that we've seen produced from a major television manufacturer the price tag around three thousand dollars this year there's an air of anxiety in these corridors tech stocks have been tumbling on wall street apple made a surprise announcement it would miss sales targets blaming weak demand in china chinese telecommunications giant weiwei is here even though its chief financial officer is under house arrest in canada fighting american efforts to put her on trial for fraud you know major chinese tech executives are attending c.e.o.'s giant tech companies are displaying smart home devices face recognition systems and more big picture products and then there are guys like golly rows of who got tired of folding all this kid's laundry that we have piles of laundry always waiting to be folded and who doesn't rows of the appliance called fold of eights will go on the market later this year price that about

a thousand dollars on the corky side c e s twenty nine hundred features wearables for pets smart phone controlled doggie doors and a baffling proliferation of internet connected intelligent toilets there are plenty of items here that are fascinating and some will prove to be big hits with consumers others frankly nobody really needs but there's no truly revolutionary technology on display here at c s in fact many analysts would argue that the last really big innovation was the smartphone introduced by apple nearly a dozen years ago the next big wave might be household devices with advanced artificial intelligence or a i this is one example l a q billed as a digital companion for elderly people living alone i try to be a fairly intelligent presence and your data companies are charging ahead. that will

become deeply embedded in people's lives all with little regulation or public debate the impact of this technological evolution will change human relationships and society in the coming decades for better or for worse these days the buzz in the motoring sector is all about self driving electric cars meanwhile traditional car makers are under pressure to stay profitable if they don't thousands of jobs around the world could be at stake this week ford said that its shifting gear and restructuring its entire operation in europe the revamp is likely to result in thousands of job losses the car manufacturer employs approximately fifty three thousand people in europe across fifteen plants britain's biggest carmaker. is also set to announce cuts. reports. it is the country's biggest carmaker employing more than forty thousand workers in the u.k.

but jack you are landrieu is in trouble and struggling to turn a profit reviving the luxury brands fortunes means cutting jobs for half thousand are expected to go most are in management and marketing some production jobs may also go the company's been hit by a perfect storm of problems sales in china one of his biggest markets have slumped trade tensions with the u.s. have led to a fall in consumers making big purchases. the company's also been affected by calling global demand for diesel cars ninety percent of g q a landrover is production. and a home there are a big worry is over the u.k.'s competitiveness post breaks it the company says a batiks it deal could cost it one and a half billion dollars a year the government's promising to help those who have lost their jobs it is a brilliant skilled workforce it's a real asset to this country and whatever the terms of the announcement we will do

everything that we can to make sure that they can find jobs that make use of their they really valuable skills this isn't the first blow to j.q. a land rovers workforce the company owned by india's tata motors already cut a thousand temporary contract workers at its plant near birmingham it also recently announced it would move all production of the land rover discovery to a new plant in e.u. members employing three thousand people jack your land rover has been forced to streamline it is the pay for reality of uncertain times costing thousands of people their livelihoods staying with transportation illegal drone use hitting air departures briggs it worries about the global economy volatile fuel prices and an ongoing blockade here in the middle east challenge is already mounting up for the

aviation industry and twenty nineteen the international air transport association nevertheless predicts that more of us will want to travel by air in the year ahead . well joining us now from london is peter morris peter is a chief economist at flight ascend consultancy peter good to have you with us on counting the cost before we talk about the outlook for the aviation sector in twenty nineteen let's let's deal with the question that everybody wants answered the cost of flights are they going to go up or down in twenty nineteen one of the key drivers behind that is what fuel prices are going to do and at the moment it looks like fuel prices are going to be lower and twenty nine thousand and twenty eighteen so other things being equal you'd expect some reduction in price what impact is briggs it if it whatever form breaks it eventually takes likely to have on the aviation sector within europe well i think i go back to what you're a star said to a parliamentary inquiry in twenty sixteen when they were posed the question what

are the positive elements that occur from bracks it for transportation to or from the u.k. and they said bluntly there are none and i would reiterate that from an aviation point of view in fact it's a complete disaster from the point of view of the regulatory front where the u.k. has been involved in the european common aviation area and now we would have to take rules from that rather than be part of the room making process we've got all the issues of that a decline in demand following the devaluation of the pound and ultimately air transport follows where the g.d.p. growth is and all the four car show that breaks it is going to have a significant impact on the u.k. g.d.p. which will mean less demand in and out our let's let's take a look at a in the stablished market the us on the outlook for for aviation in twenty nineteen there and a fast growing market china world that two ends of the spectrum really in terms of

