right now though 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 worker 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 were 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. close to graduating

and maybe in this class like books. a first time voters because i was and will give my promise that i want one who keeps their promises just not for the sakes sake of getting what in the next election is but to be there for the people as me graduate out of court is the first thing which we will look at. and that's what we want these are just some of the estimated fifteen million graduates that will join the job market each year the government forecasts that manufacturing will increase by eight percent so that's good news to these students. is not the first to look for work in the big city and he will be the last but he'll be heading back to his village to vote hoping his choice of candidates will keep his election promises. well you know the buy word for taxi apps all over the world but of course each region has its own variations on the theme and here in the middle east and asia it is karim only karim just got bought up by her for three billion dollars which

sounds like your classic situation of the little stop being swallowed up by the industry leader well this one's a little different though karim will actually operate under its own banner and they will continue to be led by its own founders as a wholly owned subsidiary and our next guest actually believes the sale of korean two is a good thing for the middle east's startup scene but what about those behind the likes of a soft bank of japan saudi arabia's public investment fund what's their game are they now reinforcing the old world order of investments which has been blowing up the water more recently by the likes of amazon google and facebook well we've got i guess joining us from london it's dominic perks who is the co-founder of. capital so nice to have you with us dominic just what we're talking this specific case of how is it a good thing for middle aged startups when the little guy as i said get swallowed up by the big guy. well there are a number of investors that have invested into into the business and they're going

to yield fantastic returns which will encourage them to invest in further startups i think it will encourage entrepreneurship in the region hugely and i also think that the people that are involved in that business will have learnt so much and will be so confident that they may well then go and build their own companies so i am very percs you know we have been keeping a close eye on the tech ecosystem in the middle east and we're often working out in the middle east bringing some of our companies from london to trade in the region and we think this is just excellent news for the region so is it a good thing as i suggested to see the likes of in this case soft bank and saudi arabia which have backing to be making these sorts of moves because these are moves which have been dominated by the big tech players recently tech players which i mean are owning you know seventy five percent plus of the advertising market and i

just wonder if you think this is a good thing that we're seeing. well i definitely think it's a good thing that kareem has been set up by entrepreneurs backed by angels and by institutional capital and has now scaled successfully and. and been executed over i think this is a it's a it's a great move and i don't think that. anyone would argue against that more widely is that a concern when you've got the the googles and the amazons and the facebook's the usual suspects which we name but when we see them making all the investments they're making on the consolidations and with this huge growth is it a concern that that has happened for so many years now so what we're trying to do is is find and back and build the next town isn't the next facebook the next google and you know the migration of talent from industry into early stage businesses now stimulated and kind of catalyzed by transactions

like carrie can only be a good thing in the end to build great businesses you need fantastic innovation you need brilliant teams and you need you know willing capital and careen transaction is is is definitely going to stimulate the market we think so without giving the game away for what you guys are investing in but tell me what are you looking for because you say you want to you want to find the next big thing but there are so many little things out there right now which could be the next big thing. absolutely i mean you know we see sixty seventy business plans a week that we review in and consider for investment ultimately what we're looking to do is about businesses that have real purpose and that are solving real problems and that have incredibly driven capable management teams and that that's that's what we're looking to do in addressing large markets. ideally international markets as well. so one example of a business that is

a great british innovation that has backed his is what three words what three words is solving a extraordinary global problem which is that seventy five percent of the world's population doesn't actually have a postal address. now the team in london at what three words have come up with a system where they've taken a great across the whole world and divided it into fifty seven trillion squares each three metres by three metres and they've given each square a three word name it's kind of ingenious and allows you to find anything or anyone in the world with a memorable three words it's first client was mongolia it's received investment alongside umbro perks from the likes of sony ventures from am ex in the region from the diner and you know it's set to become a truly fascinating and transformative business we think now i'm very

familiar with what three words are usually it's good when you're trying to send a delivery driver your way or something like that do you do you feel this is a slightly strange question but do you feel lucky when you find something that i know it's your job to go out there and find these ideas until and to decide ok this you're the one we should ban but you must feel a bit lucky as well when you think of it out of all the millions out there we got a good one. for sure this is you know be kind of make your own luck so. you know it's. we see a lot of opportunities in and actually you know what there are lots of great ideas it's so much about the execution so certainly our approach isn't just to provide capital into these businesses but to provide real support real mentorship and one of the things that we i think quite unique on is our focus on internationalisation we want to build global witness don't percs great talking to thank you for your time thank you in iraq rising unemployment is provoking demands for government

action particularly by young people you know the international monetary fund says youth unemployment is actually more than double the government's official rate of twenty percent but is there an alternative perhaps to government intervention to reports from baghdad this is hosain a seer. he's got a degree in political science but he's here in baghdad's to here square selling t. hussein is one of the millions of iraqis who are out of work. i have decided to wear the graduation at and sell t. on the streets to earn a living and to deliver a message of discontent to the authorities now days graduates suffer from lack of job opportunities and a weak government plan to address the issue. these protesters all have p.h.d.'s and are all out of work. yet they say they're angry with the government for not fulfilling its duty under iraqi law the government must provide government

