hoping that there's not going to be a significant price rise from the sanctions in may. we shall wait and see but saudi arabia says that it's not ready to make up the lost production from iran and that the u.s. could only what replace about a quarter of of that i mean this isn't looking good is it. well actually first of all to begin with can u.s. substitute iranian oil really know because the crude quality matters and even our crude oil is heavy u.s. crude oil is like really the best match for iran in cool oily saudi crude oil and the closest the other is u.a.e. so these only closest crude types to iranian are current quality for the refiners you find areas cannot easily change their diet but what you're expecting is that saudi arabia before november before the first sets of sanctions in an implementation in two thousand and eighteen it raced in production but suddenly it's only been surprised by the eight waivers that were announced by the u.s.

administration so based on the are waiting actually two well today's may second but if they're waiting to see that how much actually iranian oil supply is going to be excluded from the market how much iran can smuggle or sell informally and if u.s. government would come up with some sort of sanctions some sort of waivers formally or informally so they would wait and see how much actually iranian oil supply is going to be removed from the market and then act accordingly to manage in the market and substitute iranian oil but it only takes one event to spook the markets only a week or so ago russia had to tell europeans that the oil pump through a pipeline was contaminated you look at the other unpredictable things that are going on right now in libya and in venezuela is there going to be blowback here for the united states and the president trump it's a very very good question because even if we have saudi arabian opec covering for iranian oil again most of this substitution would come from saudi arabia and sony

really is a country and major opec member that has their highest the serapis spare capacity in a market so if they want to saudi arabia to cover for iranian oil that it's a spare capacity and opec and russia then if there is any other event the market will not. i have enough spare capacity to cover for that and to and in the event of any major incident and then we have a significant impact on the prices also beside that we have iran and that they are constantly traveling the market that if they cannot exploit any oil they are going to either close the strait of hormuz a retaliate on a global oil flow so all of these also could create potentially a psychology full impact on the prices however as of now looking at the future prices you don't see any psychology kl impact the future price of oil for the next few months they are not significantly higher so the market hasn't been panic the yet but yes if there is any incident then there's going to be a major effect on the price and with iran's economy the way that it is if it needs

to sell oil you talked about iran possibly getting oil covertly to market how how might it do that. well iran has still its own way still. want to call it a smuggler informally sell its oil and they have done it before there is or are as thing that circle estimate is that under the nuclear sanctions that in two thousand and twelve until end of two thousand and fifteen iran was able to smuggle about a hundred fifty to two hundred thousand barrels of oil. to market a day and this this is the amount that iran could as still say sell in the black market but is not very significant if you compare the two point seven million barrels of export back in april two thousand and eighteen also what we expect is that still iran might denver oil to china and india as part of so it's

certain depths that it has to do is countries as a death payment so we might have still see some iranian oil shipment to this country so we do not expect that iranian oil export would go to an actual zero it might remain somewhere between two hundred to five hundred thousand barrels per day but to what extent in the long term this president trump if playing with fire will there be pushback from countries like you mentioned china turkey as as as well git politically is this going to cause trouble for him. well. if there is enough supply in a market the market is kong we expect that these countries will comply with u.s. sanctions particularly china is a very interesting case because historically china never comply with u.s. sanctions again going back to their sanctions during president obama china was at an average importing about six hundred thousand barrels of oil a day which means that it was not been in compliance with u.s.

sanctions but these time during the new sets sets of sanctions under president trump china was really in a very full compliance with our u.s. sanctions which was very historic and what is interesting is that china u.s. relation in terms of especially energy trade is going to a new era and all will look at the trade war and trade argument but it's kind of calling it a pre-marriage conflict between the two countries they're setting their terms because if you look at it china is now d.c. or the highest is going to be record that you highest importer of l n g so china has appetite for oil and gas could be supplied by us but also us as a country that china could have invested in the stakes in its oil and gas production what having observed is that chinese of the fineries and companies that are very hesitant to enter any business or support of iran under the sanctions to conflict in their interest with the united states dr it's great to talk to you

again on counting the cost many thanks indeed for being with us dr sarra. the young inventor developed technology to make the screen mobile phones stronger and more scratch resistant he said his products to a chinese tech giant bought the time of the gloucester top broken with fragments missing now that raised suspicions and led to an f.b.i. sting al-jazeera stone had reports. this is a story about a small american technology start up a giant chinese conglomerate and industrial espionage it starts here in illinois where adam kahn formed a company a concept he conductor where they make a kind of glass for cell phones that is they had to be six times stronger than the industry standard so you can drop it and it won't break and it looks something like that he was looking for a manufacturer to make it in among the companies he talked to were hallway of china

