the patient of 20 percent of georgian territory and its heavy handed response to the demonstrations use a show here of solidarity for those blinded by rubber bullets in thursday's police crackdown. the violence began after opposition m.p.'s heckled russian deputies invited into georgia's parliament georgia has had no diplomatic ties with moscow since its war with russia of a south of setia in 2008. later clashes between protesters and police were the worst in 7 years since georgia's governing party came to power with more than 200 people injured and around 300 people detained. 3 months. picketed jews interior ministry wouldn't have the colleagues were among those. each . led to the right to identify but even if they were to have these

guys that they were fighting chasing. after those. so far the government has responded by removing to speaker of parliament was that opposition politicians say that snooki there has to be somebody responsible for what happened yesterday and that's the minister of interior but even biggest and fundamental change it is in the interest of this country east to change the electoral system to make sure that nobody grips our the way it is now and the power is shared proportionately and candy because days right it's may have strengthen the resolve of people opposed to this government but it may have wider consequences with russia now threatening to capitalize on this georgian political drama. more than a 1000000 russians who are ists visit georgia every year live in the putin has announced a ban on flights to georgia from july to and. russian citizens safety from what

moscow calls and see russian hysteria but russians who are i spoke to were optimistic i enjoy my lot here my stay here and i hope it is going to be all right well i don't worry about my. tonight you worry about us all in the joy of your personal it doesn't matter which country they come from understands very well that there are governments and there are just normal people and the to the same thing banning russian visit is may hurt today's economy in the short run. to the to move may only convince the protestors that their feelings about russian aggression and the competency of their own governments are correct robin for stealing al-jazeera to be some. time for a short break here not just when we come back the repeat election of the man of istanbul the turkish voters this time deliver the results the president wants stay with us.

hello again it's good to have you back well the next few days most of the heavy rain here across parts of south eastern asia is going to be over the south china sea a lot of they are thunderstorms are going to be over the open waters so not a lot of problems here on sunday for most of the land areas but that's going to change as we go towards monday the rain is going to start to expand pretty up here towards the north so for cambodia for vietnam you can be seeing some very heavy rain and over towards the philippines will be also seeing an increase of moisture so showers are going to be heavier across the region well across australia things are looking quite nice across much of the south we have an area of high pressure that's really dominating this region and keeping it fairly chilly in the morning but the afternoons fairly sunny there so for adelaide over towards nov and we're looking at a very nice day here on sunday temperatures are going to be in the low teens for

many locations here but out towards the west we are watching one funnel boundary and this front is going to bring severe weather through perth as we go from sunday and into monday we're going to be seeing a change in temperature as well dropping a little bit over the next few days up towards alice springs it is going to remain quite sunny at 17 degrees and darwin at about $28.00 degrees there over towards brisbane on monday not looking too bad for you partly cloudy day if you are 20 and city 18 degrees in your forecast. on counting the cost 2018 was the deadliest year for the aviation industry in years we'll find out just what went wrong also it's really considers a new domestic current so you could lead to its exit from the euro but should you be worried about you kids having too much screen time counting the cost on al-jazeera.

welcome back to the top stories here on al-jazeera iran's foreign ministry says that he respond firmly to any u.s. . president donald trump confirmed he called off an attack on iran saying he wants to avoid casualties the strike would have been a sponsor to iran's downing of a u.s. surveillance drone. and the reuters news agency is reporting that hundreds of u.s. contractors will be evacuated from an iraqi military base. was hit by 3 mortar shells last week. and russia has suspended flights to georgia after the visit of a russian politicians sparked protests in the capital tbilisi on friday the

opposition has accused the government of being too close to moscow. now the world food program has suspended some operations in yemen after threatening to reach agreement with who the rebels are distributing food supplies about decisions expects to affect around 850000 people in the who think control capital urgently need help bring the mohammed as more. this panic buying in saunas old city after the u.n. world food program said it would stop distributing food aid before the war this market was a bustling focal point for vendors who sold fruits vegetables and exotic spices but 4 years of a saudi u.a.e. led war and diversion in aid supplies have caused an unprecedented food crisis more than 850000 people in the capital are affected by the suspension in food aid deliveries and yemenis fear the situation could get much worse. even though

i have the suspension will harm us the people will be affected by this not only the people of a village or a province or a city but the entire nation. this is the suspension of aid is literally a real war on yemen it literally means war. most of the people need food aid on a daily basis because the country is in a very bad economic condition and living expenses are high but the world food program says humanitarian workers in yemen have been denied access to those in need aid convoys were blocked and local officials interfered with food distribution we're not talking about a little bit of diversion here we're spending $175000000.00 per month so if it's 10 percent 15 percent 20 percent of this being diverted in is not just being diverted into the hands of political. systems well as for military whatever was happening as innocent children innocent victims of war or dying as

