but here the halls of congress just a few blocks away the fans of thousands are brutal protesters are marching in visiting and many of them suggesting that instead of talking president of the. should listen to instead of they told us basically the perceived in action is all good that they're in the south china sea is the bits relation to china including the so-called war on drugs all of these issues they say his rhetoric against gay people against the minority his call for death penalty and plunder they say it's proof that the president is unfit to the burn and they want him to resign. still ahead on al-jazeera. hong kong's leader condemned sunday's attack on protesters but says challenging chinese sovereignty is also unacceptable.

hello there slight breaking weather conditions across eastern sections of china but the rain still very much in evidence these that the my you buy you from these palm rays that we talk about and in fact as we go through the next couple of days becoming more extensive out towards the southwest and eventually pushing towards the coast as well hong kong and on about day $32.00 degrees and it should be mostly dry you can see what i mean there by wednesday really a blanket of rain across the entire region and we'll see a high of 36 up in shanghai and again that will likely come with some rain for you and then we had across towards india plenty of rain in the forecast here it has been a dry couple of weeks the most part into southern sections that has changed in the last couple of days the warnings in place from the india met department because he's rains will be heavy they will undoubtedly lead to some localized flooding and you can see also on cheese of that raise back in the forecast across into nepal bangladesh and the northeast areas we have seen flooding in recent days so there

will likely be more flooding again in these areas in fact by wednesday these rains really extending into more central areas so not poor you will see some rain 33 degrees of course this rain is very heavy at times particularly later in the day and i will see that writing set in right away towards the west. and a hot day new delhi at 36. on counting the cost the trillion dollar lunar bounty 50 years up to man 1st stepped on the moon we find out why there's a school. to return and the number of people going hungry has risen for the 3rd year running we find out what's gone wrong counting the cost. i. can tell you. some of the.

hello again you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour britain's foreign secretary jeremy hunt was briefed adamant about his government's response to iran's seizure of a u.k. flagged oil tanker he called it an act of state piracy and says the u.k. will try to put together a european led maritime mission iran maintains that the seizure of the tanker was legal. kenya's finance minister has been arrested for alleged corruption and we go to church is the 1st serving government minister ever to be arrested for fraud he denies the accusations. philippine president wants to bring back the death penalty for drug related crimes returned to ask congress for the reinstatement his state of

the nation address. forces have demolished homes in the occupied west bank despite warnings from the un and the e.u. the destruction of where the homeless is the 1st of its kind because it's under the control of the palestinian authority residents there lost their 7 year legal battle to overturn a military eviction order when israel's high court dismissed the case rob matheson as of the site of those demolitions in the occupied west bank. just let me show you these piles of rubble that you can probably just see behind me one on this side of the fence the other one on the other side of the fence these used to be houses these these used to be homes that one was on occupied but this one was occupied by a family that had 6 children and it just around the corner from us from where we are now there was another building that's been razed to the ground there were 2 families in that that had to be evacuated by the security forces before that building was flattened in the early hours of the morning israeli security forces

made their way into vacs property and brought people out and we were here when that happened we heard people screaming and shouting and yelling and the people were taken off further up the road and then we saw teams of workmen who came in and were removing large pieces of furniture from the house where we didn't see any small personal items that were coming out the only thing that we're waiting for now is this building here this 4th building is currently being filled with explosives by israeli military engineers the intention is to bring that building as well always and for doing this is a military ruling that was brought in about 8 years ago which said that in at least as far as this neighborhood is concerned that no buildings could be could be constructed within about 250 meters of this separation fence in the separation fence as you can see is running up the center of the street there you can get in a sense of just how close these buildings have been hong kong's lead to carry lamb

has condemned violence following a mass rally against the government at least 40 people were injured when a mama salted anti-government protesters with one in a critical condition sara clock reports from hong kong. was going watchwords facemasks the suspected mob of gang members moved in on protesters returning from sunday's pro-democracy which was willing steal roads and battens attacked militias you long train station in the new territories. as well as assaulting students journalists and a politician some tried to escape by boarding a train they were pursued and beaten again and what appeared to be targeted assaults at least 40 were injured some taken to hospital but the city's chief executive and police commissioner condemned the violence and we absolutely do not condone that sort of violent acts and i let me made as clear again violence is not

