from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never seems. hello fog has been a bit of a problem recently in the middle of china i think it will disappear from grondahl and food jan as the clouds for the south is drifting north give me a few spots of rain there have been some inland anyway hong kong is in life that only thirteen degrees bit of a disappointment the breezes gently taking the rain down towards the coast of vietnam once again unfortunate but it does allow the shaft to come further in even towards united southwest of china hong kong up to fifteen slow improvement you'll notice the majority of the rain of course is going to be set aside and this is a secular nation a tropical depression but a strong so much more straight vietnam and cambodia i think got a flood potential there the model was just about two hundred fifty millimeters over wet ground that is enough the circulation remains out of the water the biggest as

it was seen recently causing landslide in java they're still around the threat is probably going to be a bit further east bali or east and java could guarantee that but this is going to be the wet is where that mostly over the sea for india apart for passing sharla far north korea but as no to the high ground it's quiet with even the breezes coming down here to bring much to sort of anchor but persistent fog is a problem. the weather sponsored by cats own race. thanks love to make loans to sufferance because behind the suffering a millions of taxpayers because those taxpayers never go away is a new one bone every single day a nineteen it is an urgent national necessity that it be officially requested rationing of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in creeks somehow i am a sinner i'm a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera.

welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour brazil's new far right president. has been sworn in and during a ceremony in the capital brasilia in his first speech as president he promised to free brazil of corruption and crime and improve the economy. u.s. border agents have fired tear gas to stop people crossing the mexican border. women and children were among those trying to breach the border fence the border agency says it was responding to rocks being thrown at them. twenty two opposition parties

and three dawn have called for parliament to be dissolved and president omar al bashir to step down following weeks of protests over the cost of living the policy say a transitional government should be set up to pave the way for elections. donald trump says the u.s. one twit stroll from syria in a hurry to coming under intense pressure from allies and senior figures in his republican policy last month u.s. president suddenly announced that all two thousand american troops would be brought home immediately following what he described as their victory over i so now despite the withdrawal from syria u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o says washington remains committed to its goals in the region. decision president on syria in no way changes anything that this administration is working on alongside israel we can write this campaign continues our efforts to countering the question continue and our commitment to middle east

ability in the protection of israel continues in the same way it did for the decision was made. meanwhile the war between syrian president bashar assad and rebel forces appears to be entering its final phase it province is the last remaining opposition enclave people there are bracing for a government offensive as assad tries to bring all of syria under his control mamata di reports from near the tacky syria border. town in mosul seriously the province it libya's home to three million people who since two thousand and fifteen have been effectively trabant it is serious last remaining opposition enclave controlled by a kilt but the rebels. syrian president bashar lost it strengthened in recent months by support from powerful allies and that we opening up their embassies in damascus by some arab countries is vowing to launch an invasion. it live with its cinder block thompson villages could soon be subject to rockets bombs and even

class the pumps. the rebels are putting more debris face while. today we are all gathered here and ready to fight until the last drop of our blood we are the songs of this territory and we know it very well and so do the people displaced from all over syria are now living in this small geographic area which is just ninety square kilometer nothing will make us lose our resolve to fight on. in the middle of it lips of rolling olive groves the displaced live in some of the most desperate conditions possible with no proper housing they are the must see of the elements. i mean. we lack everything there is no food no money we have nothing that winter and floods are making life even more difficult when it gets a little windy our tents just fly away. humanitarian workers warn

a full assault on it live could spark a refugee crisis of historic proportions driving millions of people into turkey and europe yet this theater of war is never locking in action in another corner of milf in syria fighters loyal to the turkish allied free syrian army are on the march. they're headed for the kurdish held city of members in support of the planned offensive by turkish forces in recent days techie has been massing troops at its border and even sent tanks rolling into territories syria that he told sway over turkey considers the kurdish y p g fighters who control members terrorists. turkey's main problems with groups who considers terrorists finding a foothold in territory to administer inside syria i'm talking of the so-called terror corridor the p y g m p y d kurdish organizations but there is also the issue of syrian refugees turkey believes there is a great need to end the conflict in syria so the refugees can return the moment of

