a 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 flemings in an attempt to reduce its garment 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 won't be an easy task some say it will be

a waste of valuable time it's going to be. very complicated as we look at look on this label. our our fears that the consumers will be maybe even more confused because now you have another label on top of all the other labels there exists and really i think we need to act now. we know what has to be done we need to eat less meat of the same person over on a label system will not save the planet. but radically changing our eating habits will says does insect farmer teaching the next generation to cook with larvae i am worms instead of meat he says is far more effective. so insects are the answer because they pollute one hundred times less than beef does for instance and we want to make sure. that children know this because basically their habitants of the world of the future is a time like you know life. while most seem to agree there isn't much time left to

bring global warming closer to the forefront of people's minds solutions on how to feed the world in the future without destroying its very and some. might take a bit of courage. and underwater economy lies off the coast of kenya it's crucial for fish reproduction and protecting shorelines from tropical storms and of course tourism welcome web reports now from one of the world's most diverse coral reefs. every morning kalou make a hindi sets out to sea to catch fish. thousands of people here on kenya's coast do the same thing some days he'll make a hundred dollars some days nothing when you are. you work for yourself you sell it as you choose you sell to women and they make their own money it's been

if everyone in this community. the fish he catches depend on nearby coral reefs to reproduce. he went to have a look. at. the world's most diverse ecosystems i found here. and there on the threat because of climate change corals are a little bit like tiny upsidedown jellyfish in the sea temperature rises stresses them like a fever and a human being and it causes them to spit out tiny microbes they depend on for their survival and they turn white and they start to die that looks like this is cool bleaching and it's already happened to about half the world's coral global warming causes oceanic heat waves at our dive instructor franco witnessed one of

the worst ten years ago. but know that developing slowly only. the coral here made a remarkable recovery that time but scientists say the heat waves are becoming more frequent and more intense what we'll see is more and more coral bleaching events which means more and more coral death and mortality and if we don't change course we can lose up to ninety percent of the world's coral live coral within the next few decades. to support the incomes of five hundred million people through tourism and fishing. among them. he doesn't make a lot of money and if the coral goes his livelihood goes to it's an internet milestone more than half the world's population is there connected to the internet

the un agency the international telecommunications union estimates three point nine billion people over fifty one percent of the global population will gain access by year's end at current growth rates we won't approach one hundred percent global internet adoption for well over two decades the inventor of the world wide web tim berners lee says the internet is broken he's not alone there is growing concern mega companies like google have too much power over our digital lives google c.e.o.'s and of which i testified this week before the u.s. house judiciary committee had to answer questions about how the world's biggest search engine tracks people's location and uses our private darter one of the projects he's involved in is the secretive project dragon-fly it's a project designed to bring a sense of search engine to china he spoke about what user information google would share with the chinese authorities there are times in the past we have debated the

conditions to operate them and we explore a wide range of possibilities current leaders and their furred only internally for us to we are doing this in china and so you know but happy to come back and be transparent connection be plan something there but joining me now from london is frederica cold hina for the record leads privacy international's darter exploitation program good to have you with us so looking at the controversy over google's dragon fly project how big of an issue is digital encroachment of human rights if i can coin that term how big of a problem is that becoming. it's a huge problem i think the main lesson of two thousand and eighteen has been that the current status is not just unsustainable but also quite dangerous from a human rights perspective. is the digital economy then heading towards more regulation if self-regulation is failed there is

a growing consensus that self-regulation has failed epicly and i think that's a very good thing we're seeing regulatory developments not just in the e.u. were the general data protection has entered into force one of the strongest data protection laws in the world where we are also seeing regulatory developments in other parts of the world in brazil and argentina in kenya in india and pakistan in california so that just shows that there is an interest to regulate that said massive ailerons by government is still a problem that hasn't been solved and we're also seeing governments on the one hand offer tarion governments but also right wing populist around the world who embrace this new criticism of big technology companies to promote a very different agenda that's not quite compatible with human rights so what else can consumers do to protect themselves then. our position is always that the individual has is the weakest link in the chain and you should be protected by design and by the for something that we have done this year regulation is one thing

and enforcement is something completely different we have recently filed complaints against seven companies and the data broker advertising technology and credit scoring industry because we found that. their practices raise a lot of questions especially in light of the new obligations under european laws there are things that you can do to protect yourself but it will never be enough and that that's just shows that the problem is much more systemic and that we need better laws and protections but also strong enforcement part of the problem is that too few companies making too much money and wielding too much power over the internet how do you fix that it's quite interesting to observe that competition authorities are now starting to look at data and the role that data plays in competition and in the markets and the realisation seems to be that we are seeing behavior by companies that that that suggests that they're quite dominant in their respective markets we're now in a situation in looking globally where half the world's population is online and

