that's being heavily tested just across the border in hong kong the economic impact from the hong kong protest now in their 11 week is being felt in chin gen as with elsewhere in mainland china its stock market had seen negative numbers since the protests moved to the hong kong international airport but there was one standout chin jen airport shares soared it's the closest major airport to hong kong and during the closures this week some flights were diverted there to continue turmoil in hong kong could make change and more attractive to airlines and passengers the airport just received approval to expand allowing it to nearly double its yearly passenger numbers to 80000000 so while the view from shin jet into hong kong remains the same the impact from what's happening across the border is be keenly felt by the people here scotland al-jazeera qianqian iran's president has criticized the united states for its military buildup in the gulf says foreign forces are not needed because gulf states and protect the region themselves

american and british warships are started joint maritime patrols to protect shipping in the strategic straits of hormuz off the iranian forces seized a bush flagged oil tanker last month and egypt. all talks about establishing a new coalition in the persian gulf and sea of oman going to be practical no doubt that it won't help the security of the region there is no need for the presence of foreign forces to provide security as a bank has more now from to iran. well it's the 1st one president rouhani has addressed reports that israel may be participating in this u.s. led naval coalition in the region which the united states says is to guarantee freedom of navigation in the gulf now president rouhani said that the idea that is taking part because of the security is absurd and that if israel was able to provide security it should do so in its own region he also said that wherever israel has a presence it causes insecurity terrorism and massacre but he also said that iran is willing to establish relations with neighboring countries and that the u.s.

goal in the region was to sow discord and money he said that coastal countries are fully capable of providing security and stability in the region there's no need for foreign troops now the context for this is that the united states union that pulled that 2015 nuclear deal last year and imposed sanctions on iran and in the last few months there have been an increase of tensions with drones shut down tankers mysteriously attacked the united states and its gulf allies then the iran of course iran has denied that but also iran seized a british tank after the united kingdom seized the iranian tanker and gibraltar now this coalition only has 2 countries in the united kingdom in the united states and that's because european countries are still trying to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal and they feel fear that any presence of troops in the region would jeopardize that deal in fact germany has refused to join it join this coalition because they say everything should be done to avoid escalation. still ahead for you on the program a venezuelan city that's become

a symbol of the country's economic collapse also senior u.s. politicians weigh in on the brakes it debases the deadline fast approaches for britain's withdrawal from the e.u. . we've got some rather mobile weather just rolling across southern possible strike through the great australian bite you can see this area clap sliding out to dolly way pushing across south australia heading towards a southeastern corner so we got some right in the forecast well that must but some just pushing into southern parts of w.a. and that will just roll across south australia's 17th self-esteem perth on thursday warms up to around 9 c. on friday before the next system will push in for the weekend ahead of that we've got some wet weather just making its way towards the southeast and cooler increasing clout lifting the temperatures in melbourne to around 13 degrees but

we're still struggling to get to 11 for hope so some wet weather there into tasmania which will slide across the tasman sea towards new zealand not too bad here at the moment generally fine and dry but that increasing cloud will make its way so make the most of thursday themselves just in christchurch 14 celsius in all clear cloud right will push some wet weather into the south followed as we go on through friday but temperature if anything some small consolation just pick up to around 50 degrees as the rain says and now the rain really sets again across southern parts of japan at the moment here comes tropical storm that's making its way further north where it's the friday. to train and equip the opposition in syria so they can help push back these terrorists people in power investigates how the us supplies soviet style weapons to its allies through private companies and the us government could wash their hands

and say well we didn't know where it was coming from so weapon that was supplied by the us government may well end up being pointed at us soldiers yes absolutely pick it up listening to months off in the professional americas guns secret pipeline to syria on al-jazeera. just a quick look at the top stories now pakistan's prime minister has compared the indian government to nazis over its decision to revoke kashmir autonomy china has now weighed in calling on the un security council to meet to discuss the situation in the indian administered region. hong kong police have fired tear gas at

pro-democracy demonstrators gathered outside a police station in the residential area of calhoun as china says the protest movement has reached mia terrorism and iran's president hassan rouhani has criticized the united states for its military buildup in the gulf saying foreign forces are not needed because the region can't protect itself. on other stories we're following the syrian observatory for human rights says that a government will plane has crashed in a province according to reports in pro opposition media rebels in concha could have shot down the jet it's a rebel held town towards which the government forces are advancing that but no reports of the incident in syrian state media so far. to argentina the leader is spoken to his presidential rival saying that he's expressed willingness to keep markets calm and case of an eventual handover of power present salary increases in tax cuts days after his shock defeat in the polls triggered economic turmoil polls