a complete withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria house opened the gates just crumble by regional powers such as turkey and iran to aggressively pursue their interests in the city feeling abandoned by the united states congress why premier fighters up got a deal with the city and with uninvited forces to protect them against the planned talk it's often without football now when cut is held territory in all from syria remains the missing plank in assad's plan to reclaim the whole of syria it's just a matter of time. before he tonsils uptimes from the mahomedan no one does it or doesn't. a book released by two turkish reporters is shedding new light on the matter a saudi journalist jamal khashoggi it includes details about the preparations made by the saudi operatives in the hours before the killing in istanbul in october so

then of course the only who has the latest. diplomatic up trusty the dark secrets of the jim murder the title of the first book to be written on the murder of saudi journalist to mouth. the authors conducted a series of interviews a turkish officials to find out what happened before and after the journalists killing going to stumble nearly three months ago. the book says' the case is the first of its kind among secret service assess the nation's worldwide people we've talked in istanbul said they want to know more about what happened it's really good rather than that we're waiting for a result whoever is responsible for this murder must be brought to justice because it happened in our country. investigative journalist fairhope in new wrote the book with documents and footage gathered by his colleagues from turkey sabbat daily newspaper. good training to become the primary sources told us that the hit squad had discussed the plan one hour before her show she was killed first they'd offered

to take him to riyadh and if he doesn't accept they'd kill him they knew he wouldn't accept they plan to wrap his body parts in plastic bags then carried out in luggage this new video was released by the team behind the book on monday it shows senior saudi agent's name does a tiger team sent to kill has to come so late unloading luggage and bags from a win and taking them inside the consul general residence just a few hundred meters from the crime scene the others have concluded remains are likely still there inside a well saudi arabia had allowed turkish office also take a sample from the well but consistent that night requests to empty it and conduct the search the book reveals more interesting details for instance on saudi foreign sick experts solid. brakey who is set to have dismembered hushes body after his killing and how often our using an autopsy saw to breach a douche to a credible sources are claiming the letter begun his family enjoyed a villa and pool in jeddah now far from riyadh i don't think the saudis would

punish such committed servants because i don't think they have many our sources also confirmed that one of the hit men stanley died in a suspicious car accident in saudi arabia maybe he was leaning toward talking but the author sources say the crime was committed in istanbul because the saudis wanted to show turkey is no longer safe for opponents of corrupt governments in order to finish the investigation and file possible indictments it is necessary to know the location of question remains many people here in turkey strongly believe this diplomatic residence in istanbul that long to saudi consul general is aware of the journalists remains were broach turkish authorities now how the right to ask for another search of the compound every quest that is likely to be denied by saudi arabia so now because solo al-jazeera stumble but a group of british politicians and international lawyers has asked to visit detained activists in saudi arabia they want to investigate allegations that detainees are being tortured and denied access to lawyers the group wants to visit

in prison and plans to write a report. the crucial the tragedy it was obviously a total disaster for saudi arabia and it would seem that the responsible people who are responsible for the operation well also responsible for the detention of these side remain women's rights activists at exactly the same time that saudi arabian women are getting the right to drive a major step for their possible freedom and freedom from the cycle guardian noise in a way that was a was a huge step internationally and rightly paraded to such. thousands of demonstrators have been holding their annual rally in hong kong to demand more of a say in how this city is from this it activists say or thirty's band pro independence symbols from from being displayed at government head courses to vehicle poland has more from hong kong. this march happens every year but this year

there seems to be more of an urgency that however according to protesters they say it caps off when you're on president removes again the hong kong freedom of expression on prompts autonomy and its human rights if we don't come out because perhaps faulty just trying to save us make them trying to. undo important cases to face that i feel i wouldn't want it to go to the person i gave them what they like to get away with what he knew and let the world you know it's time for us to fight for democracy and in my case uprising try to what we still need to come up here to . do things for the right color to show the future generations that we have tried even if we fail we're not going to fail and to hong kong it's like it's a boat it's sinking fast behind me in the wrong wrong wrong way independents group that been bad for marching to the government headquarters so instead they're going

