we agree to have these presidential elections that we all have accepted in order for our people to be able to have the 1st democratically elected president in a transparent white the presidential elections will grant a strong legitimacy to the new president so as for him to categorically bring the change. the 5 months hundreds of thousands of protesters have demanded a complete overhaul of the leadership entrenched in power for the past 57 is since algeria is independence from friends on wednesday interim president abdelkader ben salah called for a national dialogue about ranging a presidential election but didn't set a date for when that might be and lists a protest as a likely to continue to reject elections if that organized by the ruling elite as they have many old people in the street yes and that's when you react. that they want a clear and strong and selections. some opposition leaders say the interim president

needs to do more to gain the trust of protesters. the release of prisoners of conscience is considered one of the most important steps to prove the sincerity and seriousness of those who are now in charge of the nation but all topics that help achieve the demands of the people should be discussed. whatever is decided at this conference may serve as a roadmap to resolve the armrest but for some in the opposition what's being suggested is a compromise too far and they won't be satisfied until those in the establishment play no part in algeria. victoria gate and be algis they are well the next but still on al-jazeera the african leaders who could be on the verge of creating the world's largest trading bloc and agree scant set for a snap election as opinion polls suggest victory for the conservative opposition those stories after the break.

howie we've got some rather lively weather spilling off the rockies making its way through the great plains lots of fun the storms are rumbling away slowly but surely making their way further east which is quiet at least weather wise i was towards the a west coast so we'll see things generally settled for the same place and for san francisco 17th by this 24 in l.a. notice a little more cloud up towards the pacific northwest into that western side of canada as we go on and say monday that will not a little for a swiss little change right along the west coast but over towards i central areas more showers in play here wetter weather breaking the heat that we have just around the eastern seaboard to be some think downpours possibility of some localized

flooding just around the east coast as we go on through monday anywhere from around d.c. into the carolinas for the south well he remains. 31 celsius for miami will see similar temperatures across the caribbean a possibility of some shop showers coming into cuba much of the islands will be fine and dry sunshine and showers into hispaniola meanwhile some wetter weather will make its way to the western side of the caribbean some big and heavy showers rolling through they extend all the way into southern mexico. on counting the cost $3.00 decades after the collapse of the soviet union russia is engaging with africa to raise its political clout and we look at the economics behind that his decision to buy the s 435 stealth bomb counting the cost and i just hear. me.

talk about you want. to remind of all top stories the u.s. special envoy for afghanistan says the road of negotiations with the taliban have been the most productive so far he made the comments in qatar where afghan political figures on the taliban to hold talks aimed at ending the civil war. also the french president has to keep the 2015 nuclear deal alive during a phone call with his reigning counterpart iran is poised to announce further reductions of its commitments to the deal. refugees and migrants have disembarked

the latest charity rescue ship to dhaka to the tully imports. in defiance of a government ban the vessel carrying more than 40 people has been impounded in lampedusa. african leaders in asia to put the finishing touches on what's planned to be the world's largest free trade zone once up and running it will bring all $55.00 members of the african union into a single market of well over a 1000000000 people with interest reports from the capital the. stepped up security in the hurt of the capital underlining the growing concerns not only here in the sahara region of africa but in many other parts of the continent from north to south east west and in the herd of africa 2 governments are struggling to contain communal clashes and violent extremism. african leaders hope the new free trade deal is the answer to help reduce the poverty that helps fuel the fighting

experts say an african common market will come with additional risks that as national organized crime criminals take advantage of this free movement you know to flow from one country to another and that is can just his or to perpetrate their. activities so definitely looking for the for the chink in the are you looking for the weak link in the countries do not have you know security architecture that at some countries risk safe heaven you know or terrorist or criminal organized criminals the government say they're working to stop that from happening. we have decided to escalate our security approach in dealing with these attacks and violence so that's africa union will come in and take charge. this way the cell region will be safer and all the flashpoints can be contained in the solved by africans themselves. leaders from

a police $53.00 of the continent $65.00 countries do here to rectify the deal that could be implemented as early as next year. the african continental free trade agreement is expected to create the walls no largest single market in the continent is home to one and a quarter 1000000000 africans leaders hope that the free trade agreement will help create jobs and striking a growth but it's not clear whether investors will overlook the internal strife in many african countries and bring in the much needed capital to boost production of goods and services. african entrepreneur say the agreement could be the answer to the continent's many problems but the truth is we do have china africa by the know where you get the kind of returns on investment that you get in the future so you're confident the investors will come and come to visit all we need to do to fund the war problem was going to put in place policies governable create jobs i live in poverty there are also fears that corruption and weekend force majeure in

