trump is promising a major policy announcement on trade a potential challenge to correct a missed opportunity a barrage. tracing the full from prosperity to financial ruin this is precisely the movement where we humanize that nothing was first growth in the devastating impact to save the banks means also to save the deposits of in the recent visit and the failure to prevent disaster banks and political leaders of the people who needed to learn the less i go from democracy to the markets this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. of its crew.

and as the climate conference wraps up we look at what the change of attitude in washington means for the rest of the world. in the last few hours there have been clear signs that zimbabwe's embattled leader is fast losing support state t.v. began its friday evening news broadcast with a call from the ruling it's on a party for robert mugabe to resign the presidency and his wife grace to leave the party hours earlier the aging leader made his first public appearance since an army takeover on wednesday that the already has all but collapsed and pressurized and mounting for him to quit and washington u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson told a gathering of african business leaders that he hopes of ol boy returns to civilian rule as soon as possible. i know all of us are following very closely the bench in zimbabwe and and they are concerned to know each of you their concerned us as well

and we all should work together for a quick return to civilian rule in that country in accordance with their constitution zimbabwe has an opportunity to set itself on a new path one that must include democratic elections and real respect for human rights alternately the people of zimbabwe must choose their government and in our conversations today we have an opportunity to discuss concrete ways that we can help them through this transition her toss a has more from harare. coleshill president robert mugabe to step down are growing louder he was seen for the first time in public on friday days off to the army seized control and confined him to a private residence in harare the people who helped him stay in paul fanie forty is the woman turns have called for an anti mugabe rally on saturday because of the sordid it would be an economic management in the plunder.

in the muslim is she a madness over his wife once they become a prince it will be probably good in this is that when people up to. we don't want to. grow. but what you assume is we listen to their message when we want to. organize the money movements the war veterans are important in the country's power structure this is a leader and his wife grace have gone to the firing a former vice president. and his supporters and get them there making it clear grace and affection called g forty in the rulings on it were never been the first lady was at the graduation ceremony will be kept thousands of graduates if the plan is to carefully manage president exit. transition of power in the process. has led zimbabwe since one thousand nine hundred eighty people are still stunned

the army stepped in. to make sure that. we could live in ten points if you know. when the president mugabe. stepped down in the dignified way he stepped down. the destructive way that he has not been before the. southern african leaders plan to hold an emergency summit on zimbabwe for now one thing is clear the ninety three year old mugabe is losing friends the war veterans who put him in power are now the ones who want to go on. how to survive and are is a visiting assistant professor of political science at amherst college she is a specialist on african affairs and joins us via skype from chicago a appreciate your time so much so with. with every passing day and now with a fact of the party that the ruling party has gone on television in and haul robert

mugabe to step aside is it just a matter of time before that actually happens. it depends on the fact that the transition has to happen cuesta traditionally that the military has indicated that interested in it constitutes noachian decision makes it a little bit slower as we know democracy is a very slow process and it's designed that way the quickest way would be for him to heed the call from those that appear provinces and to resign as quickly as possible if you resigns he writes a letter of resignation he signs it it goes to the sound of p. of provincial chairman it goes to the police fear for the party that would take image of ours the same letter or a different version of the letter could be taken to the speaker of parliament and the speaker of parliament would approve it now the question was then

a pm is how would they rule. the resignation of robert mugabe to the reinstatement of goggle which they can do through the a party channels but these still the issue of vice president gore who is the current best vice president in the or the next in him to be president ok so one may ask you this with this process while of course it's not ideal for a country where with a constitution and with a process to have the military basically in charge having having said that. what is your observation about the fact that so far this is been a calm process and no no violence no protests what's your take on that. i think it speaks to the zimbabwean people so i've been saying that the heroes of this story and not the military always and so it's been zimbabweans with through my research and conversations who say that we're not going to get in we're not going

to go to the streets we're not going to harm our neighbors we're not going to let the party because this is a very this is very much into you know pretty white issue it's night and national politics issue it's an internal quite equality issue so in what ways they haven't been reading to go out to the streets to practice this ok. thank you so much for your insight i'm sure we'll be calling on you again as this process continues thank you. again n. korea a team investigating the use of chemical weapons in syria will be disbanded after russia vetoed a resolution to extend its mandate the move scrapped a japanese effort to allow the inquiry to continue for thirty days to allow time for negotiations on a wider compromise on thursday during a meeting of the council moscow vetoed a u.s. led effort to allow the team to continue its work u.s. ambassador to the u.n. staunchly criticized russia's veto russia's actions today and in recent weeks have