a solution to any problem or violence were only breed more violence the pro-democracy politicians say the mobile is part of an organized crime group known as child hide they say to yourself campaigners against the extradition bill the politicians also accuse the police of cooperating with the attack it and their slow response to cries for help and you could tell how they were if not to colluding almost cold operating with edge other how do you explain the dozens of people were injured some very seriously and got the taken to hospital and the police did manage to arrest one passenger as a terrorist attack. all the people of hong kong and they want to silence the people of hong kong and create white terror and that's why people are wearing white white

tara i said again white terror probe asian legislators are being accused of supporting the attacks and the long in a video shared online legislator genius hoed singh giving members of the gang the thumbs up and shaking their hands after the assaults he since defended his actions and denies backing the mob shaking hand to my voters the sugar and to everyone whom i know or how much i don't know is my daily routine so shooting him is not representing that i endorse what they are going to do i don't know those words weren't enough to convince his critics he trashed his office on monday. during sunday's protests tear gas and rubber bullets were used on demonstrators during the march on sunday night national emblem of child it was to faced and protests is attacked china's liaison office home to the chinese government in hong kong china's leaders in beijing have warned any insults to the chinese nation won't be tolerated

these protests were initially focusing on the proposed extradition law to send fugitives in hong kong for trial in mainland china but it's now a broader campaign with what critics argue is china's tightening grip on this former british territory and is no end in sight to these demonstrations with another rally planned this weekend sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. a us president donald trump is meeting pakistan's prime minister in washington imran khan is looking to improve relations are the u.s. president cut off military aid a trump is accused pakistan of not doing enough to confront the taliban and other armed groups let's talk to mike hanna who is in washington d.c. forest so mike how significant is this meeting. well it's very significant indeed relations between pakistan and the u.s. have been the exceedingly low in recent years particularly since president trump

took office he engaged in a vitriolic twitter attack on pakistan and on its prime minister imran khan who responded in kind but in recent months there has been a shift in the relationship it would appear pakistan has been very important in brokering talks between u.s. officials and the taliban a crucial chief meant if there are going to be able to reduce u.s. troop numbers within afghanistan also just this week pakistan ordered the arrest of a man of his cia who the u.s. had been searching for for years they had a bounty on his head he had been living openly in pakistan in islamabad or in the show or region about he was arrested in recent days this greeted by president trump so the tone has been set perhaps for a more a mythical meeting what's at stake is some $8000000000.00 annually in u.s. aid to pakistan which president trump has suspended so what else are they likely to

be talking about then mike when they sit down to go. well certainly that issue of resuming u.s. assistance is absolutely crucial to imran khan also he's going to be looking for other areas of greater cooperation between pakistan and the u.s. it's important to note that accompanying him on this trip is his joint head up there pakistan's joint chief of staff along with the director of the intelligence agencies they going to be holding separate meetings with their counterparts in the u.s. no doubt that is going to focus exactly on how much more pakistan can add to what the u.s. calls busy its war busy on terror but imran khan will be looking for at the funds coming to pakistan he's also going to be looking for assistance in gaining more i.m.f. loans which has happened within the recent months that the u.s. played a role in it is assumed so certainly he's looking for a looking for assistance but most importantly he's looking to warm up

a relationship between the u.s. and pakistan which has been very very chilly in recent years although i might thanks for that mike hanna in washington for us. thousands of puerto rican have gathered for what is expected to be the biggest protest in the u.s. territories recent history they are calling for government to recall though it will sell those resignations is refused to step down but says he will not seek reelection next year sellers accused of racism homophobia and corruption. is at that point. this is now the 10th day of protests here in san juan puerto rico everyone with the same message calling for the governor recall the rosario to step down and step down immediately organizers had hoped for tens of thousands and that's exactly what we're seeing here like a huge cross-section of puerto rican society here this is the biggest protest that we've seen in the past week or so since this texting scandal broke

a scandal where the governor of messages from the governor leaked messages where he was insulting the puerto rican people what the governor did on sunday night was put out this facebook message saying that he would not run for reelection in november of next year but he said he would not step down he was hoping that that would call him the protest down a little bit and satisfy so many people it clearly has not as we're seeing from this turnout here huge amount of people out on the streets now the big question is what will be the response from the governor after this protest is over for right now everyone is saying they are not satisfied with the governor simply not running for reelection they say they want him to step down and step down today. one person has been killed at a protest by a group of muslims in nigeria's capital of violence broke out during another march

