are a number of bills doing the rounds which deal with various immigration issues trump wants an end to children being separated from the parents and funds for his promised border wall so while he wants a comprehensive deal the problem is there isn't comprehensive support no republicans in the senate a walk in the on not only focused legislation on just the separation issue congress can step in and pass this this week i'm a urging congress we can fix this problem we can fix this and i've been speaking with both republicans and democrats we can come together we ar

and it's a war he can when alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house a u.s. judge just sent donald trump's former campaign manager to jail prosecutors say pull money for try to interfere with witnesses connected to the investigation of russian meddling in the time to sixteen election in a tweet trump called the decision tough and unfair. the leaders of france and italy have met in paris to end the diplomatic row over the fate of refugees or try to and to europe both insist a use migration policy needs to be able hold. the saudi led coalition seize the entrance to the airport in yemen's main port city operations or retake rebel held the data from iranian back to three fighters launched three days ago the coalition which is backing government forces says it can come to the area without disrupting aid to millions of yemenis humanitarian agencies are worried as most of yemen's food shipments pass through the data. officials of nicaragua's government and local groups have restarted talks in a bid to end two months of anti-government protests neither president dani

and it's a war he can when alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house well earlier i spoke to jeff sharlet a senior fellow at the peterson institute for international economics in washington he says china's retaliation is likely to result in more trade tariffs or america. we're going to see more. for tat trade retaliation as was just reported and it will start on july sixth unless there is some change of heart in both washington and beijing before hand and the new. agreement to increase u.s. exports to china i think that is highly unlikely at this point because the chinese officials have come twice to to washington and have come up empty so far so i think we're likely to see that retaliation come. come to pass on july sixth but if china runs a huge blast roll traits up list does that limit how far they can go in this tit for tat conflict well we're not just talking about trade we're talking about investment we're talking about cooperation many areas where we have joint interests in. ensuring the denuclearization of the korean of north korea of dealing with the problems in iran the united s

alan fischer al jazeera at the white house so let's take a closer look now at the people most likely to feel the pinch of the terrorists first while china is aiming at six hundred fifty nine u.s. exports but with a focus on grown produce american soybean farmers send sixty percent of their crops to china and are likely to be the first to suffer but chinese pig farmers will also be hurt by the tariff on soybean as they use it for feed there are other sources but it's likely the chinese pork consumers which number the biggest in the world will be affected trumps tariffs target mainly chinese industry so far it seems that will not have much of an effect on the price of consumer goods in the u.s. at least not right away out of there was florence levy joins us live now from the chinese capital beijing front so just talk us through beijing's reaction to these trade tariffs imposed by donald trump. well i think the chinese of fear is they are absolutely furious at what's hit them and they are hitting back they're hitting back hard we heard the chinese commerce ministry issued a statement sh

alan fischer al-jazeera washington. thailand's prime minister has visited the site of a flooded cave complex where a young football team went missing last saturday perth told family members to keep faith as the international search and rescue mission entered its sixth day there's been some progress in efforts to drain water from the cave where the twelve boys and the coach went missing the group disappeared after they decided to explore the cave despite warnings of potential flooding bodies international airport is closed and hundreds of flights cancelled after a volcano erupted on the indonesian island ash and smoke shot more than two kilometers into the air from mt a gang at least four hundred fifty flights were canceled affecting around seventy five thousand people. strange governors won a major trade dispute it's plain packaging laws for tobacco products the world trade organization has ruled the law has helped improve public health the rules require cigarette manufacturers to remove all ogres and branding from thei

and it's a war he can when alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house personally has more from beijing. i think the chinese of fear is they are absolutely furious at what's hit them and they are hitting back to hitting back hard we heard the chinese comments ministry issued a statement shortly after trump made his announcement and they said they respond with taxation measures of the same measure of the same scale and then they've released a list of products of u.s. products that are going to be affected by these chinese tires and this list is an expanded list from initial initial one hundred and six products in april to none six hundred fifty nine types of goods and this first list its first tranche of tires they will come into effect just like the u.s. tariffs on the sixth of july and this will hit u.s. farmers because these tariffs will hit farm products including soybean pork chicken seafood as well as automobile manufacturers and then there's a second tranche that's going to be on sixteen billion dollars worth of u.s. gets and just like the u.s. tires they will come into effect on

