trade unions business groups and the minute tree but the protests signal a wider impatience with the status quo in the oil rich country many of the protest as. a to change what they see as deep rooted corruption among the ruling and the well jeff porsha is the founder of wealth of north africa risk consulting and he says the president still has strong support with old devices you know reasoning by analogy is always a dangerous thing to do. and you know algeria is not too easy is not egypt it's not syria it's not this is not an arab spring this is its own. generic systemic algerian movement it's responding to specific conditions and i'm sure you and it's not easily comparable to the circumstances that unfolded in the other countries that i just mentioned for example. your book flip despite the protests that took place over the last week it especially on friday but flicka does

have a base and he does remain popular is not similar to the indian men are you too easy for us in the bark of egypt's if you go to the countryside booklet that's popular if you ask the older generation bootlick is popular if you ask women. especially secular women who flip the remains popular he's a sympathetic figure he's not a hated thing unlike the other individuals that egypt and tunisia and syria for example or libya. weather is next but still ahead on al-jazeera. i saw it's close to defeat in syria but analysts say the battle is not over with the armed groups. and what's stopping thousands of people from returning home in northern iraq.

and i know that the weather's all very mobile across parts of north america at the moment see the cloud there working its way into the western parts and we have seen some flooding recently here so we don't really need any more rain but the rain is coming anyway and it's working its way eastwards and as it does so it's going to piping up as we head through sunday so we'll see it pushing its way down towards the southern states bringing heavy rain here and a fair amount of snow on its back edge as well and then that system will sweeps its way eastwards as we head into monday and it will turn a good deal cooler behind it atlanta or at best getting to ten degrees on monday and fourth in dallas will only be getting to three so really quite cold for many of us here as we head through the next couple of days a bit further towards the south and there's generally a lot of fine settled weather to be found across many of us in the central americas currently a few showers perhaps dotted about one or two perhaps there in the film in parts of cuba but i think most of us will get away with a draw a day

a bit further towards the south there and there are plenty more showers here for many of us across brazil it's looking incredibly wet currently and that system stretches all the way down towards rio rio is looking pretty soggy and as we head through monday that system doesn't really move anywhere in a great hurry it'll stay rather sherry here asuncion will be hot will be up at thirty eight degrees. all through the course of this week the secrecy of money will influence the u.k. exit from the european good morning we'll get to grips with one of southeast asia target covered all of these really benefits of the five g. telecoms are counting the cost. and value. somebody like.

hello again i'm. reminded of the news this hour the u.s. and south korea ending their major joint military drills to support future talks with north korea on denuclearization and the announcement comes just days after president donald trump and north korea's leader ended this summit without a deal. on donald trump has been speaking to the bosses at the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the u.s. the president attacks democrats over their plan to tackle climate change and dismissed their attempts to look into his personal finances. algeria's president of the us he's put a fleet is refusing to bow to protesters demands that he doesn't seek

a fifth town instead of the eighty two year old sacked an unpopular campaign chief and named your placement for next month's elections. funerals are being held for some of the victims of the latest fighting in the disputed kashmir region at least seven people were killed in cross border shelling between india and pakistan tension remains high between the two countries with fighting receiving just hours after pakistan released an indian pilot in a gesture of peace prime minister narendra modi is calling for indians tonight he's also challenging those who are questioning his leadership amid the current crisis august. these are those people who listen to statements from pakistani generals pakistan radio and via saying there is evidence against india they are against made against modi and now they are damaging the country india and tuning a gets the country i want to ask the people who do you believe us or not or do you believe

those people who were seemed to arrest into our country. is a former army colonel in the indian army and a columnist on strategic affairs defense and diplomacy he joins us now live from new delhi as we just heard the indian prime minister is accusing pakistan of sending terrorists into his country how true is that when we look at the armed groups operating in the area. where true or not is is a matter of perception in india now days it's a highly polarized electorate and more the prime minister more the i should say is is playing that polarization game the recent strikes on pakistan for example on terror camps that india launched air strikes to destroy them. as much domestic political game as they were a strategic sort of message to pakistan so the indian electorate is sharply

