and when he got the final exam and i am really cambodian prime minister gordon salmon will tell you why many people are saying this is the latest among the in the name of god. how apparently you've had it dry long enough in indonesia and the good possibility the showers are showing a bit more obviously a bit more frequent this slow progress but going to sunny sunday coming size so born is even more showers and satellite picture there in the full cost too i still think in java and eastwards it's looking dry fine and sunny but if in some office singapore kuala lumpur showers seem a little bit more like than they did about a week ago and the same is true of so the way i see a good part of borneo south of this quite a windy winter storm is on its way through the southeast corner of strays you can

see the front itself is a long lived stretches run into the tropics and therefore it is active it leaves behind windy in colder weather in melbourne twelve degrees so twenty two in sydney was i will drop i think very rapidly the heart of the storm is coming into town as mania we're talking about sunday by monday it's gone all in the next trough is on its way through quite a cloudy it even looks a bit like c. for ref to say on it's way through fifteen by this time still seventeen in perth so given the active weather in australia how long will it take to come across the tasman sea probably by today as sunday for you twelve in christchurch finest weather the clouds coming in on monday. on counting the cost how the concentration of internet profits in a handful of companies is impacting everyone else africa's blue economy burns about

the lack of doctor and marine protections bro and deep sea diamond mining becomes a reality counting the cost on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you. get the top stories this hour on al-jazeera government have all believed to have taken sixty five people hostage at a midwife training center in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad several explosions have been heard in the city at least three people are reported to have been. representatives from kurdish held areas in syria told us here that they're

working to hand back areas under their control to the government of bashar al assad the syrian democratic council is linked to the u.s. backed military alliance known as the syrian democratic forces which controls much of the northeast. a group of opposition parties in pakistan is calling for a new poll that is threatening nationwide protests over allegations of vote rigging in the general election for matricular iran card is still waiting to be declared officially the winner three days after the vote. at least two firefighters have died battling wildfires in northern california in the u.s. hot weather and high winds are fueling the flames five hundred structures have been destroyed evacuation orders have been issued to thirty seven thousand people filed . so the blaze will probably bone deep into urban areas before it can be contained as many other hold reports. the wild fire tore through neighborhoods like this one

in the city of reading in the middle of the night fire crews were forced to go door to door officials used loudspeakers to tell residents to leave the wildfire moved with such speed many had just minutes to get out i drove up before my mom and dad. this is what i saw on the house but. i don't know how many minutes after. he left the house but it went to police but he said he could see the fire. as he was leaving. and. so on somebody made it out and i don't i'm afraid some people may not. police say the wildfire was spotted by a mechanical failure in a vehicle on monday but in the spice of forty eight hours it had tripled in size and then on thursday night the blaze exploded and crossed the sec room into a river. you know the city of reading home to more than ninety thousand people was

in its path firefighters say using the tim fire tornado to describe it firefighters are out there actively rescuing evacuating engaging and defending homes. scorching temperatures a full cast to continue as of the strong winds that offending the flames california's governor has declared a state of emergency in several counties as crews struggle to contain the fire is mandatory evacuation orders have been issued in some cities and central california the ficus and fire has been burning for two weeks visitors to a symmetry national package been ordered to evacuate with or she said the blaze is only twenty five percent contained. scientists say rising global temperature. the leading to high risk of wildfires in the eastern united states the fire that has a swathe through parts of reading has now moved on and some people have been allowed to retune. houses can be rebuilt they say but precious positions

and in some cases much loved pits have been lost for reeva and the speed and the ferocity of the blaze. further up the u.s. west coast in oregon two thousand firefighters are battling another blaze they expect the fire to expand as dry conditions and winds fan the flames people have been ordered to people have been ordered to leave the nearby. houses political leaders in canada's largest city of calling for a ban on all handguns following last week's school shoes house which killed three people including a ten year old girl toronto has a reputation for being safe but gun crime has risen there recently police blame the increase on criminals smuggling weapons across the border from the united states study a lack reports but not. a moment of carnage captured on cell phone video sixteen people shot in a popular restaurant area an eighteen year old woman

