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 are the closest crude types to iranian our current quality for the refineries 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 race in production but suddenly it's only those 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 arabia and opec covering for iranian oil again most of the 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 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 have enough spare capacity to cover for that and to in and in. event of

any major incident and that would have 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 panicky yet but yes if there's 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 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 just 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 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 this 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 will look at the trade war and trade argument 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 d.c. or the highest is going to be to record that 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 in 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 buckcherry thank. 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 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 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 you wanted up talking to the f.b.i. we did so we noticed that the sample when it 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 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 a 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 a fickle about 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 technology and willfully infringed or attempted to reverse engineer our

technology from their perspective they were doing 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 available 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 wanted to document it 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 again 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. why and weird things lie between your company and huawei so the department of justice is still pursuing the case against huawei and semiconductor 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 that we sit patiently waiting to play our port our part in that proceeding with huawei directly i was actually at the san diego facility yesterday just before this again 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 cohen of a concept he conductor thank you for talking to us that 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. on twitter please use the hash tag a.j.c. to see what you do or drop us a line 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 evident tire episodes for you 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.

how have you changed since you missed seven. charting the lives of the children of apartheid over twenty one years each story reflecting a history of dramatic social and political change twenty eight up south africa three on al-jazeera. in an ordinary week dr event atar a sergeant at the only functioning hospital in town in north eastern south sudan and his steam operate in around sixty patients the united nations refugee agency nominated him for the prestigious nansen award which you won in recognition of his work and incredibly difficult to constance's. south sudan has been in conflict since twenty thirteen the war has divided the country along ethnic lines two

hundred thousand people most of them refugees from sudan's blue nile state even this remote town and looked to be a band hospital for all their medical needs the war is destroyed almost the infrastructures which are specially in up and they are. almost always including mother cutlass bittles obstruct. the process of you know vision of the military working to the capacity that they're supposed to. last. a palestinian mother and baby are killed by israeli airstrikes in the gods of the dozens of rockets fired into southern israel leaves one dead.

i'm sam is a dan this is al jazeera live from dell also coming up kim jong un tells his troops to stay on high alert new photos are released of the north korean leader seeing the latest missile test. and once powerful brother of algeria's ousted president is arrested as protests continue calling for radical change plus we had a. good look at. south africa's racial divisions out in the open ahead of wednesday's elections. a day and night of israeli airstrikes and palestinian rocket attacks has left five people dead. this was a strike on gaza by israeli warplanes one of many through saturday evening four

palestinians have been killed in the strip in less than twenty four hours a pregnant mother and her fourteen month old child among them the latest strikes on gaza came after palestinian fighters fired dozens of rockets into southern israel one of two people wounded has now died in hospital this follows months of palestinian process of the gaza border calling for an end to the israeli occupation israeli troops have shelter and killed more than two hundred protesters herefore said reports from west jerusalem. barely a month since the last military escalation waves of israeli warplanes again struck gaza the israeli military said it hit dozens of targets linked to hamas and other factions. throughout the day israeli commanders said scores of rockets were fired from the strip into israel several evading the iron dome anti missile interceptors and striking israeli residential areas around gaza's fringes we already knew that.

there was no to react and about to fight within the two terrorist. killed yesterday for where we knew found three we have been two palestinian demonstrators were killed and fifty one wounded by israeli snipers during border protests on friday which also saw two israeli soldiers shot and injured in israeli strike then killed to hamas fighters their deaths and a subsequent israeli drone strike preceded saturday's barrels of rocket fire out of gaza this is far from the first time in recent months that israel and hamas are found themselves in the midst of a dangerous escalation the last one in early april was ended by u.n. and egyptian mediation and reportedly undertakings given by israel just days ahead of its general elect. to ease the restrictions on gaza it did extend the fishing zone out to fifteen nautical miles from the coast but other reported concessions

such as allowing increased payments from qatar to hamas of forty million dollars a month have yet to happen how mass and other palestinian resistance to go oops believe that this is the right timing to put more pressure on netanyahu and israeli government to make israel abide by the previous understanding's the timing is very sensitive israel is approaching its. seventh if there's any independence day and also there you want a vision festivities and a video released on saturday the al kids brigades the military wing of the islamic jihad threaten to expand its range of rocket fire to high for in the north ben-gurion airport near tel aviv and israel's an acknowledged nuclear reactor in the south. in recent months attacks from both sides of followed a pattern of casualties have been kept to a minimum avoiding a full scale conflict. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has plenty of reasons to stick to that script before this month's independence day celebrations

