that allowed the pack on 21st of july so people are not asking for a thorough investigation and independent investigation on this incident. thousands joined saturday's demonstration of luck streets in a tense standoff that went on for hours but eventually police lost their patience and moved in to disperse the crowds. they fired several rounds of tear gas used to sponge and pepper spray some protesters fled others refused some volunteers also attempted to negotiate an end to what started as a peaceful rally that they had turned back going on we hope people can peacefully voice their opinion and their wishes so please i hope to protest the police because they call the crowds then move to your long trying station where last sunday's attacks occurred protesters hit the building and use fire extinguishers on police to resist arrest permission to go ahead with saturday's rally was denied by the

government this demonstration was an illegal assembly and police made a number of arrests these protests aren't going away as another rally planned on sunday in central hong kong and this time demonstrators are expected to target china's my eyes and office sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. will still out here all al-jazeera behind bars and out of reach the palestinian children imprisoned by israel and do not contact with their families plus is a promise of jobs enough to stop central american migrants from heading to the u.s. those stories after the break. out of the summer weather threat north america's or less settled down to wait.

expected to be occasional thunderstorms nice to towards busting to extreme there has been significant down cold rain in utah has produced a certain amount of flooding but you can get out and he's thunderstorms every now and again the midwest is to focus the sun by the temperatures rise again the east coast so he 2 to 33 well you may not think it was san francisco at 21 there's a bit of a woman's heat warning from the central valley of california for the next day or so starting strain is just that no one else is picking that up because it's no right near as hot as it was but this potential for quite big thunderstorms i think on the way down through towards chicago and further south into the ohio valley by the start of next week the rain in florida is more or less died out by a significant rain and if out there on that many showers in the forecast for the south through kubert hispan yota but there are plenty of riots in the smaller islands look at this as a bridge town just representing barbados covered in its big rains on their way is

free and of course the wind comes up against the high a grand slightly higher ground off places like honduras nicaragua or costa rica where they will be plenty rain the next day as. i. get closer to that seat all together i have seen boy scouts are always telling places together.

the market watching are just. top stories hundreds of people in sudan's capital a back on the streets protesting against the findings of an investigation into the deadly crackdown in khartoum last month blamed rogue soldiers for the violent break up of the sit in demonstration. also syrian government strikes have killed at least 13 civilians and north was it lip robyn's many of those killed were children russian backed government forces launched an offensive to recapture the last major rebel stronghold in april. more than a 1000 protesters have been arrested many violently as you know all the wise to march in moscow they were protesting the barring of opposition candidates from local elections. a delegation from me and has visited rohingya camps in

bangladesh to persuade refugees to return home hundreds of thousands have been sheltering there since fleeing a violent crackdown by mia mars military in 2017 talk of a charge of reports now from cox's bazaar. security was stepped up for the visit of representatives of the me and my government to the refugee camp at cox as bizarre there had been a fear of protest and only a select group of rowing was chosen to meet with the delegation in one of the camps offices shade there when i was among those who attended the talks to me and my government is trying to persuade the refugees to return home. they told us that all arrangements are being made for us to return they also told us that there are camps built for us with the necessary security and facilities. outside the camp's office several 100 rangers gathered to get to meet the delegates and ask questions but they were quickly dispersed by police and nearby another group of refugees try to

stage a demonstration but that was also quickly broken up by security officers some of the community leaders at cox's bazaar expressed their concern at what condition will be like if the refugees return to iraq and state we demand before our water going back i want to be done in done her community you should visit inside africa area about to assume that what i want to protect and this is the 3rd high level visit by the me and my government that repatriation of the 1st batch of refugees was to begin officially last november but it stalled amid protests at the camps and bangladesh many are still traumatized from their experience 2 years ago when they were forced to flee their homes during the me and my own military crackdown so who are a cotton 5 year old son an 18 year old grand daughter in law were killed by the security

forces. we will seek compensation and justice 1st for the loss of our family members we also want to be recognized as well he got if these demands are met and we get justice then we will think about going back critics said this trip pettish unplanned is just me and maurice latest attempt to divert international criticism from its policies directed at the rowing nearly a 1000000 rowing a refugees are crammed into this densely congested shanty camps in the caucasus bazaar area they're getting increasingly frustrated and angry about their future but no one is willing to return home to me on my part without citizenship papers and security guarantee. i'll just get out of the following parts of bangladesh. there are thousands of people who are marching garza for the funeral of a palestinian man killed by the israeli army during a weekly protest of the border fence 23 year old who was shot in the stomach near

