a really good story many thanks did dr surely that in washington. still to come on counting the cost why i have every coast's white gold is now at the center of the u.s. china trade war. but first rethink your budget or face fines that's the message from the european commission to its elite the government in rome has put forward a rule busting spending and tax cut plan the expansionary measures designed to grow the economy but the e.u. says the proposal is an expensive miscalculation it's the first time that a member state's budget has been rejected by the block the italians now have until november thirteenth to resubmit the founder of the world wide web says the internet is broken but that he has a plan to fix it speaking at the web summit tech conference in lisbon this week tim berners lee said that there's been a big change in the web since he invented it nearly thirty years ago his foundation has released

a new contract for the web with guidelines for companies governments and individuals to protect an open web the contacts will be published in may next year at a moment when half the world's population is expected to be online now it's been described as the greenest country on the planet three quarters of butan is covered by thick forest home to rare wildlife but as the country continues to develop it's struggling to find new ways to balance economic growth with the protection of the environment and a serious need barco reports it is a window on a time before humans. time is the only carbon negative country in the world producing more oxygen than it consumes. at least sixty percent of the country must be forested it's in shrines in the constitution but as b. town slowly embraces the modern age keeping it this way is a huge challenge. the pristine wilderness is home to one of the rarest animals on

earth the himalayan snow leopard by careful conservation betime successfully managed to maintain numbers the same also goes for another big cat the bengal tiger for a small country like don sandwiched between india and china we are also one of our biggest contributions is being very symbolic of the things that we can do when you have the right leadership you know and the right vision and the right commitment from the people there are stories of large predators stalking these ancient forests for generations which is probably what gave rise to the legendary story of the or yeti in reality though in addition to the big cats there are also wild boar and black bears here living in close proximity to these creatures is a major concern for farmers worried about keeping their livestock safe. every evening lock palm okies watch over her fields while boring deer often devour her

crops. she resorts to age old techniques to safeguard her livelihood. the government's installed in the lead to fence nearby but it needs repair there's a compensation scheme if livestock a killed but the payout often doesn't cover the price of a new animal killing a large predator will almost certainly lead to a jail sentence despite the challenges boots in the show unlikely levels of tolerance towards wildlife helped by hydropower. twenty five percent of putin's national income comes from selling energy to neighboring india it also allows the government to provide farmers with free electricity. but hydro projects account for harf of the national debt political promises conservationists fear the country may compromise its forests in order to balance its books we all hugh sums

of money some sums of money we cannot afford sums of money that have been borrowed from international agencies on the world bank and the asian development bank man is such a greedy force and the natural resources are the easiest way to make money. the pace of change is increasing. the country's future depends on preserving a delicate balance between humans and nature now this week china's president xi jinping vowed to further open up access to the economy for foreign companies he was speaking at a big trade show in shanghai from there are china correspondent reports. it is only from the air that you get the scale of this vast event happening on the edge of shanghai china's commercial hub the expo is part of an effort to rebrand the country's global trading image it was planned long before the united states

began imposing tariffs on chinese imports many heads of state and prime ministers are here but none from the world's leading economies at the opening ceremony president xi jinping once more presented himself as the guardian of free trade or at least his version of it. china is committed to further opening up and promoting free trade china will remain a strong advocate of global openness and will be the main driver of global economic growth he didn't refer to china's trade dispute with the united states but warned against a winner takes all mentality the president also failed to mention some of the complaints that foreign executives have about doing business in this country they complain that the chinese leadership public commitment to free trade often aren't borne out by its actions u.s. companies are represented here even if their government isn't probably flying the

flag a salt lake city health products company that arrived in china eighteen months ago but is still waiting for regulatory approval the time and length and costs and uncertainty of approving a get in a blue hat has made it so difficult for all external companies to come in foreign firms often have to enter into a joint venture as a condition for doing business here but that didn't bother this attorney in furniture designer who actively sought such an arrangement yes on course that because the like help from chinese can you know could be a chinese is that we know a lot of the things that we cannot to be a while a poor. shanghai's does aling nighttime skyline is often touted as a symbol of china's openness but some economists warn that if its leaders fail to

