love rob has previously said that trying to curb iran's influence in syria and the middle east is unrealistic and the news ahead here on al-jazeera was not backing down protestors turn up again in hong kong against chinese influence over the territory. and running away from the so-called steal of the century palestinian activists and speak out against the u.s. middle east plan. how the seasonal floods in china tend to move from north to south very wave than they venture disappear currently we've got flooding on the ground in guangdong and for jan you can see why because the watch just going off shore is hong kong white being thunderstorms long lasting quite often and there's the forecast was tuesday

still the relief in taiwan back through ground long then up to the high ground and sichuan where the next mass of rain is forming that slides to move slowly east was then dropped south again so i think again it's going to be the southern states of china that serious flooding potential most likely realized shanghai might catch the edge of it but very otherwise will hunt for example is dry study humid and sunny but it is drawing and the monsoon officially has leapt forward the line of his current progress is roughly speaking this line here which is caught up with itself do you see very much rain there we have seen reports of 70 to 98 is a day in maharashtra for example an bit further north west but that's the forecast it is disappointing this is a disappointing monsoon is not the temps back a little bit is down as hot as it was but the rain just isn't really there except maybe in the west and gets.

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 only considers the new domestic current so you could lead to its exit from the euro but should you be worried about the kids having too much screen time counting the cost on al-jazeera. with al-jazeera and these are all top stories the u.s. secretary of state is continuing its middle east tour as the state department

releases a joint statement with saudi arabia britain and the u.a.e. blaming iran for destabilizing the region might pump am at king salmon and is now in the u.a.e. just a few minutes ago as well donald trump signed an executive order issuing new economic sanctions against iran this time targeting iran's supreme leader and associates. the supreme leader of iran is one who alternately is responsible for the hostile conduct of the regime he's respected within his country is offers overseas the regimes of most brutal instruments including the islamic revolutionary guard corps sanctions imposed through the executive order that i'm about to sign will deny the supreme leader in the supreme leader's office and those closely affiliated with him and the office access to key financial resources and support. yes. khamenei and his office will not be spared from the sanctions these

measures represent a strong and proportionate response to iran's increasingly provocative actions now the russian backed syrian government offensive against the opposition in syria's north west is now into its 9th week nearly 500 civilians many of them women and children have been killed and there's no sign russia and turkey are getting any closer to reviving a deal to stop the violence the details i would say. it will be a long recovery but hala it really is thankful he survived this 3 year old was injured in an airstrike last week and mine are saying they will never forget how they almost lost their younger brother. they desperately tried to pull it from the rubble before rescuers arrived. a missile believed to be dropped by syrian government planes destroyed their house in. an opposition controlled town in southern. israel.

the 1st missile hit while he was playing outside with the cat and the 2nd missile hit next to our house our house was destroyed and we couldn't see anything in front of us we removed some blocks and found he's had that is when the ambulance arrived . that was alone. in my house. the russian backed syrian government offensive in the north west is entering its 9th week nearly 500 civilians have been killed in air and ground bombardment that has been targeting rebel controlled towns in northern hama and southern over $300000.00 syrians have fled the area and moved closer to the turkish border. this can change one town in south and people have fled to due to intense bombardment by assad's terrorist regime and that terrorists russian occupiers 120000 people used to live here excluding the displaced syrians. the world food program says it is helping 200000 displaced

syrians but its operations have been interrupted in some areas because of the violence it is home to 3000000 people half of them already refugees from other parts of syria that if he is racing against the clock to support all the ready to eat food that doesn't have to cook. in the camps and wherever they are while we continue our regular operation and scaling it up to some 800000 people every. the demands on aid are expected to grow thousands of acres of farmland have been destroyed in recent weeks many blame the syrian government for deliberately targeting the fields as they have done in past offensives to punish those who live in rebel areas and force a surrender. the opposition has not surrendered rebels are holding ground hundreds of fighters on both sides have been killed along the front lines 8 weeks of intense bombardment and the pro-government side has taken little territory. the united

nations is warning the offensive is creating a humanitarian disaster that has been calling on turkey and russia guarantors of a cease fire to help revive the agreement but for now their proxies engage in battle to gain political leverage. beirut. here's the thoughts of amin our middle east and north africa bureau director for the united nations high commissioner for refugees he says civilians must be taken to safe areas so they can just get food and medicine. we have calling on all parties to observe international norm international humanitarian law affairs and foremost to give access to people to leave the fighting and reach safe area. to allow humanitarian agencies to access the area so that they can deliver they can deliver food supplies. who are suffering also once we have over 25250 almost 300 people that perished we have many probably

