wrightson merges in some cases where entire families were victimized more than five thousand victims participated in the trial but never issued an order to ripen murder and the case to end on where the on the fex simba could be held responsible for atrocities carried out by troops under his control the appeals chamber with the exception of two judges found he could not and that the trial judges made serious errors regarding bimbos if it's to stop the crimes but there were scenes of jubilation in kinshasa a businessman and former vice president still has a lot of support at home. i cry with joy because john pierre bemba was a dead man he's just been resurrected the decision overturns what had been hailed a landmark ruling labor was the first david to be convicted for crimes committed by others under his command and it was the first time the i.c.c. focused on right as a weapon of war and two thousand and seven when talking to al-jazeera before his

arrest insisted he had nothing to once afore you will know that the international criminal court no. i'm not of course involved in the of this ngs these arrested in two thousand and eight convicted war criminal in two thousand and sixteen he's now won his appeal but bamba hasn't been freed a separate panel of judges continues to consider his punishment for interfering with witnesses during his trial maidana home and al-jazeera. coming up for ya. the ramadan tradition that suddenly at risk in jerusalem is old cissie. and with the money he's protected in a straight inland not far off a century as he prepares to say goodbye.

how low we've got some very heavy rain affecting the philippines at the moment some big downpours rolling in here this is the south westerly rains pushing for the southwest the monsoon feeding those heavy showers in across much of the philippines but certainly into northern sections of the country just to the north of manila we had one hundred eighteen millimeters of rain in twenty four hours all joins up with that southwest wind as you can see but that's also being dragged in across a similar area by a recent tropical storm which has developed in the northwest pacific so heavy downpours there into lose on sunday and more of that as we go on into monday hence we do have some flooding in place it will worsen before it does improve a few showers they were on their way down towards the impalas of indonesia much of malaysia generally fine in try just

a few homegrown showers in the heat of the day we want to find in try to cross a good part of australia still a little bit of cloud down towards the southeast and colder just dragging its heels as it moves over towards new zealand high pressure in charge here is that generally i keep things sefl killing off mind temperatures at around fifteen celsius for melbourne one of the coastal showers certainly a possibility over the next day i'll say but doesn't that too bad a few showers through the bites but fun to try the. counting the cost jordan's economy is struggling to look at why i.m.f. backed price hikes are proving the last straw for many people last why the world's top poker growers want a bigger share of the global chocolate market. counting the cost on i just see it.

again you're watching alistair has a reminder of all top stories this g seven leaders of warm donald trump that his policies on trade tariffs climate change and the iran nuclear deal as in the us apart from the rest of the world the world's richest countries meeting in canada also rejected trump suggestion to rebut russia that's of the group of industrialized nations. russian president vladimir putin is in beijing announcing trade investment agreements with his chinese counterpart xi jinping described the russian leader as his best friend in the world to china's first ever friendship

medal. and the taliban in afghanistan has announced a three day cease fire off the end of ramadan but it won't include foreign forces and about fighters will melt defend themselves if attacked during the truce at the start of the holiday later this month. now just days away from the high stakes summit between the u.s. president and north korea's leader kim jong un's country is regarded as one of the most repressive in the world the united nations estimates there are one hundred thousand political prisoners detained in camps dozens of foreigners are prevented from leaving but hey reports from seoul. in south korea there are many emotions about the changing relationship with north korea among small vocal nationalist groups there is suspicion about pyongyang's motives concerned even paranoid that south korea is about to be engulfed by communism away from the loud rallies there

are those for whom the cross border and gauge went off as a glimmer of hope in what is often seemed a hopeless situation you don't it's hard to expect too much but we need to see how it goes we're putting all if it's together in the hope there are no issues will be discussed in this summit with north korea those issues are abductions and other human rights abuses that victims and their families believe need to be on the agenda in singapore one inch holes father when one was on a plane in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine when it was hijacked by a north korean agent most of the passengers were eventually allowed to return to the south but when one who's now eighty one wasn't among them as well as abductions there are countless other human rights abuses that continue to take place in north korea including torture and public executions the united nations says the acts may amount to crimes against humanity words you probably won't hear used when donald trump meets kim jong il and some experts believe raising human rights in the first

