taliban essentially where we want to pull the troops back home colludes are heading to kabul to have a negotiation with the up congress but the taliban have essentially you know refused to recognize the existence of the afghan government and for me prince police speaking this was the whole. policy angle where we were you know setting up a government that recognized a lot of the principles that what the u.s. took or and i think that's where some of the weak pressure points lie and that's where the strong winds for the taliban lie i think you know part of word we the united states would want is not an attack from the air that that's traced back to the consulate that. an attack on the u.s. or its allies that can be traced back to the u.s. the a consular but that does not mean you know the u.s. the neighborhood as it is at large arrests. and i think you know. what

we are what i would like to see from something like this is the war and on the united states is terms and not a problem on storms and as it is i fly the war ending on taliban's times and not the u.s. has to. at least 5 people have been killed and 21 entered in the latest mass shooting in the us the suspect was shot dead by police after hijacking a postal vehicle and opening fire on random people and west texas alexia brian reports. the shooting going on in this picture of the final moments of what began as a routine traffic stop we have buried the suspected gunman now my man and as they seize shot dead by police outside a cinema complex and i day so we stay in texas what's going on here where there are multiple scenes and multiple victims. at some point. the subject stoli mail truck did his card. and there were other victims and after

that i don't know if this video posted online showed terrified families as gunfire rings out nearby i don't know. according to monitors the gun violence archive it's the 279th mesh using in the u.s. this year it comes just weeks after a white nationalist shot dead $22.00 people in a shopping center in the takes in border city of el paso. gun violence is a hugely political issue in the united states within minutes of the shooting candidates vying to be the next president weighed in with democrats in texas native base o'rorke making a call to action tweet saying we need to end this epidemic take this is traditionally supportive of the right to carry arms and on sunday new laws come into effect allowing people to take guns to school parking lots and houses of prayer for it. would probably. work with both

parties. but. the rush. for. the house judiciary committee had planned to discuss gun control legislation this week but that's being pushed off because of the approaching storm harken dorian. address that takes us now on the list of cities known for gun violence and like the others though what some say is that being what many want though a concrete plans for change like sarah brian al jazeera. the u.s. says it's had an al qaeda linked training camp in syria's rebel held in the province happen now far from city at least 14 people have been killed the syrian army and its ally russia have been waging a crushing offensive to recapture it live gann a cease fire early on saturday morning margaret smith is monitoring developments from the tape near the turkey syria border the u.s.

led coalition is confirming that it targeted a building to the east of city that it says was connected with a group linked to al qaida or a training facility in al jazeera sources on the ground we've spoken to sources who confirm that they say that this was a training center for this group connected with al qaida it encourage people from all ages young boys to teenage men to older men to come to training that's why we have seen video where at least there is clearly one injured child in the video but it was the issue with this sense of the all age groups that it was believed to be this training center for this kind of connected group and it's an indication really of the concern not just that turkey hasn't of the russians have but also the americans that in this last rebel held part of syria the northwestern part of syria there are these hard core groups resisting conducting a lot. still ahead on al-jazeera the race to save animals from fires burning

through the bolivian amazon. and huge numbers turnout in british cities denouncing the prime minister's prime minister's decision to suspend parliament weeks before press. going to welcome back we're crossing the states as well as the bahamas we are watching hurricane dorian making its way towards the west now the storm is a very very powerful storm and it is going to be bringing very heavy rain storm surge across much of the area you can actually see the on satellite image right there over the next few days the storm is going to make its way towards west but it is going to be slowing down as we go from sunday as well as into monday and that's a big problem because once it slows down we're going to see the storm surge in the same location the rain in same location as well as the winds really covering that

same place so we'll watch that very carefully from sunday to monday we do expect to see the storm stoli make a turn to the northwest and we do expect it to stay off the coast united states but possibly by the time we get towards mid week we could be seeing landfall into the carolinas where here across parts of the yucatan we're going to watch in development here in this area we could be seeing a storm making its way very slowly out here towards the bear compared and that could be brings a very heavy rain across much of the area from mexico it is going to be already down here into guatemala also seeing some of that rain but for panama heavy rain for you at a temperature of 29 degrees and then very quickly across parts of argentina we're going to see a fun about to make its way towards the north for readers you know you're on the north side in the temps are there 26 degrees for you. on counting the cost $15.00 of the most polluted cities in the world are in india we look at the cost of people's health and so on to government protesters the want