polarized there are those who believe more these message of polarization they would constitute about thirty five percent of the electorate there is another thirty. five percent of the electorate is sharply opposed to prime minister more these message of polarization and there's this other thirty percent that both sides of the electorate divide up playing for right now at this point in day so the message that more these seeking to send to his voters is that he's a strong decisive leader that he's the one who's going to safeguard them against pakistan back terrorism and at the same time there is pressure from india international pressure being mounted to declare elements in pakistan his terrorist entity this terrorist supporting individuals so this is a combination of international strategy and relations with pakistan as well as domestic political messaging as well let's let me ask you as

a former army colonel just how much support are these groups actually receiving from the pakistani government just repeat that question please and you're a former army colonel and i'm wondering just how much support these armed groups actually receiving from the pakistan pakistani government in kind and kind or otherwise. well that pakistan has supported and nurtured terrorist jihadi groups as an element of its strategy against india is beyond doubt this there are there is the there is us un designation as terrorist entities of many of these groups there is evidence that has been provided to pakistan pakistan is widely regarded now internationally pockley due to indian pressure and a sustained campaign from india as a country that supports terrorist groups there is evidence playing out on the ground every day in places like the shmita and occasionally in terror strikes in

the rest of india and mainland india as well so that pakistan supports these groups is beyond question the real question is how much of the domestic terrorist activity is blamed on pakistan because there is some domestic terrorist activity as well within india and specially in places like me but pakistan provides a convenient can do to blame everything on but the bottom line does remain that pakistan nurtures these groups as an element of its strategy against india and that is likely to continue by the looks of it. a former army colonel from the indian army thanks for being with us on out of there the syrian democratic forces say they're closing in on the last remaining eisel fighters in the village of the goodness and while the group may syrian suffer a territorial defeat analysts say it's still premature to declare victory and

reports. exhausted hungry and sick thousands of women and children have fled there as were in southeastern syria in the last week ahead of a u.s. back to salt on the last piece of ice will so-called caliphate the town of. the mainly kurdish fighters of the syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. say only those they call terrorists remain there now as fifteen thousand troops advance on the town and incendiary munitions rained down from the sky. we do not know what the clashes will lead to but the military operation will continue to eliminate terrorists inside of if we notice any civilians we will try to avoid them and evacuate them during the ongoing military operation as the s.d.f. advance on five fronts they face more than a thousand hardened fighters difficult terrain suicide bombers mines and a large tunnel network but even once bug falls and i still suffer what some are

calling a final territorial defeat the group and its members will remain a serious threat this is not and of isis at all and we have seen how. this kind of similar terrorist group autumn now thriving in africa and i won't be surprised if these same groups we're taught to get. to get civilian they would have military operation inside you would order the united states of america because all the grudges and. political crisis that open that led to the emergence of this group. there. all the battle for the goose is expected to end soon and commanders will declare the group defeated no one really knows for sure what happens after that and you should tell al-jazeera well the defeat of i sell in the northern iraqi town of

single and twenty fifteen has left a power vacuum the area is rife with competing armed groups all vying for control and that's preventing thousands of people from the minority is it a community who fled from returning home charles stratford reports from. there's a piece of fears eisel either killed his wife or like many young women sold into slavery she disappeared in two thousand and fourteen when along with tens of thousands of other families from iraq's minority easy community they tried to flee the eisel offensive on sin jaw i saw was defeated in sin jar in nov twenty fifth dean now mary his children and sick father are among a few use e.d.'s who have returned. with some of their wise advice to ruled over everything they sabotaged the lads and killed our relatives and neighbors what i saw was kicked out they left nothing behind we still don't have much left to eat or

to drink. it's estimated around seventy percent of sin job was destroyed in the battle against isis but it's not just the delay in reconstruction that's preventing people from returning to their homes. there are various military forces and groups in the area but according to commanders little cooperation between. what remains of the town of singe are is in that direction behind the tile and you have a p.k. k. forces in control of that area to my left over those mountains there is the iraqi army and pro iran all groups known as hotshot a shabby i'm standing on a peshmerga position one of the main reasons why thousands of people cannot go back to singe are to try and restart their lives because of the lack of coordination between the various armed forces operating in this area. the us either you in

turkey consider the kurdish p k k to be a terrorist organization it's been fighting for an independent kurdish state for more than thirty years. and there's been tension between the iraqi federal government and the semi autonomous kurdish regional government of northern iraq over disputed territories for decades. the various forces in and outside sindh job reaching consensus to better administer the town's political and security situation they've been not returning to their homes because there's no long term solution being implemented by the authorities around two hundred thousand years edis have little choice but to live in poli equipped camps in the kurdish region of the iraq. want this issue ation singe out is critical here the political bickering and security tension among the various forces is overshadowing on the town's future the only solution to move forward is to pull all these forces out and

