to exxon mobil asking for more details about what they thought the security threats were and to invite the stuff back but he says there is a wider issue at stake here this is not about security he says this is about politics he believes that the u.s. government is using exxon mobile to try to send a message to foreign investors in iraq that iraq is not safe that's something that the iraqi government categorically denies however the oil minister has also gone one further exxon mobil was due to sign a deal worth $53000000000.00 which is a joint deal with china's petro china with a rag in the days running up to having made this decision but the oil minister now says that whole process has been slowed down he's quoted as saying now that they are out of the country why should i run after them. oil producing nations have met in saudi arabia to discuss prices and production limits u.s. resin donald trump says saudi arabia and other opec members had agreed to his

request to boost oil production to combat an increase in fuel prices falling renewed sanctions on iran but at the meeting the u.a.e. saudi arabia and nigeria call for fuel supplies to be driven down to avoid a drop in global prices qatar has reportedly shipped liquefied natural gas supplies to the u.a.e. after a fault in a major pipeline there which is news agency says the dolphin energy run pipeline suffered problems for several days last month but katara chilean helps fill the gap by sending surprised by sea dolphin which is partially owned by the u.a.e. has continued pumping gas to the emirates despite 827000 economic blockade on qatar . still ahead on the program christian communities living in fear we have an exclusive report from northern book in a fossil grass we look at the new talent lighting up the cannes film festival.

hello there was nothing quite a fish show is every part of the middle east at the moment the satellite picture is showing where they've been over the past 24 hours is gradually drifting their way towards the east and with scenes of pretty violent outcomes from the showers as well not only rain but also some dust storms like this one that was caught in the central parts of iran that they had through the next few days we can't rule out more showers and more dust storms certainly staying rather unsettled for some of us here and some of the show is content out to be a little bit lively they will push eastwards as we head to choose day so we could see some over parts of afghanistan as well towards the west generally a little bit more settled here back that's hot the way it will be up around 39 again as we head to. the next couple of days before the 2 of the sadness beat a fair amount of cloud of a towel and want to shower as well those areas of cloud it just drag down the

temperatures a bit so probably no higher than around 36 degrees for us as we head through the next few days and this still the risk of seeing the old showerhead and that risk it sends all the way down through poses saudi arabia and into a man down 2 of the southern parts of africa a good deal of dry weather with us at the moment the cloud is mostly in the very fallen all the parts of our map but also a little bit working its way over cape town so cool for us.

you're watching al jazeera live from doha a recap of the top stories the polls have closed in india's general election sunday was the final day of voting with 100000000 people a digital to cast their ballots prime minister narendra modi seeking a 2nd term in office the votes will be counted on thursday police in egypt say a roadside bomb has hit a tourist bus injuring at least 17 people it happened near a museum being built close to the pyramids in giza some of the injured are thought to be from south africa and iran and saudi arabia say they don't want a war as riyadh on id united states builds up its military presence in the gold

saudi arabia's king solomon has called for 2 emergency regional summits later this month to discuss the situation. to work where they are concerns about an increase in the number of attacks against christians there's still no word on who was behind last sunday's church attack in the country's north the government believes i saw in the great maybe behind. and it. has an exclusive report from the remote region of double where the pool is expanding its reach we travel deep into northern brick enough. on the frontline of an expanding war against the group islamic state in the greater sahara. this is diablo a christian town and a muslim region. now living in fear. my girl was running late for last sunday's mass when 20 mouse gunmen stepped in front of him they shot the priest in the head then they randomly selected 5 worshippers

killing them one by one while perishers watched. among those killed was by my goes father a devout christian now buried in the church grounds. when they were in military fatigue we thought they were the police but then they told women and children to leave and the carnage started. while no one has claimed responsibility for the attack the government believes it has the hallmarks of the stomach state in the greater sahara. in april self-styled the ice a leader of a buck or welcome new affiliates from brick enough aso in mali. since then attacks on the mali burkina faso border have multiplied for western hostages were abducted and then freed after a military operation in this area a spanish priest was down to death and gunmen shot at a christian procession killing worshippers. you know. who has to stand up against

