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 it 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 in 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're doing you know you can't put john this behind bars. still ahead on al-jazeera why women may hold the key to donald trump states this november and heartbreak in brazil as a fire at a two hundred year old museum destroyed latin america's most important connection off trash.

and it's still remarkably hot in iraq kuwait you may not be surprised by this but you might be surprised by the level of the temperature there's nothing in the sky to stop it so you end up with some of the shooting up to nearly fifty mark that we had fifty in basra a couple days ago but forty eight forty nine is a regular occurrence now that of course is he exists only here it's about five degrees cooler in baghdad and near the coast in kuwait city but it's still the hot zone clearly it's cooler higher ground in iran and back towards the coast lebanon israel for example thirty's nothing much else to changes on shore breeze which is pleasant enough to decide there isn't a moment a significant breeze blowing size so it's humid around the gulf states which is where it should be. less so in september basically but with still there so i was

got the southwest breeze so it's still cloudy and drizzly here which is consistent was time the year from the look on the satellite picture i mean significant rain running through south africa the certainly has been some all of it welcome of course both western and eastern cape want this sort of winter rain asked for the next twenty four a bit of a breeze ahead of the cloud building cape town that green streak he's very promising rain should well be on the way. struggles of those kind of. them can be studied in kids in poor full of pleasure in our lives don't but i'm there also as an initial set of bits from an. intimate look at life in cuba today for me and mr media and me to a long time and three eggs told me it was

a little one of the most one of my cuba on coach's ear. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour argentina's president says he is taking emergency measures to control the slide of the past so he's not to backtrack on a major campaign promise and reinstate export taxes on agricultural products always your mockery also announce that he will be cutting government ministries by half. china's president xi jinping has page sixty billion dollars in financial support to africa is hosting a major summit in beijing aimed at deepening ties but there is concern chinese

investment may be saddling poor countries with too much debt and there's been widespread condemnation of a myanmar court's decision to jailed two voices journalist wallow in child's school were found guilty of possessing state secrets and sentenced to seven years in prison the journalist say they were framed by police. now mexican president enrique pena nieto is delivering his final state of the union address to show you some live pictures from mexico city right now and make it pena to will remain in office until december but this speech will be one of his last major addresses to the nation. paying out as president he was mocked by corruption scandals that involved him and his wife and it's that disappointment that many say helped leftists president elect and door when huge support in the last election and speak to al-jazeera show on home and in mexico city for us john this is essentially playing at us farewell to mexico in what sort of a shape easy leaving the country. what think what

most mexicans would true about when they talk about the shape of mexico right now is the violence this is projected to be the most violent year since the drug war kicked off in the country many people are saying that it's actually the most violent the met kurds been since the revolution one hundred or one hundred years ago now so this is something that's concerning people a lot and not only that the violence under president pena nieto has spread to more areas of the country so that's probably people's biggest concern another thing is corruption something that this government hasn't seemed to be able to to be able or willing to tackle comprehensively on the president pena nieto now apart from the international relationships especially over the last couple of years has been a big thing where president trump in power in the northern neighbor the united states president pena nieto has been able to deliver a deal

a bilateral deal so far with the united states that's worse than what was in place nuff the but at least provide some sort of economic certainty and jobs are up at the moment in mexico so there's a sort of a mixed bag but i think most people in mexico would say that they're in many ways disappointed with this president and and i was going to ask in fact just that question how will mexicans remember him what's his legacy in their eyes. what about two out of every ten mexicans approve of the job that president pena nieto has done so his. approval ratings are quite historically low in the country it's not just the issues that we talked about it's things like conflicts of interest which of affected him personally we had a case here with a prophecy that was brought on the under the dubious terms with a favorite contract that really affected him but i think probably the scandal that most affected his presidency came fairly early on in two thousand and fourteen

