the united states and he says iran is going to continue really scaling back its compliance with the j c p o a way this nuclear deal that the americans withdrew from last year in this deal that meant iran sold access enrich uranium and would not that will be able to create a nuclear bomb iran has scaled back its cooperation with it so it might increase your reigning production has on rouhani said that really iran's patients within and he said that they while expressing a readiness to engage in any sort of bilateral interaction has decided to cease performing on some of its commitments under the j c p o and he really what he's reiterating is this 60 day deadline he gave in may. will start enriching uranium as a high level unless the world powers move to protect iran from u.s. sanctions as i'm and so going to do tell us more about some of the other key players that are attending we know the russian and turkish presidents are also

there. there's been a couple of other significant sideline meetings we know that putin and russia. have met on the sidelines just really at the side of the room here tensions really strain between these 2 countries because earlier this week turkey accused the russian backed forces in northern syria of shelling warm of its observation posts turkey and russia that have this very very fragile cease fire in the last his protective the last sort of forces holdout in in northern syria russia has denied that it's behind any shelling of his forces and says actually i'm the asset forces that shelled the turkish position so a lot of those 2 leaders to come to an agreement on the hope of preserving that deal and lastly we also know that cat is in the air has met with rouhani or any president this is the 1st time since the 2 year old blockade of cats

a cat has essentially been kept going by access to iran's aspace and new trade routes because the blockading countries have stopped cats are using as space and trade routes around it so a very important meeting for the catcher is that i'm all right bernard thanks for that bernard smith in d.c. and they. bastille ahead on al-jazeera hidden away the migrants being kept by the u.s. government in what some are calling a concentration camp. and thousands of brazilians on the streets to protest the president's pension reform. hello again it's good to have you back or are seeing some very heavy rain here across parts of eastern indonesia and now some of those rain charles could be quite heavy in terms of we could even be seeing some localized flooding in this area

notices very dark blues so we're going to be watching this area very carefully over the coming days down towards the south though not looking too bad for bali but a little bit more towards the west java is going to be seeing some very heavy rain showers as well tempter wise into the low thirty's across much of the sierra but up towards the north manila you're going to be seeing some rain showers off and on through the next day with the temps are there $32.00 degrees now we are going to be seeing some messy weather here across much of southeastern and eastern parts of australia over the next few days we do have a system that's going to be making its way towards the east in the forecast looks like this some rain showers down here towards the south with plenty of clouds for melbourne as well as into hobart but for sydney we do expect the rain to really start to kick in as we go from sunday and into monday and some of the showers could be heavy at times for brisbane it is going to be a rainy day for you as well with the temps are there about $23.00 degrees and for the south island of new zealand it is going to be hard to get out of the single digits of the next you days with christ church seeing attempted there of about 9 degrees but up towards auckland we are going to be seeing some sunnier forecast

with a temperature of 15 degrees there. i'm counting the cost india has lost its crown as the growing bigger economy where it all goes wrong for modi so soon after his landslide election victory was no longer the world's garbage can china disrupted the multi 1000000000 dollar global waste industry counting the costs on al-jazeera.

again you're watching i do see a reminder of our top stories the government in hong kong has suspended work on a controversial bill that would allow extradition is to mainland china chief executive kerry lam had earlier said she would push ahead with it but hundreds of thousands of people protested against. leaders from more than 30 countries are in touch to discuss economic and security challenges in the asian region tensions between iran and the us took center stage following the explosions on 2 oil tankers in the gulf of oman on thursday. the summit iran's president has said and says his country will continue to pull back from its nuclear deal commitments because others are not making progress on the issue. of the world health organization has decided not to declare an international public health emergency over the ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo nearly 1400 people have died there since august in

the 2nd. worst outbreak of the disease in history there are concerns the virus is spreading to uganda where several people have died. reports. so infectious and deadly is that every precaution was made when this victim was buried in western uganda her 5 year old grandson also died of the disease days earlier in what was the 1st case of ebola on ugandan soil they had crossed from neighboring democratic republic of congo we and other family members was killed by the disease my sister kim sounds with her as my eyes would you know was there was. just my gifts to my kids as well as she would see us and assists and they would advise us if thought that came in contact with nearly 100 people on thursday militants on the deceased could come from congo back they. did request

that we allowed them to repatriate. the confirmed cases that we have in uganda. and there were 2 good reasons for that one is that in the currently. the therapeutic drug that can be given to patients. but it can be given and. they have been around 2000 cases. with 1400 deaths the world health organization says although the break be a serious it is not an international emergency it was the view of the committee that the outbreak is a health emergency in the democratic republic of congo. and the region. but it does not meet the 3 criteria for

a public health emergency of international concern one challenge is uganda's porous border with. some people into the country without passing through areas screening is taking place it's not very easy to determine how many people. is. because when. health officials say there is no evidence it. is not. the last. and as the repairing for the worst health officials have been vaccinated and trained to deal quickly with any outbreak. this week uganda is on high alert. al jazeera. the un security council is divided over the status of the international peacekeeping force in sudan's darfur region france germany the u.k.

