and that is going to bring more heavy rain across the region for the next several days so the accumulations are going to be increasing the flooding is going to be increasing across much of the area down towards the south those sunday we are looking at melbourne at thirty nine degrees and as we go towards monday those temperatures drop to about twenty two degrees for you. counting the cost this week we're focusing on venezuela where people are scavenging for food as a political crisis unfolds how the game of oil is influencing events overgrown plus how predators are playing a role in why the reports of rome but the little. country of the cost on al-jazeera .

and again what challenges there is a reminder of our top stories this hour venezuela's opposition leader has rejected a proposal from mexico to mediate between him and president nicolas maduro he's declared himself interim president is backed by several countries. there are warnings of a humanitarian crisis in northeastern syria activists say more than two hundred civilians have been killed and tens of thousands displaced by the battle for parts of. the brain second marks four months since john this is so he was murdered and the saudi concert in istanbul a special ruppert's has been in turkey for the past week using an independent investigation. the u.s.

is withdrawing from a decade's old nuclear missile patch with russia sparking fears of a new arms race now russia says it will do the same trump adminstrations accuse moscow of violating the intermediate range nuclear forces or i.m.f. treaty reports from washington d.c. . suspension of the historic treaty that has been a. cornerstone of european security for decades four years russia has violated the terms of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty without remorse the united states will therefore suspend its obligations under the i n f treaty effective february second. the white house maintains the u.s. has adhere to the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty well russia has not in that time it accuses russia of covertly developing and fielding a prohibited missile system that poses a threat to european allies u.s.

forces stationed there the u.s. did not give specific examples of violations russia has consistently denied it's breaking the agreement but u.s. secretary of state says that russia is in violation what's your response. and we proved this many times but they don't want to listen the agreement was signed during the cold war by u.s. president ronald reagan and russia's mikhail gorbachev in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven when most agree it's not perfect it did halted the escalating arms race between the two superpowers us president donald trump has long been a critic of the treaty. but on friday he suggested it might be time to negotiate a new one less thing to do and here we should be the only one i hope that we're able to get everybody in a very big and beautiful room and do a new treaty that would be much better still there's concern the u.s. did not exhaust its diplomatic options and is trump pressures north korea to give

up its nuclear arsenal many question why he would relax any missile restrictions on russia it actually opens the door for russia to deploy more of these missiles and opens the door for a new european missile race some analysts have speculated the trump administration isn't just worried about russia. china is not bound by the treaty. there is criticism it's been gaining military advantage deploying large numbers of missiles with ranges beyond the current limits there are now just six months for the agreement to be saved the united states is russian must destroy equipment in violation of the agreement or will move ahead with a response designed to deny what the united states perceives to be russia's military advantage can really help at al-jazeera the white house as african opposition party the economic freedom fighters is launching its manifesto ahead of elections later this year. that support for populist group and its land

redistribution agenda is growing and we develop reports from johannesburg the release of africans may argue about the strength of opposition party the economic freedom fighters the party won six percent of the vote in the last general election in twenty fourteen having been formed just a year earlier perhaps in significant when compared to the sixty two percent majority support of the ruling party the african national congress but surveys suggest the ear fifth as it's known here has grown by up to thirteen percent since then we are the only growing political that has a sheen in such a quantity in terms of quantity will be. and probably will have been leading in terms of key to begin to issues on land or. on the discourse on corruption on job zuma and basically ever think all major political events have got to happen in

south africa have been there to mind but. since it's establishment it's become arguably the most vocal party in south africa's political landscape can you please look organized. you were treated lee disrupting parliamentary proceedings much of its anger directed against former president jacob zuma who's accused of corruption and leading numerous. notice against unemployment we're not going to be intimidated third inequality racism and other social issues. while the e.f.e. of certainly has its appeal especially amongst young south africans the party's had a tumultuous relationship with the media its leader julius malema has on several occasions threatened to deal with journalists who leases serve the interest of so-called white monopoly capital is accused the media of protecting senior politicians including presidents of the ramapo sun. while the e f f s promised to

tackle corruption it's based its own scandals malema was charged with fraud and racketeering in twenty fourteen related to government contracts and recently the party was linked to the alleged looting of the v.p. s. bank when millions of dollars were reportedly transferred to the brother of the deputy president of the fifth party and both men have denied any involvement to justify the growing what do they have to offer and stop the what are they promising i believe that the bible is the role in south african politics that you don't really have to invent anything you don't have to come up with. innovative ideas of what we're going to do in government in order for people to look your direction and forward sometimes just taking an interest in position if enough in a country that has an unemployment rate of more than twenty six percent mostly made up of the young the e f f as promised to create jobs and provide free education for all but it's been criticised for

