taxpayer bailout from bankruptcy it said put profits before the working families of this country whose personal sacrifices stood with g.m. during those dog days that these decisions are a slap in the face to the memory and recall of that historical american made bailout we must step away from the empty work of thinking of seeking simply the lowest labor cost on the planet g.m. exceeded expectations with better than expected third quarter earnings of two point five billion dollars boosting shareholder value and monday's announcement led to a further rise in its share price g.m. says it will save six billion dollars in cash as a result of the restructuring this is a blow to the old trump he said his corporate tax cuts would help save the u.s. as manufacturing industry the president has repeatedly boasted about his role in g.m.'s future job creation and on monday he said he remains hopeful i'm not happy about their cars not selling well so they'll put something else i have no doubt that it is not just to you but something else they'd better but something else as a result of trump's economic policies the trade deficit is going to nearly double

over the next five years it's going to cost millions of manufacturing jobs two of the plants affected are in swing states that ricky trump's victory in twenty sixteen the president's pitch to the american workers who voted for him is friend she every time see al-jazeera. on getting him down to life the spying. is a presidential pardon. and the phone says goodbye but that's one of the. places. hello again a welcome back we're here crossest or it is the brushfires we are going to be watching over the next couple days that is all because the temperatures are really

beginning to rise across much of queensland we ourselves to be dealing with a heat wave across that area temp to wise townsville thirty eight degrees in your forecast so it is going to be quite difficult there of the next few days we do think it is going to last at least for the middle to the end of the week over here towards wednesday we're looking at townsville thirty six degrees maybe some showers coming into play but down here towards brisbane your temperatures are going up as well we do expect to see thirty four degrees shower down here toward sydney and melbourne but adelaide a little bit cooler with winds coming out of the south attempts for there are one thousand degrees well across much of new zealand we have been dealing with this pesky area of low pressure bring a lot of clouds and rain across the region i don't want to say it's going to get completely better but we do see a slow progress of clearing skies across much of the south island christ church partly cloudy clear conditions few with attempted there of about fifteen degrees auckland is still going to be quite messy with the rain in your forecast but we do think by wednesday things start to improve not looking to bet on the temperature of the tempter there about twenty degrees and then very quickly across parts of japan

we are looking at some clouds across and die but tokyo a partly cloudy day if you would temperatures of eighteen. in palestine under british rule. educated in america. a controversial professor in new york. he realized that he was the voice. of the people. explains what made him an influential writer. and champion of the palestinian police in the once and out of place.

and again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. active state and sect of defense james mattis will brief senators on wednesday on the latest developments rates to saudi arabia comes to his pleas investigates in the murder of saudi journalist a month or so to search two villages just northwest of istanbul. ukraine's parliament has backed president petro poroshenko decision to impose martial law for thirty days after a flare up in tensions with russia on sunday russian forces opened fire on and seized three ukrainian but it's off the coast of crimea. and u.s. called make a general motors a shutting down five money factor in parts across north america fourteen thousand jobs will be lost as president donald trump says he's not happy and has criticized the car giant. the saudi crown prince is expected to arrive and tunis and the next

few hours on the laces leg of his first overseas tour since the jamal khashoggi case not everyone is welcoming him an activist trying to mount a legal challenge to stop his visits to sell reports and look at us first stop in hama been some man's regional tour was to his closest ally mohamed bin ziad crown prince of the united arab emirates his saudi counterpart eager to show that it's business as usual for him and that he hasn't been affected by the fallout from the murder of jamal khashoggi bin sandman is also visiting behind and egypt as part of his trip both countries have close ties with riyadh so close they are seen by many to be excessively controlled by the saudis no surprise then that he was welcomed with open arms but in tunisia the birthplace of the so-called arab spring a different type of welcome awaits the prince to newseum protesters angry that their government is welcoming the man widely believed to be responsible for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi on the eve of his expected arrival the