and some of the council's african members say peacekeepers should stay while the country is attempting to change its rules the current plan is to hand security to sudan's military which includes the rapid support forces of dozens of people have been killed in the last 2 months of what will be held by the security council in june 27th. iraq's vast oil wells once paid for some of the best health services in the middle east but decades of conflict and political unrest have led to what the government admits is a crisis in hospitals travel reports now things are particularly bad in basra province where people have long complained of government neglect. could there was diagnosed with leukemia 11 months ago. she is 4 years old. her father brings her to this government cancer hospital in basra for kiba therapy treatment but the drugs needed to keep her alive are often in short supply. we

don't know whether she will get better i'm very afraid because i see many children who come to this hospital dying of cancer the number of chemotherapy sessions varies each month but sometimes we have to delay coming because there is no bed available. around 70 children are being treated for cancer in buses children's hospital. experts say pollution from surrounding oilfields is one of the reasons why basra has the highest rate of cancer in iraq iraq used to have some of the best hospitals and medical expertise in the middle east but decades of war conflict and political instability means those days are long gone the situation at this cancer hospital is so bad that doctors here say they have to rely on cash donations to buy up to 75 percent of the chemotherapy medicine they need every month. patients

a health services are particularly bad in southern iraq basra is the largest oil producing region in the country but there's little sign of petro dollars spending at hospitals like this one people in basra have along the complained of neglect of what they say is corruption and financial mismanagement by the federal government in baghdad. protest to set fire to the provincial council building during demonstrations last year at least 30 people killed during the on the rest against the lack of services doctors say they often can't provide the basic needs. we're facing a crisis in so many levels become provide chemotherapy fast enough it's always available it's expensive in getting it involves a lot of bureaucratic red tape we also need more trained medical staff at the regional government says federal government leaders in baghdad must do more is

having with one local there hasn't been enough financial support from the federal government for many years this year we were allocated 2.8 percent of the federal budget and that's nowhere near enough and we need a better share of the revenues one or things won't improve. in the hospital is a mural called the tree of life showing photos of children who were treated here and survived the government in baghdad which in recent years a struggle to cope with the battle against eisel has promised to do more to help doctors say that if it doesn't than many more cancer victims like fatima will die chance trafford al-jazeera basra. and the international court of justice has rejected a request by the united arab emirates to take immediate measures against qatar in a dispute alleged discrimination friday's hearing was part of a wider legal battle between the 2 countries arising from the blockade imposed by the u.a.e. and 3 other arab nations the u.a.e.

had argued that da is aggravating the situation by blocking access to an end iraq's government side that allows expelled. the mayor of paris has awarded honorary citizenship to a saudi activists jane. was recognized for her advocacy work to port attention to human rights abuses she is among a group of female activists arrested last year in saudi arabia and campaigned to end the ban on women driving in the kingdom. protesters in brazil have stood by their promise of a 24 hour strike continuing demonstrations into the night they're angry over a proposal to raise the retirement age protests brought parts of brazil to a standstill with many walking off the job the government says the changes are needed to stop the country from sliding into a recession daniel shriner reports from sao paulo. new trains today

much as extensive metro system remain closed a show of defiance by the trade unions and inconvenience for many passengers trying to get to work oh my yes we just saw numbers of us a shift we called our manager and asked if they could send a car to take us to the office if we don't make it to work they'll be a deduction from our salary tell him but thanks for the money it's important to protest against a pensioner home but they should plan something that won't disturb everyone. bankers teachers and all workers also join the industrial action in towns and cities across brazil going something like a bit of a total we're fighting for our futures and for the next generations future we want to retire with dignity. to love you that's ok well i don't think we know the government is not sensitive to this kind of protest but we want politicians to hear us anyway. roads were blocked here in law as well as in rio de janeiro in cities in the north the strike better observed in some places than in others. resident both