15 points less than center left candidate alberto fernandez in sunday's primary the most is seen as a litmus test for the general election in october daniel shriver has more now from . the size of the government's defeat in sunday's primary elections surprised everybody in argentina but it shocked the government of president modest your mockery it's taken them 3 days to respond mostly to the subsequent collapse of the argentine peso was against the dollar on monday which last up to 30 percent of its value and also affected argentine stocks and shares in markets in both wall street and in one of cyrus. addressed the nation saying he was story for his brusque reaction on monday blaming the voters for voting what he said was the wrong party and not having faith in his policies he said he hadn't slept and he was still reeling from the size of the defeat on sunday among the measures announced are an increase in child benefit in pensions an increase in the minimum wage freeze on

fuel for 90 days and in general more measures about to be announced in the course of the next few days this for starters to try to calm the markets now watching and waiting to see how those markets respond to the government's response to what was a very convincing defeat in primaries on sunday waiting to see what happens where they can recover in time for the presidential elections at the end of october the venezuelan city of america bow is once the capital of the country's oil industry but it's now become a symbol of venezuela's economic collapse with little access to fuel food and elektra city residents say they've been forgotten by the government which has been locked in a power struggle with the opposition since january terese a bow has more now from about. and a 2 city has become a luxury for most people in america when northwest in venezuela a luxury this people do not have they say they only have 4 hours of electricity a day. called store died 4 months ago in the middle of

a power cut i mean i know my daughter died of a heart attack because of the hate because of all the problems we're facing the government is not doing anything to help us and we have no water or electricity but i will was once venezuela's oil hub but now it's people like you many venezuela are struggling in the middle of an economic crisis mike i was once known as the colder 30 in venezuela because of the amount of her conditionings here it has one of the highest temperatures in the country and that's why people are not used to the situation they're bringing the so far as a matter of faith to flee by night. has had 2 heart attacks when a power is out her daughter says she starts to choke. she starts crying like a child because she cannot breathe all our food is going to waste it's terrible for us a few minutes later power went out experts say electricity problems are the result

of lack of maintenance but it's not just electricity the queues to get petrol in this country which sits on the world's largest oil reserves can go on for miles gasoline is almost fream venezuela but a black market exists for those who don't want to queue up this man who does not want his name revealed says it is the only way he has to make a living the preserve of the more you do all of us are living off gasoline we get it from government officials also need to make some extra money because the salaries we have we cannot survive on ac anyway we can buy food my salary buys me only 2 kilos of mate these every day kale. only adds up to the political tension between the government of my little and the opposition led by one way though and there are war reese that any increase in u.s. sanctions could cause the situation to deteriorate even more. term i don't think we're going to see political or economic change any time soon the conflict will

increase with radicalization by the government and the opposition justifying economic or financial sanctions that are trying to break the government but will deteriorate everyday life and for these people every day life is already very hard for him and the only way you know about it i'm selling these bones because it's the only thing that many could buy so they can put in a soup and get some protein. lack of food water and electricity and all have people here are tired and angry and they feel that the government has stopped listening to their piece. and italian court has ruled a spanish rescue ship carrying 160 refugees and migrants should be allowed to enter italian waters despite a ban imposed by the interior minister met terror cell vini the open arms charity vessel has been stranded in the mediterranean since rescuing the migrants off the coast of libya last week it had argued international maritime law meant it had a right to bring the migrants to safety course in rome says the boat should be