these terrorists and we will fight them into violent extremism and intolerance leaves our country. is a muslim majority country but all of its presidents so far have been christians whilst these 2 face have co-existed in live together peacefully so far the latest attacks seek to stoke religious divisions especially in the north of the country. northern faso is rich in gold and minerals yet the muslims of the north who are mostly full on the herders live in poverty newly formed rebel groups are exploiting old grievances inequality and absence state and religious differences leering young men into what has become a new battleground nicholas hawk al-jazeera double o. northern burkina faso. thousands of pro-democracy protesters are back on the

streets of algeria capital they want everyone from all said president that this is what i think is in a circle to hand over power and they also want the july election to be scrapped former president but if he resigned in april after months of anti-government demonstrations the army is now overseeing a 90 day transitional period before new elections. germans in cities nationwide have shown their support for the european union before the e.u. elections the parliamentary elections later this week for lynne and cologne were among the venues for the no hate no a yes to change marches protests his voice 2nd cern's about the rise of far right nationalist parties in europe. in venezuela opposition leader says he won't have what he calls false negotiations with president nicolas maduro. why don't rally supporters after a meeting between the opposition and government representatives in norway i do or

say his trying to build a peaceful agenda to resolve the political and economic crisis. we have a path a strategy of people that are mobilized a plan for the country we will not be deceived government will not deceive us they are so weak and insist they want to manipulate talks we went because of an invitation from a friendly country norway let me say clearly to norway the context group europe the united states the lima group we appreciate all you if it but we have barry clear dura government will not confuse us. the president of bolivia has launched his reelection campaign for a 4th consecutive term despite opposition cries that it's unconstitutional even morale is lost a referendum 3 years ago to extend presidential term limits but leave us 1st indigenous president a left wing leader is trying to buck the trend of a switch to right wing politics in south american countries daniel shaima has our report. after 13 years in office many believe the ins can't remember

a time when they were moral this was not their president he's credited with lifting tens of thousands out of poverty but giving a voice to women in the poor is getting a fair price in international markets abilities commodities especially natural gas they do with brothers i want to tell you why. 5 more years to finish our great work why 5 more years of evil i want to tell you that we feel strong we have self-confidence and these rallies give us a lot of energy 5 more years to guarantee liberation and once and for all. these supporters were able. to continue being their president. the strength is dare in our democracy the strength and depth of our democracy is thanks to president evo morales because the people decide and they will decide in october to start the campaign this meeting will be massive men and women miners

transport workers teachers medical staff and professionals. and those believe us 1st indigenous president in a country with indigenous majority he's been an inspiration both here and abroad other must be present in the in my presence here is to accompany my friend president ever to give him strength in the knowledge that the world's 1st indigenous president is here in bolivia yours are but increasing numbers of believe the ends believe mortality is outstayed his welcome they say he's acting unconstitutionally by ignoring a national referendum in 2016 the voted by more than 51 percent to prevent him standing for a 4th consecutive term in office at the. this is embarrassing democratic you can see the president has clearly lost the support of the bolivian people because he's not a man of his word he's lied to the bolivian people and is now using democratic mechanisms

to keep himself permanently in power. even with ali said that it was floored by the tricks campaign and the following here it was overturned by the constitutional court. but his opponents say he's undermining believe is hard won democracy both campaigns of the next 5 months earlier likely to harden their respective positions that al-jazeera. sri lanka's government has paid tribute to the soldiers who died during the decades long civil war it's been 10 years since the conflict with tamil separatists fighters ended 100000 people were killed in the fighting around 30000 of them soldiers al-jazeera is me now fernandez was at the ceremony in colombo this event at the sort of national monument to the fallen soldiers to the military personnel a very march recognizing the contribution they made to the war effort there are more than 28000 police and military personnel were believed to have died during the

