this is an emergency and we need your support argentina's president announces drastic austerity measures and new taxes to stabilize a struggling economy and currency. the whole roman you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up in her conny a leader in the fight against soviet forces in afghanistan and who later turned against his u.s. backers has died. also i go to brazil funding cuts are blamed for a fire at the national museum in rio de janeiro that destroyed two hundred years of

history. and the richest challenges the u.k. at the un's top court saying the british illegally forced it to give up the check of silence in return for independence. welcome to the program argentina is introducing measures in an effort to stem its currency crisis president c. of my creed has admitted the economy is facing an emergency he's increasing export taxes cutting public spending and slashing the number of government ministries from nineteen to tend the argentine peso has lost more than half its value against the dollar this year and took another dip on monday it's not the world's worst performing currency very worse than the turkish lira the central bank has tried to shore up the pace so by increasing interest rates which are now at sixty percent last week the government asked the international monetary fund for an early access to. a fifty billion dollar loan the biggest i.m.f.

bailout in history that'll be the subject of talks with i.m.f. officials in washington on tuesday. led to a one hundred fifty five billion dollar default in two thousand and two the largest ever in history has more from. argentina is trying to prevent a major economic crisis precedent getting an ounce to emergency measures to stop the weakening of the pace of. the fight on the streets tensions continues to be on the rice on monday people gathered to protest after almost six hundred workers were laid off from this ministry they're convinced the situation will only get worse if the budget cuts you know when you see what the government is doing you know the only thing we can expect is more layoffs a deteriorating situation for those who need work. maggie announced he's continuing with an austerity push and he would see the number of ministries dropped

to ten from nineteen he also reinstated a tax on exports reversing the cuts announced soon after he was elected president three years ago. to cover what's lacking joining this transition that has become an emergency we are asking those who can contribute i'm referring to export hers that their share will be greater we know that it's a very bad tax which goes against what we want to promote which is more exports to create more jobs across argentina but i have to ask you to understand that this is an emergency and we need your support after signing an agreement with the i.m.f. the government's main priority is to reduce the fiscal deficit but for people on the streets inflation is their main warry arjun times are watching closely the weakening of the basin because it has a direct impact on inflation which continues to be one of the highest in the world . and that's why i exchange houses like this ones i field with people who are

waiting to trade in their bases for u.s. dollars. economic collapse of two thousand and one is still fresh in people's memory when i run on the currency ended with a run on the banks. millions of middle class workers were pushed into poverty many fear the current austerity measures may end up the same way economists say the crisis this time is financial and political when the government is attacking the problems in a reasonable way the negative side of this of course of those efforts are not necessarily popular and the dogs are two votes and next year we have a very important election a presidential election but i think the government's trying to dissipate the dollars electoral year by trying to do as much as hard as possible this year for now maggie is focused on putting the current crisis to an end but those affected say they remain on the streets to fight the policies that hurt people like them.

when a situs. police in brazil fired tear gas of protesters outside what's left of the national museum in rio de janeiro. the demonstration followed a massive fire which destroyed the two hundred year old building for justice a public institutions have been chronically underfunded and there are reports the building did not have a sprinkler system police are still investigating the cause of the blaze brazil's president has promised to rebuild it. to the senior but his will. only smoke and ruin are left of what was brazil's pride and joy the largest anthropological and history collection in the americas. museum the story and regina done to us could not be consoled but. it seems like a nightmare i went to sleep thinking it was a nightmare that i was going to wake up from it was the fire started on set.

