do you say do you mean to say that he's been preparing for this type of storm for twenty years. one hundred ninety nine. thousand people die from. the. production. production. on. disaster.

and as you can see behind me. thank you for getting us up to speed on that we appreciate it and stay safe. all right let's go to our meteorologist kevin corriveau he said that they have known something like this had the potential to happen again and they have been preparing for a while that's right and we don't know the outcome yet of what is going to happen but when you had a death toll with this previous storm in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight hundred people or more we can only imagine it's going to be much less because of the preparedness but this was a very very powerful storm no matter what let's take a look what happened i want to go back in time and show you as a storm made its way up towards the coast you'll notice that you'll still relevant i'm right here right before landfall though the i disappeared now this was

a very very powerful storm and it still is a powerful storm but right before landfall it did come down slightly in speed that is one of the reasons we did lose the audio on that at landfall though two hundred forty kilometers per hour winds gusting up to about two hundred ninety five that is equivalent to a category four hurricane if it was in the atlantic and that's a very high category four now what is happening now and i want to show you the bigger detail of the storm i want to go to windy dot com show what's happening right now with the storm the storm is actually just to the north the pretty and we are looking at still and circulation with very heavy rain mostly over here towards the western part but where the rain is going to be very intense over the next several days is going to be to the north and also to the northeast the other big factor even though that the storm has made landfall is going to be the storm surge and the reason i'm very concerned about this is if you look up the coast as you get to kolkata and then into bangladesh you have a lot of these river deltas the wind is still pushing the water up towards north it

is going to be pushing this water up into these river deltas and that means we're going to be seeing with the tide flooding inland with this storm for the next couple of days in terms of the amount of rain we expect to see of the next couple days let's take a look at the bigger picture here we are going to be seeing rain in terms of two hundred fifty to possibly even five hundred more millibar millimeters in the next three to four days we'll keep an eye on that and we'll bring you more details coming up kevin thank you very much still ahead on al-jazeera. it's got harder in bangkok after a two and a half year delay thailand's king will finally be coronated this nation readies itself for the weekend ceremony it also faces political uncertainty that story coming out. hello there is one part of europe that's going to stay warm over the next few days

and it's just down here you wouldn't notice early but look at the motion of the cloud elsewhere coming down from the north we've bit of a cold spell coming is already right actually in on friday the highest temperatures stuck only seven and berlin and ten wind coming down from the north this amount arctic air tucked into that the snow up in the north and process sweden and norway hasn't got much further south of course except for the higher ground of the alps but it will show itself so friday is a cold day i think but it'll feel at his worst in places like switch to northern italy and austria where the temperatures in the low teens middle it was you know cloud overhead and rain for the sky overnight stows apparent once again you are caught i missed the picture for saturday still cold she scandinavia and just touched into germany parts of poland still not much better to the south but nicer more in bucharest at twenty five and much the same in madrid so that's spain and portugal sorted otherwise it gets colder ten's new lessons now that's in northern parts of europe there's some access throwing down to the middle part the

mediterranean for the most part northern africa is fine but this gray represents a potentially court dusty breeze coming out of libya ticking back into tunisia.

you're watching al-jazeera these are the top stories cycling funny has made landfall one in the east coast with winds of more than two hundred kilometers an hour more than one point two million people have been evacuated from low lying areas across the state of addition. to sanctions waiver on eight major empires iran brawny and oil that is has expired that includes china india and turkey who now face the prospect of u.s. sanctions if they continue to buy crude from tehran. let's take a look at the countries that until now enjoy relief from u.s. sanctions as the world's top consumer of iranian oil china is likely to be one of the hardest hit beijing has remained defiant and it's feared the sanctions could derail efforts to cool off an ongoing terror for with the united states india come

second on the list of buyers of iranian oil delis already had to move away from venezuela oil because of u.s. sanctions the country's farming sector is already in distress and high oil prices could push up. prices turkey is another important buyer ankara says it cannot cut ties with a neighbor and has condemned u.s. moves other countries which have been covered by the waivers such as south korea and japan have reduced their imports imports that is ahead of the deadline and donna is the founder and c.e.o. of the energy analysis firm on the insight she joins us now from singapore we appreciate your time very much so let's talk about the impact with india politically and economically so i guess let's start with with the economic potential economic impact. as far as a percentage indian imports iranian oil is not that significant but still what can the impact be. yeah it is a multi-pronged problem for india's as you quite rightly just mentioned economic