a result of us not being or get our food into these areas. since 2015 saudi arabia and its allies have been fighting against iran back to the rebels for control of the country. the war has caused the world's largest humanitarian crisis with the country on the brink of famine and most of those in need are in who control. areas the world food program says it's seeking support from the sun are based on dorothy's to bring in a biometric registration system that will prevent the diversion of aid that while fighting continues between warring factions uncertainty is growing for many who say they don't know where the next meal will come from mohammed al jazeera. the man adela todd is live for us now from the yemeni capital mohammed so how are people effect on the ground by this u.s. decision. the u.s. decision to suspend the aid to so ho the beast areas all of you under control

under the control of all of these will have an effect a big percentage of the population the united nations puts the number of people who are. dependent on foreign aid $7000000.00 people so it's a big per percent of the population lives in these areas which are in the control of the whole cheese so they hold these accuse the united nations especially the world food program of being corrupt because they say that the spend spend 70 percent of the aid on costs that includes the shipments of the salaries rearwards and also the spend it in. different ways but also as we have heard from the report of the w. with p. accuses also the whole reason for receiving nearly 10 to 20 percent of the aid so

that what's what's left for the yemeni people is 10 percent of that aid which is not enough for 7000000 people who are dependent on foreign aid and you've been speaking to the who these are what they've been saying about a delivery and do you think they'll reach a deal with the w.s.p. so you can repeat that question yeah you know in the years in cleveland speaking to the who things mattered what a baby in saying about a delivery and when their original agreement with the doubling of the do you think . so far there is no agreements between both parties the whole of these still continue to to ask the p.c. to have this kind of her cash payment to the people of need the believe that the peak can be able to pee people in need with cash it will be better because the the this era of fish will i spoke to the operational he told me that they received nearly 66000 tons of aid which is a mainly wades which is

a corrupt because of the. committee stories conditions or something like that so the further instead of receiving. or something like that or instead of the say the corruption which is taking place for the aid they prefer that the people need should receive cash the will buy with it whatever they want. in the yemeni capital sanaa thank you mohammed now an estimated 4000 refugees have fled democratic republic of congo from neighboring uganda there among hundreds of thousands forced from their homes because of fighting between rival ethnic militias are reports now from where many have sought refuge. it's been 2 days of noir almost family and rather chunk wiley ritchie settlement 2 out of 5 children aged $4.00 and $7.00 didn't survive the journey from the north east of the d.r.v. to western uganda. kenya when the fighting started we ran to the boat in the

panic one charge fell into the water and drowned another child died because we had no food or medicine that's when i said if i stay in congo the whole family will die . conditions in uganda are basic but the refugees are grateful. forces have been deployed to fight militias in the area around the town of juba it's an eternity the province at the center of the current into ethnic conflict one challenge the congolese army is facing is that some militiamen armed not just with machetes but with more sophisticated weapons to. appealing to help to restore calm . do you can't survive without the presence of soldiers this is why we've been deployed here we call on all communities to support this armies so that we can restore peace and security. the conflict between the him and linda groups is about access to farmland as well as gold oil and gas resources. the problem today is that

number of people who've been displaced is between 300-002-4000 extension 00 areas. because of attacks currently the army is heavily deployed as now trying to secure those areas. back in uganda some of the 4000 congolese who fled fighting. tried to settle into a new country piece by piece a temporary home takes about a day to build this shelter is basic and meant to be temporary they get the canvas from the united nations but everything else is sourced locally in some cases and entire. shelters near the road are meant for older people so they have easy access . thousands survived a long journey across the border to get here where at least for now. the refugee settlement uganda. polls opened in mauritania's presidential election with around one of the half 1000000 people eligible to vote it could be the country's 1st

peaceful transition of power in decades 6 candidates are vying to succeed president mohamed zs who took office after a coup in 2008 or attain yazid several military coups since to clearing independence from france nearly 60 years ago. 200 venezuelan migrants have been left stranded on the border between chile and peru they were denied entry into chile earlier this week both countries have been tightening visa requirements making it a challenge for hundreds of families trying to escape poor living conditions. police in the u.k. said they'll take no further action after being called to the home of boris johnson a leading candidate for british prime minister and his partner had been reports of a domestic incident johnson will become the next prime minister if he wins or one of those against foreign secretary jeremy hunt next month it would replace to resign may who resigned after 13 to deliver brags that deal acceptable to parliament johnson's been dogged by allegations about his behavior.

