to preserve their traditional way of life feeling sometimes luser cattle there was called for because of the storm risking it all mongolia on al-jazeera. i really believe that iran can be a great nation that they can have nuclear weapons hopes of a breakthrough between the united states and iran as the g. 7 summit comes to an end. hello and welcome on peter davi you're watching on to 0 live from doha also coming up brazil rejects an offer of 20000000 dollars to help tackle the fires raging in the amazon. held accountable a judge orders u.s.

pharmaceutical company johnson and johnson to pay $527000000.00 for oklahoma's opioid epidemic. and why afghans are expressing 100 years of independence from british rule through art. there's hope of a breakthrough after months of tensions between the u.s. and iran the french president emanuel mack wrong has offered to broker a conversation between donald trump and the iranian president hassan rouhani trying to salvage something from the 2050 nuclear deal the u.s. leader appeared optimistic about the idea of moving the relationship forward that wraps up what's been happening on the final day of the g. 7 summit. the prospect of a meeting between us who were a new president was not am likely outcome of the g 7 in berates but as the summit came to an end its host the french president suggested talks between donald trump

and hassan rouhani were possible. at some point there has to be a meeting between the iranian president and the us president i hope that in the next few weeks this meeting will take place france plays a role along with the other partners who signed the iran deal trump who pulled the u.s. out of the 2015 iran nuclear deal last year and imposed sanctions said he was open to diplomacy we're looking for nuclear weapons globalist missiles and a longer period of time very simple we can have it done in a very short period of time. and i really believe that iran can be a great nation i'd like to see that happen the development came one day after the unexpected arrival of the iranian foreign minister in berates jihads our reef was invited by the french president who had been asked by some g 7 leaders to mediate in the crisis. trust conciliatory tone was also extended to trade he said beijing

and washington could begin talks to resolve the tariffs dispute going into this summit a man or mackerel said he wanted to use it to make progress on the escalating tensions over iran and trade to help tackle the amazon rain forest fires and he'll divisions using multilateral cooperation at the end of the 3 day meeting it seems the french president has succeeded on several fronts they were unresolved issues though the u.k.'s prime minister boris johnson received only a vague promise of a future trade accord with the u.s. and was no nearer to a deal on breaks it with the european union i think it's the job of everybody in parliament to get this thing done and that is what the people want by the way it's what our friends and partners on the other side of the channel want they want they want this thing done they want they want it over last year trump refused to sign the final g 7 statement this year has scrapped it replacing it with

a one page summary of the meeting so with no commitments in writing the challenge will be to. compel leaders to act on the thoughtful promises they have made such a butler al-jazeera spirits. brazil has rejected an offer of 20000000 dollars from g 7 leaders to help tackle the fires burning in the amazon an aide to the president travels on the road told local media the money would be better spent in europe earlier mr paulson r.-o. said the suggestion of creating an international audience to save the rain forest reached brazil like a colony series of reports now from the state of mato grosso one of the hardest hit areas. this place may now look like a golf course but it was once a muscle in jungle. located in the state of mind a little fall in the center of brazil decades of deforestation have this a profitable area for agribusiness and that's why the recent fires affecting the amazones are not surprising to people like blue another sun dos. every year there

are fires but the situation is worse now because of climate change and the president he basically tells people to go and cut down trees and nothing will happen to them the data we have here shows the heat and it can be verified whether it's a fire he compares the maps of 2018 with what is happening this year millions of trees gone with the help of sea source and fire. the map shows us where the fires are we travel for 4 hours and arrive at one of the places that highlighted in parts of the amazon the burned areas have increased by 83 percent in just the past year fires are natural at this time of the year because of the dry weather the heat and the wind but environmentalists say that the sharp increase seen this year is due to farmers setting the forests allied to clear the land for pastures the problem is that in many cases those fires get out of control the brazilian law says

that landowners can only cut down 20 percent of the tree. in their property but that's rarely enforced catalogs not his real name is a small farmer in the area he's afraid to show his face president who has repeatedly said he wants to open up the amazon for business cattle says that has encouraged people to burn more trees for the fiscal is us there are no controls nobody is watching what people are doing both or not or says he wants development and this is what development may bring there is no limits to ambition it is everyone wants more. deeper in the forest it's not difficult to find cut down trees hidden in the woods hiding from the satellites it's the 1st step to conquer new territories and extend the agricultural frontier for cattle and crops the government insists the situation is no worse than previous years but satellite

