it was the first time in the history of the conflict that we see the. difference is equipped with the mother in. the israeli air force and 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 on al-jazeera the u.s. approves the sale of millions of dollars of arms to taiwan what does that mean for china plus. i'm wayne hay reporting from thailand a major importer exporter and producer. will tell you what the government is planning to do about its.

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 tuesday to 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 so do expect it 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 but not quite as sticky for the south is still going to stay humid here as you'd expect still are 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 for many of us it's fine and dry not too warm in cape town just sixteen degrees our maximum but very hot for us and with the winds coming in off the land it won't be quite as hot or wednesday a maximum will be twenty two. counting the cost this week 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. counting the cost on al-jazeera.

i. come back you're watching out zero time to recap our headlines now in a major to the u.s. the e.u. says it will set up a new mechanism to enable trade with iran it's designed to get around washington sanctions on those the trumpet ministrations withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal earlier this year. the un humanitarian affairs chief has warned 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 keep order for a day that has stopped

a day agencies from reaching about a million people the u.s. is warning russia is 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. a year ago the u.s. president called the north korean leader little rocket man in his debut speech at the u.n. general assembly one year on donald trump is striking a much softer tone he said a second summit with kim jong un is likely soon raising hopes of reviving the stalled nuclear talks trumps been meeting south korean president in the u.n. mike hanna reports from there. president trump arrives highlighting one major change in his position since derisively labeling north korea's leader a little rocket man a year ago. you wrote

a letter beautiful letter. asking for a second meeting we will be doing that secretary of the table work that out in the future it looks like it will be very very well tremendous progress for north korea certainly since we got here it was a different world it was a very dangerous time this is a lot this is one year later a much different tack. many periods president trump could prove best disruptive as the intense security measures imposed in midtown manhattan. but no signs of gridlock in the first public event he hosted opening a session on the global drug problem with a few surprise of the united nations and its secretary general we also thank the secretary general for joining us and our special guest and as our special guest he's become a great friend and he's doing a wonderful job at a very very complex situation but a beautiful situation and i've always said the united nations has tremendous

potential and that potential is being met slowly but surely it's being met little mention at the stage of u.s. action against united nations entities threats to dismantle the human rights council the suspension of funding to the relief and works agency. and the unilateral withdrawal from both the paris climate accord and the iranian nuclear agreement positions at odds with what many of the leaders view as the problem philosophy of the united nations it should not rely only on the political interests of a few as an impasse between the major powers often impedes the entire organizations ability to act. the united nations can only succeed to the degree that we as global leaders provide visionary leadership that transfer

our ideological differences and large room national interests over the road from the united nations the stark black monolith called the trump international tower which like it will loom over the rest of the week's proceedings mike hanna al-jazeera united nations the u.s. government has approved the sale of three hundred thirty million dollars in military equipment to taiwan it includes spare parts and other support for f. sixteen fighter jets and other military aircraft the us is the only country that sells weapons to the island and has done so for nearly forty years china claims taiwan as part of its territory and opposes all u.s. military sales there. but u.s. official diplomatic ties with taiwan in the late one nine hundred seventy s. after recognizing beijing's one part china policy but they have since built stronger relations since u.s. president donald trump took office last year taiwan's president tieing when found

when he won the us elections it was the first phone call between a taiwanese and u.s. leader in our nearly in a nearly four decades long history and caused concern in china then in march trump signed legislation encouraging the u.s. to send senior officials to taiwan to meet their counterparts the move further angered beijing and in june two of the u.s. president's closest officials met the time when these leaders during separate trips to taipei they discussed regional peace cross strait issues and by actual trade russ feingold is an asia political risk analyst he says the deal will add to china's growing concerns. given that it's a relatively small dollar amount and spare parts by itself it wouldn't anger china however the totality of the circumstances are certainly indicative that this will contribute to more tension between the us and china we've seen so many issues our

rise just in the last week or two whether it's u.s. military patrols in the south china sea the tariffs the sanctions on certain chinese companies the collapse for now of trade talks with the cancellation of a high level visit by a chinese official to the u.s. and now this announcement of sale weapon sales to taiwan so it's one more issue that will now be on the agenda and clearly they'll be a period of recriminations from both sides as we simply don't know how long taiwan could withstand a military attack from china but from the u.s. perspective anything that you can do such as sell these the spare parts for what is likely in the future additional weapon sales does help taiwan prevent a chinese attack and the goal of course is to make china not think once or twice but think long and hard about the ramifications in the damage that china would occur if it were to attack taiwan so these kinds of actions how could taiwan in

a better position it must there is broad support among republicans and democrats in the united states or the us president don trump's embattled nominee for the u.s. supreme court has been speaking out often facing new accusations of sexual misconduct brett kavanaugh for the denial in a t.v. interview john hendren has the latest. people. as protesters faced arrest to demonstrate against president donald trump supreme court pick brett kavanaugh is striking back. appearing with his wife on fox news a day after not one but two new accusers emerged he insists he's been wrongly accused saying the truth is i have never sexually assaulted anyone in high school or otherwise i'm not questioning and have not questioned that perhaps dr ford at some point in her life was sexually assaulted by someone in some place would i know is that i've never sexually assaulted anyone kavanaugh was seventeen when his