her parents for up to twenty days but donald trump says he wants to keep them together longer alan fischerreports from washington d.c. . you can have a lot of happy people priest with growing outrage a real retreat from president. on his controversial policy of separating families who enter the u.s. illegally we're going to have strong very strong borders but we're going to keep the families together i didn't like the site where the feeling of families being separated. those who enter the u.s. illegally will still be prosecuted the continuation of trumps the zero tolerance border policy but families will be kept together while they wait for a hearing before an immigration judge but the trumpet ministration can't keep children in detention indefinitely under u.s. law in what is known as the florida settlement you have to be placed with a close relative or friend normally within twenty days and those who are in custody have to be kept in the least restrictive conditions possible the executive order that the administration announced today is going to set up family incarceration camps on depar

of the border but there's still confusion on how to reunite an estimated eight hundred children alan fischer reports from washington. for one mother the pain of separation over seven year old darwin was taken from me here at the border in arizona. we come from guatemala no after more than a month she could finally who come again she sued the government for some time and one day when i started crying when i saw him because he's the only child i have i think god because i have him here with me he's now sad but nobody's going to separate us again. but though donald trump signed an executive order faulting the separation of children from the families thousands still face the pain of separation and no one noise when they will be reunited the executive order president trump does not solve the problem we still face the reality of at least twenty three hundred of these young children who have been separated and there's nothing they said nothing about what we're going to do to reunite them or to take care of them during this period of time though trump started the day with a series of tweets arjan re

and it's a war he can when alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house well let's bring in robert scotties from the economic policy institute he joins us live now from gaithersburg in maryland via skype robert so u.s. trade policy under donald trump seems to be extremely unpredictable but we shouldn't be surprised by these tariffs on china we knew they were coming didn't we absolutely this is something that trump campaigned on the promise that he was going to get tough on china in particular during his election campaign and he has been moving forward in fits and starts it's not entirely a coherent program but he is certainly taking strong action and that was sorely needed. and trump is accusing beijing of intellectual copyright theft just talk us through what that means and what it has to do with trade. well china has been stealing secrets from the u.s. and other multinational businesses they engage in piracy they require firms to to share technology with joint venture partners and then they throw out the u.s. firms and keep the technology they use state owned enterprises including those c

southern border but democrats are not willing to support it saying that donald trump can act alone alan fischer reports from washington it is the president went to capitol hill to discuss immigration as the crisis on the southern border escalates the system is broken for many years immigration system that's been a really big system probably the worst of it where the world we're going to try and see if we can fix it and he went into a meeting with members of his own republican party democrat staged a protest outside. but on a number of bills doing the rounds which deal with various immigration issues trump wants an end to children being separated from the parents and funds for his promised border wall so while he wants a comprehensive deal the problem is that isn't comprehensive support no republicans in the senate a working on not only focus legislation on just the separation issue congress can step in and pass this this week i'm a urging congress we can fix this problem we can fix this and i've been speaking with both republicans and democrats we can come together we are all be united and say

policy alan fischer has been looking at the course. from. a key figure in all of this according to the e-mails the website middle east i says it of pain is tom brock a prominent and influential businessman he's an old friend of donald trump's and raised huge sums of money for his election campaign he was allegedly exchanging e-mails with us of the united arab emirates ambassador to washington. it's claimed the ambassador managed to change the republican party platform at its cleveland convention the first draft had a call to release twenty eight pages of classified documents from the nine eleven inquiry which were potentially embarrassing to saudi arabia a close ally that was removed. after dalton surprise election victory in november twenty sixth in its alleged ambassador of tiber pushed for insights on who would be moved into key diplomatic intelligence and defense positions in the new administration it was his intention to brief his bosses including the m. rattie krohn prince mohammed bin ziad but then he also apparently offered his own s