meeting may be too sensitive japan's government disagrees and has been pushing for the issue of abductions to be discussed north korea admitted kidnapping thirteen japanese in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's to train is spies some have been returned but japan's government suspects there may be hundreds still in north korea there are other nationalities too like this woman seen in the background. the photo taken on a north korean beach family members believe it's a no chip pan joy a thai woman who disappeared from macau in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight. i have a lot of hope that south korea japan and the u.s. who push the north korean abduction issue and i will be able to meet soon at this stage the new diplomatic face of north korea is largely viewed as positive but for many it will mean nothing if the people who have been waiting decades to see until now to come home wayne hey al-jazeera soul. now one of the world's biggest refugee

camps is hosting a web streaming of fans that organizers hope will show refugees animal positive life is happening at the cooma camp in kenya which houses around one hundred eighty five thousand people from countries including south sudan somalia and ethiopia. behind it arranges events and lectures around the wells. for us in cat love to talk us through what's happening to us today. well or right now the camp event has taken a lunch break so there's more people outside of the tent where this event is being housed sort of milling about relaxing a little bit in between presentations we heard a music performance happening a few moments ago as well there will be more music later in the afternoon to overall it's really been a remarkable day we've spoke in the last few hours you and i about the fact that this is an event that's really trying to highlight the positive impact the positive change that refugees can bring to communities and all across the world it's an

event that the organizers hope will try to change the narrative when it comes to refugees to change those negative perceptions and stereotypes that abide til this day now i want to bring in a guest we have right now she's a remarkable young woman and her name is i mean she is a filmmaker aged twenty four she fled here several years ago from the congo i mean you gave a terrific presentation a couple of hours ago. what were you trying to impart when you spoke to the audience here. ok i was trying to tell them what happened to me country and show them what i went to when they came here and they come living without fun really living alone i can you know i was like sixteen years old soul up in so many things happen to me but i never lose my focus cause i had my dream. and take this opportunity. to take them to be my career

currently i'm a filmmaker i have won so many our ads and even now my film was. given to another so i want to i wanted to make people realize that refugees has dream they have their. ok they fled their home country but they came with their dreams so if they give them the opportunity to going to live the the kind of so many things you know mark told us have been to the india plant i mean we spoke a little while ago as well and you were saying how important it is for you as a refugee and as a filmmaker to really highlight the voices of the people who are in this community and i wanted to ask you specifically about the very harrowing journey for you had as a child how difficult was it for you when you fled the violence of your country and came here ok you see i was just fifteen years on then. i

just. have lost my parents everyone is there so fun the way to look for a safe place for me just for myself who would come which has been my home now for ten years so i. intend to be. a wonder to me to believe i'm here in the camp was when i was in the mekong sheet. i had a dream that i wanted to be a fixer so i'm not a living make monte have been here for ten years so i can take my past to two who do not make me move on so i decide. to fold that's my past and move on with my life i mean really a month thank you so much thank you for your inspirational presentation and thank you for speaking us with here today and good luck to you in your future. a well you heard it there laura i mean this is i mean are we a mo a twenty four year old filmmaker somebody who arrived at this camp fleeing violence

on her own separated from her family and she has made her dreams come true and she is making the kind of positive impact the kind of positive change that the world needs to hear about when it comes to refugees so again this is really quite a day to witness you know i've been telling refugee stories and going to refugee camps around the world for over a decade now and this is one of those days where you're really proud to be here to try to show a different side of the refugee story to try to show how communities come together to try to lift people up to show their resilience the theme of this event is thrive and what you can see in this camp there are people here are refugees that are giving presentations today trying to inspire the rest of the refugees here and all the refugees around the world laura it is good to highlight the inspirational stories you haven't i'm jim. from kakuma. here's presents for my

campaign manager is facing new challenges full mana forces accused of tampering with witnesses as he awaits trial of his foreign loving what counsel robert miller has also filed obstruction charges against one of longtime russian associates. as an ancient practice in the middle east or in the holy month of ramadan to make sure that people eat before a day of fasting for centuries men have walked around the streets in the middle of the night chanting and banging drums but now police in jerusalem began issuing hefty fines because jewish settlers have moved into the area complaining about a lack of sleep but i suspect reports. are oh no. it's a wake up alarm that dates back centuries. just before dawn during ramadan across the middle east men known as mr herat to call people to pray and eat before the fasting begins. but here in the muslim quarter of jerusalem's old city for the

