so you know too close to a railway line underneath power lines that kind of thing underneath rocks that could fall and i think that that's really important obviously we want to save lives . i am a little bit concerned about the model in egypt because it's not people centered and a human rights approach to dealing with in formality or dealing with inadequate housing and i should say forty percent of the population in egypt is living in informal housing or what people call slums. the human rights approach should be human centered you should really ensure that the population is part of the process every step of the way. it's an understanding that communities actually have knowledge expertise about their own fate and their own futures and their own communities and you have to empower those communities provide them with the resources to come up with their own plans another one recently i think worth

raising is kabera in nairobi where there was an informal settlement shanty town slum whatever you want to call it to build a new road which they got rid of the homes of some thirty thousand people what was interesting there i think i don't know whether you saw the photos taken by a reuters photographer there while the demolishing of the homes in that shanty town next door or the green of a golf course and there are golfers watching the destruction of these homes it really sums up doesn't it in the quality center of. the kibera situation is also deeply alarming to me and again i spoke out about that situation thirty thousand people facing homelessness. that mean that's the reality completely contrary to international human rights law and kenya's own constitution which protects the right to housing and has provisions around for steve actions. you know

as i said the standard. for these situations is that you know force eviction is one considered a gross violation of human rights no community should be victim unless there is absolutely no viable alternative i have seen situations in thailand where in bangkok where the government wanted to build off ramp from a highway right into a community an informal settlement and the community rallied and managed to figure out a way that that off ramp could in fact come down and the community can remain intact these things are possible i may not want to live underneath her our ramp but that community wanted to stay and that was possible in bangkok surely there was another way in keep bad it's the largest informal settlement in nairobi it's it's mind boggling to me i think the understanding of home has been lost i think people are viewed as dispensable i think as you say it's this inequality some

people's lives matter and some don't seem to but how do you stop what has become all over the world i mean it's the result of urbanization globalisation and speculation how do you stop this trend because it's their rich investors look and they go where am i going to put my money today stocks baldwins i'm going to put it in gold oh no the safest bet is to buy property even if i don't want to live in it now so huge it is absolutely a huge problem and i love that you mentioned you know should i put my money in gold versus housing and i can tell you everyone is going to housing and not gold. housing residential real estate is now valued at one hundred sixty three trillion dollars which i mean i can't even get my head around i'm not a numbers person i can't get my head around the one hundred sixty three trillion.

dollars is the value of residential real estate if you take the value of all gold that has been mined seven trillion right so so people are going for residential real estate for sure. how do you curb that that is the question of the day i think that some governments are doing some interesting things around this if you take singapore they have an eighteen i think eighteen percent tax on on foreign owned property so that's a trying to you know it's using a tax system to sort of keep that at bay a little bit or at least keep it in check things like that can happen. you have a law in cata lumia where. they're trying to make it such that no mortgage foreclosure should result in even action that that would be even into homelessness that that would be legal so there are these small

attempts at curbing this what do the single attempts to look at the way the world is room even look at who's running the world right now the united states of america is being run by a property developer yes absolutely and i'm glad you mentioned that too because that's not often talked about and what does that mean and when president trap originally had that advisory group i mean who did he have in that advisory group this is the c.e.o. of blackstone the largest private equity firm that is buying up properties real estate residential real estate around the world and really. creating an affordability everywhere they go it is almost like a price fixing situation right you mentioned blackstone what about reaching out to companies like that to see if they can help solve the problem that perhaps the creating yeah well yes i have actually reached out to blackstone and have tried to

meet with them because i actually see them and my present position as raptor as. somehow related they are becoming well they're one of the larger third largest landlord in new york largest landlord in the united states they own i think something like three hundred thousand units worldwide right there major player in the housing sector i'm a housing person on the global scale we should be talking it hasn't happened yet and i would really welcome that conversation because i'm not sure that they're aware of all of these human rights standards i don't think it's in their in their mindset it's not in their business model that's for sure but could it be i'm open i mean i'm open to having that that conversation you mention that goal these are the goals the u.n. set to improve the world by twenty thirty let me just remind you what it says by twenty thirty ensure access for all to adequate safe and affordable housing and

basic services and upgrade slums everything you've told me is the goal of the ones may be going well everything is going backwards we're not going to reach that goal in twelve years of how we look we have to strive to reach that goal in twelve years states have that obligation they've made that commitment i think if states and cities took it seriously and decided to adopt human rights based housing strategies and i've written a report about that and what that might look like i think that huge strides could be taken. that's what i think that's my that's my. ambition is to see states take this very seriously and actually adopt strategies that you know focus on the most vulnerable that change the way decision making is made that ensure

accountability of governments to the people that ensure equality those sorts of things big principles if that was guiding housing policy maybe we would inch toward that twenty thirty deadline and that that commitment. thank you for talking to us thank you. oh. oh oh. november on al-jazeera radicalized you a new hard hitting series comes face to face with the hatred and violence of militant groups that attract young people around the world on november fifth the u.s. will impose additional sanctions on iran targeting the oil sites we'll look at the impact that may have when migrant lives are in danger and see who should come to their aid people in power investigates the united states is getting ready for the

