woods of people who protested in libya's capital tripoli against warlords offensive on the city they will have to it is meant to put down their weapons half that is allied with the brute based government in libya's east the head of that administration has told us media they're prepared to negotiate with the un backed tripoli government but he refused to accept the preconditions that have set us forces withdraw from territory they've taken to austria now where the coalition government appears to be on the brink of collapse chancellor sébastien curt's is set to talk to the head of the freedom party vice chancellor heinz christian straka shortly on friday 2 german newspapers published a covertly filmed video speaking to a russian apparently offering state contracts to a company in exchange for possible political supports the coalition came to power in 2017 with a hard line on immigration the freedom party became a junior partner in the government. venezuela's president has welcomed talks with

his representatives. way. the meeting in oslo is the beginning of dialogue with those who want to step down the mediation. a power struggle between the. crisis has resulted in. opposition supporters and military while the foreign minister of venezuela has spoken to al-jazeera about the talks in norway has told our latin america. proposals from the opposition will only be considered if they respect venezuela's constitution those when they use a lot of things. they are asking for all those things because the united states is demanding it we will sit at a table for talks and also or anywhere else all initiatives are possible with our constitution on the table not with a pistol not with an imperial order but with our constitution the options that they are proposing are not in the constitution. do you believe that there is

a real credible threat of u.s. military intervention. going to. know with those hawks in the white house there is no bluff you always have to be careful and be prepared for all scenarios it was president trump who in august 27th said that he would consider a military option in venezuela it wasn't bolton. it was trump bolton has said it thousands of times pompei o has said it has said it that all options are on the table including the military one we are prepared for all scenarios. so have. the crossfire the latest on a deadly attack on. a decade after war and it.

hello again it's good to have you back we are seeing some better conditions here across parts of vietnam the lao as well as in cambodia where we had seen some very heavy rain earlier but things are drying up just a little bit across that area but that means the sun's going to come out temperatures are on the way up as well would be seen about $34.00 degrees here and holtzman city staying that way but by the time we get towards monday we do expect to see more rain in the forecast there down across much of indonesia particularly the south it is going to be clouds jakarta you have $33.00 degrees well here across australia we did have one funnel system that pushed through the western part of australia really brought those temperatures down some locations reported actually broken records that came down below freezing across much of that area a lot of the winds were coming out of the south so here's that low pressure and we do expect to see severe weather pushing the cross much of the bite of the next few days here on sunday the front will push through adelaide attempts of there of $22.00 degrees but we do expect to see thunder conditions there and then as we go

towards monday the system continues to make its way towards the east it's going to start to ease up a little bit in terms of winds but we're going to be seeing some very heavy rain pushing through parts of melbourne as well up towards the north though for britain it is going to be a nice day few at $24.00 degrees and sunny in the forecast the townsfolk with a temperature of $27.00. on counting the cost as the u.s. ratchets up the pressure on iran we look at the straits of hormuz the most valuable waterway in the world sri lanka's tourism industry takes a hit off to the east the sunday attacks and flying cars as the future just iraq counting the cost and i do see it.

the top stories on the polls are starting to close across australia on the country's national elections that could see a change in government and leadership more than 16000000 australians are registered to vote prime minister scott morrison is conservative coalition is going head to head with the labor party led by bill shorten and they are striking serious look problems on friday killed several civilians including a father and his baby daughter on friday the u.n. chief warned the offensive there could result in the worst humanitarian tragedy of the 21st century. venezuela's president has welcomed talks with his representatives on the opposition in norway. says the meeting in oslo is the beginning of dialogue

with those who want him to quit the mediation but comes after months of political clashes between opposition leader with dura on the opposition leader. the us has reached a deal with canada and mexico to remove its tariffs from steel and aluminum imports the move could put the 3 countries a step closer to ratifying a deal that would replace the north american free trade agreements. will eliminate u.s. metal tariffs and canada's retaliatory tariffs on u.s. products including pork beef and bourbon. obviously these continued tariffs on steel and aluminum and our countermeasures represented significant barriers to moving forward with the new now grieving now that we've had a full lift on these tariffs we are going to work with e.m.i. united states on timing for ratification but we're very optimistic we're going to be able to move forward move forward well in the coming weeks how to kill hannah

has more from washington. it's been a sticking point in the relationship between the united states canada and mexico the president including those countries on his tariff list for steel and aluminum 25 and 10 percent he's now heralding that those tariffs will be removed there's some context here that it all goes back to renegotiate in the north american free trade agreement the president campaigned on this he said it was the worst deal the united states ever made and basically he renegotiated it now there's not many huge changes but still he needs to be able to tell his base before the election that he kept his promise it is facing stiff opposition in congress in a very influential senator chuck grassley of the state of iowa had said he would not put that for a vote that he wouldn't get a vote on this new nafta deal until he got rid of the steel and aluminum tariffs so the president people have been pushing on capitol hill they want to see a vote on this new trade agreement and now because those tariffs have been removed