a ten year old girl died as did the shooter whose motive remains unclear it's just the latest horrific incident in what many here are calling the summer of the gun the pilots that's been surging in toronto is happening in the most unlikely of places places like this playground where in mid june two young girls were wounded in an attack on someone else believed to be gang related five year old king is able to play again after being hit by a bullet in her stomach her mother says she doesn't feel safe anywhere now even in her own home. it feels overwhelming. and it is sad because every time i come around here on the scanner remember my kids are getting shot local politicians want a ban on all handguns canada does have strict gun control but there are plenty of illegal weapons around police say most firearms used in crimes are smuggled from the us this former gang member says guns are cheaper and more commonplace than they

used to be he now works to help young men leave the violent lifestyle of a street gang like he did twenty five years ago i have a philosophy and the philosophy is one by one as long as i get through to just one one kid and save one life i felt like i. contributed i feel a bit of redemption for things that i. personally feel responsible for residents are asking of toronto's reputation as a safe tolerant peaceful place is now dash to right now murder and gun crimes are double what they were a year ago close to an all time record yet researchers say the statistics still point to a city that's markedly safer than many of its counterparts in the midst of all of this craziness i'm more interested in looking at data and a group look at police data if you look at crime data you'll see that you know again compared to other big cities in north america. there are very same call it

natural resilience or determination but for now a wary city looks ready to return to normal life less than a week after the worst mass shooting in its history and a year that is so far seemed more violent and shocking than most than your lack al-jazeera toronto is ready saif has killed three palestinians in the latest friday protests in gaza health workers report that at least two hundred and forty five injuries two would demonstrate as urging an end to israel's blockade stephanie decker reports. they keep coming eighteen weeks into these protests and even though the numbers may be decreasing their demands remain the same lift the siege let us live like everyone else might not be. suffering there is no electricity no water people are going hungry it's painful or cape standing we will come here to show the whole world we want our rights. my brothers and bombed

and turns against as a civilian be wanted in gaza strip we are to be bull dozers yes this is gaza's look here this is gaza's. yes and this is a beautiful as this is military this is military to do list of the shots for you are going to this is under nobody from from the road from you can you get in front of us i was. looking at. israel's been using these drones to drop tear gas further back into the crowd and closer to the fence israeli snipers keep watch and sporadically open fire the hospitals now used to a steady influx every friday there is a well established pattern now similar scenes playing out every friday what is different now however is the escalating tensions between israel and hamas and there been intensive diplomatic efforts underway by egypt and the united nations to try to find a solution everyone we speak to says the same thing the only solution is to improve

life for the people here israel's demanded that hamas put an end to the burning quite some balloons that were born out of these protests they've burned thousands of acres of land on the other side of the fence a mass says they are a legitimate form of resistance against a suffocating seach there's been less however over the past few weeks now as these fridays come and go a political solution that benefits the people of gaza remains elusive stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza. israeli forces have reopened the gates of the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem after closing them for several hours on friday. soldiers fired tear gas and stun grenades palestinian worshipers there for friday prayers they say was in response to items being thrown at them the al aqsa mosque compound as one of islam's holiest sites that is revered by jews as the temple mount. relief workers in southern

nigeria are struggling to cope with a new wave of refugees fleeing cameroon fighting began in october when separatists declared an independent state that they call amazonia in the south since then thousands of refugees have been crossing the border as other address reports from the cameroon nigeria border. only in korean and have baby among hundreds of new arrivals crossing over from cameroon so five kilometers from this refugee registration center after wandering from village to village she eventually crossed the border into nigeria three days ago. so. i wanted to come since last year but now i've bought at the dead including my on i was hiding inside cameroon because there's a war there we were dodging the troops she's already lost three of our relatives and fears for the lives of several others an estimated thirty thousand people fleeing the violence and are currently living in nigeria survivors speak of abuses

