here on the ugandan side of the lake the regulations say that all passengers are meant to wear life jackets been given some of the ride in this both although not in brilliant condition. the more over here often there aren't enough to go around difficult for the authorities to enforce the rules relate passed three hundred kilometers long waterways are crucial for trade and everyone here is working on a tight budget he kept running for a decade before they retired. stopped running after it collided with another in two thousand and five. back in tanzania relatives wait for the bodies of loved ones the whole community deeply traumatized the president ordered the operators to be arrested but even if they face justice it won't bring loved ones back home where al jazeera uganda. the u.s. has killed at least eighteen fighters in an airstrike about fifty kilometers outside of the southern somali city of. it follows an attack on american and local

forces on the ground u.s. involvement in somalia has grown under the presidency of donald trump there have been at least twenty strikes this year the u.n. humanitarian chief says yemen is approaching a tipping point as famine threatens a large chunk of the population three quarters of yemenis that twenty two million people are in need of some kind of humanitarian assistance of protection andrew symonds is a refugee camp in djibouti where nearly two thousand yemeni refugees are struggling to survive. they're hungry like millions of fellow yemenis they've left behind these men have just arrived in old book huddled together in some shade having being smuggled out of yemen for two hundred dollars each. it was a laugh and it's a war we don't want to be part of says this man explaining that he and the others

feared they'd be conscripted to join who thier rebel forces. this is where they'll end up with families who may have refuge but little else this man has fresh drinking water but can't afford to buy food so his family has to get by soley on emergency aid learn and get lost so let's what there was a lot we don't receive anything but enough to survive from the u.n. we don't have the instruction needed for our children the elderly even us it's a grim existence here in the sweltering thinks of such a dry arid and infertile place the natural focus though of aid agencies is across the water in yemen where by the day the situation for the people is getting more and more critical. in a remote yemeni village they continue to take leaves from trees is their only means

of survival these two brothers know that cooking and eating the leaves will lead to sickness but it provides more miller day for their extended family and it's a choice between malnutrition or eating lovely it's. generally not enough for the children are suffering from constant diarrhea translates and fever we don't know how and where we can treat them we get no help no one there is no relief organization in our area when we go asking for help we get nothing. some of the children and babies from the village of. the province have ended up here in this medical clinic. you can see what aid agencies warm is a crisis for the young weak and hungry that's growing bigger. yeah the war in the famine has caused a spike in the number of those who eat the vine leaves which is leading to an increase of malnutrition cases the vine leaves a highly acidic substance that reduces absorption in the intestines and the stomach

is a very dangerous condition. less than a week ago when i was there are reported on the clinics work this little girl's a fish mohammed was waiting for treatment she has since died the medical staff are fighting against one of the consequences of war and the losses are higher now than ever before. andrew simmons al jazeera oh book into committee. still ahead announces era on the eve of the maldives presidential election police raid the opposition's campaign headquarters. and comparing trauma to hit how documentary maker michael moore is raising the fire height again.

hello again we're here across united states we did see a lot of active weather in terms of severe weather with this system right here pushing across the great lakes and into canada that's still going to cause some problems here along the eastern seaboard then down towards texas this ribbon of moisture caused by actually a tropical depression from mexico really pumping up the moisture there causing some localized flooding in some areas now temperatures are going to be going down over the next few days so for new york sunday twenty one degrees you there they're going to be seeing only about nineteen but we are picking up some drier and also sunnier weather but still quite wet down here across much of the southeast miami though a nice day for you at thirty one and over towards los angeles well sunny at about twenty six degrees as i make way down here towards the caribbean we are watching a tropical depression just to the east of the islands right there picking up a little bit of the clouds on the satellite image and then as we go towards the next couple of days we do expect to see that storm start to intensify maybe toward tropical storm but probably not to a hurricane as it makes its way towards the west clear for center domingo thirty

one degrees for you there also clear for parts of kingston jamaica thirty one and have in a finally the rain is on your forecast with a temperature of about thirty one and then very quickly we are seeing some very hot conditions across a sense in thirty seven degrees for you there in rio at twenty nine. counting the cost this week tariffs on thousands of products the biggest trading giants on the planet escalate their trade war the worst performing currency in asia india's rupee plus ice cream sales are melting away in carb. counting the cost on al-jazeera. the opportunity to understand a very different. people and we don't leave.

