reman change was in a no win position they either had to take a green as presented by the african union. or the transitional military council is going to say they won't go shea we're withdrawing there are mixed feelings and sit down for some the details of victory for others it's a surrender had to sort of i would still have demands and these demands have not yet been met we have the blood of the martyrs in the main city inside we still want rights that haven't happened yet. part of the deal includes an investigation into a violent crackdown by security forces which saw more than $100.00 protesters killed. amnesty international says this agreement must be judged by how those in power now live up to their responsibilities to respect people's fundamental rights something the sudanese people have been deprived of for well over 3 decades amnesty called the deal

a testament to the resilience of ordinary people they chose to stand up for they rights alexia brian al jazeera southern california has been shaken by its strongest earthquake for 20 years the day after another record breaking tremor and hundreds of aftershocks fire crews are dealing with gas leaks emergency teams are working through the night to assess the damage and does it communities but in los angeles and las vegas the city of ridgecrest was close to the epicenter of both the magnitude 7 point quake on friday night and the 6.4 quake on thursday. just you know joe room what if you didn't know and all of a sudden there's the room started sort of shaking and we didn't are you don't really know what you think what he did doesn't register straight away that until being killed every everything's moving in the chandelier was shaking and that and the kids were saying it's an earthquake that is the 1st time at where we're at in the whole thing all of us he didn't want to share why she was well there was a woman and they would realize. when we run our fight i hope you know where we were

just checking into our hotel we were taking out their room now sitting on the bed and everything state shaky so we ran out and we saw that the rest of the people in our neighboring rooms were also like looking at each other we were all kind of scared just freaking out about it. well still ahead here on al-jazeera how independence day down geria became yet another day of protest against the political elite. and a speech to celebrate america comes with a history lesson for this president to stay with us here on al-jazeera. hello welcome another look at the international forecast for the usual rush of showers across southeast asia dry into indonesia but malaysia pushing up into the philippines seeing some rather heavy showers big downpours and some storms some

stormy weather to just lurking around some into the late punish those who go through sunday i think more so into monday it really does gather sings a little further south was showers continue in bangkok 33 celsius here similar conditions further south generally try to contest that she to sell just much of indonesia fine dry and sunny slushy fine dry and sunny to across australia seen a few showers into northern parts of queensland they're facing out now a little more class still a possibility around the go parts of new south wales just not just somewhat of weather just rolling through the bike that will freshen things up across south australia has been on the warm side race and the 15 or 16 celsius for adelaide and also down into melbourne when that cloud and rain pushes through his very it pushes further east was over towards melbourne as we go on through sunday and on into monday and the temperatures will fall away accordingly as a result of that further west it brightens up cool winds pushing into perth temperatures here now high and 70 degrees.

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watching al-jazeera with me so wrong with a reminder of our top stories the u.n. security council has condemned the attack on a migrant detention center in libya it's also calling on the warring sides to commit to a cease fire deescalate fighting in the capital also the united nations nuclear watchdog will hold a special meeting to discuss iran's threats to breach the 2050 nuclear deal. little gradually reduce its commitment to the pact unless europe does more to save it. and to his ears president has called presidential and legislative elections for later in the year bay says seattle is a b c signed the decrees as he made his 1st public appearance since being discharged from hospital. in algeria thousands of protesters returned to the streets on the anniversary of independence from french rule they called for freedom and democracy those they call the ruling elite to give up power victoria be hostile the

a day of mixed emotions for algerians celebrating independence from france in 1962 but also demanding the complete overhaul of the establishment its rules ever since my dad got you shuffle sucked but i'll jury is independence day we see the police helping the clonie with some power and the special occasion we ask for for freedom . many algerian say they feel betrayed by their political elite and have lost trust in the government they will say down the interim president is the right person to run the country at this critical time. on thursday abdelkader ben seller called the national dialogue about arranging a presidential election but didn't set a date for when that might be on the streets the discontent continues and you knew she was laying there you know i think it you learned by playing ready i did you come out right and unions now do and unions most and unions. are

we doing to sacrifice their time day in force for the future of their country. the same protesters who forced out president abdelaziz bouteflika in april. as a member of the same elite accused of corruption vote rigging and for governance the problem is that there is a procedure laid down in the constitution the election should have been held yesterday but they weren't because of no suitable candidates and that means that the army guaranteed the constitution and the protest standard daggers drawn. 57 years after independence many algerian say they're still fighting for freedom they want to clean sweep of the political establishment and a national unity government to lead the transition to democracy victoria gating be al-jazeera. versions of been joining independence day celebrations the 2 men locked