they had a facility in california so he sent them a sample with two provisions first they could not damage it bet's standard protection against industrial espionage and second they couldn't take it out of the country because it's made with a kind of industrial diamond like material that has military properties and is illegal to export from the united states nevertheless it was returned months later and broken that was when the company thought perhaps they were being ripped off by the chinese so they spoke to the f.b.i. examined this sample and determined that it had been cut by a military strength industrial laser and there were pieces missing which suggested the chinese had held on to them to examine it but it's part of a wide ranging probe into huawei by companies and the u.s. government in fact the c.f.o. of qual way faces charges in brooklyn. the company just settled a suit in washington state where it is alleged to have stolen part of a robot owned by t. mobile the robot was called tapi by the way and the trumpet ministration is urging

american companies not to use while weighs five g. technology that's because they're afraid that the company is installing a backdoor that would allow them to listen to americans and possibly engage in cyber warfare as for the a con technology you see here you might look for it one day soon on a cell phone near you. adam cohen of a consummate conductor thank you for being with counting the cost thank you having me first off you've got nearly breakable smartphone technology what is it and how did you come up with it so our mirage diamond glass technology is actually a lab grown men or crystal in diamond it has all of the material properties that you'd find in bulk diamond exceptional hardness it's exceedingly high thermal conductivity it's an exceptionally robust material it's chemically inert biologically inert as well as having the optics that you'd require from a display glass so we've married a very thin layer of nano diamond with display glass creating the world's first

display technology for cell phone smartphone and consumer facing technologies how could it revolution is the smartphone industry and what other applications does it have so right now the glass that majority of smartphones use this chemically hardened alumina silicate glass was actually pioneered to the one nine hundred sixty s. not a lot has been done in terms of innovating that glass which is why every time we drop our phone we see the spiderweb cracks the brake lines diamond being exceptionally hard and being scratch resistant not only helps with that break strength but also when you're tearing around your cell phone in your bag. alongside with you keys things that would normally break the material no longer do so you will no longer need this protective top coat to protect the surface it will also be a stronger display for drop protection and as we move to technologies like foldable smartphone this will be even more important because we already see cracks and creases being formed in those glass types so you're looking for a partner to manufacture the phone and one of the companies you talked to was huawei of china what happened so at the time was the third largest now they're the

second largest smartphone manufacturer world wide they have actually reached out to us seeing some of these breakthrough announcements and white paper conference proceedings that we had pursued the were very interested in the technology for their flagship smartphone as well as for their smart watch. and we began the engagement with them in two thousand and sixteen around twenty seventeen we started chipping samples for their evaluation the samples came back damaged and in the last instance we actually saw that they retained a portion of the sample which prompted the events that followed and what exactly did follow after that sample was broken the last one unit up talking to the f.b.i. we did so we noticed that the sample when it was returned to this facility here in illinois that a good portion of it was missing from these pieces this is not something that could be done in shipping again this is exceptionally hard material and it was also

packed rather airtight so that way it could be insensitive to things like vibrational and handling so we knew right away that there was an issue we had contacted our contacts at the f.b.i. chicago field office with whom we were previously acquainted from some technology executive briefings and we've asked for their help to do some analysis on this and sure enough they're finding was that the sample was intentionally cleaved using a high intensity laser and that's when this becomes a kind of james bond story your company contacts the f.b.i. the f.b.i. asks your company to become essentially industrial spies for the government. i look at it more so that we're looking to protect our technology in f.b.i. recognizing the breakthrough of the technology platform not necessarily a conscious if the importance of time and technology readily stepped up to help us protect and reclaim its technology tell me about that meeting with huawei officials

in las vegas where you had people who were miked up. it didn't go entirely as planned what happened well i guess i usually say that anything that can happen will happen during these sort of instances but yes we met with huawei at the consumer electronic show again to get on record that they had willfully export of this to. acknowledging and willfully infringed or attempted to reverse engineer our technology from their perspective they were during the meeting still attempting to be the exclusive licensee of our technology asking things like when we were going to ramp when we were going to bring this technology to market and where they have able to still pursue the exclusive so from their perspective i think they were doing a little bit more digging tunder stand now the scaling in operation side having some material in hand from our perspective we want to document beyond any reasonable doubt what they had attempted to do which was steal our technology so you had a conversation it was recorded as i understand it means admitted that they did send

