the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. tension in crimea cast a shadow as leaders of the world's biggest economies gather for the g. twenty summit in argentina. a lie from a headquarters and. also ahead donald trump's former lawyer admits he lied to congress about a project to build a skyscraper in russia an ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo is the second biggest on record with hundreds of new cases since. the cost of cracking

down on drugs lawyers and judges become a target for the. hello world leaders are gathering in argentina for the annual g. twenty summit with a background of controversy and simmering dispute top of the agenda and want to raise will likely be the trade war between the two biggest economies u.s. and china they've imposed tariffs on each other's imports this year leading to concerns about a global ripple effect also overshadowing the two day summit is the murder. as well as the naval confrontation between russia and ukraine in the black sea the saudi crown prince faced protests and legal complaints against his attendants and a meeting between russian leader vladimir putin and donald trump has now been called off after the black sea confrontation that's led to pressure in the u.s. and e.u.

to consider new sanctions against moscow alan fischer has more from. or a number of issues have dominated the run up to the g twenty they aren't talking about the agenda they're talking about mohammed bin salminen who will meet the saudi crown prince we knew already that donald trump isn't going to do that we know that president putin would like to we know that mohammed bin salman has requested to meet president of turkey that may well happen but everyone's going to be watching to see who shakes his hand who welcomes them to the dinner who sits beside them who he stands next to in the family photo all of this will give an indication on whether or not mohammed bin selman has been welcomed back into the international community if the international community is ready to put aside the issues they have particularly over the killing of jamal khashoggi in fact one senior royal said at the weekend that if you want to talk about the global economy if you want to do business then you really have to deal with the saudi government and that means dealing with mohamed ben solomon but the organizers of the g.

twenty and global leaders are also hoping that crucial issues will be discussed things like global warming things like the global economy there are some experts who see we could well be heading for another recession not quite as bad as two thousand and eight but something that would cause untold misery for many people around the globe while the u.n. secretary general is in argentina he had a news conference earlier on thursday and i asked him how he can get everyone pointing in the same direction and trying to bring global solutions to global problems. that they're seeing the central problems of all. just because. of course you see just as the woman you are and tony a good heroes understands one of the fault lines are and i asked him you know what the problems are how do you get everyone pointing in the same direction and coming up with a solution he said i don't know you tell me i pointed out i wasn't the u.n.

secretary general but that perhaps sure is his frustration the. the twenty biggest economies are involved in individual rows rather than looking at the big picture and walking towards solutions there they're hoping at the end of the g twenty there will be an official communique it would be unusual if there wasn't but given the divisions given the problems it's by no means guaranteed if they were able to get a statement which discusses what has been achieved and where they need to go that that would be progress and canada is imposing sanctions on seventeen saudi nationals who believes had a role in the murder of journalist in the us germany and france have already taken similar action canada has also reviewing its arms sales to the kingdom. murder him to monica showed she is a point and represents an unconscionable attack on freedom of expression and freedom of the press he continued to call for

a credible and independent international investigation. this case is. placed those responsible for mr pressure to step must be held to account and must face justice the president trumps former lawyer has admitted he lied to congress during the investigation into suspected russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election michael cohen told a federal court that he had submitted a false written statement about a trump organization plan to build a tower in moscow how to contain reports from washington d.c. . mobbed by reporters michael cohen said nothing leaving the court but inside a guilty plea he lied to congress now admitting that he was trying to arrange a real estate deal in moscow during the time it was clear donald trump would be the republican candidate the cohen was in fact going to travel to russia to work on the deal and that now president trump knew about it all things cohen had previously

denied bruce fein worked in the justice department and he says this is a big deal so this is a time where we have a criminal information that identifies the president himself secondly it also indicates that president trump or then candidate trump felt vulnerable if it was known that he was dealing in russian enterprises or because he would need to curry the favor of mr putin nothing happens in russia of important without mr putin's approval the president dismissed the news in his usual fashion badmouthing his former top aide he's a weak person. by being weak god like other people that you watch he's a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence so he's lying about a fraud. that everybody knew about i mean we were very open with cohen did plead guilty to crimes that completely related to trial pain of women who tried had an affair with so they would stay quiet before the election and while it might not

