they are committed to keeping politics owsa the extradition case involving quality's chief financial officer china's call from a one joe's immediate release by canada where she was arrested on december first on a u.s. request secretary of state has been meeting canada's foreign minister in washington says he's hoping for a good outcome the united states is engaged in an extradition process is making travel to canada the canadians have taken her into custody or released her on bail pending extradition and the extradition hearing. will continue to engage through legal processes to get the just outcome that's connected to that. we have a set of trade discussions that are ongoing with the chinese as the chinese have said or we're working on that wall all the other issues not just this particular issue have lots of complicated issues going on with china today all around the world and we work on each of those to get good outcomes for the people united states of america and respecting the rule of law each step along the way so to come

for you on the program we look at the effectiveness of trump's administration's strategy of building bigger walls to stop immigration. and possibly his parliament votes to form an army to threaten armed intervention. hello there it's all happening in australia at the moment we've got cyclamens and severe storms as well some of the worst of the weather has been in sydney and melbourne these pitches are from melbourne where it's a case of safety issues as the rain has come down so heavily it's been a second day of severe storms here it's called disruption in melbourne and sydney you can see why this huge area of cloud hit it's also been affecting us in brisbane and if you follow the same area of cloud further north of intially you get to these

blob of cloud here and that's all cycling owain is running its way down towards the southeast as we head through the next couple of days will bring many of us in queensland some very heavy downpours and potentially a fair amount of flooding too so on saturday then the worst of the weather will be in the north and then gradually that will trickle its way down east in parts on sunday for the western parts of australia really quite different here far come professing some showers i think for sunday but it took temperatures still of around twenty three degrees every towards new zealand we've got lots of cloud across the north island currently plenty more showers for us as we head through the day on saturday the south china and should be brighter and brighter weather will push across most of the north island as we head into sunday as we head out towards japan it's mostly dry for his head but it's not that will let up temperature in tokyo just of ten degrees. on counting the cost we'll assess the states of the u.k.

economy is it continues to broker its way out of the new world look at a major milestone for the internet plus and on the walls for economy in kenya counting the cost on al-jazeera. well you. know some of it i like. welcome back just a quick look at the top stories now there are reports that when you feistiness broken out on the outskirts of the day a day off to yemen's warring factions agreed to cease fire in the old city but some

desperately needed aid supplies have managed to get through. sri lanka's prime minister amanda rajapaksa is set to resign from his post on saturday it paves the way for the formation of a new government after rajapaksa lost two no confidence votes and donald trump's former personal lawyer says the us president directed him to make hush payments during the twenty sixteen presidential elections even though he knew it was wrong. when other stories we're following a seven year old guatemalan girl has died in u.s. border police custody after entering the country from mexico immigration officers say the girl who's been named as jacqueline sol died from dehydration and shock eight hours after being detained it's not clear whether she was given food or water when she arrived border police say they took every step to save her life but the american civil liberties union is blaming what it calls a culture of cruelty. well this is president trump faces further battles with

a new democrat controlled congress over his plan mexican border wall building the wall to keep undocumented immigrants out was a major part of his election campaign previous administrations already fortified parts of the frontier and smugglers a myth that this has made moving people and drugs into the u.s. more difficult to abdel-hamid reports. stopping asylum seekers from crossing into the united states is one of the main campaign pledges of president trump. the t.n.t. one is a radio war that was first started under the administration of the plane. it stretches from the pacific ocean through to bounty and into the valleys it's. this is the old wall the new part is higher the razor wire was put up about fifteen days ago so now with the arrival of the caravan they harden the border. to higher one was added during the obama administration but asylum seekers are resilient and find

new ways like through these water drainage pipes metal bars have been added on the american side but police say some just dug a hole and went in. seven hundred kilometers to the east and we are nogales it lays on both sides of the border with arizona i hear the war is part of the daily life along with the sad stories of tragic crossings this part was built under george w. bush just an hour's drive away from the city and this is how the border looks like we haven't seen any patrol on our way here but anyone can just crawl underneath and on the other side you're in arizona the real challenge is to reach this area that. it was once the territory of the apache now it's under control of its choppers seen the lower curtain. is through here. javier takes asylum seekers on