voters in turkey's biggest city had to the polls on sunday for a rerun of the may or election the opposition candidate was declared the winner in istanbul in march but a legal challenge from the ruling party of president richard pryor 31 and no the result is govern the city for the last 25 years so i'm considering reports now from istanbul. if you remember was declared the winner of his stumbles may or elections 3 months ago. he's from turkey's main opposition party see. him almost mandated lasted only teen days. the governing party said there were irregularities and corruption in the polls and appealed to the supreme council which can see the results so that if you look at a comedy that is simple lection has been an old you have 4 vote cast and you know one of them which counts for istanbul mayorship people will respond to this on june

23rd the council said a number of polling station officials were not civil servants as. that forced them home or the office and ordered a room only for we stumbled. turkey has a very secure election system but in the march 31st elections the opposition was much more poll savvy than the ruling party that's why they couldn't present any solid evidence for what they claimed was corruption on the other hand the supreme election board needed to address the irregularities only that would have eased the public conscious. the party's been a former prime minister. to his rival by 14000 votes it was a shock defeat and the parties and that's pretty sad when a fight you control of the city where turkey is present treasure. and once served as a mayor. the only reason i talk about the ballot box the bell yelled and voted out

is only one vote for him for at least it's obvious that's why we say they stole the votes. president are john's loyalists believed their victory was stolen but other wings of the party accepted their loss. to. the opposition alliance and a memo supporters protested. the station calling it. turkey's western allies urged the government. to respect people's choice and democracy. council has launched an investigation into some from friends.

thailand is hosting the latest summit of southeast asian leaders foreign ministers of the 10 countries are in bangkok before leaders arrive on sunday territorial disputes in the south china sea are expected to be raised as well as the impact of the trade war between china and the united states the region is also under pressure to stop taking in the world's plastic and electronic waste. at least 3 construction workers have been killed in cambodia where the building collapsed rescuers in c a new villa found 20 survivors in the remains of a 7 story building one of many being built in the popular beach resort by chinese investors excavators are coming to daybreak for. a quick check of the headlines here and al-jazeera iran says it will respond firmly to any u.s. threat according to its foreign ministry. president. doesn't want

a war with iran the u.s. president confirmed. he wanted to avoid mass casualties the strike would have been in response to iran's downing of a u.s. surveillance drone. iraq is denying reports that hundreds of u.s. contractors will be vacuous from a military base because of potential security threats the base which is north of the capital baghdad was hit by 3 mortar shells last week. 2 other iraqi bases hosting u.s. forces have also been hit by rockets in the past week iran denied that shia muslim militias were responsible for an attack in basra on wednesday donald trump was nominated army secretary good to be the next secretary of defense earlier this week acting defense secretary patrick shanahan withdrew his nomination after facing questions over his personal life as people take over on sunday if confirmed he would be the 3rd man to lead the pentagon in 6 months russia has suspended flights

to georgia following protests in the capital tbilisi on thursday it was sparked by the visit of a russian politician oppositions accuse the government of being too friendly with moscow the speaker of parliament has resigned and some protesters are calling for an early election. police in the u.k. said will take no further action after being called to the home of boris johnson a leading candidate for prime minister and his partner had been reports of a domestic incident johnson will become the next british prime minister if he wins a run of votes against foreign secretary jeremy hunt next month it would replace to reason may who resigned after failing to deliver a briggs that deal acceptable to parliament polls have opened in mauritania's presidential election around one of the half 1000000 people are legible to vote 6 candidates are competing to succeed president mohamed. who took office. in 2008 and of course in russia has granted the early release from prison of a human rights activist from chechnya or your city and says he won't go back home

to work because the risks are too high he reported on disappearances and torture before his arrest those were the headlines he was continuing on al-jazeera after counting the cost. i've always been fascinated by space but the story of the space race isn't just about the men who risked their lives to travel into the unknown but the ones who held those lives in their. grandfather and his colleagues who worked on the space suits they designed the space suits on the 11 was his triumph. and the perfectly designed space suits but his legacy putting man on the moon on al-jazeera. hello i'm kemal santa maria this is counting the cost on al-jazeera with

a look at the world of business and economics this week safety in the air 2018 was the deadliest year for the aviation industry for years so as the big players gather in france for the paris air show we'll be asking what went wrong the world's safest form of transport also this week it's a these populist coalition is considering a new domestic currency is that a move that could lead to its exit from the euro and if you worried about the kids having too much screen time or being too exposed to the latest tech then we will show you this order. which speaks doesn't listen. so would be in the airline business these days what with trade tensions and disputes over aircraft subsidies and loans and the slowing global economy but you know there's a far more troubling trend to deal with with the industry could well do without. 2018 was the deadliest year the aviation industry has experienced for some time yes

