all the headlines diplomats say that it's unfortunate distraction from many of the pressing issues that leaders should be dealing with. and james beza joins us live now from the u.n. as you mentioned there president trump expected to dominate events again isn't a change. yes he is and he will get all of the headlines this week i think for domestic u.s. political reasons and because of the focus here we saw him last year focus on north korea this year it looks like iran and maybe also those russian missiles we've mentioned by the president to say diplomats though a little concerned that trump takes the oxygen out of this event and really hope that the u.s. not only dominates this event but shows its moral leadership on the international stage let's discuss this a little further with my guest kumi nadu who's the secretary general of amnesty international you've just been inside the united nations were you given

a speech at a mandela summit talking about the legacy an example of nelson mandela and you suggested that some countries were not showing that among those the united states for example talked about the administration's attitude towards women. i mean there's been a lot of slippage in the united states i mean the u.s. is on the wrong side on climate change wrong side on. booting a multilateral system in fact they are actively on the mining certain institutions that were created over a long period of time such as the human rights council that pulled out of it not to say the human rights council is perfect you know we have criticisms but to sort of on the minute and give the space for the very countries that you say you know what he did and of course the fact that the u.s. seems to want to continue with the attitude of do what we ask you to do don't do what we do and you know with the international criminal court the u.s.

seems to think that they are on a different planet from everybody else to be fair not only the u.s. and so those are the things that we felt we need to call out that this gentleman said and with regard to the international criminal court where is the accountability in this system where you see appalling things like a warm. syria has gone on longer than the second world war crimes taking place in yemen as we speak and chemical weapons be used again. just to be clear the international criminal court was set up specifically for crimes against humanity most egregious human rights violations and so on and that cases that you talk or these other three cases were exactly the kind of. cases that you hoped international criminal court would actually the hold back i think one of the reasons why that accountability is not there is that you got to the permanent members of the security council china u.s. and russia who have not joined up at all they opportunistically over the last years

of using idiotically but therefore i felt we need a global campaign to educate the people in the u.s. about why at the end of the day they need to come in and be part of it and we can't leave it if we leave the u.s. to present the kind of administration and that they will somehow wake up smell the coffee and recognize if to act on climate change nothing's happened so we have to take this message as amnesty and other civil society groups to the american people which i think the american people will eventually turn around and put the kinds of pressure that they are like to be going to try to change that it's always been possible to criticize the united states and policies that they pursued but they have taken a leadership role on human rights just go back seventy years of the standard old human rights the universal declaration of human rights was cost seventy years ago to be honest with me if that was a new thing going through the u.n. and if you put that to the general assembly do you think it would go through now

that's an excellent question i wouldn't bet any money on it however it would only go to if people around the world i'm not talking about politicians i'm talking about citizens of on the seat something that they want they're prepared to fight for it that they. pick up the legacy of mandela on his on his under but they wish to celebrate a year. i mean people wanted bad enough in the pit to fight for it depicted to sacrifice for it and so on it will happen and certainly for us as amnesty we are prepared to do that and we're prepared to mobilize millions and millions of people together with us to do thank you so much for joining us here on out zero from the u.n. general assembly lower james thank you very much still to come on the program britain expresses concern as hong kong bans a pro independence political party for the first time she was handed back twenty one years ago. and i'll tell you why one of the biggest prizes in the arts well the turner prize is being praised as the most political exhibition in its history.

hello welcome to another look at the international forecast the weather is set fire across southern and eastern parts of china now a little area cloud there into central areas and that will just drift its way further south which as we go on through the next couple of days you can see there in hans some very heavy rain possibility some localized flooding further east twenty four celsius in shanghai thirty one in hong kong similar temperature as we go on through the next couple of days there is a wealth east winds continue to drift in but that rain will just sink a little further southwards in the process but for the for the time big central and eastern parts down to water southeast will see a more in the way of drier weather dry weather to into

a good part of india but up towards the north into which all protest we're seeing some very heavy rain recently beneath this band of cloud further south there we go i want to showers right down the western gas the northeastern kona seeing some heavy rain showers long spells of rain too into bangladesh and also into the northeast of india see temps going up to twenty nine celsius in new delhi picking up to thirty four as we go on through where to stay so the winds starting to come back in from all the south westerly direction thirty one larry karachi fine and but plenty of rain to the southwest. al-jazeera recounts the shocking story of the assassination of counts for cabana dot. tossed by the security council to mediate between arabs and israelis. his days would prove one of the darkest days in

the quest for peace in the middle east. given the count on al-jazeera. and one of the top stories here nonzero united states deputy attorney general wrote rosenstein has been summoned to the white house amid reports he may be fired. russia has announced it will supply the s three hundred surface to air missile systems to syria in two weeks despite strong israeli and u.s. injections. and world leaders are gathering in new york for united nations general assembly u.s. president donald trump will make his address on tuesday as will be arraigned you

