as a whole dallas expects to grow we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost is era. fears grow a massive offensive to retake it live from rubble sunseri out well happened in syria's foreign minister says damascus is prepared to go all the way. ellen malcolm devika polony a watching audience there live from london also coming up. argentina raises interest rates to walking sixty percent in a bid to prop up the tumbling paso. rescue teams struggle to reach thousands stranded in myanmar after a dam collapse that sent masses of waters across villages. and where in the

democratic republic of congo is the second largest rainforest in the world but for how much longer. first to syria where it seems it's only a matter of time before the syrian government and a longtime ally russia launch an all out offensive to take the last drobo held province in the country. the foreign ministers have met and moscow and the language coming out of their news conference has been as tough as ever both sides vowing to go all the way in the battle for the province or a challenge says this report from moscow. the question of if they'll be an assault on has faded recently now it's more a matter of when that shift has been hastens by hardening language coming out of moscow. so that putting it constitute

a list of the relationship it was with satisfaction that we know to the majority of the syrian arab republic is now freed of terrorists what we need now is to wipe out those terrorist groups which persist particularly in the deescalation zone in it live. sergey lavrov was meeting his syrian counterpart. in the russian capital wall and said they'd finished the groups they call terrorists but also try to protect civilians. here this saudi the decision of the syrian leadership is to if i tell news or a front to whatever the sacrifices are we are ready to exert every possible effort not to harm civilians a little. early but civilians have paid a heavy price in previous russian backed syrian government pushes to recapture rebel areas the sieges and bombardments of aleppo and iraq. turkey is urging russia to take more care to avoid

a humanitarian catastrophe ankara wants extra time to persuade any armed groups in open to a deal something the un special envoy to syria also advocates one thing you would be do one not accelerate military escalation and give a little bit more time for this type of discussion to allow him facilitate a credible credible humanitarian corridor to allow the civilian population to temporarily if i create to a safer area moscow says it will consider demister as humanitarian corridor or suggestion and it needs to show its listening to turkey if moscow decides to push for a massive offensive on in libya that will produce another huge wave of us who are in record use maybe hundreds of thousands fleeing to. turkey which was just counted to russia's interests and russian perrot is there and also. that's

tonight a scenario which is not very. affordable for turkey as well. it live is the largest remaining rebel stronghold if the syrian government takes it the rascasse will claim the war is effectively over and that's one. fonts there are an estimated three million people trapped ten thousand of which the u.n. estimates to be nuestro or al qaida linked fighters and the severity of the onslaught that they all receive depends largely on how much force the russian and syrian military is willing to use rachelle nones zero mosque or argentina central bank has hiked interest rates to sixty percent in a bid to stop the currency from falling any further the bass is down more than fifty percent this year on wednesday president mockery shocked the country when he also international monetary fund for an early release of the safety billion dollar

emergency bailout well alan simmias is an economist and the chair of the political economy department of the university that. set a mantel and he says the government is taking the wrong approach to the economic problems what you need to do in a situation where foreign currency is fleeing the country is impose some sort of some sort of controls be it exchange controls be a deal a car and c.d.o. exchange rates. different sorts of regulatory measures that will sort of isolate the economy a bit and will stem the outflow of foreign exchange however the government has done the exact opposite they've totally deregulated markets. sort of setting the grounds for this run on the dollar and the agreement with the i.m.f. does nothing bites. deeper than those deregulatory measures so it's hard to see

within the current policy framework that this could and in anything else that a major crisis. at least two people are missing in myanmar after widespread flooding from a dam collapse or than sixty thousand people were forced to flee their homes when the torrent of water inundated towns and villages government officials are investigating what went wrong louis has this report this is the. region central neon the spillway of the dam collapsed wednesday morning after days of heavy monsoon rains sending torrents of water into nearby towns and villages in some places the surge of water reached nearly two and a half meters the military police and red cross are working on the rescue and relief effort but. the water came so fast into our village and we didn't have time