forty three students were taken not just by adama's going but also by local police and the president and his government really got to the lake he took about five months to visit the time where that happened he seemed very reluctant to go through with it for investigation to work out what had actually gone wrong and it really hurt a lot of people in the country a country which has more than thirty thousand disappeared people that the president didn't really seem to be taking this is seriously as he should from there it's all gone a bit downhill the reforms that he had been so proud about doing to the educational system to be educated to be energy sector as well some of those didn't quite work out as he planned others were still yet to see the fruits from so i think from two thousand and fourteen on was when he was on the cover of time magazine as the savior of mexico is the headline had it to now there's been a long and sort of constant way down the slope for him and the next president i

hope of a draw takes power in december but he's already making policy announcements what he's going to change understand. well he's got sort of we just talked about president riek opinion at those low approval ratings so president elect and this man who lopez obrador really has something to to gain that he's got a huge mandate had a lot of people elected voted for him what he's trying to do especially with the ballance is really trying to change a strategy. he says that he'll be granting amnesty for some of those on the lowest rungs of organized crime and he'll be trying to adopt the strategy to try and look at the poor to try and look at those on the margins of mexican society and to try to increase their lot to raise them up to get the better salaries to get them jobs and in that way to try and tackle crime in the country that's one of the biggest

things that he's trying to change he said as well that the poor have to come first to mexico he's already started to make a lot of ambitious policies he takes power in december then the test will be on for him if he can live up to be expectations thank you for that john heilemann live for us in mexico city. brazil's president says hundreds of years of history have been destroyed in a massive fire at the national museum a two hundred year old building in rio de janeiro have twenty million items including some of the region's best preserved human fossils and ancient egyptian artifacts natasha going to aim has more. flame 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 try to say who rio de janeiro's national museum and in doing so preserve centuries of cultural and artistic history you know we'll be you know i just saw

a piece of my history the house of the emperor where the emperor don petter 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 to mayor 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. good to hit missions it's a loss for the world the can never be recovered for the people 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. a top level donor conference is underway in germany to highlight the needs of millions of people around the lake chad by basin germany's foreign minister told local media that the region is facing one of the biggest humanitarian dramas of our time and includes the four countries bordering that make cameroon chad and nigeria all 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 the lack of jobs extreme poverty and climate change have made the problem worse. than is the director of the norwegian refugee council's been in office he says the urgency of the situation cannot be understated. it's definitely one of the most forgotten crises and also i would say one of the world's worst humanitarian crises today over ten million people there are affected there are five million people who are malnourished or don't have enough food secure we've got in northern nigeria eight hundred thousand people that we can't even reach because of the situation you cannot go to the remote areas and looking at all of this you've got we talk about global acute malnutrition under five children and there are areas in nigeria again

where these rates are up to fifty percent and the crisis threshold is at fifteen so the figures are staggering a lot things are happening people are starting to move back but it's also it's not only about we talk about two point four million have been displaced but it's also about the host populations that really took the brunt of the burden when people started fleeing and cannot be left out so it is a multifaceted multipronged crisis that we have and we hope there is still funding around but just heard a pledge of forty million dollars from the norwegian government of the next three years and we surely hope that other governments will who come across also but it can needs not only it's not only about pledging it's really about getting an interest in getting to get also not only the humanitarian actors but the development actors to see the situation start working to highlight the important work that's been done by the civil society so there are many things that come together here. iraq has held its first parliamentary session since the disputed

election in may eleven groups have agreed to create an alliance that includes those loyal to shia cleric knocked out outsiders whose brock who won the most votes by mr hyde of a body's group is also part of that coalition between them they have one hundred seventy seven members of parliament that gives them an outright majority the main opposition looks set to be. a mere is fatah alliance which includes many pro iranian former pilot terry fight is this acute forty eight seats in the election but 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 i mean she is a director of a think tank called the house of iraqi expertise foundation he's also a former advisor to the speaker of the iraqi parliament is hopeful the parliament will provide much needed change in the country. it's a new era in the in the political process in iraq we are now seeing not

