This meeting it was a working level but it was a very small working level meeting just 2 south korean officials met with 2 counterparts from the Japanese Trade Ministry so picture says it all its a very small meeting and they explained to south korea that the country is now out of what so called white countries least this allows japan to export its high Tech Technologies to countries on this list without any restrictions and now south korea is on its way to be exempted from this list so from now on Japanese Companies are not allowed to export their eye to products south Korean Companies without certain rules on said certain procedures the weather is next and then. Oysters die and the shrimp are moving out we have wildlife mammals you know dolphins are past you know dying extreme weather and the u. S. Pushes the Mississippi River to record levels taking a heavy toll on wildlife costs. East meets west chinese shalyn mines make an entrance into an american style restaurant very. Hollow to have got more unsettled weather making its way across japan quite a mobile flow in our weather at the moment you see one a cloud moves out of the way slots of clear weather comes in but the next weather system will push through as we go on through the weekend some cloud and rain sliding towards cuba shoe full saturday fabric out there to tokyo humid 28 celsius and sets the afternoon for about 24 on sunday russia showers there through much of the kata home shook you should could all see some showers long spells of rain too across the Korean Peninsula bright skies there for northern parts of china 35 celsius in beijing Southern China southeastern china seeing some really nasty weather you can see this big area cloud here where was saying found the head to save the rain says set to continue we have had flooding concerns maybe 80000 people have had to leave their homes as a result of the extremely heavy rainfall that has been coming through here mudslides as well as a result of that staying disturbance or go on through saturday more heavy rain pushing up towards Shanghai Hong Kong little draw that has been recently but the rain becomes more expansive more widespread as we go on through sunday wet weather all the way down into more than pass the vietnam. Good to have you with us on our top stories turkey says its received the 1st shipment of the russian 400 Missile Defense system the u. S. Has previously warned that it could face sanctions of the deal and that it wont be allowed to buy its f. 35. 00 fighter jets. More than 120. 00 rebel fighters and soldiers have been killed in syria in the past 48 hours thats according to the syrian observatory for human rights they were fighting for a village in Hama Province which is now back on the government control and chinas trade to and from the u. S. Has plunged in the past year but an ongoing trade war between the countries the beijing says its trade surplus which triggered the dispute continues to rise. A 13 year old suicide bomber has blown himself up at a wedding in the killing 5 people and injuring dozens more the attack happened in the Eastern Province of no group has claimed responsibility. Now the captain and chief officer of an Iranian Oil Tanker have been arrested after their ship was seized in waters near gibraltar last week the crew of the grace one were under suspicion of breaking un sanctions by transporting oil to syria Irans Foreign Ministry has demanded the Immediate Release off the oil tanker and following a tally of 3 threats from ted are britons says iranian boats approached one of its oil tankers on thursday prompting a u. K. Warship to intervene iran has denied the encounter well the u. S. 5th fleet says its working closely with the british navy to defend the free flow of commerce and freedom of navigation through the region there in basra has been monitoring reaction in the iranian capital. Diplomatic relations between iran and the United Kingdom have been suffering for many months now and the events of the last 24 hours will not help that situation and the arrest of Senior Officers of the grace of one the oil tanker that was detained last week off the coast of gibraltar by the u. K. Royal marines that is likely to bring the same level of anger from leaders here into iran that the detention of the vessel the seizure of the vessel the oil tanker brought from the senior most levels of government last week irans president and other Senior Leaders calling it a violation of the sanctity of International Waterway something that was creating insecurity many Senior Iranian leaders also called the u. K. Move but that was by all accounts taken at the behest of the United States an act of piracy now iran is very angry about the fact that 2000000 barrels of crude a world were in the cargo vessel at the time of its seizure something that iran will find especially difficult now it is trying to continue to boil in the face of unilateral u. S. Economic sanctions and irans economy is certainly continuing to teeter so this is something that leaders will have taken it very seriously and the arrest of these 2 officers will no doubt escalate tensions even further earlier today iran denied reports that Islamic RevolutionaryGuard Corps Naval vessels tried to capture and seize a british vessel irans government flatly denied any truth to those reports saying that in the past 24 hours there had been no encounter with any foreign vessels irans foreign minister zarif calling the u. K. s version of events again another attempt to escalate tensions with iran. Now the roches news agency is reporting that the