commercial and political and diplomatic fallout is as well if you look at india as import basket it on crude had gone down to about three hundred thousand bottles but they under the conditions of the way was granted by the u.s. so that was about seven percent of india's total imports so they're replacing that itself is not going to be such a big problem i think the issues are related more with the price so that it will be alternative bottles available in fact i understand that a finance have already been talking with saudi arabia some of the other regional producers for additional barrels so perhaps the bodies are not so much on that account as the replacement bottles are not going to be as discounted as they were getting from iran increasingly i hear from the indian refined you know the issue in the backdrop is there's

a starting to come to the long list of countries that were traditionally reliable suppliers that are just becoming very underly believe for reasons not necessarily in their control so you have libya nigeria problems then as well a it's all starting to add up and when is that mean for the market. so the concern for the indian government obviously at all times is the inflationary impact of higher oil prices another major concern is is the enormous foreign exchange allt flows that the country has to suffer whenever prices go up and especially when group b. goes down and again sadly for that country whenever all prices go up rupee becomes even softer so you know that that's a big issue. as far as the government is concerned and political and diplomatic fallout it would be

a tightrope walk for the country because they need to maintain good relations with washington as well as the but the head on i think that is going to be probably a bit problematic that might be some tensions created as a result of that or find as seizing imports from iran which i think is already starting to happen ok and on a hurry with vonda insights thank you very much. and israel's president nicolas maduro has appeared alongside his top generals in a show of strength days after a failed attempt to overthrow him at the same time a major opposition figure says he still thinks the military will act against the door of the public from the safety of the spanish ambassador's official residence in caracas and as family took refuge there soon after his appearance alongside opposition leader was quiet oh venezuela's top court has issued an arrest warrant for lopez. i want to say to all of my brothers and sisters in venezuela and around the world we are not going to rest we are not going to rest for one single moment

we are not going to rest under any circumstance from the challenge a promise we've taken on which is to end the user patient a vietnamese woman jailed over the murder of the north korean leader's half brother has been release though on t. aung spent more than two years in a malaysian prison she's one of two women put on trial for the poisoning of kim jong on that kuala lumpur's airport two years ago hong have was convicted last month on a lesser charge of causing injury after prosecutors drop a murder charge serious investigative unit has obtained exclusive images of one of the north korean men suspected of being involved and kim jong un's murder hole is a chemist who was detained and then released by malaysian authorities out of there as well jordan has discovered he's currently living in china. karaoke after a killing this man is suspected of being instrumental in the assassination of kim

jong il the brother of the north korean leader joel sings a famous north korean song in a restaurant in china in twenty seventeen and to his wife the fragrant flower of the family he sings my claims she was charged with murder. for are this launch. this moir represented an indonesian tried alongside a vietnamese woman they claim they thought they were taking part in a t.v. prank show when they smeared poison on kim jong noms face caught here on c.c.t.v. at kuala lumpur airport police say five north korean men supervised the assassination and a car registered in rejoining trolls name drove a group of them from the airport we certainly believe that. you will kill had their hand in doing this because he's a chemist's in fact when he was interview they follow money in he. account

and the question is ready to get on his money out reason apartment police found thirty eight thousand dollars in cash for phones five computer devices and a bottle of chloride offices didn't test any of his belongings for v.x. nerve agent and only interviewed him once the police are not very i was the object if in that sense they're not very competed malaysian police let's rejoin told go after two weeks you flew to freedom in china because north korea had seized malaysian diplomats and demanded a prisoner swap. there was a golden opportunity to hold them accountable so we have completely lost that they'll think we can ever get to the bottom of the case. documents obtained by al-jazeera also show re junk show had been doing millions of dollars of business with all the north koreans politicians in malaysia and now asking hard questions

about what north korea has been up to the assassination of kim jong il exposes malaysia. where you have a foreign government involved in activities that might be a true mental to release itself why did the malaysian government allow this for which a long time. regional chole had close contact with agents from this embassy the evidence suggests that together they planned and executed the most high profile of murders after the release of the only remaining suspect in killing these pictures obtained exclusively by al-jazeera suggest the karaoke singing chemist who gets away with murder. will jordan al-jazeera kuala lumpur for more on this al-jazeera investigation by will jordan you can go to the al-jazeera english you tube page. the king of thailand will finally be crowned this weekend two and a half years after he ascended to the throne. or ten became the

