and the european union to back it up essentially on this side against russia let's speak to alexey her on who's a professor of politics at the kiev more like cademy he's joining us on skype from kiev thanks for speaking to us so we now know that the ukrainian president has indeed declared martial law for sixty days but why is it that he would want to do this now i mean during the height of the problems between russia and ukraine in twenty fourteen he didn't do so then. yeah look because here you have for the first time you have an open act of aggression because previous of russian adept because previously what the russians said the rational said to be then is that they didn't have soldiers in creamy is that there are no russian soldiers in the occupied don't bustle was a good night when he was a people it was a lie but nevertheless a national position was clear we do not we are not present in ukraine there is no russian soldiers in ukraine which is not true but now you have scenes that actually

ratchet there after their death ukrainian city moreover sometimes they said that happened in utero what is this is again a really important and i believe that now we don't know what would be next because russia is blocking us off c.m. get it straight for a long time for ukrainian commercial ships waylaid freedom of navigation that applications on on the frontline so basically there is a suspicion in the ukraine that the russia east but a bidding for a large scale there on a soft cost maybe even done buzz and maybe even on black sea coast so we could consider it also as the introduction of a martial law also as a preventive step if russian aggression boot increase but for the reasons what they are saying is that they're accusing you croon of taking provocative actions and

particularly when it came to the strait but looking ahead to the un security council that's scheduled later today what do you expect to happen there. well i think well first of all about the russian position look russia said there were no russian soldiers in gravy there were russian soldiers in crimi a great meal was occupied russia said there were no russian soldiers in done but now was it up proofs of russia said. russian the rocket didn't heat m h seventeen and now it's cruel that it was the russian the rock so it actually is denying every city but actually you know as in effect sending the national community knows a sense that ukrainian ships were stopped and basically it wasn't ukrainian ships which shelves irrationally but vice versa so ukrainian vessels. are seized now by russian and ukrainian sailors. now.

held by a russian stores and basically six actually i did seriously will now asked to united nations i believe in the security council there would be a condemnation of what the roster is doing in. russia was condemned for. shaw aggressive in creamy and incident on bus but the unfortunate you know is that security council cannot adopt a resolution against russia because russia as if you are right so basically what what's happening at the security council is more of a symbolic. language very much for joining us frank you have but i mean it's support yet still ahead on al-jazeera and the grip of a health crisis the battle and company getting against an epidemic. devising

a new formula for brazil's foreign policy how the right wing government is stating alliances. hello the weather is lousy set fabric cross sentiment southern parts of china a little bit of cloud down towards the southeast and colder that's going to be the main focus for the disturbed weather as because through the next day or so but if it's tuesday it's settled and sunny few showers but whether they're just coming into taiwan or raising the southeastern corner of china hong kong could see a little bit damp weather then as we go into wednesday further north it's five and dry blue skies coming for some heavy showers there you know just to central parts of vietnam southern areas of course still feeling the impact of the recent tropical storm front to try course the good parts of south asia the showers do continue

across southern india possible see some showers there into sri lanka as well little cloud just rolling in across pakistan towards the far northwest of india as we go on through tuesday sinking further south which as we go on into wednesday possibility of a few spots of rain but it should be lousy dry shall is there a second on the cause for flag of colombo at about thirty degrees celsius i think we should have seen the last of the showers across iraq in peninsula for that sybase the little bit of cloud up towards northern parts of saudi arabia could see a little bit of wet weather here showers to diminishing around the gulf of aden towards the southern betsy. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after you while eight borders between five safe countries facing new realities the frame starts from the very beginning of the school providing context housing is not just about four walls and

a roof hear their story and talk to al-jazeera i really felt liberated as a journalist loved about getting to the truth as an eyewitness that's what his jobs bill. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera turkish police are focusing in on two villas one hundred kilometers outside istanbul as part of the investigation into the murder of. the remains of the saudi journalist haven't been found since he was killed inside the saudi consulate in turkey last month. and saudi arabia's crown prince is due in egypt as part of his first foreign forces the murder of journalist . mohamad been so bad that the king of bahrain on sunday journalist incentives you