in the past role president nicolas maduro opposition leader why don't hold rival rallies to denounce each other trees by reports. on the streets once again opposition leader why they will ask people to join him in a march towards the military counter-intelligence directory to get access a state security body at kew stop torturing a navy captain said was plotting against me. the opposition says he was tortured to death. as a movie i dictate or ship is what we have it's a dictatorship that we are fighting and when they ask how long why haven't you been able to succeed it's because it's a dictatorship it's not an excuse i'm not excusing myself it's you my responsibility of the actions we have taken and of the actions we will take and what we'll try to accomplish accompanying our people. the united nations human

rights body this week released a report denouncing the serious abuses committed by my daughter's government and lawful deaths in so called anti-crime operations persecution and torture of the opposition and the roshan of democracy in this oil rich nation excess of a little force has repeatedly been used against protesters. my office has also documented excessive use of force in the context of security operations by special action forces with multiple killings made of young men many could constitute killings and should be fully investigated with accountability of perpetrators and guarantees of non recurrence and the traditional independence day celebrations mother will preside over a parade of tanks and jets surrounded by those in the military still loyal to him can obviously nobody should ever be mistaken the empires of the world should know venezuela is and will irrevocably remain independent and sovereign now and always

by should know this and those who don't should be aware. the u.n. report despite being described as one sided and biased may have struck a chord with some venezuelan officials since 22 prisoners were released on friday among them a judge and a journalist human rights groups say there are over 700 political prisoners in venezuela whose rights have been violated over and over again we've documented that abuses by innocent and security forces are systematic and are part of a systematic pattern of abuse this report does not clearly state so and what is necessary is to determine clearly the government's responsibility for the humanitarian crisis this is not the consequence of a natural disaster and the government has to be held accountable venezuelans are struggling with a crisis that has to millions to leave the country u.s.

sanctions have added more pain leaving many of those who have stayed to believe that only a change at the very top will help them improve their lives. to put the finishing touches to a joint free trade pact aimed at creating the world's largest trading bloc the african continent free trade agreement to unite all $55.00 members of the african union it was a single market of 1200000000 people now the agreements designed to boost trade between african countries by removing tariffs taxes and other barriers and allow african businesses to grow by giving them access to new markets in neighboring countries the pact was 1st proposed in $22002.00 me and was given a boost this month when nigeria which suffered his biggest economy committed to signing up at the summit. of more this we can join everything correspondent in the capital good to have you with us but it sounds

a little bit like the continent is trying to forward sort of type of european union but african style. absolutely so i don't know that's that's the any more 3 african leaders or countries in africa $55.00 of them so far like you said nigeria the biggest economy on the continent is saying that yes it's going to sign up to this agreement yet but we also have 2 other countries i literally had been in been in has indicated its intention to join what according to officials here have not heard from they have not heard from is actually a reclear so basically the aim of the whole process is to set up a continent wide free trade agreement just like europe and the others this one will have 1200000000 people on them but the question people are asking especially kind of is another concern africans the manufacturers is that. the production base in africa is sort of strong as people think and they may not easily compete with.

european competition and asian competition so there is not fear that africa eventually will be turned into a big dumping ground more like a warehouse for courting trade in africa that's the concern very easily but yesterday when i spoke to the commission of a trade in the african commission african union commission he said they have supported play used several policies several measures to stop africa being turned into a dumping ground for european or asian products but for the moment we'll leave it there be interesting to see what else comes out of that meeting at the moment and thank you now the ancient city of babylon in iraq has been made to a world heritage site described as the cradle of civilization it was the center of the babylonian empire full 1000 years ago iran has been lobbying the un's cultural and scientific agency in s.k. for 3 decades for long to be listed. 3 years ago another iraqi site was made

a world heritage site but the people living in the marshlands of southern iraq the marsh arabs say the new status has not improved their livelihoods and as charles stratford reports government negligence and climate change daily struggle. the sun rises over the marshes of southern iraq the wet didn't region fade by the tigris and euphrates rivers. home to people as far back as the samarian was more than 5000 years ago in the early 1990 s. saddam hussein ordered troops to drain most of the area as punishment for a tribal uprising against him around 75 percent of the 250000 people known as the marsh arabs fled. when the dictator was toppled in 2003 many returned to demolish the dams that had deprived their homeland of water for so long the use of violence oppression of the marsh arabs suffered under the former regime are over but they

