my six million dollars father a witness documentary on al jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian figure and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the u.s. says that it's cutting off all funding to the u.n. agency that helps palestinian refugees. no deal yet talks between the u.s. and canada on a new free trade agreement missed the deadline we'll look at what happens next. a pro russian separatist leader dies in a bomb blast in ukraine moscow and kiev blame each other for the killing.

and the final farewells for aretha franklin a star studded funeral in the u.s. for the queen of soul. a flagrant assault on the palestinian people that's how palestinian president mahmoud abbas is describing the u.s. is decision to hold all funding to the u.n. agency that helps palestinian refugees known as annorah it follows last week's announcement that the trumpet ministration is causing more than two hundred billion dollars in aid to the agency it will in effect and decades of financial support on health education and food security the u.n. is all countries to step up and fill the funding gap well the u.s. state department spokeswoman heather not released a statement saying when we made a u.s. contribution of sixty billion dollars in january we made it clear that the united

states was no longer willing to shoulder the very disproportionate share of the burden of costs that we'd assumed to many is not a serious paul chodas g.m. reports. palestinian president mahmoud abbas says the decision by the united states to stop funding the un agency helping palestinian refugees is a flagrant assault against his people more than one million of them rely on food aid handed out by so the decision by the us not to pay the anticipated two hundred twenty five million dollars this year could leave many without enough to eat the shortfall in one rez budget will mean the closure of primary health clinics and the end to relief and social services projects that runs forward should palestinian refugees these provide human development and emergency assistance for millions of people. also operates hundreds of schools for half a million kostin children in gaza the occupied west bank jordan lebanon and syria

they opened their doors this week with uncertainty we out money to run them only until the end of september and. will be running on and we won't have enough money for schools to pay out twenty two thousand teachers go a few days ago the commissioner general of an ra said the agency has been trying to diversify its sources of funding it's appealing to longstanding and large donors and arab countries to contribute to annorah and keep their schools open we have had the first multi year agreements with countries like the russian federation and we have very significant contributions from gulf countries we've had to india increase its contribution very significantly as has china so there are dynamics there and there are also dynamics in the world bank and the islamic development bank to provide more stability for the long term annorah says half a million students without a school will lead to regional instability the real losers will be some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable people in

a volatile part of the world paul schrader john al jazeera let's hear now from washington d.c. and i was there as rob reynolds. the u.s. contributes about thirty percent of the budget so this drastic cut could have significant effects on already dire living conditions in places like gaza and elsewhere where palestinian refugees live under a says there are five million palestinian refugees these are people who are considered by the palestinian side to have the right to return that is the people who were removed or fled from palestinian territories when the state of israel was founded in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and their descendants have the right according to the palestinian and side and according to un resolutions to eventually return israel of course has opposed this from the beginning saying that

any such influx of palestinians would swamp and alter completely the character of the jewish state so this appears to be an effort by the united states in tandem with israel to try to undermine that right of return by reducing the number of palestinians from five million who are eligible to actually return to only those who were really alive during the conflict in one thousand nine hundred forty eight those people number about five hundred thousand in a email released earlier this year jared pushed or the president trumps son in law and the point person for the administration on middle east policy said a sincere and honest attempt must be made to undermine and we have response from the palestinian side with president mahmoud abbas saying that the u.s. decision is a flagrant assault on the palestinian people and a defiance of u.n.

resolutions it should be noted that the united states does not have the power under the u.n. resolute. to unilaterally abolish palestinian foreign minister riyadh all moloch called upon other arab states to step up with funding to make up for the shortfall caused by the us withdrawal of support for on road mohammed always says a political analyst and researcher who specializes in the us in the middle east he says that he was one of the people that the u.n. agency helped. i am one of the spineless tenuous who i was born and it bent and that if i was raised in that if he come without the honor won the help of the honor of i would have not had clothes or food or schooling or a college so if you take the palestinians who live only i'm talking about the two million palestinians who live and lebanon syria jordan egypt and iraq these are about two million people who have no safety net except the underwear including

health care education housing and employment if he cuts that for the palace said yes yes it's going to be difficult on this palace in us but it is not going to change the fact that isabel still occupies palestine and israel it's refusing to allow the palestinians to that turn to palestine and that if she's the internal refugees inside palestine proper so are not going to have a place to go. the u.s. and canada of missed a deadline to revamp the north american free trade agreement talks on friday broke up without a deal but there was even next week during a lack reports from toronto. president trump has long said nafta was unfair to his country and he was visibly pleased when he announced last monday that u.s. and mexican negotiators had reached a deal to replace it canada was left out and trump said the canadians had until