a lack of detail on how it will do this or al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. for i recurs president has been freed from detention by the unsubtle criminal court plus ally and former youth minister shall bloody good they were acquitted last month they have been accused of crimes against humanity including initiating a wave of violence following disputed elections in twenty ten. it's been six months since the start of the latest a bone epidemic in the democratic republic of congo and world health organization says more than four hundred sixty people have been killed as the worst outbreak in the country's history branagh up to reports. the mundine task of scrapping shoes takes on a whole new meaning in the democratic republic of congo it's part of who team that keeps these health workers on the frontline of the world's second largest bull epidemic safe from infection. the latest outbreak here has killed hundreds of

people in the last six months eighteen year old. survives but conceiving unborn baby she's grateful for a second chance at life was on but when i was at the a ball the treatments into many friends came to see me and they gave me confidence that i will be fine despite my mother crying when she saw me other people were afraid of me the doctor said that he could save me all the child i think the doctors for helping me survive the virus was first reported in the small town of mangino in the north cuba region last year in just six months it spread to some of the most densely populated areas making it difficult for health workers to predict its reach and there are fears that the virus may be inching closer to goma a city of over a million people along the heavily traveled border with rwanda reaching the affected areas means treading across an active conflict zone there more than one

hundred armed groups active in north kivu the epicenter of the latest operate. health workers and civilians and were hit areas have come under repeated attacks bearable fighters people are centers for vandalized in the run up to december's presidential election but the wooded organization says there is some room for optimism we. should see six thousand people with tiger. and you know new vaccine in the field for the for the first time in a situation like this and we have literally hundreds and hundreds of staff in the field doing this work so we believe that we've managed to contain the disease in the areas concerned we've also worked very closely with ford in the surrounding countries and in neighboring south sudan health workers have started getting their first shots of the border vaccine screening facilities have been set up trees have been opened to stop the disease from spreading across the border maximum

preparedness for disease that's both dangerous and unpredictable but it's what they need to prevent a repeat of the twenty fourteen people epidemic in west africa with the same strain of virus klitgaard an eleven thousand people. are to similar. dramatic new video has been released showing the moment. southeast in brazil last week at least one hundred fifteen people have been killed and hundreds still missing it's oregon has more from the moment of the day. nothing could stop this wall of sludge and mud on the right of the picture employees can be seen driving around the mining complex in brazil seconds later their vehicles a swallowed up by tons of iron ore waste. parts of the nearby town of brahma genia were also in gulfport a week home from the disaster brazilians paid homage to the victims rescuers post

the search for survivors as ten helicopters hovered about the accident site releasing flower petals just as was a squirrel all the flowers that were released or donated by people to smalling as a way to show their affection and respect for the victims. mining is the area's main employer amidst the grief and the recriminations many a worried about the future. right now from a junior will fall there will be unemployment the majority of people work in mining so the town will go down to my residence anger is mainly directed at the mine own is dale the same pattern is of a nearby mine where a dam burst in twenty fifteen killing one thousand people and causing immense environmental damage the wave of mud is now moving towards a major river there are fears it could contaminate water supplies victoria gate and be al jazeera. the various transited townsville have been urged to move to higher

ground as monsoon rains continue to set record levels queensland's premier says floodwaters have destroyed dozens of homes never eat unprecedented territory says he's on flash flood alerts and has been declared a disaster. castle has stunned the footballing wild by winning the asian cup for the first time they beat japan three one in the final in upper darby to cup a remarkable tournament reports. this was the moment the nation's dream became a reality. i tars national football team played their seventh and final match in the tournament beating the four time asian cup champions japan three to one. and they did it without a single qatari fan in the stadiums because all the matches were played in abu dhabi. since june of two thousand and seventeen saudi arabia egypt bahrain and the

u.a.e. have imposed a land air and sea blockade on qatar accusing of sponsoring terrorist groups a charge qatar has denied. since then travel to those countries has also been restricted. the spike the politics surrounding this asian cup qatari fans are simply proud. it's a great feeling thank goodness we got here after a lot of hard work and perseverance. i can't describe my feeling today i feel as happy as any arab especially when my country achieved something like this it was a great game too and to beat such a great team like japan makes it an even bigger achievement it's a win for the amir the amir father and everyone who lives in qatar and every era everyone without discriminating between them. it was a great game a very exciting game and thank god that the qatari team won i want to thank our boys what they've achieved from the start of the tournaments to the end. once the

