a teary wing of the p.k. k. come out yesterday saying that the p.k. k. was not responsible for this hit on the turkish diplomat but again bear in mind what i just told you it's possible there could be splinter groups with the p k k that might perhaps have carried out the hit but again this is great speculation but you know historically the p.k. k. has found a safe refuge if you will here in northern iraq it is a kurdish regional government it is a mountainous region that borders turkey and historically because of that the kurdistan regional government has had a bit of a tense relationship with turkey but as of late turkey and the federal government in iraq have been cooperating in what's been described as counterterrorism operations to fight terrorism and they include p.k. k. in that umbrella mission prior to the hit yesterday turkey had carried out air

strikes against. targets again saying that it quote neutralize 7 p.k. k. terrorists and then we've had a 2nd day of airstrikes by the turkish military here in northern iraq we know that the head of turkish intelligence arrived last evening in erbil he's with a team of investigators and turkey is vowing to find those responsible and make sure they're held accountable all right it's actually going to him the ability. all right time for a short break here and i'll just throw. my wife and my mom even though knew they were going to die they had to somehow come for that you during during those final moments relatives of those killed in the ethiopian airlines crash make it plain to the u.s. congress more on that stay with us. hello

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welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here this hour the u.s. house of representatives has rebuked the president by voting to block the sale of arms to saudi arabia a similar measure was passed by the summit last month but president trump is expected to veto the resolution. so he's called the u.s. position to suspended from the f. 35 fighter jet program saying it will harm their relations washington about the turkey accepted the delivery of russia's s 400 defense system. on the body of the turkish deputy consul general shot dead in the northern iraqi city of ed a bill on wednesday is being taken back home to iraqi kurdish civilians were killed in an attack at a restaurant. now the un special rapporteur on human rights in manaus speaking at

a press conference in kuala lumpur malaysia often meeting rango refugees in the region when laws refuse to cooperate with young he was not given access to the country when on wednesday the u.s. imposed sanctions on 4 of me and top generals for their alleged role in the 27 crackdown on the muslim minority group. as mamma jumped to him as cover during a crisis extensively he joins me here in the studio. we know the press conference has just started by special repetitious young he how concerned is she about him going rights abuses against the rigging in the well actually special repertory lee has not yet addressed the rohingya in these remarks but i'm sure she will be soon because often times she you know every quarter or so talks about what has been going on with the rohingya she's always expressing concern about the plight of she did touch on it briefly and as well as with other ethnic groups because she talked

about so far in her remarks that because of what's going on in mia more that is really destabilizing the entire region that it has caused a refugee crisis really a huge proportions that at least 1500000 people from me and more have fled to neighboring countries in the past few years she's also expressed concern about the conflict that is ongoing in parts of me and more right now and right kind of state northern rock kind southern chin these 9 townships where you have the top. which is the 1000000 more army going against these rebel groups like the r. khan army ethnic buddhist armed groups as well up there that are separatist in nature so she's been talking thus far about how difficult it is and also how difficult it is for her to do her work because she said she's still barred from accessing me and more it's difficult to get humanitarians in there and she also talked about the kinds of threats that she has faced in countries where she's doing research just thailand she said that she actually was prevented from doing some of

her work in thailand because me and more has been placing pressure on neighboring countries to not allow humanitarians to keep digging into the atrocities that are going on in me and so it's not just the issue about the rigging she's also going to address the ethnic violence going on in other parts of me and i like rakhine state as you say yeah that's right and one of the things she has brought up thus far is the fact there's been an internet shutdown in northern rakhine and southern chin in this part of me and more where this conflict has been going on since late 2018 and she said that this internet shutdown she wonders if this was ordered by me and more as government she says not only is it dangerous because perhaps other war crimes could be going on and because of the violence because aid workers can't understand exactly what's going on journalists can understand exactly what's going on up there but she also said that it's difficult because right now is monsoon season and so it's very hard to get news out about how people are affected by the weather in that part of me and just a final thought before you go you've covered this crisis extensively what are your contacts on the ground telling you about the current plight of the thing that just