friday to given to u.s. demands so it could join the new pact that deadline has passed with no deal and trump is keeping up the pressure because i love canada but they've taken advantage of our country for many years they have tremendous tremendous trade barriers and they have tremendous tariffs. the sticking points remain what they've been for months u.s. demands for access to canada's highly protected dairy industry. and auto was desire to keep independent trade dispute resolution part of a new nafta something the u.s. opposes canadian negotiators say they're still hopeful they can reach a deal on an agreement that doesn't leave canada out we know that a win win agreement is within reach and now it's what we're working towards with goodwill and plex ability on all sides i know we can get there canada's economy is highly dependent on trade with the u.s. more than a billion dollars a day in business flows between the two countries president trumps threats to slap

high tariffs on canadian built cars would be disastrous for the country's workers and manufacturers both the u.s. and mexico say canada can be part of a deal to replace nafta many members of the u.s. congress some of them from donald trump's republican party agree but a protectionist trump administration has so far been demanding far more than canada's negotiators have been prepared to give daniel lak al-jazeera toronto. robert scott is an economist and director at the independent think tank the economic policy institute in washington d.c. he joins us now via skype from maryland good to have you with us so they missed the deadline although the talks are not yet dead the resuming on wednesday can a deal be done i certainly think a deal can be done and it's in the interest of both countries to revise nafta and to upgrade it to bring it up to date has been in force for twenty five years

now and it's it needs to be reformed all right so there's no danger of nafta vanishing one of the some of that but the key sticking points at the moment. well one of the key issues is you should the question of labor and rights and environmental standards. labor unions feel that one of the reasons that nafta has been so hot and workers in the u.s. and canada is because labor rights are so weak and so poorly enforced in mexico the original agreement so the labor standards sided into separate side agreement and there was no effective enforcement mechanism so this is a big issue for unions and for. the public a fair trade advocates in the united states as well. i think for many democrats in congress it was important to keep in mind that it will take probably at least fifteen to. twenty months to have this agreement reviewed and approved by the

congress and by that time it could well be in control of the democrats in the united states relations between canada and the u.s. not exactly at that best at the moment. no i think that's certainly true and and i think that reflects. trump's preference to. negotiate as the ball in a china shop as it were to attempt to bully history being partners and in this case you know he had he does have leverage the u.s. is a much bigger economy trade is much more important to canada than it is to the united states having said so it having said that the point is there is danger that canada could be bullied into some sort of agreement well i think at the end of the day they will settle i think that they will work out their differences. that actually if you look at the number of issues that are on the table where there are differences as you mentioned in your earlier report very well frankly it's

a small very small part of trade the vast majority of traders in manufactured products and who toil in other energy products there is a very small part of it as are all agricultural products and the remaining issues on on. review a bit of trade just buttes and the patent issues i think those can be settled relatively easily so what would a good trade deal look like as far as canada is concerned and once it's done how is it going to affect its relationship with mexico in particular well i think that there are changes in after that have been incorporated in the agreement particularly in the auto sector and some of the other industrial sectors that's going to raise the amount of content that's produced in the united states and canada that would good for workers in both countries i think you know prove much in labor rights if it in fact is well enforced we don't know that you know it but

improvements in labor rights that are enforced in the core of the agreement will be very helpful so i think that would be. you know a significant improvement for workers in all three countries let's talk to so many thanks to you for being with us robert scott that in maryland. well thank you argentina's government says that it will discuss a fifty billion dollar bailout loan with the international monetary fund on monday the pacers lost half of its value against the u.s. dollar this year and that's raising concerns about even more hardships for people in argentina latin america and it's a lucy in human reports from one assad is. it's a movie arjun times have seen before their currency losing its value at a record low and at a dizzying speed. all eyes were on the city when the cytisus financial center. after losing another fifteen percent of its value thursday the government managed

a modest recovery after infusing almost seven hundred million dollars into the currency market to stop the hemorrhaging but that didn't diminish the long queues of people seeking refuge in the u.s. dollar. these abrupt and deep explosions in the currency such strong devaluation is concerned me because they symbolize an unstable country an unstable economy. arjen times think and save in dollars and with good reason given their economies history of boom and bust and when the dollar goes up so do prices people's wages starts tunneling down and that is exactly what is happening today a waitress for example told me that back in april she was making the equivalent of six hundred dollars a month today she is making three hundred or only half that much and that's just in the last four months. the devaluation of the pistol increases inflation already one of the world's highest the government says it will announce new economic measures

