southeast asia i think some of the liveliest showers will be around thailand actually a fair bit of cloud in and around the gulf of thailand so some wet weather here's some humid weather thirty five celsius there for bangkok on sunday quite a rash of showers as you can see battering of rain there across malaysia pushing down into indonesia a little developing feature here into that eastern side of indonesia as you go on into monday elsewhere it is sunshine is as i say case into the philippines still some showers on parts of indochina as you can see still a chance of some showers into thailand bangkok at thirty seven degrees celsius and we have some showers and long spells of rain also making their way across australia some welcome rainfall here for the southeastern corner that's now moved through is quite an active weather system which will gradually not its way towards new zealand we've got clear skies coming in behind in the form of high pressure and we got a very active weather system just pushing into w way as we go on into sunday twenty six celsius for perth lossie staying dry cools off as we go on into monday nineteen

degrees at this stage plenty of dry weather across the southern parts of australia for monday sixteen celsius in melbourne and eighty in sydney. on council because this week trump the world economy shutting down the wrongs ability to sell oil. indestructible phone screen about trying these tech giants of the f.b.i. state. will talk to the inventor at least suspects this technology slowly counting the cost. we were. going. out when we were.

watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now israel says at least ninety rockets have been fired into the south of the country from the gaza strip and response israeli warplanes have also bomb targets in gaza ministry of health and gaza says one palestinian has been killed. at least twelve people have been killed in bangladesh after cycling funny hit early on saturday more than two million people have been moved to higher ground now the storm has weakened it blew in from india where at least sixteen people were killed weapons experts are trying to confirm the latest suspected rocket launches from north korea following the breakdown of denuclearization talks with the united states south korea's defense ministry says several launches were detected but they were not a list of missiles. or a stupid live in syria has been forced to suspend all activities due to heavy

shelling in the area russian and syrian government air strikes targeted the eastern countryside of it it's the latest violation of an eight month old truce brokered by russia and turkey a bit shielding the area from for the fighting. yes government is giving iran's civilian nuclear program some breathing room just today after tightening sanctions on iranian oil exports the u.s. has renewed some sanctions waivers allowing russia china the u.k. and france to work with iran without facing repercussions the countries are involved with iran's civilian nuclear program at three facilities the waiver first introduced under the two thousand and fifteen nuclear core to deal with u.s. president all tromped way through from a year ago she departs he's a professor of middle east politics at georgetown university he says washington's actions are counterproductive and may push iran to withdraw from the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal. it's a temporary position at the end of the day all signs are that the trumpet

ministration is going to withdraw those waivers as well as well as going after other forms of trade whatever is left in order to just completely isolate iran and the bizarre situation that iran is facing is that it is now under more sanctions now when it is actually abiding by an international agreement then it was when it was accused of having violated international agreements it seems like the plan of the trumpet restriction is to essentially force the iranians to get out of the nuclear deal and once they're out other options open ups opens up for that. bolton. group within the white house and the option they seem to be gearing towards is a military option turkey's economy is expected to continue its downward slide as the u.s. imposes further sanctions on iran's oil industry and or as a major customer of iranian oil that is now having to look elsewhere because hello reports from istanbul. iran is the second largest oil supplier to turkey after

russia turkey has energy rich neighbors but no reserves of its own so is dependent on oil and gas imports that leaves the turkish call me vulnerable to rises in energy prices the value of the turkish lira has fallen at least forty percent in the past year and could fall further because of concerns about all supply to keep the troubled economy running. human you have many troubles just during the israeli lobby before the twenty twenty a lick should sound like he gave golden heart same jerusalem to him otherwise it has nothing to do with national security around complies with the nuclear deal but they want to contain iran for israel safety if turkey can't buy oil from iran sourcing alternative supplies from the united arab emirates or saudi arabia is difficult the turkish government is a leading saudi quit it following the killing of journalists. in the kingdom sconce late in a stumble last year and relations with the u.a.e.

