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for. a little difficult political. and on the campaign trail in turkey president. between the government of turkey. for a long time. the president. and much more. with the news. and the other big discussion and following the united states. trade with the big north korea

talks yet to come the focus is now on the u.s. repros will to impose trade tariffs on among other countries china a major world powers are siding with the chinese at a meeting of g seven finance ministers in quebec some of america's closest allies expressed unanimous concern and disappointment at the u.s. tariffs japan even went so far as to call them deeply deplorable and the pressure probably won't let up either given this meeting is only a precursor precursor i'm sorry to an actual g seven leaders summit next week which president trump of course will be attending and china's issued its own warning to the united states if it goes ahead with the terrorists than any agreements to end their dispute will be void florence louise starts us off from beijing. u.s. trade officials arrived in beijing for the third round of talks with their chinese counterparts with big plans and big ambitions they were hoping to pin down the

chinese with a greater commitment to increase purchases of u.s. agricultural and edgy products they were hoping to persuade the chinese to enter into long term contracts and they were hoping to discuss greater protection of intellectual property rights but in the end not only were they not able to achieve these china appears to have fired a warning shot back at the u.s. chinese state media is reporting but china is now saying that any agreement reached between the u.s. and chinese during these trade talks will be void if the u.s. goes ahead and imposes trade sanctions including tariffs now this is clearly a reference to the u.s. about face that took place just several days before the trade talks thought it the u.s. had said it's going to push ahead with tariffs on chinese goods imposing twenty five percent tariff on as much as fifty billion dollars worth of goods but the final list of products to be announced on the fifteenth of june and this is despite

having said that terrorists would be put on hold while trade talks are ongoing now and some analysts had said that that was perhaps a strategy to strengthen u.s. hand at negotiations but china is now clearly thing that it's not going to be pushed around in these trade talks the purpose of these trade talks isn't just about reducing the trade deficit between the u.s. and china it's also a ball avoiding the possibility of a tariff war but if there is no agreement between the two sides the world's two largest economies and the possibility of this trade dispute escalating into an all out trade war could become even closer in which case it could be detrimental for not just the u.s. and china but also the global economy. but you know fully your position out there to trump tried to tariffs we do. i have to consider if the us president has a point he tweets a lot in general but about trade as well he's always saying how unfair it is here's just one recent example the united states must at long last be treated fairly on

trade if we charge a country zero to sell the goods and they charge us twenty five fifty or even one hundred percent to sell out as it is unfair and can no longer be tolerated that is not free or fair trade is stupid tried apparently let's talk to russ feingold is joining us via skype from taipei as a political risk analyst i don't know about stupid trade ross but does the president have a point that the u.s. has been losing out and that it's his job to judge that well one point that the president has made consistently clear ever since he was a candidate beginning about the middle of two thousand and fifteen well so long time already but he's consistently said that the access the united states gives to the products and people of other trading partners is not reciprocated and clearly the voters got that during the election and now he's following up we do see that when the president gets tough on trade other countries have meet concessions at

least in the year and a half that he's been in office we saw that with korea when president trouble reopen the korean free trade agreement we've seen some major concessions on market access by china as well although not enough to satisfy the trip administration so although it sounds like tough talk when the parties actually get to the negotiating table president trump does has to have some success by pointing out the unfair aspects of these relationships so it is unfair this is the point i'm trying to get to in the end because. this president has. he's flexible with the truth sometimes if i can put it that way what he is saying though in this case is fair or fair for him to cite put it that way and whether we want to call it unfair or use other terminology well what the president pointed out in the tweet that you just referred to that it's factually accurate other countries charge significantly higher towers

on u.s. products then the u.s. charges those countries and the president has made it clear he's going to seek to redress that he's not a president none for backing down by particularly from such controversial standpoints but when you've gone to the six other members of the g seven basically lining up against you and saying we don't want this and we're going to fight you on it do you think there is any chance of him compromising well both sides will eventually compromise we know that any again we've seen that in the time that the trump administration has been in office that tensions rise there is tough talk but sides do offer something to the other to find a way out and that does move the ball forward it takes us away from where we are today which is this situation that president trump calls unfair and again he has the facts on his side so this statement by the other g c g seven members the other six countries that alone is not going to cause president trump to make any concessions i think we can say that with confidence it's only when they actually