on monday before going to the i.m.f. to negotiate terms for speeding up the release of a fifty billion dollar bailout loan they include further austerity measures. but many economists warn that the cost of turning to the i.m.f. is too high the i.m.f. lends money but as we all know there are a series of very stringent conditions which end up sinking the economy explain to me how you come out of that on top. and you don't basically so we're headed for another crisis i mean we are in a crisis but we're heading for another major crisis. and if that's true not only could south america's second largest economy risk a new default but also major social unrest like the kind that brought down the government in two thousand and one. see mulan al-jazeera when a site is fun as whalen's leaving the country of finding life problematic in

neighboring peru racial slurs and hate speech that made it hard for many of them to feel safe that marianna sanchez reports from lima. thirty eight year old the bush man keeps an eye on municipal police will selling a traditional rice string from venezuela he still doesn't have a street vendor permit trying to make a living far away from home is hard he says but worse is hearing slurs against venice wins a second war more especially to people like me a street vendor people tell me move get out of here go back to your country it's. an armed assault mainly perpetrated by even a fearless and coddled security cameras sparked a wave of ministry and feeling in. this honest compatriots are paying the price thank in the. people have to understand we are not all the same the great majority

is here to work and send money to our families to get them out of the inferno that venezuela has become a. business many to do stop textile employee and say the number of an ist will is working here a school where great peruvians saving a sweet lunch are taking their jobs and the big deal some businessmen here have laid off peruvians because they say venezuelans charge them less the untimely gratian sentiment among many people who've eons was fueled by a conservative candidate ill must mayoral race in october he gained popularity by same venice will answer threatening security and jobs. but government officials have condemned cinephile vic's nurse produce open border policy has led more than four hundred thousand venice williams in the country nearly seventy thousand have already been granted work permits were again official say the press is over this way let's have it in fact there was health and education says that there are nearly thirty thousand as well and children in schools but they also say the impact is

positive and it is workforce for many even as well as i believe the top floor girls don't want to take. any peruvians reacted against growing see no fun. accent him and by opening their homes to shelter migrants and refugees twenty one year old alexander torrealba is sleeping with fifteen other venezuelans in one room where. i feel lucky to have been offered this shelter but it's a pity many compatriots have been mistreated we're not here because we want to be but because we need to be. however the majority of us will say they feel will come in be to escaping from inflation and food and medicine shortages back home make them choose to endure almost anything for a better future and the innocent just just see that. in venezuela twelve people have been arrested and accused of causing power cuts in a major oil industry hub and electrical substation exploded in the city of medicare

both the justice minister called it sabotage and said that those detained were acting for people in neighboring colombia the governments blamed previous explosions on the opposition but the city's infrastructure has been failing for years to use a venezuela's economic crisis. this is the news after months there are still to come on the program ugandan opposition politician bobby why believes his country for medical treatment of brawls plus. he would find out if playing catch up with the rest when it comes to work. and in sport the sprint legend getting a run out for a professional football team we'll find out both. of you same old debut. russia has accused ukraine of assassinating prominent separatist leader alexander.

in eastern ukraine the russian backed leader of rebels in dawn yes was killed in a blast at a cafe in the city center for a challenge reports from moscow. this is the aftermath of the blast that killed at xander as a car chunka blackened body can be seen lying on a structure outside the cafe donetsk went into lockdown after the killing with moscow and the russian backed breakaway republic itself calling this an act of international terrorism the last pictures of alive were from thursday laying flowers for the donbass born singer years of cubs one who died earlier in the day. had been the prime minister of done yet since november two thousand and fourteen he was shuffled into the business at a time when attempts were being made to make the war in ukraine's east. look less like a foreign operation run from moscow more like a homegrown independence movement as

a disney esque native and rebel military commander fit the bill second it was present both peace summits in minsk a negotiator of the first the d.n.r. representative and signatory had the second three potential theories spring to mind for who might have been behind this killing it could have been ukraine secret service the s.b.u. perhaps it was separatist infighting or maybe it was moscow doing some extreme housekeeping amongst the rebels plenty of other separatist commanders have met similar fates like the man with the nom de guerre give the killed last year and motorola who died in two thousand and sixteen but this ukraine analyst thinks one theory of a psychotic is death stands out as the most likely to me it looks like this was an internal operation for the past few weeks and months. has been critical of some of its colleagues other deputies and that's all the n.r.o.

