a smear campaign pure and simple democrats would let a few and convey to things like a complete lack of evidence or an accuser's request for confidentiality to get. at a good smear it's despicable. on sunday kavanagh's nomination was struck with back to back bombshell first the new yorker magazine published the account of deborah ramirez who says the cavanagh exposed himself to her while they were both students in a university then the lawyer for stormy daniels the woman who was paid one hundred thirty thousand dollars by president trump's lawyer to deny that she had an affair with the president says that he has another client who says that she also was assaulted by kevin oh now the republicans who run the senate judiciary committee are considering whether to go ahead with the thursday hearing or to postpone it to investigate further with just six weeks to go before the november midterm elections

that could shift control of congress and the supreme court nomination to democrats john hendren al jazeera washington. still ahead of al jazeera against austerity measures in. plus. i'm wait hey reporting from thailand important exporter and producer waste will tell you what the government is planning to do about its. from dusky sunsets if it springs event. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis. hello there the showers have been pounding the northern parts of iran recently for a look at the satellite picture we can see them here just along the coast of the caspian sea and spreading a little bit further towards the south we'll see them gradually work their way eastwards there as we head through choose data more of them in the eastern parts of iran and those will gradually work their way towards afghanistan as we head through

choose day and into wednesday meanwhile towards the west look at this in ankara we'll get to around twenty seven degrees lots of cloud and rain to the north of us for tuesday but as we head into wednesday that system sinks southwards the temperatures really drop thirteen degrees this time of maximum and then the rain will start as well to do expected to be a pretty wet and windy one before the towards the south and here in doha looks like the next few days should be a little bit less humid which is good news so first forty one degrees will be our maximum temperature not quite as sticky for the south is still going to stay humid here as you'd expect getting to around twenty eight degrees and around the coast of yemen expect there to be a little bit more cloud at times gradually drifting its way away from us as we head through the next couple of days down towards the southern parts of africa and for many of us it's fine and dry not too warm in cape town just sixteen degrees zero maximum but very hot force and with the winds coming in off the land it won't be quite as hot or wednesday a maximum will be twenty two. the weather sponsored by qatar and these.

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to the u.s. the u.s. says the e.u. rather says it will set up a new mechanism to enable trade with iran it's designed to get around washington sanctions who follows the trump administration's withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal earlier this year u.s. president donald trump says he'll have a second summit with north korea's leader kim jong un in the coming months he made the announcement while signing a trade pact with south korean president moon j.n. on the sidelines of the un general assembly the us is warning russia it's making a major mistake by deploying its missile defense system in syria the kremlin is sending the s. three hundred system a week after one of its planes was mistakenly shot down by syrian anti-aircraft fire. the philippines is at risk again of landslides as another typhoon brings more rain the death toll from a landslide last week has gone up to fifty five. seven other people are believed to

be trapped or buried in the rubble the families of victims are calling it a manmade disaster general allen dog unfolds from nag a city inside while and. a semblance of dignity into. this is what families here desperately want for their loved ones. the priest tries to comfort them but the reality is too hard for families here to grasp. the mountain gave way while they slept burying thirty homes and about one hundred people in the central philippines city of them and. many of those who died were the sole providers of impoverished families they already had little before the landslide now the survivors say they have nothing. for years they have

been calling on the government to stop pouring operations in their community but because they were poor the city their appeals doing. some in the community say recent reported fissures on the mountain should have been a warning sign but for me at the end of the day i'm out i went out i'm accountable to the people i've now got by the thing is when and when a technical agency assigned to one of our and rather regularly says that a certain company is not ready career. you know what john even you have before sometimes the people evacuated. but many here say rising above a tragedy is simply not enough we should as soon as possible file cases against this these people who are responsible we ask ourselves is the life of a child in naga worth the millions that these companies allegedly contribute to the

local economy. these are the first batch of victims and many more are expected for mass burial in the coming weeks the local government says these are the focus now rescue richie bo and dario but this is exactly what many families here that everything and here. their final resting place is right next to the quarry site and so it is clear there is no escaping the influence of powerful businesses here. the. the dead are too many to be buried in one day. as they are taken to the tubes one point one families here feel their loved ones have been buried in the state. and they weren't given enough time to

see good. al-jazeera nagar in cebu province central philippines. i'm a c international is demanding that china explain what's happened to an estimated one million muslims swept up in the massive government crackdown the human rights group says hundreds of thousands of families in the northwest inching jang region have been torn apart by china's actions. gaza health officials have confirmed the death of a palestinian man by israeli gunfire. ten others were wounded when soldiers fired tear gas and live rounds of thousands of protesters on the beach and fishing boats along the border with israel demonstrations against the israeli blockade of gaza have been going on for more than six months palestinians are demanding an end to the blockade by israel and egypt and their right to return to ancestral lands. staff from the u.n.