by chameleon forces including. and summary executions. the united nations high commission for refugees is developing two new settlements to move the refugees away from more than forty border villages we are thriving around the clock to provide assistance protection in lifesaving assistance for the huge number of refugees as they're arriving there night and the resources remain a big challenge for as. relief workers left the village of our book just a few days ago but when they returned one hundred fifty refugees had arrived for some the only possessions they had where the clothes they world they say will be army crackdown in the english speaking south of cameroon continuous right across the water is the republic of cameroon this is one of the several routes refuges state try void getting into contact with cameroon and forces separatists are due to

mark the anniversary of the subject at independence of the republic of korea in two months time now clashes are expected now a lot of people i expected to come through this route because of the fighting between the government forces and the rebels for months fred assumptions been living in exile in nigeria he remembers clearly the day he was forced to leave the room. they just came with their calls and everybody was running. the last fall over forty five minutes there was constant shooting everywhere he and other young men are still wanted by the army i cruised membership of the separatism was only a movement where says independence is a legitimate demand even if you have to cure all of us. you you only do so or but that this struggle is going to end we wind up while he and thirty thousand other refugees are digging in for a long story leave

a few shares bracing for yet more to join the. bomb in the breeze al jazeera on the nigeria border there are reports that at least seventeen people have been killed in central mali ahead of sunday's presidential election there are twenty four contenders for the presidency including the incumbent able to him but work ok to who's vying for a second to last week the campaign team for the opposition leader or so male a c.s.a. was attacked by company in timbuktu sunday's general election in cambodia is being described by the opposition as an undemocratic sham because the prime minister can't lose consent stamped out the main threat to extending his thirty three year rule by banning the largest opposition party wayne hay reports from phnom penh. in cambodia there is only one show in town these days the ruling cambodian people's

party led by prime minister who in sin is expected to win sunday's election comfortably the main opposition the cambodian national rescue party which almost won five years ago is banned and urges voters to stay away. voting isn't compulsory but that didn't stop the prime minister threatening anyone who doesn't take. it wherever doesn't participate in this election destroys democracy following the illegal propaganda movement. that illegal movement is the cambodian national risky party which was dissolved allegedly plotting to overthrow the government with foreign help its leader kim has been in jail since september awaiting trial for treason while most other leading members left cambodia fearing a wrist they say the election is illegitimate and the ruling out supporting protests if cambodians call for them if there is an uprising we hope their. uprising. that is why we want to find

a solution today the international community is also slowly taking action some foreign election observers are here but not from japan the long time supporter of the cambodian government refused while the united states and european union withdrew funding for the election. is over so much more than just the demise of his only real political opposition there have also been attacks on the dependent media organizations and enjoy yourself with many staff harassed and arrested forced to leave the country more reasons why many people are dismissing this election as a sham among nineteen opposition parties only a couple can really be called truly independent and they can't compete with the large campaign budget of the prime minister's party kong money can't believe staying in the fight is better than sitting on the sidelines he was a member of the band c.n.r. people before setting up his own party we here in cambodia we need to do something

we just cannot sleep at home be quiet otherwise the authoritarian will continue to grab on to our people we'll continue to be separate from. jews from the land grabbing and other issues that grip looks certain to continue well beyond the election when sin says he wants to stay in power for another ten years wayne hay al jazeera phnom penh. it's good to have you with us hello adrian from going to here in doha the top stories this hour a gunman are believed to have taken sixty five people hostage at a midwife's training center in the eastern afghan city of jalalabad several explosions have been heard in the city at least three people are reported to have been wounded shot at palace reports from afghanistan's capital kabul luckily intelligence services did get did hear that this attack may take place and were