the kind of development phase you're seeing in china those something like ten to fifteen percent growth in traffic has occurred for the last decade. also and inevitably that has meant that the various pressures of come on as regards infrastructure as regards the stability of the individual airlines but then that's consolidated to some degree and you've carried on seeing that desire to travel which particularly follows the g.d.p. at the other end the spectrum will lead shoes that happened in the us regarding security and the problems of now traveling short distances it stops of come easier to drive all videophone or whatever it is and that is dampened the gearing between g.d.p. growth and the actual growth in traffic and it's a mature market in other words and at the other end the spectrum you've got

a dynamic growth market in china so you're almost seeing the whole spectrum net to some degree the question is what the next iteration in north america is because north american ascend has given aviation to the world in terms of. a deregulated business models all be getting there first in the sheer size of that market so you are starting to see a tailoring offer growth of around four to five percent rather than the six to eight percent you're seeing generally around the world and none the less sure seeing half the profitability of the entire aviation business is coming out of north america with less than twenty percent of the traffic so it sort of brings home that that consolidating business model has been good for shareholders and i think we have to debate just how good it's been for consumers at the same time here in the middle east of course the blockade on caster continues that not just cats

are always put but all of the that the middle east carries what's the outlook and in twenty nineteen for middle east carriers were there needs to be a resolution of those. political problems and obviously that isn't something the aviation business is going to do if it turns self but it's damage the the business of all the major players in the middle east and it's damaged their economies as well so to my mind looking from the outside there has to be some kind of resolution in order to facilitate the kind of levels of growth in middle east carriers saw before that did actually change the shape of aviation for the better it provided more customer choice for more destinations more origins around the world and at the moment you've got the problem that within a craft orders going through and the aircraft being delivered the question is where those carriers are going to put those a craft on the routes and it's becoming challenging while you have these political

issues peter great to talk to you on cutting the cost many thanks dave for being with us thank you. finally this week greece is asking its citizens to contribute some of their own money so that it can buy new warships but it may have to look abroad for funding. reports from athens. greece is thirteen frigates form the backbone of its navy but they are now three decades old refitting them would cost more than half the price of a new fleet and without the capabilities so the hellenic navy is looking for a brand new fleet and it's taking donations galligan fairly limitless there's i call on great ship owners and greek citizens to contribute something from their surplus in a special account set up to acquire a new fleet of frigates and a new flagship greek defense spending has fallen by forty percent to six billion dollars during a decade of recession and even though it's still one of the biggest spenders in

nato greece says it cannot afford new equipment and its traditional rival turkey now spends three times as much the problem is greeks already have the highest taxes in europe in an attempt to pay off the national debt and half the population still owes the government money. no i won't contribute the country has much bigger priorities than buying weapons we need better salaries better pensions better health care and education all the things that make a country civilized and where greece has fallen behind the european union is a real union it will help with our defense of complicating matters to former defense ministers are now in jail for embezzlement one of them for the contracts that upgraded the frigate fleet with greeks overtaxed at home the defense ministry is looking to greeks living abroad and the merchant shipping community these communities produced a rescue plan once before it was a donation of seven million gold francs that enabled greece to make a down payment of almost a third of the value of this crew in one thousand the george avert of ball the name

of its benefactor and helped greece defeat the ottoman empire. second time and double its territory in the balkan wars now as then the navy wants to extend its range this time to cover its exclusive economic zone or easy as well as that of cyprus where hydrocarbons have recently been discovered well supposedly one of the reasons of the greek fleet wants to update in the last revised upwards is the fact that it's now being called upon to safeguard the easy between. greece and cyprus which is in the east med very far from where it's used to prowling sensually becoming for what they call green water navy to a blue water navy greece has long relied on the generosity of individuals and greek ship owners are constantly helping the armed forces but fleets renewal costs many