a long trip through the mountains into us he's been doing this job for more than twenty years. it's the same people on the other side they give us the green light to move but it has changed a lot before the journey took three to four hours ten years later it was fifteen to twenty now we can take for five days it's a big deter it used to be a straight line. these rugged mountains are used to smuggle drugs and people both are done in close coordination but not at the same time and could take leaves people trafficking is a business that involves many on both sides. you have bodyguards on both sides are no border guards who kept migrants in their homes or put them in the cars and let them go or saw this happen so build one wall or two walls people will continue to cross and we will continue providing our service. a fortified border added personnel

a new technology has slowed the movement of asylum seekers over the past two decades it will take the border in a war to stop it all together. along the mexican us border as ready forces have arrested fourteen palestinians in the occupied west bank it says thirty seven of them are members of hamas including three senior leaders the arrests come as the army intensifies its search for a palestinian gunman who killed two israeli soldiers at a bus stop near ramallah on thursday meanwhile an eighteen year old palestinian man has been shot dead by israeli forces during friday protests mahmoud nothing was shot in the stomach at jalan refugee camp near ramallah went to say he was among protests as he was throwing stones at israeli soldiers palestinian leaders of course for a day of rage across gaza in the occupied west bank in response to the violence this week. now in iraq aid agencies are working to try and help

women become more independent by teaching them new skills that community was torn apart by iceland two thousand and fourteen with thousands of young men killed and women forced into slavery but as the threats from i still appears to diminish many projects of facing funding cuts while matheson reports from the hook in the kurdish region of northern iraq. philos father says weaving a new future for her family which was ripped apart four years ago when i was so fighters swept through her hometown of sin joe. i lost my eldest son who was the sunshine of my life i still remember him every time i would meet other women at the camp he was killed on the night he was about to get married. when i was always finally pushed out of. five remaining children eventually made their way to a refugee camp and conquer in the kurdish region of northern iraq have been

a marriage i used to cry all the time inside the tent i didn't have food to feed my children we barely had anything at all fearless now works at a carpet factory nearby she's never woven anything before. but her newly learned skills provide an income. you see the woman is said to be the backbone of their families but they isolate attacks and twenty fourteen shattered many of those families and destroyed tens of thousands of lives for lose like many of the women at this center lost a husband and several relatives the organizers of projects like this one hope that they will help the women to regain the confidence of become more independent and work towards a more peaceful future. it is true that still many as the women are still suffering what we need is a lot of support from the local authorities and from around the world is he the women still have

a long road ahead but you can see hope spreading among them this center is home to several projects run by local and global aid agencies but as the threat from eisel diminishes it seems the world's interest is fading today and we hear the world is no longer paying much attention to our suffering but we shall be asking for our rights until we draw our last breath we want to ensure a bright future for our children and generations to come. the future may be brighter now for filosa and her family but there are many other years it is who are still struggling to survive rob matheson al-jazeera the hook the kurdish region of northern iraq. on news from kosovo now where the parliament has voted to turn its four thousand strong defense force into a regular army arguing it has a right to self defense version the one hundred twenty member semele has angered neighboring serbia which has threatened to armed intervention on a course of one thousand nine hundred nine constitution drafted after serbian forces which are an out nato is the only armed force allowed to operate it

secretary general has called the move ill timed serbia believes the army would pose a threat to the ethnic majority in the north of kosovo but the cost of an president denies this elena good shots has more from the serbian capitol belgrade. possibles parliament approved the first read of the draft laws on october and during the process costs of a serbian minority remains opposed to the creation of course of the army a position shared by belgrade which denies course was existence as a state alexander who treated the president of serbia said he did not understand how anyone in the world could approve the creation of course that was army or turn a blind eye to something as he said entirely in a collision with all international documents he added serbia will not read the war drums but want to allow anyone to humiliate the serbs in kosovo superior alleges the army's main purpose would be to ethnically cleanse course of

a serbian dominated north a claim strongly denied by prishtina prime minister of course it would almost had it in i said the tree laws have a want to ask to protect the territorial integrity of course of all and to protect the citizens of all communities in course of syria deputies begged by belgrade which does not recognize course there was independence have blocked and such a move in the past saying creation of a national army required a change to the constitution and the us led nato alliance which has four thousand troops in the balkan country has also in the past urged the course of or not to create a national army unless the constitution was amended with the support of this a minority. the british prime minister to resign may's insisting she can get the assurances she needs from the european union on her breaks it deal to ensure it's passed by her own parliament it comes after heated discussions in brussels more talks are now planned but the e.u.

