but not here in indianapolis i'm john hendren and i'll tell you why coming up. trade tension between china and the u.s. continues to escalate with beijing just announcing a new round of retaliatory tariffs well those tariffs will be up to twenty five percent or one hundred and six u.s. imports the main areas affected entered soybeans cars and chemical products or china had already announced tariffs on one hundred twenty. eight u.s. products including pork wine nuts and fish that's about three billion dollars worth of goods the u.s. has a pause and twenty five percent tariffs off its own on thirteen hundred chinese products mainly in the medical industrial and transport sectors and those cover fifty billion dollars and imports well this rapidly escalating trade dispute was set off last month and washington announced why did duty use on steel in the minium imports the u.s. is also accusing china of intellectual property theft and claims that beijing pressures foreign companies to hand over technology adrian brown has more from beijing. china moves swiftly to annou

election john hendren explains from washington. in the probe into russian meddling in the u.s.lection george nader appears to be the witness who keeps on giving the lebanese american business man's ties to the united arab emirates are well known but according to a new york times report nader also has previously undisclosed ties to russia meeting with russian oligarchs and negotiating an ill fated arms deal between russia and iraq in two thousand and twelve and i think that we will continue to get a wealth of information from mr nader and i think not only russia but it seems as though mr nader has almost a worldwide network of people at very high levels that he puts together collaborate and various and sundry schemes that are supposed to be under the radar screen if you will for special counsel robert mueller who's investigating possible collusion between russia and the campaign of donald trump that makes nader a potential goldmine he could conceivably give information on alleged money funneling from the u.a.e. to trump's campaign and its allies and on russia's efforts to to the

has set off john hendren al-jazeera chicago there's been another day of protests to the u.s. city of sacramento against the shooting of an unarmed black man by police. i fear for the streets and i got a feel for the cops you know how do we explain to our kids that because the color of your skin people are going to like you ronnie was organized by the black lives massive group on friday an autopsy found that stuff on clock was shot six times in the back that contradicts police accounts the plot was facing them and carried a gun which turned out to be a mobile phone demonstrates as a demanding that the officers involved fired. civil rights leader martin luther king was assassinated half a century ago this week at the u.s. city of memphis his death was one of many events that defined one nine hundred sixty eight as a year of political social and emotional chaos al-jazeera swaziland jordan looks now at what shaped that year and the parallels with modern day america one thousand nine hundred sixty eight the year the world was watching the united states was my lily and psychologica

has set off john hendren al-jazeera chicago. after two years printing out of control a chinese spacecraft the size of a boss is about to crash back to earth the tangoing one space lab was launched in two thousand and eleven but its operators lost contact with it five years later after an apparent malfunction but is now expected to enter earth's atmosphere on sunday at a speed of twenty six thousand kilometers an hour it's not the first time a space station has made a dramatic reentry in two thousand and one russia steered its one hundred twenty ton mir spacecraft over the pacific where it broke up scientists say most of the chinese space lab will burn opposite enters the atmosphere posing little or no risk to people on the ground joan johnson friess is a professor at the u.s. naval war college and a former chairwoman of the national security affairs department she says the station is part of china's development of a manned space program well it's interesting in that. while that is falling to earth it will there's only a very lit

night riding broke out in one hundred thirty american cities it was a quiet night in indianapolis john hendren. indianapolis indiana was warned everything we're covering right here here that you'll find the latest on our top stories and of course analysis that takes you behind the headlines as well . but look at the top stories now shares on wall street have been sliding on renewed fears of a trade war between the u.s. and china the world's two biggest economies stocks dropped more than four hundred points upon opening itself was triggered by china's announcement that it will tax fifty billion dollars worth of u.s. goods or beijing's announcement came less than eleven hours after u.s. president donald trump unveiled tariffs on chinese goods china says it's introduced a twenty five percent tax on products including soybeans cars alcohol and tobacco. the leaders of turkey russia and iran have announced together to ensure a lasting cease fire in syria the three countries are the biggest power brokers in the syria conflict and they met at a summit in ankara iran's leader hassan rouhani blamed the

