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do what they have done so far and this is only the first wave of sanctions against iran u.s. sanctions against iran being told there's going to be a second wave in november which is targeting iran's oil exports and of course iran is boil rather is a is a big part of iran's economy what effect is that going to have made that is that their president. is having he wants to bring get oil explorer to kneel which is probably not happening as i mentioned to chinese will buy indians will buy and are already very large buyouts then any way versus will probably not have in the past and i don't see why given that they've to situation they'll get to be well into. its wells. have to adjust again to the same measures have skating event and the iranians are also rather well trained in handling same shoes andrea streisand thanks very much for being with us thank you. all right still to come on counting
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the cost a pledge to stamp out colombia's cocaine addiction. but first the turkish lira has hit an all time low versus the dollar concerns about worsening relations with the u.s. sparked the latest selloff the currency has lost more than one third of its value this year analysts say concerns are growing as well the repayments on foreign loans won't be made for each credit rating agency said friday it is watching developments . now relations between saudi arabia and canada soured dramatically this week canada's foreign ministry had called for the release of a saudi women's rights activists with family in canada in a tweet and saudi arabia immediately drew its ambassador and ordered students and medical patients to leave canada to initially it was unclear how the dispute would affect the annual saudi canadian trade of nearly four billion dollars but on
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thursday saudi officials were quoted as saying oil sales to canadian customers will not be affected the future of a thirteen billion dollar defense contract agreed by the previous canadian administration still hangs in the balance with saudi arabia is also reportedly selling canadian equities and bonds christer salumi has more now from toronto. canadian prime minister justin trudeau had no apology for his government's call to release two human rights activist being detained in saudi arabia canadians i have always expected our government to speak strongly firmly clearly and politely about the need to respect human rights at home and around the world we will continue to do this trip don't promise to continue to engage with the saudis and their allies but the saudi foreign minister wasn't having any of it he accused canada of intervening in what he described as a national security issue claiming that the activists had attempted to get
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sensitive government information if you don't do something is no need for mediation going to them either a big mistake and has to fix it forty understands what's required from it mediation is when there are two parties who have demands in this situation the mistake has been made by only one party it was kind of the whole interview and this mistake has to be corrected the value of the canadian dollar fell on news the saudis would divest from canadian stocks and bonds experts predict the overall impact on the economy from this and other measures will be small but the message is being heard far beyond canada's borders ultimately this really is not about canada for say canada here is collateral damage if you will or it's incidental to this issue saudi arabia is is trying to send a very strong and clear message to western countries to europeans in particular do not criticize or song human rights or you will be penalized middle east expert best moment mani believes domestic saudi issues are at play i think this has more to do
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with a very useful diversion it's an attempt to make canada a case signal to the world that it's not going to accept international criticism particularly western criticism of its domestic policies and i think the chill effect has worked because we have seen pretty much no western european country including the united states as well and terms of supporting canada so it really. has had the chill effect on the international western world it's hard to gauge how saudi nationals here in canada feel about being forced to leave the country because many are reluctant to speak but we do know that hundreds of canadian muslims who are leaving this week to attend the heart in saudi arabia are worried about how they're going to get home saudia airlines are suspending flights in and out of the country next week but have promised to find passenger seats on other airlines but so far no sign the saudis in the canadians are coming together to resolve this dispute. how tesla c.e.o.
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wants to buy out the electric car maker and end public trading of the company in musk said on twitter that he had secured funding to buy all of the firm stocks a buyout at today's prices would cost more than seventy billion dollars musk could face criminal penalties for breaking stock market rules if it turns out he doesn't have the money the unison followed a financial times report saying saudi arabia's sovereign wealth fund had bought a large stake in tesla and investors and shareholders are beginning to ask how concerned the world's biggest oil companies are about climate change or companies have known about climate change for a long time but they plan on only reducing carbon emissions towards the second half of this century activists want big oil companies to model and commit to more rapid emissions reductions this week u.k.