there were $37800000.00 flights last year which averages out to around $103000.00 flights a day so that volume is important to remember when we consider these numbers but there were 523 deaths last year the highest number in 4 years and up from just 59 in 2017 and this is already looking bad $232.00 deaths from the accidents involving ethiopian airlines and rushes era flights that is well above the 5 year average of $199.00 fatalities a year according to the aviation safety network and front and center in all this is boeing a manufacturer once praised by pilots for its perceived safety there was that phrase very boeing i ain't going and yet 2 of its brand new 737 max jets have crashed indonesia's lion air in october and ethiopian airlines in march killing $346.00 people boeing expects the cost of grounding what is its fastest selling jet will be

more than a $1000000000.00 and the airlines themselves expect losses of more than 500000000 due to the grounding and on top of all this boeing is facing claims for compensation from the airlines shareholders filed a lawsuit claiming boeing put profitability and growth ahead of airplane safety and honesty and families are also suing the american airplane maker and so this week's paris air show boeing executives were out to reassure the public and its customers that it is getting on top of the problems with the 737 max let's start with this from natasha. port in the french capital. the latest model of the boeing $707.00 dreamliner on display at the paris air show it's one of the planes that boeing is banking on to salvage its reputation the u.s. plane maker is in crisis over its 737 max absent from the show it's been grounded since march off to 2 fatal crashes the mood was somber as boeing executives that

their priority was for the 737 max to fly again and words simply cannot express the sorrow and the sympathy that we feel for the families and the loved ones of those that were lost in these tragic accidents these accidents have only intensify our efforts to ensure the highest level of safety and quality in everything we do. the 737 max was boeing's fastest selling plane until a lion a crushing oktober an ethiopian airlines accident less than 6 months later killed a total of $346.00 people preliminary investigation suggests the software designed to improve the plane's handling was faulty boeing hadn't informed pilots about the new software leaving them clueless when it failed the barras airshow would normally be an opportunity for boeing to showcase its sales and successes instead this year

it's become an exercise in damage control as boeing executives try to reassure airlines that they fixed the 737 max boeing's troubles have created a window of opportunity for the companies are driving european plane making a pass given the day or buses a production constrained company both sides of the in about $11000.00 sales of the next generation single while jets they can only produce so many at a given year given all the difficulties and ramping up so if the troubles continue it's an opportunity but realistically the problem should be solved by next year so the window of opportunity will quickly close. international regulators will decide if and when the 737 max will fly again boeing had hoped that would be within weeks but in a further blow for the plane maker u.s. regulators say the plane is unlikely to take off the food december. let's talk more

about all of this now with aviation analyst alex mature is joining us from london hi alex. just a terrible year for boeing or a terrible 6 or 8 months really for the company one of the things it was talking about doing. was rebranding the boeing 737 max jets is that not just the ultimate sticking plaster i mean literally sticking something on the plane and trying to change the look and hoping no one notices exactly hello come out well ultimately as you were saying with boeing facing its largest crisis in over a decade they are being forced to take measures that is left to do with the business and commercial side of the crisis and more to do with the reputation that has suffered massively in fact in one of the greatest ways boeing has ever experienced a notably the 737 max that phrase is a household name across the globe for all of the wrong reasons and the company to believe that the only way at the moment that could be necessary to restore that passenger trust is to actually stop for a ferrying it to the name that has such

a negative association following those 2 fatal accidents and perhaps rebranded that there is talk that they will drop the word max from the aircraft and industry leaders and airline c.e.o.'s across the world some of them are very vocal in saying that they too agree that boeing should rebrand the c.e.o. of qatar airways the c.e.o. of kenya airways they have both said that they believe it's the only way passengers will fly and not be too concerned when this aircraft is back in the skies honestly i'm struggling to see how that works out next i mean if i got on a plane called the 737 greatest plane in the world but i knew it was still a max i'm still going to. you know a little bit concerned about it and i think a lot of fliers would feel concerned about and you make a very valid point but i think come out that's because you yourself would know that it was a 737 max for the rest of the public it's actually very unlikely that they would know if the aircraft itself isn't called a max now that may be astonishing you may think how could boeing try to hide away

in this way you know and try to almost trick that passengers into thinking they're on a different jet but it is to do with optics and ultimately the airlines already speaking to the manufacturers saying that the passengers are telling them when we see 737 max on the safety card or if the pilot mentions it in his announcement we will not fly and ultimately they think that just by removing the phrase and not letting you know the majority of passengers won't notice i know that the 787 the dreamliner obviously didn't have anything major or is as fatal crashes but it had its problems with the batteries in its early life and it got through all of that it seems it did the $77.00 recovered pretty well after what was a very terrible an entry into service again the dreamliner was becoming a household name it didn't suffer as much as the 737 max had has right now following those 2 accidents but the dreamliner there were you know contradictory

