any of the other refugees was born in me in mar with no papers no official status not officially recognized the me i'm our government says they are bengali muslims despite their families having been in myanmar for generations all want to return home many say they know it will be a difficult and long journey stephanie decker al-jazeera cox's bazaar bangladesh. the british prime minister is expected to hold last minute talks with e.u. leaders in strasburg later on monday that's after the bloc warned to resume may that it's now up to british m.p.'s to decide the next steps to take britain out of the e.u. auditions in the u.k. will vote on her latest deal on tuesday more miss lawrence lee joins us live from west mr lawrence there had been some speculation as to whether that mean for a vote would take place tuesday and tomorrow in parliament as as the pm promised as it now looks like it's going to head. yes it does that there was a genuine panic earlier on around westminster suggestion that trees may might might

have a thing about pulling it on the grounds of she'd lose it and that lets a pretty dire warnings from rebels inside her own party that they put her in contempt of parliament and should try to unseat was prime minister if she were to do that but this afternoon there's been some sort of ratios of the vote is going to go ahead and on the assumption still that she's more likely than not to lose it's the sequences that then be a further votes on whether the parliament wants to rule out leaving the e.u. without any deal it'll which would almost certainly happen and then based on that the be another vote who should be the critical one about whether parliament wants to get the european off the european union suit to delay leaving and that then would have to go to the european union as a summit next week for full russification and so on the assumption that it looks like she's going to looser votes again if the if by less than she did last time around then that potential delay to bracks it looks increasingly likely and the reports of the promises of to strasburg to meet the president you know what does

she have to get out of that meeting. well it's either going any see the loss or the dice the choices some in some way solve salvage her deal there are some sort of rumors that even the e.u. it won't won't budge on this british demand it should be allowed to leave the orbits of the european union the boss called a backstop at the customs arranged. whatever it feels like jungle gym for the european commission might shites a find some form of words a piece of paper that's reason make and wave around in parliament before the vote some are to say look please let you know these going to be ok batmobile but there still seems to more m.p.'s on her own side's pads suit it's a vote it down and for them support it's based on that the question increasingly will be how long would the delay be full and it seems likely that they would be probably for a couple of months up until european elections at the end of may but not much

longer than that's when the question then if a deal still can't get past is whether or no deal happens or whether the u.k. decides to abandon the entire project and not leave the european union the sole that's that's really where it seems to be getting so at the moment there is the thank you very much indeed. still to come an offensive in libya as the un backed government sends forces to defend the northern city of syria. ongoing power cuts in but israel are affecting access to fresh food and water supplies as the blackout enters a fourth day. hello we've got more wet weather on its way to some parts of china at the moment it's generally try but thickening cloud just starting to spill in here as you go on through the next day or so southeast is settled and it's sunny twenty five celsius

for hong kong further north shanghai getting up to around ninety degrees over the next couple days but here's that rain and it will be heavy at times is up towards. hong kong stays dry you see that easterly wind fading in and temperatures again getting up to around twenty four degrees celsius logic right see across much of south asia you can see this little area cloud here that's just pulling out of pakistan we had some wintry showers is fizzling out it will be generally settle for choose dilation as you can see much of india also settled in sunny for tuesday might casio just creeping its way towards the southeastern corner of sri lanka by midweek by wednesday and by wednesday you can see want to shower just creeping their way back into central and northern parts of pakistan not too many showers in the forecast across the web in peninsula here we don't get temperatures getting up to around twenty seven celsius on tuesday of course warmer weather today but still feeling very pleasant light winds a little bit of cloud in the southern parts of saudi arabia and also the

possibility of some rain for the gulf of aden. africa's most populous nation the broadest economy has a youth unemployment problem in a bid to control the internet of the future some say a kind of digital i am go through this folder we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in. counting the cost on al-jazeera. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as i would that's what this job.

