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tv   Mohammad Javad Zarif  Al Jazeera  August 17, 2019 7:32am-8:01am +03

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being locked into dependency traps arjun it's been a pleasure talking to you thank you so much for your time. moving on now and the trumpet ministration unusually has taken a step back from imposing more tariffs on china they were due on september 1st but washington doesn't want to see price increases in the run up to christmas and i know it's meant finally that u.s. consumers are bearing the brunt of the trade war but the collateral damage from the trade war is also being felt globally chile for example regarded as latin america's most stable economy has actually seen a sharp rise in unemployment and latin america editor listen newman has been looking at the impact from santiago. for nearly 3 months 55 year old assad you at a news has been going out every day looking for a job the she joins the queue of disemployment agency hoping like the rest to secure work as a housemaid
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a job that used to be easy to find but no longer they would call about on me if i don't work i can't pay for my rent my bills my food without a salary how can i survive for me it's essential to the director of the agency says the number of chileans looking for work is skyrocketing but you know when. last week i was that employment fair before 85 percent of candidates were immigrants now it's 5050 that means that a lot more people are looking for this kind of work for the 1st time so we are trying to train in places with. the sharp rise in unemployment is just one of the direct consequences of the escalating trade dispute between the u.s. and china. the price of copper chin's main export has fallen 17 percent this year the value of the chilean piss off regarded as one of the most stable in latin america has dropped to its lowest level in more than 3 years making imports more expensive. chile's export based economy is particularly vulnerable to what it clown
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a missed call external shock so what affects its main trading partner china has a direct impact. for. this. price. to the early days but to have. grown. up perhaps no one of its being well impacted by this crisis and the people that to see here tens of thousands of migrants have come here to chile just this year alone the majority of them from that this way and they're here at the. the private hoping to get their papers in order so that they do the jobs that are becoming harder and harder to come by the world economy minister tells al-jazeera that he remains cautiously optimistic looking at you know how did the macro economic and from into fortitude of our economies will allow us to confront this ever situation. but for
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how long is the question especially for people like recital at any of that who cannot afford to wait for the trade war to end. when for the sports fans now in the english premier league is kicked off a 2019 fair to say it is the richest football league in the world it got there through a multi-billion dollar deal struck with pay t.v. channels globally not just in the u.k. and seeing the money roll in many other sports of sorts similar deals with the rich networks but at what cost many a losing younger viewers to east sports you might remember the $30000000.03 day fortnight world cup championship held in new york recently the winner 16 year old who beat $99.00 other players and walked off with $3000000.00 and every other player took home 50 $1000.00 which is on par with what some golfers pick up just for turning up to
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a tournament and the average age of these players 16 melissa sensually for a video game competition which could be watched on you tube contrast that with an established sport like cricket that showpiece tournament was held in england and wales recently the i.c.c. world cup but the average viewership on sky sports a paycheck was only about 600000 per dame now when england made the final and it was broadcast on free to air t.v. 7300000 people watched what was admittedly an incredible final match against new zealand. and here's another example the recent fee for women's world cup which saw record audiences in france and england because the matches were on free to air networks it was seen as a huge success of the women's game finally getting the recognition if not the same level of pay for its stars but as competition hearts up and the likes of amazon and facebook and twitter sign more sports steals the landscape is definitely changing but are they able to keep hold of the younger viewers who are frankly the lifeblood
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of the sport we're going to talk more with someone who's done some research on audience male mothers with us consumer research lead it and pear and alice is joining us from london nice to have you with us look we know viewing habits are changing streaming is where it's all that but when it comes to sports should these sorts of big legacies sports the cricket the formula one should they now be worried that these viewing habits are really going to affect them. i think you know viewing habits are changing we are seeing that it's been a decline in people watching regular t.v. channels across not only younger demographics but old along as well and there has been an increase in people watching through smart t.v.'s through that through their mobiles so i think these sports are going to have to be reactive to these changes one is doing it with the likes of a full on t.v. prior and i'm sure cricket will already be looking at doing it but i think you've got to be really castle not to that undermine your current audiences as well you
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know a lot of sports fans tend to be of the old see if you take everything off t.v. you'll actually end up damaging your sport as well is there a way to have the best of both worlds than a note for example in the united states some of the big sports basketball baseball in the light you know this streaming on on twitter and facebook which is great for the younger generation can you do that and be on television and still make it all a success and keep everyone happy yeah i think you can you know i think this is a good mix of the american sports rights holders are really good example for the likes of the n.f.l. the likes of the n.b.a. what they do is they have these massive t.v. broadcast deals where the ending a lot of money but then they also have their and streaming platforms which consumers can access a much cheaper rate but what they basically do is they make sure that things are televised on t.v. are not shared on those platforms live so they're also protecting the major money that they're making through these for cost ales but they're also ensuring that