john hendren in washington thank you. with al-jazeera much more still to come the damn control the sea on the nile in egypt sudan in ethiopia discuss who controls the wilds longest river. and south korea has disgraced former president prepares to face to face live on television as the course is set to hand down its takes. hello we've seen some pretty heavy spring showers into central southern parts of china recently on a cloud hey united system what's the weather there across central parts pushing over towards the eastern side of the country but if i'm trying to say now seventy five millimeters of rain in twenty four hours and that lot of wet weather continues in place as we go on through friday snow over the high ground and i just don't do it around fourteen degrees celsius eighteen celsius there for shanghai fun to drive to hong kong for the time being as we go on through friday we'll see the start of the cloud over through the course of the day and it will make its way further south as to sas data temperatures pick bac

election john hendren explains from washington. in the probe into russian meddling in the u.s. election george nader appears to be the witness who keeps on giving the lebanese american business man's ties to the united arab emirates are well known but according to a new york times report nader also has previously undisclosed ties to russia meeting with russian oligarchs and negotiating an ill fated arms deal between russia and iraq in two thousand and twelve and i think that we will continue to get a wealth of information from mr nader and i think not only russia but it seems as though mr nader has almost a worldwide network of people at very high levels that he puts together collaborate and various and sundry schemes that are supposed to be under the radar screen if you will for special counsel robert mueller who's investigating possible collusion between russia and the campaign of donald trump that makes nader a potential gold mine he could conceivably give information on alleged money funneling from the u.a.e. to trump's campaign and its allies and on russia's efforts to to

of defiance one last performance in a career that shattered the illusions of once adoring fans john hendrenl-jazeera . now nigeria senate has summoned president mohamed to bihari to testify about his government's response to recent communal killings on tuesday at least eighteen people died in violence between muslim cattle herders and christian farmers in benue a state the government has been criticised for failing to maintain security. a senior member of gaza's ruling hamas group who was killed in malays here last week has been buried in his hometown palestinian engineer for the album which was shot dead by two assailants in kuala lumpur almost a week ago israel has denied involvement seventy deca i was at the funeral and jabalya. a large crowd who turned out here in general you know to pay their respects to the id. box the body you. inside that mosque in the belief you were there is out of my mind you know you the political leader. that you barely over the weekend when the malaysian capital didn't come aboard by two under you gunmen on a motorcycle the body of that. is now leaving the. co

but not here in indianapolis i'm john hendren and i'll tell you why coming up. i'm joined again with the sports foremost trailing cricket captain steve smith says he'll take his punishment and won't appeal a twelve month ban of a ball tampering scandal. stories and just a moment but first a boat carrying nearly sixty ranger refugees has reached malaysia that of the refugees have been given food water and medicine processed by malaysia's immigration department has more from that on take and quetta states after weeks at sea have made it to malaysia but shortly after arriving they ended up here a detention center their boat was intercepted by coast guards on tuesday in waters off long island in north and malaysia. aid workers from muslim non-governmental organizations tried to gain access to the refugees but were told to wait for permission. but we came here with the intention of giving basic medical treatment to the ranger refugees who have just arrived especially the women and children. it's not known how long the refugees will be held at this immigration detenti

sanctions relief on iran unless what he called terrible floors in the deal were fixed john hendren reports from washington after months of tough talk on the iranian nuclear agreement donald trump appears headed for a showdown with the current status of relations between the u.s. and iran work. the very acrimonious president has railed against the nuclear agreement since his campaign the iran deal was one of the worst and most one sided transactions the united states has ever entered into in january he doubled down declining to impose sanctions on tehran only for one last time he says iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal unless iran renegotiate the deal to give the u.s. and its allies greater access to tehran's facilities and to extend the agreement trump says he will decline to waive sanctions that could effectively put an end to the nuclear agreement they've made very clear that if the united states walks away they would not see themselves as continued to be required to get here with their own obligations and so i think we would very likely see iran begin to reconstitute elemen

the special counsel is confident nader can help him tie those two strands of the probe together john hendren and you zero in washington u.s. president donald trump says he has no knowledge of an alleged payment made to a pornographic film star to keep quiet about a sexual encounter she says took place twelve years ago still me downhills says she was paid one hundred thirty thousand dollars in twenty sixteen by chump's lawyer michael cohen to sign a non-disclosure agreement cohen says he paid the money out of his pocket but trump also said he has no idea how his lawyer attained such a large sum. the ministry of health in gaza says one palestinian has been killed by israeli soldiers near the border and another has died of injuries resulting from friday's violence that brings the total number of palestinians killed by israeli forces in the border arrests to twenty eight since friday and the stephanie decker reports from west jerusalem the violence has put the israeli army's rules of engagement under scrutiny. these are unprecedented scenes along gaza's border with israel it's the biggest protes