this sample for testing in china which as you understand it is a violation of u.s. law and they asked whether the u.s. government was listening to that conversation they actually won the step beyond that they had said we looked into it and we said they thought that they could willfully or they could legally export the technology so it did even though our paperwork it explicitly stated you know state side only do not export they admitted that they looked into it and believe that they could do so i pointed out during that meeting diamond is part of the e.a. are the export in arms restricted materials which has heavy criminal heavy criminal jail time as well as actual fines associated with it so where are we now where is that investigation lie and where do things lie between your company and huawei so the department of justice is still pursuing the case against huawei and their plans to file a civil litigation in tandem with those charges we are not privy to the department of justice is time till the time table nor do we believe we ought to be but we sit

patiently waiting to play our poor our part in that proceeding with huawei directly i was actually at the san diego facility yesterday just before this to get to ask for a sample materials i noticed that particular location that's changed their name to future away and again i was given the runaround that they would get back to us with respect to the sample status so again from their perspective i think they're denying or playing in the dark with respect to where the samples lie it's our belief that these materials are still in china which is exceptionally problematic for us. adam conover a consummate conductor thank you for talking to us at counting the cost thank you fascinating well that's our show for this week if you'd like to comment on anything that you've seen you can tweet me i'm at a finnigan on twitter please use the hash tag a j c t c when you do or drop us a line in the cost of al-jazeera dot that is our e-mail address as always there's more for you online at al-jazeera dot com slash c.t.c.

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india's east coast with devastating force not cycling phony is approaching bangladesh and a million more people have been moved to safety. also the u.s. says it won't punish some countries who keep working on civilian nuclear projects with iran a day after slapping sanctions on its oil trade and accusations from the u.n. that refugees in and carry a detention centers are being deliberately deprived of food in breach of international law. also preparing to transform him into a living god more than two years after he took charge thailand is about to finally crown a new king. welcome to the news are the most powerful cycling to hit india in nearly twenty years is ripping through its eastern coastline destroying homes uprooting trees and plunging large areas into darkness more than

a million people have been moved to higher ground that's helped save many lives eight people so far have been killed cyclon forty made landfall near the city of poti in addition state on friday with winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour and heavy rain hundreds of flights and trains were cancelled schools and airports were shut the storm is. moving towards the state of west bengal goal in india and is expected to hit bangladesh on saturday nearly two million people there are being moved to makeshift shelters scott hyder has the latest. with one hundred eighty kilometer per hour winds cyclon funny slammed ashore in the distinct in eastern india thanks. when he first made landfall friday morning near the coastal city of footy a holy place for hindus something that i'm never going to see the rain has stopped since early morning it's

a very strong storm the trees have been uprooted roads are closed there is no electricity the rain has caused my house to flood. everybody but that because this is worse than the one thousand nine hundred nine storm i feel scared to be at home or to go outside i fear we might be blown away if we go out. the strong side close expected to move north through and weaken as it hits west bengal and my colleague state event head to bangladesh. a big concern as coastal storm surges and resultant flooding about a million people have been evacuated india's navy air force and disaster response force are on standby. airports and schools were closed before the storm hit funny is the most serious cyclon for the region in twenty years in one nine hundred ninety nine a super cycle and devastated and killed ten thousand people across the state. the coast of state is prone to cycle and storm surge and tsunamis embankments and

shelters have been built over the last seven years before he will be the first test of how they stand up to a powerful cycle. got harder al-jazeera new delhi kevin trenberth there's a senior scientist at the u.s. national center for atmospheric research and he thinks climate change is leading to more powerful cycles. this is the time of year of course in in the indian ocean where there is quite a lot of cycling activity normally and then there's another peak an even stronger peak from october to december but not in the peak of summer so this is a surprise perhaps to some people around the world but in the middle of summer the monsoon kicks in and it creates winds year which tends to bullies cyclons apart so these sea temperatures have been running quite a bit above normal in the indian ocean and also in the bay of bengal and this helps to support these storms you know two thousand and eighteen the oceans as

a whole with the warmest on record that's a symptom of climate change and with climate change we expect a more intense hurricanes a bigger hurricanes or cyclons longer lasting hurricanes and more flooding rains and that's certainly what we're seeing now pakistan's government has removed two of its top financial officials as the country's economic troubles continue the central bank governor the head of the federal revenue collection body had been removed just weeks after the finance minister was asked to step down the move comes amid ongoing bailout discussions for the international monetary fund pakistan's economy is expected to grow by just three percent this year. four out of ten north koreans are going hungry this set to get even worse after the country's worst harvest in a decade as according to a un report which says more than ten million people are facing severe food shortages the government is cutting food rations on which many people rely to its

lowest level for nearly a year a combination of dry spells heat waves and flooding are being blamed for the crisis . venezuela's opposition leader who is vying to fight on to win the support of the military against president nicolas maduro is urging his supporters to march to military barracks and army bases on saturday just soldiers to break ranks the army's allegiance is key in the battle for power of venezuela and so far president bush has retained its support of the diplomatic front the leave a group of mostly latin american countries met in the peruvian capital to help try and end venezuela's political standoff. let's join trees a blowhard correspondent who's following events obviously. and his allies have been trying to you might say regain not just the trust but the. to try and take venezuela forward what else did he say.

