ferry disaster that killed a hundred and twenty people plath. i was got hired there in bangkok as thailand already has itself for its first election since the two thousand and fourteen too many feel very new government won't work like they were turning to democracy that story coming out. of logan a welcome back we do want to update you what is happening here in australia we have two cycles to talk about first of all up here towards the north this is trevor it has made landfall very strong storm very big storm a lot of rain coming out of the storm but what's going to be happening over the next few days is of course we are going to be losing the intensity of the storm as it makes its way down here toward the south but still very heavy rain coming out here across much of the west we are talking about veronica veronica is going to be making landfall in less than twenty four hours just to the west of port hedland we

do expect to see extreme heavy rain across much of that region anywhere between three hundred to five hundred millimeters of rain and the reason being is once a make landfall it is not going to be moving very much at all so from sunday to monday basically we're talking about a stationary system in that area along the coast bringing very heavy rain for much of the region so expect flash flooding to come out of that area for alice springs so you could be seeing some rain from the remnants of trevor that we don't expect to see very much but it could bring some possible flooding in the area we're talking localized flooding for much of that region down here towards new zealand though we are going to see some rain down here towards christ church but for auckland it is going to be a partly cloudy day at twenty two and staying at twenty two as we go towards monday with clear skies. because this week on al jazeera we'll take a deeper dive into what's behind algeria's protests. from joining china's

bilton rooted initiative plus we'll take a look at the plight of venezuela's struggling fishermen. come to the cost zero zero. zero. hello again i'm. reminded of the news this hour u.s. backed forces in syria have declared what they call the hundred percent territorial defeat and elimination of its so-called caliphate following weeks of fighting the

syrian democratic forces have raised their flag and the last i still held town in northeast syria. the report into russian interference in the election of donald trump has been completed rival democrats are demanding the immediate release of the details the us president has denounced what he calls a witch hunt and denies any collusion with russia. aid workers are desperately trying to get emergency supplies to tens of thousands of people after a devastating cycling swept across southern africa an estimated one point seven million people have been affected and mozambique which was worst hit two hundred ninety three have now been confirmed dead delivering relief to many of the survivors is a struggle damaged bridges and blocked roads have delayed access to many areas al-jazeera is tiny badly was with one community and in mozambique as aid arrived one week after the storm hit. they are the survivors of cycle own

when we carteret struck there are still desperate and hungry but this center just outside the area they were expecting food supplies they got a few packets of biscuits she is really bad god the flooding happened a week ago and this is the first help we have had just discovered we are struggling to survive because everything was destroyed. water still holds claim to much was so full of province driving from biro you can see the vast area that has become an inland sea homes destroyed others left isolated. aid and rescue operations are focusing on the hard hit communities with larger populations but returns of thousands of others living in smaller more isolated pockets they are out of sight out of mind three families live in this small hut new tika seventy kilometers north of beera the cyclon destroyed their huts and crops they now survive on bananas and

maize maria's home was demolished when the psycho struck she thought she was going to die waiting there for fairly long in the woods when i saw the danger to first thing i did was to protect myself and my son i couldn't stop the water stripping away our clothes blankets environment and everything is gone we're suffering. water levels are dropping after two days of relatively good weather but the damage left behind is hampering aid efforts up until three days ago this whole area and this road was completely devastated by the cyclonic covered in water it made passage impossible come along these roads it shows you how difficult delivering any kind of meaningful by road will be the main focus is by people being rescued by helicopter but that's only making a small fraction of a difference. many of the dirt track roads in the countryside have been seriously affected aid is trickling in but the death count is rising and the risk of disease

and illness is increasing by the day we're sitting on a ticking bomb as well as what is the new additional major news concern and cholera outbreak you know is the reality you know that we will be the ready to face malaria is and the making already thore in this country and the depreciation and vulnerabilities that people are facing anyway because of the socio economic situation of mozambique will be further exacerbated and clear that will be leading you know to many more crises. for many people in this region life was tough before cyclon eat ice truck it's become even harder they will probably recover eventually but it could take a long long time tony berkeley al-jazeera tika central mozambique algeria and have been out of the hundreds of thousands for a fifth straight week calling not only for president otherwise he's but a flicker to go but the rest of the government too they rallied in the capital algiers and in cities and towns across the country the two mosques in christchurch