they have a better shot than they did before victims of a saudi u.a.e. coalition air strike on the yemeni capital sana'a say they have no idea why their neighborhood was attacked the coalition insists that was only targeting a who the fighters and that it's investigating what it calls the possibility of an accidental air strike at least 6 people were killed so those reports. the sounds you each led coalition in yemen says it's precision strikes on hoofy military positions in the capital sanaa but these pictures of damaged homes tell another story residents of iraq cost say there's no justification for the destruction of their neighborhood. again and i sat in my house about 8 in the morning i heard an almighty explosion god knows what kind of rocket it was we don't know why we were bombed. or sleeping in our. taxi driver he was injured in the attack he's come straight from hospital to see

what's left. his home. i did for years i went to look for my children the stairs were full of shrapnel and blood they got us out and took us to hospital my 3 taxis are damaged we have nothing more than taxis we don't have rockets we're just ordinary people. this school was also damaged it was closed when the airstrike hit and it's unlikely to reopen anytime soon the injured are being treated in hospital many feeling traumatised by what. i was with my children in our home we were hit by an ist strike the ceiling collapsed on top of us. led coalition in yemen now says it will investigate a possible accidental strike but for those who survived the airstrike it offers very little compass it. and it didn't take long for these residents to

protest the attack corning it's a brutal crime against civilians it's not a height of 0. senior iranian politician has called for talks between his country on the us after weeks of escalating tensions. is chairman of the iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy commission he tweeted highest there were american officials have rejected the war option but there are 3rd parties who are rushing to destroy a large part of the world there must be a table in iraq or qatar where the 2 sides can meet in order to end this tension she however has no major influence on iran's foreign policy. explains from to her on. mr fuller is a senior m.p. he's an elected member of iran's parliament there is power is distributed between the parliament the presidency in the judiciary with the supreme leader of course sitting on top of all of these institutions and at the end of the day what the

supreme leader says that is what is actually actionable so mr followed as a senior and p. and the chairman of the iranian parliamentary commission on foreign policy and national security does hold a great deal of sway this body is has the capacity to call on the foreign ministry to call on the presidency to question senior leaders but in terms of actual state policy it doesn't necessarily have the authority to influence the making of those decisions of foreign policy of diplomacy of military strategy and in response to this tweet the supreme national security council actually issued a statement saying as much saying that the personal opinions of individuals aren't shouldn't be taken as is the policy of the state and so there seems to be some disagreement between him as a member of parliament no doubt a senior member of parliament and the government the supreme national security

council whose chairman is president hassan rouhani and self palestine's foreign minister says a u.s. plan for ending the israeli palestinian conflict would be an unacceptable act of surrender speaking in london reality maliki says the plan would only compound palestinian suffering president donald trump as the scribe it's as the deal of the century washington says the proposal could be unveiled in june but it hasn't revealed any more details. this administration is preparing to give its stamp of approval to israel's policies. the us administration has shown nothing but this regard. and football is. what international law and the internationally recognized terms of. unfilled common sense and decency. sri lanka is marking 10 years since the end of

a decades long civil war the left hundreds of thousands dead the government was fighting armed groups and the tamil ethnic minority who wanted their own state bird smith reports from a tamil commemoration events and will leave a call where many are still grappling with the legacy of for. more than 200000 people with children still on this 26. i'm just in the last few months a lot of the un estimates around $40000.00 civilians were killed as the government launches final assault on old seat positions and now it's not too far just the language on this bit of each in the eastern alliance. is occurring today there are families here still waiting for the body to tell the voters happy so the thousands and thousands of husbands and sons of mothers and daughters who went missing during the conflict their families still waiting for the land to be returned to them the difference is 80 percent of the land it was confiscated was been returned the military says it needs to hold on to the other 20 percent for

security purposes so even 10 years on from that still many unanswered questions and still a lot of trade secret in this world. pressure is increasing on sudan's military leaders to immediately resume power sharing talks at a meeting in washington of representatives from the u.s. u.n. europe on the african union called for progress on the whole 2 attacks on protesters protest leaders in the military council are expected to reach a deal earlier this week talks were suspended for a 72 hours after protesters increased roadblocks in the capital khartoum they were morgan has more. protesters in front of the army headquarters and are saying that they're waiting for the military headquarters to let them know what will happen after the 2 hour deadline expires now that deadline expires on saturday at midnight and they're waiting to know if the. littery council will extend an invitation to