agency for palestinian refugees in gaza say they don't have enough money to keep going thirteen thousand teachers and health workers have gone on strike in protest this comes after the u.s. decided to pull its funding from last month the agency needs funding to run schools hospitals camps and social services for millions of palestinians harry forces is in gaza. we're here at the guards h.q. of the owner agency you can see some of the thirteen thousand local employees who are on strike this monday the consequence of the strike are being felt all across the gaza strip two hundred seventy four and there are schools serving two hundred eighty thousand children are closed along with sixteen food distribution centers twenty two medical clinics the reason for this strike can be traced back to a decision by the us administration to cut more than three hundred million dollars

in funding for enron and more recently decided to end its funding of the agency in its entirety the workers here say that the effects are being unfairly felt by them more than one hundred of them already either sacked or put on early retirement with six hundred being strikers with their jobs being lost by the end of this year they say that an rocket is done more to try to lessen the impact of all that and give people voluntary redundancy volatile. retirement those sorts of options here's how the head of the agency here in gaza responds to that charge the rest of the organization has borrowed us forty five million dollars that we don't have for gaza to allow us to continue food to allow us to continue almost three hundred jobs full time and yes sadly move some two part time we've had to make some adjustments but i believe on the basis of fact i can demonstrate we've done a lot to make things as smooth as possible under very very challenging circumstances would be talking to one of the striking employees here and his story

does give you a sense of just how deeply these cuts will be felt he says that is twelve hundred u.s. dollar a month salary supports twenty eight family members and that if he does lose his job as he struggled with by the end of this year that's going to have a devastating impact on a huge family and that is a story that is being repeated here many times over so that's why these potential job losses could be felt so widely. argentina's largest labor union has called for a nationwide strike over the government's hysterically measures president morrissey a macro his new budget is at the center of the anger but he says it's needed to secure additional funding from the i.m.f. stories about reports from one side of us. live or unions in argentina i feel yes with the governmental. economies shrinking and argentina is reducing spending and increasing borrowing from the international monetary fund to pay the bills.

he said teacher who has taken to the streets and went to site to demand better wages i think that if they find out about this shows the discontent workers have with government this is the beginning of a plan to fight the austerity measures he's implemented for the government the priority is to defend bankers and multinational companies not people like us. took office three years ago with a promise to improve argentina's economy after years of double digit inflation and recession but this year a bad drought sapped argentina's grain export sector and the peso currency depreciated almost fifty percent due to a lack of investor confidence in emerging markets mackley says he's been forced to seek help from the i.m.f. and implemented shock austerity measures to prevent a major financial crisis. this is the fourth strike against his policies.

unemployment an increase in food prices currency devaluation these are all had a huge impact on low income households it affects the lives of the millions of people that live under the poverty line these strikers include truck drivers state employees teachers and doctors plan on somebody and if we were able to negotiate a twenty five percent salary increase but we know inflation is going to be well over forty percent but it's not only that the government has shut down the health ministry they're putting people's lives at risk. is banking on an upturn in the country's finances with some forecast for next year. there will be presidential elections and he's expected to run the big question is whether it will be enough to help him regain the votes he has already lost. and just see that when

a scientist. a new report is recommending countries start regulating drugs that have a lower potency it's part of an effort to control the illegal market the reports being released by a group of former world leaders they're advocating for legislation legalization rather and regulation of some drugs because banning them has proven ineffective homan reports from mexico. this new report on drug policy has a fair amount of weight behind it it's been put together by a group including twelve ex heads of state and its message is simple and stark prohibition has failed it says and the world needs to legalize and regulate drugs look at the yeah pass you see what we've done for a century has been a mistake prohibition doesn't work it's causing a lot of damage it should be eliminated and instead we should have policies based on brake elation. the group some veil the report in mexico because it says that nowhere better shows the failure of prohibition there's been

