syrian province of darrow's or among those killed were a senior member of the group's so-called ministry of war his deputy and a local commander and thousands of civilians have fled parts of syria's daraa province where the government has stepped up its offensive will fight to say they've repelled of the last attack but fear they may not be able to hold out much longer the u.s. has called on president bashar al assad to halt the offensive which falls inside one of the internationally agreed deescalation zones. reports. this is the first time forces have used battle. in the year. helicopters struck several villages in what appears to be a major advance to take over the city but this violates a truce that was brokered by russia and the united states in africa to bring an end to the seven year war the americans have of serious repercussions if the offensive continues and the rebels who are losing ground remain defiant. we don't recognize assad's of course and he has destroyed our cities and killed our people he's quite serious distinct power we will never recognize him reject the presence of ukrai

attacks in afghanistan at least thirteen died when i saw a suicide bomber blew himself up at the ministry of war all developmental kabul in the eastern city of jalalabad security forces shot three attackers before they blew themselves up before they were inside an education department building and in condos at least fifteen afghan soldiers were killed fighting taliban. well the terrier a senior security situation is pushing afghans to take extreme measures as they call for peace dozens of people have joined the peace march that started in helmand province and will end in couple shelob ellis who points. imo these afghans will not be deterred by hate hunger distance or danger. they are walking seven hundred kilometers to the afghan capital kabul without food or water from dawn to dusk during the holy month of ramadan. if all afghans raise the same voice for peace and say no more war i'm sure we will reach a sustainable peace very soon. nine men started in the taliban stronghold of helmand province a month ago as temperatures climbed above forty degrees so did the numbers through town after town th

syrian province of darrow's or among those killed were a senior member of the group so-called ministry of war his deputy and a local commander meanwhile syrian rebel fighters have told the reuters news agency that russian jets of the party carried out as strikes in there are for the first time since the government offensive began thousands of civilians have already fled the fighting there the u.s. is called on president assad to halt the offensive which falls inside one of the internationally agreed deescalation sides. reports. this is the first time the forces have used battle bombs in that are you know a year. helicopters struck several villages in what appears to be a major advance to take over the city but this violates a truce that was brokered by russia and the united states in africa to bring an eye and to the seven year war the americans have warned of serious repercussions if the offensive continues and the rebels who are losing ground remain defiant if. we don't recognize assad's of course he has destroyed our cities and. he destroyed syria to staying power we will never recognize.

syria a ministry spokesman says the raid targeted a meeting of isolated as in the syrian province of dairies or many among those killed were a senior member of the group's so-called ministry of war is deputy and a local commander. well syrian rebel fighters have told the reuters news agency that russian jets of the party carried out strikes in there are province for the first time since the government offensive began thousands of civilians have already fled the fighting there the u.s. has called on president assad to halt the offensive which falls inside one of the internationally agreed deescalation signs. are reports. this is the first time government forces have used battle bombs in you know a year. helicopters struck several villages in what appears to be a major advance to take over the city but this violates a truce that was brokered by russia and the united states in africa to bring an eye and to the seven year war the americans have of serious repercussions if the offensive continues and the rebels who are losing ground remain defiant if. we don't recognize assad's operative he has destroyed our cities and killed our people he destroy syria to staying power we will never

once the bolsheviks in control of the russian foreign ministry, they broadcast the use of the war for furthering imperial interests. the people in the middle east were incensed by the two-faced approach of the british, in particular, negotiating with the british and the french to offer the same land to two different people. but the story gets even better in a moment. to finish this part of the story, i refer you to the map and then to the text. when one reads the text -- and it is kind of small -- this agreement does not look as bad as it often gets painted. this is a division of zones of interest and influence rather than complete control. those on the ground communicated what the agreement was really about. when the french move to damascus in 1920 and 1921, you -- 1921, they used aircraft to strike the main arab markets to drive the remaining arab losers from the city. the bullet holes are still observable in the main thoroughfare. the son of the sharif of mecca , he was inif hussein damascus, where he planned to govern the new arab state. the french believe they have authority to d