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their content is still accessible to younger audiences who may become pay $56070.00 a month to access this through pay t.v. . good you've mentioned pay t.v. let's look at the pay versus free who had to have a cricket world cup was in england not long ago it was all on pay t.v. and there was a lot of criticism that you know kids couldn't necessarily get to see the cricket they didn't even miss they really know the cricket world cup was on and then you got the final played on free to air television but only because in many define know . you can freeze or compete is that you know can you strike deals with the with the pay the pay groups. i think. if you're putting a level playing field because really compete they just don't have the budgets to do so but i think what's important is for bright soldiers themselves to understand the power of free to us you know the women's world cup was on free sarah and the loss of markets and they got the cold audiences in so many of us when you're trying to
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get new fans into school whether it's the younger audiences or whether your new sport and your invites making sure that people can actually see or feel able to watch it is such a huge pots of it so putting it all behind pay t.v. and behind pay will is not the best thing for the long term safeguarding of the future of the school women's sport is really interesting you mentioned that the football world cup debord conses maybe need to take a punt there go yes we're going to actually go right in with women's sport and televise more and more of it and actually give because i'm the proof will come through people will watch because they're going to watch it 100 percent i a massive i'm in school and i'm like women's football in general and so i really do think that brokaw says should take a punt with it you know it's still quite new it's still developing in a lot of the countries it's only become professional in the last few years that means that the quality of the football is getting better you know there is a real opportunity to showcase the sport which is not as tainted as men's full is
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you know there isn't that there's massive sponsorship deals there isn't you know all the issues that come with men's football you know the fact that it isn't accessible you have to pay so much to watch a lot of thought isn't that with women's football you can go to a match for relatively cheap you know in the u.k. in particular and you can go and inspire that next generation the u.k. is a really good example because the government has actually put it on the crown jewels list which means that it is going to have to be on free to as heavey for the facade of a future and i wouldn't be surprised if fisa tries or even you know. with champions league all with the year as they try to make sure that it stays on free to ask for as long as possible you know there is other competition in the form of sports much was made recently of and i don't know that much about it but for tonight's the game which all the kids are playing in there was millions of dollars in prize money and people watching it people were going to see it live and it was huge i mean is that
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again another threat for the for the major sports. i don't necessarily think it's a threat to legacy sports i think you know they can work in harmony with each other i think more so it's about making sure that sports are engaging fans of much younger age there's a lot of research out there which shows that people become sports fans between the ages of $8.00 to $12.00 whereas what we're seeing at the moment is that age group is becoming fans of the fords and they're watching on free platforms like you tube twitch a microsoft mix so you know sports rights is like the premier league like the crickets i c c they have to make sure that they're making that content accessible enough that these young kids are able to go see football matches like they're able to play football all they're able to watch on t.v. because you know if sports is so excessive or people are able to watch around the world for free that what you might end up doing is you might end up with a generation of people who you have to lose because that's what they end up watching instead of getting into all these biggest sports champions league seeing
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as you mention it and this takes me on to the issue of illegal streaming and piracy $5000000.00 people apparently is to mit's we're watching champions league football on illegal streams is there anything that can be done about their release. i think you've got to look at it in that context you know an average champions league final gets between 352400 1000000 for you is according to usa so that 5 percent if you're spreading them out across the season is actually representing like 1.4 percent of that entire universe so whilst i'm not trying to say it isn't a big problem it is but the likes of you a few have done so much in the last few years to try and combat it and it does seem to be a research is showing that in a lot of the markets that we survey the number of people who are watching pirated com content is reducing so there does seem to be a bit of a shift away from people trying to access this pirated content remote it's been
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great talking to you about this thank you so much for joining us thank you. finally this week bangladesh with its low lying terrain it's unpredictable whether it is more vulnerable than most countries to the effects of climate change but with crisis comes change pushing some farmers to revive a century old system for growing crops reports from periods for on buying the dishes floating farms. low lying bangladesh is on the frontline of climate change it's farmlands facing constant floods erosion and salinity to combat these farmers are using rafts which remains afloat for a period long enough to grow vegetables there's a lot of the crud lovers during high tide this area get flooded with little water remains during low tide this is why we're using floating beds to grow vegetables floating platforms offer up to an additional 40 percent of arable land creating opportunities for poor lentulus farmers aquatic farming until practice in
