eighty firefighters worked through monday morning to put it out there. 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. to him. 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. mineral a court in brazil has banned the political campaign showing former president. as a candidate the ruling was made in response to a complaint by the novel party has been barred from running in next month's presidential race because of a corruption conviction the seventy two year old is serving a twelve year prison sentence for money laundering of brazil's workers' party says he will remain its candid it. the south african hour at least eight people have been killed in an explosion at a nation's that though the explosion happened in somerset west near cape town it's not known what caused the blast still to come in this half hour pleas for help for eleven million people in urgent need of aid in the lake chad region and that's campaigning for the u.s. midterms and moves into high gear we look at the so-called pink way sweeping the

nation. i'll have the rain is just about stopped falling in china now as you can see from the satellite picture it hasn't stopped in vietnam that white top has given about one hundred dog millimeters in northern vietnam but china there is flooding on the grounds this shouldn't be much more chopped up now shower too is possible through boxer who non particularly i think on wednesday hong kong might just be out of it was to say much of this most this part of china for it to be dry more showers or more rains come back to sichuan now it's been dry for a month or so and of course the monsoon rains are still going fairly strong but rather haphazardly in india maharashtra's come out of the wet his place but jharkhand fairly obviously are not true to pradesh is the area where the cloud is

and in the full cost it's the area where the rain is likely to be continuing and there's been flooding once again in order pradesh to the west it is too hot and dry temperatures in the middle east where they should be for this time of the air around the gulf states is no significant breezes to and she meet again in kuwait in qatar and in bahrain on the eastern side of society as for cloud in the sky now it's just a hazy atmosphere but the car if it's still blowing in to salalah thankfully. on counting the cost after a week of nafta talks we'll look at the impact donald trump's trade policy is having globally plus why celebrity social media influencers have a new set of online followers advertising regulates. and i just. i really feel liberated as

a journalist i love you and he's going to the truth as it always does with his job people. welcome back to al-jazeera here's a reminder of our top stories argentina's president. has been setting up plans saying that cutting the country's budget deficit including having the number of government ministries a course in myanmar has sentenced to avoid journalists to seven years in prison for possessing state secrets while on then moving away arrested as they were investigating a mass killing of the injured muslims. and thousands of people are attending an

anti racism concert in the german city of the event is in response to a week of anti immigration rallies there by far right groups. china's president has offered african countries a huge funding boost and rejected claims it's locking some african economies into a so-called that trap china has seen africa's biggest and has been africa's biggest investor for some years now the new round of funding was announced at a major summit with african leaders in beijing it around reports now from china's capital. the flags of almost every african nation were on display in the great hall of the people flags from a continent where china is consolidating its economic influence president xi jinping played sixty billion dollars more in funding for africa that's on top of the same amount he promised three years ago he said

a quarter of that would be interest free away took possibly address critics who warn africa is a risk from a chinese debt trap. we do not interfere in the internal affairs of african countries impose our will on african countries or attach any political conditions economic aid nor do we seek selfish political gain. cheese forty minute address brought a standing ovation this is a forum that will be free of public disagreement threats all goading tweets just smiling faces and apparent gratitude only one nation didn't receive an invitation to attend this forum swazi land now officially known as the kingdom of ace where teenie it remains the only african ally that taiwan has that the island republic the china regards as part of its territory in africa today it's hard to find

a country not touched by chinese investment since two thousand the continent's been the recipient of more than one hundred billion dollars. and plenty of visits from senior chinese leaders as well in total of seventy nine in the past decade including four by president xi since two thousand and thirteen. he though hasn't had to dance to woo african leaders unlike britain's prime minister to resume a in kenya last week also in africa then the german chancellor who was there to discuss traders wealth both countries were once colonial powers in africa on monday south africa's president said this grouping didn't believe china was acting the same way in the values that it promotes. in the manner that it operates and in the impact that it has on african countries.