to run we have never been flooded before nothing like this has ever happened. eighty five villages have been flooded and more than sixty three thousand people affected. they've lost more than just their homes. i got back. and soon after we got there waters are already rising behind us we lost our carts pigs and engines everything including. flooding at the dam site has receded all the transport remains disrupted and a badly damaged bridge will need to be replaced better than we're going to be not because we're going to build another bridge in place of the damaged one days before the disaster villages raised concerns about the data but government leaders reassured them it was safe and said there was no sign of anything wrong. because there are hard to really look only we can see we're going to see only. we're going

to know when the people want to be one of our people going to. this accident now puts the spotlight firmly on safety concerns about dams in southeast asia another dam collapsed in neighboring laos last month killing at least twenty seven people and forcing thousands from their homes florence italy al-jazeera. nearly one hundred twenty thousand suspected cases of cholera have been reported in yemen since january now the u.n. is warning the increasing rate of infections over recent weeks could lead to another epidemic it's described the outbreak as the most serious on record nearly four hundred thousand people have been vaccinated against the disease for a dutch politician geared to builders says he's canceling plans for a competition to draw cartoons of the prophet muhammad builders says it's because of the threat of violence that such an event would cost is great but he insists his

personal campaign against islam will continue the sun led to protests in pakistan as the public politicians and even our former cricketer voiced their anger. there been more far right protests in the german city of quetta nets and this is after violent confrontations earlier this week thousands have been taking part in the add to immigration demonstrations they follow the arrest of two men with syrian and iraqi backgrounds on suspicion of fatally stabbing a german man on sunday dominic cain has more. the demonstration that took place here in chemist's has now broken up peacefully the demonstration was loud but it was a sit for us protests by people from the procurements movement which has predominantly appeal to supporters of the far right they came here to protest against the meeting that's been held by the christian democrat prime minister of the state of saxony and by his social democrat colleague the mayor of the city why were they here well because of the events that took place at the weekend and then on monday the weekend

a person was knifed in an altercation involving two people of migrant origin and then on monday there were thousands of people basically supporters of the far right clashing with the police in clashing with the left wing protesters who opposed them the point to make here politically there has been developed there has been suggested that there was a degree of collusion between elements police here and cabinets and the far rights that there was a leaking of information about those suspects well this evening a person has been suspended from their role in the justice system here as a result of an investigation finally the question is what does this sort of scenario playing out here in chemists mean for germany at the political level well and good american looking on from burn we'll see that this minority of people is racin for us and it's not going away and they say she must leave and she must be radically changed the way migration is dealt with here in germany. the u.k. prime minister is wrapping up

a three day africa tour and kenya having stopped off in nigeria and south africa with the economic impact from exiting the european union living so he's a may is trying to cultivate trade relationships that may have fallen to the wayside despite positive results and it may be a little too little too late for the u.k. once bracks it takes hold paul brennan explains. this is been a crucial trade mission for the british prime minister brics it is less than a year away and to mitigate the expected disruption in trade with europe the u.k. needs to strengthen economic ties with africa. links which have been allowed to decline in recent years in two thousand and one the u.k. provided ten percent of kenya's imports last year the figure was barely two percent analysts say teresa mayes raft of technology partnership and investments initiatives comes not a minute too soon because it's a huge amount of investments can china and even can the united states the largest

private equity firms back from the united states are investing in africa at this point of time amazon has things like the african regional open data initiatives for example where they're collecting huge amounts of data from this country and the u.k. if they don't get in at this point they're going to lose out the world bank forecasts africa's economy will grow by three point two percent this year and three point five percent next by twenty twenty five africa's g.d.p. is expected to be five point six trillion dollars to tap into that potential the u.k. is establishing several new programs to improve coordination and support of africa's tech industry and at the same time the u.k.'s overseas aid budget is being targeted to nurturing entrepreneurs and encouraging private sector investment as i've said this week i want to ensure that the u.k.'s relationship with kenya and with africa is more and more private investment about doing business and making the most of