i'm on a top stories here on out there south african airline comair has joined operators from indonesia ethiopia and china in grounding its fleet of boeing seven three seven max eight foreigners the ethiopian airlines crash on sunday which claimed a hundred fifty seven lives. the un special rapporteur on me and more young leaders warned of a new crisis for ring of people goes ahead with the decision to relocate them to a remote island. and the british prime minister will hold last minute breaks it talks with e.u. leaders in strasburg later ahead of a major vote on her withdrawal deal on tuesday. forces aligned with libya's un backed government to be sent to defend the northern city of sit from an advance by the warlord highly for have to and his fighters after his libyan national army which is backed by the united arab emirates and egypt is less than forty kilometers from see it and threatening to attack the city five thousand troops aligned to the

tripoli based government that you just authorizing is on monday to bolster defenses . head is following developments from tripoli. which is allied with the e.u. and the baghdad government of national accord have declared a state of alert and general mobilization to around five thousand fighters with their weapons to move towards the city of sirte that is following a move by a detachment belonging to the warlord khalifa haftar at around four forty kilometers to the south was from the city of namely to the town of bor how the in the south of cities now. commanders say that the are going to face to have to forces and they also say that what happened is a kind of provocative acts by have to forces to test and intimidate the adversities

at the same time they say that that also is a kind of a propaganda by have to his forces to show the public that they can gain ground easily now have those forces have taken pictures of their. early years they were occupying and they also have taken videos and posted them on facebook and in muscles commanders say that this is a kind of propaganda to show the public there have to his forces can gain more ground rules have taken control of sit city in december two thousand and sixteen after the defeated eisel in the area. the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces and says it's killed dozens of i saw fighters defending the armed groups last remaining enclave in syria the s.t.'s resumed the attack on by who is on sunday for a pause to allow civilians to leave the area some five hundred fighters are

believed to be still in the territory along with up to four thousand civilians including women and children the s.d.f. says civilians in the town of being used as human shields. more than one thousand algerian judges say they will not monitor the april elections if president putin sues a fifth term state t.v. reporting that the eighty two year old president returned home on sunday after two weeks in a swiss hospital clerics in algeria also calling on the religious affairs minister to stop pressuring them to give pro-government servers widespread protests or rocked algeria for more than a month with protesters demanding the president end his bid for another term in office. a court in malaysia has freed an indonesian woman accused of killing a north korean leader kim jong un and it's strange to half brother two years ago in a surprise move prosecutors withdrew the charges against city as year one of the

two main suspects in the murder of kim jong nam she's always said she was tricked into smearing the nerve agent in his face by men claiming to be making a reality t.v. show. report. after two years in detention in malaysia city is now a free woman she had been on trial for killing kim jong nam the half brother of north korean leader kim jong il at the start of the hearing on monday the prosecutor asked that the murder charge against him be dropped and the reason was given the judge has granted her a discharge not amounting to an acquittal. as there. i feel so happy i didn't text back that i would be released today a big thank you to president your care widodo and all the ministers also the indonesian embassy her point to the lawyers from malaysia also of course thank you to the malaysian government for releasing me city ayesha says the first thing she's going to do when she returns home to indonesia is see her family. the indonesian

government fought hard for her freedom indonesia's law minister had written to the malaysian attorney general arguing that city had been used as an intelligence tool of north korea city's lawyer said there wasn't enough evidence to convict her there was no direct evidence that she had played anything on you don't not even as you can see from the c.c.t.v. recording. what was the only fall was nearly traces of. degrading for dogs of yanks and that alone is only various the company will that still leaves don t. hong the vietnamese suspect in the dock the case has been adjourned until thursday following a request by heloise they too are seeking for the charges against her to be dropped . the thrust of the defense arguments for the city i share and dawn has been the same that they did not know they were taking part in a murder plot they've said they thought they were recruited to take part in

a reality t.v. show. defense lawyers say the two women were mere porn's in a politically motivated knit for north korean men the alleged masterminds and identified by malaysian police as suspects in the case left malaysia just hours after kim was killed who ordered kim's death. remains a mystery florence lee al-jazeera sholom malaysia. ongoing power cuts in venezuela are impacting access to fresh food already in short supply monday is the fourth day parts of the country have gone without power which is also reduced water supplies in the blackout venezuela's government suspended school and business activities on monday to risible reports from the capital caracas. for three days venezuela has been affected by power cuts. now that people have taken their frustration to the streets and started to block routes in the capital caracas hope