briefly yeah well what i've been hearing from refugees the last day especially since it was announced the u.s. has imposed sanctions on 4 top military leaders in myanmar is that they are glad the steps are being taken to pressure me and more but not enough is being done and at the steps that have been taken thus far they haven't been enough and they've come too late all right mama john john thank you very much mr protests against puerto rico's embattled governor turn violent in the capital spend several days and protesters started taking to the streets against the leader of they say is intolerant and corrupt gave it a zombie. he. was fighting in rioting on the cobblestone streets of the historic district of san juan puerto rico anger directed at the governor they say disrespects his own people the protesters are furious after nearly $900.00 pages of gov ricardo rosello those private text messages were leaked publicly last week messages that were bolder and sexist some

that made fun of obese people mocked political opponents and seemingly joked about the thought of killing the female mayor of san juan he's admitted the messages were his and apologized but said he won't step down so the people are trying to force him out he hasn't been the best governor but when those checks got leaked we know that he hit right rock bottom like there's no way that this guy could continue governor puerto rico we need our strong leader we need someone to. guide us in the right way what started as small protests have turned into a huge street demonstrations with tens of thousands of people now protesting from all walks of society young people old people even people that belong to the governor's political party now all out here with the same message not asking him to step down but now demanding it it's the worst political crisis in puerto rico's

history to cabinet members who took part of the texting the secretary of state have resigned but being mocked and ridiculed by their leader has seemingly united 3000000 puerto ricans against rosello but i've never seen something that connects us in such a deep and social level it's not about politics it's about our people in our humanity that's been slapped in the face time and time again and we've had enough with the government caught in scandal over text messages and the people saying the only way out is for the man who sent them to leave gabriel's on dough al-jazeera san juan puerto rico. at least 30 people have been killed and more than 5000000 affected by monsoon rains and flooding in northeast india water levels are still rising in the states and. the government fears large areas of the 2 states could be cut off during the bahama reports. on the brahmaputra river in northeast india

water levels are rising rivers have swelled to dangerous levels due to heavy rains and flooding in many areas of assam state more than a 1000 villages in a dozen districts are submerged millions have been affected and tens of thousands made homeless there's growing concern about the lack of food and water supplies some have been forced to move to higher ground. for the last 4 or 5 days people have to queue shift. with their cattle. in neighboring bihar state many of force navigate the muddy waters waist deep to get to safety. i'm taking my son back home the situation is dire the diverted group is also broken the lord's up blocks so the commute has stopped there is no way for people to escape from here except crossing like this there is no means provided by the government either we left our homes to save ourselves we left everything behind we

just managed to take some essential and i'll go the government says a relief operation is currently underway that i would 151000 people are in relief camps we have. camps out of that 27 are the camps where the people are living and there are about 392 places where the distribution centers are there. it's the annual monsoon season in south asia but this year's rainfall has been especially heavy deadly floods have also hits neighboring bangladesh pakistan and nepal prevailing 100 al-jazeera. the relatives of those killed in the ethiopian airlines crash have testified for the 1st time before the u.s. congress they call for changes to safety inspections when planes are built the crash in march was a 2nd involving boeing 737 max aircraft and 5 months she had the chance to report from washington paul and lost his wife 3 children and mother in law when if you

boeing 737 max aircraft crashed in march 157 were killed in total i think about their last 6 minutes a lot my wife and my mom in law knew they were going to die they had to somehow confident that you drain during those final moments knowing they were all the or lost. i wish i was there when time and georgia was clear in his testimony to congress the overarching reason for the crash was the nature of late capitalism a system which prioritises shareholder value and the executive compensation linked to that stock value over safety boeing should not be allowed to act like an investment company extracting weld to hold any tons at the expense of safety and quality and pointed out that 5 months before his family died a 737 max crashed in the driver's seat killing $189.00 boeing blamed foreign pilot