begin serious negotiations and those other six trading partners offer something to the united states that will see some positive movement will sounds very familiar doesn't it russ feingold pleasure to talk to you as always thank you. i've shown you this so many times before that's because it's just so good you know it really clearly explains the trade differences between the u.s. and china it's called china and the us face to face it's an info graphic from al-jazeera dot com it puts things into a global perspective as you see there but it shows you why these two countries and how they do business is so important it's in the interactive section if you just search for us china trade and do feel free to get in touch with us as well or run into the contact details as always the hash tag is a j newsgroup whichever platform you are using it might be twitter and a.j. english we put it we pop a tweet out there just before the show which you can reply to that thread and they had our producers looking for your responses we've got facebook dot com so shelters here are already seeing some comments there that china us trying to balance has

been a problem since the clinton days as one viewer and ryan has said chinese should just put tariffs on all things u.s. that number also that you saw there what's happened telegram plus one seven four five or one triple one or not. let's move on slovenia is voting in an early parliamentary election with rightwing anti immigration party leading the opinion polls the former prime minister younis the answer and his party are likely to win the most seats but will have to find partners to form a government several other groupings say they won't enter a coalition with his democratic party hundreds of thousands of refugees of pass through slovenia on their way to western europe in recent years making that as we say a big election issue well the taming our sister channel al jazeera balkans is completely across the story we're going to speak to our correspondent at such a delicate ship in slovenia in a few minutes before that this report from emma haywood it's about who wants the top job and the issues they'll have to address. most of it will be the third time

in just seven years living in ian's head to the polls there a new face is but it's the runner. who leads this living in democratic party who is the three million one here almost prime minister who had to resign over corruption scandal five years ago it's not his past people are focusing on the way it is hardline rhetoric on immigration and his ties to hungary's nationalist leader viktor orban. half a million people fleeing war and poverty passed through slovenia in twenty fifteen on their way to western europe since then migration has been pushed up the electoral agenda so to the young told the rally last week's lavinia is defending the schengen border of europe. it's an easy stance to take if you say to the people immigration is the main issue and that's why your countries and prospering and if you vote for me i can help fix that something that anyone can say and it's worked

to an extent with the us it's worked as a start a movement in france with. and it's taken. and other you countries other party leaders want they won't work with you if as expected there's no outright winner the election was close to the resignation of mary sara over the failure to deliver of railway project he wants his job back others are trying to gain more center ground voters to attract both the left and the right the economy too and how to improve it will play a big part in how people. in slovenia the average monthly salary still call short of the average elsewhere in the eurozone with the impact of a double dip recession still being felt. people with well paid jobs are leaving the country while those who come to take less paying jobs are looking from a fiscal perspective that is a disaster slovenia's economy is growing

a new leader will want to keep it moving in the right direction no one party is expected to get enough votes to win outright so all eyes in the days after the election will be on who will join forces to create sliminess next government and the hayward. as promised such a village with us now from al jazeera balkans he's in the slovenian capital realistically what do you think are the chances of mis the forming some sort of coalition. can be difficult for for mr young if nothing changes so far the polls suggest he low come up with maximum twenty percent of the vote which is not enough because i haven't heard many of the leaders of the political parties political political parties who've said we are going to form a government a new government is. because of the rest of it can be on the questions we've heard

in the story of the previous stories so it could be difficult probably. would be summoned by the president of the republic and be asked to form the government but it wouldn't be the first time for somebody who is leading the paul polls and have has the majority of seats in the parliament not to be able to form a new government so should tell us more about the background to this anti immigration debate i guess you can call that i guess this goes back to the refugee crisis the number of people moving through how was living near affected. there's a very interesting question i talk to people to libya in other parts of salina many analysts and other politicians and nobody would agree this questions of refugees and migrants is crucial to their lives they have other questions for every day business but this question was somehow brought by brought by him is the answer to

the election debate to election campaign we mustn't forget he is a he's a really experienced politician very well known here in slovenia for twenty eight years since this country introduced a democracy and got independence from the rest of yugoslavia then so he's very well experience and he brought this question here somehow he used the scare mongering and fear and paid the sentiment and so he brought this question to this being and we mustn't forget also he's a very close friend of hungary and prime minister viktor orban who of bob vial he's gone sri to prevent refugees to come up to hungary and also to remind us that it's intervening it was just a transit point for refugees travel into germany austria and other parts of western