in outer came to office 5 of the hot months ago promising radical reforms of 1st brazil's ailing economy sacrifices he said would have to be made bears the brunt of those sacrifices is what this dispute is all about. these workers rather meant it should not be them the rich and big business they say should pay their taxes mostly on mothers or mothers we work a 44 hour week one of the highest in the world also in many poor regions of brazil life expectancy is 6364 years old they want to raise the pension age to 60. but many will be dead by the end that's why we're against this proposal. the government says reform is essential to modernize a bloated financial system and make brazil more competitive. the unions say those cuts will hit the public sector the workers hardest with brazil heading for recession they say this is a fight that's only just begun. on daniel schorr and their al-jazeera sample

a mexico's immigration chief has resigned as the government says it will tighten security at dozens of border crossings it's part of efforts to stem the flow of migrants into the united states footage filmed by al-jazeera shows convoys of trucks carrying migrants to a little known of border town between guatemala and mexico for security and people smuggling operations have turned the area into a crossing point for thousands john heilemann has more from mexico city. after a report that showed convoys of trucks heading through most nights from a very specific area of the guatemala mexico border and those trucks controlled by people smugglers taking hundreds of central americans through mexico to the u.s. border we asked president lopez all over a daughter of mexico why that had been happening for what locals told us was more than a year and why the government seemed not to have noticed or done anything to stop

it this was his response disinter your child. we have identified 68 border crossing points and in all of them there is going to be vigilance that's what i can tell you it's a plan to have control on the border so not really a clear answer there but president lopez obrador saying that in $68.00 border crossing point security is going to be increased we're already seeing that across the country mexico is really under pressure from the united states to curb the amount of central american migrants coming from honduras el salvador guatemala fleeing poverty and violence that ending up on the u.s. border to the north and it's say said already that if mexico doesn't do that there would be terrorists mexico is a verted that threat for now but the government said from the u.s. that in a month and a half if it doesn't see concrete results and those results will be judged by president trump then there will be further actions

a rescue efforts are underway in chile to free 3 men who are trapped in a collapsed mine special rescue teams are deployed to the scene in tokyo pier mine collapsed on thursday all of the miners up libyan citizens and are trapped at a depth of nearly 70 need to live in president abel marlin's tweeted about his concern and praised those involved in the rescue. hundreds of women across switzerland that been rallying for equality of what they say is an unacceptably slow pace in improving women's rights it is switzerland 2nd national strike of its kind the 1st was 28 years ago back then there were no women in the swiss government women in switzerland still earn around 20 percent less than. all right let's get a round up of the top stories on the agency of the government in hong kong has suspended a controversial bill that would allow extradition of suspects to mainland china

chief executive kerry lam said days earlier she would push ahead with the proposal hundreds of thousands of people have protested against it after repeated internal deliberations over the last 2 days i now announce that the government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercise restart all communication with all sectors of society do more explanation work and listen to different views of society i want to stress that the government is that opting an open mind to heat comprehensively different views in society toss the bill iran's president has several hot he says his country will continue to pull back from its nuclear deal commitments because others are not showing progress on the issue he spoke at a summit in tajikistan where more than 30 countries are gathering to discuss challenges in the asian region france germany the u.k.

and some african members of the u.n. security council say peacekeepers should stay in sudan's darfur region while the country is attempting to change its rules the current plan is to hand security to sudan's military including the paramilitary rapid support forces. the world health organization has decided not to declare an international public health emergency over that you bola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo nearly 1400 people have died there since august the 2nd worst outbreak of the disease in history protesters in brazil have stood by their promise of a 24 hour strike continuing demonstrations into the night they're angry over a proposal to raise the retirement age protest bill parts of brazil to a standstill with many walking off the job mexico's immigration chief has resigned as the government says it will tighten security at dozens of border crossings part of efforts to stem the flow of migrants into the united states footage filmed by

edges into shows convoys of trucks carrying migrants to a little known border town between guatemala and mexico those are the headlines right now in algeria it's counting the cost. east and the differences. and this in the ninety's of. al jazeera. i'm richelle carey this is counting the cost on al-jazeera weekly look at the world of business and economics this week no longer the fastest growing big economy where did it all go wrong for modi so soon after his landslide election victory and along

with the world's garbage cam how china disrupted the multi $1000000000.00 global waste industry. i'm john hendren in portland where they're building skyscrapers out of wood i'll tell you why coming up. the honeymoon from the ranger modi's landslide victory was short lived reality struck as the economy lost its title as the world's fastest growing large economy and truth the economy was rushing to the carpet as modi concentrated on security issues modi had carefully crafted his image around his track record in the economic development of his native state of gujarat he promised to repeat that performance nationwide the economy expanded just 5.8 percent putting it firmly behind china's growth of 6.4 percent 3rd biggest economy managed to grow 6.8 percent in the full fiscal year ending march 31st its slowest growth since 2014 and that's a problem because india needs to create 10000000 new jobs

