the benefits have yet to trickle all the way down now still to come on counting the cost and catherine soy in a warehouse in south in tanzania i'll be telling you about costs not crisis that has forced the government to step in and deploy the military to take charge. first he was so famous in japan he even had his own comic book series a color scones arrest and firing this week from this and motors has been splashing across the world's financial pages is charged with underreporting his income and misuse of company funds gun was also the driving force behind the red mitsubishi alive and there's now a leadership vacuum in the operation which sold ten point six million cars last year that's actually when him has more carlos gono was an auto industry leader respected by many in japan now he's in jail and fired as chairman of nissan

on the whole. it is not desirable that the foundations of the company are shaken by the arrest of gone but we are going to work hard so that it works in favor of the alliance to move prosecutors say a whistleblower alerted them that going conspired to under-report his salary by about forty five million dollars at use nissan's money to finance homes from brazil to beirut. i'm very surprised that this happened to the leader of the company that makes the car i drive i really hope this is some kind of mistake. goan has been credited with reviving nissan and forging a formidable alliance with mitsubishi and reno there are a lot of people on the board of all these companies and i know how to run a car company but the problem is his job was to knit together all these different interests and try and you know forge ahead with this kind of integrated global carmaker and without him there is hard to see that happening news of his arrest

reverberated in france where the country owns a fifteen percent stake in reno the dump dockets you know the state as a shareholder will be extremely vigilant regarding the stability of the alliance and of the renault group at the peak of his career go earn the nickname mr fix-it and was the subject of a popular japanese comic with the arrest of nissan executives calling him greedy and saying the allegations show a dark side of the goan era that is now over the palestinians have welcomed the move but lawyers in israel have launched a class action lawsuit against air b.n. b. the company is removing its listings of properties in illegal settlements in the occupied west bank stephanie decker reports. it's a rare victory for human rights groups who've been lobbying to stop commercial rentals in the illegal israeli settlements for years air b.n. b.

is sent an important message to the rest of the business community that it really isn't possible to do business in or with settlements without contributing to inherent serious violations of international humanitarian law and human rights of palestinians however it was acquiescing to a policy in which palestinians idea holders are not allowed to enter settlements soley because of who they are and it appears to be the only case in the world for which air b.n. b. hosts are mandated by law to discriminate based on national origin u.s. based accommodation booking website air b.n. b. issued the announcement the day before human rights watch was due to issue a report on bed and breakfast in the settlements specifically case studying the activities of air b.n. b. and booking dot com in a statement on line air b.n. b. says when we applied our decision making framework we concluded that we should remove listings in israeli settlements in the occupied west bank that are at the

core of the dispute between israelis and palestinians palestinians say the settlements are one of the main obstacles to any future peace talks they are illegal under international law and their physical presence or an across the occupied west bank make the prospect of a cohesive palestinian state far more difficult. when israeli minister has called for air b.n. b. to be banned in israel following the announcement in the illegal settlement of a threat the mayor had this to say the decision made by the administration of air b.n. b. to out these properties into dance america is extremely upsetting it's giving in to extreme people who don't have any intention in promoting peace but driving people bringing people further away from one another it's not going to promote peace it's going to promote the semitic decisions made by such an organisation palestinians have welcomed the announcement and announcement that we're told no one expected of course we very much welcome this decision and we believe that this decision is very

very important. company and company will do the same as soon as possible for now air b.n. b. says it will remove the listings from its site denouncement won't change much for palestinians on the ground but rights groups say it's an important way in which highlights the issue of illegal settlement expansion and if who has access to land which remains at the very heart of this conflict what a difference a year makes this time twelve months ago bitcoin mania was all around but the crypto hype hasn't been matching reality lately big corn is down around seventy five percent from its all time high nearly twenty thousand dollars depending on what exchange you're looking at the other major digital coins are also feeling the pain the sell off is being blamed on a regulator repression. now the u.s.

