the ratings agency is highlighting what it called titanic credit risks because of under reported local government debt meanwhile the world's number two economy reported its slowest quarterly growth rate since the global financial crisis brags that time out european union leaders have given themselves several more weeks to reach a break up deal with the u.k. talks this week failed to deliver a hoped for breakthrough plus better than expected earnings at netflix helped its shares higher this week the streaming video service added seven million new customers in the three months to september one hundred thirty seven million people globally now use netflix. still to come on counting the cost on a high caliber becomes the world's largest legal marijuana marketplace. but first is enjoying a tourism revival the industry had gone into decline following a series of attacks by armed groups on visitors in two thousand and fifteen well

how much has the story. tunisia's tourism industry is taken off the sandy beaches of the northeast are again so. general manager of siebel who tell all four hundred eighty beds are fully booked even though the hot season has ended a little come to. twenty seventeen we started to feel like european tourists are coming back and in twenty eighteen there was a remarkable increase in european tourism especially western european tourist traffic markets like belgian english luxembourg has and also french. scenes like these have not been seen since early two thousand and eleven for the uprising the toppled former president. that triggered a series of popular revolt in the region known as the arab spring. as you know an

arab spring nations tunisia paid a hefty price for the southern political upheaval groups linked to al-qaeda. attacks across the country the bloodiest wars on the museum in the capital tunis in march two thousand and fifteen that killed twenty two people twenty of them your tourists. the attacks lead to a severe drop in visitor numbers hitting the country's economy less is on the deal calibra he said at the hot season has ended but urgent season is excellent as well and there are still lots of her tales which will be full for an early november it was positive and statistics are here to confirm that. but that situation began to change early two thousand and seventeen with a marked improvement this year. nearly five point five million tourists have arrived since january and major european operators including thomas cook went to you i have resumed holidays to tunisia the government says it expects visitor

numbers to hit at it called eight million by the end of the year for tunisians tourism means not only economic ease but also peace a feeling shared by those of life in the country safe yes of course i'm safe in a like tony said what in march the people i want to hear all culture good food. i like it what is much. that doesn't suit us and elsewhere testament to the changed. handicraft sellers are again busy or hoping of the bad times over for good. the un's food and agriculture agency says the world will need to change the way it produces its food in order to cater to an increasing global population and the hayward went to scotland to look at an alternative approach to farming. there's no tractor or trailer or reliance on the some or the rain instead special lighting is

helping this crop of pounds of until to grow. this is the u.k.'s past fully automated vertical palm where the vents built into the trays pump the right amount of air to regulate the temperature and humidity we've taken a field we've cut it into tray sized pieces about six and a half square metres and as you can see behind me we stack them up on top of each other then we've put them in a box and we've made the weather inside the box so we've made our own sunshine we've made our own rain we've made our own wind we could heat we can we can deal with humidity. under this system being developed in scotland crops can grow quickly using ninety seven percent less water than normally would be used this method of bombing isn't being seen as a replacement for more traditional methods of agriculture but it could be useful in areas where it's difficult to grow crops where the climate is extreme. and changing

the way we produce food will be vital in the future the u.n. is warning that by twenty fifty the global population will be more than nine billion and will need to produce seventy percent more to feed everyone the technology allows us to grow food in areas of the world where it's very difficult because of the climate or the needers of the world is actually very little wonder billable so is changes to whole foods system supply strain for example but also seriously reduces the amount of energy and inputs that we have to put into making food. here that aiming to be energy neutral as the demands of our population increase so too will our need for innovation. well joining me now from amsterdam is adam and those adam is a co-founder and managing partner at n. terra capital good to have you with us so can the world produce enough food for nine billion people that's the big concern going forward where do you think we're heading you know i think our image is just about delivering colorings areas and now

land around the world and probably enough resources grateful i think the problem is where their food has to go in whether it's nutritious outwards or what exactly is actiq. so harass ag tech is the adoption of new ideas new technologies being digital biotech material sciences applied to any aspect of the netiquette you're going to change networks from the stage and reading . on current practices transportation shelf life we just. give us some examples though some practical examples of what. a normal farm that's converted into ag tag how does it look different. so for example when dealing in the family you could first of all what and input the family might choose so the genetics the actual performance of the plot how do we know that that plant is

