recta has helped make the move visible and more times really the supreme court has just ruled that they now must be signed up to state social security that means benefits like child care housing loans and health care it's the small but determined domestic workers union and it's found the muscling about have been fighting for years fool she explains why it's desperately needed that i mean. our quality of life goes downhill while our employers just get better they get ill less but when we get ill we don't have any health benefits they don't have to pay for childcare or an old age home but we lock up our children or our old people to go to work for them the supreme court decision is part of a slow cultural shift in a country where traditionally domestic workers a cool chuch is go some a treated like part of the family others suffer discrimination or abuse and they get one employer will say to another allin you her

allin you her as if you're just an object. the social security contributions will be paid for between the state workers themselves and employers it's sure to cause ripples in a society used to inexpensive help this is a big issue in mexico because almost every household from the lower middle class high is a domestic worker it's cheap enough that they can afford to sew a change in the system could mean a change in lifestyle for some of those people the new social security measure faces resistance even from some domestic workers who fear employers won't fire them or cut their salaries if they have to contribute to muscle enos says that can't be allowed to stop the change that's the point everyone who has a bit of money want someone to clean for them but we want them to be responsible if they don't have enough money to hire someone nature clean for themselves not pay people under the table for the union it's just the beginning they're pushing for

paid overtime holidays and formal contracts times are changing for the millions like he's about john hoeven. mexico city. and that makes his largest active volcano has erupted in spectacular style. explained it on saturday night sending a plume of ash around ten kilometers into the air the volcano has been active for the past couple of months and this latest eruption fun is a strong one last week. rebuilding work is underway at a famous mosque in northern iraq the al-noor a grand mosque in mosul was blown up by ice last year just before the iraqi army recaptured the city it's where i saw a leader abu bakr al baghdadi declared his so-called culliford in twenty forty. chinese opera has had enthusiastic audiences in thailand for hundreds of years but as scott haile reports from bangkok now the allure of modern entertainment is

taking over and that's prompting concern that this ancient tradition could soon be lost. getting ready to take the stage performers carry out their pre-show transformation before they play their role in one of the world's oldest dramatic art forms chinese opera but this stage is not in china and it's not even in a theater it's in an alley in bangkok's a bustling chinatown it's been a tradition here for hundreds of years but the audiences have been getting smaller and older. some socks first put on his make up at the age of seven he remembers when entire families would turn up. at night it's a bit depressing it's not like in the past people used to bring the children and grandchildren and talk in the tradition now home and watch d.v.d.'s but the manager of the sa young hong troupe does not believe the opera will ever close its curtains

for good it's the only life he knows he was sold to the troop by his mother when he was eight. if it was to disappear it would have disappeared a long time ago as long as we have chinese shrines and chinese communities in this world the chinese opera will not disappear it will become smaller but the culture will continue. chinese migration to thailand can be traced back to the thirteenth century and now it has one of the world's largest chinese communities outside of china these open air operas have been a cultural cornerstone passing along folklore and traditions. ancient french documents detail chinese opera in thailand as long as five hundred years ago. and. on gullet. and they bring that up there. he went on to say that chinese communities in thailand came to new to grow but new

generations are becoming more westernized and few speak any of the chinese dialects making the opera less appealing. the chinese tell you so the drama is not only on the stage it's also backstage as the organizers struggle to keep seats filled it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok. let's have a look at the top stories here it is there a saudi arabia is denouncing what it calls blatant interference by u.s. senators invented to blame the crown prince for the murder of jamal khashoggi the saudi foreign ministry says the senate's resolution could have an impact on relations. and canada is looking for a way out of a multi-billion dollar military equipment deal with saudi arabia because of the shoji merger and the war in yemen eleven billion dollars deal was signed by prime minister just in two days predecessor at the murder of

a journalist is absolutely unacceptable that's why canada from the very beginning has been demanding answers and solutions on that secondly we inherited actually a fifteen billion dollar contract signed by stephen harper to export light armored vehicles to saudi arabia we are engaged with the export permits to try and see if there is a way of no longer exporting these vehicles to saudi arabia security forces in nigeria are being accused of not doing enough to stop farmers and rival herders from killing each other over land and resources amnesty international says more than three and a half thousand people have been killed since twenty sixteen most of them this year crowds are gathering in sri lanka as capital colombo in a show of support for their reappointed prime minister running a would that are missing or even sworn in back in on sunday nearly two months after his firing set off a political crisis. the malaysian government has filed criminal charges against

a u.s. bank goldman sachs and two of its former employees they are accused of diverting a list three billion dollars from the safe investment fund. malaysia's former prime minister najib razak faces thirty eight corruption charges over the scandal. anti-government protests in hungary of again lead on the march to condemn what they call slave labor laws the new legislation allows companies to demand employees work up to four hundred hours of overtime pay a year and delay payment for three years right those are the headlines are up to date coming up next inside story.