the barrier another 38 palestinians were injured by gunfire in southern gaza. it was the 1st since june related to demonstrations against israeli occupation. and an israeli human rights organization is pushing for palestinian minors to be allowed to make phone calls while in detention $210.00 palestinians under the age of 18 are held in israeli jails right now security detainees or prisoners 2 of them are under 14 according to the rights group. it says most children report physical and verbal abuse from the moment of their arrest as well as their coercion and threats joining interrogation when they aren't told where they go or allowed to have contact with their families or a lawyer now the group how mocked is petitioning the courts for that to change their ibraheem more from qalqilya in the occupied west bank. thought of as he missed his little sister the most israeli authorities held the 15

year old under arrest for 3 months last year charging him with throwing stones at israeli soldiers he says he was questioned without any good counsel or member of his family being present and he only saw his mother once from a distance while he was detained. my friend was a restart with me the israeli interrogator told him that i confessed against him that he threw stones they wanted him to confess against me as well he came back to the prison room angry and shouting thinking that i did that he almost hit me via palestinian prisoners associations say that teenagers like target and even younger children are often arrested late at night or during confrontations with the israeli army in the occupied west bank they are tried in military court and around half a storage is of hurling stones that carry a prison sentence of around 6 months now the israeli human rights organization how good is petitioning the courts to allow minors to have access to phones the phone contact with the pick families is doubly important i mean of course it's

a basic right but also when you look at everything these kids are going through it's very important for them to have some sort of support from their families. you know i meant to try to fill that void he spent 2 years in jail until his release a few weeks ago and looked after young this unease while he was there he says some inmates whereas youngest 12 and found him the only consolation. some of them start crying they tell me i want my parents i want my mom but i know there's little i can do so i'm force a lot of them i say you'll be able to talk to mom soon and she'll visit in 10 days just so they can calm down and start adapting it usually takes more than 2 months for parents to get a visitor's permit but sometimes they never do they're allowed to attend their children's military trial but they're asked not to touch or talk to each other in the gaza strip many palestinians say the situation is usually worse than. for darwood is that his 16 year old son yousif was arrested 3 months ago he's accused

of trying to smuggle himself into israel says he doesn't know much about what's happened to his son since his arrest and is worried he won't be able to visit him. more often i was a wristed in the past so i might be banned from visiting him as they would deem me a security threat the israeli army says the juvenile military court is designed to improve the rights of minors but according to those representing them many young inmates suffer physical and psychological harm in jail and having no contact with their families makes that worse in their brain al jazeera the occupied west bank. to his ears 1st democratically elected the president of the s. abbess he has been laid to rest in the capital tunis the 92 year old who was given full military honors died on thursday they were cheated as more. foreign leaders came to pay their respects of carthage palace to the man who helped guide tunisia to a new era of democracy. they praises the ship and courage by g

c came out of retirement to become the country's 1st democratically elected president in 24 he forged a link between the secular and religious sides of the political spectrum here avoiding the clashes that tore apart so many of the countries in the arab spring uprising. his coffin carried on the back of a lorry with a full military on a god pass through the capital on the final journey to the city's 13th century cemetery. everybody here has been out all day lining the streets open to give and pay their last respects to the legacy of the president and. his history as we consider. other than just died as if we we lost him and we crying about that hopefully the next time it will be good and make god protect our country but i've been to italy never did. just

a little circle so glad that you feel the patriotic soul too noisy and people public and policeman are all hand in hand today. you met on cell phone as of the today 2 news here last a real man of the state the man who worked a lot to his country and he saved many time from bloodbaths i'm proud of him. on the captaincy of the country but there are clouds on the horizon unemployment is still increasing in fuel and food prices rising there is no doubt that the. that you cannot have the surviving democracy without having the economic and social problems i think most political actors it is yet aware of that it was a dignified end of such a long political career but a new and much younger generation must now shoulder the burdens of state and those burdens are set to grow heavier by the day david chaytor al-jazeera choose.

