it won't default again among the announcements he make is for example. what are known as export taxes this was a measure that was taken during the presidency of former president cristina fernandez de kirchner it was a popular measure. sectors but the president said very necessary at this point he also said that he's going to cut ministries by half he's announcing also a bonus to help the most vulnerable in the country but the big question right now and that's why the president spoke before the markets open here in argentina is whether the president will be able to convince him best that argentina won't default once again and we're seeing some pictures of protests over the past week how generally argentinians reacting to this. well that's a big question is because argentina and especially the working class has been struggling in the past months let's not forget. came to power with

a promise to reduce inflation and what the president basically said during his speech is that for a period of two years that would work he took a gradual approach towards reducing the deficit but that the situation has changed right now and for the government it is tested maybe that this year's inflation rate is going to be over thirty percent closer to thirty five percent and that's something that's warning people on the streets because right now they're negotiating their salary increases for this year until now most of those arrangements has been around fifteen percent so there's lots of unhappy workers on the street demonstrations demonstrations expected today demonstrating expected this week so of course these are tense situations and tense times for those who are trying to make the meat absolutely will keep following the story closely for the moment to raise many thanks for joining us. tom long is an assistant professor in the department of politics and international studies at work university and he joins us from the now what's happened to the argentinean economy of the past year.

well it's been caught in a really difficult period where maku finds himself sort of sandwiched between demands on the domestic side which are for higher wages and argentine is a large state sector for avoiding the increase in taxes which now looks like it's coming in on the agricultural sector and and on the international side from investors who have really little faith in the argentine economy mockery was elected is someone who is seen as a competent manager an economic manager from the rights and there have been reasons to doubt that and so the current crisis is really a crisis of confidence in many ways absolutely and the big question of course is can. fix it and if he can at what cost to his own political career.

that's right he faces elections in about a year and a lot of the measures that would make international investors happier such as very high interest rates we now see sixty percent interest rates in argentina or domestic austerity which there's already been a fair amount over the past couple years those sorts of measures are going to make his life very difficult in the electoral campaign so i think he is going to be facing those sorts of trade offs over the next year the other interesting thing about argentina is this is a country where you can stop someone on the street and they will know the value of the peso to the dollar a country that has traditionally saved in dollars and so that sort of an indicator is really important for people's views of the health of the economy and for arjen time politics because a lot of people be wondering whether they have repeats at the two thousand and one economic crisis when. a massive run on the banks.

that's right and you know i think some really important structural factors have changed that's really what will will be in on everyone's mind in that crisis we went from a peg values to the value of the peso is essentially locked to the value of the dollar to a free floating valuation of market valuation so we won't have that sort of an abrupt switch but certainly when you look at the loss of value over the last year that is very much the type of experience that people are going through. ok well leave it that will not tom long many thanks for joining us from mark. there's plenty more still ahead here on the news hour including. four months on from controversial elections a coalition comes together and a rock. under fire as a two hundred year old museum in brazil destroys one of the last america's most

important collections of treasures. class and sport the former african player of the year who isn't quite managing to relive his former glories and qatar. a top level donor conference is underway in germany to highlight the needs of millions of people around the lake chad basin germany's foreign minister told local media that the region's facing one of the biggest humanitarian dramas of our time it includes the four countries bordering the lake cameroon chad and nigeria internal and cross border conflicts have led to the displacement of more than two point four million people the u.n. says more than ten million need lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection with women and children particularly at risk as a lack of jobs extreme poverty and climate change have made the problem. a

correspondent paul brennan apps the conference and joins us from that now so part of the early breakthroughs that. well certainly the germans who are hosting this conference to pitched in with an early period a promise of some one hundred million euros that's around one hundred sixteen million u.s. dollars to be spent over the next two years to twenty twenty. breakthrough if you like we're not sure whether that's fresh cash or whether that's a simple reiteration of money that was already pledged at a conference eighteen months ago and all but will be chasing got up that said it's a drop in the ocean where it comes to the estimated need of the lathe. chad basin region which is according to the u.n. at least needing one point five six billion dollars of humanitarian assistance in order to address the multiple stress and crises that are going on that it's not just the security situation in relations that i saw around that had ten years of

