back of new u.s. sanctions that moscow is slamming as illegal and how i don't bruise biggest festival isn't benefiting people on the city's fringes. hello there strong winds have been battering parts of western australia is all of them to this weather front here that's gradually edging its way eastwards we've seen winds gusting over one hundred kilometers per hour in some places and it's gradually edging its way towards the east so it looks like south australia will see about wet weather and windy weather as we head through friday and then it will work its way across victoria and tasmania as well by saturday looks like most of us will be in the fresh air so it's going to be a cool one adelaide with a maximum just of eleven degrees and force in melbourne will only be at twelve as we head across towards new zealand we've got

a fair amount of cloud as being piling its way into the western parts of the south island has also brought us a fair amount of rain they don't break so really there was we head into friday friday should be a mostly bright day for many of us eleven degrees the maximum in christchurch fifteen in all clones and generally staying very settled here as we head into saturday to me molly if we had further north we've just seen a typhoon in japan that was called shan chan and is now working its way towards the northeast it's taking or of it's wet weather with it so force in honshu should be a lot drier than it has been recently and thirty two degrees will be our maximum in tokyo towards the west expect a few showers in the beijing area. mian mars commercial capital yang gone is a symbol of its rapid economic growth but in its slums families struggle to survive the money from merciless loan sharks is their hold inside the cycle of different

one when east on al-jazeera. zero. three. and back a quick reminder of the top stories israel and hamas have agreed to a truce following a flare up of cross border fighting is comes after a day of violence which still seven palestinians injured in israeli airstrikes and hamas rockets fired into southern israel. a saudi a mirage coalition air strike has hit

a bus full of school children in yemen's who's the health sada province killing fifty people the u.n. has called for an investigation but saudi arabia insists the strikes were legitimate targets in seeing is involved an opposition figure tendai biti has been granted bail after appearing in court charged with inciting public violence and unlawfully announcing election results. well in all the stories we're covering the us a un the african union of prize joseph kabila is decision not to speak of as president of the democratic republic of congo is instead throwing his support behind close ally emmanuel rama zani should dari but there are still fears he will remain a political force behind the scenes from kinshasa catherine sawyer reports. when president joseph kabila finally made it clear that he will not be seeking reelection and hunted over the baton to manage. it ended two years of speculation and anxiety characterized by partisan violent confrontations between police and

demonstrators some of his critics like martin for you lou who wants to be president says kabila as legacy is tainted today. gone harmony is security the second is a big issue there is no priests are. scared to the contrary the miller legacy is a province and. we became. the president inherited a country that was just getting out of a civil war back in two thousand and one his father had been assassinated and he was thrust in the thick of the democratic republic of congo's complex politics is credited by some for unifying a country that was divided bringing a sense of normalcy reforming the military and starting an ambitious rebuilding program when puppy love became president the offer you gave through that and. many other parts of the country that has changed especially. as a means to build

a world being different parts of the cars some people say that what he's done is not good enough. but his advisers say he's done what he could in incredibly difficult times while doing that we kept on hearing all sorts of bad things about him but most think sanctions here sanctions there are. wars but came from outside to come and invade the country so while fighting the war it was still building what i've just said the basic infrastructure were destroyed corpse airports bridges you name it. in marketplaces like this one in the heart of kinshasa people say they want a leader who's going to make their lives and more bearable on the basics an end to corruption jobs for their children and to feel they're living in one of the most resource rich countries in the world yes not by free market there for that. i want

someone to stabilize the economy so i can take my children to school feed my family and even afford to buy a house. is forty seven years old a shrewd politician many people we've talked to say whatever his legacy the fact that he's agreed not to run for there to tom can only be a good thing for a country that has never seen a peaceful transition of power catherine saw al-jazeera kinshasa well south sudan's president salva kiir is granted amnesty to former vice president riyadh machar and all rebel fighters involved in the five year civil war a power sharing agreement was signed earlier this week it gives karen his former deputy machar eight months to form a transitional government south sudan's opposition has criticised the amnesty announcement saying care first needed to answer the atrocities committed by his troops. the russian ruble has tumbled to its lowest point in two years after the united states impose new sanctions over a chemical weapons attack on

a former russian double agent the kremlin has rejected the sanctions as illegal and says it's begun working longer tallet tree measures or a challenge reports from moscow. well the kremlin response is that this is categorically unacceptable illegal under international law they say they've claimed again that they had nothing to do with the poisoning of the script and that these new sanctions are essentially inconsistent with the atmosphere of corporation that they felt they got from donald trump of the helsinki summit with running with putin some weeks ago now or they're saying that washington is an unpredictable actor on the international stage and they don't know yet what they're going to do to respond because the kremlin says it doesn't have enough information about what these u.s. sanctions actually are. however this is in concert with another package of sanctions that looks to be shaping up in washington d.c.

