but that still leaves a huge royd the first question is who is going to be this country's prime minister there are reports that the ousted prime minister on a vehicle missing is going to be sworn in again on sunday these are unconfirmed but basically we've had the prison by two policies in the vowing that he would never work with one of the committing again rejecting him as a prime ministerial option at all but obviously because missing his supporters have insisted that he is their only option and that they would only support him as a candidate who has the majority in parliament so that is one issue the other issue is the future of the government now the vicar missing a faction came into power with the coalition over national government they had to make up the numbers by coming together with all the political parties this is why the coalition was almost at the mercy of different parties and weak and now they have the prospect of this happening once again if they have to go into coalition

something that the victims sort of senior supporters are very much against so it's a question of how this it up government and how they go forward martin and what about the prospect of just having a new democratic elections and hopefully then blocking this logjam if you like in providing new faces for a new government. that is exactly what mine the rajapaksa wants marty and don't forget this is a very popular president still remaining popular among the masses of sri lanka he is still revered for ending the war and out in the. almost daily for him he did fall a century of human rights activists the establishment in recent weeks for having tried to sort of short circuit oil bourse the system by trying to work with the president to unconstitutionally dissolve parliament and go to an election

which obviously the supreme court struck down as being unconstitutional because it came over a year ahead of its time so that is the problem. still insisting that the elections are we have to go but obviously with the supreme court ruling we will have to wait till parliament completes four and a half years of its term before the president can call an election or two thirds of the parliament agree together to call for a motion dissolving parliament and then the president can declare an election so that in terms of the procedure or the technicalities is the way ahead all right now thank you for that fernandez reporting live from colombo. we got a lot more to come here at al-jazeera including. i told them you serve the devil and i serve god let's see who stronger and who's going to win. and unholy rift why also churchgoers in ukraine facing a choice. hello

big showers again we can spot them all over the place but i've spotted the biggest the last twenty four hours on the on the borneo sure malaysia and indonesia and just east of jakarta in java over one hundred millimeters these are sort of things that cause brief flash floods and they tend to drift slowly westwards with the breeze these are doing much the same and then you find a big shows tend to form somewhere near or over kuala lumpur singapore possibly product so they head towards sumatra that so much is not particularly in the forecast except in the north along with plenty of malaysia and k.l. and the same time you got these got showers further east including no central philippines and maybe southern vietnam in fact the coast of vietnam thing particularly where recently with the persistent breeze but not to sweat quite as

victoria this been a still visible here a low pressure system to produce a lot of rain particularly from melbourne but not only from one and then we had a tropical cyclone is now going to land in tropical queens and that's not as strong as it was from the point of view of winds of the rains to come out to attack and all the way down the queensland coast down towards brisbane possibly even city big thunderstorms seem likely now the weather is improving shower wise for adelaide and melbourne but it's not warming up. on counting the cost we'll assess the state of the u.k. economy if he continues to broker its way out of the you look at a major milestone for the internet plus i'm on the walls for economy in kenya counting the cost on i'll just see.

them. let's have a look at the top stories here about. israeli soldiers have begun demolishing the home of a prominent palestinian activist. meade lives in the house with her son who allegedly killed an israeli soldier in may he's currently in jail palestinians are protesting against the demolition in ramallah calling it collective punishment . this is a scene live in paris as hundreds of france's yellow best demonstrators turn out on

to the streets again it's been more than a month since the start of their movement which began over high fuel prices. and sri lanka's disputed prime minister main director has resigned he was appointed several weeks ago and that sets off a political crisis that's left sri lanka without a functioning government. now this fighting on the outskirts of her data less than a day after yemen's warring parties agreed to a cease fire in this vital city video that's been shown on the t.v. appears to show airstrikes by the saudi air r.t. coalition that is battling against the rebels witnesses say at least one woman was killed and another two were civilly injured. but this is blood aggression a violation of the ceasefire. other one is in critical condition hanging between

life and death. said the mom of three women in the air strike targets of the religious right here look at the blood look at the shop know if they are trying to promote mercy god the warriors are to the front lines and civilians areas. i mean on the un special envoy for yemen martin griffiths has been briefing the security council on those talks that took place in sweden he said the agreement was only an interim arrangement has a diplomatic editor james bays. the day off to an interim peace stealing 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 come before you today with a call for course our collective achievements this week were indeed i hope you will agree a significant step forward but what's in front of us is a daunting task and as ever. in the context of such negotiations one realizes at

