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hello welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha imo team dennis coming up in the next sixty minutes. the u.s. secretary of state blames the four countries blockading cata for failing to end the standoff. it stuns me that a member of congress with a listen in on a conversation. absolutely stuns me president trying to change his staff gives an emotional defense of his boss's reported remarks of a grieving war with. the e.u. rules out intervening in spain succession crisis as madrid prepares to impose direct rule on catalonia. find out why hundreds of thousands of iraqi kurds streaming out of kid cook days after baghdad regained control of the city.

your suggests a direct silis and has criticized the four countries imposing an economic blockade on qatar for refusing to engage in talks to diffuse the crisis now in june saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain they close their airspace and they seven trade and diplomatic links with chatter last month president trump offered to mediate between the policy isn't and said that he hoped the issue would be resolved quickly but now mr tillerson they say that there is little hope of a resolution anytime soon well he is due to visit the gulf in the coming days his the state department spokeswoman we want to see these come. keep their focus on the areas of mutual cooperation that we have and that includes the fight against terror terrorism and other things of that nature so i think the secretary is you

know certainly discouraged that nothing has been resolved just yet he's talked pretty consistently although folks haven't haven't paid much attention to it reese recently about the disappointment that the nation's haven't been able to solve the g.c.c. crisis we hope that they well we hope that they'll sit down and have talks but it seems like they're not ready to do that yet by this girl i've got to hide our correspondent in washington d.c. and the secretary of state making no bones about it he's he's really placing the blame on the shoulders of the four blockading countries. that's right and what we heard today in this interview that rex tillerson gave to bloomberg news was a change in tone now the optimism that we heard three months ago when tillerson last visited the region is gone completely in this interview he said that he that the countries that are initiating this blockade are showing a real unwillingness to engage while qatar is willing to open that chain of

dialogue now there has been a lot of frustration on the part of of tillerson as you heard from the state department spokeswoman regarding how long this dispute has dragged on we are now into the fourth month and tomorrow when he heads to riyadh and then on to doha he has indicated that we initiating these talks and pushing toward sooner resolution will be his goal was the same time today setting that expectation pretty low saying that this will likely drag on for a while clearly the fact that he's bothering to undertake this mission to come to the go that would signify that he thinks that there is some room for maneuver that he can possibly effects of positive change. that's right he certainly is doing this with some hope of a positive outcome he did this in july when you employed shuttle diplomacy between saudi arabia and qatar but it is also notable that this is

a very different stance than what the u.s. policy toward this gulf crisis started as back in june when this crisis began if you remember president donald trump immediately jumped on twitter siding with saudi arabia in trying to take claim some credit for the blockade saying it was a result of his visit to the region well since then the white house has been much more quieter on the subject the state department has taken the lead on finding a diplomatic solution and the defense department has also intervened last month there were plans for some joint exercises between the u.s. military and its gulf partners in the region those were suspended into the department of defense in the interest of regional unity and we also saw secretary of defense jim mattis paid a surprise visit to doha last month visiting the u.s. military base there and also meeting with qatari diplomats and officials all of

which is to say that this there is a tremendous amount of activity happening in the u.s. on the cabinet level to try to address this crisis even though the administration has been largely silent which is another indicator of how fine of a line the u.s. is trying to walk here in helping its various u.s. allies reach a resolution. thank you. now the white house chief of staff has defended president's reported remarks this week to the widow of a slain soldier president trump is accused of being insensitive during a phone call to the widow her husband was killed in an ambush in asia this month a member of congress says she actually heard the president's comments john kelly told a white house news conference that he was broken hearted by the criticism of president trump's effort to offer his condolences i watch house correspondent kimberly how could how small. the white house is continuing to try and contain the controversy

surrounding the president's condolence call to the widow of sergeant le david johnson he is one of four u.s. soldiers killed in earlier this month the president's chief of staff made a rare appearance to the white house briefing room speaking with emotion he says that he told the president not to make that call but if he did he says he advised donald trump to tell the family that the soldier knew what he was getting into something that donald trump denied just one day earlier he knew he was going to self into it because he enlisted there's no reason why list the list that he was where he wanted to be exactly where he wanted to be with exactly the people he wanted to be with when his wife was taken that was the message that was a message that was transmitted it stuns me that a member of congress were to listen in on a conversation absolutely stuns me. and i thought at least that was