refutes the view that a newcomer is taking hold in africa and i want to talk to us would have us be a display of africa china unity but it would seem very much on china's. a dream brown al-jazeera patient. meanwhile a major donor conference is underway in germany to address the situation in the lake chad region the united nations says around eleven million people need urgent assistance lake chad is crisscrossed by four countries there nigeria and the share chad and cameroon the inland lake is a source of water for as many as thirteen million people however climate change on population growth as seen the lake shrink by ninety percent since the one nine hundred sixty s. that on top of poverty and ongoing conflict has forced more than two million people from their homes or paul brennan joins me live now from that lake chad region

conference in berlin they mean put like that at the lake a shrunk by ninety percent it's quite shocking really paul this is they one of a two day conference i guess you know the u.n. it will be looking to countries a bit to look into their pockets and went deeply who's the leverage so far. well pledges that have been forthcoming so far have been several and we're not finished yet as you say this is day one of a two day conference some of the figures the european union has pledged one hundred sixty million dollars germany has pledged one hundred sixteen million dollars belgium and spain have also pledged money too and france has pledged one hundred million dollars i spoke to one delegates he guestimated that the total pledges by tomorrow the end of tuesday when the conference finishes could be somewhere in the region of one billion dollars that's still not the full one point five six billion that the u.n.

estimates is required to address the humanitarian crisis on the other factor as well of how much of the one billion if it's achieved actually gets delivered because another delegate i spoke to did say that so very well many of these conferences the big headline pledges don't actually ever materialize there's a discrepancy between what's pledged and what's finally actually handed over but nonetheless i think after this day one it would i think the the organizers and those countries that chad region would be pleased so far and also paul it's not just about the money i guess one of the key issues is making sure that humanitarian assistance gets to the people who need it most and ongoing military activity in the region does make that a lot harder doesn't it. yes i mean there was a conference in oslo nearly eighteen months if not just over eighteen months ago now back in february twenty seventh seen and that really was about just getting as much money in as quickly as possible because there was a famine looming they managed to raise more than six hundred million the famine was

averted six million people were reached and famine was averted this conference this two day conference is a lot more about the long term the medium to long term the sustainability resilience today the focus has been on national and regional governmental representatives on tuesday the focus will shift to n.g.o.s and humanitarian charities that work in the region and it's not just about addressing the all for human effect of the crises that we've seen both manmade and natural in this region you've already mentioned the environmental issues the droughts the conflict as a result of boko haram being in the area this is about a long term sustainable progress for what has been described by many as the most neglected crisis in the world today paul brennan at that lake chad conference in berlin thank you libya's u.n. back the government has declared a state of emergency after almost a week of fighting in the capital tripoli at least forty one people have been

killed and more than one hundred others injured most of them civilians forces backed by the government of national accord have lost the several locations to a breakaway faction armed groups are battle for territory near the city's only functioning. iraq's parliament has met to begin the process of forming a new government almost four months after the disputed parliamentary election in may prime minister hi there are body and the influential shia cleric that are attempting to form a government together to create the biggest block in parliament but a rival bloc is also claiming a parliamentary majority with kurdish parties potentially holding the balance of power well problem intellect's iraqi senior officials according to an informal agreement reflecting iraq's ethnic and religious makeup members of parliament have to elect the speaker and normally chosen from the sunni majority they also have to choose a president a road that goes to a politician from the kurdish minority the president as head of state is mainly

a figurehead but he or she is responsible for appointing the prime minister by agreement and that post goes to a politician from the shia majority but as head of government the prime minister needs to command a majority in parliament the creation of a new alliance led by the clerical error could well see hi there alibi the retain the post well i'm going to she is the rector of a think tank called the house of iraqi expertise foundation he's also former advisor to the speaker of the iraqi 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 bloc we are seeing two blocs 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 step forward in the political process know how the our leaders how and how

the iraqi leaders can manage this new situation what it cooks why the most important thing is that everyone seeing if the iraqi thinks 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 other important ministries which means that this solved the government if it will be made maybe and i'm saying maybe it is going to save iraq it's labor day monday in the u.s. which marks a surgeon mid-term election campaigning and what's being dubbed the pink wave a record number of women are running for political office this year majority of them against president transfer republican party voters will go to the polls in november to decide which political party controls congress for the next two years