europe such search from the al-jazeera family in the balkans there live in slovenia thank you sasha fierce. now turkey's president is trying to rally supporters in kurdish strongholds as he prepares for presidential and parliamentary elections in just three weeks reject typer one called the vote for june twenty fourth eighteen months ahead of schedule and today he is due to address around in here to outline his ak party policies including fighting inflation and combating foreign threats you know for decades relations between the turkish state and kurdish groups have been strained shall we say kurdish separatists of campaign politically and through bombing campaigns for independence they want their own state in the south east along the turkey syria border for a few years we're talking twenty thirteen it looks like things are improving the turkish president and senior members of one of the leading kurdish armed groups agreed a cease fire deal that has since collapsed though caused mainly by the deteriorating

situation in syria kurdish fighters there have led a u.s. backed fighting force against eitel eisel they've gained control of some territory and have been trying to establish that kurdish state so in retaliation we had zero to one launching a military offensive against kurdish controlled affray in in northern syria in january he vowed to quote cleanse the area of kurdish fighters who are listed as terrorists by turkey in the u.s. basically a campaign and a huge number of kurdish this which further damaged already poor relations that's the background here's what's happening now with simco cilia who is live in. so what sort of message then seen him does president ergo and take to people who would generally view him with suspicion. welcome back to the day from the kurdish perspective president didn't say anything promising for the kurdish citizens because in the electoral campaign of

a quality the ruling party they have already underlined that the state of emergency will continue until an unknown time period also there is no sign of free lunch ing the peace kurdish peace process because the ruling party has lost some ground due to some security problems inside turkey and in the surrounding area like syria and iraq so they have aligned with the nationalist party and after this alliance and when you add up to fail military coup attempt in turkey in two thousand and sixteen the ruling party has adopted a very very nationalist discourse which was actually against its establishments rhetorically but now we see that alliance is leading and they are supporting president are drawn today what prisons are done told to the kurds was he underlined the separation of curt's by by the out the kurdistan workers party and he blamed

the pro cordage h d p party for being silent and being not not managing. the policies here properly and he said that we will continue our fight against the p.k. k. but we don't have any problem with the kurds but after the military operations military offensive started in two thousand and fifteen here the business went down people were internally displaced because many of the houses were ripped off by the bombings and everything is so people here actually want some peace and want some actually economic outcome so probably the messages are dying gave today didn't satisfy the kurds much more generally center what is the feeling about this election in turkey with three weeks to go as we say it was called eighteen months early are people. excited about it or are ready for this election.

well as you said it is eighteen months early some people were discussing that there could be an early election but this is actually even something more different compared considering an early election turkish economy has some problems and many economists are discussing that and turkish lira has been losing against the us dollar since since the new year took a loss like twenty five percent of the economy is actually one of the major major dynamics that pushed governments for an early election and the instability in the region the ongoing military offensive in northern syria also in northern iraq these are actually pushing the government to a corner by the way they have been governing the country for sixteen years and thirteen years or twelve years were were actually very successful in economy and politics but both the government both the politicians bureaucrats and people are tired that's the problem and add on sol that there is actually

a slowdown in its support that's why he moved the elections forward but the opposition was not ready for that synonym in the upper tier of thank you so much for that sin and there is more on turkey it's for us and foreign policy its attitudes towards the kurds in this edition of talk to our jazeera with turkey's foreign minister. it is for unfair brief this year around the time of turkey's offensive of the so-called operation all of branch in our freen in syria against the kurdish forces they talk to our jazeera is in the show reception at al jazeera dot com you see jamal during that interview there. now the team in london is going to tell us more about this in a moment just want to quickly show you some of these live shots coming in from london bridge one year since the attack there you see the mayor of london there you see the trees and the prime minister marking that attack which happened one year ago today so as you see in the next box along is mary in the months that she's got

more on that and other international news. yeah that's right come all this ceremony is taking place right now just outside our studio here in london taking place in the cathedral to remember the eight people who died when three attackers round down pedestrians on the bridge and then stabbed people in bars and restaurants around a market dozens of people were also injured the three attackers were shot dead by police but there we've been seeing pictures of the british prime minister to resign may the opposition leader jeremy corbyn all coming together for commemorations one year after the london bridge attack so we'll stay across commemorations that bring you more perhaps a bit later on also catching up on some of the other stories we're watching around the world in kenya government officials say residents of a building which collapsed early on sunday morning had been evicted but that they sneak back in even after it was condemned and marked for demolition three people