suitable for that soil really know the right amount of seed is going to be used and then from there what you actually make a planting decision how can you use data in order to be more precise about that first moment of planting and then how to treat that plant as a grows. then we go through that treatment process with different forms of pesticide fungus aren't herbicide traditionally an area where some quite approved chemicals have been used and it's time to the next generation and then it's harvesting time how do we record that yield how can the camel best market that product and digital biotech solutions are a buy in would every aspect of our ok we're listening to that one wonders that are we talking about a system of farming that really requires a fundamental maybe complicated set of changes to the whole process of farming and you know i don't think so and also promise can adopt it in different grades so give

it's just a better performing a c. in a cell and soil or a non-lawyer who. environment that's something that could be disability anywhere in the world and just oak or activity in use you can also go very high tech and be analyzing your family even at the field over the well a plant level eventually maybe so i think that's going to be up to the farm is there enough investment going on that in like that because it sounds great investment activity is moved from let's say five years ago practically nonexistent so globally when we started looking at ten years ago it was three hundred million globally invested a year in the one of the largest centers in these days we're looking in the billions and take a lot of probably three to four billion last year if you include ten something percent ten so it's definitely grown is a little now that i'm not sure about you know what about developing countries will

they be left behind the ag tech revolution if they're not able to put as much money as others into the game. i personally think some of the best opportunities for women are in emerging countries and also some of the best opportunities for getting a return on that application of technology for entrepreneurs and that in part because we've got a very big gap and in developed countries which are achieving seventy sometimes eighty percent of your potential in emerging markets jobs and thirty percent another key reason would be we're seeing a step change in technology where you don't go in three i mean presence that helped imaging and it developed markets that are giving these days a hole in the back of it and that links to my third reason why it's going to be great for managing markets is less arrogance and i have a farm and there's more openness to some of the suggestions that we see in. say the

netherlands taking advice on how to do dairy when they're in world leaders for four hundred years in that sector like the point that you touched upon an initial you made me think of an issue there when he said they'll be less arrogant how different will the farmer of the future look like than compared to now because when you say farmer you know you kind of think of a chap in a field with you know raking the field with a farmer instead be sitting on a computer with a big data and doing statistical manipulations or something like that the defendant think that computers are the answer farmers who will always want to be in the food and be close to their plants their animals their land and there's a big part of that that's as a part of an integral part of and that's an out of the environment but using a small foreign or and i'm at in order to prioritize what to do that i want to know in more spaces embody where there might be disease pressure and how you can more

accurately apply that is to say i don't have to use the old. and actually farming at that will determine level we hope by technology and question of it. well maybe three d. printing often for example for the government i think that a different solution or a different title seven and it's possible three d. printing will hopefully but i don't see that as a fundamental revolution in the same way of what i say that mean in the fall i do think it's a novel idea and i think it will social apps and transportation issues and grading issues. and certainly it can be a lot of fun in terms of different flavors textures and everything else that we're seeing at nine restaurants. well thanks so much for coming and talking to us about that it's a great pleasure thank you for having me and finally canada has joined a very exclusive club of countries that allows the sale of recreational marijuana off to europe why it's only the second country to do so daniel lack reports from

toronto. illegal no more at midnight in the easternmost time zone the first non-medicinal cannabis is sold without breaking canadian law trades would be super happy to if you're a first person in line legalization is being celebrated countrywide and not just by smokers canadian cannabis companies have seen their share prices soar in recent months as the big day approached there is not one client yet that has not been touched by the introduction of cannabis in canada life sciences technology the banking industry retailers but in addition the companies you're going to start seeing a lot of activity as they touch the canvas market how can a dns buy their cannabis depends on where they live there will be different distribution rules in each of the ten provinces and three territories some will

have government run online and real stores others private retail prices will also differ some critics say that puts too many restrictions on an activity most canadians have long wanted to be legal we can't really stop it with prohibition we better call it legalized. unfortunately the government has tried to maintain all of the details of prohibition and just call it legalized. legalizing cannabis fulfills a campaign promise made in two thousand and fifteen by prime minister justin trudeau who himself admitted several years ago that he was an occasional user in the past the government is also offering pardons to people convicted of possession now that the drug is legal. because cannabis has been outlawed for so long its effects on mind and body are being studied in detail at this toronto medical lab they're using a simulator to see how drivers who have smoked a joint react to virtual traffic conditions police and road safety advisers are