commercial opportunities together. here is elsewhere in the continent where using our age and our investment partnerships to lift countries out of poverty spread stability and create jobs and prosperity for the future corruption is a problem estimated to result in more than fifty billion dollars of assets flowing out of africa every year on thursday through some a promise that any corrupt funds originating from kenya and seized in the u.k. would be repaid to nairobi this issue of coming and saying now we're going to turn your money after investing and trading in it they should actually put the interest that that money accrued and give it to us unconditionally with apologies because they are culpable or being accessory to the theft and that's a conspiracy and this is what has been happening twenty sixteen the u.k.'s trade with nigeria south africa and kenya africa's biggest economies totaled less than seventeen billion dollars compare that to the seven hundred twenty billion dollars

of trade that the u.k. enjoyed with the european union that year the prime minister will be pleased with the largely positive headlines she has received but the balance sheet remains a concern paul brennan al-jazeera. and watching out is there live from london still much more to come on this program. the philippines remembers those who were forcibly disappeared during the dictatorship president ferdinand marcos. and wear and tear on to find out how u.s. sanctions are endangering the supply of much needed. hello there the cooler weather is continuing to spread its way across europe here's the leading edge of that cooler air making its way across germany into poland so

both these countries will see the fresh air by the time we get to friday then let up temperature in berlin of around twenty degrees and even cooler force up in stockholm a maximum temperature just fifteen and probably feeling call of math thanks to the wind the rain for the south that we somewhat weather over the alps and that will gradually spread its way southwards in intensify as we head into saturday so heavy downpours here could cause a little bit of disruption the southeast corner those should stay fine and dry thirty two degrees the maximum temperature in bucharest for the other side of the mediterranean also fine and dry for most of us here there could be a little bit of cloud bubbling up over the mountains about geria but even those should melt away as we head into saturday and then most of us seeing fine a sunny weather a bit further towards the south and there's been some more excitement weather wise here we've had a system that's now just popped off into the atlantic it is heading your way towards the west that gave us some intense rains and there's plenty more wet weather for west africa over the next few days so finish. both looking pretty wet on friday and then somebody who showers are likely to creep even further northwards

into the extreme southern parts of algeria as we head into saturday some shop showers here. as europe's public opinion shifted polls for slavery's abolition care for yours where the human exploitation took on new homes as a whole slate that became the hidden face of europe's industrial revolution the history of slavery is not a black history and it's not just a history of white colonization but the history of human inequality and that is the legacy for all of us that slavery's mean frontino three of slavery in this analogy is enough to.

hello again here's a reminder for our top stories on al-jazeera the russian and syrian foreign ministers have met to law school where they have discussed launching an all out offensive to take the last rebel held province of idlib the province is home to some three million people. argentina's central bank has hiked interest rates to sixty percent and a bit to stop the currency from falling any further paso's down more than fifty percent this year. and at least two people are missing and more than sixteen thousand are displaced in man mark after widespread flooding from a dam collapse. thursday is an international day dedicated to remembering the victims of forced disappearances it's a tactic long used to spread terror and crackdown on dissent around the world and nowhere is this truer than those in the philippines where people have been going

missing since the one nine hundred seventy s. when martial law was imposed although things have improved since then as general allen doggone reports war still needs to be done. or they disappeared to her plea in manila that emerged to remind young filipinos of the horrors of the recent past. the scenes here hope to recreate the atmosphere of fear and brutality to the time of the dictator president for didn't marcos. brother mine was a human rights lawyer he was abducted by military egypt's and has been missing for more than forty years the loss is immeasurable she says not just for her family but also for the country the political dissenters during the marcos dictatorship where are the finest men and women our country has ever produced

they would really leave the liberty silenced by the agents of this because they were very critical. rights groups say the practice of enforced disappearances by state agents started during martial law and continues to this. almost two thousand people are known to be victims of enforced disappearances but rights groups believe the number of unreported pieces is even higher. the power longs for her daughter surely the pardon was deliberate activist who was abducted in two thousand and six by military agents when gloria macapagal arroyo was president and linda feels that even if a case reaches court the odds against people like her are much higher because they are poor and get very little government support the building. when a phrase that perpetrate or general will be toppled by iran in court there were so