first time police have been detaining and finding the most a hierarchy but disturbing the sleep of the jewish settlers living here. for the police are always harassing us i've been detained four times accused of making noises that disturbs the settlers the settlers get annoyed by everything we do even the decorations we make for ramadan annoys them. the old city is split into the muslim jewish christian and armenian porters but for the past fifty years jewish settlers have also been moving into the muslim quarter now appear is where while subtler families live and the guys stop the music as they go past the house but that's not been enough to stop the settlers complaining to the police. over that of. the settlers complained again tonight there are jewish homes here this woman says this is going to go on all month. jerusalem police told al-jazeera in

a statement that they are constantly trying to maintain the delicate balance between allowing and ensuring the freedom of religion and worship and maintaining public order and quality of life for local residents the police see offenses of noise and disturbing the peace is one of the most serious offenses that cause harm to the public and the quality of life for our local residents the police presence is provided for settlers who choose to live in the heart of the muslim quarter. girt with fines running into the hundreds of dollars muhammad's wish to continue this ramadan tradition has suddenly become very expensive there are about zero zero zero burnitz made al-jazeera in occupied east jerusalem. now off the hall for a century the longest serving staff member at the sydney opera house is calling us a day steve sue call us migrated to australia from greece in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and soon began work on the opera houses construction just

weeks from retirement he reflects on his many is working inside one of the world's most famous landmarks my name is the scholars and i'm working in my twenty's over the sydney opera house that i've you know starting at the sixty four i was an eighteen years sort of and i come to work quite as five every morning for the last fifteen years. i was single out with the open ninety six the heat i started on this beautiful build the the icon of the australian i come from a small island south of greece my face up when i started here you were seeing the drama theatre when they finished that i started on the scaffolding we had the lot of greeks lot i talian it's from ireland i met my wife and we met in late it's sixty the same here i start here of course we've got the opera hair so i was in

love with the opera. three quarter of the billy sea on the water on the sea in the material they put that time there was not last for long i saw of the congo to. do something with the cancer and there but homes to change the colony and i remember my grandmother the used to do the floor with a casting saw i said to my wife get me a packet of baking soda and i have a little clothes the congress girl sliced so and then i thought i was thinking a bill that brought us my grandmother used to have it i q a was bronze cubes they get there a wreck or the only boy. i make assemble they was very impress you come to work not to pass your time you come to two you joining the beautiful building peace card to put in my mind i'm going to leave the job i'm seventy three

you know i've got three grand charles there waiting for me and that. i wish we find that i people to continue to protect the building gently with their love because i love this ability. you know with these are the top stories g seven leaders have warned donald trump that his policies on tariffs climate change on the iran nuclear deal as in the us apart from the rest of the world speaking with canada's prime minister they seem to hint of progress at least on trade justin is agree it could all be terrorists in the world trade barriers between canada and the united states so we're very happy

right now it is in good shape we are actually working on it and we are actually working on it but our relationship is very good we are actually worked you know including tariffs and making it all very fair for both countries and we've made a lot of progress today we'll see how it all works we've made a lot of progress. russian president vladimir putin is in beijing and i'll sing trade investment agreements with his chinese counterpart xi jinping described the russian leader as his best friend in the water china's first ever friendship metal economic military and political corp to counter u.s. influence is improved during season presidency. the taliban in afghanistan has announced a three day cease fire off the end of ramadan but it won't include foreign forces taliban fighters will not defend themselves if attacked during the truce at the start of the alpha two muslim holiday later this month the afghan government announced a similar ceasefire two days ago. and sascha criminal court has overturned the war

crimes conviction of former vice president a democratic republic of congo bemba supporters of celebrations in the capital kinshasa or after haring the ruling majority of judges found could not be held responsible for the atrocities of his militia which he sent into neighboring central african republic in two thousand and two. more guatemalans have been ordered to leave their homes threatened by an erupting volcano. has been spewing a toxic cloud of ash and lava for the past five days at least one hundred nine people have died and another two hundred a missing and there's little hope of finding them alive. and the world health organization says the outbreak in the democratic republic of congo is stabilizing the general. says he's cautiously optimistic after a decrease in the number of cases reported in the past week one thousand eight hundred people have received an experimental vaccine because i had lines more news

here on al-jazeera after counting the cost. in this. one it's still. demonstrably. documented. alarm as i'm sick of this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics jordan's economy struggling to cope we'll look at the stress is proving the last straw for many people. also this week the airline business find out if it's clear skies ahead or turbulent times for global carrys twenty eighteen. plus why top cocoa growers are trying to grab a bigger slice of the chocolate market. or people in the