to veer off from the rest of the protesters to the hong kong police headquarters that's just about one hundred meters away from the. position there used to be a political group but when she ate my father or grandfather running from office and from even a. political one i want goldstone on the ability to speak you see that only hong kong independence can secure a true democracy and freedom of speech for hong kong in this way hong kong people can be our own masters. and so on down begets another year in defiance protesters here say they want to have the right to freedom of expression they want more accountability and they want real democracy but both importantly they want more mothers to be have road. tax giants in france now have to pay more tax the so-called gas attacks named after google apple facebook and amazon aims to ensure global digital firms pay their fair share the measure is expected to raise around

five hundred seventeen million dollars in twenty nineteen the french government had been pushing for an e.u. wide levy but failed to get the required support we spoke to technologist and co to our own borken he says it won't financially hurt giant tech companies like facebook to pay more taxes. this really all comes down to the balance of power between governments and these huge tech companies multinational companies who has more power these days and i think that remains to be seen i personally think that tech companies are currently looking stronger so it would be in the interests of the other states to stick together so that they can exercise some more power over the small to nationals we're talking about companies that pay maybe eighty percent tax where other companies pay twenty three percent and even if you look at the tax that france is proposing they're looking to make about five hundred million euros this year and if you think about the revenue the earnings just in the last quarter just

in the last three quarter three of two thousand and eighteen of just facebook they made fourteen billion dollars so that's about four point five billion a month if you break it down to days that's about one hundred fifty million or so a day so if facebook was to pay the end hired c. of the tax that france wants to sue to levy. that would take about four days of earnings right now so we're not really talking about anything that's going to make a huge dent but this is a power play so really it again remains to be seen where the actual power lies here and i think it's in our interests as individuals and citizens that our democratically elected governments can keep these multinational tech companies and check after a voyage lasting more than a decade and now some pride has performed to the mice distant fly by in the history of space exploration the new horizon spacecraft successfully observed the ultimate

space rock the oldest cosmic body ever explored by humans how does a caster has more. its name means a place beyond the known world and ultimate tooley shown in this artist's rendering is just that an object most likely iraq more than six and a half billion kilometers from the sun because it's so far from the sun and the sunlight is so weak out there temperatures are down near absolute zero and as a result of that chemical reactions. are socially frozen. so the object is in such a deep freeze that it's perfectly preserved from its original formation essentially a dinosaur from the beginning of our solar system frozen in time scientists didn't even know it existed until the hubble space telescope spotted ultimate hooley four and a half years ago it's beyond pluto in the kiper belt at the edge of our solar system

until now ultimate tool e. has been seen as nothing but a speck of light shaped like a long dated potato. it's taken nasa as new horizons spacecraft nearly thirteen years to get this close within thirty five hundred kilometers of the object. and though the fly over happened at exactly five thirty three g.m.t. the scientific team that celebrated the moment like a second new year at the applied physics lab of johns hopkins university has to wait longer before the big payoff of high resolution photos and data is delivered those signals are now traversing space and will begin arriving in the next few days everything that we're going to learn about ultimate from its composition to its geology to how it was originally a symbol whether has satellites and atmosphere of those kinds of things are going to teach us about the original formation conditions of objects in the solar system

tuesday morning brought a promising sign we have to help the spacecraft. we just can't lose the most just fly by a phone home message from the new horizon to tell scientists to successfully survive the fly by the ready. to help he said in the wait here's the mission's own theme music written by astrophysicist and new horizons team member brian may also the lead guitarist of the band queen. is ultimately one long rock or two that are touching does it have ice or craters the answers will be clues to understanding the origins of our solar system how do you castro al-jazeera washington. i'm a star in doha and these are the top stories brazil's new far right president roh

has been sworn in during a ceremony in the capital brasilia and his first speech as president he promised to free brazil of corruption and crime and improve the economy. what it is the corruption privileges advantages have to and political favors forced trading that needs to be left in the past we want the whole nation to benefit everything that we do henceforth as an undeniable persis that is to put first and foremost the interests of brazilians. u.s. border agents have fired tear gas to stop people crossing the mexican border. women and children were among those trying to breach the border fence the border agency says it was responding to rocks being thrown at them the u.s. president says he's ready to negotiate an end to the partial government shutdown which has been in place for nearly two weeks donald trump has invited congressional leaders from both parties to the white house on wednesday he's been refusing to