meant i.e. control the t.v. station which pretty much humiliated and their colleagues so i think kind of the writing was on the wall that they were numbered moscow and kiev are both accusing each other of having a hand in second chicas death the most significant yet of the many murky deaths that have been an ongoing feature in this murky war rory challenge how to zero mosque or john herbst is a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine and this director of the aeration center at the atlantic council he says that russia is waging a war of aggression in ukraine and that donald trump needs to get tough on moscow all senior officials. under the president's. believe that russia is committing a war of aggression done boss that russia is pursuing a revisionist foreign policy with a focus on ukraine and it understates was hoping praying stop russia in davos that

list includes vice president pence secretaries of state and defense on pay would matters and national security advisor both the president's own statements are much softer on on russia what the policy of the administration has been quite quite tough with us on sanctions with help from congress or supplying javelin this will lead to take missiles to ukraine which was a presidential decision. schools of russian diplomats after the kremlin poisoned the russian. factor in britain i believe that we should make russia pay for its aggression ukraine to persuade russia to lead therefore i welcome decision of the truck admission and job with missiles i think we should send additional weapons and we should impose additional sanctions on the problem or is ongoing aggression in ukraine the russian people don't support this war this is a criminal war against the people of ukraine there's no question the sanctions have an impact that's why every day about the kremlin complains about them and russian

economic officials have said that for example in two thousand and fifteen the sanctions cost cost of one to one point five percent of g.d.p. growth in this year or less share costs them anywhere from a half a percent to three quarters of a percent. of the sanctions a painful. mr putin is hoping that the ukrainian presidential elections in march of two thousand and nineteen will lead to weaken leadership. be disappointed were who wins ukrainian elections will pursue a strong defense of ukraine's territorial integrity. at that point i think russia may reconsider its position but not until after the ukrainian election at least twelve yemeni fishermen have been killed in a saudi m.r.c. coalition air strike according to who's the link to media they say it happened off an island switches fos of her data province the coalition says that the posts were being used to smuggle weapons to serious alan fischer has more from neighboring

djibouti. the picture is slightly confused what we were told initially was that seventy were missing after the coalition targeted three ships near this island that has no been revised to the media reporting that nineteen pressure men are missing presumed dead although no one can get to the area of what exactly what has happened certainly the saudis are saying that they targeted three boats that they believe what carrying weapons to the these no that comes just twenty four hours after the u.s. stopped the ship which they say was carrying one thousand forty seven rifles again heading towards the group think but it's not clear at this point if the coalition tried to stop these vessels all they just simply attacked there are those who would suggest that these were simply fishermen going about their mission but certainly it shows the concern that fisherman along the red sea have they believe they're being

targeted by the coalition but also they have to navigate past the mines that are being laid all around this area and they say it's almost making it untenable for them to go out to sea to try and make a living. qatar is calling for action is the united arab emirates emirates is accused of using israeli spy technology on leaders in qatar saudi arabia and lebanon the new york times has obtained leaked e-mails from lawsuits against an israeli spy ware farm that reveal attempts to listen to the phone calls of lebanon's prime minister saad hariri show the u.a.e. also tried to tap the cattery amir's phone in twenty fourteen and that of a saudi prince sami hamdi is editor in chief of international interest a current affairs news magazine he says the emirates spying is part of its wide ambition in the region i think it's been one of those were the worst kept secret in the middle east that there are these underhand dealings with israel particular to

the emirates i think what is quite profound is that idea that you were you were spying on some of the saudi princes there is often this belief that this is saudi and the u.a.e. are partners in crime or partners in war the partner whatever probably not the best expression to use but the idea that they are very much you know as close as possible whereas in reality there is this undercurrent of a power struggle struggle going on the u.a.e. is trying to expand itself as a key major force in the region and using these type of underhanded techniques if it's what in line for it i think it's very interesting that the report green that it was by him of the life that prince meant have been abdullah with the arrival of mohammed bin that man who is a very good friend would always have been i didn't there smiling on sad and heavy in lebanon as well so i think with a glass you ease kind of tactics are part of a wider edition that he has in order to adopt rather a more sinister style since the version of cutler's project in which the spread of

influence across the region. uganda's pop star turned opposition politician bobby wine is on his way to amsterdam he boarded a flight late on friday after being prevented from leaving a day before wine says that he was beaten while in police custody of wants treatment abroad for his injuries he was charged last week with treason following his detention the queen of soul aretha franklin has been honored at a marathon a farewell ceremony lasting almost eight. city detroit's it was the fourth day of remembrance for the soul legend john hendren reports from detroit. it was a requiem fit for a queen. paying tribute risk or of political civil rights in hollywood luminaries r. and b.

royalty. a political runner up in a one time head of state to remember and pay their respects to aretha franklin the queen of soul. i think. the secret of her greatness when she took his massive talent. and this perfect culture razor. and decided to be the composer of her own life so. it turned out to be outside stood a line of pink cadillacs a tribute to the current freeway of luck perhaps the luckiest people here are the members of the general public more than a thousand of them. they would get a chance to see the queen these are the people wearing the white pants thank you. because you can still. see.

