hello again it's good to have you back well across the southwestern part of australia we are dealing with a frontal boundary that's bring some rain across much of the region so for perth you're going to get out of the rain you're going to be seeing those temperatures go to about twenty six degrees but it's really going to only last for one day we do expect to see more rain coming in from the southwest with this next frontal boundary right there and with that we could be seeing some gusty winds as well attempt a few dropping down to about twenty degrees and there showers could be quite heavy for the rest of australia to the north looking quite nice townsville a twenty eight plenty of sun view over here toward city it is going to be a nice day and then the clouds are going to start to roll in we do expect to see a temperature of twenty three degrees for most of north and south island of dizzy and it's going to be off and on clouds not a lot of rain in the forecast there we do expect to see christchurch seeing a temperature few about fourteen up towards auckland at seventy but up towards fiji we are going to be watching that area very carefully we do expect to see some localized flooding with a very heavy rain across the region and then across much of japan not looking too

bad because we do have a system is finally pulling away sun here on saturday for tokyo at sixteen degrees and then as we go towards sunday more clouds in the forecast rain for seoul at fourteen degrees but lot of astarte we do expect snow in the forecast with a temperature of seven degrees there. on counting the cost big on symbolism big on rhetoric for boy has brazil's president got to show for a country struggling to recover from a recession and his india's prime minister seeks another term where also has he actually kept his election promises counting the cost on al-jazeera. not. one.

of them back at the top stories this hour now the head of sudan's military transitional council has announced his resignation ahmed ahmed been sworn in as the country's interim made on thursday after the military removed president tomorrow the shia protest isn't hard celebrated the announcement saying his departure is a victory of the people's will define crowded spent thursday night on the streets of sudan's capital ignoring a curfew declared by the military and our other top story this hour police in algeria say they've arrested one hundred eight people off the clashes in algeria's hundreds of thousands of demonstrators returned to the streets of the capital ward eight successive friday. well in other stories we're following closely at least twenty people have been killed in

a blast in the pakistani province of pollution but he say it happened in a fruit market in the southwestern city of quite a the market is owned and run by members of the minority has been targeted by sunni groups in the past and. hider reports now from karachi. the explosion is believed to be triggered by a suicide bomber. operating in the open fruit and vegetable market took the full force of the loss along with the people are serving them. we were busy at a watermelon auction then there was a huge blast the blast happened in a potato warehouse when we rushed over there there were bodies lying on the ground . people suspect the motivation of the killers was sick terry and adam. senior officer said several cheers were among the dead along with people start to be working on the story and among the day or did use one pattern military officer

part of a patrol group that was predicting to be put. there were other people to including the historic community and the security forces personnel who were targeted until we were at the crime scene and investigations are ongoing we're trying to figure out how this incident happened and what kind of explosives were used. this year is out from the hundreds are a community they've been talking to before. he bought it have been several attacks on the people here in the past this is a very brutal act and should be condemned i have spoken to the police chief to the health authorities and to the interior minister to expedite the search operation against the terrorists more than five hundred of them have died in attacks over the past five years and on friday many took to the streets to call for more protection . the pakistani prime minister brown han and the president. issued.

if we can go to the dogs of the country in the fight against. karachi. u.s. president on ultram says he's considering sending immigrants in the country to second. sanctuary cities the cities include new york and san francisco and local authorities don't cooperate with federal immigration and customs agents present trump says the move is in part to retaliate against the democrats alan fisher has the latest on this now from washington. this whole story has flipped around in the last couple of hours of you spoke to the white house first thing on friday morning you were told while things are talked about all the time this is a plan it's no longer under active consideration and then donald trump suddenly comes out with a tweet and says you know that story you may have heard about but i was possibly moving undocumented migrants who come across the border to sanctuary cities or that is under active consideration so what was the plan while back in november last year

the department of homeland security was approached by the white house and said look is there any possibility that we could move all these people coming across the border into sanctuary cities this was seen by critics by opponents as donald trump essentially punishing those who were a pause to his view on immigration sanctuary cities are cal it is administration's authorities that do not cooperate with immigration over undocumented migrants they would never simply hand these people over that has infuriated donald trump he has talked about it many times you know people like nancy pelosi who represents an area in san francisco which is a sanctuary city has said this is donald trump essentially using undocumented migrants as political pawns moving them around the country to make a political point and he's using children in this way and that could possibly be bordering on the illegal now there is every possibility that this idea hasn't gone