a one united block 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 this step forward in the political process know how the our leaders how and how the iraqi leaders can manage this new situation this is the most important thing lot of cooks like it's not a one shot it's not only decision it's not only the coming days maybe want to see so many changes in a few months the most important thing is that everyone seeing 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 yes present donald trump is weeks away from his first major electoral test since winning the white house voters will go to the polls in november to decide which political party controls congress for the next two years and white house correspondent kimberly how kept travel to the u.s. state of michigan to gauge female opposition and support for trump as campaigning intensifies. at the michigan state fair women have plenty to say about u.s. president donald trump powerful. disappointing dangerous different. in november americans will vote to choose a new us congress decide whether or not trump's republican party maintains control and since women tend to show up in greater numbers at the polls than men the

president will need their support labor day monday is the unofficial start of a surge in campaigning from here in the u.s. state of michigan to all across the country politicians are running on and again donald trump's record and many of them are women they are record number of women are running part of a so-called pink wing we always thought it was possible clue democrat alexandria ocasio cortez who ousted a long time congressman to win a new york primary he said we were going to fight the ill hunt omar and rashida to leave both democrats will not only make history as the first muslim women in congress but will undoubtedly be part of an effort to push back against the troubled ministration in michigan's eleventh district two female first time candidates are running against each other it reflects a trend that's been going on for years but one analyst argues trump's victory over

hillary clinton the first female candidate for president was a big reason for the search there is this long time sense that president trump has not cared about women has not spoken to women has denigrated woman said really horrific things about women. history is not on trump's side generally the president's party loses seats in maternal lections that means if democrats take control of congress in november women could play an even bigger role in determining trump's future can really help get al-jazeera know by michigan. and much more news and analysis on our web site at al-jazeera dot com all the very latest on all of our top stories on the air al jazeera dot com.

hello again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera argentina's president says he is taking emergency measures to control the slide of the past so he's had to backtrack on a major campaign promise and rain saved export taxes on agricultural products. also announced that he will be cutting government ministries by half china's president xi jinping has pledged sixty billion dollars in financial support to africa he's hosting a major summit in beijing aimed at deepening ties but there is concern chinese investment may be saddling poor countries with too much debt it's the mayor of jerusalem says he'll push to expel the un's palestinian refugee agency from the city on friday the us administration announced it's cutting its funding to unroll which five million palestinians rely on for food health care and schools and near barack out who's backing the plan has accused the un body of failing those in its care and inciting terror activity and i have instructed staff of the jerusalem

municipality to prepare a plan of action for the expulsion and closure of jerusalem present this plan to the prime minister and the government of israel for approval of the plan to close down the schools and provide a better option for the residents of foreign and under sr going to zation that has failed miserably. yemen's president hadi has arrived in the united states for treatment for a heart condition is odd since twenty eleven has been living in exile in saudi arabia since war broke out he'll reportedly stay in the u.s. until the u.n. general assembly meeting at the end of the month there's been widespread condemnation of a myanmar course decision to jail to reuters journalists while owen in china who were found guilty of possessing state secrets and sentenced to seven years in prison the journalists say they were framed by police and mexican president enrique pena nieto has delivered his final state of the union address he'll remain in office until december pena just presidency was marked by corruption scandals that

involved him and his wife and it's that disappointment that many say helped leftists president elect under a slow pace over a draw when huge support in the last election you have to say with headlines on al-jazeera coming up next year it's inside story to say with this. politics of the u.s. is just cutting millions of dollars in military assistance to pakistan it says it is not doing enough to fight on washington using aid as a foreign policy tool and one of the consequences this is inside story.

and welcome to the program is a purana the united states has pakistan is failing to take action against armed groups including the taleban washington says some of them operate with then pakistani borders and it wants the government of new prime minister imran khan to do more it also says it will end a planned three hundred million dollars military assistance it's part of a broader cotten u.s. aid to pakistan which was announced earlier this year pakistan's foreign minister says the three hundred billion figure is money the u.s. owed the country for its help in fighting armed groups secretary of state is expected to visit wednesday and the issue is likely to top the agenda president donald trump has previously accused pakistan of deceiving the u.s.