is showing no sign of moving from its current position as jonah hill reports from brussels all the talk was of a disastrous summit for to resume a tense exchanges rebuffed by e.u. leaders her pleas for help fallen on deaf ears but the tone from the prime minister reflected none of it the e.u. is clear as i am that if we are going to leave with a deal this is it but my discussions with colleagues today have shown that further clarification discussion following the council's conclusions is in fact possible. there is work still to do and we will be holding talks in coming days about how to obtain the further assurances that u.k. parliament needs in order to be able to approve the deal prime minister may's brave face probably preempts the furious reaction she's likely to receive at home having delayed a vote on her brakes a deal this week promising assurances from the e.u. the dreaded northern ireland backstop isn't the trap many m.p.'s feared it is she

returns from brussels all but empty handed and e.u. leaders aren't doing much publicly at least to help. we have. open. mrs may's insistence that legal assurances good yet be forthcoming seems contrary to the events of thursday night the e.u. twenty seven removed language in their pre-agreed conclusions that had pointed to the possibility of future discussions reportedly some simply don't believe there's any way may can get her break the deal through the british parliament the northern ireland backstop is intended to ensure that there can be no hard border on the island of ireland until a future trade agreement is in place between the u.k. and the e.u. it is an insurance policy it has to be open ended can't be unilaterally breached

want to reserve main wants from the e.u. therefore a legal issue and that somehow the backstop isn't what it is is a legal assurance that can't be given which is why all that was ever on offer from the e.u. with clarifications not renegotiation to resume a still hope some legal sleight of hand can be performed to persuade doubting in peace to back her deal the message from this e.u. summit is probably not join a whole al-jazeera brussels. the un rights chief has denounced democratic republic of congo security forces for targeting the opposition days before a tense presidential election on thursday a teenager was shot dead as an opposition rally in the central kasai region this brings the total number killed the opposition rallies this week to six separately a fire has destroyed thousands of voting machines and electoral material in a warehouse in kinshasa voters which you to head to the polls on the twenty third of december to choose a successor to president joseph kabila will stay in the d r c and

a positive story here the youngest survivor of ebola is officially recovered from the virus baby benedict was just six days old when she showed symptoms of the disease a mother who also had died during childbirth health workers gave the baby around the clock care for weeks and it's worked because she's now been allowed to return home to her family delegates they call twenty four global climate change conference in poland will be staying on for at least another day as no final agreement has been reached yet they've been called back for in the morning on saturday the day off to the scheduled finish representatives from almost two hundred nations are hoping for a deal on implementing the two thousand and fifteen paris climate change agreement . a story that we're following a u.s. president donald trump has just announced a temporary replacement to his chief of staff mick mulvaney the director of the

office of management and budget will take on the role until he finds a permanent replacement on veiny is set to replace general john kelly. the miss universe beauty pageant is set to feature its first ever transgender contestant angela ponzi is competing as mist spain says she's proud to be making history as the first transgender woman in the competition sixty six year history the miss universe organization lifted a ban on transgender contestants in two thousand and twelve on zero vie for the crown in bangkok on monday you're going to bag. i think to be here being the image the voice and talking about women's issues especially those of transgender women and minors i think it's allowing me to into many houses many homes through the t.v. in the prius and to create debates within families conversations about something that is never been talked about and that is very positive.

just quick look at top stories now there are reports that renewed fighting has broken out on the outskirts of the data day after yemen's warring factions agreed a cease fire in the port city earlier aid agencies took advantage of the truce to distribute desperately needed food and humanitarian supplies to her data international committee of the red cross delivered more than three thousand parcels to the city a cease fire was agreed between who's the rebels and the yemeni government the u.n. backed talks in sweden on thursday. the presence of our delegation in sweden is very important and we've sent a message to the world that we're with peace and we want to achieve peace the talks were successful would put on the right path to peace and to improve the humanitarian situation all the human tragedy in yemen is unprecedented well and go against saudi arabia has been rising in the u.s. with the senate voting to condemn its long standing ally over the war in yemen and its role in the killing of jamal khashoggi the washington post is running