trophies were handed out in abu dhabi the real celebrations began in doha. the new champions are expected to return home on saturday where they will receive a royal welcome. guitar's national football team. has proved that they are ready for the biggest football tournament there is the world cup in twenty twenty two which will be held in qatar as the final whistle was blown qatar behaving the champions of the seventeenth asian cup games fans pour onto the streets to celebrate their country's was dark when this might be the underdogs in the tournament dosage of mari al-jazeera doha. american football fans are gearing up for super bowl sunday this group of friends has a pact to attend the tournament every year the last surviving members of a group called never miss a super bowl club one member says the ticket price in one nine hundred sixty seven was twelve dollars this is ticket cost him a whopping two thousand dollars

a game will be held in atlanta where the los angeles rams face the new england patriots. a modern art museum in south korea is trying to decide how to restore one of the world's most famous video art installations the work is made up of more than a thousand television sets with fast cranes our pacing old models access to t.v. sets is proving difficult problem bride reports from seoul it's probably the best known work of south korea's best known modern artist the more the better is a tower of one thousand and three t.v. sets created in the one nine hundred eighty s. by back now in june who was a pioneer a video arts until his death in two thousand and six. saw no new me it's become so essential and i believe it's an international cultural legacy that we need to preserve these. not so easy with consumer technology that designed

eventually to burn out and for the past year it's been switched off for safety reasons. a video of how it should look now greets visitors. it was the job of chong john moe a curator and friend of the artist to preserve his work. even if one of the t.v.'s wasn't working people would notice it and say the management here is terrible at the cutting edge of modern art the first video artists were working with a device that was the very embodiment of the age ok the average t.v. set only had a life expectancy of about ten years but that didn't matter as long as the world was mass producing them but now it isn't art museums around the world have been stockpiling used t.v.'s to keep aging video installations going for others the solution is in digital technology playing flat screen images inside the curved

screens of old sets. it's time the op museums and experts agree on a global standard for preserving video art. chung says the artist himself embrace technology and wouldn't have minded what solutions are found. he never took his art so seriously i think he would say it's not a bad idea to replace the t.v.'s with the tv's of today any innovation to keep the screens flickering and not let the light go out at rob mcbride al-jazeera sold. go without zero these are top stories that is was one of has rejected a mexican and or a one proposal to mediate between him and president nicolas maduro nader has declared himself as interim president is backed by several western countries.

there are not two conflict insights at all we have he said entire country to the wants change and a very tiny group that sustains itself with weapons stolen from the republic and with constant threats against the same army to sustain and a citizenship that east massacre i understand the very good intentions of mexico and europe and i understand the ultimatum the european union has given maduro the opposition has been willing to negotiate we tried everything. we have seen we going to hunger strikes we have protested and they have killed bolivia's president has met with his friends when counterpart nicolas maduro. tweeted this picture of their meeting during his stopover in caracas has joined russia and china in backing the door as venezuela's rightful leader about one of the last eisel controlled pockets

of northern syria as space tens of thousands of people u.s. backed kurdish forces have been fighting the armed group in death as saw the u.n. refugee agency is calling for a transit site for civilians fleeing to alcohol come out population has tripled in the past two months february second four months since journalist she was murdered in the saudi consulate in istanbul a un special rapporteur has been in turkey for the needing an independent investigation. united states is withdrawing from one of its main nuclear weapons agreements with russia so in the one nine hundred eighty seven intermediate range nuclear forces treaty has been consistently violated russia rejects those allegations and now says it will also suspend the packs. the taliban says president donald trump appears to be serious about pulling u.s. troops out of afghanistan a spokesman for the armed groups as a foreign withdrawal is the first goal toward resolving the seventeen year conflict

trying to set american forces will leave for the kind of lead to a peace deal. now with all the headlines more news on al-jazeera after counting the costs. hello i'm adrian figured and this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week we're focusing on venezuela hungry or without access to medicine venezuelans are suffering as a political crisis unfolds we'll look at what it's like to live inside the world's worst economy where hyperinflation is a reality and one tenth of the population has left. one thousand nine billion