calling for the release of the leader of the islamic movement of nigeria police fired shots to disperse protesters as some set nearby vehicles alight. zacky supporters have regularly taken to the streets calling for his release since he was detained in 2015. the health minister in the democratic of republic of congo has resigned only in anger says he's protesting against president felix kady taking control of the response to the spread of ebola in anger says that will hinder efforts to contain the violence it's killed at least 1600 congolese since the latest outbreak last august the world health organization says it is a public health emergency our firefighters in portugal look like they are winning of their battle against wildfires the last remaining blaze in castillo branco is almost under control 2 other major fires were put out on sunday but the risk of further fires remains high police have arrested

a suspected arsonist of the largest city in southern iraq is rich in oil but its leaders struggle to provide clean drinking water 120000 people needed hospital treatment in the past year after drinking polluted supplies many fear a repeat unless the problem is fixed and some of binge of it reports. are just about breathing but it looks like they'll be taking their last gasp soon sitting next to a treatment plant one of many providing water from salty tributaries and canards to the more than 4000000 people a bus through. the aging network is unable to cope with rising demand. the quantity as well as quality of the water is a major concern. was among $120000.00 iraqis who needed hospital treatment after drinking polluted water last year his family struggles to afford the $15.00 needed every day dubai clean water from privately owned tanker companies are the largest

other i have recently developed a skin disease from filthy water in our taps and it took me 6 months to get treated . a majority of the affected are been in children this was full of water costs about $0.50 not everyone in bus can afford bottles like this one what many people are able to afford is water taps like these which come directly from the river and its tributaries and it is this polluted water which has been the cause of sending more than 120000 people to hospital in the city which is home to more than 4 and a half 1000000 people since last year's outbreak of disease the problems have been identified but solutions require serious efforts and funds a supply of clean water is among the many basic services lacking in this oil rich city or to. the real cause of water pollution come from the main water sources high level of salinity and bacterial contamination after the corrosion of water pipelines and there are infrastructure issues contributing to bus rose water

problems. human rights watch says untreated sewage as well as industrial and agricultural waste is pumped into waterways the fear is that this situation is only going to get worse because authorities haven't done what they need to in order to protect the people of basra and ensure that there is adequate water quality and quantity iraq's health minister says the government understands the severity and urgency of the crisis. we have a comprehensive review of the environmental. challenges and in the relation to the drinking water we are now for the 1st time in over the last 5 to 6 months we are producing regular bulletin on the standards of water it will take more than monitoring to solve the crises in addition to government mismanagement and neglect climate change and dams in neighboring turkey and iran are also taking a toll on water resources and there's a constant fear that another outbreak of disease might happen at any time job get

out of the euro bus or. this is going to round up at the top stories britain's foreign secretary jeremy hunt says the u.k. will try to put together a european led maritime mission in the strait of hormuz he briefed parliament about the government's response to iran's seizure of a u.k. flagged oil tanker he's called it an act of state piracy iran maintains the seizure was legal so if iran continues on this dangerous path they must accept the price will be a larger western military presence in the waters along the coastline not because we wish to increase tensions but simply because freedom of navigation is a principle which britain and its allies will always defend iran's government spokesman says the tanker broke maritime rules. it is interesting that when

a british ship commits an offense and iran confronts the ship for the security of the region some countries announce their request to release the tanker well we ask entrees 1st ask the u.k. to release the iranian tanker the british tanker contrary to maritime regulations 1st turned off its transponder instead of moving to the entrance of the strait of hormuz and it did not pay attention to different warnings. kenya's finance minister has been arrested for alleged corruption and rewrote it is the 1st serbian government minister ever to be arrested for fraud he denies the accusations. fighters in somalia are claiming responsibility for a bomb blast which killed at least 17 people 20 others were injured near the international airport in the capital mogadishu. hong kong's leader kerry lamb is condemning violence following a mass rally against pro-government least fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds outside the office of china's representatives to the city.