been designed to delay to distract and ultimately to defeat the effort to secure accountability for chemical weapons attack in syria russia never invited council members to provide input on its own draft resolution a resolution that yesterday received only four votes in favor and russia declined to propose any textual edits to the us draft we've incorporated elements of the russian draft into our own in the hope that they would engage with us. indeed from the very beginning russia has not negotiated with any of us russia has just dictated and demanded that's not how the security council is supposed to work that's not how the security council can work. russia's ambassador hit back at criticism from western powers and the gestapo knew the russian delegation conscientiously participated in all consultations multilateral and bilateral consultations those which were designed to bring together the positions of the

security council on the extension of the mandate of the joint un o.p.c. w investigative tool to investigate instances of chemical weapons use in syria attempts to portray this in a different manner are nothing but deliberate this information our diplomatic editor james face joins us now so james clearly a lot of heated back and forth there between a between russia and the u.s. but this this compromise that japan put forward what was at the crux of it it was relatively simple was an ott. it was one of the shortest resolutions or draft resolutions that i've seen put to the u.n. security council they were not doing anything particularly controversial they were simply trying to buy time another thirty days what they call a rollover here so that there could be no negotiations there had been hope around the security council table among many of the members of the council that perhaps

russia would not vote against that it may not vote for it but perhaps it might have staying but no russia has again used its veto the eleventh time it's used its veto in support of the assad government and what it means is that the investigations into who carried out chemical attacks in syria now it seems come to an end there's calls now for more negotiations even though the deadline has passed but many diplomats say that because of the very firmness and finale t. of the russian position it really looks like this whole investigation mechanism is now dead now that has very important implications not just in the case of syria because since the one nine hundred ninety s. the world had been coming to a consensus that chemical weapons were something that had to be outlawed and if they were over use then the world would come down very very tough on anyone using

them while they have been used in syria and it seems that the security council is not prepared to act or now further investigate and there are also i think repercussions for the political process potentially in syria because this is a very crucial time talks in geneva on the political track in syria on trying to get some sort of solution to the war started again in just over a week or so while it seems that from guess international body the u.n. issues. it seems like this is a dead issue now that doesn't necessarily mean that there might not still be. no accountability perhaps or worse the heli is left the door open for the us to still respond to this in some way well there are u.n. bodies that will keep records of what has happened there is another body to do with

chemical weapons which is a fact finding mission of the o.p.c. w that's the international body in the hague that monitors the use of chemical weapons but the problem with their reports is they say that chemical weapons attacks took place but they're not actually mandated to say who was responsible so they can record the crime without coming to any conclusion of who carried out the crime there's another body which is the commission of inquiry looking at all of the war crimes in syria they're gathering evidence but again no accountability because the ultimate accountability for them would be to take this to the international criminal court and certainly the security council has tried to refer it before to the international criminal court guess why that didn't happen same thing again a russian veto ok james face life press at the u.n. james thank you. lebanon's prime minister saad hariri says he is on his way to

france he made that announcement in a tweet he's been at the center of a geo political crisis in the middle east since he resigned on saudi t.v. two weeks ago president says he will not accept to bring these resignation until he returns to the country. the argentine navy is searching for a missing submarine with forty four sailors on board the a r a san juan it's a german built submarine was last in contact on wednesday it was headed from a naval base south of argentina to mar del plata around four hundred kilometers south of minus hardass a navy spokesman says it's too early to declare the vessel lost and that it has sufficient food and oxygen supplies to last for some time. last position was two days ago not being alarmist a domestic fact is that it could be in a food communications between vessel and command even with a backup systems we think there must be a serious problem with the communications or electrical supply cables in ten or eleven equipment the protocol is that it must come to surface so we have to

actively look to establish some form of visual contact. where has the latest on going to. the argentine authorities lost contact with the one so the seven zero zero submarine early on wednesday they had no communication with it since then as there is increasingly concerned about his whereabouts it was sailing from the southern port of while to its home base of. a distance of close to three thousand kilometers and the last contact was heard about four hundred thirty kilometers off the coast of argentina kind of parallel with the port of commodore or even davia the or thor it is from argentina are out searching for it they have said they have no indication there's anything wrong with the submarine apart from the patten the communication is down but they are increasingly concerned about the forty four members of the crew they have search and search and rescue ships out to the area where they think the submarine might be the british and the american and the