away the way the white house were telling is several hours ago but as donald trump is says no under active investigation and something that they are definitely looking at something that would pleases base so there is the possibility that this may come up again even though as they say we were told very clearly this is one of those ideas that gets discussed gets kicked around but it didn't go anywhere and was certainly shot down by the department of homeland security. yes secretary of state has reported to how talks with the saudi crown prince according to the guardian newspaper might. have been soundman to cut ties with a close adviser linked to the niger janis jamal khashoggi well that age is sound a tiny it recently been sanctioned by the united states for his alleged role in the killing rosen and john reports from washington according to the guardian newspaper the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has told the saudi crown prince that he needs to

cut all ties with his close political adviser and former social media chief solid alcohol any the removed paper says that mike pompei o told mohamed been solemn on that. ongoing presence is undermining saudi credibility when it comes to the investigation of the murder of the saudi journalist jamal the last october that goes to the fact that u.s. intelligence has said that mr al fatah he was very likely involved in the planning and carrying out of mr household she is murder and it also has suggested that he is very much involved in ongoing efforts to or press political dissidents within the saudi kingdom so far the state department has given a no comment response to the guardian al-jazeera has also reached out for comment on this report about the problem pale pressure allegedly to make mr solomon

give up this or how tani as a close political advisor. at least five civilians have been killed in fighting on the outskirts of libya's capital rockets and shells fired by forces loyal to jennifer have to hit a residential area west of tripoli more than fifty people have been killed in fighting over the past week and thousands more have been displaced meanwhile u.s. media is reporting that saudi arabia has promised tens of millions of dollars to help a fast as operation to take the capital a wall street journal says the offer came during several visits by half that to riyadh days before the military campaign began. from the arab center of washington says riyadh wants to play a role in libya there was an increase in support clearly but that implies a change in the political role i clearly i think saudi arabia wanted to its participation in the conflict in libya and that that

probably contributed to the visit on march twenty seventh general to the kingdom and his meeting with both the king solomon and the crown prince and immediately after his return he kind of escalated if you will his role his confrontation with his competitors in libya so clearly he got the political indorsement first and i'm sure he got. the support the financial and military support afterwards even though this is not necessarily the only party in the gulf or in the middle east that has been supportive of that over the past few years. some news from kenya weapon he say that gunmen have kidnapped two cuban doctors in the northeast of the country the attack was shot dead a police officer in the city of man derrick hearing the abduction they then drove off with the pentagon to somalia police have been escorting the deltas to work at the time of the kidnapping catherine so has the latest from nairobi. this incident

happened at nine am local time about six g.m.t. and these two cuban doctors a general practitioner not and a surgeon are part of an exchange program between the kenyan and cuban government that started last year so they were heading to walk at the main government hospital in monday our town which is right at the border with somalia and kompany by two police officers as is procedure in areas that are considered hostile like. this gunmen intercepted the vehicle they were in to into saloon cars they came out shooting killed one of the police officers a we've also had from the police spokesman who has said that police have recovered the vehicle the government vehicle that was carrying the cuban doctors and our entire gating the other police officer who was driving that vehicle of the police spokesman has also said that.

the military and other security agents up assuming the kidnappers who have entered somalia and now time is of the essence because their father they go into somalia and specifically to territories that are controlled by al shabaab the more difficult it's going to be of security agents to rescue this doctors safely and no one has claimed responsibility but we've seen in the last few years more of such attacks kidnappings assassinations of toxin buses schools with towels quarries and areas like that in areas along the border and this has increased after kenya sent its troops to somalia to fight al-shabaab with other african union forces and alongside some national admi and you know we're talking about a border the kenya somalia border the ice porous very difficult to say to secure and we've seen a lot of movement in attacks that are happening in kenya for example seen many many

of the attackers are able to cross through. from somalia to kenya with relative ease and in fact this particular incident comes just off the back of another abduction in another part of the country in south in kenya to be specific but still along the border when last. italian humanitarian worker was abducted and the police are still looking for how. the world health organization is saying that an ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo does not constitute a public health emergency of international concern this is despite reports that seven hundred people have died from the virus forty three of them in the last four days alone mohammed has more now on how medics a coping with the outbreak. health workers the set up clinics the nascent democratic republic of congo to treat hundreds of ebola patients doctors in beni a working to identify the symptoms as soon as they can we're examining the patients