kingdom of jordan have been staging angry protests over the rising cost of living the king was forced to sack the prime minister and the government had to back down on a controversial tax hike and i.m.f. back plan to raise both income and business taxes is what triggered the protests and although that's now been scrapped those measures are just the latest in a string of reforms earlier this year red subsidies were cut and costs have risen for small businesses jordan received a seven hundred twenty three million dollars loan from the i.m.f. in two thousand and sixteen and the government has a three year plan in action to bring down debt levels and then there is the economic impact of hosting hundreds of thousands of refugees from neighboring syria and iraq. jordan's debt amounts to around thirty seven billion dollars which is about ninety four percent of g.d.p. and according to official estimates eighteen and

a half percent of the ten million population is unemployed despite being home to some of the world's most important historical sites like the agent city of petra jordan is resource poor it relies on aid and loans from its oil rich neighbors and the united states jordan has also been hit by conflicts in neighboring syria and iraq it's taken in around one point three million refugees from syria alone we're joining us now from the jordanian capital and man is dr joe more than any chairman of a man stock exchange and a former deputy prime minister in one of the previous governments thanks very much for being with us so the jordanian government has pushed through these austerity measures for the better part of two years now and the effect of it for millions of jordanians is a higher cost of living and it's clear that there's a great deal of public anger there and it's not going away so what's to be done. well right now i think that we need after six years of austerity measures actually

to look into the criticism and value it what had happened so the best way is to change the paradigm which we have been following so far to concentrate on fiscal policy and fiscal reform without effecting any development has actually proved that we have got neither one neither we succeeded in fiscal reform nor have we caused any growth tangible growth that would enable us to face that when problem of unemployment and poverty so therefore the best way is now to focus on pro people policies that would aim and focus on effect on creating economic growth creating projects tangibles. deliverables that people can identify with and feel that the government is working for them and it is a people's oriented approach but how do you do that these people

a oriented policies as you say without adding to government debt which is what the government is is trying to reduce we need to. ask the international monetary fund for two years holiday that we should we should not increase taxes let even if. i were i need to borrow to invest not want to cover current expenditures all right just picking out way we have to do that just picking up on that point about the i.m.f. do you think that they would be amenable to that to to adjusting their policies extending the program you know in order to give some some sort of breathing space for the jordanian government and by extension the jordanian people. yes and i think that. just like any other international organization they are looking for success stories to tell the rest of the world we're not asking the i.m.f. to change its own model what we are asking them that instead of decreasing the debt

g.d.p. ratio from ninety six percent to seventy seven percent by the end of two thousand and twenty one to make of that in two thousand and twenty three now that would be tenable if we really begin to create good off if we grow the denominator which is the g.d.p. is going to grow and therefore the percentage of we manage to maintain deficit as it is then we can cause a decrease a percentage of the crease in this issue and so this is the only approach you have to do and that requires a very strong effort on the part of the jordanian government part of the job in a people and the private sector and you have to engage the whole population because this is how you create synergy in the society you restore the spirit people are over exhausted from taxes and they cannot take it anymore but if you really address

them feel that you are in prophetic with them they will begin to respond to your policies otherwise we would continue to do the same using the same ingredients using the same process and hoping to end up with a different dish that is not going to happen he talked earlier there are about what you refer to as external challenges there is of course the ongoing war in syria which has been going on since since twenty eleven. and the and the refugee. problem that's resulted from that jordan has taken a huge amount of syrian refugees how much of a drain has that been on its economy well it has been a big drain on the economy of course increase in population usually causes it causes a decrease in increasing. in g.d.p. that goes without saying but then kissing g.d.p. was no way commensurate with the increase in the in the population on average a jordanian has been has been suffering from a decrease in his bare kept

a income every year over the last six years of this is a burden some people are asking when is there any hope therefore you know at least if i look at it from this welfare point you can see that the joy joined in a people who have been paying in terms of decreased income that's coming their way secondly you know they have been facing increasing levels of cost of living. because refugees are crowding out the market they are causing demands on the basic necessities and many jordanians find that they have to go and seek some of the services that are usually provided by government go like education and health care and so on go and seek it in the private sector which causes them to pay higher. prices that would impact their budgets as well so therefore we reach this stage where many jordanian budget family is budgets have been actually strained and they