constitutional monarch when his father died ending a seventy year reign got highly reports. last minute rehearsals getting the steps correct making sure the procession is perfect before the real ceremony this weekend thailand's king mahat watching long delayed his coronation immediately after his father king jr days death saying he wanted time to mourn but that was in october two thousand and sixteen rama ten as the kings also known gave no reason for the extended delay in thailand's constitutional monarchy the king holds limited political power but it strict lez majesty laws designed to stop defaming the world family are used to stifle political dissent lending many in jail the ties between the army and the world household run deep and like many times in its history at the time military now controls the country after a coup five years ago. prusak qassim so served seven years in jail after being

convicted of those majesté released last year he does not see those laws changing under rama ten. to situation has to change because the last two exist the mechanisms that the state uses to abuse people rights are still there not only is the situation to same it can take a turn for the worse for millions of thais the monarch is viewed as a father figure wearing the king's color yellow they flocked this week to buy commemorative coronation pins and earlier in the week the king made a surprise announcement he had married the deputy head of his personal security force and gave her the title queen this is the king's fourth marriage as talent prepares for the thirty million dollar coronation it's an event that not many thais have experienced before. some who have see similar significance between ramattan his coronation and his father's. as it did in one nine hundred fifty after the second world war the country is again facing

a crossroads of how will be governed for years to come it is still waiting for final results of an election five weeks after polling day but not its. saw the last coronation he supports the royal family but is staunchly against the way governments have used the world defamation law several times he faced charges before while intervention in the morning. is the only institution in this country that law. so one hundred years. to get to be very easy but to preserve which is much much more does it to you but it's worth preserving i think the new king means really really. about his country and you want to do something significant. and that's something the two hundred thousand thais who are expected to witness the coronation will also be hoping for something significant that the next chapter in the two hundred thirty seven year old chokri dynasty will see

a peaceful political transition it's got hardware al-jazeera bangkok. the final day of a rare grand assembly known as the loya jirga is taking place in afghanistan's capital thousands of regional leaders had been meeting in kabul to discuss peace they will make their recommendations to president. goes shading with the taliban saudi arabia has temporarily released five more female activists who have been on trial for alleged contacts with foreign media diplomats and human rights groups and they have spent nearly a year in custody and there are accusations that some of face sexual abuse and torture and prison. headlines right now on al-jazeera this sanctions waiver on eight major buyers of iranian oil has expired and that includes china india and turkey who now face the prospect of u.s. sanctions if they continue to buy crude from tehran same as robbie has more on the

domestic front they are preparing their countrymen for things to get much more difficult the supreme leader speaking to teachers union just the other day said that the country should be in battle mode should be battle ready because the enemy pointing to the united states is making moves that look like conflict oriented moves and so he told this group that everyone in the country needs to be ready for a war that may be coming they most powerful cyclon to hit india and twenty years has made landfall on the east coast cyclon founding is lashing the city of hurry with winds of more than two hundred kilometers an hour or than one point two million people have been evacuated from low lying areas across the state of edition the state capitals airport schools and colleges all been closed. and as well as president nicolas maduro has appeared alongside his top generals on a show of strength days after a failed attempt to overthrow him but

a major opposition figure says he still thinks the military will act against mentor oh apolo lopez spoke from the safety of the spanish ambassador's official residence in caracas and his family took refuge there soon after his appearance a long sigh opposition leader on why joe venezuela's top court has issued an arrest warrant for lopez. i want to say to all of my brothers and sisters in venezuela and around the world we are not going to rest we are not going to restore one single moment we are not going to rest under any circumstance from the challenge a promise we've taken on which is to end the use or patient it means woman jailed over the murder of north korean leaders house brother has been released to hong spent more than two years in immolation prison she's one of two women put on trial for the poisoning of kim jong non that kuala lumpur airport two years ago she was convicted last month on a lesser charge of causing injury after prosecutors dropped the initial murder charge. there so the headlines keep it here and side story is next and more news

at the top of the hour. a university degree to be a doctor or a teacher but without any study or exam one i want to east investigates the pakistani company at legibly selling fake degrades to dolls of the big around the world on al-jazeera. not so fast champion runner caster semenya is ordered to take drugs to lower her testosterone if she wants to keep competing is the decision set or is it needed to ensure a level playing field in the sport this isn't a story. hello welcome to the program on the run come on custis ammonia is an inspiration to