you watching out to see a time to recap our headlines now some of the envoys of the u.k. netherlands and denmark accusing these countries of harboring opposition groups earlier gunmen attacked a military parade in the killing twenty five people the iranian military says the attackers were trained by two gulf countries with ties to the u.s. and israel. the woman who's accused donald trump supreme court nominee of sexual assault will testify before the senate judiciary committee on thursday cavanaugh will give his side of the story to the committee to that day he denies assaulting christine for the party and nine hundred eighty two. rescuers in tanzania have found a survivor inside

a ferry which capsized two days ago the man was trapped in an air pocket making him one of only forty one people who survived at least two hundred nine others drowned when the ferry tripped over in lake victoria. voting has just begun in maldives presidential election these are live pictures from a polling station in the capital mali. incumbent president i mean has been in office since two thousand and thirteen he's seeking a second five year term but he's been accused of silencing opposition voices on saturday the campaign office of the main opposition candidate was raided by police alex go topless has more. it's famous as a holiday islands destination popular with newlyweds on their honeymoon but in the run up to the presidential election in the maldives on sunday there are allegations by the opposition of voter intimidation and security crackdowns we keep they are going to be. but we take part in them believing that our support is so.

that we will be able to overcome that. despite the alleged intimidation opposition challenger. has been campaigning for votes. president delay yemenis aiming for a second term he declared a fifteen day state of emergency earlier this year provoking concerns the country is sliding towards authoritarianism i would like to call it an undemocratic dictatorship now the current regime president whatever you are doing of course it is like kind of authoritarian. but then what are you doing doing you know. like he is changing the constitution amending the constitution. as well his. given his boost to the economy using cheap chinese loans for large infrastructure projects such as the chinese maltese friendship bridge opened last month after four

years of construction. the apparent reliance on large chinese loans has raised concerns about china's increasing influence as the chinese buy with india for a say in the strategically situated indian ocean archipelago. topless. the vatican has settled a seventy year old dispute with china pope francis has agreed to recognise seven bishops who were appointed without his approval pope francis says he hopes the deal will heal wounds of the past and bring about for catholic unity in china china has some ten million catholics. this is the end of a process that's really the beginning it's also important to remember that while it's come to fruition under pope francis if pope benedict had a letter to chinese catholics in two thousand and seven he was working for the same goal. john paul the second had made legitimate

a number of illegitimately ordained bishops so this this is really the work of thirty years and three pontificates the objective of the accord is not political but it's pastoral what that means is the faithful in china that they have bishops who are in communion with the pope but at the same time recognized by the chinese authorities. has more from the chinese city of chengdu. and what's being described by both sides as a provisional agreement the vatican will now recognize seven bishops here in china that were originally appointed by the chinese government now that is a big move because previously the vatican said that the pope himself had to appoint but they are now recognizing the seven essentially the catholic community here in china has worked on two different levels there's been a church that has been authorized by the chinese government that's what these bishops were approved through that authorization process then there was an underground movement working with bishops who were appointed directly by the pope

how are those going to integrate that's going to be the big step the big challenge moving forward the pope obviously making this decision because he wants better access as he says to spread the word of the catholic church in china they are very relatively small community about ten million here in china the vatican wants to expand that china's role is now looking like they want to integrate these communities but what still needs to be done is really details of how it's going to move forward right now both sides even though it's a provisional agreement both sides saying the details are still yet to come and both sides responding to questions about details both very very vague. more than one hundred fifty thousand people in canada's capital are still without power after a powerful tornado ripped through ottawa on friday the mayor says the city was left resembling quote a war scene and it could be days before electricity is fully restored meteorologist reported winds of up to one hundred ninety kilometers per hour the tornado touched down twice in ottawa before moving on to the neighboring province of quebec. the

u.k.'s main opposition party is warning it will call for a general election if the government brags the deal falls short of labor's leader jeremy corbyn says he'll challenge the prime minister on any deal made with the e.u. friday may said the e.u. had reached an impasse she called for the block to come up with a viable counter proposal britain is due to leave the european union in march we will challenge this government's on whatever deal it brings back on our six tests on jobs on the ring standards on environmental protection and protection of those jobs and the ability of an incoming labor government to infest and intervene in an economy to bring about decent wages jobs and full employment. and if this government cable giant comcast does outbid rupert murdoch's fox in