shaken now the democratic congresswoman who listened in on that call and who has been a critic of the president for some time fredricka wilson says in fact that it is her belief and she maintains that she believes donald trump did disrespect sergeant johnson in that call she knows the family well she has known him since he was a child mentoring him before he enlisted as a soldier still the white house is taking aim at the congresswoman saying that not only is her argument inappropriate in fact the chief of staff calling her actions selfish behavior or i would go back to earlier story that of the g.c.c. crisis and rex tillerson the u.s. secretary of state's comments pretty much blaming the for blockading countries for there having been no progress in this particular dispute we can just show on who's

executive director of the arab center in washington he's joining us live now via skype just first of all to find out what you think about the tone of the tellus and comments he's venturing up to the go quite soon but he's also trying to manage expectations it would appear. definitely you know first of all it is normal upon embarking on trips like that to kind of lower expectations. if you will but judging basically or comparing this trip. with the previous one going back to say the last one going back to july there was a lot more optimism on the part of the u.s. secretary of state and his team then we find today based basically on their failure over the past four months to find a political solution to this crisis but yet you know he's trying. to sort of this stop to try to kind of resuscitate if you will the earlier efforts

that he spent on this conflict now four months into this dispute what do you think is the real motivating factor the real driving force behind the action taken by the full blockading countries against kasa some people suggest it's the m.v.a. over the world cup. i'm not sure if it's that's all i mean there is the over the world cup but i'm not sure it's the sole reason for this i have a feeling that this is essentially a political conflict over different perspectives with regards to local regional and international politics and an attempt to dictate to cut out and force it to abide if you will or adopt the same positions as the countries that are engaged in boycotting it but it's also based on misunderstanding

particularly on the part of the boycotting countries they thought that was going to be an easy task it's going to be a short if you will project this time and particularly since they received initial support from president trump they kind of overestimated the impact of that support through the tweeting foreign policy that he engaged in during the first few days of the crisis and they underestimated the reaction of the world and the ability of contact was tanned this pressure all right given that what prospect is that then full mista to listen to come to the region with not necessarily a magic bullet but at least some creative diplomacy that might help the full brocaded nations climb down from their positions presumably is a face saving measure that's required. it is essentially

a face saving measure but i'm sure that he doesn't have anything new. today as you know arrives and in saudi arabia. compared to what he already presented to the parties. he believes that as i said earlier that this is a centrally political conflict at banks for a political solution and he feels that the parties know exactly what they need to do he is willing to i think in his services and that is the administration to negotiate if you will the government fees and to even offer to go and teach that particularly the saudis have asked from qatar through u.s. auspices but the response has been as i said because somehow the saudis thought that the u.s. thought that the u.s. is going to basically retreat from its position position which debuted today as

somehow siding with qatar or rather than being on the right side of the equation right how josh thank you very much my pleasure thank you now their support for spain from european leaders is the catalan secession crisis escalates bot the e.u. itself says it will not intervene in the dispute spain's prime minister mariano rajoy has secured the backing of the french president emmanuel mackerel as well as the german chancellor angela merkel they met ahead of a two day summit taking place in brussels the leader of the european council donald tusk has ruled out any european union role in the dispute between madrid and barcelona. of course for many reasons and the permanent conductor is the prime minister. hiding to the situation in spain is concerning but. position i mean if you're sincere and.

clear the. room for the kind of mediation. international. initiative action spain's government is preparing neymar to suspend catalonia is autonomy after a final deadline on thursday to drop secession plans was pretty much ignored the process will start on saturday that's when madrid will decide which polls to take from barcelona need barca reports now from the catalan capital. spain's political crisis is deepening after failing to comply with the spanish government catalonia it will now be stripped of its autonomy more theoretical model argue for in the absence of a clear response we note that he has not answered our request and therefore we will continue procedure of triggering article one five five of the constitution to restore legality in catalonia the capital and president. had been given until