imagery shows something different and that's why countries like germany and norway have halted all payments to the amazon fund at using the government of failing to protect the environment but enough of i.d.s. has lived in this area his whole life he has been struggling to find a middle ground between preservation and development. the simplistic speech of the president that he is attacking n.g.o.s he is attacking families from here they want to take resources from n.g.o.s because we publish the truth he says we are attacking the country we can all work together for preservation and development somebody needs to explain to the government we are not the enemy government control is the only way to prevent the destruction of what is left of amazonia but what worries many here is that they claim the central government is purposely looking away that is how will. that matter good also. and as brazil struggles to control tens of thousands of fires people in peru are using

brooms shovels and branches to fight back the flames there the country's civil defense body says more than 140 hector's of forests in the a pretty much region have burned. a judge in the u.s. state of oklahoma has ruled the pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson helped fuel america's opioid epidemic the company's been ordered to pay $572000000.00 in damages over its aggressive marketing of addictive painkillers and a galaxy has that story from norman oklahoma. oklahoma set out to take on a pharmaceutical giant and after 7 weeks of evidence judge found bachmann's ruling was blunt and found that johnson and johnson is culpable in fueling an opioid crisis that's claimed more than 6000 lives in this state the crisis has ravaged the state of oklahoma in the s.b. and made it a bit immediately for this reason i am entering into a plan that consists of cost. 572000000

102028 dollars to a media living really a nuisance the case is being seen as a landmark ruling in dealing with a health crisis that's claimed tens of thousands of lives across the u.s. the centers for disease control and prevention say that in 2017 alone close 250000 people died from opioid overdoses lawyer reggie whitten was part of his legal team and lost his firstborn son to addiction i feel like i'm always looking their. protest no but i think myself lost and they're celebrating the day we got to get help. he says the kids lawyers for johnson and johnson say they'll appeal the decision calling it legally floored the state's lawyers were asking for $17000000000.00 from the company but only got a fraction of that is the amount of money that johnson and johnson has been ordered to pay may not be what the state of oklahoma wanted but the message it sends is

clear the judge in this case was unequivocal in blaming big pharmaceutical companies in their role in an opioid crisis has blighted the lives of so many and with fountains of other cases across the country this may set an important precedent to what the pharmaceutical companies put do and tiva settle before this trial got underway with monday's ruling oklahoma now has close to a $1000000000.00 for treatment and this is being seen as a huge victory by those that work on the front lines fighting the epidemic we're very very happy this is a good day for the sake of oklahoma we took on a giant major pharmaceutical company and a judge in norman oklahoma said you killed people it's time to pay the case was being closely watched across the u.s. in ohio alone there are 2000 pending cases but after monday's ruling pharmaceutical companies may now be forced to pay out billions and gallacher all this era norman oklahoma. hong kong leader kerry has warned that the escalation of violence in

anti-government protests is becoming more serious peaceful protests turned violent over the weekend as the city enters its 12th week of demonstrations protesters are calling for a controversial extradition bill to be scrapped not just suspended and for them to resign but she's refusing to go and denies that the government's lost control of the territory. the question of resignation is also being that i think a responsible chief executive at this point in time should continue to hold the fort and do her utmost to restore law and order in hong kong some people have said that since there are continued violence we should stop communicating i said in my introductory remarks that that was also another too extreme view that we should prepare for reconciliation in society by communicating with different people so i'm saying that yes we have to say no to violence we want to put and to a chaotic situation in hong kong law enforcement and so on at the same time we will

not give up on building a platform for dialogue. this was a regular weekly media briefing given by carrie lamb the chief executive of hong kong but it was the 1st time we have heard from her since the weekend when we saw what could probably be described as an escalation in the violence both on saturday and sunday we saw preapproved marches taking place in different parts of the city and what's becoming a pats in some protest is breaking away towards the end of those marches blocking roads resulting in the police taking action in the form of firing many rounds of tear gas in this media briefing there was again no sign whatsoever that carrie lamb is going to bow to the demands of the protesters even though she did say she's open to talks with them one of the key demands of the protesters is for an independent inquiry to be set up into the crisis specifically into the conduct of the police

and kerry has said time and time again that the time is not right for an independent independent inquiry while there is violence still going on on the streets she was also asked again whether she would resign and she said that a responsible chief executive at this time should continue to hold the fort. and australian detained in china since january has been formally arrested on charges of espionage he's young enjoy he was a chinese diplomat before becoming a naturalized australian citizen in 2002 has been held for the last 7 months in harsh conditions and according to australia's foreign minister maurice payne says the government has serious concerns about his well sir we have heard those reports and we are deeply concerned there. and disappointed to learn that that is the case he was he was formally arrested in china. in the last few days.