attacked just over a week ago have reopened police in new zealand say they finished their investigations inside the al gore and lin wood masks and have handed them back to the muslim community andrew thomas was invited inside the our normal ask the fast have been attacked. it has been eight days since the al nord mosque was attacked police have examined and photographed the scene and taken out the bodies builders have ripped out the carpets and repainted the walls at the gates people continued to pay their respects leaving flowers and messages of support forty one people were shot and killed here just over a week later the al not a mosque has now been handed back to a muslim community still coming to terms with the tragedy that happened in a mosque they should have been safe here and ninety three year old boy he would have just begun plain war. you know when we hear noises and stuff we just sort of

oh yeah what's going on and don't think that it's a gunman on the loose. it's just hard to say what what i was praying in the mosque when the gunman came in this was his first time back i fell down people started falling on me. and she just came in or they just started randomly shooting everyone i will since i was underneath the bodies that were going to get to me and then i stayed he went out still in get up. he came back in and it was a silence because almost no one was saying anything and it was it was like very easy you know and then i heard shots coming on from the fire inside the mosque there was also here's what it was like ok just a stop to stay calm and then suddenly you should come and shoot really close to me there was a really not a fear in my heart and whose our phones were ringing and you find them and it was through them. i could feel the blood over here is from the other person and i have

to also feel the shots they were hitting the other bodies in front of me to feel the pressure of the bullet i think it was there was a hole they were easily hit me then suddenly for two or three minutes ok it was you know they couldn't hear is what's up because of the carpet and they would come and shoot in front of me again it was another shocker and they literally hear the stable doing shots. every ten minutes in groups of fifteen mosque leaders let people in the yard and. there's now no physical sign of the horrors of eight days ago no blood no obvious bullet holes and virtually no noise. inside it looks and smells as though every wall has been freshly painted this coverings over all the carpets and the people inside and i was standing in quite content place. all the praying for what a mosque reopening is the first time he's felt at peace in days it's mean and horrific week since a lot of the loss of the love her showed five bodies as well i'm happy that i could

get that chance but also i'm sad as well that i've lost most of my circle of lost really close what was was very yes last i heard of major losses. across the road in the park where this week's friday prayers were held a game of cricket the sound of bats on ball is the sound of christ church slowly moving on. andrew thomas al-jazeera cross church. well the full extent of the ferry disaster and the iraqi city of mosul is becoming kara civil defense says the number of dead is now at least one hundred twenty while one hundred people are still missing iraq's prime minister. has formally requesting that a local government be sacked over the incident and tasha going to aim has more was people are angry in mosul was protestors are calling the iraqi president and other

government officials. they say the government has failed to keep a check on the safety of ferries and how they're operated and they want justice for the victims of this ferry was packed with people enjoying a holiday at an amusement park it didn't get far from the banks of the tigris river before capsizing social media video shows bystanders screaming passengers struggling against the swift current to get to safety dozens drowned most were women and children more than fifty people were rescued so we still have five and my wife and my daughters are in the water and those police officers are not letting me through leave me leave me let me go. this accident has been described as unprecedented the iraqi prime minister announced three days of mourning and iraqis placed candles along the banks of the tigris to remember the victims. the most

important thing is to stay in solidarity with the victims' families and to treat the injured and pull the bodies out of the river iraqi civil defense says the boats operators allowed to many people on board exceeding its maximum capacity arrest warrants have been issued for the amusement park owner and the ferry operators there accused of mismanagement and neglect but said i was an eyewitness unfortunately they're using old ferries that lack safety equipment to that they exceeded the maximum weight a search operation is under way the floodgates of the mosul dam have been lowered to assist emergency workers the iraqi civil defense says one body has been recovered twenty kilometers downstream from where the boat capsized dozens of families have gathered at the morgue desperate for information about their loved ones natasha going to name al-jazeera baghdad. police in france are warning of a severe reaction if there's

a repeat of riots during yellow vest protests in paris the saturday protesters are banned from the famous some cities a after shots were torched and looted a week ago david chase reports. soldiers will be deployed to guard public buildings in the french capital as the yellow vests prepare to take to the streets for the nineteenth time this weekend they're being diverted from their normal operations sentinel anti terror patrols to free up police resources but the decision has attracted fierce criticism the army not being used in the context of social protestants nine hundred forty seven. and the strong simple of putting the army back in the street for this purpose and or the question but it traces the risk potentially of a risk. this is archived film of the clashes seventy two years ago five striking miners were killed. last weekend in paris millions of euros of damage was caused by rioters on the seans elisei this time

