Components that it needs for its high tech manufacturing. It comes on top of restrictions last month on the export of Raw Materials for the production of semiconductors in south korea with fears of a knock on effect to manufacturing in neighboring countries. Japan denies its linked to a decades old dispute over its water time record. Deal this move was approved to revise japans export controls appropriately and was not intended to hurt japan south korea relations or to craft Counter Measures japan has been angered by a Supreme Court ruling in favor of victims of forced labor joining world war 2 with several japanese firms ordered to pay compensation thats despite japans insistence that an agreement in 1965 was meant to have resolved the issue once and for all but those studying the history of the turbulent relationship say its clear the 2 sides have always held opposing views on the nature of that agreement. Is hoto having up until now they have lived with their separate interpretations but this state of agreeing to disagree has been shaken and can no longer stand after this Court Decision and now we are at a most critical juncture in korea japan relations and now south korea is saying it will retaliate and remove japan from its list of preferential trade partners further worsening the dispute rob Mcbride Al Jazeera soul. Still to come here on aljazeera be loyal or face punishment Civil Servants in hong kong to find government orders return to the streets. A vote for any democrat in 2020 years a vote for the rise of radical socialism also ahead well tell you why immigration is once again topping the agenda as donald trump returns to the campaign trail. Hello again more flooding across much of the Southern China and this time it is ready to do with what is Tropical Storm this. Some is mixed in with all this cloud here it will continue to weaken the winds will certainly weaken over the next few days but the rain very evident as you can see particularly heavy these dokic colors indicating that pushing into these northern sections of it a wet couple of days ahead in 227 celsius on suffer day and also west into hong kong the winds certainly easing in hong kong over the next couple of days but again the rain isnt and in fact on sunday the rainy sunday right the way you can see up but east coast even shanghai with a high of 32 you will likely see some rain and then india well the monsoon rains have been very heavy across Central Regions for the last few days on the west and gas as well and he say again these prices indicating those heaviest falls over a soft a day it is very widespread we have got some very heavy rain in the forecast mumbai 29. 00 with those rains now a poor 28. 00 time which is of course although we have the rains in the for cause this sunday on sunday as well youll see those rains really dont take much of a break in fact right the way through much of the pool and again don is northeast of india and also very heavy down into much of myanmar as well 29 again in the pool. Some downtime jr was promised damaging information about the hillary probably going to see the station sit down did the trump card. With russia did you at any time bridge former f. B. I. Director james comey in any way shape or form the closer to back down the investigation into Michael Flynn and also as you know. Next question battlefield washington on aljazeera. Welcome back youre with aljazeera my names peter darby lets recap your top stories Syrian Government representatives and the opposition have agreed on a ceasefire in the last rebel held province of the opposition says it has already withdrawn its heavy weapons under the sochi agreement but the government and its allies brokerage 3 months ago. Russia says the u. S. Has made a quote serious mistake by pulling out of a landmark arms control agreement the intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty was signed with the former soviet union during the cold war but the u. S. Administration says russia has not kept its side of the bargain. One of the stories south korea says it will remove japan from its list of countries with preferential trading status the retaliatory measures are in response to japans earlier decision to drop south koreas fast track export status. Staying in syria and its annual report on children and Armed Conflict the u. N. Today saying 1800 children were killed or seriously injured there last year mainly from pro Syrian Government air strikes including the use of barrel bombs and cluster munitions attacks on schools and medical facilities with the highest since the 8 year war began in syria and elsewhere children continue to be recruited as soldiers more than 2000 of them in somalia where hundreds of cases of Sexual Violence were reported to and 65 percent of all child abductions worldwide happened in the one country mike hanna now from the u. N. A particular point of dispute which happens every year when the secretary general releases this report he adds at the end in a dent in a socalled list of shame an excess a enix be an excess and a list countries or parties who have done nothing whatsoever to ease the situation on the killing or maiming of children section b. List parties or countries that he in his opinion have taken some form of action to protect children to some degree now once again in the report for example he mentions a number of conflicts that occurred a number of incidents against children one by u. S. Led coalition and afghan east on the Afghan National army the israeli army and the sol the Led Coalition in yemen but in each of those cases none of them are listed in section 8 now with the saudi Led Coalition for example that is still in section b. Now that is the list as i said of parties that are trying to do something to protect children but one must note that this is the 3rd year in a row that the saudi Led Coalition has been in this particular section in yemen 729. 