many women around the world but the south african olympic and world champion athletes is accused of having an unfair advantage because her body produces more male sex hormones than most females to stay in the race she's going to have to change your life she's lost a legal challenge against the governing body of world athletics which issued a new rule forcing her to take drugs to lower testosterone levels supporters say that ensures faith competition critics argue that so many unfairly targeted because the rule only applies to middle distance athletes like up the court of arbitration for sport admits the regulation is discriminatory but say it's necessary the president of the international association of athletics federations praised the decision sebastian coe is here in doha for friday's diamond league event where so many a is due to compete. i think this is pretty straightforward and it's very

straightforward for any international federation in sport athletics has to classifications it has age it has gender we are fiercely protective about both and i'm really grateful that the court of arbitration has not held that principle so many years lawyers and the south african athletics governing body are considering an appeal and we are so it was extremely disappointed in the outcome because it's not correct to have a law which close out in a way that nobody knows yet into a doze play out and you can't have the person who makes the law also be the person implementing the law and deciding how it blows out that is not the way we see fairness so what exactly is her condition it's called a hyper androgen is a which causes her body to produce more of the male sex hormone testosterone the most women between five and ten percent of females are thought to be affected the un says that up to one point seven percent of babies worldwide are into sex meaning

they don't fit typical definitions of male and female testosterone boosts the amount of red blood cells increases of muscle mass and strength doctors are divided on how much it improves an athlete's performance. i. let's bring in our panel joining us from london is sylvia account but se senior lecturer in bioethics and society at king's college london from high wycombe on skype john breaux a professor of applied sports science at buckinghamshire new university and also on skype from oxford students have a lesson director of the oxford euro center for practical ethics at the university of oxford welcome all to the program i would like to start with you dr sylvia so many was born a woman it's not her fault that she has this imbalance of testosterone surely should she should be allowed to compete it's not an unfair advantage is it. hugh

really touched an important point because a discussion that hinges on whether an advantage is unfair or not and we just heard the boss down because the case is straightforward pretty steady forward and actually is anything by straightforward because it's quite complex we need to all distinguish whether they are bonded derived from that is unfair or not and this is not what the court for arbitration for sport as done the courts for arbitration for sport as requested that i ws have to investigate to do it is search on levels of testosterone and performance advantage and they come up with some results which by the way i've been demonstrated by several team include in my team to not be replicable and this is been highlighted in the verdict of the courts that i've titian for sport where they know it of the difficulty are reliant on a concrete advantage by they do rely on necessary ethical advantage between that of

a soft test us around and performance how have the pint i've been making as a scholar working in attics and sport and as a former middle distance as i'm not the professional one is that these advantages not unfair let me bring in john breaux a head just right now from high wycombe it's not unfair says dr sylvia kemper also she should be allowed to compete in so he's always out of the whole problem with this case and there's never been lucky with some of the common children. it was clear out of this. situation indeed they were. serious maybe it was shortly you know it was one of the clearly was so you. need to be able to sort of let's remind ourselves it's not just me being cast as.

many and soon with all of these will fema recommend recognition i have to live is that then to sponsor who choose to not just picking on one individual i can see why innocence seems that way it is still a very grey areas the extent to which the levels of testosterone who performs i think we have to bear in mind that you said testosterone is a growth hormone causes as you sort of the outset. of forwards and so as we cruise muscles muscles and muscle evokes to strengthen our will we don't leave because it is quite arbitrary is the exact cut off point where a performance starts and where it stops nothing particularly we've been where we know there are variations in homeowner who's on a monthly basis you need where he was a problem for example it is something that again is the cuatro she said it's going to be very very difficult so more incidents of police and which is because i want

point that you made about that so many not being allowed to compete because she will be allowed to compete but only she and other outlets would soon commission can demonstrate that his her stance to rooms are sort of the who's lower on the speaking and so her concede the last night as i was asked the next step for her should be i genuinely think that she now is such a great athlete that she has the ability and hopefully will desire to carry on with her training carry on doing what she has done so well for so many years and that in some way to prove the doubters won by showing that she can still win or will so we go locals and break world records even with. lower level interest us for because she may also decide on our own. people but i believe she is a great brother a great athlete and we're in a sense people now even with a slightly lower testosterone but what we're asking her to do and other athletes in her position to do. is to take performance reducing drugs not performance and hans

and drugs about and from the sport completely so this seems to be an ethical question let's bring in julian savulescu in oxford one of the what's the morality of all of this we're actually in effect somebody at the top of the game to not be at the top of that is that what we're doing well as exactly what sylvia correctly pointed out is whether this level of testosterone represents an unfair advantage and if it does what you should do about it. so in the first question i completely agree with that the science hasn't established the degree to which are elevated testosterone level provides that with an unfair advantage you've got to remember that that she probably has a condition which means the receptive protest auster are don't work properly we don't know what a normal level of testosterone would be for her we don't know how her body