error and insinuation which and roger suggested was racist even though the company knew it had not informed pilots of major changes to the plane that may have caused the crash and it seemed that boeing thought it was going to get away with it too just 2 months after the 1st crash the company authorized a $20000000000.00 stock buyback increasing shareholder and executive value while it laid off skilled stuff where they were laying off senior engineers and ironing contractors some paid less than $10.00 an hour in dispersed locations around the world which is obviously hard to supervise and integrate in developing software for this airplane but after the 2nd 737 max crashed boeing couldn't hide anymore it was soon clear that the company had rushed the plane to market to compete with a new fuel efficient competitor and part of its strategy was to minimize the major changes to the aircraft to speed up certification and assure airlines that costly

new training was unnecessary but what the company failed to point out to pilots and some regulators is how crucial a new system that had been installed was a system that relied on just one sensor with a history of malfunctioning to prevent the new engine placement making the echo off the pitch upwards and stall in addition federal aviation agency managers the regulators are reported to have pushed its engineers to speed up the certification process and delegate as much. as possible to boeing itself congress has yet to hear from boeing executives it was announced that may happen after the committee reviews what was described as quote a troop of internal documents she abrahams the old you 0 washington. indonesia sending more than $200.00 tonnes of rubbish back to australia the shipment was only meant to contain recycled paper but it was found to be contaminated with other waste as well as 3 reports and east java it's highlighting problems with the global recycling system. this used to be mostly paddy fields but rubbish which has been

dumped here for almost 40 years dominates the landscape villages here don't mind in fact they welcome it. this used to be a poor area i couldn't even afford to go to school but with this trash i could put my 3 children through school my oldest is getting a ph d. . like many others demand makes a living from sorting through the waste this is rubbish that's already been sorted most of it comes from a paper recycling factory in the village and what's dumped here is mostly scraps and you find broken bits of plastic bags of food wrappers sometimes even clothes. villages also by waste from paper recycling factories in the area. there's relatively valuable stuff to be salvaged such as plastic bottles and drinks can. even plastic bags have resale value burned by some factories which make tofu. as

a cheap alternative to firewood to environmentalists these are worrying developments. our investigation conducted since 2017 shows that contamination from play stick and household waste and white paper imports in 35 to 40 percent vet shouldn't be allowed the industry standard is between 2 to 5 percent you know he says imports of waste paper increased by 35 percent last year which is when china stopped importing plastic waste. we didn't conduct checks on waste paper imports in the past because they were considered low risk but we inspected several containers recently from australia after we got a tip off. customs inspectors found a plastic packaging that even used baby nappies stuffed between palls of waste

paper and they want to check nearly 60 of the containers from the u.s. and germany containers which have already been found contaminated have been sent back to where they came from for the villages of bangladesh collecting what others throw away has become a way of life until they find alternative jobs they came to keep their way of making money florence al-jazeera. east. asia. africa the headlines here on al-jazeera the u.s. house of representatives has rebuked the president by voting to block the sale of some arms to saudi arabia a similar measure was passed by the senate last month. but president donald trump is expected to veto the resolutions. turkey has called the u.s. decision to suspend it from the f.

35 fighter jet program unfair saying it will harm their relations washington acted up to turkey accepted the delivery of a russian s. 400 air defense system but nato secretary general has come to turkey's defense and praised its role in the alliance. i'm saying that turkey as a nato member is much more than 400. at least 20 people are feared dead after a suspected arson attack at an animation studio in japan the blaze broke out in the city of firefighters say more than 30 others were injured 10 of them seriously local media say a man has been taken into custody. the body of the turkish deputy consul general shot dead in the northern iraqi city of at a bill on wednesday is being taken home to iraqi kurdish civilians were killed in an attack at a restaurant. the u.n. special rapporteur on human rights in min ma speaking at a press conference in kuala lumpur after meeting rangar refugees in the region me and maher has refused to cooperate with young healey and has not given their access