deliver on the promises made at this expo those flashing lights could one day become morning signals 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 and emerging and from tim markets greg good to have you with us once again. said this week that he was going to reduce tariffs open up his country's markets the world even promised foreign investors to tighten laws to protect intellectual property rights in china what are we to make about yeah i mean that would be great if if he did all those things you know it's a good sign and i think maybe he's responding and i hope that you are he's responding to that to the direction of president trump and he's responding to you know obviously trying to mediate or at least make some compromise but but it's clear and i don't think there's any dispute that china is a systematic trade shooter and ip theft is

a major part of that so i think that his in if he's if he is truthful and he actually means business that's a fantastic sign and i hope i hope that's the case i really do donald trump's party the republicans of course lost control of the house of the u.s. mid terms how is that or is it going to affect u.s. trade policy in any way. well we don't know yet but i don't think that the president will ever you know ever get into a real dispute with congress on this particular topic because it's one of the few things where where the left and even the progressive left is actually supportive of the president's policies charles schumer for example the senate minority leader has come out in on several occasions supporting the president you know getting into you know trying to fix the problem of chinese china and chinese trade so it might be the one area where there is some there is some sort of unity between the right in the left between the republicans and the democrats so i don't think this will be an

area where the where the congress puts up any any great barriers and if and frankly that it's the republicans that would have done that when they were in the majority because there's more you know pro-business pro-trade republicans whereas the democrats i think will have no problem with any sort of you know tariffs and trade barriers but good that support that that cross party support extends. to the president expanding his his trade or say for instance if he wanted to. reduce ten of some of the european union or or even withdrawal from the. yeah that's i mean it's a great question and i surely hope that that does not happen you know the a lot of this a lot of this rhetoric at the beginning of the the trade war or at the beginning of this administration you know was i had hoped would be to focus particularly on china and frankly only on china because there are actually the systematic trade cheaters it's you know there it's it's not trust and verify or trust but verify

it's don't trust and definitely verify so i think that should be the focus the problem is he won out he actually got innocent trade spats with that is our allies and our friends which i thought was a mistake now it worked out with canada and mexico that was a twenty twenty twenty five year old treaty the. needed to some tweaking so that's been done and it worked out the same with the e.u. i mean it came out of the gates with the tariffs on steel everybody was upset and and everybody sort of come around and you know even if you so look i thought i thought in retrospect that it was a mistake i think it was a distraction i think the focus on china is much better and i think you'll get support from both sides of the aisle on greg really good to talk to you as always many thanks again for being with us nice to be here thanks a. finally this week rubber tree grows in ivory coast are emerging as the latest casualty of the trade war between america and china it's africa's leading exporter

of the valuable commodity al-jazeera is nicholas hawk reports now from brian blue who forest where this white gold is collected. they call this bleeding the tree. first substance the world is addicted to now at the center of a global trade war it's lead takes in its purest form found in tires phones toothbrushes satellites or mattresses it is an essential element of daily life and so deep in the ivorian forest where you get a book goes from tree to tree scarring them for the precious liquid that's insanity it's a craft passed on from generations it's an art form that keeps us fed and brings us a regular wage unlike cocoa or coffee natural rubber is collected all year round planters sell it to factories that pay them a monthly fixed wage but prices have been slashed by almost half since the

beginning of the year. trump is imposing two hundred billion dollars in tariffs on china the world's largest manufacturer of rubber goods. china in response imposes tariffs on synthetic rubber the west produces while in the short term this is bad for african producers in the long run some hope the continent could benefit from this trade war. since a little more are tunneled com we have the land between you have the labor and the know how to one for eight eventually the water will come to us to get there obama and all month. i recoded is africa's biggest producer research is underway to develop more efficient seedlings to produce more and better quality rubber natural rubber has been around for hundreds of years and yet scientists know so little about this it's in its purest form it's stretching in strong and no one yet has

been able to reproduce it researchers here are trying to protect natural rubber plantations because the world's appetites for this substance continues to grow. the quality of synthetic rubber does not match what is found in nature scientists are genetically modifying seedlings to make them resistant to disease discovered deep in the amazon forest and planted across africa in asia by colonizers it was nicknamed the devil's milk because it fueled conflict and destruction unaware of the global trade war and despite falling prices at the calls rubber white gold at least for now. and that's our show for this week if you'd like to comment on anything that you've seen you can get in touch with us by following and tweeting me a figure on twitter please use the hash tag age eight c t c when you do or you can drop us a line counting the cost of al-jazeera dot net is our e-mail address there's plenty