intermittent droughts and food insecurity. that there's a very real need for a warning to be placed at well if the place i mean what are they hoping is that she realistically going to come out of these few days. well certainly not just to get humanitarian aid but also to put structures into place and actually let's find out a bit more from one of the main delegates here. he is the governor of borno state up in the northeast of nigeria if you like the epicenter of the crisis really isn't aren't you. you are. going to leave in may of next year you know coming to the end of your tenure as governor but tell me first of all what is the day to day life like for people in borno state. where they. are what the to the people of water what you start with a computer so if you got history what their reality of everyday life especially in

the i think. it was. routine. on call i made a point in time. when adventure the phrase well of the but i mean and we have for our politicians all. of the in the nation out of community. for the wall whole program corps. and that intervention by the know it directly from the dining room and one guy three ad. so that if it was from a place that you live in gradually then inclinometer. military has their t.v.'s in. covering a chunk of land toward the local had i'm no longer of course before ten in the corporate existence of the nigeria and your poke poke around is still launching attacks on his resume is just last month in which sixteen people i think were

killed why are you finding it so difficult to tackle boko haram went in and as he met through war. in. the territory that i think in the face of the war and war alone mind you in the leg is that in the idea and penetration. the boko haram bust and also you know probably think that all they need to do is to run time to. kill from people and that is picking the international headed community will shoot off for nigeria they have been pointing that been pointing in the lands of the next question of this thing be thought when you're doing stuff because the state of ikea is now and what it used to be people years ago we have to acknowledge that there have been teaching in our security why well let's look at the sea change that's required to address the overall crisis in ten years of various different crises and this is the second conference within eighteen months what is it that you're exactly

hoping for from this conference is not just humanitarian aid the needs to be long term solutions here certainly we need a holistic approach there can never be a military solution to sort. all cry the war over by the end of the day sorted out on the network and cable so i broke a tinfoil holistic approach and compact in the military. the political and the economy because ben if they made him a boko haram and then they didn't he didn't lie there in court with the extreme cold way once we engage you once we create jobs believe me this is my business we'll have a party so this part of this meeting is that i didn't get who was more but i didn't support hall meeting. on loan from the world and ice creations of the people in the billion who are now the vision on the immediate you money here we appreciate it. we are golden but certainly we need support for long term investment in education.

in the empowerment in the fiftieth in job creation in health it's been in strengthening the primary health care because most of our problems are born out of the. mortality implement. ok. thank you very much for an on the best thank you thank you two days of conference this is the first day more money more solutions we will expect over the next thirty six hours. let's hope so extraneous there from. iraq has held its first parliamentary session since the disputed election in may eleven groups have agreed to create an alliance as includes those loyal to shiite cleric. whose bloc won the most votes. his group is also part of that coalition between them they have a hundred seventy seven members of parliament that gives them an outright majority

the main opposition looks set to be having a mary's alliance which includes many pro iranian former paramilitary fighters they secured forty eight seats in the election they can count on seventy two votes because of an alliance with former prime minister nouri al maliki these two blocs will control more than two thirds of the three hundred twenty nine seats in iraq's parliament and rusty is the director of a think tank called the house of iraqi expertise foundation he's also a former advisor to the speaker of rocky parliament he's hopeful the parliament will provide much needed change in iraq. it's a new era in the in the political process in iraq we are now seeing not a one united shot bloc we are seeing two blocks that they are asking the sunni and the kurds to join them which show you that we are stuck and we are actually going forward in a step forward in the political process now how the our leaders how and how the iraqi leaders can manage this new situation this is the most important thing not

a cook's like it's not a one shot it's not only this session it's not only the coming days maybe want to see so many changes in a few months the most important things that everyone is saying if the iraqi the iraqi government didn't have some sort of a soft government or let's say some sort of a solved structure like the prime minister needs to do to speak english to have a ph d. and also to have some sort of a support from the international communities and also. other ministries about other important ministries like minister of planning minister of oil minister of finance and minister of foreign ministry which means that this solved government if it will be made maybe and i'm saying maybe it is going to save iraq. brazil's president says hundreds of years of history have been destroyed in a massive fire at the national museum two hundred year old building and ridge has never held twenty eight million items including some of the region's best preserved