are demonstrating against inside man's plan to rival on tuesday. ukraine's president has signed a decree detailing his plans to implement martial law for sixty days it follows a naval clash between ukrainian and russian forces in the black sea on sunday nato and the u.n. security council are planning emergency meetings over the incident. the british academic jailed for life for spying in the united arab emirates has been released matthew had just received the presidential pardon as part of the u.a.e. is national day celebrations his arrest while researching the u.a.e. security strategy threatened relations with britain albright and the latest from london. this outcome has all the hallmarks of a hard negotiated diplomatic compromise over this the news of matthew hedges pardon came in an early morning news conference in the u.a.e. and during that news conference some clips were played the journalists attending

were not allowed to record those clips so they're not available to be played out again but in those couple of very short clips the official giving the news conference said that they showed that matthew hedges had admitted to being an m a six operative now had to say there was no context to those clips they were very very short clips on top so there is dispute over whether or not matthew edges did actually properly confess to being my six but the that the clips allow the u.a.e. to stick to the line that as far as they're concerned he was a spy and nevertheless through the clemency of the u.a.e. ruler he is going to be pardoned as part of the december second national day pardons that are issued it's an elegant outcome i think it will satisfy most parties certainly the british foreign secretary jeremy hunt to said it's fantastic news and he looks forward to seeing that the edges matthew edges wife daniella to harvest says this brings an end to six months of

a nightmare although she says as well in her heart of hearts she believes that he is not a spy and the expectation is now that matthew hedges will be back in the u.k. within a matter of twenty four forty eight hours because it's a pardon as opposed to a finding of not guilty on appeal there is a supposed the possibility that he might have problems further down the line as he tries to conduct his research elsewhere but in the immediate concern that the family and the foreign office and indeed the u.a.e. will be glad to draw a line under this this unfortunate diplomatic episode. the former president of the mall the senior jail sentence overturned by supreme court judges mohamed nasheed was sent in three years ago after a trial condemned by many countries he was the maltese first ever democratically elected president until twenty twelve he's been in exile in sri lanka for the last two years the party he previously led unexpectedly won the general election in

september donald trump has told mexico in a tweet to send home thousands of central american asylum seekers sheltering in tijuana his comments come hours after u.s. guards fired tear gas to stop hundreds of asylum seekers crossing the frontier. mexican police say those migrants involved face deportation and that it will increase security donald trump has vowed to keep out thousands of migrants who've walked from central america to skate poverty and crime. has more from washington d.c. according to mexican authorities a small portion of the overall caravan about five hundred of the eight thousand asylum seekers now in tijuana had a brief skirmish with u.s. border patrol yesterday it started with a peaceful march in which families were protesting the long wait to submit their asylum claim by the u.s. and the conditions of the shelter where they're staying in mexico which is open to

the air with little food to eat but according to bystanders this demonstration quickly devolved into chaos when a few of the asylum seekers picked up rocks and hurled them at the mexican officers on the mexican side at that point people started running toward the u.s. border crossing a dry river breton riverbed and trying to get over the border wall u.s. border patrol then fired tear gas at the crowd which included women and children now the u.s. has responded already by. increasing its military presence on the border is sending more than five thousand active duty military personnel there and trump has said that he may push for more funding for his border wall before the upcoming budget which is due december seventh if not he says he has said in the past that he may partially shut down the government which ironically would include funding for the

department of homeland security which monitors the border. sending thousands of doctors home to cuba is one of the major foreign policy changes announced in brazil before his argue inauguration as president on january the first your boss the narrow has already begun bringing the changes will see a new man reports in the capital brasilia. the cuban doctors who worked at this primary health center on the outskirts of brasilia gone than has begun recalling more than eight thousand doctors who work and poor and remote areas throughout brazil after president elect. described them as slaves of a communist regime. our community was used to having cuban doctors now we don't know if anyone is going to replace them. the confrontation with cuba is just the first step of a major shake up ahead in brazilian foreign policy. the president elect's promise to follow donald trump's footsteps by relocating brazil's embassy in israel to

jerusalem has outraged muslim nations in such ways they're trying to immolate be struck to use in the narratives that donald trump in terms of the u.s. the main difference is the fact that brazil is not u.s. we don't have the same power of the u.s. . indeed brazil sells at least five billion dollars of beef to egypt to the middle east and gulf nations produces fear they could retaliate if the move goes ahead also not it has added fuel to the fire by saying palestine isn't a country. and therefore shouldn't have an embassy here breaking with longstanding support for a two state solution to the palestinian israeli conflict but. brazil has always behaved as an intermediate or a not a participant in the conflict we hope it remains that way for brazil sic for its longstanding prestigious as a nation that respects international law. but also not