sign off on a spending deal unless it included funding for his border war. donald trump says the u.s. won't withdraw from syria in a hurry after coming under intense pressure from allies and senior figures in his republican party last month the us president announced that all two thousand american troops would be brought home immediately following what he described as their victory over eisel a group of british politicians and international lawyers has asked to visit detained activists in saudi arabia to investigate allegations they're being tortured and denied access to legal representation and the international says at least ten women were detained in may including some who campaigned for the right to drive the rights group says seven men are also being held in connection with their human rights work tech giants in france now have to pay a little tax the so-called gas attacks named after google apple facebook and amazon aims to ensure global digital firms pay their fair share the measure is expected to

raise around five hundred seventy million dollars in twenty nineteen nasa's new horizons spacecraft has undertaken a successful fly by iraq six and a half billion kilometers from earth the rocket said to be the oldest cosmic body ever explored by humankind those are the headlines inside stories next. official results from sunday's presidential election and democratic republic of congo. for acute days front. and governing coalition have already said they're on track to win so will there be a peaceful transfer of power. they're

welcome to the program. president joseph kabila has been empowered for nearly eighteen years but he's now agreed to step down millions of voters went to the polls on sunday to choose his successor after a more than two year delay the votes are being counted but both could be chosen kansas and the opposition are already claiming victory. by widespread irregularities including complaints of vote rigging and violence instead it's been cut in the parents attempt to stop speculation about the results and people in some areas didn't get to vote at all because of fighting and an outbreak of the virus. in just a moment but first catherine soy has the latest from the congolese capital kinshasa . we've seen

a very difficult election here in the democratic republic of congo for the companies that's what six. presidential candidates united from access to certain parts of the country forces violent should be sponsored by police. and life in some instances calm fourteen days it was so much his organization in some polling stations was easy to voting machines were not working and some no one knows which is registered people they're very very angry indeed he so. says in talk of the country particularly in the east one evil time with the rest of the country's elections for those areas. to march because according to city outbreaks and to choose to challenges that a lot of people here really do not trust the electoral commission do not trust its profits they say that they don't believe that the election is going to be credible

and that is a big concern to people of these tools can possess saying that he sees the election is contacted then potentially there could be violence also so president has to follow i was wondering and a lot of people that after. an election that has been delayed for two years and people say you would never happen people for president would never step down these thousand moments really was significant but many of his critics saying that well it doesn't really make a difference because he's possible choices ruling party kind of dates close to diary he is declared we're not then he just means that presidential system is going to push running this country who should. let's bring in our panel now and in london alcatel c.e.o. of innovation task force in paris below are journalist and chief executive officer

of m.r.v. networks and also from london alex vines head of the africa program at chatham house if i warm welcome to all of you to the program marie let's start with you this very much delayed election has eventually taken place on the thirtieth of december but how legitimate was this you know these. everybody believes is the right thing to say that the election will karma because they have so much hope into this election choose sort of sooth are all the problems happening in this country help solve the price of siba what we saw is something which doesn't seem very legit emit the way the organize it is part of the counter which has been. eliminated sort of it is difficult to

conceive that you held a presidential election in in two parts of part of the countries not taking part on the and old saw it was marred we've all kinds of logistical problems we have these of working machines we've whatever you can think of so. the only thing we can say that it was not too much violence but. is not sure that this electoral process will help solve the political the ongoing and standing permanent political crisis in india see ok to what extent do you agree with us i mean many people especially opposition are crying foul in there saying that it was deliberately chaos sick so that it can be called that can be an old and cold void as you agree with that. well when you look at these electoral process says a project you would say it has been