were killed when the five story residential building crumbled rescue is are still looking for survivors it's not clear what caused the collapse but with housing in high demand developers often bypass building regulations in two thousand and fifteen the national construction authority found fifty eight percent of buildings in nairobi were unfit for habitation. that inspection is being done straight away to ensure that those speeding's at the public feel that their own service public device. has been meant that some of them will be knocked down straight away while these machines i just did on the ground. tunisia's defense ministry has confirmed thirty five people were killed when a boat carrying refugees and migrants sank just off the port of safaga ice the navy and national guard responded to a distress call a managed to rescue sixty eight of the people on board to asia is becoming an increasingly popular starting point for illegal boats heading across the

mediterranean to southern europe and in a separate incident nine people including six children died when a speed boat sank making the crossing from turkey to the greek islands five were rescued by the coast guard and fisherman and the israeli military says its jets have targeted fifteen sites belonging to hamas in gaza this was the moment it says two weapons manufacturing and storage sites were hit israel said the attacks were in response to rockets fired into its territory from gaza al-jazeera is harry force it has mall. well this latest exchange between israel and fighting factions here inside gaza began late on saturday night with mortar fire coming out of the gaza strip israel said that there were four projectiles fired in total three of them intercepted by the iron dome system one of them falling short within gazan territory and overnight we've seen a pretty extensive response from the israeli air force fifteen science they say

they've targeted within gaza the latest of those strikes on an empty military training base belonging to the hamas military wing the alka some brigades no casualties on either side but it does come after what happened on tuesday into the early hours of wednesday morning last week when we saw the biggest exchange between the israeli air force and the israeli military and forces here inside gaza since the twenty fourteen war beginning with mortar fire into israeli territory about one hundred projectiles in total according to the imagery were fired into into israeli territory during that period and sixty five targets here inside gaza were struck so since then an informal cease fire has been prevailing one which egypt took a major role in trying to secure this seems to be a relatively limited breaking of that situation but obviously there is always the possibility that these things can escalate it does seem according to some that the

factions here inside gaza hamas in particular may well be trying to provoke or remind israel of the situation here as we understand there are efforts underway to get some kind of longer term ceasefire brokered between israel and hamas that remains a very difficult objective both sides remain far apart in terms of what they would want in any such deal and in the meantime there's always a possibility for these kinds of exchanges to escalate further than either side would ideally want. there's been a fortnight of protests in jordan against austerity measures backed by the international monetary fund crowds gathered near the prime minister's office calling for the government to resign the i.m.f. is recommending an income tax increase to lower the budget deficit hawks as mall i fear the largest anti-government rallies in five years in what's we're got is one of the most stable middle east countries the protest movement initially started by trade unions has swelled nationwide as jordanians show their frustration i.

ask i won't believe how local while citizens now have no power the searching for the children's daily food women are looking in garbage containers to feed their kids and every day we are surprised by rising prices and new taxes the problem is not just the tax law the jordanian citizen right now. his pockets are empty are completely empty. saw the government has to listen. to the sound of the people jordan is one of the most expensive. countries in the region and on the top of the word still with no resources that's on just for the people of jordan. the increase in sales tax and employees being tax move has infuriated the protestors and they want the government to resign. king abdullah has stood by prime minister hani mulkey despite calls to fire him the king's been instead calling for talks between

m.p.'s and government ministers but moki is under international pressure to reform jordan's economy and cut its thirty seven billion dollar debt that is equivalent to ninety five percent of g.d.p. . the international monetary fund approved a seven hundred million loan to jordan two years ago to lower public debt and increase growth jordan relies heavily on financial help from the u.s. u.a.e. and until recently saudi arabia which has cut funding king abdullah is a key u.s. ally in the strategically important region which borders syria israel and iraq regional time or has worsened the kingdom's money problems and it sheltering one point four million syrian refugees that according to the hashemite government and those refugees look no closer to returning home. has a large population of refugees from the war in iraq and around it plus two million palestinian refugees have settled in the kingdom. the king recently reversed plans