a who's been nicknamed the tropical donald trump is shifting from multilateralism to a strong alignment with washington this is we're still foreign ministry it's new boss will be a mid-level diplomat with no experience as embassador but whose main characteristic is his staunch support for the us president and like and president trump the new foreign minister questions existence of climate change which he in fact describes as marxist dogma. also not only not be going as far as donald trump who has withdrawn from the paris agreement but north and south america's two largest countries looks set to join forces to push a conservative foreign policy agenda throughout the globe sea and human al-jazeera but as. far fighters in northeast australia say dozens of wildfires burning out of control are the worst they've ever seen high temperatures changing winds are fueling more than forty fires in queensland homeowners are being warned they'll

have to move if the fires can't speak. and firefighters in northern california have finally managed to contain the state's most deadly fire it's burned for sixteen days killing at least eighty five people and razed huge areas of flags including the town of paradise more than two hundred people are still missing we can rain help firefighters as they try to extinguish the blaze. a tuberculosis epidemic in papa new guinea is getting worse poor infrastructure means health workers have only been able to get to a fraction of those affected andrew thomas reports in the capital port moresby tuberculosis in papua new guinea isn't just an issue it's an epidemic more than one in two hundred fifty people are known to have to kill a disease the real proportion is believed to be much higher. cari dusty fell ill two years ago but living in a remote area accessible only by boat it was five months before she was diagnosed

after she was she had trouble after taking the pills she was prescribed listen i faithfully took my medications however my body wasn't reacting well to it i started to experience some kind of allergic reaction and side effects. dusty is perseverance but in rural papua new guinea that's unusual to treat tuberculosis patients need to take an elaborate and unpleasant cocktail of drugs regularly for months the lack of clinics and transport to those clinics makes getting those medicines to people or people to the medicines hard when the base appointment when did on day review dates i drew a stand. i go out into the villages and i meet them and i ask them why you are not calm mean health workers reach only a fraction of those infected and when people let their treatments lapse the disease has a resurgence and becomes more tolerant to drugs once it's more into what's called

multi-drug resistant tuberculosis the disease is much harder and more expensive to treat hoff of all patients die organizations like doctors without borders are trying to help but there's not enough central coordination the frustration that many have here is that papua new guinea's government is no thing is that it has a big problem and that it's getting worse and yet despite having the money the government hasn't been spending it in the right way and hasn't made typing tuberculosis enough of a political priority earlier this month papua new guinea hosted the asia pacific economic cooperation summit for world leaders to discuss economic growth but critics questioned whether a country in the grip of a health crisis should be spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a conference government except it must do better whilst things like funding for medicines has been quite a quite a large number it's the. it's the execution of the health services at the front in

that is suffering and our government technicians are coming as treasurer has tried to emphasise that some of the funding streams in a budgetary process are essential for delivery of those services you can't sacrifice some of those. when you're rationing financing few around here have ever been to their country's capital but it is easy in port moresby that the political impetus is needed to stop what's already an epidemic from becoming a health emergency after thomas algis there are more speak up when you get. oscar winning movie director bernardo bertolucci has died at the age of seventy seven he was battling cancer he was known mostly for his work on films such as the last emperor his controversial last tango in paris was banned in several countries in the one nine hundred seventy s. but then was nominated for two academy awards.

the headlines on al-jazeera the sour turkish police investigating the murder of searching two villages one hundred kilometers outside istanbul the remains of the saudi journalist haven't been found since he was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul last month tony berkley has more from outside one of the villas in yellow. investigators department in istanbul they discovered that there were phone records in a phone call was made to this promise this house behind me this is a very expensive villa we're told is owned by a saudi national with links to the saudi crown prince according to the turkish prosecutor who released a statement he said that a phone call was made the day before most of the soldier was killed to the villa and in that conversation details were discussed about how to dispose of mr soldier's body now that's a day before so that shows the degree of planning saudi arabia's crown prince is due in egypt as part of his first foreign tourist since the murder of journalist.