also part of the research the most important thing is for drivers to understand what's going on in there and prevent things from happening i think everybody is interested in keeping our world safe for drivers. to. most canadians are not opposed to legal cannabis so long as it could be kept away from children and the multibillion dollar profits from an industry once dominated by organized crime can be taxed and used to benefit society. well that's our show for this week but remember you can get in touch with us via twitter use the hash tag. do. an e-mail counting the cost of al-jazeera dot net is our address is more on line of al-jazeera dot com slash c.t.c. that will take you straight to our page which has individual reports links and entire catch up on. that's it for this edition of counting the cost i'm sam is a than from the whole team here thanks for joining us the news and al-jazeera is

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you're watching al-jazeera lie. from a headquarters and i'm dating obligates also had. attacked in the night with no one to protect the congolese villagers accuse their army of abandoning them to rebels boss. and acknowledge. the tyranny of the visible south australia's prime minister gives a national apology to victims of child sexual abuse. hello turkey's ruling party says it has a responsibility to reveal the truth about what it calls the savagely planned murder of. the parties vowing to stop any coverup attempts international pressure on the kingdom to reveal what happened to the journalist is increasing saudi rulers

deny crown prince mohammed bin sandman is linked to the killing of his critic antony's us president joker we doto delivered a call for a transparent and thorough investigation that says he welcomed the saudi arabian foreign minister they're meeting in the city of bogor is believed to be odd in japan is first with a foreign leader since he disappeared and turkey's president saying he'll be revealing on tuesday what he calls the naked truth about the killing in istanbul where five turkish employees of the saudi consulates have given their statements to prosecutors and turkish forensic experts are combing a saudi consulate car found in istanbul almost three weeks after she disappeared while president or two on spokesman says his government will go to the end to reveal what happened. this matter is going to be brought to light with no reservations and no questions whatsoever this is our duty the president has had two

telephone conversations with the king of saudi arabia the joint will was to find an acceptable solution to the matter rather than create problems between the two countries let its cross over to jamal say all the areas jamal joining us from istanbul jamal what else said did the ruling ak party have to say. well earlier in the day before the comments by the spokesperson of the presidency the spokesperson of the ak party was a lot more let's say strong and harsh in his words he said it was a monstrous plan that had been put together to assassinate official g and he obviously also said that his party and the of the officials here in turkey would not allow for a cover up they would release all the information and they would make sure everybody responsible behind this office and the isolation would be held to account so obviously very strong words there about really the real litmus test is going to

be what president right up to about one chooses to say on tuesday and not just what he chooses to say what he chooses to reveal because up until now we have had words strong words yes from officials we have had leaks we've have had information but in terms of time double evidence that makes it beyond doubt what's happened inside that consulates in terms of the murder of her children in terms of that this was not some. attempt to get to kidnap him that went wrong in terms of the fact that people who carried this out of war from the most inner circle of the highest level of the political establishment and the monarchy in saudi arabia all of that people want to know do the turks really have the evidence they claim they have which led them to these conclusions and if so will they release it or will other considerations be taken into account choose the is going to be decisive in making us aware of what the turkish approach really is whether they're going to give a priority to this as a criminal investigation and in terms of human rights in terms of international law

or whether as i say they're going to think about their bilateral relations with saudi arabia economic considerations and other regional concerns and on the ground developments car belonging to the saudi consulates was found in a parking lot what can you tell us about that. there was actually before we. just in the past half an hour actually one of the talkers channels here which has been releasing some of the information released video bizarre you know enough of saudi officials in the consulate behind me in the back garden with a metal. cylinder of some sort of burning documents right twenty four hours off the jamal special jeep was killed suspicious to say the least that is the latest bit of information whether that's an attempt at a cover up whether that shows that there was some sort of documentation trail that proves that there was orders to go ahead with this and the saudis were trying to

destroy it we're not quite sure but that is something the latest bit of information before that's to come back to your point about the cards footage of a diplomatic car saudi diplomatic mission car where which was real created in a parking lot in one of the areas in istanbul it was hidden flimsily behind or at least the number plates was hidden behind the barrier there well the turkish police are saying was that that car entered the car park the parking lot was followed by a second car that second car was then loaded with some sort of objects or documents from the first diplomatic vehicle and then it drove off with that diplomatic vehicle remaining there for the past couple of weeks that's another piece of information that came out today on monday also we've had more staff at the consulate being questioned by the attorney general's office you're in istanbul more testimony is given being given so lot of information coming out today but the big. let's say what people are waiting for to find out the most important development