say that repeated promises by government since the fall of saddam hussein over better access to services have never been kept they can live according to their traditions now but life here is exceptionally hard. there to bake spread on a tiny island where her family raised buffalo she says she's seen no improvement to their lives in recent years that i was able to hold that life is miserable because of the heat and the toil of looking off to our livestock bad for the buffaloes we are very unhappy but what can we do. experts say dams on the tigris and euphrates rivers in turkey and iran combined with frequent drought stew to climate change have increased the salinity of the marsh water this effects the health of the water buffalo and the quality and quantity of milk they produce. has lived on the marshes

most of his life he says many marsh arabs like him much hold between moving away hoping to find an easier life or staying and preserving their culture. during the summer it's especially hard fish die and the cattle eat less so they produce less milk for us to sell in the winter they separate viruses we have no veterinary services no proper electricity no schools no health services either. the iraqi government was proud when unesco made the marshes a world heritage site 3 years ago this magnificent building built almost entirely from reaches calderwood beef. its way tribal elders discuss issues affecting the community such as environmental problems and what many say is government linked. we have seen no improvements since the marshes were listed as a unesco world heritage site there were hopes it could be a place for environmental tourism but that hasn't happened yet it's estimated the

marshes have shrunk to a 3rd of the size they were 100 years ago now the people with a unique culture are living in a long suffering region of political violence states climate change and broken government promises that all the biggest threats to their lives chance travel al-jazeera in the marshlands of southern the rock. old trump is blaming also q. failure for a glaring historic historical error during his independence day speech while reciting highlights of america's war victories the president said george washington's revolutionary forces seized airports in $775.00 the 1st plane didn't fly until 93. in june of 1775 the continental congress created a unifying army out of the revolutionary forces encamped around boston and new york and named after the great york washington commander in chief of the continental

army suffered a bitter winter of valley forge found glory across the waters of the delaware and seized victory from cornwallis of yorktown our army manned the air it rare and the ramparts it took over the airport it did everything it had to do well as trump was ridiculed on social media and elsewhere he told reporters that the weather was to blame. i stood in the rain the teleprompter went out. yes the teleprompter went out it kept going on and this one out but so i could. actually write in the middle of that one out. that's not a good feeling when you're standing in front of millions of people on television.

you're watching it all just their arms the whole romney a reminder of our top stories video has emerged showing the moment strikes had a migrant detention center in tripoli on tuesday 60 people were killed and more than 100 others injured the u.n. security council has condemned the attack and is calling on the warring sides to commit to a cease fire. also the united nations nuclear watchdog will hold a special meeting to discuss iran's threats to breach the 2015 nuclear deal to iran says it will gradually reduce its commitment to the pact unless europe does more to save it a course in gibraltar has extended the detention of an iranian oil tanker by 14 days british forces seized the ship on thursday they suspect it was delivering oil to syria in breach of ease sanctions officials in gibraltar and u.k. territory of southern spain are examining the cargo and interviewing the crew iran calls the seizure illegal. in syria a mother has been killed and her son injured by government as strikes targeting rebel held it province the area came under heavy bombardment early on saturday

rescue teams rushed to the scene and search for survivors at least 12 civilians were killed on friday during another government assault of the province a 2nd powerful earthquake has struck southern areas of the u.s. state of california the magnitude $7.00 tremor hit near rich christ about 200 kilometers northeast of los angeles the quake was felt throughout the state and as far as those figures in neighboring the volatile. when an earthquake occurs there's a redistribution of stress so it can relieve stress in some areas but it can also. load up or promote the possibility of another earthquake happening and that's exactly what we saw here the 6.4 actually promoted the chance for the 7 point one to occur so that's when you know the triggering can happen like that even though an earthquake $6.00 released and it actually promoted the subsequent one

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from startup to unicorn just how easy is it to create a multi-billion dollar tech sensation can the middle east create another success like right hailing at curtin or is the region's reliance on big money and love of brands stifling growth. so the outcome was never really in doubt saudi arabia was going to get the production cut it needed but for the defacto ruler of saudi arabia mohammed bin sandman the price he paid probably sacrificed the country's leadership of the oil cartel opec. and now the deal to extend production cuts until next year was struck on the sidelines of the g. 20 meeting in osaka and was rubber stamped in vienna that was despite initial objections from iran russia's president vladimir putin has always worked to promote and