thursday morning to clarify and revoke any independence claim last week he unilaterally declared independence and similar suspended it to allow for talks but instead of clarifying his position sent a letter to madrid calling for an end to repression and for dialogue. prime minister mariano rajoy has repeatedly refused to mediate with the secessionists we're now in uncharted territory article one five five has never been invoked in mainland spain before you can see devolved powers over the raising of taxes education health care in the police soon in madrid hands of the very worst you could see the suspension of the government and the arrest of its leaders it's hard to imagine any of these scenarios unfolding without more massive protests or perhaps even a change of tactics i think there's no possibility of following like taking arms

praising arms and or even like. seeing the birth of a terrorist group i don't think that is a possibility at all but some kind of more aggressive i don't want to say by a lead but more stronger organized an insurgency in terms of political insurgency and organization i think it's it's a problem. but madrid the show restraint amnesty international's urge the spanish government to avoid a repeat of these scenes on the day of the catalan referendum. they've also asked for two independence leaders jailed by spanish judge to be released the spanish government expects it to finalize plans for direct rule at a cabinet meeting on saturday. in response the catalan leadership say they'll now formalize independence with a vote of the regional parliament this tense standoff is entering a critical new phase. ok. we've got

a lot more to come in this. including we're looking closely at the situation in afghanistan after more taliban attacks in which one hundred twenty people have been killed in the space of just a few days. kangaroo in. the end of the line why they're no longer making this classic car in australia plus. on paul reese in the netherlands where norway's women's football team is about to play their first world cup qualifier since they secured a historic equal pay deal with the man. now the taliban have killed forty three afghan soldiers in an assault in the middle of the night on a military camp the group set off two suicide bombs at a base in the my wand district of kandahar province followed by hours of gunfight

more than one hundred twenty people have now been killed in a series of taliban attacks this week alone our correspondent jennifer gratz has more from the capital kabul. the taliban attacked the afghan army base in southern afghanistan in my want near the helm on the border in the early hours of thursday morning killing forty three afghan soldiers there elsewhere in afghanistan at about the same time five soldiers killed five police killed the numers and six killed in northern bloc province that of course coming after earlier this week two separate attacks in eastern afghanistan borders impact and in gaza killed another eighty people as well most of them afghan security forces some of them civilians the gardez attack involving a two suicide car bombs also wounded three hundred people security forces as well as civilians but the fact that these attacks have taken place in the north in the

east in the south and the southwest show really that the breadth of. the taliban has across the country the fact that they are able to make launch these significant major attacks across the country and hold certain areas and also that they're willing to attack military posts and inflict large amounts of casualties shows that they really can still fight now afghanistan i think that's the message they're trying to send to the afghan government and to the international community particularly perhaps the united states government which is starting to send a several thousand additional troops here to afghanistan to support the afghan security forces and the and the american secretary of state saying that the united states remain in afghanistan as long as the taliban don't come to the peace table that is the ultimate goal of the afghan government to make peace with the taliban or fight them so that they're no longer relevant so far that the taliban have shown really no indicate indication that they plan to come to the peace table in the

fighting becomes more intense. ok we can now speak to omar samad who's a former senior advisor to abdullah abdullah the chief executive of afghanistan is also former afghan ambassador to france and canada and he's joining us live from washington d.c. thank you very much for talking to us and the ultimate aim then of the afghan government is to have peace talks with the taliban what's preventing those talks from taking place so. i'm afraid we haven't got the sound quite sorted out yet with our guests in washington d.c. we'll work on that hopefully get back to him but in the meantime about one hundred thousand kurds have now fled the area since it was retaken by iraqi forces on monday the u.n. says it's worried by reports that civilians are being forced out of their houses and their businesses are being looted and destroyed from the kurdish regional capital bill seventy decca records. in a dusty abandoned housing project on the outskirts of erbil these are unexpected

occupants. kurdish families who fled their homes in kirkuk and surrounding areas just a couple of days ago now scrambling for basic supplies. to man abdul karim says she laughed because she was scared of shia militia fighters called hostile shabby who arrived alongside the iraqi army they weren't good we'd kurds they didn't treat us well they used to take em and imprison them even hit women my husband is dead all i could do is take my four children and run away we came to a build it is ours to get he the road was like routed iraqi prime minister hi there labatt he has ordered all armed groups out of kirk cook with only the iraqi army and federal police remaining he insists is safe and calls for the protection of civilians and many here tell us they won't return. just like mohammed in his family he was a policeman in kirkuk until he fled two days ago. people are saying is safe now but