a blind auction for u.k. broadcaster sky sky has twenty three million subscribers it owns the u.k. rights to broadcast premier league football and the entire h.b.o. catalogue of balance made it one of europe's most profitable television companies comcast bit of twenty two dollars sixty cents a share gives sky a value of around forty billion dollars. tara jackson otherwise known as matter of money is a personal and business finance specialist she says the takeover is part of comcast push to go international comcast. fox they're trying to get the market share back with from from all the giants from netflix to amazon taking with the live streaming and so they're noticing there's a big hit in their viewership and their customer base so in order to be able to compete with those they have to move international so this merger with sky is definitely going to help them get back on the playing field they're going to be

able to get the market share and dish will resources a diff digital services especially with all the money that's being poured into it going into the united states markets within that so it's going to be a win win for the viewership internationally as well as with the united states and set other precedents i'm sure with other major mergers within that that so it now allows them to compete with the likes of amazon netflix and apple a chinese hospital ship has docked in crisis hit venezuela it will treat people for the next week before continuing and eleven nations for last month the u.s. sent a similar ship to neighboring colombia venezuela is experiencing a deafening economic crisis which has led to a shortage of food medicine. it's a film which compares the rise to power to. the latest documentary from my

home all provoking all sorts of opinions fahrenheit eleven the sequel to found high nine eleven about president george w. bush from new york. he's one of america's most popular documentary makers and he's also one of the most polarizing focusing his lens on everyone from george w. bush now watch this drive from my dad to the national rifle association to the u.s. health care system it was only a matter of time before michael moore set his sights on america's polarizing president donald trump. how. did this happen in his latest movie fahrenheit eleven nine michael moore examines the reasons why trump won what seemed at first like an unlikely race to the presidency and most controversially at one point compares his rise to that of adolf hitler in germany in the one nine hundred

thirty s. richard penus a professor of film studies at columbia university he recently hosted a q. and a with more on the new movie he thinks the comparison is fair here and read statements that are terrifying you know coming from the president or some of his underlings it's important to realize i think that fascism is one thing and like every other system it evolves so i think fascism of the one nine hundred thirty s. would not be fascism in the twenty first century will have its own characteristics the movie is wide ranging in scope using examples as diverse as the parklane school shooting to the polluted water crisis in his hometown flint michigan to get the point across a scattergun approach that he's been criticized for in his past films one of the things about michael's films that there's a certain or shocks quality just a guy who has a camera and i'm gone. and out there whatever they think where at least on me in terms of a political tool there's less of that here so i think you really shows what he

wanted to film very very closely and i think the sequences are very well constructed michael moore says he intends fahrenheit eleven nine to be a wake up call to america showing people not only how donald trump got into office but how they can take him out but with so many people having already made up their mind about this proudly liberal filmmaker some argue all he's doing is preaching to the already converted. al-jazeera new york. times take a look at the headlines now iran has some of the envoys of the u.k. netherlands and denmark accusing those three countries of harboring opposition groups it comes hours after gunmen attacked a military parade in vase killing twenty five people iran's military says the

attackers were trained by two gulf countries with ties to the u.s. and israel in the u.s. the stage is set for a dramatic confrontation between supreme court nominee and the woman who's accused him of sexual assault both are expected to testify before the senate judiciary committee on thursday christine ford says brett kavanaugh salted her at a party in one thousand nine hundred two he denies the allegations trump of ministration is continuing to offer him its strong support. but i honestly wish some democrats have conducted themselves during this process is a disgrace the president are confident that senate republicans will manage this confirmation properly with the ut most respect for all concerned and i believe the george brett kavanaugh will soon be just as brett kavanaugh and take the. united. voting is just begun in mold deaves presidential election

these are live pictures from a polling station in the capital marlay incumbent president of delhi amine who has been in office since two thousand and thirteen is seeking a second five year term he's been accused of silencing opposition voices rescuers in tanzania have found a survivor inside a ferry which capsized two days ago a man was trapped in an air pocket making him one of only forty one people who survived at least two hundred nine others drowned when the ferry tipped over in lake victoria tanzania's president is blaming overloading and negligence for this pastor he's ordered police to arrest the boat's owner the vatican has settled a seventy year old dispute with china pope francis agreed to recognize seven bishops who were appointed without his approval china has some ten million catholics it's counting the cost stay with us here on al-jazeera.