house of representatives as voted to make the site of the speech a national landmark john hendren reports from indianapolis. it was an uneasy alliance a wealthy white patrician and a charismatic black preacher martin luther king considered robert kennedy timid on civil rights kennedy was privately supportive making calls to get king released from a georgia jail but publicly kept his distance. right up until april fourth one thousand nine hundred sixty eight as kennedy campaigned for the presidency in indiana martin luther king jr was killed in memphis tennessee kennedy's aides warned him to cancel a stop in indianapolis to dangerous the set there was mixed feelings of the. people that were angry i was. from the back of a flatbed truck wearing his slain brothers tweed coat they go right martin but he broke the news to a mostly black crowd martin luther king was shot and was killed tonight in memphis was it was the first time he'd spoken publicly of the assassination of his brother president john f. kennedy but those of you are black. and are tempted to fail with be filled with hatred and m

of defiance one last performance in a career that shattered the illusions of once adoring fans john hendren al-jazeera . people are in for sassing across spain off record cleared five men of raping a woman at the pump bull running festival demonstrates a shouted shame and i believe you sister site the justice ministry in madrid the men who were in a group called the wolfpack were convicted of the lesser crime of sexual abuse and given lying in sentences they recorded the attack on their phones and laughed about it afterwards. the german chancellor angela merkel will visit the white house on friday and is expected to stay in the iran nuclear deal but the trip could be overshadowed by more controversy within the trumpet ministration is can really help it. he was the u.s. president's doctor and trump liked him so much he wanted ronnie jackson to take a cabinet position as secretary of veterans affairs but after mounting allegations that he drank on the job and handed out opioids like candy jackson withdrew his nomination on thursday well greeting schoolchildren in the white house rose garden t

of defiance one last performance in a career that shattered the illusions of once adoring fans john hendrenal-jazeera . the former n.b.c. news anchor tom brokaw has been accused of inappropriate conduct towards a female coworker in the one nine hundred ninety s. linda vesa a war correspondent at the time claims broke out grabbed her by the restoring amazing and tried to kiss her in a hotel room she bats up eric out by sharing reports his journal entries she says were written at the time of the incidents broke out denies the allegations. the u.k. government has recently apologize for the way many elderly people from the caribbean were threatened with deportation and denied access to public services the so-called windrush scandal opened up a debate about britain's relationship with its former colonies and now the descendants of people from the tradeoff islands hope the proposed new law can guarantee them british citizenship but in barber explains. doris miller's our came to britain from recess eight years ago she lives with her oldest son and works as a hospital cleaner but she's had to leave

thank you very much john hendren with the latest from washington. and without is there a much more still ahead. in sierra leone as a new president is sworn in and find out why his opposition rival is refusing to accept the results. of the woods bad boy salman khan is sentenced to five years in jail. and. however the weather still looking a little disturbed across the middle east for the time being an area cloud making its way out of iraq into iran that will continue to drive its way eastwards still some wall to the head of it tashkent twenty degrees celsius on matty at twenty one little bit of cloud they know it is in that class stretches way down to ward skew way tashkent goes from twenty down to around eleven so you don't want it to saturday's akula what's the weather coming in behind lot of rain just coming out of the east and sot over iraq into western parts of iraq behind that warm sunshine by rigging up to twenty six degrees celsius some lovely weather just around the eastern side of the met then still in the warm side across the peninsula thi

has set off john hendren al-jazeera chicago. a ceremony has been held in kenya for the world's last male northern rhino last month his name was sudan and his death means there is now only two of his species left both female students caretakers to lead the tributes out as memorial service they hope his life will inspire people to fight poaching which ravage his population but we have very clear as government punitive measures must be taken into. punishing people who kill our wildlife and that's why we. for life sentences for people who kill for ivory because ivory belongs to elephants and rhinos better than preserving it taking it for human consumption in the argentinian capital many people consider the city slums a source of crime and drugs those who actually live there though are trying to change perceptions stories about reports. it's a new sour like no other you know. it's called slum world t.v. and it's made by people living in some of the poorest neighborhoods in when i. get there. who has been teaching journalism courses f