allowed in for immediate assistance. senior politicians in the u.s. have been away on breaks it as the october 31st deadline for britain's withdrawal approaches the us house speaker says there would be a chance there would be no chance of congress passing a trade deal with the u.k. if breaks it undermines the good friday peace agreement in northern ireland than simple as his comments appear to contradict those of the u.s. national security advisor john bolton who held talks in london earlier this week he said a post breaks a trade deal could be fast tracked through washington meanwhile here in london the speaker of the house of commons says he's confident parliament can block a no deal breaks that aren't silly has more now from westminster. it may be the middle of august and parliament isn't sitting but political intrigue at westminster right through the summer has been absolutely full bore because of all the controversy about boris johnson's threat to leave the e.u. with all without a deal at the end of october this enormous game of poker that's going on now

between the british governments and the european union several some 20 leading conservative m.p.'s including former ministers senior ministers in sarees amaze governments have now come out with a letter to boris johnson saying they cannot support that plan because they say it would be stone so destabilizing and in terms of effectively suggested in doing that that they would vote against their own party in a confidence vote which now looks very likely to happen when parliament reconvenes at the start of september and that in turn could trigger a general election either immediately before or immediately after if boris johnson has his way breck's it on the 31st of october and in return boris johnson has now taken to facebook to ask and answer questions about what what his plans are he's accused that group of 20 conservatives effectively have treachery and of taking the european union side against their own government so while that rift very

significant rift inside the conservative party is going on there's another rift across the atlantic as well where of course a trade deal with the u.s. is seen as the absolute prize for brics it is john bolton the american national security advisor came here the other day and met boris johnson said that the u.k. will be 1st in the queue for a trade deal with the u.s. after 31st of october even though as many people pointed out is nothing to do with him because a security advisor and a trade deal would be within the gift of congress well now nancy pelosi the speaker of the house has come out and said what very many people have said here for months and months which is that congress would block that trade deal if no resolution was found to the integrity of the open border. between the republic of ireland. teenage climate activists gretta thrown bag has set sail on a voyage across the atlantic ocean taking a message on global warming to the united nations in new york they 16 year old is making the 2 week long crossing on a 0 emissions yacht accompanied by her father and 2 crew members so they gave her

has more now from plymouth where began her transatlantic journey. the preparation had been tough but greater through burke is now undertaking the journey of a lifetime at the soul of an english port of plymouth the racing yacht the mallets year to a professional crew and her father awaiting them all the challenges of the atlantic ocean for at least the next 2 weeks despite all the technology designed to make this a carbon neutral journey there is little luxury and even less previous ie this teenager who has become a beacon for so many young climate crisis activists now prepared to brave the challenges of the open ocean in the hope that her message will be heard and understood right it didn't trip across the atlantic is expected to take 2 weeks she aims to be in new york for the next month's un climate action summit but the

crossing won't be easy organist is peak hurricane season off to new york the book says she'll travel by train and bus to canada and mexico she also plans to attend the annual un climate conference in santiago chile in december and talk bird is doing this despite the criticism and the vitriol she has experience from climate change deniers i'm not concerned about reactions what i'm concerned about is whether we we will do something or not whether the people in power will react and act. with the necessary force it's taken the determination of 116 year old schoolgirl to spark call for a global movement where grants and work has been urging politicians do something more than say the right words but to put it into action as well all over the world to in books message of taking action has resonated with young people like scarlet

and francis their worry that the older generations do not understand the crisis the planet is facing. i don't have direct democracy they can directly control the composition of the legislature to get their reach across but we can't give up and went back to decided to strike from school it was bowed and it's of the we haven't seen before for example in the u.k. the parliament has declared to climate emergency but this isn't needed binding there's no option proposed to reach to be carbon neutral by 2050 target which is already too late according to the fire and the vessel will also be collecting essential data such as measuring the temperature of the ocean to assess how much carbon is being absorbed but it is a journey fraught with risk but with the effects of climate change already being felt across the globe it's one this teenager believes is worth making so the guy i will al-jazeera live in southern england. a swedish court has found us asap rocky

guilty of assault for his role in a street brawl in stockholm a grammy grammy nominated artist and his 2 bodyguards were found to have hit and kicked a 19 year old man in june asap rocky whose real name is rocky meyers had argued he was acting in self-defense it was given a conditional sentence and won't face prison time unless he commits a similar offense in the country again more everything we're covering right here the address al jazeera dot com. just a quick look at the top stories this hour now china has called on the un security council to me to discuss the situation in indian administrate kashmir pakistan's prime minister has compared the indian government to nazis over its decision to revoke kashmir autonomy imran khan says india's governing party led by prime minister narendra modi is anti muslim because of its hindu nationalist ideology