a year to keep up with the 1000000 young people entering the workforce every month and the trouble is that not even the former economic adviser believes the country's economic numbers now modi has appointed the country's 1st female finance minister since interior. on day to tackle the challenges ramallah said the raman has a master's degree in economics and also served as a junior finance and commerce minister in modi's 1st term and they need sustained growth of 10 percent a year term prove the living standards of its 1200000000 people it's the kind of growth that has propelled china to become the 2nd largest economy and create much needed manufacturing jobs. so misfiring economy missteps and many challenges ahead for modi's government. takes a look at the real cost to everyday people. rohit maggio is a young graduate he's among $1000000.00 young people who join the job market every month but he's been jobless for the last 6 months he had a temporary job with

a money lending company but now he lives with his brothers and is a pendant on his family for everything he is desperate and says he needs a job in which you know. it's difficult to get a job now the competition is very huge and there are a lot of people who are graduates but are unemployed for one single position there are many people waiting in the queue for the same job if there are 10 jobs there would be at least 1000000 job applications i'm trying to contact people through people who i know for a job i asked them if there's an interview if there's anything where i can apply but no response till now critics claim that president iran policies have failed to generate enough jobs for millions of young people the make in india initiative which was to transform india into a manufacturing hub has also been a failure despite advice from the central bank modi pushed ahead with plans to withdraw all high denomination bank notes from circulation it was a move aimed at curbing corruption but was

a shock to the economy. these small businesses were the worst hit by modiste monitise asia in 2016 ram chander had a small business used to be a traditional weaver in mali region of dash but because of industrialisation he sold his hand loom and came to delhi yeah i want to put america on a business of selling doormats it used to be a good profitable business for me but these days my business has gone bust and now i'm even struggling to make ends meet at home the demonetize ation and 2016 room before that my business used to run well but after the monetize ation i lost all my money despite past failures modi has a majority to push through much needed changes to the economy failure to deliver jobs will damage his image as an economic miracle worker for counting the cost cuts . let's discuss some of those challenges modi faces for that let's turn to share

on talia he's a professor at the gentle school of international affairs in india that this week he joins us from dallas in lebanon we appreciate your time very much so to make any type of meaningful dent and unemployment economists say that n.d.s. economy needs to grow at about 10 percent it doesn't seem that the country is even close to 10 percent how would you characterize where the country stands on that well yeah i mean growth has slowed down literally on one of the reasons for that of course is that the manufacturing has not taken off and manufacturing town was mr moore these big agenda in his 1st term from 2014 to only to those 19 call it make in india and that was supposed to have delivered millions of jobs so it has not really progressed as much as expected so in the 2nd don't there's a lot of hope engine on this making india project which should generate you know semi skilled and low skilled employment and of course rev up the growth so and

besides manufacturing i think they're looking at other monetary stimulus and reforms large scale structural reforms that can speed up the growth rate the last quarter growth rate was the lowest in a long time so i think they're now looking to juice up the economy and to get it you know galloping as much as they can so you talked about modi's 1st term during his 1st term he promised that he would deliver $10000000.00 jobs he's clearly fallen short of that do you think that this 2nd term for some people is about giving him more time we're already that people don't understand the sense of urgency about getting those numbers up now i think see if there is always you know a demographic bulge in india and it still very young and lot of people coming into the labor market and not finding having the skills and finding the appropriate you know job opportunity. yes the onus is on the government and mr modi knows that

people voted for him this time overwhelmingly in the hope of the positive expectation that the things will only get better and in that sense you know there is a huge responsibility on his shoulders and years now named the new finance minister nicolas either a man who's quite capable and i think the price inflation if you see is quite stable so over the last 2 years so they have room for you know monetary stimulus and for reforms now because the political stability and price stability cushions through which mr modi can you know try and you know is really engineered the indian economy on a high growth trajectory you talked about the new finance minister in fact she's the 1st female finance minister sense and they're gonna tell us more about what you think of our what you know about our numeracy that i'm on used to be commerce ministry under mr minister under mr modi dealing mainly with our trade relations with other countries the w.t.r. negotiations and all those things and she has