of an escalating tit—for—tat trade war. the response from china's commerce ministry has been pretty robust. the $50 billion of tariffs that were announced by donald trump on friday. china responded immediately with its own package of $50 billion worth of goods. this latest threat from donald trump is in retaliation for china's retaliation, with $200 billion listed, and now this from china today describing the action as blackmail and promising to fight back firmly, measure for measure. any hope that there was a few months ago that the sides might be moving towards a negotiated settlement appears to have evaporated. and as you say, a month ago we thought that we we re you say, a month ago we thought that we were seeing you say, a month ago we thought that we were seeing more you say, a month ago we thought that we were seeing more conciliatory tones between the us and china, china saying we will be buying $200 billion worth of goods and services from the us. what does the chinese consumer think about this? are we seeing them vote with their feet when it comes to the goods they are choosing to

fact on the verge of an all out trade war between the world's two largest economies now on tuesday the language coming from china's government was much stronger the commerce ministry accused washington of blackmail the foreign ministry said that the united states was harming the interests not just of china but also the rest of the world a spokesman saying that while china did not want a trade war it was quite prepared to fight what now at the moment china exports far more to the united states than the other way around that means that the u.s. has far more potential terrorist targets than china does but it's quite possible that china could start punishing washington in other ways by focusing on big u.s. companies based here in china now at the moment president trump appears to be saying to the chinese government i want you to change the way that you can talk business with the united states that means possibly president cheating ping having to roll back his made in china twenty twenty five strategy this is one of his pet projects to move china up the value chain by focusing much more on high tech but china has absolutely no intention of doing that so given we have j

of a trade war. and commerce ministry calling the move blackmail. >> when we talk to the chinese government, they have attempt to focus on products that are problematic for the trump administration and an impact on the u.s. consumers. >> if china retaliates again, going even further. and if that happens that would mean nearly every product coming into the u.s. from china would be under tariffs. maggie ruli, >>> north korean kim jong-un is in >> he said china would as always play a constructive role in that process. >>> critical reaction tonight. the european union sets a decision risks under mining the role of the united states. nikki haley u.s. ambassador to the united nations accuses the un body. >> does not allows to remain apart of the hypocritical sev serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights. >> not a first. the administration of george w. bush. the u.s. joined only in 2009 under president obama. >>> nba player has sued the city of milwaukee and police department over a violent arrest. confronting sterling brown while giving him a citation. one of them used a taser on brown. the

messages and first stop this week is a statement from the ministry of defense reacting to the first program in the series they say all out war ships are built to the u.k. and with the take twenty six frigate securing four thousand jobs and twenty years of work in scotland and british industry peer preparing to bid for a new tape therapy one week last we are witnessing i remember songs and national shipbuilding since twenty ten this government has invested more than six billion and shipbuilding u.k. securing phones and secure and twenty eight hundred nineteen we expect to spend the next set of seven hundred fifty million pounds supporting the fleet and then an email in from tim bevan whose could be catching up on the shores online is straight's me how interesting your choice of interview eases from a very detailed interview with carlos push among the president as was of catalonia a fascinating present of lebanon recently a feel fairly important people from ireland and northern ireland and that's a time when amanda term that you can catch up with all the alex salmon shows online and then from hilda who's emailed us to lisp on

now on route to spain but my course comments sparked a war of words with the italian leadership who accuse paris of hypocrisy afghanistan's ministry of defense says the head of the pakistani taliban has been killed by a us drone strike would have as you know was responsible for a number of high profile attacks including the shooting of schoolgirl malala yousafzai in twenty twelve. a saudi led coalition in yemen has seized the entrance to an effort in the country's main port city the operation to retake her data from hoofy rebels was launched three days ago the coalition says it can capture the area without disrupting aid to the millions of yemenis who need it most of yemen's humanitarian and food shipments pass through the data. thousands of mourners have attended the funeral of a leading journalist who was shot dead on thursday in indian administered kashmir should get the car it was the editor of the english language newspaper rising kashmir was killed by unidentified men on a motorbike as he left his office in srinagar p.l.o. history of a revolution is up next i'll have more news for you after that. one nine hundred forty eight