jobs to those who gain a ph d. in any discipline but that's not happening. a spam law that the joe machine and the reason behind our protest is that many of those holding who scratch it degrees are suffering from unemployment no job opportunities available despite the fact that many of iraq's universities need such experts we play administrative corruption nepotism and favorite has any. official say the country's recent problems have derailed government plans in the title as the reason behind rising unemployment rates in iraq is attributed to its economic crunch and security challenges and that has led to the delay of many projects which have affected the labor market this is one solution it's called the station established last year by young iraqis to help start up companies it is privately funded by local and international non-government organizations the station offers office space for rent and access to people with extensive experience to provide guidance it's helped launch more than thirty

businesses so far. and this is one of them this book store opened within the station last year and its owner says she got all the support she needed he should be watching next hire until rates of cases all to obtain a real estate a start a business or this is difficult but here i was with an opportunity to start up with less costs so the station provided me with that corner to run my business called the raj this is the only one of its kind in the country for now the founders are trying to launch a second one in erbil later this year while a place like this provides resources to many unemployed iraqis they argue that it's not enough to help tackle the growing unemployment rate across the country and for substantial change to take place they argue that the government must do more to help its people finally this week we do need to talk about briggs it where the headline is that the european union leaders have given the u.k. six more months to find a measured way to leave the bloc in

a sense that solves the problem of the ticking brags that clock or at least puts a little more time on it but the level of division within the british parliament and the british people that still need a lot more work here is lawrence lee now on a trip to two english towns which share the same name but one entirely different outcomes to the crisis this elegant policy of london is the epicenter of hostility to brics its rich powerful people live here the entire notion of brics it is regarded as balmy unhinged it would economically speaking cook the u.k.'s goose. the centrist liberal democrats who have only a handful of seats in parliament dominate politics here have defiantly nailed their colors to the council mast and they say get rid of brecht's it once and forever kill it stone dead it will have to be revoked because there simply isn't the time to put the legislation in place for

a second reference if if revoke is going to be cleaver let's just do it it wasn't possible it still reverberates it i think people will understand that we just have to be honest and say what you were solves in june the trades the trade sixteen was a focus it was a lot to be honest it was just something which couldn't be delivered it is absolutely impossible to overstate the sheer sensible thing that people in places like this have towards bracks it's their feeling of national betrayal towards those politicians who would take the u.k. out of the european union with no deal. becomes a vis richmond's and you're likely to get the opposite view here very many regard opposition to bracks it's as a form of treachery. this richmond is every bit as pretty as the other one it was voted the best place to live in britain yet the mood here can be venomous towards both the e.u. and the british governments they dismiss entirely the idea that bracks it is some

kind of mythical creature as their opponents claim britain they say is being led like a lamb to the slaughter democracy is dying i think the longer it goes on the more extensions the more of the power of the paper by parliament who are reminded and we will not get brecht's it is simple as that i think it's delaying tactics so i can reverse the decision of the people we had the people we don't need in our people we should leave on our roads and that's it. it goes without saying that the reason may is now being pulled apart by both of these forces in parliament it will inevitably be her downfall that is our show for this week to get in touch with her so you can tweet me directly at kemal a.j. a.j. use the hash tag j c t c when you do our email address is there as well counting the cost of al-jazeera dot net and there is more a few online as well. c.t.c. that takes you straight to our page individual reports links entire episodes for

you to catch up on whenever you want but that is it for this edition of counting the cost i'm kemal santamaria from the whole team thanks for joining us the news on al-jazeera is next. up to. forty years. egypt strongman is ruling within a family and faced on the sidelines from his allies is deafening us he's perfectly happy to trade off for more for c.

for security while western leaders turning a blind eye when even the citizens have foreign victim to his repression executions torture censorship is not acceptable and you won't hear such strong words from let's say berlin or paris or london in cairo on al-jazeera. this is zero. whatever shall carry this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes sedans an hour later resigns less than forty eight hours after the military else president omar al bashir. and protestors

celebrate his exit it's a victory but the main opposition calls for demonstrations to continue. demanding more change demonstrators in algeria want their new leader out because he's seen as an ally of the former president. and the u.s. president says he's considering sending. undocumented immigrants two cities controlled by his political opponents. there's been another shake up in sudan's political landscape but after the military toppled president omar al bashir the new head of the transitional council has stepped out our tester saying his resignation is a victory the people's will defense minister are what had been over was sworn in on thursday he was slated to head the military council for up to two years until a civilian government could be put in place but his appointment sparked further demonstrations of people angry that the military was still in charge. the amalia

will release is for the benefit of the nation without having to look at special interests big small that might preclude its progress i'm honored to say that this country has great people and a great many 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 has been official to our country lonely of sudan a peaceful and honorable country i don't know if announced that lieutenant general abdul rahman will succeed him as the new head of the transitional military council earlier the council assured the country that it did not plan to rule the nation permanently plans to talk to political parties those talks have been postponed. so the main opposition group that's leading the protesters calling on people to keep demonstrating and released a statement that reads this way they call on the military forces of our people to