has rattles russian markets the ruble has fallen to its lowest level in twenty months and russian stocks and shares are being here to the script how sanctions come into bundles the first bundle comes into play on august the twenty second and involves limits on the exports of u.s. goods that washington considers to be of national security importance then if the d.c. does not get the assurance from moscow that is demanding that it won't use chemical weapons again a new round of sanctions comes in in ninety days time and that will be as they put it more draconian then this separate package of sanctions that is being. cooked up in washington d.c. could further hit russia's oil and gas sector banks and look into the assets of president vladimir putin all of this shows i think really

that whatever donald trump says to resume putin there is a large and powerful establishment in washington d.c. that does not like what trump is doing with regard to russia and obviously does not trust vladimir putin and is trying to protect itself from the activities of these two men which it feels may not be in the united states' best interests. months of national debate in argentina have ended with politicians voting against legalizing elective abortion thousands of people have gathered outside parliament to the final vote took place following more than seventeen hours of debate police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the crowd pro-abortion rights campaigners say they may have lost a battle but the war is not over yet. puerto rico's government knowledge that r.-k. maria killed one thousand four hundred people more than twenty times the official death toll the government made the new estimate in a report to the u.s.

congress where it's asking for one hundred thirty nine billion dollars to rebuild the island there is heidi jocasta has mall. when hurricanes irma and maria struggle puerto rico nearly a year ago their furious winds and waters were initially reported to have killed about a dozen people. president donald trump highlighted the number when he visited days after the storm. to power to people of the earth. but trump's words would prove premature the disasters drawn out aftermath the days and months without power fresh water and working hospitals has taken many times more lives on thursday the puerto rican government acknowledged for the first time that the death toll could be twenty times the current official count of sixty four

a report from the governor's office says there were one thousand four hundred twenty seven more deaths in the four months after the hurricanes than normal but adds the cause of yacht that may or may not be attributable to the hurricanes. where me there's no doubt that they have to be me and you still listening to all of these stories people keep telling you how everything changed their media how they don't have any rain or how they lost their houses or your farms how they don't even have money the one who done that they will this summer some puerto ricans are living under the same blue tarps in dealing with the electricity outages which continue to plague swaths of the island story both through i feel powerless it's called powerlessness because i can't do anything puerto rico's governor has

asked congress for one hundred thirty nine billion dollars in relief assistance noting that almost a year after the disaster permanent reconstruction has just begun does it get us the very moment if only the government has given me a little more everyone i called offered a ham but i'm still waiting. for the people of the island who are suffering and dying to help cannot come soon enough heidi joe castro al-jazeera seven hundred fifty people many of them children have been rescued from camp sites in southern france off to floods in the southern region hundreds of firefighters and rescue is in helicopters helped evacuate terrorists from five campsites a seventy year old german man has been reported missing for german children have been taken to hospital for hypothermia. the trauma of ministration has been giving more information about plans to create a u.s. space force vice president my pen says he hopes the project will be completed

within two years and will help establish a sixth branch of the us military alan fisher has more from washington. trump has been pushing for the creation of a new branch of the military for months he talks about it often that israelis we may even have a space force now his vice president says donald trump's vision will become a reality while too often. previous administrations all but neglected the growing security threats emerging in space president trump stated clearly and forcefully that space is in his words a war fighting domain just like land and air and sea a new force will be used to protect u.s. satellites in space which provide vital services like communication it can also protect spy satellites which direct military operations and there is the growing commercial space market too it's not a new idea in one thousand nine hundred three president ronald reagan called for

a space based missile defense system just a year after congress demanded the establishment of a new space force the defense system dubbed star wars by critics never got beyond the research phase the u.s. already has a space command as part of the air force and some see the new branch as an expensive waste in fact defense secretary jim mattis initially resisted it but just earlier this week signaled he was no on board and we are in complete alignment with the president going to burn it down in our assets and they could be at work here again for economy we're going to have to address it to other countries your capabilities what they're creating a new branch of the military needs congressional authorization and funding if republicans lose control of the house of representatives in november's midterm elections it might never happen former astronaut mark kelly says he doesn't see the point there is a threat out there but it's being handled by the u.s. air force today doesn't make sense to build