functions or indeed her bright functions this level of testosterone so even if you reduce the performance by reducing the testosterone it could be two to effects on her brine it could be due to the side effects of the drug it could be due to a whole bunch of different factors in unless you can give a really accurate story about what what part of logic cool features were in taught him to do and what we're not and how testosterone works in a complex situation like this you shouldn't be ruining somebodies career a lot which brings me to the second point that even if you thought there might be some significant advantage. this woman has been brought up under a parent's set of rules she's trying to has been treated as a woman she's been allowed to compete and the chinese those rules midway through her career denies her the right to work and the right to leave fictive only a much better solution would have been to introduce row. that affected athletes in

the future are for example when they're about to start their career not midway through their career i sort of foreground brand molecules but the problem all together is this sort of cool little hormonal playing field which. has in the i double i want to establish isn't really a level playing field because you don't know the response of the receptors to testosterone you don't know the complex biology of the individual athletes national or simply hasn't been worked out so i think it's very sylvia let me bring you let me bring you in here dr sylvia the science seems to be problematic so why not as julian savulescu said allow her to compete whilst you figure out the science yes definitely that could have been an option indeed i mean i must say when i saw was this packed in like calm everybody else out there verdict yesterday i was disappointed but not surprised that and i think it's important to say this is such

a complex and not straightforward issue is that to understand yes it is very good one is to go back a few years and i understand due to the case i did it was the indian sprinter also targeted by the farmer but on drugs an ism regulation which were put in place in two thousand and eleven in response to caster semenya case so you have a case that goes back ten years so you had caster semenya at the billion where temperature two thousand and nine but she was not able to appeal to that i've hundreds of his own regulations that required her to lower the test to surround that sense to due to time and to the court for arbitration our sports articulation were suspended in twenty fifteen on grounds that there was not enough evidence about the correlation how have as i had knotted in the twenty fifteen the grounds on with segregation where suspend it was a wrong. sounds

a lot to me splaying why go for a petition for support in twenty fifteen wrote very clearly that they believe they either have reasons to have this regulation that this is a collection where necessary this language or a cause yes and this is language about necessary discrimination but in twenty fifteen cassel ruled that there was not enough evidence about a proportionality also regulation now is that i that the laugh was given two years to do this additional research which as i've submitted it was most is a new regulation which targeted district a set of events from the four hundred meter to the model were based on is a study published in the british journal sports magazine in twenty seventeen weeks but then defied the middle distance event as events in which women with a high level of testosterone had higher performance advantage to how have both decided at not results had not been replicated and actually as i was saying with

someone frankly i said on the school of economic and i'm not on spinner but on court as an investor of brighton and spain burgas university we've been able to show that there is also cannot get implicated so why these five events i think it's fair to say that caster semenya as been targeted now i would be curious to see if scott system in a sauce competing in a different event with ai that bit after regulation change sadly laugh as cause it aggression and live in document cast yesterday is a very good advice to defer as application i was at it relation on grounds that is of the difficulty i rely on concrete evidence of it not of i have or i'd have cried to ronnie but sad that merited taken i was advised to defer his application as a regulation they given athletes one week one week to lower their test as i don't have it in order to compete i'm a eight so you're saying it's very unfair that you bring in john breaux ahead this is sport sport is supposed to be set the. regulations these

rulings are designed for a level playing field and it's designed on age and on sex. is it time to take a real hard look at that and to try and come up with a different definition or is it simply we've got to draw the line in the sand somewhere. and think we have to must think will rule it now look at the whole integrity of all the water people will all be watching the this fall many millions of pounds is invested in through costing rights through sponsorship deals and so on and i think i am bitterly silent and sorry for athletes such as custer so many who are located in the grease on one with the big carry on competing at the same time alone the things i don't agree with we cover all of this occasional consumer or service coming from in the sense we do have to create an environment within a whose fema who don't are high levels of testosterone to feel they can excel

competes in the sunni were in favor of sport we only have to look over the last twenty or thirty years of the way in which very rightly the last four has grown and developed a much greater levels of aspiration much greater levels of the ship play levels of coverage and that is absolutely to be welcomed i think we also need to bear in mind that we should be cast as. we come out of this inevitably it seems as if it's so that is targeting her as an individual it is as as a set of values of the all athletes one hundred isn't it is also to some extent been clouded with another very good issue that is the one transgender athletes going to kill or males go through sexually or in stations such transitions become females and computers females are part of the reason why the other way or another people looking at testosterone levels is a way to again level the own groups ensure that when an athlete does go through sexual reallocations transition then they have

