could achieve is a jail. it's a race against time for former president lula da silva and his workers party this is the federal police facility where the former president is serving out a twelve year prison sentence and it's here that the would be presidential candidate spent the day meeting with his running mate. it was widely expected that would give him a letter naming him as his successor to allow him to register in his stead as the party's candidate before a tuesday evening deadline for doing so runs out. outside supporters who've been camped out in front of the prison facility remained on vigil. oh the man made them. we vote for liz ideals we have a program for our country. it's the same thing for us because we're voting for a program but instead of a new candidate but they got was the message there is still not giving up hope against the odds that one of two superior court appeals that he still has open will

overturn an electoral court decision barring from running experts say it's highly unlikely that this will happen although legally lula still has options unless there's a favorable decision before september seventeenth it will be too late for him to run and that brings us back to the original question and the workers party risk it all and wait or will they give another candidate had that the chance to run as the name they have almost no time left to decide we're going to weather update next here on ars zero then weaponize and starvation how hunger and conflict zones could kill a child every minute before the end of this year. on the banks of the northern thailand just across the river is laos and downstream from here the lao government is building another big dam we'll tell you why many people on this side of the river want to stop.

hello showers reached out from turkey and reached just about cyprus in the far northwest of syria they may be repeated i suspect not really not for many any run the black sea and possibly occasionally in the caspian that's a possibility otherwise remain dry and still hot forty six in kuwait city and slightly hotter just a bit further north in southern iraq is what you might expect is only a very slow decline in this daytime heat if anything there are past still getting occasionally hotter but nothing much more to say about this part of the world it's still dry and it's too hot we haven't seen summer and occasional breeze off the interiors made things a little less humid as suggested by thirty eight hundred the chances are it's going

to become more humid as above forty probably drive below forty probably he would say was true in abu dhabi and we've seen some significant showers recently in the mountains of amman but it's really the south where you get reliable cloud drizzle and of course high humidity use for rain recently a lot of a reason we saw in south africa it moved eastwards through mozambique to the island of madagascar to tanzania forecasts wise now there's very little more to come and think up towards cape town not really. counting the cost austerity in argentina but will harsh medicine fix the economy and what about before out for emerging markets plus the good the bad and the ugly the corporate in fact of society and the environment and why but let me also paying attention. counting the cost on al-jazeera in an instant the shifting news cycle

the listening post takes pools and questions the wild media exposing how the press operates and why certain stories take precedence while others are ignored the listening post on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories this hour on al-jazeera the u.s. is threatening sanctions against the international criminal court if it pursues that vesta gave it to american troops in afghanistan national security adviser john bolton also criticized palestinian efforts to bring israel before the i.c.c. and he confirmed that the u.s. will be shutting the palestine liberation organization to office in washington. lawyers for brazil's jailed former president say that he'll keep fighting to run in

next month's presidential election louis ignacio lula da silva is banned from standing due to a corruption conviction and the supreme court has rejected his latest appeal. of the united nations says that thirty thousand people have been displaced within syria's it province in the last week alone due to an increase in the number of airstrikes in an article in the wall street journal turkey's president has called on the international community to take action to stop the attacks. a new organization save the children says that more than one child will die every minute from hunger in war zones the group is warning that starvation is now frequently used as a weapon of war between the gate and the reports. in towns and cities across syria forces loyal to president bashar assad have long used a surrender or starve strategy against civilians in rebel held areas eastern gator is now under government control but earlier this year four hundred thousand people

would be featured there many starving. a similar military strategy is being used in yemen both the fighters and government forces backed by the saudi u.a.e. coalition deliberately obstruct deliveries of food hunger has become a weapon of war and its use is more prevalent now than it anytime in the last twenty years. save the children has looked at child hunger in the world's ten worst conflicts it's found that four point five million children under five will need treatment for mt nutrition this year but five hundred ninety thousand a likely to miss out on the care they need and die of starvation and disease that's an average of sixteen hundred a day or one child a minute i think what we've seen this time is a buckin kind of a two decades trend where double hunger has been decreasing for the first time in that time period is now increasing and complex is behind that and so. yes it's