the court in nigeria has given the government permission to classify a shia group as a terrorist organization members of the islamic movement of nigeria have been marching in the capital abuja calling for the release of their leader for him exactly and he's believed to tension since 2015 despite a court order to release him and the group says at least 20 of its members were killed during this week's protests the leaders of mexico honduras have signed a pledge to curb the number of central american migrants seeking asylum in the united states honduras will adopt similar programs to mexico which put people to work planting trees and offer a monthly payment to young students the pledge was signed in the mexican state of veracruz when repeller is there and has this report. the presidents of mexico in honduras met in vera cruz on saturday to announce a multilateral agreement aimed at curbing the flow of central american migrants

seeking asylum in the united states mexican president and. says mexico will direct $100000000.00 toward development projects offering jobs to people who might otherwise consider migrating north. that this is an important action because it shows the as another way another alternative to provide a wreck tional solution to the migration phenomenon that isn't through coercive muses and addresses the causes of migration. the meeting between president lopez of what i thought of mexico and one orlando at 9 days of honduras took place in a city in mexico that sits on a popular route among central american migrants traveling north toward the united states. outside of migrant shelter near the outskirts of town we spoke with one man a penis he recently fled honduras with his teenage son he's aware of the 100 president's visit to mexico but says he and the people around him are desperate to get. the chain of migration will continue i don't think it will stop we don't have

any other choice if we stay behind while stuff to death. since june of this year mexico has cracked down on migrants and migrant numbers have declined. but many who still continue to leave their homes in central america point to worsening living conditions and widespread government corruption in countries like honduras as a reason for fleeing mexico is calling on the united states for more participation and investment to improve the conditions in the countries where migrants originate went up on the. record with mexico. or staying in the americas thousands of government supporters in venezuela are what they call an anti imperialist march for peace in the capital caracas under the soldiers and several politicians join the demonstration the country is preparing to host a regional conference of left wing parties normalizations opponents of president because madeira have criticized him for hosting the event saying it's

a waste of resources. the speaker of the u.s. house of representative nancy pelosi has denounced donald trump's twitter attack on a democratic congressman as racist the president unleashed the online to raid after representative elijah cummings criticized his mexican border policies in response trump called him a brutal bully saying his baltimore district is far worse under more dangerous than the border he also called cummings's district discussing rat and rodent infested ness the congressman responded saying mr president i get home to my district daily each morning i wake up and i go and fight for my neighbors particle hain has more from washington d.c. . another norm broken this is a u.s. president denigrating a major american city that has happens to be mostly african-american and it's african-american congressman but eliza cummings is not an ordinary congressman he

is an icon of the civil rights movement he has huge respect not only in his district but in the halls of congress the president has made it clear this is his strategy to get reelected he believes if you fires up his base core supporters of white supporters that they will come out in droves and they will get him another term there are a lot of analysts who are sending a warning message though about that strategy they look back to 216 and one of the reasons that trump won in this incredibly close election was because the vote was down in african-american communities and hispanic communities polls show that his racist tweets and comments are hurting his support among african-americans and hispanics so what some analysts are warning while the president is firing up his own base is core support hasn't moved he's also fired up the base on the other side . you're watching of zeros the whole rambling these are all top news stories hundreds

of people in sudan's capital are back on the streets protesting against the findings of an investigation into the deadly crackdown in khartoum last month it blamed rogue soldiers for the violent break up of a sit in demonstration. i don't believe what happened today undermines the political process unless the military council looks for excuses to prisoner goes he asians or procrastinate the process what happened todays a natural response let the military council see this is a strong message that the people cannot remain silent as the investigation commission was formed not to establish the truth but to conceal the truth syrian government strikes have killed at least 13 civilians in northwest province many of those killed were children russian backed government forces launched an offensive to recapture the last major rebel stronghold in april and more than a 1000 demonstrators have been arrested many violently at an unauthorized march in moscow they were protesting the barring of opposition candidates from local

elections. police are fired rubber bullets and tear gas of protesters after thousands of people divided government banned and rallied in a small town near the chinese border a group of men attacked protesters at a train station there last week a delegation from me and has visited ringgit camps in bangladesh to persuade refugees to return home hundreds of thousands of rangar have been living in squalid conditions in camps and cox's bazaar since fleeing atrocities by me and army in 2017. stars of people have marched in garza for the funeral of a palestinian man killed by the israeli army during weekly protests at the border fence 23 year old girl was shot in the stomach near the barrier. was the 1st since june related to demonstrations against israeli occupation. the leaders of mexico and honduras have signed a pledge to curb the number of central american migrants seeking asylum in the united states on jurors will adopt similar programs to mexico which put people to