still to come here on al-jazeera. the new visa conditions in ecuador leaving venezuelans fleeing crisis at home stranded. and dying to tell another journalist is killed in mexico as the u.n. is better protection for reporters. and oh there it is holes and dry across much of the middle east want to base a piece of cloud across northern sections maybe even just a stray shot pushing across into georgia but it really is about the heat particularly in baghdad how much has been high for the last few days and staying that way said 48 celsius on tuesday maybe degree on wednesday and even in august that is actually well above the average me want a very nice 30 celsius in beirut and we should see 29 on wednesday in time as high

further to the south as you'd expect but here it is levels are also pretty hot the moment say 40 celsius in doha feeling a lot hotter than that and similarly across that have. to feel warmer than that value as well meanwhile as the soph you got to this a coastal cloud just pushing into a yemen and across into amman and some to linger as we go through the next couple of days that a warm dense a lot of with a high of 28 and talking of warm days well johannesburg there's a couple of those coming your way 26 ounces on tuesday also a once in those temperatures are about 7 degrees above the average meanwhile in cape town we've got this cat in the chance of you showers and that's keeping things a little bit cooler than average and then durban out about down choose day 23 degrees but cooling off day on both days you might just pick up a stray shower. on counting the cost this week we check the pulse of the global economy the age of

populist governments is the independence of central banks comes under threat and the unintended consequences of trump's trade off plus the i.m.f. warns on the missteps of brigs its trade we're. counting the cost on al-jazeera. we're watching on to 0 mining's pieces these are your headlines so far the u.s. president donald trump says he's willing to consider meeting his iranian counterpart arson with honey if the circumstances are right brazil has rejected an

offer of 20000000 dollars of emergency aid from the g 7 countries to help tackle fires raging in the amazon president. said an international alliance to save the rain forest would be a form of colonization. and a judge in the u.s. state of oklahoma has ruled the pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson helps fuel an opioid epidemic has killed more than 400000 people the company has been ordered to pay 570 $2000000.00 in damages it says it will appeal. discussing the kashmir dispute with india's prime minister narendra modi on the sidelines of the g 7 mr trump has offered to mediate after new delhi revoked indian administered kashmir as semi autonomous states as earlier this month but he has now backtracked. well we hope that. the prime minister. really feels that only. those with pakistan that they will be able to do stuff they

will be very. vocal about it right. mr modi maintains the crisis in kashmir is a regional dispute and that international mediation isn't required. by you all issues between india and pakistan are bilateral and that's why we don't trouble other countries over these. and i'm confident india and pakistan who will one before 947 can discuss problems between ourselves and resolve them pakistan's prime minister imran khan used an address to the nation to express his frustration with india. they defied all the un security council resolutions they win against their lord they went against their own supreme court and high court's decisions those who are the founding fathers like. they win against the promises made by prime minister nearer to the people of kashmir and they also went against this secure constitution which says that in the

years for everyone in the creation of pakistan is wrong they ended that secularism on the 5th of august they seem to miss it saying that india is for hindus only and everyone else is a 2nd class and hundreds of venezuelan migrants have been protesting at the ecuador colombia border demanding they should be allowed into ecuador they were stranded there after new visa regulations came into effect on monday with an $85000.00 bonus with migrants of crossed into ecuador from colombia in the past month seeing economic and political turmoil at home the sea and human reports now from in ecuador. monday morning at the entrance to immigration at the ecuador colombia border. 12 hours earlier more than 10000 venezuelans had managed to enter ecuador with their identity documents before midnight deadline went into effect requiring them to hold a valid consular visa but hundreds more arrived too late.