the opposition to resume talks or whether they will continue with their sit in to put pressure for a civilian independent transitional government to be formed now the 2 sides still have a lot of things to sort out including the sovereign council which effectively will be the presidential body the military council wants to be the one chairing that council as well as either equal or more presentation than civilians meanwhile the opposition are saying that it has to be an independent council with mostly civilians and military representation so that is the last hurdle they have to sort out before they can announce a transitional government is formed in the meantime protesters are saying that they will be in front of the army headquarters they will not be deterred by violence from the from the military and the rapid support forces and nothing will stop them and less this the an independent civilian transitional government being formed and accountability for those who have committed crimes over the past 30 years lots of demands but lots of high hopes and expectations that will be sorted out once the 72 hour deadline passes from the military council in the west african country have been mean

a fishing community has managed to preserve its lifestyle and traditions for more than 2 centuries thousands of residents from the village of gunfire live and live on stilts houses and depend entirely on lake know cool for their living aboard tang reports fishermen from the village are finding it increasingly difficult to defend their unique legacy from the pressures of modern life. what they say about gun view is that life is peaceful. for more than 250 years people have been living on the water and what's thought to be africa's largest lake community it's grown to around 35000 people. to roam our guide is 23 year old herman. who grew up here but is now studying on the mainland he shows us around the fish farms the main source of income for most families. we meet gerard when you're he explains. business is tough because they have to invest so much in it for so little

return. to go on well we don't want when we cast our nets and don't catch any fish it breaks our hearts we have no choice but to come back to fishing because we have nothing else to do if we can get some help to move away from this work it would be good what we really need is help. the water reaches up to 2 meters and so a boat is the only way to move. them and tells us that each family has at least 3. the community is divided into what they call villages the chief of this one is not . he tells us they need help with basic facilities. we have no electricity or clean water because of the way the population is growing the clean water we have is not sufficient if the government could help us with this we would be happy. for 25 and sells food for a living she has plans to open up a store she is the exception among her age group and i want all of my friends are

gone they've gone to the mainland to look for money i'm the only one left congo is a fully functioning community with schools churches a hospital and even a cemetery one of the challenges for people here is how to preserve their way of life without being left behind by the rest of society. a man tells the story of how his ancestors found sanctuary when they were escaping the war between pennines ancient kingdoms now there's no escaping the fact that many like him though proud of their heritage are looking for a different future i'm a blessing al-jazeera. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera votes are being counted on the east coast of australia where polls have just closed the national elections that may see a change in government and leadership prime minister scott morrison is conservative

coalition which is help our sons 2013 is going head to head with the labor party led by bill shorten polling booths will close on the west coast syrian state media says there has been an attempted attack at the air base at least one person was killed and several others wounded when armed fighters launched drones on rockets towards the base close to the coastal city of latakia. an airstrike in syria's in the province on friday killed several civilians including a father and his baby daughter on friday the u.n. aid chief warned the offensive there could result in the worst humanitarian tragedy of the 21st century hundreds of people have protested in libya's capital tripoli against. this offensive on the city they want have said is meant to put down their weapons have said is allied with the base government in libya's east the head of that administration has told us media they're prepared to negotiate with the u.n. backed government in tripoli but he refused to accept the preconditions that have to its forces withdraw from territory they've taken. austria's coalition government

is in turmoil to newspaper published a cloverleaf video vice chancellor heinz christians are reportedly discussing state contracts with a potential russian backer in return for a political supports chancellor sebastian kurtz is set to talk to strauss who is the head of the freedom party party shortly. the u.s. has reached a deal with canada and mexico to remove its tariffs from steel and imports the move brings the 3 countries a step closer to ratifying a new deal that will replace the north american free trade agreement but as well as president has welcomed talks with his representatives and the opposition in the way duros has the meeting in oslo is the beginning of dialogue with those who want him to step down the mediation bid comes after months off a power struggle between migiro and the opposition leader fido those are the headlines counting the cost is coming up next day with us. one of australia's

most loved making and i'm the one that is under threat is probably agonizing to say but 111 can't you know he's dedicated your life to say. what i want to east makes the woman. with 0. problem has i'm sick of this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week as a u.s. strike group steams to the strait of hormuz we find out how important the world's oil gateway years. plus the economic cost of the terror attacks in sri lanka as violence against the muslim minority spreads. and the future of transport can this 1st 5 c. to electric flying car take on the might of google and.