are strained since turkish police arrested two arabs who confessed to be spying for their murat is as a stopgap the turkish government is negotiating with iraq to buy oil only to cuchulainn wheate wild turkey is trying to make itself understood by its western friends who are protecting its national interests but to put an end to its independence it should focus on renewable energy in the long term turkey tried to torpedo their reimposition of u.s. sanctions through a gold for all the strategy with iran basically using lear and gordon payments to buy a turkey's state bank help bank another turkish initiative was a crisis while they are between iran and russia last year and that bypassing the u.s. financial system but it fails to stall turkey's all supply problem turkey's relations with the us are strange two of the major problems are u.s. support for the kurdish fighters in syria out with turkey calls terrorists and the

u.s. stopping deliveries of leftover to force that's what plays because turkey refuses to cancel a deal to buy air russian missile defense system and with the domestic issues such as weak currency and troubled economy it seems difficult for the turkish government to stand against u.s. sanctions on neighboring iran see now because all of al-jazeera the stumble acca stance central bank governor and tax collection chief have been fired as the country's economic troubles continue they've been sacked just weeks after the finance minister was asked to step down ongoing bailout discussions are taking place with the international monetary fund pakistan's economy is expected to grow by just three percent this year. yes i have had a lucky escape on their airliner skidded onto a river the boeing seven thirty seven charter flight slid off the runway is it landed in jacksonville florida one hundred forty three passengers and crew managed to scramble to safety from the shallow water around two dozen suffered minor injuries the jet was flying military personnel home to guantanamo bay in cuba

and a bill outbreak in the east of the democratic republic of congo has now killed more than a thousand people spend a rapid increase in the number of cases in recent weeks the outbreak began last august and has already been second over the world health organization says security has become a major impediment to controlling the virus an affected areas that are hima so say fall is the assistant director general for emergency response at the world health organization he says fighting this outbreak cast presented huge challenges for help workers. oh man concern is really the security because when you have attacked from arms group you have this russian intervention and difficult access to areas where we need to i don't for the question and to vacillate people who are at risk so any time we are at that major discussion of an increase of the number of cases this is our measure tell the government was really not present oh well we are

just new are great seeing many people coming from outside. very difficult to understand at the same time you have some local politician manipulating the population you know to get votes so everything is complaining in the song but we are engaging more and more communities to really like them understand what is going on because we are seeing very leftist dying so we are seeing more commitment from sound at the same time when certainly by arms groups very difficult to have full engagement hundreds of thousands of algerians protested for the eleventh straight week on friday calling for the ruling elite to step down as a one stop rallying until their demands are met even through the muslim holy month of ramadan in germany or clever parts. of the streets of the capital going out to cause the change again. the thousands chanting they must leave the the scenes were repeated across the country by crowds unhappy with interim

president abdulkadir. and prime minister nuri deemed bad to be. supposed to only serve until elections on july the fourth but he and other government officials are seen as little more than remnants of the regime of president abdullah sees beautifully. the protesters are demanding a complete overhaul of the political system. we have to remain patient when a regime ruins a country still the people's money humiliates us and runs the country the way they want. more than twenty years we can say that after two months we are tired we can't be tired we have no right to waste this revolution that had the shadow. many protesters are opposed to the planned process of transferring power to a newly elected government they fear that some members of the old beautifully kept

ministration may be given roles. i was in sort of the i'm going to be in the streets during ramadan and we will be heading to the old go way you know just on the road we would like to change the system entirely we would like to begin again from the start this is in order to start everything from the beginning to reset everything so good today. it's just that was somebody who wrote it is no dialogue this government basically judgments we want to negotiate to be retold gates or love to change the government then we'll talk if you don't then you won't do. many want on the chief of staff. to step in and remove the political elite but he insists protest a should follow the constitutional process so now i hope to push out president beautifully up to twenty years and has promised to crack down on corruption while some algerian supports him others are skeptical whether salah can be part of the far reaching

a sweeping change they demand that's right and until the sweeping change protests across the country looks set to continue. algy samara and as i was opposition leader who says he is the president is stepping up his campaign for military support on what zero is urging supporters to march to army bases on saturday to appeal to soldiers to break ranks with president nicolas maduro military commanders have remained loyal to mr us so far and after meeting in the peruvian capital the lame a group of mostly latin american countries is calling for what it calls a return to democracy and venezuela. all parties in south sudan have agreed to delay the formation of a unity government by six months or presented as a president salva care and rebel leader written ashar have been meeting in ethiopia's capital addis ababa to try and salvage a peace deal that was signed last year but they have not resolved several differences ahead of the may twelfth deadline to form a government. position