able to get the sixty five people into safe inside the compound and the attack began with multiple explosions in there was gunfire and we have special forces special forces on the scene but this is attack is ongoing so they are trying to secure the area and get to the sixty five people in the safe rooms a group of opposition parties in pakistan is calling for a new poll under strengthening nationwide protests over allegations of vote rigging in the general election former cricketer imran khan is still waiting to be officially declared the winner three days after the vote in a major step towards ending syria's seven year civil war representatives from kurdish held areas and told them to syria that they are working to hand back areas under their control to the government of bashar al assad the syrian democratic council is linked to the u.s. backed military alliance known as the syrian democratic forces which controls much of the northeast. front runners in zimbabwe's general election on monday are making

a final push for votes rival rallies are being held by president abbas and want to guard one of the rulings on the p.f. and belsen of the opposition movement for democratic change it's the first election in the early forty years without former president robert mugabe. two firefighters have died battling wildfires in northern california in the u.s. five hundred structures have been destroyed evacuation orders have been issued to thirty seven thousand people hot weather and strong winds are fueling the flames israeli snipers killed three palestinians in the latest friday protests in gaza health workers report that at least two hundred forty five injured injuries to a demonstrators urging an end to israel's blockade and relief workers in southern nigeria are struggling to cope with a new wave of refugees escaping cameroon fighting began in october when separatists there declared an independent state for news of their after counting the cost next

. for the first time since robert mugabe was forced from power by the army the people of zimbabwe will see the next president but a strong economy and frustration among many young voters means the result. is still hard to predict follow the family election. hello i'm sam is a damn this is counting the cost of al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week as facebook my 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 concerns about the lack of data and marine protections as offshore diamond mining becomes a reality. plus cementing the brics major emerging economies push for closer ties

to offset 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 it's less than a week since the e.u. hit alphabet with a five point one billion dollar fine over the way limits composition through its android mobile software that's a very big fine company's profits are even bigger facebook sharks 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. he called most 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 anyone born after nine hundred eighty five is a 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 govern their power in the digital circuit or which are in the past monopolies were at 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 certain 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 first there's 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 i think that's part of it is sort of core for

responsibility in it but that doesn't seem to have worked in some of the means you're 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 well 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 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 were necessarily one to 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 smaller many giants if you like original giants were

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 i know that i think i think some of them would be i think i think it's second it's not black and white i think there's a lot of very positive things have happened then i gave a presentation but through three years ago going back to there the late eighty's and i had in front of me a team of my stuff were all ages and some of them were born when i when i was

starting from about one nine hundred ninety on words and some of the changes that have happened are very extraordinary when you do that backtrack you say well we didn't have a mobile phone we didn't have smart wife i we didn't have and so on in the end of the two thousand so these are incredible changes as i said they're having huge changes to mobility that will be true that we will move around health sector and so on so it's benefits photos i think the internet and the internet of things if you chop locations of artificial intelligence these are all things that should be enablers for a better society and not only about making profits i think that's where we have to get the balance right in the future thanks so much for your thoughts thank you. still to come on counting the cost the commercial hunting of fin whales is under the spotlight in iceland after the death of a rare mix. the chinese president says there'll be no winners in a global trade war he's urging unity among brics nations that's brazil russia india

china and south africa. has more from the annual brics summit in johannesburg. leaders from five of the world's leading emerging markets say they are united when it comes to trade they say protectionism which is being pushed by u.s. president donald trump should be rejected. what is constant is the flare up of geopolitical conflicts and the escalation of protectionism and you need actual is a better rickly effect emerging markets and developing countries. should. we must work together with the united nations the g twenty and the world trade organization to safeguard the rules based multilateral trading system liberalise and facilitate trade and investment and reject protectionism outright is the first time presidents from the brics meeting since donald trump threatened to impose tariffs on chinese imports economists say the trade could also hurt smaller

countries. some theer transplants will stifle global economic growth leaders at the bric summit say increasing global trade encourages economies of all countries to grow but emerging economies could be damaged if the u.s. imposes tariffs on certain goods but it's still a strong post tariffs have given brazil russia india china and south africa more reason to increase trade cooperation between them it's also forced china the world's second largest economy after the united states to look for other markets to buy and sell its products china has been the most important trading partner with a u.s. so as u.s. to china on but now with those leading trade tension we can be certain that in the next few years the trade between those two countries will be heard for a wad along with a very volatile exchange rate market exchange market. for