need to assign rouhani. the president of the maldives ability i mean is because he did defeat in sunday's election opposition need to bring him mohammed certainly will be the new president after taking more than fifty eight percent of the vote i mean i've been in charge of the indian ocean island nation for five years but have been accused of stifling opposition every moment has more. many had expected this president abdullah yemen to win the election then it was feared that he would not accept the results but hours after early poll results showed that his rival one yemen conceded defeat we are going to be hard all deviant people have decided what they want to the results from yesterday that. has been in political turmoil under yamin during his five year tenure two former presidents a prosecutor general and a number of opposition politicians have been jailed in controversial trials on the eve of the vote opposition leader ibrahim mohammed who hails campaign office was

raided by police but no evidence of electoral fraud was uncovered preliminary results on monday showed that so he won fifty eight point three percent of the votes the electoral commission said voter turnout in the country of four hundred thousand people was eighty nine point two percent the u.s. had threatened sanctions if the elections were not free and fair the message is loud and clear the people of the most want change justice and stability in the next five years we will consider that democracy by guaranteeing human rights and ensuring accountability we will establish a peaceful and just so thirty for all the electoral commission will announce the official results in seven days but with president conceding what is left now is to see if the hill will keep his election promises and try to reform the country morgan al-jazeera. is the deputy permanent representative in geneva he says many challenges lie ahead the president elect to keep his coalition together.

he lost because it's a free and fair election because the people have spoken and they chose the opposition candidate when the president elect won he's won with this fairly large coalition of many parties in the maldives the last time m.v.p. came into power in two thousand and eight within three months that coalition for part one of the biggest challenges that the president elect will have is making sure that the coalition stays together but is able to keep his partners happy this very diverse group of people that he's able to create a power sharing arrangement in a presidential system which is not an easy goal you'll have a lot of difficulties coming up especially given that there's a parliamentary election less than six months down the line the political campaigning you know the vicious sort of infighting that tends to come before an election will be present and that's a very big challenge not just for the president elect but for the modern community

as well iran's supreme leader has blamed saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for funding saturday's attack at a military parade thousands of people have attended funerals for the twenty five people killed in the attack in the southwest city of. at least sixty others were injured in the incident has been blamed on iran's arab separatists i actually are early how many has promised to severely punish those responsible. thirteen thousand teachers and health workers have gone on strike in the gaza strip over job losses and funding cuts stems from a decision by the united states to pull three hundred fifty million dollars in funding from the un agency for palestinian refugees also known as owner one day strike has closed two hundred fifty schools in gaza as well as medical centers and food distribution points. yes tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese imports have gone into effect is there just a not just levees and a growing trade will between the biggest and the world's two biggest economies

can't hide there has been launching reaction from beijing the latest round in this escalating trade war between the united states and china going into effect on monday that's another round of tariffs and very big numbers here two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods going into the united states will now be tariff that's in addition to fifty billion they're already implemented before so two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of chinese goods going into the united states will now be tariffs on the other side you have another hundred ten billion dollars being a tariff from the united states going into china now this is the latest in a big round in this ongoing trade war and it's going to be ongoing for quite some time now because the discussions the negotiations that have been going on this really started in earnest in the summer there have been talks still going on between washington and beijing those now have been scrapped for the time being so that means there's going to be really no progress on that front and what's also interesting president trump said that last week after he announces two hundred

billion dollars round that if china retaliated he will retaliate again essentially on all the products coming into the united states from china he hasn't done that china obviously went back and did retaliate but the president hasn't said anything more on that many feel that that probably won't happen because of the mid-term elections in the united states that if there's going to be another round another imposition of tariffs from the united states probably won't happen until after those elections in mid november but what we do know right now those negotiations have stopped and this is an escalation today going into effect monday going into effect with tariffs on both sides. hong kong has formally banned a political group that promotes independence from china calling it a threat to national security the british government has expressed concern over the ban which is the first since the city was handed back to china twenty one years ago sarah clarke has more from hong kong. he's the leader of hong kong's national party it's a small group promoting independence from china but the government has deemed it

a threat to national security the party is now banned in hong kong. what the agenda of the hump on national party. aims to is. in strict contravention to the basic law the national party also. spreads hatred and discrimination against maine and. the police made the initial recommendation the government agreed but the party later says he doesn't advocate violence and made this statement at the city's foreign correspondents club in august due to the nature of how the chinese propaganda machine works the national party was instantly demonized as some sort of extremist group due to this single word independence in reality what the national party is chasing after is no different from what many homeowners wish for the dream

