and to try to reach through you for tonight and midnight that will be. midnight saturday when the new restrictions take effect in and through which as of the east the back back up again it's all a migrant on the border with colombia the next critical situation will probably be now at the border where it's true where the government is now expect a backlog of possibly twenty thousand more of innocent migrants there alexander thank you very much good to speak to you some of ways president omar samad agog is calling for unity after the country's top court confirmed his disputed election when his main opposition rival nelson chamisa challenge the results saying the july thirtieth election was rigged in favor and i gag but that was rejected i would toss a half the details from harare. supporters from zimbabwe is reeling sonic

party celebrate fight is constitutional court ruling nine judges unanimously said the main opposition leader nelson chamisa has no case the court finds that the applicant is to place before. the. direct sufficient and credible evidence that a day regularities that he alleges to the election process materially. existed. there was no proof. of. fact lawyers representing the opposition m.d.c. alliance believe it wasn't a thing of judgment so ultimately. having spoken. the

proceedings. to come up with. by b. is a serious. story. the election board admits it may simply can't to areas that. was initial total votes he won from fifty point eight to fifty point six seven percent they insist this did not change the outcome of the whole according to the constitution the winner has to be sworn in within forty eight hours that means prison without god was in operation will be on sunday opposition leaders insist election was rigged and they say they'll carry on fighting the course decision is final there is no room for an appeal we are going to it within the law whatever we are going to do we are going to do these things within the law we we have convened we are going to convene saudi national council of the. on wednesday. with their way for what violence shortly after voting day itself had

raised tensions the army shot at protesters who are unhappy with the delay in releasing the results six people were killed the main opposition leader nelson chamisa says his supporters are still being systematically targeted. by a narrow margin political analysts say he now has a child tonight a deeply divided country he also needs to turn around some of the struggling economy and need outside help to do that. several migrants stuck on an italian coast guard ship for more than a week i've gone on a hunger strike as a. it's only in the e.u. clash over who should take them and one hundred fifty people are being held off the coast of sicily it's a far right interior minister says he won't lead them on to soil while the deputy prime minister. will withhold twenty billion dollars of the funds unless other member countries take them and the european commission says it will not bow to

threats and prosecutors have now opened an investigation into whether the migrants are being held against their will but it's more still to come on this program we'll tell you how the impact of nigeria's busiest bridge shut down for urgent repairs we'll see what the drivers are saying in lagos. and a doctor contracts ebola and an area in the surrounding by rebels officials warned it was the development they were dreading. hello there we've had some welcome rain in sydney around four point two millimeters of the stuff doesn't sound too impressive does it but actually for the entire month we've only seen around five point six millimeters and so it is quite

a decent amount we could do with some more though because this month in oldest you would normally expect around eighty one millimeters of rain so we could do with plenty more wet weather and we are going to see that as we head through the next few days so saturday and sunday we'll see some showers not only in sydney but also in many southeastern parts of queensland and down through the eastern parts of new south wales and into victoria plenty of showers here then further towards the west fine and dry for us in perth the south coast or of western australia though may just have a bit more cloud and maybe one or two showers here perth they should be dry over towards new zealand our area of low pressure continues to spiral away towards oblivion and behind it it should be a lot drier and bright if in new zealand over the next few days still not going to be that warm though we're only looking at a maximum of around ten in christchurch that will rise eventually as we head into sunday this time getting to around thirteen to the northern parts of asia and we've had two storms with us the first one cimarron continues to work away from us as does soon like plenty of rain though following it.

on counting the cost crippled by its currency crisis full rich venezuela takes desperate measures to deal with a struggling economy plus it has a market value of billions but has yet to turn a profit we delve deeply into what's going on at tesla. and for you.