billions of dollars to cover it greece will need friends as well as family. for this week if you'd like to get in touch with us about anything that you've seen you can contact me directly i've got a finnegan on twitter please use the hash tag a j c t c when you do or you could drop us a live counting the cost of al-jazeera dot that is our e-mail address as always there's plenty more for you on line at al-jazeera dot com slash c t c that takes you straight to our page and there you'll find individual ports links even entire episodes for you to catch up on but that's it for this edition of counting the cost i'm adrian finighan for the whole team here at doha thanks for being with us the news of al-jazeera is next. every rekey news cycle brings a series of breaking stories joined the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most on

al-jazeera. showed. and inspiration. personal stories of people who are keeping the spirit of freedom alive. by courage astri defending their rights to be. specific. but we begin to. al-jazeera selects. in an ordinary week dr event atar adopt a sergeant at the only functioning hospital in blanched town in north eastern south sudan and his steam operate on around sixty patients the united nations refugee agency nominated him for the prestigious nansen award which you won in recognition of his work and the incredibly difficult to constance's. south sudan has been in

conflict since twenty thirteen the war has divided the country along ethnic lines two hundred thousand people most of them refugees from sudan split in our state even this remote town and looked to be a bad hospital for all their medical needs their war is destroyed or most of the infrastructures which are especially in the upper layer. almost always including mother cutlass bottles of stewart living in the presence of who you know vision of the mother to walk into the city that they're supposed. the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election goes to the country's top court to demand a recount alleging widespread electro falls. hello

again i'm adrian finnigan this is al jazeera live from also coming up u.s. president donald trump is accused of concealing details of his face to face meetings with russia's leader vladimir putin. was. the toughest call for britain's prime minister to step down and for a general election with deep division in the u.k. just days before a crucial brigs at those that. it was close to meeting any. well i'm sure you. ate here three eat meat at a saudi teenager who fled from her family and feared death if she was deported back to riyadh gets a warm welcome in canada. the

runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election is challenging the official results saying there's been widespread fraud lost in failed who has appealed to the constitutional court and called for a recount the electoral commission gave his rival felix she keda thirty eight percent of the votes four percent ahead of pharaoh know. how to toss a report stuff from can toss it. evidence to prove he won last month's election by a landslide sixty one percent of the votes and the presidential run is challenging the result in the constitutional court i'm hoping that the court we called the electoral commission to recount by. because that's what. we're totally disagree with the result that has announced that.

they are fabricated nothing to do with the truth provisional results released by the election commission on thursday declared felix the kitty the winner with nearly thirty nine percent of the vote his supporters if she accept the result. guys. we won it we don't she didn't she did we didn't make an arrangement. this is just the result of the polling station and we make sure what. we don't want to go into a fight unlike previous elections voting day at the end of last month was relatively peaceful but growing suspicions over the count could derail congress' first democratic transfer of power since independence from belgium in one thousand sixty constitutional court judges like you to meet on monday and tuesday to go through what martin finally says is evidence which proves he won last month's election if the judges say he has no case in feeling that katie will be sworn in as president

the influential catholic church is rejecting the official result so too is france and former colonial power belgium the african union and the southern african development community regional body are appealing to the people of congo to respect the eventual decision of the constitutional court judges and avoid a violent reaction. al-jazeera. the us president has been accused of concealing details of his face to face meetings with the russian leader according to reports in the washington post the paper alleges that donald trump has not released notes made by his interpreter after a meeting with vladimir putin and hamburg and twenty seven team trump reportedly instructed the translator not to tell anyone in his administration what the two leaders discussed how to joe castro reports from washington. we know of at least five private meetings between u.s. president donald trump and putin during trump's presidency and the reporting in this washington post article focuses on the twenty seventeen g.

twenty meeting in hamburg germany we know that during this meeting president was also then the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson and trump's personal interpreter now tillerson following this meeting told reporters that a wide variety of topics were discussed and that among them trump had pressed who wouldn't whether russia had meddled in the u.s. elections which putin denied than target or told other senior administration officials that trump responded with the words i believe you but since then the lips of that interpreter have been sealed and we may know the reason why now what into this reporting in the washington post with which cites former and current u.s. officials they say that trump instructed the interpreter not to reveal details of this meeting not even to four other not even to other administration officials and the reporting says that trump took possession of the notes of the interpreter and

the result is that not only is there no detailed record of what was discussed between these two leaders in the public arena there may not even exist records in classified records either all of this would which would handicap us foreign policy experts which may have weighed in and influence the president's policy decisions into the future regarding russia and perhaps the biggest threat of all to the u.s. is giving putin extra leverage to manipulate the president. president trump the turks of new york times report that the f.b.i. opens an inquiry to find out if he was secretly working on behalf of russia against u.s. interests a cold. of the paper the investigation began in may twenty seventh enough to trump fire then f.b.i. director james comey counterintelligence investigators were assigned to evaluate whether trump was a potential threat to national security the f.b.i.