it is propaganda and i they came out and beat the us they have burned houses that's why we got scared because of our families that's why we left a political party sold us out not all kurds are refugees this is all political. hinting at the internal divisions among the main two kurdish political parties the ruling accuse the p u k of colluding with the iraqi government leaders iran and turkey in orchestrating the takeover of a cook complex web of age old kurdish rivalries and geopolitical interests thouse you might have seen through her sixty seven years. on a lot happened to us we don't own our own house now we don't even know if we have a house or out things every year there is a war this war then leads to this fight that leads to this war i. wish should we go now. what is life in iraq she asks since i was

a child i've never seen happiness it's off to war she tells us. many warned that regaining territory captured by eisel would mean little in solving iraq's complicated territorial ethnic and sectarian tensions it seems they may have been right stephanie decker or jazeera. meanwhile kurds in neighboring syria are celebrating after their forces backed by the u.s. recapture the city of raka it had been under eisel control ever since twenty fourteen years of airstrikes and fighting there have left much of the city in ruins but victory is being seen as a major blow to the armed group it was a last major urban area they held about the growing influence of syria's kurdish factions is raising concern in neighboring turkey. reports. on the syria turkey border. fighters from the popular protection units or y p g celebrating

the capture of rock. they are the most powerful kurdish group in syria. the wife e.g. is part of a coalition of kurdish factions known as the syrian democratic forces. i met at. the operation to liberate bracco was a strategic and ideological battle for our forces we participated in it in a commanding role side by side with our comrades in the syrian democratic forces and the people's protection units behind the job and fighters stands. on the jailed leader of turkey's main kurdish rebel group the kurdistan workers' party. and. it's a terrorist organization next to a post is a picture of a prominent command in the old female kurdish militia. that with

solid intentions and a will that hasn't been broken we have achieved our goal which was to pound the strongholds of terrorism in the city we have restored on a to use eighty women by liberating dozens of slaves who were taken from and we've also frayed a similar number of children. name roundabout is where i said fighters paraded in two thousand and fourteen when they took over iraq. it was also what opponents were murdered with isis gone these parading on the same spot to a sense of a growing influence their territorial gains stretch from the northeast all the way to near the y.p. g.'s show of force in iraq is likely to further stoke regional tension turkey considers the kurds rising role in syria as a threat to its national security and turkish leaders accuse the y.p.

geo of being an extension of the p.k. k. on war force may be used against kurdish factions to stop their advances. the turkey's border. probably going back to matters afghan now and there's been a massive onslaught of taliban activity we can now speak we can't speak. we are going to try again but in the meantime we're going to look at what's coming up here on the al jazeera news. i'm alan fischer in puerto rico it's a month since the hurricane here struck and many communities are still struggling with the aftermath and they're asking where is the government help but they were promised. local fans look to have someone to cheer for in the kremlin cup semifinals peter will have the details. from a fresh breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback.

hello through the philippines the weather is really very active and wet but over china it's all gone nice and quiet even the breeze is light and so you've got twenty to thirty degrees running from shanghai and hong kong fairly low humidity and sunny skies that's right back up into the high right in western china event even vietnam looks pretty dry all the energy is gone to the east in what is currently a typhoon waiting to go up towards japan so enjoy your time the rain just trying to come back by the start of the weekend now given that we've got that massive activity of the philippines and you for the trial back of the dying summer monsoon front back to what's thailand south of that sort of very few showers there are some of the sea in the forecast but not that many because of the say you know the energy is gone but if you go back through thailand to myanmar still we've got a fairly active monsoon trough which is very becoming bit more active in the bay of

bangor of the next day or so showers could be random for singapore but generally speaking you got more chance of having a dry day rather than a wet day now the bay of bengal it's obviously a circulation of cloud here affecting india and maybe bangladesh rather than the east and southern girl which takes you into myanmar but it's a wet time anyway for the next two days. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. still navigating dangerous rapids from the time with the part to the time we finished scared to the fisherman dicing with death. i'm afraid of foreign i'm afraid of dying vilify don't go by coffee my family need the men who go to the extreme just to make a living. but you have to be a strong swimmer otherwise i would say from risking it all vietnam at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of count