kimberly halkett is in michigan to talk to voters at the state fair about the so called the pink wave so kimberly what have they been telling you. well you're right this is sort of the end of summer on officially and the start of the homestretch of campaigning and how the midterms are different from the presidential election is this time it's the congress in control of congress that is up for grabs and not only are women playing a very big role in selecting members of congress barbara but at the demographics in general are changing let's talk to me a little bit about how this could influence the voting patterns in november when the control of congress is up i'm joined by economic she's from the detroit metro times and violent touch with us a little bit about what is motivating voters to get to the polls well certainly on the left what's motivating people is anti trump sentiment i mean that there's a lot of resentment of donald trump among democrats and they see this as

a way to potentially gain control of one of the legislative bodies in congress thereby stopping trump's agenda potentially even starting the impeachment process so there is a lot at stake here on the right they're motivated by issues like the economy the economy is doing well right now so donald trump has to convince them to go out to vote for candidates that align with him he might be playing on some other issues too including focus is safety you know immigration is a big theme as well and we've talked a little bit about how women are certainly going to play a big role that many of them were not comfortable with donald trump's rhetoric on the campaign trail well in office that's getting women to the polls but talk to me overall about the changing demographics in the united states and how that could influence the vote and turnout right well actually so a lot of the changes and demographics we're seeing in the primary is a lot more lower income people who haven't traditionally voted before going out to vote but districts in the u.s. are very gerrymandered so right now in order democrats path to victory relies on

getting you know educated voters in these suburban areas who may have supported trump maybe republican but now are willing to turn their back. on him because they don't agree with his decorum and other things and donald trump has said on twitter that a red wave is coming the red color associated with the republican party the blue color associated with the democrats how likely is it that a so-called red wave meaning that the republicans who already control the house in the senate that they will actually pick up seats as the president is suggesting you know it's highly unlikely history is not on his side only twice in the past hundred years has the has the party ruling the presidency held on to both houses in congress and there's also a lot of polling that's been done on this the democrats have a good chance of taking the house about a seventy percent chance according to some of the polls i'm seeing and one quick question with regard to the issues whereas the national elections in the presidential elections you see these strong central themes is this

a case where all of politics is local no at this so it's half in half there are definitely central themes because a lot of these campaigns are dictated by what the establishment says on the back end but also you have to tailor your message for your locality will violate economic thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera and certainly this is something that we're going to continue to follow for the next few weeks until november sixth that is when the congressional elections will be held there are a lot of high stakes again donald trump suggesting that he will pick up seats with the republican party kilby out campaigning in many ways it will feel like a presidential election but in fact the case is it is members of congress that are running for reelection in some cases all the seats in the house of representatives and one third of the u.s. senate will be up for grabs barbara can really help it with the latest there from michigan kimberly thank you.

and other headlines on al-jazeera argentina's president has been setting up proposals aimed at cutting the country's budget deficit. and propping up the troubled peso in an effort to reduce public spending mockery said he will have number of government ministries also reversed one of his main policies by reinstating taxes on agricultural exports but i agree looking. to cover what's missing during this transition that's become an emergency we'll ask those who have more capacity to contribute i'm referring to those who export in argentina that your contributions a great. deal of people who we have know in regard to our governing team i've made the decision to reduce the number of ministries to list them half given the moment that's ahead of us i've decided to reduce my cabinet even more so we can give the upcoming agenda are more focused responses for these changes we're doing to our team and with the advances we're making with the i.m.f. we begin to overcome the crisis while always always taking care of those who need

it the most there's been international condemnation of the me and mar court's decision to jail to reuters journalists while long and were found guilty of possessing state secrets and sentenced to seven years in prison they were arrested in the center is they were investigating a mass killing over by myanmar soldiers brazil's president michel to mess says hundreds of years of history have been destroyed in a massive fire at the country's national museum the two hundred year old building rio de janeiro held twenty million items including some of the region's best preserved human fossils thousands of people are attending an anti-racism called sit in the german city of amidst the event is being staged in response to a week of and team aggression rallies by far right groups the event is being promoted under the we are more hash tag and as part of an effort by german civil society to position itself against the growing far right movement in parts of the