statements saying that it was nicknamed the nightmare liner after all of those problems with the onboard batteries that you know one aircraft here in london was on fire at the gates at london heathrow also ethiopian airlines who have suffered this latest 77 max crash so you know again back then the optics were very bad but it does go to show that aviation is incredibly resilient and also passing just quickly forget alex there was an order this past week from i.a.g. the owner of british airways and iberia for some 737 planes. they count 737 dash 8 planes or dash 9. those max jets or not are we sort of is there a bit of smoke and mirrors going on here. actually this was particularly interesting because in what is somewhat extraordinary measure i agee who are the parent company of british airways they have given boeing the biggest vote of confidence that their company has seen since the crisis by signing

a deal this week at the paris air show for 2737 max jet aircraft this is very unusual given that this aircraft is in the heart of its crisis it's good news for boeing but it has been met by backlash from the people that noticed that actually these are max jets because interestingly enough they decided not to mention the word max when they notified the london stock exchange here that they are signing this deal and again that's probably because this could have sent jitters across the industry that at the heart of its crisis you have a major airline player ordering such a large amount of aircraft that passengers claiming they simply will not fly so with a vote of confidence like that alex what's your feeling bottom line can boeing get its way out of this can it survive given that really i know there are other plane manufacturers out there but really it's only boeing and airbus that really matter in the grand scheme of things for most airlines most big airlines at least. for most airlines exactly the dominant players a boeing and airbus

a notably boeing are extremely resilient we shouldn't underestimate the damage this has done and more so how this has kind of filtered down to the most basic level where i have people on the street telling me they won't fly the 737 max it will need probably to something like a rebrand where boeing a force to have to change the name to be able to hide away from the fact that this aircraft is the one that has suffered so famously but boeing as a company they will get over this they got over the 787 dreamliner and get over the problems with this aircraft but the handling of this hasn't been so great and again this is why the company has suffered so badly and its insurance it is always a pleasure talking to you thank you for joining us thank you of course another issue we haven't addressed for the airline industry is pollution you have 800000 odd flights every day and that's a lot of carbon emissions but the growing pressure for greener skies is resulting in change things like more efficient engines and even electric planes once again

here's natasha butler at the. stylish sleek and fully electric the even asian prototype is a glimpse into the future and more environmentally friendly flying powered by batteries the 9 seats a plane on display at the paris a show would produce ciro carbon emissions and be fueled by sustainable sources the c.e.o. of the israeli start up behind the plane says he could fly commercially by 2022 can we build an all electric 787 to compete with today's planes were absolutely none other it acknowledges not even close to that but to fly the speed of this size and to beat those designs that are out there says the seventy's or eighty's well here it is this was build the way we believe planes in the 21st century should be build electric planes could be a sustainable option for short flights but cutting c o 2 emissions on medium and long haul travel is

a bigger challenge aviation officials say that the airline industry is responsible for 2 percent of the world's carbon emissions climate activists say that is nearer to 5 percent and one of the problems is that the technology needed to reduce airlines carbon footprint is still out of reach some airlines are experimenting with hybrid technology and biofuels nicholas chavez company is working on a hybrid plane with the air boss the european plane maker aims to have an electric aircraft by 2035 years we are all committed to reduce by half 2050 our emissions and the larger companies such as ours are very interested to make sure that we can take the quickest way to excess that dog there are nearly 100 fuel powered aircraft at the paris air show a potent sign of how far the industry has to go to become more ecological but with the air passenger numbers expected to double in the next 2 decades this is

a sense of urgency in the air. now last month italian lawmakers did something interesting they approved a non-binding motion to pay creditors and supplies with many treasury bills which in simple terms means they want to create an alternative currency to the euro the move rattled the markets because on the face of it such a move could lead to an italian exit from the euro italy's euro skeptic deputy prime minister met herself any is keen on the idea of the parallel currency and it comes at a crucial time given the coalition there is locked in a battle with the e.u. over its budget plan brussels wants rome to cut its public debt and to rein in its budget deficit or it could be fined run struggle with its huge debt is well known it has the largest debt in the eurozone $2.00 trillion dollars if you can imagine that as a percentage of gross domestic product that is the 2nd highest after greece and

more than double the 60 percent limits set by the stability and growth pact failure to bring down the debt could lead to a fine of $3800000000.00 so doesn't look brilliant for italy which exited its 3rd recession in a decade we're going to talk about this with nicola nobility who is a senior economist at oxford economics is on skype from milan today nice to have you with us nicola one of you explain 1st of all this sort of quantify currency which the italians are using now how does that actually work in in simple terms well basically what happened is that a couple of a couple of weeks ago the parliament passed. unanimously the emotion we should. from a practical point of view doesn't doesn't mean a lot in in italy to pass this motion in no way should they were basically committing the government to accelerating to payment of the public administration

