once again running high along the line that separates indian and pakistani administered kashmir. of using cluster munitions against heavily populated civilian area. is against the geneva convention on it also angered by india during their not driven move. more and. have been demonstrations in all major cities. including. the administration. me. on it already an important meeting all for its military and civilian leadership under the auspices of the pakistani prime minister the message is quite clear. standard is ready and prepared to meet any india and. pakistan also wants the

international community. because india insists that. the bilateral drugs between the 2 countries have come to our dead and therefore international mediation the nudity necessary in order to avoid a major crisis from spreading out of control. happy man jacob is director of the indo pak conflicts monitor he says the change has been forced through undemocratically and will face legal challenges. this is going to be a long drawn out legal back to the highest all of the country the supreme court of india the months in the days to come you would with the. bike and for them the debate in the it didn't it didn't just in part about the constitution not at the office of action you do things i didn't want to stop being optic at the 70 by

you presidential order and the other reducing the status of just went from the state you need to be sent for me i've been it's just been started i think both of these are going to be. a ticket to the border by the opposition parties betty betty so this has been done that sort of i'm democratic manhattan because clearly the government of and every life that they're decent to much support within just when because you need a full the obligation of optically 70 this vicious to date that the state has an introduction of the state within the constitutional scheme of things in india so clearly this is a very unpopular decision and they knew that and therefore in order to. ensure that there is no widens on the streets of just one kashmir and just sort of the sort for the sick and. the state to come to government took precautions in order

to ensure that this decision. by. so had just a moment. been told to say more take up. chaos on the streets of hong kong as police move in to break up a tester is leading a general strike. after 2 mass shootings that shocked the country u.s. president donald trump lays the blame on the media. we've got some rather wet weather still lingering across northern parts of vietnam from a legacy of tropical storm or weak pa that's pulling away that we still got a few showers has just rolling out of the gulf of tonkin pushing across into those northern parts of vietnam up towards hanoi nothing

a little further north with southeast and positronic still catching a few showers you might still catch a shower would say in hong kong not as active as it has been recently and that's because the main weather action the main energy is around the philippines still seeing some really heavy rain just around loose on on choose day going on into wednesday that will gradually push further north as we do have tropical storm that came out in the open waters of the northwest pacific that will push further north it's a drag that wetter weather with it still got very heavy rain more wet weather there into me amal you can see huge swathes of plough the south westerly monsoon driving those showers across the eastern side of the bingo also drive in the right up that western side of india through the western ghats mumbai seeing some rather wet weather central plains northern plains of india also seeing some really heavy rain and that really doesn't change too much as we go on through the next couple of days come wednesday we could see some flooding into the northeast of the country.

counting the cost this week we're on patrol off the coast of west africa as nations deployed naval forces to counter the scourge of piracy on hostage taking off to 6 years of treading water gold prices will rise plus how iraq promise to cut its gas is. counting the cost on al-jazeera. paolo we're going to top stories on al-jazeera the ceasefire in syria as last rebel

held province has collapsed the government is resuming its bombardment of it's accusing rebel forces of violating the cease fire it's also blaming turkey for not guaranteeing the troops. egypt's government is now saying a bomb was the cause of the blast that killed 20 people on sunday the interior ministry had initially said the incident in cairo was an accident involving multiple vehicles. india's government has parts of the law that give significant autonomy to indian administered kashmir the region is set to be split into parts and that special protections are being removed pakistan has condemned them and. a hong kong wide general strike has turned into another confrontation between police and protesters police have been firing tear gas to break up crowds that were blocking traffic earlier the city was brought to a virtual standstill by the strike action train services were disrupted and at

least a 100 flights were canceled and thomas reports. a general strike is what was promised general chaos across hong kong and before the sun even set is what people thought. it was very different early monday morning and central hong kong was deserted many had responded to protesters calls to strike but many more simply couldn't get to work protesters have blocked the doors of subway trains to stop them running and put barricades across roads at the airport absent air traffic control is meant more than $200.00 flights were canceled striking workers had plenty of support shutting down on them to call to me which effectively the strike is doing it's not a good idea. world. for one day or you can one week. well. bringing some kind of reminder so you support the strike yes i suppose.

but the wasn't a total shutdown and some were not happy you didn't join the strike today 10000 because they have to work on i think if there is to be distrustful call holders a very good place don't stop destroying hong kong who the protesters or the gulf coast not the government of israel government i think of as the best hope of course is the best. after a news conference hong kong's chief executive condemned the strike and the broader protests such extensive disruptions in the name of certainty months or uncooperative movement have seriously undermined hong kong's law and order. and are pushing our city. the city we all loved and many of us helped to build to the verge of

a very dangerous situation. it already feels dangerous protests to stop disrupting transport together initially peacefully in 7 locations across hong kong after some threw stones police responded with canister upon canisters of tear gas. to bring down from the sky is some food they are using to be claimed protesters used traffic cones to contain the smoke hong kong's government shows no signs of being able to contain this after thomas al jazeera hong kong thousands of people have attended a candlelight vigil in el paso texas to honor the people killed in a mass shooting at a shopping center on saturday it's the worst attack in the u.s. so far this year a 21 year old white man is facing multiple criminal charges another person has died in hospital taking the number of dead to 21.