a very chaotic process due to the fact that it has been done out of any transparency no involvement of private sector and every think kept politically colored which means. it was really done on a way that nobody could trust it specifically when you talk about the proposition and today we see that the contest is quite huge and the outcome will not be accepted very easily alex the d.l.c. is a vast country it's the size of western europe and it has very little infrastructure linking east and west and north and south so why did the government refuse all international help in terms of financial and logistical aid. well originally the government did try and get international support and found it difficult to raise money and so in the end it decided to fund these elections on its own so

you do have to accept that i think. but it's correct for the of a to speak a guest on your program have highlighted the difficulties of of conducting a credible election in a country like the democratic republic of the congo which is so massive as you've said the size of western europe and we have appalling infrastructure my own worry of this is that the government didn't accept significant international monitoring of the elections so for example the european union was excluded from deploying a very large credible team across the country and so that gets to the heart of this issue which is whatever the result is of this election will be will come to leeds trust the result and that's the problem here does this solve some of the political issues and move the country on or does it set it back and that's the big worry i

think i mean if that's true isn't it because despite all of these challenges in the just to kill obstacles that very many people passive is a man has to cost them that ballots will they accept the results that comes out in a few days' time. you know the problem is if. the government. announcement the victory of its candidates of course it would be massive rejection massive and probably they will be prato standing but at the end of the day after also a massive repression we can predict that the government which is very much prone to violence will resort to. a crackdown or what we can see we will probably see that. well after the protest they will wait for the

storm and continue business as usual and proclaim their own candidate the incumbent president will proclaim its its own candidate and well and the international community what you call the international community. probably will. you know communiques saying the things did not happen that the the right way but as we saw in many other countries legs. were nothing will happen and that's the tragedy of the country that the own leaders are not really interested in change and improving the situation improving the lives of the own people even you know sort of improving the the only color me just think of themselves because serving foreign interest and those foreign interests i'm not interested in having

is structured democratic and strands baron government regime in ok i'll do you share that pessimism do you think joseph kabila is chosen successor dari emmanuel ramadani said dari is likely to be declared the winner and that no one is going to do anything about it. i'm just surprised about how people approach is an election these wars just three elections in one presidential national parliament and provincial parliaments and just to be frank with you national parliament is supposed to raise the government and provincial parliament is supposed to raise the provincial government i'm just surprised about the focus on the on the presidential election just for your information in congo constitution the era of state doesn't have that power we give to kabila it's

a think of the past the next president to be very weak so we need to understand that our focus should go to the parliament my question is if today should our egos as a president and the majority of the parliament go to the opposition the question will be very different and the question today is hour is going to be the election at the presidential level and the parliamentary level and then that's where we get the information and now we know how the future's going to be. as that's quite an interesting take on it isn't it is this shift of focus away from the one man in power to the parliamentary system not something that we've seen via much of in the day r.c. do you think that it is that now is the time for that side of the power to rise up and take charge. well there are three things here one is obviously the credibility of this process will opposition parties be able to get a majority in the assembly if it's

a three issue election even with all the problems that were discussed we'll see that pretty soon tend to think that a massive systematic fraud is very difficult to achieve in congo given the atmosphere and scrutiny of civil society activists and of us and so i think it's probably right that we'll see a much stronger coalition of opposition parties we've been in the parliament then the question is can they work with each other i mean they failed to unite around a presidential candidate they were united for less than a day and that's been one of the problems i think of the opposition is division and then thirdly i think it's wrong to think that the people want instability in congo certainly the international community wants to billet see and the two major powers with the greatest amount of influence in congo a probably some africa and angola both driven by stability in the congo so they

will have some influence over this process too i suspect although much of this will be determined inside the democratic republic of the congo itself alex has just touched on how much leverage those countries the international community as a whole will have in the autumn after this election. well look i don't think the west has a tremendous amount of influence and the u.s. ambassador was per was was pushed out of the country before the elections. the congolese government the government made that quite clear he was unwelcome but i do think some of the neighbors have have have influence of mentioned i'm governor and south africa i think they can play a positive role at times in the congo and then there's mischievousness in eastern congo where you have some proxy wars going on in eastern congo where rivalries between burundi and rwanda for example and that can but sometimes can be positive but often it can be more negative marie would you agree with us or you're pretty