have been illegal to do a deal in russia while he is under investigation for potentially colluding with russia to win the election it would have looked suspicious this makes six six close aides to the president have now pled guilty as part of the special counsel's probe democrats say this is bad for the president you've got all these closest associates of the president one after another pleading guilty often pleading guilty about their ties to russia and russians and what are they covering up for and we also have a white house that still seems just obsessed about this investigation it's believed the special counsel has filed several indictments that are still under seal which means it is quite likely michael cohen won't be the last to face the cameras or the court. al-jazeera washington mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . for the first time since the special counsel's investigation began donald trump

is firmly in robert miller's cross has in his evidence submitted to the court michael cohen speaks of an individual one this has subsequently be identified as a donald trump himself now michael cohen's evidence is that he lied to congress because he did not want to publicly contradict the statements made by individual one donald trump had repeatedly said throughout the presidential campaign that he had no business dealings of any kind in russia michael cohen it's evidence is that up until at least june twenty sixth the negotiations were continuing with trump property operations inside russia with russian individuals this means that president trump was to reveal a candidate when the word connections and the go see asians with individuals in russia itself this despite the fact that even at that stage there'd been intelligence indications that russia was attempting to subvert the electoral

process so very damaging evidence for president trump at this particular stage he's completely dismissive of it having tweeted from pureness areas where he's attending the g. twenty gathering that this proves that there is no collusion well many observers believe it proves exactly the opposite and it seems as though the hairs are beginning to be pulled together by the special counsel a member of china as we are minority has addressed the u.s. congress detailing the torture and abuse she says she experienced in a government internment camp near a gold her son cried as a translator described how she was interrogated for days without sleep and subjected to intrusive medical examinations china has detained up to two million readers in detention camps the government denies they're brainwashed or abused it's now sending a million communist party members to live among muslim communities. the second time

i was detained i was taken to a special room and the place in a high chair bends held my arms and the legs in place and tighten and when they pressed a button the gods put a helmet on my shaved head each time i was electrocuted my whole body would shake wild and plea and i could feel the pain in my veins. i thought i would rather die than go through this torture i begged them to kill me the world health organization says the ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo is now the second worst on record there have been more than four hundred twenty new cases since august and two hundred fifty people have died attacks by rebel groups in the country's northeast are making a difficult for health workers to contain the disease peter j. hotez is dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor college he told us of the threats work the threats workers are facing. part of eastern congo is one

of the most destabilized. regions of the world they've had almost continuous violence for practically twenty years and you might say well what does violence and conflict have to do with disease well what happens is that collapses the whole health system infrastructure so when you want to be concerned about safe area laws which are a big problem during outbreaks or contacting potentially infected individuals this presents a really tough problem for health workers were poor area the good news is that we have a vaccine that was we didn't have the vaccine and the twenty fourteen outbreak and west africa so we have a very effective and relatively safe accident available now. so that's the good news and so far more than thirty thousand doses of vaccine that's been deployed but the problem is working in such an unstable area you have to

ensure the safety of the health of the vaccinators and you have to be able to trace potential contacts and get them vaccinated so in theory this should be a non-problem we should be able to quickly contain this through use of the vaccine but because of the massive political instability one of the most difficult parts of the world there really slows things down and unfortunately so far more than two hundred people perished still ahead on al-jazeera full steam ahead been latest move in following relations between north and south korea. and amsterdam is hosting the world architecture festival we take a look at the city's structural wonder is old and new. hello again and welcome back we are across south asia we are watching those