a background in economics so i think that will help really she's also looked for international consultancies she understands the financial markets very well and of course she has good relations with the indian business houses and the national local capitalists so i think she will be looking at you know balancing all these interests and also of course the farming and the working class so all of these are important for political reasons for mr moore the and mr rahman so overall i think she's a good pick and she makes some tough choices and she stands by them so she's in fact the 1st full time female finance minister indira gandhi you know was was prime minister and simultaneously finance minister but again that sense of history maker and we expect in policy some historic changes including more reforms to land. and labor regulations which will really really take us to the next level in terms of

growth and employment generation and it has cut the interest rate to its lowest level in 9 years how do you think that might stimulate the economy consumption as well as credit and investment all these 3 depend on the interest rates as we know so they are using the cane easier in all macroeconomic leavers of trying to use up the economy. you know lower interest rates so that there's more borrowing and more economic activity and in fact the slowdown of the last quarter was related to. dip in the consumption and domestic consumption is the bulk of india's g.d.p. and its growth so i think they're out on the right track and because of the said the inflation is under control they can manage to reduce the interest rates even further if required in the coming so unlike other major economies over the last 10 years india has not used monetary policy much to stimulate the economy because it

was going great it's only now you know that there's a slowdown so i think they can now afford to. do what this tool a little bit they are to you talking about a slowdown with been talking a lot about numbers that the bottom line is a lot of people don't necessarily trust these numbers where do you bolster the trust for these numbers that matter so much there was a revision done are doing this to more this was tom and there recalculated the baseline on which the g.d.p. figures had been. cancelled for the last several years and they added some percentage points so you know it's debatable i mean some people say it's actually 5 and not 7 percent of the actual growth rate but so is the case the china and many other you know rising emerging powers they have you know a little bit dodgy figures but i think the. the best line if you look at the world bank and the international rating agencies i think our outlook has been improving

under mr modi so they will take solace from that and definitely statistically and in terms of a calm and in terms of documenting everything india is largely an informal economy and almost people are off the books and off the records and mr modi have been trying digital economy to put everything on record so that every economic activities accounted for an added up in the whole g.d.p. calculation so i think statistically we should be getting better and more accurate over time ok let's hope so that's quite an undertaking dr surround thank you very much for your time appreciate it my pleasure. after 25 years of importing the world's waste china through the global recycling industry into chaos it refused to buy plastic waste rich nations have gotten used to exporting the rubbish to asia where labor is cheap and environmental standards were not enforced or were nonexistent matters came to

a head when many asian nations couldn't pick up the slack from china's refusal to take and waste just trying to get your head around the numbers that is challenging but the impact for the environment and our planet is disastrous there's a lot of money involved the global market for waste recycling is worth $300000000000.00 that's according to consultants from frost and sullivan plastics recycling alone is estimated to account for $37600000000.00 in 2080 between 1950 to 2078 point 3000000000 metric tons of plastic has been produced so let's put that in context. that's a quiver of $25000.00 empire state buildings or that's enough to cover the entire country of argentina we're still 3 quarters of all plastic produces now and landfills or in the ocean only 9 percent gets recycled and 12 percent isn't center rated over 25 years china imported $106000000.00 metric tons or 45 percent of

all plastic waste now in china will only buy plastic waste that is 99.9 percent pure in other words recyclable exporters mostly from rich nations scramble to find new markets such was the scale of china's imports countries like malaysia indonesia thailand and vietnam were soon swapped and unable to cope it took the philippines 6 years to send 60 containers of toxic waste back to canada more than 100 containers or about 2500 tons of waste were shipped here from canada and 2013 in 2014 the containers had been mislabeled as recyclable rubbish impoverished communities like this one in downtown miller of the ones who suffer the most from the disposal of hazardous waste load it. 2 is then i would advise them and you've got a big. and overly. going to this that.

it did you and. the malaysian government also says it will send back some 300 metric tons of non-recyclable plastic waste to countries like canada australia and the us. it is costly and pay for research countries to send their ways to poor countries simply because the poor countries have no tries may be even contribute a little to their economy joining me now via skype from perth in western australia as chain primer chain as the 0 coordinator for the national toxics network of australia appreciate your time very much so recycling it is big business not so much for developing nations though it doesn't really add a lot of value to them is there any way to quantify what the costs are to some of those countries the health costs the environmental costs as a way to quantify that well to be honest i don't know if there is a way to quantify that because the impacts all.