while receiving billions of dollars and aid pakistan denies it give safe haven to any armed group but bring in our guests in a moment but first let's have a closer look at the figures pakistan's estimated to have received more than thirty three billion dollars in financial support from the u.s. since two thousand and two washington substantially increased its a sin. and so as lama bother in the wake of the nine eleven attacks then it went up again in two thousand and nine when congress approved a package that authorized an estimated seven point five billion dollars in aid over five years but that lucrative financial support has drastically for than and recent years especially since donald trump came to office well let's bring in our panel now joining us from islamabad a symbol of calm a security analyst and washington d.c. aparna pandey director of the initiative on the future of india and south asia at the hudson institute and also in islamabad is shot of say the a political analyst and development practitioner very warm welcome to the program miss carr let me

start with you. just how damaging are these cuts to the powerful militaries capabilities to the operation against groups. i think more than the cuts being damaging to the military's capacity to carry out anti militant operations that they have been in pakistan's tribal areas i think more damaging than that is the damage to the relationship the diplomatic damage to the relationship and kind of bringing round gore and an unpleasant such to the first very important visit because we've just had elections and pakistan we have a new government we have a brand new prime minister who was elected to the office for the first time and we were hoping that this would be a moment ago and of reset relations we've seen that pakistan u.s. relations have been on a downturn last year specially and this was there was a hope that these could be things could be put on right track but even before the

you know if they could bomb people's visit and second matters his visit to pakistan happened this this has created a little unpleasantness and bad blood the military is carrying on operations and i think within pakistan there is a certainly there is a understanding and a clarity here that these operations are only being conducted for pakistan's own benefit with pakistan's own kind of ideas about what we need for our defense of our border areas with the harness on what we need long term what we need internally and how how we look at external security so i think these will be continued and we have the military has its own long term plans on that i don't think this three hundred million card is going to substantially change those plan ok those plans are going to continue and i know it's a difficult position but they would continue let's ponder what do you make of that this cons talking about a sort of you know there was hope for a resetting of relations but is that what the u.s. administration is actually doing or trying to do reset the relations by withholding

money. in monetary terms the amount is not much and the money was actually suspended as of january of this year what is important is the message that the u.s. is trying to send the bottom line is the american side believes that pakistan has not been keeping its promises pakistan has acted only against those that are groups that operate inside pakistan it has gun system plea diffused to act against those terror groups that operate against americans and afghans in afghanistan or against india inside the country and saw with all due respect to my friend from pakistan they don't seem to understand that you did that in the us it is not a question of you know what the old argument is it's not an issue of litigating history but a matter of trust it is one thing to see that i cannot do this because it is against my national interest it is any other thing to see that i will do it which pakistan was seeing all these years and now to protest that you are not getting

paid for not doing something you are not doing. as a v what do you make of that and is it productive all counterproductive to get a country to do what you want by cutting financial assistance. well if you hear the americans friends like aparna and many others in washington and and in india and indeed in nevada stan if you heard them tell the story they've never been able to get back to do anything whether they've provided the billions and billions of dollars that the tap of u.s. dollars that was open as a free for all for military dictators in this country over three generations of the one nine hundred sixty s. the one nine hundred eighty s. and two thousands. or when you shut down the gate like in the one nine hundred ninety s. or what appears to be what's happening now with this symbolic sort of announcement

right before the right before the arrival of secretary pompei o whether you provide pakistan with all kinds of money or you provide box on with nothing whether you hold pakistan's hand and tell it how great it is which the americans have done intermittently throughout their history or you chide pakistan and put out sort of you know newspaper stories in the new york times and particularly in the washington post saying how bad pakistan is ultimately bucks on the ends of doing what pakistan wants to so i think what probably a lot of folks around the world need to look at is the relationships that pakistan is in where other countries are able to get pakistan to do what they want pakistan to do and most of the time the way that happens like with any other country is when other countries align their strategic interests and their security interests with the interests of the party that they're interested in if people are interested in getting pakistan to act in other people's interests in afghanistan then they have