police are being equipped with a new high tech weapons to help them cope with so-called ultra radicals intent on violence. that is the last saturday on the show's elise's there were no demonstrators there were only haters people who came to smash and destroy. the shah's elisei is one of three areas in paris now designated as a no go zone for yellow vest demonstrations although president mccall said the protests are protected by the constitution what happened here last saturday was done by a horde of hooligans. the latest poll shows seventy percent of the public in france are disturbed by how far the movement has moved away from its original roots the cost of the damage has been estimated at more than two hundred million dollars but the real long term cost is the image and spare. to france itself david chase al-jazeera paris. thailand is holding its fast general election since

a military coup in twenty fourteen but while thais finally get to cost their ballots on sunday many wonder if the process will be truly democratic al-jazeera scott hyder reports from bangkok. you know from rubber plantations in the south to the opposition heartland in the northeast candidates are on their last push before the nearly fifty two million thais head to the polls on sunday while they'll be playing their role in the democratic process there's a widespread belief that with a constitution crafted by the military any new government will be far from democratic the two hundred fifty member senate will be appointed by the military government ensuring it has a strong grip on parliament sunday's polling is for the five hundred seats in the lower house. and there's also a pro-military party running. don't need. with coup leader.

as their candidate for prime minister as much as we try to celebrate the upcoming election i don't think i think that. we know that we get bigger conditions within the const within the constitution and that conason. and the military has used the courts to curb competition among others it has filed cases against the poor thai party led by former prime minister talks and. he faces corruption charges he says are politically motivated and lives in exile was poor thai and its predecessors have won every general election since two thousand and one the whole into. the judiciary can certainly the straw a these pro talks and parties. so in the end. the election will certainly be a spectacle that people can use to express themselves and be happy that they had a voice but in the outcome the haunter wins again i would say some

feel that the military government has been clever in exploiting the divisions here in thai society but some say part of the blame rests on the biggest political parties the democrats put die. the supporters of these two parties are known as the yellow shirts and red shirts and their rivalry has been the basis for nearly two decades of instability and led to two military coups three hundred sixty seven seats is the magic number needed to gain control in form of government opinion polls indicate no single party will reach it so it's likely a coalition will need to be formed and with the deck stacked in the military's favor many expect compromises will have to be any correlation or political parties that will be successful in this election will face. a monumental task of dismantling enough power to solve repression that have been carefully put in place

by the military. so even after the ballots are counted and winners are announced they'll be some intense political horse trading before the people of this nation see the face of their next government scott hi there al jazeera bangkok. pakistan has been showing off its military might as part of its national day celebrations india's prime minister narendra modi sent his best wishes pakistan's prime minister imran khan tweeted his reply saying he believes it's time for the two countries to hold serious talks tensions between india and pakistan remain high following the killing of indian soldiers in disputed kashmir and the shoot down of warplanes. hello i'm a star with the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. backed forces in syria have declared what they call one hundred percent territorial defeat of iso and elimination of its so-called caliphate following weeks of

fighting the syrian democratic forces have raised their flag and bug who is the last i still held town in northeast syria a car bomb blast has tugs at government buildings in somalia's capital mogadishu police say it happened at the ministry of labor and there was a second explosion nearby gunfire has also been reported in the area but there's been no word yet on casualties the reports into russian interference in the election of donald trump has been completed rival democrats are demanding the immediate release of the details the us president has denounced what he calls a witch hunt and denies any collusion with russia now that special counsel moer has submitted his report to the attorney general it's imperative for mr bor to make the full report public and provide its underlying documentation in foreign doings to congress the attorney general before most not give the president trump his

lawyers or his staff any sneak preview of special counsel most findings are evidence and the white house must not be allowed to interfere in decisions about what ports of those findings or evidence should be made public aid workers are desperately trying to get emergency supplies to survivors of cycling it die an estimated one point seven million people have been affected and mozambique which was west hit two hundred ninety three has now been confirmed dead. algerians have been out in the hundreds of thousands for a fifth straight week calling not only for president. to go about the rest of the government to. two mosques in christchurch have reopened to survive. just over a week after a gunman killed fifty people there police say they have finished their investigations and have handed them back over to the muslim community rescue teams remain at the scene of a ferry disaster in northern iraq which killed at least one hundred people that

angry iraqis are blaming the government and demanded answers from the president as he went to the scene of the tragedy on friday those are the headlines next stop counting the cost on march twenty fourth thailand will hold its first general election since the two thousand and fourteen military coup most thais are hoping for political stability but after years of military rule will this election deviancy join us for live coverage as thailand vote on zero zero. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your week you look at the world of business and economics this week where has all the money gone algerians protest against the mismanagement of the economy. the deadly storm hits