the people of venezuela are only asking for alex tricity and water we don't have food the food is rotten in the refrigerator there's no food or water. the situation has polarized the population between those who want to protest and those who don't . but then supporters of arrived some with their face covered and armed come here and try to get out a rolled up beer and the fans are all click the button bam government supporters mostly known as the cortex people which are basically moving that forward you call out my little came here and removed everything they were using forgot the role. one of their leaders. said he won't allow anyone to generate chaos going into security they want to. down the road and open them without distinction those people want to destroy everything and we will be harder on them just watch. the walls

are like a paramilitary force they have more power than the police and have become a significant force on the street defending the revolution and the tearing protesters. there was a market nearby that merchants were forced to leave because of a tension in the area and people rushed to grab anything they could. is only eight and was one of them we asked her if this was the only food she had to eat she said yes. water has also become a major issue people in the neighborhood have left the media has been without running water for a month they have to wait for hours to feel in their containers. the government is not providing basic public services like water and electricity and so many other things. the government says the latest power cut was an act of sabotage and struggling to restore electricity. but the power continues to go down venezuelans

are already struggling with an enormous economic crisis the power outage is only making the situation worse. railway services between india and pakistan are back on track after the only network linking the two countries resumed operations the express known as the friendship train and stopped because of recent violence in the region but now it's running full steam ahead. morning. with families there why did between india and pakistan. the distance between the horn and dadi on the indian side of the border may be less than thirty kilometer but it still takes six hours destination does it go to d.j.

on both sides. had come to the station early and is not taking any chances as years already seen t. cancellations because of escalating tensions between the two nuclear armed neighbors. rejected thirty years your goal and. the resolution so i haven't seen any issues visiting pakistan and have felt the same love which i have back home in india yes i got worried when train services will hold you to recent tensions but now everything is fine and i am going back happily getting surgery under straddling widow family. grandmother boy you know. it's very difficult to get an indian visa we were waiting for our visa clearance for a long time to ship the crisis between india and pakistan but now we're very happy we'll make it. although dangers are running high bid when india and pakistan the

prepared to be pulling remains strong were divided families on either side of the border the whole. country will be able to reconcile their differences and create an hour north of albany and. it's time for a good bye still fear no warm cup of tea a quick break for storm to move and shaking travel documents. many are relieved to be able to travel again. i request countries with friends and live in peace as people on both sides of the book how we little cognizant was pretty distant. some says. i felt honored to be in pakistan when the people knew about me that i am indian they met me with love which is unthinkable to even offered me tea i think war is not a solution to any conflicts. as more passengers arrive to crowd their space and

some even find time to take a call from their loved ones who take by as their baggage piles in front of us counting room they enter one by one for security. after clearance in under tight security the passengers board their trade for india for many years gov you're relieved to be finally moving again perhaps wondering if this break here's link will remain open. that some good day express may be back on track but no one thought for how long come on i did i get lida longboards. and one of the headlines on al-jazeera south african airline comair has joined operators from indonesia ethiopia and china in grounding its feet to boeing seven three seven max eight follows the ethiopian airlines crash on sunday which claimed

hundred fifty seven lives investigators have now recovered the black box with both the cockpit voice recorder and digital flight data one of the kenyan victims was returning from studying in vienna a father spoke to al-jazeera it is so painful to lose the young guy. who has struggled for the rest of her life. to achieve. a life. in a blink of an hour it is too painful. the un special rapporteur on man maher says she fears a new crisis for the ring or if bangladesh relocates them to a nearby island young lee comments to the human rights council ordered a visit to cox's bazaar refugee camp on the southern coast of bangladesh he told the geneva forum she's concerned whether bashar and shah whose name means floating

island is truly habitable. ill planned around the kitchen and relocations without the consent of the refugees concerned have the potential to create a new crisis it is incumbent on the government of bangladesh to ensure that this is not brought about the british prime minister is expected to hold last minute talks with e.u. leaders in strasburg later on monday sort of the bloc warned to reason may it is now up to british m.p.'s to decide the next steps to take britain out of the e.u. politicians in the u.k. will vote on her latest deal on tuesday. forces aligned with libya's un backed government to be sent to defend the northern city of see it from an advance by the warlord honey for have to and his fighters after libyan national army which is backed by the united arab emirates and egypt is less than forty kilometers from see it and threatening to attack a city five thousand troops aligned to the tripoli based government are due to

