nine u.s. states. an israeli supreme court which is loyal to president nicolas my little issued a rapid response. to this is yet another assault by the national assembly which has been declared a more full accused of venezuela's most vital resource its decision regarding say a constitutionally protected company are none void and have no legal effect the judge also ordered the extradition of the board members named by the national assembly to trumpet ministration prepares to announce yes war sanctions aimed at further tightening the economic news on president now the. unfinished house is empty highrises and row upon row of homes fit for royalty these have all become symbols of turkey's struggling economy construction has been the turbine behind the country's growth but high inflation in a devalued currency is threatening to make the industry go from boom to bust

stephanie decker reports. a little fantasy some gothic a bit of disney and a touch of turkish history that's how this rather unique thermal spa housing development has been described to us by its creator but this mountain castle kingdom has been less fairytale and more nightmare for its developers they filed for bankruptcy protection because they couldn't afford their payments to the bank in essence gaining time the project will go ahead they tell us the economy is struggling largely because of the devalued turkish lira and high inflation work here is now on hold i'm talking on the sort of muscle we made some mistakes that we had conducted the project in phases and not all at once we would have opened the site long ago but there was high demand so we thought we could easily sell them all this is why we are facing problems now around three hundred of these castles have been sold we're told and there are around seven hundred thirty in total now one of these units have still not been finished in this project in particular is aimed at

buyers from gulf countries but what is happening here is indicative of a wider trend of the struggling construction industry across the country in istanbul turkey is economic capital partially finished building stand idle there are no workers in the cranes to move the construction sector used to be the driving force behind turkey's economy a policy adopted by president regift a party jobs mean votes now we're told people are losing their jobs or haven't been paid in months. vicky building houses mega projects and now they're not being sold so the government introduced measures like lowering mortgage interest rates we looked at the arab states to sell but it only goes so far worst days are ahead. economists we spoke to are just as pessimistic. as they've got the fastest job losses are happening in the construction sector and also the fastest bankruptcies but the real collapse will take place after local elections on march

thirty first for now both the government and the banks at the fearing the big collapse the government has introduced several measures to ease the crisis cutting real estate taxes ordering state banks to lower interest mortgages and offering foreign buyers citizenship but so far nothing seems to work this mosque is the proud project the president aired on the company behind it now bankrupt it remains unfinished many business men say they're waiting for the local elections to be over then hopefully things will improve banking on a young population that will push domestic demand but that has to be in the right economic climate most of the economic predictions indicate that things could get worse. production of the world's largest passenger jet is to end as a result of falling orders airbus says it will stop making the a three eighty in two years' time threatening thousands of jobs but reports from toulouse. aviation

fans call it the super jumbo the airbus a three eighty is the world's biggest passenger plane when it launched in two thousand and five bosses of the european plane maker hoped it would revolutionize long haul travel but now the and its production in twenty twenty one i mean there's been speculation. for years whether we were ten years to create the becomes clear when we were probably at least ten years too late or more powered by four engines the a three eighty double decker can carry more than five hundred forty passengers but since its creation it's been plagued by delivery delays rising costs and falling orders bosses say the final blow came after to buy based airline emirates reduced an order of the model by thirty nine planes because of a fall in demand bosses of call the decision to end the a three eighty painful and disappointing but they admitted it made no financial sense to continue with such

a large aircraft when the trend in airline travel is toward smaller planes like these trained between when airlines expected superjumbo to be the flagship of that fleet that switched very fast to airlines recognizing that actually there are smaller aircraft that seat a good amount of passengers but a far more efficient and it's the efficiency that is king. shareholders have welcomed the end of the a three eighty considered by some as a financial drain indeed the company also announced a jump in profits on thursday but workers will be concerned as some three thousand five hundred jobs across the company are likely to be affected their bus will now focus on smaller planes but there will be many people who'd be sad to see the end of an aircraft widely regarded as a feat of engine. nearing. joining us now from birmingham is david bailey david's a professor of industrial strategy at aston business school david good to have you with us i love the a three eighty so the most prestigious why have airlines fallen

