of throwing rocks and throwing fireworks and that was the reason why backup was called and so many security forces opened fire or with sound grenades and also some tear gas at one point and people were told to evacuate evacuate the building evacuate the whole complex but many refuse not lead to a situation whereby four gates were locked stopping people from getting in or getting out and there were twenty arrests of youths inside the complex it was a symbolic situation that upset so many palestinians because of the israelis asserting what they see as their all thoughts on this situation however the situation now appears to be of a very tense atmosphere but nevertheless the rights to pray are back saudi u.a.e. coalition aircraft have launched as strikes on the yemeni city of the data the data

is a strategically significant port on the red sea which is the main entry point for most of the countries food aid well those coalition strikes follow a claim by his the rebels that they have targeted abu dhabi air force on thursday and raised craig is an assistant professor at the defense studies department at king's college london he said it's difficult to establish what might have happened . if you look through social media if you look through the evidence that's out there so whatever the who these provide have provided as evidence cannot is fake it's basically these are photoshop images which you know have nothing to do with the reality. and in an equally the the usa you haven't done enough to provide evidence that it did not happen or provide an explanation that someone logically credible he explains the disruption of flights yesterday and the thing is here that the u.a.e. are a country that were known for false information and a country that really is very secretive about what's going on in that country and

they have quite a good control over social media domestically so leaks are very very difficult to to come by so both sides have a long track record of telling the truth so very difficult to ascertain who's right . but there is no causal link between a disruption in a b. and a claim of the who these particular when we look at the technological ability of the who these at the moment when it comes to the drug capability the distance between you know a potential control center of the who these in yemen to the airport is around thirteen to fifteen hundred kilometers depending on where you measure the sum of three if you look at it is quite an extensive drone this is not a small toy there's not a quatro caught there as we might know it so having such a huge vehicle penetrating the airspace quite deeply and then thinking that the air defense system wouldn't issue a warning and pick it up before it actually reaches a critical infrastructure such as i would be able it seems to be very very unlikely . now rescuers in laos is searching for more than one hundred people still missing after monday's dam collapse twenty seven people are confirmed dead as water levels

recede vantages on now questioning why they were not moved to safety sooner florence nearly has more from stone trying province in neighboring cambodia. as water levels begin to recede people start to return to their homes to clean up to repair to salvage what they can monday's collapsed. the newly built hydroelectric dam in a province in southern laos flooded villages and farmland in both laos and neighboring cambodia the scale of the disaster remains unclear information from state media in this remote part of laos has been sketchy and sometimes inconsistent many survivors tell a consistent story however water levels rose so fast they never experienced anything like it. a little i felt so desperate when i saw the sight of the water i thought i might die the water was rising and rising and everything in the house was all

washed away the search for the missing continues the lao army and teams of international experts are helping to look for survivors who know i'm looking for my brothers i'm worried about them and five thousand people in neighboring cambodia have been evacuated from their homes the water level in the sacred river remains high but it appears to have peaked here in still trying providence it's about twelve point four meters roughly the same as twenty four hours earlier the cambodian ministry of water resources and meteorology expects water levels to fall on saturday as water levels recede in places villages are questioning why they weren't moved to safety sooner and there are conflicting reports on when cracks in the dam or first spotted florence al-jazeera trying province cambodia. was more to come for you on the program ceremonial return their remains of fifty five u.s. soldiers killed in the korean war make the journey home at sixteen years old. and

all tell you about the blood red luna phenomenon which is captivating sky gazers around the world. have a bit of winter will design its way through south australia and then probably we're down towards a city through victoria's that little curl there is a little system which will knock temperatures up a little bit so you probably get some x. seventeen degrees in with adelaide and melbourne come saturday with the showers a little bit further north inland in the outback really sixteen in person in the sunshine but there's a cold front in the box on its way through so tensions will not last time i changed the wind direction were down to twelve and thirteen which is more as we expected to be twenty four student sydney the neither rain brief us way through a long a long frontal system tasmania gets hit by most of the rain which of course

eventually make its way across the tasman sea but at first you to have a bit of a difference because with this prevailing westerly breeze you tend to get a bit of a warming effect down in christchurch temperature wise could be up as high as fifteen come saturday about the same as o'loghlin but it will drop down to where it like to be at ten degrees come sunday briefly a look norsworthy things are quite different heatwaves temporary stay here backseat because an incoming typhoon to japan the first rains arrive on saturday something like two hundred millimeters there the wind is strong category two. on counting the cost of a concentration of internet profits and the harmful of companies is impacting everyone else africa's blue economy is about blackall daughter of marine protections grow the dog by me becomes