the juicy recycling recycling materials that are going to the asia pacific region are cruising profound public health and environmental impacts and i'm not aware that you could put a price amount. because the impacts are intergenerational the global and they impact this nation's people disproportionately i'm not sure how you quantify that but i think. there is international in that plastics was i think particularly is a major global issue and that's why international conventions like the convention stepping up to address the issue so that the asian nations that you're referencing a better being negatively impacted by this as it is that capitalism is a grade is that inequality what is it industry for alone time particularly the plastics packaging packaging industry and the rest its production industry which

are inherently tied to the fossil fuel and it's a chemical industries currently industry externalizes all of those calls. the products and what's the product is sold. in to irresponsibility and yet we know. that. model of old is news it's leaving a globally disastrous. and waste management problem that is particularly just pushing at me affecting the region so when you talk about this being a global issue and having a global and pact is there any i mean i don't know the g 20 s. or some global organization that is willing to address this that has shown any interest in addressing this to have some sort of agreement some sort of accountability for these things it is more a political mechanism it's not legally binding whereas international conventions like stockholm and those who conventions are legally binding just recently we've

seen the convention address the issue all the trans boundary shipment we've read recently the. strain in a.t.m. exposure with contaminated waste in countries like philippines indonesia and malaysia and it's not as if the gluten countries haven't known that the sun's coming based certainly from what you and it's been plenty of warning so jane when it comes to these they single use plastics there are some companies that are making an effort to do away with them but a lot of the larger companies just have not been able to replace plastic with bio plastics and some point doesn't just come down to either we're going to use plastic or all the plastic has to go nar not at all the plastic. waste is a symptom of a failed twice management system while billy and the inequities that exist globally

that exploit asia pacific countries particularly some of the solution to the plastic waste problem is really. require. a much deeper. holistic approach to improving waste management across the world and many countries are stepping up and doing that but we have to look at the law and how we've come to this situation and we can't really address adequately the issue of both plastic aleutian and the problems it's creating if we doing to address the waste management and the leni have materials production system that driving it generation it's so it is eating your economy it means. using finite rule materials. producing products and then disposing

object to landfill. or tunes or worse to incinerate those at the moment a lot of the contaminated too late into the eyes of the country because we don't have strong global laws to prevent that although the basic conventions trying to address that we need to address the dinosaur in the run which is that. she was production process exposes dining hall and we need to move to more sustainable waste management systems jane farmer thank you very much thank you very much now norway is one trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund has decided to sell it stakes in $150.00 or oil and gas companies and poor more money into grain ventures that's a trend that car makers are following as they turn to electric power the shipping industry which moves 90 percent of world trade as came to or 2 sets greenhouse emissions its carbon footprint as the same instrument and the car quintile stein that norway where one cruise company setting a grain example. the clavin yachts in the west coast of norway where there's been

a long rich history of ship building but this is something different to ships the roald amundsen in the for itself once and a nearing completion and there are steps into the future crises nestles the fate of the arctic this is ships that will take paying passengers through remote parts of the world powered partly by bashing but you know expedition ship together is a complex process as you might imagine involving welders coffman tizen clemence and of course electricians there's more than 750 kilometers of cabling to say nothing of detailed and extensive wiring for powering the ship by self generated electricity the batteries anjan place yet so once what do we what's going to be put in place and what will we see distract your kind that can fit 20 m. battery cells and it will be about toast was for each cell or each rep here with this rx with we have behind us now we can reduce to 20 percent off the fuel

consumption off the ship. the vessel's thrust will come from a combination of diesel and battery powered batteries and cells will be constantly charged by the ship's engines as they run. kyle writes and will be captain on the roald amundsen as she attempts a northwest passage later this year it's really important because we are going to remote areas form of all areas to be able to do you know feet footprints but. to give is only the green footprints we supply the polar system with the batteries as we are sailing but also when we do the operation in the arctic on time. given the shipping industry is responsible for a significant proportion of the global climate problem change cannot come soon enough ultimately the dream is of a ship with no need of a funnel hybrid and reducing consumption is one thing but even more interesting i think is the work that is now going into. fully electric.

shipping we've seen some initiatives on that as well in norway and that's an area where we. shipping industry might get an advantage as an early adopter electric faeries can already be seen in some of the world's ports while on shore power and others enables vessels to be plugged in so engines can be switched off while dalt. and hurtigruten the now planning to convert several ships like the nord cap here drawn on a combination of fuel including bio gas made from organic waste like timber and that fish the day when the mega ships of the world a powered solely by renewable energy well that is still in the distant future claiming glass soaring steel and concrete columns those are the usual things that come to mind when you think of skyscrapers but and the future the world's great cities may have some skylines built of