always been there but i think we're seeing a much more acute pinch on children across particularly eastern countries in some areas starvation is a military strategy in others war disrupts food production which in turn leads to hunger. in the democratic republic of congo years of fighting has displaced large numbers of people from their homes aid groups say three hundred thousand children are at risk conflicts disrupt people's ability to farm to keep their livestock jobs disappear it can lead to economic collapse that causes food prices to skyrocket so even people who are miles and miles and miles away from any active fighting or find that they are no longer able to afford the simplest of meals fighting in just ten countries is now responsible for reversing a twenty year decline in global hunger save the children is calling for governments around the world to protect children and hold to account those responsible for

using food as a weapon victoria gayton be al-jazeera at least two people are dead ten others injured in libya's capital tripoli after gunmen stormed the headquarters of the national oil corporation security forces say they've regained control of the building last week a truce between rival armed groups brought an end to more than a week of fighting in the city serious my hold up the west had reports from tripoli . the special deterrence force that is the security apparatus policing in the capital tripoli has announced that that its individuals have taken full control of the headquarters of the national oil corporation following that attack that targeted the national oil corporation and killed two of the employees and one did ten others now according to the head of the tripoli security directorate the attackers belong to isolate but at the same time the interior ministry issued

a statement saying that the attack is a terrorist attack without without naming the assailants at the same time the g.n.a.t. that is the government of national accord condemned the attack calling it a terrorist attack now the situation has called of to some extent but there is still security measures security measures have been tightened in front of the state institutions and premises now this attack is very similar to the attack on the high national election commission last may when i salute claimed responsibility for that but so far according to security sources this is this bill is the science of a terrorist attack but the identity of the assailants has not been confirmed yet the united nations human rights chief has called on china to allow independent investigators to look into allegations that it's mistreating hundreds of thousands

of weaker muslims human rights watch accuses the chinese government of conducting a systematic campaign of rights violations in change and province iran com reports . just practicing islam has become a problem for the chinese government. this man says he survived what the government calls a reeducation camp. it has. a monkey in and then told to wit it. but i don't buy table with just one like me would end up let me make it then in so many getting them all along. thinking. it was only. cleared up among dagger that you can download all the rights group says interviewed fifty eight people including many ethnic weakness and kazakhs they cues officials of all the true detention religious repression and surveillance against thirteen million muslims the government says it set up the

reeducation camps with the sole purpose of eradicating religious extremism and terrorism and to cure what it calls ideological diseases. the un's new human rights chief of michelle bachelet has called on china to allow international monitors into asian yang to look into what she calls a deeply disturbing situation human rights watch china director sophie richardson welcome the call but says much more on down one of the challenges that everybody faces is of course the chinese government restrictions on access to the region and beijing really has nothing to hide then it's time to directions. in areas perceived by beijing as anti-government hotspots many interviewee say half of their family members are imprisoned or in the so-called reeducation camps the report also cites what it calls disturbing high tech massive valence and says officials have a database of everyone's biometric data including their d.n.a.

the chinese government has not yet commented on this report but it has denied accusations of mistreatment of muslims and jin yang it says the increased security measures are to guard against the threat of separatists in the region iran card does or. russia and japan say they're ready to resolve a decades long territorial dispute over a chain of islands in the pacific ocean russia's president vladimir putin and japan's prime minister shinzo made the comments after meeting in vladivostok in eastern russia they say they're working toward signing a peace treaty which would formally end second world war hostilities. just one seat separates the two main political blocs in sweden after parliamentary elections on sunday neither one of majority leaving the make of the next government unclear the anti immigration sweden democrats party says that it will hold the balance of power but both leading blocks of ruled out including them in a coalition journal reports from stockholm. so even wakes up to

a confused political picture none of the main parties or blocs has a clear majority coalition talks could take weeks and the sweden democrats the far right party much talked about before is down in third place but its achievements are very real nonetheless pushing the national discourse to the right stripping support away from the main parties and forcing sweden to confront important questions about immigration integration and the kind of country it wants to be sweden has a trajectory you have historical past with open society open to immigration open for other cultures and they believe that their openness is the key to its success in terms of economic development and being a donor dynamic and creative and so that you think is still tickets i think that is still the case but so-called socio economically challenged areas like this not far