a full page ad keeping up the pressure of the murder of the saudi list it was a regular contributor to the paper. we're not to sure there's been another twist there in the country's political crisis with manda rajapaksa set to resign from the disputed prime minister post on saturday rajapaksa son says he made the decision after meeting president might free palace or cena shanker has been without a functioning government for nearly two weeks after a court suspended rajapaksa and his cabinet when they lost to no confidence votes donald trump's form of personal lawyer says the us president directed him to make hush payments to two women during the two thousand and sixteen presidential elections even though he knew it was wrong michael cohen was given a three year prison sentence for charges including campaign finance fraud and lying to congress and china is suspending additional tower ifs on u.s. navy it cools and also parts as part of an ongoing trade truce with washington the

tariff hope will last three months and it's set to begin on january the first you're up to date with the top stories that set for myself and the team here in london there will be more news from doha in a trunk after counting the cost which starts now. 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 affairs that matter to al-jazeera. hello i'm sami's a dan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week the cost of brokering brags it will look at the state of the u.k. economy as it heads into a new year and uncertain times. also this week

a major milestone for the internet half the global population is now online what about the our behalf. plus an underwater economy a report from the world's most diverse coral reefs in kenya. or the u.k. economy is slowing and its currency is forming this was the week which was supposed to deliver a deal on bragg's it but it ended with a vote of confidence in british prime minister to resign may now although she survived the wrong question marks over her next steps need parker reports from ramsgate in the u.k. about growing concern of what next year might bring. it is a time of great up he will for britain the people of canton southeast england voted overwhelmingly to leave the e.u.

many here hope brags it would be the dawn of a new era but they remain in limbo everyone's just disgusted with the government at the moment. that's. because there's not. a lot of hope a vote for. wouldn't if i knew it was going to be this far so it's turning into a bit of a circus for your message for the promise of. it too and you've had your time sadly behind the scenes the local council is preparing for the worst. this document a contingency plan to avoid being potentially crippled by the effects of brecht's it in the event of a no deal there's likely to be major disruptions to border and customs arrangements causing huge disruptions across kent and beyond. eighty percent ninety percent of all the roll on roll off ferries and trains come out of kent so if there is

disruption the impact on the current economy is really severe with the roads getting blocked unplugged by having to hold and park twelve thousand lorries at any one time in two thousand and fifteen a strike by french ferry workers led to kilometers of congestion the report warns that breaks it could lead to an even worse situation affecting not just the delivery of goods but also the collection of rubbish children going to school the registration of births and deaths and even the transfer of bodies to mortuaries some of the plans on paper are already being realised the government spent seven million dollars keeping this disused airport available as a potential lorry park for thousands of stranded drivers. this is the nearby port of ramsgate serving may leap pleasure craft and the occasional freighter it's been earmarked to supposable over spill for the major cross-channel ferry port of dover in order to keep the county and the country moving these plans need to be

watertight historically the county of cones made its fortune by trading with europe and the rest of the world by peeping its doors open in more recent years. even deeper ties with the european union through the euro tunnel trade and travel depends of course upon speed and eames proposed regs that are absolutely no guarantees or poor about what could be on the horizon next britain's economy has slowed since the two thousand and sixteen briggs that referendum the center for european reform suggests the government's austerity drive would be on the way to completion britain voted to stay in the european union the most recent budget spelled out a lack of spending on things like policing and education this week sterling reached its lowest level since april two thousand and seventeen against the us dollar a week of currency means the price of goods is likely to rise that's likely to hit

household spending joining me now from london is peter dixon peter is a senior economist with commerzbank good to have you with us so peter to what extent has been an expensive miscalculation so far what do economists say. i think that's a very good way of putting it really i mean i think when you look back to three years ago those people who pushed for bread to eat i don't think i expected to win and they could never had a plan to deliver in the event that they did so now we've wasted an awful lot of time and effort since the referendum trying to figure out how to deliver bragg's it which it's not even clear that the electorate now wants so it has indeed been very expensive both in terms of absorbing government time. the energy which businesses now have to spend in order to prepare for something which frankly may not even yet happen how expensive though how much does it cost the u.k.