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eighteen thousand kilometers away vote on independence. day before u.s. sanctions are back in force in iran thousands of people there are marking the thirty ninth anniversary of the u.s. embassy takeover president donald trump announced he would bring back the measures lifted in the twenty fifteen nuclear deal withdrew from the agreement earlier this year iran's leadership has played down the u.s. move the commander of the elite revolutionary guard says tehran will resist any sanctions. despite the moves iran iranians remain positive least trying to remain positive as the reports now from the capital. when you look past all the politics what becomes clear is that american sanctions people more than they change

iranian government policies american policy some would say trumps brinkmanship has meant economic chaos for iran the value of the iranian ryall has suffered a major fall in the last year adding to high inflation and unemployment concerns all of this hurts low income and working people first and foremost they struggle to feed their families because prices for some basic goods have doubled. people's purchasing power has been reduced they talk about their problems. when a customer wants to buy something you can tell the situation some people used to come here to buy meat once a month month. to. when it comes to iran u.s. presidents have pursued a policy of containment for decades trying to limit iranians economically militarily and politically in their regional and global affairs even the twenty fifteen nuclear deal that president barack obama championed that gave iran back

some of its financial freedoms many iranians saw that is just a softer approach to the same containment policy but by turning back the clock on bilateral ties with iran what president donald trump has done is to show people here that during his administration there will be no blurred lines between friends and enemies but if trumpet hope pushing iranians towards poverty would inspire them to topple their own leaders he'll likely be disappointed previous protests never got big enough all he's apparently done is make people here miserable. i think mr trump is a crazy man who made the situation in the region drastically worse his involvement in the region and sanctions have made the people hate him i really don't think that he's the one that should be the president of america. maybe good for his own people but not as he took office. it's better not to say anything about his personality everyone knows how. everybody in the room to. what iran's leaders signed

the nuclear deal they said it was the thing to fix everyone's financial problems three years later with american promises of more sanctions than ever before the best that people here can hope for is that iran can manage to sell enough oil to survive until donald trump has left the white house zain but. let's take a closer look then at what is in these sanctions iran's ports and state owned shipping companies will be affected that's what the government uses to transport its oil to the world then we have the oil itself the united states says it will sanction anyone who buys oil from iran but eight countries. granted waivers for their due to their political or economic reliance on iranian oil iran central bank is also now heavily sanctioned by the united states any dealings with it and other state own financial institutions will be considered a violation by the us government then there is the all important swift code many

international financial transactions require this system but it will no longer be available to those who want to deal with iran let's bring in matt had the now he is an economist at the vienna institute for international economic studies he joins us via skype now from vienna thanks very much for being with us so broadly speaking what impact are these sanctions going to have on iranian businesses and on the iranian people. hello good morning from vienna. actually the impact of sanctions already in bass well iranian oil exporting apra was about two point six million barrels per day before it was almost the third largest export in the open angrily after mr trump he drew us from the j.c.b. away are the buyers of uranium oil like south korea like to stop buying it ring in

on it so you know took over iranian exports of oil it was about one point six million barrels per day beach which is about one point one. million barrels per day less than what it was in april and the price of oil in the beginning of october has increased and fixed in the past four years that somehow sustained uranian revenue from oil exports you know this in to that because of the currency depreciation of iran during and government can enjoy the. the oil revenues and change it to its own currency the larger amount. this ng is that eight countries have been exempted. from the sanctions of the u.s. government against the reigning purchases of oil however as miss upon pull announced they might even reduce state purchase of oil furthermore in the near future because

they might have. if they might get some concessions from on and from the u.s. government it means that maybe in certain point in time the purpose of avoiding from the rain in exports might be even much lower the statistic that i said earlier it's only based on the. tanker tractors but iranis i think is pursuing a chemical pharmacy. somehow like houdini's track their beats are tankers somehow do not use g.p.s. trackers on the way and they change and they reroute so we're not even sure if this one point six or one point five million bad days the accurate amount or you ring an expert so for now you bring in experts or it is much lower but we ring in revenue the government's revenue in reining in real news are quickly much higher than would

be expected in previous years so you are correct yeah connects us here but they did this with system which we mentioned earlier and the intention to. not make that available. to iranian business is that this is the international system of financial payments what impact is that going to have. on the iranian economy is this going to. motivate iran to look towards other ways of getting around this like crypto currency and so on. well the transaction of iran actually iran could not make good transactions with other countries even prior to the us gacy v.o.a. or even after that many ring in citizens cannot transfer money today or families to the red at the who are living abroad it's still in place so this we've transaction

is a problem flaws of them and if it's going to continue as a problem but the alternative well cryptic currency in the past one year in the past six months many countries many central banks including central bank of iran. have tried to study crypto currency so it means that they are trying to find regulations and they're trying to study more cryptic currencies in order to make transactions are easily have it's still it's it's very difficult to to make transactions what computers because there are lots of unknown's in that field another alternative that the european union.