start arriving in see it on monday to bonds to defenses there's a headline is to stay with us there if you can counting the cost is up next more news for you after that by fire. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week recharge your batteries under pressure from trade tariffs new c o two rules that even briggs's carmakers around the world are electrifying. how power outages in south africa putting livelihoods

at risk. plus why connecting young people to jobs and training is so important for middle east economies. back in one thousand eight hundred eight the electric car was all the rage but the discovery of large petroleum reserves worldwide and the combustion engine quickly killed it off electrification was very much the theme at this year's geneva motor show but consumers are yet to be convinced of the eighty million cars expected to be sold this year just two billion of them will be electric but that's not stopping the big coal makers from making the switch on technology editor mariana honda as more most of us drive around and gas powered by fossil fuels they pump out cabin dockside but take a step back in time and it could all have ben so different. back in the ac nine hundred the streets of london were humming with the sound of the world's first

electric txi the humming bird was quiet and clean but out of reach for most people and then along came henry ford not only did he invent a car that ran on an oil powered combustion engine he also worked out how to mess produce them on an assembly line suddenly cars were affordable and the electric car with its expensive battery and limited range the sapir and more than a hundred years later our modern cones a still burning fossil fuels and contributing a quarter of global c o two new emissions rules trade tariffs and innovations a part of what's now driving comic is to make this switch to electric asia is leading the way more electric cars was sold in china last year than the rest of the world combined but what's not clear is the real cost of going a little trick the automotive industry in its current form employs millions of people around the world and then there's the question of who is going to buy them

many consumers remain unconvinced that the electric car will be as claimed easy to use and affordable as they have been told but they are not well economics that it's a bit early caught up with linda jackson who's the c.e.o. of citron earlier this week at the geneva motor show he began by asking her if electric cars switched take fewer people to assemble. the what will it mean for jobs. although that's a very very good question so i don't know whether it's the question of whether it takes less. less people to make the cars it's about how many manufacturers will be able to afford to make the cars and how many of our customers will be able to buy our cars of course because electric cars do mean that separate century that will be an increase in price so this is very many facts is playing in the facts in terms of what the future is for the automotive industry and i think one of the other things that we never talk about is of course it's not just about the oil. actually cars but of course all of the infrastructure that we need to be able to run and actually

move about in electric cars so that's another factor that will impact our society so we are moving towards electric cars i think that's the general opinion of most automakers but in the wake of the diesel emissions scandal is there a reluctance for consumers to step forward and buy electric cars. no i don't think there's a reluctance it's a fact because all manufacturers are now in the race to make sure that we get and introduce our electric cars i for example it citron make sure that i have a black plug in hybrid vehicle next year and every vehicle for next year will have an electric version so all of the manufacturers are making sure that the product is available the next question is customers are reluctant to buy it but what they're obviously very keen on understanding is making sure that they're able to use their cars are able to charge their cars they're able to move around and be charging them whilst they're on the move and that's something that hasn't really been considered generally i think so that's one concern apart from that i mean everything will be

available for customers but of course we have to realize as well that the cost of the batteries etc will mean that there is a an increment for being for having an electric car and i'm not sure that all customers currently realize that there will be an increment so does china have an advantage when it comes to letter calls and batteries. but china of course has in terms of availability of batteries of course china is the lead so i mean it's clearly every manufacturer is trying to find ways to be able to support the supply of batteries in the future because that's absolutely fundamental nephew but he's looking at there are other ways but clearly china restrain a very strong position and clearly in terms of their own market is moving quickly towards electric and in and obviously wanting to encourage electric obviously on the back of the fact that they are the major battery supplier so clearly it's a major concern and question for all manufacturers to be able to find solutions to make and sure that we have the continued supply of batteries in the future and you plan to move into india what's behind me well what's behind that move festival in