the end of negotiations that the hard work is only about beginning. 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 camera 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 monitors who will deploy to yemen as soon as possible it's believed general camera team will be unarmed and we tossed would provide incredible monitoring of the cease fire in the port and city of her data the monitoring

mission will have to be endorsed in the u.n. 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 show. the words of the resolution to their interest james but al-jazeera of the united nations. bashar is out there a senior political analyst and he explained the political titrate the u.n. is working when dealing with saudi arabia in a u. and security council resolution making it basically into the factor into law whereby the saudis and they are this going to have to abide by so it's very important for the u.n. security council to rush towards me trying the agreements in sweden into those illusion this way it would be respected by the all parties all the parties especially those who were planning an attack. on iran had they the notably the

iraqis and the saudis but again even that would still be the first of the worst the longer road towards recovery and towards solution i think that's why i think that's why the secretary general and the special envoy would go out of their way to thank someone everyone knows including the both of them that is responsible for the tragedy of yemen to the which is how medicine man because unlike him they're not going to hold yemen hostage to a political calculus now they're say let's resolve the image then crisis even if it means gesturing towards the saudi crown prince because this is a first step among many whereby in parallel the international community we've seen the american congress perhaps others will take bagot measures against the very particular case of mohamed been said man or say for the killing of the four other crises that he's created that he many factored but in a fight as yemen is concerned it is paramount that the yemenis after three years of

war to be able to recover from what is a famine and total disaster in the country. anger against saudi arabia has been rising in the u.s. with the senate passing a resolution to condemn its long standing ally because of the war in yemen senators also blamed specifically the saudi crown prince for the murder of gen this jamal khashoggi and the washington post has run a four page tributes to he wrote regularly for the paper the paper says it will continue to push for meaningful action against riyadh over its role in the killing then figure him as a senator from president trump's own republican party he says the current relationship with saudi arabia just isn't working they're going to sell or they will starve they're going to do what's best for the saudi economy which is or based of weapons i'm worried that this guy is crazy enough to kill a journalist in

a consulate in turkey why would you give that guy work and city may give the russians or the chinese as long as m.b.a.'s is around i'm not going to do a saudi arabia as a normal relationship because there's nothing normal about me and they need a thousand times more than we need them. now when south sudan became an independent nation more than seven years ago there were high hopes for this oil rich state but the country has been at war for much of the time since then and hundreds of thousands of people have been killed millions more have been forced out of their homes now a recent peace deal agreed in ethiopia could bring change people morgan reports from neighboring sudan's white nile state where many of the refugees have fled. in her spare time monica all alone he likes to sue her sheets with colorful stitches she says it reminds her of the good times when she was in her home village in south sudan instead of a refugee camp in neighboring sudan a village she would like to return to with conditions you know you know i don't

want you to i want to go home but peace for me is not just paper there have to be no more guns no more displacement there have to be schools for the children food hospitals you're doing a. civil war started in south sudan two years after it gained independence when president salva kiir accused his vice president riek machar of attempting to cool nearly four hundred thousand people have been killed and more than a quarter of the twelve million population has been displaced as a result of fighting a deal signed in twenty fifteen collapse less than a year later leading to a new fighting and really displacement there was another deal signed in september a deal that's not known to all those it's meant to help you and i'll go get if i get what deal i'm not aware of any deals signed nobody told me anything if they want to start returning home then we should be informed about what's going on among . the green provides power sharing between the whirring parties south sudan will have five vice presidents a three year transitional period to be followed by elections and

a unified army but before all bad there are state borders to be determined commissions to be formed and verification of forces to be completed many of the provisions of the peace deal are yet to be implemented and a transitional government will not be formed until may next year but refugees here are holding on to the hope that it will provide the stability and security they need for them to return home. you hanna is the camp leader for south sudanese refugees in germany a camp here in white miles the he says the talk of return is something that comes up occasionally when he meets other refugees. and although many refugees here talk to me about wanting to return home by that can just hop in we have seen it before when the last deal was signed in this state there was peace but fighting happened again and people were displaced we have to be sure this time before getting. a confirmation that can only be given with time but for now all refugees like monica can do is hope they will get to raise their children in their countries instead of

refugee camps he will morgan al-jazeera jamais a camp in white nile state sudan serbia has warned that military intervention could be a possibility after kosovo is decision to turn its defense force into a regular army serbia is seeking an emergency meeting at the un security council to discuss the issue kosovo's government says it has the right to raise an army for self-defense but serbia says that violates international agreements which ended the war between the two countries in the late one nine hundred ninety s. serbia has never recognized kosovo's independence amar is there a new army could threaten the serb minority in the northern part of course of their . the christianity hasn't seen this like this for centuries ukraine's all the docs praise the meeting in kiev to create a church that will be independent of russian influence tensions have been building since the fall of the soviet union in ninety one and intensified four years ago when russia annexed the ukrainian of crimea shelob ls reports.