journalist union together with a dozen or so civil society groups held a press conference denouncing the visit and holding on to new zealand to take part in protests nationwide among them the head of the two news international union of students the subject of a new meal for the tunisian people reject hosting someone who continues to kill and commit crimes against humanity in yemen we reject welcoming a man who continues to crack down on basic human rights. human rights groups and activists say that the proposed visit is an attempt to legitimize the crown prince and whitewash his crimes something they say must not be allowed to happen my husband said men want to continue here just to give an idea that to be accepted by the people to show that he is welcomed everywhere he goes and i think the position of the tunisian government the position of civil society sorry does show that. if he is welcomed by the government the tunisian civil society refuses that. we

approached several politicians and m.p. used to find any who openly support the visits but none wanted to appear on camera possibly because it appears the popular opinion is so against welcoming the saudi royal. item or had be we shouldn't be welcoming him if it were up to me i wouldn't let him into my country and the people are against him he's coming to tunisia to clean his image as they are going out of just me i am i don't know why this visit is happening he said for economic reasons i don't know but i'm against it to suit not side with this man this part of the popular opposition to the crown prince's visit the fact that he is being hosted by the president of tunisia is symbolic a message that the crown prince is still very much in power and that he continues to pursue his policies across the region especially in the countries of the so-called arab spring. tunis. student accused of

spying in the united arab emirates has been granted a presidential pardon and is on his way home to the united kingdom. was sentenced to life in prison last week a surprise present of the craziest serious diplomatic rift between london and reports seven months after his arrest matthew had just is going home his wife daniella surprised and delighted by the news it's overwhelming. of course the laid out about it but also it's the kind of thing that no one ever prepares you for. no one ever prepared me. to face this situation let alone celebrate so. i can answer it with certainty i can just say i'm happy to have him back on the plan for matthew's return a winter barbecue we had it postponed from the spring so hopefully we'll just get to catch up on some sleep and have our winter barbecue that the announcement of the

presidential pardon came as an early morning news conference in the u.a.e. capital abu dhabi. that's being seen as a diplomatic compromise the u.a.e. stands by the court's conviction for espionage based on the postgraduate students research work on the u.a.e. security strategies the british government disagrees but when mr hedges freedom the compromise is something london is prepared to live with we've made it very clear for a number of months now that we see no basis in these allegations they reflect on that they've taken the action that they can which means that matthew hedges is going to be reunited with his family say the outcome enables both sides to save face but lessons must be learnt i hope that. behind the scenes some very careful thought is

given to how such things can be involved in the future proper safeguards in the legal process to review things an earlier date so it doesn't get down to the issues of pardons and clemency and the diplomatic fallout because nobody really wants to see that there's something all sides in this diplomatic route do want to see and that's matthew had just back home in the u.k. paul brennan al-jazeera london. mexico has deported ninety eight asylum seekers a chiesa trying to brings the u.s. border. san isidro border crossing into california was temporarily closed until gas was fired on sunday as asylum seekers attempted to scale the border fence u.s. president has threatened to shut the border calling the asylum seekers stone cold criminals john home and has more from tijuana. these are some of the people that have set up their tents and are just sleeping rough outside of the sports center

that's been turned into a temporary camp from the people in this caravan from central america they were out here because there's absolutely no room in the camp itself there's more than five thousand six hundred people there of thirty's are telling us is that they're now worried about the risk of disease or any sort of infection just because there's so many people in that confined space the toilets are all so temporary and they're now in a good condition right now there's lots of waste the rubbish that hasn't been able to be moved out quickly enough so it's a major worry for authorities right now outside of this you can see these tents you can also see this big queue that goes in the way back here this is for food there is two meals a day being given to the people here most of that food is even coming from the municipal government pool from donations to people and it's being administered by the navy you see on the other side of me here this is just one of the many tents this is all across the entries here some of them about human rights for the