folk abene dot. the first u.n. envoy trying to bring peace to the middle east how is negotiations with himmler helped save thousands of jews from nazi concentration camps and how these mediation skills put him at the vanguard in the quest for peace in the middle east. killing the count at this time on al jazeera. top rizieq a look at the top stories here it out to syria the u.s. secretary of state has criticised the four countries imposing a blockade on cata for refusing to engage in dialogue rex tillerson said there was

an unarmed willingness on the part of the four countries to negotiate despite cata being ready to engage. european leaders a backing spain as the catalan crisis escalates in brussels the prime minister mariano rajoy won the support of the french president emmanuel mccraw as well as the german chancellor angela merkel bought the e.u. itself says it will not intervene in the dispute between madrid and barcelona. the white house chief of staff has come to the defense of president donald trump's call this week to the widow of a slain soldier mr trump is accused of making insensitive remarks during a phone call to the widow of a soldier who was killed in an ambush in israel earlier this month. now the former president of the united states barack obama has urged americans to reject the. politics of division that's growing in the country it appeared to be

a swipe at president donald trump without actually mentioning his name well president obama was speaking at an event for the democratic candidates in the race to become the next governor of the state of new jersey this is the first time the former president has returned to the campaign trail since leaving office. the only thing the. fields are full of life. is the same the fish from the. fish are feeling. the liberty to linux on the way. we want. to make. sure that we will get ready.

well he's the second former us president to express concern about the political climate in the country in his many days on wednesday george w. bush spoke at a business farm in new york. we she actually was in the story you name it isn't. government dynamism immigration is always brought to america. we see a fading confidence in the value of free markets and international trade forgetting that conflict instability and poverty following the way of protectionism. well meanwhile president trump himself is basted about his administration's handling of the devastation caused by hurricane mariya in puerto rico during a meeting with the caribbean islands governor ricardo it was a great the president gave his government a ten out of ten rating and that's despite critics saying the response was actually insufficient compared to how hurricanes in texas and florida well handled. how

would you rate the white house. it was a ten i would say it was probably the most difficult. when you talk about relief when you talk about search when you talk about all of the different levels. and even when you talk about lives saved. if you look at the number of me this was i think it was worse than katrina it was in many ways worse than anything people have ever seen so what is the situation like in puerto rico a month since hurricane maria well many communities are still without basic essentials people are digging through rubble and they're waiting for government aid that was promised but none has yet to come out official reports now from twenty blanco. find him is got tired of waiting one month after hurricane maria struck his community was a mess so he called some friends we are in the process to clean up the creek because basically the crane was. a real family saying is the house just hang around

twenty blanco is a ninety minute drive from san juan the islands capital the people here feel that far away from the center they are far away from a company far from the belief that anyone is going to help the government is almost absent there is almost no coordination woman here just staying with someone. but their reality is right here we see sometimes and i'm sure our guard just provided some water but just and a couple of patients are no more we ask and then we're begging them for at least two up some excavator to clean over. the area what we're being told is this isn't a one off but there are communities across this area that have asked for and waited for government help and know they're doing what they can where they can the hurricane they say it was a problem the greater tragedy is a lack of government action not far away from here at the hurricane brought

a flood that overwhelmed and destroyed the bridge that was a lifeline to a nearby mountain community so the locals built a pulley system which carries food and water and diesel for having heard. we are going to have a great we don't know anything. you know we are just disconnected. across the island people are putting in their own fixes to get what they need a local stream by the roadside suddenly with plastic piping becomes the only source of fresh water for clothes washing drinking and even some fun. there is no doubt puerto rico wasn't well equipped to deal with a storm the size and intensity of maria one of the federal agencies here see few places are there's this island was pummeled by over one hundred fifty mile an hour wind what that does to the infrastructure that is in excellent condition versus ordinary condition it's still the same it's highly destructive put to me because governor disputes things here are slowly getting better in the fight he says they