a reality counting the cost of al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories now a group of opposition political parties have rejected the results of pakistan's general election in which iran khan's party has emerged with the most seats they vow to protest until there's a new vote. two palestinians including a fourteen year old boy have been killed in the latest friday protest at the gaza israel border both were shot in the head by israeli shell soldiers. and saudi

u.a.e. coalition aircraft have launched as strikes again many port city of the date of the main entry point for most of the country's food eight. well now u.s. president donald trump has tonight he knew about a meeting between his aides and a russian delegation that offered to help when the two thousand and sixteen election trumps former lawyer michael cohen has claimed he was present when the president's eldest son donald trump jr told his father about the meeting can really help as mall. as the u.s. president worked to focus the american media on strong economic numbers the question of his potential ties to russia continue to follow him. all right it just days after donald trump postponed a white house invite to russian president vladimir putin a reciprocal invitation was extended for trump to go to moscow for the comments come as there are fresh allegations against trump from his one time personal lawyer

michael cohen cohen claims that then candidate trump was aware of a twenty sixteen trump tower meeting russians with ties to the kremlin met donald trump jr and son in law jared cushman and promised dirt democratic presidential opponent hillary clinton and if the president didn't know about the purpose of these meetings with russian officials and their representatives and trump tower then that would create the knowledge element necessary for a criminal charge for months the white house is denied the president knew it's a claim the president repeated on friday on twitter i did not know of the meeting with my son don jr sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam anywhere on the tweet indirectly refers to cohen now being investigated by federal prosecutors for potential campaign finance

violations as he attempted to suppress negative news stories about trump cohen may now be cooperating with special counsel robert mueller investigating russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election and whether trump's campaign colluded with russia cohen statements could complicate the president's legal troubles but there are questions about the credibility of cohen's claims in two congressional interviews and subsequent reports there is no mention of cohen's allegations against the president trumps claims are also in question as e-mails between trump's son and russians went back and forth in two thousand and sixteen then candidate trump told supporters i am going to give. a major speech on probably monday of next week and we're going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the twins i think you're going to find it very informative and very rare. that major speech

never materialized but it does suggest president trump may know more than he claims kimberly helped at al jazeera washington was hearing that the latest control has he surrounding donald trump does come amid positive economic news the u.s. economy's growing at its fastest pace since two thousand and fourteen bot economists are questioning whether this type of growth can last john hendren reports the united states economy is surging reaching its strongest growth in four years and president donald trump predicts more to come this isn't a one time shot i happen to think we're going to do extraordinary well. in our next report next quarter the trump administration reported that u.s. gross domestic product rose at an angle rate of four point one percent almost double the rate in the first three months of the year but many economists don't expect this surge to last with many predicting actual g.d.p. growth to settle to about three percent this year that is because second quarter

numbers were boosted by foreign purchases of u.s. soybeans and other products before a trade war raises tariffs on them but i think the growth number today four point one percent in the second quarter is good news but it's very temporary there are two important to the second quarter growth number one is that they were propelled at large part by a sharp increase in government spending coming off the increase of the budget deficit for earlier this year the tax cuts the second is a sharp spike in exports as traders accelerated shipments to get in ahead of the risk of higher trade barriers coming off the threat of trade wars but president trump says his actions have helped cut the u.s. trade deficit by fifty billion dollars these tax cuts specifically on the business and investment side are going to be boosting wages livelihoods and jobs for

middle american ordinary working folks and it's starting to take effect and that's why i agree with president this is a boom that will be sustainable wage increases have not kept up with overall economic growth but for an administration facing a lengthy probe into the president's ties to russia and a diplomatic feud with allies a growing economy and rising unemployment numbers even in manufacturing is cause for celebration and a hastily scheduled presidential appearance we have added three point seven million new jobs since the election. a number that is unthinkable we were in the midst of the longest positive job growth streak in history those numbers could prove hard to sustain as u.s. trading partners around the globe raised tariffs answering a trade war set off by trump himself john hendren al-jazeera there maines a fifty five soldiers killed during the korean war will soon land in the u.s.