so the strait of hormuz is a critical waterway to the world for middle east oil and gas produces about a 5th of the world screwed passes through this narrow strait between armaan and iran after the united states pulled waivers for nations trading with iran a string of alleged attacks on tankers and drone attacks on pipelines have increased tensions add to the makes washington ordered some embassy staff in baghdad to leave and it sent a u.s. strike group into the region as defense analyst alex go topless as more the flagship of carrier strike group 12 is the nuclear powered u.s.s. abraham lincoln one of the largest aircraft carriers in the world weighing in at over 100000 tons it carries some 90 aircraft including an early warning aircraft and several squadrons of fighter jets each with a combat radius of 380 kilometers well beyond the range of most coastal artillery

and antiship missiles alongside the carrier a fleet of ships that act as more than just protection there powerful radars can see into a country track hundreds of aircraft and they carry the weapons that can destroy talk it's far inland. in the open ocean it's very hard to intercept and destroy a large modern carrier group but the abraham lincoln will be operating in the relatively confined waters of the gulf much closer to iran shoreline and its costar missile batteries so what does iran have its air force's antiquated but for many years it's been producing missiles like this the collegiate fars a large antiship weapon with a range of 300 kilometers iran does have a sizable submarine fleet with several more russian made kilo class subs that are quite enough to sneak up on the u.s. carrier group the u.s. of course it just hasn't deployed at sea it sent 4 b. $52.00 bombers to al

a date air force base in qatar they don't need to fly into enemy as space they can be loaded up with the latest weapons such as the just some stealth missile invisible to radar and able to hit a target at up to a 1000 kilometers away. this all adds up to a public suppression of american military might that's also aimed at sending a potent message to iran. alex joins me now on set to talk more about this so alex what message is the united states trying to send iran here a mixed message at best there are regular military deployments taking place right now it's highly unusual that there isn't an aircraft carrier group in the region. we have a large air force base just down the road here in qatar it is highly unusual that they don't host bombers there but the announcement that they're sending bombers and aircraft carriers sounds like it's a ramp up in capabilities were an actual fact is business as usual what has changed

is the rhetoric and the rhetoric is far more bellicose than it used to be and when you heard of a load of increased tension a lot of military hardware in the region the propensity for a mistake or an accident or something intentional or otherwise that will get us into a general conflict is much higher. now what do we know then about this alleged sabotage of the tankers on the coast of the u.a.e. and the the oil part the saudi oil pipeline what's going on there at the moment we know less about the subject of the ships it was announced by the iraqis and the saudis that there had been sabotage on the ships themselves the no one norwegian shipping company said that one of its tankers had been damaged by an object to be in the hold even though the damage was minor. the next day which many analysts say is not. an coincidental is that you had an attack on

a pipeline far inside saudi territory now this shows a real jump in who feed drone capabilities it was attacked by a drone traveling very slowly evading a sophisticated air defense system or managed to attack a pipeline in the same latitude as riyadh hundreds of kilometers inside the country this is something that has never been attempted before and they succeeded and this shows a real jump in what the who these are capable of how we should topless thanks very much and you can read a lot more about alex's thoughts on this on our web site at al-jazeera dot com. well joining me now via skype from geneva is jeff como luciano he is an ex-pat a geo political energy and director of the executive mosque in oil and gas at least chip program at the graduate institute in geneva thanks very much for being with us so the oil markets have risen by a 3rd over the year and they are surprisingly relaxed about recent developments in

the gulf what do you make of that well it's doing that well in a market process reason but we should not sort of get over the past year if we count towards months. the rise has been higher than is really in fact he does so clearly between. $86.49 donuts and so will you be out at 727273 so we are. in the meat that age or the market is very accessible because it's not clear what he's going to happen and there is significant that is there. in case of some unintended consequences what's the endgame here for washington then i mean president trump has been trying to get troops out of the middle east but his national security adviser john bolton appears to be running the show if you talk to

a lot of people despite both sides saying they don't want war what do you make of that well exactly i think the magic of this but it's not just my helmet so but the intent there are. looking at the submission legs because they they see an american musician that these rowing all and grow the are there in the dates and so i personally don't believe that mr trump is the president argues that or truly ready it's the war so is war. letting his security advisor. being that this will. cave in on the fact that we've got those things here and we skated and events over the last couple of days drone attacks on a pipeline the alleged sabotage tankas of the emirates the u.s.