work planting trees and offer a monthly payment to young students of course those stories on our website at al-jazeera dot com and back with more news in half an hour to stay with us. the different scenes. and the similarities of cultures across the world. bringing the news and current affairs that matter to. hello i'm adrian finighan this is counting the cost analysis here your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week south africa's debt laden companies are too big to fail without a bailout could cripple the economy. from paul mccartney to taylor swift sake

a look at the decades old struggle by artists to control their work. and job seekers in iraq only they're not iraqis we find out how us sanctions against iran are forcing people to cross the border in the hunt for jobs. africa has a problem some of its biggest state owned companies pose a threat to the economy due to the huge debts chief executives have resigned frustrated by red tape or have been fired due to corruption and president still run oppose the recently won another term with the help of powerful unions has shelved plans to fix problem companies now if the state was to step in to bail out 2 of the biggest firms power company s common ports operator trans that government debt would shoot up from 57 percent to 68 percent of g.d.p. as commerce said it doesn't need a 3rd of its $48000.00 employees and for unions and run a poser that's a problem south africa's unemployment rate is at 27 percent with or without

a bailout power blackouts in march were behind south africa's economy contracted in the 1st 3 months of the year eskom has been given an extra $4.00. $1000000000.00 to keep operating and to pay down some of its debts were transnet which runs the company's ports and rail freight is also at the center of numerous corruption allegations from overpaying for locomotives to paying advisory fees for non-existent businesses south african airways which employs $5700.00 people is another company that's been without a chief executive for the last few months in his resignation letter c o o. complained that his plans to turn around the last making airline were undermined by a lack of funding he'd requested $1500000000.00 well there's little prospect of the government allowing the big state firms to fail as that would damage the economy but right now a high profile commission is looking into alleged rampant state corruption presided

over by former president jacob zuma al-jazeera has reports. presidents all wrong of course or came into office promising to fight corruption last year president jacob zuma resigned under a cloud of corruption scandals which filtered down to government departments and officials the government has since set up a commission of inquiry to investigate those allegations well revelations around corruption at state owned companies have shocked south africans critics are concerned that the inquiry won't amount to any prosecutions with zuma at one point withdrawing from the inquiry saying he was under attack well. it is corruption should be tackled the public protector a corruption watchdog accuse the president of lying to parliament about a $35000.00 campaign donation he received when he was running for president of the african national congress the president says the public protector's report is

unfounded and is taking her to court meanwhile the public protector with the syrian cabinet is facing increasing criticism especially after the constitutional court in another case read that she'd lied under oath and go bonnie's been accused of undermining ram opposers fight against corruption and parliament has indicated it may investigate a competency for many south africans for straighted by the extent of corruption the fight against it appears to be overshadowed by the fight for power for many an unnecessary distraction the chairman of this comes board a job who testified at the commission of inquiry saying the power utility was the main theater we can rupture an in-state capture taken place much of this comes woes are related to a $42000000.00 payment to a coal company which was owned by the gupta family friends of jacob zuma the

national energy regulator says political meddling and corruption as a. of the reasons that the power utility is in crisis is going to struggling with more than $31000000000.00 a day it needs government intervention to continue operating officials at state owned rail company transit of also being accused of corruption with employees they implicated in the payment of kickbacks and media reports say millions of dollars were paid on contracts that went to china south and china in north wales according to the bureau for research economic research undesigned must lead a ship south africa's economy lost $70000000000.00 analysts say under jacob zuma political decisions were made that negatively affected the economy the south african rand tanked and investors sold of 93000000 dollars worth of government bonds allegations of corruption have been made against government owned companies

from the state broadcaster to the national airline now hoping to aid the fight against corruption a government unit's been set up to include lifestyle towards of public officials ordered through test whether the lifestyle of an employee is in line with their income while the president has made promises to turn things around many still wonder if there is a lack of political will especially given the extent to which the governing a.n.c. may be implicated from either miller counting the cost. let's talk more about some of the challenges facing south africa right now joining us from london peter been told peter is the head of capital markets research at south africa based in teletext good to have you with us peter so south african airways trans net many of south africa's state owned firms facing huge financial and management troubles just how much of a threat to they and others pose to south africa's economy and massive build up of