evening after the building and one thousand nine hundred three former royal palace closed fortunately there were no casualties but brazilians are mourning the loss of a new replaceable wealth of their history well we'll we'll i just saw a piece of my history the house of the empire where emperor dump had dried the second of brazil used to live on fire being destroyed i see the history of my country becoming ashes it has no price i'm devastated. this is what the museum looked like before the fire with war than twenty million items from egyptian and greco roman times to a twelve thousand year old skeleton the oldest ever found in the americas. during the process of the aftermath we're going to have to protect the patient at the museum employees will be a slow process so that we can who knows recover a fragment something that can still have a historic value a museum curator was allowed to salvage media rights that could later have been confused with debris from the cause of the fire is still unknown but many are

pointing the finger at sharp government budget cuts and say this is a tragedy that could have been prevented residents say firemen were too ill equipped to contain the blaze before it engulfed the entire palace. hundreds of angry rio residents converge and front of the remains of the museum shouting out with tenor the president and our culture is not a commodity president michel tenor has ordered the museum be rebuilt as soon as possible knowing nevertheless as do all brazilians that what has been lost can never be recovered to see in human al-jazeera phase of a bowler have called school attendance to plummet in eastern democratic republic of congo the health ministry says the death toll from the virus has risen to seventy five since an epidemic was declared in august rhetorical can be helpful. in men gain a eluding key the classrooms were empty on the first day of school. the area is considered

the epicenter of the latest ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo. and the kids here today. i think school can be a great place to contaminate each other worried parents say they're not taking any chances. we want our children to get the vaccine first before they start school. only a fraction of the more than eighty two thousand school age children in the two affected areas have attended lessons so far this week that's despite teaches receiving training on prevention and protection to avoid the spread of the virus what. well we wish the kids would come well wait this week will continue with a win as you see at the end of the wake what the future holds for us. since the outbreak was declared five weeks ago it's spread across two provinces including in

and around the complex and where dozens of armed groups operate health workers need military escorts to get to those in need the world health organization says without a cease fire the disease will continue to spread and thousands of children would be at risk of losing more than just their education victoria gate and be al jazeera. the founder of the prominent afghan group the carney network has died july ladino conny created the group in the one nine hundred seventy s. which was funded by the us and fought the soviet invasion of afghanistan during the one nine hundred eighty s. it opposed the u.s. led invasion in two thousand and one on the presence of nato forces and the afghan government the county network is affiliated with the taliban and al qaida july ledeen son is not the most senior taliban commander in this group which like where he is a political analyst joins me now via skype from kabul good to have you with us on the program how significant is his death in terms of his overall influence on the

group in twenty eighteen well as far as the death of bin how kind is concerned he has been for quite a long period of time there have been so many times rumors have been spread that he had died so i don't see a lot of impact in terms of in terms of production while it's because this guy has already relinquished the leadership to his son said i didn't have any who was second in command within the taliban ranks so i don't expect much to my change happening in terms of tactics in terms of intensity of engagement. in the outline what if that's the scenario then he went on you might say from being a local hero during the soviet invasion of afghanistan in the one nine hundred seventy s. to public enemy number one so depending on who you asked or who you ask in afghanistan how was he perceived by the public at large. well generally he was known for his not tarty during the since the two thousand and one

international community's invasion and american invasion of honest and so the people as you said who are supporting the cut intrusion the kabul based administration they would certainly see him as a. bad guy because he has been engaged in so many sophisticated attacks and he has been undertaking the most difficult ones and he has been the one behind changes that makes try minigames really creating a lot of headaches for the afghan government and international forces well scorched within the taliban ranks he has been seen as a heels during the eighty's as well he was one of those who really created a lot of migraines and headaches for the russian forces and the kabul administration so depending who you are the one thing that you have to be as he says you don't study. he's. in the. water that he has meaning he's doing the last four decades ok if you just mentioned that his son

may be the one that will take over but he has actually trained all there are many commanders in the wings waiting to take charge will lead be a challenge to you might say the line of succession. i don't see basically because the way we have gone is that the nobody can get ready if they don't good night stand. it go ahead and go up in comparison to the rest of the taliban. straight out of the nice and they have been wanting to come on ever since they are in operation in afghanistan so don't expect any kind of water affair or internal. among the leaders the it will certainly abide by and that i should you know funny actually has been leading the group for the last at least so desire. five years it's just an announcement to me and not much it's going to be a mystery and we have the breaking up a little bit just very briefly of course the taliban now actually have