to the country the question is. did the government of myanmar impose the internet than to inflict more harm on the people living in rakhine. the internet blackout has also prevented individuals wanting to engage with me from being able to make contact it is challenging to get information on what is happening on the ground under these circumstances but i have been told that 3 villages in rakhine have been burned down by the time i go in the last 2 weeks and puerto rico's governor ricardo rosales says he's staying in office despite days of protests calling for his resignation. the demonstrations were sparked by leaked online chats between the governor and his closest allies the conversations included massaging a stick homophobic comments. well those were the headlines the news continues on

al-jazeera after the stream station thanks for watching but. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. welcome to the stream it is comforting to think that the stuff that we throw away will be safely recycled so why is southeast asia being deluged with waste plastic paper and electronics imported from rich countries i really could be allowed to say well look at the impact an avalanche of imported rubbish is having on people's health and the environment across that region you can join the conversation through

twitter and you tube. the journey of plastic towels doesn't always at the local landfill or recycling plant a crime proportion of contaminated material instead gets loaded on to by. it's and he shipped thousands of miles to south east asian countries the region is an attractive market for scrap exporters in places such as the us france and the u.k. but now countries across southeast asia are rejecting shipments last week indonesia said no to 210 tons of waste paper from australia contaminated with hazardous material in may the philippine ship 69 containers of waste back to canada after it had rotted in port for 5 years that was as malaysia's environment minister announced 3000 tonnes of plastic waste would be sent back to 14 different countries now we know that garbage like what you see just now is treated under the pretext of

recycling malaysia like any other developing countries have a right to clean air clean water sustainable resources and clean environment. just like citizens of developed nation. for a look at the impact of waste imports across southeast asia we are joined by lego that own she is country director a greenpeace philippines she's in kazan city. similarity is co-founder and senior advisor at nexus 3 foundation and indonesian environmental group she joins us from bangkok thailand from chicago we have kate o'neill she's an associate professor at university of california berkeley she's also author of the upcoming book waste a study of how waste is managed around the world everybody has a lady's it's good to have you with us going to start with something else that we writing this is in the print feels like

a revolution he came to me to share with you what i'm talking about here one asian country after another is shutting door away spastics the u.s. u.k. australia they're sending their rubbish back and it seems to have started with china can you explain kate. yeah it did start with china i think we didn't really realise that till 2017 that china had been taking in the hope of the world as the square in the developed world assembly for recycling and. almost 2 years ago to the day china and now thought it was just going to start importing all of this stick and we're talking huge quantities hundreds of thousands of tonnes and over the 20 years or so china had been doing this very little of it had been recycled at home we had stopped developing recycling facility here and us so once china said no this is contaminated we don't want to do with. the coin industry and went to

a spin here and it was really a 5 minute ship a huge wake up call for the international community in terms of what we do with our waste i'm just looking at pictures of waste being well waste just lying around actually and then i'm just thinking as we're going through this and some of the pictures you're in what is it that is being recycled from the waste that we throw away how was it done. yeah it's interesting because the stuff that shipped to the flipping countries including to indonesia that was labeled as recyclable actually it's not recyclables most of the packaging that we saw and i saw it on the ground it was labeled current need not recycle. or check your local come so about. so it was

a bit funny because when i saw the packaging with the signed recycling recycling sign but crossed it means it's not recyclables so i wonder how the philip nations claim that the recycling rate in their countries already reached 60 percent or 70 percent but in fact they shipped it to other countries to be recycled yes that's big chairs was from the field that i went . yeah i found lots of ways collecting collecting and separated by speakers and of course this conversation begs the question for many people in our community on why the waste is going to these countries in the 1st place so here's one view from aid she flores who says it's a cheap source of labor that provides jobs to developing states those states can then sell recycled goods to turn a profit if the developing nation can recycle the majority of wastes it's

a mutually beneficial relationship between wealthy and developed nations and developing nations so that is his take there on the reason why this is happening in the 1st place but i want to share this with you from a resident of one of those nations this from the jakarta post you see the headline there why do you always export your waste to my country indonesian preteen wrote this letter to us president trump you can see the letter there she spoke to the stream about what went behind this letter and what she's asking have a listen to what she told us. right i mean now and to look at his i'm from east and back into machine and with the net just for president i think you need just enough many to ask him to stop explaining and to waste into testing we did and if there is any change. in our make then g.'s to simply just going to do least in the world.