pessimistic about the immediate future for the same but is there room for a positive impact. you know i like the idea that african countries especially now neighboring countries maybe and probably all saw south africa might have a positive influence in solving the congo problem but i think is so far is just a dream because those are two actress one of not the major states there you know you have for companies huge mining companies with. an intrigue set off of. actors. with which are stronger than any government and not only india are seen you see what you

call our global world. where some company major companies are stronger than nations than public governments so in congo this is very much so and we mention two actors. south africa but they are also one dollar or they all saw one there was very influential. which has its own agenda there so how can you. solve the problem alls or poor always to get people together and to have a common goal in see which is which seems right now very very difficult and when you hear about the up war or the. unstable situation in eastern congo so you have wonder has very much its hand in it. what south africa does have and does not and let me give you another example of the weakness of

african countries. prior to the election there was a meeting. in brazil your next door where the try to sort of. influenced the not to choose and choose a candidate but to to make sure that everybody everything will happen in a proper we know that the electoral process will lead to work a clear leadership vendor there the congo did d r c did not even attend it and so it has no impact whatsoever sort of grammys. and also i beg to differ to disagree on the on. your position which is divided i think to make a great great effort in choosing one candidate even if backed agreement did not last

very long what we saw at the end is that the matter for you was. appointed common candidate was clearly there will be the leading candidate in that election and if we can believe the ports is really outstanding ok well let's let the us all a similar but i'm going to jump in there don't bring our leaders ok time for you lou he has promised better governance let's go back to the parliamentary system the you're talking about earlier can he deliver on that can he shape congo to be better thanks very much for this question again let me tell you personally no matter foad is a brilliant god. but let me tell you again that congolese constitution say's the government comes from the majority and there's somebody if today you'll do wins these paul and he doesn't have the majority there somebody then unfortunately will not be able

to do anything just for your information the main specific tasks of the head of state in congo is in foreign affairs and military of is the rest is supposed to be in hands of the prime minister was issued from the majority of assemblies so again let's just don't focus on one person and this sort of growing management in the congo is now ending with joseph kabila which i think is the main important thing that we get out of this election is it ending there if we have said dari replacing him will we not just see more of the same strongman politics the only thing that can keep shut out doing the same think is that if so that it takes the place and the parliament is totally controlled by the same political group then they can mentally see the situation if not then i'm sure there is a chance tight it's a game changer time ok and if this is the cause of the challenges that are facing

say we've got the second deadliest outbreak of ebola in history in parts of the country all this election uncertainty what does it do when it comes to tackling that major health crisis. well the democratic republic of the congo historically has. some of the best international learning and experience in combating ebola in fact it's been a shame at times that the congolese experience hasn't been used elsewhere it was ignored for a while when there was the crisis in the manner of a union west african countries of guinea see really own in liberia this is the second deadliest outbreak and it's obviously horrible timing that it overlaps with an election but i do think that the congolese have experience they have expertise they have international goodwill to work with them and so i think this is something that we'll probably see a key focus and in twenty nineteen i would say it's one of many problems in the

congo but it's not the primary one i mean when i think is about the politics of the country is facing wanted the moment ok and of course another one is the security situation is because you have armed militia groups along the borders marie how fragile is that situation and again in these uncertain times how can that be exploited. you know the security issue is linked to the governance issues as as long as you don't have illegitimate a power in kinshasa which everybody recognizes. you will have that weakness. of the extreme parts of the countries but especially in the east and pad where you have or most of the wealth and the mining wealth and as we know. the one of the i would say the main point of all

of this ruling government is that did those they don't even control or i would say one third of the dared to marry so. that was part of the challenge to organize in any election in that huge country even and you know if you take a regular african country it's still a huge challenge to organize elections saw imagine what it is for a country which is larger than central europe we've no infrastructure we've nothing and so the border issue is is part of all this you know there's no the government is too weak the central power is too weak so everybody feels is empowered to do to stop wars and do whatever you have you know these