is telling some embassy staff to leave baghdad as well it appears to be coordinated to whose benefit where it's not clear who say that the. depending on the through sort of behind it which we both know. maybe the signals that. the saudi arabia know you know that are there that is my the able to bypass the thought of the gauge and the strait of hormuz. that is one possible interpretation but we could also be done you know those who are essentially give to the b.b.c. or phrase or which or their words. or that much that is and what kind of disruption would closing the strait of hormuz due to the global flow of oil if that were to happen well exactly i think the issue is always

raises the closing of the sale of more stuff that should be demanded that 1st of all rolling the series of these very easy and safe from the it's not necessary because frank there is that in fact as can be a fact anywhere in the gov this has been a sense that in the fast moving we acted on war it does not succeed is. not be the to this action office or oil out of it i rather think that might be or ringback there was the seriously for auction. in this case is that say or it is always possible or things. your way then chill off or yours because sometimes who were by the accident in that case it's very difficult with the well. thanks for being with us. but china has vowed to

defend its companies are the u.s. government decision to place one way and 70 of its affiliates on a trade blacklist calling it unreasonable washington believes equipment produced by the chinese company could be used to spy on the u.s. while he has repeatedly denied those allegations adrian brown reports now from a tech trade show in tianjin. what you see here is at the heart of the trade dispute between china and the united states the 2 countries are competing to be world leaders in artificial intelligence robotics and 5 g. technology. showcasing its achievements while with china's national tech champion its expansion plans in the united states now seem over after the u.s. put the firm and its affiliates on a trading blacklist an issue too sensitive for this company official to discuss i guess the country operates the company so sorry. but he's confident while away will

still thrive in other markets so now laid her we'll get a fire level. we hope we can operate out of its other countries while away officials had anticipated this move and on thursday the firm issued a statement saying the transactions wouldn't improve safety or security in the united states and would only harm consumers and companies it doesn't bode well for the full 3 trade talks between the 2 countries u.s. firms are present here in the mood among one technology representative surprisingly upbeat levy is a very hard to sell us technology in china today because of the trade move i don't think so in some way it's yes counties is open for the on the difference of you know the products here and our attorney is. customers as well i think. america. pronounce is one of. the theme of this exhibition is artificial

intelligence in china the technology is widely used in surveillance and facial recognition cameras. especially in the far western province of shin jang where they monitor track and rate members of a largely muslim group known as the week goes this. the company manufactures many of those cameras and has been promoting its expertise here but officials didn't want to tell you the reason you can't do it in the u.s. government has once more targeted one of china's most successful companies leading executives of other technology firms wondering who will be next. now the easter sunday attacks on churches in sri lanka has led to reprisals against the muslim minority community and the government introduced a curfew and vowed to use maximum force to end the violence burnet smith reports.

oh yeah we're going to get out of it and appeal for calm from one of the 9 mosques attacked in a wave of violence across northwestern sri lanka this week. and from these catholic priests a show of solidarity with they told us their 1st visit to a mosque 3 weeks ago on easter sunday suicide bombers targeted churches and hotels in sri lanka killing 253 people. it's so sad that things like this had happened you know but the church had been digging. a lot of service in order to let reus working in these areas become that people don't you can never know. there are certainly groups you know we don't be the more do you know and but the government months put a stop to these sri lanka's minority muslim population is now living in fear they break the ramadan fast behind drawn curtains there's no visiting friends and

neighbors a curfew empties the streets the mosques usually busy in this muslim holy month a closed knowledge in another whole of the year we're not sure what will happen we're hearing reports of attacks in different places and we don't know what to do we don't really trust any government in the room when the witnesses described what they called mobs of sinhalese young men smashing up shops in and around 30 towns and villages the businesses in this town are owned by sinhalese people who are mainly buddhist as well as muslims and hama jessamy watched helplessly as bricks rained down on this mosque land there and these people how it blames the government that might but it turned out a military one really we knew this was coming and the government warned there would be atrocities but they wanted this to happen to us the government thought we'd leave these areas so those goons could unleash mayhem and. try lanka's prime minister says the country will be destabilized if sectarianism escalates more than

70 people have been. arrested and are in custody facing charges related to this week's violence nightly curfews have been keeping a lid on the violence here and they'll be another want tonight it's wednesday but they're only a short term measure the much greater challenge is repairing the into community relationships which have been so badly fractured by the easter sunday bombing burnitz many hours era northwest intra lanka where any continued violence could make matters worse for the tourist industry in sri lanka tourist numbers of slumped by 30 percent that could mean one and a half $1000000000.00 less for the country in foreign currency coming in to the indian ocean island nation tourism accounts for 5 percent or 4 point $4000000000.00 of the country's gross domestic product it supports about $500000.00 jobs. well joining me now from hong kong is rich here decided fund manager asia fronting