one of the poorest regions in the southern hemisphere millions need assistance as roads and buildings are washed away. plus the u.s. warns it's only about what it says of china's predatory loans what will rome get from beijing's belton road initiative. as algeria's oil wealth dries up people are demanding to know where has all the money gone corruption youth unemployment and inequality have been at the center of protests against the two decade rule of algeria's president of the disease beautifully despite agreeing not to stand for another term algerians have little faith in the business elite military and politicians who are running the country. the country's wealth has been squandered it had currency reserves of one hundred seventy nine billion dollars in december twenty four team but that amount of shrunk to seventy nine point eight billion rather than using the oil and gas wealth to diversify the economy more than

a fifth of the budget is used for subsidies the international monetary fund says that algeria's oil and gas revenues account for ninety five percent of the country's exports earnings and sixty percent of its budget but oil prices have been falling and the country's oil and gas production has also been in decline due to a lack of investment meaning that there isn't the money to fill the treasury unemployment in algeria is running at eleven point one percent but youth unemployment stands at twenty six point four percent two thirds of the country's forty one million population are under the age of thirty or promises to diversify the economy haven't materialized unlike its neighbor morocco which has little in the way of oil and gas it's built an enviable auto industry opened up the tourism industry and is well on its way to achieving fifty two percent of its power needs from renewables but in algeria the strikes and protests go on as al-jazeera as mohammed vall reports. anti-government protests in algeria continue to spread

oil and gas field workers in the far south of the country the natives to join the outcry workers in houses which is our duty as largest gas field are a cohen cohens nationwide for president of the us is beautiful to resign managers of the state energy films on a truck say production is unaffected algeria boss the world's fifth largest reserves of natural gas but with a flick us critics say after twenty years of his presidency the energy wealth is reaching few are judeans than ever before and employment and the cost of living are rising and they say the political atmosphere is choking the economy due to the. decades long grueling of a corrupt elite backed by our jury is military. and the revolt has spread to expire three years in former colonial power from us they were out in force in paris for the third consecutive sunday on on

a monday david that if you had tired of all people since nine hundred sixty two we've always been with old people leave the place to the young get out of the way the system is clear make way for the young the ailing eighty two year old president ob-la says beautifully relinquished his bid for a fifth term following weeks of under arrest but his decision to postpone the presidential election should yield for april eighteenth has provoked more widespread anger which of libya has appointed a new prime minister nouri in bed weak and a deputy in talks to form a cabinets mostly of technocrats but the prime minister is receiving little support from protesters who say they don't trust any politicians linked to it with a flick of god a few members of parliament including some from the ruling evident party have resigned in support of the protests no not for. sure we refused to participate in the upcoming cabinet because we believe that such cabinet should

only result from a national conference in a transparent national popular dialogue that the people have taken to the streets to bring about real change and make sure that none of the same people who have been ruling us continue in power. even the staunchest supporters of change in algeria seem to realize ousting the military from their influence on politics may be impossible instead protesters hope for younger leaders who will be less corrupt more democratic and more answerable to the rule of law even if supported by the generals got on top of stability. joining us now via skype from montreal professor type have seen. a strategy in society professor of management at the h e c n one troll welcome to the program the professor should these protests in algeria come as a surprise to every anyone given the economic hardship that algerians are having to endure well i it's not

a surprise actually they nigeria there has been. several rewards in the last few years. and. probably it's one in the capital city that that nothing was happening and so. this this comes as no surprise actually there has been debate about. whether the very independence algerians have been fighting for freedom or for bread. and it is clear that they have been fighting for freedom and freedom has been suppressed algeria should be a rich nation that is just graphically the biggest nation in africa but it's an oil and gas producer where has all the money gone. well you know use is rich off many things you're right the. educational level for example is high as you mention there are many many resources oil being only

one of. the the money has been has been very poorly used highly centralized politicized and inefficient economic management and also. there has been a period that has made that's worse for me to a few thoughts. so you have a mega city your first state on managed system which is why i think if you can and there is an amazing amount of waste professor half the population is under the age of the job opportunities though are limited wages are low who should take the blame for the high rate of unemployment in algeria and how does the country deal with the prospect that ten million more jobs seekers are going to come into the market by the twenty twenty five yes there are statistics actually showing that so about sixty three percent of the population is thirty odd let's go it's amazing amazing

number and and these people are coming into she will as you said into the market in intros. the question is will the economy be able to to to provide jobs for all these and clearly the only economy that's going to be private sector economy and private sector has been suppressed ever seen in this regime is of course blame or for that when you are there for so long you lose legitimacy and to keep legitimate then you start doing all kinds of for. wasteful social support for example bread and energy are paid about so term percent of their value so the problem is not that you giving away between the bread and the energy the problem is that people are receiving if you will bring them energy at that price simply forget