china to extend or to strengthen other relations are europe and africa would be as top choices because of the sheer shock sheer size of those markets brics leaders in south africa have suggested at another meeting be held where world players discuss the differences and perhaps prevent a global trade war for that to happen all parties have to agree to come to the table and try to find a balance between promoting national interests and those of the global community al-jazeera went to visit a technology harbin sao paolo to talk to experts who believe brics can provide an alternative way forward for emerging economies in the reports. brazil believes it has the solutions to many of the problem shared by its fellow brics members such as in medicine and aviation all major developing economies home to forty percent of the world's population with a vision that most would agree is straining to fulfil its potential the world is

becoming less western white less concentrated less homogeneous and it would be better even paul the world to leave space for brics countries to make this inference and even have more power and control this transition to a world that is still as westernized all five brics members are looking to their strengths to see what they can best contribute to the growth of their alliance brazil has this technology hub outside sao paolo very clear there to have many benefits we are exploring. more deeply this is globalization an example is the surveillance balloon operated by one person for monitoring large spaces big events and to our surprise even our own interview with one of the project developers it is brings up a zillion produced and by no likes i believe the olympic games we have other olympic games that have a word gurps and a lot of evidence a persistent monetary. should do the survivor stuff to do it with

a bullet absorbent skin it's also ideal for monitoring illegal deforestation and poaching while we were here it spotted the nearby fire if manufacturers believe it can thrive in south africa india or russia brazil's technological future is here developing the technological innovations that they believe will be of interest to most sell for their partners in brics and beyond. all five brics members have their problems brazil struggling to emerge from recession china in a trade war with the us all searching for a shared solutions when we start working together i think we can all grow together and the thing that i think i see brazil offering for this is the talent and the flexibility and the open mind that brazil has. now perhaps the tenth bric summit all members will play to their strengths and embrace common interests. africa's

blue world is our focus next it's a world made up of vast lakes oceans and rivers the african union calls the blue economy the new frontier of african renaissance has been a lot of talk and forums focusing on it over the past year all of the branding around the blue economy states africa is suffering from sea blindness or not sufficiently developing its extensive marine resources lying on the ocean bed a potential sources of metals and oil and gas seabed mining however would destroy critical delicate and little understood sea life and it's those concerns about the lack of data which still persist as the efforts get underway to exploit the ocean ecosystem. thirty eight of africa's fifty four states are coastal look at the island nation of nourishes for example is one of the smallest countries in the world but it has territorial waters the size of south africa the blue economy is not confined to fishing and tourism it also includes things like transportation

deep sea coastal mining and energy but there are environmental concerns a new offshore deep sea mining industry is already taking shape in the middle of for example vacuuming diamonds from the ocean floor proponents see a sparkling future in the ocean as on shore mineral deposits dry up while the blue economy has the capacity to provide desperately needed jobs the challenge is all about how to exploit water resources in a sustainable way environmentalists are warning more research is required to shape policies joining us now via skype from the city of mombasa in kenya is david oprah david is the director of coastal oceans research and development in the indian ocean cordier as it's known east africa good to have you earth david so a lot of focus right now on the so-called blue economy is it more than just the rebranding of marine exploitation. yes it's

a it is much more than that. but if you economy is we trying to get his work sustainable because really the economy is about using utilizing that ocean because also sustainably without damaging and this is really there are waves of huge deep sea mining of hydrocarbons diamonds for example still problematic right yes it still problematic but you know it's still a long time into the future particularly in our region west and you know she did see mining i think the technologies and the incentives of the prices to really extract there's minerals as far as the feature it's most closely with natural gas in mozambique wells there are huge lines of national gas and several companies moving or exploring barriers but that has transparency implications countries around most of the very strong and most of the what we know there are many systems