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president donald trump signs an order restricting the right to seek asylum but faces a legal challenge to his plan. political turmoil continues ensure lanka the president dissolves parliament with snap elections to follow. these twenty one people killed in gun and car bomb attacks in the somali capital mogadishu. go go go go go. area people go on the raging wildfires in california forced thousands of people from their homes and destroyed an entire town. welcome to the program the un's refugee agency is urging the united states to ensure people escaping violence will persecution are given protection under international law it follows a new order from president donald trump barring people who enter the u.s. illegally from claiming asylum his move is aimed at thousands of people from

central america currently making their way to the u.s. border white house correspondent kimberly helped get reports. for years u.s. law allowed those fleeing persecution to seek asylum in the united states were guard lists of how they entered the country no longer i just signed. the proclamation asylum again i reiterate we need democratic votes using executive powers president donald trump has reduced the number of asylum claims now mandating a claim can only be considered if a person entered the united states through a legal checkpoint. the presidential proclamation is trump's latest response to a caravan of migrants headed to the united states thousands of u.s. soldiers have been deployed to the border to discourage a flood of illegal entries trops also cast doubt on claims migrants are fleeing persecution in their home countries a condition of asylum and the reason this is happening is we are this such

a successful country economically that everybody is flooding used to our country with refugees the white house is defending what immigration activists say is trump's latest draconian immigration policy but like the travel ban implemented early and presidency the white house argues the changes are necessary for u.s. national security the travel ban was tossed out of lower federal court challenges but ultimately prevailed at the supreme court the highest court in the united states the white house argues after decades of congressional failures to reform immigration the expansion of executive power is justified. simply by his unilateral decree. unilaterally change. the white house is already preparing for

more legal challenges but believes it will ultimately win with the support of the president's newest supreme court justice brett kavanaugh now. on the bench the president's effort to end an obama era program for the children of illegal immigrants now adults to go to school and work is also mired in the courts but the president says as it heads now to the supreme court he is hopeful for what he calls a fair decision on his hardline immigration policy kimberly helped at al-jazeera the white house or john hodges wu's from the asylum seeker assistance project in washington d.c. she says president trump is breaking international law. this is entirely unprecedented and there are years and years of legal precedent that determined that this is quite frankly illegal and the president's proposed policy is ultimately meant to vilify central american asylum seekers even beginning with president

trump's inauguration there has been an increase in the fears that asylum seekers express fears that their asylum cases will not be taken seriously because of the anti immigrant sentiment that president trump and genders the problem though is that asylum really is a last resort and so for individuals who essentially raise their hand to the u.s. government and say i'm here and i have nowhere else to go to begin a long complex and protracted legal process no one would want to do this this is an absolute last resort there is no such thing as an asylum seeking visa so. both international and domestic law affirm the right to seek asylum it has nothing to do with point of entry we have to remember that not every asylum seeker can afford an airplane ticket there are a number of circumstances that come into play and so to seek asylum through

a legal or through point of entry is is an unfair criteria these cases need to be decided on merit not on technicalities mineral president trump exhausting the supreme court to examine the immigration policy known as dhaka appeal schools in california earlier ruling to keep the program which protects young undocumented immigrants trump wants to scrap the speed and set up under president obama it prevents the deportation of undocumented immigrants who enter the u.s. as children and give them with limits. turkish police are officially ending the search for the body but the criminal investigation into the saudi journalist murder continues sources have told our jazeera the traces of acid were found at the saudi consul general's residence in all that's near the saudi consulate where she was killed with