let the people of the town decide their fate these e.d.'s often called iraq's forgotten people of the suffering some of the worst atrocities on the eisel political violence and distrust means they are now also struggling to rebuild their lives stuff at al-jazeera more northern iraq the new york times is reporting that a jewel of u.s. saudi official has been tortured by the saudi authorities the newspaper lead alleges that while it fits i.e. he fits he was based in and subjected to electric shocks during his imprisonment at a hotel in riyadh he was one of hundreds of people arrested in twenty seventeen and what the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salam said was a crackdown on corruption he is still believed to be in detention saudi officials have denied any mistreatment of detainees. yellow vest protest as a keeping up their demands for french president emanuel

a quit they've launched for a sixteenth weekend in a row the protest began over a proposal to increase fuel taxes which has since been scrapped but the movement's grown into anti-government rallies support for those rallies has tailed off as the president tries to engage people in a national conversation known as the great debate the goal is to gather ideas for a more inclusive government and as david chase the reports from the city of rome he's getting support from one of the toughest crowds. when the gate closes behind you at number twenty three boulevard robespierre in rants you might lose your freedom but you don't lose your vote the champagne city's only prison is the latest venue for president macaroons attempt to outflank d.l. a vest rebellion and listen to the voice of the people we can't identify the inmates but we can bring you their opinions simonis does your voice things that you love as demonstrations were beneficial as a guise of not a political party but to people different regarded as the differences it was

a good movement as it actually triggered this debate a debate that was needed a new national. a thirty one year old m.p. from the president's party was the heart of the debate with the prisoners she passionately rejected their cynicism about politicians and they were going to be i think we are living an excellent democratic exercise as of today we have received more than a million contributions to this debate and that is a success it was time to give back the word to the french people that you do see the big debate is meant to reach every now and every level of society even here behind bars and it is beginning to work present emmanuel mackerels ratings are beginning to climb once again. the same can't be said for the conditions in french prisons they have one of europe's highest rates of overcrowding. and only france is

safe to be the homeland of human rights but the penitentiary system is not given the means to guarantee that inmates human rights european regulations require we are two in a cell have a shower and a lot of lame but sometimes we have four people in one square metres to go there but that's the debate go straight to the key point it allows the detained population to be fully recognized to citizens as french citizens but radicalization is flourishing in french prisons the. bait about how to tackle that has barely begun yet and scores of ice all fighters may soon be repaired treated from syria david chase or al-jazeera runs. and i missed the attainder how with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. and south korea are ending their major joint military drills to support future talks with north korea on denuclearization the announcement comes just days after

donald trump and kim jong un ended their summit in vietnam without a deal from the right has more from seoul i think it's certainly going to be welcomed by the south korean government of president moon jay in who as we know is offered once more to act as mediator between the u.s. and north korea to try to get things back on track and is really looking for help from any quarter right now especially given the disappointment of the failure of the noise summit will also help his personal efforts to try to improve into a korean relations that he's been working on alongside trying to reestablish good relations between the u.s. and north korea donald trump has been speaking to supporters at the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the u.s. the president attacked democrats over their plan to tackle climate change and dismissed their attempts to look into his personal finances while making confident noises about challenging trump is bernie sanders in his second bid for the

presidency launching his campaign in brooklyn the soundest told supporters he expected to win the democratic nomination he describes trump as the most dangerous president in modern american history. algeria's president. is refusing to bow to protesters demands that he doesn't seek a fifth term instead the eighty two year old has sacked an unpopular campaign chief and named a replacement for next month's elections. there have been funerals for victims of the latest violence in the disputed kashmir region at least seven people were killed in a cross border shelling between india and pakistan. the new york times is reporting that a jewel us saudi physician has been tortured by saudi authorities the newspaper and ledges that walid fatai he was beaten and subjected to electric shocks while imprisoned at a hotel in riyadh he is one of hundreds of people arrested in twenty seventeen and what was claimed to be a crackdown on corruption yellow vest protesters are keeping up their demands for