to give some attention and consideration to pakistan's interests and of honest on as well in this con what do you make of that i mean the defining issue of the u.s. relationship with pakistan is of gonna start on what is all of this you know the withholding of military assistance the souring of relations going to mean for the pakistan pakistan's relationship with the afghan taliban and is the u.s. losing the leverage that it has through pakistan with the afghan taliban by cutting this funding. i think that relationship us pakistan relationship over the issue of support of dollar bond or the sanctuaries of dollar bond at least that's what the u.s. and others have accused barca fan of having centuries of taliban on pakistan side has always been a sticking point in this relationship last last seventeen years since after nine eleven and the u.s. intervention that has always been the case and it has put the relationship under strain at various various points this is not the first time but i think what is

changing and which is interesting this time around is usually what you list the leverage that u.s. had tried to use all the tools edward had tried to use to kind of pressure pakistan with more security related impact and they used to be far more drone strikes suddenly they used to be far more border hitting our border skirmishes before that and various other kinds of pressure was put more direct security centric pressure was put around but i think globally we're seeing a change that it's in since president trance last year security policy has come out there is a mortar for of a desire to kind of use economic means and measures which are considerable u.s. has considerable economic might also leave people keep forgetting that u.s. has looked like a great unilateral military power in the world but it also has acute huge economic clout also globally and we see us using that economic clout now as part of sanctions with iran is concerned russia is concerned even in the trade bilateral

discussion that china so i think pakistan also this is the kind of the trend that we are to see going forward we've seen secretary secretary bumpier was kind of not very on a very undeveloped can comment on the i.m.f. but it's ongoing in the and therefore and that how that the america being a big contributor to i.m.f. is going to have a v. dorsey in it and then now suddenly kind of coming out with this three hundred million aid as measured over said before nobody was really expecting this c.s.f. funding to come out at this moment but there is this kind of symbolic symbolism of putting economic pressure on pakistan because at the right. you may know in the new government has come in pakistan is in a bit of a economic crunch just out of balance of payment are concerned economies not doing about pakistan have been growing five point four percent last few years which has been tremendous you know because we've gone through a whole beat of internal insecurity and terrorism so coming out of that pakistan has been growing five point four percent yearly g.d.p.

is good in the internal market is very good but there is an economic crunch and i think the u.s. is kind of emphasizing the economic relationship and how that globally counts not just with pakistan so it's interesting to watch that there's a different thornell impact of how u.s. is dealing with pakistan i do want to put that same question to miss pondar and hear what you think do this i mean how much leverage does pakistan have would the afghan taliban again. is the key issue in this relationship and what will you know again what will this sort of cutting of funding mean for how much pakistan cooperates with the u.s. when it comes to the afghan taliban. it really sort of i have three pointed on so one is a question of interests and goals i mean if you look at it what does the united states and what does afghanistan or the new do these new country seek in

afghanistan a stable afghanistan which does not which is not influenced by by by groups like the afghan taliban or the hakani network on the other hand or does the pakistani military intelligence establishment support the afghan taliban the haqqani network so they are no shared goals did they are no shared interests and this has been a repeated back down in u.s. pakistan relations going back decades. that the two sides have never shared goals have never shared interests they have temporarily just been together for certain tactical reasons second the question of leverage the united states has provided over thirty three billion dollars in aid and reimbursement to pakistan and assistance and has helped pakistan in its almost seventeen times that pakistan has gone to the i.m.f. for a programme. all of those programs actually only one program was actually implemented fully by pakistan. the third point which is that how much of influence does

pakistan have over the afghan taliban i am one of those who believes it has tremendous influence but the question is does it want to use it back a stand has before did not do use it or claims it does not have it because form pakistan's point of view and afghan taliban or lead afghanistan just like i'm. going to stand is helps its regional interests which are trying to contain all put down india so we have to look at a point we did what is up but what does pakistan want and how divergent is pakistan's interest from the interest of afghanistan the interest of united states and india. ok i do want to broaden the discussion now because u.s. president donald trump has cut aid to a number of countries in recent months he's ended all funding for the un's palestinian refugee agency that provides schooling and health care to five million people it denied egypt almost one hundred million dollars in aid and is holding