will occur on tuesday how much ownership of the information the leaks of the sec's have been given will the president's take how much evidence will he choose to reveal what political decisions more important he will he choose to take visit he has the prometric or his country's diplomatic relations with saudi arabia will they also for extraditions of these fifteen or a. you know however many culprits there are. people waiting to see what on christmas move will be all right thank you meanwhile donald trump special advisor on son in law says he's counseled mohammed been summoned on the case he's known to be close to the crown prince. but what kind of voice if you've given us in this whole situation just to be transparent to be fully transparent with the world is watching this is a very very serious accusation when author white house correspondent kimberly how can i was running us from washington d.c. so did jared christer in that interview give any indication of how the white house

is going to proceed going forward. he did give a bit of a including in terms of how this is moving forward the white house aide and of course donald trump's son in law has certainly been in the spotlight in the past because of his relationship with mohammed bin solomon the crown prince of saudi arabia in fact it's been widely reported that he has the princes thought that jerry christian was apparently in his pocket if you will so there's been a bit of a spotlight on that road that relationship in terms of its coziness but in terms of the investigation cushier says that the united states is still in what he called a fact finding phase because he believes that the united states and saudi arabia are important relations they have the saudi arabia is an important ally and that above all the u.s. is focused on his the united states is focused on its own interests so what does he mean by that well as we know there are multiple investigations going on the saudis

as well as the turks are conducting concurrent investigations this is something that gave reference to he said that they're getting information from multiple places and once they have gotten that information that being the trumpet ministration that the secretary of state along with the national security team will be making a determination in terms of how to react and meanwhile the treasury secretary himself going to saudi arabia what message is he going to send. yeah a lot of attention on the fact that the treasury secretary has decided to go to saudi arabia given his own words just last week saying he would not be attending that saudi investment conference davos in the desert he had left the media the domestic media wondering what he would do given the fact there was a long string of companies in the tech sector financial sector who said they simply could not attend that conference because of the serious allegations against saudi arabia they could not throw their support behind that meeting and this is something that the treasury secretary said that he would follow in suit however it's prize

money by the fact that he says he will however still be visiting saudi arabia to talk about combating terror financing and this is something he said last week as well that he felt saudi arabia was important and terms of the relationship there in combating terror financing this has a lot to do many speculate with the fact there are some very important sanctions coming down early next month and that is against iran and its oil exports and the united states needs saudi arabia in order to ensure that supply stays stable so a lot of focus on those comments and the fact that now the treasury secretary is in fact visiting saudi arabia and last week he seemed to indicate he would not be going because of concerns about the allegations about the missing journalist shows you can really talk of thank you. well britain's prime minister to resign may has told parliament that brooks that negotiations are ninety five percent complete but one of the biggest sticking points is how to keep the irish border open after the u.k. leaves the e.u.

in march both sides want to avoid customs and border checks between ireland an e.u. member and northern ireland which is part of the u.k. but they can't agree on how to do that and trying to break the impasse prime minister may has indicated she could accept a longer post-divorce transition period but that's infuriated her progress and colleagues who fear of being tied to the e.u. for years to come some have been preparing a new bid to talk with the prime minister life in the who's joining us from just outside the houses of parliament in central london so what did she have to offer to parliament following that e.u. summit last week. well she had lots of positive words and she did actually get a lot of positive noises coming from her counterparts at that summit and just a couple of hours ago in the house of commons here westminster she told parliament that the withdrawal agreement was ninety five percent done this is of course the deal that the the u.k.

must strike with the european union if it is to avoid crashing out of the e.u. in march of next year she highlighted that the issue of the money had been settled that britain will pay to the block the issue of e.u. citizens rights here in the u.k. and vice versa but she did refer to what she called a contentious issue of the border between northern ireland arts of the u.k. and the republic of ireland now she did go into some detail saying that. the original backstop as it's called the idea to avoid the hard border which would threaten not peace agreements the backstop that the you propose originally and which was agreed to by by ministers is not acceptable to her because it would create a division down the irish sea cutting off northern islands in terms of customs arrangements from the rest of the u.k. she's put her own proposal which hasn't been.