financial stress of the state owned. enterprises and you can always tell when their back is about to stop when people stop paying wages and that's when finally things start happening all in terms of bailouts in terms of hopefully some semblance of reform but each month now we have a number of an s.o.s. who are basically trying and then sometimes failing to pay wages in full and hence now we have money coming forward from the budget which is going to be bailing out a number of the us always most notably has come they've given an extra $26000000000.00 rand this year and they've been around next year about $4900000000.00 in order to keep the show on the road and insure their house going concern there in the old it is the sign of the accounts which will come out next week so a lot of these are so he's really right on the edge of requiring significant amounts of taxpayer support president rather poser wants to split into 3 given all that

you've just said why does the not appears to be the political will to see that through well this is actually the point is it is it policy or not to do this on bundling into different entities it's certainly been a presidential proclamation from various speeches but actually it's not widely accepted across government even even within cabinets there are there are restrictions being put on this trying to redefine its meaning as basically ideological and also personality and ego battles come to the fore between different cabinet ministers and so that's really the worry here is we need to have movement on this unbundling is shown to work globally to help. energy companies and state electricity companies in distress and we need actual movement for there's basically no other option apart from to do this and it will be further stressed further low setting for the blackouts that means to come i think before we really see movement on that front in the in the next year or so but these companies really too big to fail should the government therefore the taxpayer keep having to rescue them what

about the option of privatizing them south african airlines for instance i mean surely that's right for privatization. what we have to split i think in the too big to fail argument has come on the one hand keeping the lights on member as calm is producing 90 percent of all the tryst in south africa is simply not an option not to having it to fill out role that is too big to fail and hence political games i logical games can be played around it but none of the others i would say are too big to fail and say indeed should be allowed to go into business rescue basically insolvency process which would allow the best bits to be cherry picked off there is a certain amount of interest in some of the assets of essay by the private sector setting as a whole the whole entity has a huge number of issues particularly on a technical department they said we don't know the number of you widgets and other things that they have to say much corruption over the years but there is some interesting again ideological blockages where some parts of government are happy for that to be the minority stakes in things like i say but not the majority of

stakes that any particular strategic investor would really look for to have control to be able to turn around those entities by having management control but you talk about the political will 57 percent at the moment of g.d.p. is is what south africa's debt is running as the government simply can't afford to keep rescuing these as always i mean when will reality bites so this is the fascinating thing we're working with investors on the moment and you know discussions with government and others as well is we're in a sort of very strange slow moving story and there are a number of reasons for this the 1st is there are exchange controls in place in south africa still one of the few countries really to restrict or developed market countries to to actually really restrict investors in what they can do so the large amount of capital trapped on shore that means people have to buy government bonds the equity markets underperform so much people are buying a lot of government bonds and also remember the lack of blackouts now since march

as well has taken the pressure off slightly there those blackouts are likely to come back through the end of august probably into september so there has. and so the weird mix of carbon is not forget as well with the federal reserve cutting about to cut rates the e.c.b. as well global market sentiment and this sort of pushback from markets as well as also be more muted maybe that would otherwise have been so this has allowed some breathing space but ultimately you know the end point is still inevitable because as we heard south africa's former president jacob zuma is giving evidence to the commission set up to investigate corruption allegations during his time in office the inquiry into states can show just how damaging has all of this been this process even for south africa and its economy so the zonda commission process is fascinating and has taken a long time it's going to be going on probably for another year at least and then more time while they actually produce or a natural report and there's been

a lot of criticism of the commission they have taken relatively easy lines on the knee of the witnesses that have appeared you know the process that has gone relatively slowly but that the zoomer appearance of all those on the commission was fascinating yet the general consensus rightly say was that a lot of what he said was completely sort of you know out of kilter with reality and with the truth there was happened in south africa but actually his purpose of appearing there was ultimately political and was focused within the a.n.c. and on those terms actually i think he was quite successful in terms of driving a wedge was his desire inside the party and so i think you have to treat him very carefully and ultimately a lot of this stuff is internally focused within the a.n.c. and that internal focus means that they can be distractions from dealing with some of the big issues the structural forms yes so he's exactly great to talk to piso many thanks for being with us and counting the cost of. the rock imports $12000000000.00 worth of iranian gas and goods every year while baghdad has

a 3 month waiver from washington to continue buying iranian exports that are concerns about the economic impact for both nations once sanctions kick in already many iranian kurds are crossing.