khan dedicates of pakistan's independence day to kashmir which has been under a strict security lockdown for 10 days after india stripped the region all that special rights. nazir gives a lot of career between india and pakistan there is no fight going on but we are standing up to an ideology which is worse this ideology is the r s s ideology the parent organization of the b j p modi is a member of it since childhood this ideology got inspiration from hitler's nazi party which includes racial superiority china says the protest movement in hong kong has reached near terrorism its called for the soul of the law to be used to restore order in the territory police have once again 5 take gas at pro-democracy demonstrators this time in calif and hundreds of protesters took part in the rally pointing lasers at a police station 10 weeks of increasingly violent clashes have plunged hong kong into its worst political crisis for decades. iran's president has criticized the

united states for its military buildup in the gulf as an rani says foreign forces are not needed because gulf states can protect the region themselves american and british warships have started joint maritime patrols to protect shipping in the strategic strait of hormuz after iranian forces seized a person flagged oil tanker last month argentina's leader is spoken to his presidential rival and says he's expressed willingness to keep the markets calm in case of an eventual handover of power president announced salary increase salary increases and tax cuts after his shock to feet on sunday triggered economic turmoil not crippled 15 points less than center left candidate alberta finance as in the primary vote which is seen as a litmus test for october's a general election over the top stories this hour do stay with us for people in power that is the program coming up next there will be more news after that from doha in about 25 minutes time. millions of workers

a big in slaved in the brigham's of india one i want to east explores how satellite technology is now helping to set them free 100. it's well known to the united states exports billions of dollars worth of arms to its allies which isn't as widely understood is that many of the guns it sends into pools in the middle east are safe syrup munitions manufactured in eastern europe so how do the supply routes function and waves of the weapons go in the 1st of a special to concentrate a geisha into u.s. on sales giuliana rufus has been to investigate.

well there really were there are part. of the or were very or know that. you're controlling the. june 2007 efraim given rowley a 21 year old arms dealer from miami beach is negotiating a $300000000.00 ammunition for the u.s. plan to go on. his albanian contact because the tributes is secretly recording the conversation he wants to prove to vote he knows that the seller has links with organized crime. problem i don't have a choice the u.s. government or. the united states needs weapons for its allies in the wars in

afghanistan and iraq. the guns must be kalashnikovs and other soviet style weapons it's what its allies are used to. speed is of the essence. a year after the coup with give the rolly. tribute sky is dead many believe the albanian mafia silenced him to stop him from speaking about a pentagon deal gone bad. tributes rise to a scandal that was supposed to change how the american government buys weapons to arm its allies overseas but the question is has it we set out to investigate just how these weapons find their way into some of the most fragile states on. this is david peck who's he used to be did rosie's business partner the story of

how the 2 young amateurs from miami beach turned into international brokers it was so incredible that it became a hollywood blockbuster. they supplied the pentagon with 40 year old chinese ammunition that was stored in albania on board will you do business with us for what works with the chinese weapons when the us sanctions so they repackage the ammo to hide its origin. in 2011 after new york times expose a different went to jail but whose got away with house of mist. so you guys didn't really have a background in that you were just 2 young guys in their twenty's why did you get contracts to supply arms and you mean why did they give us the contract. well they gave us the contracts probably because we were very very competitive we were what they called the best value to the government. who says the wood oaks movie failed

to tell the whole story he insists the pentagon knew all along that he and his partner was supplying some to chinese ammunition. his claim supported by documents that surfaced in court. they kept on taking deliveries i think like 3 deliveries a week of 4 aircraft loads of ammunition for like 4 or 5 months after they found out it was chinese. who says the pentagon was happy with the arrangements until the media got hold of the story how important was it for the u.s. army to get quick supplies operational necessity is a term that the military used when they wanted to say that they got to get this done one way or another and that meant that they were willing to overlook certain procedures and rules and safeguards that the administration had put in place. says

