head but there is a real concern here that is the whole subject has been used by a number of people trying the people in hong kong probe aging forces really as a way of trying to maybe batter free press the journalism of hong kong the hong kong as we know has free media it's the only city in china that has a a freely independent freely operating media and there has been a lot of controversy here that the former leader of hong kong c.-y. alone has joined calls for the f.c.c. not to go ahead with this event and in fact it's also a question of whether the foreign correspondents club is a seventy five year old organization here various did all the rest should be allowed to have this headquarters here the building behind me in central and that's been seen as a way of putting pressure on free journalist operating here and i found something like thanks so much from the bright. still ahead on al-jazeera typhoon yeah gay decimates parts of the philippines forcing falsehoods from their homes. and she's

still popular with the people the show first notes of the center of a corruption case against argentina's former president. how this moment is still almost hitting the fifty degree mark down in the southwest of iran where there's nothing to stop it happening frankly any showers around a lot reforming in the sudden caspian we seen a couple of recently but even they have gone from the full cost to choose does nothing much effort to get out towards tashkent thirty seven in toronto hotter of course down the plane in iraq in the breeze is still blowing out of the take in the dust south with it spot meszaros maybe in the caucasus or eastern turkey if you're lucky now to say the breeze is a dusty one therefore not too she made is just on the verge of bringing he was in

but i think will avoid it forty three degrees in bahrain thirty and i would obvious should be relatively dry. air the feel of it isn't too humid which is a nice change but it's just the setting down the eastern side of saudi arabia down towards the empty quarter the heart of so blowing for so large showers on likely further west we have season decent rain recently in eastern cape on the western cape and the cloud is still there around the eastern cape which hints there might be something start a huge amount in the full cost but there is something that tend to be offshore us the temperatures by day oversea twenty two by night close to freezing. denying citizenship. health care and education. forced from their homes to live in camps. subject to devastating physical

cruelty al-jazeera wild investigates one of the most persecuted minorities in the wild. silent abuse. you're watching i'll just see a time to recap our headlines turkey central bankers stepped in to trial and the currency crisis its east restrictions on how much lira and foreign currency banks need to hold turkey's president is accusing the u.s. of betraying a nato ally by opposing sanctions huge crowds are gathered in northern yemen for

the funerals of people killed in the saudi immorality coalition air strike on fifty people died in last week's attack forty of them were children on a school bus sparked an international outcry and led to calls for an independent investigation iran's supreme leader has rejected u.s. president of trump's offer for direct talks a lot of harm and i banned a rainy and leaders from meeting trump saying the u.s. never follows through on promises it makes. former stray me an archbishop convicted of covering up child sex abuse has avoided jail time instead philip olsen will serve his twelve month sentence in home detention after the court was told he has the early stages of alzheimers disease he's the highest ranking official in the roman catholic church to be sentenced for covering up child abuse. has more from sydney. well the survivors wanted to say tougher penalty they wanted

bishop wilson to be serving out a custodial jail sentence as opposed to home detention at his sister's house the line from one survivor was that bishop wilson will be eating the best food and drinking wine at his sister's house during the course of his sentence the siblings of another survivor is mounting a campaign for tougher penalties for those who don't report crimes like this. at the moment the maximum penalty in a strange year is two years bishop wilson has been given a one new sentence for his part in failing to report to the child sex abuse at the hands of a priest of two altar boys he will be eligible for parole within six months though and he's planning to appeal this conviction but there are broad implications moral implications on the church regarding this particular case and the major impact of this case is that of accountability no longer can the church hide behind

canon hide behind the confessional seal in order to prevent tourists cape reporting crimes like this pakistan has begun celebrations to mark seventy one years of independence a presidential parade along with a flag raising ceremony were held in the central slum about the nation also paid homage to the founder of pakistan's most alumina karachi became independent following the nine hundred forty seven partition of british rule india. oh come on hybrid joins us now from islamabad so how are people marking the state come on. well across the country people have already had a sleepless night despite the fact that it was raining heavily in some parts of the country entire family came out to celebrate the seventy first anniversary or the

seventy fourth independence day of pakistan it was seventy one years ago that their demand for a free independent muslim homeland in a predominantly hindu country became a reality also being seen as the north richard because it didn't all go there day will be a day annual pilgrimage your days by get on the independence day we have a brand new government in pakistan and the fact that they muslims across the world will also be celebrating. in all good though indeed as usual from friends terry many people out in large numbers and including families who celebrate. independence day so many people's expectations now from him on who's expected to be sworn in soon as the new prime minister. well there's considerable excitement firstly because they're doing it for the first time in