chilean authorities have all offered their help and are working deep into the night here in the southern hemisphere looking for the submarine meanwhile families of the crew are gathering in the port of. awakes news about their loved ones in the submarine in the san juan hoping that they will receive the news of communication in the near future. play more out of the news hour including lawyers for the president and his ministers answer and european arrest warrant. building the future we check out the latest in design innovation at the world architecture festival. or the stanley reason for brazilian plans to sell a. major united nations climate summit and germany is wrapping up after two weeks. more than

twenty thousand delegates from across the world have attended this conference in on a fifteen nation coalition called power in past coal was announced as part of the summit led by the u.k. and canada member countries are planning to move towards cleaner sources of energy but without the u.s. and china on board some are questioning how effective it can be james norton is a president and founder of play action strategies a strategic consulting firm he's a former staffer at the u.s. department of homeland security he joins us from washington d.c. and thank you very much for joining us james so with the u.s. absence at this major international event is that a missed opportunity for the u.s. to leave even if there are people in the top ministration that have different views on on climate policy is this still not a missed opportunity you know i think it's important to remember that you know president trump was pretty clear during the campaign and certainly in his early

days in his presidency you know in the in this past spring where he. was not in favor of the of the paris accords and that he obviously you know went out of his way to remove the u.s. from that he has been pretty clear about energy independence you know within the u.s. he's worked with the world and gas industries he's worked with the coal industry here locally he's restarted the keystone pipeline so i think right and those are all in a lot of internal focus domestically those are those are all the types of things that the countries that are involved at the paris of course are trying to to move away from is there not some sort of compromise or perhaps still a role for the u.s. to be involved in these discussions even if as i say even if there are some policy differences. well absolutely i mean i think there are certainly some opportunities for the u.s. to continue to participate you know obviously this is the twenty third year the u.s. has played a role in the past i think there are a lot of people here in washington that don't necessarily agree with everything

that president trump has done to this point in you know those do those are do do do include republicans that do want to participate and do want to play a role here so you know i think going forward you will probably see the u.s. and the administration you know work with some of these organizations certainly if there's a top twenty four i would think that the administration would want to play a role in there i think president trump is still trying to determine his foreign policy you know he's just coming off his trip to asia you know just last week and i think that you know it'll be ten you in terms of you know engagement overseas and you know whole whole continue to work on issues like climate you mentioned the keystone pipeline of course and as i'm sure you know in the last twenty four hours there has been a major leak found that the keystone pipeline two hundred ten thousand gallons of oil leaking in south dakota that is something that president trump has supported what do you see as the future of his policies particularly if they like this continue to happen any continues to get pushback about. well obviously it's

it's tragic when there is any type of environmental disaster or any type of issue certainly when it comes to oil which is a very difficult thing to clean up we've seen you know other other environmental disasters in the past i think you know going forward the larger issue is the vision for the pipeline and having that independence here in the u.s. and i think that does have a lot of support domestically and so i think that will continue despite some of the you know issues that they're having here in the short term so i think there are you know opportunities you know going forward i think you've seen the car industry move in a direction where they've had you know gone from mostly combustible engines and now they're moving more towards electric in type cars or other type of energy independent type cars and so i think you'll see that i think the green economy is an important one i think the u.s. can work largely with the international community on an energy independent you know

green economy opportunities to grow economies in places that have seen an uptick in the industry but yet they still might be at risk environmentally and i think finding ways to leverage their economies in that sort of slowdown but continued it you mentioned china before i think that's a perfect example where that it's a robust economy but maybe could use some areas to to to improve and i think you know trump's conversations last week with the president of china did have some economic tones to it so i think you could potentially see some opportunities there james norton thank you very much joining us from washington d.c. thank you very much for and president has backtracked on his decision a day after allowing hunters to bring home elephant trophies from zimbabwe and zambia this is what he tweeted within the past hour put big game trophy decision on hold until such time as that review all conservation facts under study four years all updates with secretary thank you. a belgian court postponed

a ruling on whether to extradite depose catalan later karla's pushed him on spain and issued a european arrest warrant for putting on four cattle on ministers on charges of sedition and misuse of state funds and a decision on whether to send them back to face the charges that's been pushed back to december fourth lawyers for the defendants appeared for a short hearing on friday brennan pasmore from brussels perhaps a little frustrating for the assembled media from all over the world here in brussels hoping for a decision on this case and the judge had three options in front of him either approve the exhibition warrants or reject it in which case either or both sides would have appealed that particular outcome or kick the can down the road and that's basically what has happened december the fourth will be the next hearing and a final decision on the accidential warrants could be taken eight to ten days after that now it's still then open to push them on and his colleagues to appeal whatever decision is made mid december and that is critical because with the council on