to raise petrol prices foreign protests and these latest protests against austerity measures are further demand for change. is there. and that's it for now but i'll have much more from london coming up in about half an hour's time later looking forward to that thank you mary of this is the news grid and for watching us on facebook live with but a bonus story just for you t.v. people don't get it just for online find out how one woman is using her head to raise awareness about some sensitive topics and then later kenya steps on stage as just maybe an oil drilling african powerhouse when to take a look at the economic benefits and what local communities are expecting from the first shipment of oil. how about three days ago we had significant showers in lebanon and in syria those

are still visible as these masses of cloud here and produce some pretty significant rain up in georgia for example in the caucasus as a result there was flooding and it's not finished yet you still got these green dots that extend to northern iran and still talking back through southern turkey back into syria and lebanon once more beirut being the recipient of significant shows possibly hail and small now beyond that is a dry picture an increasingly hot forty four is the forecast in baghdad with a wind up from the south possibly strong enough to bring a bit of dust with it and temperatures happen surprisingly high for the last few weeks around the gulf nations for example but if you still got the middle forty's in the middle of a month clouds increasing on the coast near samarra maybe this is the start of the harveys seems a little early but you never know it's about that right we've got three months of it to come after all and thirty one degrees is the result of an onshore breeze and cloud in salalah was drizzle inland probably southern africa we have had some

useful re recently in the western cape and deeds a little stripe of cloud coming across here as you can see but significant rain seems unlikely. the i.m.f. said riyadh's a breakeven oil price for twenty eighteen is likely to be around eighty eight dollars a barrel why is argentina again turning to the i.m.f. for help now we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. from cutting edge medical technology toxic venom could be a foster untapped resource for the development of lifesaving drugs to advances in the most difficult regions of the world raising against scotland and not the worst

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the headlines at al-jazeera dot com and what's trending as well story number three there. turning to the deputy prime minister of canada saying not fuel a war with iran making up a story to build the laser actually on relations between counter and iran is reapproach the one year anniversary of the g.c.c. crisis number four trump might be leading the u.s. to another meltdown which one is it have to read for yourself that's what's trending this sunday i don't think they were dr. thomas in northern india demanding the government help them get a better price for their crops. some of them as you say on a ten day strike now they want traders to pay more for the products they want financial aid from the government more than half of india's farming households are

in debt despite numerous loan write offs by successive governments where we have been given food and trade policy analyst is the scale of earlier debt relief was insufficient to free farmers from a cycle of credit. but let's be very clear about this that what the successive governments have been good enough so far is only a fraction of the outstanding loans even if you've got to write off all the little ones that would have to be equal to the a lot of the gulf are steps in that we do for the got but it's almost a year it would be your every book three years not the one i'm going to make is that in this country what we have acting all of it yes it is a fraction the beat is if we did not get far most of that income that does do them they have no other option but to do more good so good after good credit of the good of good stuff that you know does a humiliating honest and it's no good to live in debt all to your life and this is what is happening in the been there farmers in india bust up on the end of lawn

that is spending against farmers needs to be struck down on a one book once you do that you provide a clean slate who really work on again and then we bring in economic policies that ensure that the farmers do not get a system like back in books into debt again there is this possibility yes what we need is to set up the pharmacy income commission if i was in the commission because short of that the evidence farming soared in the end in india a good would get it assured income and i'm going to have a book on it and peace be you have got it that it will be lovely it in thousand rupees in abundance is what farmers are worth for a living. or a living income but this is something which the government of india has to do because there's no other option you have like everything in this country and nothing as a book. we're here let's bring you in on this one how people are using social media to push it along people have been very vocal about the story but the pharma organizations have called to boycott the wholesale markets in several states like punjab and pradesh and there's this cartoon that's getting

a lot of attention at the moment referring to the lack of progress that voters have seen over the past four years and has a hash tag b j p killing farmers and the caption just basically illustrates that no farmer wants his kids to become a farmer farming is losing business in india because the trader is earning more well dinesh is the president of the national farmers and laborers federation he explains what they're asking for. the farmers protesters told. there is no place for garlands in our protest or to moms or that this woman often committee's recommendations should be implemented about the promise she gets fifty percent more than his cost of production the government should give doctors not taken any steps towards a doctor maintenon. and we also heard from d.t. she has a farm in maharashtra and she says the situation for some pharmacies so bad that they have to take drastic measures. it is high time did to me didn't stop