about the value and then they wish to ninety eight percent of algeria as revenues professor come from the oil and gas sector but obviously those resources. are finite. when dealing the current price of oil being as low as it is affecting exports and. and foreign reserves or the gulf economy is looking to diversify away from oil and gas why hasn't algeria done the same the problem with oil is that it has generated in iran seeking and when i say rent seeking behavior it's not only the people at the very top who aren't seeking your ocracy it's the sherm's and private firms rance you can give all the population is rent seeking and so you have this incredible lazy lazy demeanor and of course that rent seeking leads to corruption and so as as a result of reality is a real cuts when we think about trying to diversify away from oil. that means

encouraging the real economy then you have to realize that business is a source of power and the government has been trying to keep its also under control as one of the few countries in the world where you have to get the permission to invest your money nor market behavior. not just simply and saw the result this is not development as it's not a surprise what so what's happening in nigeria goes against all the norms if you where love economic behavior between not the professor is there any cause for optimism of algeria as economic future of course there is. the algerian economy is really part of docs a call i mean it's i have been describing to you that it's very poorly managed and seemingly doomed. but sure sure at the same time you see some very

trifling seconds. the real economy by the way is mostly informal about sixty percent of the economy is informal. and it is not accounted for how do fans actually supervise. given this very hostile environment there are smaller firms all over the country trying to remain below the radar if you will but doing succeeding doing very well and so their research on successful private. shows that's one example they don't rely on state they want to be excellent and often they may become competitive on the world market so in a sense there is something happening bottom up that but in my opinion is is very promising professor it's been really good to talk to you many thanks indeed for being with us thank you at three and you know how powerful cycler and floods have killed hundreds of people and left a massive trail of destruction across swathes of southeastern africa cyclon it die

hit mozambique sports city of beara before moving inland it flattened buildings and put the lives of millions of people at risk it then barreled west to zimbabwe and malawi al-jazeera as funny to miller flew over one of the hardest hit areas in central mozambique. the roofs of buildings people out from the muddy water that's all that's left of this town decimated by floodwater that almost a week ago waged a boozy and central muslim bieksa falla province it's not known how many people made it out safely. on stagnant water lies across the horizon on an isolated piece of dry land rescue workers drop off desperately needed food hundreds of people queue for what could be their only meal in days. little guy left. i. was.

a little like. as we fly for we see what was once a sports ground now a temporary shelter for hundreds of people who are stranded sit wait and sleep on a back to grandstand a short but unsubtle group preview from floodwaters. then a call comes through to save a critically ill patient this woman is pregnant and needs medical help as quickly as possible a ten minute flight between flood ravaged and the relative safety of bare a city maybe her only chance initial concern about how psycho to die would impact central mozambique has been replaced by a widespread flooding a growing number of deaths and the displacement of thousands of people. this is just one rescue of what aid agencies say could be thousands more.

still to come on counting the cost the plight of venezuela's fishermen as they barter to survive. britain's decision to join china's challenge of the world bank drew a quick preview from washington the us claimed the asia infrastructure investment bank would extend beijing's soft power three years on the decision by italy's new populist government to sign up for investment from beijing has raised concerns in western capitals the u.s. national security council warned endorsing the belton road initiative lends legitimacy to china's predatory approach to investment and will bring no benefits to the italian people those concerns are already playing out china's law jess's and trapping vulnerable nations in debt you may recall sri lanka fell behind with payments and had to hand over a vital seaport that had been built with chinese loans on a ninety nine year lease pakistan's attempts to go shares and i.m.f.

loan have been complicated by washington's unwillingness for the money to be used to pay back beijing's loans to pakistan and in djibouti where the u.s. has a military base china opened its first overseas base at the same time the country's debts have soared to eighty percent of g.d.p. from fifty percent in italy's case it has debts of two point three trillion euro and pays sixty four billion every year it interest payments should it get into trouble the european bailout fund would not be able to save the country china's president xi jinping hopes the two countries can work together on everything from ports to telecoms and pharmaceuticals to football joining us now from london greg swenson greg is the founding partner of merchant bank brig greg always good to have you with us on counting the cost so it's really. the first g. seven nations to sign up to the belts a road initiative why should that be