again here it's reminder for main stories in the. u.s. media says prosecutors have granted immunity to. the longtime chief financial officer of the trump organization this is all part of an inquiry into president donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen pleaded guilty on tuesday to campaign finance violations. ecuador has suspended a recently imposed rule that said venezuelan migrants needed to enter the country thousands of venezuelans have been fleeing an economic meltdown for neighboring countries. and zimbabwe's president. was calling on. the country's top part confirmed his election when the main opposition party had to challenge the result of the july thirtieth election was rigged. the international rescue committee says it is horrified by reports of dozens of civilians being killed in the latest air strikes in yemen at least thirty one people died inside the led

airstrikes who data on thursday that's according to rebels of the u.n. says twenty two of those killed were children it's when you did demand for an independent investigation into attacks on civilians and yemen. and at least one hundred eighty nine people have been injured protests on gaza's border with israel the demonstrations are called the great march of return and they have been going on for months the israeli government accuses some of the demonstrators of being terrorists who want to cross into israel and carry out attacks our current spawn a child stratford has this report from the gaza israel border this is the twenty second week in a row that we've seen these protests on friday along the gaza israel we've seen a lot of gas fired in the last couple of hours will it sounds like live ammunition as well i think it's fair to say though that there are less people here this week than we have seen in recent weeks how massa says that the protesters have every right to continue these demonstrations and will continue them. until israel is near

twelve year land and sea blockade is lifted now so many people here we've been speaking to the speculation that one of the reasons why the protests the protests have been less this week is because we are expecting a resumption of these talks being mediated by the egyptians in cairo between hamas the armed factions and israel israel denies that there is any direct conversation going on between them and how mass but we do know that the egyptians have been very keen i've been working very hard to get both parties to. agree to some sort of last thing ceasefire we also understand that fatah will be sending a delegation from ramallah to participate in those talks as well there are concerns that anything that is seen by either side as being a provocation could initiate another escalation in violence between hamas and israel and of course that would seriously jeopardize those talks in cairo. nigeria

shut down its busiest bridge for vital maintenance. the third mainland bridge lagos island that's a city of nearly twenty million people with the mainland i met address now looks at efforts to repair the aging bridge and the disruption if it costs. for just the thirty forty year history nigeria's busiest bridge is shut to traffic and this is why. cracks and damage in the structure i sense of concern for motorists say they awarded by the recent bridge collapse in italy that killed several people ask rock. what was on the beach and there is a gullible warning. not to be bouncy go vote on which is noise lol. it will remain closed for three days as engineers conduct a variety of tests this is a typical day on this bridge an important road connecting lagos financial and

commercial centers. an average of one hundred thousand cars cross the neighborhood third and last three every day eleven thousand eight hundred meter structure is nigeria's longest and business bridge the maintenance was being carried out is by far the biggest banks of north. korea like a solid aspirant are ready getting back and the need to be changed and this there is also if you remove. the arctic rose replacement diver sent in to investigate also discover damage caused by pollution to sections of the bridge under water some of this aggressive chemical. let me say. horse saw my. little problems they are in that week needs to be taking care of engineers explained that despite the evident faults the bridge does not have any major safety

issues for now. if you don't spring. because of the spring or the new fields so the weeds is transferred through due expression. for the city already struggling with congestion the bridges closure has led to further destruction in certain parts of lagos island. the repair work is expected to start informants it will last for more than two years and that could mean more traffic eighty six for a city of twenty million people how many trees al-jazeera lagos nigeria the world health organization says the ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo has reached a point it had been dreading it doctor in the east has become the first likely case in one of the country's most violent and accessible zones here to the presence of armed groups health workers have used armed escorts in the region and the latest outbreak was declared in a town in north kivu where aid workers and government officials are being held

hostage charlotte ballasts has this report. this is a united nations video of a thirteen year old boy and manga the a.p. santa of the latest ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo. is also a conflict zone journalist conquered unsafely so the u.n. films. they all died of ebola was my entire family was my mama nish away and then my sister's an answer followed another is in the hospital i've lost family members again. this month ebola has spread from the town of mangina across two provinces and is now in six locations the area sits stage four on the un security scale stage five is evacuate immediately. requires a daily risk assessment of how to reach people who vaccinations investigations and psychosocial care fifty three children have been orphaned and the outbreak is now

can't just kill myself i must continue to live even in this situation. the wood health organization has one hundred fifty staff in eastern d r c this week for the first time health workers used a military escort to reach a town where a doctor had died of a bowler because which is almost entirely surrounded by one of the main insurgency groups called the a.d.f. on pretty much all sides of the town and there's been many security issues including. civilian deaths. the idea for allied democratic forces is a ugandan rebel group its feiss ambushed a un base in december killing fifteen peacekeepers. where the a.d.f. is the un isn't which opens up blind spots free bola detection and treatment. but where conflict is complicating the response science is helping us for forty