a full frontal assault on cartels here for a decade but it's just because turf battles and deaths as kingpins have fallen and others have to take their place. as well as that human cost the report also emphasizes the vast amounts being lost to governments in the form of taxes from what is the largest illicit market in the world the former leaders have got a lot of suggestions of models for legalisation from state monopolies to purely personal production they also talked about the vulnerable people at the bottom of the drug world if legalization happens so little boys little girls in the drug trade what happens to the mothers who are smuggling from one country to the other had to restart their lives so our next step is really proper should not only be for the punishment of these people reintegration in society development of measures of integration the incoming mexican government is

a step without talking about an amnesty for some of those on the lowest rungs of organized crime as well as possibly legalizing marijuana and opium that's been incredibly controversial and what is still a very socially conservative region but a growing number of countries worldwide are taking a look at what legalization could mean. tyrant will stop importing most types of electronic waste within six months so far this year is seen an influx of waste arriving in the country after china and forced a similar ban when hey reports. these are not images normally associated with one of the world's most popular tourist destinations through a combination of consumption poor infrastructure and practices thailand is one of the world's largest contributors of ocean waste many of its beaches and waterways are clogged with rubbish it's also one of the region's biggest importers of waste but it's making a move to stop it within six months the government says it will ban imports of

hundreds of types of scrap electronics. in the proposal we suggest banning the import of used electrical appliances which total four hundred thirty two items last year thailand imported fifty three thousand tons of waste which is recycled for precious metal or plastic but it can also contain hazardous materials this year it's almost matched that amount already a result of china stopping some waste imports in january in thailand only a few companies are licensed to import a waste but corruption and weak law enforcement mean a lot more is brought into the country illegally or that's your task. to the car lot. to the town's friends and. partners. this hasn't been seen as

next on the hit list is plastic thailand plans to ban plastic imports within the next two years but like the ban on the waste the plan is light on detail but what it may do is focus attention on domestic plastic use at the moment less than a quarter is recycled already used. thailand has been slow to wake up to its waste problem until the new laws are implemented and enforced there will be skepticism about the government's commitment to clean up wayne hay al-jazeera bangkok. you can find much more on all those stories if we head over to our web site see the front page there is a dress for you w w dot al-jazeera dot com. and let's take you through some of those stories now in the may just snap to the u.s. the e.u. says it'll set up a new mechanism to enable trade with iran to get around washington sanctions it

follows the trumpet ministrations withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal earlier this year e.u. member states will set up a legal entity to facilitate illegitimate financial transactions with iran and this will allow european companies to continue to trade with iran in accordance with european union lol and could be open to other partners in the world the u.s. is warm dry sure it's making a major mistake by deploying its missile defense systems in syria the kremlin is sending the s. three hundred system a week after one of its planes was mistakenly shot down by syrian and craft fire moscow blames israel for the incident washington has approved the sale of three hundred thirty million dollars in military equipment meanwhile to taiwan the us is the only country that sells weapons to the island has done so for nearly forty years china claims taiwan as part of its territory u.s.

president donald trump says he'll have a second summit with north korea's leader kim jong un in the coming months he made the announcement while signing a trade pact with south korean president moon j in a matter on the sidelines of the un general assembly. u.n. see military affairs chief mark low carb has warned of famine in yemen could strike at any time and lead to even more loss of life food prices of sort of fighting over the keep order for a day the stopped aid agencies from reaching about a million people u.s. president donald trump supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh spoke out about accusations of sexual misconduct in a t.v. interview he openly denied the allegations two people have come forward about alleged incidents that took place in the one nine hundred eighty s. staff from the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees in gaza have gone on strike thirteen thousand teachers and health workers say they don't have enough money to keep going the u.s.