some countries could model success of what's being billed as a historic free trade agreement but you crease al-jazeera you may share. unwelcome web reports from kenya about what the free trade agreement could mean for farmers there. want betty tibet graze here on her farm in kenya and up in more than a dozen african countries beings from these soya plants will make cooking oil our most i mean. we are no more a. so we decided to call sawyer because dad is the 4 dropped and then it is the main cast grow up for us. the oil from bessie's beans is bottled at this food factory in the town of seeka as well as using locally produced oil its own is sometimes called toil from neighboring countries as well without

subject to trade tariffs and so it costs more the products made in this factory were also subject to trade tariffs in some of the african countries that they're exporting to the throne and the new christian continental free trade agreement say that would soon change. nearly all of the member states of the african union have signed the agreement is due to take effect next year and progressively phase out 97 percent of tyrants. at the factory the director told us it will create jobs and reduce costs if it's implemented this will be the single biggest market in the world where there will be free movement of goods and services big macro projects like this look very good but the implementation has to be done with a united africa with united thinking united limitation when leaders promise free trade the african union many still pursue protectionist policies at home selling

manufactured products across africa's borders often isn't easy it's here at the port of mombasa that goods manufactured outside of africa are imported to the region. most african countries trade more with countries in europe and asia and with each other economists say that free trade agreement alone won't solve that and that they'll be resistance from a powerful few who make fast profits from the status quo the politicians have become beholden to these types of folks and i think you're breaking up much more than might appear at 1st glance you're breaking a system that's been there since independence the products from the food factory a truck to around the region that this kind of manufacturing and export happens less in africa than any other continent economist say free trade within the continent would change that and create more jobs and income for people like betty but many feel it's still

a long way off malcolm webb al-jazeera the kenya former u.s. vice president joe biden has apologized for his remarks about working with segregationist senators during his early days in congress rival democratic party white house hopefuls have highlighted his opposition to a federal policy in the 1970 s. to integrate black students into public schools folks now was i wrong a few weeks ago. to somehow give the impression to people that i was praising those men who i successfully opposed time and again yes i was i regret it i'm sorry for any of the pain or misconception i may have caused anybody brought. food that misstep to find 50 years of my record for fighting for civil rights racial justice in this country i hope not i don't think so. that just isn't an honest assessment of my record and

i'm going to let my record of my character stand for self and not be distorted or smeared and meanwhile thousands of protesters are calling for justice for a 2 year old girl who was raped 2 months ago they marched off to the girl's father expressed his doubts about the investigation in the media interview and police arrested a suspect this week investigators say the assault happened in a nursery school. more women than ever join in gaza's workforce the jobs though are scarce so they're setting up their own businesses to bring money in facing cultural barriers along the way from gaza robertson as more. 17 year old mina simoun studies computer programming at school she's also learning from her brother how to make coffee in her mother's cafe because she says she doesn't have much chance of getting a job in gaza it has a lot of history then i think women should work because it does that there are no

job opportunities when i work it means i can provide for my family my husband and my son ms mother supreme started selling her food through a facebook page 2 years ago business became so good customers had to order 2 days in advance after her kitchen broke down sabrine decided to open her cafe and it's my life it's security for my children it's the sweetest thing and it has a lot of meaning for me i want to expand and open more shops there are 2000000 people in cars and it's estimated that in 2852 percent of them didn't have a job 2 out of every 3 young people including graduates were unemployed for the same period the number of women who were in work went up by 26 percent even though that's just a small part of the workforce according to the world by up to 80 percent of gaza's economy has been propped up for several years by money from the palestinian authority and foreign aid donations but that funding is dropping gaza's economy

shrank by 8 percent in 2800. well isn't cousin di started selling her t. shirt designs online in 2014 business expanded she became a mentor for other female entrepreneurs here but. the biggest problem i face is that i'm a woman and being a woman is a big deal in gaza society especially because my profession is in printing people say how come a woman is invading a man's profession the dalai association project is one of several there which supports women who want to start their own businesses. happily home because the society has traditional views it allows a woman to become part of a project but just as a worker the woman cannot be a leader in the society people know she can do it but according to traditions they don't accept it gaza's business woman may be creating jobs they may also be helping to shape the attitudes of gaza's new generation rob matheson al jazeera gaza.