are asking now the question. is it my budget or is it the government's budget and now we need to enhance people's budgets so that they can spend more they can feel more relaxed and they will that will it's a matter can indeed in due time to the increase in government revenues could speak you talk to joe and and any joining us from a man. thank you has another country that is in need of i.m.f. cash is anjan tina it's agreed a bigger than expected fifty billion dollars financing deal the government there are for the i.m.f. help to stop its economy from sliding it's a crisis the currency is seen steep for as versus the dollar and inflation is running at twenty eight percent and many arjun tines are opposed to i.m.f. help they still blame it for the country's economic collapse and debt default back in two thousand and one while uncivil us from the national university of general

saw me and blames argentina's current problems on bad government policies we're going back to the i.m.f. because of an economic crisis essentially generated by the policies of the mockery administration since they assumed in december of two thousand and fifteen argentina is main issue is the foreign exchange constraint to what economists call the foreign exchange constraint i.e. the lack of. foreign exchange or dollars as they say here. to meet its external needs be a trade to be its tourism be its debt service and so. the way the arjun tang government has gone about solving that problem under market he has been a very dramatic increase in public debt all right still to come on counting the

cost a summit in singapore find out what north korea wants on the economic front when trump meets kim. a first fighters and footballers top the list of sports money makers over the last twelve months i'm talking about forbes annual ranking of the world's top one hundred highest paid athletes freud mayweather leads the list the now retired american boxer heads the pack for the four. time in seven years earning two hundred eighty five million dollars footballers' leno messi and cristiano ronaldo round out the top three basketball is one game that's more likely to make you rich forty n.b.a. players made the list this year led by le bron james more than any other sport there were no women on this year's list for the first time since two thousand and ten tennis star serena williams was the only female athlete last year and those who are listed and a total of three point eight billion dollars in two thousand and seventeen now i

phone maker apple have acknowledged what many have been saying for a while now its products have become too addictive so in recognition of that it's announced plans to launch new features designed to help you use your phone less but at the same time apple is also designing even more new features to keep you staring at your screen. a major policy shift for africa's fastest growing economy ethiopia's new prime minister wants to loosen the government's reins so in future state run telecoms power and aviation sector is going to track private money analysts are welcoming the move for now on ethiopian airlines africa's largest carrier longer be off limits to foreign and domestic investors and we could be seeing some higher airfares in the not too distant future that's because rising fuel prices are hitting airline profits around the world aviation trade body i.r. this week cut its profit outlook for twenty eight hundred jet fuel prices have

surged more than fifty percent over the past year it said trade tensions also pose a risk for global carriers a year ago a blockade by four arab countries and qatar banned its flag carriers jets from their skies and its many heavy losses for the airline andrew thomas met with qatar airways c.e.o. akbar in back in sydney this time last year just before the blockade was announced cattle railways was flying in every sense of the word your profits were up you're expanding new routes then the blockade and it's been a different story since how much has that blockade affected you in the line do you think that whatever stopped flying we're still flying we're still expanding. and that impact us that it increased our flying time it put pressure on my operational cost but it did not stop the will and the determination of us to keep on our part of growth and this year actually since the blockade

we have received the best airline of the year. we have received over thirty aircraft we have added over one thousand destinations and we have continued our investments in both. get a perfect and an editor the impact has only been on my bottom line but not on our determination to keep on continuing but let's talk about the bottom line you made a five hundred million dollar profit in twenty sixteen seventeen you've talked about six hundred thirty four million you've talked about a substantial loss this for not sure how big is that loss going to be and how long is that sustainable those sorts of losses i cannot tell you the amount of the loss because we have still not finished our accounting process but we should be announcing our losses in not too distant future however we can sustain this losses for the foreseeable future but we cannot sustain these losses if the blockade

continues for beyond the horizon that we have in mind so that's the worst case scenario the blockade does carry on long term you going to need investment from it or a government asset is yes i should not fool anybody we have state owned company the shareholder of but there always is the state of clutter and when there is a requirement for capital injection of course the business will go to its owner asked for capital injection is not likely at the moment i don't think it is likely but i don't know i cannot give you for for certain an answer what about expansion plans of us do you feel you've settled the dispute with the us government by what you're planning to publish your accounts in full we never had any dispute with the united states we had disputes with the three carriers that were crying foul we have proven to them that we have always been publishing about accounts they had access to our accounts and we had also in the past told them that we have no intention of