and the euro vision song contest in tel aviv. but both sides also know they can't rule out the risk of a further escalation towards a wider war how we force it out west jerusalem. now is co-founder of the electronic intifada an independent news publication focusing on palestine he says israel is to blame for the latest violence. the israeli government thinks it's a fantastic idea to keep more than two million people half of them children living in a cage to getto cut off from the outside world with very little ability to travel even for medical care to cut off trade to them to destroy their industry to destroy their agriculture to destroy the means of civilized life and to murder them with snipers if they even protest peacefully

against this at the ghetto fence as long as israel think that that's a really great way to treat two million people in the gaza strip then this will keep happening because people in gaza have to get the message out that they are human and that israel cannot continue to terrorize and besiege and kill them this way and have a lovely your official song contest where it falsely presents itself to the world as this lovely peaceful holiday destination which is just being terrorized by these awful people in the gaza strip that's the script that's the reality israel has imposed. killing yang has released pictures of kim jong un overseeing various rocket launches from the country's east coast the north korean leader called on in sunline troops to keep her high alert posture he expressed satisfaction with the

tests south korea's president says he's concerned of the rocket launches though meanwhile u.s. president donald trump tweeted that kim jong un doesn't want to break the promises made to him he was referring to commitments to denuclearize zation trump said i believe that kim jong un fully realizes the great economic potential of north korea and will do nothing to interfere or end it he also knows that i am with him and does not want to break his promise to me deal will happen. mintaro but former state department diplomat specializing in north korea he says trump's focus on economic growth in north korea won't be enough fruit to your top nuclear weapons there is a belief that north korea desperately wants to bolster its economy and that if only it would get great economic aid from the united states it would completely denuclearize and the united states is certainly right that economic incentives do

matter in some way to north korea especially partial sanctions relief but it certainly will not get north korea to completely give up its nuclear weapons present a deal or happen but i see no evidence that we are anywhere close to a nuclear deal with north korea north korea probably does not have the domestic political space to take any of the bold risks or maneuver maneuvers that would restart the diplomatic process and washington for its part has not been creative enough or flexible enough to really take advantage of this diplomatic process and get us closer to a deal it has always been the case in both the obama administration and the trump and ministration that with an issue this important and this high profile the white house takes the lead and it sets the general policy direction and the state department really implements it drives diplomacy it comes up with ideas but the direction is at the white house level president trump and his subordinates have

been on completely separate parallel tracks on north korea and it almost seems like they don't consult each other or accord innate their message and that's a huge difference from past administrations and that i think has a lot to do with the dysfunction we've seen in u.s. north korea diplomacy and it's very concerning. the youngest brother of algeria's ousted president has been arrested side beautifully had been algeria's de facto ruler since of the lizzie's beautifully because suffered a stroke in two thousand and thirteen two former intelligence chiefs have also been taken into custody weeks of protests forced the ailing longtime president to resign last month after here tempted to run for a fifth term but demonstrations have continued demanding a complete shake up of the ruling elite under the former leader. rod from culture university says protesters still seeking radical change. protests one more

day want you know to go through a very democracy transition. she gestured to like two three names like doctor dr. lee and so want to get over and to the transitional period but for the time being. who see that he said eminent of. as well as they do we you know we are going to know where and so far what the politician says how about chief it is only. nation of which if not more and the people need more it's not having a president and he was almost out you know he was. eighty two years old he was very sick they want you know at real change. the issue of race is very much alive in south africa even twenty five years after the end of apartheid and this time it's members of the ruling white minority complaining of discrimination ahead of

wednesday's election for me the miller reports from the northern cape province. it's in this dry dusty and desolate part of the northern cape province that a group of white south africans say they've found refuge they call this place utica only white afrikaans speaking people are allowed to settle here but they say they're not racists orcutt's want to paul and his family moved here three months ago he says to protect and preserve the africana culture language and way of life we were all building on a dream. but i think for aggressively. it got worse and it got more difficult and with affirmative action. it made it increasingly difficult. for us as white people to get jobs jobs and also job security you really really sure when you might be retrenched we've not been given permission to film in utica instead we speak to the founder our brand new boat at his home nearby the school is

only under a foot or two in your assessment you don't wash. or only the shoe is now on the other foot and now we are fighting against the racists how can we be racist when it is us who are being forced out of the country they sing against to kill the farmer so everything counts against the white race so who are the racists. so far twenty families live here and more homes are being built the local government went to court to stop people here from building any more houses the minister palettes he says these homes were built without permission and contravene bolding regulations the court agreed but judges are also considering whether or not a town that allows only white afrikaner people to live there should be allowed to exist in a democratic south africa one of the smaller and newly formed political parties black first land first has banned white south africans from joining it we have

a black. letter of the key to. accept white people the party sentiments resonate with summer.