justice department is reportedly looking at whether last year's one thousand five hundred percent bitcoin rally was jus to manipulation it is part of a bigger government crackdown on fraud in the digital currency industry and then there's disagreement and rivalry within the industry itself all of this help cool the hype digital assets have now lost almost seven hundred billion dollars of market cap since crypto mania peaked in january we're joining us now from london is dr gary coleman economist at the london school of economics and head of research at block chain dot com thanks very much for being with us so where do you stand on cryptocurrency then is is this the future or are we looking at a bubble that's burst. so we've seen prices of crypto assets like big coin go up and down in the ten years that they've been exist in existence because we just celebrated its ten year anniversary last month it's

a new asset class it's uncertain how we should value it and the type of volatility we're seeing is not a surprise however i think there's a growing acceptance an acknowledgement by just not just technologists but also regulators that blotching technology and crypto currency are very much part of the future architecture of our financial system we talk about regulation that if there's going to be more regulation. of this system what form would that take right so that's been one of the big questions overhanging crypto assets is the lack of regulatory clarity we're getting more clarity as we go along we had an important and foresman action from the u.s. securities exchange commission recently on two a.c.o.s. that i think created more clarity around you know what's considered a security what type of registration process i suppose will need to go through a kind of penalties will be enforced for not for failing to register you know we

also are hearing some word that the department of justice ins just justice is investigation into big point price manipulation is progressing all these things are going to help bring greater regulatory clarity and remove this kind of cloud i think that's hanging over this space and preventing things like because an e.t.f. from being introduced into the market to make it easier for investors to actually trade in own crypto assets was there was a market manipulation going on when it when it came to the whole rally. so that's something that the authorities are investigating there certainly has been some work done by you know academics and others looking at trades on certain exchanges that do look suspicious i think there is a big question mark around that there's questions around how much trading volume is real and how much of it is spoofed or is washed trading i think there's a general consensus that there has been some some you know monkey business basically at work at some exchanges at least and that's all part of the maturing of the space and something that needs to get cleaned up for institutional investors

and retail investors feel more confident comfortable owning crypto assets and what about all of the disagreements within the developed when the developers community i mean how much of a factor is that in all of this that is it certainly a factor i think the the recent big cash contentious hard for which the coin cash was actually a fork a big question last summer certainly created some uncertainty and fear there's been some threats and none of this i think makes people comfortable with you know how stable certain you know large assets are it's certainly i think it's played a role in the recent price correction which has been quite dramatic at the same time we're seeing a lot of positive developments the transaction volumes on the big block chain have been growing up from around two hundred thousand per day to around three hundred thousand roughly over the last six months you know blace dot com has seen steady growth in the number of wallets the recent air drop of one hundred twenty five million dollars worth of x l m has been very well received great uptake there so

there's fundamental improvements that we're seeing that don't necessarily align with the recent price action and as far as all of the hype that surrounded. it particularly been a year ago the marketing around this is there a sense that inexperience day in vesta's would being let in without really knowing without really having full knowledge of what they were getting into. i think there certainly has been some fraud and some scamming going on there's no question about that you know we've seen the f.c.c. and other regulators take action against some of the more egregious. ploys and you know unfortunately with any new technology we saw this with the early internet you know bad actors are often some of the earliest adopters and we need i think anyone trading crypto assets does need to to do their homework and to to really look you know under the hood of what exchange or what project they might be interested in

there is still a lot of need for greater regulatory clarity better data better research all these things are happening but they take time good to speak with the garrick holman in london thanks for being with us thank you and finally government leaders in tanzania may soon have two hundred thousand tons of cash to not some their hands they plan to buy the entire crop to try and a price dispute between farmers in trade as catherine sawyer reports from the south of the country. di nest number is have a sting the last of her cash crop that it's been. a disease or dries of food has men she's only managed to fill seven sacks instead of the usual forty on average to make martyrs while middlemen offered to buy them at and acceptably low price that course the government to intervene and buy tanzania's and to hire a crop at a dollar and a half a kilo the government's also undertaken to process and sell it or. what they wanted