hong kong could be plunged into a recession and a tribute to fortune built on oil and gas know what faces up the climate challenge is. counting the cost on al-jazeera. and watching al-jazeera let's make out the top stories right now protests and on kong have again become violent to some people or old petrol bombs the police who head back with tear gas and water cannon by officers also storm metro stations

hitting it arresting demonstrators they describe as radical latest salvo in the trade war between the world's 2 largest economies will be fired in less than 2 hours the u.s. is due to impose a 15 percent tariff on $300000000000.00 worth of chinese goods with the 1st round taking effect on sunday and it has a while back down is raised import taxes on $75000000000.00 worth of american goods . and a gunman in the u.s. state of texas has shot and killed 5 people and wounded 21 others shooter described as a white man in his thirty's has been shot and killed by police. hurricane dorian remains a large category 4 storm it's currently east of the bahamas the national hurricane center says devastating winds and rain up to $25.00 inches could devastate some areas of the island were and still remains a threat to the u.s. east coast people in florida are boarding up homes and businesses lining up for fuel and filling sandbags as the storm edges closer to the u.s. southeast coast having initially rejected the offer bolivia's president evo morales

now says he's open to accepting international aid to help fix damage caused by fires in the amazon they've been burning out of control for weeks doubling in size since thursday one and a half 1000000 hectares of forest have been destroyed in a fire is heading towards paraguay or latin america and we'll see a new man has more from setting osseo in eastern bolivia. we're in the main plaza now i'm standing now still which is known for the jesuit missions that founded it back in the 1900 but right now this has become the operations center but this region where the number of fires has more than doubled in the last week alone there are more than one the 1500000 hectares of the libyan forests that are now on fire the authorities are doing their best to try to bring aid to the local communities and to the travel because of the cattle area but it's not just that we've seen that in other parts will further to the south it is not just the props and the cattle that are suffering but it's actually the wildlife that is unprotected in this

forest. the for the team is believe in veterinarians traveled to the reserves forest fires have been raging for weeks. their mission is to try to rescue wild animals which may have been injured. this was the scene the previous night the fire destroyed everything in its path. but a few animals were saved like this 2 day old wild pig whose mother died in the fire . the nature is extraordinary the way the allows these creatures to adapt in the face of danger and stress and find. enormous dillo with burnt eyes a hawk recovering from smoke inhalation along with a boa constrictor they're all receiving treatment at this shelter. today the rescue is hope to find more survivors riding in the direction. which indicates sometimes

when there's a fire and we can tell because of the large number of butterflies that are flying away. this area has already burned to the ground and there's no sign of life. pokes around a serpent hole if it's deep enough he says the snakes may have survived. if you can see this is apocalyptic there's nothing left these are part of the world's longs now it's nature that's disappearing next it will be us there's no sign of firefighters here as you can see the wind here is absolutely fierce and it's fanning the flames again in this direction the plan is to bring a super tanker helicopter here in the next couple of days to leave water for the animals that have survived but that helicopter is also needed to put out the fires to save human life. the fire remains out of control a thick layer of smoke and ash fills the air making the sun grid. it's too

dangerous to stay in the veterinarian are upset that they couldn't save a single animal i mean. i feel impotent because people are and seen how the amazon is burning how burning alive and no one is doing anything. while much of the world focuses on the fires raging in the brazilian amazon the devastation here in neighboring bolivia is receiving far less attention. even though assistance is desperately needed not just to put out the fires but to regenerate this fragile and diverse eco system so that what has survived will still be able to live here. all day long we have seen truckloads of soldiers going out into the fire area also with some volunteers most of them between the ages of 16 and 22 they're not properly trained firemen they don't have the proper equipment either to protect their feet or to protect their lungs from the smoke and from in time from smoke

