the sexes across the brazilian kind of me and we are brazil's 2nd biggest biggest trading partner accounting for 18.3 percent of its total trade so we have a very high. sort of a very big impact potentially on. brazil trade if the e.u. decides to take this to the next level which is to say to brazil we will not ratify this trade agreement unless you keep your different station levels under under check. so the e.u. basically has leverage then. is there a political will across the board to use it it's interesting to note that this week on tuesday the e.u. published an action plan which sees the e.u. for the 1st time opening the door to regulator measures that would set standards on the goods that the e.u. imports to ensure they're not associated with deforestation and for a sacred ation. it wants this to be a partnership approach so the e.u.

is not going to impose its standards on other countries but the e.u. does have a duty to respond to the increasing concern among you consumers about the impact that their consumption is having on forests on the people who depend on those forests and with this communication with this action plan that it published this week it shows that the e.u. is for the 1st time willing to bring in new options that could be regulator that would ensure that products that are being placed on the market from countries such as brazil would not be linked to human rights abuses. or different station all right thank you so much for your thoughts on that. thank you. south african business is a begun paying a carbon tax as it tries to fight climate change one of africa's biggest economies is hoping the move will help force big to change. has more from me in the province. south africa is

a continent of most industrialized economy and one of africa's worst polluters its economy relies heavily on coal a dirty fossil fuel to produce electricity environment groups say the towering coal fired power stations released dangerous carbon emissions every day into the atmosphere the government introduced a carbon tax law earlier this month requiring big polluting companies to pay tax each time they emit greenhouse gases those in favor of the tax hope it will be enough of a deterrent and they must remember that the more they pollute there's a concoction of pollutants in the atmosphere you can do business and it did planet a message that we're getting there they should do things possible. to that because emissions are marked $8.00 times per person every year the world bank says that's among the highest in the developing world it's ranked among the dirtiest energy producers in the world number 16 on the global emissions list of the paris agreement on climate change and committed to an emission reduction of 34 percent by

2020 and 42 percent by 2025 but industry experts warn in a country where the official unemployment rate is more than 27 percent carbon taxes and to growth and jobs and anti investment the problem is the cost increases and the uncertainty around how the search will be applied because the carbon budget regulations have not been published and. the carbon offset regulations. it will still be years before surface is a significant reduction in carbon emissions and that's only if the carbon tax law proves to be effective south africans who support carbon tax say the money must be used to benefit pork and. like helping pay for programs that provide cleaner and safer energy for low income households until coal is $1.00 day replaced by green energy sources or gas emissions are drastically reduced for mining communities will continue to be polluted air every day. al-jazeera in milan south africa.

the governor of hawaii has agreed to negotiate with protestors over the construction of a giant telescope the $1400000000.00 projects is being built on a mountain that's considered one of the world's best viewing platforms for many indigenous hawaiians also consider it sacred they've been blocking access to the site from most 2 weeks my color of quartz to gather for the monday after more than a week of protests by native hawaiians and activists the government in honolulu was forced to act this week the state's governor visited the controversial construction site of the 30 meter telescope project pledging to listen to the concerns of the protesters the demonstrators say the project would disagree the sacred ground supply hawaiian mountain. and the governor now recognizes their grievances saying he's willing to work with the protesters and we are committed to. finding

a week or. even a peaceful more uncertain looking forward to harbor dialogue and much opposition will be required. as we move forward i don't want to see anyone suffer and we will see people get sick and die if they're forced to spend 3 weeks 3 months or god forbid 3 years blocking this road i'm heartened by his presence i'm glad he's here i think he will experience what we've been seeing about what this place looks and feels like about kind of. the passion of all the people who are willing to withstand these these cold temperatures and i should conditions many native hawaiians have long been angered by the presence of a number of observatories on the mountain they know as man ok are but the $1500000000.00 project also has supporters who are expected to rally at the state capitol on thursday among their many native hawaiians insist. the project will

create jobs the international attention over the mountain protest has drawn stop. to the rock johnson is samoan but grew up. and understands the pain of protest is at what they view as sacrilege. of the respect of culture respect. and doing the right way. but underlying the debate an argument that his about more than a sacred mountain it's also about the state's economic interests being given priority . over native hawaiian cultural rights a consonant that resonates beyond the big island. al-jazeera. installed. the madrid with that difference in the moment.