a problem well i think it was a little aggressive you know on one hand it's just a memorandum of understanding it's not that big of a deal you know remember the e.u. is had diplomatic ties with with china since one nine hundred seventy five they've got sixty six you know sectoral dialogues going on so it's not the first time there's been any conversations between members of the e.u. and china but i think it was a little aggressive in the sense that they've they've really annoyed the northern countries in the e.u. especially and surely they're going to annoy the u.s. by reaching out in this you know sort of extended fashion to china and indorsing the b r i which you know again in the united states and most of the e.u. has some issues with the chile suffering its third recession in a decade as italy is no one could could blame them for looking for ways to steer the economy out of trouble right and that that's natural and i think that's fine

that they are reaching out look i think china is a great market for them especially considering that they are you know their role and large in the luxury good market but you know it's important to keep in mind that you know their their their first relationship should be with the e.u. and also with the with the u.s. given you know the membership in nato and the wall you know the membership in the g. seven so look i think that i think that they've gone a little overboard you know is it the end of the world i don't think so but i do think it's natural to want to reach out to economic partners but you know and you know the e.u. is the number one market for china in terms of exports china is the number one market for the e.u. i'm sorry the number two market for the e.u. and notably the u.s. is the number one market for the e.u. so they should i think italy has to do a better job of being diplomatic with their allies before reaching out were over reaching out to china but it is quite natural to want to sell products so it is trying to embrace

a snub for the united states i mean it really is also pushing back on. on the use of ways telecoms gear is this. right and they should i mean the keep in mind that you know that. the you know the head of the league is being very careful not to overdo it so you know some of the other leadership you know notably de mayo is is maybe reaching out a little too aggressively it's there's nothing wrong with making arrangements for football teams there's nothing wrong with making arrangements for soft products but i think you have to draw the line at strategic things notably ports and then you mentioned. i think communications are really critical here do you think that this is experience with this you know this this this populist government and it's of the oh absolutely i mean they're right out of the you know right out of the gates here you've got we've got five star one is on the left one is on the on the right you know i think we probably got its eye on being better economic partners and having

traditional supply side economics and that's why i think that you know being a little more cautious where is the mayo is being a little more aggressive that they you know they're disruptive they're you know they're taking a page out of the populous playbook and not really paying attention to diplomatic you know traditional diplomatic methods but i would also argue that the you know the one they're having problems economically there's no doubt about that they have a significant dent debt problem and their economies very very weak and a very neat the growth is anemic but the way to fix that isn't necessarily partnering up with authoritarian government better to liberate your economy you know route you know take a page out of the u.s. playbook and i think salvini has is is really embarks on developing relationship with president trump you know take a page out of the trump playbook which was deregulate reduce taxation you know reduce the burden on the private sector liberate your labor rules but you know just just embracing china and borrowing more money is not the answer they've got enough

debt that what they really have is a spending problem. three years ago britain was picking up a degree of flack for from the u.s. for joining china tried as asia infrastructure investment bank. we've all heard a lot about that of late have we right and that's why i've sometimes cautious about getting too excited about announcements like an m.o. you or embracing a new investment bank when they really haven't done much i mean so we'll see what happens i hope that you know there's a bit of a pushback or a pullback on the part of italy you know that that investment bag was announced i know it was controversial you know there really hasn't been much you know not a lot has come of it so i'm not that worried about it i mean the best thing to do is let the free markets work if china wants to overland in that sense that they want to expand their economic footprint there should be lines drawn in terms of strategic interests like communications i think waterway has to be dealt with so that t e n anything in the ports business especially and in

a geo politically important place like italy i think there should be caution but i think the best way to do to let the free markets work that china wants to overland they'll probably make some mistakes along the way so i'm not that worried about it but i do think it's a moment for the e.u. to embrace their their strategic partners notably the u.s. and really make you know some sort of pushback against this expansion by china both militarily and economically and i think that will work out and i think that the u.n. the u.s. will went great it's always good to talk to you on the kinds of the course many thanks david being with us great to see you adrian thanks. venezuela's political crisis continues as opposition leader keeps up his efforts to oust president nicolas maduro a collapsed economy means that many people are struggling to survive and there's. reports from cruise desperation is leading people to fish for vital supplies.

this is a daily scene. in the state of. fishermen arrive with catch of sardines which is the only fish most people can afford the stays. spent all night at the. government to come and see what's happening here this is hunger it's despair ration i don't even make money i only try to get food for my family. inflation is having a devastating effect among the country's poorest the fish that you can see here are so. full. of flour when they tell us is that one. of. these days struggle to find the most basic items medicines i difficult to find but