years ebola has been incurable with a fifty percent fatality rate but now a breakthrough more than a dozen people are being successfully treated with two experimental drugs another three treatments have been approved for years. thirteen hundred others have been vaccinated but the concern remains health workers can immunize against ebola but not against the threats of an active conflicts are in charlotte dallas al-jazeera. on saturday pope francis begins a highly charged visit to their public of ireland it's the first by the head of the catholic church in almost forty years the country has been devastated by the child sex abuse scandal involving involving clergymen which has rocked the catholic church peter i say is an abuse survivor and the co-founder of the ending clergy abuse network is an island ahead of the visit and says a zero tolerance policy is needed for abusers and their protectors. here's a simple actually i'm of justice it's not ok to cover up for child sex crimes so we

all agree and that that's a pretty simple axiom of justice and if you've done it and it's proven that you've done it it's proven that you've done it you're not going to be a bishop period so there will turner it's provisions that cover up child sex crimes put it in the law. the family of u.s. republican senator john mccain says he's stopping all treatments for brain cancer mccain announced he had the disease last year his family says he's quote surpassed expectations for his survival the eighty one year old arizona senator has been a vocal opponent of u.s. presidents on the tram. it's friday night here in london where many will be reaching for a glass or several glasses of wine or beer to kick off the weekend but there is bad news from researchers they say the only way to avoid health risks associated to

alcohol is to entirely stop drinking it around the globe one in three people that's two point four billion people drink alcohol but this new study by the university of washington says even the ok tional drink can cause problems alcohol led to two point eight million premature deaths worldwide in two thousand and sixteen the study says an average of two drinks per day causes a seven percent rise in disease and injury and that spikes to thirty seven percent for those who have five that may sound like a lot of booze but people drink more than you think romanian men and women drink eight point two and four point two drinks per day on average the countries with the lows numbers of drinkers are pakistan and bangladesh that's where less than one percent of the people say they consume alcohol. max griswold is the study's lead author and he says any benefit to drinking alcohol is far outweighed by the risks. it rises exponentially with consumption so we're very heavy drinker you'll see huge

benefits by cutting down by a drink or day if you're still drinking one hundred per day you'll see huge benefits of the adamas will she said re not every year you have a seven out of one hundred times a developing one is to decisions when we look at the global population that's an immense amount of our the average male drinker it's not consuming around two drinks per day a lot of recommendations still say up to two drinks per day is it for your health. a bit by really looking at the full spectrum of the research that's performed on a whole. again these are the main stories for a following and all of his era another of donald trump's allies has been given immunity in the investigation into michael cohen this time it's alan wise oberg he's the chief financial officer of the trump organization well the wall street journal describes as trump's longtime financial gatekeeper eisenberg has already been called to testify in the inquiry into cohen trump's former personal lawyer

cohen pleaded guilty on tuesday to campaign finance violations saying that he paid hush money to women who alleged that they had affairs with trump castro has more on why the weisel big development is so important he is the only non a trump family member who is a trustee of the president's personal interests in his businesses while he's in off this why is a bird also reportedly assisted in preparing the tax returns for the president and has worked for his family now going on for decades so the fact that he reportedly flipped and is now cooperating with prosecutors is a very troubling fact for the president to face. the family of u.s. republican senator john mccain says he's topping all treatments for brain cancer mccain announced he had the disease last year his family says he's quote surpassed

expectations for his survival eighty one year old mccain has been a vocal opponents of president trump. isn't bob ways president emerson man of god is calling for unity after the country's top court upheld his disputed election when the main opposition party challenge the results saying the july thirtieth election was rigged in favor of my god that lead to violence street protests but in a unanimous decision the constitutional court found that the vote was free and fair . ecuador is a spender the recently imposed rule that said venezuelan migrants needed passports to enter the country thousands of venezuelans have been fleeing an economic meltdown for neighboring countries ecuador also says it's opened a humanitarian corridor for venezuelans to reach proved before it introduces new entry restrictions on saturday well this is the headline stay with us now for counting the cost that's up next he is