in the hundreds if not thousands that are injured and i think this situation is not really sustainable and the world the world is watching this and record on the part is to really go back to previous poster of the world and bore spot of this really. would have to face the consequences of this war of the casualties obligato really thought that was ceasefire in some instances children women the weak the frail to find safety. in the surrounding areas or even far from the from the from the confidence on it's only the principle of humanitarian. aid in principle that can hold in such the circumstances they need food they need water they always so need for the health of those who are when the thunderous what trapped under the rubble and also we have people who are frail who need medicine they need they need they need to really a breeze they need to run to safety and we're just asking just out to the boresight

to do that it's a convoluted situation i think someone up north to the toward the turkish border they may not be crossing but these that have been away from the fighting someone to also districts and government someone to harm our homes. and so on other places so people basically as soon as they find a way and access a safe access away from the fighting they would take it and i'm just calling. the paper been gathering across palestine to speak out against washington so-called deal of the century a series of protests in gaza and the occupied west bank will coincide with this week's summit in brain that's where the senior white house adviser jared cushion is expected to reveal details of his plan for palestine israel's prime minister says he'll give it fair consideration palestinian leaders though they are boycotting the meeting and. i don't think it will be any results from the minimal workshop because

it was built on wrong foundations what is built on falsehood is false the minimal workshop came to solve the problem but what problem you cannot make problem but there is a political problem it cannot make problem with who for example when they say they want to give the palestinians an amount of money for the palestinians they should have been into tina statehood so you need to 1st recognize the state after that you can save this state needs this and that as a correspondent made it bring him in has been to one of the protests in the occupied west bank this is her report from ramallah. listen to her voice their objections to the minimum summit that this expected to be held tomorrow they say that the road to solving the palestinian israeli conflict is not through economic means and they said that palestine is not for sale. in a recent poll 80 percent of palestinians say that they don't believe the u.s. plan will lead them to statehood or that the u.s. is serious about its efforts palestinian president mahmoud abbas said that while economy is important and foreign aid is important the most important story here is

political the palestinian authority has stopped engaging with the u.s. ever since the us administration has moved its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem announcing jerusalem as israel's capital and gaza hamas has also rejected the deal and palestinians there have organized a marathon against it saying that the minimum workshop will be a success. this is one of many protests down by the hand p.l.o. factions have pulled over in the west bank that are expected to last then when they were just the 2nd and finally a moment of over. for the 1st time in 25 years the mayor of turkey's largest city will not be from the governor the opposition candidate want to repeat election in a setback for president reject time simcoe has our report from istanbul. is some elections have always been more than miniscule elections and turkey because it is the most populous city it is mainly the most influential city in both economy and

politics when you look at the election results the new mayor eckermann molo who ran for the opposition had 14000 extra votes compared to the ruling party candidate being only yielding room on march 31st and he has increased his votes up to nearly 800000 in yesterday's votes this shows us that even the ruling party supporters who have voted for a quiet day on march 31st voted for extra. in momo the opposition on june 23 elections also the nationalist party which is the ally of our party in the presidential system have also voted for. the new mayor and on celebrated the new mayor after the election results were announced but since then we haven't heard from him because he also has a lot on his plates regarding the country's economic problems foreign policy

problems but to morrow is tuesday and it is the day for political party group meetings uk part 2 will have a meeting which is going to be chaired by president john and then they will have a central executive committee meeting following the group meeting and president are gone is expected to elaborate on the election results and do some self critics which made them take a big blow in june 20th reelection. ethiopia's horror region has declared 3 days of mourning after the killing of 5 senior officials france have been lowered to half staff at all government buildings in a full military funeral will be held on wednesday in the city of but. given the situation there's nothing to worry about at the moment we have set up a committee to look after this issue and by her dark a military funeral will go ahead as scheduled we are deeply saddened by the loss of our leaders we are in mourning but our people and our government should return to

work after these days of mourning and to the families of the victims we send our deepest condolences. demonstrators in hong kong have staged a sit in at the city's tax offices trying to keep up the pressure on the government over a controversial extradition bill andrew thomas says. this is a good example of the protesters new tactics disrupting the lives of government workers the business and government while not disrupting the lives of ordinary people in this city this building is hong kong's revenue tower essentially its tax office and there are only about $150.00 protesters who blocked the entrance but they're doing a pretty good job making it clear that they're going to keep the protest going will be at a low level in between the big march is 1 of them due on wednesday another on the 1st of july so what is it you can still get in and out was a carpark through that door a couple of stories down and the workers are going down into the lift and getting back up that way but the entrance what you can see it's on