hello and welcome to the special edition of inside story coming to you from the doha forum i'm daddy and. over the next twenty five minutes we'll be looking at the issue of food security and water sustainability with a projected global population of more than nine billion people by the year twenty fifty what's at stake if countries don't ensure food and water security will bring in our guests in just a moment but first this reports by sara high writes. yes starving and on the verge of fun in the place where the u.n. says food is used as a weapon of war twenty million yemenis don't know if they'll be able to eat and malnutrition remains a grave concern with the world's worst humanitarian crisis continues to unfold and we've hit rock bottom no words no jobs because of the war. hunger is going up for a third year in

a row going back to levels not seen since two thousand and eight but a global conflict isn't just limited to war. nomic crises of stars and measures and public discontent with political leaders all contributing factors to a rise in food shortages climate change is also to blame record temperatures are killing thousands of people and causing billions of dollars in damage to facilities and crops. that natural disasters like the recent wildfires in california act as a reminder that global warming is an issue that affects everyone wherever they are in the world. i at this refugee camp in afghanistan the water won't be running for that long and people say they're dredging a harsh winter ahead. drought has forced us to leave our home we had no food no water we've been displaced by this poverty and misery. that. would to

sustainability and food security come hand in hand as scientists look at new ways to grow nutritional food with less water all the while displaced people like me he'd seen will continue to struggle to survive so to hide out inside story. let me introduce our speakers without further ado to my left ambassador about that and he's the executive director of the global dryland alliance whose mission is to work with partners to identify and implement solutions for agricultural water and energy challenges of dry land countries in particular we have next mr jimmy doom he's the executive secretary of the permanent interstates committee for drought control in the sahara and the organization's mandate is to invest in research for food security and the fight against the effects of drought and deserts

if occasion for a new ecological balance in the sahara region. we have a minister of public company now welcome to you as well he's ecuador's minister of foreign trade and investments and mr me again moratinos he's the future u.n. high representative for the alliance of civilizations that is a political initiative established to explore the roots of polarization between societies and cultures today welcome to you all lots to talk about let's get started right away ambassador but that and the fair before we get into the correlation between water sustainability and food security or insecurity that is give us some context how would you describe the state of food security today globally today there are eight hundred and twenty million people out of support from hunger one out of nine are angry

over twenty two percent of people are threatened by hunger out of lives in sub-saharan africa i'm sure you have been watching the news last year over five thousand migrant up lost their lives at sea while looking for a better looking condition what is coming up is really were just because the world population by twenty thirty is going to be around nine billion the investment and i'm going to culture is lagging behind. i don't want to draw a gloomy picture but it is a very serious issue. world leaders have really to look into how. to deal with the issue of food security ok mr jimmy had too much so the challenges that bastard indefinite mentioned are global he gave us

a few grim statistics and that is we know that countries in the sahara suffer from food insecurity as a result of droughts as well as other environmental factors just give us the point of view as you see it how vulnerable do countries in the south a remain today according to the report cited by. currently available statistics do sure that of the eight hundred into one to one million people who are really undergoing severe. malnutrition and hunger three hundred two hundred thirty three of them are from africa you know this is roughly twenty one percent. and about three hundred and eighty three million people in africa live of one point nine dollars u.s. dollars that's d.-a the. basically the sort of

if you have one point nine dollars per day does the bare minimum and so it is currently trailing yes coming after the age of the spread to number of people who are having serious difficulties you know these are the gloomy pictures but there's also the bright side that is with respect to a number of these people and can there be anything that can be done as that creates opportunities in other words so if you look at what we have what we possess in sub-saharan africa and the area from which i come that is sad and west africa we irrigate less than three percent of the end of the land. so that means we produce once a year and if we don't produce two three times a year we won't be able to produce efficiently enough to satisfy our basic food consumption consumptive needs let alone transforming creating wealth and jobs.

we have sufficient land over which we are only actually could be putting in used twenty percent a minister come panna. do the challenges require common solutions as well as shared responsibilities is it a one size fits all i mean does the solution here lie with food producing in export countries like ecuador for example who is a key actor in the global trade and the setting of food prices. it in ecuador we have one of the main longs in the do in the world and i'm talking about the. forests and if a part of it we. manage to safeguard our primary forest this is part of our constitution and we have protected these forests against oil and gas production and

we have managed to do that and something very important is and that is actually one of the reasons why we are here it is big because we are looking for. strategic partners and we are able to find complimentary. for the actions we know that. we. recalled are like day rip products like potatoes and many of the produce does are being wasted because there's not enough outlets we don't know of these tube you shine so we need to have a partner shave we need to work as a team to benefit our peoples therefore they could service looking for strategic partners in order to be able to share experiences and export it's produce all sort of products and fight against these monitors and that affects worldwide population

mr moratinos what we now see especially with the migration to europe for refugees and migrants that there is there is a direct link between poverty and food insecurity. it's really a driving force behind some of the migration that we see these migrants heading to europe talk to us about europe's role does it play in enough active role in supporting the poor and hungry that are coming from dry line countries they all diplomacy the traditional diplomacy to that. of course has been addressed in the tradition and agenda of to return our dispute to war and conflict neglecting what today's agenda is much more important today for security what are the scar shooty what we can call the new office and i

believe the agenda that had been approved by the whole international community in two thousand and fifteen shoulder way what are the real root causes of the approach . has been awarding share the other has many factors one of the reason why destructive cation and lack of food security. it is made gratian as you say because that is the root cause is that people are a star be some friend from chad describe their pull over to their hunger so the new transitional phase that the un is taking shape now the new way to address the term national agenda today should conduct us to put food security and these seventeen goals all of the is d. at the top priority of international relationship so to discuss today

here in doha how we should address this issue is ect absolutely essential so just to go to the subject and understanding your question about me gratian. what can we be happy what is going on can we accept that every year our friend in rome in fall of radar paper very serious looking to the journalists while we have no less than during the last c.j.'s every year we have to announce the.