and later in the night dozens of masked men at tak people returning home from the rally opposition politicians blame the attack on suspected gang members and say they will investigate. philippine president rodriguez eternity is calling on congress to reinstate the death penalty for drug related crimes to take delivered his state of the nation address where he pushed for constitutional amendments will 50 people were killed in suing the government airstrikes in a province in the past 24 hours several people are still thought to be trapped under the rubble after a busy market came under attack. israeli forces have demolished palestinian homes in the occupied west bank despite warnings from the un and the e.u. are people there in a way the and hamas and lost their 70 year legal battle to overturn a military intervention order when israel's high court dismissed the case those are

the headlines we're back in half an hour right now it's counting the cost. thank. you. hello i'm hasnt sleeker this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week the trillion dollar moon bounty as india prepares to become the 4th nation to land on the moon we find out why there's a new scramble to get there the number of people going hungry has risen for the 3rd year running off the years of improvements we find out what's gone wrong and the

multi-billion dollar muslim fashion industry why are big brands buying into the trend. of 50 years ago this week neil armstrong became the 1st man to step on to the moon man's flirtation with it was brief with a dozen men walking on at the last in 1972 but now there's renewed interest china plans to build a lunar base by 2030 and nasa hopes to have men and women on the moon by 2024 over the next 5 years the space agency is expected to spend $30000000000.00 on this it's funding several projects from lunar landers to a mini space station that will allow craft to dock around the moon 1000000000 as long mosque and jeff bezos also spending billions to get to the moon and mars. but there's a new emerging powers india is trying to become the 4th nation to land

a probe on the moon the chandra ion 2 mission hopes to land a lunar rover close to the south pole sometime in september the area of the moon has not been explored before there it hopes to find signs of water and helium 3 and there's thought to be 1000000 metric tons of helium 3 on the moon only about 200 $50000.00 tons could realistically be mined but that would be enough to power the earth for at least 2 centuries each ton is estimated to be worth $5000000000.00 there are problems in getting helium 3 to earth though but because it is not radioactive it would not produce dangerous waste on the indian space research organisations mission is expected to cost just $125000000.00 india has built a reputation for its low cost space exploration its budget of $1700000000.00 a year is just

a 10th of nasa says $900000000000.00 india's 1st mission to the moon in october 2008 discovered water molecules on the surface we're joining me now from london is talk to ian crawford professor of planetary science and astrobiology at birkbeck college university of london thanks very much for being with us so it's 50 years since man 1st set on the moon why is there a race to get back there. well i think there are several reasons to go back to the moon but from a scientific point of view we've now had 50 years studying the apollo samples and the apollo data and ways now raised many questions and we now realize the moon can tell us so much more about the early evolution of the solar system that apollo didn't and so from a scientific point of view there's a tremendous interest in exploring parts of the moon that apollo didn't go to and there's a been a growing interest as well in trying to mine the resources of the moon light water

what do you think is economically exploitable i think the context here is that in terms of the future exploration of space if we can find things in space which we can use without having to lift out of earth's gravity then this will make space exploration much more affordable in the long term now water is one of those commodities water is very useful essential for human life of course but also can be split into hydrogen and oxygen and the oxygen can be used to breathe and the hydrogen can be used as a rocket fuel so water's got multiple applications in space exploration and we've now realized that the poles of the moon probably do contain water ice and this would make this would be the in the in the near if you near east future anyway probably the most economic resource that the moon might have but that would be to enable future space exploration obviously we wouldn't mind water on the moon to import to the earth and we'd be using it in space. or what about helium 3 then at

indian and china seem very interested but your skeptical about the possibility of mining it on the moon helium 3 is a light ice a tape of helium so it's a form of helium with 2 protons and one neutron in the nucleus it exists in the lunar soil because it's implanted by the solar wind and we know it's present in very small quantities in the lunar soils thanks to the apollo samples so there is speculation that helium 3 might be used to serve fuel for nuclear fusion reactors in the future to provide electricity on the earth i am skeptical about this part firstly because we haven't actually got any nuclear fusion reactors to work on the earth yet so it's a bit premature to start mining the moon for a fuel for something we don't know whether we can use it yet but even if we can use it it's a nonrenewable resource and it's present in very small amounts to make any sensible