country. the news for now coming up next counting the cost. alarm hasn't seeker this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics after a week of nafta talks we'll look at the impact trump's approach is having on world trade. also this week how high can they go argentina has the steepest interest rates in the world after raising them to

a record sixty percent why social media celebrities bloggers and instagram personalities may be forced to come clean about their product endorsements. so it's been a tense week of haggling for mexico the united states and canada the twenty four year old north atlantic free trade agreement was designed as a three way deal so the u.s. and mexico surprised everyone when they reached a bilateral agreement first mexico's president elect takes office in december and so the mexican's really wants a free trade deal before then the message to canada join in or face auto tariffs it all amounted to a pressure cooker atmosphere it's worth bearing in mind that any deal will still need the approval of legislators in all three countries canadian foreign minister chrystia freeland went to washington to try to repair the damage asked if a deal could be reached she said this. you're tempting me to say something church

knowing it was the end of the beginning the beginning of the end but let me just say. a lot's has been accomplished a simon ever met joins me now from st gallon university in switzerland he oversees the m.b.a. program there and is a professor of international trade and economic development thanks very much for being with us so does this updated nafta have have the kind of support that it needs from from the business community and the general public right now the updated matter agreement especially the u.s. mexican deal will be supported by business really for a almost the relief it gives because the uncertainty was killing investment plans as for public support for this i expect it will be much greater in the steel sector and in the call sector and in the states in the united states where those

industries are well represented like michigan so what was a stake there then between between those industries that you're talking about particularly between the relationship they have between the u.s. and mexico and is it really that different from the current nafta deal well involves two things that let me answer the second one first the new death to deal is actually a very small modification of the old nafta deal it's been dressed up to look like it's a big deal for political reasons and this is one of the reasons why i think the business community will be so relieved to see that there hasn't been there won't be too much disruption to their supply chains there's enough meat in here which has been given to the trade unions however that they will be supportive of this particular deal when it goes before congress and what about. the negotiating tactics of president trump and particularly the pressure that he's been putting on on canada this week to to reach a deal this week what if what do you make of that what effect is it having so

they're negotiating to. of the trumpet ministrations a classic power play they've essentially divided canada and mexico mexico needed to have a deal quickly before their current president leaves office and that required a signature by the end of this week and then this deal was done with the canadians outside of the room and of course once the deal was done with mexico canada desperately wants to retain its membership of nafta and so will come under enormous pressure this week to make concessions to the americans probably in the areas of dairy products and and investment disputes and president trump there generally prefers bilateral deals rather than multilateral deals and he's certainly likes to tweet about it publicly what what can we learn from all of that i think we learned that in this sense he is true to his word that the president doesn't like to be negotiating with big groups or even small groups of countries he wants to deal with

each country one by one it should be said however that the deal he's doing with mexico and he will probably do with canada is a bit like the renegotiation of the korean trade agreement and that was you know these are these are deals which have been reworked and ultimately to the advantage of the united states but there are no there are no more such renegotiations planned that the united states has so i think in terms of the broader implications going forward this nafta negotiation is rather special as the last in the renegotiations that he wanted to undertake i think the much bigger questions will turn to how he in how he treats china and automobile imports in general in the months ahead yes or what what i mean can we measure at this stage what impact all of this is going to have on global trade. the impact of the read work after deal is going to be absolutely trivial for global trade there will be some mexican the firms who will want to source more parts and components from north america and less from latin america and and from china but this will be relatively small i think the big the

big factor is that as more and more evidence builds that trumps bark is worse than his bite on trade then business uncertainty and fear is about a trade war will subside and this will help bolster investment and trade flows so i think the main mechanism is actually for reducing fear of the business community that the world trading system could be seriously disrupted by any of trump's tactics mainly because he is just not converting his harsh tweets into severe sanctions other than for china who are who is feeling the brunt of his particular pressure of the moment so what's all this going to mean then for consumers is it is going to mean higher prices for some some goods for them particularly cars you mentioned cars earlier there will be a slight increases in the costs of cards produced in the north american region probably greater increases in cost in mexico than in the united states some of that