dollars in debt and much of it in default that as well is a country with many creditors but where did all the money go. plus confusion reigns in energy markets as the u.s. slap sanctions on venezuela where it hurts how the game of oil is playing out. in venezuela people don't have enough to eat at least one tenth of the population the economic refugees according to one official data is available infant mortality is soaring at a faster rate than in syria this economic crisis is a humanitarian crisis and we're in a new chapter on january twenty third the leader of the legislature one guy doe began a push to remove current president nicolas maduro the united states has imposed an embargo on venezuela's state oil company p d a the sanctions aimed to transfer control of venezuela's oil wealth to those that oppose but douro at oil is

a good place to start how did a country with the world's biggest oil reserves end up so impoverished and bankrupt the orinoco belt hell. one of the world's largest reserves of heavy crude oil the problem is though oil accounts for ninety eight percent of venezuela's foreign earnings there's a lack of other sectors but worst of all no sovereign wealth fund to invest all the money the government controls everything and it's been spending more than it's been earning venezuela's issued billions in sovereign bonds and borrowed heavily using the country's natural resources as collateral now though it's in the fold strict control of foreign currency exchanges restricted people's ability to access foreign produced goods this imbalance has led to hyper inflation that means inflation running at a million percent and it's rendered the ball of our worthless america. is on the ground in. talking to people about what it's like to fight for survival in

venezuela right now i'm standing in a line in that is one of the largest in all of venezuela and these people have been waiting so that they can buy a treat it's called sardines one of the very few things that they can actually afford these days. they are selling to too expensive we can't afford anything they raise the minimum wage to eighteen thousand last month but we can't buy anything at all a kilo of cheese costs fifteen thousand. and there goes practically your entire salary . everybody here is holding loads of bills in their hands but they're they're almost worth nothing which you see here are fifteen thousand. in august for two hundred fifty dollars a dollar was sixty body that is now they're worth less than five this is almost a full month's salary but you can hardly buy much more than.

is one of the ways we have of surviving because that is what we're doing barely surviving. and people here are telling me they're. they don't like sardines but it's the only thing they can afford at this point what can you buy with the minimum wage get with it compare that going to how demeaning. mayo got on their way to. your local just a carton of eggs he says that's all he can buy a new yorker there where one half a car you know i mean. i'm going to show you how long this line is and it formed in just a few minutes word of mouth as people heard that something was being sold in fact they usually line up without even knowing what's at the other end because whatever it is they say they're going to need it and in this country where hyper inflation has surpassed one million percent and expected to go up even further this year people are telling me that prices in the last two weeks alone have more than quadrupled especially since the political crisis got worse when i get back and

listen there's nothing left in this country everyone here knows it there's no money no food here we're all starving to death the problem is people don't want to say it either because they're embarrassed or because they may be beaten up but you can't be afraid to tell the truth in front of them in theda you know given so these sardines are being sold at a discount by the government but directly in front of me you can see a whole row of shops they're all closed one of them was a butcher shop the other used to sell cheese ham salami things like that but now they've all gone out of business. so people here are beginning to get rather agitated and upset the queue is still extremely long but they can see up there that the sardine to are going to be running out pretty soon and if they don't make it to the top of the queue before that happens many people are telling me they'll have nothing to feed their families tonight for counting the cost to see a human al-jazeera got access. joining us now in doha is logo cando

is the director of executive education and graduate studies at northwestern university here in canada but is originally from venezuela welcome counting the cost what are you hearing from friends and family in venezuela about what life is like right now well it's very difficult for the moment my own sister is living with a salary of ten dollars a month as a teacher they struggle i was there last year when through the border had to go out through the border with colombia and i could see you know fountains of people crossing the border you can see that they were moving because you could see the type of thing there were cars carrying out people on a basic salary cannot buy the basics of food they depend on the staples provided by their own which are below not reach the majority of the population so there is a dramatic situation in hospitals are collapse over twenty two thousand doctors have left the country since two thousand and fifteen. there's

a cancer mortality rate which is of fifteen percent because there's no treatment for chemotherapy and radiotherapy available and a lot of the situation goes down to basically the mismanagement of corn and me and and the political turmoil so how do people feel about the dura and about his is previous as a shove is now yeah i think chavez was very popular party because he represented a. hope for the whole process of of confronting corruption in decline in the economy of the previous years and for a while that popularity went up with also with the rise of the oil prices but also because the present form of present job it was very you know charismatic and i had a very strong connection with people that's not the case of my mother oh my god or not only doesn't have that connection with people doesn't have that charisma that united because our connection with the people but he doesn't have the money the oil