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a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week tariff solve thousands of products the biggest trading giants on the planet just escalated the trade war. also this week india's rupee it's not the worst performing currency in asia we'll take a look at why. plus why the upcoming election is causing ice cream sales to melt away in kabul. when the world's two biggest economic powers engage in a trade war the rest of the world is left watching and wondering where it will end if this week is anything to go by it could mean an escalation in the ongoing protracted tit for tat trade dispute between china and the united states did intensify this week so much so that it prompted a warning from the o.e.c.d. the paris based think tank says that the world's economy can't keep growing if things don't improve on the trade front china has now slapped tariffs all around

sixty billion dollars worth of u.s. goods that move a. the latest round of u.s. tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products al-jazeera score hides the reports now from beijing. within hours of the u.s. announcing a second round of tariffs on chinese goods beijing responded. the chinese commerce ministry saying it had no choice but to retaliate and it hopes the u.s. changes its behavior one official saying the move is poisoning trade talks and in may founder regarding america's new round of tariffs china has no choice but to retaliate it was expected that the ongoing trade war could heat up this new round of tariffs from washington confirmed that it will be a lot of money coming into the coffers of the united states of america a lot of money coming in a lot of money in the form of tariffs on an additional two hundred billion dollars of chinese imports the u.s. government will begin collecting a ten percent tariff on those goods starting on september the twenty fourth through

the end of the year then on january first the tariffs will jump to twenty five percent and if china at any time retaliates the white house says an additional two hundred sixty seven billion dollars of chinese imports practically the remainder of all chinese products sold in the u.s. will also fall under the tariffs the increased tensions will likely scuttle the renewal of trade talks between beijing and washington. while about five thousand chinese products including household goods vacuum cleaners to bikes will be targeted many u.s. businesses are expected to suffer as well just before the tears were announced in washington the chinese commerce secretary said that u.s. protectionism will only impact the two nations involved in this trade war but it could hurt the global economy as well and some analysts here feel that u.s. companies might face a chinese consumer backlash if the chinese people leave that they're being maligned . they will boycott and that's that's not something you know you're going to you're

already starting to see some anti american sentiments and want to buy that's american right i mean this is the one thing to donald trump thinks that the only people who are nationalistic are. and as the world's two largest economies refused to concede any ground in this trade war the impact will be felt around the world joining us now from london is greg swenson gregg's the founding partner of london based brig macedon a finance company which focuses on investments in emerging and frontier markets good to have you with us greg what is the endgame here we perhaps being a little naive in seeing these these terraces as nothing other than protectionist is this more about a battle for global economic activity yeah i mean it's a it's a great question i don't think this is the goal has been demonstrated or the goal has been articulated well by the president what he seems to dwell on is to trade deficit and he picks these arbitrary numbers or targets for trade deficit reduction

which i think is a mistake what it what he should focus on is that china is violating all kinds of free market and open market policies and rules you know they've taken them to the w t o sixteen times in the last couple of years and they've won all sixteen times but that doesn't seem to be fixing the major problems which are you know theft of ip and. you know the complete disregard for free marc. principles so look i wish that there was a better way and perhaps there is he's picked this one and i think that he's old he's somewhat lost the narrative or lost the messaging battle because it looks like the u.s. is provoking a trade war when in fact what they're what he's trying to do it is fix something that needs to be fixed i don't think these these tariffs will stay in place because they're there self-defeating it's not going to it's not not really going to hurt the american consumer of the american economy you know in many ways that the president's playing with house money that you know the economy is is kicking on all cylinders what about commodities what will the impact be on commodities given that

the china requests huge amounts of imported rule materials i mean when china moves in the market everyone sits up a list yeah and i think that's important especially for countries for like australia which which is close by and produces a lot of coal and ships a lot of coal to and other minerals to china well look disruption in supply chains is always a challenge i don't think it's meaningful for the u.s. economy i think that the chinese have a lot more to lose if there are you know if in a trade war but the commodity issue is a big deal for global commodity prices and how much potential does this have to cause damage to the the digital economy for instance rare minerals on the list smartwatch is on the list and yet things like frogs legs right heals all yeah i mean i look the president you know is is he is a politician is not a politician by nature a nice and this is new to him but there is definitely some politics involved to

quite purposely left you know mobile phones off the list rare earth minerals are important the last time the chinese put a stop to check sporting or put a cap on exports it really shook up the rare earth market to the point where there was a lot of development in canada in the u.s. and certain to a certain degree and in australia but again that's just another example of the chinese just. shorting the private market and not behaving in a free open market model what do you make of object loss comments about quantum computing and n n a i basically. cooking us nuke a the us say we're already there our economy is going to be way ahead of the us because we've got this technology well yeah because they're they're still in the technology so that mean that the u.s. clearly and not just us but our allies in training partners around the world are are are seeing china and this two thousand and twenty five you know model that she has put in place is