a politician bobby why and is told al-jazeera is willing to sit down with the president you were missed seventy two discuss challenges facing the country popular musician turned politician was released after three days in custody for taking part in what authorities called unlawful protests catherine sawyer reports from kampala . this was the moment when the town home on thursday after three days in cassidy protests against a social media talks many of his supporters like young john to his music and political views most have grown up with president yoweri in the seventeen charge he's been in power for more than three decades and saw with. the wind told al jazeera he supporters relate to him because of his fight against social injustice we are lucky that we are living in a generation where our molds can not be shot we shall speak the truth and we shall continue using the law does do stand for our rights and has

a president ever reached out to you to talk about political issues to talk about how to move the country forward and things like that. no he has not reached out to me and would you be willing to sit down with him to talk about what's ailing the country and what perhaps can be done better because he is the head of state i would be very glad and very honored to sit with the president and tell him exactly what i am saying now. honorably mr president we need to respect the law was in another neighborhood eyes i quote we restore expresses his political stand on a good day he'll make about five dollars selling the street food but after expenses and home bills he's left with very little to save or grow his business. what you say will be miserable they should reduce the price of wheat the city council should also treat us well stop harassing and overtaxing us. like war

weary a majority of ugandans are young those we talked to said they don't have to jobs poor and frustrated the compiler is considered an opposition stronghold and bobby wine is very popular here but some analysts say if you go to areas president yoweri in the seventies still family in control with my knowledge of the people who. say they're struggling to make plans maids and just want a better life government ministers say their colonies performing well but not growing as fast as the population who have one of the highest rates of population growth so in terms of absolute figures we are. because of this. some over the achievements which were just. back at the food store where we're safe he wants to move to a much bigger one and maybe one day a proper restaurant he tells us if things remain the same politically he does not

say he's a constant is changing catherine saw al jazeera kampala. going to the movies is becoming more hype. the never or actual reality is the latest phenomenon it's one of the big screen highlights at the tribeca film festival in new york chris and salome has been to take a look. at the technology on display in the virtual arcade at the try back a film festival is cutting edge from the headsets that allowed viewers to interact with the films to the latest projectors to display them. i'm hungry people need a leader but storytelling has been around as long as humans themselves and this animated film called cave which takes the viewer back to the days of talking around the campfire actually point the way to the future for virtual reality filmmaking the problem with g.r. is that in some sense everything is made as a movie for an audience of one so you get one percent of the time you get long lines and also people don't get to share it with their friends caves creators made

a holographic virtual reality experience that can be shared by up to thirty people at once with each audience member's reactions visible to the other as a way to increase profits as well as audience size like we don't want to be art to be something that just because of lack of distribution. becomes whether it wants to or not just a small elite to say we want it to be a way for the world to talk to itself or better important issues or try backup program or lauren hammond's concedes that consumers have been slow to buy expensive v.c.r. headsets for home use the idea of location based experiences and festivals in particular are very important to just exposing the work to audiences the idea of i'll be your location based experience is there was something that cannot be duplicated at home have to do with like this virtual experience called war remains which allows viewers to interact with performers and touch and feel their surroundings on the

battlefield as well as see them as dogs out. other offerings like bon fire allow us to make decisions to shape the outcomes of the story. you need to take this mission. bonfire at its core is an interactive v.r. narrative and it's really about you building a relationship with this ilene creature of heartburn and when it comes to try back as cinema three sixty the theater seats twice as many viewers this year at least one sign that organizers expect the audience for v.r. will continue to grow christian salumi al-jazeera new york. look at the headlines on al-jazeera israel says at least ninety rockets have been fired into the south of the country from the gaza strip israeli warplanes later

bomb targets and gaza the ministry of health in gaza says one palestinian has been killed. at least twelve people have been killed in bangladesh after a cyclon funny hit early on this saturday more than two million people are being moved to higher ground the storm has now weekend but one from india where at least sixteen people were killed scott heiler is in new delhi. what's really the challenge right now local officials are saying is trying to get to those areas that most impacted by the storm damage most of the storm down damage we're hearing was because of the high winds yes there's flooding but most right now the biggest concern they're saying are clearing the roads so they can get to these communities that are now cut off including put it that is because there are so many trees that are down and so many power lines that are down and that is really proving to be a problem because one state official saying that there are certain areas that the hardest hit areas are completely without power and their power grid is completely destroyed. experts are trying to confirm the latest suspected rocket launches from