or let's catch up on the football action because for us there thank you so much sammy will cleese in london are investigating an attempted carjacking and valving 2 players from english premier league side arsenal well mesut ozil and saeed kolesnik were left unhurt following the incident on thursday c.c.t.v. footage shows cholesky x. seen here wearing a black baseball cap confronting a man carrying a nice both attackers eventually sped away on a moped ozil who was in the car at the time and collapsed yack were not injured the pair had just returned from the united states where arsenal had been on

a pre-season tour. one of the teams that are still played on the tour were real madrid the 13 time european cup winners are still in the u.s. one side a they'll take on athletico in the 1st madrid darby to be played in the america as well are coming off the back of this win over arsalan maryland one player that won't be featuring is marco asensio the 23 year old forward was a score in the match but later suffered a serious knee injury and thought he could be out for 9 months but the round manager's side has refused to say whether the club will be forced to buy a replacement. so subtle you believe that i'm thinking about that right now the player that will replace marco we're disappointed we're told by doctors injury we have a match on friday are we going to do with that play a good match and later we'll see we'll return home and see what will happen but we have a squad about as a squad we have work here. a group of female amateurs are riding every stage of the

tour de france ahead of the male pros they're trying to push for a women's version of cycling's biggest race but the tour de france organizers say it is impossible for now the tasha butler reports. the spectacular peaks of the french alps still dotted with patches of snow despite the summer heat there is 0 hour mountain passes more than 2300 meters high for these riders it's a tantalizing test of strength and part of a campaign for women's tour de france the world's most famous bike race is exclusively for men we want a women's race equal to the men's because the tour de france is monuments it's the race for the best way to encourage young women to cycle is with media coverage of a big women's race 5 years ago this group of women set out to raise awareness about the inequalities in professional cycling each july they ride all $21.00 stages of

the tour it's a challenging route of nearly 3500 kilometers but they do so in conditions far less comfortable than the men's with traffic a modest support team no prize money or funfair. ringback this year these international riders have joined them where everyday guys have got full time jobs and if we can do it anybody can do it we've got a lot fatigue in the legs live in nations all over the place because it's quite draining mentally as well as physically because we don't have the support that the professionals have in the 1980 s. the organizers of the tour de france experimented with the women's race but they said that it failed to attract enough public and media attention but times have changed women's sport is popular and now the organizers are saying that they are considering an equivalent women's race. the a.s.o. company that runs the tour has yet to provide details of a future race but it's expected to be longer than they one day women's event. these

2 are enthusiastic way it would be a welcome addition to the cycling calendar. woman's world cup team had lots of coverage so why not a women's tour de france at the end of the 18th stage the galley be a pos is a grueling climb but the prospect of a women's tour makes the efforts worthwhile to just move euphoric at the idea that the organizers of the tour think it is possible to create a big stage race in france for women riders they really deserve it. reaching the top is overwhelming for some but the sense of achievement is clear and with only days until the end of the 3 week challenge these women are riding high natasha the gallup poll us the alps from. cricket and in the last hour a pox on fast bowler mohammad the mayor has announced his retirement from test cricket will continue to represent his country and one day and t 20 matches meanwhile ireland have been sacked 182 runs to record their 1st ever test match

a victory about hands and legs were bowled out for 303 in their 2nd any early on day 3 ireland had yet to score before rain stopped play and retired sprint champion new same bowl dropped in on some unsuspecting runners in new york city the jamaican surprise a small group that organized marathons in the city the 32 year old former olympic champion and world record holder then joined them on an evening run through central park and filmed and during it won't be competing at the tokyo olympics next year but says he'll still be there. do i want to just experience sort of picks for the 1st time just as a regular person go to the stadium to watch you know i mean go watch other sports because i've never really got no watching a lot of support so for me it's something that i've really thought about and i've told my team i made up my mind what i want to do so through the process. and what they are and what we were going to end up at the olympics but i'm definitely going