commercial debt also to the issuance of small government bonds. and these from an economic point of view doesn't make sense doesn't make sense at all because if you want to pay the the basically your your creditor why not is suing a normal a normal bones normal boat and then use the usual to pay to pay them ok i'm trying to say the same and so the point or the theory however you want to put it in is highly exiting the euro you know we went through this what was it i go with gregg's it as it was now and then which then spawned bragg's it and now i don't even know what you would call this one but what would be the theory behind wanting to leave the euro currency well i would think i would call it

a river decks it's. very nice using it or for italy. is that they want to some some politicians suggest that italy will be better off our side or you'll rule without much weaker currency and we depose ability of of printing as much money as they want. in order to finance more to act but we don't think that the problem of italy are related to 2 currency or the lack of the say fiscal expansion so you know our view this would be a huge mistake creating probably a huge financial crisis which nets what very negative implications is italy also on a bit of a collision course with the european union there's talks of potential fines if i don't manage to bring the debt down below the the european union's prescribed

levels there could be a commission sent started started the process to 2 loans the assess if they're supposed procedure against italy and these he my view is quite likely to happen and probably is quite like into up and as early as the summer now what's happening from from the italian front is that they want to make sure that they comply with the with the rules but this looks incredibly difficult at the moment for a few reasons one of them a reason is that the economy is stuck in stagnation at the other and the other problem looking forward is that the politicians in italy and i think in more of salvini labor leader there are going debt italy needs some sort of trump or fiscal stimulus so they want they want to cut

taxes but there is no or there is no fiscal room for that actually because you said earlier that you felt that this sort of new c.d.o. currency bond whatever you want to call it wasn't the answer to italy's fiscal problems in your opinion what is the answer i think at the finke at the moment to eat early should should to focus in. steadily reducing some of the expenditure so italy should to say to the markets ok we're going to we're going to slowly cut the expenditure we're going to put the dept on a sustainable part and we're gonna we're going to reduce the r. certainty around these unfortunately i don't think given the political situation affinities is going to happen. nicole are talking italian economics with us this week thank you so much for your time thank you finally one for the parents out there now let's be honest how many times have you been busy or tired or frankly

just can't be bothered and you put the kids in front of the t.v. or a tablet or a smartphone we do it fine it is a part of life and 2019 but the issue of screen time is troubling a lot of us now there are any number of studies out there both for and against in april for example the world health organization recommended children under one year old shouldn't be exposed to electronic screens at all and that children between the ages of $2.00 and $4.00 should have no more than an hour of what it calls sedentary screen time each day but equally screen time particularly educational apps can be incredibly beneficial to young people who are growing up with digital technology being the norm rather than the exception and then there are those trying to reverse the trend young start ups who see the benefit of technology but in a different way this is one of them yo toe a device which aims to give children access to music and audiobooks without a screen or the all hearing smart speaker bender is with us now from london he is

the founder of your tone and great to have you with us ben why don't you give us the quick rundown 1st of all on how your toe works only because you know heaven forbid if something doesn't have a touch screen these days how does it work. well you know we've built this we built this products with our own kids in mind in fact my co-founded iow we both happened to have kids around the same time and we're both massive techno technophiles we have all the kind of gadgets in the house but we really didn't we felt a little bit uncomfortable about putting i pads in front of one and 2 year olds so our background was really around music an audio content so we wanted to find a way to give kids access to audio based content but in a way that they were in control. so we built this prototype we built a kind of a smart because the kids except there's no microphone in there so there's no prissy issues and then we have these we have these like smart cards that children put into the device and it starts playing music stories learning. podcasts and radio just

just hold it up for me again if you would please ben about to see that and. ok so that's just a piece of card as a got any magic on it and our cane is the yeah there's a little chip inside this card this is really similar to all of our contacts credit cards a little chip in there and these are these cards are really a key that unlock the content which then streams to our warrior to player ok ok let's talk about then the tech 1st before we talk about the business model is it as it were what sort of reaction have you seen from the kids with this sort of thing because they are there's no 2 ways about it they're getting used to pressing a screen to having a screen to having that interactivity with them all the time what sort of reaction do you get from this idea of popping a card in there and getting a story told to them sure so i mean we're not completely and the screens you know we do live in a world view big to screens and you know we don't want to keep kids completely away from that but we see the audio best content allows them to carry on playing and

getting physical exercise while they're actually engaging with the content so. what we're seeing so far is really strong engagement we're getting over 8 hours a week on average listening time per device which we think of that 8 hours of the screen time that's that's the that's a great thing and the kind of content the people love the really engage with our radio station we have a r. and kind of music radio station and they love the in the blight and content will have roald dahl content coming and it's stories which are very strong but also we have costs which are proving quite popular as well right so that takes us to the business model and you mention to. huge authors there enid blyton and roald dahl is that how important is that to the success of the whole venture about getting that sort of content on board like any kind of contemplate form like netflix or something content is king the old cliche and it's really important that we have