and in ohio a large crowd gathered for a vigil in dayton's oregon district to mourn those killed during another mass shooting early on sunday police describe the type of weapon used to kill 9 people in about 30 seconds. we are less than 36 hours into this incident and its investigation. i can confirm that if all the magazines that we recovered from the suspect were completely full we have not had a chance to examine that we just know we have magazines with bullets in them but if all of those were completely at full capacity including the loose rounds found on the ground near him as well as in a backpack that he carried we had a maximum of $250.00 rounds in his possession at that time the us president spoken out against gun violence at the white house has condemned bigotry racism and white

supremacy but says social media and mental health are to blame for the country's increase and gun crime in the 2 decades since columbine our nation has watched with rising hora and dread as one mass shooting has followed another over and over again decade after decade we cannot allow ourselves to feel powerless we can and will stop this evil contagion and that task we must honor the sacred memory of those we have lost by acting as one people can really help it has more from washington d.c. . in a speech from the white house u.s. president donald trump used the strongest possible terms to condemn what he sees as the motivation for at least one of the weekend shootings in the united states in el paso texas saying with one voice our nation must condemn racism bigotry and white

supremacy this is certainly the strongest condemnation yet the president has made with respect to white nationalism many democrats on capitol hill calling for the president to use the strongest possible terms perhaps not expecting him to do so the president went further to put in place what he sees as 4 proposals in order to combat ongoing gun violence and mass shootings in the united states number one to commit federal resources to combat domestic terrorism and extremism to also put in place through the department of justice identifiers for red flags that could stop a potential shooter even with a protective order if necessary also suggesting there's a need to reform mental health in the united states laws that could include involuntary confinement for those identified as being of high risk and finally that hate crime legislation if punished under those laws could include capital

punishment and that it be put in place with certainly these are proposals that those on the left may like to hear but some on the right are not going to be happy about this not only will this be viewed as a potential infringement on cause to to show rights particularly with respect to gun laws but also on civil liberties certainly this is also something that will not be put in place in any form or fashion quickly given the fact that not only is congress not in session but this will be hotly debated by both the left and the right. us defense department delegation is in turkey for a last ditch effort to set up a safe zone in northeast syria turkish president. his country is running out of patience with the u.s. on sunday he announced troops would be sent to an area controlled by kurdish fighters the white b.g. has been an important u.s. ally in the battle against eisel but ankara sees it as a terrorist group the worker has more from istanbul. turkish and u.s.

military officials are locked in talks to try and revive hopes of creating a safe zone in northern syria but neither side can see eye to eye on how deep that safe zone should be who should be in control of it turkey wants complete control and whether or not the white p.g. the kurdish fighters based in the region should be forced completely from that part of syria why p.g. were close allies with the united states armed by the u.s. to and were heavily involved in the fight against i saw the white b.g. of youth here in turkey is a terrorist organization the turkish leadership growing levels of frustration when it comes to talks with the united states in a sign of how frustrated the country is over the weekend president reminded the worlds that turkey would be prepared to stage its own incursion east of the euphrates this would be the 3rd incursion into syria by turkey in the last few

years but in addition to this standoff between the u.s. and turkey is the dispute over turkey's decision to buy the russian made s. 400 missile system seen as being not compatible with turkey's mende membership of the nato alliance in response the united states hit back by expelling turkey from the f. 35 stealth fighter program a number of turkish companies volved to manufacturing several 100 parts for this fighter we know that diplomatic channels are still open over that dispute but when it comes to the creation of the safe zone will either side give ground when it comes to forging forward with this plan china has escalated trade war with the u.s. and response the president trying to threaten sanctions the central bank start propping up the one allowing it to fall to its lowest level against the dollar since 2008 the people's bank of china blamed the trade war for the ones weakness.