earlier than we've seen them previously and so. these patients may not have developed disease yet so it's something that they need to be followed long term to ensure that they don't develop complications or inflammation and i think we're all still learning from the bribers and the disease an eye color complications blurry or reduced vision or in some cases even blindness this has become a common problem for nearly twenty percent of it bola survivors. in the eastern town of the tempo some families have been separated by the disease and survivors are doing what they can to help. no one else can take care of kids whose parents are affected by the outbreak. and able to take care of her daughter because she's suffering and contra affecting her kids she's safe in my hands as i was cured and i can't be afflicted again some have been sharing their experience of ebola to help

others stay healthy we. i decided to raise awareness so that i can save the lives of my brothers and sisters who are doubting that ebola exists throughout testimonies we're telling people you paula it's real but the disease is still not under control in fact it's spreading since last october over a thousand cases have been reported eighteen new cases were identified just this week and fighting between armed groups in the east have hampered efforts to contain ebola the red cross says it's also affecting people's trust in the medics who can help them the level of mistrust that we're seeing in the community is an operational challenge and it can stem from loss and conflict in the region and this is a first for this region is seeing an outbreak of ebola in a while and it's for this reason that we are putting community based approaches to saving dignified burials as well as community feedback systems at the core of our response not only in to receive but as part of our parish in containment approach

across south sudan rwanda uganda and burgundy working through the volunteers to really place community efforts at the core of what we do it's only by understanding the beliefs of the community that we can build trust and stop this outbreak this is the second worst outbreak since the virus was discovered in one nine hundred seventy six it's swept through west africa in twenty fourteen spreading to the u.s. u.k. and spain killing at least eleven thousand people which is why finding a solution to reverse the latest epidemic is becoming even more critical for him mohammed al jazeera. space x. has made a giant leap in north its first paid cargo into orbit falcon heavy rocket is the most powerful vehicle flying today and has a hefty price to match its impressive size andrew chapelle reports.

thanks the world's most powerful rocket takes off from cape canaveral in florida on its first commercial flight under the power of five point one million pounds of taurus falcon heavy is headed to space already towering more than twenty three stories in height the space x. falcon heavy packs twice as much power as any other rocket on earth. i think this time and heavy is carrying a telecommunications satellite into orbit but its future missions will push military satellites and ferry passengers into space for a cheaper price per mission tide than ever before burn will begin roughly ninety million dollars per much thouse. i was the company is bringing down

costs by reusing its powerful first stage boosters which land themselves at a nearby site was and for the first time a third rocket lands on a remote landing pad in the atlantic ocean this three for three landing is a technological feat for the company which wants to dominate space transportation. al-jazeera. so there's more on everything we're covering right here the address is al jazeera dot com. quick roundup of the top stories this hour there have been scenes of jubilation in sudan after the head of the country's military transitional council announced he's stepping down amid our been alf was sworn in as the interim leader on thursday after the military removed president tomorrow a share in alf was to head the transitional council for up to two years until

a civilian government could be put in place but his appointments fought for the protests demonstrators have been unhappy with the military takeover. really what. this is for the benefit of the nation without having to look at special interests spiegel small that might preclude progress of all to say that this country has great people of the great. i would like to recommend you work together and hope that you would reach a solution very speedily i would also hope that this decision is not misinterpreted i wish my brother success in what is beneficial to our country. a peaceful and honorable country. and this is the man who is replacing how abdel-fattah albert han has been sworn in as the new chief of that transitional council and the country's new interim leader but allen is commander of the sudanese ground forces sudan's

main opposition group is calling for an immediate transition to a civilian government. well our other top stories this hour police in algeria say they've arrested one hundred eight people jury in clashes in algiers hundreds of thousands of demonstrators returned to the streets of the capital for an eight successive friday former president abdel aziz bit if he could step down from power ten days ago but demonstrators continue to demand regime change. at least twenty people have been killed in a bomb blast in the pakistani province of belushi's don police say it happened in a fruit market in the southwestern city of quite a the market is owned and run by members of the hazaar a shia minority who've been targeted by sunni groups in the past. and u.s. president donald trump is saying he's considering sending immigrants in the country to so-called sanctuary cities the cities include new york and san francisco local authorities don't cooperate with federal immigration and customs agents well that wraps up all the news from london there will be more programs from the team in doha