state why off to north korea agreed to return them scientists will then way to find the soldier is patchy calling takes a look at what this gesture could mean for u.s. north korean relations. this is being billed as an important step the remains of fifty five u.s. service members killed in north korea slowly thermonuclear beginning the journey home the u.s. president quick to react i want to thank german kim for. keeping his word we have many others coming to the u.s. hopes that this is just the beginning more than seven thousand u.s. servicemen from the korean war remain missing it brings back old memories of comrades that i've never seen after i left there well it's all good for pete peterson this is not just a monument but a memory he brought his family and his great granddaughter to washington d.c. to teach them about his personal history you're also issue what they are covering

them is called a poncho as a vietnam veteran he is often thanked for his service he says for those who fought before him in the korean war that isn't as much the case it was a stalemate and it was it wasn't a win and it wasn't a loss it was there was no object to gain or no objective loss human life this is the sixty fifth anniversary of the signing of the korean armistice but here at the korean war memorial there's no ceremony there no big crowds it's very much indicative of how the korean war is thought of by the american people mostly it's forgotten even though it is the only american conflict that was never resolved and it's a war that the u.s. president threatened to restart but then with this summit promised a possible end if north korea gave up its nuclear weapons. and the north koreans have reportedly taken steps to dismantle a missile factory but other parts of the program continue as the u.s.

secretary of state just confirmed yes they continue to produce fissile material north korean expert tony namkung told a news conference in washington d.c. on friday that doesn't necessarily mean anything yet it doesn't come as any surprise to me that they are continuing to add fuel continuing to build up their fissile material because this is not a subject that has come up in the negotiations up to now he says if the talks are to be successful it will only happen if each side takes turns taking steps to build confidence in the idea that peace is in fact possible. al-jazeera washington. the maid leader of lebanon's druse sect has criticised the syrian government for failing to stop an ice of the tack on its community in the syrian city of psuedo wiley jumblatt says pro regime forces should have noticed fights is gathering for the assault which involved suicide bombings and similar taney as raids at least two hundred forty people were killed john blatt two heads the

largest druze political party in lebanon is a strong critic of the syrian president bashar al assad well elsewhere iran iraq's top shia cleric has demanded the government be formed as soon as possible to deal with corruption and poor basic services grand ayatollah ali al sistani is cool echoes the demand of protesters across iraq demonstrations started in the oil rich city of basra in the south thousands of protesters there say the government is neglecting the region while exploiting its resources imraan khan has more from baghdad. protests in iraq of failed to materialize in the kinds of numbers that we've seen in recent weeks in basra and here in baghdad also that despite a campaign a very active campaign on social media trying to encourage people to come out in the streets now why is that it's likely to be because the protesters demands have been listened to by the government the government has struck deals with its neighbor kuwait to supply electricity generators in kerosene to fuel those

generators saying that will supply electricity for at least seventeen hours a day in the south and you'll remember that these protests were sparked when iran says it wasn't paid a billion and a half dollars in electricity bills by iraq and cut off the supply to the south and now the protests didn't blame iran for that they said this was government incompetence government corruption and simply that the government wasn't functioning now also on friday we had the hope by the sermon given by the spokesman of the high shia religious authorities now he's throwing his weight behind the protest movement he says that the government must be expedited the his words and it must be formed immediately and it needs to take into consideration all of the protesters demands now the reason for that is that the shia clerics hey are very worried that the protest movement if it spreads not just in the south but across the country as well that they'll come in for criticism for not backing the protest movement so this will have boyd the protest movement as well however it looks it

feels like right now that the protest movement is simply waiting and giving the government a chance to meet their demands. well now to greece where the prime minister alexis tsipras says he takes full responsibility for the wildfires promising the government with what quickly to improve safety regulations the opposition parties accuse the government of not doing enough to save lives and protect people greek officials suspect the five which killed more than eighty people caused by arson move back as the latest from the west affected area mattie. officials looking into the causes of the fires now believe that there are serious indications of arson this is prime minister alexis tsipras is early suspicion giving the speed of the fires that sprout up both east and west of athens also because they appear to have been started simle taney asli we know that earlier on in the week officials have been using an unmanned drone to fly over the entire area looking for anything suspicious well the layout of the town of monte is also being blamed for making the

situation here much much worse many of these houses sprang up in the one nine hundred seventy s. eighty's and ninety's with no consideration for escape routes particularly down to the beach where the still a lot of debris here people returning to slowly clean up their own private properties but take a look at this this is what they've got to contend with a telegraph pole completely burnt to a cinder at the bottom resting on the top of a burnt out car very treacherous the people passing here well the search for the missing continues. there's no official figures yet but we've spoken to local officials superficially believe the figure is in triple digits there's also a search going on out at sea and new information of more bodies that have been found at the top of a cliff here of course they are trying to flee to the sea but never made it. across the atlantic meanwhile fight wildfires in northern california have killed at least two people in a forcing thousands of residents to flee the region firefighters say the blaze is