a testosterone level the least puts them in a castle level where it can compete own style it's. extremely difficult area and a surly one who we know. but i do believe we have to protect the children to school the same time so here's what he said to the last research needs it is the work of exactly cutler is there in mind that a star struck in a different way when it's measured he is bound by the world anti-doping agency because it forms he handsome effects so we know that forms of variants of testosterone itself will inhospitable that's what we're not quite clear on is exactly what those levels are so this is in a sense of couture so it would be nice to work research done since it really get just right and you never spews situation it's not going to be we are going to be some windows and some lose nothing what we have to do is have the sorts of discussions in

a very level headed pragmatic way to come up with the best solution for both individuals and supporters already for society as well julian savulescu john breaux brings up a very interesting point there i just want to ask you a very direct question are we now in a position where we're trying to. regulate the human body where we're trying to legislate the human body and what it's capable of doing and surely that's bad for the sport this is naturally occurring in caster so many or perhaps that's recurring other people it just means that they can compete at that level. you know i think that's exactly the point the it's inconsistent with the logic of sport as it currently stands that your main to be tasting and individuals natural potential but you're trying to reduce the natural potential with testosterone not lowering drugs you have to remember that the definition of a woman used to be until the ninety's having to excrete his arms if that had

continued to be the definition caster semenya wouldn't have been allowed to compete because she probably has a condition where she has a y. chromosome an adage an insensitivity now she didn't make the decision to change that definition it was my by the sporting with our toes and sorrow i move to an anatomical definition of what it is to be a woman when she conforms to anatomically she's a woman she has a female appearance even though she my having to also hastie's and does a producing testosterone so they chose to move to a different definition of woman and within that definition she's completely natural that's not her decision she's conformed to the rules i completely agree we have to have a set of rules but they'll always be great crisis and you shouldn't be disadvantaging people who have conformed to the rules and you decide to chime midwife through it's

to point to recognise that this decision doesn't apply to all into sex conditions it applies to only those people with a white chromosomes who also have high levels of testosterone but there are other women and other conditions you need to six that produce high levels of testosterone that are not covered by this judgement so she's being discriminated against very clearly even among seem to say exactly it's i was reading a very interesting article so if you want to bring you in his very interesting article that suggested that the people running sport overwhelmingly male overwhelmingly white and overwhelmingly over the age of sixty so that definition of what is a man what is a woman is very set in stone a pap's a little old fashioned do you think that has anything to do that. that this has definitely something to do is that in fact already in twenty two hours with my car stanford university wrote an article for as american journal of bioethics where we

were targeting the hyper androgynous regulation and we pointed out i was there were different levels of unfairness is a regulation including the way they were being drafted and implemented and looking at the kind of people that were making this decision i think it's really important to distinguish the pint of whether is this our banter is unfair or not back to twenty fifteen in order to understand today's case could have ruled in a different way indeed i'm really curious to read one hundred sixty pages of the entire very good when they are published because it says that it was ruled by majority so i understand this as there was a minority's i didn't agree with their oil it was a rule in what this means is that cast did not engage with the question is an advantage given by tacitus or unfair now let me give you an example about other

natural advantages there are natural conditions. and mother being receptor gene if you have one of these mutation produce a higher level of red blood cells or red blood cell carry oxygen in our body if you have about fifty percent more red blood cells in your bodies and other athletes is like being naturally dr doctor you have natural dopping and we have cases of athletes who had this mutation and had an advantage in competition they finished here. is a famous example is a sixty one gone mad ulcer and he was broke winter olympics with an advantage of forty or forty five seconds. silverman dallas which is a huge as. but that was not percy their our fair it was clear in the bank and as it may be the case that that's a syrian it is an advantage i have i think the science that underline that matter

to confer bypass us there is a last robust let my brother know we're going to john breaux ahead. the same question that sylvia is ports management sports ruling elite overwhelmingly old overwhelmingly old fashioned and simply out of touch with everything that's going on in the modern world it's a good question i can see why you might go because if you look at the composition of many national federations national governing spall then suddenly of the very right. of of males middle aged males people ourselves say with an architectural or oh a suit so are you going to something whether we you know where the potential implications or israel is that we will see those in other issues start to look at what's happened without that six of when we were the same ruling would be applied to the n.c. we have been purged as something of an arm or we may actually see the stars