one after another speakers and performers pay tribute. she was a preacher's daughter raised by a single parent she had two sons by the age of fifteen and got her start in her father's choir. with the people of the motor city remember a legend who always stayed true to her hometown. john hendren detroit we're going to weather up. a blaming the emergence of a flesh eating disease on a big increase in plantations. and. high speed crash in italy.

from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. hello again it's good to have you back we're here across parts of asia we are looking at very heavy rain across much of the coast of china that has been the trend over the last several days things are going to get a little bit better here along the southeast coast but along the south coast anywhere from hong kong over towards annoy that is where most of the rain is going to be a little bit further to the north though it is still quite warm still quite humid temperatures for food show thirty five degrees there on saturday thirty six degrees with more sun in the forecast as we go towards sunday in shanghai clouds feel at about thirty four as well we're down across parts of jakarta what we are still seeing some rain showers as a lot of this moisture is making its way towards the south so as we go towards saturday clouds and rain in your forecast at thirty three but up towards the philippines we are watching a little bit of a tropical servants there and that means more rain in the forecast thirty one

degrees there really staying across the region with southern parts of the philippines reaching to about thirty two degrees then very quickly over here towards parts of india very heavy rain out here towards the east that is going to continue over the next several days but as we go down here towards the southwest it's mostly clouds for carol a state temperature there about twenty seven degrees up to the north new delhi right on the edge of the rain we do expect to see a temperature of about thirty two degrees. the weather sponsored by cats are at peace. unless we have new generations growing up to understand that other nations that ship the natural then soon the will be nothing left and will suffer primatologist and conservationist dr jane goodall towards to al-jazeera. optimism has faded. blue counties elected leaders as a divided attention as fears that

a crackdown is imminent the targets the activists who called for democracy dividing contact. pot five of a six part series filmed as a five year. plan to china's democracy experiment on al-jazeera. again it's good to have you with us adrian for going to hear it with the news out from al-jazeera our top stories the united nations is all countries to today more

money it's the u.n. agency that helps palestinian refugees the biggest contributor the u.s. has decided to stop all funding palestinian president mahmoud abbas says it's a flagrant assault on his people. the u.s. and canada have missed a deadline to revamp the north american free trade agreement talks ended on friday without a deal but they will resume on when the state president donald trump is to. congress that he will press ahead with a new agreement with mexico. russia and ukraine are accusing each other of killing a separatist rebel leader in eastern ukraine alexander zarko chang koch died in a blast of a cafe in don't yet russia says that ukraine is trying to destabilize the region. breaking news for you now syria brazil's former president luis ignacio lula da silva has been barred from running in october his election majority of judges on the electoral court barred his candidacy he's currently serving a twelve year prison sentence for corruption lula's lawyers though have said they

will appeal any decision that prevents him from running to the supreme court was. rebels in syria's province of blown up two bridges in an attempt to hinder any government assault on the area people protested against moves to retake the rebels' last stronghold but russia's foreign minister says the syrian government has every right to chase what he called terrorists out of it three million people live there including around ten thousand rebel fighters where some zarko is a teacher and it live he says it will be hard to escape. i guess many will now but if we ever we are committed plane i give them. some because in that nothing. no longer fit in any place in the interior that's why we microwave the clock on the map it looks like

a small area but the huge impact i need for five or six hours to people from one side to another side that's used for me at least and we have the food least of all . we are not the usual suffered from that you. lack but here i get work you can make up for that. as long as we're not willing to beseech the area life with a normal duffers of shilling that you let august first of that you look normal. and usually turkey has a lot. didn't enter the hour or in the book if they are alive in the form of people of us children's agencies urging the warring sides in italy to spare civilians. we think it's particularly important when we're having

all this military rhetoric that we start hearing that we don't forget that there's more than a million children inside there are children who in some cases have been displaced two three four five six times from different cities in they are children who've coping mechanism has been very much eroded by all these displacement and who are particular risks so that's that's what's happening at the moment that's the risk we're facing meanwhile the u.n. is high commissioner for refugees says that many areas in syria are still not safe for refugees to return philippa grandy has been visiting jordan and lebanon which have taken millions of syrians syrians displaced by the war. in the heart of reports from beirut. the united nations reiterating its longstanding position that a refugee returns is still premature to organize large scale returns because the situation in syria is still not safe these returns cannot be in the words of the head of the u.n. h.c.r. sustainable he said philip ground