a rival in the arrival of eisel on the ground how is that affected the operation in terms of the way that. the group has operated and will operate in the future now that their leader or inspiration has died well you know what as i said he has been sick in the past as well so don't expect any change in their tactics and command and and the way they operate as far as i see this concerned they have been fighting them but it's not how khan is because how can his army to get in south east of afghanistan where i still has not have. haven't had any sort of footprint and then they have been undertaking one off attacks but very significant ones where they have been making a lot of the events just like the one that happened right in front of french german embassy. a year ago so changing come on and i said it doesn't impact on his at least well for the moment to leave it there much talk to him there

in kabul thanks for joining us. now the u.s. president donald trump has warned syria and its allies not to and we quote recklessly attack the country's last remaining rebel held province syria's president bashar assad has said that he's planning an offensive to retake it labe trump is warning iran and russia who had back to side in the war against joining the attack the u.n. says any military operation would create a perfect storm for the three million people stuck in camps in the province it's calling for the creation of a humanitarian corridor to allow civilians to leave. the most powerful typhoon to hit japan in twenty five years has made landfall in the west of the country typhoon gebbie is forecast to bring winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour trains and lines are being suspended more than ten thousand homes have been warned about evacuation japan has already enjoyed extreme weather this year flooding in july killed at least two hundred people want one hundred more died in the heat wave

typhoon gebbie is expected to bring heavy rains as well as high winds the u.n. secretary general has condemned the jailing of two reuters journalists in me and maher until new guitar rush says the verdict in the case of one loan and all is unacceptable the reporters were sentenced to seven years in prison for illegally obtaining state secrets while investigating a massacre of ten raping a muslim men the verdict has been condemned worldwide well still ahead here on al-jazeera why the u.k. is opposition labor party is tearing itself apart over the issue of anti semitism and we had to hong kong to meet activists and researches trying to tackle the growing issue of pollution those stories on the other side of the break.

hello there it's mostly dry and fine across the middle east at the moment it's also pretty hot for many of us too with a maximum temperature of around forty four in baghdad on the north coast of iran though there is likely to be a bit more cloud and one or two showers here and they could also just be the or showers across the northern parts of turkey as well the risk brings with us as we head through wednesday but elsewhere it does look like it should be dry here in doha it's just been incredibly humid over the last day or so and it's still going to stay sticky as we head through the next few days as well the winds coming in from the east they're picking up they're mostly from the gulf and so here in doha the temperatures hovering around thirty nine or forty degrees and certainly feeling humid towards the south coast of oman a little bit of cloud might be lapping on to the coast there it could just give us one or two light outbreaks of rain for the southern parts of africa largely fine and dry for most of us here the exception is cape town more cloud more rain rolling in here and some pretty strong winds as well so the temperatures struggling only around thirteen or fourteen degrees as we head through the next few days and still

staying quite grey as we head into wednesday to a bit further towards the north most of the heavy showers a hair rattling their way westwards some of us in west africa expected to be wet once more in choose day some of the showers very heavy. for thousands of years farmers and shepherds lived off this land. but such a traditional way of life is under increasing threat. al-jazeera wound travels to the jordan valley where illegal settlements are expanding and the israeli military cordons of more of the land. what will become of the palestinian families and does the palestinian authority have any power to have shepherds of the jordan valley on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera arms a whole rob a reminder of our top stories argentina is introducing austerity measures to stem its currency crisis that's led to the peso losing more than half its value against the dollar present birds are back and is increasing export taxes cutting government spending and the number of ministries the founder of the problem afghan group that holly network has died july of the in her car he created the group in the one nine hundred seventy s. funded by the us it fought soviet forces in afghanistan during the one nine hundred eighty s. it later opposed the u.s. led invasion in two thousand and one and nato forces as well as the afghan government. also police in brazil if i take us a protest outside what's left of the national museum in rio de janeiro the

demonstration came after a massive fire destroyed the two hundred year old building just to say public institutions have been chronically underfunded. it's the. midterm elections. the president trumps republican party if the democratic party takes control of congress and work to put the brakes. went to voters. of michigan. at the michigan state fair women have plenty to say about u.s. president donald trump how disappointing dangerous different. november americans will vote to choose a new u.s. congress decide whether or not trump's republican party control and since women