only twenty five percent contained and gallacher reports. over the last forty eight hours the wildfire in california shasta county has tripled in size. on thursday night the blaze exploded in cross the sacramento river west side of the city of reading with more than ninety thousand residents were given scant warning firefighters are using the term fire tornado to describe the so-called car fire. in of warned people to get to safety just by are extremely dangerous. and moving with no regard for once and. forecasters say strong winds and high temperatures will continue for days mandatory evacuation orders have been issued for the cities of summit and shushed the lake has crews struggle to contain the blaze in central california the ferguson far has been burning for two weeks visitors so you cemetery national park have been ordered to evacuate authorities say the blaze is only

twenty five percent contained scientists say rising global temperatures are leading to a higher risk of wildfires in the western united states before he is governor declared a state of emergency in several counties to gallacher al-jazeera. scientists in russia say they brought tiny round ones back to life after forty thousand the as they thought out some pun a frost from the arctic and found some round ones also known as nematodes off the several weeks at around twenty degrees they now show signs of life the discovery could help research into cryogenic freezing but there's also concern that melting permafrost could bring dangerous bacteria back to life. oh now here is a site you can only see the one sin a blue moon a red moon sky watches around the world have been enjoying the longest bloodmoon eclipse of the century which still the moon time

a red brown color as it rose the entire transition last nearly two hours and was visible from europe the middle east australia asia south america and in africa and here are just some of the images all of the black man from around the world. is a quick reminder of the top stories now a group of opposition political parties have rejected the results of pakistan's general election following allegations of vote rigging and interference from the military the ruling party conceded defeat paving the way for a cricketer turned politician imran khan to become the next prime minister but the opposition group inc say they'll protest on the streets until a new vote has held high to has more from islamabad molineaux for the room on board

for an order party going for in. his party along with other opposition party. to all the opposition party who ever had complain complain about the election. agitation brought the remake the election nolen ward and even third in their day were in the order they can get it many of parliament however within the open have been able to be there but some division. two more palestinians have been killed in the late as friday protests at the gaza israel border in separate incidents of forty three year old man and fourteen year old boy who were both shot in the head by israeli soldiers one hundred fifty one palestinians have now been killed since the weekly protest began at the end of march. well in other developments the gates of the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem and have been reopened. earliest on grenades and tear gas we used to

disperse worshippers it gathered for friday prayers or entry into the mosque one of islam's holiest sites was prevented for three hours after the violence. saudi u.a.e. coalition aircraft have launched as strikes on the yemeni city of data data hosts a strategically important seaport which is the main entry point for most of the country's food aid. and rescue as in laos a searching for more than one hundred people still missing after monday's down collapse twenty seven people and now confirmed dead as water levels recede people are returning to their homes but they're also questioning why they were not moved to safety earlier and there are conflicting reports on when the cracks in the dam were first spotted was the headlines that's it for myself and the team here in london counting the cost is next and looks at what happens when huge profits are concentrated in the hands of the few.

zero. this is counting the cost of al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week as facebook stock market history will look at how the concentration of huge profits in a handful of companies is impacting everyone else. also this week africa's blue economy is about the lack of data and marine protections as off shore diamond mining becomes a reality. cementing the brics major emerging economies push for closer ties trumps protectionism. google's parent company alphabet facebook and amazon all stepped up with quarterly earnings this

week and there were some very interesting takeaways less than a week since the e.u. hit alphabet with a five point one billion dollar fine over the way limits competition through its android mobile software that's a very big fine company's profits are even bigger facebook shocked investors forecasting slowing revenues as a result it's all about one hundred nineteen billion dollars wiped off its stock market value the largest one day loss for any company in u.s. stock market history kristen salumi reports from new york. for facebook which has experienced exponential growth since its initial public offering in two thousand and twelve it was an uncharacteristic plunge in market value after an uncharacteristically bad quarterly report on thursday share prices tumbled sure profits were up thirty one percent over last year but for the first time since two

thousand and fifteen they fell short of expectations to some extent this correction was expected i think the smart money had expected this. and when you are priced for perfection there's no margin of error a series of scandals seem to be catching up to the social media company founder mark zuckerberg was called to account by congress over rush's use of the platform to try to influence the two thousand and sixteen election we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and i'm sorry and the harvesting of user data through the political consulting firm cambridge analytic the company says increases in security spending are likely to continue eating into profits and tougher user protection laws in europe have already cost the company some three million users but there are some structural issues right now and they need to really work that out it's going to take some time but at the end at the end of the day at the very end of the day facebook is