to buy from us at a cost that will not get any returns we spend so much on fertilizes the way the government has intervened is good. the cash in us will end up in warehouses like this would be leased by the government officials here and military commanders are walking out logistics to make sure the process is smooth and there's enough room to store around two hundred thousand tons of nuts. and she began and i want to you see we want you the public to coordinate with the military we need strong young men to load the trucks. in. tanzania is one of the world's largest cash not producers and the major foreign exchange. president john mark foley has some ministers and government workers for failing to deal with the matter price crisis this move by the government to buy up all the cash and nuts from families in the south is unprecedented the president has

ordered the agriculture development bank to pay up and for the military to coordinate trucking the nuts to warehouses traders and middlemen are being left out at this time of the year processing plants such as this one should be busy preparing exports most have shut down and those still operating will soon. come twenty helps run the factory he says a fall in cash and prices. because of a subclass in the wild market has made it difficult for traders to buy from the government set price. what with close to some operations and laid off two hundred people next week when this process is done we'll have to send another two hundred homes and once we finish packaging the other one hundred will have to do some to their radios to talk to the authorities and to reach an agreement but for now the government is firmly in charge of what is tanzania its most important cash crops.

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following these clashes between russian and ukrainian naval forces and the black sea. below from joe harvey when i'm come on santa maria this is al jazeera sniffer dogs and drones help turkish police searched in the jamal khashoggi murder investigation . going hard in the british academic jailed for life for spying in the united arab emirates gets a presidential pardon. and tear gas and arrests in mexico as migrants try to reach the united states from latin america by force. so the united nations is holding an emergency meeting on what ukraine is calling an act of aggression off the coast of crimea ukraine's president has announced plans

to impose martial law for thirty days but the crew from petro poroshenko which follows russian navy vessels ramming a ukrainian tug shooting at sailors and taking them prisoner for years now since russian troops of course crimea chalons has more from moscow. things seem quieter around the cut straits on monday captured and damaged ukrainian vessels are docked in curch the russian controlled harbor russia has blocked access to the ass of sea for commercial shipping sunday so the worst open military confrontation between russia and ukraine since russian troops an excuse me or four years ago russian ships blocked the current strait it's an important shipping channel to supply the ukrainian industrial city of mariupol the russian navy rammed a ukrainian tugboat and opened fire on name. the boats which russia said had trespassed into its territorial waters several ukrainians were injured as shots were fired though the military confrontation has cooled politically it remains hot

yes. but it's used to finance address the leadership of the russian federation with a demand the immediate release of ukrainian servicemen who in violation of the international law were brutally detained and whose fate is unknown ukraine's parliament could well approve president poroshenko as recommendation to impose martial law later martial law basically suspends normal political life no rallies no changes to the constitution no changes to senior political personnel including the president himself and elections bear in mind that president poroshenko is up for reelection at the end of march. craney an anger against russia is on display masked men lit flares outside the russian consulate in kharkiv a fire started inside the constant compound in the kremlin this is all to trade is a cynical and premeditated provocation to shore up poroshenko is declining

popularity and provoke more sanctions against moscow then we visited with there are constant violations of the international humanitarian law and ukraine even without martial law shelling of residential areas in social infrastructure killings of civilians. leaders in kiev trying to gauge the level of international support they have and what they're calling a place in tact of russian aggression rory chalons al-jazeera moscow is under symons now in following the story president poroshenko wants martial law he wants that as soon as possible will they actually need parliamentary approval. yes they were all in parliament have been in session but then it started to adjourn for what was meant to be around ten minutes and that was nearly three hours ago it isn't going smoothly in this morning reason for that and that is that he does have a workable majority must be from the coalition in parliament however one of the

parties involved isn't happy about the effect of martial law or the effect is really touched on in his report the effect it will have on the elections the elections presidential elections march thirty first in the new year and shankar is doing really badly at the moment in opinion polls so there is a real feeling on board domestically here. this could be something of a political move on his call even though obviously everyone is in. considerable shock about what's russia has done in the straits however they do see political threats in the election so it does seem there's more support for poroshenko and his situation outside of the country the loser is in parliament right now and certainly with unusual situation then it is an unusual situation all around here in ukraine what about russian reaction or i guess the defense for its actions and or because