. carriage zero. europe so at the end of the day they did not get anything more than what we're doing in the past anyway so all this fuss about us getting subsidy and not publishing our accounts was mayor public relations exercise by them to gain support from their unions we feel it's over now i think it is over because we have signed a document with the united states government and the matter has been put to rest and we will continue to deliver on what we have agreed with the government of the united states you've talked in the past about defeating the blockade what would that mean in practice what does defeat mean if it means that they did not meet any of their targets that they blockaded us to achieve we have not capitulated we have not given into any demands we have continued our growth that has continued to

investments but that has continued its normal life and qatar has been very well supplied by qatar i was really new secretary of state in the u.s. mark compo very different character to rex tillerson does that change a thing where he already told them that enough is enough so the message is very clear now it is for the international community to put pressure that this should not last any longer if they don't want us to operate into their countries if they don't want trade with our countries it's fine but to blockade a country is against international norms and international civilized behavior which i have said already in the past i am sure that there will be a time when the united states will part pressure and continuous pressure that this blockade must be lifted immediately. our taking

a look at the underbelly of supply chains on the one end you see a bar of chocolate in a shiny wrapping but let's rewind a little bit from the expensive processing and marketing the ivory coast and gone are the world's first and second biggest coca produces and many people they are so poor that they can never afford the final product so the two governments have decided to team up to get a bigger share of the global chocolate profits they say they'll coordinate production levels and sales policies and that could mean the cost of a bar of chocolate will go up candy industry publishes an annual list of the top one hundred global confectionery companies ranking them by net sales in twenty seven thousand the american manufacturer mars was ranked as the leading confectionery company in the world with sales of about eighteen billion u.s. dollars it's only base for a group which makes kinda and the teller came in at number two and mandela's international which makes branded chocolates such as cadbury ranks third net sales

coming it at eleven and a half billion dollars last year. well joining us now via skype from babble switzerland is anthony fountain managing director of the voice network a coalition of european n.g.o.s and trade unions that focus on sustainable coca thanks very much for being with us so i can assume that you are in favor of what ivory coast and ghana trying to do here in terms of getting a bigger share of the spoils tell us why and why now. in the last year and a half we've seen a major price crisis in the cocoa sector that specifically in cote d'ivoire has a devastating results for cocoa farmers they've seen their income reduced by about thirty thirty seven percent overnight. it's focused little bit desperate measures the to take it to the troops the extreme poverty demarco clients.

and this is very important good for governments to they did this the price crash was to a large extent due to production and so did two major go to six nations really should work together to the narrative that there is a higher cocoa price to managing this why that might take some time before those effects start getting in but it is essential that they start moving forward start working to gather and start working on their income for cocoa farms amongst others price. but how much power do the cocoa produces have here because in terms of taking on the chocolate industry as it currently is they are up against some powerful forces on the other side in the companies. so when you look at the way prices are set a lot of that was done through kind of terrible markets very complex set of computers basically looking at what's happening and so that's almost impossible to

change but if you look at the fact that governor you are together two thirds of whom of the don't go in the world if they want to and if they make the right interventions they could very much impact. this iteration of the world's cocoa market at least in the short to medium term that it's a no brainer that if you've got two countries that so much coke of course they can have an impact if they want to. the problem for tension as well though is that you have two countries there who have very different policies when it comes to that to the market they they have different ways about going about it about setting a price and so on how do you get them to cooperate well they've started working together now at least at the top level of trying to talk with each other which for the longest time they were direct competitors so kind of the these first tentative steps are the first steps the question really is how is this going to work out in

the medium to long term and that who are a lot more trust and they currently have uncertainty very honest if you could also the far more integrity than those who did write. in the story thanks both after they try to get a bigger piece of yourselves understandably so. but that that that in the economic terms you talk about a zero sum game where one person wins at the other person's last to work that way and they need to work together to get to a better position for their farmers from a consumer perspective is this eventually going to mean us pay more for chocolates at the at the sweet shops oh i certainly hope so because currently we're not paying for what we're buying there's a lot of hidden costs in the chocolate that we buy. that we're simply too cheap to pay for. cost of child labor and for station extreme poverty that people have been