may be getting worse in many communities fear they are being forgotten after a storm none of them will ever forget alan fischer i'll just point to blanco puerto rico. now more than two hundred journalists have marched in in honor of a name vest journalist who was killed in a car bomb on the island daphne. died in an explosion on monday charlotte bellis reports. walking in solidarity with their late colleague and friend murdered reporter definitely. these journalists want to judge to protect his sources context on her phone and computers they could be unveiled in the inquiry into her death she really believed in what she was doing and she was right or wrong on each issue she believed in it she was always two positions and she wanted to root out whatever she thought was wrong and she was driven by that

by seeking the limelight most police are facing mounting pressure to ensure an independent investigation meanwhile investigators from the united states scotland yard and other forensic experts have been called him. laying it all voices we asked for the assistance of the f.b.i. and dutch counterparts because on the scene we realize that we might have difficulties collecting certain evidence however i reiterate the investigation is being led solely by the multiple east carolina glitzier was the country's best known investigative journalist she was killed on monday in this car minutes after she left her home in malta police believe the bomb was attached beneath her car and triggered remotely the mother of three knew she was a target and in the last blog post on the day she was killed she wrote there are

crooks everywhere you look now the situation is desperate two weeks prior she filed a police report saying she was receiving threats and the first bit of information i came. out of the police force was a post on facebook by police sergeant and celebrating this as a nation of that. and it took almost twenty four hours for that individual to be suspended. kut-o. on ability to get ahead alleged corruption against the most powerful people on the island who reports went as high as the prime minister joseph muscat linking him to the panama paper scandal who were triggered an early election and now her reporting has resulted in her death challenge ballasts al jazeera. that kenya is celebrating heroes day that's a public holiday that honors the country's freedom fighters passes catherine sorry ripples the occasion is being overshadowed by the political crisis that is

currently gripping the country around her. and mcgregor name freedom fighter karrar in germany reads from his autobiography kenyan celebrates him along with thousands of others who battled british colonialists those who fought for democracy later in the one nine hundred ninety s. and modern day people who have honored the country. is not happy he says he fought for land he's yet to get and peace threatened by political brinkmanship. kenya not to. program. or thank you. bernard from the british and. i think. i've struggled with this in another part of kenya land searching continues to mon

has a six month old daughter pendle who she says was clubbed to death while in her arms by police in august even me i came out in the house saying i surrender i have my little child holding my child on my chest i want to continue and that i was talking . since then thousands of other people have been killed during opposition protests calling for electoral reforms before the rerun of the presidential election human rights groups blamed police for most of the deaths most of those who have been killed while from opposition strongholds like this one the government says that some criminals were trying to loot but several people we talked to here say they were attacked in their homes sixty five years ago to their day job working at time and five others were arrested after the british government declared a state of emergency can yet or became kenya's fast president with. his deputy the pair later fell out because of ideological and political reasons.

now the sand. and dry loading are engaged in what many see as a major battle for supremacy which has deeply divided kenyans along ethnic lines we need to recognize this is probably the last connla or. electoral contest the best thing is that we don't really see successors within their communities that can rally the same sort of emotional and and an almost irrational. you know support for them for the various ethnic kingpins. really had police in the election goes ahead next week baby pandas mother achaean will not be casting her ballot as she did in august she says how can she win her baby all to make price of the political feud catherine sorry al-jazeera kisumu western kenya. it's the end of

an era australia's last car factory closes on friday holden is shutting down its plant in adelaide after more than fifty years but as andrew thomas experienced a lot of the domestic car manufacturing industry is not really expected to hurt the country's economy. in australia two thirds of people drive to work big distance road trip holidays a common classic car fare is a popular affinity with cars here is cultural and ingrained but after friday calls will no longer be made in australia it's lost car factory will close the company closing its general motors owned holden has been a fixture of australian industry and culture but decades holden is in likened to a strike like the kangaroo in the make pies and i was brought up with the hole in cars my father bought one example is from holden brain you.