impact to the earth's 21st energy 21st century energy requirements you'd have to strip mined many hundreds of square kilometers of the lunar surface every year extracting helium 3 from it and then you'd have to transport that helium 3 to the earth to use in these uclear reactors that we haven't designed yet so i just think the house to be a better way it's a provide the earth's future energy needs than mining helium 3 on the moon and what would it take what would it cost to colonize the moon does it depend essentially on os finding water there. i think talking about colonizing the moon it's a very ambitious thing that our law is probably a long time in the future i think what we should talk about colonizing we should be thinking in terms of establishing small scientific outposts on the moon so imagine bases on them in similar to the research stations we have home antarctica these

research stations on and all to enable a lot of science to be done on the continent of antarctica and similarly small scientific research stations like those on the moon would enable of an enormous amount of research to be done on the moon and then later a similar outpost on mars would help us explore that planet so i think rather than thinking of sort of a full blown colonize ation the next step is seti would be setting up small research stations will likely as we have in antarctica but yes lunar resources would greatly facilitate the establishment of such research stations i mean water is a good example he wouldn't want to import water off into your main base from the earth because it for expensive to lift out of its gravity so if the moon has water of its own it would be much more economical to utilize that and then maybe other resources on the me and also that could be helpful in making a moon base more affordable and under 1009 $167.00 u.n. treaty no nation is entitle to you know appropriate the moon but the terms of this

treaty are more vague when it comes to exploiting its mineral resources aren't they how much of a in issue could that be. yes well it's potentially is an important issue the the $967.00 outer space treaty was a product of its time it lays the foundation for international cooperation in space exploration but at the time that it was written no one envisaged the possibility of commercial operators acting on the moon or other planets so there is a pressing need to update the outer space treaty to make it more explicitly clearer as to the responsibilities of nation states but also the rules that would govern private entities on the moon and other places in the solar system so yes i agree it is important to consider updating the 967 outer space treaty to make it fit for purpose for space activities in the 21st century dr ian crawford thanks very much

for being with us thank you. now the number of people going hungry has risen for the 3rd year running after years of improvement that's according to the united nations which blamed conflict climate changes and an economic slowdown globally more than 820000000 people or 11 percent of the population suffer from hunger africa has the highest percentage with one in 5 people going hungry the number rises to nearly one in 3 in east africa according to 5 u.n. agencies more than 2000000000 people worldwide can't get safe sufficient or nutritious food as the u.n. agencies say conflict and climate change is having a huge impact on hunger in central mali thousands of people are struggling to feed themselves not been displaced by fighting the conflict between herders and farmers belonging to rival ethnic groups as led to the deaths of hundreds of people as it is malcolm webb reports from mali's mufti region. who they 1st called malaria then

became constipated. her mother mary says they only have rice left to eat in their village and so eyes wait plummeted i wonder how we all mean i went to a pharmacy that the medicine didn't work so i try traditional medicine but we still thin so i came to the hospital and we're still here there are always some severely malnourished children in hospital wards like this one in central mali worsening drought and extreme poverty play their part but the un says escalating violence in the region has made it worse. nearly 50000 people have fled their villages after a series of attacks by militia connected to the don't go on and fulani ethnic groups the landscapes dry at the best of times now many go on who are mostly farmers far from their crops and many forlornly herders animals have been stolen or

killed banditry has made road transport too dangerous for centuries the river. played a crucial role in transporting food and other goods around this region these boats bring produce from farming areas and it's traded here at the port in the town of martinis sacks of ground up rice husks will be sold and fed to cattle the interdependence between the herders and the farmers as lasted for centuries as well the herders buy food from the farmers and in the dry season the farmers pay the herders to take their livestock out onto the plains for grazing but that interdependence is now strained. hundreds of been killed in the last 3 months as militia connected to both groups of burned homes and massacred villages. many of those who fled to the safety of nearby towns are hungry. instead of handing out food un's world food programme is giving credit on cards for people to buy from

local traders they have the right to trolls on their free for this is up for the full garden 30 years from their village this is for the dignity of choosing what they want to it secondly it's most. that the truth does and those what it was called on the local economy and like most here try to matter jacket terry had to leave everything behind when to have village was attacked and one that may have been here well we really need is peace the crisis needs to be handled and brought to an end 40 matter will be raising her children alone in a camp she says her husband was killed in front of her the attacks keep happening.