exploiting the far most future the difference between did i didn't fall is the farmers to live nor the choice but to end their lives. the pricing system is to be fixed and rita banerjee from kolkata says that up to eighteen thousand farmers commit suicide every year and this is why the strike is necessary to send a strong message. really asking for me two things one is they want to know when is the government has been promising them but hasn't done anything about it and the other thing is with multinationals coming in and with big supermarkets big name supermarkets coming in there has been tremendous pressure on the farmers the middleman takes the biggest cut and with these big supermarkets with their political economic platforms operating even greater pressure on the farmer

so larry for the rest to you know join with with the farmers and give them momentum in getting the demands. and while the timing of these protests is significant it comes on the one year anniversary off on the protests that took place in the city of months or six farmers were allegedly killed by police firing at protesters and there is some politics at play as well in all of this rubble gandhi the president of the opposition national congress party has tweeted that he will participate in this week's strike in the same state where the six farmers were killed last year now india's home affairs than the service calling the strike an agitation of the congress party and then there's this cartoon that's also being shared a lot as well with the hash tag congress plans to sun riots and it suggests that the party is politicizing the strike and using the farmers to push their agenda all

we have from to conduct a car and he broke down the political dynamics. well because of our recent india including congressman b.s. from the d.n.c. and some of the other parties. just trying to create problems in the name of formals promise the law much interested in this. but people from this critical parties us pledging million returns from promises and dad telling you down the road to show their anger but it's not from a saver it's really a political parties well the indian government has started their own hash tag campaign called b j p four farmers and they're posting things like this highlighting achievements made in agriculture and this post is says in the past forty eight months the modi government has been in power it has brought prosperity and happiness for farmers including access to your real fertilizer and on line this

is a mixed response to the strike netra says that the b j p is doing what only a government failed to do in a long time benefits for the farmers but sharma argues if the twelve thousand farmer suicides across india don't move you at the killing of farmers in months or doesn't move you then you aren't human you are the b j p well then you have others like geo who are more concerned about the food waste she says surely there's a better way to protest than throwing and wasting milk and vegetables on the road well if you are in india we do want to get your thoughts on the story so get in touch with us use the hash tag a to news news grid or message me directly i remember him comment thank you read a lot to detail there from here and from of us in india thank you now we're going to look at oil in africa which would probably make you think of nigeria certainly maybe angola as well but now ten years or oil is flowing to the first convoy of trucks is set off from turkana in the north one of the poorest parts of the country

where oil reserves were discovered in twenty twelve heading to the coast. with the cargo will be sent into the global market as part of a pilot project at this stage president who can yacht it was there to see the trucks of his government hoping to make about one hundred fifty million dollars a year from the oil once the scheme is up and running but these logistics are not going to be simple we've done a quick google maps directions search from. to the port in mombasa. what is that eighteen over eighteen hour drive at this point but the plan is to build an eight hundred kilometer pipeline for one point two billion dollars really this road route that you see in blue and this convoy of trucks it's an indication of kenya's ambitions they'll be carrying one hundred fifty six barrels of oil eventually kenya wants to produce two thousand barrels a day here is alex vines head of africa program at chatham house to talk us through some of this as i said you think of oil in africa you think nigerian angola i don't

think kenya is going to be up on those levels obviously but can this be of some benefit because oil is the classic curse and. gosh what's the word i'm looking for blessing in it it can be there either. yeah look the the already demonstrated and took on the probably seven hundred fifty million barrels of reserves so it's partly about the oil price if the overpriced remains around what it is now that's commercially viable and that's money for kenya for taxes and royalties so the question will be whether the money from those taxes and royalties will be used effectively for development the oil industry itself doesn't employ many people so the challenge for the kenyan administration i think that the national level and at the county level the local level and district level will be how to get beneficiation how to benefit out of the money that will be accrued what

about just building the pipeline in the first place one point two billion dollars they need for that one how secure is that and in the first place well that will depend on oil price i mean a feasibility study is being has been commissioned by tallow oil who is the operator into kona kind of irish london listed company. and well the pipeline also is vulnerable to politics and to security so we'll see but what is clear is that this pilot oil project of trucking for trucks down to mombasa as you've told you your view as that's not commercial that's a political statement basically. that's what is that i mean you're sort of saying we you know barrels per patrik per day you know going going down to the coast yeah is it sort of kenya so when you took a political statement can you say we can play the oil game as well and to as i say