holden's advertising played on there is being all of the calls they'll continue to sell cars in australia they'll now be imported from europe asia and the united states where production costs are lower a study is overall car industry was not a huge it is peak it made nearly half a million cars a year but that was when it was protected against imports at one point there was a tariff on them of almost sixty percent as tariffs disappeared and other countries made cars cheaper australia is common to factoring suffered ford was the first big player to close its factories earlier this month toyota shut down production holden has held out just two weeks longer the end of australian made cars like this one is a sign of the changing nature of australia's economy but it's not necessarily a sign of its decline. australia's unemployment rate is low at five point six

percent and as manual work declines people are getting more skilled work or work in higher tech manufacturing capitalism and economic evolution is a story of industries slowing down closing and evolving and the important thing is to concentrate on what needs to evolve started. next twenty five years is a successful on the numbers twenty four. holden says it will keep on hundreds of designers and engineers in australia and it will help its thousands of former factory employees to find jobs under thomas al-jazeera sydney or less so to shane oliver now his head of investment strategy and chief economist at am p. capital he's joining us live now from sydney so is australia in mourning then to lose its last car manufacturing plant i think we are and i certainly am i grew up in a family that drove holden's and by my best friend's family drove forwards and i

can only drive all the ride you just pick it up and you hold them back in june this year and i am a bit sad that i won't be able to buy a new one when it's time to challenge that when i have a few years down the track so yeah it is a fairly said di i think at restraint in manufacturing but it's not a disaster the reality use is the manufacturing industry has been in decline as long as i've been around since the knowledge sixty's and now and employs about percent of the population and other jobs of come along in other areas to fill the gap well that's the interesting thing i'd like to ask you about in many european countries with the end of the manufacturing sector many communities go into decline it sounds very much as though australia is able to make the transition that's moving into the digital economy more successfully than others. yeah perhaps so and that i think that that's been the case somebody it's clearly a big problem for areas that are for regional areas where there was

a holden plant for example the nine hundred fifty workers at the elizabeth plant in south australia who lose their jobs to die i mean that stuff all net community but by the side token we have seen what sort of jobs growth coming elsewhere in the economy to replace that for example if you look at total auto industry employment in a stride is so that's directly involved in making supplies and so on you're probably looking at maybe fifteen thousand people maybe twenty thousand people if you stretch it out a bit but twenty thousand new jobs were created in the last month alone and three hundred seventy two thousand new jobs were created out of the last twelve months so the job losses flowing from this was very painful the guys involved in a broader community said the impact is actually quite modest and people are saying new jobs pop up in other areas a lot of it of course in the services sector but we still do have some growth in manufacturing where astrology has

a comparative advantage all right shane oliver thank you very much indeed for explaining about the demise of the holden in australia thank you. market but it's been twenty years since the world fell under the spell of the boy was it harry potter the publication of the first book harry potter and the fell off philosopher's stone launched a mostly billion dollar franchise jessica baldwin has been to an exhibition at the british library looking at the magic that inspired it. minerva mcgonigle several teachers and a whole board school of witchcraft and wizardry listed by author j.k. rowling as she embarked on the plot of harry potter alchemy potions her biology courses based on magical traditions found in ancient him rare books at the british library it's an encounter with real objects that helped form the books including a medieval scroll from the fifteen hundreds describing how to make the

philosopher's stone which could turn any metal into gold or maybe even extend life and wants to really make the link between the magic that's betrayed in the x. on the whole history of magical writings and practice that we have in the collections a sketch of hogwarts by rowling is she drew her expansive magical world twenty years on more than four hundred fifty million copies have been sold in seventy languages. harry potter has had a massive impact on the world kids who hated books are now inspired to read the next are considered cool and even muggles are interested in magic gustaf was a professional magician before he became a psychologist specializing in the science of magic just picking out academics are interested in how magic works stop one of the few how is it that we see something

but we don't do we have free will then how do magicians influence our decisions. to the clubs well so a lot of interaction with computers is all based on a massive illusion every time you delete a folly or put a fall into your waste paper basket will you not really putting anything in a basket it's the soldiers no illusion and so by understanding magic we might be able to end homes human computer interaction but what's the magic that continues to fuel the very lucrative harry potter industry that brings fans to wizard locations across london you can feel like you're with it or whatever but you wake up in the morning and you realize you know i do like magic so it does make me like you long i don't know if i like this now. or that or different but. looking into the future it doesn't take magic to know that each new generation will come under the spell of harry potter jessica baldwin al-jazeera london. so come on this