ahmed inside man with the king of bahrain on sunday journalists and soon as you are demonstrating against bin sandman's arrival on tuesday activists have started a legal challenge to stop his visit because of their revulsion for this killing ukraine's president has signed a decree detailing his plans to implement martial law for sixty days that follows a naval class between ukrainian and russian forces in the black sea on sunday russian navy has since reopened the shipping channel where ukrainian sailors were shot and taken prisoner nato on the un security council are planning emergency meetings over the incident the british academic jailed for life for spying in the united arab emirates has been released matthew had just received a presidential pardon as part of the u.a.e. national day celebrations the former president of the maltese has had his thirteen year jail sentence overturned by supreme court judges mohamed nasheed was sentenced three years ago after

a trial condemned by many countries he was the mall deaves first ever democratically elected president until two thousand and twelve the party he previously led unexpectedly won the general election in september those are the headlines on al-jazeera talk to al-jazeera is coming up next to stay with us. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring in the news and current events that matter. al-jazeera. the east of australia is in the grip of grant park to the states of new south wales

and victoria received but surely no rain it's going to go straight into june july and august and that lack of rain came after more than a year of much drier than average conditions. are struggling. to go backwards out for you probably look at the weather maps about fifteen times a guide. even though most australians live in cities they have a strong affinity with what's known as the bush and have sympathy for those growing bethink there. and governments do act australia's national and state governments have just been out of a department with almost two billion dollars hit by drought this is a way of life and that is important to australia's future that wildlife continues to be physically. subsidising transport costs offering low interest loans and giving cash payments to farmers worth nine thousand dollars each only having assets

worth more than three point seven five million dollars disqualifies a bombing family from the handouts i know these are efforts few people days to question but what used to be an uncontroversial government expenditure is now for the first time attracting critical eyes and. economists are going public with their disapproval but the reality is that's the business that we're in. you know if you want to be in agriculture you go to take the good and the bad. top to al-jazeera has traveled to in the new south wales to talk to us about how bad this draft is fien and how much help they need. but we've also talked to those who are now questioning financial help for farmers who say it's not grounded in rational reasons but driven by an outdated political culture and misplaced emotions.

that farm sheep and cattle near the town of tamworth about six hours drive from sydney in a good he wouldn't need to buy he'd grow crops or his animals will eat them straight out of the ground but the droughns has hit this region particularly hard this has been trucked in for a thousand kilometers away with transport it costs about two hundred fifty dollars a. week sixty cows for a day but has three hundred eighty so feeding them is costing him more than ten thousand dollars a week with. significant. but you know. that your my get up the next. you know in general times what is it costing you what will be you'll read number at the end of this year broadly speaking and how long will it take you to make that back. well honestly don't know exactly because we've

been selling lanes of stock and we've continued selling we're selling off stock now that we should be creeping but that's another sign of your selling. business decision you just can't keep up what we're doing indefinitely and that's what you've got to look ahead at some point was you should have done it six months ago and i just said well indications were. that it wasn't going to be this bad year all experts said it's going to be maybe an average you a bit below average in certain. yeah i mean i can give you a percentage even probably will quickly at the top me head that it's going to be significant. and we'll really we'll have to assess the danger of a guy. that comes a point when you did levels you say well just done better in the heat so you might look at selling off high property or something and i will. you know there's options they are spies but i mean we've got debt before these you just got to work with the banks and so on like some wise decisions but there are some people

a little you know in general to this title so i all that and i. and that could be a combination of financial and mental thinking and i just by three three things you know i got to really up the ride at sixty five and he's just. now once on the farm with me he said why would i bother busta me guts in a dress when he got real good money record prosper in this area so he's made that decision and it wasn't an easy decision because he was in his father's day before and and his grandfather was so i miss my grandfather and there's a fundamental problem with farming here you think this is a blip and nothing more than not well i think that's what we've had and i mean it what intrigues me what with the blips five hundred years ago i mean we've only been here a couple hundred years and we know what's going on in that town but you know we going harder we go to college at the end of the die. you know that's it a bite that we take seriously but that's so out of that as well. it was off i was

should get a bit smarter and do it better and i never thought i would suggest. a single set of money fifty two years every year just a bad nothing significant sound on we've done something a bit different in five. months with their machinery and implements how we do it the number of tongs what we use. at the top end of it we probably lead the world in moisture retention which is not an issue for some countries but i am assuring that it is up there with the best in the world so we've adapted i have these i mean you know when i left school we worked six seven times a year. we're not working there you know we just take a wage of chemical and conserve as much most you can and get a very similar result if not better. but if you go back the other question i mean we could also at this fall on. this. this a city with a phrase and way and living. john three ban has been studying the political and

economic response to drought for almost four decades now an economist in melbourne he's previously worked in the department of agriculture in new south wales and for the business council of australia for him government bailouts aren't just bad government policy ironically they're also bad for farmers. a drought is a great time to restructure the industry it's no different to a cyclical downturn is a great time for the manufacturing sector for the tourists to for restaurants to restructure and build properly and we're providing policies to block that and it just perpetuates the problem so when you see scott morrison the current prime minister or the previous prime minister malcolm turnbull talking about the disastrous drought that's hit farmers on the t.v. in the corner of your office or when you're a high do you look at an roll your eyes think here we go again. if we go again yeah