in that resources so there's a lot of talk about it wishing harm i think experience a. step change or transformation awareness around economic planning to really make a difference but there's a lot of also pushing in that direction put it into perspective for us david taught extent does africa's marine resources have the potential to completely transform life on the continent as we know it. well it's a hard thing to convey. the african union is pitching that very strong wave which i think is right here fanning asked twenty sixty three that the relevance of the concept should come from the sea and can come from the sea. it can happen but we need to do as i said it's a transformation we need to really transform the way sex is each other and the freedom of speech and also appreciation by the economic corpus powers that the values generated. systems are assets that can be tapped and you need to manage

sustainably just like that manager has found some sort of catalyst so that you don't destroy it while you. where will the massive investment come from i mean a lot of this needs a lot of money pouring into infrastructural projects in an environment where reform is really needed political regulatory even legal right here that's right there is the i mean the legal systems and various systems are not really up to scratch in most african countries and we're building major infrastructure assets like railways or our quarks and things like that without really appropriate strategic assessments of we environmentalists other assets that supply the infrastructure projects i think the money is that investment things that extends to china or other sources as well. to have money invest in the ways parents

damage major assets importance to that project as well as for the staffers there really need to change them is the change in the last ten to twenty years otherwise a lot of parents will be there. and finally what about on the educational level is the last thing done to reeducate people and how to manage and even to regard one's marine resources. education from. there i mean the sea so. you know behind a lot of other areas most africans mind is the country's financial individuals and we need to transform that i think awareness about climate change in the ocean collections of thing where the oceans illusion is really leaping in the last few years to refine psoriasis way to get that awareness and then get the education. so building that in the curriculum. all right chad thank you thanks so much david.

and finally iceland's whaling industry is under the spotlight once again after a cross between the protected blue whale and a fin well was killed them brought to shore for processing hybrid whale meat cannot be exported now there are increasing calls for the industry to be finally banned in the country nick clark reports from reykjavik. iceland has much to boast of when it comes to natural resources its dramatic scenery and geothermal springs draw tourists in their millions and there's the marine environment to tens of thousands of people go whale watching every year there's even a whale museum where you can immerse yourself in an ocean of life size whale replicas the one thing iceland tries not to publicize too much is the fact that whales are still killed commercially here which in rage is a big sector of society doing these they are going to steps backward into the

viking times and the whaling nowadays especially well not just in iceland but the whaling in iceland show that people is not that's their fellow but they really think to show the world that they are so it's something of a p.r. disaster when photographs like this appear what is suggested to be a highly endangered and protected blue whale killed and brought back to shore for processing d.n.a. sampling has since shown the whale was in fact a rare hybrid between a fin well for its icelandic whalers do have a quota and the ben and blue whale kristen lawson he runs the company that killed the whale says his whale is acted in good faith their way is working for us they've been doing it for decades and to be. here and when being approached. in which. they went after news one i think on our own there is no question in my mind. nothing else when it was taken but turned out to be

a hybrid these are images of a fin well being legally processed at the whaling station most of the products are exported to japan the killing of the hybrid well which is banned from export has led to more coolness for the industry to be finally halted in iceland this hunting is very inaccurate they cannot know the difference between a hybrid bluefin wade and fin which they cannot make a distinction that's what they say between the two so you know for that sake they should absolutely stop it. so this is workable as to where the ships come in from the ocean with their catch and take it up the fuel to the processing plant. one hundred days between june and september and this year they have a quota of one hundred sixty one fin whales it's an activity that has drilling support among so icelanders ten years ago about seventy percent of the population were in favor of whaling today that figure is more like fifty fifty and as tourists

seek out whales alive in the wild still there's a pressing issue what to do with several tons of hybrid whale caught up in a freezer with nowhere to go and that's our show for this way but remember you can get in touch with us via twitter use the hash tag a j c c when you do drop us an e-mail counting the cost around zero dot net our address has more for you online at al jazeera dot com slash c.t.c. that will take you straight to our page which. links and entire episodes for you to catch up on. for this edition of counting the cost on sam is a than from the whole team here thanks for joining us news and al-jazeera is next.