french president emanuel to quit they've launched for a sixteenth weekend in a row those are the headlines next stop counting the cost to stay with us. we understand the different scenes. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the good and this is counting the cost of the cereal with you look at the world of business and economics this week we'll speak to open the more crecy about the secretive money working to influence the ukase exit from the european union also this week a tiger economy in the making why vietnam is struggling to be recognised as an

emerging market. who really benefits in the five g. telecoms era. less than a thousand dollars until the u.k. leaves the european union and people living there still have no idea what's going to happen or no deal a long delay or a short delay or heartbreaks it or indeed no briggs's at all are still possible outcomes as the clock ticks down hospitals are preparing for shortages leave parker reports. breaks it in all its possible forms is bad for britain's health services putting lives at risk. that's the conclusion of months of research looking at different breck six scenarios from leaving the e.u. without a deal to a slower managed departure one of the biggest worries is about recruiting and retaining staff under no deal breaks it the government proposes a minimum salary threshold of forty thousand dollars which could limit immigration

of vital health workers to the u.k. including nurses and new to qualified doctors there's already a critical shortage of medical staff the report's authors say breaks it will deepen the problem there is an argument that you can say that the people who are no longer coming from the e.u. can come from the rest of the world and that's fine but then you lose all the safeguards that the u.s. has built up the mechanisms so there are going to be a lot of problems with staffing the n.h.s. of course we can train more people but it takes about ten years to train a doctor so that's not a short term solution the report also warns that in the event of a no deal british citizens living in the e.u. in the united was in britain will no longer be able to access each other's health services for free raising fears for older residents including thousands of brits who've retired to spain sunny coastline without new laws and imports and exports supplies of medicines blood products vaccinations a medical equipment are also at risk some medicines can be stockpiled but others

such as radioactive isotopes used to detect cancer has cannot. the health of a national health service remain central to the break to debate in the run up to the twenty sixteen breaks that referendum the vote leave campaign claims that every week three hundred fifty million pounds four hundred sixty million dollars will return to the british economy if the u.k. voted to leave the e.u. the claim was even put on the side of a bus but it wasn't true despite that a lot of people still believe it whatever happens here in the u.k. the health of the economy matters if it contracts as it has been doing over the past few months but it's likely to put the n.h.s. under increasing strain. the u.k.'s health secretary matt hancock has written to doctors and hospitals outlining the government's plans to ensure britain has an additional six weeks of supplies in the event of a no deal breck's it thousands of extra fridges have been bought to stockpile drugs

the u.k.'s preparing for a possible national emergency many of the country's leading doctors say the diagnosis isn't good joining us now from edinburgh adam ramsey is the coeditor of open democracy u.k. good to have you with us adam we hear a lot about project fear surrounding iraq how do i suppose you could argue that the report we've seen is perhaps a classic example of that even though it's based on the government's own findings what do you make of project fear. i suppose i think that often they're not afraid of the right things with me the big concern about the n.h.s. with brax it is that one of the stories we've been following democracy dot net is the way that a key think tank which has been implementing government policy very heavily around back system which is pushing very hard it is funded by an american trust called the templeton foundation in order to from a privatisation of the n.h.s. and i would see that as an attempt by american health care companies to buy up hold sway the british health care so for me it's not just about the sort of the fears

that the government talks but i'm worried about the whole dismantling of the n.h.s. through the process of drugs and i'm your investigative journalism at open democracy focuses on in particular dark money that influences politics particularly surrounding bricks it's been described as a cancer that's eating away at politics what is dark money where does it come from and what is it being used for so don't money is any money which is used to influence politics i'm it comes from a source which is hidden so we don't know where it comes from to want your second question and we spend a lot of time trying to find that out but what we do know is that many millions of pounds was spent during the referendum promoting a leave and that when we trace where that money comes from it very quickly goes back to britain's network of tax havens and secrecy areas and then it disappears and so we don't know if we lose the scent we don't know where it's who it is pumping this money into our politics but it also funds

a lot of the main think tanks as i was just talking about and the groups trying to influence the practice process there's a whole network of very prominent think tanks in the u.k. groups like the institute for economic affairs who refuse to reveal where their money comes from but he often feel like they're promoting the interests of very rich people or particular business groups but pretend that they're just doing it as a kind of intellectual exercise rather than as a lobbyist does dark money mean that democracy is under threat should people not just in the u.k. but elsewhere in the world be more aware of how the politics is being funded. absolutely i mean you know politics is shaped by money wheel we all know that and if we don't know who's paying for what then there's a massive threat to our debate you know huge chunks of political debates are shaped by people who pretend to be there a source of innocent intellectuals or think tanks but in reality are being paid for by some secret source some business lobby group so for example in the u.k.