a self-proclaimed messenger of gone claiming millions of devoted but his path to enlightenment involves the rape and abuse of his followers one of the least investigates the fall of one of india's most powerful spiritual gurus on al-jazeera . hello i'm has i'm sick of this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week crippled by its currency crisis venezuela's economy is in freefall and our did it get to this. also we talked tesla and asked when the fledgling carmaker might start delivering on expectations . as greece emerges from years of bailout smear look at how austerity has affected the nation. well used to be one of the richest countries in the world but

now all rich venezuela is suffering from runaway inflation and its national currency has become almost useless president nicolas maduro is blaming all of this on what he says is an economic war against his country the turmoil has seen millions for leaving as well as economic hardships for neighboring countries the international monetary fund predicts inflation will continue to rise by up to one million percent this year to put that into perspective venezuelans are now paying about two million dollars vase for a cup of coffee in order to tackle the problem the government has introduced a new currency the sovereign body of our which will remove five zero from banknotes it's linked to a crypto currency called the petro that's pegged to the price of oil and the government is also raising the minimum wage by three thousand percent and faced with a squeeze on the country's cash reserves president maduro wants venezuelans to pay more for what is currently the world's cheapest gas latin america editor lucien

newman might now has more on this from caracas. venezuelan government supporters try to rev up enthusiasm for the newly introduced economic measures described by president reagan last month as an economic revolution to defeat hyperinflation conspicuously absent from a rally in front of the presidential palace liz mcdougall himself hasn't made a public appearance since an apparent assassination attempt on august the fourth. if the right wing crosses a path will run over them like a train nothing will stop reform. just blocks away many shops and markets remain closed some in here into an opposition call for a national strike others unsure how much to charge now the five zero seven slash the currency head of a compulsory thirty four hundred percent increase in the minimum wage they go into effect september first the price hikes are into eighty. two hours ago these eggs

cost fifteen hundred and when i came back with the cash they were two thousand the bus company that takes the news wayland's to the border remains shut until further notice and that's not the web page to recharge mobile phone for the moment it is not operational one of the few things that has not changed prices are these bananas there are now five of the nobody about five hundred thousand of the all the ones which is roughly the same if you take away five zero but according to the people selling them by next week the. three hundred percent. the government blames a crisis that's brought on precedented hunger and illness on what it calls a domestic and international economic war but many economists warn the new measures will only make things worse. there are pointing fiscal measures to increase one refusing any type of international financing or aid so they'll keep printing out money and we'll see that hyperinflation stop. and amid the

uncertainty neither it seems will the exodus of the desperate to find relief anywhere they can to see an human for counting the cost us. well i speak now to carlos card that has he is the head of latin america country risk with i.h.s. market in london thanks very much for being with us so i think it's worth first of all just taking a step back here for a moment and asking. how did that his way to get to this point such a an oil rich country had alley get so poor well i mean it has been a combination of factors as you mentioned going to lessen on economy and that the plane or prices had an effect but in reality it has also been accompanied by indiscriminate public spending in via the printing of currency the implementations of giacomini and price and exchange controls that were never relaxed

a policy of expropriations many of the expert peter companies and that have been mismanaged and bankrupt. and all of this compounded by economic mismanagement and widespread corruption and how of us sanctions affected venezuela's economy is there any way of of measuring that is there is there a number at all that we can put on that. the key issue about the u.s. sanctions is that they have operated in two ways one they have targeted top individuals of the government they lived in an effort to promote regime change the venice along with all of this. obviously the united or be not gangs that the other one and the most critical in terms of the economy is that the sanctions prevent than a sort of from restructuring its debt in a solar currently it's in a position of technical default because of the depleted depletion of the foreign eccentric selves it doesn't have the ability to own or any payments to bond holders