guarantee an immediate transition of authority to a transitional civilian government through the leadership council of the forces for the declaration of freedom and change and to cancel all decisions made by leaders who don't represent the people and the morgan has more now from khartoum. people were saying that they don't want him to be not only leading a council but they do not want him to participate they did not want military personnel anybody who had anything to do with president bashir is regime involved in leading the country through its transition base now that's one thing that sets apart lieutenant general opted for the one hand from his two predecessors at this point both from the president ahmed in bashir and former leader of the military council. the fact that he does not have a political affiliation he was the inspector general of the military yes and he so he does have a military background but he has no political affiliations and more importantly to

the people who are on the streets celebrating he doesn't have the same tainted past as a matter of fact this is very remote so that's known about him and his history of his military service so people are saying that they are willing to give him a chance but we're going to have to wait and see. from the other political parties if he's open to dialogue we're going to have to wait and hear from the sudanese professional association which has been spearheading the calls for protests and the sit in in front of the army headquarters more most importantly we're going to have to hear from the youth themselves once this euphoria dives of this happening is that it dies down when the celebration ends are they going to be willing to accept a military personnel who was once part of the regime even though he did not have he does not have the same past and he has no political affiliation the military was filled with serious military. the united nations security council met to discuss the political unrest in sudan at her that all sudanese people will be invited to

shape the country's future then a guide to him. the military transitional council was responding to the sudanese people's aspirations for change and works to protect the lives of its citizens as well as their well being this council will be the guarantor of a civilian government to be formed and collaboration with the political forces in stakeholders no party will be excluded from the political process including groups moreover the suspension of the constitution could be lifted at any point in the transitional period could be shortened depending on developments on the ground and agreements with stakeholders. joins us live now from the united nations in new york so close and what has been or more of the reaction from the u.n. . it was interesting to hear the. representative sudan there are tempting to calm international concerns about the

situation in sudan almost as soon as word got out that the military had taken control of the country members of the security council were calling for a meeting they held that meeting earlier today behind closed doors no action was taken by the security council but the president german ambassador christophe poison said just the fact that they met so quickly should send a strong signal that the international community is watching and individual members of the security council have been very outspoken the united kingdom in particular about the need to protect civilian protesters after that curfew was declared on the ground there the transition to a civilian rule the government was essential the united kingdom for one suggesting that the two year time frame that was proposed was not quick enough. and the secretary general antonio terrorism the high commissioner for human rights have all expressed concerns about what's happening on the ground there now off the record on

background a security council diplomat did tell us that some members of the council were hoping to come out right off the bat with a strong statement of condemnation and concern but were persuaded to wait because of african members of the council saying that they wanted to wait and see what the african union did this weekend and let them take the lead on the situation but the president of the council did say that they are going to be watching very closely and they would be ready to meet again as soon as monday if things did not go the way they wanted or that they thought they should over the weekend so christin this sentiment a transitional military government has said that omar al bashir will face justice go on trial what have you at home but the international criminal court has already indicted him for war crimes so how is the i.c.c. likely to take that. well it's interesting here at the u.n.

the international criminal court. and its supporters have been calling for bashir to be brought to them to face justice it was the security council that actually referred bashir to the i.c.c. in the first place where he's wanted on crimes of genocide and other war crimes related to the situation in daraa for the security council felt the situation there was so egregious that they referred the case to the i.c.c. a sitting president they've never done that before the international community had never come together to refer a sitting head of state to the international criminal court and that indictment still stands there still waiting for that to happen now the security council since that happened almost fifteen years ago has got more polarized more divided certain countries are reluctant to intervene in what seen as domestic affairs sovereignty issues come into play particularly with russia and china the united states is not a big supporter of the i.c.c.

so we're not hearing a lot of talk about that here in u.n. headquarters in new york but when asked about it the german ambassador who's now the president of the security council said well yeah the indictment still stands absolutely he should be brought to the i.c.c. to face justice but whether or not the security council will come together and reiterate that point remains to be seen all right chris and so lonely life recipe u.n. question thank you gentlemen as african director at freedom house and a former u.s. state department official who joins us from boston via skype we appreciate your time very much so the fact that there has been even another change in this transitional government really indicates that the military realizes that on some level they have to be responsive to the protesters. how much further will they take that do you think that they will eventually capitulate and put civilians in charge. i think the military has to recognize at this point that any

way forward has to be a negotiated one with the protestors clearly the fact that two leaders have been ousted in a matter of two days so yes that there isn't any other way forward i am also a little concerned that some of the change is we're seeing reflect power struggles amongst the elites and that can be concerning particularly if it leads to fighting frankly between the armed forces and the national security so that's something to watch as well that was actually one of my question is is sophie yes there have been concerns raised by human rights groups about how some of the protesters have been treated but by and large by and large this is not descended into real violence what are you going to be watching for and the next few days. that's right that there hasn't been the kind of brutal repression from the regime that there has been in response to past protests particularly in two thousand and thirteen.