not mix it with the mind is really about to show that they can step up. look that there is rivalries taking place in eastern africa you know there is not a clear regional power in the way that there is in west africa with nigeria or in southern africa which is clearly south africa and so the kenyans the same with go oh we've got a diversified economy we've got regional and continental ambitions and oil is part of that. in a way almost reminds me of countries wanting their own airline you know the airline the sense is no we want our own oil uganda is producing oil well so and and tanzania may well become a significant gust produces and there is a bit of rivalry going on geopolitically we've been in the region over natural resource and elements just now just quickly there were some high hopes for the

local community intercon or about what this would bring to bear i mean that's understandable you know who was hurt that oil will bring some some wealth and some . improvements for them do you think it will we'll see i mean president a hurricane yet a speech and some of the other notables today at the ceremony were about acknowledging that they have to manage expectations that this isn't going to make a lot of people get rich very quickly but that there are ways of learning from past mistakes elsewhere i mean nigeria and some of the of a big countries that have been producing oil comes to mind where you have extreme inequality and not a lot of trickle down and so i'm hoping myself that because kenya has a diversified economy it's got an important tourism industry agricultural industry even services maybe the government can manage this better than it has seen in other

places very interesting alex vines thank you for your time do appreciate it. it was around this time last year when cutters relationship with its neighbors changed drastically saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt they'll cut ties with doha on june the fifth of twenty seventeen and impose a land sea and blockade they choose cutter of supporting radical islamist groups allegations it denies while we are coming up on the one year anniversary since the crisis began plenty of coverage by the on air and online for example this piece that al jazeera dot com from georgetown university carter professor rory miller lays out how it all started the deep history which has to be remembered in the context of the past year this article is a good place to start when you're trying to understand that big picture but much of the past year is simply been about making every day life work here in qatar the crisis led to shortages and food supplies and so it was countries like iran which stepped in to fill the gap but as they were striving our reports from tehran those

deepening ties between the two countries could also prove problematic this family run farm near to herat has been selling produce to qatar for more than ten years it used to export two to three truckloads of food to qatar a week since the blockade began demand has soared to two to three truckloads a day. farms like this all over iran have increased production to fill the gap in the country market after saudi arabia the u.a.e. and other countries severed supply routes what caused a shock in qatar is an opportunity for iranian businesses but so there are the knee of irani says profits are not the only reason exporters are keen to supply cut those markets in the us coming up i'll buy me one i'm saying this from the bottom of my heart we like katarina people we don't feel that our neighboring countries and islamic countries are separate from us we consider them as our religious brothers and we are happy that this market exists for us to supply it it's

embarrassing for us to say that we are helping qatar we are two brothers at one table eating from one table and we are happy that today qatari brothers are with us at one table. with business links all over the world the exporter says the blockade is bad for everyone in the region and hopes it ends soon. you can find a little bit of everything here fruits vegetables basic necessities being grown here in iran and will eventually end up in the homes of people living in qatar iran in qatar have had serious disagreements over the wars in syria and yemen and iranian support for hezbollah in lebanon but they speak with one voice in support of the palestinian people and share the world's largest natural gas field and in the last year disputes with saudi arabia have brought them closer together. we felt qatar was being treated unfairly so we opened our doors we let qatar airways to use our airspace and we used five important ports in the south of the country to send

our help relations with qatar have a bright horizon because our qatari friends are well aware about the intentions of our officials ability so robbie served as iran's ambassador to qatar he says both countries can cooperate on much more but he admits for qatar the appearance of siding too openly with iran is tricky. cutler is home to the largest american air base in the middle east and u.s. central command headquarters cozying up to run also further anger blockading countries and escalate tensions even more. because those leaders the last year has been a delicate balancing act but whatever happens next people living in qatar are unlikely to forget the neighbors willing to lend a hand when they needed it most. all jazeera modeste the latest updates page on the qatar gulf crisis still very much activity al jazeera dot com i suspect we will have a lot more activity then the next few days. i know you always say this but this

really is the best place to keep up with the story our journalists here are better placed than anyone else to have all the latest news all you have to do is search for qatar gulf crisis latest updates at al-jazeera dot com and on tuesday as well as for newsgroup you can join me for a special program at eighteen hundred hours g.m.t. it'll be nine pm here in doha as we look back at the impact of the gulf crisis exactly one year on. and undeniably a big issue is how the e.u. commission describes plastic pollution and now it has an ambitious plan to clean up waste on the continent wants to get rid of single use plastic products and is proposing a ban on products things like cotton buds straws even plates and cutlery the idea is to have those items replaced by some environmentally sustainable materials our friends from a year plus have more on the proposal which would need approval from both the parliament and counts.