a cattle good to have you with us so we've had mosques and muslim owned shops vandalized or set or set on fire in sri lanka a curfew has been imposed in the north western province could these tensions threaten the country's economy if they persisted and if the government is unable to to quell them. this i think that you know given the scale of the tax 30 unexpected a very surprising it wasn't the water in 2009 you not seen any kind of attacks on the on the scale of the last decade or so the country has been largely peaceful or the past 10 years after the war ended so i think 30 people questions that have that have happened off these attacks i think a one off and i don't they can be sustained going forward in the garment district all the steps again in order to stimulate for tuition the ground and attract the foreign investment at least it will lowe's or you know you know before investors comment you know bring back before investment going forward as well and these attacks happened at a time when sri lanka has been reemerging in recent years from

a 3 decade long civil war and it's reinvented itself as a top tourist destination is all of that now under threat i mean how bad has this sector been hit by the easter sunday attacks. but i think you know given the scale of the attacks and you know the intensity of the attacks i think the region impact will be quite negative for the tourism sector already i think the authorities are talking about a 30 percent drop in arrivals photoed us in 2019 and over the past couple of weeks we've already seen some numbers spoken about saying that in order to service the 450 to 60 percent year over year so the near term impact is negative on the sector no doubt but i think if the government going to take steps to stabilize the country and you know bring by the tortoise and the proprietor image of the country safe and stable then i think it isn't going to cover over the longer term for the government has announced a relief package which includes. more more money available and tax incentives.

to to help the tourist industry all these measures enough do you think you know they're all going to bring all that can to an orthopod the industry they've given tax incentive the given low cost loans there's also a moratorium announced on loans for the tourism sector just a couple of days ago so i think they can they're doing what what steps they've taken to stabilize the these tourism sector but i think it's under is it to say there's no room you know doing back in the sector there could be there would be a near them back in the sector but these steps obviously would help stabilize the sector and you know get back on its feet and return to normalcy going forward as well and what about jobs i mean tourism employs around 10 percent. of the country both directly and indirectly how are they going to be affected right i think you know given that there's going to be 20 percent drop in arrivals this year which is expected you already seeing up quite a bit quite a lot of cancellations over flights as well as a tells the last couple of weeks so there will be a note of impact on the employment for the industry but given some of the steps of

the car going to stick in the last couple of weeks the last couple of days i think that or at least provide some cushion the to the industry or to the you know people who are employed in the industry and the i.m.f. last month extended a $1.00 loan for sri lanka. by next year into 2020 but if grows continues to slow are they going to need more money from the i.m.f. right so i think what's already slowed over the last or the last year i think 2018 was the slowest stupid what the country's recorded in the last in quite some time now and so given their tourism sector going to 5 percent of g.d.p. which is about $400000000000.00 of foreign intro's every year and if you note on what 20 percent hit to these $400000000000.00 that's about a one have been dollar hit just on foreign currency so there could be pressure on the foreign currency reserves in the next couple of quarters which could affect balance of payments and because of this i think the government would need to maybe talk to the i.m.f. or the much directly seize or today's more funds to balance balance the deficit

just briefly we're heading into the down season for tourism in sri lanka and then it's back up to the high season in october or november do you think that they can recover by that time yeah i think it's a bit early to say or comment where they're going to go by by you know in the next couple of months given the severity of the attacks and the initial impact being so negative on to survivors but and if you look at historically historically incidents similar to these for example in bali in 2002. 2015 and 2 survivors drop quite significantly after these incidents and they took at least 2 you know between 2 to 3 years to recover fully back to you know pretty attack levels. yes i mean the it would recover but i think it'll take some time to go back to you know we attack levels but the government is looking to stay with attrition and bring back to loosen and track them back so awfully not take so long but yeah you're coming back is negative and medium term or pretty the students or should recover all right rick

you decided to speak to you thank you. how the 1st all electric jet powered 5 c. to air taxi has taken to the sky a munich based startup has beaten and google's larry page to build and test a commercially viable vehicle lilium host to be ferrying people in and around our cities and beyond by 2025 and joining me now from london is daniel we got he is the chief executive of lilian thanks very much for being with us dan you are now there's been many full storms when it comes to this form of transport is electric power going to be the spark as it were that makes this a reality absolutely when we set out and built our company really you work on to create a new transportation system for the 21st century and we knew that anything else that is not electric would not be responsible in this age for you or some way

though from from starting service as we mentioned there 2025 is that is the target year one needs to happen before the general public gets into this so today we have revealed the product prototype and it's taken into the air a few days ago for the 1st time and in the next 3 years we're going to. profit from the pad the production of the aircraft and certify the airplanes so we can actually have a service in place in the year 25 where we can operate in multiple regions of the globe and we can serve our custom us. but this technology though could probably work better in developing nations countries with poor infrastructure because there could be lots of regulator e problems in urban areas of say london and new york actually the technology is equally well suited both for cities like london and new york but also for developing countries because we're very proud that we were able to design. which we