a that they have been talking to refugees and we have been talking to refugees and refugees are concerned for a number of reasons even though the fighting has died down what are they going to return to many of the towns and villages have been destroyed their homes have been destroyed there is a lack of services lack of infrastructure no schools and no hospitals in some areas and they're also concerned about the not finding a job or being forced to join the army if the male the men in the family are forced to join the army who is going to work to feed the children but more importantly a lot of them are afraid of retribution they feel that there are no safety guarantees in place to make sure that the syrian government does not take any measures against them simply for leaving or accuse them of supporting and supporting the opposition so filippo grand they touring the region talking to officials in damascus both syrian and russian officials about these refugee concerns and telling them that if indeed refugees are to return the united nations

needs to have a presence in the program they did not say what response he got he did say that they discussed the russian plan for the refugee returns we asked him to elaborate on that and he made he just didn't give any details so refugees are concerned why because host nations like lebanon like jordan have been stepping up calls for refugees to return home saying that the situation is not safe in syria and that they have been a burden both on the lebanese and jordanian governments and lebanese that the lebanese president told from the program that we don't need to wait for a political solution for the for refugees return so refugees are concerned the united nations. making it clear that it is still not safe for these people to return home libya has closed the airport in the capital tripoli after rockets were fired in its direction on friday armed groups have been fighting in tripoli for days now a libyan airlines spokesman says the airport will remain closed until sunday

flights will be diverse it's the northwestern city of misrata australia's catholic church has rejected a call for priests to report child abuse revealed during confessions the church responded to a recommendation by a five year inquiry into the issue the commission heard more than eight thousand testimonies about abuse in churches and schools it says that priests should face criminal charges for failing to report abuse the thai government is reconsidering the use of three toxic weed killers one of the chemicals power caps is already banned in more than thirty countries it's been linked to flesh eating bacteria diseases in farmers in northern thailand as wayne hay reports. in parts of rural thailand red marks the spot it's an indicator that farmers used to show that sprayed paraquat a toxic weed killer banned in many countries and the european union its use is blamed on a number of illnesses including a flesh eating bacteria disease which is emerged in northern thailand some farmers

have died others have lost limbs in the province of. where researchers say contamination from agric emma cools is severe. i really want to see people stop using the chemicals last time i went to the provincial hospital the staff told me there were a lot of patients with similar symptoms as i had thailand's become one of the world's biggest uses of paraquat partly because of its effectiveness on sugar cane plantations as the price of rice fell the government encouraged farmers to grow other crops like sugar which in turn increased demand for paraquat the health ministry recommended that it be banned along with two other chemicals but that was ignored and they continued use approved by a government appointed committee there are now allegations that some members of that committee had conflicts of interest with companies involved in importing the chemicals it outloud or doubt i. look at the members of the committee their

position is not groundless but so far we have no impera kill evidence to accuse any of them thailand wants to become known as the so-called kitchen of the world but that largely unregulated use of toxic sprays is leading to concerns about food safety most of the world's paraquat is made in china which has also decided to ban its use in thailand it's important mainly by foreign companies the biggest high company dealing in it is c p group we're jones among other things convenience stores it's also one of the world's largest food producers. al-jazeera contacted c.p. group and other companies involved but none would give an interview. and none have ever been to sea two charts to put to ask him what happened he says he can never farm again but hopes one day the fields here will be chemical free wayne hay al jazeera. thailand's this week al-jazeera has been looking at the threat to forests around the world on efforts to save them one in four people depend on them for

their livelihoods but the world has lost nearly half of its forests this map from global forest watch shows tree cover across the world in green the pink areas of the three hundred thirty seven million hectares of tree cover that was lost between two thousand and one and twenty seventeen a drop of more than eight percent well the united kingdom has one of the lowest levels of woodland coverage in europe and campaigners say it's at risk of deforestation unless more trees are planted that's why the government has backed a plan to create a new forest ever hayward reports from northern england in the final part of our series forests under threat. it's hard to put a value on nature but jane and d n a trying to establish the environmental value of trees in terms of reducing pollution and the carbon they store in greater manchester they're working on a project to plant more trees and eventually establish where a new forest stretching from one side of the country to the other will go the

northern power east is an ambitious plan to turn part of england's industrial north green during the next twenty five years conservation charity the woodland trust wants to plant fifty million trees they all about a we're hoping that will come up with some suggestions of where large scale plantings games could be it will help us to identify gaps in tree. it helps define you areas to some of these trees the country as well as the fifty million about thirteen percent of the u.k. is covered in woodland but in the area of this new forest it's less the landscape a really began to change during the industrial revolution at the start of the nineteenth century since then the population has gone up and so too has the need for housing and industry the tree population die and parts of northern england has dwindled and eight percent conservationists say more trees need to be planted