it's accused the coalition, which includes britain, of potential war crimes in the city of raqqa. the ministrypened early this morning, took place in bray. two other men have been injured. officers are appealing for witnesses. a one—year—old boy is in a critical condition after being stabbed at a home in hanworth in west london. a woman in her 30s also suffered serious knife wounds at the property on swinfield close on monday evening. police and paramedics were called yesterday evening and the victims taken to hospital by air ambulance. the metropolitan police said officers were looking for a man who lives at the address and is known to the pair. russia's president says his country is not trying to split the european union. vladimir putin's remarks come ahead of a visit to austria, his first trip to a western european country in nearly a year. speaking to austrian media, mr putin said he wanted a "united and prosperous" eu, calling the bloc russia's most important commercial and economic partner. he also played down reported links between his united russia party and austria's far—right freedom

. >> thank you very much china accused president trump of initiating a trade war and going back on his word the commerce ministry said today such a practice of extreme pressure and blackmailing deviates from the consensus reached on both sides on multiple occasions as of late week the chinese believed they had an agreement with the u.s. in order to buy tens of billions of dollars worth of goods to help narrow the trade deficit. but at the same time that would only be the case if the u.s. did not impose tariffs now that deal is off the table now china said it would fight back firmly and consider qualitative and quantitative measures the fears of a full blown trade war hit the stock markets out here today as brian was talking about. the shanghai dropped by 5% at one point. the shenzhen fell by 6%. hong kong lost 3%, part of that was because it was weighed down by a plunge in the shares of the embattled chinese telecoms company, zte, down by 20% today. the words qualitative and quantitative got a lot of attention here in the american business community today that's because the fact of the matter is that china reall

now on route to spain but luck was comments sparked a war of words with the italian leadership who accused paris of hypocrisy. afghanistan's ministry of defense says the head of the pakistani taliban has been killed by a u.s. drone strike. was responsible for a number of high profile attacks including the shooting of schoolgirl malala yousafzai in twenty twelve assad led coalition in yemen has seized the entrance to an airport in the country's main port city the operation to retake her data from hoofy rebels was launched three days ago the coalition says it can capture the area without disrupting aid to the millions of yemenis needed. thousands of mourners have attended the funeral of a leading journalist who's shot dead on thursday in indian administered kashmir the car it was the editor of the english language newspaper rising kashmir. as your headlines inside story is next i have the news hour for you after that i fear. it's the biggest battle of the three. as. the u.n. is a strange feeling the humanitarian catastrophe but is there any hope. this. welcome to the program in there's a problem the push to say is the portal as well

fact on the verge of an all out trade war between the world's two largest economies now on tuesday the language coming from china's government was much stronger the commerce ministryccused washington of blackmail the foreign ministry said that the united states was harming the interests not just of china but also the rest of the world a spokesman saying that while china did not want a trade war it was quite prepared to fight what now at the moment china exports far more to the united states than the other way around that means that the u.s. has far more potential terrorist targets than china does but it's quite possible that china could start punishing washington in other ways by focusing on big u.s. companies based here in china now at the moment president trump appears to be saying to the chinese government i want you to change the way that you can talk business with the united states that means possibly president cheating thing having to roll back his made in china twenty twenty five strategy this is one of his pet projects to move china up the value chain by focusing much more on high tech but china has absolutely no intention of doing that so given we have ju

china's ministry of foreign affairs says quote "china doesn't want a trade war.r, confronted by such short- sighted act that hurts both (the) us itself and others, china has no choice but to fight back forcefully."here's how it breaks down on both sides. on the áu-s side...the tariffs target products in the chinese:aerospace, robotics, manufacturing and auto industries."this has been something that has been in trained for a long period of time. it's thorough, it's moderate, it's appropriate." the áchinese tariffs will target products in the u-s: agriculture, automobile, and seafood industriesamong others. in the meantime products in these affected industries could get more áexpensive.not to mention the steel and áaluminum tariffs that the u-s has already imposed on canada, mexico, and the european union -- who have all promised to retaliate. both the taxes from the u-s áand china are expected to go into effect on july 6th. in washington i'm omar jimenez. (pam) hundreds of people rallied at the ice field office in san francisco earlier today.... they were demandin