from stockholm tell a different story the government refers to them as segregated areas the far right my call them ghettos it's not the sort of thing one often associates with the idea of sweden this may be a country that's taken in per capita more asylum seekers and refugees than any other but it's hardly a model of integration i live in and minal the community activists both swedish born of foreign descent the challenge is that we have a society in sweden has. has been ongoing for a long time it's not something that has been just popped out of nothing we'll tell you always explaining our rights yeah actually my hero right wing or a certain mate no of feeling kind of the sense included in this is say that it's not the same for us as. if you like swedish or if you are born. in their way. this election demonstrates that

immigration policy and all that comes with it matters to a lot of people not least subject to it perhaps now lifting the lid on these things means that sweden can begin talking about them and dealing with them jonah hill al jazeera she stood stock of. evacuation orders have been issued to one million people in the u.s. as a powerful storm approaches the country's east coast hurricane florence is expected to make landfall on thursday in north or south carolina already a category four storm it's predicted to strengthen further in the coming days. laos is pushing ahead with plans to build more dams along the bee kong river despite a deadly collapse in july it wants to become asia's power source exporting electricity to its wealthier neighbors but critics say the rapid dam building is harming the environment and threatening livelihoods al-jazeera is way hey reports.

fishing on the mekong river has never been an easy way to make a living but here where the river flows between thailand and laos fisherman say it's almost not worth the effort these days. in the past there were plenty of fish here and they were big i could catch more than twenty every day now i've been fishing here for three days in a row and of course nothing. many people in chiang kong northern thailand blame it on overfishing and dams built on the upper reaches of the mekong river in china the mekong is the largest inland fishery in the world and the people in this community want the dam stopped they've been protesting against lao government plans to build a dam downstream from here in part bang which they say will impact the ability of fish to migrate up and down stream the way it can time can remain on the dams that have already been built have changed the rivers on the currents have been altered which is causing the ecosystem functional. construction of two dams on the

mainstream of the lower mekong in laos is well underway there are plans for at least seven more including being the government wants to become the battery of southeast asia by exporting elektra's from hydro power projects mainly to thailand . much of the push to develop hydro power projects in laos is driven by electricity demand in thailand under the original proposal around ninety percent of the electricity generated by the pop bang dam was to be exported to thailand but that's now in doubt after the thais decided to hold off signing an agreement to purchase power from that project the electricity generating more authority of thailand wouldn't grant al-jazeera an interview but it seems it's realised that it may have enough power and would need to buy more from laos critics say another reason to reassess was july's partial collapse of a dam in southern laos which killed more than thirty people i think down business

is quite loud soledad is no standout guideline save the procedure that late in case of backup who live in the dam break you know. the warnings the stand road access to roads to a problematic in laos. the lao government says harnessing the energy of the mekong is vital to its plans for economic growth opponents believe the cost to the environment and livelihoods outweighs the benefits not only for laos but the whole region wayne hay al jazeera genco thailand. it's good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera the united states is threatening us saying it is threatening sanctions against the international criminal court if it pursues an investigation into american troops in afghanistan national security adviser john bolton issued the

warning in his first major speech since joining the trumpet ministration of april in the same address he confirmed that the us is closing the palestine liberation organization is office in washington so we'll dock why is the director of the human rights program of the american civil liberties union he says that john bolton has long opposed the existence of the international criminal court. now he has a chance under trump do not only to shut down the investigation as united states but also to undermine the credibility of the i.c.c. as one of the foremost and most important judicial bodies that is in charge of fighting impunity and i think this is really important this is part and parcel of a general policy of the u.s. in particular under trump to deny any for injuries diction with regard to u.s. war crimes or crimes against humanity the united nations says that thirty thousand people have been displaced within syria's province in the last week alone due to an increase in the number of airstrikes turkey's president is calling on the