. you know there's a government to do and of course you know when you've got the media is saying these people are doing it tough and we are sympathetic government. a lot of politicians give in and say well let's throw a bit of money at them. i suppose what i would say is think seriously about hey you want to throw that money if you throw it is subsidies you just perpetuating the problem. yes there will be some households who fall into poverty just as some people become unemployed well let's find a safety net to look after people in small business some farmers fall into poverty and of course also to some other small businesses you know people who are providing farmers with machinery fertilizer and all that sort of thing but also lots of small businesses and restaurants in. running tourist activities

even building and construction get themselves into trouble every now and again and said this is a kind of a challenge how do we look after those people because most of them have got assets of a couple million plus but they don't have any cash and the question is can they go to the bank and borrow against that tsunami so i think the banks say listen you didn't do very well in the last stretch you didn't put money away in the last. i think you're a bit risky i don't want to lend money to you so there's a group that we probably need to find some handouts and that's what the family household a layout system does so these people are not the poorest in australia they have assets in some cases worth millions of dollars i think remarkable that they can if they have to sell those assets and get into something else or borrow against them.

strider makes a lot of those mistakes. the classic it's an old age pension system. if you put all your money in a great mansion that's worth millions it's not part of the mainstays for the aged pension so we've made some mistakes in that area. we in other countries will always struggle on how to look after small business people who have what we would call asset rich but income poor and the finance system often doesn't allow them to convert their assets into cash flow for current living expenses. and so we got to make a call out of it rough compromise we call in and. you know we've got unemployed people with no assets and when come clearly look after them there are people with disabilities no assets no income clearly look after them that works but if we have

caught a farmer or a restaurant owner or a mechanic who has for one reason or another business is going belly up and they struggle to put food on the table for the kids. then we feel we should look after them and so there is this safety net. it just turns it the one for farmers is really really generous and that's not available to other small businesses so do you as an economist think that people with millions of dollars just because it happened with the old age pension doesn't make it right in the farming context we can leave that to one side but do you as an economist think that it is sensible to be giving handouts of subsidies to asset rich farmers when. they could sell their farms and they could then go off and do not another business they could put food on the table by selling what they've got if they can't borrow

against their assets surely that would make more sense to you as an economist doesn't it oh yes you know and that means a smaller drag on government expenditure that means lower tax rates that gives private households and businesses greater incentives to get on to do their own thing or it means government has more money available to spend on say education health the fence so if i was thinking a bit where would i want to spain scarcest right in dollars yes for low asset low income people yes there's a safety net. for education health to faints that's available for everybody. that's pretty valuable most of our audience living in other countries they see australia as this barren dry continent they see images of dead animals and

a pops land on their t.v. sets and that told by the people in the reports they say that farmers have a very very tough life it's not quite as simple as that is that oh i feel sympathy for them but of the other hand of the stuff. farmers voluntarily choose for coming. they're not conscripted to do it so it's a voluntary choice. and also from the perspective of the individual. and of the nation we would want them to be involved in being if on every each what money they make during the good times will carry them through the bad top. if the firm a can't do that and the country can do it then we're better off shifting those people to some other activity you know why subsidize farming. but not to resume or manufacturing no restraints. let the market

saw that what's the best way to employ a people and produce goods and services. so that's the level playing field story that says let's not subsidize farming perseid but farming is different it's not it's not like running a factory which stays the same year round it's not like running a shop where you kind of know your local customer base dogs have huge risks that are completely unpredictable a draft is a natural disaster nobody can see it coming it's not. it is a more variable guy and it's not just climatic conditions. in australia it's commodity prices we export sixty percent of their production. and if will prices really all right we do well if we'll prices a low then i do so well and that happens to we have these four till it and

that's the nine terms of trade and so basically you would expect people would only take on this risky business go farming if they get on average a bit of a premium to justify taking that risk and they at the same time of course could plan strategies you know. when conditions are really good oh i stock up big. and i put money away in the bank. when a drought comes i sell a lot of more livestock and i start to run down some of my assets. and then when the conditions come good a good of all i'm a lot of stock and then money starts to flow back into the bank and this cycle goes up and down and what the she was subsidies or the downsides well the downside is that you're really taking resources away from one side of the economy so the