there saying no american should not be involved in this this is not america's war and then you have of course the ministry of branch and specifically the department of state and the department of the fans saying that we have to support them and some people have actually even when i had them and said that the american position has shifted based on the fact that they couldn't stop their allies from going into yemen so now they want to offer assistance in targeting in order to limit the civilian casualties whether that's actually going to be true or not you know only time will tell but i think ultimately what we hear over and over again is we know going through a day that's going to be a disaster and a lot of people on the ground are going to pray that this war is very quick because if it's not it's going to be horrendous really good to get your thoughts on this thank you very much indeed for your time thank you. they are in general assembly has passed a non-binding resolution condemning israel over the recent violence on its border with gaza one hundred twenty nations voted in favor eight countries includin

just shortly after the ustr made its announcement, the ministry of commerce accused the u.s. of provoking a trade war. saying china would retaliate by implementing tariffs on the same scale and at the same level of strength against the u.s. immediately. china hasn't yet formally put out a list of products that it plans to target, however back in april, the government did actually put out a list that it said that it was going to target in such a circumstance and that includes soybeans, whiskey as well as industrial chemicals. the statement also said that all previously agreed trade negotiation results are no longer valid so in a series of trade talks in recent weeks, the chinese had offered about $70 billion of purchases, and the government now says that that offer is going to be pulled if the trump administration does decide to move forward with these tariffs and the chinese action is almost ensuring that we will see an escalation of trade tensions in a statement by the white house, the u.s. warned that it would put tariffs on an enlarger amount of chinese exports if china retaliated and previously t

china's ministry of foreign affairs says quote "china doesn't want a trade war.nfronted by such short- sighted act that hurts both (the) us itself and others, china has no choice but to fight back forcefully."here's how it breaks down on both sides. on the áu-s side...the tariffs target products in the chinese:aerospace, robotics, manufacturing and auto industries."this has been something that has been in trained for a long period of time. it's thorough, it's moderate, it's appropriate." the áchinese tariffs will target products in the u-s: agriculture, automobile, and seafood industriesamong others. in the meantime products in these affected industries could get more áexpensive.not to mention the steel and áaluminum tariffs that the u-s has already imposed on canada, mexico, and the european union -- who have all promised to retaliate. both the taxes from the u-s áand china are expected to go into effect on july 6th. in washington i'm omar jimenez. (ken) a deadly shooting in colorado that left a 13 year old boy dead was apparently triggered by road rage.(pam) a

of sectors including aerospace, communications, non—optics and cars. the chinese commerce ministry swiftly promised immediate countermeasures of similar size and strength. let's stick to our washington correspondent gary 0'donoghue. the trade warlly. yes, on top of that development last week with president trump at the g7 folding his arms and telling his allies he would maintain there is still and aluminium tariffs now comes this bunch of tariffs on china, and the range of areas, particularly areas with high technology that goes into the products, and the reason for this is twofold. 0ne the products, and the reason for this is twofold. one is that donald trump generally thinks that the trade deficit with china is too big, is $375 billion at the moment, and secondly there is a concern that china is stealing intellectual property and unfairly supporting its own high—tech industries by requiring ministries to hand over some of their intellectual properties. there's been a whole bunch of talks between wilbur ross the commerce secretary, the chinese offered to buy some more in terms of american products, it wasn't enough, and they've gone ahead with these threats to slap on these tariffs. in an impromptu life interview president tr