themselves and there will be those principally in team sports where you have twelve fifteen individuals all competing in the same units of the same there is more likelihood that we will see those. erosions decide on who they were trying to pass in the regulations so that means they're out of touch or not i don't know i can't really be absolutely certain on that but at the same time a good way in which sport hasn't all the years when you go to the games which is no . sports younger sports if you're lucky because of the winter olympics you need a parent it's what i think we are seeing globally is in a sense a revolution that in sports is now to be mainstream a long way but i do think we're getting much younger much one by one. and the greatest awareness of what's happening in who so we are running out of time and i would like to ask a final question to julian savulescu just very quickly this is same question of the

sports governing bodies out of touch is the science developing faulty quickly is this a problem. caster semenya it's simply that the world is changing and the sport's governing bodies aren't keeping up yeah that's exactly right i think the side to see is rapidly emerging it's very complex it's probable eastgate and they're not aware of how to deal with the ethical issues and i don't have an ethical framework that's satisfactory for the complexity of the issues but i think there are two other issues here i think they're worried about opening the floodgates to transgender athletes i think that's exactly right and there also was worrying about encouraging doping using testosterone in normal laterally. this will be an encouragement to use diving in order to compete with me to say exactly and by the guys are legitimate concerns but

a separate issue and i don't think he got past this amazing. time thank you very much to all of my guests sylvia kemper s.c. john breaux and julian savulescu and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. inside story from am wrong and the whole team head by finance. driven by outrage and spanning generations demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticised repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger was all too apparent and the fear was

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a powerful cyclon makes landfall in eastern india. a show of strength from venezuela's president as a high profile opposition politician takes refuge but the spanish ambassador. i'm going to lecture on without opposition parties violent protests and then calling for the president to step down. iran's economic situation is even more precarious with the expiration of the u.s. sanctions waivers on eight major buyers of its oil so that includes china india and turkey who now face the prospect of u.s. sanctions if they continue to buy crude from tehran some of inch of a explains the economic impact of washington's actions. iran is a top contributor to the oil producing bloc of nations called opec its oil production has fallen from two and a half billion barrels a day in twenty seventeen to just under one and a half billion barrels today iran's economy relies on oil and gas and roughly

eighty percent of its exports are from the hydrocarbon sector the international monetary fund says inflation in iran could hit forty percent this year as u.s. sanctions have already had an impact on the economy i could get the iran oil down to zero immediately but it would cause a shock to the market i don't want to lift oil prices and if you notice or oil prices are going down very substantially despite the fact that already half of their capacity is gone so can the united states bring down iranian oil production to zero iran doesn't seem to think so cheer on the feature me just trying to think you can drive iran's oil exports to zero by plane such games this is impossible around the oil exports would not be zero will sell our oil through various methods the success of u.s. sanctions will depend on how the major buyers of union oil which are india china south korea japan and turkey react to u.s. pressure there's already been an impact on global oil prices which of peaks in the

last few months too were seventy dollars a barrel the u.s. wants to keep oil prices low but that does not favor oil exporting countries economies rely on oil the white house will be looking at allies in the gulf region to pump out an extra million or more barrels of oil a day once the sanctions kick in countries including saudi arabia have been hit hard during a period of nor oil prices and it's unclear if and how quickly they will increase their production the i.m.f. says iran's recession is already spilling over to the broader region iranian generals have warned that if the iran is prevented from sending its oil abroad it would close the strait of hormuz which handles a fifth of the world's oil shipments we have two correspondents covering this story could turn to us in beijing first let's go to zain that's ravi who is in tehran says and does it look like u.s. pressure is working to achieve what it what it seems that they are after is a regime change or regime behavior change at the very least.

well the u.s. might get what it's looking for a change in the government in iran but it might not like what it gets after that change happens the impact of the sentients are real the economy is hurting the sanctions are biting regular people but what experts say that is doing is actually helping hardline politicians here in iran and if you see the hard line politicians take over from the current president hassan rouhani who is generally very moderate he is more reform oriented relatively speaking if the hardliners were to replace him in the next election cycle the united states might find itself facing an iranian leadership that is less likely to negotiate that is less likely to talk and that is more likely to be quick to action when it comes to responding to american policies against iran we're starting to see a sense of what that hardening of stance might look like when mr berg kindo when the opec secretary general met with iran's oil minister b. jones and gone and what mr isn't done and told him was that iran is is

a member of opec at its own pleasure that iran is a member of the pack for its own benefit but if other members of opec were to use oil as a weapon against iran an attack on iran then iran would respond now there was no talk of details there was no talk of whether or not iran might leave opac but the message was clear that iran's first and foremost loyalty is to itself and second to opec as a matter of a i press in tehran thank in saying going to beijing now are standing by live so. the u.s. and china are already going back and forth with negotiations when it comes to tariffs how does this complicate things with that relationship even more. that's right china has to tread very very carefully you moving forward it does have a very strong relationship with iran but iran is not china's biggest trading partner its biggest trading partner is the u.s.