a whole nother level of bureaucracy spaceports if approved would become the sixth branch of the u.s. military it would be led by a four star officer and would pull resources from other military branches. russia has a space force china's space program is run by the military and the white house will include and the billion dollar funding request for their new space force in the next budget alan fischer al-jazeera. washington. the edinburgh international and french performing arts festivals are underway in the scottish capital bringing together thousands of performers from around the world the events generate a huge amount of money for the local economy but is new york or aborts a temporary economic boom doesn't reach everyone all guns blazing for the welfare state there scarred of society austerity austerity austerity this is killing work a play about growing up in a housing estate penned in by poverty

a place where addiction and depression are rife is a neglected narrative one that's found a stage at the edinburgh festival but the writer of the play questions whether the festival this truly accessible to those whose lives she's depicting we need to encourage more working class a more underclass people into the theaters and that's really tough because obviously. again money dictates access to these things that last year ticket revenues exceeded five and a half million dollars every year the events are a feeding frenzy for local businesses the hotels the restaurants and shops it sometimes with their prices up just for the month of august and then the events themselves well they're often powered by an army of volunteers all low paid workers after all the show must go on beyond the fringe of real life continues this is my house the city suburb still reeling after the recent murder of a local woman edinburgh has some of the poorest communities in scotland we don't

see any of the trend we don't see in the front. we should really it would benefit a war of the youngsters because again are eligible for love much you know be kill your crazy scottish rapper darren mccarthy station name loki found his voice growing up on the wrong side of glasgow he uses performance to try and bridge the social divide the french can a great idea of being accessible in a festival for everyone and well i don't just i don't i don't think that that's disingenuous of and people would like it to be that we need to be allowed back. when it comes to a certain set and roots in terms of making sure that people are being encouraged to walk for promotion or fight for free. festival organizers say tickets a cheaper in edinburgh than other european festivals accessibility they say is a top priority but whole question is extremely important to us and it's also very

important to be part of this city is obviously lots of visitors and we want to make sure as many of them can visitors but we also want to make sure that as many people as possible who live here year round can enjoy that here was the first edinburgh festival was staged here in one thousand nine hundred forty seven tonight a constant shattered by war but can culture and now help unite a front should society. leave. edinburgh. or there's plenty more here on our website al-jazeera dot com and if you get you can watch us live there as well. a quick reminder of the top stories this hour israel and hamas the palestinian group which controls the gaza strip of agree to a truce following a flare up of cross border fighting the truce was mediated by egypt and came into

effect two hours ago follows a day of violence which sold seven palestinians injured in israeli as strikes and hamas rockets fired into southern israel. saudi a mirage a coalition air strike has hit a bus full of school children in yemen it tack happened in the here's the health province of sada the health ministry says fifty people have been killed saudi led coalition has released a statement saying the strikes were aimed at legitimate targets well the united nations has called for an independent investigation into the attack the specific instance of the richard richard atar and i'm sure my office is gathering the evidence i've seen what you've seen on the media. if that has occurred or move every reason to believe it is of course. absolutely horrific and it's precisely these sorts of attacks. that impelled us to request time and

for serious inquiry to be mounted by international experts to look into all of the major. and horrific at the serbs were civilians including children. were killed. so union zimbabwean opposition figure tendai biti has been charged with inciting public violence and unlawfully announcing election results is court appearance came a day after he was denied asylum by zambia and handed over to zimbabwean security forces the u.s. says it's deeply concerned by reports of a government crackdown following the july thirtieth vote. and south sudan's president has granted amnesty to opposition leader react machar and all rebel groups involved in a five year civil war there a power sharing agreement was signed a earlier this week aimed at ending the conflict which has killed tens of thousands of people that's it for myself and the

team here in london coming up next on al-jazeera want to warn east. china is keen to win friends and influence you need oil rich middle east business part of the wrong turn blind of china to secure its resources for the future of sub sub so hard region as a whole dollars expect to grow we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. with its dreaming new shopping malls and high rise apartments yangon's become the symbol of me and mars economic progress. but in its poorest neighborhoods families trying to loan sharks just to survive. i'm steve cho on this up a sort of one east we meet those trapped in

a cycle of debt and the people who profit from their despair. and go on living on the wrong side of the tracks means living on the wrong side of the river. it is here that room migrants a force to settle all they search for jobs in the city. some cross the river at the break of dawn knowing that they will return missing money in the hands. of the most those with no regular source of income. mornings or just the start of another day and struggle. over them every day when one comes to the market to buy food for her family but going home only when you come will be