fact on the verge of an all out trade war between the world's two largest economies now on tuesday the language coming from china's government was much stronger the commerce ministryaccused washington of blackmail the foreign ministry said that the united states was harming the interests not just of china but also the rest of the world a spokesman saying that while china did not want a trade war it was quite prepared to fight what now at the moment china exports far more to the united states than the other way around that means that the u.s. has far more potential terrorist targets than china does but it's quite possible that china could stop punishing washington in other ways by focusing on big u.s. companies based here in china now at the moment president trump appears to be saying to the chinese government i want you to change the way that you can talk business with the united states that means possibly president cheating thing having to roll back his made in china twenty twenty five strategy this is one of his pet projects to move china up the value chain by focusing much more on high tech but china has absolutely no intention of doing that so given we have ju

ship is now on route to spain but my comments sparked a war of words with the italian leadership who accused paris of hypocrisy. afghanistan's ministry of defense says the head of the pakistani taliban has been killed by a u.s. drone strike. was responsible for a number of high profile attacks including the shooting of schoolgirl malala yousafzai in two thousand and twelve. and the saudi led coalition in yemen has seized the entrance to an airport in the country's main port city the operation to retake from heathy rebels was launched three days ago coalition says it can capture the area without disrupting a to the millions of yemenis who need it most of yemen's humanitarian and food shipments passed through the data up to date with top stories. with more news and about twenty five minutes time rewind starts now. hello and welcome once again to rewind i'm come all santa maria since they were english launched back in two thousand and six we've been adding to our collection of award winning films year by year and here on rewind we're showcasing some of them once again today it's a one of one hundred film about the abnormally high suicid

bodies of photo has been to war lord khalifa haftar and twenty five other wanted in this battle today. wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and charged with fraud the justice ministry says sarah netanyahu is accused of misusing state funds by allegedly spending government money on catering services are a false it has more now from west. it's been coming for months and now it's confirmed sarah netanyahu indicted for fraud the case against misuse of state funds connected to her husband's position as israel's prime minister investigation started three years ago when a government official issued a report on excessive spending at the couple's official residence in west jerusalem she's charged with using nearly one hundred thousand dollars from the official prime minister's residence budget for private ships and food for family events allegedly conspiring with an official to hide the fact that a resident chef was already being employed and falsifying fifteen invoices for the services of outside caterers all very different from the prime minister's initial rebuttal of the allegations when he spoke of take away dinners in full trays the fact that she's indicted this is a s

of chinese products. the response from beijing was fast and furious. the commerce ministry released a statement saying america had launched a trade war, that china would all economic and trade agreements reached by previous negotiations will be nullified. is this bluster or is it the start of a trade war? president obama's national security adviser susan rice joins me again. susan, what do you make of this? is it $50 billion compared to u.s./china trade is not that large a number. what is going on in your view? >> i think this is the start of a tit for tat economic conflict that could escalate well beyond $50 billion on each side. what is unfortunate is the president gave up a very strong card he had in his hand with respect to zte. and zte's theft of u.s. intellectual property and its violation of sanctions. and now got seemingly nothing in return for that concession and the imposition of now these new tariffs on the chinese and the retaliation by the chinese, we are walking down a potentially slippery slope. we have reasons to be concerned about china's trade practices, theft of intellectual property among many other things. the way to resolve this i

the ship is now on route to spain but comments fox a war of words with the italian leadership the accused paris of hypocrisy. afghanistan's ministry of defense says the head of the pakistani taliban has been killed by a us drone strike. was responsible for a number of high profile attacks including the shooting of schoolgirl malala yousafzai in two thousand and twelve is believed to have been killed in a targeted strike on wednesday in the afghan province of coonana. the saudi led coalition in yemen has seized the entrance to an airport in the country's main port city the operation to retake a day from who the rebels it was launched three days ago the coalition says it can capture the area without disrupting aid to the millions of yemenis who depend on it most of yemen's humanitarian and food shipments possibly through a day. as the headlines that's it for myself in the team here in london coming up next on al-jazeera it's counting the cost. when the news breaks. on the mailman city and the story builds to be forced to leave it would just be when people need to be heard to women and girls are being bought and given away in refugee