service sector of the manufacturing sector to subsidize the agricultural sector. and the reason is why would you want a bigger agricultural sector and a smaller services in manufacturing sector that's what a subsidy does. and if i'm moving resources for manufacturing that will say one hundred ten dollars per hundred i invest and i move it to agriculture or subsidies any making no id dollars per hundred i invest. on checking twenty dollars away. that's the whitest and to subsidize subsidies change incentives to oh yes gets it what they do is is really two things in terms of subsidies to production in drought is one that encourage more people to become farmers. but also because famines said have

a feeling that whenever there's a drought government going to give us a subsidy and buy a way out. when the times are good i'm going to have a ripping talk i'm going to spend it because i know when times are bad i never going to happen government's going to buy me at. and so you get families who say well you know i'll just be stopped from assets of spain money on the family when times are good. rather than putting quite a bit away for the next trip because i know when the drought comes. apart my hand i'll get on to the media and we mange and then we'll get some handouts from government. well i can still food my family can live through to the next good. linda botterill is a political scientist who's worked in the offices of two government ministers frogger culture her academic work explores the importance of values and sentiment

in public debate she says the political attachment to farming is rooted in australians cultural affinity with those who work the land the idea that farmers are at the base of arak on a me and our civilisation has a very long history across western culture you can see elements of it in the agrarian democracy of thomas jefferson you can see it in the writing of j.s. mill and you can see it in more recent writing from agrarians in the united states so it's actually quite deeply held across western culture so let's fast forward to that means in practice is that farming has a special place in the minds of australians regardless of whether they live on a farm or in the middle of a city exactly how the government treats them differently farmers in times of hardship give me an idea of the assistance that's going on right now with this latest trip ok it will fall most can qualify for a farm household alone household allowance so that's available all the time that's not just a drought measure and it's means tested but you can have

a lot of assets and still be entitled to this twelve thousand australian dollar that's about nine thousand u.s. dollars annual payment county and that makes some sense because you can't just sell the back paddick so if you've got a property that's worth two or three million dollars you can't just liquidate a small amount of it to help you through the drought it's essentially an asset that unless you're prepared to sell the whole thing and of course during a drought would not be a sensible time because that buys at a fair price. you can't actually access is the investment that you've got nevertheless five million australian dollars is the test so you can have four million nine hundred ninety nine dollars in assets. and the government can still give you this twelve thousand australian dollar about one thousand us dollars but you do have to pass an a separate assets test as well so if you've got other assets other than the farm so you have got investments for example in the government run farm management deposit

scheme or you own and i and an apartment in sydney or anything like that's my point as i'm not clear people are they we generally think the government is there a particular right of center governments as there is in australia to support the poorest of the poor the people who are really desperate need of help these people are not poor but it could have as you say investment properties or the investment properties will exempt them from getting the this support because that this the assets test for all saw message supplies separately from the on pharmacists taste so it's i've got those investments they're not going to be eligible but we do need to remember that fall poverty is a difficult area because first of all we haven't actually measured it in australia since the nine hundred seventy s. so we actually don't know how many farmers are poor and why they're poor there's quite a lot of anecdotal evidence that there are people who are actually struggling to make the day to day needs of feeding the farm family and that's what these schemes i now it is possible to be on

a property that on paper is worth seven million dollars but which you're not getting any income from because you haven't been able to take a crop of or you've had to do stock the shape of your cattle because of the drought and you've got no form of income to meet your day to day needs in which case it's not unreasonable that the government should help out the question though from a public policy perspective is whether that support should be in the form of a grant or whether there is some other form of government financing that can be used that helps out when help is needed but perhaps recoup some of that money to the government's coffers during the good is because in lots of industries people can have a bad year a bad. few years but then make up for that with bumper profits down the line and farming is no different to that but what seems to be the case is that profits are kept by the farmers and losses are partly met by the taxpayer that's simplistic