the greeks will start voting shortly in an election the opinion polls suggest will turn left wing prime minister alexis tsipras from office he and his series of party struggle to lift the country out of a decade of financial crisis that slashed the size of the economy by a quarter and poverty rates. this charity shop in the center of athens has more and more pensioners as customers under the city's a government they have had their benefits cut twice despite it promising it wouldn't follow the austerity policies of previous administrations after 49 years of work and that is going to received a pension of $1600.00 a month that is now down by a quarter but when you're familiar. i used to buy a newspaper i stopped that i used to go out for coffee with friends i stopped it i used to buy a packet of cigarettes

a week i cut that now i just sit locked in my home pensioners one of the most hard hit constituencies of the greek crisis and they helped elect cities in january 2015 to endorse geraghty in july that year in a referendum 62 percent of greeks voted against further austerity instead cities are capitulated to greece's food emergency loan and partial spending cuts we about turn was unpopular but it balanced the budget and kept greece in the euro zone there are many people who vote that series are in. because syria series that had been promising there will. be a mistake. achievements they're voting them out because. they did the right thing they did what was practically pragmatic and practical if he's able. last year greece's eurozone partners who were its main creditors said it

was no longer dependent on their emergency loans and was fit to return to the markets cities or pronounces it a victory if. we came to unite all greeks we combined our stream without this unity we would not have emerged from our stereotype austerity policies so unpopular opposition parties could not resist attacking them that's why a conservative government unseated a socialist one and was in turn one seated by serious political parties failed to form a national front to face the national emergency for the past 4 and a half years it has seemed that caesar was immune to the political cost of all sterile to because it was a new political force having never held power before it wasn't responsible for bankrupting the economy but now that greece has graduated from its state of emergency the greeks appear more willing to accept that they too were to blame for

overspending their way into debt and ready to come to terms with the global economy again jobs are open loss al-jazeera athens. and finally brazilian news. pioneer. has died at his home in rio de janeiro at the age of 88. the girl from ipanema released in 1964 was a global hit it was part of a grammy winning album that sold millions of copies and helped popularize the bossa nova sound a fusion and jazz artist say he's left a huge legacy behind for brazil and for the rest of the world. you're watching the whole room the reminder of our top news stories the u.s.

special envoy for afghanistan says the current round of negotiations with the taliban would have been the most productive so far he made the comments in qatar where afghan political figures and the taliban are due to hold talks ended ending the civil war we have made substantial progress on all 4 elements and that make the framework that we have agreed to a peace agreement which is as you know assurances on counterterrorism that important for the united states and the worth. would draw all of foreign troops which is important for the taliban. enter afghan negotiations that including a dialogue and an agreement on a road map for the political future of afghanistan and a complete comprehensive permanent cease fire. for the 1st time i can say we have had substantial progress on all for the french president as though to keep

the 2050 nuclear deal alive during a phone call with his iranian killed apart metal merkel and her son rouhani have agreed to create the conditions for talks to resume by july the 15th iran has warned it will accelerate to radium enrichment these earlier articulations says it's intercepted the latest drones launched by yemen's who the rebels before they reach their target earlier said the drones hit warplanes hangars and other military sites that are the airport in saudi arabia itself worst it's the latest in a string of attacks who the leaders claimed another strike on the same airport last thursday. the refugees and migrants have disembarked the latest charity rescue ship to dock at the tully and pulls into fires of a government ban the vessel carry more than 40 people has now been impounded. and groups will start voting shortly in the general election opinion polls are predicting defeat for leftwing prime minister likes to suppress he and his series

of party have struggled to lift the country out of a decade of financial crisis that slashed the size of the economy by a quarter i'll be back with more news here in half an hour next it's counting the cost to stay with us. can the unrest in mali be stopped the situation is not easy out there is not a magical one has the united nations failed to protect the people and help end the violence special representative of the u.n. security general for miley. and talks to al-jazeera. and has this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week who runs opec we find out if the hunt for i or prices has for saudi arabia to relinquish control of the oil cartel to putin.

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 app. 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 is 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 a 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 cheap 20. 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 a saudi arabia that 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 especially 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 a 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 said there's 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 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 was an increase of demand which is about $900000.00 barrels a day this year you can see that there is a definitely too 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 ends in the market are in surplus now you may have seen that the natural gas market actually is in tremendous weak state 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 that was 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 the $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 highs 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 for joining us is. entrepreneur and co-founder of wash now and imagine lever be the chief executive of group 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 to change their habits live healthier and they do is the risk of chronic diseases you know there is the root of the chronic diseases is the behavioral that's why we designed this little problem so that relies on lifestyle and behavior change interventions we started with 2 products their 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 case in 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 and a shorter period of time so watch no works on the over 4 x. model or on demand model where you can schedule a laundry pick ups and deliveries so past 2 years we have had help thousands of

customers to run 35 percent of which will come from.