appeal to chaos is very strong our lives the ethnic violence they were uses as reasons for a complete vote postponement in three key opposition areas about benny and human be the people there except those reasons to not have their vote i think i believe it's not going to be held until march and what impact is that likely to have today it's done and unfortunately these people have been isolated and i hope in the next three miles they will be able to forceful dail on a members of parliaments and this is beyond us but what i'm saying is that the country's huge as this and that is has been saying and that's why i've been insisting on the fact that we had three elections one of them being professional somebody with generates the provincial government with the governor elected among them the most important thing we need to understand is that congo is a decentralized nation to define ition constitution and that's where we need to go

set up we have little management to solve the local problems and if we don't do that should i be isn't part of congo or southern part of congo or the rest of the cong. no it to be mismanaged because it can't just be a minute from kinshasa and that's where the constitution say very clearly that we decentralize country and these election with three elections in one and it's important that we give the importance of each of these elections and sort of we understand that needs a change time and we will not have one person sitting in can just doing everything but ok and to be very limited in terms of results so alex how likely are we then to see congo's first democratic transition of power if not at the top then at these lower levels that i was talking about well look up see right and it's why we keep hammering the point i think all three of us that coalition politics is going to play a very prominent role in terms of congo's future there's no doubt many congolese

one prosperous and stable future and how you unlock that with coalition politics by for the central level but also the provincial level is going to be the pathway forward. we'll see i mean it's been difficult at times for the opposition as i've already highlighted to to reach a common platform but the dynamics within the assembly may well force pulling together i'm not so worried if we have a symbolic weak central president in the country it's not a bad thing to see an end of strongman politics within central africa if that's what happens and in the democratic republic of congo in particular but it will need a much more assertive political class that will have a longer term developmental vision ok and well the election results will have to show us whether that's possible absolutely we watching very closely indeed many

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a major shift to the right in latin america's largest country john heilemann reports from brasilia. standing in the shadow of her hero christina new year's day is the start of change helped me that. it's the opportunity for the country to grow it's an opportunity to stop being a country known for corruption and this opportunity is named. to. fulfill the joy you both to model for years he was a low profile congressman now he's been catapulted into power as the leader of south america's biggest economy but the far right populist has polarized brazil supporters love his plain speaking style and hard stance from crime opponents fear his intolerance of activists minorities and ambivalence to the environment but bilson otto's main promise beating corruption appeals to brazil's political class has been engulfed by scandal. void is full it is about those charges of political

favors force trading that needs to be left in the past we want the whole nation to benefit everything that we do henceforward as an undeniable purpose that is to put first and foremost the interests of brazilians. he's also promised to crack down on crime and revive a sluggish economy many believe that he can and not just his supporters leaving his inauguration in a poll just out sixty five percent of people said that they think he will do a great or a good job but this is a man who's admitted he knows little about the economy and who security plan has revolved around giving people greater access to guns and police more license to kill. bill so not as opponents worry about the lack of substance and his affinity to the military dictatorships of brazil's recent past in his speech to congress he committed to democracy but the effect was slightly spoiled by his final

remarks directed against the leftist workers. which governed here years. this is our flag it will never be red even if we need to shed our blood to keep it green and yellow. a warning perhaps for those who hope to be a more moderate president candidate joe you bill so now do you see no reason to change john homan zita brasilia u.s. border agents have fired tear gas to stop people crossing the mexican border or women and children were among those trying to breach the border fence the border agency says it was responding to rocks being thrown at them. the u.s. president says he is ready to negotiate an end to the partial government shutdown which has been in place for nearly two weeks donald trump has invited congressional leaders from both parties to the white house on wednesday twenty two opposition

parties and three don have called for parliament to be dissolved and president omar al bashir to step down following weeks of protests over the cost of living the party say a transitional government should be set up to pave the way for elections. internet services in the democratic republic of congo are expected to remain cut off until election results are announced on sunday an advisor to president joseph kabila says access was shut down to stop people speculating about the outcome of the voters. a group of british politicians and international lawyers has asked to visit detained activists in saudi arabia to investigate allegations they're being tortured and denied legal representation and the sea international says at least ten women were detained in may and shooting some who campaigned for the right to drive the rights group says seven men are also being held in connection with the human rights work. nasa's new horizon spacecraft has undertaken a successful flyby of a rock six and

a half billion kilometers from the rock is said to be the oldest cosmic body ever explored by humankind those are the headlines i'll be back with more news here off the debt machine. date it drives markets creates profits and generates an endless cycle of production and consumption. we live on credit our homes cars schools and government expenditures are financed by borrowing. ditch has become the engine of our growth. the lifeblood of our global economy.