. a price has gone down from one hundred twelve dollars per barrel to just over sixty for the venezuelan t one which is the average type of oil there in a similar uses and that represents a huge dramatic drop in the coffers of the government on top of that the government in that itself massively doing the chinese period we went from the international debt of thirty four billion dollars which was our international there by ninety ninety eight to one that is over two hundred billion at the moment so the government is basically servants it did that now it's painted that and that's the origins of the collapse i want to clarify the last been said about us sanctions well the collapse of the economy started way before any sanctions were even announced for the first time the government the mother had decided that they had to honor the debt that they will not go to the international monetary fund and because of that they give preference to the payment of that that meant a reduction of eighty percent of the money that it was dedicated to imports of food

this is in a country in which ninety eight percent of the income of the country depends on oil basically we produce oil and nothing else and once you do that reduction in imports you create this situation of massive hunger and mass exodus from the people is there anyone in venezuela society who is weathering the storm here or is affecting everyone it is affecting every single one of them i know people. in the you know in the middle class poor people obviously the poor people are the most affected by this crisis because they are the ones who cannot reach the basics depends the middle class normally would have in some cases or in many cases have people who send money back home but even that has been. limited for example if you want to send medicines to venezuela to a family member of the government just conflict in the airport they alledge that because they have to do that to prevent you know conflict confit medicine to any

but the truth is that the patients have. there have any access to local medicines how to it's really good to talk to many thanks indeed thank you now both china and russia standing by nicolas maduro he's regarded as beijing's store just ally in latin america a friendship underpinned by huge loans investments and weapons sales his own china correspondent adrian brown they were jumping for joy when president nicolas maduro was lost in china four months ago but today the leadership here is not excited about the prospect of venezuela without him at the helm. china is venezuela's biggest creditor has invested heavily in its oil industry and regards president maduro as its strongest ally in south america china has lent more money to venezuela's upwards of sixty billion dollars than it has to any other country in the world it's probably been repaid up to two thirds of that but that leaves anywhere in the neighborhood of twenty to thirty billion dollars venezuela china

analysts say china's leaders are concerned about whether the deals will be honored if the opposition party takes power but for now china continues to voice support from the duros coupled with veiled warnings to the united states. china opposes for interference in the internal affair of minutes well especially when israel and government to uphold national sovereignty independence and threatening military interference and continued to support efforts made by the stability. the growing political economic and humanitarian crisis in venezuela has attracted global headlines and concern the main evening news on state controlled television has shown pictures of the protests but so far made no mention of the violence or suffering of the people. as in africa chinese influence in south america is expanding fast especially in venezuela besides money china has also been helping

the mature regime in another important way it's now venezuela's biggest provider of arms including weapons for crowd control which have been proving so effective joining the current unrest still to come on counting the cost of a wake up call for the mining industry in brazil one of the worst disasters in the nation's history puts the spotlight on the world's biggest producer of iron ore. but first more of our top story venezuela there things like rice cooking oil and other basics are in short supply people have to scavenge for food according to reports parts of the coastline have become havens for ex fisherman turned pirates venezuelan smugglers in twenty nine thousand are exchanging drugs and guns for things like nappies and on the other side of the equation the rich and powerful in venezuela are known as the balibo gaze many of them a high ranking military the u.s.

alleges that they've been stashing their money in safe havens like u.s. luxury real estate in places like miami well oil isn't the only resource in venezuela the country claims to have the world's fourth largest gold mine there were reports this week the president nicolas maduro is getting ready to ship twenty tons of gold out of the country the bank of england has blocked matilda's officials from withdrawing one point two billion dollars worth of gold that's being stored in its faults but joining us now from london is diego campos diego is a principle analyst for country risk in the americas team at i.h.s. market good to have you with us. so we have u.s. slapping sanctions on venezuela a country which relies on oil for ninety five percent of its foreign currency earnings in order to pay for imports this great confusion in the energy markets at the moment and just how to trade in venezuelan oil what's going to happen. well certainly the sanctions on the old sector are

a game changer you will make it very very difficult for the administration who will to get access to the proceeds of this sales. of oil and certainly these going to accelerate pressure for him to step down to go where are venezuela's assets right now unknown billions of dollars hidden in possibly u.s. real estate rumors of gold reserves being flown out of the country pirates in the caribbean we're hearing about at the moment where is or this money well they're really the reason why venezuela sigourney seeing such a dire state is because of years of widespread corruption among gorgon officials and big mismanagement some of these procedures are being laundered in different places in the caribbean in european countries even in the u.s.