. there's no food there's no money my husband works and money's worth less look at us i came here to find something to take back home. has been a fisherman all his life it's what he's family has been doing for generations now for the first time in his life he's thinking of leaving the country. i already got myself in my family a passport three of my children already left if i go somewhere there has to be somewhere i can fish because it's the only thing i know how to do. has only one engine left. and the government has stopped giving credits to people like amy years ago. engines are crucial because fishermen like him mostly work in the islands close by where they set up their base camp and the tides of the caribbean sea a place where the situation has deteriorated in the past two years just like almost

everybody else fishermen are also struggling with the current economic crisis. because of that crisis insecurity has become a major issue most of the fishermen we have spoken to say that they have been robbed by that are operating in the area in the local was because most of them are former fisherman turned into smugglers. was robbed a few days ago it's a funny thing is something pirates and the government detain them and then releases them they are armed and if there are five five of them are the boat i work with was stolen i am without a boat and without work. once had one of the most trifling fishing industries in the region chavez came to power he nationalized company some ports he also wanted to prioritize fishing but things did not go as planned so. the government expropriated companies and gave them to cooperate of no experience

there's no knowledge in how to handle these companies when the equipment starts failing the nobody knows how to solve it initially b idea was good. many of them are not even working. in venezuela people can no longer depend on their wages as the economic crisis makes it difficult to every day it's a struggle for survival that people say the government has chosen to ignore. and that's our show for this week if you'd like to comment on anything you've seen you can tweet me i'm at a finnigan on twitter use the hashtag a.j.c. t c what do you do or you can drop us a line counting the cost of al-jazeera dot net is our e-mail address as always there's more few online at al-jazeera dot com slash c.c.c. that address takes you straight to one page and there you'll find individual reports links even a thai episodes for you to catch up on but that's it for this edition of counting the cost i'm adrian for the good from the whole team here a doha thanks for being with us the news on al-jazeera is next.

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next sixty minutes. last bastion falls in syria u.s. backed forces are now in control of the town all of a battle ghouls they've survived the worst cycle in southern africa is history now the people all of mozambique and zimbabwe face the threats of cholera and malaria. and a focus on iraq's president following a ferry disaster we go to our correspondents for an update and i'm we're hard in here with all of your sport venezuela's football coach threatens to quit saying his team is being politicized by the country's opposition leader. the u.s. backed forces in syria say they are in complete control over who is the last isel held area in the north east of the country now in the sense or over who's the

kurdish loads syrian democratic forces have raised their flag there's been intense fighting there over the past few weeks well our correspondent. in beirut and joins us now jamal there's been several declarations of victory in various forms before is the final battle now over. what it would appear so i mean even though there was reports of strikes taking place above. up until late on friday afternoon early evening it would seem that that last piece of territory of what once was a much larger entity in the self-styled or self-proclaimed caliphate as the islamic state had described it. reduced to a gradually different parties different groups from the kurdish fighters on the ground to the turkish backed free syrian army to the russians internationally

together with the americans or united to essentially defeat that group now whether that do graphical defeats in terms of the. lack of existence of them controlling any ground will be translated into the actual defeat of the entity the organization of the movement of eyes obviously we'll wait and see but in terms of actual presence on the ground in syria or iraq it would appear that the islamic state no longer controls a new land whatsoever. what does this mean in terms of the ways or conflicts in syria. well i mean it would beg the question now whether the country has the had invested so much in defeating geisel and that's had essentially rearranged the narrative of syria from one of an uprising a revolution against the regime of bashar assad to a narrative of combating eisold combating terrorism now that the united states

through the white house has announced that it is defeated it will it's now go back to the initial wholes of the crisis in syria which is the struggle for liberation as the opposition with describe it or will they look into trying to kind of forget about that because many people have the interesting thing here hot is that there are new realities as a result and as a consequence of the fights against eiffel because there were so many different fronts and they were so different many different battles and once those battles were won by the opposing sides to eisele there is a new reality in those areas so you have for example there is over bob and around the lip and jobless closer to the border with turkey you have pro tarka short let's say turkish backed rebel forces you have then the kurdish groups like the s.d.f. or the y p g that are in control of areas around min bijan obviously now and who is

and then you have obviously the shiite militias that are existence in areas as well in syria and so forth and now each of those entities whilst they were maybe united in their opposition to tice all to whatever different people referred to it as they are that's probably the only thing that they could agree on now that eisel isn't. present or maybe not in the way in terms of territorial control will they turn on each other or will this maybe pave the way to try maybe agree to disagree on who control. and maybe look forward to trying to find some sort of a solution through obviously everybody will wait to find out but it's important to all of the beyond that whole kind of conflict and crisis you're talking about hundreds of thousands of the millions of people who've been displaced because of this conflict millions of people would like to go home at some point and whether