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bangladesh that almost disappeared is making a comeback with limited resources and threats of climate change people here are now starting to appreciate the importance of environmentalists friendly traditional cultivation systems some of you know john can earn around $2.50 for days more. then the us are going to put allies on the seeds then keep them in a shaded area to mature literally plant them into floating pads it's natural for us and sell them and ready in the markets farmers generally do not use chemical fertilizers or pesticides using this method so there's a greater demand for them. on these plants and vegetables are from the floating beds farmers bring them to us by boat so we think carry them again and boats and serious bizarre. this year floating seed beds have been used on 290 hector's
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a predisposed marshall an area there are now around 50000 people involved directly or indirectly in this type of farming in the district. with. this method of farming it's getting really popular and it's now practiced in at least 15 to 20 other districts farmers are making a good profitable one many poor bangladeshi farmers have now been given a financial lifeline by turning back the clock and relying once again on a traditional farming technique to protect their livelihoods. and that is our show for this week but we'd love to hear from you can tweet me directly on that come on . the hashtag a.j.c. well all the e-mail address comes in the cost of al-jazeera net. and you can visit us online as well. that takes straight to our page with individual reports links and entire episodes for you to catch up but that is it for this edition of counting the cost i'm kemal santamaria from the whole team thanks for joining us the news on
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session of the un security council's process go on in the disputed region. oh rights groups accuse the police in zimbabwe of using excessive force to disperse protesters. the iranian oil tanker seized by british forces more than a month ago prepares to sail despite objections from the u.s. . tango comes home the best chances for around the world gather while it's obvious. the u.n. security council has held an emergency session to discuss the crisis in kashmir but the closed door meeting ended with the failure to even agree of a joint statement in indian administered kashmir authorities say that they're beginning to lift some of the restrictions put in place nearly 2 weeks ago but we
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begin this hour with a report from mike hanna in new york russia's representative pointed out he was born in the year the security council last minute to formally discuss what was listed on the agenda as the india pakistan question i was one and then to 71 so. i don't know we'll see sometimes it's better not to touch upon certain issues the meeting lasted just over an hour and in the absence of any joint statement china's ambassador outlined the position of his country alone. to should be resolved to properly through peaceful means in accordance with the charter development security council resolutions and bilateral agreements this represents the international. community's consensus
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the indian ambassador quick to argue that china was claiming consensus when none exists insisting that any resolution lies not in international mediation but in bilateral discussion as set out in the similar agreement reached with pakistan in 1972 we're ready to edges these issues in a manner that states who have normal approaches to international ties should address them. and in our case we are committed to the same legume it it's now for pakistan to make that commitment to stop terror to start ducks. pakistan's ambassador made clear her country would continue to press for greater u.n. involvement claiming the meeting itself as a victory in this process the fact that this meeting took place is testimony to the fact that this is an internationally recognized dispute there was an effort
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to stop this meeting from convening and we are grateful to or 15 members of the u.n. security council 40 green to having this meeting. in recent days protesters have gathered outside the u.n. building demanding greater international involvement in the crisis and calling on the u.n. to enforce its own resolutions on the kashmir dispute the lack of consensus in the security council a bleak response offering only the possibility of another 50 year wait before the matter is taken up again mike hanna al jazeera united nations meanwhile india's government says that it will gradually end the communications blackout in been administered kashmir but some kashmir is a wary of the promises being made. reports now from new delhi. the anger spilled onto the streets of srinagar following friday prayers nearly 2
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weeks after india stripped the region of autonomy and imposed a communications blackout the. hundreds vent to their pent up frustration at being unable to move in their own home shut off from the outside world. look at how many do that we've been on don't go through if no prime minister or the sees everything is fine here then he should leave the curfew. the protest happened as indian officials in the region announced plans to ease restrictions imposed they said to counter security threats. they look all going to d.v.d. which has been a blend of sort of. gradually east and restored in a serious manner keeping in mind the constant threat posed by terrorist organizations in news in mumbai divinity dog and ice direction. this journalist who spent decades covering to schmear doubts the government's explanation so they can give whatever excuse they want to give it what it would
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actually they want to give and people like you and i can be suspicious of it. but we don't know whether it's true or not whatever the truth it's aspiration is on display in srinagar the indian government says some of its offices of already resumed operating in the region and schools will reopen on monday it also says it will gradually lift restrictions on communications say they'll believe that when and if it happens that the many these kasmir students studying new delhi haven't been able to speak to their families back home for nearly 2 weeks. they're wary of indian government promises to loosen restrictions on the delusions of the nation's lettuce family so you're hoping that it's happening where you actually have. you know your home is. my peer.