26 there's more than 6000 people still listed as missing in terms of the force and thousands of others have been rendered disables due to injuries sustained during the war so this event very much sort of a recognition of the contribution just behind me you see the more real you see all the soldiers in the other end you have families all of these people that have been invited just on the other side just out of shot there are basically sort of memorial walls or plucks where you see hundreds and hundreds of names listed i was just going through one of those was and you just referred to one particular attack in 1903 and there were over 120 mirrors listed as those killed at that particular place now this is very much for the military and the police and all those gathered here. sort of

a very somber event remembering what it took to bring an end to this brutal conflict. boeing has admitted flaws in its 737 max flight simulator software that is to train pilots after 2 crashes killed 346 people the company says its simulators couldn't replicate conditions that contributed to the ethiopian airlines crash in march and the lion air accident off in asia last october boeing says it's fixed a problem it's also working on software updates for the pains themselves which are grounded worldwide harris is an aviation analysts he says boeing cell has a long way to go before it can restore confidence with airlines and the public it has a lot of stakeholders do we know it has to be able to group not only to the f.a.a. but international safety regulators all around the world including the our so and then of course that's fine with her do we back passenger confidence because this

jet is now a household name for all of the wrong reasons you know you have a clear division right now between the manufacturer and the airlines if you're going airlines have been very active on twitter sharing art schools blaming boeing they feel that the blame shouldn't be on narrow line at school and at boeing are entirely to blame and to witness that relationship breakdown between the manufacturer and the airline is again somewhat unprecedented but in terms of how boeing have handled this communication wise this has been a case study in the industry for how not to do it oatley everything from donald trump being able to the fact that they refused to ground the aircraft in the 1st week which led to the rest of the world round themselves it has been one difficulty after another. it's day 6 of the camp film festival the world's largest celebration of cinema alongside the main competition in the south of france is director. explains it's where critics are more likely to discover hollywood's next big name.

a newly discovered voice in cinema celebrated in cannes the peruvian director molina lay on this is a vital platform for her 1st feature film. is the heartbreaking true story about an indigenous woman whose baby is stolen a tale of human trafficking told in a unique style but director leone struggled with funding it was terribly hard nobody trusts. the director that wants to. 9 get in as people i want to work. so hopefully. they will. work. she is now in an illustrious club cannes directors fortnight is credited with shaping cinematic history the 2 week long event discover director

george lucas who went on to create star wars and launched the careers of martin scorsese spike lee and. indian director mira nair was another discovery in cannes i came with $988.00 i had no problems with the budget i had i would take people's buttons and i would cut out and just base them on these buttons and put them on as you know i mean it was that kind of threadbare exist. and after received the care of the war and this kind of a reception it was just that much easier for me to make my 2nd film you know mississippi masala and so on running alongside the main festival taking risks and pushing boundaries this is selection. include animation eccentric horror films and she needs in drama the head of the selection committee understand how screening here can change a career is not like a place where we just go in and my of the work of course there is that as well but

the background is to trigger some marketing industry dynamics that will guarantee to the directors we present a future and a continuation in their way of. exploring kind of the potential of cinema the spirit of directors for now is to give space to visionary new filmmakers and this year they're exploring storytelling in virtual reality artist and filmmaker laurie anderson who's created this installation and is taking these viewers to the moon and back it's another example of how can it's pushing the limits of cinema charlie and how does it. go again i'm fully back to bore with the headlines on al-jazeera polls have closed in india's general election sunday was the final day of voting with 100000000 people eligible to cast their ballots prime minister narendra modi seeking

a 2nd term in office the votes will be counted on thursday. police in egypt say a roadside bomb has hit a tourist bus injuring at least 17 people it happened near it museum being built close to the pyramids in giza some of the injured are thought to be from south africa iran and saudi arabia say they don't want a war as riyadh the united states builds up its military presence in the gulf saudi arabia's king solomon has called for 2 emergency regional summit later this month to discuss the situation with mimic of abuse that you have been saudi arabia does not want war in the region and is not seeking it and will do its best to have beat it but at the same time if the other party chooses war then we will respond with all strength and determination and will defend itself and its interests the kingdom hopes others to be wise of the iranian regime and its egypt's to stay away from recklessness and stupid acts and spare the region instability in saudi arabia the