has set off john hendren al-jazeera chicago.international criminal court in the hague has detained a million man accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity the indictment over the destruction of religious sites in timbuktu in two thousand and twelve and two thousand and thirteen and he's also accused of enforcing policies that led to sexual and slave meant of women and girls center another day of protests in the u.s. city of sacramento against the shooting of an unarmed black man by police a fear for the streets and i got a feel for the cops you know how do we explain to our kids that because the color of your skin people are going to like you the rally was organized by the black lives matter movement on friday an autopsy found stuff on clark was shot six times in the back and that contradicts police accounts that clark was facing them and had a gun and actually turned out just to be a cell phone demonstrators are demanding the officers involved be fired. civil rights leader martin luther king jr was assassinated half a c

defiance one last performance in a career that shattered the illusion that one see during fan john hendren. former n.b.c. news anchor tom brokaw is being accused of inappropriate conduct towards of female coworker and the one nine hundred ninety s. then divest a war correspondent of the time claims that brokaw grabbed her by the way during a meeting and tried to forcibly kiss her in a hotel she backed up her account by showing reporters journal entries that she says the russian at the time of the incident protocol has denied the allegations. now the remains of more than two thousand people killed during one thousand nine hundred ninety four genocide have been discovered in a village close to the capital the bonds were among four mass graves buried nearly twenty meters below ground in the outskirts of the suspects to where the checkpoint was set up during the genocide more than eight hundred thousand people mostly from the tootsie minority killed in the violence between the two ethnic groups. pledge areas said it has summoned president mohamed to behati to testify about the government's res

of defiance one last performance in a career that shattered the illusions of once adoring fans john hendren al-jazeera . behinds as an attorney and former baltimore city prosecutor she joins us from washington they say thank you so much for your time what was different and this trial compared to the other trial that that the jury arrived at a different verdict. i think there are a couple of things that were different the main thing that i think was different was really the meat to movement i think that usually whenever there's a change in culture a change in thinking which usually doesn't take place in just a year but in this case the change was just overwhelming and once the public which is what the jury is made up of members of the public started seeing prominent men being brought down as a result of sexual allegations of sexual assault sexual harassment it became clearer that someone in the shoes of bill cosby could also be guilty now in our system of course the jury is not to really take into play anything that's outside of what's heard in the us in that courtroom but that's really an i

house of representatives has voted to make the site of the speech a national landmark john hendren reportsfrom indianapolis it was an uneasy alliance a wealthy white patrician and a charismatic black preacher martin luther king considered robert kennedy timid on civil rights kennedy was privately supportive making calls to get king released from a georgia jail but publicly kept his distance. right up until april fourth one thousand nine hundred sixty eight as kennedy campaigned for the presidency in indiana martin luther king jr was killed tonight in memphis tennessee kennedy's aides warned him to cancel a stop in indianapolis to dangerous the set there was mixed feelings of the. people that were angry i was angry myself from the back of a flatbed truck wearing his slain brothers tweed coat they go right martin luther king he broke the news to a mostly black crowd martin luther king was shot and was killed tonight in memphis was it was the first time he'd spoken publicly of the assassination of his brother president john f. kennedy but those of you who are black. and are tempted to feel wi

sanctions relief on iran and that's what he called terrible flaws in the deal fixed john hendren reports from washington after months of tough talk on the iranian nuclear agreement donald trump appears headed for a showdown the current status of relations between the u.s. and iran is wild. the very acrimonious president has railed against the nuclear agreement since his campaign the iran deal was one of the worst and most one sided transactions the united states has ever entered into in january he doubled down declining to impose sanctions on tehran only for one last time he says iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal unless iran renegotiate the deal to give the u.s. and its allies greater access to tehran's facilities and to extend the agreement trump says he will decline to waive sanctions that could effectively put an end to the nuclear agreement they've made very clear that if the united states walks away they would not see themselves as continued to be required to get here with their own obligations and so i think we would very likely see iran begin to reconstitute elements