but it's true or no i don't it's not necessarily true i think that a lot of if you look at the numbers of farmers actually taking up these programmes they are remarkably small there were reports this week that the government thinks there's about eight thousand farmers out there who are not applying for these schemes who are eligible the latest numbers i've seen is that in new south wales this four hundred twenty farm families accessing the farm household allowance that there's not a lot of people does that not tell you something else that the government is making a lot of this and the media indeed in australia is making a lot of this public plea well actually the need possibly isn't as great as they suggest it is and that goes back to what we were talking about earlier about agrarian sentiment so people in the city see i mean drought makes great television and in australia visually add droughts really confronting so people in the city who don't necessarily understand the economics of agriculture who have

these deep cultural sympathy for farmers want their governments to act so it's good politics for the government to be making these programs available if the farmers are not taking them up because they don't need them well in a sense it's a win win for everyone because the farmers are clearly not in need of it those who are in need of it and who qualify the general population is not going to deny them that support if they need it i suppose where i come from i think. this is a cup is this country's never going to angriness lot of european countries now what starvation is and i'll never forget or die back their families vola why. this country has never had that issue and people remember it that have come in from overseas but i now hear that they are always going to have three fields for you to die so. if we were pure economists possibly and the money that's tied up in agriculture and the return we're getting we'd be better off selling out and down in

bond traders to shop and now which is shops but you know as i would say it has its ups and downs and it's a surprise the problem is we all going through it before and we now return to rand and there's been some good to arms and your flour on and you know it's something we just love doing and it's spies it's in your blood to a point but on a maze of business it's not something you can just roll around and have it works you know i think astride it at the end of the die and a jag or callous or because we are cleaning grain and we produce food we do it on a juris a top spot we've generally come out of the solar. no

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but the news grades live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live in a down to zero dot com and the investigators are looking for more clues into the murder of jamal khashoggi have now why did this search to a city outside of istanbul it is nearly two months since he was killed and while i've been plenty of theories there's never been anything definitive about what happened to his body so they're now searching if we look that system both city itself they searching two villages in this area south of the city the province of yellow over about one hundred kilometers south of istanbul and it is this main villa here one of the houses that are being inspected so let's go there now tony berkeley reporting live for us hi tony what more can you tell us about what you've seen and heard today. well there's been a forty strong team here most of the most of monday

a lot of them are pulled out now i have to say we don't know any findings it is strange that they've been using. sniffer dogs the forensic experts have been here they've also drained two wells within the premises of this this villa and they've taken samples away this village is own by a wealthy saudi businessman turkish media have reported that he has links to the crown prince in saudi arabia no further details about that but more importantly this investigation of this search was launched after new evidence new records phone records from the saudi consulate were revealed by the prosecutor and we're told that the prosecutors now made a statement saying it was a phone call made from the consulate the day before mr saudi was killed and in that phone conversation there were details discussed about how to dispose of mystical soldiers' bodies so this is quite significant the attribute that phone call to a man call a saudi national called month saw or man abu hussein now he is

a member of the so-called fifty nine hit squad who are under investigation for his murder he's also a man who was part of the saudi civil defense force and has served the crown prince of saudi arabia so it's all starting to link up the big questions here is what happened to mr saltus body there are two theories either he was killed his body dismembered and he was dissolved in acid inside the consulate in istanbul or his body was dismembered and taken out of the consulate in black suitcases which were purchased on the morning of the killing by saudi consular officials and then those bags were taken under diplomatic privilege out of the country so they want answers to these they feel that if they find any remains that could give them also some clues as to exactly what went on but the mobile the prosecutor is of the idea that he was killed by suffocation either by a belt or by a plastic bag but still they want answers from the saudis and at the moment the saudis are not giving those answers ok thank you for that update tony burke play as

we say about one hundred kilometers south of it's down but what about. stations carrying on while all of this is happening the man many believe is responsible for mr convergys murder is continuing a regional diplomatic tour this is of course saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin someone he's due in egypt that is after he met the king of behind on sunday is also planning to visit tunisia on tuesday now this is interesting because it's angered local journalists there they have in fact hung a poster from a building in tunis showing the prince with a chain saw the union for tunisian journalists has written an open letter to the tunisian president in opposition to the prince's visits so let's talk to my own bashar about this our senior political analyst in london hi my one first of all what is mohamed bin salman up to the moment he's moving around the region but just going to i guess friendly countries allies is this just trying to shore up support . well not just friendly countries and not liars but countries that or other