United States wont impose sanctions on irans foreign minister last month the u. S. Treasury secretary steve said mamma jobs or if would be blacklisted but sources have told reuters that the decision not to go ahead with that could be a sign that washington wants to keep the door to diplomacy with iran now in the u. S. President donald trump has approved federal resources to louisiana after hurricane warnings were issued along the coast parts of new orleans is still under water after days of thunder storms and floods residents of putting sandbags outside their properties all leaving town Hurrican Barry is expected to make landfall on saturday now the Mississippi River which runs through new orleans was already at record levels before the nations rains heard engineers have put measures in place to protect communities but as nick clark reports that is having an impact on the environment. The familial Mississippi River a crucial alatri of commerce which drains 41 percent of the entire United States this year its exceeded all records the volume of water down at schools swollen by extreme spring rains and snow melt upstream the mississippi has never been this high for this long it is unprecedented and everyone who lives in new orleans this puts the trust in the levee system which protects the city from flooding while upstream the engineer is well they try and ease the pressure. And theyve done that with a rare opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway built in the 90 thirtys to colossal quantities of water away from the main river in times of high flood of just about 12 times in its history this is actually the 1st year that its been opened twice in the same calendar year so this is really one of the one of the longest floods on record the spillway will remain open until the end of july but theres a problem its upset the ecological balance of the Mississippi Sound diluting the mix of fresh and so water with devastating effect to coastal businesses now were starting to see the repercussions which are you know oysters die in the shrimp or move and we have wildlife mammals you know dolphins of you know dying the turtles are die and we have a lot of salt water species now that are being affected heavily due to the rise of the river west it is a multimillion dollar industry here in St Bernard Parish but its sitting duck landings it down up to 80 percent the fishermen source of income has been all but destroyed and this is a very big impact this is the worst impact that this community has ever seen i mean weve weve been through katrina where weve been completely wiped off the map weve been through b. P. Weve been through a lot in this community watched over the years in my life this Community Come and go but this is the worst that ive ever seen. Now busy. This is a demanding that the federal government step in with emergency funding. For everything is dead and go back out there make no money or show out there. Then they near their help and the fear is with changing weather patterns this could become the new normal you might save the city from flooding but at a cost to a multimillion dollar industry they clog aljazeera new orleans louisiana. And the u. N. Secretary general says the world hasnt done enough to help mozambique after 2 successive cyclons killed hundreds of people and has appealed for more aid 4 months after and kevin devastated much of the region he says its clear that these disasters of course twice Climate Change the storms flattened cities and villages leaving more than a 1000000 people homeless west African Leaders are and i recall to plan the roll out of a single shared currency it would mean 8 former french colonies giving up their use of the c. F. A. From an address reports from ivory coast economic capital. Roasted coffee beans are ready for processing at this plant they ask. The factory is just one west African Business looking to cash in on the regions effort to liberalize trade. The plug says having a single currency would be good for business. There are different currencies in the region transactions among mean the countries is difficult right now but having a single currency makes trading a loss easier. Regional leaders have been pushing to integrate their cubbies they believe they are no closer to having a single currency than at any time. But there are all stickles. Different the level of Economic Development differs from one country to another for example the economies of nigeria ghana i call it the why are so smaller countries will simply drag the more advanced economies just like europe we all produce Raw Materials and import most of our needs there is little imports among member nations the c. F. A. Is one of west africas major caresses its a legal tender in 8 of the 15 countries in the region and if regional leaders have their way it will be replaced by a new currency for the whole of west africa negotiations for the single currency board after the euro have been underway for 30 years but the implementation of the i call west africa single currency was delayed several times but a recent agreement of an african free trade area is symbolise someones incentive enough for regional leaders to finally launch it after 3 failed attempts. While businesses say a common currency will ease regional trade not everyone is hopeful that all 15 members nations of the economic bloc of course have the political will to see it through next year by degrees. Now mediators from the African Union say a political transition agreement between saddams military hunter the prodemocracy coalition is expected to be