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thank you and yes dick talk has become popular because even young children can easily use the application to create their own music videos it is operated by one of the fastest growing tech startups in china. talk called bodin in china was the most downloaded app in the first month of this year and indonesia is its fourth largest market but the government in indonesia is concerned about all the unfiltered videos on the platform the minister of communications as he has received hundreds of reports of pornographic and blasphemous content and this side to block the application i have only two requests to them number one cleaned up existing where they found them and secondly we have to get a sense of for the future of there won't be any negative condemn any more. thirteen year old per boll non-doctor has more than seven hundred thousand followers on tick tock and his fans follow him everywhere. but his fame has also led to bullies who
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threaten him online his model is so worried she won't allow him to go to school. and are small if they pull in reality i'm so whatever i want to feel upset about it . after take tacos blocked out in labor as he calls himself online now uses another similar application thirty years old and rapidly becoming a national star because of the news a video application from china child lives could say his story shows that uncontrolled an unlimited access to social media makes children from noble view or worth. local rights groups have urged the government to enforce a strict age limit of sixteen to access the site and make sure its content is strictly filter before it allows stick talk to operate in indonesia. that it. is far too open and this gives opportunities for people who pay. intentions
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paedophiles rapists child traffickers people with bad intentions always find a way while these children only think about the fun they have they don't think about the consequences. the application has also caused controversy in china last april that country's media watchdog ordered the owners to clean up the content on their platforms cybersecurity experts have criticised the company for a lack of privacy settings tick-tock has announced it wants to hire two hundred people in indonesia to help filter its content so it can operate here again step for al-jazeera jacka. at least one person is dead after protests in haiti and the steep increases in fuel prices demonstrators built barricades and burned tires to block major streets in the capital port au prince early on friday the cost of diesel gasoline and kerosene all went up the government agreed to reduce fuel subsidies in february in order to receive aid from the international monetary fund . thousands of people in cities across colombia are demanding an end to
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a wave of activist killings which is threatening a peace deal colombian officials say more than three hundred human rights defenders have been killed since twenty sixteen that's the year a peace deal was signed between the colombian government and fatah rebels all rights groups blame the violence on fund dissidents who didn't sign the deal. now a fear of sex attacks is hanging over spain's famous running of the bulls the other then is underway in pamplona but there's outrage over what's been called the wolfpack case a group of five friends were convicted on a lesser charge after being accused of gang raping a woman at the festival called penholder looks at what women are doing to protect themselves. was alcohol was throwing a little too freely and testosterone maybe running a little too high. women here defend their right to party as hard as the men but they were along by the shocking record of sex attacks during pamplona as bull
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running fiesta it was the night. we make sure we don't walk around on our own and look after each other and try to stay together we're careful about how much we drink to posters call for an end to sexual aggression feminist graffiti denounces rapists and those who conspire with them spain's feminist movement has galvanized in outrage after five friends calling themselves the bull's eyes were accused of gang raping a teenage woman at the fiestas two years ago now they were convicted on a lesser charge of sexual abuse and last month they were freed on bail last year police received around two dozen reports of sex crimes during the bull running they say the number of unreported cases was almost certainly much oil. pump as town hall is work with feminist organizations to set up models to raise awareness and i believe six responses in sexual violence is the symptom of an unfair hierarchy
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which places the power of men above women it's an instrument of control and power and telling women they're beneath them. huge numbers of come from a board was like these friends from san francisco they've heard of the danger of groping and sex attacks was. i i i i i. i my clothes boy these women i'm born and raised in pamplona. blame outsiders for causing havoc at the fiestas. even right now you see one of those guys with a water pistol trying to spray single on my chest and that's uncomfortable usually the people who do that stuff and not from our town. even before knew the scene is
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chaotic and made the drinkin dogs hard to keep on guard for a potential predator called pedophile does iraq have spain all the news of course on our website there is on your screen all the latest on the ceasefire in syria and province the address al-jazeera dot com that's al-jazeera dot com. time for a quick check of the headlines here in al-jazeera a gun battle is ongoing of the two explosions in the somali capital mogadishu a car bomb went off near the ministry of the interior building followed by a gunfight between security forces and fighters said to be from al shabaab a second blast then followed and it's understood members of the armed group and are holed up inside the building. the syrian government is back in control of southern that are province of the rebels agreed to surrender as part of a deal it involved two weeks of fighting that has forced at least three hundred