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asset manager sarrasin and partners are asked b.p. shell and total to reveal the risk they face if carbon emission targets are met. a rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions could force fossil fuel companies to keep oil natural gas and coal in the ground the international energy agency forecasts the buy twenty forty demand for oil and gas could fall by almost fifty percent but that's only if carbon emissions reductions targets are met royal dutch shell has acknowledged the climate change will be the defining challenge facing the oil industry for years to come but total and shell and others are still expecting strong demand for fossil fuels for the next few decades exxon mobil is under investigation over its financial disclosures on climate change which we now from london is antony hobley c.e.o. of carbon tracker a financial think tank thanks very much for being with us so what are the oil
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companies not telling us then well i think they've been a bit schizo from it they are looking in at climate risk and we're now being deluged with disclosure and scenario analysis from the companies affected the stress tests and their business models against a paris compliant two degrees pathway but then when they talk to investors they're still talking up demand and what we're seeing is we're seeing a range of disclosure that tells us every single energy company or gas company is a winner and i simply can't be possible yes some of them may well do well in the transition but not all of them so there will be winners and losers and at the moment it's very difficult to discern who the winners will be and who loses will be in this transition. are they sensually putting their business survival ahead of survival of the planet they are still i think psychologically wedded to the idea that we were in a it's cyclical the we're still going to see rises and drops in oil price rather
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than a structural change our analysis and our work is telling us that we we've entered a phase of transition where you know it's no longer about peak oil but it's about peak demand. fossil fuels is no longer the only game in town the now having to compete with a new kids on the block which is clean energy and as clean energy goes up the learning curve and effectively is now in the exponential part of the s. curve we're seeing dramatic drops in price for all of solar wind battery is and electric vehicles and that is eaten into demand for the incumbent's product oil gas and coal combined also with dramatic steps forward in energy efficiency which we're asked global energy demand is growing that is being offset dramatically by vance's in energy efficiency so you know global energy
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demand is now in the growing at one percent what's really interesting is increasingly the new technologies have the lion's share of that growth should regulators be taking a closer look at some of these big oil companies that well they are you know we now have the g. twenty initiated a whole process with the task force of climate related financial disclosure that's made its recommendations the the problem with that is it's still voluntary regulates that still trying to understand you know if and how they translate that into their national regulatory regimes and it's still a case of apples and pears i mean we haven't got a consistent approach to that valuation and how company is assess their business. it was against future prices so i think regulators have a role to play here in ensuring that there is a robust and comparable regime for comparing this risk and getting companies to say
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how how are they positioned to deal with this transition risk and with a transition to a low carbon or net zero economy so which companies are the worst offenders here when it comes to turning a blind eye to their business model we did a report two degrees of separation where we ranked companies by reference they're exposed to climate risk. and some more exposed than others you tend to find the oil and gas majors somewhere in the middle but it wouldn't surprise you that you know we see the u.s. company is probably the most exposed in that sort of group of majors and i think the european company is and some of the sort of asian companies are getting out there at least in trying to assess this risk and develop their disclosures but i mean nobody i think yet is get an a plus here there's a lot of work to do to get effectively decision useful disclosure out of these
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companies and to hopefully thanks very much for being with us thank you. now colombia's youngest president even duke a marked his inauguration on tuesday with a pledge to permanently eradicate coca cultivation the un's office on drugs and crime estimates that eight hundred sixty six tons of cocaine was produced at secret labs across colombia in two thousand and sixteen coca crops cover one hundred forty six thousand hectares of land mostly in isolated regions where there's little government control the u.n. believes one hundred six thousand families live of coca production as their main source of income demand for the drug comes primarily from the united states and europe and does it as a man well has more now from toribio colombia. in the mountains of western colombia plantations of illicit crops checker the landscape. for individuals
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harvesting cocoa or marijuana as in the case of a there there is no legal crop that will bring in as much money with us but almost . we had expecting to make between eleven and fourteen thousand dollars if the price is in our favor the price is unpredictable and like the. over the last three years cultivation of illicit crops has skyrocketed in this region. many believe that the issue has already grown at of the control of the national government colombian president even though camp has called illicit crop cultivations like this marijuana field with some around two thousand plants on it an existential threat and has vowed to increase eradication efforts including a crop substitution program for rural farmers five the new president has also announced a policy that includes the deployment of unmanned drones. to spray illicit crops with a chemical herbicide life is easy but. they are either naive or they think we are
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all just stupid enough to believe that drones will defeat the phenomenon of drug trafficking this is alex and that he's a colombian senator and a critic of the proposed eradication efforts. the only way to stop drug trafficking is for farmers and people in these regions where illicit crops are grown to be aided by the government and for the government to have their backs. tells like to exist at the fringe of the government's control. business owners like goggles say without government support marijuana cultivation has become an important part of the communities. by cultivating in commercializing because now money that in one way or another moves the local economy that's the impact i've seen marijuana farmers like over the sea they're concerned about the future worried that the new government will send soldiers to destroy their plants removing their only source of income and that is our show for this week remember you can get in touch with us by
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largest multi-sport event on the continent and the second largest in the world the asian games will host thousands of athletes competing across a mix of traditional and a lympics sports follow us focus of the news and updates from jakarta the hosting city of the eighteenth asian games on al-jazeera full of struggles with it up on the i would not only that i mean all along all the time walking up on the full of pleasure. i don't mind i'm getting away with it i'm not going but i'm not going to have an intimate look at life in cuba today as it was our no one of our country that i cannot watch daniel i give advice about my cuba on al-jazeera.