a place to worship god or russia the cathedral of nativity is it the same to over theological rift in ukraine the orthodox faith is split into factions russian lead and ukrainian lead actress priest anatoly east church is one of more than twelve thousand that aligns itself with russia on saturday he must pick sides orthodox priest will meet in q. to civil same trees on ties with russia and creates a new independent church. we will not recognize its legitimacy this is not a council this is a gang of bandits who have gathered to take over the temples and destroy the church what kind of council is. leading up to the meeting ukraine's religious rapture has had consequences the cathedral of nativity and other pro russian churches were accused of whipping up religious hatred and raided by ukrainian security services.

thought i told them you serve the devil and i serve god let's see who is stronger and who's going to win. russian clergy are outraged labeling it the biggest split in christianity in a thousand years. they say it's a ploy by ukrainian president petro poroshenko to shore up support ahead of elections next year pushing coded champion the split he signed a cooperation agreement with the head of the church intervene that. there's rabbitohs the state and the russian church some in clergy robes some in military uniforms or not afraid to commit sin in an effort to disrupt the decision but god is with us. because we are fighting in iraq just battle for our independence. pushing co he's accused of using the church to spread propaganda supporters of the churches split agree with is a channel of course we want the ukrainian church to not be on their moscow so that

russia does not implement sarah decisions. where it goes off the three hundred year old it's a dangerous church. the pro ukrainian orthodox church survived an arson attack last month but it's not clear if regional politics will be as resilient very. shallow ballasts zero. the greek coast guard has seized drugs from a syrian ship that was bound for libya they say they found six tons of cannabis and three million amphetamine pills hidden behind a fourth floor the hole was worth more than one hundred thirteen million dollars. congress is taking over the top stories here it is there are three lanka's disputed prime minister mahinda rajapaksa he's now resigned he signed his resignation letter

in within the past few hours he was appointed seven weeks ago and that set off a political crisis that has a lesser lanka without a functioning government hundreds of france's yellow vest demonstrators are back out on the streets of paris it's been more than a month since the start of their movement which began over high fuel prices. israeli soldiers have demolished the home of a prominent palestinian activist latif meet her son allegedly killed an israeli soldier in may palestinians are protesting against the demolition in ramallah calling it collective punishment. australia has formally recognize west jerusalem as the capital of israel prime minister scott morrison says australia will not move its embassy from tel aviv but it will open a trade and defense office in jerusalem muslim majority countries like indonesia malaysia have threatened to cancel the free trade deal in protest the us recognize

all of jerusalem as israel's capital last year a strategy that now recognizes we're. going to see the business and many of us do to show his government is the capital of israel which jerusalem is the capital of israel and we look forward to moving our embassy u.s. troops and when practical in support of and after final status determination. there's fighting on the outskirts over data less than a day after yemen's warring parties agreed to a cease fire in this vital port city video shown on the t.v. appears to show air strikes by the saudi and morality coalition well anger against saudi arabia has been rising in the u.s. with the senate passing a resolution to condemn its longstanding ally because of the war in yemen american said this is also blamed specifically saudis crown prince for the murder of jamal

khashoggi the washington post meanwhile has run a full page ad verse in tribute to the show it was a regular contributor to the newspaper all right so today for now coming up next here it is there is counting the cost. al jazeera. where ever you are. hello i'm sammy'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 leave barco 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 fast it's turning into a bit of a circus where your message for the promise of. it you've had your time sadly behind the scenes the local council is preparing for the worst it's produced 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 kent 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 to 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 kane's made its fortune by trading with europe and the rest of the world by peeping its doors open in more recent years forged an even deeper ties with the european union through the euro tunnel trade and travel depends of course upon stream eams proposed regs that are absolutely no guarantees of poor about what could be on the horizon next britain's economy has slowed since the two thousand and sixteen briggs it 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 cheat i don't think 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 or 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 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 it's 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 and 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 hard drugs that 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 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 that 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 are perspiring 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 so of the european destinations in order to ensure business continuity after march of next year so irrespective of whether the heartbreaks 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 denmark is considering laws which would require food manufacturers and supermarkets to label products with a rating of 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 the one 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 our 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 in reverse order a label system will not save the planet. but radically changing our eating habits will says this insect farmer teaching the next generation to cook with larvae i am worms instead of need 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 they have a sense of the world of the future to their time like you know like. well 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 making 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 will go away you are one of you work for yourself you sell it as you choose you sell to women and they make their own money