inhalation but they're doing their very very best to put out these fires which are spreading faster and faster because of the climatic conditions the very very strong winds the extremely high temperatures and of course a prolonged drought a judge in sudan has formally charged opposed president omar al bashir with corruption and the illegal use of foreign funds as you're told the court he received $25000000.00 from saudi crown prince bahama been solman that he had not used the money for private purposes sure's lawyer says his client denies all charges against him sudan is in the process of transitioning to civilian rule following a power sharing deal between protest leaders and the generals who ousted bashir. no we did not supply the money to the bank of sudan because we meant to hide the source and we did so because this was the desire of the prince and i had hoped that this would have been a secret court in order not to show the name of the prince he did not want his name

to appear anywhere which is why he sent the money on a private plane with a private on the boy this was his wish for it not to be known. that the united nations has visited the frontline of the ebola at the demick in the democratic republic of congo attending a terrorist met health care workers and peacekeepers in north kivu province where the latest outbreak began a year ago world health organization says 2000 people have died from the disease attacks on clinics that killed dozens of help or purse and slowed treatment efforts . there been more eruptions from mexico's consulates hell volcano hurling rock and asked in the skies southwest of the capital of al-qaeda has been particularly active in recent months about 25000000 people live within 100 kilometers of the crater protesters in moscow have again condemned the exclusion of end appendant opposition candidates for next month's city election and defiance of the russian government ban or the rejected candidate says there is significant support for

their demands the latest show of public dissent against the kremlin follows weeks of familiar demonstrations when riot police arrested and attacked hundreds of protesters a group of south korean politicians have visited disputed islands in the sea of japan this tension continues to rise between the 2 countries that went in protest against japan's decision to ban the export of components and material issues densmore phone ships japan's foreign ministry condemn the visit describing it it's extremely regrettable known as the cole in south korea and japan the islands are controlled by seoul but claimed by tokyo. the rim protests in cities all over the u.k. against prime minister boris johnson's decision to suspend parliament just weeks before bret's it they gathered around the slogan stop the coup queues and johnson of trying to silence parliament in order to leave the e.u. without a deal the government denies this and says this is vention is nothing unusual there was other protests in london. ways large and noisy demonstration outside downing

street is one of dozens across the u.k. on saturday and many more being funded over the next week gives you an idea of the strength of feeling after boris johnson said that he would try to suspend parliament for several weeks now he's all given is that it's a normal procedure to get ready for a queen's speech before laying out his legislative program the people here say it's a clear power grab trying to stop holliman from doing its job into biting his bricks and policies and avoiding a no deal price it now some of the organizers here are affiliated to the opposition labor party and senior labor figures who said it's clear what boris johnson's really base what is insured by the mechanism that is used and the dates that he's chosen is that it is almost impossible almost impossible to get legislation which would bind the government into asking for an extension but you ask why i don't

trust the reason i don't trust this man is because just recently he laid about whether he wanted to probe parliament he said he didn't believe in such procedures and he lied about that the $350000000000.00 pounds that would be coming to the n.h.s. as a result of leaving the e.u. complete nonsense accepted now that it was just a lie and this is a man who is a serial liar and we cannot trust our democracy to know the action is not just on the streets there are a number of legal challenges going on it england and scotland down in northern ireland that due to wrap up next week and in parliament itself and things who are really worried about a no deal price it trying to figure out their best tactics in the 1st instance they've agreed to try legislation to force the government perhaps to seek an extension to article 50 beyond the end of october but it still might come to

a vote of no confidence in the govern. a number of conservative politicians say they will vote against the road government but it's unclear whether they do at the moment have the numbers or not so why so many people here are at story me i'm sorry about what the government is doing right now. our website as al-jazeera dot com take a look when you get a moment keep it here for some headlines. and these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera just in hong kong have again become violent as some people are petrol bombs at police who hit back with tear gas and water cannon riot officers also storm metro stations sitting in a resting demonstrators they described as radical the last the latest salvo that is in the trade war between the world's 2 largest economies will be fired in less than 2 hours the u.s. is due to impose a 15 percent tariff on $300000000000.00 with the chinese goods with the 1st round

taking effect on sunday china says it won't back down and has raised import taxes on $75000000000.00 worth of american goods the special negotiator on afghan reconciliation says he's close to making a deal with the taliban special representatives has just wrapped up the latest round of talks with the group and doha held now had to call for consultations with afghanistan's government a gunman in the u.s. state of texas says shot and killed 5 people and wounded 21 others the shooter described as a white man in his thirty's has been shot and killed by police. for civilian casualties we have at least $21.00 victims $21.00 shooting victims and at least 5 deceased at this point a situation started about $317.00 this sort of to noon when a d.p.s. trooper attempted to stop a gold honda. when the the fetus troopers got the car stopped he was shot by the occupant of the car. the u.s.