migrants some of them here for the red cross and there's another one that we just visited a little bit earlier where people are actually it's a u.n. time catering to people who want to go home we talked to some of the people there there was a mother with a little child saying it's just too cold i can't put up with this anymore it's going to get back to honduras another person saying i'm just saying it's going to be too hard to get over to the other side to sense what president trump would be looking for he said. but the poor are quite food supplied sending troops putting up barbed wire in some of the places on the border points of entry and really been strident in saying these people are going to come across he's been labeling them as criminals as going members there saying that they're really having to leave their homes even because they're victims of violence all for a lot of them because of economic necessity no economic necessity isn't enough to get them asylum in the united states so it's going to be a lot of people here that in the end of probably going to be disappointed that this

situation is going to last for quite some time. they were president of the modis has had his thirteen year jail sentence overturned by supreme court judges nasheed was sentenced three years ago after a trial condemned by many countries he was the maldives first democratically elected president until two thousand and twelve because he previously that unexpectedly won the general election in september. dozens of people have died in two separate attacks in somalia at least eight people were killed in the capital mogadishu after a car bomb went off in a busy market. has claimed responsibility for another attack which killed twenty people at a religious center in the northern city of. the film world is mourning the loss of an italian lost. him some of his highest accolades he died in rome at the age of seventy seven takes a look back on his life. was from his

directorial debut at age twenty one in the grim reaper the. club. to his final cinematic offering in me and use. his bold vision created drama that captivated audiences the world over his commercial successes won him a star on hollywood's walk of fame lauded as a luminary of european cinema. who created dazzling complex worlds. such as the last emperor a biopic of the chinese emperor who you are the first western feature film to gain commissioned to shoot in beijing's forbid in the city it won him nine a cad to me awards in one nine hundred eighty eight zero. while he

worked with a list american and international stars but she was basically protective of his own filmmaking style he railed against what he said was the pressure of the u.s. film industry and drove his critical successes but also fell foul of film senses for his more sexually provocative work. most famously for the last tango in paris starring marlon brando and maria schneider the controversy from one nine hundred seventy two was reignited two years ago when it was revealed that schneider was not prepared for the film's notorious rape scene it left schneider traumatized three years and was a precursor to the me two campaign that has since march hollywood. but it dilutes these films were awash with his own psychoanalytical experiences a director whose first love was poetry the cannes film festival paid tribute to him calling him a giant of italian filmmaking part of the pantheon of cinematic greats so you go.

the first ever space craft designed to study the in the depths of mars has successfully touched down on the red planet scientists are hoping insights will help shed light on how the planet was formed billions of years ago well and or more in fact should now be experiencing the peak heating rate after ten years of dreaming designing and testing. my heart was basically i just think to stop beating for seven minutes i don't know if that's healthy or not but. but then when we got the indication of parachute deployment which was absolutely terrifying thing to think about we got that positive and then listening to christine still a call out as we got closer and closer to the surface every time she made a call out you know the hairs on the back of my neck would start rising a little bit higher a little bit higher touchdown for the mars insight lander on monday as suggested by the center mation touchdown compared to. that

insight first photo from its new home the elysium planet sia using a two meter robotic arm a seismometer and other instruments in sight will dig a hole five meters deep so it can record so-called mars quakes and calculate just how hot the red planet's inner layers get they want to understand why mars which once may have been habitable by life is no longer wonderful nasa scientists say this data will help them understand more about mars origins and perhaps about the earth as well and boost u.s. efforts to get humans on mars by the twenty thirty s when we can actually begin to estimate you know which ones might be happy to pull and which ones maybe not habitable based on some of the geophysical understanding that will get just by looking at mars. the stuff. if sending insight to mars was the

hard part one nasa scientist says it's only going to get harder but that first photo will be a big help and everyone gathered around the very front and was immediately deciding where can we place instruments and this is a great indication we were all certain that that first image would help us determine how difficult of a job we would have in placing the instruments and i'm very happy that it looks like we'll be able to add to it quite easily we hope the payoff is already coming in a second photo taken by. one of too many communication satellites that flew within sight. of this and the prospect of future discoveries have these scientists celebrate before they get back to work. al-jazeera washington. and if i'm wrong. dot com take a. top