north korea south korea says they were ballistic missiles suspected weapons as follows the failure of the nuclearization between kim jong un and donald trump and february thailand's hot washee ronald corn has been crowned as the country's monarch. placed a seven point three crown on his head and elaborate coronation ceremony the sixty six year old took the throne in two thousand and sixteen after his father died heavy shelling and rebel held areas of northern syria has forced the university of to send students home and the eastern country side of the lead has come under further attack from russian and syrian government airstrikes the attacks are the latest violation of an eight month old truce brokered by russia and turkey and the us government is giving iran civilian nuclear program some breathing room to day after washington tighten sanctions on iranian oil exports u.k. china france and russia won't face any repercussions if they continue to work with

tehran. i said the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera and more news to come counting the cost us next. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of how the law. inspiring documentaries from impassioned to next. witness on al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week trump gambles the world economy on shutting down iran's ability to sell oil overseas. but also this week an indestructible phone screen a chinese tech giant and an f.b.i. sting we talked to the inventor who suspects his technology was stolen.

donald trump's attempts to make iran abandon its nuclear ambitions and change its foreign policy is thwart with danger after ripping up a nuclear agreement with trump is forcing china india and turkey to end imports of crude from the islamic republic trump is gambling that there's an awful from the u.s. saudi arabia and the united arab emirates to fill the void but global supplies could be up ended by events in venezuela and libya meeting that trump is pushing the world's economy to the brink we've got three reports for you from beijing catrina you on beijing china is iran's biggest oil but it's entering another round of trade talks with the u.s. and for the straits of hormuz zain bus lobby reports on iran's plans to block sea lanes but we start with mike hanna in washington on saudi arabia's role in the u.s. foreign policy. it was a surprise to many when president trump chose riyadh to suggest

a nation of his first international trip in office but two years on it's clear this was more of a signal as to the central role saudi arabia would play in his administration's decision making. driven home when it was made clear the imposition of oil sanctions against iran was done in coordination with a leave other stuff about the details of what the site is in the immoralities have agreed to but i've had conversations the president said conversations with these countries and there they have committed to making sure that there is a sufficient supply in the markets. confirmation of saudi coordination came just days after president trump signaled a major policy reversal in libya in an obvious not to riyadh expressing u.s. support for the saudi backed warlord fighting the internationally recognized government in tripoli the announcement makes clear that saudi arabia is now a full crim of the united states foreign policy this despite the fact that congress

has held saudi arabia responsible for the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi as well as for the deaths in the ongoing war in yemen even senior republican leaders have said until these situations are resolved responsibility for the murder of khashoggi is assigned it simply cannot be business as usual the white house simply ignores this position a congressional resolution condemning saudi arabia's actions in yemen the subject of presidential veto. in president trump size it seems the relationship with three are more important than that with congress. one of china's most important ports some twenty million barrels of oil are reportedly stranded waiting to clear chinese customs. with the united states ending waivers on a rainy and oil purchases this week the future of the shipment is unclear the u.s.

has tightened sanctions on all countries that continue to buy iranian oil after the first of may that includes china iran's biggest customer beijing says there's no justification for the u.s. policy. imposed by the us. roughly a quarter of iran's exported oil is sold to china about half a million barrels a day the two countries have grown closer in recent years president xi jinping mediterranean counterpart in beijing last june just one month after the u.s. really imposed sanctions on iran iran is a key supporter of china's delton road infrastructure initiative designed to ease chinese global trade but analysts say china may have no option but to bow to u.s. demands and. the united states is serious in forcing china to pick

a side the chinese government has to be very careful the timing is critical this week top negotiators from washington arrived in beijing for a new round of treetops both sides are working to finalize a deal to end escalating tit for tat tariffs which began last year experts say china may give up iranian oil which makes up about seven percent of china's total oil imports to avoid jeopardising discussions on trade for china now and the most important relation is still it's not with iran it's within us and there are other battles china need to fight in terms of transformative technology. china is desperate some sort of cutting slack from the. should china stop buying iranian oil it could compensate by boosting trade in other areas if it continues it could do so via a back door. but that. china has so far given no indication it intends to stop buying