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thirty thousand people to flee many to the border with jordan. flooding has killed at least twenty three people in japan and dozens more are still missing heavy rainfall triggered landslides and pushed river levels to rise more than one point six million people in japan's western and central regions have been ordered to leave their homes almost fifty thousand rescue workers responding to the crisis. whenever there is no other than equally i offer my deepest condolences to the victims and my sympathies to all people who have been affected the. heavy rain will continue in the area from western to eastern japan and it will be historic during fall which could be the heaviest rain ever recorded for the football coach to lead a group of young players into a cave complex and thailand has apologised to their parents a couple chantel wrote a letter which was handed to the families by rescue divers along with other notes from the trapped boys they've now been stuck inside the cave for fourteen days more
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than one hundred holes are being drilled into the ground in the latest attempt to reach them. china is seeking to build closer trade ties with europe in the wake of its tariff war with the united states the chinese premier league of china is involved area meeting european leaders to discuss investment opportunities u.s. tariffs on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese goods came into effect on friday beijing as opposed to telling three measures on u.s. goods. at least one person is dead after protests in haiti have a steep increases in fuel prices demonstrators built barricades and burned tires to block major streets in the capital port au prince earlier on friday the cost of diesel gasoline and kerosene all went up well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the watching. this is a story about the small village the society that inhabits it and two of its most
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worldwide. but china is already calling it a full blown trade war billions of dollars worth of products are affected as u.s. tariffs on selected chinese products take effect this week and china has said it is retaliating with its own tariffs on american goods but the big driver of an all out global trade fight could be cars u.s. president donald trump has said cars are key to getting trade concessions his administration is now considering a twenty five percent tariff on foreign cars and car parts in the name of national security europe currently charges a ten percent tariff on u.s. cars in the u.s. charges only two and a half percent on european cars trump says that's unfair but car makers and dealers around the world point out that the u.s. has a twenty five percent tariff on light trucks and s.u.v.s they're warning the trumps
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tariffs would be bad for the auto industry and bad for consumers analysts say it is a case of car crash economics. a car making in twenty eight hundred is a global industry unlike any other ratings agency moody's says higher auto import tariffs will cause problems across the car industry's global supply chain china the world's biggest auto market produces a lot of the components that go into cars including those imported into the u.s. general motors is warning the trumpet ministration that tariffs could force the company to cut jobs japan's toyota has the most american made car but its warning even its kentucky produced camry will go up in price if cost to so what can be done well one idea being studied by the e.u. is a global tariff cutting deal between the world's biggest car exporters joining us now from brussels is hostile. director of the european center for international
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political economy and a leading author on trade diplomacy thanks very much for being with us so does this look like essentially a lose lose situation for everybody involved here if it happens well in the i mean this is a much bigger impact than we saw around. the tree it is almost seven times larger so you can understand the implication of this from nurtures for the producers but also for the consumers just talk to us about how how important the car industry is not only to europe but also to the united states because it it's all it's it's much more globalized than it was twenty years ago is that you've got you've got components being imported built in one country and you have the same thing in other countries it's it's far more interconnected and globalized than it was before. yes indeed this is more akin to actually one of the reasons why the big three american
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manufacturers have also strongly opposed this move simply because most of the cars nowadays are actually produced to be locally in the case united states to either made the united states or not in the nafta region which means canada or mexico whereas if you look at the supply chain extending over the world and so for example you can buy. b.m.w. it will be made in the united states but still key components will be arriving from germany. and sometimes even china so indeed it is a very globalised industry and we're competitiveness actually depends on the how effectively use these efficiencies and if these tariffs are implemented isn't it likely that in the case of us automakers for example that
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they're going to because because they import so much of the their components that they're going to pass on these production costs to consumers which is so it's going to mean more expensive cars for people in the u.s. . yes. it's not just in the u.s. so if you think about it for example. the some of the s.u.v.s that. are actually made by european brands they are actually made in the united states and actually shipped to europe. and of course if you have a. twenty percent price hike come both carts and the imported imported cars as well are car components obviously this will be felt as well u.s. made cars that are actually exported back to europe or both b.m.w. so this is the reason why i think we are really looking at a much much deeper implications that we have seen in previous trade wars and you mentioned b.m.w.