we're any closer to finding some sort of stability in syria that would allow for them to come back or whether we're just at the end of one stage in the beginning of another one as we saw in iraq for example where the wider conflict dies down but then you suddenly have car bombs and other forms of instability time will tell and certainly will thank you so much jim are joining us there from beirut swear i saw still very much in for because let's take a course a look at the rise and fall of the group in iran can explain. this is what the end of ice or self declared caliphate looks like those who fled isis last on clay village in northeastern syria say it's not the end of the state in the way i saw intended rather it's just the last place well i saw members of any kind of coordinated resistance a dozen of them may enter the license doesn't want any families to leave we have tried more than one time and leave our unsuccessful until yesterday the situation

under siege is bad like a fruit our children are hungry our food had finished the shouting water and clashes mean so many people that died those debts to write are hungry and desperate . the state that i saw intended one that allowed them to generate revenue through taxation and oil sales and to be able to pass laws was defeated in july two thousand and seventeen according to the iraqi government. that's when i saw was pushed out of iraq's second largest city mosul. at the same time syrian democratic forces backed by coalition airstrikes mounted an operation against the group's last major stronghold the city of iraq and syria i so lost that battle in october the same year now all that remains of the group is pockets of fighters confined to small areas in iraq and syria analysts say the decline for eisel began with its attempt to take a town on the syrian turkish border in september two thousand and fourteen that's

kabbani over there the siege of qurbani on the turkey syria border is considered to be a turning point in the battle against eisel turkey were very worried that they managed to get this close to the turkish border so they allowed both the kurdish peshmerga and free syrian army forces to use their territory to go in to provide it in conjunction with the wipe e.g. they were able to force i saw fighters on the outskirts of the town for many it's considered the beginning of the end feisal caliphate in just a few short years eisel lost its territory and by the end of two thousand and seventeen stopped referring to the caliphate in two thousand and nineteen the group still represents a major threat however by using supporters outside of iraq and syria the group has turned to social media to get its message across but platforms like facebook and twitter have closed thousands of isolated accounts the group now uses secure instant messaging apps things like telegram really have taken center stage so. if

you're. self respecting jehadi you probably are on telegrams because that's where all groups whether it's isis or. yes that's where they all share. the majority the vast majority of their propaganda that's where the key conversations are happening it surprised many that the us president donald trump has now declared the end of the caliphate saying he simply playing to his domestic audience there's more concern about the pockets of isis fighters the remained in iraq and syria and what they might be planning for the future iraq of on the take you serious. and more than a week after cycles swept across southern africa aid agencies say they're running out of time to reach survivors and stop the sprains of disease the u.n. says there are no confirmed cases of cholera but stagnant water and decomposing bodies raise the risk of that disease and malaria in mozambique more than seven

hundred people are confirmed dead in mozambique zimbabwe and malawi but aid workers say that that number will rise as floodwaters recede rescue workers are still trying to reach around fifteen thousand people who are still stranded many of whom are desperately ill there will soon have been rescues are crowded into camps and needs aid fast. the executive director described the scene on the ground as this parade stating that the situation on the ground and i quote i'm quoting here the situation on the ground remains critical of the reasons no electricity or running water or hundreds of thousands of children need immediate help the priority right now is to give them shelter food water education protection while in mozambique alone four hundred and seventeen people have now been confirmed dead tony berkeley was with one community. as aid arrived. they are the

survivors of cycle own die but when we carteret struck they are still desperate and hungry at this center just outside here and they were expecting food supplies they got a few packets of biscuits the really bad lot of the flooding happened a week ago and this is the first help we have had just biscuits we are struggling to survive because everything was destroyed. water still holds claim to much of softball a province driving from beer you can see the vast area that has become an inland sea homes destroyed others left isolated. aid and rescue operations are focusing on the hard hit communities with larger populations but returns of thousands of others living in smaller more isolated pockets they are out of sight out of mind three families live in this small hut a new tika seventy kilometers north of beera the psych loan destroyed their huts

and crops they now survive on bananas and maize maria's home was demolished when the psycho struck she thought she was going to die all that often anyone in it would when i saw the danger to first thing i did was to protect myself and my son i couldn't stop the water stripping away our clothes blankets and everything is gone we're suffering. water levels are dropping after two days of relatively good weather but the damage left behind is hampering aid efforts up until three days ago this whole area and this road was completely devastated by the cyclonic covered in water it made passage impossible coming along these roads it shows you how difficult delivering any kind of meaningful aid by road will be the main focus is by air people being rescued by helicopter but that's only making a small fraction of a difference many of the dirt track roads in the countryside have been seriously affected.