a different material would john hendren reports. if a new generation of rogue architects has their way the era of the concrete and steel skyscraper might be over the future they say lies in a millennia old building material would the challenge is actually in the believe it or not not structural it's more of a psychological barriers of getting over there were working on the new buildings are made with cross laminated timber stronger because the layers of wood are stacked in opposite directions the technology has been used for years in europe wooden buildings like the airy 80 story river beach project in chicago might just be a blueprint for a new era in architecture the reason this is kind of exploding right now is because it's an engineered what technology that uses small diameter trees but are combined to make massive panels. wooden buildings go up faster and cheaper a concrete floor takes at least 2 weeks to dry for each story timber weighs 80

percent less than concrete so it takes fewer trucks to deliver the wood which is cut in the factory in snaps together with not a saw on site but there's another more pressing reason to use wood timber buildings are greener both ice caps are melting in the storms are getting worse it we all have to step forward and do what we can and in my profession what i can do is change my material choice for what i'm going to build with and build with something that's more socially and environmentally responsible the manufacture of concrete and steel emits planet warming carbon dioxide would absorbs carbon actually cleaning the air i fell in love with a building. that windows the view was at 29 meters this is the tallest cross laminated timber building in the united states but the architect who designed it is already designing another one at 137 meters and he says with these

materials the sky's the limit the growing industry faces 2 nagging questions is it deforesting the plan and they say by using smaller trees from certified renewable forests there would supply is sustainable and what about fire architects a wooden buildings can be as fire safe as any other is treated mass timber char's rather than burns. the biggest open question is whether builders and consumers will buy into the idea of living in a wooden building towering into the sky. and that is our show for this week please do get in touch with us you can tweet me it's after show kerry also use the hash tag a j c t c when you do you can also drop us an e-mail counting the cost of al-jazeera as our address right there there is more for you online as well at al-jazeera dot com slash c.t.c. we'll take you to our news page there's individual reports links and entire episodes that you can catch up on. that is it for this edition of counting the cost

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scary made the announcement after meeting legislators for several hours she says they considered widespread public opposition to the proposal that would allow suspects to be extradited to mainland china hundreds of thousands of people have protested in large crowds gathered outside the legislative council on wednesday and forced a 2nd vote to be postponed. i feel deep sorrow and regret that the deficiencies in our work and various other factors have stirred up substantial controversies and a spilt in society following the relatively calm periods of the past 2 years disappointing many people we will adopt the most sincere and humble attitude just sapped criticisms and make improvements so that we can continue to connect with the people of hong kong let's bring in scott heiler joins us live from hong kong and it's got caroline that bowing to pressure but it is only

a pause. exactly nec yes it's just a pause they haven't withdrawn it they haven't killed this bill as you made that announcement about 3 hours ago that they're putting on a pause but one thing that's interesting though because it is really polarized this bill has polarized the city with her to come out and say that she is sad with the reaction but but also she says moving forward again the bill is not dead but moving forward they're going to bring they're going to make an effort the government's going to make an effort to bring all points of view when they move forward with this bill after repeated internal deliberations over the last 2 days i now announce that the government has decided to suspend the legislative amendment exercise restocked communication with all sectors of society do more explanation work and listen to different views of society i want to stress that the government is adopting an open mind to heat comprehensively different views in society toss

the bill. so scott what is it about this proposed bill the just so much. well the bill specifically and what it says and what it does and that's to allow extraditions of criminal suspects from here hong kong to mainland china that is something that really pro-democracy demonstrators are really against but it's also the bigger issue because of when you look at hong kong it's judiciary system they're very proud of how transparent it is here and in mainland china it is not so they look at yes the specific bill but then overall it's also part of a ongoing power grab from mainland china here to hong kong so that's why a lot of these pro-democracy leaders have called for people to come out to the streets and we're hearing from them now they still are pushing forward with this protest this march on sunday we also they've reiterated their call for for kerry lamb to step down and so we know that they're still going to come out but what's

very interesting about hong kong when you look about the the history of protests here they've been going on for quite some time here in hong kong. in 1997 when hong kong was handed over from british control to china agreements were made certain liberties were to stay until 2047 like freedom of speech and an independent judiciary. but under president xi jinping beijing has rapidly exerted more mainland power over hong kong a move to change the electoral system in 2014 brought thousands of students onto the streets and what became known as the umbrella movement they occupied central hong kong for 11 weeks in leicestershire was one of the leaders and several of his fellow leaders are serving prison sentences right if you go to visit them and he's now an assistant to a pro-democracy member of the legislative council with widespread public opposition to the government's push for