for that are the pharmacist you two generations so i certainly hope that we will end up paying more for chocolate because we're not getting enough now. appreciate you talking to us antony fountain joining us there from devils thanks so much for being with us thank you. and finally it is the first ever meeting between a north korean leader and a sitting u.s. president and anticipation is running high one issue that we north korea will want to discuss is its economy investors believe they'll be good times ed if things go well in singapore scott highly reports. all eyes are on singapore for next week's kim summit but what comes after the handshakes and the photos but the singapore based international investment expert he conducted a business workshop in north korea three years ago it was done through the nonprofit group chosen exchange that has been operating in pyongyang for several years he thinks that if and when north korea reach integrates into the global

market it will act as the world's cheapest factory but the process will take years and its biggest china will benefit the most there is no other place in the war like north korea by the finnish would be the cheapest place that is would be extremely low or so there would be an interest and maybe from the chinese to produce goods that. he sees north korea's path to be similar to that of one of its asian neighbors to the south we can see the case of myanmar for example where sanctions have belief that social competence kind of operating in the country but so far the main box in that remains china for difficult to operate and that. while china has a huge head start as an investment in trading partner with north korea some other nations are well positioned including the summit's host singapore has maintained diplomatic relations with north korea since one thousand nine hundred seventy five and the nation had been a trading partner with north korea but suspended trade and stopped issuing work

permits one tougher un sanctions were imposed occupying prime real estate in central singapore just around the corner from parliament the north korean embassy occupies a few floors in this nondescript building on the heels of meeting u.s. secretary of state mike in washington singapore's foreign minister vivian is in pyongyang this week for an official visit he said having the summit in singapore shows his country is trusted as an honest moderator and the meeting is a contribution to world peace but we won't know until next week just how big or small this contribution might be nor how long it will be before the promises of more prosperous north korea can take hold. and that is our show for this week oh you can get in touch with us by tweeting me at as i'm seeking and use that a j c t c when you do or drop us an e-mail counting the cost at al-jazeera dot net is our address and as more few online at c.n.n. dot com slash c.t.c.

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readmitted to the club john hendren reports from quebec city. leaders of seven of the world's wealthiest nations made a show of unity in a fractured family pleasure to have you here. and it's been really great hours earlier after leaders of the g seven annual summit in canada complained the u.s. tariffs trump was less diplomatic. like well we're bored with you with the war three they don't mention the fact that they trade barriers against farm are isolated on trade trump appeared vaguely hopeful in meetings with french president emanuel mccrone and the summits host canadian president justin trudeau their relationship is probably better as good or better than it's ever been. and i think we'll get to something very beneficial to canada and to the united states believes hours before the summit ends on saturday that makes it unclear whether the u.s.

will sign on to an annual g seven agreement usually a formality or if it does whether that agreement will mention trade of the situations on deep positions of a clear the president of u.s. things the u.s. have been treated in an unfair way by you about those who don't want to negotiate on global trade trump also proposed allowing russia back into an expanded g. eight after russia was he ject it for the two thousand and fourteen invasion of ukraine italy's g.'s f. a conti agreed but canada's foreign minister voiced the view of the rest of the g seven canada's position is absolutely clear and that there are no grounds whatsoever for bringing russia with its current behavior bat into the g seven the diplomatic drama inside the meeting is not matched on the streets two hours drive from the summit in charlevoix nine thousand well armed police outnumber the few hundred peaceful demonstrators john hendren al-jazeera quebec city canada. well the

g seven is not just about traitorous there are lots of other big issues to talk about climate change for one that's fueling tensions between the u.s. and the others president trump announced last year he was pulling the us out of the international paris climate change accord in another point of contention is a withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal which is now hanging by a thread with the u.s. threatening to boycott the countries who continue to do business with iran global security and defense funding will be on the agenda as well all g seven countries apart from japan are members of nato and then there's next week's high stakes summit between mr trump and the north korean leader kim jong il on the denuclearization of the korean peninsula well jacob kirkegaard is with the peterson institute for international economics in washington and he says trump's trade policies will only further isolate the u.s. in the global market. it's obviously those sectors and those people in the

in the states and parts of the country that supported him that are going to get hurt by the tariffs that other countries are levying now against the united states that a lot of agriculture or other export items coming from red republican states they're going to pick up the phone and tell look mr president this doesn't work for us you had to change it so he's not going to be convinced but he's going to be compelled it's important to recognize that when someone says a global trade war this isn't the nine hundred thirty s. where everybody levied a lot of tariffs on everybody else this is the united states levying tariffs on everybody else and then everybody else retaliating against the united states so what this will look like in twenty cine and potentially beyond is a more and more economically and politically isolated america but the rest of the