says it's had an al qaeda linked training camp in syria's rebel held live province that happened not far from midland city at least 14 people have been killed the syrian army and its ally russia have been waging a crushing offensive to recapture it live a judge in sudan has formally charged deposed president omar al bashir with corruption and the illegal use of foreign funds sure told the court he received $25000000.00 from saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon but he did not use the money for private purposes or cantorian remains a large category 4 storm it is currently east of the bahamas the national hurricane center says devastating winds and rain of up to $63.00 centimeters could devastate some areas of the islands dorian also remains a threat to the u.s. east coast people in florida are boarding up their homes and businesses lining up for fuel and filling sandbags as the storm edges closer to the u.s. southeast coast as are the headlines keep it on al jazeera counting the cost is

that next. we cannot see everything with our own. testimony. witness documentary. hello i'm come out santa maria this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week india 15 of the most polluted cities in the world are on the sub continent we take a look at the health costs to one of the world's fastest growing economies it's also already under pressure from a trade war now the antigovernment protests could plunge hong kong's economy into recession. reporting from the left protrude island in norway an area rich in biodiversity but also in the course the big oil company.

hello everybody this week's a little different on counting the cost of our correspondents and documentary makers loose on a number of important economic stories big picture stuff and given them a bit more time to do so and we are starting with what has become the world's most polluted capital city and according to the world health organization and greenpeace that city is new delhi in fact 15 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in india alone clearly it can't be good for people's health but how does it impact the country and its economy to 0 documentary make and then how to matter as this feature report. like many parents in delhi dr shell interbred already on knows that allowing his children to play outdoors comes at a cost. and is affecting our life. was i moved to this place i started developing last month and next few years we came really was some time i have to come in the

middle of the night to you and my daughter who was just one month old sylvia's together with markets doctor and one of the most polluted parts of the city and believes the air quality is made worse by emissions from a waste to energy plant in his neighborhood these high level of pollution barely had a problem there this plant so definitely even in delhi if you are staying one place although please visit difference. as a doctor he knows only too well that absolution can have lost in consequences on his family's health with the time you might have a week long. i cannot continue my excess capacity for very long because after a few days i get even a cough or anything the plant management refused to respond to our clarity on its health impact but none of it stop officials said in a whatsapp message that the plants performance met all operating parameters and is

well within prescribed limits. over a 1000000 indians died in 2017 because of fair pollution according to the global burden of disease study but the indian government has consistently maintained there is no direct correlation between air pollution and deaths there are multiple causes of mortality how do your been there quality is the cause it can be a trigger it certainly is a trigger in most of the cases. but i think if you continue to do studies on this and come up with conclusive data. but an increasing number of doctors say there is a clear link between absolution and deaths there is enough data available there air pollution science must continue but action should not read

the reserves of scientific studies because that made 20 years and by that time we would have lost millions of people are known or thirdly to dismiss. air pollution has been linked to a herd of all lung cancer deaths in india one of its victims is priyanka chan a digital marketing consultant based in delhi she was diagnosed almost overnight with stage 4 lung cancer the right lung is completely damaged and the cancer has spread so much that it's just not visible on the extreme when we met april this year she blamed the city's dirty air for her illness i don't foresee any other reason for lung cancer to happen to me otherwise i'm breathing is the most important practice that you're doing every moment and that's your source of life so the air that you're breathing if that is poor that definitely is

a significant contributor for any respiratory disease her doctor also believed that absolution could have led to her terminal illness does enough evidence in the world that pollution can do that and i really wonder if that was the main going to be a true fact in hokus priyanka lost her battle to cancer in july 2019 less than 4 months after the interview. she had just turned 27. so. and it's not just the health of people that's being affected by absolution it also affects the health of the economy if you add up the number of years who we are losing because of illness because of the productive dying and you know all these are coming out huge economic cost. india as one of the world's fastest growing economies and even though its growth has slowed down it