international community to take action to stop the russian and syrian government attacks at least two people are dead ten others injured in libya's capital tripoli after gunmen stormed the headquarters of the national oil corporation security forces say they they now have regained control of the building less than a week after fighting halted between rival groups in the city lawyers for brazil's jailed former president louis ignacio lula da silva say that he's still fighting to run in next month's presidential election is topping opinion polls but he's banned from standing due to a corruption conviction the supreme court has rejected his latest appeal evacuation orders have been issued to one million people in the u.s. as a powerful storm approaches the country's east coast or can florence is expected to make landfall on thursday in north or south carolina already a category four storm is predicted to strengthen further in the coming days are

those the headlines these continues here on al-jazeera after counting the cost next . the occupied west bank city of hebron is on the front line of the arab israeli conflict who don't really care if their own well palestinians don't like it i do like it but you just don't know but one man is standing up to israeli pressure to sell his house for an unimaginable figure the people in. the. al-jazeera world tells the story of the house that's a symbol of resistance to continuing occupation the hundred million dollar home. hello i'm adrian said again this is counting the cost on our cereal we can look at the world of business and economics this week asteras he in argentina but will harsh medicine fix the economy and what about the fallout for emerging markets.

also this week the good the bad the ugly the corporate world impact on society and the environment ethical investing is making its presence felt. plus some consumers have been setting fire to their nike trainers and it's all because of a new ad campaign will tell you. this economic emergency it's now the world's riskiest sovereign borrower behind venezuela its currency the peso has hard in value this year versus the dollar the country already has the highest interest rates in the world that is on financial life support the president is cutting government spending and the i.m.f. is trying to accelerate a record fifty billion dollar loan but will these extraordinary measures work on a serious stories about reports now from one us out us on how the economic crisis is affecting the most vulnerable. over three hundred people come to get a hot meal every day to the soup kitchen when

a site ace. the economic crisis is making life difficult for people. who has five children and can barely make enough to survive it's difficult for me to say it but the situation is horrible we cannot afford to buy food i'm worried about my children because of they don't eat well they get sick the magnolia is in charge of the place and says there is a waiting list with hundreds of people waiting to be able to eat here a little to him but some of the situation is difficult because we are getting help from the government but it's not enough if we don't get any more food we can't take in any more people it's difficult because people are hungry and they need us. the peso has devaluated one hundred percent in the past year and that has had huge consequences in the poor neighborhoods of one aside the impact of a devaluation of a payphone for a price if it's something that a war is those who are trying to help those in need it this year the prices of food

have already increased around thirty percent something that makes it difficult for people living here to buy some basic food items like bread half and me. a few days ago there was an attempt to loot a supermarket in the neighborhood similar situations happened in other parts of argentina congo we were working and heard screaming these young kids between fifteen and twenty they tried to enter the market and loot it's an example of how sensitive the situation is and it seems that the crisis on t.v. every day is adding to the difficulties we already face we are all suffering but some groups feel they have the right to go out and loot the government of market he is struggling to prevent an economic collapse and has announced a steri to measures to reduce the fiscal deficit. mackey had acknowledged poverty rates are on the rice and announced he will give extra cash handouts for the poor and useful nothing but a lot of the incest says much more needs to be done by that impetus isn't for us

for stopping inflation is crucial right now but that's not going to solve everything there has to be an increase in local production to generate jobs and for that we need to see a creation of state policies a government that has the clarity and humility to call on all sectors to cooperate at. the possibility of further rices in household basics have many in argentina fearing for the future. in the meantime there are those who are suffering the consequences of the crisis right now. well joining us now from lisbon in portugal via skype is richard siegel richard's senior emerging markets analyst with manulife asset management richard welcome back to counting the cost whatever machree seems to do to try to prop up the peso it doesn't work why is that and is this beyond him there are three or four reasons i would say it it stabilized for now that. around forty to the dollar but it is great fragile among these factors

are forthcoming elections the very uncertain international environment including policy in the future the brazilian elections in a few months but also just the general unease in argentina about returning to the i.m.f. and the l a possibility of capital flight. ten ten years on richard from the financial crisis. i mean us to is not the only emerging market to be in trouble tookey is a problem too. what's the danger here are we likely to see a contagion do you think the problems in these two countries are feeding off themselves weakness in argentina leads to that issue of weakness in turkey and back and forth and this leads a lot of investors in the local markets to fail because they don't want to take a chance in addition they can only encourage more risk especially as these two