signed by saturday the agreement sets up a joint council that will govern for about 3 years until elections are held brazilian president is being accused of nepotism part of nominating one of his sons to be to the post of u. S. Ambassador eduardo says hes prepared to resign from his position in congress if the nomination is approved but a federal judge says this would be a violation of the constitution. Now the american journalist Glenn Greenwald says hes facing Death Threats and calls for his deportation from brazil after publishing and criminate in Text Messages from the Justice Minister when he was working as a federal judge going what was questioned over the leaks this week by a Congressional Committee he says they show that says you have more improperly advised prosecutors and the corruption trial that jailed former president who is in asio alluded to sell over one of his question their authenticity and says they were obtained by criminal means theres been a very concerted relatively sophisticated and well funded campaign to disseminate information designed to create a Public Perception that im actually a criminal i think in anticipation of the possibility of taking some action against me that will then at least a degree of popular public support. Now a professional Sports Company in china is trying to combine traditional martial arts with american style prowrestling oriental wrestling entertainment has trained shall the monks to perform in the ring but as katrina new reports from shanghai not everyone is convinced by the east meets west experiment. This is not what the op than expected to do. After almost 2 decades of strict training. But hes not complaining the 30 year old is the budding star of oriental wrestling entertainment. Chinas answer to american Pro Wrestling to chinese audiences this rule. Is wolves away from the familiar silence of the shaolin temple. 2 years after its introduction here the sport is starting to win over fans. You know the young men like this nowadays theyre so it isnt yet so powerful i like their strong physics not everyone however is convinced. I dont think this kind of why i think that in china we chinese prefer to watch. Well its not the only fighting style used by the wrestlers. Is central to the sport. Many of those taking part trained as shallow monks who are from martial arts schools in ancient china is doing strained in martial arts protect their communities from bandits and other running these days of a hobby but these men say professional wrestling has given them a new way to turn that person into a career. As an actor as well as a wrestler he says his goal is to become the eastern equivalent of progress threatened Hollywood Star doing the rock johnson. Was there you should be very big in the fall of power we are smaller but have the vantage of who we are also fresh flexible conjunct hard. Critics say oriental wrestling entertainment strays too far from chinas comfy culture but organizers say it puts a contemporary spin on the tradition and brings it to a wider audience says. We need to nurture educate and train the audience is a complex mission even if we dont succeed we die trying. To hopes guest wrestlers from the United States and japan will boost the groups popularity and international profile. But the other person leaks popping up around the country. To have a fight and. Shanghai. Hello again im elizabeth problem in doha with the headlines on aljazeera russian cargo planes have begun delivering a controversial Missile System to turkey the 1st shipment of the s 400 a Defense System has been flown into a military airfield in ankara turkey is expecting delivery of more parts over the next few days the u. S. Had warned it would cancel an f. 35. 00 fighter jet deal if turkey took delivery off the missiles more than one 120. 00 rebels and soldiers have been killed in syria in the past 28 hours according to the syrian observatory for human rights they were fighting for a village in Hama Province which is now in the government control they know whether has more from beirut. Was under the governments control the rebels launched an offensive took control of the area and the government recaptured the village this has been happening for 11 weeks now a war of attrition the front lines have been changed there is the stalemate the opposition is making it extremely difficult and costly for the Syrian Government and its allies to advance late april the truce collapsed and the government went on this offensive they havent taken much ground theyve taken a number of towns but thats it. Now chinas trade to and from the u. S. Has plunged in the past year amid an ongoing trade war between the countries but beijing says its trade surplus which triggered the dispute continues to rise japan and south korea have held talks to resolve a worsening trade dispute tokyo has restricted the export of the 2 year olds used in manufacturing smartphones and memory chips to seoul japanese officials said the restrictions of because south korea is failing to control the export of sensitive materials to north korea someone has denied that demanding evidence and a un investigation the valves art by a colonial era disputes. West African Leaders of an ivory coast to plan the rolling out of a single shared currency to move would mean 8 former french colonies given up their use of a decades old currency which is backed by france well those are the headlines on aljazeera do stay with us inside stories coming up next thank you for watching. Testing the special relationship the u. K. s ambassador to the United States