off to counting the cost which starts now. for russian military advisors in africa they're not officially representing the kremlin but working for a private security company russia claims they're helping bring peace critics say it to disguise for the expansion of russia's military influence talk to al-jazeera gains exclusive access to a russian military training camp in the central african republic. hello i'm come on santa maria this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week brazil is big on symbolism big on rhetoric but after one hundred days in office what has brazil's president got to show for a country that still struggling to recover from a recession also this week is india's prime minister six another term we ask has he managed to keep his election promises from the last time and what does the sale of

the ride hailing app karim. tell us about the way acquisitions and investments are happening in the age of the tech giants. so it's been over one hundred days since brazil's right wing president. came into power and in that time while the stock markets burst through the one hundred thousand point mark which is a historic achievement but one perhaps more in the hope and expectation of what paulson r.-o. could achieve because the reality is rather more grim consider this efforts to save two hundred sixty billion dollars through much needed pension reforms are stuck in political wrangling the economy is expected to grow in just two percent less than the two and a half percent forecast unemployment now hovering around twelve percent and both sonars approval rating is the lowest for a president since the country returned to democracy three decades ago now on

a recent trip to the united states he and donald trump promised to reset relations between. in the two countries however both american ceded marchin receive little in return and the prospect of a trade deal between the united states and china that could actually be crippling for brazil's farmers and that's where we're going to start this week the reality of brazil's economy i was told by those literally at the grassroots level. has this report now from the state of mato grosso where brazil soy farmers fear for their own livelihoods. brazil is one of the world's largest oil produces a matter is the biggest producer in brazil china is brazil's biggest export market and about half of that is commodities mostly saw so when beijing says it might do its story shopping elsewhere brazilian farmers take note. when we have china negotiating with the u.s. in these conditions almost obliged to buy saudi from the united states that is

going to hit us hard about five thousand workers are employed in harvesting to hear about the good or saw one hundred seventy thousand tons just on this twenty seven thousand hectare property. without the chinese buyers it will be complicated we're following the latest news in the papers and we're really worried that brazil's big agri business mostly backed the winning candidate. in last year's presidential elections while brazil does far more trade with china than the us the new president went first to washington aging is not on his itinerary or the talks go on in washington in beijing to try to resolve their trade differences it's unlikely they take into account the future of these workers on the other side of the world that these men although they have no say a very attentive their livelihoods depend on it. the mato grosso state capital was founded in seventeen nineteen joining a gold rush on the gold ran out the city was forgotten neglected until the arrival

of big agriculture and. in the late twentieth century the city grew rapidly from fifty thousand inhabitants to more than six hundred thousand today soya nice pots is white gold. is used in more than two hundred sub products you can find it in medicine cosmetics but its most important use is as protein for eating livestock that converts into animal protein for the population the world's demand is huge producers here like gold will not run out but they must have. for now brazilian soil produces a nervously watching and waiting to see which way the international trade winds blow. well joining us here in the studio is. though he is the residence professor at northwestern university here in katherine a latin america and it's lovely to have you with us hiero not jairo like the here

like the president so we've just seen a report there about the soy farmers in brazil who are worried about the potential trade deal or trade wars and all these issues between the united states and china these are the people who they tend the land they are the backbone of of an economy grassroots how worried should they be teasing i think there must be very very worried because one of the things is that agriculture in brazil in terms of employment terms of realty for poor people or for certain areas of pollution is very important but the overall economy. is not bad important it's only six percent of the g.d.p. meanwhile you have thirty percent of the u.p. from an industry and seventy percent for the service so for the demonstration of the i would also not oh this was one of the things they're more willing to sacrifice if they get more access for their industry and that's a very key point and i look at some other issues with you as well as we look more

mr both in our own self himself and what he's trying to do he wants to save money by cutting pensions hundreds of billions of dollars yeah i mean how i guess sound an idea is that i mean you're touching people's pensions that this is a delicate area if we put it that yes and they the one of the problems of bras of the resilient economy is that it has a huge public sector and that public sector the pensions are mostly in the public sector related to the public sector and that sector is very powerful influential within their minister and i'm not sure how much luck mr paulson are will have in that sector but for him is crucial overall to cut the deficit and this means reducing and between cutting the pensions and cutting and privatization they expect in the next ten years to say maybe. three hundred billion dollars that mean is that enough that would be enough to buntin the deficit on the you know seventy percent