out of love with it this is a super plane i love flying out it myself and it it is technologically brilliant but it's an expensive plane both to build and also to fly because it uses a lot of fuel what we've seen instead is big technological advances in engines and making planes lighter and that means that midsize planes can now fly much longer distances including from australia right through to london for example so we've seen a growth in midrange planes which are much cheaper to fly airlines have tended to prefer those instead so the a three eighty isn't selling as much it's not profitable have taken the very painful decision to finish it off so that neither the airlines that operate the a three eighty are now going to get to phase them out i don't think so that i think they'll be in service for many years to come on big trunk routes where you get a big throughput of people from particularly into some of the major hubs in the middle east where they carry very large numbers of people but i think they're going forwards they're not looking to expand their fleets and they won't be looking to

replace them so we'll still see them for many years but simply not on the scale they're barsad imagine when they invested very very heavily in developing this enormous airplane the boeing seven four seven when it fell out of favor as a passenger aircraft when it became too expensive to operate found a new lease of life as a cargo aircraft is that going to happen with the a three eighty does still think there is a role for it on these big international feeder routes from europe into the middle east and then on to the far east and backwards so i think we'll still see it uses a passenger plane remember as well is very very popular with passengers that the space available on the a three eighty is unparalleled in terms of other airplanes. i much rather fly on an a three eighty than the smaller aircraft especially long haul is this the end of the hub dream many of these these airlines of course set themselves up as hubs in the middle east in particular we've got turkey about to open a huge new airport does this mean that that particular era of the hub is over now i

don't think so i think that what we'll see is a mix of so the small and mid-size planes can go much further distances that is true but there is still a role for the hubs i think and what we're seeing is the rise of these kind of mega hubs in the middle east and turkey which feeds traffic from the east through to europe so i think i think there's still considerable scope for the hubs but what it means is that there's more competition as well so these mid-range planes can fly direct increasingly very long flights which can bypass them in some cases what happens to all of the jobs that are involved with making the a three eighty in places like to lose and hamburg and bristol and and north wales and of course all the companies that make the components that the third party companies that make the components what happens to those jobs that's true i think saying that they hope that some of the jobs will transition into producing some of them more popular

airplanes a three thirty and the a three fifty for example which have been taking sales away from the a three eighty so this is more about kind of slightly restructuring their production operations certainly there may be some job losses in the u.k. in terms of some of the components that go into the airplane but also remember there is a huge issue about air burst operations in the u.k. given uncertainty over bricks it so whether more jobs are lost in the u.k. as against in continental europe made that the whole brics uncertainty is going to be a factor there in terms of whether air bus invest in your parishioners and facilities in the u.k. . but as far as you're concerned there when this isn't all bad news here it's not we're not going to lose the a three eighty not for many years yet now i think it will be in service for many years to come so particularly on those big feeder routes so for those passengers that really like the space on the airplane it will still be around it simply isn't going to be as prevalent as hoped for given that there's been these technological developments more aircraft can now fly much longer

distances much more economically so hopefully we'll still see it flying professor really good to talk to you many thanks indeed for being with us on counting the cost thank you now thailand is one of the world's largest exporters of fish but it industry has faced accusations of human trafficking and abuse two very different movies at berlin's film festival highlighting the problem in an attempt to make us think more about the food we eat the dean barber reports. look at how much candy in your low muscling chakra is a teenager who leaves home in rural cambodia for a job in thailand at least that's what he thinks he's doing. soon he's in the hands of people smugglers and forced to work without pay on a tiny fishing boat his story forms the backbone of buoyancy getting its world premiere at the berlin ali and the fifteen year old playing him says filming gave him a small insight into how much suffering is involved they and. and how hard. on

a fall. one is really. for and. so. through any cannot and. i find. the direct to base the film on interviews with survivors of human trafficking in cambodia he's now planning to show the finished product that. many people who did i would love for the film to work back in cambodia on a kind of educational level for those guys are thinking about going to thailand and i understand there's some risk but don't fully know what's at stake if if they get trafficked tricked on and on one of its trolls. i meet again i'm tackling the issue from another angle the documentary ghost fleet follows thai activists committed to freeing in slave fisherman and getting justice

for them. by mixing first person testimony with a reenactment that shows how an industry exporting fish around the world sometimes deals in misery to all. food is an essential part of this film first of all from street stalls like this to soirees with the stars and it even gets its own film strands called cullen re cinema. and organizers hope by showing films such as ghost fleet they can help people think about the origin of what they eat every food has a story the fish has a story vegetable has has a story and the filmmakers are much more diligent and more aware of telling these stories. however they're told at these tales or aims less at making the audience feel bad at the net getting them to make a change. and that's our show for this week if you'd like to comment