economy do we can we put a number on it broadly speaking g.d.p. is about two percentage points below. where it would otherwise have been in the absence of bragg's it and that can be calculated in in a number of ways i mean that's a bit like saying we've you know we've almost lost a year's growth. over a over two year period which is you know quite a quite a considerable quite a considerable sum. so without putting a precise figure on it i think it's fair to say the numbers big there's been a lot of volatility in the pound who's making money from it peter. well i think anybody who is short sterling always short sterling at the start of the week put it you know has done ok but. i mean i don't think many people really benefit from week a pound certainly not here in the u.k. it gives exporters a bit of a lifted terms of the fact that they can book what a profit margins but that's a short term gain because ultimately they're they were able to repeat thousand less

they were able to to boost exports in future so generally speaking as i said only people shorting the pound investor shorting the pound are going to win out of this but the longer term costs are generally go to be borne by the british electorate and i rather suspect that those costs will be far higher than the gains that any speculators might make so ultimately what does that mean for economic growth in two thousand and nineteen looking ahead do you think well i think on the on the current . projections on the assumption that we don't get a hard bragg's it you know growth will continue to remain in the area of you know one half percent give or take a little bit obviously at the start of the year if we get continued uncertainty then that could lead to maybe a bit more we does in investment growth consumption but of course be impacted by the strength of inflation if there is a date any as a result of the of the weakening pound so at the start of the year old suspect will

get off to a slow start but on the assumption that some of his presidency and he is eliminated all smooth away then over the course of the year i rather hope and i think the consensus expects to that growth next year will be similar to what we've seen this year you mentioned the heartbreaks event what that cost the u.k. economy well it's hard to say exactly but i mean the scenario analysis you've seen from the bank of england from the government and indeed my own calculations suggest that it could be over the order of you know eight percent of g.d.p. over a five year horizon say most. that would be front loaded i guess into the first few quarters after the heart breaks it so you would probably see quite a sharp contraction in economic output in the second quarter of next year with possibly lingering ongoing effects in the third and it will take time i think for businesses and indian government and consumers to adjust to this new environment so it could be you know quite a quite a dramatic and vironment you know my own guess is is that if there is

a hard break that it will be such a nasty experience that it will very very quickly be reversed in subsequent quarters but nonetheless you know i think that over the course of a sort of two you who wasn't even under those circumstances the best you could hope for is. a growth rate of around one percent which is you know significantly lower than have become used to is the uncertainty though already diminishing the attractiveness of the u.k. as a destination for business investment yes i think that's probably true i mean we've seen indications that companies are beginning to think about shifting their operations out of the u.k. we're seeing signs of companies offer spalling their investment so yes clearly the numbers do indicate that there are some margin impact it's not particularly noticeable i don't think at the macro level just yet but really you know based on the anecdotal evidence that's happening but when it comes to the financial sector

in particular we certainly are seeing indications that companies are much more circumspect about expanding their london operations there in the process of transferring people out of london to of the european destinations in order to ensure business continuity after march of next year so irrespective of whether the heart breaks itself present or no briggs's it's already had an impact on the financial services industry thanks so much peter we'll end on that note thanks for your thoughts on that thank you very much still to come on counting the cost how cuba is trying to ensure no one citizen can make human. too much wealth. but first the head of india's central bank handed in his resignation this week he cited personal reasons for leaving his job halfway through his term analysts say his replacement shock to counter that will have to work to reassure markets about the credibility of the institution he leads that's because the government is reportedly putting pressure on the central bank to loosen the purse strings all of

that ahead of next year's general election. global investors have a message for governments this week some of the world's biggest pension funds insurers and asset managers say it's time for fossil fuel subsidies to end they maintain that if they don't the world faces a financial crash several times worse than the two thousand and eight crisis that mark is considering laws which would require food manufacturers and supermarkets to label products with a rating of their impact on the environment flow along spark reports. in this supermarket the label on the potatoes or sausages that you're about to buy will soon be able to tell you exactly how much damage it's done to the legs in an attempt to reduce its government emissions and slow down climate change the danish government wants to introduce a new rating label for food products consumers are very. concerned about the

climate change and if you if you look at this look at the climate labeling on we'll get the consumer good information ok and they want to make it change i want to do something for the world and then they can say ok i'll buy this product because it's more current climate friendly when it comes to their carbon footprints not all products are made the same some require a lot of land and water resources well other products had to be transported for hundreds of kilometers by plains or in order to get here adding to pollution levels . agriculture is one of the major contributors to the level of carbon emissions that's driving climate change worldwide denmark is building wind farms promoting energy efficiency and getting rid of fossil fuels cars and also wants to reduce pollution caused by the food industry in order to have zero emissions by the year two thousand and fifty but developing a label that calculates all that.