oil leading some to believe may be used as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations with the rest washington officials who say any wind down period or additional waiver is out of the question. so for iran has responded to u.s. economic pressure with rhetoric at home and diplomacy abroad but since the u.s. said it will not extend sanctions waivers to let iran sell oil to its biggest clients iranian leaders have started hinting at slowing traffic in the strait of hormuz an estimated twenty percent of the world's oil passes through these waterways the mere mention of the name can move markets and raise concerns in global capitals while leaders say if iran can't use distrait to sell its oil no one can they also say they intend to keep the shipping lanes near their shores wide open in everyone's best interest but behind balanced remarks in the waters near iran's southern coast are battle ready boats this is as close as we can get to an iranian warship the navy takes the security of its vessels very seriously

especially around the waters of the strait of hormuz where boats like this have the job of policing traffic in the waterway but also looking out for american warships had any time there are dozens of cargo ships visible on the horizon giving a sense of how much traffic these waterways see on a daily basis the message here is iran considers itself in charge of these waters in the middle of all this is the small but strategic hormuz island in the seventeenth century it was home to a fort for the portuguese navy one local guide says it's still the perfect place to monitor and control traffic in the strait some living here worry a conflict could make their quite island. already going much. concerned if it happens nothing will remain here families and lives will be destroyed he knew and others doubt it will come to that. namely that father hasn't been any conflict

here as long as i remember i don't have any concerns maybe some people do but as far as i can remember nothing has happened to make. this coastline doesn't have any hotels and it's not teeming with any beach goers the scenic island remains largely in developed perhaps by design we're at the southernmost point of hormuz island now and the waves washing up against this rocky beach that water is from the strait of hormuz this is the strait just here and it is a very picturesque setting there are tourists that are coming through in buses it is a very nice place but make no mistake for the government this place serves the function of a pressure point backed into a corner iran's leaders say they will respond in the u.s. will be to blame for whatever comes next the point is centuries old places like this as a reminder that they faced foreigners at their shores before and if pushed they can do it again so what will be the impact on the global economy and do sanctions hurt

the nation imposing them in this case should iran carry out its threat to blockade the persian gulf for that matter what if oil stops flowing from other hot spots like libya and venezuela well oil prices could shoot up to one hundred dollars a barrel that could shave nor point six percent of world growth and inflation could rise by north point seven percent stretched u.s. consumers have already seen gas prices rise seven percent this month to two dollars eighty nine cents a gallon they could rise further crimping growth since the u.s. cut ties with iran after the one nine hundred seventy seven revolution it's been estimated to have lost export revenues of one hundred seventy five billion dollars from one thousand nine hundred five to. two thousand and twelve that translates into sixty six thousand job opportunities lost on average per year joining us now from washington d.c. via skype is there to sort of a surety sara is the founder and president of the energy international good to have

you with us once again sorrow oil prices have risen by what a third this year in part due to these sanctions wave is one of the consequences for the world economy of these full sanctions now being implemented well on the world economy if the sanctions cause the price spike then it's going to have impacts on a one economy of course well at this point us at the destruction is hoping that saudi arabia u.a.e. opec members will increase their production and they're 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 of the crude quality matters and iran aircrew going these 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 are the closest crude types to iranian our 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 with seven leaks only was 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 blown 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 some new 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 would 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 psychological impact the future price of oil for the next few months do i must 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

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 discontinue 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 dear

politically is this going to cause trouble for him. well. if there is enough supply in a market the market is gong we expect that these countries would 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 feed 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 we look is on the trade war and trade agreement but it's kind of i wouldn't call it a pre-marriage conflict between the two countries they're setting their terms

because if you look at it china is now disappeared the highest is going to be record that you highest an importer of l.n.g. so china's appetite for oil and gas could be supplied by us but also us as a country that china could have invested in the stakes and its oil and gas production would have been 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 come flaked 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. thank you. the young inventor developed technology to make the screen on mobile phones stronger and more scratch resistant he sent his products to a chinese tech giant but the diamond glass returned broken with fragments missing now that raised suspicions and led to an f.b.i. sting al-jazeera as john hendren reports. this is a story about