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with bureaus spawning six continents across the globe. to. al-jazeera has correspondents live in green the stories they tell. us about it about. the are fluent in world news. thousands protests in television against israel's controversial nation state law. hello welcome to al-jazeera live from doha i'm melting down is also coming up. the u.n.
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says next month's talks between yemen's warring parties will focus on ending the fighting and forming a transitional government. the second night of protests in romania as thousands take to the streets to demand a change of government. in spain and germany agree a deal they hope will curb migration. thousands of people in television been protesting against israel's controversial nation state law it officially affirms israel's jewish character but critics believe it turns the non jewish minorities into second class citizens the bill passed last month and was designed to be enshrined israel as the nation state of the jewish people. the measure pushed through by prime minister benjamin netanyahu declares that the right to exercise national self-determination in israel is quote
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unique to the jewish people it also says that hebrew is the only official language and that downgrades the status of arabic previously they were both official languages and it establishes jewish settlement as a quote national value that the states must encourage seventy deca is it the protests in ten of if. thousand. more. to the museum it's nice by israeli policy. a bit of a late for the cancellation of the rule there's. a lot of jews who are saying that they are not the direction the jury is fundamentally are in one of unity. because we don't need this of this and you won't loan off netanyahu that apps. and number two on event isn't much i'm not. giving
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him to look down citizens in the world around us is amazing this is no no no i don't remember what i was. fighting for something and this is real. big the scope people don't really believe in the us and equality we have and take democratic moves taking place in many things in towards gays towards women towards secular and towards arabs and this is the fascist regime is turning into a fascist but it's still not there but it's going in a bad direction and we need to stop it as well as soon as we can. they're trying to . force the nickname of the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and there is a big question there will be. the going to continue with this momentum. coming along are against the government demand that people do not everybody and everything
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right when. a u.n. delegation is in gaza for meetings with hamas officials the meeting is paul's of only going to deescalate tensions with israel meanwhile funerals were held for the three palestinians who were killed by israeli forces on friday it was the twentieth week of protests at the gaza israel border fence more than one hundred sixty four palestinians have been killed by israeli forces since the demonstrations began in march protests as have been demanding the right of return to their ancestral lands and protesting against israel's continuing blockade of the territory. and gaza's fishermen they've also been demonstrating that demanding the israeli siege on the strip be lifted child stratford records. with palestinian flags flying on their boats suspicion and protest against israel's blockade they gathered in the port before heading out to see what did you feel this protest is part of the
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demonstrations against the seas happening every week on the land border this is our peaceful activity that the whole world agrees with israel should know that this is a small geographical area but we insist on our freedom after twenty weeks of protests on the land border with israel the fishermen now say it's their turn and their plan is to take mr taylor boats and sites along the coast towards the border with israel which is around ten kilometers north from israel restricts gaza's fishermen from operating more than three nautical miles from the coast he's ready navy has called the screechy boats and killed thirteen fishermen it says try to breach the area to allow for the fisherman to working since the siege began almost twelve years ago as the boat sailed towards the border people to look beach and support. the other party and we came here to protest. against the sage and to tell the world of arthur offering we're shoulder swine right the thing age but we hope
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it will cost some way to ending this injustice. the protests come days off of the worst escalation of violence between israel and hamas since the two thousand and fourteen war. funerals were held for three men including a volunteer medic shot by israeli soldiers during protests on friday a delegation representing the un's middle east peace envoy seen here in gaza or in july to be meeting loss leaders trying to forge a lobster truce. as the fishing boats approached the border the israeli navy opened fire warning shots to force the fishing vessels back the boats turned and headed for the poll israel has refused to formally acknowledge a truce announced by hamas on thursday there are fears anything either side calls a provocation could result in more violence and even another war tossed off at al-jazeera gaza. the jordanian government says at least four police officers have