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there because this has huge implications for the german car industry of course you got the three big three carmakers there b.m.w. vote volkswagen and dima. and the the u.s. ambassador got together with. with those three companies and talked about free free trade zone for the e.u. and the u.s. is that a viable option do you think. well in theory this proposal i have originated probably from europe the idea that europe would try to cut the tariffs down to zero which would make sense for europe because it has already concluded that free trade agreements with countries like korea and japan and therefore most of the even ports that comes into to the e.u. is duty free anyway the only remaining countries are actually in principle united states but for the current administration in the us the question is is the purpose
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of the new tariffs actually to open up the rest of the world by creating an artificial leverage or is that purpose actually trying to force factories to move from canada mexico into the united states we need to bear in mind that the negotiation over nafta is going on in the in power or there has been several times by the current administration in the us try to force cam eighty and mexican factories to be moved to the united states by tricking something called rules of origin basically excess cause that a made in canada mexico from the from duty free treatment under nafta so i think the question is in the end will the trump ministration by this is there are actually overarching. objective to actually open up the rest of the world for free
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trade or rather protect the domestic production in the united states although u.s. manufacturers don't even want that protection and what implications is this going to have for china which is of course a huge market for the car industry. yes china is a very peculiar one since actually the main barrier in china is not just china maintains one of the highest arabs in the in the car industry up to twenty five percent they have recently announced that they will cut them to fifteen but it will still be much higher than the point five percent you find in united states zero percent in japan and ten percent in europe. even at that level actually the biggest trade area will be the fact that the chinese government applies what we call a foreign equity caps which means that all the subsidiaries owned by u.s. manufacturer european and japanese manufacture in china are actually forced into
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joint ventures while we can call them forced marriages with their chinese competitors who are entitled to half of the profits and the hundred percent but don't know how good to speak with you. in brussels thanks very much means a pleasure thank you now it is one of the most important stretches of water in the world and iran if pushed may cut it off president rouhani and the revolutionary guard are now talking about a possible block to the strait of hormuz in response to american threats of more sanctions alan fischer has more. the u.s. wants countries to boy quote really you know oil is part of stronger international sanctions the president has done rouhani has appeared to threaten oil exports from other middle eastern countries if the u.s. pushes ahead as. it is incorrect in unwise to imagine that somebody or producer
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countries will be able to export their surplus oil and iran would not be able to export its oil now really and fish also have threatened to disrupt oil shipments in the past to do so they would target the straits of hormuz that's a major shipping lane but it's also a small stretch of water between iran to the north and oman on the ribbon peninsula to the so that it's not always point that are just fifty five kilometers between the two pieces of land twenty percent of the world's oil passes through here but i don't think iran will ever need to really exercise this threat we have to remember iran is not the only country that is upset with the u.s. pressure on opec all that idea of the oil exports not coming from iran or remember the opec countries the whole reason a lot of these countries are in crises in the first place is because of the us shale oil industry which brought prices down in the first place the u.s. has previously warned countries they must stop all imports from november or face sanctions from america no exceptions our focus is on getting as many countries
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importing iranian crude down to zero as soon as possible we are also working with oil market participants including producers and consumers. to ensure market stability iran has warned any boycott of the oil industry could push prices higher it company provides around two percent of global supply or three million barrels a day the u.s. is already concerned about rising prices at the weekend u.s. president donald trump called saudi arabia's king salmon and said they do agree that the saudis would boost production but there's no sign that prices are dropping particularly as the global economy is growing and demand for energy is up india south korea turkey all u.s. allies are major importers of a really annoying they might not be able to switch providers quickly or even want to the trumpet ministration would then have to decide have sanctions on them would follow the other signatories to the nuclear deal see this still supported and are looking at ways to save it. still to come on counting the cost will look at the