those key key titles in all the key markets we're in but there's also opportunity for us to create new content and so we're. investing in content ourselves using some of the interactive capabilities of our device and yeah there's this specially when the educational content things like phonics for learning and for learning english phonics is very important and it's really the sound of the letters and parents often struggle with that so struck parents often struggle to support their child's learning of phonics you said you weren't totally averse obviously to touch screens in the light because as you say kids are growing up in that in that era now what's your view on screen time you know you get the likes of the world health organization saying children on the one should not have any screen time and children up to 5 should have very little what's your sort of view on how much is too much but i think parents need to make their own call on what they what they let their children experience i know from from my own personal use we try to limit our

kids to 2 hours max so we can and i do see the behavior like they literally turn into kind of zombies when the when they're front of the screen you can get any sense out of them and i think one of the things that the screen based content does is it doesn't help the imagination and creativity of the child because everything's presented for them in in a very rich visual form whereas with the audio based content they have to make the pitches themselves in their brains and there's color studies out there showing that already a best content is actually better for creativity and imagination so we're not we're not brilliancy screening we don't to be one of those families that completely restricts their children because they could be socially excluded when nick other kids in a playground or talking about poor patrol or something but i think the w.h.o. guidelines that just came out a pretty pretty good as a pretty good start you know they've done a ton of research and this generation of children really are the 1st they're the guinea pigs or the 1st generation of children to go out with these native

touchscreens and so more research is needed to find out what the really real effect is you know poor patrol i'm unnervingly familiar with that been very thank you so much for your time do appreciate it. thank you. and that is our show for this week would love to hear from you though probably on the top screen you can tweet me or message me direct them. to use the hashtag a j c t c as well as an e-mail account on the cost of al-jazeera dot net is our address and there's more online if you at al-jazeera dot com slash. reports and entire episodes for you to catch up on plus links to the latest business but that is it for this edition of counting the cost i'm kemal santamaria from the whole team thanks for joining us the news on al-jazeera. 8 years after the fall of gadhafi is still raging in libya but it's not just a domestic showdown outside powers are involved too spoke about the axis of evil.

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that he called off strikes on iran at the last moment saying that he wanted to avoid mass casualties in the last hour the u.k. has announced that it will send a minister to teheran to try to deescalate tension in the region we'll be live in tech ron and london in a few moments but 1st a report from alan fischer in washington. this was the reason the u.s. was prepared to launch an attack the doning of an unmanned military drawn by iran. these pictures are said to be the missile launch which are really in television says was filmed by the islamic republic's revolutionary guards the u.s. said the drone was over international waters a claim disputed by to iran donald trump says while 3 sites had been identified for strikes he cancelled the operation they came in they censor were ready to go we'd like a decision i said i want to know something before you go how many people will be killed. in this case or rainy and i said how many people are going to be killed.

sir i'd like to get back to you on that great people these generals they said they came back said sure approximately 150 and i thought about it for a 2nd i said you know what they shut down a man and. a drone plane whatever you want to call it and here we are busy sitting with $150.00 dead people and that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after i said go ahead and i didn't like it i didn't think it was i didn't think it was proportionate and terror and the revolutionary guard put on a display of what it said was wreckage from the u.s. drone recovered in a really intended trick the head of its space division claims a manned u.s. spy plane near detroit was not targeted that i wonder is it at the same moment when the aircraft was being tracked another spy aircraft called p. 8 was flying close to this drone that aircraft is man and has around 35 crew members where we could have targeted that plane it was our right to do so and yes

it was american but we didn't do it we hit the unmanned aircraft. well secretary of state my point is heading to the region to talk to allies saudi arabia and the united arab emirates the u.s. special representative in iran has been in riyadh bryan who promised the u.s. would continue to exert maximum economic and diplomatic pressure on iran our diplomacy does not give iran the right to respond with military force in iran needs to meet diplomacy with diplomacy and not military force iran's foreign ministry responded saying it needs diplomacy with diplomacy respect with respect and war with zealous defense the rise in tension in the region has led a number of international airlines to cancel or divert flights away from the area america's federal aviation administration says in a statement because of heightened military activity it is banning all u.s.