war may be heating up and china is threatening retaliation. scott, in a statement issued by the chinese government commerce ministry i should say, the chinese government responded to new threats of the u.s. tariffs, this is a quote, saying it will strike back hard. should we be worried? >> we should be worried. a trade war could mean rising prices for american consumers, it could hurt people who produce things in the united states who want to export them. there was a big layout about soy beans and the effect on that. having said that, there are a lot of americans looking for the president to follow through to crack down on china because they believe previous administrations doesn't it. the politics may take a long time to manifest itself. >> what do you think, angela? >> well, it would be interesting to see donald trump be consistent about something. i think just a couple of weeks ago we were warring with the idea of whether or not there would be this positive relationship with china or not because of a potential business interest for ivanka and now this. i'm just interested to see when he's going to go with something, stick with it and not debate on twitter or just a random thr

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war that's about a quarter of lebanon's entire population. i announced today that i intend to take the first action by the foreign ministry against the un refugeeagency which boasts about returning forty million refugees back to their homes it therefore has a responsibility to return one point five million syrian refugees back to syria the actions taken to borrow will be a warning and will show how far lebanon can go in the face of an organization that is working against the policy of lebanon and its interests. for many syrian refugees in lebanon live in desperate conditions more than half of them are in extreme poverty making them largely dependent on aid almost nine out of ten refugees say they are in some form of debt according to human rights watch more than three thousand five hundred refugees were forcibly evicted from their homes due to their nationality and their religion also another forty two thousand say they were at risk of being expelled from the shelters there are growing calls from evidence politicians for refugees to return home citing economic political and security challenges meanwhile inside syria medical sources say russian

of performance enhancing drugs . sports during a ministry use. welcome back or mind of the top stories here on al-jazeera president trump says he and ken jeong could sign an agreement to end the korean war at that summit next week speaking after meeting japan's prime minister he also said he could invite the north korean leader to the u.s. if that talks go well the leaders of france and canada say they will have blunt and frank discussions with president trump over trade and what promises to be a tense g. seven summit on friday and the red cross says it's pulling seventy one staff out of yemen because of security incidents and threats this as fears grow that the vital port of data would soon be put out of action by funny thing. suspended rescue efforts around month away go saying rain on the well connick material and making it too dangerous prosecutors have ordered an investigation into the official handling of sunday's eruption after the national disaster agency was criticized for not warning people in time of the danger from the volcano at least ninety nine people are now dead david more so reports from the disaster zone. trapped in a state of uncertainty at the time our family gather

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ministry promised immediate counter—measures of similar size and strength. our washington correspondent gary o'donoghue reports. the world's two guest economies just moved a step closer to a full grown trade warfs covers trade war. this latest round of us tariffs covers some 1100 separate product lines. containing what the administration calls industrially significant technologies. in washington's view of, china is stealing its intellectual property, and unfairly subsidising its own industries. the levies range across a number of sectors including aerospace, information and communications, robotics, and cars. the tariffs will be imposed from the sixth ofjuly. we are just going to do $50 billion on $50 billion of high—technology equipment and other things coming into the country because so much of our secrets, you know, we have the great brainpower in silicon valley, and china and others steal those secrets and we are going to protect those secrets. those are crown jewels for this country. america has a trade deficit with china of 375 million dollars. beijing is the latest trading partner to feel the brunt of donald trump's robust america first strategy. last week he angered g7 allies in europ

of whether or not people want it to happen, and we'll know that very quickly. >> iraqi war planes bombing an islamic state group target in syria according to the iraqi ministry se. iraqi jets have been targeting islamic state positions across the border responding to what they call terrorist infiltrat n infiltration >>> this is a cool story new mars discoveries are advancing the case for possible life on the red planet or even present. scientists reporting that n there's potential building blocks of life in lake bed there's molecules in bedrock suggests conditions may have been conducive to life we'll see. you won't find me on the red planet soon. >> no. i'm not big on the map et stuff. >> i know. >> i mean, this one, but - >> yeah. right. exactly. happy where we are >> exactly sue, thank you >> you got it. >> see you later, sue. >> thanks. >>> phil lebeau looks why u.s. airlines boost flights across the atlantic, phil >> it's the hot ticket this summer, not just europe, but there's a huge spike in the number of seats going to the cities iceland, anyone? when you see the numbers, you'll be surprised next on the "closing bell. welcome to holiday inn! thank you