a good company facebook remains one of the most valuable publicly traded companies heading into the two thousand and eighteen midterm elections when its new security protocols will be put to the test mark zuckerberg is attempting to reassure investors saying that this time he's confident the social media company will get it right. e-commerce giant amazon also came out with numbers this week and top two billion dollars in quarterly profits for the first time in its history part of the reason these companies is so profitable is because the world's digital population keeps growing and the one born after nine hundred eighty five is the digital natives. i can't imagine a time before the internet as of july this year four point one billion people were active internet users and three point three billion was social media users because the internet has now gone mobile more people in two thousand and eighteen have access to the internet than safe drinking water the size of the internet is in fact

becoming hard to digest so just consider this every minute thirty eight million messages of passed between various individuals on whatsapp there are three point seven million search queries on google and every minute eight hundred sixty two thousand eight hundred twenty three dollars are spent online according to the world bank developed economies still dominate the spread of knowledge and information the worry is that the world is not reaping the so-called digital dividends of this transformation or joining us now from brussels is alice to read principle research or and policy director at the european future innovation system center good to have you with us so the gatekeepers of the internet you know like google amazon facebook they're few they're huge are they operating fairly though. within the european union the competition commissioner has been acting very much on the sort of philosophy that those companies given their power in the digital circuit or which

are in the past monopolies where national level. monopolies can develop a global level with negative effects and so i think the european commission's position here has been very much that these companies have a special responsibility to act fairly and not in french competition i think that explains a number of interventions that are taken by the european commission. is two thousand and nine hundred ten ing out to be a decisive year for facebook well i mean in terms of facebook i think it's been it's been particularly hard hit by some of the concerns that have arisen. over over the different scandals that have taken place in terms of the access to data and the use of the data particularly related to elections and i think that's how to affect i think also there's and that's that's a sort of natural trend in any market people particularly i would say the younger generations are looking for a other tools and moving to other areas other ops and platforms so there is a sort of

a natural trend i think linked to the sort of hit that they've taken from this sort of privacy abuses and to place related to bricks at another other referendums and elections are more in the last year or so i think this is hard surface and negative effect is that the pick of facebook. i'm not sure of that's the case i think we have a very strong position but i think it's again it's a very good example of where there's a need for clear regulation and checks on that's the use of the data is collected by such a company ok but when you say clear regulation who should regulate them should government step in and put more regulations but i think i think this is sort of forced as a sort of self-regulation which i think you know all the companies will claim that they are taking appropriate steps to protect the privacy of citizens and commercial data that they maybe maybe holding out i think that's part of it is sort of core for responsibility and is that doesn't seem to have worked in some of the readers your scandals that we've seen and some of the online. tech giants right well that's

that's i think as i said i think that's a farce i think that's a minimum that we as citizens or other companies in the economy can kind of expect from these large companies the second step i think is regulation i think as i say the european commission here in europe is take a rather strong action on a number of fronts both in terms of dominant position but also in terms of introducing the. data protection regulation recently which is intended to limit the no of course. france's we're trying to make sure we're using service they're based in europe for because we know that if the servers are outside of europe then the data protection regulation of the european union may not have the full force that we would want it to of so i think again it's up to each of us to be aware of. how regulation can improve the situation or limit those potential abuses but also how we as citizens or companies need to be aware of their of the potential risks were let me jump in and ask this question as to the how would you regulate more what is

a very untraditional product i mean price controls don't work when the product is free these companies as you said at the beginning have to be big so break ups won't necessarily make the service any better it's a bit tricky isn't it. breakup as i mean there there is there is talk and certainly in certain areas that there may be some point for the same sort of reflections that happened perhaps in the seventy's or eighty's around the telecom companies that maybe have to be applied to the sort of digital platforms as well. i'm not sure that something is going to happen in the short term or that it's even necessarily the solution i think one of the things and i think that's where if you look again at the european situation people often say we don't have a lot of tech giants here well yes and no we have a number of very odd joe small or many giants if you like original giants where jurors are coming up in very specialized areas and i think those trying to stimulate the growth of those sorts of companies as competitors and allowing them

to have that level playing field may be as effective as any sort of move to break up a lot of the very large tech giants so i'm trying to trying to stimulate the sort of new emerging solutions that can be become themselves sort of many platforms and over time compete with some of the existing tech giants. as you plot the future how do you think the founders of the internet would view what it's become today well.