tropical showers begin to make their way towards the south this time of year and that means areas here to the north are going to be a little bit better and terms of the rain in the clouds so up here towards luzon not looking too bad central parts of the philippines maybe some spotty showers few but down here towards jakarta we are going to be seeing some showers mostly during the day with the temperature there of thirty two and really not changing as we go towards sunday well here across australia we are watching one weather system make its way across the bite now ahead of that system the temperatures are going to be much warmer and we're going to be seeing those temperatures into the low thirty's for some locations but s.s. system pushes through well there you go we're going to be seeing those temperatures begin to drop anywhere between ten to twelve degrees lower than what we saw here on saturday so adelaide high temperature there on sunday nineteen degrees no burn a drop about ten degrees for you with about twenty one but still quite warm here along the eastern coast with burrs been seeing about thirty six well as we go towards new zealand was still going to sing some stormy conditions across much of the area winds coming out of the north and with the rain in your forecast eighteen

as well as windy conditions for christ church but a little bit of a break as we go towards sunday but for christ church mostly cloud if you would temperatures of twenty. once held in one of australia's toughest detention centers now a world renowned surgeon want to win his followers dr moon derose and returns to his hometown baghdad to give amputees the hope of walking again on al-jazeera. it's.

probably on the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. china trade wars topping the agenda g. twenty summit in argentina. is being overshadowed by the russia ukraine naval confrontation in the black sea the murder of. president former lawyer has admitted he lied to congress during the russian investigation michael cohen told a federal court he made a false statement about a trump organization plan to build a tower in moscow the ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo is now the second largest on record four hundred thirty cases have been reported since august and two hundred fifty people have died. more from ukraine. and russia aged between sixteen and sixty from entering the country it's the latest

retaliatory measure as the crisis with moscow escalates and ukraine's president petro poroshenko wants nato to deploy ships to the sea if that's where russia cts border regions in ukraine are now under martial law including the city of kharkiv and reports from there. in ukraine second city is very evident more police on the ground and extra vigilance but most of the emergency powers now available to the president of being held in reserve. sophie and counted scar is a journalist who was here outside the city's russian consulate when it was fire bombed on sunday night nationalists demonstrating against russians action off the coast of alex crimea she says later when president petro poroshenko warned that russia had tripled the number of tanks on the border people were startled some fearing an invasion and its karma. rather than more which local officials have assured people that moves which will restrict the constitutional

rights will on the be brought into effect if russia starts an open act of aggression such as an invasion people here and live in a strange state is there a full war or isn't there. paper boats remain outside the consulate passive resistance to the russian confrontation city officials won't comment and were understood to be seeking more clarification about the martial law or some politicians are still cynical about the president's motivations with their actions at the end of march next year the fact that a bill like to only buy back a bill on the back of twenty fourteen it should have been done and everyone would have taken it normally it could have been an adequate response to the situation but now it looks ridiculous. an estimated thirty percent of hockey these people are ethnic russian and the border is only forty kilometers away if the

conflict was to escalate drastically how kieve would certainly be in the firing line and this is the city that built thousands of teeth thirty four tanks its legendary armor believed by many to have been one of the main reasons why the soviets defeated the nazis in the second world war. now work to build and maintain ukrainian tanks is virtually nonstop with exports halted. its long necessarily what's happening on the ground that's alarming what's going through people's minds conscription for example is applies to young men between twenty and twenty seven years of age one year for graduates eighteen months for non-graduates special exemption for young people from serving on the front line but could this all change. a student's depart from a day's study in a university get a hint of their nervousness. if not to brotherly nations are fighting each other

there needs to be a peaceful solution without the loss of human life but for the new boy. but i will be in pain if my brother is conscripted because i don't want him to go to war to fight somebody it's a strain time and it's short history as an independent state the message from ukraine is one of strength and determination but there's divisiveness in its into the politics andrew symonds al-jazeera hucky few crying prosecutors in italy will investigate members of egypt's security forces over there a legend involvement in the murder of an italian student julia regina disappeared in cairo in january two thousand and sixteen his body was found almost a week later and the post-mortem showed that he had been tortured earlier this year the italian prosecutor said he believed regina was killed by egyptian security services because of his research