forty eight years that a new political party had emerged the people of pakistan know that the country is very very serious problem that daunting task of trying to get the economy right and what the people will be expecting will be a new government read more accountability. and a government that is able to deliver on its promise the people have voted for change and now they want to see the results of them run carnage sworn in within the next two days as the country prime minister. zimbabwe's president elect is urging the country to move on from last month's disputed election he made the remarks as the country celebrates thirty eight years of independence and listen and it was supposed to be sworn in on sunday but the ceremony can only go ahead with approval from the constitutional court. in the

capital harare. president elect asked political leaders to remain calm it's his first public appearance since his inauguration was postponed after the main opposition and lines filed court papers on friday predicting it from going ahead with zimbabwe is even more divided since last month's disputed election and post election violence we are or have been. very. post of the. let's. see result. here is you know since it is. very general these are. a commission of. first degree murder. it is not. the lives. we are and. heroes day is one of the most important national holidays is to remember those who fought in

the civil war to end white minority rule in one nine hundred eighty some of those veterans are still in the government and ani opposition supporters blame the ruling party for the violence the main opposition and also jenny said released this statement on monday saying there is nothing to celebrate hero's day he says his supporters are being systematically targeted by the ruling party he won last month's election. earlier this month six people were shot and killed when the army dispersed opposition supporters protesting against election results the international community has called for the military to use restraint zimbabwe isn't limbaugh all people can do is wait the swearing in ceremony will only happen after constitutional judges give their ruling. because. of the kind of. courts the only other implications of the decision. is final so politically it was

an interesting election. judges could declare the winner and he sworn into office within forty eight hours or they could order a recount or a fresh election within sixty days if political leaders refused to accept the court's decision that could create more political and economic instability. mollies opposition candidates for mayor si se plans to reject the results of the presidential election which has been marred by violence and accusations of fraud vote counting is under way after a tense presidential runoff observers declared the second round fairly peaceful despite the polling station official being killed in timbuktu more than one hundred stations of close for security purposes president of rainbow. is the front runner in the vote hundreds of people are still missing a year after a devastating mudslide on the outskirts of sierra leone's capital more than one

thousand people died after a trench all rain sent modern rocks hurtling down the mountain on the outskirts of freetown crushing surrounding villages and three thousand people lost their homes the government has been criticized for not doing enough to rehire them. heavy rains and flash floods in the philippines of force more than fifty thousand people out of their homes at least three people died after a tropical storm yagami hit the country's nor the island's china jan the forts. a swollen river overturned cars and thousands of filipinos desperate for help. tropical storm yagi hit manila's marking a city with heavy rain causing major flooding. this gym is one of the places many of the displaced found shelter now i'm going to see you know my flood

waters inundated our home the river overflowed we have no place to stay and that is why we are staying here in disaster management official said that in just eight hours the marikina river rose from sixteen to twenty one meters just shy of the record twenty three meters nine years ago when seven hundred people were killed this weekend's flooding left behind mounds of mud and debris everywhere we have won the power house was flooded and then we have been back this morning to clean it it was all rushed out and in the middle of the road. city officials are asking the international community for help they want to strengthen and build up their flood control infrastructure. for eighteen there was and we are now improving our reading image. networks. and as the typhoon season continues making a city and other low lying parts of the philippines are bracing for more flooding paul churchy on al-jazeera. thirty nine people have died in flooding in south india

as catalyst states while the war says now receding the region is bracing for more rain curing one of its worst monsoon seasons in a century more than thirty four thousand people have been evacuated from villages in low lying areas evacuees and now living in some three hundred relief camps. damage to properties is estimated at more than one billion dollars. of these in california say a firefighter has been killed battling a wildfire in the northern part of the state and thousands of seeing the us citizens have been evacuated as the blaze moves closer to their community so cold holy fire has already destroyed sixteen structures near lake elsinore in southern california police say a fifty one year old man is under arrest on multiple os and related charges the fire is false more than twenty thousand people from their homes just one of them

a twenty wildfires burning in california chris and carlo is a journalist in southern california he says about half of the fire is being contained but this concern about changing winds this could be the worst wildfire season on record and we're on pace to some a lot of records here we already have now the largest wildfire in california history mendocino complex fire up iraq to you under ninety two thousand acres what's amazing about that we just broke the record for the largest wildfire with the thomas fire which was finally extinguished back in february and that that record that we didn't think was going to be broken again for like another decade you also have another big fires up around you somebody even further up north fire around ready they'll want to be it's largely under control a matter of fact i believe somebody national parks going to reopen it we're morrow argentina's former president cristina because the pill has appeared rather in cold to answer questions in a corruption case the allegations are related to notes from