stories. defense james mattis will brief senators on wednesday on the latest developments related to saudi arabia and this comes as turkish police investigating the murder of saudi journalists. so two that is just northwest of istanbul have still not been found. ukraine's parliament president petro poroshenko decision to impose martial law for thirty days after a flare up in tensions with russia on sunday russian forces opened fire on three ukrainian off the coast of crimea the crisis was discussed as an emergency session of the united nations security council kristen salumi has more russia and the ukraine each gave details of their dueling versions of what happened in the current straight here on the international stage with russia accusing the ukraine of violating its borders and therefore international law and the ukrainians are accusing the russians of provoking them actually firing on their ships when they

were in retreat the russians did get some backing for their version of events from the chinese and a couple other members of the council but the united states and the european members of the council stood squarely with the ukraine u.s. coming general motors shutting down five money factoring plants across north america as part of a plan to save the company around six billion dollars and focus on electric and drive vehicles fourteen thousand jobs will be lost. mexico has deported ninety eight asylum seekers accused of trying to breach the u.s. border. border crossing into california was temporarily closed tear gas was fired on sunday as asylum seekers attempt to scale the border fence a car bomb has killed at least eight people in somalia's capital mogadishu went off in a busy market monday has claimed responsibility for another attack which killed twenty people at a religious center in the northern city of gold. the first of a spacecraft designed to study the depths of mars has successfully touched on the

red planet now says inside rover will unveil the planet's core structure and how it was formed millions of years ago. headlines are back with another news update on al-jazeera that's after counting the cost stay with us. stories generate thousands of headlines. separate the spin from the facts caravan these facts help leave the child troops with the listening post on al-jazeera. as a seeker this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics italy wants to spend its way out of an economic slump but it's breaking european rules by doing it. also this week tales from the crypto why

prices of digital currencies like bitcoin f. area and report are collapsing. plus a dramatic grace for rockstar c.e.o. shifts a key alliance in the auto industry into reverse. by economic drama is playing out between italy and the european union italy has broken the e.u. budget rules and now the message from the european commission is clear euro zone's third biggest economy won't be getting away with it largely has more from brussels . rome may be the eternal city but it's looking like someone needs to give it some attention the social as well as physical fabric of italy has been unraveling for years with high unemployment and the persistently stagnant economy. rather than pointing to the endemic corruption in italy has always suffered the populist coalition government to squarely blames austerity imposed by the european union on

its problems but their vows to break hardline spending rules from brussels has led inevitably to an all out confrontation with the european commission which has said it will impose sanctions and fines on italy if it doesn't change its budgets strace the situation in italy is of common concern euro area countries are in the same team and should be playing by the same rules the response to all that from opponents of austerity would be look what happened to greece which eventually agreed to european demands and suffered years of economic hardship from which is still barely recovering the most important politician in italy the hard rights interior minister matteo salvini said he was ready for a fight. the letter from brussels has arrived i was expecting one from santa clause as well we will respond politely as we always did but i will not back down the

obvious political risk for the european commission in trying to beat italy into submission is it is a political tool for people like salvini who will say it only proves how undemocratic european institutions are asserting solving rights will be a key thing for populists not just in italy but across the continent before european elections next may if the european commission doesn't get its way by then the european parliament could look very different if he looks determined to change the direction of europe's economic strategy the consequences could be destabilizing . we joining me now from london is simon french chief economist with gordon thanks very much for being with us so what are the scenarios here if italy doesn't budge on its budget has the european commission going to respond well we're already seeing indications from the european commission that they're not prepared to tolerate what's are some fairly ambitious growth targets from the timing government

and a budget deficit the at this point in the cycle is not consistent with getting their debt burden which is about one hundred thirty percent of g.d.p. under control and this all stems back to the stability and growth pact which underpins the euro zone it is the sort of the fiscal discipline and to your question what i think the commission against do is look to get the italian government come in with more realistic expectations of or can be done over the near term in terms of fiscal stimulus but also balancing the long term sustainability of their finances and what about the fear that this could escalate into a wider debt crisis that could hurt the rest of the block out how real is that fear i don't think it's so real in terms of the near term risk the contagion risk around the or is own is is fairly limited particularly with the european central bank still in buyer bond buying for a spawn buying program i think the issue is much more idiosyncratic to italy rather