a small american technology startup a giant chinese conglomerate and industrial espionage it starts here in illinois where adam kahn formed a company a con semiconductor where they make a kind of glass for cell phones that is said 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 and 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 that'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. you 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 and diamond it has all of the material properties that you'd find in bulk diamond it's 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 of the one nine hundred sixty s. not a lot has been done in terms innovating that glass which is why every time we drop our phone we see the spider web cracks the brake lines dining 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 in a 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 shipping samples for their evaluation the samples team 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 was returned to this facility here in gurney 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 sensitive 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 f.b.i. recognizing the breakthrough of the technology platform not necessarily a concept but the importance of diamond 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 they usually say that anything that can happen will happen during these sort of instances but yes we met with huawei at the consumer electronics show again to get on record that they had willfully exported 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 making their plans to file civil litigation in tandem with those charges we are not privy to the department of justice is timetable timetable nor do we believe we ought to be that we sit patiently waiting to play our poor are part of 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 a future way 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 connor a consummate conductor thank you for talking to us and 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 figure on twitter please use the hash tag a j c t c when you do or drop us a line count of the cost of al-jazeera dot net is our e-mail address as always there's more for you online at al-jazeera dot com slash c.t.c. takes you straight to our page and there you'll find individual ports links even entire episode speed to catch up on. but that's it for this edition of counting the cost in doha i'm adrian figure for the whole team here thanks for being with us the news on al-jazeera is next. the story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns in the us. study after study has demonstrated the destroy the

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palestinian. more than a million evacuated off the cycling forney devastates homes in india before moving over bangladesh. and a whole new way of seeing a movie we explore how virtual reality is on the front row of new york's tri beca film festival. on polar east with the sport a long wait for a winner in poland as the n.b.a. playoffs go into quadruple overtime for the first time since one thousand nine hundred fifty three. others been a flare up in violence between israel and palestinian groups in the gaza strip the ministry of health in gaza says that one palestinian was killed by israeli artillery east of beit hanoun in the north of the gaza strip israel says at least nine thousand rockets have been fired into the south of the country from the gaza

strip perry forsett is live in west jerusalem with more on this sorry once again an escalation of violence in this area what is the latest that you hear. well that's right and as you say of the rates we're getting from the israeli military is that there will be ninety rockets through the course of the day so far fired from gaza territory into israeli territory our own producer in gaza was saying that so there'd been further rockets fired out from there within the last twenty to thirty minutes on top of that as well and as you say one death so far confirmed inside gaza by the gaza health ministry there are reports that a second palestinian has also been killed during the course of these strikes all of this kicking off this morning when an israeli drone targeted a vehicle in northern gaza there are reports in the local media inside guns of that one of the people inside that vehicle was

a senior military commander of islamic jihad one of the armed factions inside gaza the three people inside that car were lightly hurt but this round of rocket fire followed very shortly after that incident and if you spool it back a little bit further to what happened on friday there were two people killed during the friday border protest by israeli sniper fire fifty one people injured and one and also there were two israeli soldiers who were killed a parent who sorry were injured apparently by sniper fire coming the other way there was an israeli strike on a hamas military wing base in response to that in which two members of the arkansas brigades were killed and so that is the backdrop immediately to what's been going on there have been. efforts to try to mediate by the egyptians to try to get people to calm the situation but so far this latest escalation continues and harry is there particular reason that this is happening now.

well i mean obviously there is that immediate. sequence of events in terms of the of the military exchanges going either way but behind that there is a sense i think inside gaza that after the last escalation the end of march beginning of april which ended with some hopes of various relaxations in the siege on gaza by israel there was an immediate relaxation of the fishing border that the maritime border in which the gazan fishermen are allowed to say use the to see what about was extended to fifteen miles that's been reduced again to six after recent rocket fire but there were also promises of the qatari funding being increased some forty million dollars a month from fifteen million dollars that has yet to come through israel saying that it is a case of the mechanism being sorted out rather than anything the intention to

delay it however there is a great deal of upset on the ha side on that delay and they say there are other things that aren't being that aren't bearing fruit so far in terms of what israel had committed to do and so that's that the immediate background in terms of the politics of all this we know that the israeli military chief that the head of the israeli army has already convened a meeting of his senior offices the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is due to meet with the heads of the army and other security agencies in tel aviv this afternoon as well so a lot depends on the political decisions made by the israelis as ever the analysts are saying that neither side really wants to see a full escalation towards war especially from the israeli perspective with the euro vision some contest coming up in mid may. very high profile international event however once these once the rockets are flying once the air strikes are being