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justifying a national emergency us president donald trump and the funds to pay for a wall on the us mexico border. venezuela's president because most. or explains to al-jazeera why he won't let us say into his country. just as in haiti remain defiant and say they won't stop demonstrating until the president steps down. and walking into the unknown the british functional world fears. the u.s. president has declared a national emergency to x. has been eons of dollars for his controversial border wall senior democrats republicans accuse donald trump of a gross abuse of power the democrat controlled house judiciary committee is already investigating saying it raises constitutional issues can help get reports from washington d.c. . to fulfilling a twenty sixteen presidential campaign promise in

a most unconventional way i'm going to be signing a national emergency. after the u.s. congress refused this week to approve president trump's request for a five point seven billion to build a wall along the u.s. southern border trub circumvented the legislative body by declaring a national emergency truck now has access to eight billion dollars already approved by congress to build three hundred seventy six kilometers of wall to stop illegal immigration even though the white house won't say exactly where we want to stop drugs from coming into our country. we want to stop criminals and gangs from coming into our country his democratic opponents in congress say the crisis is manufactured and motivated by racism there's concern about this february tenth tribe tweet yarg use

a wall is needed to stop the influx of forty two million latin americans into the united states something trump says would be a disaster. opponents are vowing to overturn what they say is the president's power grab and defend congress's constitutional authority to decide how taxpayer money is spent through legislation and in the courts but trump is pushing back arguing other presidents have also made emergency declarations to achieve political goals like president george w. bush made similar declarations after the september eleventh attacks those continue to this day drops already anticipating legal challenges but he expects to prevail in the courts as he points out he did when his ban on travelers entering the united states from some muslim majority countries was also challenged we will then be sued and they will sue us in the ninth circuit even though it shouldn't be there and we

will possibly get a bad ruling and then we'll get another bad ruling and that will end up in the supreme court and hopefully we'll get a fair shake and we'll win in the supreme court but the legal and legislative challenges will be long and lengthy with presidential campaigning already underway doubletons attempt to keep a twenty sixteen campaign promise has become a twenty twenty presidential campaign issue as well kimberly helped get al jazeera the white house john hendren joins us live now from washington d.c. john so now that trump has signed off on his emergency what happens next and how is this law going to be challenged. well it'll be a challenge on a couple of different fronts daryn first of all as you mentioned the house judiciary committee newly controlled by democrats is going to be investigating this in addition to a series of other investigations into the trumpet ministration now that'll raise public awareness in likely public hearings about about what has been going on with

with this declaration of emergency that could lead to legislation they could specifically forbid the president from doing this however that would have to pass the senate and overcome a presidential veto probably what they will go with in the end is a lawsuits these these will all happen simultaneously a lawsuit filed by democrats there is already a lawsuit that has been threatened by the attorney general of the state of california and then there are outside groups that claim an interest here all of them saying that this is not an emergency at the southern border that in fact. it's about a four day four decade low of arrests for illegal crossings at that border and the president himself just hours ago said that he didn't have to do this but he wanted to speed up the process it is within the purview of congress to control spending that'll be the main argument they make here that it's their job not the president's

and on what sort of political fallout is there likely to be from all of this especially for republicans now and in the future. well there are a lot of republicans running for election in twenty twenty they just took a shellacking in twenty eighteen and they're going to have to answer for this they have been pretty much lockstep in standing behind the president throughout the past two years however there have been recent cracks in which republicans have been critical of him for making this declaration of an emergency you heard can really help get in that story talk about how they are saying this could lead a future democratic president to declare whatever he or she pretty much wanted to be an emergency climate control gun violence so the republicans will have to answer for that and if things go badly for the trumpet ministration in the future they will be tied to the president unless they start speaking up and we'll see if that happens as the house judiciary committee launches its investigation john hendren