it's this operational necessity that drives the u.s. government to employ private companies it allows them to be one step removed because a lot of these suppliers in central europe and. the eastern bloc may not have great reputations they may have supplied other people you know that have committed atrocities if they only deal with us companies who go out and then do their own deals and then the u.s. government could wash their hands and say well we didn't know where it was coming from fast forward to 2015. americans supporting another war in the middle east but in syria it's supplying arms to rebels not 2 state forces. again the weapons us soviet style easy to use and so common in the region they're hard to trace if something goes wrong. when i still controlled territory expands u.s. supplies stepped up. i'm pleased that congress has now voted to support

a key element of our strategy a plan to train and equip the opposition in syria so they can help push back these terrorists this is exclusive footage of what one of the pentagon secretive projects looked like. again the u.s. government uses private companies to train its allies we're going to examine the outside. these men are highly experienced new fighters mike doherty and frances no we. aren't they were in bulgaria to train on subject sell weapons that would be supplied to syrian rebels it seemed like a straightforward mission. but it would cause nobody you his life. friends is no we you is survived by his wife and 2 young children.

yes i'm julianna she has agreed to meet us. we're joined by mike doherty knew we was training. he was present when no we was killed. i was about 5 or 6 feet away and as he approached the launcher he literally raised the round and as soon as you started to slide it in and it detonated. and that's when everything just went white for me and i instantly thought really well is that apparently i was thrown into a concrete wall and you know the blast effect threw me back down against the ground and my hand was split down here and hanging and the other hand was had a big chunk of metal and then i just remember looking up and i saw our other colleague and his hand was hanging and his arm was use shattered or just tore up i started to to kind of flip myself over to crawl and i start crawling towards him

and i passed. the multi-million dollar pentagon contract to train and equip it was received by a company called purple shovel but it seemed to be insufficiently prepared for the task. and mike say there were problems right from the start the awarding of a contract happened very quick and there were a lot of things that we we questioned why are we not doing medical why are we not doing threat briefs and things like that it felt very rushed i remember francis saying that it just crashed and it wasn't we really didn't understand the scope of what we were getting into. my tells us the official investigation into what exactly happened in bulgaria seems to have stalled. it's still not clear what caused the missile launcher to malfunction. did the u.s.

government's urgency to supply weapons mean safety procedures were ignored once more there was until i would say over a year later that we learned that the ammunition was over 30 years old and over the last 30 to 40 years where was a stored what were the conditions during that storage and were they doing the right things to ensure that it was properly taken care of and that we don't know my can as suing the company i was requested to travel to an interview was declined the company continues to receive u.s. government contracts it seems like the government just wants to layers over this contract for so you cannot really know much about it so we can do things outside of the military that are maybe a little bit more shady and. meanwhile the convert supply of weapons from south eastern europe continues. observers have noticed that a small airport in riyadh croatia has become

a major hub for the flow of arms to the moves of the middle east. we have come here to find out what type of weapons are used by the us government and how they are transported. to the launchers you can spot a bulgarian rug missiles you can spot mortar shells. yelena is a member of the balkan investigative reporting network together with the organized crime and corruption reporting project they have spent 2 years tracking the pentagon's secret weapon shipments into syria we have set up a joint investigation this one was produced in serbia it's ok our team a shingle up in the syrian battleground the u.s. government publishes information about federal contracts online. yelena and her colleagues have used this database to calculate the u.s. government's expenditure on soviet style weapons. since 2015 until

2022 pending will spend or $2200000000.00 us dollars what do you know about the routes how weapons from balkan countries go to the middle east they go through turkey jordan. qatar and saudi arabia so that's all u.s. allies u.s. allies exactly exactly yell and i had been investigating a plane the departed from reactor airport 5 days earlier she believes carried weapons to the middle east. you can see tongue fight for there are the words that this plane took several town and you can see places such as r r ion gotta exactly and also it has flights number mark which is very specific for the planes that are actually transporting military goods. this is footage of the plane

yelena tracked it has been loaded with crates at least 20 u.s. military flights have left this airport in the past 6 months. and when we arrive at the airport we to see a play pool. this is one of the busiest airports to when it comes to players such as this one. is from the same airline yelena had been investigating various really is pretty nuts it's just in the middle of a traffic junction. they are about to take all. their weapons there they're probably.