than presenting a a structural risk of the type that we saw in twenty eleven twelve so are we seeing kind of a slow burning crisis here then in terms of the markets up to this to this point haven't reacted too much to this but is that something that could change further down the line i think that is the question a slow burning crisis of what i would describe as democratic legitimacy of the euro zone project in italy. and the he being a member of the euro remains very popular amongst the italian electorate about two thirds of them still support ongoing membership but what they are uncomfortable with is the obligations that come with the let's call it the privilege of being in the euro zone the obligations are to be relatively all stare in terms of their fiscal outlook and something that successive italian governments have been fairly

poor doing they've run an average deficit of about three percent of g.d.p. of the last twenty years so to be asked to pair them back at this time towards two percent at the same point is they've elected a coalition government to want to be much more expansionary comes with its democratic challenges rather than its financial challenges just picking up on that idea of being expansionary italian government are obviously convinced that this is the right thing to do for their economy to spend their way out of it what's what's your view on that well the problem is that having gone down the road of the last twenty years of euro zone membership with the economic policy prescription we've had italian growth has been less than one percent year on year over a twenty year period now that simply isn't sustainable and of course there is madness in trying the same policy prescription over and over again expecting a different result i think what you need to see to break this impasse is the

italian government saying look we want to be more expansionary on the fiscal side but we're also going to do a lot more on the structural reform side to raise the trend rate of growth in italy because ultimately that is what all sides of this one of the discussion but the europeans and the italians want to see a higher rate of trend growth but there are some painful decisions that come with that that might be the trade that they have to do to get through this level of deficit spending would you say europe is more worried about what's happening with it to lead then than bragg's it right now. i think brics it is the the the near term risk so it depends on your time horizon in terms of what is going to impact euro zone growth the outlook confidence over the next couple of quarters i think bret's it sits front and center is the most important risk for the european union in the euro zone to manage having said that beyond

a withdrawal and are transitioning to a new economic arrangement the longer question is whether countries like italy but there are others on the periphery who are happy with years or membership but are not happy with the implications in terms of control over fiscal policy how we come to a position of agreement on that we've seen comments from john claude younker the commission president and also from mario draghi on the fact that requires more europe and yet this is a time when popularist it claiming electoral victories on the mandate of less europe that is the circle that needs to be closed or i could to speak with you simon french thanks for being with us my pleasure now as of this month u.s. sanctions on iran have slapped back into place and they're aimed right at the heart of the islamic republic's economy oil but one business in particular believes it is virtually sanction proof the growers and traders of saffron samus ravi reports from

top but it had been in north eastern iran. saffron doesn't need much water to grow so traders are encouraging farmers dealing with nearly a decade of drought to swap crops the farm to table process can be labor intensive delicate work but in the end it's a lucrative. ninety percent of iran saffron is exported and a kilogram can sell her around fifteen hundred dollars the spices a key ingredient in cosmetics perf human food and medicine the international demand is high and people who wanted will usually find a way to get it. sellers say that makes us sanctions a buyers problem. to see if fortunately not even sanctions have had an impact it's actually better because the prices going up. packed into these little boxes is the culmination of hours of manual labor by dozens of people and that's why this sought

after spice is so expensive so can safir on save or runs economy technically it is possible but there is a problem of scale iran does not make enough saffron accounts for less than one percent of iran's overall revenue from exports. still it's big business in small town iran and profits are up. though for some it can be backbreaking thankless work. the harvest season lasts only a month and pickers are out from dawn to dusk they say the minimum wage is not enough to them with we live in poverty we come here early in the morning and sometimes when i come home my child complains saying i don't see you we're not even off on fridays while the government has poured money into helping the saffron sector thrive 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 and tanzania i'll be telling you about last night 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 splashed 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 we're going the title and you know. 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 reverberate.