has set off john hendren al-jazeera chicago. river in russia that serves hundreds of thousands of people is considered to be one of the world's most polluted that it's spreading radioactive contamination all the way to the arctic ocean journal reports from russia's chelyabinsk region. is no ordinary river considered one of the most polluted waterways on earth the stench of open sewage rises from beneath the ice. it has a dark history the tensions waters also contain radiation levels up to eighty times higher than normal that's thanks to the my ak nuclear plant seventeen hundred kilometers east of moscow originally producing plutonium for the soviet union's nuclear weapons program they produced many types off nuclear waste dump of these nuclear waste high level nuclear waste inside their area where richest. in one nine hundred fifty seven my x. suffered what's thought to be the world's third worst nuclear accident contaminating a vast area affecting hundreds of thousands of people it was covered up for decades . now does the kutt

the special counsel is confident nature can help him tie those two strands of the probe together john hendren al-jazeera washington. plenty more ahead on this news hour a german court rejects an extradition request for outside cats and the ousted catholic leader colace put him on but leaves the door open for spain to try again also. i'm also in jordan in washington the nation's capital exploded after the assassination of martin luther king jr some reflections from one man who tried to help keep the peaks and defending champion sergio garcia meets the water more times than he would like on the first day of the twenty eight hundred masa stretch and i will be here with that story later in sport. all are still ahead but first a judge in brazil has issued an arrest warrant for former president luis in the silver that follows a ruling by the country's top court that he must start a twelve year prison sentence for corruption last year as he is known was found guilty of accepting bribes worth more than one million dollars the decision was a potentially fatal blow to his plans to run for a third term

but it least one of his lawyers has quit thinking that trump should not testify from washington john hendren thank you. criticized the deployment of french troops just across the border in northern syria on monday the kurds revealed a posse of sixty french soldiers had arrived and man bitch is east of the turkish stronghold of a friend and started patrols in the surrounding region france is refusing to comment on this but you minister as well and they don't want the french training groups he describes as terrorists. or the. if the soldiers are training p. why do you and why p. g. forces will perceive this is giving support to a terror group. what's important here is that the french don't repeat the same mistakes the americans have made in one big with the same rhetoric and approach it from looking for a partner or an ally very to be turkey the p y d n y p g can't be friends with partners or the wise what's the point of being nato allies. the gunman is shot dead for academic city university in western turkey a tackle who was detained after initially trying to flee the scene was a research uni

the special counsel is confident nature can help him tie those two strands of the probe together john hendren al-jazeera washington. u.s. president donald trump has accused central americans of being rapists in an echo of his campaign rhetoric and has vowed to send thousands of troops to the border and this speech in west virginia he said women and a caravan of migrants who had been trying to reach the u.s. border had been quote raped at levels nobody has ever seen before the group of migrants mostly from honduras changed their destination to mexico city after mexican authorities intervened let's go to john homan who's in the mexican port city of vera cruz so what is going on here with this kind of statement john well first of all the migrant courier now is actually white winding down we were with it for most of the day and a lot of people are now peeling off from that caravan to make their own route through mexico either to seek refuge here or to try and get to the u.s. border president trump's been tweeting about a lot in the last few days and today he came out with quite an outlandish and

he's alleged to have travel frequently to russia on behalf of the iraqi government has been in john hendren in washington d.c. nader now also reported the link to russia quoting to the new york times to what extent and what does it say the investigation is focusing on now. well foley this shows that george nader is a valuable witness for robert mueller he's got an immunity deal so on the one hand he has little fear of prosecution however on the other hand he really is required to give a lot of information because those immunity deals come with conditions one of those conditions is that you answer all questions truthfully so we knew before that he had ties to the u.a.e. that he was an advisor to the crown prince of the effective leader of the u.a.e. but what we're learning now is through this new york times article that he had deeper times to russia than had been previously disclosed he helped negotiate an arms deal with iran and russia back in two thousand and twelve that deal eventually fell apart but he had also he has times to russian oligarchs one of them is a guy named carol dimitri of