recapture the country's superpower status is pushing his influence in battlefields and capitals in the middle east and increasing the country's global reach into africa his engagement with opec continues to win new partners despite ongoing western sanctions and when m.b.a.'s approached putin in 2016 as oil prices sunk to $29.00 a barrel putin won a major concession for his sanctions hit economy n.b.s. offered to invest $10000000000.00 in the country and while the saudi economy needs oil prices around $80.00 a barrel to balance its budget russia only needs oil at $42.00 a barrel which is meant russia's rainy day fund has accumulated to 100000000000 from past production agreements. while many russian oil and gas companies are not keen on the production deal and putin would like them to pump oil freely they really don't want or prices to sink back to $30.00 a barrel or that could happen as the united states keeps pumping record amounts of

oil and trade tensions to squash global growth we're joining me now from singapore is your hannahs bonine the founder and chairman of vienna and singapore based j.b. c. energy group good to speak to you sir let me ask you 1st of all who is in the driving seat in with opec now is it is saudi arabia or russia or looks like the 2 have teamed up with the both driving and the interesting element lately was that everyone had to wait for the $220.00. to come to kind of agreement between putin and moment in solomon so that's a bit of a change you may know that the opec meeting was originally scheduled a week earlier and it was somehow held back and postponed by a one week week by the request of russia and now we apparently know why i mean they wanted to wait for the g. 20. but this production deal would not have been possible without russia i mean

russia really does appear to have the upper hand and has effectively been handed control of the oil cartel as it well let's face it the biggest burden is carried by saudi arabia saudi arabia one still have a broad coalition because they feel otherwise it's really only down to them and so they're working very hard to bring a lot of different players to the table and having russia being part of it is for them instrumental because it gives the impression there is a wider group of players that are ready to cut and so everyone lifting a little bit helps but saudi arabia really needs high oil prices to balance its budget russia doesn't so so why would russia or agree to this yeah that this is interesting i mean we have seen over time the different ideas about what the price would be we know that president putin has a different point in time stated that he would be happy with $60.00. and out of

this statement we know that he has been relatively unhappy with prices going higher specially his oil companies are telling him that this would just allow u.s. production to grow and they the russian companies you know i'm missing out on opportunities yes it's true the russian budget requires maybe lower prices but i think it's also important for putin to form alliances and this is not alliance that you know if it works out is helpful for him and if it's not you know eventually it's damaging so right now he is in a much more comfortable position than the saudis are but has russia been keeping to its production quota well interestingly enough they have got there late late but they did they did you may say they only got there because they had the contamination issue where some of their oral pipeline volumes got contaminated was organic cloud. so that was was a problem for them but yes they finally work i think slowly but surely. it's going

to be more interesting to see now within the 2nd half of the year they will stick to that. we use you on that they will not be so much sticking to that if you look on the total compliance of opec plus in the 1st half of the year they have been over compliant they were producing about $400000.00 barrels a day less than what they set as a target for themselves and in the 2nd hour of the year we would actually assume that there will be more desire to overproduce and so you may see a similar margin of overproduction to their own sets targets that type of over production would come from countries like because of stand where the country going to will field was lately expanded you may also say iraq has a little less appetite for maintaining its share of the of the cuts because they are also bringing new capacities online nigeria has more volume to come and russia probably is going to be a little bit reluctant but with that with the iranian venezuelan oil slowly losing

market share because of sanctions against. against against each of them was there a need for this production cuts. well we have to bear in mind that the increase of supply from the rest of the world outside of opec is about $2000000.00 barrel this year now if you compare that with an increase of demand which is about $900000.00 barrels a day this year you can see that there is a little much oil out there so opec plus had to do something and was tough for them and that's why i think that the market is not really yet appreciating that cut and is not rising higher the tough message is that if they want to maintain a stable market they will have to cut even more next year because next year they will probably have to do another half a 1000000 so that means to cut that was prolonged now for 9 months probably has to be fine tuned again by the end of the year what he what he knew all of you is

pulling down oil prices at the moment. well 1st of all the supplies from particularly the u.s. but the also see more and more supplies coming in from other parts in the world take it to brazil is increasing production kind of those spring out more barrels. so we will see towards the end of the year norwegian production growing so there is supply left right and center. but what comes really bad is at the same time the demand is slowing we see the impact from the global economic growth is not good actually economic sentiment is lousy we see that the demand particularly from the car industry is not good but at the same time we see that the light dents in the market are in surplus now you may have seen that the natural gas market actually is in tremendous weak states we have seen the natural gas prices at the lowest level