we have less problems from our least in making these to what they say should to get at least these tend to need to initiate the shit need to make them make it to take back in take. lead tard not to want to do whatever she says in that video and then talk to her about what she said she said the u.s. should treat their own waste it seems like a rational idea there why is the waste going to southeast asia. the waste is going to southeast asia because labor is cheaper to recycle it here than to process it back home and that's the whole problem about all this raise that predation that's going on. people in rich countries think that it's easier. cheaper to get rid of the waste in developing countries but i did actually means is that it goes through recycling facilities

that are crude that can't recycle the waste properly or they're not recycled that like unions is is there a genuine business case of sending. genuine recyclables from one country to another country one country doesn't need it another country could use it is it a genuine business case for this to happen all the pens i was on the scrap we're looking at i mean there's been a long term trade in aluminum plastic i mean a price that aluminum steel copper other kinds of scrap that can't be used efficiently here i mean in the u.s. we have affectively outsourced our manufacturing capacity as well as our recycling so yeah when you're talking that kind of scrap absolutely and i think that. to that extent yes there always is a case for a global scrap rate because just going to be thrown out here the scrap trade goes back to the 18th century. thank you and if i may say yes

in the fall of yet into flipping countries some of the recycling plans i'm actually not up to and it because people just look for opportunities economic opportunities so when china shut the door and all the traders and brokers shipped all the waste. to all the southeast asian nations we are not prepared so most of the. recycling plants i gently brand new or pop pop or is just informal activities so sometimes yeah when experts say that their market actually they have to define what kind of market because that in reality ocket this there but actually it's not really prepared not really built according to the standards. an example of what not being prepared looks like so i want to show you something known as the plastic river and you can see this have

a look let's just roll the tape. i want you to see what we're looking at this is the plastic river known as a passing over in the philippines so the philippines is grappling with his own waste issue so the idea of taking on other countries waste in bulk how do you even do that later. it's crazy actually. we take in waste from other countries and a lot of it is illegally shipped it's not like the philippines is not likely industry that's as big as in malaysia or vietnam or indonesia we take in. we get shipped a lot of illegal ways only gets this covered when the containers are opened for random checks in the ports. but going back to the question you posed earlier about the business case of waste or cycling in sending it to us. there are countries it's actually a flawed wadlow because it doesn't take into account the extra now that these that

happened like the environmental costs of. whether it's. very very crude facility so there's a lot of environmental. problems that happen with that kind of recycling or whether it's in for example in cement where the plastic waste gets burnt and there's a lot of environmental pollution air pollution and communities really are the ones that suffer. i mean i would i would absolutely agree with that when it comes to those sorts of wastes and i think it's just such a huge. business for people to take advantage chen mean you're talking about shipments going to the philippines and being open up i mean if these shipments came up pretty much anything and easily slipped out of developed countries and to show up and less of a paper it but then you know we've seen cases spread history that just gets dumped on people people who come in communities in africa back in the eighty's people died

directly from exposure to toxic waste from the yankees and the community is talking about what this means for the local communities where this waste is is dumb so shift on twitter says one plastic is burn it releases dangerous chemicals and these emissions are known to cause respiratory ailments and stress human immune systems and they're potentially carcinogenic another person sent us a video comment on what this means she is my guess was is a researcher at friends of the earth malaysia and here's what she told us. recycling has caused tremendous impacts to the end waterman and communities in southeast asian countries this is especially due to. reach has been brought in to malaysia and most of the. contaminated and mixed plastics which could not be recycled. in. neighboring communities have.