00 children were killed when a nd by the saudi Led Coalition according to the United Nations of besta gaiters thats a 25 percent increase on the year before so Human Rights Watch for example is oskar why bodies like this remain in a section of the report where they are saying they are doing something but the figures quoted by the u. N. Itself shows exactly the opposite so this is where the debate is going to center once again about which countries which parties should or should not be on that list of shame if im up for some kind of u. N. Action in time to come. A year after it was detected in the d r c the number of cases is continuing to rise 2 people have tested positive for the virus in the eastern border city of goma the 3rd and 4th cases of the wife and one year old baby of a man who died on wednesday rand briefly closed its border with the d r c on thursday as a precaution malcolm webb has more from nairobi. Health officials are talking about how they can ramp up their response to this spreading outbreak now that its in the regional capital of goma which has a population of at least 2000000. 00 people in its adjoined to the neighboring city of gifts any basically want to have an area with a border running through the middle and with a growing number of cases on the congolese side people are wondering now how this outbreak of the virus can be further stand with many people live in poor housing in cramped conditions and Health Responses already faced challenges throughout eastern congo being able to communicate to people and also to be able to convince people that Health Service providers are there to help this is an area where people have a lot of skepticism about government and about all 40 following decades of conflict a lack of Public Services and. Of mistrust among the population towards those who are in power libyas interior minister has ordered the closure of 3 migrant attention sent to condemnation from the un over conditions there 2 facilities are in the coastal cities of misrata and homs the 3rd is entire jura of the capital tripoli forces loyal to the warlords and the for after that facility in an airstrike a month ago killing at least 52. 00 migrants officials have started evacuating the centers but it is unclear where the migrants are being sent next. To algeria where thousands of people have turned for nationwide antigovernment protests for 24th consecutive week the president Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned in april after 20 years in office demonstrations are pushing for greater change the countrys ruling elite president ial elections planned for last month were canceled because of a lack of candidates. Sudans military has dismissed and detained 9 members of a Paramilitary Group as a responsible for the killing of protesters in man and l o by doctors say at least 5 people were killed during nationwide marches on thursday demonstrators were rallying against the killing on monday of at least 6 other protesters. Is blaming the Paramilitary Rapid support forces for those deaths. Global stock markets continued to fall a day after President Trump imposed more tariffs on goods from china wall street opened in the red on friday after mr trump announced a 10 percent tariff on 300000000000. 00 worth of chinese imports as of next month the major european markets open their trading with their biggest slide this year there are renewed fears of the escalating trade war and how it might lead to a Global Economic slowdown china says it will not be blackmailed and has warned of retaliation. Thousands of Civil Servants in hong kong have defied government warnings and rallied in support of prodemocracy protesters they want an independent investigation into alleged Police Brutality and for charges against demonstrators to be withdrawn it follows weeks of escalating protests triggered by the controversial extradition bill and thomas has more from hong kong. The been a lot of protests in recent weeks have a perhaps none as significant as this one because these people are all Civil Servants they would hold the government the government their employer that they have come out to protest against and that is despite an open letter published on thursday by the government to carry land saying the Civil Servants should not take part in this protest or any other so as to preserve their impartiality but they come out the next means of thousands filling this square head to capacity all the main roads around here are blocked with crowds hundreds of feet as well people are spoken to here say that they felt they had to come out to show their support for protest as they say it has nothing to do with them for the government what they do in their free time i spoke to a math teacher i spoke with translates of doctors as well saying that this is moving for frankly the what they do day to day in terms of working for the government now this cycle has been a completely peaceful protest or a more right test planned over the weekend so on saturday a further what on sunday and on monday calls for a strike right across from. The strong earthquake has hit off the coast of indonesia island of Java National authorities have told those living near the coast to head to Higher Ground in case of a tsunami the magnitude 6. 