half isn't so almost exactly fifty fifty split why it's a quite achievement that half the world's population is online and it's important to say that a lot of these people especially new internet users aren't actually accessing the free and open internet in lots of places there's government censorship but also lots of new internet users aren't able to afford services outside of very closely walled corporate gardens like facebook products such as facebook zero. so while inclusion and internet access for people this is tremendously important the price of this cannot be that these people don't actually don't actually access the entire full internet so what is the real world implications of such a divide between those who are connected and those who are not that's one and the other that you mention those who are really not connected in the freeway on the internet. companies like facebook and google would like us to believe that they are

the internet and the sad truth is that in many parts of the world that is the case and i think that's a problem because the vision the original vision of the internet is that of connecting as of sharing and spreading ideas freely and that remains an important and exciting idea and if people aren't really having access to free information that this vision cannot be realized concerns have been raised over digital addiction especially young children is enough being done to counter that do you think the core of the issue i think is that companies like google and facebook always love to say that they don't sell data the truth is they are selling access to your attention so by tackling the way in which data is being used in these industries we're also tackling the way in which our attention is being sold thanks so much for your thoughts thank you very much i am finally our latin america is a lucy a new in reports from havana now with the government is trying to rein in the private sector. that the owner of this have an apartment rents rooms to

tourists just when new and highly unpopular restrictions on cuba's fledgling private sector were about to go into effect last week authorities surprised everyone. had to have been families from having more than one license but now they've lifted the limit so that for example we can also sell handicrafts or food. in another unusual response to public pressure plans to limit private restaurants to only fifty chairs also scrapped. thirteen percent of the workforce has moved over to the private sector many of them professionals have abandoned their jobs in state run into prizes like mechanical engineering. a lot of help and i would have preferred to haul for a quarter of what's there is just to stay my profession which i love but i couldn't even a fraction of the. family working for the state continue to move the dominant state sector is struggling to keep employees which may help explain attempts to limit

small privately run businesses they're very. specific in which people will start their own businesses mean the. other side of reasons in every area in any area of the economy in every sector. new demands and restrictions have been placed even on private taxis despite the acute shortage of public transportation unlike vietnam and china the communist party here still use the private sector with suspicion for many reasons including ideological social and geo political cuban government are afraid that a growing and increasingly sophisticated private sector will help advance the us government's anti communist agenda here in fact president barack obama and now president donald trump i've repeatedly said that they want to help and encourage the private sector. because as an engineer political change here but the decision

to backtrack on plans to reduce the private sector even further seems to be recognition that like it or not the struggling economy needs it and that's our show for this week but remember you can get in touch with us five twitter use the hash tag j c d c when you do or drop us an e-mail the cost of down to zero dollars next is our address there's more for you on line of zero dot com slash c that'll take you straight to our page which has individual reports links and entire episodes for you to catch up on. that's it for this edition of counting the cost i'm sam he's a dad from the whole team thanks for joining us the news on al-jazeera is next.

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minutes a scramble to get much needed aid but as it arrives in yemen's main port city there's more fighting. crime done being loyal to president trump. donald trump's former lawyer insists the president knew it was wrong to make hush money payments during the election campaign. a young girl dies just hours after being taken into custody by u.s. police at the mexican border. and a robust exchange britain's prime minister continues to demand more assurances from the e.u. on the breakfast deal. there are reports of fighting on the outskirts of her data just a day after young. warring factions agreed to a cease fire in the port city aid agencies took advantage of the trees to distribute desperately needed food and humanitarian supplies more than three

thousand parcels were sent to head data the cease fire was agreed between two of the rebels and the yemeni government at un back to talks in sweden on thursday. and prisons about delegation in sweden was very important and we've sent a message to the world that we're with peace and we want to achieve peace the talks are successful and put on the right path to peace and to improve the humanitarian situation the human tragedy in yemen is unprecedented. the un special envoy in yemen martin griffiths says it's still a daunting task to end the four year war he was briefing the security council on the progress made in the talks and sweden our diplomatic editor james bay is reports from the united nations in new york. the day off to an interim peace deal in yemen the u.n. negotiator at the talks warned the security council there was still a long and difficult road ahead mr president i also have before you today with

a call for caution our collective achievements this week were. a significant step forward but what's in front of us is a daunting task and as ever. in the context of such negotiations or realizes that the end of the. work is only about to begin. the u.n. senior humanitarian official warned against complacency he said a quarter of a million people were on the edge of a phase five food emergency the technical term for that stage is catastrophe so i can confirm again what humanitarian agencies have known for a long time a terrible tragedy is unfolding in yemen and it's getting worse the special envoy revealed that general patrick comer of the netherlands a veteran of the u.n. who's commanded peacekeepers headed inquiries and written reports for the united nations will set up a team of more misses who will deploy to yemen as soon as possible it's believed

general comet's team will be unarmed and we tossed would provide incredible monitoring of the ceasefire in the port city of her data the monitoring mission will have to be endorsed in the un security council resolution that is likely to be difficult to negotiate with passed resolutions saudi arabia has put pressure on members of the security council including the current arab member kuwait to try and shape the words of the resolution to their interest james byrd's al-jazeera the united nations anger against saudi arabia has been rising in the united states with the senate voting to condemn its longstanding ally for the war in yemen and its role in the murdering of journalist jamal khashoggi the washington post is running a full page ad in tribute to its regular contributor the post says it will continue to push for meaningful action over saudi arabia's role in his killing friday's ad as part of a larger campaign planned for twenty nineteen u.s.