well yes it's been almost four d. for finns that we saw an attempt again to change the status quo or here in venezuela we thought why they were going to a military base like a lot of i don't care away from here so rounded by a around seventy soldiers saying that there was going to be change in venezuela he was also with the preference of europe or the law and opposition leader who's been under house arrest for the past two years and seeing him there it shows that something could change here in venezuela but that did not happen your board along with ended up seeking refuge at the spanish ambassador as a reference the end now we're seeing why they are continuing what he started last january when he refused to acknowledge the presidency of nicola mughal right now he's calling on people to take to the streets again this saturday asking them to gold peacefully to military bases to talk to members of the military come visit them that they need to stand by their venezuelan cassock to show let's not forget

that one way the law is saying that mother will was elected in fraudulent elections that are free and fair elections need to happen even if we let in order for democracy to be rethought what the government is saying and answering to this is that this is the plan that's being met by the united states by donald trump trying to get me out of power and that is the whole conspiracy by the extreme right here in venezuela in order to take power. you touched on the issue of the libor group as you just remind us who they are and how they hope to engage both the opposition and the government in caracas. well many mcgrew was created when the whole crisis is in venice way less seem to be in a way out of control is composed by countries like brazil argentina the united states and others that been trying to find

a peaceful solution out of this crisis we saw that there was an emergency meeting today after the chaos that we saw here in the capital caracas and around the country after ys all went to that military base and then thousands and thousands of people took to the streets and that there was a fierce repression by the government that left at least five people dead that what they deem a group is saying is that evacuate also for example discarded the possibility of military intervention in this country they're also asking countries like russia and turkey to switch sides in the whole country they have been in a way crucial allies of precedent in my daughter and they also are saying that they're willing to facilitate the participation of cuba in the future of talk here in venezuela between the opposition and the government but let's not forget that for now what the opposition is saying is that they're not open to any type of negotiations they're saying that in order to be for negotiations to happen with the

government the government needs to comply and to call for a free and fair elections here in that is when we'll see the move it will leave the trees grow accustomed to. the venezuelan crisis was possible conversation between the us president and ultimate white house correspondent. speaking from the oval office u.s. president donald trump discussed his telephone call with russian leader vladimir putin one of the many topics they discussed included venezuela where both sides have been warning one another of intervention in venezuela in recent days. arguing that a lot of her putin does not want to get involved in venezuela but that seems to contradict the statements coming from thompson secretary of state mike pompei oh my pump a recent day saying that in fact the russians had to convince directly the venezuelan leader nicolas maduro not to leave that as well when his plane was

apparently on the tarmac in venezuela so this is certainly a contradiction in terms of the claim being made by u.s. president donald trump but once again the tensions between the two nations have been ask a lady well the united states backs the opposition leader or what the united states calls the interim leader juan why don't the russian side backs the venezuelan president nicolas maduro and so this is where there is continuing friction in fact . of the russian foreign minister saying that these positions are not compatible that's what we know that lavrov will be discussing this issue with pump aoe u.s. secretary of state next week but in the midst of all of this the united states continues to underscore that they believe there is still the possibility of u.s. military intervention in venezuela the exact words they continue to say repeatedly all options are on the table we do know in fact that there was

a meeting at the pentagon on friday where some of those options may have been discussed it was a team of military officials along with the president's national security advisory team. tightening sanctions on iranian oil exports the u.s. government is giving iran's civilian nuclear program some breathing room the u.k. china france and russia won't face any repercussions if they continue to work with iran the countries are involved with its civilian nuclear program and three facilities the waivers were first introduced under the twenty fifty nuclear accord signed by european union china russia and the us president donald trump withdrew from that deal year ago threw it up r.c. is a professor of middle east politics at georgetown university joins me now via skype from washington d.c. good to have you with us on the program sir i mean waivers over oil have been withdrawn yet they're sort of ambiguous over their position on the iran nuclear deal having withdrawn from it a year ago that are sort of confirming support to their european allies to.