original accuser christine bloody forward says he tried to rape her cavanaugh and ford are scheduled to break their silence at a senate hearing on thursday but the white house considered that too late president trump is standing behind his nominee for the united states highest court since a fine man and we certainly hope he's going to be confirmed as quickly republican leaders in congress aren't backing down either this is what the so-called resistance has become. a smear campaign pure and simple democrats would let a few and convey to things like a complete lack of evidence or accusers requests for confidentiality to get between them and 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 and 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 thousands of liberian protesters have monster in the streets of monrovia. they're demanding the return of one hundred four million dollars in missing cash shipments of new notes from princes overseas disappeared off the possum through the country's main ports liberia wants the u.s. to help investigate. in south sudan there's only one head surgeon who serves

a population of two hundred thousand in the country's northeast and she's this year's winner of the u.n. refugee award al-jazeera scattering soy traveled to the town of one church where a doctor even provides health services to locals. in an ordinary week dr even atar at the heart surgeon at the only functioning hospital in bunch town in north eastern south sudan and his steam operate on around sixty patients two hundred thousand people most of them refugees from sudan's blue nile state live in this remote town and look to a band hospital for all their medical needs the war has destroyed almost the infrastructure especially in. almost all including my local hospital was destroyed i think the process of we remove issues all of them are not really working to the

capacity that they are supposed to. south sudan has been in conflict since twenty thirteen the war has divided the country along ethnic lines between their qana me and made it difficult for many people to access basic services like health care when the conflict started at tahrir and hundreds of refugees were just beginning to settle in after fleeing violence in neighboring sudan you have to do you have collectively lead to the two countries for twenty years and has seen the worst of both wars what challenges did you face in sudan in the mud in the. really bombing the area seriously sometimes again and then you were displaced and had to come to south sudan and then a conflict broke out tell us about that situation the only difference was that there was not. many in south sudan but of course the fighting was just the same. as the complicity in the. another complication with this one was it was from within

when we. know very well the force. the united nations refugee agency nominated him for the prestige just nansen award which he won in recognition of his work and the incredibly difficult circumstances none saw in the world is awarded to some extraordinary work humanitarian work done by people on behalf of refugees internal internal displaced people and stateless people and the doctor. was the most treated outstanding commitment so he says he'll use their ward money and his new platform to try to make the lives of his patients a little better catherine saif al jazeera nairobi. thailand will stop importing

most types of electronic waste within six months so far this year influx of waste arriving in the country after china enforced a similar ban while hay 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 eve waste but corruption and weak law enforcement mean a lot more is brought into the country illegally or that's sure to have some more interest. to the car lot. to the letter to the town's friends and. partnering up. with this has been saying is next on the hit list is plastic thailand plans to ban plastic imports within the next two years but like the ban on 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 inforced there will be skepticism about the government's commitment to clean up wayne hay al-jazeera bangkok and us judges restored protections for grizzly bears and one of america's biggest national parks yellowstone the u.s. government took the bears off the threatened species list last year to trumpet ministration claim protection was no longer needed as the number of bears had gone back up if the ruling is up held it will end plans for the first grizzly bear hunts in the region in more than forty years. and let's take you through some of the headlines here an al-jazeera now in a major snub to the u.s. the e.u. says it will 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 and un humanitarian affairs chief mark local has warned of 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 there and stop day the agencies from reaching about a million people fighting between rival armed groups in libya's capital has now forced more than five thousand families to flee their homes the international organization for migration says the numbers leaving of gone up sharply in the last three days. the u.s. 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 washington has approved the sale of three hundred fifty million dollars in military equipment to taiwan the us is the only country that sells weapons to the island and has done so for nearly forty years u.s. president trump says he'll have a second summit with north korea's leader kim jong il and in the coming months he made the announcement while signing a trade pact with south korean president moon j in they met on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly and the u.s. president supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh has been speaking 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 nineteen eighties it's counting the cost

now stay with us here on al-jazeera. twenty five years after the finding al-jazeera world told the two part story of norway's role in the author not chords but a salute to the government of norway for its remarkable role in nurturing this is. the secret negotiation. and why its promise of peace has remained unfulfilled despite you. know make an issue or go home the price of oslo an al-jazeera. 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 tariffs 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 and 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 all 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 hides the reports now from beijing. within hours of the u.s.

announcing a second round of tariffs. 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 didn't mean 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 or 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 that 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 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 that 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 a nice 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 do you make of object last 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 stealing 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 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

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 big 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 at 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 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 cost nice to be here a dream thank you all right still to come on this week's counting the cost of japanese billionaires 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 bully 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 fearful to.