president donald trump has named an acting chief of staff in a tweet he announced a budget director mick mulvaney will step into the role next year he takes over from john kelly who is resigning after almost a year in the job. donald trump's former lawyer says the president told him to pay hush money to two women during the twenty sixteen presidential election knowing it was wrong michael cohen made the comments in his first interview since he was sentenced to prison this week on multiple charges some relation to payments aimed at keeping quiet allegations on trump's sex life can be held at reports. as the courtroom drama surrounding donald trump's former personal lawyer came to a dramatic conclusion this week michael cohen was largely silent not any more so i knew what i was doing was wrong in contrast to his earlier statements cohen now says trump knew about the hush money payments he was making to two women alleged to

have had affairs with trump according to cohen the payments were directed by trump in an effort to influence the outcome of the twenty sixteen presidential election nothing of the trump organization was ever done unless it was run through mr trump he directed me to make the payments he directed me to become involved in these matters the payments were in the hundreds of thousands campaign finance law caps contribution to a campaign at twenty seven hundred dollars making the payments and the legal donation to trump denies he ever directed his former lawyer to break the law i never directed him to do anything wrong whatever he did he did on his own he's a lawyer a lawyer who represents a client is supposed to do the right thing that's what you pay them a lot of money on wednesday cohn was sentenced to three years in prison his crimes include making false statements to congress tax evasion and arranging those payments during the twenty sixteen election he will begin serving his sentence in

march he denies he's speaking out to embarrass the president but instead to further the probe into possible ties between the trump campaign and russia the special counsel stated emphatically that the information that i gave to them was credible and. hopefull there's a substantial amount of information that they possess that corroborates the fact that i am telling the truth you done with a lie i have done with the lawyer and i'm done being loyal to president trump cohen's conviction and scandalous revelations come as president trumps political and potentially legal problems are compounding cohen's cooperation also suggest the russian probe under special counsel robert muller is accelerating can really help get al jazeera the white house. top government officials from canada and the united states have met in washington d.c. at a time when both countries are locked in disputes with china top on the list of concerns

the detention of a top chinese executive in canada at the request of the u.s. had to pay and has the latest. trying to project a feeling of friendship these leaders from the u.s. and canada went out of their way to say this isn't about politics the arrest of chinese tech executive when joe in canada at the request of the u.s. on charges of violating iran sanctions they say it's just about following the law and their governments can't intervene in the courts insisting this isn't part of the ongoing trade war between the u.s. and china 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 that is a harder sell now because in a recent interview u.s. president donald trump said he would intervene in her criminal case if it would

help end the trade dispute it's also more complicated now because china has arrested two canadians both sides here called for their immediate release i have spoken this week with the chinese ambassador to canada and we've had many contacts with chinese authorities chinese officials in their contact with canada have not drawn a connection between these different issues this is all happening as we see even more impact from the trade war china's economy is slowing down in the united states the stock market has been plunging downward ensuring that there is much more at stake than just the freedom of three people but the fortunes of millions around the world. al-jazeera washington well china is suspending additional tariffs on us made vehicles and auto parts as part of an easing with a trade dispute with washington the tariff helped will last three months starting on january the fast chinese imports of u.s. vehicles fell that if

a cent in the fast ten months of this year but authorities in beijing say they're expecting volumes to pick up in the new year. the u.s. department of homeland security says a seven year old guatemalan girl who died in border police custody appeared healthy when agents found her they say she was mentally ill last and had no visible trauma when she and her father were taken in at the southern border with mexico eight hours later she died at a texas hospital where she was found to have brain swelling and to have a failure. one of donald trump's main campaign promises was to build a wall on that southern border he wants to stop undocumented migrants crossing into the u.s. people smugglers say previous efforts to fortify the border have not only made their work more difficult but it hasn't stopped them hard abdulhamid reports from the mexican side of that border. stopping asylum seekers from crossing into the united states is one of the main campaign pledges of president trying. to tear into

one is a radio war that was first started in india ministration people think. 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 hire one was added during the obama administration but asylum seekers are resilient and always 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 in 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 on the

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 now it's under control of its choppers seen a low a cartel. is through here that have year takes asylum seekers on a lone trick threw them out. to do 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 four or five days it's a big it used to be a straight line these rugged mountains are used to smuggle drugs and people both out.