iran so iran's oil was sanctions out what a few years ago when they nationalized their oil so they write in government their psychology is they're built based on being on their to sanctions and there are your views and their policies they're always a shaping based on how they can be more resistance i know you want only best if you look at it even though the nuclear sanctions were lifted in two thousand and fifteen iran expanded its domestic condensate processing capacity and i expect ation of future sanctions which brings us to today that iraq condensate is also part of this action so they're basing their country and their economy their industrial base them to be resilient a day more every day more an end date for iran's economy could still survive this round of sanctions both what is really hurting iran's economy is the corruption the domestic corruption lack of management so that's what really could hurt humans economy but what these sanctions are critical iran's economy to extend that the whole system will collapse if we don't expect it sour really good to talk to many

thanks indeed dr sarra surely that in washington. still to come on counting the cost what i have every coast so 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 contracts 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 bhutan is covered by thick forests 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. town 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 time successfully managed to maintain numbers. the same also goes for another big cat the bengal tiger for a small country like don sanders pretty 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 when you have 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 luk pummel keeps 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 tricked fence near by but it needs to. 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 booting 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 huge sums of money some sums of money we cannot afford sums of money that have been borrowed from international agencies on the world back 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 but this week china's president xi jinping to further open up access to the economy for foreign companies he was speaking at a big trade show in shanghai from there our 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 strong words on a shoot 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 born out by its actions u.s. companies are represented here even if their government isn't probably flying the

flag of 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 talian furniture designer who actively sought such an arrangement yes on course that because the like a helper 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 ping 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 so 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 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 trade or say for instance if he wanted to. reduce tariffs on the european union or or even withdraw from the e.u. 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 went out he actually got innocent trade spats with it 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 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. finally this week rob a 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. so a little more are tunneled come we have the land bitty of 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 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 a j 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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israeli soldier there has been a barrel of rockets into israel from gaza israeli officials say at least eighty rockets were fired many intercepted by their missile defense system one of the rockets did hit a nother hit house in southern israel the israeli military says it's now carrying out strikes throughout the gaza strip and at least three palestinians killed it's harry force that's following this from from west jerusalem just take us through the timeline harry the most recent time on starting i guess it was a couple of hours ago now. that's right and what we first heard were rockets sirens alerts being referred to in southern israel close to the garda border gaza border areas and reports of from the israeli military of a massive barrage as they called it of rockets coming from gaza into israeli territory as you say we have reports of the bus being targeted reports of that was

by an antitank weapon number of houses in various cities in southern israel being struck in steroids in ashkelon even in ashdod which is a relatively long distance from gaza report that has not been targeted by projectiles fired from gaza since twenty fourteen there are pictures all over the israeli television news of burning buildings of significant damage to civilian properties and homes so this is a pretty major round of rockets there are reports that more than one hundred rockets have been fired potentially more even than that and so in response the israeli military has launched a big round of strikes strikes helicopter gunships being used tanks as well throughout gaza it says that it has struck twenty targets belonging to hamas and palestinian islamic jihad and so far from gaza we're hearing from the health

ministry that three palestinians inside gaza have been killed so this is an escalation we think now harry whereas immediately after the events in gaza or overnight where the israeli special forces went in it seemed to be a limited response coming out of gaza. that's right i mean it was an extremely risky situation already last night just to remind everybody what happened there was what the israeli military says was a relatively routine undercover operation going on inside gaza for the betterment they said of israeli security and that that team of undercover troops traveling in a civilian car according to hamas they were stopped challenged a gunfight broke out during which time a senior local commander of the hamas military wing the aka some brigades was killed in all seven palestinians killed one israeli soldier killed one wounded six

palestinians wounded and the israeli. forces were brought out on the air support a number of airstrikes fired there were more than ten rockets launched from gaza or projectiles launched into israeli territory there after there was this lengthy period of calm during which it seemed that hamas was prepared to accept the israeli explanation of what had happened that this was not a targeted assassination attempt which would have been extremely risky one jeopardizing the current work towards a long term truce rather it was a botched military operation of some other kind and hamas had sensually through one of its officials declared victory by unmasking and killing one of the israelis involved in that operation since then we have had a large a meeting of what's known as the operation room of the various armed factions within gaza there had been calls for a significant price that israel should pay for its military operation inside three