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i mean this is different whether someone is going for some of these very rents that's going mainstream i think it's how you approach an individual and as it is a certain way of doing it you can't just. get the story and fly out. this is al jazeera. hello i'm sam is a live from doha this is the news hour coming up in the next sixty minutes school for midwives attacks in the afghan city of jalalabad sixty five people clap as the battle goes on. in search of partners for a new government in pakistan and iran begins talks to form

a coalition but his main rivals wanted a new election. zimbabwe prepares for a very unfamiliar election robert mugabe and a new opposition leader well live in harmony. this is climate change lanes sweeping towards california and cities heat waves and wildfires in europe scientists say the dramatic effects are now here. let's begin with a developing story from afghanistan and attack on a training center for midwives now there's been explosions and gunfire in the eastern city of jalalabad so began late morning it's believed several people are trapped in the compound unable to leave fighting is still going on in surrounding streets between afghan special forces and multiple at tankers we're told so let's

go now live to charlotte ballasts who's monitoring all the developments in kabul have security forces go in control of the situation yet. they are becoming increasingly in control but this is still an ongoing situation so in the last few minutes we're spoken to the name to have provincial government spokesperson who's told us that they understand there's actually sixty nine people inside this compound in the last few minutes they've managed to free fifty seven of those people. twelve people still inside the compound as the fighting continues about half an hour ago we heard that a convoy of humvees special forces humvees managed to get inside this compound and then there was heavy fighting a lot of gunfire and then the last few minutes we understand that a lot of these people have been able to get out but the fighting is ongoing now this all started about two and a half hours ago there was a series of explosions it was gunfire and then we understand a tech has managed to get inside the building for this midwives training seem to

any stay in jalalabad and then province no group has taken credit for this is yet but it is very similar to an attack that happened about two weeks ago on the department of education building all story any such a bad also an explosion and then gunfire bring us up to speed then with casualties . so as of right now people going to no deaths and we do understand that there was some intelligence before this attack began that may happen within this midwife training facility and people were able to get into safe houses various safe rooms within this compound itself which we do believe has helped with making sure that the death toll has stayed at zero and that the casualties are only four as of right now stuff there from charlotte burst forth from kabul. some major developments in attempts to end syria's seven years civil war representatives from kurdish held areas say they were

greeted to form committees with the government of bashar assad on ending the war and leading. member of the syrian democratic council told al-jazeera the committees will work towards handing back territory under their control to the government while planning a democratic decentralized syria the s.t.c. is linked to the u.s. backed military alliance known as the syrian democratic forces which controls much of north eastern syria. from our one couple on is head of policy analysis at the arab center for research and policy studies joins us here in the studio good to have you were so first of all men want we know they had talks on july twenty sixth . has the s.t.c. reached an agreement with the regime though while i mean i think they have not reached an agreement yet but they are in my opinion in the final stages of reaching an agreement so why are some of the specials and the s.t.c. talking about handing back have premature not i don't think it's premature because

this is the this is the end game i believe for them i think now perhaps is the time because. you know i mean the relationship between the kurds and the regime have been very complicated over the past few years in fact they hand over these territories to the cause at the very beginning of this crisis if you remember back in two thousand and twelve when there was no longer able actually to protect all the territories that we're under its control saw now with the kurds actually the are feeling because we have we have to put this in the more regional context. between the army and the kurds in a free earlier this year to push the kurds in my opinion to choose between either handing over these territories back to the syrian regime or behalves having to control a confrontation with with turkey especially now nobody is really sure about the intentions of the u.s. president donald trump because he he said clearly that he would want actually to