back another one hundred ninety five million until it sees what it calls improvements and cairo's record on human rights and democracy and at washington withdrew military assistance from myanmar over that country's crackdown on a muslim in rock kind of state so we're seeing you know missed as a do you think that we are seeing the u.s. or this u.s. administration jews funding millet whether it's military funding or humanitarian aid as a political tool in a way that previous u.s. administrations might not have. well if you don't mind i mean i'd like to zoom out and broaden this even further i think the first thing to understand and appreciate is that foreign assistance whilst almost overwhelmingly ends up benefiting the people that deserve it and tends to be at

least from the view of the taxpayer that's providing that funding is genuinely a benevolent act you know an act of compassion and humanity but the way in which foreign assistance and international aid is often programmed and the way it's directed and funneled is often informed by political objectives and there's nothing wrong with that the countries that provide aid to other countries are looking to achieve strategic and or tactical objectives so there's nothing wrong with the us choosing to use its money in whatever way deems necessary i think the question for a country like pakistan or any other country that is a net recipient of aid is whether or not that country knows what it wants and whether or not that country then can can channel the aid in the direction that it feels is best for its interests so i having worked in international assistance and international aid myself for many many years i've i've never found either

a donor country or the recipient country at odds because at least the work that i've done most recently for example with a lift a long campaign which we just closed last week we always found that both the u.k. we deify deal which was providing the funding and the box on the government which was in many ways the target of that funding there was never any sort of you know lack of coherence or what i think i'll just tell you about one of mine values that so i think you know a lot of it right but if you're talking about say the example of the us administration cutting aid to the un agency that's responsible for palestinian refugees there is a complete difference and and. the u.s. administration is asking for and what the palestinians see as being fit misc can the palestinian leadership have said that the us administration is actually using. terry an aid as blackmail and that it's not going to force them to the negotiating

table if we look at this case how do you see the u.s. cutting funding to agencies that are in charge of looking after palestinian refugees and the response to it i think there's a big difference we would we were talking about military theater of bitters coalition support fund which is more military aid for military to carry on it operations i think comparing it to human a tear in a different absolutely different thing humanitarian aid goes to people to sustain themselves who have been you know where who live livelihood shelter food nutrition water all that access is denied to basically a matter of life and at so what we're not saying that they're the same what i think that we are doing and we can validate as hourly we're talking about the u.s. you know doing a little aid whether it's going to anyone or literally absolutely condemn knowable . no i think it's completely condemn the world and i think it's showing a very kind of heartless way of doing foreign policy and it's surprising because

the u.s. has stored for him and for for actually for right and freedoms and support for oppressed people around the world i mean that that's how we've looked at the u.s. and it it's actually a huge negative to their own image and to their own international multilateral image to do this. you know though i don't think there's about a little with which we were created that we're talking here i don't know anything any other word but to condemn it as misconduct what do you you know what do you think of what the u.s. is doing say with the case of you know cutting aid to palestinian refugees do you think that they're actually so serious about wanting to negotiate with the palestinians because it's not having that impact are they trying to use aid as a political tool in this case. i actually do not work on the middle east on israel or palestine so i will not be able to answer that

part of the question i would much rather touch on what i had mentioned about the ied being cut to egypt so countries that had that have been military or security are allies of the united states with egypt or to spark a stand with or in the case of burma they're trying to guard aid myanmar the reason i mean one may disagree with how it is done but one realtor about if you try and look from the american point of view the email is to send the message that we cannot keep providing you security aid and military assistance on the grounds that you promised that you would do something but you are not doing it and so maybe maybe cutting off aid is the v.a. to either seaver that or not we share any interest still or to make you do something that you said you would do but you have not done up till now but in the cases of egypt you know cutting funding because they say they have concerns over their human rights democracy and myanmar or that governments attacks on the revenge

or would you say that that's made any difference at all if you look at egypt sort of human rights and democracy record now or the fact that myanmar is completely denying all of the allegations against its government for its treatment of the. all i would say is that sometimes instead of giving money it may be a good way to check whether or not you have any leverage if i don't have leverage why should i give good money after bad. and if i do have leverage maybe my cutting off money really lead you to rethink ok i want to put the palestine question to mr say the as well because you do work in development you know there are so many people that have said for a long time that this actually excuses the israeli authorities as an occupying power to provide for palestinians and that aid money is keeping the sort of status