also sought to determine whether the president was deliberately working for russia or had unintentionally been influenced by moscow bruce fein is a former us associate deputy attorney general and a constitutional lawyer he says this revelation could lead to more investigations and no other president has ever done anything that skates close to the line of acting on behalf of foreign intelligence service or a foreign country it would necessarily constitute treason which under the united states constitution requires a leving of war but certainly the evidence that was accumulated suggesting that there was some kind of collaboration between president trump and russia because the house democrats you know now control the house of representatives they can undertake an investigation issue subpoenas to those at the f.b.i. and even though this wasn't you know a crime necessarily it certainly bears on the fitness of the president for office

and which means impeachment covers actions that are short of criminal activity but where does this go next and i can guarantee you that the house government affairs and oversight committee will probably issue subpoenas on monday to get the bottom of this why did the f.b.i. think the evidence was credible enough to suggest that mr trump was actually spying on behalf of the country of russia. police in nigeria failed at least sixty people may have been to death while scavenging for fuel from an overturned the oil tanker spill an explosion happened in the town of auto pani in the southern nigerian state of cross river coal china g.m. reports. this scene is unfortunately too familiar in nigeria fuel tankers like this one crash or pipelines leak and the poor in africa's most populous country rushed to the scene those who survived are scarred for life some

have lost limbs i suppose to be dead people many people died. in. these burn victims risked their lives in the southern state of cross river trying to collect the leaking black gold and this has become. events in our society every year an average of one hundred twenty fuel tanker accidents are reported in the country which is africa's largest oil producer this is partly blamed on roads that are overcrowded and poorly maintained witnesses at the scene of this latest incident say an electrical generator brought in to remove the spilled oil set off sparks igniting a fire and explosion i don't see what kind of money you're looking for. people call collecting spilled fuel fishing and it doesn't just happen when tankers overturn thousands have been killed fishing for fuel when pipelines leak or are vandalized

in october more than fifty people were burned to death while scooping fuel from a pipeline that thieves busted before it caught fire and exploded in two thousand and twelve more than one hundred people were killed in the oil hub of port harcourt when an oil tanker tipped over and scavengers were trapped and burned alive when the vehicle exploded according to government data more than one thousand two hundred people were killed trying to steal fuel from vandalized pipelines during the eight years preceding two thousand and eight the country's worst accident happened in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight that's when nearly one thousand one hundred people were killed when a leaking pipeline they were fishing from exploded please visit anytime that you see face the self is the vision thing is to run away while nigeria is often touted as one of the world's most promising economies

a recent report says nearly half of its hundred eighty eight million population live in extreme poverty and when black gold is spilled some of those struggling to put food on the table can't help but try to scoop up as much as they can no matter the cost paul chowder gian al jazeera. at least nineteen people have been killed in a coal mine collapse in northern china that happened in the city of shenmue ensuring the province rescuers are searching for two trapped miners sixty six others have been rescued and airlifted to safety it's unclear what caused the collapse a saudi teenager who fled from her family because she feared for her life in the kingdom as arrived in her new home country. flew from thailand to canada after an offer of asylum the eighteen year old one global attention when she launched a social media campaign from a hotel room in bangkok pleading for help on his ear as mike hanna reports from

toronto. the long and arduous journey from saudi arabia over the eighteen year old step through the arrival doors accompanied by the canadian foreign minister the size of the media contingent a reflection of the massive public interest generated. and hearing really need. and want need to leave it seems to arrive at. that she's very inspiring hearing and so she would prefer not to question. so you can see the theory. and see if no point. then run. back through the doors to begin the first phase of the new life the wish to go to college and study architecture the canadian decision to grant sanctuary is

likely to worsen already fractured relations with saudi arabia back in august saudi arabia's severed diplomatic ties following tonight.