resigns in a public rally the leaked memories as britons are fares for a new Prime Minister and to leave the European Union how will this affect ties with its closest ally this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program dennis now what started as a leak of secret diplomatic memos to a british tabloid newspaper has led to the resignation of a tough ambassador and to questions about the u. K. s position in the world kim darrick felt compelled to quit as britains man in washington after a brow that swept across the atlantic the diplomats who described donald trump and his administration as ins a kill inept and dysfunctional in his reports back to london when the contents of those top secret files became public the president responded with a barrel of angry tweets the ambassador was abruptly disinvited from the white house dinner for the cattery amir President Trump insulted darrick personally and announced that he could not work with all of this on twitter to add to the mix Boris Johnson britains likely next Prime Minister refused to publicly support the ambassador johnsons critics around griot how events unfolded. We really should stand with our own we send people around the world we expect them to do a particular job we dont throw them under a bus and just because President Trump a strain a tantrum it does not mean that we dont stand with him you know when youre faced with a bully you stand up to him and frankly that is a sort of thing that Boris Johnson really ought to be doing you know when it comes to this president and frankly i dont think this this bodes well for the sort of Prime Minister that were likely to get. Right lets introduce our guests now in london we have Crispin Blunt a conservative member of the British Parliament in Jacksonville Florida we have Nancy Soderberg former Deputy National security advisor at the white house and also in london we have Matthew Paris a columnist for the Times Newspaper and a former conservative m. P. And clarke for Margaret Thatcher at the Foreign Office all of you so very well placed then to discuss todays issue can i start with you though crispin you are a cricket match in london were not usually allowed to see you in your sports kit however. How would you use what would you say are the main issues that have a risen as a result of this incident. Well people are piling into criticised Boris Johnson without really appreciating. The fact that he is going to be the next Prime Minister hes the old on favorite to win the conservative leadership election he has a terrific relationship with donald trump in the view of donald trump and of course thats at stake if he engaged in what i might describe as a conventional way with this issue say hes chosen to say nothing in these circumstances and i think thats probably for him the correct response at this moment right so its very critically taken as axiomatic that there is of course support for british diplomats around the world absolutely let me put it that a lot of the criticism then that is being a polling out against Boris Johnson and saying that hes hes that derives he has no has no loyalty to anyone and that he was prepared to threaten this senior diplomatic valuable Public Servant under the bus but its because nonsense and its entirely off opportunistic response from people who are campaigning against him on behalf of jeremy hunt for the leadership down in duncan used that expression iconoclastic colorful alan duncan use of use of use of language but the. Truth is he hasnt said anything apart from his were gone for kim dark once he had resigned and everyone appears to be cheerfully ignoring the fact that boris is going to be the Prime Minister on the 24th of july and he brings the table an immense asset for the United Kingdom and the terms of the puzzle relationship with donald trump the 2 things that have brought this issue i was is the is the leak which of course is now on the subject investigation should never have happened profoundly damaging very difficult to see who benefits from this and of course the sensitivity of donald trump and the extraordinary way in which he chooses to communicate. Donald trump i wasnt done himself any favors by the. Way hes responded to this and hes issued to manage for all the people around him in the white house as well as other countries have got to do business with him right and im going to try and find the best way to manage this relationship all right lets go to you matthew also in london youre shaking your head i presume therefore you you dont completely agree with crispin i mean there are many who are suggesting that this whole incident is bringing into question the if he was sovereignty of britain sovereignty of britains independence from its began. In this socalled special relationship when it does i cant believe im hearing Crispin Blunt saying these things no British Foreign secretary that i can imagine before this former foreign secretary would have done anything but stand stalwartly behind him derek you you absolutely cannot allow other countries to say who they will and who they wont have as their ambassador this is been an act of appalling insolent rudeness by the president of the United States its very insulting to the United Kingdom and all the pro brack said people including Boris Johnson always talking about how were going to get away from servitude and vassalage from the European Union and then we go proving to the United States just because Boris Johnson thinks and i doubt whether hes right that he has a special relationship with the president its its outrageous