we know for years that the sabbatical industry paid for people like the institute for economic affairs to promote the idea that tobacco didn't cause cancer we now know that it did but millions of people died because of delayed action on that issue we know the same about climate change it turns out that lots of the people who have been telling us that climate change isn't real turn out to have been funded by the fossil fuel industry to say that and again delayed action on the issues will lead us towards the climate history when they're facing and you see the same story with breaks a huge amount of the money that paid for the breaks that referendum turns out to come from unknown sources and from very powerful business lobby groups who want to know it was in the process but he as far as i can see seems to be very keen to take britain away from the regulation of the e.u. and drag it towards the kind of unregulated space of america so they can do things like privatized the n.h.s. so they can slash regulations so they can keep britain the world's money and rich

of course is what it is now for many of the billionaires across the planet and your work has led to the end of the secrecy in northern ireland it's provided evidence for three electoral commission investigations in the u.k. with briggs it as it is at the moment everything still up in the year is dark money still in play. absolutely i mean one of the stories revealed on open democracy dot net just recently is that there's huge amounts of money millions of pounds pouring into facebook promoting a heartbreaks it so no deal from the so you know most of the serious think is see that as a calamity for ordinary people in the u.k. but of course if that happens then there are people very rich people who could make huge amounts of money from that crash and also from the kind of deregulation that's likely to follow from it so absolutely dark money play right now promoting these sort of quite extreme ist ideas right across the internet in the u.k. facebook is full of adverts right now i mean don't know who's paying for them and as far as the elections that at that are coming up it's the same troop that is the

more simply not up to the task when it comes to things like digital manipulation well so on the elections we're working on that right now and i can't reveal everything but absolutely i'd say i'm very worried from what i've seen so far that there's a lot of money coming from very rich people across the world who are very keen that the far right parties across europe do very well in that election they want to dismantle the sort of regulated space which they see is holding them to account and they want to imprison ordinary people like us in borders and stop us from being able to capture these people who like to fish around between offshore spaces these kind of multibillionaires if you want to go and so absolutely this is you know state of play and still is still a major concern something we're still working on very hard on it and with all of these vested interests at play here i can imagine that there are people who don't

like what i would democracy is doing a have you received threats over your work. i'm very accustomed to billionaires sending legal letters we absolutely used to tell you know pointing out that you know we report facts and if they really want to stand up in court and deny the hard facts we report then they're welcome to do so and you know we we stand on those facts we have been lucky we're not received any physical threats threat think that most people aren't stupid enough to take on journalists to people know our reporting on them so nothing physical but we certainly received many illegal letter and you know and i'm glad to say you know so far that that's not stop trusting our work and from open the moxy don't know many thanks steve really good to talk to you still to come on counting the cost the price of drugs while lawmakers in the u.s. are demanding answers from the big pharma companies. but first

a train journey away from north korea hanoi vietnam was in the spotlight this week the city played host as u.s. president donald trump met north korea's leader kim jong un for their second face to face summit vietnam's being showcased by the u.s. as an example of a foe turned friend kimberly hellcat reports. a quarter of a century after the war in vietnam ended jim garcia has traveled to the vietnam veterans memorial wall to honor those who fought and died in the conflict. i think . garcia's father was a marine who served two tours in the vietnam war the conflict cost more than fifty eight thousand american lives most of them moralized here in washington d.c. u.s. president donald trump avoided military service during vietnam citing bone spurs something he's been heavily criticized for. but the vietnamese capital of her

noir was chosen as the venue for trump to meet north korean leader kim jong il and for their second face to face summit the country serves as an example of how old foes can become friends to come the nine hundred fifty s. through the early one nine hundred seventy s. the united states sent its men to fight vietnam a generation later a nine hundred ninety four bill clinton and other u.s. president who avoided military service lifted a trade embargo on this communist country completely changing vietnam's relationship with the united states since then the vietnamese economy has been. the us is now one of vietnam's biggest trading partners like vietnam after the war the us and north korea have no formal diplomatic or economic ties we think that north korea.