pulled its funding from last month. but the headlines the news continues after this stream stay with us. i am ali could be today a presidential shift in the following sunday's historic election so what does new leadership in mean for the country tweet us your thoughts or leave them in our

lives you tube chat and you too can be in the stream. for many of us this has been a difficult journey a journey that has led to a prism so for years of. it's been a journey. but it has been. a journey that has ended the books on sunday maldives opposition leader ibrahim mohammed saw that one country's presidential election the stunning defeat of president. many observers off guard the country has suffered a difficult transition to democracy since the end of three decades of authoritarian rule in two thousand and eight following his election in two thousand and thirteen you mean routinely used his power to crack down on political dissent jelling rivals

and even supreme court justices so what does this win mean for democracy in the maltese here to discuss that in geneva jeffrey where he'd his deputy ambassador to the united nations representing the maltese and mali. she's a member of the maldives democratic party and also a member of parliament and in london will jordan a journalist with al jazeera and his documentary stealing paradise took an in-depth look at government corruption during the means ten year us president welcome back to the stream all of you i want to start with our community several of them are very excited to show you here via pictures this is she says people are overwhelmed by the victory over injustice the lack of freedom and fairness and shares a picture of people in the streets celebrating after the election here's another ongoing celebrations at tweets to the stream by the opposition and you can see them gathered there late at night eva how significant is this win

by the opposition candidate a candidate who is from your own party. i hope i think as the president elect said in his victory speech last night he said this is a historical moment this is a moment of hope. i think that's exactly how a lot of people a feeling at the moment. it's one of those things that it fails impossible until it was done but now it feels the next of a. we knew we had the votes we knew people wanted justice we knew people wanted democracy back. lee knew people wanted their fundamental rights to stuart so it's good to see that people who voted for them all of these but it feels like the course has been righted again for the wealthy. the course has been righted just three years. thanks. i have to begin by

saying at least i have to offer a warm congratulations to our panelists. to the modern democratic party to the party to the entire opposition coalition for the victory of their candidates in this presidential election you know honorable brian soul and honorable ice on the seam wanted election that was by all measures free fair and credible this election stands the testament to the strength of our institutions and you know with fifty five days to go there are no gration. just not an easy task to keep the coalition together to figure out how they're going to create a government in a presidential system and over these next fifty plus days the government is going to come together with the opposition to create a transition team that ensures the continuity of government but also ensures that the services they need to be righted to the people are still provided thankfully they have a very strong foundation to build on we have

a number of projects that will benefit the people the multipass and sleep a number of initiatives that will really put. it on the right footing when he does take over as president in november of this year and not an easy task before we go too much further in the future i want to pause for a second to remember what happened earlier today on monday so how did the election many people were predicting that we might not see a concession speech immediately by the president i believe mean did concede see the headline here a delay mean concedes defeat and maldives presidential election he gave a televised speech on monday doing just that have a look. around there not have been a money. do you know you do people have decided what they want. i have accepted the results from yesterday. earlier today i met with abraham mohammed sali. who the mole to be an electorate is chosen to be the next

president. but from what you've. lost if you didn't own the book what i would do with this research. it would be if i had given in every time i faced an issue it was. the rights of the people would have been compromised and so. you know you can the most i was that there was a line up with the well you heard the speech right there what are your thoughts well i mean i don't i don't think the president you know i mean is particularly worried about the rights of the people he's been caught out. all of the tricks he's used over the last five years i've worked. been voted out and you know democracy is the least worst option and in this case it seems to work but you know jeffrey talked about the strength of the institutions there i don't think despite the fact

that we pulled off an election that those things will be credible but the institutions are strong and that's going to be the big challenge of them all these places from here first off the coalition strong which is pretty awfully crew for the parties and there's a lot of challenges you know the. institutions are pretty weak now. so two people even have mentioned the challenges ahead and they're not being an easy task people are panelists of course this is well and jeffrey both are forecasting that there is a hard road ahead what do you make of that in terms of what the opposition has as a hurdle. i think without a doubt the task ahead to be difficult as we said band of different political parties is very different backgrounds. but i think our candidate i think you've run with foley is well placed to keep the coalition together he's sold it to ban he's a dependable man was built

a reputation around being around listening to people and pulling people together he's been at the center all skating this will bring in this coalition together and also keeping it together for the past year and a half. hour think us. all a key moment i think was. a common candidate which took the government by surprise and which the government really couldn't come back from and i hope we say committed to governance. i'm told that wanted to come and counter that you know this very well we've always i don't recall intended to be put forward ones that actually run in the election really. up to the government to ask for the opposition's candidate it's no legal obligation on coal government as government or the other for the head democracy is all but obsolete in this country at the moment we have no functioning