this family is being told that they must go back because they missed the midnight deadline. 1002 did get in the majority but no food and almost no money spent the freezing night outdoors hoping that the day break they'd receive a helping hand. that is where the once opened its doors to so many migrants from all over the world all we ask is they have solidarity with us in our time of need. but those were different times ecuador has already received more than 300000 venezuelans and says it can no longer absorb migrants. now it is demanding they pay $50.00 for a visa a fortune for the average venezuelan who's monthly salary has plunged to $2.00. join us and mendis his wife and 3 small children made it into ecuador just in time he for more than 2 weeks with no money. to try to make the children think that this

is an adventure so that they're able to travel night and day. jonathan goes to see if the u.n.h.c.r. can give them food before continuing on to peru which he knows they will be stopped because they don't have the required visa to enter but they feel lucky to at least have got this far behind us is the columbia border and we've seen at least 200 venezuelans like these who've been stopped not allowed to come into ecuador because they no longer have the right papers but many of them have told us that they have no intention of returning to venezuela that if they can't come into ecuador legally they'll try other methods like illegal crossings for example the river that you see here that separates colombia from ecuador. we will increase police vigilance along the border to ensure that illegal immigration does not take place but as he spoke we spotted 2 undocumented venezuelans bypassing immigration altogether like they will join thousands more heading south as the

lucky ones like these may get a lift. others will continue walking as they have for weeks hoping to find any job they can to help them survive. gun. u.s. prosecutors say a man charged with killing 11 people in a pittsburgh synagogue should face the death penalty if convicted they argue that robert bowers showed no remorse for the attack and wanted to instill fear in the jewish community the 46 year olds accused of firing on worshippers in october of last year has pleaded not guilty to the 63 count indictment an investigation by the reuters news agency says the u.s. central intelligence agency does not spy on the government of the united arab emirates something critics say is a dangerous blind spot in washington's global monitoring the report quotes former cia agents with one calling the agency's failure to adapt to the u.a.e. as political and military ambitions

a quote dereliction of duty it also says the lack of monitoring puts the emirates on a very small list of countries where the cia conducts a hands off approach the u.a.e. has played a role in several major regional and international events including the blockade of cata as well as the conflicts in libya and yemen a former cia officer glenn col said he's he'd be surprised if the united states is no longer paying attention to the u.a.e. . the us is one of the the cia is one of the few intelligence services with global capability and interests no one can debate whether that should be the case or not but that's the truth and since the u.a.e. is a critical player in the middle east and beyond i would be surprised i wouldn't really believe that the us is ignoring the u.a.e. the cia and the us government will very consciously weigh what are the potential

costs and the potential benefits from any operation and human ones and. especially and may decide well anything we could get will could not could not be good enough to counterbalance or outweigh the risks of if something goes wrong now that doesn't mean we're norrington the u.a.e. or anything else but the decision could quite conscious be made that the costs of trying to develop human sources weigh the benefits when for example they're lation ship is close already and above board or their relationship is tense or the priorities are low or the priorities are so high that adding a problem would probably not worth the risk all of those are factors that go into this kind of the city. the death of another journalist in mexico brings the number killed to at least 10 this comes as a new u.n.

report criticizes the government so hence protect reporters and activists has more now from mexico city. there's a war on press freedom playing out on the streets of mexico. the sharp increase in violence nationwide over the past 2 years has also meant a increase in attacks against journalists. the death of naveed how to me of mexico state over the weekend brings the total number of journalists killed this year to at least 10 hundreds turned out to attend his funeral. on august 3rd another journalist death also drew media attention this time it was celestin ovaries a newspaper reporter from the state of it accrues before being gunned down soliciting a received death threats at his home you know i want someone to do something and i want them to leave me in my children alone i don't want anything else he was

everything to me and now he's gone what else do they want solicitor was one of the 3 journalists killed in mexico in the same week. the continued killings of journalists has sparked protests in vera cruz currently one of the most dangerous states in the country for media professionals. i love to sponsor we want those responsible for lacerating journalism in better crews to be captured the ones who harms another family we are journalists but also citizens by hurting or killing a journalist it ends up affecting a family célestin it wasn't rolled in a government program that aims to provide protection for journalists and human rights defenders a recent report by the united nations however says the mexican government has to step up its commitment toward the protection of freedom of expression. and we are calling for a national campaign to prove the visibility of journalists and human rights defenders led by the president. more than $900.00 journalists and human rights workers are currently enrolled in the government's protection mechanism program