can certify an existing regulation and also operate with pilots like any other airplane or helicopter and that enables us to launch the service basically in any developed city as much as in the developing countries and as 19 other companies that are working to build this type of transform who do you see as your biggest threat. i can't tell you at the moment which of these companies is the strongest one because we don't know exactly of course what they are doing but what we know is that the unique selling proposition of the leading jet is that because it's a check act craft it enables us to fly further and faster than any other concept which we have seen publicly so far how would you see this developing then if this were if this were to become a thing in the future are we going to see sort of flying lanes in the same way that we see roads and that sort of thing i mean how how is all this going to be policed

well initially you're going to start like airplanes are flying today with this them small number of am planes and they're going to be controlled by a tower and then later in the future this is going to be a digital aspace management system that gives us a much higher capacity in the space but it's still difference to transportation on the ground in a sense that airplanes would probably not follow a kind of predefined road where you have a chain of poles of app planes sitting behind each other but you will direct fly from one point to the other and reserve these corydoras only in an kind of on demand basis and what about the cost of all this is this something that most people are going to be able to afford yes the biggest thing when we set out and built our company for us was to create a new transportation system that is affordable for everybody and we think we have achieved this with the technology and the knowledge we have now that we can

actually offer these services at a comparable cost to a taxi when we launch and to a comparable cost like you own car when you drive it to work for example once the system is flying autonomous later in the future all right to be fascinating to see how this does develop then you legal thanks very much for being with us thank you and that is our show for this week remember you can get in touch with us by. me and as and sica use the hash tag j c t c when you do it drops an e-mail counting the cost of exit of thought net is our address is more for you on line as always at address c.n.n. dot com slash c.t.c. taking you straight to a page which has individual sports links and entire episodes for you to catch up on . so that is it for this edition of counting the cost and has a secret from the whole team here thanks for joining us the news on al-jazeera is next.

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facing a strong challenge from bill shorten who leads the labor party climate change and the economy were top issues during the campaign well let's go live now to andrew thomas who's in melbourne for us and to talk us through the issues that will decide this election and where. well the issue that has really been front and center of this campaign has been the environment so if you believe that mole should be down in australia it's reduce emissions then you voted on that basis but a lot of people here have had involvement from the most of them lots of other reasons the government has been telling them that the environment regulation elects a labor party bring in will cost them money because it will involve more taxes on for example you'll find power that has been an issue front and center in many cases minds tax more generally the labor party has promised that it will reduce tax rights for the rich in australia back to me increasing tax on wealthier australis

spending more on which will skills and infrastructure that's a big issue as well as the way well there are only a $151.00 seats in total in the all of it now most of those a pretty sight the right the site in light of all slightly in the right of center liberal cats is only about full tain maybe as many as 20 states that are marginal looked at swing either way and there are a few around brisbane a few around the city of around melbourne where i am here in tasmania a couple over in western australia as well but they will decide this election and i've spent the day in one of those states the west. giving people a sausage sandwich when they arrive to vote is an australian tradition. almost every polling station in every electorate has some seasonal but i mean there are 151 of the trucks in australia 151 seats in parliament having 76 of them delivers a majority the labor opposition party already has $72.00 so if it takes just full

overrule from the right to governing liberal policy labor government one liberal electorate that could pull to labor is karanka might west of melbourne but here it will be tight and they should have points made products. or immigration policies. they mozart was refugees so i went over maybe their leaves. basically politicians deciding it may not each other's best friend anymore and kicking each other out that's a common view they have been 5 different prime ministers since 2013 for came to office through internal party coups rather than at elections where people say again and again as they walk in here is how frustrated they are by the constant changes in political leadership in australia some of even said to me they'd rather not be voting at all but that's not an option in australia where voting is compulsory and people a fine if they fail to show up bill shorten the labor opposition leader voting in

nearby melbourne promises if he wins they'll be stability he's put fewer tax breaks for the rich and the environment at the heart of his election campaign the rest of the world's fighting climate change a strain has been missing this is not the aussie way to go missing in the big fights the world will know that if i begin selected astray is back in the fight against climate change in a city sydney that's popular my parents' generation fought for environmental issues and now it's all gone backwards i'm praying for a change of government and crossing my fingers for a change you can. it's possible a former prime minister tony abbott could lose his normally safe seats over the issue of an independent candidate campaigning on the environment is the narrow favorite to beat him and his part of sydney with a very tight election result independents could hold the balance of power. the current prime minister's message is the highest taxes and more environmental