. ok and that is all your sport for now more later back to you sammy thanks so much and you can of course get more and all the stories we've been telling you about head over the dress al-jazeera dot com down and back in a moment so stay with us here on al-jazeera. the latest news as it breaks it has long campaigned against what it calls attempts

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a 100 migrants afia dead after a boat capsized off the libyan coast. a period of mourning into nazir's the country's swears in an interim leader after the death of its 1st democratically elected president. nearing the point of no return the destruction of brazil's amazon could soon have a profound effect on the world. years of sanctions on north korea appeared to be having a devastating impact its economy spiraling downwards slipping by 4 point one percent in $28.00 that's estimated to be the worst drop in 21 years when the sanctions are meant to force north korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions but on thursday a young untested new missiles. it was a warning to south korea which is planning more joint military drills with the united states well u.s.

secular state my campaign says new talks on denuclearization of the korean peninsula could start within weeks write reports from seoul the figures provide the stark is dev a dense yet of how sanctions against north korea are hurting it economically last year the economy contract did by 4 point one percent that's on top of a 3 and a half percent contraction the year before at the height of the nuclear and missile testing crisis when the toughest sanctions were introduced compare that with 2016 when the north korean economy grew at nearly 4 percent better even than south korea in the same year figures released earlier this month in seoul also show how sanctions have cut north korea's trade with its neighbors by nearly half with a staggering 86 percent drop in exports especially affected has been its mining sector with a complete ban on one of its biggest exports coal it shows the extent to which kim

jong un stated ambition to develop his country's economy rather than the military is being frustrated but state run media is reporting that thursday's launch was overseen personally by kim and that the missiles were a new type of guided weapon much harder for anti missile systems to detect and intercept the north says there were a warning to the war mongers of south korea but seem calculated not to jeopardize the chance of a further summit with the us president donald trump they haven't done nuclear testing they really haven't tested missiles other than you know smaller ones. the which is something that test. kim seems to be following the same strategy of using his country's advances in military technology to build pressure for crippling sanctions to eventually be lifted rob mcbride al jazeera so well even foster carter

is a senior research fellow at leeds university in the u.k. he says those hurting most everyday working class people. the burden of pain is very on even especially the 1st thing to say is that the missile program the weapons of mass destruction which is proceeding even if president trump say it isn't the testing that we've seen i mean resources for that are fine the elite in pyongyang as far as we can see in the capital something of a showpiece city become slightly more like other cities or more commerce in recent years this is a very strange disconnect in the puzzle for us you analyze it i mean it you can't see the hurting that so the burden as ever is being born in the countryside by ordinary people workers miners particular the mining sector is suffering a lot and farmers frankly the regime doesn't care very much about them we do know from international u.n. agencies and others how they are hurting say but the idea that sanctions will bring

north korea to the conference table i think is it's out of the un true if they are talking on and off that it's for other reasons so a mixed picture but definitely suffer even as the state continues to with its weapons program in northeast nigeria at least 2 people have been killed in that attack by boko haram fighters in one of the region's biggest camps the internally displaced people the army says the raid nima dewberry was repelled. and separate nigeria's government says it's negotiating to free aide workers being held hostage by an armed group affiliated with eisel 6 staff members of the french charity action against hunger but taken last week when their convoy was ambushed in the border jat 100 has more now from a boozer. their taekwondo cam came amid continuing efforts by a regional militaries from charge nigeria and cameroon as they stepped up their operations against boko haram especially the book on a question affiliated with ice where all the islamic state in west africa province

were seen such daring attacks becoming so rare over the past 6 months or so across the northeast of nigeria however boko haram has never completely disappeared they have continued their operations of. but abductions also have been the tool of trade of boko haram for a very long time long before the triple goes were taken from the school in 2014 goals were taken from several schools in borno state and in towns and cities across the state as well as neighboring states so virtually is still active in parts of north east nigeria despite the claims by the nigerian president say that they have been defeated and we will expect to see more of such desperate attacks by boko haram in the coming months or so as the military stepped up its operations against it one thing that came out of the attack on downloaded camp on 1st and i had was