it's been a fitting everyone in this community. the fish he catches depend on nearby coral reefs to reproduce. we 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. it 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 coal 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 is not alone there is growing concern mega companies like google have too much power over our digital lives google c.e.o.'s and dr chai 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 of self-regulation has 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're also seeing regulatory developments in other parts of the world in brazil and argentina in kenya in india in pakistan in california so that just shows that there is an interest to regulate that said mass surveillance by government is still a problem that hasn't been solved and we're also seeing governments on the one hand offer tearing 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 day 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 the 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 market 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 of 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 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'm finally our latin america is a lucy i knew when reports from havana now with the government is trying to rein in the private sector. the owner of this have an apartment rents rooms to tourists

just to a 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. flatow you're welcome i would have preferred someone hall for a quarter of what it was 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 their very. high waters is pacific in which people in 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 well help advance the us government's anti communist agenda here in fact both president barack obama and now president donald trump have repeatedly said that they want to help and encourage the private sector. because they view it as an engine for political change here but

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doha coming up in the next sixty minutes we're live in paris where yellow vest protesters are out for a fifth weekend of demonstrations also. is the war crimes committed by the government will they stop buying got thirty years in an hour the chief palestinian negotiator criticizes israel for demolishing the home of a well known palestinian activist and throwing his disputed prime minister resigns but there's no guarantee it will end the political crisis. also climate talks go on for an extra day with big polluters pushing back on the details of a final agreement. bottom to the news that hundreds of french yellow vests demonstrators are back out on the streets of paris it's been more than a month since their protest movement began demonstrations across the country some of which have turned violent have sparked a political crisis and what began as

a rallying cry against fuel tax increases has grown into a wider movement against president emanuel mark crawl under sevens is live for us at the protest site in the paris. and hopefully andrew can hear me and andrew just give us an idea of what's going on right now this the scene and the situation was quite fluid within the last hour. yes it certainly has been worn out stunning fact is the numbers are really down quite dramatically let me try and show you what's happening right now because even though the numbers are down what we've seen is a really quite a strong message being pushed out by those here the other vets who is that is that they are not happy with micron now whether that's the care case with the vast

majority of yellow vests is unclear because his concessions made earlier this week have certainly have an effect a whole range of tax concessions also increase a one hundred euro a month for the minimum wage and beyond that it's a special call to all businesses to give a christmas bonus this year which will be tax free and now there is a whole raft of measures that the people here are demanding they started off with fuel tax protests these protests now across a whole straw it's a of issues and look at this situation it's quite clear that we have the police lined up intent on keeping these protesters small in numbers maybe but nevertheless intent on protesting they're keeping them contained it isn't quite what the u.k. would call a kettling technique but it's certainly different from the normal type of policing

the french use and what their intent on doing is keeping these people stay put here on the show as a lead say which as you can see is completely closed down in the ten days before christmas this time of year you would see it normally crammed with people shopping instead the yellow vests have a small part of it but the law effect is that it's closed down the center of paris effectively and. and it is causing massive consternation still as we speak in the elysee palace not far from here now has macro one that is a big question the answer is probably not and what we're actually going to see in the coming weeks or months is an unclear picture perhaps but one thing you can be sure of and that is that there will be a concentration on the issues involved is just working out what those issues are

how they're dealt with and one other aspect to it is how macron addresses the demonstrators because they have no real official spokes person whatsoever and across all shades of opinion and politics one of the very clear things that we can see said even the pictures that you're seeing and from the aerial pictures that we're able to see as well here in the studio and there is the numbers the numbers don't seem to be as large at the moment do you organize that thing they will be more people more yellow vests joining them throughout the day. as i was saying earlier yes the outstanding fact is that the numbers are down quite dramatically however it has to be said this movement has never really won the momentum through volume on the streets it's the issues it's the way though dressed so you've got to look at this when judging these numbers it's not quite