july was the warmest a month on record for the planet that's according to scientists a big european union's copernicus climate change service who say it continues a worrying upward trend in global temperatures this year a science and technology editor mariana honda explains. global temperatures in july i usually hot but never before have they climbed this high scientists at the use copernicus climate change service analyzed temperature data from across the world and observations from satellites and ground stations they say july was the hottest month albeit by a small margin rising from the previous record in july 2006 days scorching record temperatures and hate waves in europe the united states and the arctic coincided with a major ice melt in greenland data from scientists at the danish me to

a logical institute shows melting an almost 60 percent of greenland's ice sheet that released 197000000000 metric tons of water into the atlantic ocean in july we actually now see a. climate change global warming the arctic is actually warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world and now there's a very clear signal that is warming is actually driven by too much carbon dioxide in the year or so as this year 2 increases. temperatures around the world we're going to see more of these type of heat wave. these heat wave the vents are behind large wildfires since early june wildfires in the arctic pumped out more than $100000000.00 tons of greenhouse gases that's equivalent to belgium's carbon dioxide emissions in a year climate scientists said. a there is still time to limit global warming to

1.5 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels the un body dealing with the warming planet the i.p.c.c. has pushed a simple message for governments businesses and individuals to drastically cut emissions by making this switch from burning fossil fuels like oil and coal to clean green renewable energy but since the i.p.c.c. issued a call back in 2050 a carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has continued to rise it now shrouds our planet at a level not seen in the last 800000. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the ceasefire in syria is last trouble health problems host collapsed the government is resuming its bombardment of its accusing

rebel forces of violating the cease fire it's also blaming turkey for not guaranteeing the truce egypt's government is now saying a bomb was the cause of a blast that killed 20 people on sunday the interior ministry had initially said the incident in cairo was an accident involving multiple vehicles india's government has scrapped parts of a law that gives significant autonomy to indian administered kashmir the region is said to be split into parts and its special protections are being removed pakistan has condemned the move. and a member of parliament from indian administered kashmir has criticised the government's move as well. they've made the constitution precarious they've removed both our school $375.00 which are rigid in the constitution they have finished the constitution and a bloody big us. general strike has turned into another confrontation between police and protesters police fired tear gas to break up crowds that were blocking

traffic earlier the city was brought to a virtual standstill by the strike action train services were disrupted and at least a 100 flights were canceled many want the cut territories leader kerry lamb to resign thousands of people have attended a candlelight vigil in el paso texas to honor the people killed in a mass shooting at a shopping center on saturday it's the worst attack in the u.s. so far this year a 21 year old white man is facing multiple criminal charges another person has died in hospitals taking the number of dead to 21. and in ohio a large crowd gathered for a vigil in dayton's oregon district to mourn those killed during another mass shooting early on sunday police describe the type of weapon used to kill 9 people in about 30 seconds. those are the headlines on al-jazeera counting the costs is coming up next.

hello i'm adrian fenty again this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week on patrol off the coast of west africa nations step up the naval presence to counter the scourge of piracy and hostage taking. after 6 years of treading water gold prices are on the rise we find out what's behind the move. a bit but. what. impressed dr morning on production rather than import.

a decade ago no ship was safe off the coast of somalia men armed with machine guns in small boats would target vessels including aid for the world food programme the menace of piracy continues to plague the region impeding its security and economic development but it's also increasing in other areas that you hotspot is the gulf of guinea an area that covers 6000 nautical miles or 11000 kilometers of coastline from angola to senegal west african countries lose $2000000000.00 annually to maritime piracy and armed robbery. the region produces more than $5000000.00 barrels of sweet crude petroleum per day it's a vital source of oil and gas for asia europe and the united states nigeria is the largest oil producer in the region and has more than 40000000000 barrels of

reserves now some believe the region will surpass the oil production capacity of the arabian gulf by 2020 making the stability of this region and the safety of oil transport a vital strategic concern off the coast of west africa the total cost of piracy has been steadily increasing over the last 3 years from $700000000.00 to more than $800000000.00 that's according to data from oceans beyond piracy but that still does wharfs the cost of piracy off the east african coast which has dropped to $1400000000.00 in 2017 down from a staggering $7000000000.00 in 2010 for every 120000000 seized by pirates in somalia the cost to the shipping industry and the end consumer is as much as $3300000000.00 according to research from the london school of economics this money is enough to employ well over a 1000000 somalis for a whole year and that doesn't include the direct human cost more than 90 percent of

piracy hostage taking in the 1st 6 months of this year took place in the gulf of guinea the international maritime bureau says that 27 crew members were kidnapped and as heroes ahmed interests went on patrol with a gun a navy to discover the true extent of the problem. turkish ship one is more than a week late it intended destination. yes she is resting in the calm waters of tema off the coast of ghana. everything looks alright from the outside but onboard evidence of why the vessel didn't make it to ivory coast in time. the ship was attacked by pirates in larger in orders and 10 of its crew taken away as hostages. the others were allowed to stay but was frightened they told us. if you're.