and some like in american countries and. it's at the moment difficult to precise exactly where these assets are located and who has been operating a front man for man your mode of thought gorman official but what is clear is that the national assembly menace well or which is controlled by the opposition and which is the only legitimate democratically elected institution in the country how to use late there to establish the necessary make any sense so that these assets could be frozen abroad and be channeled to be administration or one way or the head of the national somebody who has there been really shouldn't prescient and who has been. recognized by the u.s. may gonna buy most of the american gone trees and many e.u. countries and i think he sees the first steps doors trying to get control of these assets we think that the fact that these gone trees have recognized the

administration was thought we make it more easy for al thora these of those going to have to frozen those are said but separate then the. those scientists who don't belong directly to the orbit of venice weight up to stay don't quote bodies i mean refineries bank accounts. and so on the u.s. treasury and the u.s. in particular is thinking that necessary steps so that the revenues and it will drop of those assets go directly to administration or what under the law so to make it more difficult for mother look to govern we have to remember that this by difficult mode is not be recognizing their nationally he still in control of government functions and enjoys the support of the military at least until now and the fact that way though will axes the funding for he's deeply amount which are being recognized by these countries for humanitarian aid are great steps towards

not only baby in the way for a democratic transition but also to generate an influx of revenues for where you go to ministration to get a really good to talk to your kind in the course many thanks for being with us think you are always a pleasure now it's being called the most hated company in brazil volley of the world's number one iron ore producer is being held to account for its role in a dam collapse an industrial accident which has devastated a local mining community it's fear that more than three hundred people have died buried under tons of toxic sludge and there's growing anger because this is the second time in five years that valets mining waste has devastated the local environment and a serious daniel swam or has our report from burma deal in brazil. the first funerals are some of the first victims to be recovered and identified the whole town of bora genial is grieving their brothers and sisters sons and daughters were employees and subcontractors of valley the company that owns the iron ore mine

where the dam burst. we didn't hear anything from the company if we had looked for him his body would most probably still be in the mud after the accident we wanted information. francis was thirty four years old married and with a four year old daughter. was missing you know how many people would ever be found how many fathers mothers and kids how we going to cope now i don't know how i will cope but my brother how will his daughter cope without her father how my father being about his son. dozens of bodies have been recovered but many hundreds more remain unaccounted for and with a far we don't have space for more than three bodies in the funeral parlor so many people are gathering here i might end up doing a collective funeral in the sports center where i think. emergency teams are still involved in the rescue operation although most say there is little hope of finding

more survivors after the tragedy the morning this is a mining town but it's a small town where everybody knows everybody else and with many many more funerals to come the anger people here feel is only going to grow. there are already signs of it and lessons not learned and insufficient investment in safety it's mostly directed at the mine owners valley the same part owners of a nearby mine were at dam burst in two thousand and fifteen killing one thousand people and causing immense environmental damage. in others and is profoundly religious country have their own way of showing their grief and support was local usage year we came from a nearby city to give emotional and spiritual support to these people who are suffering so we brought donations too but we're mostly here to hug and console on neighbors mining is the region's major employer amidst the grief and the recriminations the brazilian government the mining industry and this devastated

community must now tackle what is emerging as one of the biggest crises in the country's history joining us now from one of sorry this is him out of blanco is the head of latin america research at various maple crossed a risk analysis and forecasting company good to have you with us brazil's frozen more than four billion dollars worth of assets the company itself has said that it's going to spend more than one billion dollars decommissioning dams like the ones that failed it's somewhat worrying is that that there are potentially more disasters like the ones like the one weeks we saw that could happen. well you know our research at various shows that community. and community concerns around mining largely relate to water management issues across latin america one of those issues is how water is stored and disposed after it has been used in mining operations and of course you know in the case of brazil in and in this particular. question

there's a lot of work that will need to be done around regulations and in for cement and how the industry responds. to prevent future ones from occurring again is this a test case for the government environmentalists worried that president bush sonora will open up the amazon to more logging. production. this is a timely reminder of potential manmade disasters what lessons will president bush norah take from this. well it remains to be seen if the government will respond to this disaster by reevaluating its own environmental policy the question then becomes you know has the risk of threats in brazil increased enough large companies you know with very responsible business plans environmental management mechanisms would not want to go into these environmental sensitive areas that the