independent commissions we have no functioning constitutional commission selecting the media needs to build the human rights commission the broadcasting commission all the independent commissions we need to us from ground zero we need to west palm and as you know since last year has been done to me sound to me the tree sees of so we need to build the military sea. and with the last century was that. unlike you i'm not a member of parliament well as i am not to mention i'm not allowed i'm not allowed inside the military and i'm not allowed inside the chamber without the permission and as well into the rules and guidelines or if you are very. good where i mean i think want to. hear what you're saying even finish your sentence there because i see will kind of nodding his head wanting to get in there even though what. the military the soldiers have taken off their uniforms they're in plain clothes now to

control the entire. twelve members of parliament opposition members have been unconstitutionally bought from entering the parliament even me i've not been i'm still i still hold to all the members who got it wrong to cross party but i can't get into running there's no place for bribery in a democratic governing system so as part of a nurse it was part of the it was saying there is allegations of bribery there are allegations of corruption but also. allegations that president i mean jailed his political opponents and so will give us some context here for that dispute. well i mean it depends how far you want to go back but to talk about democracy in the mold leaves. you know to an outsider that it sounds like something that has existed there's not really been a fully functioning democracy in the mold if there was a thirty year dictatorship under maumoon abdul go you know in the opposition coalition they were. a complicated transition there was there was some time under

my feet but he didn't have the time all the space or you know some of his partners the inclination to build that and now with we've. just term of up till ya means where there's been an assault on many many institutions and individuals and the media within the country and so we need to go right back to the start you know building those democratic institutions is going to take a lot of work and we're not in a place where we can just say ok this is a change of government now just just get it going again with the democracy that has not been built and it needs to be well to illustrate that point you mentioned in the she that is the country's first democratically elected president he tweeted then he writes congratulations to president elect you've done an extremely good service to not only to the people of the maldives but also to freedom loving people

everywhere democracy is a historical inevitability and supports this tweet of circulated it's got about nearly five thousand likes but he is in exile and he's not the only one we actually heard from a fellow al-jazeera journalist her name is that he never she'd who was also in exile in sri lanka right now and here's what she tells the story came about how she's feeling. so the opposition's victim instead of a lot of people living in it's all can go home now so here in colombia there's more than a dozen people and their families who've been out of the country for several years i've been speaking to some of them here and there's a lot of joy about the possibility of returning home but many of them say they're not taking chances until this is transition of power for me personally i've been outside of them all these more than two years now and i'm really looking forward to seeing my family especially my niece who is one year old and why i haven't met yet

. geoffrey what do you make of that comment there are several. the number really is not countable but there are people who are in exile were not heard from some of them what do you make about the numbers not because a lot of the time or so oh there's no charges against a lot of people that's no reason why they can't all. i would like to these people have been wrong and right. they've had threats instances that the threat of jail not by the government by hostile ireland are meant that you are a part of one of the biggest problem i had last ten years in that we have seen the very worst that our nation has to look for the longest course of that's laced with absolute and. that will allow gangs and criminals to rule the

country and we opt. not to rule the country there's no doubt it is certainly certainly didn't carry more than another. we did not be little the threat that these people have received i'm not belittling the threat that they knew that friends lived up there under imposed exile because this is. no good i want to leave it as i know that anyone going to this responsible anyone for for everyone so let's think that you know what i mean obviously in new needs he has not met the needs i want just that i have a lot of love that you know my point is that your. humility was a mess you can't do your illusion and. that's the problem hugh what so i have to leave the country i want to jump in here because i want to make sure that our audience is i want to make sure our audience is hearing what you're saying what you've said and of course that he is a former stream gas and so she's described some of the threat she's had against her

previously but as you're saying she had a machete thrown at her there were death threats and jeffrey i hear what you're saying that you're saying it's a political climate it's not necessarily coming from the president's office but will you also can't go back to the maldives that correct. well i know in my case i wouldn't say a car so i probably shouldn't because i don't think it would it would end up well for me but the suggestion that there's a self-imposed exile for people like that you know for people like you know you want to tell you it's who began the process of exposing so much of the corruption is just laughable i mean these people have been under huge threat journalists have gone missing. you said that was a machete ledged launched in the door of one of those journalists to go it's. on all sorts of attacks. by the government there police investigations into the yeah into the little susie isn't enough of the government of plotting and a lot of it isn't here in the world what is and what is clear is that appearance of