as you say most of the support seems to be for ukraine. yes such a lover of the russian foreign minister was really raised by the response from ukraine and he was saying that really this was all a move on the part of ukraine to provoke a reaction to provoke a situation russia in a bad light and he said that he should that ukraine's come under should naval commander should have commissioned to go through the straits so we have a situation has just building up and russia still insisting that it was with. then it's right to. actually have this conflict because though the the the ships were the boats were in russian territorial waters but there's a dispute about this is exactly where this first collision the ramming of the of the tower the ukrainian tug where exactly that took place and then the other two

gunboats where were they positioned in relation to it all there is a report we've just heard it's been confirmed by russian sources that that there was confusion all round i'm sure the russian vessels kolob with each other and we're hearing also that the russians tried to use sort of water guns or water cannons as part of their assault but the water cannons were working now aged craft on both sides and it does seem rather unusual cook to the whole affair but it was a very serious matter indeed no one has any doubt about that worldwide condemnation on russia and i was so so again love rob is pointing out he thinks it's all a move to try to get more support for further sanctions against russia so diplomatically militarily it's incredibly tense right now and that is under sentence he's live in kiev for us. in the last few moments we've heard from the

secretary general of nato his young stoltenberg so russia has to understand that its actions have consequences and that's the reason why nato has reacted so firmly against the actions of russia against ukraine over several years and we've also got the u.n. security council meeting in new york on this topic kristensen learn may is their first kristen tell us what you've been hearing about the syrian meeting so far. well we've been hearing the dueling narratives inside the security council chamber from the russians on the one hand and ukraine and its backers on the other the russian deputy ambassador dmitri polonsky spoke earlier and he basically accused the ukraine of violating its borders in entering the current strait saying that the

ukrainian ships did not follow procedures that they had been following prior to this and he went so far as calling their actions a provocation cynically done by the president petro poroshenko to regain popularity in the face of upcoming elections the u.s. and european members of the security council for their part made it clear that their support for ukraine is ongoing and will they will continue to stand with the ukraine u.s. ambassador nikki haley started her remarks by saying that she had spoken to president trump and secretary of state mike pompei o s making it clear that the administration was behind the strong remarks that she was about to issue she called the acts of russian of russia an outrageous violation of ukrainian secure sovereignty she called it a reckless as collation so moving forward i don't think the ukrainians expect any

action from the security council as long as russia is on board their veto ensures that there will no be will not be any international action from this body but they did get the strong statements from their allies that they were hoping to get deputy ambassador from the ukraine vladimir he spoke to reporters before entering the security council he said what they hope to get in addition to these strong statements was more in the form of sanctions from individual countries and perhaps the e.u. he said that's the only language that russia understands and he when. so far to drum up support for that and claiming that russia was preparing for a land invasion of ukraine so again he got the strong statements from allies that he was expecting on the sanctions front we'll have to see individual countries whether or not they will or can take any more action on that front what sister of mine or isn't a christian of the beauty and i use that would loosely the beauty of the system in

the security council where five countries have a vetoes and well russia has one of them absolutely the real question going into this meeting i think was how strong the united states would come out in support of ukraine president trump of course is under investigation for possible russian collusion in the elections in two thousand and sixteen he's been criticized for not being strong enough in his condemnation of president vladimir putin in the past but again a massacre nikki haley who has been very critical of russian has not been afraid to use her position on the security council to be critical made it clear that she was speaking and the administration was speaking with one voice on this that they were going to stand by crane and its sovereignty its territorial sovereignty kristen salumi at the united nations in new york thank you kristen we're going to

talk to petro who is head of the center for advanced russia studies this is at the national institute of strategic studies he's in kiev on skype for us hope you can hear me all right i think we had a few connection problems but thank you for joining us what do you make of well i guess the amount of support that ukraine is getting here but what it will actually amount to in the end. can you repeat the question please just interested to know what you think the support for ukraine there clearly is a lot of support but what will it actually amount to as far as action goes. well right now what we expect. the rought coalition as we were told that the coalition of the contras. which respect international law and international maritime goal will. join in order to make a collective action. to contain russia in its

aggressive moves what i mean is first of all sections against russia.