international community to take responsibility to stop that regime from destabilizing the world iraq's oil minister has criticized the u.s. energy giant texas. mobile's decision to evacuate all his foreign staff from an oil field in basra as an acceptable and unjustified got by decision is not because of security concerns but for political purposes boeing has admitted flaws in history 737 max flight simulator software that's used to train pilots after 2 crashes killed 346 people the company says its simulators couldn't replicate conditions that contributed to the ethiopian airlines crash in march and the 9 air accident off indonesia last october boeing says its fix the simulator problem. and sri lanka's government has paid tribute to soldiers who died during the decades long civil war it's been 10 years since the conflict with thomas separatist

fighters ended 100000 people were killed in the fighting around 30000 of them soldiers those are the headlines on al-jazeera the news continues after story. should rich nations dump their rubbish on developing countries the dispute between the philippines and canada is exposing the if you saw it at the trade waste disposal who should pick up the task of treating your trash this is inside story.

i welcome to the program clogged it's often said that one man's trash is another man's treasure but that's not how the philippines sees dozens of shipping containers filled with waste from kind of the cases spot to diplomatic disputes and is just one example of a global problem with managing rubbish bro folks up story. this is some of the 2 and a half 1000 tons of trash that's been faced during in the philippines for 6 years shipped there by a canadian company initially labeled as recyclable plastic customs officials found everything from household waste to diapers for filipinos living near the ports the smell has become unbearable while environmentalists say it's more than the rubbish that stinks is that environmental problems.

for other. developed countries. here in the philippines. they say it's unacceptable for rich powerful nations to dump on poor countries which often struggle to dispose of their own garbage the philippines has demanded canada take back its russian refuse they've been protests high level talks and last week government leaders in manila recalled the ambassador to canada after the canadians failed to meet a deadline for action that shows that we are. very serious and asking them to get back their garbage otherwise. serialisations with them. a filipino court ordered canada to take back the trash and 25th dame the same year justin trudeau became canada's prime minister he promised to look into the matter then and in 2017 when he visited manila not enough

for the philippines president to a greater detail whose even threatened war. lord it well. 2 then i would advise. that you have got a big. bear is grounded if that. this is an issue that we have been working very closely with the pit officials in the philippines on over the past months very hard over the past week so we're going to continue to work on this and we very much hope to get to a resolution shortly for activists any resolution is years too late they say the dumping is not only immoral but illegal accusing canada of breaking international rules earlier this month around 180 countries agreed to make the global trade in plastic waste more transparent to protect people and the

environment something the philippines hopes will work in its favor. inside story. one of the world bank says around $270000000.00 tons of waste is recycled globally every year and it's estimated that recycling is now worth $200000000000.00 china once led the global recycling trade but it banned waste imports 2 years ago because of the environmental threat and since then countries such as malaysia thailand indonesia and turkey have been picking up the slack but they are now concerned about becoming dumping grounds for rich countries thailand is imposing a ban by 2021 and the malaysians are cracking down on garbage imports. for more on this let's join our guests now in mindanao in the philippines on skype both back on gets regional coordinator for asia in the pacific a 4 break free from plastics in beirut to be shaken and environmental engineer and

founder of cedar environment an environmental industrial engineering organization and also on skype from nice wood cozy managing director of next tech a recycling consultancy welcome to you all at both if i could start with you in the philippines what happened here with the canadian shipment is that the plastic was labeled as recyclable but in fact it was not i.e. it was mystically at how widespread is such a practice on waste received from overseas by the philippines where it's very difficult to do or good. or should not that are rival if it if they. are actually recyclable materials are a waste because we don't have enough personnel to be able to determine. the kind of the shipment that are right. and what what's what kind of evidence do you have of too much waste coming from overseas around the country how prevalent is it and how

much can you see it all the burning pyres of waste and so forth. well we we know all of us for a minute legally and between found out to a good thing and good time in a mixed race. that includes canada south korea. kept. but we know a lot about that unless we see it from communities or convenient the shipments that are arriving there in their places. would cozier nice it was just lot it was a little child to go on for a waist import can you talk about how much plastic waste was going to china and where the waste is now going. that's a very important point i can't give you the exact volume so that we're going to china but that we're importing all the order of 12 to 14000000 tonnes per annum and