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price of rescuing one of china's biggest freshwater lakes from extreme pollution. the first of a billion dollar scam this was supposed to be malaysia's state investment company i'm talking about one m d b one of the world's biggest financial frauds a scandal that's taken down a former head of government this week in nigeria malaysia's former prime minister became the first person to appear in court in connection with the disappearance of four billion dollars of taxpayers' money he's pleading not guilty so what's this all about well it was set up in two thousand and nine one m. d. b. was the name of malaysia's state or sovereign wealth fund it was meant to transform malaysia's economy through strategic investments of taxpayers' money but the one n.d.b. fun proved better a borrowing money and in early twenty fifteen it missed payments for some of the eleven billion dollars it owed to banks and bond holders and that raised global
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alarm bells u.s. investigators allege billions were stolen and laundered via shell companies in a bizarre twist some of the missing money was even allegedly used to fund a hollywood movie the wolf of wall street at least six countries are currently investigating the one n.d.b. fun fraud billions of dollars are still missing. and this week u.s. authorities ordered one of the world's biggest mining and commodities trading companies to hand over documents relating to a money laundering probe the court order is over glen cause business dealings in nigeria democratic republic of congo and venezuela the group produces or oil and coal in nigeria in congo it operates mines for copper and cobalt glencore said it is reviewing the subpoena or as the u.k.'s national health service turned seventy this year serious questions are being asked about its future the n.h.s. established
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a universal health care system guaranteeing free access to treatment regardless of income or status has for brennan. the n.h.s. is the world's fifth biggest employer with around one point five million staff offering more than two thousand three hundred different surgical procedures and treating a million patients every thirty six hours health care should be like this it should be free at the point of access i don't think patients should have to worry about how when they're poorly how they're going to fund things. and the scope and complexity of the treatments that it now offers the n.h.s. is almost unrecognisable from the service first founded seventy years ago but one thing remains the same the driving principle behind it all in the words of nih bevan the then health minister in one nine hundred forty eight no society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means the n.h.s. has helped u.k. average life expectancy rise from sixty eight years in one thousand nine hundred
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eighty eight to eighty one years now wonderful new drugs new technologies just look at the huge revolution happening in digital how we embrace innovation because with innovation we can improve the quality and safety of care but that longevity means today's n.h.s. is facing unforeseen challenges from obesity dementia cancer and cardiovascular disease earlier this year a parliamentary committee warned that the n.h.s. finances were in a perilous state an extra twenty seven billion dollars was pledged last month but the government spending watchdog warned that even that was not enough to improve services hospital administrators are contemplating difficult choices based on clinical outcomes and affordability and if we see procedures if we see things that we're doing in the n.h.s. that aren't dilution money then let's have that conversation public to say actually it would be better off spending the money doing something else or looking after
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a group of patients in a different way the n.h.s. remains free at the point of access but there after there are no guarantees. social care of the elderly is in crisis it is a way people my age the older you get when i want you to have to have call and we have got people that change they don't want to go because the know this all they need for the rain and they don't know how they can occur. so it's find anything to emplace so that they have that reassurance and they know that they will still be cared for when they come home the problems have not gone unnoticed there are regular demonstrations against hospital closures and cutbacks this protest last weekend attracted thousands of marchers the public affection for the n.h.s. remains and demand and there is much to celebrate about the past seventy years but the prognosis for the service remains uncertain a subscription video service netflix is now the most popular us platform for
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watching entertainment on t.v. according to a recent survey by wall street firm cowen and co it's now overtaken traditional broadcast and cable television and with its own studio in hollywood netflix is now one of the world's biggest film and t.v. producers and part of that success is the eight billion dollars it's plowing into making a regional content this year but watch this space because apple and walt disney are about to offer competing over the top video services next year last month apple signed a multi-year deal with t.v. star oprah winfrey and amazon with its prime video service is also spending big on content and talent to gain audience share in what some are calling the post t.v. era. well joining me now from new york to talk more about this is daniel ives chief strategy officer and head of technology research at new york based g.b.h. insights thanks very much for being with us. so on on this news that.