8 quake hits at a depth of around 40 kilometers so far theres been no reports of damage or casualties but the trauma was felt as far away as the capital jakarta President Donald Trump is back out on the campaign trail taking his 2020 reelection bid to the city of cincinnati in ohio then he launched a blistering attack on his democratic rivals but the issue of immigration soon became the big talking point hi joe castro was there. Democrat lawmakers care more about illegal aliens a Protester Holding a banner reading immigrants built america took the air out of trumps speech for about 5 minutes but the president largely avoided attacking minority and immigrant leaders by name a practice his opponents had labeled racist instead trump doubled down on criticism of the majority africanamerican city of baltimore the homicide rate in baltimore is significantly higher than el salvador honduras guatemala i believe its higher than afghanistan thousands of supporters have lined up for hours to attend the rally hes only saying the truth and i dont know how thats racist if to say a place is trash and hes not racist at all hes just merely pointing out the problems that exist in our society and were just going to have to correct trump pointed to the declining number of border arrests as a product of his hardline policies despite criticism of his administrations detention of children in squalid conditions trump lauded his crackdown at the border and the numbers are way down youll see that way way down. Democrat lawmakers care more about illegal aliens than they care about their own constituents they put foreign citizens before american citizens were not going to do that the last few days have seen the democratic president ial candidates in the spotlight back to back televised debates with trump attacking their performance polling shows Democratic Front runner joe biden leads trump by 8 points in ohio at this early stage of the election season a vote for any democrat in 2020 years a vote for the rise of radical socialism and the destruction of our great our beautiful our wonderful American Dream were not going to let our country ever go down the route of socialism the Trump Campaign says ohio is a must win state in 2020 this bellwether state has in fact the president ial winner nationally going on more than 50 years and so we will hear much more about ohio as the battleground between front and the democratic nominee joe castro aljazeera cincinnati ohio. Staying with politics the u. K. s new Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has suffered his 1st electoral defeat his governing conservative party has lost a byelection in the brecon in wales leaving it with a one seat working majority in the house of commons in london the seat was taken by the Pro European Union the liberal democrats and that will make it harder for mr johnson to push through his plans for a possible no deal. It is considered the single biggest celebration of arts and culture in the world and its getting ready for kick off in scotland this years Edinburgh Fringe festival featuring more than 50000. 00 performances will range from comedy to dance and musicals. Were here on the royal mile where artists are desperately trying to your audience for their shows using any means possible mostly flyers plastered everywhere and thats because there is so much competition here some 4000 shows in 63 Different Countries will be formed in every nook and cranny of the city over the next 3 weeks theyll be. First cabaret comedy musicals or artistic is on those are covered now the themes are largely political 2 years ago we saw a lot of threats it seems shows this year its Climate Change using Carbon Emissions and mass extinctions and Global Warming forming the backdrop to a lot of performances one so cool 1. 00 degrees will feature x. Is reading the i. P. C. C. Report the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in full and thats going to take 5 days but it is a chance they say for our audiences to delve beneath the headlines because the artists ive spoken to him say they dont see Climate Change as the technological political problem anymore but as a cultural one and theyre using their voices to try and transform public opinion. This is al jazeera these are the top stories syrias government and the opposition have agreed on a ceasefire in the last rebel held province of idlib it was announced during the 13th round of the socalled star talks the opposition says it has already withdrawn its heavy weapons under the sochi agreement but the government and its allies brokered the deal 3 months ago they insist they will abide by the ceasefire as long as the government doesnt violate it. We withdrew the heavy weapons following the sochi agreement but the regime violated this agreement and took advantage of the withdrawal so they can launch their cunning criminal attacks if the regime commits to the cease fire we will commit on our end and there will not be any need to talk about heavy weapons in the area russia says the u. S. Has made a quote serious mistake by pulling out of a landmark arms control agreement on friday the intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty was signed with the former soviet union during the cold war but the u. S. Administration now says russia hasnt kept its side of the bargain theres another big protest in hong kong today Civil Servants from across the territory have resisted orders from the Hong Kong Government that they need to remain neutral and join fridays rally in the business district. A year after it was detected in the d. R. See the number of cases is rising 2 peo