many soldiers protecting him but there we were the beams with no one on our side and then i realized the government policy to protect women knows these are relics and memorabilia of filipinos who were abducted tortured and killed over the years it may seem like a new horrors but curators say it is necessary to preserve the memory on this recent historical tragedies. there's been a resurgence of protest art in recent times but really i mean we hear it over and over again never forget always remember. because history is a cycle and we have to break it families who mourn for their dissipated see to see even though they are no longer there their struggle for fundamental freedoms

continues if anything their absence has only made it stronger. the you don't get zero. and you report by the un atomic watchdog has found iran is complying with restrictions imposed on its nuclear activities under the twenty fifteen nuclear deal the international atomic energy agency says iran is sticking to the terms of the agreement which limits its ability to stockpile and rich uranium the energy agency says it's had access to all sites in the country that it needed to assess this is a second report and to iran's nuclear activity since the u.s. announced it was withdrawing from the deal in may now doctors in iran say u.s. sanctions are and danger in lives foreign companies are allowed to sell medical supplies to iran but new banking restrictions have made this process harder leaving physicians worried that they won't have enough drugs to treat patients as

a measure of a report from fair on. here that has been struggling with even few year since he was born it's a blood disorder that his parents know means you'll never live a normal life. but the medical treatment he gets at this clinic gives him a fighting chance. he's a boy he should play with his friends and. if he does he has to go to the hospital to get an injunction the effects his spirit and he could not enjoy. he seems too serious his father says his condition makes him a little weak but like any other kid his age he has dreams. he wants to be a police officer when he grows up he says because then he'll get to catch criminals living. his parents are hopeful that the treatment he's getting now will make him strong enough to take care of himself and turn his dreams into reality and.

i have something to tell the american they shouldn't exist with patient issues and they must separate these things from each other the iranian hemophilia care center treats thousands of patients in dozens of clinics across the country. in the past blanket sanctions on banking made it nearly impossible to find companies willing to sell medicine and equipment to iran. and so iranians began domestic production taking matters into their own hands half of the medicine views to treat many of the patients in facilities like this is made right here in iran the other half is imported from pharmaceutical companies outside the country but it's the second half that has medical professionals worried once again. iran can't make all the medicine it needs on its own. as governments play political games aid workers say civilian lives hang in the balance it's not only just. saying this to the leaders of western states and americans you may have political conflict with our government but your

methods actually hurt people in classic war when it's guns and tanks there are some rules but with sanctions we have no rules i call it a silent battle maybe war without sound of guns the first victims in this war are the civilians it's women it's children u.s. president donald trump and his administration say they will impose the most stringent biting sanctions on iran the world has ever seen the white house says sanctions are designed to weaken iran's government but people in this clinic want donald trump to know that at some point that means fighting kids who are fighting for their lives the same basra the old as he wrote to her on let's get to the u.s. now where thousands of people are continuing to pay tribute to so legend franklin and her hometown of detroit her caskets has been transferred to the new bethel baptist church that's her lifelong church and it's ahead of a tribute concert to tell us more about that we can join john hendren he's in detroit for us so john what's set to happen today.

well davy if you listen carefully you might just be able to hear the band's warming up tuning up for a tribute to a wreath of franklin there will be thirty of them playing tonight more horns than you could hear on an l.a. freeway they are all going to be playing in this tribute concert if each of them played for three minutes it would last an hour and a half but we expected to go much longer than that and that's because they're going to have four different sections there's going to be a gospel section to pay tribute to the first part of aretha franklin's life where she began in the choir at the church where her father preached then there will be a jazz section and then there's going to be an r. and b. tribute and then at the end there will be a star studded tribute where members of each of these groups will be singing and here's a spoiler alert they're all going to end with her most famous song respect among the singers here tonight are regina belle the four tops and johnny gill and this is just day three of four days of tributes to the queen of soul she lay in state