quo of occupation in place so current cutting aid to actually have unintended positive consequences in the long run. i think there's been a lot of sort of analysis and research that looks at sort of the potential downsides of aids and the way in which not just in the palestinian example which is obviously more stark and i think it evokes much deeper and stronger emotions particularly for people that care about how other human beings are treated but i think in terms of aid itself there's a lot of arguments that suggest that aid is largely an instrument to sustain the elite capture that so many of these developing countries are susceptible to and victims of because instead of forcing governments and and states to make difficult choices aid basically papers over those dysfunctions and those imbalances in the

economy and in the fiscal realities of a country i think pakistan might serve as as a really interesting case study because as aparna mentioned box on has repeatedly gone to the i.m.f. box on has been an aid recipient for most of its existence and yet what's really interesting is that everybody keeps coming back and you know the rates of of the loans keep decreasing it never seems to end so clearly in terms of leverage there is something about pakistan that the united states has and i disagree with aparna she mentioned earlier that it's only been a tactical relationship but when the mujahedeen were being supported by the united states were being feeded and celebrated at the white house just on was it was a key partner so was israel so was egypt you know india was obviously left out in the cold back then but you know at that time the u.s. and box on were very much to teach it partners and they sought and achieved

strategic game including the defeat of the soviet union and its and its various allies so i think aid is obviously always has a political dimension to it and i think it's up to the countries that are receiving as much as it is we have the countries giving. to determine how it's best use ok mrs a we don't have long left in the program and i would like to give put those points those very important points to both ms khan and miss pandey miss can let me start with you do you think that this sort of new u.s. strategy is going to work in the long run an important relationship with pakistan. i don't think so i think they're going to be reset and change of it in this strategy for me as a temporary negative downturn ok the relationship has been on our on on and downturn but i think this economic strategy or trying to use aid as a leverage right it's more of far off the shore and trying to shore they all are

actually something something has been done ok miss carew apologized but i only have about a minute left and i would like to give miss pondar the last word you have about thirty seconds on this. i do believe that we should give this policy a chance we've tried everything else from massive amounts of economic aid military aid. sort of cutting off aid maybe cutting off aid will achieve something on both sides maybe pakistan really think its interests maybe the u.s. will rethink what it is what it wants from pakistan so why not give it a try or i responded thank you very much and thank you all for your very interesting views on this subject. in washington d.c. and say the also and islamabad and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and a further discussion to go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward

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thank you for joining us argentina's president says his country is facing an emergency as he announced a raft of tough measures to savage economy and the sliding currency mockery declare that half of the government's ministries will be eliminated and new export taxes impose which he admits is a very very bad idea you know assman spain made a day before argentina goes to the international monetary fund to ask for the early release of a credit line the peso has lost about half of its value this year but i agree looking for. cover what's missing during this transition that's become an emergency will 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 want to go in regard to our government team have 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 response for these changes we're doing to our team

and with the advances we're making with the i i mean we begin to overcome the crisis while always always taking care of those who need it the most live to al-jazeera serious a bull in buenos aires three so will the marquise announcement be enough to control the crisis in a piece of people. well that's the big question right now and there's lots of skepticism about what will happen next they're not forget that the government. back in may when this whole crisis began already thought of that going to the international monetary fund for an emergency loan would be enough in order to control the crisis but that didn't happen and the situation continued to deteriorate because of internal and external problems and that's what the president said he said that the government for a period of two year had tried to get a gradual approach towards reducing the fiscal deficit in the economy but the situation right now with what it's forcing the government right now to take

emergency meds measures like. for example exports on tax on exports and reducing ministries among other measures and for the press i mean we will have to see and can do due to money to will most economists we have spoken to say that the government is trying to control the crisis right now but that it's not taking the necessary measures to attend to the recession that is happening in the country to attend the inflation that's a government was hoping this year to be between fifteen and twenty percent but now it is effective to be between thirty five and forty percent so there are many other issues surrounding the current crisis in argentina and even though it might seem that the government is trying to deal with the media to once they might request a lot of more and more spin the impact of this economic crisis on argentinean politics theresa. well