coming to here we are the ship. all my friends are sort of the. similar incidents have been reported 70 times in the 1st 6 months of this. the international maritime bureau says the vast majority of the sailors kidnapped for ransom or taken off the cost to be the. guinea nigeria and. while attacks by pirates have substantially decreased in some regions of the world they seem to be on the increase in west africa making the gulf of guinea there was to bury in the world impacted by piracy fishing boats are sometimes targeted but most of the attacks so i carried out an oil and gas tankers experts say that the regional neighbors and coast guards need to coordinate better if they want to control the situation. we set out on patrol with the gonna be the gulf of guinea is the most dangerous streets of maritime territory in the world

for attacks at sea but garner has seen a decrease in piracy incidents in its waters and that's been put down to sustained operations by its navy and not. ships. be fair to we indeed what tests of our countries and then when they are called upon today are better than this nation's. heroes ships that attacked by pirates when the ad released. defense food and what does it the citizen and saw that would be the fairest you know point of. the generous air war is one of several gunships garner has on patrol every hour of the day and sometimes there is support from the air force. the navy believes it could do even more with increased funding. not enough resources.

you know pumped into into into the navy but gradually awareness is being built in society and the policy makers in any in any government and there we gradually been resourced. but what needs to be done in a region where piracy kidnappings and theft of oral are growing problem in 2016 jury alone estimated its losses at more than a $1000000000.00 a month experts say the economies of the region rich in oil and fishing cannot sustain such a drain on resources all right let's get more on this growing menace joining us now from london michael hallett michael is the deputy director of the international maritime bureau and a director of i.c.c. commercial crime services the anti crime unit of the i.c.c.

could tell you with us michael so what's behind the rise of piracy off the coast of guinea as we were hearing a strategically important region the world trade. there is a a serious frets to the safety and security of seafarers in the region and this freight has been there for many years. almost 80 percent of crew kidnappings and 95 percent of crews taken hostage this year have occurred in the gulf of guinea. we forgot to the kidnappings. there have been 1st 7 crew kidnapped from their vessels this year in several separate incidents the crews are typically taken ashore they are held between periods of between $6.00 and $8.00 weeks before they are released

last month spain seafarers were kidnapped from the general cargo vessel the vessel was 120 miles from the coastline this demonstrates the scope of capabilities and also that all shipping is vulnerable so one turns of hijackings we've seen sorry mightly. let me put the 2nd question to you 1st for a 2nd what lessons michael can be learned from the reduction of piracy off the coast of east africa. it's difficult to compare the east africa with west african piracy they are 2 separate phenomena somalia was a foul state. in the gulf of guinea you have functioning sovereign states the one constant however is that if you are able to see ted it's.

an approaching suspicious vessel you then have the opportunity to raise an alarm to retreat into a city that though even needed and this early warning is something that should be applied not just for east and west africa but universally when it comes to global piracy so early detection is paramount so do west african nations need more help and what sort of thing can help with this early detection we talking about drones do they need more help from from western nations the u.s. for instance well there are a number of initiatives of regional and international that are on the way. the all of these nations need help where there's piracy and i need help in training to ensure you know their responses or their capacity building but what's really important when it comes to these issues is that the incidence didn't not go

unchecked it's they are reported that the authorities see the navy's and the coast guards they work together with the authorities assure they go and try to investigate these crimes they apprehend the criminals and they make sure they are punished under a law that sends the right to aaron and the navy is the of the big power as michael stretched at the moment thinking about the the escort missions underway currently in the gulf the malacca straits and elsewhere in the world all naive these have finite resources and it's really fun for the navies and their political masters to decide where to deploy those assets to reflect michael really good to talk to you on counting the cost many thanks indeed for being with us. thank you. now from a record high in 2011 gold it seems has been in hibernation but us trade war starts

damage global growth central banks begin cutting interest rates and the prospect of conflict is an ever present threat the precious metal is trading near a 6 year high and it's never really gone out of fashion with central banks jewelers and some of the world's biggest investors so what's going on well let's start with that record high in 2011 gold prices hit almost $1900.00 an ounce after the financial crisis although it slid to almost $1000.00 in 2016 now for the last 6 years it's been struggling to rise above $1350.00 an ounce but in the last month it made it to $1446.00 and could push higher the biggest holders of gold essential banks last year they increased the volume of their holdings to the highest level since the end of the gold standard nearly half a century ago the united states has by far the biggest stockpile with an estimated

$350000000.00 but russia's holdings of quadrupled over the last decade the jewelry industry uses about 2000 tonnes of gold every year worth around $85000000000.00 but it's people in india that have believed to hold the most gold estimated to be worth around $1.00 trillion dollars so is that extra demand for gold or is this just investors seeking a safe haven to find out we're joined via skype by gavin wendt gavin is the founding director and senior resource analyst at sydney based mine life good to have you with us gavin so what's behind gold's recent rally well we've seen a number of factors that conspired it exactly the right time. dr gold are there. more recent factors. i guess related to things in the last week for example related to u.s. interest rate cuts.