hit back with measures of the same strength we'll hear from beijing in just a moment but first john hendren tells us more about what the u.s. has announced the u.s. trade representative has announced fifty billion dollars in new tariffs on chinese products this is the latest salvo in what threatens to be a trade war this round is over the future of technology the u.s. has targeted thirteen hundred products in the aerospace information technology communications robotics and machinery industry they say this is necessary due to harmful chinese policy that is a reference to china's china two thousand and twenty five plant in which china plans to replace technology imports by domestic products by the year two thousand and twenty five but the u.s. says that china has misappropriated u.s. intellectual property through requiring joint ventures by unfair licensing rules through buying u.s. tech firms with state funds and through outright theft the. this all began when president donald trump announced tariffs on aluminum and steel coming out of china china retaliated with tariffs on port fruit nuts a

individual car makers if necessary to oppose lower fuel standards john hendren al jazeera washington. and tens of thousands of us teaches of walked out of classrooms demanding higher salaries protesting kentucky and oklahoma a part of growing unrest among educators you make fall less than professionals in other fields and design a separate cripples the problem is not just in america. in kentucky thousands of teachers stormed the state capitol we are here today. so rarely for our schools the scene was much the same in oklahoma where teachers call the recent six thousand dollars pay hike their first in a decade too little too late i'm not walking out on my children or my students and walking out for my students. across america from west virginia to arizona teachers are in open revolt walking off the job demanding not only better pay and pensions but more funding for classrooms not in the u.s. teachers' salaries and pensions are mostly funded through a combination of state and local taxes but since the recession tighter government budgets have kept a lid on teacher wages we have our own

s bracks referendum john hendren reports from washington. facebook's chief operating officer sheryl sandberg acknowledged the company failed to protect users data showed the company could have protected their data better years ago she made these acknowledgments in a series of television interviews this is what she had to say we don't know what data or if they have any data at all right now we were given assurances by them years ago that they deleted the data we should have followed up that's on us we are trying to do a forensic audit to find out what they have restarted that the u.k. government is now doing their own investigation and they have precedence over waiting we don't know at all what data they had that eighty seven million people we notified or people whose data might have been accessed by cambridge analytic so we're giving the most conservative possible estimate and notifying those people but once we can do our out it if we can hone it down and be more specific we certainly will be facebook shares have sent more than fifteen perce

s breck's at referendum john hendren reports from washington.facebook's chief operating officer sheryl sandberg acknowledged the company failed to protect users data showed the company could have protected their data better years ago she made these acknowledgments in a series of television interviews this is what she had to say we don't know what data or if they have any data at all right now we were given assurances by them years ago that they deleted the data we should have followed up that's on us we are trying to do a friends i thought it to find out what they have we started that the u.k. government is now doing their own investigation and they have precedents so we're waiting we don't know at all what data they had that eighty seven million people we notified our people whose data might have been accessed by cambridge analytical so we're giving the most conservative possible estimate and notifying those people but once we can do our out it if we can hone it down and be more specific we certainly will be facebook shares have sent more than

performance of new cars and trucks to fifty four point five miles a gallon by the hit twenty twenty five john hendren reports from washington. with the obama administration gives the trumpet ministration is proving again it can take away the head of the u.s. environmental protection agency says he plans to weaken plan fuel efficiency standards in a statement e.p.a. administrators got pruitt says the obama administration's determination was wrong saying obama's e.p.a. set the standards too high crude also threatened a showdown with california he says the e.p.a. is reconsidering a waiver that lets the states set a higher standard a move he hinted at in the january interview california doesn't have the authority to set the standard for the rest the country that's not federalism california said in it for every state and country a dozen other states follow california's rules it's not clear pruitt will last long enough to enforce new fuel standards he's been under fire for pricey first class flights for extraordinary personal security costs and for renting a condo from the wife of a lobbyist last week vete

defiance one last performance in your career that shattered the illusions of one suit during fans john hendren al-jazeera thousands of people have been protesting across spain after a court cleared five men of raping a woman at the pamplona ball running past ball demonstrators shouted shame and i believe you sister outside the justice ministry in the trid the men who were in a whatsapp group called the wolf pack were convicted of the lesser crime of sexual abuse and given nine year sentences a record of the attack on their phones and laughed about it afterwards a member of the japanese boy band tokyo has apologized for making indecent advances to an under-age girl in february of this share. his forty six at mit kissing a teenage girl after inviting her to his house he was formally charged but the case was dropped after the girl and her mother accepted the apology as japan's highest profile case of sexual harassment in the entertainment industry about two million people in the us who are on low incomes and receiving housing assistance are now expected to pay a lot more for their homes out of th