government is planning to open up to the sector and the other question to be ask is can the government actually implemented reform program around environmental regulation and e.c. environmental regulatory processes or will they have government have to go back to the drawing board because of not just investor pressure and even sector pressure because of course the mining sector you know really works very hard to to try to mitigate this perception that all its operations are environmentally damaging when many responsible companies operate in this country in a safe manner but there will also be a lot of social pressure even from potentially the president's support base if these are communities that are exposed to mining operations and have concerns about potential environmental disasters following the scandal which which ultimately took down the last government what's your gut feeling about what's what's going to

happen. well even in the perspective of you know government stability going forward projection indices which look at the six month outlook and the two year outlook we actually see the stability of this government strengthen over the six month period the simple reason for that is because it's a new government in power with a new support base in congress and it's not facing the potential risk of impeachment that we've seen in brazil over the past three years a pretty recurring basis both for dilma rousseff and nischelle turner the question then becomes what happens if this government is unable to deliver the reforms and the changes and improvements it has promised for example on the security front or an economic growth and when we talk about corruption a corruption is in brazil is not linked to one particular party or one particular administration alone it's really an entrenched problem in the political class and of course there are members of the new administration who are being investigated

for corruption and new allegations are emerging every day against different members of the new government so really we need to look at how those investigations involve and whether a threat emerges more in the medium term so we're looking out at one or two year outlook rather than in the very short six month term. show for this week if you'd like to comment on anything that you've seen you can tweet me. on twitter but please use the hash tag a.g.c. to see when you do or you can drop us a line counting the cost of. email address as always there's plenty more few online at www dot com slash c.t.c. that takes you straight to our page and you'll find individual reports links even episodes for use of catch up but that's it for this edition of counting the cost i'm adrian for the good from the whole team here in doha thanks for being with us the news on al-jazeera is next.

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a nuclear missile treaty. venezuela's self declared leader tells algis zero why he's declined offers of talks and gives his thoughts on a possible u.s. military intervention in. the taliban reveals more about its vision for afghanistan if talks stay on the right track also people and animals a skate on anything they can from flooding that's getting worse in australia. on paul resole your sports on the way cats bring the asian cup trophy back to doha after beating japan on the pitch on the blockade off it will be live as farms await their arrival. hello the russian leader vladimir putin has told his foreign and defense ministers that he will withdraw from a decades old nuclear missile pact after us this isn't to do the same putin also

says his government will start working on new missiles. kimberly reports from washington d.c. on why the u.s. suspended its involvement in the treaty. suspension of the historic treaty that has been a cornerstone of european security for decades for years russia has violated the terms of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty without remorse the united states will therefore suspend its obligations under the i n f treaty effective february second. the white house maintains the u.s. has adhere to the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty well russia has not in that time it accuses russia of covertly developing and fielding a prohibited missile system that poses a threat to european allies u.s. forces stationed there the u.s. did not give specific examples of violations russia has consistently denied it's

breaking the agreement but u.s. secretary of state says russia is in violation what's your response. and we proved this many times but they don't want to listen the agreement was signed during the cold war by u.s. president ronald reagan and russia's mikhail gorbachev in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven when most agree it's not perfect it did hold to the escalating arms race between the two superpowers us president donald trump has long been a critic of the treaty. but i'm friday he suggested it might be time to negotiate a new one less thing to do and here we should be the only one i hope that we're able to get everybody in a very big and beautiful room and do a new treaty that would be much better still there's concern the u.s. did not exhaust its diplomatic options and is trump pressures north korea to give up its nuclear arsenal many question why he would relax any missile restrictions on russia it actually opens the door for russia to deploy more of these missiles and

opens the door for a new europe. in missile race some analysts have speculated the trumpet ministration isn't just worried about russia. china is not bound by the treaty there's criticism it's been gaining military advantage deploying large numbers of missiles with ranges beyond the current limits there are now just six months for the agreement to be saved the united states is russian must destroy equipment in violation of the agreement or it will move ahead with a response designed to deny what the united states perceives to be russia's military advantage can really help at al-jazeera the white house let's all speak to pavol felgenhauer he's a defense analyst and columnist for russian newspaper and via get sets and he's joining us via skype from moscow thanks for speaking to us so less than twenty four hours after the u.s. announcement we now hear that russia is also suspending the i

n f a treaty did you expect this type of response oh more or less yes because russian was ready for russia it makes lots of military sense to deploy the same mess silos that we have on ships or submarines but on tracks on the kind of wind who are insurers which are ten to twenty times cheaper than that's very good and so yes it's got to be divorcement and. boots and said so basically and he said that we will not deploy in other countries as america is not there we're not there is i think russia can deploy and so territory and ready to do that but it won't on the state and it is a well or somewhere but if you provocative move by the russians especially when putin has also said that he agreed with the defense ministries proposal to start construction off a mid range supersonic missiles. well these are right that we talk yeah