an immediate nuclear war in korea but now he faces fight to get a trade war on his own border alan fischer al-jazeera washington. the u.n. envoy to yemen martin griffiths says he's been engaged in intense negotiations with the who the saudi arabia and the united arab emirates to avoid a military confrontation in the port of call data this. i mean iraqi coalition forces are about ten kilometers south of the city which has been held by who the rebels for three years the port is a vital lifeline through which most of the yemeni population's food and medicine enters the u.n. estimates six hundred thousand people live in the area and believe a battle could cost up to two hundred fifty thousand lives the baes real estate market has been described as a haven for money laundering by war profiteers terror finance years and drug traffickers sanctioned by the u.s. the report by a washington based center for advanced offense studies has identified around one hundred million dollars in what it calls suspicious purchases of apartments and villas across the city the government run dubai media office said

alan fischer al-jazeera washington . josh is the executive director of the arab center of washington d.c. based think tank he says the latest leak exposes how u.s. politicians sell themselves out election campaigns. i think they have that chilling effect on the relationship going back to the earlier leaks with regards to some of the steps taken by the best that are useful are here in washington some of the people he affiliated with including previous collection of e-mails affiliated with a person named george notter now you have this additional layer of revelation basically coming close to showing some if you will. interference in the electoral process in this country and the kind of friendliness of people in campaigns to sell out i mean when you when you have a key advisor to an american presidential campaign talk to a foreign representative and say our agenda as if like his agenda is not that uncommon with his candidate presidential candidate but in common with a foreign entity that raises some serious doubts about the

court for the next forty years but appointing a successor can lead to a lengthy and bitter battle alan fischer reports from washington. and for the kennedy spent thirty years as a u.s. supreme court justice he may have been appointed by a conservative president but he was often the crucial swing vote on controversial issues abortion was one in one thousand nine hundred you rejected a law which insisted parents had to be notified if a minor was seeking an abortion and he supported gay rights writing the majority opinion on all four of the court's rulings on the issue including the constitutional right to same sex marriage. his retirement had been predicted he informed the president on wednesday and no donald trump gets to nominate a new supreme court justice his second in less than two years and i am very honored that he chose to do it during my term in office because he felt confident in me to make the right choice and carry on his great legacy that's why you know no show on the supreme court was an important election issue for donald trump many conservative christians through their support be

and it's a war he can when alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house through his news agency is reporting that nicaragua's government and opposition leaders have issued a joint call for an end to the political violence that has killed more than one hundred sixty people since april the move follows mediation by the roman catholic church. the white house has sent contradictory signals about whether president donald trump will support an immigration bill proposed by guest house republicans it comes as protesters rally against the administration's policy of separating thousands of migrant children from their parents and putting them in detention facilities the leaders of france and italy have met in paris and the diplomatic route over the fate of refugees who tried to enter europe but then says the news ligation policy needs to be overhauled. in scotland a huge fire has destroyed part of the world renowned glasgow school of art the mcintosh building named after architect charles rennie mackintosh had been undergoing a multi million dollar restoration after a previous five four years ago more

states a week and he said they were the weakest in the history of the world and let's bring in alan fischer who's following this in washington and allan donald trump really trying to restore some advantage of the i guess off the ongoing debacle over immigration. exactly he's trying to highlight what he sees as the dangers of undocumented migrants coming into the country interesting that he started off by saying that these people have been permanently separated so not quite dismissing the separation of children from their families which is the road that has been building up particularly over the last week that saw him take that executive order action but saying that these families are american citizens who are apparently a separated from their loved ones it's interesting that again and again he hammered the media saying you never hear these stories which isn't true back in twenty sixteen when donald trump started meeting with the angel families on the campaign trail there was a lot done a both their stories at that point and they have been revisited in the media since then perhaps not quite

i could add a lot more but i don't buy chosen not to do that at this time when i speak now to alan fischer our correspondent who's standing by for us in washington d.c. and alan seems full steam ahead for this summit next week. exactly they're doing a lot of preparation behind the scenes they're hoping that both sides will get together on the twelfth of june as was initially planned even though there was a white house official who said that when donald trump initially canceled the summit there was no chance of that happening on that day so full steam ahead might pompei or is the secretary of state he has been charged with pulling together all the various strands clearly there's going to be some preparation on the american side what is very interesting is that when i asked what preparation he was doing donald trump said that not much preparation it was all about attitude and a willingness to do a deal and i'm sure that shinzo abir the japanese prime minister might be a bit concerned about that he has a number of issues that he would like to be raised not least the fact that the koreans have