those plastics were redirected then to other countries once china closed its doors and indeed some of the companies receiving plastics from china set up businesses in these other countries so they said have facilities in malaysia thailand vietnam philippines to accept these materials they could not bring in foreign china we've got really a shift in the problem from china to these other countries and some of these facilities we know were set up and not approved by the local authorities so in a sense though running illegally and some of those have been closed down quite publicly jealousy as well so is it is it a 2 ended problem so you have the unscrupulous operators in the source country if you like who is sending in knowingly illegal shipments and then there are those who are prepared to receive them in the receiving countries that what's happening. yes and i think we really should talk about the ones that are shipping contaminated

materials in the 1st place. this is a very difficult thing to control because once something is loaded into a container and put onto a ship it's very hard to turn that around and get that back and the definition of purity is also not very well defined so if something is 95 percent salt or plastic well that's going to going to be quite a high quality material for recycling and yet if it's 50 percent sort of plastic and the balance is unwanted materials and non recycled materials then that material is unacceptable and should not really be shipped and indeed there are unscrupulous operators and this is been happening over a number of years and of course now philippines is in a position where if it accepts materials it may be except excepting with those that have been below what was really specified for proper recycling ok

in barrys let me bring you in in lebanon the problem is much more home produced waste but it's led to turtle problems there describe some of those for us and tell us what's being done about it. actually our problems are also similar to all the others. what is really lacking is a complete infrastructure in place to deal with with generated waste you know what we've been famous iot of saying that we should change our perspective regarding waste and instead of looking at it as a as a problem let's say let's look at it as a resource to revalue this is the source you will need to install the infrastructure and oddly enough when when china banned all imports of recyclable materials chinese companies went to the states now and they are setting

up in the states plastic recycling and paper recycling operations so that they can take advantage of the affordable materials now that that is there is a ban on exporting them. and i think eventually the whole world we will need to sign a conventions with a 3rd party said he cation is issued for any kind of reworked or remanufactured material due to go from 111 place to another and we need to make sure that it is pure to a certain extent and since sorting these materials is a bit costly this is why we face this problem no it was just before you go that it will get is and before you go we will get into the and how we how we can deal with this but just just explain for us what the situation is like in lebanon what are

you witnessing there on the streets how bad is the problem of trash around the place. nor the problem is not no sense after the crisis we we as a country set up to coastal land fins and now 50 percent of the waste of the country goes into goes to the land feed and these 2 coastal land phones now how long can we afford to do that they say has about a year to a year and a half and i'm not sure we are ready we are not working on a plan b. fast enough to install the infrastructures so we might see garbage back on the streets probably 2 years from no right so. from your point of view we have this convention that we were talking about and all film a little bit earlier which now just last week in fact has been upgraded to add plastic to the convention which is it's

a treaty that regulates the movement of hazardous materials between countries how important is that kind of international agreement to stop this kind of dispute that's ongoing between kind of there and the philippines would you say i think it's a very significant step forward in terms of dealing with the trading we. now it allows countries to refuse. contaminated re if it's being sent to them. and edward the problem with the convention of course as you well know is that i think if something like a 187 countries signed up to it but not the united states you are the biggest producer or biggest exporter of waste around the world what do you make of the. well i think that's very unfortunate and i think the the philippines authorities have a right to make sure that materials coming in are of a suitable quality. this is really not modern

a moral thing to do to ship materials that are not recyclable i understand the economic argument that businesses in the philippines may want to recycle materials efficiently cost effectively but there is no reason why they would want to accept materials that could be left in the u.s. for them to deal with the cost of landfill in the u.s. is very low it's of the order of $20.00 u.s. dollars per ton and that is always their option and they're not very good at recycling and they have a lot of space for landel and to masquerade waste as restock will material is completely inappropriate and should never happen. from the point of view of processing facilities they're pretty scant around the world especially in europe and in the rich countries where why is that the case because of the labor cost you know this is a costly. process to undertake there's

a lot of logistics involved you are transporting raw materials let's let's go to dis way and then the end market for diesel finished products is not yet there or does not develop but this doesn't this is not an excuse to dump your waste on other people's. busy front doors you know everybody we should all come to the agreement that waste is always is always in a look at an issue you know this is any source that you should be treating locally you should be developing businesses enhancing economic activity look no one should be bearing the brunt of anyone's waste. and in terms of the the circular economy we've talked about all of you have talked about the concept of landfill but the bottom line is that when we throw things away there is no such thing as a way we need to start getting into a situation where. waste is reuse the reality is that something that we can