across britain to counter the future affects of climate change and the impact of big construction projects such as a new high speed rail line and plans to build hundreds of thousands of homes not far from london is home would nestled next to ancient woodland is the culmination of a decade long project to transform arab land into a new native forest environmentalists say hundreds of ancient woodlands in britain are under threat the aspiration is to plant five thousand hectares of new york to berlin. in the last plan. anting season on your thousand haters were planted in a season for only seven hundred hectares were planted which was the lowest in a generation each year you miss the target just gets further away the u.k. government says it's committed to planting eleven million trees by the middle of twenty twenty two in greater manchester conservationists are thinking long term to

secure a greener patient but the peach or emma haywood al-jazeera in northern england. the venice film festival has followed in the footsteps of unsigned agenda pirate parity pledge but organizers have rejected claims of sexism and insists the real problem lies elsewhere but in barbara ports from venice. a gesture that some say is over due on friday the venice film festival signed an agreement promising greater transparency over how it selects films and gender equality across the organization followed similar moves by rivals like counted. before the festival started the european women's audiovisual network published an open letter to venice denouncing the fact only one film in the main competition here is directed by a woman and demanding changes to what they called a rigged system that favors mainly white males. now it seems change is on its way but for the festival director actual quotas are

a step too far quaters is something which is extremely fair and right in politics for example. we can use the quaters in art the only katie to talk for is the quality of their work is. sagar marx's presenting her first feature film of venice previously she directed a documentary on the french prison system. along cass is showing outside the main competition it's about a young man looking for support when he comes out of jail his mother played by sort of being born air has severe depression and he finds himself dragged into criminality the director says her gender hasn't been a problem when it comes to getting her work see. the complicated judgment of previously to a staff but now there are more and more women directors in france there are plenty and lots of women have paved the way like kathryn bigelow at the start it was hard

for her because really there were no women directors in hollywood. and some industry watchers say the debate about how many were. directed films screening festivals masks a deeper problem what we need to be talking about is getting young schoolgirls when they're in school to think i can be a director when that happens they're going to get far more women directors are going to get better films coming from some of those women directors. less than a quarter of all film submitted to venice this year were by women there's clearly an imbalance when it comes to who makes the films audiences get to see here and in cinema but changing that could mean reforming the industry about discussion is just starting with the al-jazeera venice just as here on the news hour in the sport american sloane stephens successfully continues the defense of u.s. open title and he has only sales coming up.

september on al-jazeera the fourth eastern economic forum is to be held in the city of stark as russia looks to expand its influence in the asia pacific region on television and online the stream continues to tap into the extraordinary potential of social media to disseminate news the presidents of russia turkey and iran will meet in tehran for another summit seeking an end to the war in syria we'll have extensive coverage people in power continues to examine the use and abuse of power around the world the united nations general assembly hall the seventy third session what action will it take on atrocities in me in march and demand we'll bring you all the news of september on al-jazeera. in an instantly shifting news cycle the listening post takes polls and questions the world's media exposing how the press operates and why certain stories take precedence while others are ignored the

listening post on al-jazeera. sports. thank you very much for your sign bolters made his debut for a professional football team and the eight time a lengthy champion wasn't too far away from marking the occasion with a goal. the sprint legend out of three from now to substitute for australia's central coast mariners in a pre-season friendly here against an amateur but was on the pitch for the final twenty minutes of the game with his team already six still up the thirty two year old is on trial at the elite club and yet to be offered a professional contract. right now i'm just trying to get used to the guys i don't

want to hold moment to actually get a chance to play a guy live or be able to sell football so that's what i'm happy about i think along the line when i start winning championships the team cannot believe in them then that is the moment you get higher and higher and higher but i know i'm starting to be an almost ten thousand fans went to the game and as our correspondent andrew thomas discovered many believe the jamaican can succeed in his new sports. a minor pre-season friendly against a team of amateurs this was not the sort of match that would normally attract much attention or much of a crowd but this was different for one reason alone i. say this is around. the same belt is a sports megastar just not seen this sport as an athlete he won gold medals and broke a limb pick records in beijing london and rio as

a footballer his debut was here at the central coast stadium in gosford an australian city a fewer than two hundred thousand about eighty kilometers north of sydney i think he actually has a lot to live but i really want that. the average guy put itself in every orifice. bolt has done previous trial periods with the dortmund in germany and at clubs in norway and south africa he's also played in charity game. with television shifts but this was his first match for a professional club even though he wasn't playing in a professional capacity the match was against a collection of balance of play this brought together to give the central coast mariners a stretch of the legs the mariners were as expected the much better team both was as expected perhaps their weakest player but also their biggest star. coming on the subsidy same ballpark just the last twenty three minutes of the game and although his team did win comfortably he didn't fight much part in the victory but this

crowd well they say it's all about votes people have big no i think he's prevented. this. more is very trying the credit for a better way to pay for. this the receipt you see at the central coast mariners have said both can stay with them indefinitely but does not mean the two necessarily get a contract pool graduate from andrew thomas al-jazeera gosford australia and injury time when he saw ac milan basing wrong and it's a nice area that you're trying to watching on c gonzalez pass to make the final score. these morons first points of the new season after they lost to napoli in their opening game.