a lot like the police investigation into the my. you know what happened to those on its investigation those have been in the yellow waiting just. the people with all this as well let me what kind of police investigation are you talking about here feet before geoffrey answers that i want to share this tweet from the president elect who pledged to open investigations into two of the people that we are talking about here this is during the campaign i pledged open investigations into journalist ahmed real once disappearance i mean rashid's murder repeal the anti-defamation act and ensure press freedom jeffrey. the anti-defamation act first of all ensures that there is some measure of democratic responsibility to go along with them rights one of the biggest problems that we have in multiuse is that there is no true adherents to truett instead there's deference to hyperbole time and time again and it doesn't and i don't think that

any semblance of honesty in what they're reporting and that is a problem that is something that needs to be interests but that doesn't mean they defend the defamation and you really have no need to act like it's any more ya mean randi randi nama you really don't need to defend the death of me i've been telling him that i'm part owner and. rape threats monthly don't own me not only will you all in and of the you know me and of friends as well and i would make also even and gentle frank i'm going to pull you apart for a moment because i want to bring in this comment live be a youtube tell me what is the assurance that this transition will hold freedom for the people i'm not power to the elected government this is the theme of this conversation because i've heard it from some of you already today well what's your answer to that. well i think actually certainly what it is going to uphold it is is some semblance of freedom because your mind is not in power anymore it is not

systematically taking away those freedoms the challenge now is how do you build a coalition that can in turn build a functioning government how does the coalition work you know we need the parliamentary elections to certainly work out the share of power in terms of seats and then after that we need to work out who is going to have which ministries how there's going to be a division among those parties and to start actually building the capacity in those institutions which doesn't exist at the moment. and to talk about some of those things jeffrey is talking about you are you have a defamation law which criminalizes much much journalism actually. that needs to be fixed you have many other laws that need to be so that need to be improved fictional or real encouraged values are going to be rebuilt. of course we

need permanent coverage but does does what the defamation law has been has been recent or an estimation launching up slander and libel which is rampant and has been rampant in the maltese people make up stories that have no basis in reality and that comes from our politics the problem is that all egyptians feel like the only way to mobilize their base is to galvanize their support is to resort to more and more extreme rhetoric and its rhetoric of polarization which is really debilitating our country's ability to bring the multis after ten years of this kind of language this kind of of virulent anger and hate politicians and molding to more understanding to your most peace to promote peace in our country and that's something that doesn't happen especially more. how do you explain the state media acting like president own machine not facing any

consequences of that absolute and open political bias but any t.v. stations any newspapers that are not aligned to the government faced with that. they're generally that's correct and they have to find the song how do you explain that consciously i mean the man that a lot of. them and they. all have to let us know that content on the managing director of the board of the state media was the n c for president young and lost that any of they can pay for how do you explain that jeffrey. what are the positions people might have. that people. ok so when you heard the question from even we got an answer from jeffrey i want to bring in our. own looking for i want to under this new president president elect so

here are two comments from people of what they want the government to focus on this is side impact who writes and we're hoping that it will mean a return of our fundamental rights as granted in the constitution the fear of being arbitrarily detained would not be the norm that he will work on cleaning up the judiciary and law enforcement were sorely in need of a system overhaul so that one person's opinion another person writes and this is what they are looking forward to in the next administration health care affordable accessible improving our living conditions livable wages we can't afford to keep destroying our environment and he wants honesty and transparency even how doable are these lists of things in this next generation in your perspective i think. i think over the last five years what was lacking over the last seven years in. political will and the commitment to not go up and to not. need instead the last statement on corruption.

on on. and and you know we have an extension we have a recovery commission over this over the next in this treasure and we are you we haven't. brought any rag on there all day that. has a record of being as a member of parliament as a moment a democrat for the past twenty five years and i think he's proven himself to be like i said a dependable person a democrat committed to democracy democracy so i think and he's pledged throughout his campaign he pledged openness he pledged transparency he pledged fanous and also a number of other pledges housing education and i think as he is also repeatedly said and as we can see him in the maldives has one of the highs g.d.p. per capita in the entire region with close to nine thousand g.d.p.