human fossils and ancient egyptian ossified x. has more. flames shot through the french windows and ornate iron balconies of this former nineteenth century palace. museum employees and art lovers watched in frustration. as firefighters fought to say who rio de janeiro's national museum and in doing so preserved centuries of cultural and artistic history you know we'll be you i just saw a piece of my history the house of the emperor where the emperor of the second of brazil used to live being destroyed i see the history of my country becoming ashes it has no price i am devastated. president michelle tamera echoed that sentiment calling this a sad day for all brazilians who have watched two hundred years of work investigation and knowledge lost the fire began after the museum closed its doors on sunday

evening eighty firefighters worked through monday morning to put it out. a fire department spokesman says they were hampered because two fire hydrants closest to the museum weren't working and fire trucks had to be dispatched to retrieve water from a nearby lake. bed to him initially injured it's a loss for the world the can never be recovered for the people of the building there's no way to get it back thankfully no one died but the loss can never be recovered and. even before the flames were put out there was anger among museum employees they blamed budget cuts by the government and a chronic lack of support. the national museums hundreds of rooms featured ancient egyptian artifacts the largest collection in latin america and the oldest human fossil in brazil known as louisa the museum turned two hundred this year now

twenty eight thousand will also be remembered for this devastating fire natasha going to name al-jazeera. now the bugs have gone from pennsylvania so when looking west now in the weather with promises of what starts a labor day weekend three holiday can even if you have kalamazoo no no have i seen michigan any way i can go there to find some potential witness at this for a bit of video there was a start of september so about a day or so ago this was a tornado spotted now this isn't a so he calls thoughts but it's all a consequence of a slow moving weather system that goes right through the midwest is this line here that tapers off down the desert southwest along it had been some pretty wet places lincoln nebraska in ninety minutes the last couple days it has rather got lighter this rain in wisconsin and michigan i was that sort of area but look down to texas this is a place to watch poor tossing come back to mind one two from harvey this is

a focus of the flooding hundred first human beaches here in the last two days that is where the real rain is falling and there's a frontal system this is still hot and humid area that missile with through new york is still thirty and humid and of course the humidity brings you rain down and down texas on the coast in the west it looks much could watch especially one thing in reading in central valley forty one degrees well above average that's hot for central california the desert southwest is hot but seems have showers recently is cool so to watch for the next wet area yes it will be in iowa nebraska kansas but watch i think down in the southern states particularly texas your. well thanks very much still ahead on al-jazeera a state of emergency has declared and libya after days of fierce battles between rival groups. and a step back in time the japanese photographer who captures the present preserving

the past. plus coming up in sport defending champion sloane stephens turns on the style of one of the best rallies of the u.s. open so. unless we have new generations growing up to understand that other nations chip with another then soon no will be nothing left and will suffer primatologist and conservationist dr jane goodall towards two al-jazeera. conservation ease helping to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat touch camera traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves we're finding all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected the latest

evidence suggests they're more cats than previously acknowledged but the slow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the international list of threatened species. there has reminded us of our top stories this hour has been why. condemnation of them in mark calls to station to jail to reuters journalists learn and. found guilty of possessing state secrets and sentenced to seven years in prison journalists say they were framed by police. china's president xi jinping has placed

sixty billion dollars in financial support to africa he's hosting a major summit in beijing games deepening ties but there's concern chinese investment may be saddling the poor countries with too much debt. and doesn't eat as preston says he is taking a motion of the measures to control the slide of the pay so he's had to backtrack on a major campaign promise and reinstate export taxes on agricultural products. also announced that he would be cutting government ministries by heart. back now to our top story a seven year sentence for two voices journalist. i spoke to the managing director of this channel. he says al jazeera joins calls for the men to be released immediately. so firstly i think it's a travesty of justice and it's a shameful attack on media freedom we stand by a reuters journalist colleagues and can condemning it and we call for the immediate and unconditional release we ourselves as al-jazeera know something about this sort