well tempers flared in the handball final at the asian games where cattle beat bahrain the game had been tight through outs with the schools deadlocked at twenty five each in regulation time bahrain were unhappy with the referee's decision to award a penalty in extra time qatar converted that chance when sonce a win thirty two twenty seven is castle's second straight asian games title. japan of claim gold in the women's football after beating china in that final week or so or so with the only goal of the game came in the ninetieth minutes. of japan winning their first ever women's hockey gold medal at the games with a two one victory over india india had been aiming for their first title since one thousand nine hundred eighty two. and sara lee y z has become the most successful hong kong athlete in asian games history she won the women's sprint cycling event that was her second gold medal of the week and fifty games title of her career or

just a couple of days of action left in china are assured of finishing top of the overall medals table they've got one hundred eighteen gold medals have a look at the country in third place south korea well down on the gold medal counts of four years ago with forty three they want seventy nine titles and they host the event in twenty eight fourteen defending u.s. open champion sloane stephens is through to around four in new york the american number three seed beating former world number one that torrey was ranked in straight sets six three six for the finals. in nearly an interview obviously a little rocky in the second set i started off well and i managed to have your dad in fact was good route so really pleased. in the men's draw on the line c. dominic team came from a set down to beat america's taylor fritz that puts him in the fourth round team now i'm the first of the u.s. open quarterfinals. that's one of his official saying umpire went beyond protocol

when he appeared to give advice to australian player nick kiryas during a match the notoriously temperamental curious looked on course to lose against pierre baer and umpire mohammad the highly decided it was his job to deliver a pep talk to the players curiosus went on to win four sets for the harley has been given a warning but will carry on in his job at the events. the same things happened to meet up in the showroom for whom we all know what was that moment show the referees are the same thing it's not good for the integrity the sport doesn't have a good look. and knows what's through someone who's you know being rough they get worn you know if you keep doing this unit a lot of things that have no effect at all three. it was five two down so i mean obviously no at all former n.f.l. quarterback colin cap and it will be allowed to take legal action against team

owners the thirty year old claims the owners are in a conspiracy and once employment because of his protests against racial injustice requests by the league to dismiss his complaint has been rejected happen it has been without a team since obscenely out of its san francisco forty nine ers contract last year. in formula one driver marcus erikson walked away on home from a huge crash in practice ahead of the italian grand prix. eriksson sabba car had a technical fault affecting his ability to break the swedes at no further past in the session which had to be stopped for twenty minutes ferrari spassky vettel also suffered a high speed spin but was still able to step the fastest lap time champ chip leader lewis hamilton was the quickest. ok that is all the sport for now more lights. and the many thanks indeed for the most force along with the latest news analysis comments and lots of video to at our web site take a look at al-jazeera dot com derren jordan here to update you on the day's top

stories just a few moments. but for. ages largest catholic country is witnessing a dramatic rise in teenage pregnancy. investigates why so many filipino children are having babies. on al-jazeera. cape town's water running out city or storage he said people should use no more than fifty liters of top water per person per day about a third of the city's residents live in informal settlements like this one any consume about four percent of the water for generations they've already been collecting it communal taps all sources say the city will reach day zero on the ninth of july that's when they'll turn off the water in the homes to have it be the communal council stay on. the city's taps of fed by reservoirs this is one of the

largest. because els gallop well four years ago they would have been on the twenty five metres of water since then the province has suffered the worst drought on record and. water saving measures have already postponed a zero by stream oms everyone here is hoping the winter will soon bring enough rainfall to make sure the days erode never come. this is life on the streets of and out. for many are the discovery of theatre is an opportunity to ski and become someone. for the tuition of a plane and perhaps a life time. little princess part of the viewfinder latin american scene. at this time.

are still former president lula da silva is back on loan from running up to. even though he's considered the front runner. hello i'm down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. says it's cutting off all funding to the u.n. agency that helps palestinian refugees calling it down there a deal before the operation. a pro russian separatist leader dies in a bomb blast in ukraine moscow and kiev blame each other for the killing.

and a final farewell for aretha franklin a star studded funeral in the u.s. for the queen of soul.