it's definitely will have to see whether the government is able to control a run on the currency and a run to the banks which is basically what happened back in two thousand and one when the big economic crises here happened in argentina and left around sixty percent of the population in poverty vis of course in the current situation of course causes lots of tension not only on the streets with the labor unions who are demanding salary increases within the ruling cause. lucian's because there's lots of discrepancy within the coalition itself but also about what will happen in argentina elections are expected to happen in one year and all of you see the current crises have the terri rated market is the image and we'll have to see how well he does when election time comes thank you for forest in buenos aires well let's not get the view of collin harding who's a south america analysts and is the director of the consultancy latin for his rise from manchester in the u.k.

thank you so much for being with us again on al-jazeera as jesus said there are a lot of skepticism about what korea announced today the policy of taxing agricultural exports has been done before but of course he's going here back on a major campaign promise you think this is going to turn into a political crisis for. quite possibly so yes i mean the government i'm actually government came in with an image of discipline competence reversing the policies of the previous government which it was arching to enter into into this terrible fiscal mess and now they're reversing to illustrate this which mcrae had abolished the taxes on the on the export sector which is mainly their cultural products like sawyer research now and there which are one of the mainstays of the economy but it would be a crisis really erodes because this images are initially image of all of our competence and discipline and determination what was that because that's what i was

i asked the kids yet been you know why did why do you think the confidence in argentina's economy went down i mean mauricio mockney came to power and he was after all a business friendly conservative man what do you think went wrong way the way did he go wrong. well i think he said mr self that really it tried to be a gradualist to try to introduce gradual change into a situation that really cool for growth aggressions and he's now saying well that was our order service the wrong approach you're going to have to change and it is slashing at this lines at the conference in half this reintroduction of policies that he treated me and army deployed so he's trying to integrate could be a bit well radical i think are a lot of commentators the research will not really radical enough and going back on his route to liberalize the economy it doesn't look as if he's there actually in control and going to the i.m.f. for help is obviously not a very popular move given the history do you think this is going to help the some

around. well he hopes he's sending his parents minister of finance in washington to sharm getting the dispersement of the fifty billion dollars loan forward in order to stop the deterioration of the national situation. there matter to be committed to supporting him because they are true to the general trend of his policies. but of course create a yes as you say. they are not superior because of the historical memory of the terrible suffering and austerity policies that were imposed after treatises this it's just that so he's in crisis or precarious position in what appeared to be going so well at the beginning with the economy being reasonably well going to. recreate his pocket of georgia percent approval rating that is not really all that where it's going to be very hard to to restore that situation colleen harding as

always very good to get your thoughts thank you very much for joining us here olling is out. no political strings attached that's what china's president xi jinping told african leaders as he promised them another sixty billion dollars in financing at the start of a summit in beijing china's also denied knocking african economies into a death trap agent brown reports. the flags of almost every african nation were on display in the great hall of the people flags from a continent which china is consolidating its economic influence. president xi jinping pledge 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 at 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 on economic aid nor do we seek selfish political gains. 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 trade as well 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 their values that it promotes. in the manner that you do upon the. impact that it has on african countries. refutes the view that a newcomer merely is taking hold in africa and i want to talk to this would have us be

a display of africa china unity but it would seem very much on china's terms adrian brown al jazeera beijing. governments around the world are condemning a decision by a court in convicts to reuters journalists of breaking state secret laws the un's new human rights chief michel bash is calling their child a travesty of justice while owen and child so all were arrested in december while investigating the killing of a range of muslims by myanmar soldiers when he reports from neighboring thailand. instead of walking free while alone inch or so who were taken from court and back to prison throughout this ordeal the reuters journalists had remained defiant and positive and that continued even after hearing that been sentenced to seven years in jail oh no no this is directly challenging the democracy and media freedom of our country we will calmly face the situation with our best efforts in the appeal since we do not do anything we have no fear we are going to do our best to face it .