mexico ranks among the world's most dangerous countries for journalists more than $150.00 have been killed since the year 2000 despite the establishment of the protection mechanism for human rights defenders and journalists in 2012 attacks against press freedom have continued unabated but it up in mexico city. this month afghanistan is marking 100 years since it gained independence from british rule and of reports from kabul afghanistan documenting what independence means today. what a picture of afghanistan 100 years after independence from britain the anglo afghan treaty was signed this month a $919.00 by king. graphic artist converted his image into stick a couple of motorists we have jobs one mission and i'm going to be here things to show. other canvases the last waltz falsified concrete slabs

placed information down most cities 3 they made to block explosions from suicide bombings they also offer a visual commentary on the size of today where there are big celebrations or more political statements about corruption or the killing of civilians. afghanistan's art scene has flourished since the fall of the taliban in 2001 with literacy rates among adults around 30 percent it's a language all afghans understand the real painting true lives today and every single to that is for one of the victims of wars oh much refin his team have painted 10000 sorties their goal is 34000 to represent the number of civilians killed since 2002 her sharifi founded the award winning awards a group of social activist. he is celebrating independence but not necessarily

afghanistan's as a nation i think i have my independence i have this art this gives me the voice and this gives voice to millions of. sarkari me has a more traditional campus film she's making a short historical movie for the anniversary this short. the film is just short the for the history of afghanistan so they had to be passed to call true to say and i just give them like kind of clue that what we did wrong and what we did dry ice cream is the 1st female director of the afghan film institute and has been vocal in advancing women's rights in afghanistan we exist as a as a country as a nation so from some point of view we are independent and what we will fight to be more independent. does being

a turbulent same tree for afghans with independence defined as vastly is the canvases it is recorded on. jazeera kabul. an unmanned russian spacecraft a successfully doctor the international space station on a 2nd attempt in as many days these were the final moments as the soyuz m s 14 approach the space station a glitch in its automatic docking system prevented it from docking on saturday the spacecraft is carrying a robot the size of an adult human being. this is al jazeera these are your top stories so far the u.s. president donald trump says he's willing to consider meeting his iranian counterpart. if the circumstances are right. i don't know the gentleman i think that i think i know i'm a little bit just by watching over the last number of years what's happened tell you one thing is a great negotiator but he i think is going to want to meet i think iran wants to

get this situation straightened out their economy is tanked entirely the sanctions are absolutely hurting them horribly i don't want to see that i don't want to see that they're great people i don't want to see that we can't let them have a nuclear weapon can't let it happen so i think that there's a really good chance that we would meet brazil has rejected an offer of 20 $1000000.00 of emergency aid from the g 7 countries to help tackle the fires raging in the amazon the president mr bowles and an international alliance to save the rainforest would be a form of colonization a judge in the u.s. state of oklahoma has found the pharmaceutical giant johnson and johnson helped fuel an opioid epidemic which has killed thousands of people the company's been ordered to pay $572000000.00 in damages over its aggressive marketing of addictive painkillers it says it will appeal. the hong kong need to carry lamb has warned that the escalation of violence in antigovernment protests is becoming more serious

protesters are calling for a controversial extradition bill to be scrapped not just suspended and to resign but she is refusing to go and denies that her government lost control of the territory an australian writer detained in china since january has been formally arrested on charges of espionage yang june has been held for the last 7 months in harsh conditions in beijing that's according to australia's foreign minister the penalties for spying range from 3 years in jail to the death penalty. israel appears to be massing troops on its border with lebanon and syria israel has carried out air strikes against iranian backed groups in lebanon iraq and syria in the past few days the lebanese president michel own described it as a quote declaration of war you are right up to speed with all the top stories so far today next on al-jazeera counting the cost of. this story of a friendship between a filmmaker and

a 13 year old girl. being this. piece of deep rooted tension between deliberate and the refugees. my syrian friend. an al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is counting the cost of al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week we check the pulse of the global economy the age of populist governments and ask is the independence of central banks under threat. unintended consequences the global economy takes a hit from trump's trade war with china and the i.m.f.

warns of more pain ahead from the missteps of briggs it trade. it's been a pretty eventful year so far the.