it's an economic machine impacting the global economy with more and more date being produced day in and day out. this debt machine has grown to epic proportions and now seems to have spiraled out of control public debt the debt held by governments is soaring. the eurozone is having a much harder time than other economies emerging from the crisis of spiraling debt why and what are the solutions. to debt machine once you're on it very hard you're often like that fifth i must use them to look good on the bubble but on that let's start over and create a system of credit which would actually be sustainable which wouldn't destroy the planet as the current machines to a. diminishing

or high low by jack and that complex as well to a piece on duty do test on come on that and across south equanimity cast as you came out there check any opus paramedics on it he said produce the. sick over to that song by two thirds of the reactor and then you guna miters a power and you know i need. more that shawn said that then you and any. when it's dead reaches a certain level the government gets caught in a spiral to repay its debt and the interest on it the government has to borrow more money year after year. most eurozone countries are now in that situation they borrow heavily on the financial markets and from large private banks that fight fiercely to keep them as clients.

thanks love to make loans to sovereigns why because behind the sovereign are millions of taxpayers and they're not like the shoppers or it's not like the consumers in a business because those tax payers never go away there's a new one born every single day and they're going to pay taxes for the next one hundred fifty yes unless the country collapses so why wouldn't you lend to them because you know you're going to get your money back you know there's no bankruptcy law you know that you can always make a profit on it's safe lending whereas if i go to a firm that wants to innovate and produce a new asset you know firm that may be wanted as decided they want to build steam engines and seventeen hundred or something i don't have to risk assess the risk well that's too risky why should i invest in that or why don't i lend to the government of spain or to the government of italy order government of portugal and i know there are german taxpayers there

a french taxpayers there all of whom are effectively backing up this debt so i fear of taking risks. government data has soared into the trillions of dollars in euro zone countries but those figures don't really mean much if you don't compare them to the wealth of a country its gross domestic product or g.d.p. . the country's debt is measured as a percentage of g.d.p. get debt represents fifty percent and here one hundred percent of g.d.p. . one thousand nine hundred ninety two maastricht treaty laid down the terms for an integrated europe. in order to keep debt from getting out of control experts agree that a country's debt should not exceed sixty percent of its g.d.p. but that's critical threshold has been largely exceeded by most european countries

joins us from get us what he asked about it so more now we have a pretty up with the beauty of rio might have a pretty rigid there. when debt exceeds a certain level tax revenues start going up to pay interest on the debt instead of funding government expenses hospitals schools teachers. how can that data be repaid how can we ever get out of the spiral. if you put two on both in that as in i guess your yet divvy almost have a dead to cvs everybody's word. or junkie was up i think they sell out they're covered with i don't know but almost over that sean hoare and his exam proof are saying of all. says that they did to contact about what cost no shame it on bossy when it drops below years to q i think it's. the property to go neighbor kid

physical about little to quit their battle choice you know what hope is also off you did get you up at it. has always existed it dates back to the origins of civilization it even predates the invention of money. the very earliest mesopotamian scriptures that we have are actually debts and credits calculating who owes what to whom when temples and other large bureaucratic systems. so what you have actually are credit systems and in mesopotamia they don't have. private data has always existed but government data first emerged in italy in the major trading cities during the late middle ages. florence jenner and venice were constantly at war which cost them

dearly. to pay for those sovereigns borrowed from prominent family first government bonds were traded paying interest. those prominence creditor families founded the first italian banks that started lending a lot of money to european markets who were caught up in endless wars. most often the bankers were worried by the warlike rulers an easy way of getting rid of debt one that would be used for centuries. at the time governments had power over creditors only much later would that balance of power be reversed.