there in washington john thank you. now trump has described an invasion of migrants drugs and violence flooding into the u.s. from mexico but this is likely as john was saying that to be challenged in court and legal immigration across the border is at a twenty year low and a wall won't prevent migrants crossing at legal points of entry to request asylum promising the wall will stop the flow of drugs but government data shows eighty to ninety percent of heroin cocaine and methamphetamine through official entry points with marijuana being the only exception the president also made bold claims about the country's murder rate saying thousands of lives have been lost if he didn't but there's little data linking crime to immigration particle and explains. it was the longest government shutdown in history brought on by u.s. president donald trump in hopes of getting funding for a wall in the southern border. eight hundred thousand federal workers went without pay trash piled up at the national parks and important government work like giving

farmers loans didn't get done so president trump balt he reopen the government saying he wanted to give congress time to come up with a compromise now that it looks like they won't give him his wall after all he's making the unprecedented move of declaring a national emergency which allows him to take money that congress voted to spend on other things and diverted to build the wall it's a move he has long hinted at the president says. fairly often. fifty times presidents have declared a national emergency but it's almost always to target foreign countries like iran or south africa for apartheid or haiti after coup. it has been used in other ways to combat the h one n one flu pandemic and after the attacks on nine eleven but it is never been used to get around congress which under the constitution has the sole power to spend the government's money democrats had hinted at

a likely legal challenge but there. and they. thought that if you. removed having the courts decide could take years chris adelson wrote a book about this law and he says there is another way in theory members of congress if they believe that this is a contrived emergency which it pretty clearly is. even some republicans are saying that they would take a vote on legislation to reject that finding and repudiate the emergency basically cancel out with the president is done and we are building a wall on the southern border which is absolutely necessary. this was a key campaign promise of the term campaign. he promised mexico would pay for it they are not so now he's taking this unprecedented move to try and make it happen but it's far from certain this will

work or that his promised wall will ever be built. al-jazeera lushington well let's bring in jamie zeno she's a political science professor at iona college and joins us live via skype from new rochelle in new york jami the democrats have already said look they're going to file legal challenges to trump's emergency declaration does this then mean that trump won't get his will money until this is sorted out by the courts i mean that could take months or even. yet he's not going to get his money until this is sorted out in the courts what's unclear now is if the courts are going to accept that the congressional democrats have standing to sue in this case it may be being that other people have standing to sue the state attorney general for instance people who live on the border where this wall is supposed to be built in raise issues of eminent domain so it's unclear yet who the courts will see as having standing to sue but to your right he's not going to be able to use the money until this is sorted out in the courts whether it's x.

but i did or not most legal scholars say this is going to take months if not as you mentioned years in part because we've never seen this happen before for all the states of emergencies that have been declared since the one nine hundred seventy s. about fifty eight it's never been done in this kind of situation where congress has considered and rejected the request instead it's been done in situations where there's a real emergency and that congress doesn't have time to consider the request so close to nine eleven for instance those are the kinds of emergencies are used as safe and many of those not this time judy let's talk about the national emergencies act but there's that allows more makers to cancel trumps declaration of emergency is that likely to happen given that some can veto any joint resolution. they may get the numbers they need if they get enough moderate republicans in the senate to go over with the democrats to pass the bill but as you mentioned the president is

likely to veto it unlikely they'd have the numbers the democrats in congress to get the an override a veto so that's probably not likely something that they're going to be able to do successfully and many experts on lawmakers say that trumps russia knol for his emergency is based on false or misleading claims but that's not likely to affect his base though is it i mean this is a promise he made to his supporters and he aims to deliver. he does aim to deliver interestingly enough and underreported is the fact that some supporters in his base are not happy with what he's done in terms of allowing the government to stay open he talked at the press conference today about ann coulter she is not happy that you allow the government to stay open because she knows the reality here this is going to be tied up in courts for months if not years there is not going to be a wall as she said and so for her and some other people on the base the president is trying to fulfill those promises in a way.