hour. the sports news and that includes a second bad injury in the as many nights at the start of a new n.b.a. season will be here with the a pretty tough. sports

and paisa. thank you very much denmark so women's football team could be expelled from world cup qualifying after they cooled off their upcoming fixture with sweden

due to a dispute over pay and conditions they are seeking pay equality with the men's team something achieved by neighbors norway this week norway are currently in the netherlands to prepare for the world cup qualifier paul resupport from amman. on a level playing field at last the norwegian women's football team training for a world cup qualifier against the netherlands have just secured a world first off the pitch. becoming the first female national team to receive the same pay deal as their male counterparts first i was i was really surprised because i didn't know about it i read it in the newspaper so i was really happy and they really respect us and they want something where women's football hopefully more nations well did the same and i and i'm really proud that the first nation to do this the team's pay is set to almost double going up to seven hundred fifty

thousand dollars a year there's also twenty five percent of revenue from major tournament that's less in women's football than in the men's game but no white women qualify much more often now not only is this deal the first of its kind in the world it's also been very friendly while other countries such as denmark have been in quite little dispute with their football associations over better pay this deal with suggested by the norwegian f.a. and it includes a financial contribution from the men's team. the players here say they feel an important sense of unity from norway's myal internationals you volunteered seventy thousand dollars towards the agreement for the men's then to give us money to make it pay it was just. really gentle and it's just really really big esther just there from them and we are really thankful this is like just a really good thing to have in a way because you don't have to worry about money is coming in or whether you

should quit football or rather study so hopefully more women playing football longer in norway and then we will have more really high level players so we can. always qualify in coning in is against the dutch side that warn you are twenty seventeen a few months ago with the dutch men meanwhile failing to qualify for next year's world cup holland's women may hope a better deal may soon be on the table for them as well paul reese. in the netherlands staying with the topic of women's football and equal pay the for me women's football at. any says the sport is still dominated by male administrators who have not yet grasped the commercial potential of women's football. i really think it's a lack of understanding of to see the opportunities women's football nowadays it's a fantastic sport it's appreciated by the public by people on the street you can see that from the numbers of people watching the people women's world cup matches

in the stands or following the t.v. social media you know huge numbers of people and this starts to drop the case in so many other countries and leagues it's only now if you will maybe it's the top but it's a really booming market and rights holders as well as sports organizations and basically the ones who run it seem to have not really understand or that just don't see the potential which actually exists in women's football it's probably the biggest women's sports in the world and it has a lack of. big commercialized require parity is is is a bit complicated to discuss them i mean obviously at the end of the day that's what we all want and what the young players should aim for in the cheap but right now there are so many other issues in women's football and it's really a lack of structure a lack of access to proper facilities a lack of support operations and clubs and even giving actors to girls in the club to play football so i think it's you know it's a complex matter and we should not only focus on equal pay it should be making sure

players can have a double career make sure players have a proper safe and with the right medical support environment and all these things are so crucial part of future of the game so it's it's really a lot we need to work on and probably the best way to start is giving women access to that decision making level i think that sir that's the biggest challenge women's football still has. the semifinals of the criminal cup in moscow have been set and while maria sharapova is out they will be russians involved germany's julia gurgles is the highest ranked player left in the tournament the seventh seed beat lesieur to ranko in straight sets and will now face home. victory and save for a place in the final. and russian tennis is big hope for the future daria cus the keener also reached the last hole she beat alexandra sets which will play even camillia big in the same use on friday. it's been an

injury strewn start to the n.b.a. season the day after the boston celtics golden haywood suffered a season ending ankle injury this happened to the brooklyn nets god jeremy lin in their opening game against the indiana pacers then rhapsodies patellar tendon in the incident and the nets have announced that he too will miss the remainder of the season the pacers went on to win one hundred forty one hundred and fifty one. doping is an issue that's been on the radar in recent months and it's made its way into dog sledding most famous race the road several of the animals who participate tested positive for the banned substance tramadol of the competing the one thousand mile race in alaska in march officials have been given the names of the dogs the drivers involved as yet it's the first time in history dogs in the sport have failed a drugs test and that's all the sport another update coming up later. pieces them at that with the sports news well that's all for me for today just remember that

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