elections coming up on december the twenty first who's dimona is banking on the fact that he will not be behind bars and therefore able to contest that council an election it is looking increasingly likely the calmest person mom's name will be on the ballot paper it's come december twenty first. a boy's operation in the haitian capital is left at least seven civilians dead are spent say the number is higher and some were executed by the police and accusations of rights abuses come is haiti reestablishes its armed forces after the withdrawal of u.n. peacekeepers curious about reports of war difference. it's been four days since the police entered this school in port-au prince. is still recovering from the shock trying to understand why her nephew was killed by the police. i am asking myself why they kill him when they know he was not one of the bed men he was someone who went to church studied and had principles. the school is located in the

grand dragon area in port au prince. witnesses say there were no armed men inside the school during the raid that ended with professors and students killed some insist that some of the victims were executed two police officers had been killed earlier that day we're told of the haitian national police was carrying anti gang operation in a neighborhood not far away from here that operation ended in this school where the police had me at least seven civilians were killed you can see some of the bullet holes on that wall. are some of the leftovers of what happened here. u.n. troops officially withdraw from haiti one month ago leaving the haitian national police in charge of security here. at the grand reading neighborhood fighting between gangs and the police is frequent but. this time it was different her son

was also killed at the school although this. was my only son i want to kill myself my son is not part of a gang president sent to the police to kill our children people in the area insist that more people died in the raid than the your thoughts are admitting to. we visited the center clare morgue where eight bodies were brought in after the incident not seven which is the official number. but when you i'm sure there are more people dead what we have here maybe the police removed some bodies because we had five or six people coming here to ask if we had their relatives. yeah but what human rights groups say the situation can get out of control especially now that the government is reinstating the haitian army. titian's and the authorities are not innocent on what happened because they play their part in the violence impunity is the key to the problem because the justice system does not exist he has no

multiple international missions and they've not been able to change anything. for thirteen years u.n. troops have been in charge of security in haiti but with them gone the challenge will now be how to prevent situations like this one happening again. still ahead on al jazeera. america is possible with fanatic head be a good thing for mexico's corn growing heritage. between the rich and poor and hong kong want to be equal cities in the world. and sport find out is a contention and to finish the year as. a leading man. from the waves of the south. to the contours of the east.

hello winter is coming south through china the temperatures are already dropping for costa shanghai's fourteen twenty eight in hong kong and humid one possibly a wet one and that cold air is temporarily going to boost the rain this size see it a couple days over then may well come down towards reach hong kong and then maybe he'll be pushed back again but there's obviously a line of potential there the sun's back out in shanghai this is come sunday at thirteen degrees same time. much of sichuan is cloudy but not particularly coat not yet it will happen south of this more active weather once again in this massive cloud is now tropical depression which may well turn into a tropical storm is definitely a growing circulation so that's ok and physically all the rain in this part of asia it's over the water system is going towards southern vietnam south of that a long way sassy pickets and big showers in java sudden borneo and particularly

sumatra where it's been wet recently in the middle of sumatra maybe including singapore but probably we're looking at this on sunday that circulation sitting over southern vietnam clearly it could be a wind problem stephanie going to be a rain problem at the same time as dispersion the cloud up around kolkata and bangladesh wet but not us went. the weather sponsored by cats on race. is captivity of the only hope for china's panders one of the nice ventures deep into the mountains of western china in search of the elusive wild panda. at this time on al-jazeera. bureaus spawning six continents across the.

correspondents living green stories they tell. me you're a student and we'll news on counting the cost venezuela in default as the oil rich country fails to pay its debt well look at what a messy financial unraveling could mean for the people lebanon's economy is getting squeezed. by court counting the cost at this time on. you're watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories this hour the ruling party and zimbabwe has joined war veterans in calling for president robert mugabe to resign made his first public appearance since the army takeover on wednesday he