of attack on our media with how journalists ourselves imprisoned we have three of our journalists imprisoned for over four hundred days we launched an international campaign to to. to put it out there and to basically say that journalism isn't a crime they were eventually pardoned and released after four hundred days but there are still a journalist in prison in egypt from our sister channel al jazeera arabic who's been in prison detained for over six hundred days without formal charge got a lot of publicized we had presidents we had politicians we had international human rights organizations n.g.o.s press freedom campaign activists and organizations and other journalists as well including colleagues from reuters who who joined us from the campaign to free al-jazeera staff and under the slogan journalism is not a crime you can't lock up people to conceal and cover whatever nefarious actions

you are doing you know you can't put john this behind bars. i seem continues in the southern suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli for the eighth straight day at least forty seven people most of them civilians have been killed in shelling and gunfire rival armed groups are battling for control and influence over libya's in-session recognize government and to hear advantage of the fasts to regime security situation four hundred prisoners have escaped after riots broke out in a jail. reports from tripoli. has a lot he's in mourning. astri rockets killed two of his nephews when they were playing in this. god in they were fifteen and fourteen years old he said as. the boys were torn apart by the rocket their pleasure was scattered everywhere why is that it just came down from the sky we don't know where it was launched from.

but if the explosion was huge say eyewitnesses sure up near flow in all directions and damage it everything seven days of fighting between rival armed groups has taken a heavy toll on civilians. the seventh infantry brigade from the city of hona and its allies from the city of misrata have recaptured civil is threat t.j. cloke asians in the southern suburbs of tripoli the armored groups that have the support of the you and backed government of national accord have retreated to the city center random shells have a strike everywhere here a rocket penetrated the ceiling despite this turkle turkey says his family was lucky they were gathered in another room when their architected saw. everything shattered into pieces and smoke with sword bands through the night when

everybody was screaming my biggest concern is look for the kids and get them away. civilians have been killed or wanted by stray rockets during the past week but it is not known exactly who was firing then and rival on with groups battling for control of the area are accusing each other of being behind the attacks. armored groups have been fighting for control of the capital the tripoli base the government does not seem to be strong enough to rein them in. and his family are blaming the government for not doing enough to protect them. but with lawlessness in kill use in libya there are fears that civilians will continue to be targeted. tripoli. one out of every eighteen migrants who tried to cross the mediterranean this year died that is according to the un refugee agency and with people smugglers

now taking greater risks the agency says european leaders must do more to try to save their lives and the reports. these images of three year old alan curry's body shocked people around the world it was a reminder of the human cost of the syrian war and the refugee crisis three years on the dangers faced by other refugees trying to get to europe have increased a report by u.n.h.c.r. shows more than sixteen hundred people have died or gone missing while attempting to reach europe so far this year well the total number of people arriving in europe has fallen the rate of deaths has risen sharply particularly for those crossing by the mediterranean sea in the central mediterranean one person died or went missing for every eighteen people who crossed to europe in the first half of twenty eighteen compared to one death for every forty two people who crossed in the same

period last year dear reason the traffic has become more deadly he's the traffickers are taking more risk because there is more surveillance exist size by due course god's on the air trying to get the coast it does cost them more to keep those people longer in day out warehouse and. the drivers of forced migration remain unchanged conflicts in africa and the middle east are forcing people to leave their homes the solution should not just be new up to europe to sort of lead us to be exemplary units response but it's quite clear that it's already too late when the people in need we need to work downstream in country first in country are forging on that takes time despite information campaigns the more warnings through social media about the dangers they may face refugees feel they have no choice but to risk their lives crossing the mediterranean victoria

gate and be out there. struggling to make ends meet two months. on that destroyed much of their crops as david meserve reports from. failed to failed is still in the thick. and wrong. the rich black soil on the side of this volcano in guatemala is normally the stuff of farmers dreams but knows firsthand that what the volcano can provide in bountiful harvests it can just as quickly take away the deadly eruption in early june dumped tons of rocks an ash onto his field the twenty eight year old is counting on his corn harvest to feed his young family for the coming year but all was destroyed a few thought. there was a layer of ash here thirty centimeters deep that was super hard like cement so.