a funerals been held in the philippines for the latest human rights lawyer to be murdered thirty five lawyers judges and prosecutors have been killed in the past two years many represented the poor against powerful landlords or politicians jimmy the reports from the city of simple. ben ramos was outside his office when two gunmen on a motorbike shot him three times it is a loss that is spilt deeply not just in the city but throughout the us islands in the central philippines most mourners who come to pay their respects are from impoverished communities including from the interior lands of nicolas was a represented them in land disputes against powerful landowners and politicians. it was a really tragic that the growth rate of ramos was known to be

a public interest lawyer very few lawyers in the caribbean. public interest and that was one of our human rights lawyers are going for the last nazi i find the authorities silence suspicious maybe i'm just being emotional but it leads me to think they all had something to do with his death. his family says they don't know what to trust anymore they feel his killers are not far away. i'm outside the wake of attorney ben ramos where his supporters apprehended two on a dent if i got men on board a motorcycle they then brought them to this police station according to attorney bents lawyers one of them has been identified as an active military officer. that military presence cost fear and depor henchmen it means that there's so much impunity going around so. much.

oh. the union of human rights lawyer says thirty five filipino lawyers have been killed in the past two years almost all of them were human rights lawyers are handling illegal drugs related cases who were shot at close range joining the day just like was killed mourners say without him to represent them they now feel hopeless the pillar of their community is gone. dog and al jazeera. philippines tens of thousands of farmers are marching to india's parliament in protest against years of financial hardship for the past two days they have been walking through the streets of new delhi demanding higher prices for their produce they also want the government to waive farm loans and lower prices for diesel and fertilizer the farmers say the government has neglected

them by not giving them enough subsidies the protests come with national elections just months away. for the first time in the train from south korea has crossed into north korea it's part of a mission to help upgrade pyongyang's poor railway system eugene jiang has more from seoul. south korean carriages a left the station behind me on friday morning and cross the military demarcation line dividing the two careers shortly after his ears are g.m.t. now the south korean officials and inspectors on the train will be joined with their north korean counterparts for the next eighteen days to inspect railways along the eastern and western coast of north korea and this is the first time for south korean carriages to cross they have to korea border in ten years and also what's more remarkable is that this will be the first time for a south korean train to run along the railways along the eastern coast of north korea ever since the korean war ended more than sixty years ago the two sides

initially wanted to hold this joint inspection back in july but were stalled for a few months because of global sanctions imposed on north korea just last week the un security council lifted the sanctions allowing the south korean carriages to carry fifty five thousand liters of diesel fuel on this train to north korea this shows the international community's backing the joint inspection between the two koreas this is also symbolic of the progress being made the agreements that were made between the two koreas this year amid a flurry of high level meetings the disarming of the village and another is that the joint excavation work of those remains within the demilitarized zone of the korean war however there is still much progress to be made on north korea's denuclearization and the united states is adamant that the sanctions stay in place until north korea shows

a final and fully verifiable denuclearization. it seems there is no end yet political crisis with parliament passing a motion to cut ministers salaries and travel. expenses it's the design to disrupt the administration of disputed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa he was controversially installed after the president sacked his prime minister last month in a move many considered unconstitutional which parts of supporters boycotted the vote declaring it's illegal. rain is bringing more misery to asylum seekers of the us mexico border they're part of a large group of people fleeing violence and poverty in honduras guatemala and el salvador zero's hiders or castro is until one zero and has the story. this was the first of four days of rain expected in tijuana mexico it hadn't reached two year old nicole regus yet the water surrounded the tent where her mother had kept her hidden i mean i protect my daughter even if i have to get way.