per capita so therefore we do have the money we just need to have zero tolerance and production and we need to put and put this money into education into help into housing into the environment and to building our institutions and some of that will have to come with money the funds making sure that the country has the funds to do it which brings me to this point that several people have raised you to creative says what do you think about the future of chinese and that's meant in the maldives another person writes and will the maldives have more military ties with china or india two of the people closely two of the countries really closely watching these elections on the china angle china has given investment into the country this is a comment we got from the schwann about the civil society activists and here's what he thinks. most of this is in produce more than one point one billion dollars in gold but china we know the country is only spent less than a quarter of this amount we also know that. there's not

a fan blades really not all of it a little actually going to go into kind of thing so the incoming president needs to make sure every penny of this money is accounted for he also needs to make sure that he has the day off china we know that china is already in slave you know the countries and i don't think we know what happens in what happened between them could we know what happened to the hundred year old we don't want to see deeks happen in the maldives so well some strong words there we know that the chinese government has been a supporter of president the i mean how do you see this support moving forward under any president well i think ya mean use china as a sort of nation of last resort because you knew was going to get any support from the europeans are all from the indians now in terms of the great game where you we probably will will see. that india step forwards. so how do

you rate china as that back and probably the europeans and the west in general the americans being more engaged with this new coalition government the geo political forces we will continue to keep an eye on importantly we're out of time for this part of the conversation thank you to our gas and of course star community until next time we will see you on line. thank.

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i'm sam is a this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. but it's going to be meeting with chairman kim in the not too distant future. the u.s. president raises hopes of getting stalled nuclear talks with north korea back on track. u.s. moscow's decision to give syria an advanced defense missile system. on supreme court nominee talks to the u.s. media about the allegations against him. in a major snob to the united. it's the e.u. says it will set up a new mechanism to enable trade with iran designed to get around washington sanctions the trouble ministration withdrew from the iran nuclear deal earlier this year and impose sanctions on businesses dealing with iran the european union and

other signatories to the nuclear deal now want to find a way for businesses to avoid u.s. countermeasures the announcement was made by the blocs foreign policy chief after a meeting with iran's foreign minister e.u. member states will set up a legal entity to facilitate illegitimate financial transactions with iran and this will allow european companies to continue to trade with iran in accordance with european union lol and could be open to other partners in the world well let's take a look at some of the key milestones in the iran nuclear deal known formally as the joint comprehensive plan of action in two thousand and fifteen iran and six world powers signed the nuclear deal ending in the early twelve years standoff between iran and western powers in may this year paul the us out of the agreement and announced plans to reimpose financial sanctions on iran despite this the e.u.

and u.s. allies say iran continues to abide by the terms of the agreement the international nuclear watchdog the i.a.e.a. agrees the e.u. has vowed to stick with the deal and updated legislation to protect european companies from future sanctions should have returns he has more from the u.n. . the europeans have been discussing setting up what they call a special purpose very cool to keep international financial channels open with iran for several weeks now what we're told is that an entity will be set up that will act as a clearing house a middleman so to speak between europeans and iranians as they try and do business that is say the italians want to buy some iranian oil they will while their money to this entity which will then handle the financial transaction from there likewise if the iranians want to do business with a european company they will go to this entity which will handle the financial transactions from there no involvement of commercial banks or central banks both of

whom are terrified of the prospect of u.s. retribution if they're seen to be going against u.s. sanctions we don't have more details yet but the e.u. says this will also be open this mechanism to normal european countries and companies as well rodger shanahan is a research fellow at the lowry institute for international policy joins us on skype now from sydney good to have you with us so first of all there's a lot of fine print to get through here what exactly is the mechanism as you understand it that world powers have announced a try and get around us sanctions well we don't know the exact shape of it and i'm sure there'll. be told in the days and weeks to count but from what we know at the moment it's some kind of mechanism puts a far wall between your pain financial institutions and iran's will to stay clear of the us secondary sanctions in the financial markets and in

dealing in us dollars with iraq what would stop the us from going after those businesses that do business with the far wall this vehicle as it's being called. well i mean it's a good question and that's probably the. the next thing that washington is going to have to have a look at but you would assume that the europeans. before they announced this have made whatever mechanism it is as robust as possible but as you pointed out things are always good in theory until are they put into practice when the real tests come and i'm sure that's going to be the test in the future we've also have to see whether the companies that are going to trade with iran again to be confident enough in their legal protection by dealing through this entity we've already seen a lot of companies pulling out of doing business with iran do you think this sort of initiative is going to be enough to turn the tide back in favor of doing