of democracy the decision to ban this group is unprecedented in hong kong but is considered a strategic move by the government to muzzle the problem independent sentiment as beijing acts on any challenge to its sovereignty the vast majority of hong kong people do not see the independence is a realistic option but there has been increasing the sentiment against a tiny so far these against intervention in hong kong and naturally hong kong people feel that their core values their lifestyles in fact hong kong is a semi autonomous territory under the so-called one country two systems deal which is part of the official handover from great britain to china more than two decades ago that means hong kong enjoys freedoms unsane on the mainland including freedom of speech but that space for political dissent is shrinking. pro independence

activist and the chair was prohibited from standing for election six democratically elected pro-democracy politicians were. disqualified from the city's parliament the national party plans to hold a public protest on tuesday but the government says any member of the group will be fined up to twelve thousand dollars or face up to three years in jail if they speak out sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. is one of most prestigious prizes in the art world but this year is turner prize has a tangible difference with four films on issues such as police brutality and human rights at this year's exhibition is being heralded as the most political in its history charlie angelo went along to tate britain to have a look. the turner prize is the best visual arts prize in the world every. light and. artist tracey. bed in one nine hundred ninety nine but is that controversy because this prize is about.

british contemporary art. political and media accessible we're looking at. politics gender identity police brutality this room is dedicated to forensic architecture a collective of architects lawyers researches filmmakers and journalists who use their skills to dissect human rights abuses this particular investigation is about what happened in two thousand and seventeen when a bedouin villager and israeli policeman were killed during the clearing of palestinian homes in the negev if you satellite images news footage including some from al-jazeera arabic to try and dissect exactly what happened what's fascinating about this is turner prize nominees is it that moving image forensic architecture with the news footage. with his documentary film charlotte podger with

a film shot on our i phone and williston's and using sixteen millimeter for tit. of new technologies by artists might be unfamiliar for some audiences but tell us something about the world we're living in today and on the fourth of december one of these nominees will receive fifty thousand dollars in prize money that could change their careers for charlie and al jazeera. took another look at the top stories making news here on araa zero united states deputy attorney general rod rosenstein has been summoned to the white house amid reports that he may be fired he's been overseeing the investigation into alleged russian interference into the twenty sixteen election and white house correspondent can really help it has more. well certainly there has been concern that donald

trump may fire rod rosenstein given the fact that they he's not only unhappy with his handling of the department of justice but also there are many that believe donald trump may be doing so in order to obstruct or impede the moeller investigation u.s. national security adviser john bolton says russia's plan to supply syria with the s. three hundred missile system would be quote a significant escalation and is calling on moscow to reconsider russia has announced it will supply the surface to air missile systems to syrian government forces in two weeks despite strong israeli objections world leaders guthrie in new york for united nations general assembly this law could see some intense discussions yes president donald trump will address the general assembly on tuesday as will the iranian leader hassan rouhani. the president of the moldy was a delay yemeni has conceded defeat in sunday's elections opposition leader ibrahim

mohammad surly will be the new president of the indian ocean island nation after taking more than fifty eight percent of the vote iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali how many has blamed saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for funding saturday's attack at a military parade thousands of people have attended funerals for the twenty five people who were killed in the attack in the southwestern city of. half a million children in libya's capital tripoli are in danger as according to the united nations children's fund unicef says fighting between rival armed groups in the city has forced more than twenty five thousand people out of their homes with great massively increasing in the past forty eight hours. those are the headlines i'll be back with more in just under half an hour's time going next counting the cost examines the u.s. china trade war and the foreign value of the indian rupee do stay with us if you

can. hello i'm adrian said again this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week. 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 an 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 of wondering where it will end if this week is anything to go by it could mean an escalation 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 on around sixty billion dollars worth of u.s. goods that move a retaliation for the latest round of u.s. tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products al-jazeera scott hyper 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 said. the move is poisoning traitor didn't they phone the regarding america's new round of terrorists china has no choice but to retaliate it was expected that the ongoing trade war could heat up this new round of terrorists 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 terrace 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 been gotten a 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 or it's not not really going to hurt the american consumer of the american economy you know in many ways that the president's plan with house money that you know the economy is is kicking on all cylinders or what about commodities what will the impact be on communities 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 earth 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 he's not a politician by nature unease and this is new to him but there's definitely some politics involved to quite purposely left you know mobile phones off the list on 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 you make of object loss comments about quantum computing and an ai in basically. a 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 means that the u.s. clearly and not just us but our allies in trading 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 that a threat of course it is because theft 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 anybody is attention i'm not sure it's being perfectly executed but jack ma 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 us 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 a mess to clean 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 costs 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 stray as 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 there have been reports of more than twenty copycat instance around australia in relation to the motivation in relation to those 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 endangering 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 a fair fall to someone who's claim to have found a needle in a banana and in sydney an apple they're just breaking.