world pretty much carrying on to the best of its ability just without the united states that he maybe it's a good discussion in that some i say in canada over vladimir putin is half a world away he's at the gathering the being hosted by the chinese president xi jinping emphasizing their friendly personal relations the two leaders went to an ice hockey match in the northern port city of changi on arrival mr patient was given a medal by xi jinping because the russian leader his best friend. well for them a patient is there to attend the annual two day sang high cooperation organization summit the best sea is a framework for political security and economic cooperation and it consists of eight countries they are china kazakstan kyrgyzstan russia to g.q. stand ins beckett's and as of last year two new members india and pakistan leaders

from afghanistan be allure a small goalie and iran they are present at the summit as observer states and on the agenda this year is regional security issues including drug trafficking and cyber crime members are expecting to drum up support around president hassan rouhani for the iran nuclear deal of which the united states recently pulled out china's belsham road project will also be discussed a trade program that spans sixty plus countries across asia the middle east europe and africa. the only. right where just days away from that historic summit between the u.s. president and north korea's leader the d.p. r. k. as it's officially called is regarded as one of the most repressive in the world the u.n.

estimates there are around one hundred thousand political prisoners detained in camps while dozens of foreigners are prevented from leaving while in hey reports now from the south korean capital seoul. in south korea there are many emotions about the changing relationship with north korea among small vocal nationalist groups there is suspicion about pyongyang's motives concerned even paranoid that south korea is about to be engulfed by communism away from the loud rallies there are those for whom the cross border and gauge went off as a glimmer of hope in what is often seemed a hopeless situation you don't it's hard to expect too much but we need to see how it goes we're putting all if it's together in the hope there are no issues will be discussed in this summit with north korea those issues are abductions and other human rights abuses that victims and their families believe need to be on the agenda in singapore one inch holes father when one was on a plane in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine when it was hijacked by

a north korean agent most of the passengers were eventually allowed to return to the south but when one who's now eighty one wasn't among them as well as abductions there are countless other human rights abuses that continue to take place in north korea including torture and public executions the united nations says the acts may amount to crimes against humanity words you probably won't hear used when donald trump meets kim jong il and some experts believe raising human rights in the first meeting may be too sensitive japan's government disagrees and has been pushing for the issue of abductions to be discussed north korea admitted kidnapping thirteen japanese in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's to train is spies some have been returned but japan's government suspects there may be high. hundreds still in north korea there are other nationalities too like this woman seen in the background of a photo taken on a north korean beach family members believe it's a no chip pan juhi a thai woman who disappeared from macau in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight.

i have a lot of hope that south korea japan and the u.s. will push the north korean abduction issue and i will be able to meet soon at this stage the new diplomatic face of north korea is largely viewed as positive but for many it will mean nothing if the people they've been waiting decades to see until now to come home when hey al-jazeera seoul right let's meet young chick bone who's a research fellow at the on say university institute for north korean studies he's joining us now from the south korean capital seoul thank you for talking to us it's highly unlikely isn't that the team is going to advocate that he puts forward any kind of human rights agenda because it's essentially a deal block would you agree. in the first assign meaning between the united states president truman came down on north korea. for it are pushing too hard north korea with regards to

its of human rights violations because the focus on the meeting is a new coalition of north korea so it is a top priority for the trumpeting incision to tackle. when it does come to denuclearize ation of course both sides it would appear still seem to view the definition of that word differently. right i mean the magic is in the details. you know the state has maintained that our north korea has to agree up on the sea the complete verifiable irreversible dismantlement of all nuclear and missile facilities north korea possesses north korea has been backing down that there is a temple mount two are demanding north korea making on commission a surrender it is another of. both leaders chairman kim jong il and us president on trump will be or arriving in singapore two days prior to the actual

summit meeting that news that these two leaders want to be in the back stage for they are a negotiation teams in singapore to narrow down any differences on to the last moment he seems like a young and was and are still very much or part on what would constitute a c.v. . indeed and should we be viewing this at this summit which are as everyone is pointing out is historic should we be viewing it as the start of a process rather than an event in the no itself that will yield either denuclearization of the korean peninsula or not while you are correct i mean mr donald trump himself made a reference to this summit meeting as a forest of many processes he used the term.