kilometers inside gaza territory and it was after that that this big barrage of rockets was launched. so. how does this one end i guess what i'm asking there is that there was a process going on with the united nations and with egypt as well which was sort of holding this does change things would they be egyptian intervention again do you think. i think that's very likely and it had been more than holding as well in recent weeks i was in gaza very recently there was a change in the atmosphere the fact that electricity had at least doubled some in some cases tripled even quadrupled thanks to the israeli allowing of qatari fuel to come in to gaza after they had banned it for some time also the fact that just last week the qatari envoy was inside gaza bringing with him some fifteen million dollars in cash to at least partly pay employees salaries all of this was seen as

part of this attempt to try and quiet in the situation to work towards a long term truce both sides seem very much invested in it the interviews that we've been hearing from the hamas leadership just yesterday sunday in paris benjamin netanyahu saying that sometimes politically risky things because he has taken some some backlash domestically over appearing to be not tough enough on hamas that it was worth it if they could work towards a calming of the situation some kind of long term truce in gaza so that's why in the first instance the idea of this israeli operation caught everyone by surprise and in the second instance this this escalation is so contrary to what we've been hearing up until this point there have been prior instances somewhat like this in recent months there were two hundred projectiles for instance fired from gaza into a very territory in mid july there were there was

a large scale israeli response from the air as a result of that and at that point both sides managed to contain the situation and step back and allow the truce process to continue to the point it had reached just a few days ago this one is going to be more difficult i think given the kinds of pictures that we're seeing on israeli t.v. the fact that benjamin netanyahu was already under pressure domestically to do more his defense minister has been publicly call. going for a military escalation in gaza so the question is whether he is able to hold the line whether something worse happens militarily in terms of big casualty numbers on either side it's extremely delicate the situation and certainly i think we're at the highest risk so far in these many months of a major break out of the largest conflict excellent stuff harry force that keeping us up to date with developments in gaza we've got a live shot there for you it looks largely quiet there where is the earlier we saw

. streaks of rockets heading out and then the points where they were intercepted in the sky by the israeli army defense system keeping a very close eye on that picture because as we've seen on the ground gaza rockets have hit spots in israel and the likelihood of a retaliation is what we're looking at now. now just to build on what harry was talking about the instance or the events of twenty four hours before the israeli troops who entered the territory as part of a special forces operation stephanie decker referred to what together in this report. a large turnout for the funeral of seven members of hamas is military wing one of them was a commander in the ranks of the kasam brigade all seven were killed in an operation by israeli forces inside the gaza strip on sunday night. we strongly condemn this crime by the occupying israeli forces are old and young are with the souls of our

martyrs and well wishes to the palestinian resistance or to this israel of the participation of towson's in the funeral is a symbol of the fulfillment of the resistance. how says its fighters stop the undercover commandos in a car at a checkpoint got suspicious and called in their commander and a gun battle ensued the commanders and fled to the border where they were helped by israeli air power to escape the israeli military issued a statement saying that the operation was for the purposes of strengthening israel's security and all intended to kidnap or kill what it calls terrorists it is in line with what has mass is saying that the operation was not intended to assassinate a mass commander one israeli soldier was killed another injured in the gunfire how mass is portraying the incident as a victory for its fighters prime minister benjamin netanyahu cut short his visit to paris returning to israel on monday morning it seems to have been a covert israeli operation gone wrong and the timing could not have been worse. it

comes just as progress has been made in talks between israel and hamas led by egypt and also the united nations over the past two weeks more fuel has been allowed into gaza increasing people's electricity from four hours a day to over eight and then ejection of cash by catarrh the cattery envoy reportedly traveling with fifteen million dollars to pay the salaries of civil servants in gaza their pay has been slashed for over a year also due to sanctions imposed by the palestinian president mahmoud abbas the humanitarian situation in gaza has never been worse. stephanie decker just your question slim on skype with us now. who is a professor of political science at gaza's a university thank you for your time first of all before we get into any discussions about the politics and what might happen what's tonight been like in gaza right now most of the rocket fire has been heading out but what have you heard and saying but i can say is that over the past two hours these

waves have targeted many. resistance training camps and many buildings which have led to the palestinians so far and their injury or a number of other others. but that we also recall what happened last night in which an israeli undercover. raid into the grounds of the seven palestinians one of them is a senior hamas commander was killed by the israeli special units and also the injury of many others are right now it seems to me that it's a myth and it's to make our own situation but that's not the end of it it seems to me that we are going to witness a very hot night this as a result of the unwilling. rocket and israeli.