a situation where you say yes macrorie being humble and appearing on television on tuesday night with an audience that would exceed the number of french watching over a world cup for example it was a major issue he did really really sound humble he tried to change the way he'd address people but the problem is this it's not just about saying right we'll make the pole slightly better off or we'll we'll make tacks. concessions for people who are looking forward to retirement and that pension packages might be better it's not as simple as that because what happened with the fuel protests which really what the dispute there was sort of out was with the the taxes being. brought down once you move on from there you've got this major rainbow effect of all shades of political opinion and issues getting bigger and bigger so is it just the

fact that you're seeing smaller numbers because macron has has made concessions or is it a combination of effects the fact that we've got only ten days before christmas the christmas holidays are upon us and is it could it possibly be also the call from the government for people to be more mindful of the fact that the security forces have been under a meant stress this week after the attack in strasbourg in which four people were killed by a gunman there is a whole mix of factors involved here of a moment we'll leave it under and follow events for the through the day thank you. now the israeli military has demolished the home of a well known palestinian activist in the occupied west bank soldiers and to the refugee camp overnight and set explosives around the residence of the t.v. honey her son is accused of killing an israeli soldier earlier this year palestinians have been protesting against the demolition they say it's a form of collective punishment which is illegal under international law serb atika

is the chief palestinian negotiator he says this demolition could lead to more violence in gaza and the occupied west bank. this is a war crime committed by the government so they got thirty years in. the sponsible and he is fully responsible in his government for the war crimes being committed against the palestinian people it is their own page of. war crimes. mass executions by demolishing of form confiscation of land he announced the building of four thousand settlement housing units and this call comes under the encouragement to resign from and today the prime minister for stray decided all source for the war netanyahu is and israel's war crimes against the palestinians and against his mother nasser made. homeless with their six sons and prisoners he said and we've all done that anything our government fully

responsible because you know i nish nine one's asked what's madness and he defeated by defeating the same experiences and experiments with the dimples and expecting different results and mr netanyahu believes that by diminishing the horns killing palestinians he would get peace and security he is pushing palestinians and israelis fear that a neighbor into the cycle of violence and counter-violence and that's what he's responsible for the blood that's being shed of palestinians well in touch with the wall correspondent joins me now live from ramallah and you've just come from the alomari refugee camp natasha what's the scene like there and why did israel really raid this particular home we've already heard that this lady is quite well known in the community. yes some people were rallying behind her as she stood outside very emotional the rubble of her four story home or what was her four story home we were there as israeli troops and vehicles were in refugee camps on the outskirts of ramallah we could hear the booms of sound bombs and tear gas being

deployed the tear gas was so thick it was stinging our eyes and making us cough and . what happened the reason that it's an estimated several hundred israeli soldiers stormed a home inside a refugee camp this morning is because they were targeting the home as you mentioned of of an activist but they were specifically targeting the home of someone named islam abu hamid she is the son of the hamid but bottom line is her son is sitting in an israeli prison he is accused of taking a cinder block throwing it from a rooftop and killing an israeli soldier last may this family is a bit unusual if you will there were seven brothers one is dead and all remaining six are in prison accused of committing attacks against israelis one of the sons is a co-founder of the military wing of fatah and then of course you have the mother she is of some distinction here and reverence in the occupied territories because

in two thousand and eleven she was sent to the u.n. to in the palestinian's bid for statehood and at the time the palestinian authorities were saying that she quote represented the narrative of the palestinians this is not the first time that her home has been demolished and again as she stood outside with many supporters rallying behind her she said my home has been demolished before we will rebuild again and this afternoon so the palestinian authority indicated that it would fund the rebuilding of her home indeed the top i mean the demolition becomes. hot on the heels of quite a tense we can israel on the occupied west bank and as we heard saeb erekat speaking to us earlier on al-jazeera israel concerned about an escalation in violence what's the general sense that you've got having spoken to people in the area in the focal point of where this incident happened. what we attended

a protest a friday protest and honestly so there seem to be as many journalists as protesters there but the atmosphere is still quite tense i think it's more concentrated in pockets throughout ramallah schools and universities were closed about sixty five palestinians were wounded during the demolition in the clashes with israeli soldiers this morning we have to look at the bigger picture though so this comes after five palestinians have died this week and three israelis have died this week including a baby boy who was delivered prematurely and two israeli soldiers and there is a manhunt underway for the person or people responsible for the death of those soldiers so the demolition the raids the administrative detention of hamas members the increased military presence at checkpoints and roads coming into ramallah these are all measures israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has vowed to take in retail.