it's off now because we've tried our best to work the ground but this corn won't give us anything like this plant here no cob no nothing. direction of killed hundreds of people a few kilometers north of the scene of the disaster ash and volcanic rocks not only damaged thousands of hectares of corn and beans but also cash crops such as vegetables coffee avocado and fruit trees ronald is just one of fourteen thousand smallholder farmers who lost their crops after june catholic or option these people are already some of the country's most vulnerable and now they say they need help. in highland town an hour away government help is starting to arrive guatemala's ministry of agriculture is providing shovels machetes and other tools to thousands of farmers official say that those who lost all their subsistence crops will also receive food assistance for up to three months. this is the agriculture ministry

is first response but soon will be providing new coffee plants will also be giving away seed so farmers can replant their fields but these are medium term plans it will take two or three years to be able to recover these crops. in the meantime family is relying on public donations in order to survive their year had begun with such promise his family rented extra land and planted all the seeds that saved from previous year's harvest in the hopes of getting ahead now they have nothing to show for their efforts. paying for corn means buying one hundred to two hundred pounds every month depending on the size of your family so you could be paying around fifty dollars a month for corn but often you only make twenty dollars and we both work on our goal for the money doesn't go far enough. despite the setback ronald and his family are determined to get through the year ahead he and other farmers here have faith

that the same volcanic ash that killed this year's harvest will help produce a bumper crop next year david mercer al-jazeera and the department of the now go. israel's navy has fired warning shots towards boats attempting to breach the naval blockade on gaza the palestinian vessels to sail off the gaza strip as part of an international campaign against the siege on board were students activists and several people who called get the urgent medical care they need to use the blockade by israel and egypt they were forced back supports by the. let's fire the blockade they're all still so. recreational pursuits and guards that offer and escape to those living under siege by force it down one of them. is the fierce heat of the day starts to ebb it's time to get ready last minute grooming final checks on saddles and stirrups. and then out into the arena here in northern gaza

given the territories recent history of conflict blockade and economic crisis it's perhaps a surprise to find young people here competing in what around the world is viewed as an elitist sport. ahmed i was r.c. is aiming himself to be an elite showjumper taking advantage of the recent opening of gaza's southern crossing with egypt he traveled to jordan and then germany excelling in two five nation tournaments and i struggled for all of my ambition is to compete internationally in the recent tournaments i won first and second places some competitions allow us to qualify for the world cup but we've missed out on so many because of the siege and the closure of the crossings. this is final training for a gaza wide competition unlike many sports in this conservative society here girls and boys train and compete together the contests a split according to the heights of the jumps not the competitors gender if event. there's no difference we like brothers and sisters and i'm ready to compete in society does ban women from doing

a few things that contradict additions but i didn't catch all continue. but the egalitarian ism only goes so far this is an activity reserved for the very few in gaza who can afford it stabling cost about two hundred dollars a month some of the horses imported from israel even europe are worth thousands. most of gaza's horses are used to heavy labor not sport unemployment stands at forty four percent more than half the population relies on food aid all around the world this is a sport that carries connotations of elite isn't and wealth but here in gaza more than most places the contrast between scenes like this and the realities of daily life for so many is particularly stark. trainer ahmed ramsey says working with horses helps children who no matter their relative wealth have had childhoods marred by conflict and siege but he says the costs are becoming harder to sustain. so it has even well our families are now reducing their expenses including on this

port many will send their son to get trained but when they reach a certain level with competition and fees and so on then they stop. well a few days later and it's competition time relatives friends nervous parents lined the side of the arena star rider are made is finding his horse car the gold a bit hot to handle he places third this is all very you know. i did my best and i trained very well and i hope next time to win a better place it's the kind of attitude required of young athletes around the world but perhaps especially of those growing up in gaza perry force at al-jazeera gaza. now take a celebrates his one hundred fiftieth anniversary this year as a cattle japan.