newsgroup or message me directly amanda shapiro thank you very much for that and joe let's bring in alan fischer our correspondent in washington d.c. on the charm abbé summit so alan before there's a trump came summit there's a chance abbe summit what message is the japanese prime minister brain to washington. well he's got concerns there's no doubt about that this is the second time that the two of them have met is on his way to g. seven as is donald trump but they felt that rather than just have a meeting on the sidelines of that gathering this should sit down and talk about specific japanese issues know he is considered to be much more hardline in his approach to north korea than the south korean president and donald trump has forged a relationship with him over the last few months and that he wants to make sure that when donald trump sits down and makes a deal it's not just a deal that looks good for america and americans and for dollar trump space but actually considers the entire neighborhood and japan is at the core of that and he wants to make sure that the key issues as far as japan is

is create problems on the border with people who actually have to work through this process ok alan fischer thanks for that update from washington d.c. now a photograph of a four year old girl from honduras crying as her mother was searched by immigration agents along the us mexico border has become a defining image of the. trump administration's so-called zero tolerance approach to migration so while immigration officials say this young girl right there there she is her and her mother remain together and in their custody the fear captured in the girl's face has resonated with millions of americans and the publications they read including as you can see the latest edition of time magazine well john moore is the photographer who took that now famous picture of the honduran toddler at the border he's a special correspondent and senior staff reporter with getty images he's joining us from new york to discuss this image and much more thanks very much for your time john morris so you have said that this picture is important but what goes through your mind now when you see that this picture this

now be detained with their parents for up to twenty days but donald trump wants to extend that alan fischer reports from washington he could have a lot of happy people. faced with growing outrage a rear u.-turn from president don't trump reversing his own policy of separating families who entered the u.s. illegally we're going to have strong very strong borders but we're going to keep the families together i didn't like this site but the feeling of families being separated. those who enter the u.s. illegally will still be prosecuted the continuation of trumps the zero tolerance border policy but families will be kept together while they wait for a hearing before an immigration judge but the trumpet ministration can't keep children in detention indefinitely under u.s. law in what is known as the florida settlement you have to be placed with a close relative or friend normally within twenty days and those who are in custody have to be kept in the least restrictive conditions possible the executive order that the administration announced today is going to set up family incarceration camps on d

of the border but there still confusion on how to reunite an estimated eight hundred children alan fischer reports from washington. for one mother the pain of separation over seven year old darwin was taken from beata may hear me here at the border in arizona. we come from guatemala no after more than a month she could finally who come again she sued the government for some time and one little girl but i started crying when i saw him because he's the only child i have i think god because i have him here with me he's now sad but nobody's going to separate us again. but though donald trump signed an executive order halting the separation of children from the families thousands still face the pain of separation and no one noise when they will be reunited the executive order president trump does not solve the problem we still face the reality of at least twenty three hundred of these young children who have been separated and there's nothing he said nothing about what we're going to do to reunite them or to take care of them during this period of time daughter started the day with a series of

on trade that's despite the white house trade advisor apologizing for his own attack on shuto alan fischer has more. as he was making friends with this enemy in singapore u.s. president donald trump also talked about making enemies of his friends the fallout from the g. seven summit in canada has followed him here but the president insists his goal is feodor trait the united states because of bad management because of presidents that didn't care about trade or didn't understand it or whatever reason for many years with china being obviously the most successful at it but the european union the second one hundred fifty one billion which was they were represented at the meeting and we're being taken advantage of on tray one economics expert says any trade dispute creates problems for everyone the stem issues are usually opposition down and i said at the beginning trade is something that benefit of around. nine times and that it has been benefiting all around the well so far the president also talked about that viral photo the one where other g seven leaders seem to be confronting him over his