tend to show up in greater numbers the polls than men the president will need their support labor day monday. in campaigning. all across the country all institutions are running on. donald trump's record and many of them are women. who are record number of women are running part of this so-called pink. we always thought it was possible clue democrat alexandria ocasio cortez who ousted a long time congressman to win a new york primary. by. 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. this long time sense that president trump has not cared about women has not spoken to women has denigrated women said really horrific things about women. history is not a trump side generally the president's party loses seats in the term elections 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. argentina's former president cristina kirshner has appeared in court for a second time as part of a major corruption case she's accused of taking bribes from construction companies during her presidency in exchange for granting contracts denies any wrongdoing and

has described the investigation a shameless little more she cannot be imprisoned but can face prosecution. lucius is trying to persuade judges at the united nations top call that it was coerced by the united kingdom to give up a chain of islands in exchange for independence the chain of silence was split from russia's in one nine hundred sixty five when it was a british colony the following year the u.s. lease the biggest island diego garcia and installed an air base hundreds of locals were forced to leave later gained independence but the islands remained british territory the case is being seen as a test of the legality of such colonial era deals the shameful or weeks not recall and continue for humans. to bot of the population from one of the first to. the thems hold for more than four decades for the right to return to their place of birth the choice we were

faced we've was no choice at all it was in the advance on condition of agreement to do such or no independent. with detachment anyway this was not and cannot be treated the read the first real of the people of the bloody ships the u.k. has apologized for the evictions but insists the issue should be resolved over the course compay that say people are victims from the oil and should be given the right to return to google is the chairman of the u.k. showed us support association they have been compensations given at various times but it's not nearly to the value. that the u.k. government say that it is and it's also doesn't it's impossible to compensate that kind of out reaching from the island so to us compensation is is not the issue the right of return needs to be given the u.k. and the u.s. government need to take responsibility for their actions over the last fifty years

even if sovereignty is given to malicious and achieve us in need to be front and center any of any decisions being made about the islands in the future us have been challenged on this a number of times when barack obama visited the u.k. jeremy corbyn raised the issue with him and the president then president didn't push they had no objections to the wise for we don't know what the trumpet ministrations position on this is but we we've been speaking the u.k. and these been speaking with the us and we want to see the right of return but that currently the objections of the right of return are primarily coming from the u.k. not from the us. the main opposition party in the u.k. has become embroiled in a row of anti semitism the labor party's executive is to hold a key meeting on the matter of choose to some high profile m.p.'s what the veteran left wing the party leader jeremy corbyn to resign over the issue lawrence lee has more from london. who is jeremy colvin is he as his fervent supporters believe the most moral politician in generations

a man who spent his entire life campaigning for political justice for palestine or is he as equally fervent opponents allege a closet racist and anti semites who says there's a difference between criticizing israel and criticizing jews but you blurs the lines between the two. is always been a split in the labor party on israel with one wing supportive of the palestinian struggle and another wing including many jewish labor party members who actively accept and support the existence of the state of israel but never before has that split come to the surface like this because never before has there been a labor party leader so obviously pro palestinian. but the heart of it is labour's refusal to accept several examples of anti semitic language and views as defined by the international holocaust remembrance alliance or i h r a it is deemed for example anti semitic to say that jews are more loyal to israel than their own

country or that the state of israel is by definition racist or that israeli government policies are like those of nazi germany corbin and his supporters claim this prevents them from properly criticizing israel's actions towards the palestinian people. a whole raft of labor party heavyweights like former prime minister gordon brown have demanded the party clarify properly its position by falling into line with the i.h.r. a at a time when the ruling conservative party is in the whole of a brick states labor is tearing itself apart labor almost isn't functioning as a coherent political entity at the moment within it it's not so much sort of you know moderates versus corporate knights really what you see is a sort of warring fiefdoms so i'm quite small and there's the right wing against coburn there's a centrist against coburn there's even the left against coburn there are divisions within the leader's office there are influences from different parts of youth movements and trade unions things all very chaotic the other question is the effect