countries have lower ratings for the time being the contagion in the local markets has an impact on those investors but not so much on the real economies because countries such as india brazil and it nisha do have a lot of buffers on my turf in argentina but the big risk that we see moving forward is really the brazilian elections because the two major candidates are not known for the markets how exposed is the international investment community to aunt and t. is economy in argentina has already defaulted on its debt before could it happen again it certainly could because argentina was tros not of the markets for so long it's waiting is still relatively low and therefore the impact is more going

to be on. investors locally but also foreign direct investment is the chances of a default near term because they do have good relations with the i.m.f. but i think what needs to happen for the time being is that there needs to be a greater burden sharing it had up to now mostly been on foreign investors and local taxpayers it needs to be more on the corporate sector which has been receiving a lot of subsidies generally for example to invest in energy and electricity where they hadn't been any investment for ten or twelve years but also the foreign direct investment investors who are going to have to bear some of the additional losses but that fifty billion dollars i.m.f. loan is that going to be enough to fix and tina's economy it will be but looking back to previous balance of payments crises of this nature whether it's

russia mexico twenty four years ago indonesia and the like the important thing is that the measures need to be taken up front but you won't know whether they will be successful for six or twelve months and there will always be aftershocks the main thing to do is just to maintain confidence stick with the program because if it is the right program and chances are that in argentina they are moving in the right direction but be patient and not expect any overnight successes richard really good to talk to you on counting the cost as always many thanks indeed for being with us thank you. well argentina's sinking economy and currency crash is starting to have a negative impact on one of latin america's most stable economies neighboring chile has seen its pace a slump in what's being called the tango effect a latin america and its reports. sent the net

a center is one of latin america's largest and most modern shopping malls until recently it was full of arjen tines conspicuous because they'd come with suitcases to shop til they dropped now they're still conspicuous by their absence. argentina represents fifty two percent of our tourism maybe we've been too dependent on them because when they fall into their periodic economic crisis the empacher here is very strong. the fallout from argentina's currency crash has already reached chile arguably latin america's most stable economy. at a five star hotel but. for us the drop in tourism will be terrible but especially now that the summer is coming we callen are going to give us work and the so-called tangle effect goes further. there is a direct impact on a large number of chilean companies who've invested significantly in argentina

their stocks have dropped and so will their profits it also affects trade because now it has become more difficult to export to argentina. while the overall impact may not be devastating it comes at a very bad time chile's currency has dropped to a two year low because of the international trade conflict and that sharply push down the price of copper chillies primary export. argentina the economy here is solid and much better place to ride out adverse international conditions but in these times of global economies when a neighbor like argentina gets pneumonia tilly at the very least catches a bad call. still to come on counting the cost netflix is showing six films at this year's venice film festival but not everyone is happy about it. but first some of the stories catching our eye this week in the stock market

valuation hit the trillion dollar mark giving it entry to a club with only one other member apple shares in the online retailer trading at around two hundred seven times current earnings that means that shareholders believe it will stay profitable in the future c.e.o. jeff bezos is now the richest person in modern times if you account for inflation but the company he founded is being criticized by u.s. politician bernie sanders the sellers of claims that amazon doesn't pay its low level employees a fair wage something that amazon says is misleading. or is a growing about weak money laundering controls across the european union a small regional branch of a bank denmark's biggest lender has been setting off alarm bells as much as thirty billion dollars from russia and other former soviet countries flowed through the branch in a single year according to reports the branch in question is located in estonia. and the term pre-crime was famously invented by a science fiction writer philip k.

dick it's a concept that's coming closer to reality japan wants to test how efficient technology like artificial intelligence is at predicting the likelihood of future crimes including economic ones national police agency is set to request a million dollars for a pre-crime experiment in its budget for twenty nine thousand. some consumers set fire to their nike trainers this week and it's all because of a new ad campaign al-jazeera as kristen salumi reports from new york. believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything nike's new just do it ad campaign is proving as controversial as one of the stars chosen to deliver it former national football league quarterback collin capper nick he hasn't played football since repeatedly refusing to stand for the national anthem before games during the two thousand and sixteen season prompting other players to follow suit not only my burning in my favor para nike is.