that's a person that they're subsonic that my size will be russia will russia be developing . kind of launched missiles that can go supersonic that's right now an open question that process will require time and effort but the cruise missile thing is ready for deployment according to the u.s. intelligence that this is being already deployed and not going to be deployed legally in six months there was concern by some that the withdraw off the u.s. in the beginning could lead to an arms race and now we're hearing russia is withdrawing as well so in your opinion could this actually really lead to an arms race and what does this all mean from a defense perspective lou an arms race in need i mean that's who you know and that's impossible much because the united states has nothing to do

they don't have any missiles ready. six months that they've been deployed they have to actually develop new missiles new groups missiles and then trying to put them may be well on land watch or somewhere in europe or somewhere russia can how much russia will deploy that's not the question but didn't several years mostly with the united states are also going to have the same missiles maybe also not also cruise but also ballistic and yes we could be in the same situation as an eighty's before the end that was signed when there was this region no knew where misao arms race in europe so how concerning then is that situation and also let me get your final thoughts on nato issuing a statement after the u.s. is withdrawal saying that they fully support that u.s. decision. well one of the main political goals of all this

and there are taking about the i left for russia is to weaken the transatlantic connection as russia tried in the eighty's and. nato of course is shaken by the developments and other pronouncements by donald trump but nato are still standing so both sides look at the new bush that way for this escalating arms race on the other side all right we'll leave it there we thank you very much for joining us from moscow. that venezuela's self declared leader one high though has called for a large show of support later on saturday to rival a huge rally planned for the man he's trying to push from power and that's president nicolas maduro so as the power struggle between the two divides global powers quite so has told al-jazeera he's not interested in talks with maduro who still has the crystal support of the military here is a latin america editor the c n n so you see on the last of it any battled president

nicolas maduro overseeing military exercises intended to let opponents know that he has the means with which to crush in israel as internal enemies are clearly not intimidated by the man who insists that he's venezuela's legitimate leader looked all the part of an interim president as he called on the news wayland's to return to the streets on saturday to further pressure president maduro to resign. in an interview with al-jazeera self-proclaimed president. declined offers from mexico russia and the e.u. to print both sides to the negotiating table with. a huge there not to conflict in size but all we have he said entire country to the wants change and a very tiny group that sustains itself with weapons stolen from the republic and with constant threats against the same army that sustains them and a citizenship that east massacre in their stand the very good intentions of mexico and europe and i understand the ultimatum the european union has given me the

opposition has been willing to negotiate we tried everything that we have abstain we gone hunger strikes we have protested and they have killed us. washington says that all options are on the table would you support u.s. military intervention if all else fails we will do everything possible so that in the shortest time possible with the least social costs we can generous to belittle ungovernability in the contrie to attend the humanitarian emergency to reactivate production in the country and to achieve freedom been so. but when pressed he refused to rule it out. earlier u.s. national security chief john bolton issued another ultimatum to my little advising him to resign quickly or he could end up in guantanamo where the u.s. has a military base for suspected terrorists. despite close coordination and support from

the us why bill are dismissed accusations that the white house is dictating the terms of regime change. meanwhile spain's foreign minister just separate says the u.s. is pressuring the e.u. to c. style log afeard. this as model and his opponents each prepare to take to the streets to test their strengths it's taken at least forty lives in less than two weeks you see in human al-jazeera that acts on some are had on the al-jazeera news hour including the plea for help from fifty thousand syrians trapped in a remote and unlivable area near the jordanian border for months on we look at how far the investigations gone into the murder of saudi journalist. cats are prepares to welcome home its football heroes after they beat japan to win their first asian cup title or will be here with more on that.

but first the battle for one of the last ice all controlled pockets in northern syria has displaced tens of thousands of people u.s. by kurdish forces have been fighting the. i'm grouping data as sort of the u.n. refugee agency is calling for a transit site for civilians fleeing to a poor town the count's population has tripled in the past two months. reports from gaziantep on turkey's border with syria. for the last eight weeks kurdish fighters have been battling nicely one of the last pockets north of syria you're confident that most areas are now under the control individual problem. activists say more than two hundred people have been killed in the fighting shelling and airstrikes by u.s. led coalition forces. a recent.