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netflix the more people are watching netflix now than they are watching regular television i think a lot of people saw this coming but that perhaps many of us may have been surprised by how quickly it came you one of those. were and were strong believers really in the streaming the netflix model three years because look in our opinion even though it's happened quicker than expected who are cunning phenomenon is something that's going to continue it salaried and it's really been a continent me netflix been an eight billion dollars this year and content that's really created content arms war and you've surely seen across the board with the consolidation in the sector between eighteen time warner disney comcast battle it all speaks to content keying in this quarter cutting more on it isn't just money that they offer as well as it is that with netflix it's also the ability to for filmmakers to essentially do whatever they want without any sort of restrictions on
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on creativity in the. creative control been and ultimately if you look i mean that's really been the key d.n.a. of netflix mean not just in terms of localized content especially international but even domestically in the u.s. it's given much more flexibility and for directors actors producers really the whole eco system what they can produce and i think a lot more i want to it's not really a big brother's watching type keel that sometimes they feel from other studios and i think that's really the key here is a netflix is giving creative control. and they create a platform now that historically me be there was skeptical says and within hollywood but now and you've seen across the board it's really and has not the talent that many years ago thought that it can never get but it's also spur look at apple getting oprah and others sort of screaming initiatives you have right now
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about fifteen billion dollars cumulatively we being spent on continental net flix driven phenomenon and it isn't just hollywood that they're going off there it's bollywood that are the big film industry. what it was one of the calculations going on there with netflix. i mean look i'm especially if you look at you know india and a lot of other international hot spots we will get there expended in two hundred plus countries and ultimately international view it subscribe to growth here about sixty eight million we believe that's going one hundred million next two years international is going to be key but ultimately only way you drive international subscriber growth is international content i think nasty things you need to have bollywood or a lot more local ads content you know whether it's you know middle east africa other parts of the world they're trying to penetrate and it's all tingly right now
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it's created really new age for content and netflix recognizes there as they expand internationally content sticky and that's why from bollywood to other areas they're spending significant dollars going after some of those demographics than you are in new york to speak with you thanks so much for being with us thank you and finally lake eyre high is one of the most popular tourist spots in southwest china attracting up to forty million visitors a year but it's become a victim of its own success and businesses have been asked to shut up shop as china try to save the two hundred fifty square kilometer like from the asian city of dalí adrian brown reports. china is rich in tradition and this is a relatively new one posing for wedding photos before the big day. and the high lake in united province is
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a popular backdrop it's one of china's biggest freshwater lakes and one of its most beautiful. almost forty million people visited in two thousand and sixteen. now that rapid growth in tourism. is taking its toll on these once pristine waters last april the government told the owners of almost two thousand hotels and restaurants near the ancient town of darlie that they'd have to close for a year the order had followed a visit by president xi jinping who'd urged action to save the normally these narrow streets which are such a feature of the old village of dali would be teeming with visitors but since april two thousand and seventeen this place has been like a ghost town and the owners of these businesses simply have no idea when they'll be able to open again a sign of desperation rent contract expiring will sell for low price says this note
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yearling owns two hotels and says that closure has cost around one million dollars in this incident that you doing i'm from and i know the reasons why people come here because they're looking for somewhere beautiful but the closure of the hotels and the restaurants it has resulted in big damage to the local tourist industry. it is though the damage to the environment that is the bigger concern to the president there's been a proliferation of new hotels and restaurants discharging untreated sewage directly into the lake. workers have also been kept busy by an outbreak of exacerbating the pollution. but more than twelve months on some people like this local farmer complain that there's been little change in the water quality. garment close hotels around the lake so they can't discharge waste water this has improved the water
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quality in a high lake but not by very much workers laying pipes for a new water treatment system inferi all hotels and restaurants would eventually be connected to these pipes only after that happens will they be allowed to open again and for many businesses that day can't come soon enough the lake is what draws so many people here but environmentalists warn that the measures taken so far to try to save it may have come too late. or i that is our show for this week remember you can get in touch with us by tweeting me at has i'm sick a day is there a j c t c when you do or drop us an e-mail counting the cost of al-jazeera dot net is our address has more for you online at al-jazeera dot com slash c.t.c. that to take you straight to our page which has individual reports links and entire episodes for you to catch up on that's it for this edition of counting the cost i'm
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