right now for as long as i can think now this weakness in the natural gas market is also spreading into the natural gas leak of its that product like eating l.p.g. and those products are competing heavily in the petrochemical sector and with nothing on the oil side and all that is right now not having such a good place for the month because the monsoon please lex because of the economic development but from the from the point of view of the big opec producers like saudi arabia wouldn't it be better for oil prices to sink to wipe out some of the us shale oil production well. the issue is the market requires a market management to be balanced if you leave it to the market you will see price extremes of course if you if you just allow the market to do its job without having a kind of agreement on making voluntary cuts prices may sink again to $30.00 it

will kill a lot of companies and eventually it will again move higher. what is a fair price i think this is where the difficulty is probably it's around $5060.00 ensure because it around those numbers you will have a. reasonable return on investment for deepwater exploration but probably also for shallow developments if prices are moving above that range you will see more stimulus you will see more and more to asian to invest in shell oil like in other investments and so that means maintaining the prices at lofty high those numbers that i would say are higher than what the russians would like closer to the $70.00 range makes it more vulnerable to increases in supply and that's that's where the trouble comes good to speak with you yohannes been in you thanks very much for being with us you will come. of growing up in the public gaze with your every move scrutinised your mistakes vilified some rightly and

justly can be difficult we're not talking hollywood or british royalty we're talking about silicon valley startups only there spectacular rise would give the impression that all this success comes easily and the success of a lift and slack can it be replicated when that doesn't happen questions are raised about entrepreneurship government legislation and monopolies so here we are in the middle east after the success of right hailing app karim which bought for $3000000000.00 we find out if that success will be replicated we have 2 young startups here in the studio to find out how easy or difficult it is to create a success story but joining us is. entrepreneur and co-founder of wash now and imagine lever be the chief executive of dru health good to have you both with us and so i want to start by asking you to tell us a little bit about your business and give you what's known as the elevator pitch

which i'm sure you're familiar with just give us a sort of 32nd to a minute elevator pitch. to sell your company magid ruby health of the digital put a company that uses behavior science to help people with their beauties and pre-diabetes change their habits live healthier and then use the risk of chronic diseases you know the root of the chronic diseases as behavioral that's why we designed this little problem so that relies on lifestyle and behavior change interventions we started with 2 products they abuse prevention and their bodies management both using their behavioral science to let people use a 16 week of free more live some of the kitchen program that produces clinical outcomes for the wizards from. washington as an on demand laundry service or the past couple of years we have built scalable technologies to help people do their laundry hassle free to shorter period of time so watch know what's on the over 4 x. model or on demand model where you can. pick ups and deliveries so past 2 years we

have had help thousands of customers to identify persons who come from 5 star hotel residents or guests to do their laundry with the help of our mobile app and we feed how did you come about you business idea for washing we want to how we came up with the washington idea is it was not a new idea globally it was an existing idea but not not in the region so how we came about watch now was we saw that how it could actually change your day to day life and impact people in their daily life saving time for more important items in their life of friends family or work. it's not about the idea but how we went ahead and launched washed know in 10 days of having this idea that made it different imagine saying to you how did you get the idea for a jew being well. people with their beauties they face a lot of problems here they have to manage their diabetes 24 hours a day 7 days a week and what they get now is basically 4 times maximum to see their doctors in

a year and that leaves them struggling with their diet exercise and glucose level control so we thought that we need to give them like a remote care to their kid so you know like we help them with all this struggles so that's why we wanted to create. a trust a solution that both care and who wants the care to be you know to use them so that's what we choose the work in the digital products which is actually kind of described by the doctor to his patients which means there's a couple of solutions can produce clinical outcomes so when it's it has a clinical outcome that means the doctor himself can't describe it as a medicine so that's why the patient will trust it and we actually run a lot of clinical trials here and there and we have some kind of like approve that works and of course there's a lot of clinical evidence out there come on we can we can take a look at them and see so that's why we were like yes we need this solution in the

middle is because the privilege of diabetes is increasing and that's really like every 6 seconds somebody dies because of the babies or like having a lot of complications that actually prevent them from. like productivities i mean that prevents him from produce to his family or you know like to live a healthier life but like any business i'm sure there are challenges that you've had to face to tell us about some of the obstacles the you faced in setting up this business particularly in this region well you know there are 3 top challenges every start up like they have to face like one of them is fund raising hiring the right stuff and number 3 is my ties in the business to ski. well i think the 3rd one is like it's pretty common between all the startups and like internationally and in the region but the 1st 2 is really you know it's very difficult here in the region number one is because like you need to fund your business at the beginning and and this is an idea and you need somebody to believe in it right and in this reason i heard you talking about silicon valley saying about is get used to this kind of