attended a graduation ceremony in harare is on it also call for a swipe race to lead the party. russia has vetoed an extension of the u.n. investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria it's the second use of the veto power and twenty four hours the moves wrapped a japanese attempt to allow the employee to continue for thirty days while talks continue the argentine navy is searching for a missing some marine with forty four sailors on board the air a san juan a german built submarine was last in contact on wednesday a navy spokesman says it's too early to declare the vessel lost and it has sufficient food and oxygen supplies for several days. it's been reported that six saudi princes arrested on accusations of corruption received hospital treatment after being severely beaten kingdom's crown prince mohammed bin solomon order to round up of hundreds of members of the world family as part of what was described as an anti-corruption

drive the reports that detainees have been told they'll be freed if they agree to forfeit seventy percent of their wealth those arrests come in a time of huge change in the kingdom from the war in yemen to plans to take the state oil company public there are things are moving quickly in the traditionally quiet cautious country hussein ibish is a senior resident scholar at the arab gulf states institute in washington and joins us from the u.s. capitol we appreciate your time very much so. if the reports are true that the people that have been arrested can be released if they forfeit some of their wealth how do you think that that will play within the kingdom and then separately how do you think that that would play outside of the kingdom. right so inside i think it will continue to be very popular i think that this whole crackdown has been enormously popular with the middle and lower classes with the youth etc because there is a sense that the elite has been pilfering from the country actually the government

thinks it's something between ten and thirty percent of the public treasury which is one of the reasons for this crackdown it's partly political and it's partly designed to communicate that that kind of way of doing business is over if vision twenty thirty and the whole economic reform is going to succeed so internally i think it will be extremely popular if money can be recovered and the whole thing is popular outside i think especially foreign investors are quite spooked by the lack of process and lack of clear process and due process which first of all would give them a greater sense of style of sort of predictability and security and secondly it's the process is the kind of thing that investors like to bring the hammer of their own. you know absolutely to be sure that they know what will happen to their own investments on the other hand if in the long run this does break the in demick

corruption that has characterized the way business has been done in saudi arabia in recent decades then in the end investors might like it very much in spite of the fact that it's got a with more than a whiff it's got a lot of arbitrary and non process qualities so yes you're saying that this may pay off but it also may not pay off it may not so what you are not risks here i mean this is a significant risk that the kingdom has taken. well of course the risk is that is that internally there could be some kind of backlash i think that's a very tiny risk but it's always possible i think with regard to foreign investors the question is how does the anti-corruption drive dovetail with economic reform efforts and how do investors respond and i think there you've seen between this and many other factors

a real slowdown in the economic reform drive and service on hold while these political and essentially social and cultural matters are being sorted out and so the all these moving parts have to go in the same direction simle taney asli as well as foreign policy so really they put it this way the ambition of not just king solomon but especially crown prince mohammed bin saddam out is enormous and the audacity of all of these moves simle tenuously is colossal so yeah it's all in on sort of thirty one red here so roulette wheel. so even if this. this crackdown is successful and getting back money that you know that were perhaps ill gotten gains even if that's the case and even if it's popular with a lot of people in the long run this not necessarily mean that it was a good healthy thing for the future of the country to have gone about it this way. it depends entirely on the outcome if good and healthy way

no i mean obviously you'd want something more process based more institutional this is very top down it's rather arbitrary and autocratic however if it breaks the cycle of corruption and helps a promote a better economy and be a more engaged liberal society with more princes called for moderate islam or women's rights which are already happening less power of clerical reactionaries and the religious police all that's already happening is that they did all work then then it will be seen as a good thing no question that all the same situ just said are they not in conflict with this type of lou yes i am saying all the things that you said that no not well not necessarily no no no no not well not necessarily in other words it is possible

to have progressive change from the top down is certainly not democratic change but you can have progressive and and certainly positive change that's dictated from the top and that's not unheard of in human history at all it's a certain point there is one thing that does need to to happen here which is there has to be in the sort of new regime that's being created a new kind of upper echelon to replace what's being kind of swept away here and a new system of dealing with the elite and the royal family if the old system of personal fiefdoms and little decentralized kind of corrupt. holdings in the upper echelon is no longer to apply and apparently it's no longer to apply but you can't have just the king and the crown prince of the top and then kind of the middle class and the the bottom tier there's got to be something in between that's being worked out. the new generation of a lot of royals who are being promoted by the crown prince but there is it's going

to have to be institutionalized as i say a democratic process would be great but you really don't have that not only in saudi arabia but virtually anywhere in the arab world this is the reality so yes they're going for broke they're doing it from the top down i do think it's in everyone in the us that it succeeds and if it does it will be a very good thing and if it doesn't it's going to be a big problem not only for saudi arabia but for all of its neighbors as well let me ask you something this something else i've been talking about europe's made headlines in the last couple of days you talked about a change in foreign policy where getting reports. of a potential sharing of intelligence between saudi arabia and israel what do you think that says about the future of saudi arabia and the region as a whole. well i think it's really interesting that the israeli chief of staff first of all was interviewed by a major saudi publication website of that's a bit of