nearby at the museum of african-american history for two days first in all red all the way down to her lou baton shoes and then in blue the day after that because the queen of soul is also the queen of style and she never wears the same outfit two days or in a row even posthumously now this will all and tomorrow on friday with a funeral where aretha franklin will be finally laid to rest and speaking there will be bill clinton the former president of the united states jesse jackson and smokey robinson and the musical acts nineteen of them will include faith hill stevie wonder and ariana grande day so that will be the end of the four days of tribute even then that will not be the last you will have heard of a wreath of frankly here in the city of detroit where she was raised and that's because people are talking about creating a museum in her honor to remember her both for her music and for her civil rights act so she'll be remembered here for quite some time john hendren then detroit for

us thank you very much. the democratic republic of congo is home to the world's second largest rain forest and the government now plans to end the ban on industrial logging concessions and by mentalists say an area the rain forest the size of france is at risk as marc webb reports. it takes about eighty years for a tree like this to grow in just a few minutes to cut it down. and any jobs here in the east of the democratic republic of congo when he was a teenager to starve a pombo learn to use a chain saw and how to survive the illegal question itself when done in this is my life it helps me to feed my wife and my two children and pay for their school fees it's the only job i know. the forests provide a small income for thousands of people who live in and around them each of these

timbers sells for about two and a half dollars out of the whole tree they'll get about one hundred dollars worth of timber five dollars has to be paid to the landowner is an annual license fee for using a chainsaw the rest of the money is divided between the five people that it takes to do the work it's low key and it's informal the government gets very little revenue the environment minister says the government could be making a lot more timber carried out of the forest and exported congolese hardwoods with demand all over the world most end up in china europe and the us. government hasn't granted any industrial logging concessions for sixteen years supposedly to preserve the disappearing forests but it now plans to welcome back industrial loggers he says to fund development projects. of all we sell what we can it can be mineral resources it can be any resource it can also be the resources

of the forest they are ours we want to turn them into resources that help the wellbeing of our people the forests and also home to about half a million indigenous people who've lived in them sustainably for thousands of years lower misnomer he says they'll be among the many victims if the government goes ahead with its plan. your government has been lying for a long time about development which was never realised the big companies would just take the profits from the forest and leave the population in poverty the government should abandon this plan to benefit the local population not only for ecological reasons the out is no logging is supposedly regulated but widespread corruption mean it's not the world's second largest rain forest is disappearing steadily and it's loggings industrialised it'll go a lot faster and it'll never grow back. malcolm webb al-jazeera it's hillary and the democratic republic of congo and part four of our

series on forests we will focus on northern england that's where a new forest expected to contain fifty million new trees and stretch over three hundred kilometers well make part of the industrial north a lot greener that is on friday right here in oz is there a hand around where you can always get more news more features on our website the address this is their dot com. well again here's your mind our top story the russian and syrian foreign ministers have met in moscow where they have discussed launching an all out offensive to take the last rebel held province of idlib serious while it says the government forces will quote go all the way in which is home to some three million people the u.n. says ten thousand of those are fighters from al qaeda and the news right front. this would be the decision of the syrian leadership is to tell news referring to

what if the sacrifices we are ready to exert every possible if it be not to harm civilians. argentina central bank has hiked interest rates to sixty percent in a bid to stop the currency from falling any further the pass is down more than fifty percent this year on wednesday president. has shocked the country twenty oz the international monetary fund for an early release of fifty billion dollars emergency bailout at least two people are missing in myanmar after widespread flooding from a dam collapse more than sixty thousand people were forced to flee their homes when the torrent of water inundated towns and villages government officials are investigating what went wrong. nearly one hundred twenty thousand suspected cases of cholera have been reported in yemen since january the u.n. is warning that increasing the rate of infections of recent weeks could lead to another epidemic nearly four hundred thousand people have been vaccinated against

the disease. and there's been another far right anti immigration rally in the eastern german city of quetta nets this follows two days of confrontations the protesters are rallying against asylum seekers and minorities in the city that follows the arrest of two men from syria and iraq a background on suspicion of fatally stabbing a german man on sunday. austria has proposed using e.u. armed forces of the blocks borders to keep out undocumented migrants the soldiers would support the several hundred guards already stationed at europe's borders germany and other countries have expressed concern over the plan. well those are the headlines stay with us now for the stream and that's next.

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