like ideas startups kind of thing and they've seen some kind of like a successful startups make a lot of money right but here in the region a lot of engines that we have money we have engine investors we have people like. ready to invest but not and the idea stage we're not in the startups is because they don't have a previous experience and as well as they don't see a lot of startups actually making money so that's because my opinion that's like a very big challenge to all the startups in the region but now it's different now it's different we witness a lot of like cooper like witness right we witness kareem and move like they have a very successful so it is now so the mindset is it's changing now they look for the creative ideas people who can actually learn these ideas to invest in but at the beginning we were blaming a lot of people like you have money why don't you invest and we didn't know that the mindset is. the 2nd one is like of course like hiring staff or for your

startups this is basically like finding the right talent the right people that are people is actually ready to come to your door and and wake up every single day and work with you to take your startup in the 2nd level so i think these 2 in the middle east these 2 challenges are the biggest challenges we face during our startup like it is with the activity and the feed you talked earlier about how your business washing our is not a unique one there are other versions of it elsewhere in the world but what are some of the challenges that they you faced in this region setting it up. thankfully with that with them. internet penetration and high tech adoption in the in the region those things have been sorted out for us so that this wasn't a challenge but challenges as. was initially in that it's hard to have people put money in the preceding stage or in the world were really early start up stage people would actually throw in a lot of money once once you're successful or once you have

a lot of orders but you have to have people trust in you from your idea to launch stage that's one of the most challenging things in the region i feel are also. tech skills when it comes to hiring techs jobs this is a stack start ups this is something that we face on a on a on like on an everyday basis when you are when you have a startup going on over here so you are either forced to outsource to save the money or you are forced to have a texture off in-house at a very high or higher price however the rate is held to these are the things that set up by the government here in qatar so we have gone through the incubation experience and we hear it has been amazing it's not about the financing but the other part of the other part of the incubation experience that they actually provide including access to investors including access to

a lot of events and networks as well as other other not financial but indirectly financial things like helping you get your monthly subscriptions for you for your tech or tech stack or financing or text tax or which which comes as a part of many of the incubation procedures over here so this kind of been like really really helpful but i think there is a long way to go in terms of putting a small preceding mound in and beginning stage startups as well as getting out of mentors to. mentors who are actually failed or haven't had have had us. before to dementor other shops. magister how how easy or difficult has it been for you for your business to access money it's been difficult it was an easy journey it was difficult like we had to go through a lot of pitches a lot of you know meeting here and there and we were still

a lot of time to be honest trying to get some engine investment into the company but again i think this the mindset now is changing as my feet say now i think that that is doing a very good job in educating the engine and verses to give them like an easy access to these creative and innovative people into print was in qatar especially now they do a lot of like conferences and in particular incubators so they can actually match whoever wants and who are interested in tech startups or linguists and in tech. ideas and with and supernews who have this great ideas and how as how as business like help the ecosystem this is kind of the sort of middle east version of. but when you talk to just a random selection people here a lot most people here don't have that app on their on their phones they have and i don't know if it's more popular elsewhere. in the middle east but that's the

impression here i mean how do you how is the success of that company help the ecosystem well i think it gives a lot of big push to people here in the middle east to say well if you can do it now i mean as a as an interpreter and i have a sort of i can do it as well. i i may disagree with you on the you know a lot of people have given you a lot of people have i think. has a very grounded like a data base that's why you know like the interested in buying and buying. i think now that is on the middle east. with this big news about like $3000000000.00 acquisition for karim i think now like the international players they look at the middle east as well that is something year which is this something that was missing to be honest like trying to get some fun like we we went to different conferences and europe or in the u.s.