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been killed after storming a hideout belonging to suspected fighters the policemen were chasing suspects thought to be behind a bombing attack on friday that killed one person the ministry of interior says a homemade bomb was planted at a spot where a security pass was shared two to park six others were injured. egypt's security forces say there followed an attempted suicide attack they say they stopped a man wearing the explosive vest from approaching a coptic christian church just outside the capital cairo state media says the man detonated the explosives about two hundred fifty meters from the church killing himself and no one else was hurt. the u.n. special envoy to yemen says talks between warring parties next month will focus on transitional government and laying down arms massing griffiths has been trying for a political deal to end the three year war weighing heavily on those talks will be
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a saudi a morality coalition air strike that has been described as the worst attack on yemen's children mohammed a day reports from neighboring djibouti. the hakim is on a grim mission he's looking for the remains of his son who was on a boss targeted in a sodium strike in all from yemen he climbs onto the wreckage of the bus in the rubble of the destroyed market buildings desperately he such as for any signs and then he breaks down the children watertown him from a summer camp when the talk happened. well i guess i just found some of what the child was wearing i didn't find any of his remains no his finger. no his skull nothing i looked through the remains in the hospital and i didn't see anything. video from both iran television shows the children boarding the boss stop moaning they all seem happy excited. to save the children says yemen is the wost place in
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the world to be a child it's not hard to see why when you watch these pictures taken moments up to the air strike body parts us to not injured children some with limbs missing lie in . it was the last children since humans put escalated in two thousand and fifteen according to unicef. in a cemetery inside the province twenty nine child sized graves have been dug but the joint finra for the children has been ruled out due to security concerns her you hold the fighters say they feel at the gathering would be targeted by more airstrikes. the sodium an article for nation initially did night aiming at civilians and defended the incident as a legitimate military operation our response is sayed to a ballistic missile fired into so did a bia the previous day but i was later the coalition promised an investigation both
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the fighters say that willing to call point in an inquiry in condemning the attack on twenty year will tell us the un secretary general also called for a swift and in some national investigation into its false would something growing chorus of condemnation is instilling some hope in yemen is that the war in their country is finally getting some attention how about the world as the djibouti. to syria now where government airstrikes backed by russia have killed dozens of civilians in the last remaining opposition strongholds in the north so far twenty eight children are among the dead in italy a province as well as in nearby aleppo province friday's bombardment is the most intense round of airstrikes in months the u.n. and aid agencies warm that a full blown military offensive in italy will have devastating consequences on the population more than half of whom are already internally displaced al-jazeera is
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milad father is in a village in aleppo province which is suffered some of the heaviest bombardments. and you massacre has been committed by the russian warplanes here in the village of cobra in the western countryside of aleppo. this village has seen for aerial rates during each of which four missiles have been launched in residential areas this led to the killing of more than thirty civilians most of them women and children the destruction is that massive as you can see rescue teams are working hard to find survivors trapped under the rubble this area comes within the deescalation plan but it's still suffering damage and casualties following the russian area meanwhile there's also been big air raids in southern and northern
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where dozens of people have lost their lives and government protesters have been out on the streets for a second day remaining after more than four hundred demonstrators were injured in violence with police on friday thousands gathered in the capital bucharest against the ruling social democrats many of them over mainly in from the remaining ones from abroad who returned home to protest against corruption as a journalist in the remaining capital. i think you mean sure the protests last night and the one again tonight we may see another couple of nights of protests getting a bit small each evening but the protest movements in general will continue because the government is continuing to receive these measures and of so many people.

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