a breakthrough and there's a big flirtation going on but it's really the israeli side that's pushing it so the head of the i.d.f. offers to share information what that tells you is there is a less information sharing going on than many people have assumed it's an offer to do more and even if you were to kind of cynically read this as trying to get people used to the idea it's still reflects the notion that there is a lot less coming together than there could be now there are these strategic interests especially year on that he expressed very well on the need to counter iranian hit germany that i think almost all the gulf states share with israel and the united states and others but there's got to be progress on the palestinian side or saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and qatar and quit and other countries cannot really get much closer to zero even if there is

a strong strategic argument for doing so and there is a real question about whether the netanyahu cabinet could do that without falling apart i think it's a great opportunity for everybody even the palestinians to have this happen but there's got to be a movement on the palestinian side and i think the israelis need to be continuously reminded of that in case they forget to say davis thank you very much for your time for the for the conversation we appreciate it you're welcome it's been great thank you thank you al-jazeera continues to demand the release of its journalists not to say it has been at an egyptian prison for almost eleven months now they say it is a case to prod casting falseness to spread chaos way and al jazeera strongly deny these are paid only complained of mistreatment and jail he was arrested on december twentieth while visiting his family. china's top envoy to north korea has met later kept on its closest aide song tower arrived in pyongyang on friday to improve relations between the two countries it's the highest level chinese visit in two

years has tighten sanctions on its ally and supported u.s. president donald trump's calls for north korea to end its nuclear program so it was and has more from beijing this visit comes just one week after president donald trump visited beijing and urged president xi jinping to put more pressure on north korea even sad that he knows that president xi jinping can do this if we really wanted to but the government in beijing says that the visit of some tough who's the head of the external affairs committee of the communist party is purely a courtesy call with china traditionally paid to socialist nations after the communist party congress but this visit is still significant because the government doesn't rule out that the nuclear program will be discussed and this is the first high level delegation traveling from beijing to pyongyang does year it's very symbolic because with this visit china wants to stress that the relationship although of cooled off quite significantly because of nuclear and missile test is

still firmly with pyongyang and with a very long and dark winter coming up for north korea because of sanctions there is a possibility that china can put some pressure. the divide between the rich and poor in hong kong hits a record high it is now the second most unequal city in the world in terms of income and wealth but only new york the latest government figures show more than twenty percent of the population lives in poverty so our clock reports from hong kong. like most of your old alice hands nightly chores include homework but space is limited she and her mother share this tiny subdivided one bedroom flat they live on a six hundred dollars monthly welfare payment but with rent at four hundred fifty dollars is not always enough left to put food on the table the only i have to think a lot before buying anything sometimes i eat less or skip meals so that she can eat well you see she's quite skinny maybe she doesn't get enough nutrition it's an

increasingly familiar trend in hong kong soaring property prices have pushed up rent squeezing the most vulnerable the latest government figures for twenty six danish oh twenty percent of the population live below the poverty line is not possible the total. but there isn't a need to do is all right we can say we can't you limit the situation and we do nothing the wealth gap between rich and poor in hong kong is also at its highest level in more than four decades according to the latest government data ten percent of the city and now earning forty four times that of the poorest households who have an average income of three hundred twenty dollars a month there are now around one million people struggling to get by in hong kong while the elderly i consider the most vulnerable welfare group site one in every five children are now living in poverty and a quarter of those are not getting access to basic food aid. welfare groups say education is also

a challenge with poor families being forced to sacrifice food to send their children to school education system school require require them to pay a lot so so they don't they have to save their money to pay this kind of spending chair so they don't have enough money for female. i want my daughter to be happy and healthy when she grows up i tell it to study hard if she wants to change or living conditions because we are poor we need to rely on ourselves. in a city where rich and poor co-exist in the same spices it's a tough reality which welfare groups say the government must urgently address sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong corners cropping up is a big issue in negotiations on the north american free trade agreement that's mexico's top agricultural import from the u.s. but some say cheap american varieties are damaging mexico's rich corn heritage no has more from just outside mexico city.