and they have 0 interest in investing in startups and and me in the region but now i think with kareem and moves who until there are there is here like the eye on the local and the reason and the reason startups so i think the give us a big favor and we also have like a big responsibility is so we have to move fast we have to say well yes we can do it but we have to have a creative innovative business more than a berthing with us from there we can scale fast and feed i want to i want to ask you about some of this as well what sort of a message did it send when bought came for 3000000000 dollars about the kind of the viability of businesses like that in the middle east globally it had it had all the investor eyeballs turning to middle east and the mena region globally now internally if you look at it uses the region bush had the confidence of a lot of startup founders startup investors who are already here and people who

actually would prefer to work for a startup but for me the most exciting part i found i find is the korean founders themselves as start of founders when they began and amount of money they might have received from from the whole deal. i'm sure they're going to invest in a lot of other regional startups i'm sure they're going to they're going to help a lot of regional startups and and because they themselves have lived the story and they're really would believe that so when someone who came from came as a start a founder. and and and you get bought out or you get merged acquired by a bigger company i'm sure when they plan to invest in future a lot of regional companies would benefit from from that so globally yes a lot of investors have their focus now on the middle east there really feel that to there is money over here i mean there's like future money over here if you

invest now and i think that's the biggest message that across from the deal and i want to ask you both as well what sort of impact to businesses like yours have on job creation in the region particularly among among young people here so it's very well known that you know like interpreters and who whatever they have a sort of they actually decrease their employment percentage that actually helps a lot of people to come and learn from mistakes we receive a lot from tunisia for example they can come you know like to like help us and building the company we have a lot of smart people joining now. it really helps the the whole ecosystem to actually come together and build the right ecosystem for start up scene and what you experience and that the fetus for us watch now is currently a team of less than 10 people over here in qatar and we have a back office in india where more people work but in terms of giving this

experience to to the internes is one of the biggest impact i think we have made as a startup in terms of job creation because they go through the whole process of start of founders think. how we face the challenges how do we actually takes risks calculated risk and how they can be an entrepreneur in the future so they when they finish their schools or when their break in between the college breaks so we have in turn thanks also to the eco system players over here who actually bring us into ons like the digital incubation center so i think the biggest. we on the job market is not direct but and directly by imparting this knowledge and passing on this passion to the future entrepreneurs all right we're going to have to bring this to an end magid i'm afraid thanks very much to both of you for being with us thanks for those and that is our show for this week remember you can get in touch with us by tweeting me at tasman sea can use the hash tag a j c t c when you

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morning until late at night. and on street corners. sudanese people came together. facing the drums of change and chanting civilian revolution. some say as the this stage towards ending decades of dictatorship. at the moment that i am telling the youth that the revolution is not over the revolution has just started with the internet shut down by the military jumped to news of the day and spread mostly by word of mouth and in public meetings held by opposition leaders who have used. the agreement will be signed off to its final laws and some heads of state from different countries will be attending the signing that we are expecting this to take place within the upcoming week before says of the freedom and change have already picked their candidates for the announcement of the sovereign council and

the prime minister the sovereign council will include 5 military and 5 civilians plus an additional civilian agreed by both sides the council will 1st be led by the military will hand over to civilians and just under 2 he is they'll lead it until elections june and 2020 to. make the civilian opposition. change was in a no win position they either have to take a green as presented by the african union. or the transitional military council is going to say they won't negotiate we're withdrawing. there are mixed feelings in sudan some the details of victory for others it's a so we had to sort of i would still have demands and these demands have not yet been met we have the blood of the martyrs in the main city inside we still want rights that haven't happened yet. part of the deal includes an investigation into

a violent crackdown by security forces which saw more than $100.00 protestors code . and stay international says this agreement must be judged by how those in power now live up to their responsibilities to respect people's fundamental rights something the sudanese people have been deprived of for well over 3 decades amnesty called the deal a taste amends to the resilience of ordinary people they chose to stand up for the rights alexia brian al jazeera. well the un's nuclear watchdog has agreed to a u.s. request to arrange a special meeting on iran's nuclear program next week a senior aide of iran's supreme leader says commitment to the 2050 nuclear deal will be reduced unless european leaders do more to save it but. we'll definitely not initiate anything to withdraw from the nuclear deal unless the other party does the other party has step by step americans directly and europeans in directly

violated the deal we will show reaction exponentially as much as they violate it we reduce our commitments as much as they reduce it if they go back to fulfilling their commitments we will do as well this will happen at a rational and gradual pace let's bring in joining us now from tehran what is iran's position on the u.n. nuclear meeting that's been called by the united states. well officials here are calling it something that is quite ironic because the united states withdrew from the nuclear agreement last year they're no longer a signatory to this deal so they really don't have the right to call this meeting the iranian diplomatic mission in vienna has said that it's very very ironic that the united states not only withdrew but pressured others that are still in this agreement to do the same and now that iran is live is restricting some of its