business with iran. but i mean it's a good question and and again until we know exactly what shape it is. that will probably determine what kind of confidence that the company companies boards have in doing deals but i'm sure that one of the reasons why it was announced today as well as being at the u.n. is that they want whatever mechanism it is to be in place before the fourth of november when the more punitive sanctions from the u.s. in terms of dealing in oil exports come into place. a matter how this goes down in the sense how much of an already a huge setback is this for the u.s. just in terms of diplomatic position. well certainly it's a poke in the eye by the europeans to washington. was delivered in new york

at a time when world leaders including including president trump are going to be in attendance . and i think it reflects the kind of. attitude that europeans that had about the decision by president trying. to think quite upset about. going against international norms of. pulling out of the agreement at the same time that all external orders of sound iran has been complying with this agreement so. the europeans want to try and save the agreement noticing this is really the the last chance i suppose mechanisms are doing. rodger shanahan good to get your thoughts on that thanks so much the u.n. humanitarian affairs chief mark lowcock has warned that a famine in yemen could strike at any time and lead to even more loss of life food prices have soared and fighting over the key port of

a day that has stopped they can seize from reaching at least eight million people so far this year he says by the time a famine is confirmed it will be too late to stop it soundly led coalition says it will open humanitarian corridors in yemen between the major rebel strongholds of what they've done they're doing it in order to bring in vital aid supplies they say what could be targeted to how the coalition is working with the u.n. humanitarian agency in yemen to establish thief humanitarian corridors to help with the delivery and aid between. help and earlier she had returned to spoke with mark lowe and asked him about the contradiction between the u.n. accepting aid funds from saudi arabia when it continues to bomb yemen. my job is to draw attention to the humanitarian suffering and one way in which the situation could be worse is if we were running the biggest relief operation and we didn't have a very well funded appeal so my colleague martin griffiths says the u.n.

political envoy is working as hard as we can to deal with the underlying issues and what's needed is to get people around the table so i agree with you there's also a contradiction in this my central focus though is ensuring that the people who are the losers in this conflict in which there are no winners the people are the losers of the civilians as little babies fighting between rival armed groups in libya's capital as now forced more than five thousand families to flee their homes the international organization for migration says the numbers leaving have gone up sharply in the last three days the battle for control of the area near tripoli's airport erupted late last month more than one hundred people have been killed. the u.s. is warning russia it's making a major mistake by developing by the flying rather it's state of the art missile defense system in syria the kremlin is sending the s. three hundred missiles to the country a week after one of its planes was mistakenly shot down by syrian anti-aircraft fire at the time syrian air defenses were responding to raids by israeli jets in

the province of latakia rory chance reports. russia's s three hundred the air defense system that's russia has held off from supplying to the syrian military until now. within two weeks a modern surface to air missile system the s three hundred will be handed over it's capable of intercepting air assault weapons on a range of more than two hundred fifty kilometers and at the same time can hit multiple aerial targets having an advanced facility and high fire rate the system will strengthen syrian air defense combat capabilities significantly defense minister sure you gave little doubt why the russians have changed their position but you're cool it is you that has them going to let me make a point at the request of the israeli side and twenty thirteen we halted delivery of the s three hundred which was ready to be shipped to syria while syrian service

personnel were given appropriate training today the situation has changed not by our fault the defense ministry holds israel responsible for the deaths of fifteen military personnel a week ago there reconnaissance plane was misidentified and mistakenly shot down by syrian air defense admits the confusion of his radio strikes and israeli military delegation sent to moscow last thursday failed to convince the russians it was their fault. but interesting aspects of this rift is the way the ministry of defense approach differs from that taken by the kremlin the m.o.d.e. has kept pushing the view that israel is culpable bus. but he made his spokesperson soft pedaling saying it was just an unfortunate accident and that the s. three hundred decision is not a that israel. israel has previously been able to count on russia turning a blind eye to its airstrikes inside syria of which there have been some two

hundred in recent years but if damascus really does get its hands on s three hundreds the israeli military will have to rethink its tactics as the first time in the. history of the conflict that we see the syrian defense is equipped with a mother in. missiles that can deprive the israeli air force of from their freedom of movement and the syrian air space part is not just the israelis who will be affected by the move u.s. national security adviser john bolton has called it a major mistake any other country operating in the region will now have to realize that syrian airspace isn't theirs to use it will rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. still ahead and i'll just hear the u.s. approves the sale of millions of dollars of arms to taiwan but what does that mean for china plus. i'm wayne hay reporting from thailand

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