delivered there is always the prospect that something could happen which necessitates in some regard some kind of further escalation from either side harry thank you have a force and live for us in western roussillon. a cycle in forney has stormed into bangladesh killing at least twelve people and forcing more than two million to seek safety on higher ground and storm has weakened significantly since being the most powerful cycling to hit india in twenty years as whole day on has more. the trail of destruction along india's eastern coast with winds around two hundred kilometers per hour so i can't claim he ripped apart homes in addition state. toppled power lines and left up to trees covering the streets. so don't dare to get the corporations were made beforehand but houses and shops everything is destroyed but i have never seen anything like this the storm has weakened since

making landfall in the indian city of puri on friday but now neighboring bangladesh is bracing itself nearly two million people have been moved to shelters despite the destruction and death toll the indian government says the situation in could have been worse about one million people were evacuated airports and schools were closed off before the storm hit. a different outcome from one thousand nine hundred ninety nine when a super cycle killed more than ten thousand people across the state. now emergency crews are trying to clear the wreckage but many roads are blocked and some communities are completely closed off the water made on board i was really afraid when the storm hit us we were lucky that we were all downstairs if my children were up stairs they wouldn't have survived all our belongings our money everything is gone i've lost it all. there are concerns there could be flooding india's

navy air force and disaster response force are on standby. but our teams go to each and every site we get reports from we've been working since morning our teams have. been out there since the cycle to calm down. the coast of additional state is vulnerable to find clones and tsunamis over the years embankments and shelters have been built but for now the focus is on how it can recover from this storm katia lopez so the young al-jazeera a weapons experts are trying to confirm the latest suspected rocket launches from north korea south korea's defense ministry says it detected several launches from the east coast of the korean peninsula ministry saying they were not ballistic missiles the suspected weapons test follows the failure of the denuclearization summit between kim jong un and donald trump in february rob mcbride has the latest

from seoul. this is turning out to be potentially one of the most provocative military gestures by north korea in more than a year and certainly not in keeping with the spirit of current moves at reconciliation between north korea and the us and north korea and south korea in the south korean government has said as much there has been a top level meeting of the security and military officials at which they've issued a statement saying that this test was inconsistent with the military agreement reached between north korea and south korea at the summit in pyongyang last september and calling on the north koreans to make every effort to actively participate and restart dialogue towards denuclearization so this very much seems to be placing at least some of the blame for the current stalemate on north korea's position the heat has started a flurry of diplomatic activity. the foreign minister of south korea has been in

conversation with mike pompei of the united states and also the japanese foreign minister trying to coordinate a response on the watchword seems to be one of caution saying that they will respond but prudently everybody conscious and being wary not to escalate tensions any further we've got plenty more ahead on this news hour. thailand crowns its new king two years after inheriting the throne. united states announces a new deal on iran's nuclear technology but there's a catch. and one of the world's top braces gets under way in the u.s. amid a sharp rise in the number of forces dying at the track all have that in sport later .

all that still ahead but first. calm has been restored to the largest city in ben in after two days of riots sparked by election results at least two people were killed in cotonou as police force supporters of opposition parties which were barred from last sunday's election all parliamentary seats were won by two parties aligned to president patrice title. has the details. trying to make sense of the destruction after four peaceful transitions of power in dozens of parliamentary elections in a class and says never has been experienced such violence. going up but that they do not want to do this is unacceptable it is not part of our culture we have a village chief or a family chief that leads us to the problem is our system and i am pleading for the president to change his system of governing it is not working for us. on thursday police using the live ammunition shot at protesters gathered outside

the house of former president bush. he had called for a boycott of sunday's poll angry at the result his supporters chanted down with president at least many were killed and wounded. and so glow two former presidents called sunday's parliamentary election in electoral coupe most opposition parties were prevented from taking part in the race the internet was shut down during the vote and only twenty seven percent of the registered electors came out to vote a historic low. but he accuses tellem of tightening his grip on power once political allies they've now become rivals during his mandate been accused of attempting to kill him and embezzling twenty million dollars talent is now in power in bernie's feeling the pressure. this is as close as we can get to you bernie's home the security force.