a completely pull off the idea is a visual representation that they're not going away and these protests often teemu in the city based is all about keeping the momentum going while not disrupting the lives of ordinary people in the city too much the idea is to keep public opinion on the protest site and the $50000.00 people are being evacuated from a town in southern ca stan after a series of explosions at a munitions step because it sounds defense ministry says it happened at a military base in the southern province of turkistan. now imagine a day when anyone with basic knowledge of computer software could create a convincing get out of the fake video of someone in the know committing a crime or putting a world leader in a compromising situation was rob reynolds reports now from los angeles that day has already arrived how lin is a master of technological shape shifting he just transformed me into

a north korean leader kim jong un. with the click of one button we can turn you into any person readily available technology can be used to create what are called deep thinks me and bernie and schumer this looks like democratic presidential candidate senator elizabeth warren making a speech but it's not it's an actress on a popular american comedy show who's been transformed using deep fake technology only an expert can tell the difference how lynn says the implications for politics are disturbing you can actually create very realistic videos of someone saying things that that person never said and in times where you have elections this becomes very very dangerous recently a video of democratic congressional leader nancy pelosi doctored to make her look drunk was shared more than 2000000 times on facebook even though it was quickly

identified as fake the problem is people see this and they believe it and even if 2 days later it's debunked the damage is already done they've shared it or they have this in the back of their mind groups with nefarious motives could create international chaos with deep fake videos it could be you know this person has been assassinated they could change what political leaders you know could put anything in their mouth so that's i think the scary part of it and people would you know share a thing and say look i saw the video the person really said it only took a couple of clicks on the keyboard to change my image into that of lattimer putin as the technology advances rapidly experts say lawmakers had better start thinking seriously about regulating it recently a congressional committee held a hearing on deep thinks experts testified that at the very least platforms like

facebook should be required. to attach warning labels if you could put that warning on there same way as we do with cigarettes right you know we know that there are all but if people want to use them they can but they have the warnings there and you know what the warnings are the technology will soon reach a point were even experts will be unable to spot doctored videos deep fakes raise questions about belief truth and reality with democratic values and global stability at stake rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. this is al jazeera these are the top stories u.s. president don't trumpet signed an executive order issuing new economic sanctions against iran this one is targeting iran's supreme leader also some of his associates and 8 senior commanders of iran's revolutionary guard. the supreme

leader of iran is one who ultimately is responsible for the hostile conduct of the regime he's respected within his country his office oversees the regimes of most brutal instruments including the islamic revolutionary guard corps sanctions imposed through the executive order that i'm about to sign will deny the supreme leader in the supreme leader's office and those closely affiliated with him and the office access to key financial resources and support. the assets of khamenei and his office will not be spared from the sanctions these measures represent a strong and proportionate response to iran's increasingly provocative actions. meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state continued his middle east tour as the state department also released a joint statement with saudi arabia britain and the u.a.e. blaming iran for destabilizing the region might pump. met king solomon in saudi

arabia he's now in the united arab emirates people been gathering across palestine to speak out against washington so-called deal of the century series of protests in gulzar in the occupied west bank will coincide with this week's summit in behind where the senior white house advisor gerard cushion or is expected to reveal details of his plan for palestine. the russian backed syrian government offensive against the opposition in syria's northwest has now entered its 9th week and the 500 civilians have been killed and there is no sign rusher in turkey the guarantors of the sochi ceasefire are any closer to reviving that deal to stop the violence and ethiopia's them horror region has declared 3 days of mourning after the killing of 5 senior officials the country's military chief the attorney general and 3 others killed all flags lowered to half staff told government buildings and funerals for the regional head and his aide will be held on wednesday that's a look at your headlines here on al-jazeera i am back in just

a few moments time with counting the costs. 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 russia's era flops 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 and everything we do. the 737 max was boeing's fastest selling plane until a lion a crushing oktober and 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 the european plane making a pass good of 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 in the river go 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 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

a 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 and ultimately the $77.00 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 so i mean if i run 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 are 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 787 recovered pretty well after what was a very turbulent 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 passengers 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 counted as 737 dash 8 planes or dash one. of 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 a 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 air bus 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 it's mature is that it's 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 show. 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 air 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 at the speed of this size and to beat those designs that are out there since 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 flight split cutting c o 2 emissions or 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.