bring in on a broader scale globally you're technically technically if i may technically a recycling plastic is not is not impossible on the contrary we do have all the technological advances and all the industrial processes that can deal with all kinds of plastics if you look if you change your perspective plastic is a fantastic material it's completely what can prove it has a very long shelf life so instead of having that plastic bag sitting in the ocean for 500 years or in the forests for 5 on that is old and the landfill for 500 years why can't we make it into a panel board or some kind of a plastic bean and it turns into further outdoor furniture outdoor housing all kinds of. structures can be made out of plastic and you can solve the homeless

crisis by by providing affordable housing made out of recycled plastic and that's what you're seeing with plastic bags is that right your your your i don't know was writing plastic bags and then turning them into into panel boards for construction exactly exactly with making greenwald's out of the vertical stop forms the applications are limitless. what about in the philippines that we've talked about the problem of rich countries exporting their waste to countries like yours but what processes are in place within the country to deal with recycling plastics for example. there are very few possibilities for plastic recycling there are a lot of it is dirty recycling and that's why it's problem i think if you look at the report that the center for international environment of the released it shows

that the different faces of the whole life life of plastic there are always stuck 6 substances that are being emitted so that's why we doubt very much the the the efficiency of recycling and and using recycled plastic recycling as as the way forward i think we will believe that it's has we have to redesign the way the packaging materials instead of just recycling endlessly all these toxic substances and all you getting a sense that there's growing awareness of the problem is i can say that here in the middle east you just you buy a packet of chewing gum you get a joint plastic bag to put it in. definitely i think there are so many countries already that have started to look at the plastic problem starting with

a single use plastic bags many of them have banned finance charges or taxes on single use plastic. berkeley for example came up with a you know grown in really good 6. policy which includes plastic packaging like i mean for the back itching that is plastic so. yes there are many efforts being done in including not using packaging at all and like rest resealed stations on that are being set up and 0 waste stores that's right and there is a lot of opportunity lot of opportunity that's right for 1000000 of individuals point of view we clearly the things that they can do but also when they think they're recycling but it's the waste that they are recycling is is not being recycled the way that it should be people are in fact being ripped off. well i

think i can give you lots of examples where a lot of good recycling is in fact occurring. nearly all of the large brand owners globally have my new commitments to use recycled plastics back into their existing packaging and the very substantial commitments up to 50 percent in some cases by 2025 and others to 100 percent now what's missing is the processing facilities to. bridge the gap between where they are now and where they will be in the future and i think it's very important to say that most consume of food packaging is not toxic it doesn't contain find toxic substances and i think the reference there about talk could i just jump in there what's wrong mean by post consumer food packaging what does that phrase mean so if for example you have a drink bottle and consume a trencher that well that's the material that we call a post consume a package right a drink bottles milk bottles try pots from yogurt and so on there will cause

consumer packaging none of those materials are toxic and it's only specific materials that are flame retardant like electronics and computers they may have substances that but i was referring to. just to come back to recycle recycling in europe as an example it's highly developed there's a lot of collection and the infrastructure of recycling is growing there's more investment i very much like to see what's happening in lebanon because they have they do need to grow their recycling and i think even then all a large brand owners have products on the market and of with the right investment more materials could be taken out of the waste stream and recycled we know what's happening because we're actually doing this with a number of the large brand owners and they are very active in pursuing high quality materials and i think this is again as both mentioned low quality materials can be recycled and very often that's what gets gets into the philippines but

there's a huge demand for high quality materials that go back in packaging and there are lots of ways of doing that as we heard from from from let's not yeah yeah in lebanon you have ambitious plans there that you've been talking about but how much do you need support from the government how much support are you getting. not much actually but it doesn't matter you know this is this is a purely engineering and economics problem. like like my colleagues have said you know we have no other choice collectively globally we have no other choice but to lay down infrastructures food recycling of plastics and i would like to add as well that plastics plays a huge role in food packaging and yes i agree it is not toxic at all when it comes