withdraw their forces his forces from. them not much of of syria so the kurds now feel that if the u.s. withdraw that will put them in direct confrontation with their would rather actually deal with the syrian regime rather than actually dealing with its fear of turkey that's making them to choose the syrian regime well the regime really give the kurds autonomy i don't believe well when. we talk about autonomy i think the two sides are talking about two different issues the kurds believe this means decentralization this is something i believe the region will not accept what the regime will probably give them is some sort of local governance according to law number one zero seven zero number one one zero seven what actually passed by the regime in two thousand and twelve and that was meant to give more power to the local councils so we're not talking about this some sort of an option he told me i think the syrian regime will never accept the kind of autonomy and dealing with the

how might turkey react to this that well i think the turks will not be very happy with that why because on one hand they think that will be a big boost for the syrian regime this will give the syrian regime back when they had of syria this is a very important development and this part of syria is the richest in terms of natural resources here actually in this part and there is some of the affinities we have most of c.d.'s oil and water so if you give this i mean to say to the syrian regime that will means actually the syrian government will be the functioning again in terms of having these natural resources and using it in order to boost the position of the of the of the regime so the turks will not be had but on the other hand perhaps the turks will be thinking now if the syrian regime takes these territories actually done keeping it under the control of the court so the turks here are choosing between the least of two evils one of them. all right thanks so

much more one couple on here let's take you to some breaking news coming to us out of egypt where a court has sentenced seventy five people to death for their involvement in the city and in two thousand and thirteen that's when thousands protested in the. squares in cairo against the al sting of democratically elected president mohamed morsi now he was pushed from power in a military coup led by then general and now president of the fatah has sisi members of the muslim brotherhood are among those sentenced bring you more details on this soon as we get it. front runners in zimbabwe's general election are making a final push for votes ahead of the country's election on monday rival rallies are being held by the ruling zana p.f.c. emerson and and nelson chamisa of the opposition movement for democratic change this would be the first in nearly forty years without former leader robert mugabe.

there are more than five and a half million registered voters sixty percent of them under fifty years of age they'll choose between twenty three presidential candidates four of them are women pick three hundred fifty members of parliament nearly eleven thousand polling stations will be in place joining us from zimbabwe's capital is how. she's at the zanu p.f. rally before i ask you about the rally you've covered zimbabwe for many years and i'm wondering how different these elections feel to all the previous decades of elections on the shadow of robert mugabe. do you feel different. by this time. it would be true that it imitates normally opposition supporters allegedly by the release. of not. being able to campaign move freely in

the country and this time is change the main opposition. has managed to travel to areas i mean that. i get i maybe used to manage to reach some areas we. need to just as an opposition leader and here at this rally you getting some of the zanu p.f. supporters waiting for this day when a god like to have an address them maybe young people the issues are maybe baki economy but you can see there are some empty stands another difference previous elections when mugabe was in power places of things like this to be full of his supporters now the people organizing this trial they are saying that the people are still. coming they're on their way and the stadium will be full but at the moment speaking to people around here the general feeling is this is surprising usually at the stadium for example were the foods out of the of supporters waved to address by the leaders this time is very very difference and i'm wondering as a white see what the message is for the president was the message from the people

to the prize and their expectations from him at this point. if you speak to anyone either zanu p.f. or opposition everyone will tell you that it's about the economy really what good is having democracy in the country what good is is having stability of the country if you can't pay your bills if you can pay your children school fees if you can't buy food for your children so regardless whose party supports it is a bad economy it's about the health care system whereby normal people just want to go into a public hospital and be able to get have a tablet and not be told there aren't any available we want to watch in these rallies very very closely the main opposition to nazi genocide is that another thing you told that thing is packed to capacity but this one here with the zanu p.f. leader and the president obama's going to come to speak at the moment is looking very very very thin people are trickling in very very slowly again something i have

never seen in over the years i've covered zanu p.f. rallies so it's a wait and see when he arrives how many people that's a show up to be addressed by him and what is he going to say will he be enough to convince enough zimbabweans to vote for him come monday when the elections take place all right thanks so much how the mythos of that. now is still not officially the winner but imran khan has begun talks on forming a new government for pakistan several of the rival parties.