but the hours passed and the rain continued. more than seven thousand asylum seekers are now tamzin see awana the vast majority inside this city park with no roofs over their heads many already sick and weak after walking more than a month from their home countries to reach this point we go but she suffers from asthma so i have to be careful she would get sick from the rain. this was javier whom there does bed he left honduras to seek a better life in the united states not knowing the slow pace the u.s. takes asylum claims would condemn him to living like this it will be months before his turn to apply for asylum at the us port of entry in the underwood we are still in good spirits because we came with a purpose we're not ready to give up the many other. desperate families queued up

to receive donated raincoats. then nightfall brought welcoming signs apos to the rain and government buses to take some to a covered shelter but many refused the offer to move them was about out of reach that would spread us out a few here a few there we won't be as strong we don't want that. and so most remained willing to suffer side by side for what they believed to be their best chance for asylum in the us. castro al-jazeera do you want to mexico. doctors nurses teachers students and civil servants have all gone on strike in the spanish region of catalonia they're demanding the regional government and spending cuts on focus on managing the economy rather than trying to split from the rest of spain top architects are competing for design glory at the world architecture festival underway in amsterdam the dutch capital is known for its architectural treasures

ranging from windmills to its more modern buildings barker takes a look. working buildings need to work they need to combine form and function some such as the humble dutch windmill and now icons of human achievement this is industrial architecture. the same is true of contemporary buildings in our bodies in cities they need to work for people in the case of this year's winner of the amsterdam architecture prize lots of people. the dutch capital has a new spine the north south metro line is ten kilometers long and has eight gleaming stations it took decades of planning fifteen years of construction and required a catalogue of engineering innovations to deal with the city's many canals and thick layers of modern we're reinventing the city we reinventing the engineers that worked on the on the project we're reinventing engineering this part of the station

was not built on this site it was built. it was floated in a canal that we and the new central station and then sunk and then connected to the rest of the track there is a transients about train stations which means that we often miss many of the details that go into designing a months of the effort that goes into engineering but perhaps that's half the success of good architecture but we don't know what it is doing to us as it takes us on a journey from a to b. . some buildings such as the university of amsterdam are designed to bring us together this is social engineering in steel and concrete the previous building had long but will drink dollars and sell like rooms some of the previous building remains but new spaces have been created to reconnect the university to the city and the students with each other. the idea was as people meet in the city so they

should meet in the building if there is a university. social. is even more important regardless of how functional. p. is or how seamlessly blends into the background it aspires to quietly improve the way we live. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera world leaders are arriving in argentina for the annual g. twenty summit amid a background of controversy and simmering disputes the u.s. china trade wars topping the agenda the two day event is also being overshadowed by the russia ukraine naval confrontation in the black sea and the murder of. two leaders not meeting at that summit or the u.s. president donald trump and russia's vladimir putin says he canceled their talks

blaming moscow's worsening standoff with ukraine russia opened fire on three ukrainian ships detaining their true and prompting kiev to ban adults russian men from entering the country while president transformer lawyer has admitted he lied to congress during the investigation into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election michael cohen told the federal court he made a false statement about a trump organization planning to build a tower in moscow trump is accusing cohen of flying to get a reduced sentence the ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo is now the second largest on record behind two thousand and fourteen demick that killed thousands in west africa the world health organization delivered that assessment after congo's health ministry announced there have been almost four hundred thirty cases since the start of august two hundred fifty people have died it's spreading in the country's northeast where attacks by rebel groups are making it difficult for health workers to contain the disease. tens of thousands of farmers are

marching to india's parliament in protest against years of financial hardship for the past two days they've been walking through the streets of new delhi demanding higher prices for their produce they also want the government to waive farm low lower prices for diesel and fertilizer the farmers say the government has neglected them by not giving them enough subsidies and it seems there is no end to sri lanka's political crisis with parliament passing a motion to cut ministers salaries and travel expensive it's designed to disrupt the administration of disputed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa he was controversially installed after the president sacked his prime minister last month and a move many considered unconstitutional rajapaksa supporters boycotted the vote declaring it illegal those are the headlines one. coming up on al-jazeera. a recent un report has given renewed agency to the fight against climate change and

released threats like sea level rise at this year's climate talks in poland and the international community sees the opportunity to take concerted action starting with al-jazeera the latest from the front lines of the climate crisis from the conference itself. decades of war have left thousands of iraqi amputees desperate to mend their broken bodies. now the chance to use cutting edge robotic persistence is giving them new hope. on this episode one of one man's incredible journey from refugee to world leading surgeon. with robotics to help people walk again.