sixty percent which means there brazil will pay less in the dept service are the moment a huge part of the budget of those who goes to pay the service of the debt as all that in american countries of the moment is that going to be possible that's more about politics and mission was not a house to draw a hemorrhage of the moment he's at the lowest rates of popularity in the history of . this is what i was going to ask you about. does that matter i guess you know there are a lot of politicians who say our polls whatever he's only been in power for one hundred days but to be that low what can he do to fix that it matters a lot in brazil because one of the things on the left in brazil feels they feel cheated you know they feel that they put in prison so he couldn't run again so they the left in brazil is ready to mobilize itself to really act quickly against also not oh warren with a vote that was not only from the right here a lot of appeal within the left and with the popular sector many poor people voted

for also not zero but there are increasingly growing impatient with the minister ations promises of economy grow on employment is something around twelve percent and brazil's growth forecast was cut this week so it's less than there was even x. men then some of the companies big companies like pharmaceutical companies are now announce they're going to stop production in brazil so a lot of people who would produce employment which is in salaries decent salaries they want people want and expect to live in brazil regionally how secure is brazil i'm just thinking venezuela has obviously dominated our thoughts for a long time we've seen the spillover of that in canonically into into other countries as brazil ok yeah brazil has much of stronger institution right and if anything will drift you know to the conservation of power of the current institutions i don't think that's that's going to be the case but really speaking

of brazil's finance are very varietals they. exports i mean brazil is a has a surplus in exports you know but still exports over two hundred billion dollars and imports something around one hundred fifty three billion dollars that that is a very important feature of its strength but a lot of those exports goes into the latin american market for example argentina part i why and those markets also economy are quite quite fry. the name quite weak one of things we have to start and that's going to answer is that why mr paulson are looks elsewhere you know he's been meeting trump he met netanyahu with janja israel has just been reelected making sure that there are other minds out there yeah well the united states market has also been a traditional market in and of course nice of also not a would would want the united states to be again it is remarkable but structurally that is a long way to take because i would mean and again we're going back to interests that would mean that brazil will have to develop certain areas of the industry that could compete in the united states with china it's easier because they export

commodities there roma cereals things that brazil has one of the big criticism against their boss around administration has been the flex the flexible approach the. effective approach the approach that he adopted towards for example environmental a situation where he did really related a series of arias but he's doing that because he knows that to get to the chinese market at the moment it's the mining and it's raw material that he needs to export so he's trying to flex eliza to increase the potential of the economy he needs cash flow at the moment he needs to increase the the export surplus but he also needs money to develop all the area and he knows industrial production which is where he's probably his hopes are take a long time it's been a pleasure talking to you thank you for joining us. and still ahead this week on counting the cost educated but jobless in iraq we're looking at where the private investors can succeed in creating jobs where the government is failing.

right now that we are looking at here where a month long election process involving up to nine hundred million voters has begun now prime minister narendra modi is widely expected to win another term in coalition with other parties even though his pledge to create ten million jobs and to increase manufacturing with his make in india campaign has been a failure so how rahman's been speaking to people about their hopes from the next indian government. to millions of indians the wheels of life don't stop turning and that includes those like migrant workers from the state of west bengal in the east of the country he's been a rickshaw rider in new delhi for twenty years with few job opportunities moving to the big city was the only way to support his family. it would be wonderful if my son and daughter get an education that's my only wish and nothing else as a responsible rule water i go to great lengths to cast my vote but the politicians

take my vote and then disappear where is the promised help millions of workers have converged on india's major cities to find ways to survive economic pressures back home they're relying on politicians to keep their election promises to the. millions of indians voters for the bharatiya janata party b j p led by a right wing populist leader in the red remote in twenty fourteen he promised a lot to the electorate especially the young and. if we want the country to progress then we need to develop their skills that's my mission this is my promise to develop skill india where the promises were made that where there is skill india training something. so hope was really rising but in forty years nothing happened you know ninety five percent of startups have failed i don't see any indian is making up for years. in the capital new delhi aspiring fashion designers.