absolutely outrageous matthew there are those who pointed out like chrispin that britain post brets it is going to be deeply in need of friends and that quite frankly whoever is to lead the United Kingdom most likely Boris Johnson that they need to be prepared to make sure that those alliances affirm no matter what well it is certainly true that breaks it is going to put us at the mercy of what friends we have left in the world and that will to some extent include the americans but if we are. How to proceed on the basis of a good deep equal friendship with the United States what we absolutely do not do is. An erratic president to chuck out our own ambassador it isnt it isnt the kind of fame but liberal democratic countries who are allies due to each other right coming to you now nancy in Jacksonville Florida this cycle special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom has never been one of equals has it has that relationship do you think being damaged by what effectively many say is the sacking of a of a top british diplomat by the tweaks of the us president this has a relationship that has gone through bumps in the past and will in the future but remains a rock solid we need the the u. K. Needs us and i dont see this changing that one iota whats unusual about this is that the president of the United States entered the fray if you remember with wiki leaks we had ambassadors who had to resign or ambassador mexico had to resign our investor in libya had to resign but whats unusual about this is the president escalated it to his twitter account and immediately brought it to the fray where the ambassador sir cam had no choice but to resign now. Pushed him over the edge but it was inevitable that he would resign normally what would have happened is a state department sort of quietly saying when Boris Johnson comes to power maybe he could have a new ambassador and then sir can would be appointed to a new post johnson can make it up to serkin by appointing him to something important when he takes over presumably at the end of this month but there is no more important diplomatic posts than the ambassador to the United States the having worked there myself the most coveted invitation in washington outside a stay. Dinner at the white house is dinner at the ambassadors residence weve all played tennis there we have breakfast their lunch and theirs its a key card in the wheel of diplomacy in washington and it once the investor loses confidence of the white house and particularly with this white house because the state department the rest of the government doesnt speak with authority only President Trump does and so you have to have that in right of circle of the minute president. He had to have rotated out we all thought it would happen a little bit more gracefully and a little bit longer but thats the world and President Trump it changes everything right and crispin coming back to you im Peter Ricketts the former head of the Foreign Service of course who called this an act of political sabotage any os the question what does this say about the state of our country i put it to you again that the the whole if you have of of britains sovereignty and its status in that relationship with the United States is now being thrown into disarray as a consequence of this. So i have a status there are leaks weve had wiki leaks in the past this is being this is a particularly toxic leak it shouldnt have happened to see who benefits from this so thats one issue and then that combines with this very unusual and sudden emission erratic insecure president who communicates in this quite extraordinary undisciplined way and he says 2 things that have come together to create this circumstance and succumbed our took the decision that given what President Trumpet said about him that him staying on for another 5 months as the ambassador with the full support of the British Government probably wasnt going to do anybody any favors and i think he took the correct decision in the White British interest how do i salute him for it ok maybe not a magnificent career a Public Servant and no one can blame him but that doesnt take that may run into piling up but but everyone then to pot but then when he wanted for everyone then to pile in on Boris Johnson in the middle of a leadership election when i think he wisely simply said remember he said nothing he didnt endorse President Trumps view he didnt then immediately investing heavily in sikkim darkening difficulty with the president he has already established in trumps would a very Good Relationship with the next president of the with the president of the United States is the next Prime Minister the United Kingdom and he just i think rather wisely chose in these circumstances not very publicly engage right i think he made to the right choices but that other people who have who have other reasons are not an accident or a drawing to a made the wrong choice let our other 2 guests come in i know that but i think this is now out of here and say now he has to you then to my new nancy what did you have to say. By not saying anything he could he was not endorsing one of britains finest diplomats and i think its important that thats why you have the rockets and i think thats a fair criticism but the bigger issue here is that the special relationship is going to be just fine and what happened is that sir kim said what everyone in washington is saying talking to all the other diplomats in washington theyve all written back exactly the same thing so the bigger question is does this hamper how a diplomat can do his job he