a former chauffeur which claim millions of dollars in bribes were given to businessmen to coaches government. she was once argentina's most popular president but things have changed. since leaving office she's faced a series of allegations over corruption the latest in which her name is reportedly mentioned in the notebooks of a driver in the public works ministry in which he details how millions of dollars in cash were moved in his vehicle and delivered to the presidential palace. and then christina waring office in the past week businessmen and politicians came to this courthouse to testify in this enormous corruption investigation several businessmen admittedly they paid millions of dollars in bribes to members of the previous administration in exchange for contracts. was the first one to see the

notebooks as. a neighbor had a friend who was a driver who gave them a series of notebooks which described how corruption operated in the previous administration and he was supposed to reveal them only if something happened to his friend. carried out the investigation but did not publish the findings instead he took the notebooks to a state prosecutor so he could initiate an official investigation silence was crucial not only for the case to move forward but also for his own safety. i held back publishing because i believed much more needed to happen i only published it when the investigation was on and those involved were being questioned what it shows is that the history of corruption in public works is not unique to the previous administration but it did happen and it is this that brought christina again to court. on monday she tweeted that this is a regional strategy to prescribe leaders of movements and political forces that

have increased people rights and allowed thousands to leave poverty behind for many the corruption investigation is the biggest in a country that has failed to prosecute white collar crime over the years in a. single the reality is bigger than what we imagined we all knew that there was corruption but not that it was systemic like the notebook's revealed it is a difficult case to put on trial because it involves so many things it forces us to rethink the whole judical process the former president her aides and important business men for the prosecutors see all part of the same plot that shows for the first time the vicious cycle of corruption between private companies and the state . and let's take you through some of the headlines now turkey's central bank has

stepped in to try and and the current sea crisis it's. on how much lira and foreign currency banks need to hold turkey's president is accusing the u.s. of betraying a nato ally by imposing sanctions huge crowds have gathered in northern yemen for the funerals of people killed in a salvia marotta coalition air strike fifty people died in last week's attack forty of them were children on a school bus that sparked an international outcry and led to calls for an independent investigation. iran's supreme leader has rejected u.s. president donald trump's offer for direct talks. banda rainy and leaders from meeting trump saying the u.s. never follows through on promises it makes during talks. a pro beijing group is protesting against the speech planned by a pro independence politician and the chan in hong kong freedom of speech and political representation has become a growing issue hong kong is

a former british colony it was handed back to china in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven a former straightly an archbishop convicted of covering up child sex abuse is avoided jail time phillip wilson will serve his twelve month sentence in home detention after the court was told he has early stages of all simas disease he's the highest ranking official in the roman catholic church to be sentenced for covering up child abuse pakistan has begun celebrations to mark seventy one years of independence a presidential parade along with a flag raising ceremony were held in central islamabad the nation also paid homage to the founder of pakistan it is more in karate it became independent following the nineteen forty seven partition of british ruled india it's counting the

cost they'll stay with us here on al-jazeera. getting to the heart of the matter unless we have new generations growing up to understand better our relationship with the natural world then soon there will be nothing left facing the realities or our friends and allies played a positive role in preventing and his condition from taking place here their story on talk to al-jazeera. has him speak of this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics what the first wave of u.s. iran sanctions means for iranians and companies doing business there also this week big oil and climate change what are the world's largest oil companies failing to reveal about the future of fossil fuels. plus the economic stakes in the saudi can

of the us back. so a first round of u.s. economic sanctions on iran were slapped back into place this week they're being reimposed because u.s. president donald trump walked away from the twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran a second round of u.s. sanctions targeting the country's oil and gas industry will hit in november we'll have a report from same bus ravi on what impact sanctions are having a inside iran in just a few moments but first practical hand reports from washington on what the u.s. wants to achieve by re-imposing penalties. the u.s. plan when it comes to iran hurt the economy hurt the people forced the government to agree to change much of its foreign policy the policy is not regime change but we definitely want to put maximum pressure on the government and it's not just to come back to discuss fixing a deal that's basically not fixable dealing with the nuclear weapons aspect we want to see a much broader retreat by iran from their support for international terrorism their

belligerent military activity in the middle east and their ballistic missile nuclear related programs all things around is unlikely to agree to still the partners in the nuclear deal are urging dialogue we really just encouraging united states to start talking to partners in iran in order to be able to find a route forward the european union is trying to protect its companies taking the unusual step of issuing a blocking statement that says european companies should ignore u.s. sanctions but still car companies drug manufacturers and many other big names are leaving iran the reason if a company does business in the united states and then chooses to do business in iran well the u.s. government can basically cut them out of the u.s. market that is a much more important economic one government officials here say they will be watching closely and they plan to aggressively enforce the sanctions that have been