that they raided the camp and took away food items meant for internally displaced persons which will go or which signifies that the operations to cocktail supply of food items and other logistics to pull quantum may be walking forcing them to take such a daring actions of raiding places that are considered too dangerous for them for food and other materials. the u.n. says at least $150.00 refugees and migrants are feared to have drowned off the coast of libya around $300.00 people on board 2 boats that left the town of commons east of the capital tripoli under schapelle reports. of put her children on a wooden boat she was trying to make it to europe by any means possible instead the journey became the worst tragedy this year in the mediterranean sea nearly 150 passengers were rescued by local fishermen her son wasn't one of them she's blaming international organizations for a lack of support the most of the numbers that i lost my 7 year old child i don't

want anything now except to go back to my country sudan to die there. survivors will return to libya a primary departure point for people fleeing poverty and war in africa and the middle east one person drowns in the mediterranean for every 6 that successfully reach europe's shores we've now had more than 700 deaths on the mediterranean this year if current trends for this year continue but will see us past more than 1000 deaths on the mediterranean for the 6th year in a row it's a really bleak milestone really bad is thinking about it comes just weeks after more than 50 people lost their lives in a detention center following an ass strike into giora and really once again stresses the edge and see if it was needed over of a need for a shift in approach to the situation in libya in the mediterranean. libya's coast

guard continues to take migrants to 2 jura the detention center holding mostly african migrants that was bombed 3 weeks ago by air forces believed to be loyal to the warlord khalifa haftar it's near the front line of fighting as have to are tries to take the capital the u.n. says the current model which is backed by the e.u. must change one where libya's coast guard intercepts and forcibly returns people caught trying to cross the sea. there's a conflict going on and my recently come on and. they're used to make money for people who have to pay their passage. and then she servitude in effect and then they're put in the high seas is not the situation. turning away from it or banning boats from rescuing people are simply not the way to go the u.n. refugee agency estimates that 6000 other refugees and migrants are being held in libyan detention centers even though they haven't committed a crime yet they remain highly at risk of getting caught in the conflict or dying

at sea and or schapelle al-jazeera. hundreds of activists have packed inside the main terminal hong kong's airport as they continue their calls. greater democracy well this is the scene in the main arrivals area where crowds are trying to take their message to international visitors these are live pictures they're angry at what they see as china's growing influence on the hong kong affairs and the government response to weeks of mass rallies protests began of reprimand extradition and all but grown into some of the largest in decades. to this is observing 7 days of mourning for its president 92 year old qaeda subsea who died on thursday his body has been taken to the presidential palace in carthage where he'll be buried on saturday was replaced by the speaker of parliament mahmoud and assume who leave the country until an election is held on september 15th his other young has moved from the new phase in tunisia's government to speaker of parliament mohamed innes who are sworn in to serve temporarily as the country's president he

will take over for up to 90 days while elections are organized. i swear by god almighty to protect the independence of tunisia and the safety of its lands to respect the constitution and law and fully take care of the people's interests and be loyal to tunisia. in this young democracy a vacant post for the country's leadership could spark a power struggle among tunisia's political parties deafened lot of candidates who are considered to be quite popular and quite strong but also very controversial who have been barred from running the presidential elections by parson parliament not too long ago this was not yet been signed by missteps and before he passed away and i think we'll hear a lot more about this controversy next couple of days president benjy kiters said speight who spent the last few weeks of his life in a not of the hospital was a leading figure in what was known as the arab spring uprising as prime minister

and then tunisia's 1st democratically elected president he helped draft a new constitution guaranteeing freedom of speech thanks. i'm going to have his accomplishments though were often overshadowed by a weak economy and high unemployment rate there is despair nobody can deny that there is the sense of hopelessness nobody can deny that however a country there is still hope that we can fix the pot and go towards a more prosperous unity 7 days of national mourning have been declared as the country honors the life and legacy of a sense be known what is no doubt the start of this mission on a positive note and he finished that the same way may he rest in peace his predecessors hurt the country but he was a good man who served his country no one did that before him no one shot. we hope the next president will be even better we hope our country will be stable and safe we have some terrorism but the country doesn't blame him it's unclear who will be

the front runner in tunisia's next presidential election but the groundwork has already been laid out for what should be a smooth transition katia lopez so the yawn al-jazeera 1st.