carriers from operating in the gulf region a situation it says it's keeping under review alan fischer al-jazeera washington iraq's government is annoying reports from reuters news agency that hundreds of u.s. contractors will be evacuated from an iraqi military base of a potential security threats u.s. companies lockheed martin and sally port global have operations there a ballad base north of baghdad was hit by 3 mortar shells last week no one was injured 2 other iraqi bases hosting u.s. forces have been hit by rockets in the past week local officials blamed iran backed shia militias for an attack on weapons today and bastra which has denied. we have al jazeera correspondents mohamed jump june standing by in baghdad on the pullout of u.s. contractors in the iranian capital but 1st let's get more from rory chalons in london on those diplomatic efforts from the u.k.

government rory britain's middle east minister is to visit iran on sunday for what's being billed as frank and constructive talks where does the u.k.'s relationship with iran stand does it have any influence there. well yes as one of the signatories of the j c p a the joints and comprehensive plan of action the nuclear deal that was signed with iran and 5 other countries back in 52015 the u.k. does have different contacts with iran and it does have some diplomatic sway how much well that's open to question of course but the u.k. is hoping that sending andrew merson the minister of state for the middle east out to iran on the 23rd of june will have some parts of play hopefully in diffusing tensions now the ministry the foreign office says that he will be

going there for open frank and constructive engagement with the government of iran dr merson will call for urgent deescalation in the region and raise u.k. and international concerns about iran's regional concept conduct's and its threat to cease complying with a nuclear deal to which the u.k. remains fully committed the j c p a is hanging by a thread of course the united states pulled out of it last year and iran this week said that it was going to push the products of low enrich uranium past the threshold the stockpile threshold that is allowed under the j.c. way by the end of june thus breaking the deal is terms now this is to put pressure on european powers who say they are still committed to the j.c. p.o.'s way to help iran out's to help it be the u.s.

sanctions which are putting pressure on its energy industry and its financial sector the european powers are trying to find a way of doing this but it's very difficult for them at the moment to sidestep. those u.s. sanctions and trying to prop up this nuclear deal that's what is a stake rory many thanks let's go live then to test run out is there is also debris is that bring us up to date also with the latest reactions in iran and what's being said about president trump calling off those attacks well we've heard from the deputy the spokesperson for the foreign ministry who said that iran will. react to any aggression in kind they will protect their borders and that any violation of the its border. i think we've lost those will try to get back to her in just

a moment let's go live then to baghdad out to syria's mohamad jump jhoom can tell us more about the iraqi government denials about those reports from the reuters news agency saying that. american contractors were being evacuated out of the country. during a very strong denial issued by the head of it off air force lieutenant general unwater men who told us categorically an unequivocal e that that report by reuters was false he said to us this news is totally untrue i was there at balad air base half an hour ago he told us this in the past hour saying that nothing has changed that he has not gotten any word from u.s. officials that any evacuations were being planned so a very interesting development and it really goes to show just how complicated things are for a doc right now of course we know that over the course of the past few weeks there have been an increased numbers of attacks mortars targeting bases where u.s.

troops are how is here in iraq we must remember there are around 5200 u.s. troops in there at this time this reuters report states that around 400 of the approximately $800.00 u.s. contractors at balad air base that contractors working for companies sally port global and lockheed martin that an evacuation of about $400.00 of them was to begin imminently that u.s. forces would carry out this evacuation that it would be done possibly by aircraft but again right now we're being told by off the officials that that is just simply not the case also this really going to show that a time of increased tension between the u.s. and iran and iraq whose 2 major allies 2 biggest allies are the u.s. and the on feeling increasingly squeezed it off has been at the center of a flurry of diplomatic activity the past month and a half and may you had an unannounced visit by u.s. secretary of state mike pompei oh he came here it was quite

a surprise he told off the officials that u.s. had intelligence that iran would be targeting u.s. personnel possibly here in iraq since that visit you had a visit by the foreign minister of germany the foreign minister of oman also the foreign minister of iran and just in the past few days you had a state visit by. at the top of all those agendas were discussions to try to find ways to escalate the growing tensions between the u.s. and iran adrian i haven't many thanks to have a judge in their lives in baghdad we are unfortunately not going to have to go back to tehran for the moment so let's speak instead to. a military analyst and retired jordanian air force general good to have you with us once again general to what extent is the u.s. sending conflicting signals here to iran. iran would find the u.s. behavior very difficult to interpret and to it's quite dangerous isn't it that this could could prompt an over reaction from iran perhaps

a miscalculation yes in the whole escalation is happening iran is controlling gets to buy stuff and we did see the wrong timing because voting missed high and getting the global tick down so all these are good indication to see that iran is really controlling the school ation during 2 marrieds end of it i think because of the economy exaction to start biting iran in a way but at the same time. i don't think trump will go to war with iran. fact that he doesn't have the international community support over american home front support and this is to put in fact that to go on if you think the only way is to somehow deescalate when what influence can britain's middle east envoy wield over. i mean what what chances of him being able to come up.