commitments to this deal they are criticizing iran for that and by calling this meeting with the i.a.e.a. the arabians are adamant that they are still in this deal very much so when they're set the 60 day deadline that is up on sunday for the europeans to come back to them with a response because they feel that the remaining signatories have not upheld their and that the deal and they will. announce on sunday an increase in their level of enrichment they are currently at 3.67 percent under the nuclear agreement but they've said that they will increase that to whatever they feel is necessary for the country at the moment and the iranian tanker that is still being held in gibraltar now seems to be at the center for a growing international dispute what are you hearing on the. well the reunions have been adamant that they are going to pursue all political and legal venues trying get this vessel back it is

a super tanker with nearly 2000000 barrels of crude oil on board so the iranians say that they were not breaking any sanctions because the e.u. sanctions that were imposed on syria and that refinery where this ship was heading they're not endorsed by the united nations therefore they radians don't recognize them as binding now in the same time we've heard from a series of. today about another iranian tanker that is being held in the seaport of saudi arabia that tanker is called happiness one it was making its way to the suez canal on april 30th where it apparently experienced some engine problems and they were forced to dock. and the saudi officials have now since the issues have been fixed on this vessel they have held it and they are charging the iranians $200000.00 per day for keeping the vessel there the iranian oil minister on wednesday said that they are looking into how to get this vessel back and they are

they say that the issue now is the payments that saudi arabia is demanding from the iranians it would be around 12000000 dollars for the 2 months that it's been sitting there the $26.00 member crew apparently are safe and sound there but the iranians are saying they're investigating and they are trying to get this vessel back door so jabari with an update from to iran thank you. more government there are strikes in syria have killed a mother and injured her son rebel held the province was heavily bombarded earlier today rescue teams are searching for survivors at least 12 civilians were killed during similar strikes on friday. the u.s. state of california has been hit by a magnitude 7 point one earthquake just a day off to another record breaking tremor and hundreds of aftershocks emergency workers are now assessing the damage john hendren has more. the biggest earthquake in 2 decades struck california's mojave desert it rattled chandelier

here and was felt by news presenters 250 miles away in los angeles we need to get out of the death all right we're going to get a break go we'll be right back after a while it came a day after a magnitude 6.4 quake along the same fault line shaking buildings and shutting down a highway strewn with rocks so the fault is growing we brought here to piece the 1st earthquake ruptured a bit more on the 5.4 this morning and we're up here and more now it is moving towards the northwest away from the metropolitan area as far as we can tell the u.s. geological survey says there's a 5 percent chance a bigger quake will follow this is another earthquake everyone has a chance i'm trying to think if we've ever seen a situation with the 6.47 and something even bigger and i can't think of one the epicenter of the southern california quake was in the city of ridgecrest halfway between los vegas and los angeles we're gathering intelligence and we're taking

action on multiple structure fires we're gathering information we've got our helicopter in the air doing our work on a sense of the city of ridgecrest and the surrounding areas. we got. reports of tremors came from as far away as sacramento an 8 hour drive to the north and several hours to the south in mexico leaving 1st responders in the desert community scouring the area for damage and anyone injured by the quake john hendren al-jazeera. to his u.s. president has called presidential and legislative elections for later this year but isn't this a sign of decrees as he made his 1st public appearance since being discharged from hospital there were concerns the 92 year old leader wouldn't be well enough to authorize elections on time a subsea also take action to extend to state of emergency. the u.n. security council has condemned the attack on a migrant detention center in libya and called on the warring sides to commit to

a cease fire video has emerged showing the moment the air strikes right there hit the camp near tripoli on shoes day 60 people were killed and more than 100 others injured tripoli's un recognized government says warlord kind of have to and his forces are responsible but they say they were targeting a nearby weapons depo and didn't give orders to hit the shelter the world health organization says almost a 1000 people have been killed since half that began his offensive to take over the capital 3 months ago robert oulds explains why it's taken the un security council 3 days to present a unified response to the migrant center attack you could put this in the category of better late than never on wednesday the u.n. security council met for more than 3 hours behind closed doors but was able to come up with a statement on the airstrike against the migrant detention center in tripoli

now they have done so and in addition to condemning the air raid the security council urges all sides in libya to commit to a cease fire it says lasting peace tense the civility in libya will only come through political solutions and the also the council gave something of an admonition to other countries without naming any of them but telling them not to interfere in libyan affairs it said that the council called for full respect for the arms embargo but all member states and called on all countries not to intervene in the conflict or take any measures that exacerbate it libya's been torn by conflict since long time ruler mamata gaddafi was overthrown in 2011 it's divided between warring militia groups which mostly back to rival governments the un recognized administration led by.