aims to be worth 5 trillion dollars over the next few years. but according to the world bank the country lost over 8 percent of its g.d.p. in 2013 because of air pollution and latest research from the indian statistical institute shows that reducing pollution would help the country gain billions we could cut pollution to 0 every indian would be willing to pay about $300.00 per year to cut that risk the total benefit would be about 3 or $400000000000.00 per year which is about 10 to 15 percent of total income in india . hell on earth we are not 6 able to believe air pollution has dominated the headlines in the country for a few years now even moving major political parties to include it in their manifestos. the government is making a push for clean energy and electric vehicles among other measures earlier this

year it launched the 1st national clean air program that eames to bring down air pollution in more than 100 cities over the next 5 years but some experts think the program needs more teeth they need doget without clear compliance and accountability mechanism does not work should the government approach that will collaborate to cooperate find friendly answers that is not really going to bring the kind of push that we require to make things happen on ground. and with studies indicating that nearly 700000000 indians are exposed to polluted air there's little time to lose if we were to freeze all the legislation and do nothing now on words in 2050 roughly 130000000 people or half the population and 25 would still be exposed which exceeds our ambient air quality

standards brought in our bore out of clean air asia says there are lessons to be learned from how india's neighbor china has battled its notoriously high air pollution levels china puts air pollution not as part of an environment agenda it's part of national planning process so obviously it's an economic agenda in countries like ours where where we're looking at rapid development we're looking at you know energy transition we're looking at pics like smart cities we definitely need to integrate air within we've been developing policy. industrial pollution remains a serious challenge but businesses are beginning to step up say cámara of the confederation of indian industry while invested realizes that we do cause a bit of this problem a lot of them are coming up and say how can i be a part of the solution and this did. only thing in the last one year that was the

government is betting big on moving to the no vehicle emission standards in 2020 but this hasn't come without challenges for the auto industry which is already struggling with some of the worst sales figures in recent years the time given what extremely small increase your supposed will be from. internationally countries have taken anything would mean he'd been used to work meanwhile citizens are opting for private solutions to a public problem this chemist tells us that his sales of breeding a parrot us have been booming. mosques and liberalize are going to become compulsory in the time to come every home will need to stock up on them and this building in a busy south delhi neighborhood seems to offer pollution free office space b m 2.5 a highly dangerous particle that is 30 times smaller than the with

a human hair is almost absent from here. so we're right outside one of the earliest greenest buildings and the pm $2.00 level here have been hovering at about a 100 which is about twice of india's daily national standard and about 4 times out of the international standard let's go and see what the building is doing now to clean up its air entrepreneur shows us the plants and technology that keep pollutants out the mechanical filtration takes care of the particulate matter and some of the harmful gases that when you bring out the gases robotics get over it but as the plants open reducing the indoor pollutants like volatile organic compounds and the pm $2.00 levels have actually come down to 14 from about 100 outside that's a difference of the air purification process makes over here. if i don't also has a warehouse stocked with purify is that cost between $400.00 to $2000.00 a hefty price tag for most indians is it elitist yes it is but if i can afford it

if i can help my kids and my family breathe better and help them protect their lungs i'm going to do everything i can and asked for dr doherty on the line between his hospital and home has blurred because of his daughter none denise frequent asked him our tax. and unless the city's police. sin is brought under control soon dr dorothy majors joined the growing ranks of highly skilled professionals leaving the city not for greener pastures but for kina air al-jazeera has met her with that in science and you can see more of her work and that of our documentary makers online at about 0 dot com slash people in power or have a look in the documentaries menu. now to hong kong you've seen the protests there you've seen the depth of feeling but the territory's finance chief is now one the economy could be plunged into recession if the anti-government

protests continue one citywide strike cost the economy as much as $332000000.00 according to economists and don't forget the knock on effect too from the trade war between the united states and china after thomas has been reporting for hours as they were right throughout the protest movement here is his take on the economic effect. monsoons during hong kong's rainy season often put a damper on shopping but this year it's not just the grain. protests against hong kong's government to having a big impact on the retail sector. retail revenues in june were down 7 percent year on year figures for july and august are expected to show drops of between 10 and 20 percent.