to food packaging but also it plays a very important role in making this food affordable and it can be shipped all over the world and still land at an affordable cost let's not get carried away by attacking plastic you know we have there is an issue it is it is present in a huge amounts but you know we don't have an economically viable alternative for it as of now ok we you know there are millions upon millions of people who consume food that comes and plastic packaging dry taking that away what's going to happen to the affordability with these people to be able to afford a decent meal on a daily basis what do you think about who is responsible for implementing this change is that is that the consumer is at the manufacturer or is it governments around the world or is a combination of all 3. yes well the for us no

low or no value plastics should be a responsibility of corporations their manufacturing these products they're bracketing than. their packaging food products and other household products and personal care products in plastic and a lot of these cannot be recycled i will have to disagree that a lot of it this recycled in the statistics that we get from around the world is that only 9 percent of the material plastic it's really recycled so that we have a long way to goal in terms of recycling and that is why we are asking and they end up in they end up being shipped around the world because these are low value no value plastic materials and there's no way that you can recycle it that's why they're being shipped into for conscience like monday july indonesia 15 vietnam india. and that is why we're asking for new ways of packaging or even.

no packaging is an option or i do appreciate that says plenty more we could discuss on this but that's as far as we can go on this particular program do appreciate your time or the guests back on does the at every shake and edward cossey i thank you very much indeed and thank you very much indeed for watching you can see the whole program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for slash inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is that a.j. insights i mean the clown in the whole scene here it is far from the.

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with protesters as a city and continues demanding they hand over power to civilians. and nationalists agenda versus more jobs indians have made their choice in an election seen as a referendum on the rule of prime minister narendra modi also this hour a roadside bomb explodes in egypt a bus load of tourists among the wounded near the world famous pair mates. hello i'm barbara starr in london with the top stories from europe as a german vessel carrying dozens of migrants remains stuck in italian waters rome vows to formalize the closure of its ports to aid groups. with all of sports the king of clay a ratings in rome or a phone the bell beats not. too windy you tell you know the. news out of iraq where they are. force of a mortar round being fired close to the high security green zone in baghdad the

area houses key government buildings and the u.s. embassy the explosion was reported about 20 minutes ago let's speak to our correspondent charlie stratfor who joins us on the line from baghdad charlie what more you hearing about. well certainly in the last few minutes we've spoken to the parliament one of the security ministries involved in security in fact they are telling us that indeed a. mortar round was fired to an area close to the green comes off the reports. which is news agencies haven't spoken to diplomatic sources based diplomats no reports of casualties. obviously the green of significant coincidence for so many board embassies and government

buildings and we have seen it we should. write down all of a lot of the security thing. obvious security measures bacteria and of course it comes at a time of heightened tension. in the middle of this crisis between the u.s. and iran which so the u.s. embassy the last week. the country. over the weekend. the evacuation was described as evacuation of. foreign stuff for a company. in the south of iraq. obviously an incident like this sort of plays into all. this be described as a proxy. because of course. political

religious military tried. a lot of focus. people issues or iraq iraq is. funded by iran but. nobody has claimed responsibility for this attack and as he said johnny no injuries reported no casualties reported so far in baghdad and as you also said this coming out a time of heightened tension with iran heightened regional tensions have they been any additional security measures put in place in iraq in places like the green zone where this attack is. additional security measures put into place. something that is very much celebrated by iran. which was the removal of all these gloss schools and all the security measures that

we've seen. it's of 20032004. but we've also heard. the prime minister of the. last week there have been indication of any kind to be creased. that very much. to state my complaints made it saying that he. had been given intelligence. that was what he described a specific increasing threat. against u.s. interests. this buildup of tension between. the u.s. and the wrong but as i say this comes at a very watery time. the

u.s. administration when donald trump basically said. very much for. these countries he said to keep going to. 200. men and women that are in iraq we did see a response to that. explosive projectiles to which the u.s. embassy. attack. it's better to say that these kind of its axis and the others are wrong piers will be saying. ok thank you very much for that update again if you're just joining us on the news our breaking news out of iraq where an apparent mortar has exploded in the heavily fortified green zone in the iraqi capital the green zone which houses several embassies including the u.s. embassy so far no reports of casualties of course we'll bring you all of a just on this breaking news story as in when information becomes available a not