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while restrictions were relaxed for friday prayers which allowed for these protests . in the fish near valley seem aware of the plans to ease the lockdown all they know is that right now they can't move or live freely as jamil al-jazeera you don't know for its from pakistan has hailed the un security council meeting as a diplomatic victory come out to reports from islamabad. they may be different in. the outcome of the david meeting of the u.n. security council. china concerned about the humanitarian crisis and also the fact that this is an issue that should be thawed bilaterally and i did quote something which was issue between the 2 countries also important or nor did the pakistani foreign minister spoke. press conference by the pakistani ambassador to the united nations. in which he said they were indicating
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petition that the awards of the people of kashmir it was being heard internationally the foreign minister saying that. should be lifted immediately restrictions should be lifted that leadership of course major agree to leave so dead people to find out their truth about the feelings of their people today now he did go to important in order that the pakistani prime minister made an urgent call to the u.s. president and which he upright the united states about progress on with addition on this particular crisis what did important or nor the fact that the public on the military keep that already said that india was trying to die would be a danger along the line of control and towards august on in order to continue with the designs in indian administered kashmir tension and remaining high. developments in the united nations security council. and progress done as
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a major diplomatic breakthrough when to get in pakistan's position that this is no longer a by lead to an issue but one that needs international intervention let's get a view from a professor of south asian studies sort of q.'s university in new york she joins us now live via skype from some accused good to have you with us what do you make of the security council's pound intransigence of the indian at. to crush my profession . yes so i was just listening to the commentaries from both ends and i think the warning was the war into potations is going to continue for the next few months but i would actually hail this moment today as a security council as a historic won a top and well the 1st time in 50 years and while the mind decry the lack of an outcome the duma have to remember that this was a closed door meeting and usually from closed door meetings they are not supposed
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to have any times will outcomes and yet i think that to florence that we need to take away from other historic day one is that as. a number of people just stated it is very clear that i know that kashmir does not and does internal matter its and very clearly the international community considers india's in a natural an exaggeration of the shear to be in violation of international sad to lose and multiple of us to go to the security it has aleutians from 148 to 56 all so there are 2 important things that need to keep in mind and as i said there is a spin factory going on right now for example in india that claims today as a victorious day but it's not necessarily the case because i think today's events open up the door to future deliberations but having said that i want to make a quick point also about india trying to we are between a bilateralism and came in kashmir to be its internal card i think it's also
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india's bid to redefine what bilateralism means it cannot call an issue a bilateral issue while at the same time also calling it you know internal marker and it keeps going back to the schimmel agreement which in no way. precludes international intervention based on all political expediency and context and. i don't know if you want to come back to me but i do want to make another quick points 2 quick points and all of this is unfolding as ron's not thing in the defense minister this morning tweeted about. you know rejecting its 1st use policy and so far as the use of nuclear weapons is concerned which should be quite alarming for the international community and also the genocide watch of the general based organization today basically stated that what the shmeat is experiencing is
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a genocide like the 2 ation and an imminent massacre might be on the cause what are we to make of the deafening silence from the u.s. over this issue i don't necessarily see it as a deafening silence. there's clearly been conversations happening between iran khan and the prime minister of pakistan and donald trump about 0 a potential bilateral dialogue to resolve the crisis and to make sure that this doesn't escalate into something bigger than what it is having them bad so i don't necessarily see it as a deafening silence i do want to make a quick note about how the nuclear war specter which should as i said rightly alarmed the international community i do want to point to the fact that right now it's just meetings are experiencing is a war against them so why we might worry about a nuclear about a potential imminent nuclear war we should right now be extremely tuned in to
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what's happening in specially on the ground and see there's a war like situation as well so and in any case i don't see it i don't think of it as a deafening silence i think.

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