a threat of course it is because that of of ip is is is clearly a violation of free and free and open market i think there are other ways to to deal with this than get rather than getting into a trade war but in this case it seems to be the only way that's that's going to get a body's attention i'm not sure it's being perfectly executed but jack my brings up some some interesting points but i think something clearly has to be done greg you say that u.s. consumers are going to be hooked by this what potential does this have to to damage china's economy and what leverage does china have a talk about a bargain he was saying that he can't deliver on his promise the president trying to create one million jobs in the u.s. blaming the current trade tension if chinese president xi really wanted to up the stakes for the could he do something drastic like calling us debt yeah i mean that's that's always out there as as a potential i don't know what else they would do with that money they they absolutely absolutely need to own u.s.

treasuries but look there's a few things they can do and this is worrisome because they they control the economy it's a top down economy they control the press she could surely sort of have a media campaign a state run media campaign against u.s. products he could also devalue the currency it's dangerous game to play but he can do it and have done it in the past and he can also regulate even more so what's happened in the last few years especially. since the crisis is the state has lent money to the state owned companies at at ridiculous levels which is you know obviously putting other companies and foreign competitors out of business but remember that the u.s. is importing five hundred billion of goods from china often because of the low cost and low labor cost the chinese are only importing one hundred thirty billion so the u.s. has a lot more a bill of a much better ability to punish china here and that's something obvious but also the san francisco fed made a very good point recently that eighty eight and

a half percent of them of goods and services that are consumed by american consumers are produced in the u.s. it's not it's not really a huge importer compared to what we produced domestically so yes we are big importer yes we import a lot of cheap goods from china but that's not going to move the needle that that much because again eighty eight half percent is produced domestically so again as a conservative or as a businessman as a capitalist i don't like tariffs i don't like trade wars but it seems to be the you know the last resort at this point and i don't think the message is clear but i but i think something obviously has to be done and he's got support on both sides of the aisle greg really good to talk to you many thanks david being with us on counting the cost nice to be here a dream thank you all right still to come on this week's counting the cost a japanese billionaire as named as the world's first space tourist. but first a sabotage scare is threatening to hurt a strain he has strawberry grow as they've warned about an overreaction to several

people found sewing needles inside the fresh fruit and sandra troublous reports from sydney some reports on hoaxes but the devastating impact on the industry is still the same. the lady who posted this video says it illustrates the worst thing to ever happen to her family the family business growing strawberries has been forced to dump its product at the busiest time of the year supermarkets won't buy the fruit in normal quantities because their customers fear what the strawberries may contain last week there was what seemed like an isolated case of a sewing needle inserted in a strawberry probably by a disgruntled employee at a strawberry farm but since they have been reports of more than twenty copycat instance around australia in russian to the motivation in relation to these offenses we still haven't. have any confirmed motivation or reasons why

a person want to do this there is speculation that some cases of children putting needles into stories while they're sitting on shop shelves are the cases are complete hoaxes people pretending to find needles in strawberries once they're home it's not a joke it's not funny you're putting the livelihoods of hardworking strains at risk and you're scaring children and you're a coward and you're a grown up. and if you do that sort of thing in this country we will come after you and we will throw the book at you the government plans to bring in emergency legislation with prison sentences of up to ten years for hoaxes and up to fifteen years for contamination in danger and others. those in australia strawberry industry are recommending that people cut up their brains before biting into it but some are choosing not to buy strawberries at all and the industry worth maybe one hundred million dollars a year that a crisis strawberries that are being sold are heavily discounted almost as low as

the equivalent of one us dollar upon it and farmers of other fruits are fearful to someone has claimed to have found a needle in a banana and in sydney an apple just freaked me out but i'm thinking my daughter normally just grabs and just biting the apples the strawberry scare threatens to spread. as consumers become more aware of the health effects of consuming sugar so the giants are doing everything to stay profitable the coca-cola company is even looking at experimenting with a new in gradient it's a bit to looking at the market for cannabis related products coca cannabis anyone not quite there is a chemical found in marijuana that is c.b.d. it's already used in beverages in locations where the drug is legalized but it's not psychoactive drinks containing it there are higher priced than sugar infused soda co.