put in place. still the u.s. is going this alone unlike last time the other major economies like china are vowing to continue to do business with iran and even though they technically will not be able to use the u.s. dollar the world's currency former state department official jarrett block says they will find a way to work around that and that will hurt the u.s. in the long term the world's banking system is like a sewer and all of the plumbing runs to new york there's new laws of physics there's new laws that says that has to be true it's just the way things have developed since world war two right now. we've got the e.u. which is their economy is as large as ours you've got china growing to the point that they will soon be larger than us and if we abuse the power that we get from that central role if we could preciously apply sanctions without taking into account the national security concerns of our closest allies and partners we're going to lose that position. the trust of ministration is betting the power of the u.s. dollar is key to all economic growth all around the world around hoping that by the

u.s. going it alone that will no longer be the case. at the edge of the country where iran meets in iraq human mules have carried smuggled goods across the border for years rugged routes like this one in kurdistan province import electronics phones beauty products medicine cigarettes the list goes on it's dangerous work as smugglers evade taxes and customs duties. the illegal trade represents a fraction of iranian imports but with more u.s. sanctions imposed the government is cracking down on the groups controlling these routes. iran has land and naval borders with fifteen countries we could never close all the borders for seventy to eighty years now local people have been trading with neighboring countries in the last two decades demands in the country have risen and the scale of the border trade has increased if you associate it to sanctions our government is against it and has made many obstacles for local people that are

involved in it iranian leaders are keen to stop illegal imports and promote made in iran goods it's part of the policy from the supreme leader himself to develop domestic production and become self-reliant in the face of american economic pressure despite financial struggle iranian consumers care about quality and what name brands some turned to secondhand markets to stay in fashion on a budget others are buying a gold and ironically american dollars to keep their saving safe from the impact of american sanctions things such as tires are being replaced only after being driven down to the room. and with the rising cost of replacement recycling is squeezing a little more mileage out of the stuff of life. hussein has restored old furniture for years he says he's part artist part handyman and his customers with an eye for quality can be unforgiving. people want to keep the

originality of the work because nothing new can replace something old another issue is high prices many products are not made or imported anymore so people prefer to keep things it is about the cost in iran prices the main issue the economic pressure has provoked more street protests recently but in a small corner shop in the capital art is being borne out of the city. we're joining me now from stuttgart is andrea white's a managing director and co-founder of u.k. based on our gent capital since two thousand and nine he has been in vising international companies targeting the iranian market thanks very much for being with us so donald trump has said that these are in his words the most biting sanctions ever our many of us will say that this is the kind of bluster that we've come to expect from the u.s. president but just how hard will these sanctions hit the iranian economy believe this is certainly one sure president from by his.

intense blood he is doing here and you see the damage is already doing to the iranian economy there we are. you there you still might get q. which is not only of sector of the sanctions but also the way the government has a central bank has handled the foreign exchange situation to other cultural in order to improve their you you have high unemployment you have companies leaving so. quiet and the economy also president trump has also warned that anyone doing business with iran will not be doing business with the united states. who is he talking to here china or the european union and if he is would they risk their own economies by defying the u.s. . would say his comments of from more addressed to europeans because the chinese.

are more independent to the sanctions who they will continue to buy oil. india as well turkey makes noises saying they will stick to their own nation's them selves so terribly probably you could suppose from u.s. sanctions but definitely european companies have a lot at stake in the us look at war. they aren't directing style yeah it's not delivering mass. and lorries so. the issue is with europe again so what do you expect the europeans to do i mean if you were advising them what do you what would you be telling them at this point if you are invested in this area and yet lies company and the whole area but definitely you have those who decide to leave because they are next on in europe game companies like siemens are the big companies who very much depend on the u.s.

markets no question for them to leave then you have those who are probably less exposed they will try to stay and they do stay and you have others who see this as an opportunity to have no us expose your and it will emanate transaction and to buy businesses in iran much depends what it is your exposure on. to the u.s. economy if you don't have an iran is an opportunity if you have a lot of exposure to the u.s. iran you're iran exposure can be a problem indeed or iran is already reacting to this they put in place. measures to emergency measures to stop the collapse of its currency which is slant to record lows against the u.s. dollar since the start of the year what impact is that having is it working the video only to say they started that on monday but sell. as we all know you can

stand against the market and iran was trying to stand against the forex market and by not allowing foreign exchange to have your created panic. there really are has. to assert of its value and now by allowing foreign exchange offices again and releasing to subsidize. to bring the official rate and the market rate closer to go along so you believe that this will work because at the moment at this rate the country can't even import just expensive prohibitively. well the americans heavy gun iranians have been quite efficient doing it themselves so they hopefully can repel and undo 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 the 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 it gets it to a she will get to be well into the changes are such wealth that you. 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 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 sell off 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.