will be passed on to consumers probably is for in the small end cars which have much smaller profit margins larger calls have much larger profit margins in the firms can absorb some of the costs there simon evan ed good to speak to you thanks very much for being with us thank you very much a u.s. president donald trump googled himself this week and he didn't like what came up without any evidence you accuse google of giving prominence to news articles that are negative about him is valid to address the situation our white house correspondent kimberly how could as more. you know i think google is really taking advantage of a lot of people in the allegations from u.s. president donald trump that tech giants like google and facebook are silencing conservative opinions we have literally thousands and thousands of complaints coming in and you just can't do that so i think that google twitter and facebook they're really treading on very very troubled territory and they have to be careful

it's not fair to large portions of the population trumps comments follow a tuesday morning tweet we're trying to claim to google the search term trump news with negative results he says online searches are rigged by liberal owned media groups to shadow ban or silence conservative viewpoints that's why trump economic advisor larry kudlow says the administration isn't ruling out action even regulation you know we're taking a look at it in a statement google denies it searches are selective it says that when a user types a query into the google search bar its goal is to make sure they receive the most relevant alzheimer's in a matter of seconds search is not used to set a political agenda we don't bias our results toward any political ideology is not accurate this tech industry analyst says trump's allegation that tech giants are systematically biased against conservatives is nothing new if trump is google

searching himself in finding that a lot of people don't like him that's because a lot of people don't like him to be clear that would also been true if barack obama had googled himself but conservatives in the us are pushing back it's basically an intergalactic invasion. people they point to the recent removal of controversy all right wing radio host alex jones from facebook you tube and spotify private tech companies say they're legally within their rights to ban offensive content critics say. there's silencing dissent some republican members of congress are even arguing today's big tech companies are monopolies in the marketplace and should be regulated to foster political debate from all sides a move the white house now appears to be considering all right still to come on counting the cost i'm florence lee in states malaysia where the demand for land development and biofuels is threatening not just forests but

a way of life. but first argentina's currency continues to fall despite central bank raising the key interest rate to sixty percent the highest in the world labor unions are planning walk ounce and students have been on the streets over university cuts all charter general for. the downpour from turbulent economic storms over argentina couldn't stop these university students on thursday night. the students along with their professors braved the rain to march through one of so i research and expressed our outrage over budget cuts in education but i found that i'm here to defend free and high quality public education assuaged on a time salaries don't masturbate of inflation at the market little bit going to that level to on top of the lower university budget the country is in a crisis because of the international monetary fund. the international monetary

fund has extended the fifty billion dollar bailout loan to argentina when president . for an early release of the i.m.f. funds the peso tumbled to a new low against the dollar ending the day of nearly half the value it had on january the first and this is the place that we did dollar worth over forty pesos we cannot buy teaching materials supplies or tools he said but it's in the one that if the show inflation is exceeding thirty percent and we are earning less than we need to feed ourselves there are teachers who are living in poverty. protesters say basic needs get more expensive every day you took the rates have increased one thousand five hundred percent and businesses are closing leaving more people jobless they blame president for what they call neck anomic disaster. economists say the government needs to stop foreign currency from leaving the country however the government has the exact opposite totally deregulated market. sort of setting

the grounds for the run on the dollar president mccree is trying to ease panic among investors he has promised to restore economic growth while cutting argentina's budget deficit reducing inflation and making the six hundred forty billion dollars khana me more competitive and. i think you have to give the government times a legacy of the previous government is very pronounced very complicated but not everyone agrees that more time and patience will save argentina's economy from a total collapse all right let's take a look at some other stories catching our attention this week it was billed as the biggest i.p.o. ever the reuters news agency reported saudi arabia's king sound man has put the brakes on the plan public sale of the national oil company the flotation of five percent saudi aramco was supposed to happen this year but it's now been put off indefinitely it was a key part of crown prince mohammed bin men.