it has on colvin's reputation the man to be three hundred thousand jewish people in the u.k. but repeat suggestions of the veteran and see racist may himself have a problem carry significant electoral risk liberal leaning voters labor supporting voters who think they're in a party or supporting a party which is anti racist and think they are themselves onto racists and don't want to be supporting a party which appears to be always claim to be anti semitic labor's national executive is under enormous pressure finally to change its policy though so angry is the mood from the powerful left wing but it isn't a full conclusion labor remains a policy whose membership of the leader but his politicians are deeply divided on the al-jazeera london. cities around the world struggle with pollution campaigners and scientists are gathering in south korea to find ways to tackle the crisis while spotlights being on cities like new delhi and beijing hong kong has its own problems and as brodrick ports

a group of activists are seeking new solutions. and awareness event by air pollution campaigners in a city that is becoming aware of the growing danger. this hong kong like much of mainland china has been experiencing record levels of ozone a complex mix of pollutants from vehicles and industry that's made worse during heat waves and a problem not helped by climate change hong kong actually has the highest level of always wrong for the last two decades and right now we do not know how to deal with that and it is a problem for hong kong and tied. polluted air has long been in jordan as the necessary cost of rapid economic development that's only recently been tackled legislation has been passed to control the industrial emissions as well as from vehicles and shipping and there's a drive towards using renewable sources of energy instead of coal. cities like

beijing have been enjoying far more so-called blue sky days critics say the chinese and hong kong governments have been forced to act for fear of social discontent if they didn't but the outcome for china's cities has been the same after years of deteriorating air quality finally signs of improvement i think the political climate has changed a lot and there's a lot about how our pollution being not acceptable alexis lal leads a university team that has developed a mobile app giving real time pollution readings at street level anywhere in the city. people can then plan their daily routines to be as pollution free as possible then they have a headlock information they can choose our i think that will give them some help in trying to win their exposure to air pollution scientists and activists

helping to empower a generation of city dwellers increasingly concerned about the air they breathe. robert bright al-jazeera hong kong. your children their arms around the reminder of our top stories argentina is introducing austerity measures in an effort to stem its currency crisis the peso has lost more than half its value against the dollar this year president mary sue machree is increasing export taxes cutting public spending and slashing the number of government ministries. the founder of the prominent afghan armed group the haqqani network has dined general nadine who conny created the group in the one nine hundred seventy s. funded by the us had fought soviet forces in afghanistan during the one nine hundred eighty s. opposed the us led invasion of afghanistan in two thousand and one and nato as well

as the afghan government is affiliated with the taliban and al qaida which talk to him is a political analyst based in kabul he has been to get in so many sophisticated attacks and he has been undertaking the most difficult ones and he has been the one behind jeanne just acne in again really creating a lot of headaches for the afghan government and international forces were of course within the college bound ranks he has been seen as a hero during the eighty's as well he was one of those who really needed a lot of migraines and headaches for the russian forces and the kabul administration sort of ending who you are the one thing that you have to add maybe you don't know he's a he's. you know he didn't in the. war that he has meaning is doing the border last for decades the u.n. secretary general has condemned the jailing of two reuters journalists and me and mom and turning to terrorists as the verdict in the case of one lone and it's unacceptable to reporters who are sentenced to seven years in prison after

investigating a massacre of ten writing muslim men. and police in brazil have fired tear gas at protesters outside what's left of the national museum in rio de janeiro the protests followed a massive fire which destroyed the two hundred year old building brazil's president has promised to rebuild it. challenge seen as a test case in the legality of colonial era territory deals begun the un's top court bush is claiming it was coerced by the u.k. to give up a chain of islands in exchange for independence the chain of islands were taken away from russia's the one nine hundred sixty five when it was a british colony those were the headlines more news in half an hour counting the cost is next. in indonesia palm oil is a billion dollar business want to win east investigates the price the country's pain. to feed the world's oil addiction. on al-jazeera.

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 try.