of upcoming war games these exercises between south korean and u.s. military forces it has left a lot of people here running around trying to just see what that means the defense ministry in seoul and also the government here are trying to get clarification the u.s. military has issued a statement saying as far as it knows there are no plans to suspend any of these exercises and i think jane has been some concern just about the argument that trump use that these exercises are a provocation that they're provocative now that's exactly the same argument that is taken by north korea trump seems to have adopted for whatever reason north koreans criticism of these war games the as far as the south korea is concerned the military and also the u.s. military it's just the opposite is true that these war games guarantee peace and stability because they are a deterrent to what they see as the real threat of invasion in any case. j.n. the president of south korea as you mentioned there does not want to let this ruin the day he has issued a further statement at the end of all of these proceedings saying praising the courage of the two leaders saying it does start a new chapter for

war that's about a quarter of lebanon's entire population. well. i announced today that i intend to take the first action by the foreign ministry against the un refugee agency which boasts about returning forty million refugees back to their homes it therefore has a responsibility to return one point five million syrian refugees back to syria the actions taken sapporo will be a warning and will show how far lebanon can go in the face of an organization that is working against the policy of lebanon and its interests. many syrian refugees refugees in lebanon live in desperate conditions more than half of them are in extreme poverty making them hugely dependent on aid almost nine out of ten refugees say they're in some form of debt and according to human rights watch all the three thousand five hundred of them were forcibly evicted from their homes because of their nationality or their religion while another forty two thousand risk of being expelled from their shelters there are growing coals from evidence politicians for refugees to go home and they cite economic political and security challenges meanwhile inside syria medical sources say russian plane

ministry promised immediate counter—measures of similar size and strength. earlier i spoke to our washington correspondent gary o‘donoghue and asked whether it was a step towards a trade war development last week, with donald trump at the g7, folding his arms and telling his allies that he was going to maintain those steel and aluminium tariffs, now comes this whole bunch of tariffs on china, on a whole range of areas, particularly areas where there is high—tech knowledge that goes into the products, and the reason for this is twofold. one is that donald trump generally thinks that there is a trade deficit to china that is way too big. it is $375 billion at the moment. secondly, there is a concern here amongst his administration that china is stealing intellectual property, and unfairly sort of supporting its own high—tech industries by requiring american companies, when they invest in china, to hand over some of their intellectual property as well. so thatis intellectual property as well. so that is really what has happened, and there has been a whole bunch of talks between wilbur ross, the commerce secretary here, and his chinese counterpart. the chinese offered to buy

war for them. it's a challenge which can be overcome i trust the leader of our party and if he says that there are competent people in the ministries then i believe him back at the church the bride and groom make their vows a richer for poorer but as in love and in politics there are no guarantees as to what lies ahead so i go out to zero rome. building has collapsed in kenya's capital it happened in a residential area northeast my bro be there are reports one person has died four others have been rushed to hospital riot police in mali have fired tear gas at opposition supporters during a band rally ahead of next month's presidential election authorities in the capital bamako said so after those march couldn't go ahead because of a state of emergency at least sixteen people including two candidates were injured in clashes with security forces serve a new suspected cases of ebola have been detected in the democratic republic of congo. there have been fifty seven cases of ebola since that outbreak was declared in because nearly four weeks ago twelve patients have died from the virus while nine victims of being cured shall about us re

ministry promised immediate counter—measures of similar size and strength. earlier i spoke to our washington correspondent gary o‘donoghue and asked whether it was a step towards a trade wars arms and telling his allies he was going to maintain those steel and aluminium tariffs now comes this bunch of tariffs on china, on a whole range of areas, particularly in areas where there is high—tech knowledge that goes into the products. the reason for this is twofold. one is that president trump generally thinks the trade deficit with china is too big. it is $375 billion at the moment. and secondly there is concern amongst his administration that china is stealing intellectual property and unfairly supporting its own high—tech industries by requiring american companies when they invest in china to hand over some of their intellectual property as well. so that is what has happened and there‘s been a whole bunch of talks between wilbert ross the commerce secretary and his chinese counterparts. the chinese offered to buy a bit more in terms of american products, it was not enough and the americans therefore have gone ahead with their threat to disrupt these tariffs on. gary, stay w