regimes not countries regimes that think similarly to him and to his regime in saudi arabia meaning those regimes like in the u.a.e. behind and egypt who stood against the arab spring against those liberal democratic values that was where embraced at least in the beginning of the arab spring on those countries and other countries in the region so what we are seeing today is really more of the same count thought of when you should marry alliances if you will and i think the murder of. merely put the spotlight on this comparison if you will between that and what it stood for and what the likes of at least at one point she stood for and what those dictatorship stood for which is really a depression which is oppression of people oppression of their opinions and more of

the same like what we've seen in egypt when they held some six hundred seventy thousand political prisoners some of them behave in and so on and so forth and as long as he has all that support one can mohammed bin someone just afford to ignore the pressure from other international countries as long as he's good with his allies as long as he's good with donald trump you can ignore the outrage elsewhere . well that's what we have now we have if you will the world is split into two there are the detractors and they are those who at least insist that they stand for some sort of international good governance about the fact that people should not get away with more that and so on so forth and they and the public opinion at large as you said and you enter oh you know they were always associate mohammed bin sort of man with a bone saw and that would be that i mean i think the public opinion will not see mohamed bin solomon and think of some sort of

a heavenly gift so i think that would certainly stay with him for a long time and as we said earlier there are those allies that think alike like you know the president of egypt and the king of the tin and so on so forth and lust there are those that i think are tipping the balance and i think those they think of me as muhammad big spender. so basically you know pakistan will come in the president the prime minister will you know will extract six billion dollars i think as we know that american president extracted tens of billions hundreds of billions of dollars and i think others maybe that's why he's visiting with the tunisian president because today is is really is in is in dire need for cash and so i think mohamed mr mann how might the big spend that will continue to roam around the world trying to spend his way through petro dollars out of the crisis

how will this in the end a fair we're not we're not clear but certainly the way the american president justified supporting. on the basis of money and interest i think put away drove a wedge if you will in the possibility of more pressure on the subject you know and it's been a while since we've talked more generally about the case and as i say we're now nearly two months since his murder now what are you feeling about i guess the prominence that the story still has it was big news and i wonder if there is a concern that it can fall out of the spotlight a bit that the fact that donald trump's tried to draw a line under it all makes it try to go away or in fact is there going to be more pressure coming from the likes of adam schiff and the u.s. congress and we're just about to see another phase begin. i think the fact that it could last for seven weeks is really incredible as you know you are a newsman as you know by any standards for

a story just too true to really endure the way this story endured then it's really evolved and devolved like a like a mystery novel and because they're so does that not come out clean from the very beginning i think this thing just continued to spiral out of control from one crisis to another scandal to another crisis and so on so forth it's really involved every other important lead that in the world and everyone took a position and so on so forth i tell you i think the most important part of it all is the way this been handled including by the news so here is something that i wish all of us will take to the bank. i think a lot of us in the news industry and a lot of us are you know in the in the arab world in the west and so on so forth really contrasted values versus interests and i think that's where the story will die if we think that values are something that we speak about every once in a while an interest in something that dominant in everyday life because we live in a riyadh political some sort and i think donald trump tried to take us that way that ensures divide that means i can support mohammed misjudgement because he's

given me money but let me tell you something about our international system since the beginning since the beginning of time since at least the greeks and speight though it's one thing it's clear we have values because values are at the service of our interests we have values because values support interests the problem with jack's the positioning interest vs value is access to say our short term interests do not coincide with our values but values our interests why do we have values because we need to make sure our interests are protected why do we are we against the killing of a journalist because we don't want other people to kill us why do don't we want to be offensive to words others because we don't want others to be offensive against us why are we against torture because we don't want others to torture our own citizens and so on and so forth so really values do not contradict interests and what we have in this case is the american president and his likes are simply

telling us at this point in time our interests are more important than our values well guess what our values are our interests in this world nicely put our senior political analyst at my own bush our own twitter if you want to catch up with him there and you can also head to on to zero dot com and catch up with the latest updates from the jamal khashoggi case we've got the latest up to put up its page we've got the previous updates page as well because as mon pointed out it has been going for seven weeks now are the latest video reports social media and text updates go up there twenty four seven from our online same just search for jamal khashoggi latest updates at al-jazeera dot com. and to get in touch with us as well contact details are coming up on screen is one of already had a message from vada who's watching on facebook live al jazeera dot com no facebook dot com slash al-jazeera makes a really good point and let's remember this we all hope they can actually find the body and give him an honorable burial because amongst all the politics of all of this there was a man a father who was killed and that is the central part of the whole story that number plus one seven four five zero one triple one four nine if you want to get in touch

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