or to in a company that operates in minnesota but it also is not able to restructure that debt. in the u.s. financial system regardless of the sanctions that the key issue here and then the connection to the economic policies over recently implemented is that the authorities are still also on able to present a credible economic package a program that would take out the economy out of the current crisis not so that in combination with the u.s. sanctions make the economic and political situation more and more difficult by credible. you're talking as well about this new currency. as well is that going to do anything to address the current economic problems. no our view is that actually the situation is going to get more difficult in terms of the economic and political environment and we're going to continue into the intensification of the hyper inflation that we have at the moment the currency the

spect to a crypto currency that hasn't been really properly implemented and but also any type of investor is prohibited or participating in that because of the u.s. sanctions but at the same time in order there to prevent any type of social unrest the government will have to continue printing the currency it has multiplied the minimum wage for more than sixty times it has promised bonuses for people to contain them and even though they have announced that fuel subsidies will be relaxed the reality is that they have also said that those that hold the fatherland ideal which is up special id card that it's given to the poorest of the population would still receive that subsidy and also overall it will have a very little impact on the critical point here is that oil production continues to decline international reserves are not enough to cover any type of imports and the

government is unable to restructure its that and pay more financing. then asked to speak we think it has been a busy week for donald trump who has been pushing ahead with his america first agenda negotiations with china over trade tariffs failed to reach an agreement u.s. president impose new sanctions against russia and his route with turkey over tariffs sees no signs of abating she habitants he looks deeper now at how the trumpet ministration is using its financial muscle to go after those it thinks are adversaries. the trump administration has been setting new records with its imposition of sanctions on foreign entities though it is continuing a trend we saw under barack obama what is different is the imposition of economic tariffs this administration overtly views the dollar as a weapon and the globalized economy as a battlegrounds. the numbers had been climbing proud of donald trump's presidency

but according to the u.s. treasury sanctions were imposed on close to one thousand entities and individuals in twenty seventeen a new record. and this year i'm lists predict the administration will suppose that number potentially adding more than four thousand eight hundred entities to the list of those sanctioned he's president he came into office without much to government experience any with very limited in the way of stuff relationships with people on the hell of a product executive branch and what sanctions lesson do is execute foreign policy effectively. it is unclear sometimes whether the us has a grand strategy when it imposes sanctions is washington trying to change the behavior of those it deems as working against u.s. national interests or simply punishing them without any opportunity for redemption . and there's anyone really believe that russia will forsake crimea for example as a result of sanctions what exactly is the u.s. trying to achieve in the rush to project u.s.

power such questions sometimes remain unanswered. at least with the trump administration's imposition of economic tariffs they would seem to be a goal president trump says other countries are exploiting the u.s. economically and that needs to end and that is why we are going to stick together and win for our farmers and our factory workers are still workers here we are all across this nation. the imposition of tariffs began in january with restrictions imposed on solar panels and washing machines the trumpet ministration said it hopes to boost domestic manufacturing since then china has borne the brunt tariffs have been imposed on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese imports they went into effect july the sixth and tariffs on an additional sixteen billion dollars of goods they went into effect orcus twenty third in addition twenty five percent tariffs on steel and ten percent on alum in human ports have shocked allies such as canada mexico japan and the e.u. . turkey's tariffs of meanwhile been doubled to fifty percent on steel twenty

percent on aluminum yet here too there is confusion in imposing the steel and aluminum tariffs donald trump invokes national security his administration is using those tariffs as bargaining chips in trade negotiations how does that square with keeping america safe there has long been international grumbling to the central and see if the u. dollar and financial system to the global economy and it is likely that the frequent deployment of both as weapons often with little recourse for those affected will heighten those complaints in the future. washington all right still to come on counting the cost me look at white eight years of bailouts for greece led to a brain drain. electric car make a tesla has a value of between sixty and seventy billion dollars it's been trading as a public company for eight years but it has never made an annual profit elon musk's

vision of integrating clean energy with transport and home power some might say is the perfect marriage but is tesla on the cusp of profitability or is this a bubble where joining us now from london is. the corporate finance and deals editor at the financial times in london thanks very much for being with us so first off what is the latest you're hearing on the company possibly going private obviously mr moss has been tweeting about this and then it's caused quite a ripple in the financial community but what exactly is going on well so i think we should probably start of the beginning which was a story that i broke with the financial times that saudi sovereign wealth fund had secretly been kind of quietly.