corn is as much a part of the story of mexico as the ass ticks and the arrival of the spanish conquistadores first developed here thousands of years ago small scale farmers like i. rely on it to make a living but also a view it as a connection to their nation's past. these kernel still the story of mexico its life its development its culture its ideology and freedom losing them would be losing a right denting. while maize was born in the fields of mexico a new four is worried that the market for his harvest is disappearing. younger mexicans are less interested in consuming traditional varieties of mexican corn and new generations of farmers are less interested in planting them opting for simpler more profitable varieties instead but our north shore is convinced that with government support to small scale farmers like himself mexicans will claim their

national crops and remove the need to import any from abroad it's difficult to overstate just how important this crop is to mexican life and identity not just from a practical standpoint as a basic food staple but also culturally speaking and that's why an increasing number of people here feel the need to defend its survival from what they say are growing threats. and chief among those threats is the gradual disappearance of several varieties of traditional maize something this activist says is already happening at an alarming rate little mice in the phone well these are specialized terrans use of coal we're talking about over thousands of years they each have their own history of a color flavor. have nothing to do with what's grown in the u.s. or elsewhere in the world the possible break up of the north american free trade agreement or nafta may in fact represent the best hope for the future of mexican corn. u.s. president donald trump has long accused mexico of getting the best out of the deal

but cheap u.s. corn imports are seen here as doing lasting damage. if the imposition of. tariffs or of struggles by the u.s. side. then mexico has choices to. put on the table so in my shoes will affect the free flow of grains from the u.s. into mexico joint statement as mexico braces for another round of tough negotiations over nafta or new force hoping that what emerges will place higher value on the country's national crop and ensure it has a profitable future as well as a rich history. mexico city. electric car from tesla is moving into the world of commercial vehicles with the end veiling of a heavy cargo truck that's designed to compete with the diesel big rigs that travel

across the united states. on a full battery trucks or two to go into production in two thousand and nineteen. a home for earth quake survivors has one building of the year at the world architecture festival and for a lead three day event brought together more than twenty five hundred leading architects from sixty eight different countries. reports from the award ceremony. a win for the people truly in need as a post earthquake reconstruction project in china speak to weld building of the year. chosen from four hundred projects they say the judges is where architects can transform lives re housing survivors who've lost their homes and protecting others with its design. and a lot of people told me that it's impossible. but more than that we. so we have now a technology which we have developed over the last ten years. that is just how.

we've heard that from the tech and he told me just what an impact this will have he says he's going to take it back home and show it to the local chinese government and that will prove to them with his project now has a. three everybody hopes that will allow them to cut through bureaucracy and provide homes to the millions of people that meet here at the world architecture festival it's clear desire for social equality is influencing design decisions seen here in design and moore's presentation of shelter on the edge a reimagining of a refugee camp the syrians fleeing conflict made of wood is designed to be built by its inhabitants can grow like a community but it's like a puzzle it's consult with the basic human need what you need and especially the floor plans it's it's a very small twin it's like you know it's a bit more under the freedom flexible and was affordable. all qualities that

fit into the festival's manifesto calling on architects to address problems of climate change an aging population and dwindling water resources this plan for sydney's fish market won the award for future projects inspired by the sea says its creator in the endowed by this beautiful floating canopy that the point of the title of this haymarket looked out to be this was a chance for architects from all over the world to compare their methods and prove that good design should not just be for the benefit of those who can afford it al-jazeera ballen. still ahead on al-jazeera and sport a limp it brings to light up the skies but will they speed up ticket sales thanks.

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time for sport with envy. thank you very much while international football in north and central america is set for a major overhaul the region's governing body conquered caf has announced it will be launching a new nations league tournament next year the usa mexico panama and costa rica are some of the leading countries involved the region is following it europe's lead which laid out its plans for a similar league last month this is what we know so far about the new competition it will include all forty one nations from the region and is in addition to world cup qualifying it will radically reduce the number of friendlies countries can play

will be arranged into three divisions with the highest ranked teams in the league will be promotion and relegation like we see in domestic competitions it will also be a qualifying competition for the biennial gold cup and will be used to see teams in world cup qualifying well earlier we spoke to underwater sure of inside world football he believes the tournament should have a positive impact. you know ever since countries all over the world realized that they were not friendly matches were not doing them any good. dave come up with they've tried to come up with some kind of scenario whereby those dates in the calendar came more meaningful and i think although well though the nation you a first nations lee has been someone criticized for being i should say a bit cold believes it's going to take fans in europe quite a long time to get their heads around it but they did have quite