a second it's believed his killers disposed of the body using chemicals to say was jamal the child has more from istanbul. with this latest bits of information from the question or of where is the body of the late journalist there are still several other questions that remain unanswered not least who gave the order for the assassination of the journalist who is implicated in its and why the saudi authorities despite officially claiming that they would cooperate with their turkish counterpart so far have not only refused but possibly even tried to tamper with the ongoing investigation namely sending in chemical experts to destroy evidence but also refusing to allow for that cycle sorties to search once again the consul general's home after they had managed to get those samples of chemicals as well as i said in the well in the garden of the consul general of the turks have been requesting for several on several occasions over the past few weeks to be

allowed to enter again the saudis have refused to another big question is the residents of that home the consul general himself why did the saudis feel the need to whisk him away essentially take him away for extract him from turkey despite the fact that the authorities here in istanbul explicitly said that they would like to speak to him he's not only a witness to what's happened inside he was in contact and in touch with jamal khashoggi prior to the journalist answering the consulate and also you obviously the evidence in terms of the district well what is possibly believed to have happened to his body was collected in his home there are questions whether he is allowed to talk whether he is under some sort of controlled or house arrest in saudi arabia or even possibly something much worse a lot of people now wondering whether the turkish authorities will be allowed to question him as a key witness to this the u.s. undersecretary of state for political affairs david hale says america will continue

to push for ounces but also values its relationship with saudi arabia. i was with secretary pompei when he traveled to saudi arabia to hear directly from king solomon and the crown prince how saudi arabia would handle the investigation of custodies murder and we ask that the saudi leadership uncover the facts and hold accountable those responsible so far we've seen some positive steps clearly more needs to be done including identifying a number of individuals responsible we are taking strong action in response including revoking visas and reviewing the pick a place ability of sanctions under the global new can it ski act the same time our shared strategic interests with saudi arabia remain and remain strong and the secretary pompei o said we continue to view as achievable the twin imperatives of protecting america and hold accountable those responsible for the killing of mr. author two weeks of turmoil there's been another twist in sri lanka's political power struggle president zuma senate has dissolved parliament clearing the way for

a snap election two years ahead of schedule problems began on october the twenty sixth when the president followed his prime minister running wickramasinghe and he replaced him with maine to rajapaksa the next president accused of war crimes well since his ousting we've come a single has refused to leave his residence saying the move to fire him is illegal and unconstitutional well the move to dissolve parliament came hours after the president's party admitted it could not muster enough votes to nominate rajapaksa melton and as has more from colombia. the dissolving of parliament by president by three policy restrain another board out of the blue two weeks after he started off this constitutional crisis by sacking his prime minister and of the commissioner and appointing the former president mind the rajapaksa as his successor now the many people had been saying there should be a floorboard parliament should be reconvened because the ousted prime minister claimed that he still held on the parliamentary majority he had the support in

parliament and he challenge the appointment of mind rajapaksa which was which he said was against the constitution the president had seemed to bow down to pressure and brought the date forward as to when parliament would sit that being the fourteenth of november next wednesday but in recent days we've heard problems and the government seeming to have problems making up that magic one hundred thirty number which would give them a majority in the two hundred twenty five seat assembly now the nineteenth amendment of this country's constitution brought in by the citizen a government expressly forbids the president from dissolving parliament less than four and a half years into its term this dissolution comes way ahead of that it's one year and three months before that number and critics are up in arms they've said this is against a constitution it's antidemocratic the ousted prime minister's party has already decried it and said they will meet the election commission of tomorrow morning and challenge that so we're bound to see this is not the end of this issue let's also

to come here on news hour including a new offensive to retake a major city in yemen from the rebels as the u.n. again warns of a humanitarian crisis. i hope to god nobody you know for me any more prayers i want them to control you know. another us not shooting leads to renewed calls for gun control but it's unclear whether congress is listening. and in sports a planned march in saudi arabia which. novak djokovic and rafael nadal has been called off details of the empty a little bit later in the sport. now bowman going to tie.