a well news saddam's military. rulers and protest leaders are expected to restart talks in about an hour the negotiations were postponed following the killing of protesters last week demonstrators are continuing their sit in outside on the headquarters in khartoum demanding the military hands over power to civilians the 2 camps are at odds over who will run the country for 3 years before new elections are held my maddow is in khartoum forest joins us now live on the news hour so mama these talks to do to resume tonight are we expecting any breakthrough well it's hard to tell of this woman wanted for the talks like expected to start and in moment now there's been a lot of pressure coming on the transitional military council to stop the talks pressure coming from the united nations the african union the european union and the foreign diplomats who are based in khartoum who are fearing that the momentum

in the talks or 2 of last week would be involved as well as progress because the parties have agreed on some key issues that were pending before and now sources close to the transitional military council are telling us that the parties will start discussions from where they left which is a discussion on the saudi and console which is going to be a 11 member council which is going to be of the highest level of the transitional administration that's expected to lead to done to democratic elections in 3 years of course both sides want a major stake in the council of that has been the main problem that's been the whole being. through school fire but we'll be watching closely to see whether there will be any compromises now and there would have an agreement of the end of the discussions tonight mohammed meanwhile saudi arabia has deposited 250000000 dollars into sudan central bank how is that being viewed by the protesters.

well generally people are not viewing anything coming from a the soda or the united arab emirates with kind of eyes because there's a general belief here suzanne that there is a lot of meddling coming in. the 1st of sudan from voles countries and there's a believe that the intransigence on the luck of compromise from the military council is partly being called by interference from force countries of course these 250000000 that so that it be a has now paid into the central bank of sudan for spots of police $500000000.00 men together with the u.s. united out of anybody it's about a month ago and. it's part of a bigger 3000000000. amount which is. not only kashi sulfides this 500000000 and the rest is going to be investments into sudan

something in sudan needs read in much the amount being paid right now or 500000000 or united arab emirates has already paid its. part of this pledge is going to go to not only shoring up the sudanese holland which has been really suffering but also provide much needed food stuff for the people of saddam thank you for that mahmoud i don't live for a same car too. india's general election is finally over after nearly 6 weeks and preparations have begun for thursday's vote count election was dominated by the ruling party's nationalist agenda and the opposition's call to fix growing unemployment sunday was a final day of polling when 100000000 people across 8 provinces where eligible to cast their ballots prime minister narendra modi seeking a 2nd term in office say raman is in mauritius contests constituency environments.

states and union territories across india have now all completed the election voting the 70 general election is well and truly over all that's required now is the vote count which we'll have to look forward to on thursday politicians will perhaps have a nail biting time trying to wonder whether they were actually able to sell their idea of a future india to the electorate what was the electorate needs and wants we've been finding out environ r.c. . they've been queuing up since daybreak it's the 7th and final phase of india's general election on sunday people from 59 constituencies across 7 states and one union territory head to the polls more than 900000000 people were eligible to cast their ballots in the world's largest democracy over the past 7 weeks voters waiting here are excited that their day has finally come should be given really relevant

more infrastructure health facilities in the conditions that it should be given to the rebels it was the very 1st time would i felt really nice voting for the 1st time i want prime minister murdered to come back to power and move the country forward and develop it so that the unemployed can get employment. veyron i see is one of 13 seats in the state of pradesh that's being fought over on sunday it's the parliamentary seat of the incumbent prime minister narendra modi there are many issues the electorate. has had to consider communal politics unemployment the economy education and national security. for some small scale manufacturers the issue is clear this factory produces fans and has been severely affected by the monetize ation and the introduction of the new goods and services tax or g.s.t. which is added to the manufacturing cost and impacted on the workforce there that go up towards the new government to revisit the amount of tax small cottage industries like kids have to pay out as

a result of about $50.00 to $60000.00 people depend on cottage industries like us here my sales are down and property margins to.