a strong did put out quite strong signal to other confederations to say look you can actually get round the problem of friendly's and play meaningful games now for culture can you know way it's even more so if some of the smaller nations weren't even playing more than you know half a dozen matches a year so i guess that the concept of leadership don't want this is a great chance for them to to to actually build up the development of the game the problem is that the big big inverted commas because there are many big countries in contrast but say mexico us costa rica the downside of this tournament is are they really they can really get a benefit more from playing smaller nations in their own confederation than they would have playing friendlies against you know bigger countries from other confederations. peru's footballers have been meeting the president as the country

celebrates its world cup qualification this week that same beat new zealand in a play off to take the thirty second and final spot in next year's finals in russia is the first time the south american country has made its football's biggest event since one thousand nine hundred eighty two president kaczynski there declared a national holiday to honor the results. and it's finally been a reason to smile at the brazilian club shop a koan say a year ago the team was involved in a plane crash only three players survived the accident which killed seventy one people all a completely new team has been put together since the crash and on thursday they were celebrating the win that ensured chapeau cohen say would be staying in brazil's top division for another season. and arguably even better news here for their goalkeeper jackson four man who lost a leg in that accident this week he was back in training at the club his ambition now he says is to one day appear at the paralympics. has moved into the semifinals

of the season ending a.t.p. finals in london the belgian seventh seed beat dominant team in straight sets to set up a semifinal with six time champion roger federer gary is going to make trouble facing american jack sock in saturday's other sam. we try to. do the best and he can do something different because in the person who would beat roger and the fans solution against him though we tried something different because i have nothing to lose. so you know it's going to be tough because he's playing so woeful moment to you when so many merges in rules so. yeah we do most australia have made the first surprise move of the ashes cricket series selecting a player who last appeared in a test seven years ago thirty two year old working keep it simple in his back for the first test against england starts next week in brisbane the ashes concept state spanked eighteen eighty two with the smallest trophy in world sport at stake

england hold the ashes after winning the twenty fifteen series three pts. i am happy with the makeup i think we have a pretty good balance. that the six bad is that are in form at the moment which is really important for us guys are scoring runs and demanding selection before the concepts the countries will be meeting on the rugby field with saturday a huge day for the international game england v australia at twickenham one of six big match ups england are ranked second in the world behind new zealand should they lose this game by australia will overtake them the wallabies aren't beaten in seven games obviously know that there's a potential to do that now and i think like our focus has been the whole you just been improving week to week and you know. we look to do that again school teams across the world have done in patches and start to get a decent role on our world champions new zealand are in scotland the scots of never

beaten the all blacks and south africa played france this week saw france being awarded the twenty twenty three world cup despite an official report recommending that voters should choose south africa obviously using the believe. it's not ideal you know for countries like south africa we would have loved to be having that opportunity and they'd have been mess of our country but we accept the result england's tommy fleetwood has hit back in the race to finish the year as the leading man in european golf fleet would start first in the rankings going into the season ending tour championship in dubai after a really poor first round he recovered on friday is sixty five of the six under par and a tie for eleventh his main rival is justin rose he's in a tie for third rose needs to finish at least second here and hope somebody other than fleetwood wins yeah much better day today. doing some practice

later on last night. at an ice dinner at my fiance me so on and then come out today not a good warm up and you know the conditions are perfect mark of a great pleasure bounce back to today you know yesterday was tricky day i don't know what he said it only played out badly was just a day were some days it happens for some days it doesn't so. be a great great bounce back for him today and you know strengthen his position once more and winter olympic organizers in south korea doing all they can as a boost sluggish ticket sales for next year's event on friday the torch relay had an aerobatic jet fighter the company began speeding punching in february so far barely a third of tickets have been sold. sports looking for not well lighter. for the news hour and much more news on the other side of the break so keep it here.

in ecuador ingenious developments in the battle against illegal deforestation these are basically old cell phones the people sent to us with love and trees it was in the forest and you can forget anything like chainsaws or gunshots and in australia indigenous practices had been used to fight fire with fire if they're making a fire break about the time that point five gets here and just stop yeah innovation and tradition. at this time. we know the church we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well and that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone to places and we've pointed out a story that you might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations thank you for their employees anti-riot you know. we are challenging the voices were challenging companies who are going to places where nobody else is

going. and then reported wealth on the. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered for even those who managed to escape their countries have been

truly unable to escape the war. russia is wasting our time in resolution to extend the mandate of expert.