and right now they're engaged in another round of trade talks that will continue into next week and china wants to see a definitely a solution to end this tit for tat tariffs that have been escalating since last year and they may be very reluctant to do anything to drive to jeopardize a trade deal and on the other hand if this is a very irritating demand from the u.s. because china is very close to iran china imports about half a million barrels of oil from iran a day china buys about a quarter of all iranian oil exports and chinese energy companies have heavily invested into iranian oil fields they've invested billions of dollars so china would also be very keen to try to maintain this relationship iran is also a big supporter of china's belton road initiative for infrastructure and at the moment there are many critiques critics of this this program and china really needs all the friends it can have in terms of supporting this initiative moving forward though china may focus they want to focus on its name battle of all its oil imports

iranian oil only makes up about seven percent and experts here have said look they can easily replace that with other sources for example well from russia or from saudi arabia and it could really just want to focus on the battle that that lies ahead so far we've had no clarification from beijing us to what it will do but we expect at the end of the this round of trade talks to be more certain how it will move going forward ok rick attorney you live in beijing thank you there elizondo has been following developments from washington d.c. . it's no secret that the trump white house is no fan of their rein in government the way the white white house sees it is iran is not a force for good within the region and metals and neighbors affairs in the region that's something that the trump administration wants to change and also the white house is unconvinced that they're running government has totally given up their

nuclear ambitions so they're hoping that this move will help push to change that these perceptions from the white house and of course there are hard line elements within the trump administration that would like to see as they say a regime change or a change of government over there as well so this is why administration is doing this but the you ask yourself why now the white house says there is simply anough oil on the international market where these countries can get their oil from elsewhere and that's why the u.s. is making this unilateral decision or there are some big allies of the u.s. on this list india japan south korea turkey greece of course on the list as well as china and it's unclear if some of these countries for example china decide to defy the u.s. order here what will be the repercussions of that simply nobody knows but i can tell you there were some conflicts within the u.s.

government on if they should go forward with this there were some within the state department that thought that these should not go forward but ultimately it was the hardliners within the national security council that pushed trump to autumn and make this decision at least two people have been killed in india as the most powerful cyclon in two thousand years hit the east coast cycling funny made landfall a short while ago and flash in the city of cherry with when more than two hundred kilometers per hour for that one point two million people have been evacuated from low lying areas across the state of edition the state capitals airports schools and colleges have all been closed journalist ron has the latest from edition. i have been preparing for this. and that is why they have been able to evacuate more than one million people almost eleven. yesterday and they have been. a disaster. that. has been

coming in. another report is coming from. reports. definitely. because more than a million people have been. in one thousand nine. thousand people die from. the. production. actually the production.

on. doing such a disaster and most importantly the evacuation of more than one million people depending on the. how many. because it is very strong. and as well as president nicolas maduro has appeared alongside his top generals and a show of strength days after a failed attempt to overthrow him at the same time a major opposition figure says he still thinks the military will act against mentor and appalled a lopez spoke from the safety of the spanish ambassador's official residence in caracas and his family took refuge there soon after his appearance alongside opposition leader was. and as well as top court has issued an arrest warrant for lopez. i want to say to all of my brothers and sisters in venezuela and around the world we are not going to rest we are not going to rest for one single moment we are not going to rest under any circumstance from the challenge

a promise we've taken on which is to end the user patient still ahead on al-jazeera politicians in northern ireland hope to keep the peace they can't stop all odds. are good we do what not to do what is happening here across parts of india where a cycle in saudi has made landfall and it is made landfall on that eastern coast you can see the clouds right there we are going to sing some very heavy winds and also some very heavy rain over the next two to three days across much of the area by the time we get to saturday the storm is going to weaken but the remnants of the storm is going to continue to make its way towards the northeast into parts of bangladesh possibly into bhutan as well bringing some very heavy rain there over the next several days by the time we get to sun.