a. problem. on my phone. say that. every cent counts. which the twenty year old is shopping for her husband two infant children and three members of her extended family. that is just two dollars twenty disparate two hundred to buy much like clear family. and also i don't want to hear this is allowed where found. here i found a love that will weigh. four dollars fifty a day in a part time job cooking and cleaning for middle class families in the city. this makes known the family breadwinner with her husband working just two days

a week as a plumber. the family have been struggling ever since no one gave birth to the twins. and when shit last year. with hospital bills from one hundred fifty dollars they had to take out a loan from a local money lender who charges a steep twenty percent monthly interest. over the course of eighteen months they managed to pay back almost all of that money but then the monsoon season struck. me though on the. day to kill john. young as you feel that it had to come out when you down a lot on meola but are now dynamic a same breed and i met a lot of the little that they all dolled. out though only. allow a. party. every day as she makes her way to moneylenders house loan carries with more than half the families. it's

a heavy burden. no longer. a lot of. those things. the money lender is a friend of the family and the young mother herself. feelings of empathy were forgotten when deciding the terms of the learning. with such high interest rates how long do you think it's going to take for you to pay that you flying's. machine to. machine. gun we have been you know. that the law will.

never go why. so. but she did you know to. learn is not the only one crippled by high interest rates in neighborhoods like this eighty five percent of households i'm pouring money. learns usually rescue to borrow from an immediate financial emergency that was monthly interest rates as high as fifty percent become a crushing cost. mornings for thirteen year old unfit and his ten year old brother simon start with breakfast and to play for. in the parts they would head off to play football with their friends. now the only game in which you can play involves reading in between the checking desperately searching

the size of the right plastic bottles until. it's a relentless toss particularly in the summer months when temperatures can sort of forty degrees celsius and shade is difficult find. it with a family of six to feed the forest and it's a choice. you're not going to let them a little way to let me out. i don't need it i don't know at the mills i'm not a mad man imma call them. about that oh you know i'll. tell them they don't want to see you. or anyone to want to need to. be on. a new mile.

meanwhile if they go in. the boy's mother to class and learn just three dollars fifty to twenty percent month to injury. eight months later she owes sixty dollars. with that debt spiraling out of control the mother decided to take her sons out of school and put them to work as collectors. in this great body . no number that is. it is a violation thing i didn't do that. would you. sadhana does the job and. that i would libel in the. dollar. or didn't know he. didn't do it i don't. know whether you know i don't as

a rule i may. be a little similar. in the. color of the. color. we're. unsettling and some may argue but their loyalty to that is a way. they are still limited. knowledge it's a limited. war in iraq the way. well. i got it i made the wallet and i know. after three hours the boys are live at the recycling center with two packs of cans and bottles. of sixty cents but.

it's not enough to pay off their mother's daily interest payment. so they will have to return to the streets again in the afternoon. and then not the only children who have to work here to survive. the government estimates that there are one point three million child laborers in myanmar one of the worst rates of under-age employment and. poverty has always been the driving force behind this phenomenon but could the dependence of man most poor on these high interest loans be making it even was. we've managed to track down a break at that specializes in recruiting children into jobs as waiters cleaners and housemates the minimum working a. realist this lady far younger than. she may live in

a squatter come think about. respectable four hundred dollars per month as a broker recruiting tool for jobs in towns and cities across the country. she says almost all of her clients come from families crippled by debt. maybe. i do need to need to call my why do you do such a mean to cleave you she the whole young women are going to have your i can do. a little it would have had to be there were no plans of juvie or mortuary or whether our. present top being a loser regime. seem to be either that or a war do know your door yet while i walk about julia lady i get i have the wrong order the living and working conditions like for these children don't know who i'm annette paired. with someone i know she mumbled mumbled i'm in bed you know i walk run ins are going to march up she said to send me and i'm nearly at the army now so

they gonna send i got their son and i said don't i know you're gonna. allow child go on a radio one of the only way we were in was doubling our weed a look that means we tell them where we are some people would say that taking children below is illegal working age and placing them in jobs in different towns and cities is human trafficking would you agree with that and i will be also i don't know when you say well we were depending on our poor imo i thought i was on what. i mailed to. who needed them for. the irony is that daughter will believes she is helping the families around. even after she says that under-age and underpay children. and it's the community's money lenders. so who all these shrewd individuals

profiting from their friends and neighbors. you would. need i need i know how do you know. they are he. is the village seamstress but she doesn't spend much time behind the selling machine craze and. the idea. that they might. not have to be out on hours early and how do you remember you want to be the one to tell you we are not. how did you get how many times that i got. it on the.