india is a very big market and it's we know it's a growing market so you know currently today it's about three million passenger cars and it will double in by twenty twenty five so we know it's a big market it's a markets which we are not present in and you know sichuan wants to become more international. we have a very successful results in europe but now we want to grow we want to take the recipe that we used in europe to be able to conquer and go into new frontiers india is a very important market for it because of the size and also because we think that the citron brand with our values which is about being inspired by our customers close to my customers a mainstream brand unique styling and all of the services that we might offer we believe that we'll be able to offer something different to our potential indian customers so we're going in there we know it's a very complex market but we're going in there making sure that we understand what our indian customers would like and we hope to be offering our first vehicles before the end of twenty twenty one now you are

a breach living in france working for a french company can you explain what breaks it is. can anybody explain what breaks it is you know all i can explain to you is is you know the impact on our business is you know the u.k. i might be british and i might be leading a french company but the u.k. is my fifth most important market in terms of volume so clearly it's a very important market for me can i explain what happened no because at the moment we don't know what's going to happen and i think that's the most important parties we don't know what's going to happen so we're all looking for clarity we all have our plans including p.s.a. we have plans for plan a plan b. heartbreaks itself breaks it. maybe but until we know exactly what is going to happen we are in this very difficult stage of instability clearly you know situ and i import vehicles into the u.k. so clearly i'm interested in what the terrorists might be if there are any it's

a single market is an easy market for a supplier i mean so many questions are needing so many ounces when the jackson the c.e.o. of citron now in many parts of the world a reliable electricity supply is still very much a problem in south africa for example rolling blackouts are impacting many businesses ability to operate eskom is one of the biggest power utilities in the world but it's technically insolvent and the crisis there is putting livelihoods at risk as malcolm webb reports from johannesburg. it's a problem for most all businesses from mines to shops to trees like this one when did you know you can see it in your production and the feel of what to see that it will. not do in the way so you end up being people will just tell me when the power cuts the machines stop the lights go out and then the factory depends on this

generates it be able to run it become a common sight in south african factories and businesses but it's not powerful enough to run all of the machines and guzzles fuel that slows down production and pushes up costs power stations have been struggling to keep up with demand economists and opposition politicians say yes' of corruption and mismanagement at the state endemic tricity company called eskom are to blame he was at the center of numerous corruption scandals throughout the nine year rule of former president jacob zuma investigators say he was corruption that caused stagnation of the whole economy it's come in many ways a microcosm of that there is a lot of you know policy uncertainty in the scan tree and it's policy uncertainty which is generated by in effect creating a policy environment that suits the looting at the economy rather than investment in the economy and its foreign investment one hundred billion dollars of it the

president will run oppose a promised since he took over just a very year ago along with tackling corruption in creating jobs we recognize as do or south africans that i want greatest efforts to end poverty unemployment and inequality well i too have a little unless we tackle stagecraft and corruption in all its manifestations and in the border areas of public life. general elections a jew in two months time opposed the needs to convince people his a.n.c. government is succeeding its perceived ability to revive the economy tackle corruption and blackouts will be crucial. still to come on counting the cost bragg's it twenty four hours later what happens if there's no deal we have a story from the spanish portuguese border. but first

five million young people will be entering the job market every year for the next five years here in the middle east counting the cost has been following one organization and its efforts to connect young men and women with jobs al-jazeera karim reports in arabic the words a lot like means your connection it's also the name of a kataria organization that aims to connect young people with employment opportunities in places such as yemen somalia and palestine so far so logic has helped one million young people across the middle east in north africa find meaningful work its chairperson her highness she. was in geneva this week to mark the tenth anniversary of salata x. founding and to announce an ambitious new target in addition to the one million young people we have already connected with drops we now have committed with in

place to connect another two million young men and women by twenty twenty two that's three million meaningful jobs and businesses thanks to silicon supporters but you must do more. i read for. the boys that we set a new target and it is the board of five million wired we're going to do. so a lot of acts as a bridge connecting often disaffected youth with apprenticeships micro financing initiatives and partners who can teach them how to run a business. the hope is it will help them become financially independent to achieve their aspirations and make a positive contribution to the economic and social development of their community slaughtered wants to combat marginalization in extremism it says young people who have jobs feel more connected to society bringing security and peace to neglected commune.