spokesperson for the commerce ministry in china was asked about the newest 200 billion-dollar threat coming out of this white house, and whether or not indeed we have in a quote, trade warthis was their take, quote, as we said before china does not want a trade war and certainly it is not afraid of fighting one. if a trade war is waged against us we will definitely safe guard our legitimate, lawful rights and interests. trish, peter navarro tried to characterize this as a trade dispute, not a trade war as it relates to potential steps forward. he said, look, our phone line is always open, always willing to talk, but he also added that talk is cheap. trish? trish: all right. thanks so much, blake burman. for nor on the markets i want to go to nicole petallides on the floor of the nyse. we're seeing a quite a selloff. fill us in, nicole. >> trish, fresh round of tariff talks, that hit the markets at this morning. at our low point down 400 points. down 299 at this moment and negative now for the year 2018. s&p and nasdaq also selling off. the dow down six days. nasdaq biggest selloff for six days. laggards related to industrials and materials, would have to do more with tr

the ministry of commerce here with the far more critical comments with the spokesperson saying the u.s. is abusing tariffs and triggering a trade warperson said china is fully prepared to respond to any new list of u.s. tariffs. the u.s. commerce secretary, wilbur ross, he went right back on the attack on china saying the u.s. has more arrows in its quiver in this tit-for-tat fight. >> was they put carrots, if it -- tarrifs if it went that far, they have nothing more they can do. we can go theoretically all the way up to the 500. that is not a very easy game for them to play. and similar ratios with other countries. that is what president trump means when he says that if it really does get to be a big war, we have many more bullets than any of these other countries. ross upped the ante even further saying china has been spoiled for years. and the game is over he says. ramy: we know china is retaliating with threats of butffs on our products, where else could china hit american businesses at this point? stephen: that is a good question. we heard from wilbur ross saying there's not that many more products he can attack, but they coul

of war and conflict behind us. also getting a piece of information from the reuters news agency carrying a line from a spokesperson for the chinese foreign ministryrity council tobacco peace efforts between president trump and kim jong—un. a lot of reaction coming through as you would expect as the historic summit ends here in singapore today. robert kelly is with me. a political a nalyst. robert kelly is with me. a political analyst. thank you for being with us. we are doing at marathon broadcast from 6am this morning to where we are today. you were just listening to me talking about those press statements. i want to ask about what we've just heard from reuters carrying the reaction from china about the easing of sanctions. yes, this means maximum pressure is going to be harderfor the campaign against north korea to bludgeon to come to the table. without chinese cooperation on that, that's the big missing link because china is 92% of trade for north korea. it would put a cord around north korea and maximum pressure. the president and mike pompeo talked about sanctions but if china does not work with that, it won't work and so i imagine the usa w

ministry. a little reaction there, sharp announcing the sale of shares. let's turn to our main story of the day. it is the white house officials trying to reach talks with china to avoid a trade ware tariffs on chinese products take effect july 6. former u.s. government officials and chinese experts have been contacted to gauge the chances of high-level talks in the next two weeks. of -- isolio manager with us. alberto, july will be a big -- the sixth of july could have aches significance. how concerned are you and your company about the reality of a trade war? is it numbers or sentiment that matter more to you? alberto: it is both. anduld say we are concerned positioned for an escalation. generally, we have seen a shift toward populism in the u.s. and now in many emerging markets, as well. when you have regimes and governments that overpromise to their electorate -- electorates, it is easy to blame any shortcoming on foreign countries and foreign enemies. of thersening geopolitical risk environments is likely to create downside to global growth. inthink the worst effect markets continued to be the emerging markets both in seenies and index, we have a repricing of equities in asi