brisket. i had plenty of comments from you on the live stream tonight on a lot of topics quite a bit on livin in elections which we talked about where the anti immigration feeling was quite so strong yes saina said immigration is the heart of human civilization and elizabeth said why are they angry at refugees and not the leaders that destroyed their home countries well i guess for people in slovenia they've seen a huge number of refugees coming through their country and have been caught up in the idea that they would be quote unquote taking over the country are going to see what happens at the ballot box. and one more comment i had where was it.

kenyan oil ali thank you for your comment or oil blessing or the beginning of corruption we're yet to see what will the people get out to make their lives better and yet as people into qana really hoping that they will see some sort of and prevent from that oil money still more head gear on the newsgroup priceless buildings in fact abandoned we're going to look at why many cultural heritage sites in iraq are being left to ruin first though a look at some global with. she

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a country's culture it can be expressed through many ways contant music food dress monuments but it is often those buildings those monuments which provide the trees solid long standing examples of national identity so when those buildings aren't properly maintained there's a lot more at stake some of it is the support now from the iraqi capital baghdad on the decay of its proud architectural heritage heritage the block read sixteen sixty the year when there was a year mosque was built but this is all that's left of it the cracks in the arches and fading tiles are reminders of the golden days of back that. this is the

victorian facade of the iraqi capital old government building it was damaged during the two thousand and three us invasion and has been abandoned since this area was part of the ottoman military complex on the banks of the tigris river its decrypt state symbolizes the dig rich cultural heritage. and many people nowadays are not aware of the importance of these sites and the reason is that recently iraq has faced violence and internal fighting which led to a weak government the conscription zone baghdad's old minaret are feeding the compound is over a thousand years old built by the caliphs after centuries of war than invasions the minaret is the only original structure left and it didn't always lean the government to seal the mosque because of the dangerously rapid tilting of the minaret but there are no real efforts being made to repair it the government's

priorities are the provision of basic services and with a struggling economy preservation efforts inevitably take a back seat there are no worshipers in this compound which is hundreds of years old because of the fear that the minaret would fall on the hall these days when people pray they do it in the courtyard spiderwebs have replaced the curtains inside and we are told there are no books left in the library upstairs. we need to value the sites not only there were but also historic sites like the assyrian and babylonian sites it would help to strengthen the national identity. and that iraqi national identity has been blurred by years of sectarian strife corruption and mismanagement these two domes envelop the symbolic eternal flame of the iraqi flag this monument built in the one nine hundred eighty s. used to represent iraqis now many government departments claim ownership of the

multi-million dollar landmark. the maltese moneyman was used by u.s. forces and then the iraqi military as a base for like much else of iraq's heritage its museum and library but also looted these days the halls remain empty and the general public is not allowed in so rich tapestry of ancient and modern history is fading fast many people are afraid that unless action is taken to protect and preserve it it could be lost forever some of the al-jazeera like that that's a news group for this sunday if you want to get in touch with us you know how to do it hash tag you can do that in twitter facebook or whatsapp and that covers telegram about a few using that mr knapp on seven hundred five a one trip a one for one on comments questions contributions any video you can send to some stories out there across the world or maybe a little selfie reporter as well feel free to simulate what's mariam's up next from london we'll see you back here in studio fourteen at fifteen hundred hours g.m.t.

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the wells pollinate says are in decline. in this episode of the tries we meet entomologists on opposite sides of the planet protecting insects of all sizes crucial to preserving food chains. i've come to the u.k. to see how all the industrial sites are being turned into bug reserves in an attempt to reverse this worrying trend. fighting insect to get on on al-jazeera. the sam's in archaeology graduate from iraq he's also a part time going to billings pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in bubble most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called a meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasize the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. that he had been because i've been here for some time i can help them with

lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life is part of life it's culture. u.s. and chinese trade talks and with a warning from beijing that all deals are off if washington imposes sanctions. hello i'm in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up. protests continue to rock jordan as anger grows over income tax and price hikes. more than forty migrants drowned and dozens are rescued as they try to reach europe . this as an anti immigrant party is tipped to win in slovenia as election faces

a struggle for coalition partners.