a new law allowing extradition to mainland china he says the current protests are very different to what happened 5 years ago when we had the umbrella of mine and it's. some random circumstance but. hong kong people are prepared to come out and protest people are more prepared and the time meant than ever in annie's sankoh born history something here in hong kong universe that you won't see anywhere on mainland china a memorial of the massacre in tiananmen square in fact the largest gathering of people in hong kong before these recent protests took place just after that massacre 30 years ago this month kind of did point out that there historically hong kong is known as a city of protesters but many say this latest round has a specific goal blocking the extradition bill in this case and even though the opposition to the extradition that was about much more than just the bill that is

the clear target in many ways i think what's happening now is a little more focused. many here say the umbrella movement failed in its drive to push back against greater control by beijing and with protesters preparing for sunday's new march against extradition many are determined this time things will be different scott harder al jazeera own cause. what is enough from emily lau who's a former leader of the democratic party in the whole coast but nearly 25 years as a legislator and she says that despite luns announcements many in home cole will still be defiant people want her to just kill the bill we don't want it we don't want to sort hanging over our heads and that is what it is that was so i think many people are going to be very dissatisfied it's offend fundamental issues of 2 different systems in hong kong we have the rule of law independent judiciary protection of human rights over there in mainland china is complete let

us that's that's right a people feel better be very unsafe if you send somebody there at the trial you cannot guarantee the person is going to get a fair trial so it's not a communication problem what she said it's nonsense of course the protests will continue tomorrow and i don't know how many hundreds of thousands will turn out some may be a bit relaxed that have been just not pushing ahead for a vote next week in the legislative perhaps or the matter of. fact of the matter is they have been negotiating with the mainland authorities for over 20 years a problem mission a range for months and got nowhere and so so long as the 2 legal systems are so different so long as you cannot guarantee a person sent back would you have fair trial it's very difficult to have a deal i don't know is not a communication problem one country 2 systems it's really crumbly and so bill our

freedoms and the rule of no that's what really very comes out it's not just the spirit but the whole promise of one country system seem to be slipping away and the one accord on your caliber ted is doing precious little so that's why we have to link to the international community immunity to speak out on our behalf. all right let's move on iran's president hassan rouhani says his country will continue to pull back from its nuclear deal commitments as others have to be making progress on the issue he was speaking at a summit in tajikistan where heads of more than 30 countries are discussing economic and security challenges in the region that's joined what about a smith who is live in the capital and. it seems that the patience of the iranian president is wearing thin. yeah walked the house on rouhani was doing was strengthening really making

a much stronger language an ultimatum given back in may and that's when he gave world powers 60 days to give iran some sort of relief from the effects of u.s. economic sanctions and he didn't do rouhani said that iran will stop enriching uranium at a high level. it's obvious that iran cannot unilaterally remain committed to that joint comprehensive plan of action and it's necessary to other countries contribution to the survival of this important agreement with our good will and strategic tolerance on one hand and the united states lawlessness on the other hand it's been proven to everyone republic of iran will announcing its readiness for any interaction has decided to reduce its obligations under paragraph $26.36 of the plan of action to restore balance. given rouhani is busy in the context of everything that's been happening in the

gulf of oman who also we're expecting to hear from. well what is often more important in these meetings and who meets all what happens on the sidelines and we've seen a couple of different huddles going on the sidelines we've seen present ready to go on and russian president vladimir putin literally huddled in conversation strains between those countries because of the fraying ceasefire in northwestern syria turkish observation post was shelled on that wednesday injuring some to the soldiers the president has blamed russian backed forces for doing that the russians say no it was actually on the outside forces and it's turkey and russia that it's behind a cease fire and not last sort of rebel holdouts of northwestern syria so very difficult times of those 2 leaders a much to discuss and we also know that katz's amir has met with some rouhani the iranian president that's the 1st time those 2 men have met since the blockade of

the council started now more than 2 years ago cats are essentially now operating because it's able to use a radio ad space in the arabian trade routes because as space across the gulf and trade routes across the gulf a big cuts all buy those blockading come to a very important meeting for the council reason predatory very much the better spent reporting the. well the u.s. president has dismissed around denial that it had anything to do with the tanker explosions in the gulf of oman on thursday and called iran a nation of terror told trump says a grainy video released by the u.s. central command is proof of iran's involvement with germany says that is inconclusive reports now from muscat. what or who used to blame for the explosions on board 2 tankers in the gulf of oman the u.s. planes iraq and they released this video purporting to show iran a sort of allusion to god's removing an unexploded limpet mine from the japanese

courageous the timestamp according to the americans shows it happened after the vessel's crew had dead askew well ron didn't do a.