regulation will cripple an already delicate economy at the selection i'll be making a simple point. i want to back you i want to back to your aspirations the things that actually drive you to your goals your achievements to get a child to buy a house to cite your time to live in your autonomy and the why do you stop life is high taxes on all of those things is to vote liberal and nationals to the fire was going to get morrison will be in sydney for the result will be in melbourne but neither will be confident. andrew you were standing in the room web shorten well arrive in just a few hours and we can see the crowds there behind you are we expecting a victory party. because none of us knows in this room the opinion polls have consistently given labor a lead a narrow lead but nevertheless a late but looking at the early results in the last hour all soaps a competency stealing

a diminished hit us not to say the people it does expect life policy will still win for those almost constant as they were the way you the preferential voting system works in australia it's complicated the issue results like a long time to tolerate the one happens is as votes are counted in about 20 percent 30 percent in some states happy county now you get a pretty early indication of which individual states you got all these big site states accounting so you know a lot of those results already the marginal seat so you can walk out of swing and the swing in queensland sorry seems not to be as great towards labor as they call to you i think it's quite like for you the coalition the light liberal policy may even be cut same thing planes lines what we've done in the last hour or so you saw a mention of m.r. paul that's tony abbott the the prime minister is on track to lose face state in the north of sydney that's almost official now the a.b.c. the national networks here in australia has polls that his independent opponent saw

the struggle now change some type of heavily on climate change and it looks as though the abbotts is out but overall the betting markets are very in any indication 2 days ago giving just a 70 percent chance of the government retiring how that's now going up to 30 percent labor still not quite so they will probably win this but there is none of us most in this room now that the wasn't even an hour old. andrew thomas following results for us in a straight arrow no doubt be talking to you again very soon thank you andrea. well glenn drury is a political strategist and adviser to deron hench as justice party in australia and he joins us now live from melbourne via skype len this is the hard fought election but also for independents and populist parties too. yes it has and and as you are it's now been a couple of. taxation being run on the environment being mean either and ironically it looks like the man who are prime minister tony abbott is about to lose his seat

a man who got rid of a carbon tax cross on carbon just a couple years ago and he's probably going to lose a seat to an independent that is for on environmental issues. and glenn some i believe call you the preference whisperer can you give our viewers a brief and simple explanation of how this very complex system works to put the whole parliament together. we have a system of optional and compulsory prevention system the voting in australia and if we compare that to something like say the usa for example where it's a big leap 1st past the post you know strongly you can vote for multiple candidates for example if i wish to vote greens are i could put a one in the box next to the greens that would logically follow that i would ultimately end up. voting for the labor party so if the greens fall over then my 2nd or 3rd or 4th choice will be elected so rather than have what in effect can become of the a minority government elected by the majority of minority voters that is we have

a government often that use except it will to more people and the preference of money in my view is far more democratic it gives voters more choice preferential voting also does favor some of the smaller parties and do you worry that it does major policy shifts if indeed labor does when are they going to be able to get legislation through the senate. well the lighter winds or even if the liberal national party when it will be a senate that will be controlled by independents and will moderate parties and it's been that way now for a number of terms if like the wings they will need the support of the greens and between $2.00 and $4.00 non-green crossbenches now there is a danger if it is 3 or 4 or more that some of those crossbenches could be from the extreme right we have a political party all in the hands of one nation. that. well one of rights i have a particular bent. for people of the islamic faith so there is a real chance

a better organization might be part of the balance of power another interesting story that's been part of this election campaign is one of the strategies richest men available and i would like palmer has spent somewhere between $50.00 and $60000000.00 to try and get itself into the senate enough in the very very early because i think it's not looking so good. a political strategist and a political adviser speaking to us from melbourne thank you for being with us again thank you for having. well to syria now where there have been 2 explosions targeting u.s. backed syrian democratic forces and rocca at least 20 s.t.'s fighters were killed in the bomb attacks as a local police station and a military base the mostly kurdish led forces had pushed out of raka and 2017 but there have been several attacks since then also in syria state media says edge

offenses repelled an attack at a major airbase i'm i'm in is used by russian warplanes to launch air strikes on rebels fighters launched drones and rockets towards the base close to the coastal city of latakia at least one person was killed in a village nearby and several others wounded and explosions were also heard in the capital damascus state media has reported what it described as luminous objects coming from the direction of israel and that they had been shot down israel hasn't commented but in the past its forces have attacked sites in syria that it says are connected to iran and the lebanese group hezbollah and an airstrike in a province on friday has killed several civilians including a father and his baby daughter many more people were injured and the united nations age chief is warning of the worst humanitarian tragedy of this century if a military offensive continues in the syrian government and its russian allies have renewed.