hello again it's good to have you back or seeing plenty of rain up here towards luzon in the philippines over the next few days manila though you're going to be just on the edge of that rain so we do expect to see more showers for you but it's really going to be towards the north that we see the heaviest rain there of course we are seeing a lot more tropical activity across the region that is what's causing it and unfortunate as we go towards monday as well we do expect to see that rain lingering across the area down towards the south though looking quite nice across parts of java we do expect to see jakarta with the temperature of $32.00 degrees there well we do have a big storm system that's finally pushing into the tasman sea but the winds are still going to continue anywhere from sydney down towards melbourne also into hobart as well here's a storm system making its way towards the east things will improve but it's really going to be the winds here across the coast that we are going to be dealing with as we end the weekend melbourne at 13 sydney at 19 and brisbane at 24 degrees out here towards the west though the temperatures are on the way up when we see perth 25

degrees on sunday but take a look at this by the time we go towards monday it is coming up we're going to be seeing a temperature few of about $29.00 degrees there up to the north though darwin is going to be quite sunny with plenty of heat at 35 degrees in townsville also quite warm at 30 degrees for you. all i'm counting the cost a priceless results on the threats the amazon rainforest is a blaze in its links to brazil strive for peace and soya production to look at bats plus as he had always global ambitions which of left investors missing some big losses. counting the calls on al-jazeera.

welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera iran says it has begun using new advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium as it continues to reduce its commitments to the 2050 nuclear deal iran's atomic energy agency says european countries don't have much time left to save the deal police in hong kong are restricting access to the airport where 3rd anti-government protest is planned trains are not stopping on the way to the airport to thwart potential protesters getting there is shut down one of the world's busiest airports for 2 days last month and hurricane dorian is now known to have killed at least $43.00 people in the bahamas a total death toll that is expected to rise because hundreds of islanders remain unaccounted for. the new government ministers in sudan are due to be sworn in prime

minister abdullah announces 20 member cabinet earlier this week it contains 4 women including sudan's 1st female foreign minister a sovereign council will leave the country until elections are held within 3 is meanwhile surrounds the polish president obama share is back in court after he was formally charged last week with corruption and the illegal use of foreign funds but she says the 25000000 dollars he received from saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman wasn't used for private purposes is lawyer says his client denies all charges against him that speak to our correspondent in khartoum hiba morgan so he but this is the 4th hearing for a mob bashir how is it going for the former president. one fully for one thing we can see it's not going to we he wants it in his session last week in his hearing he said that he had to hold this whole trial would have been

figurative would have been behind. those dollars obviously he's not getting that there from members of the press allowed them to members and other lawyers independent lawyers allowed to attend the hearing now he said that the reason why he wanted to be secret is because he did not want people to know as with the request of saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin solomon that he had received privately $25000000.00 he said that that money came to him as a personal gift on a parole board a private plane and it was received by his office manager and taken to his own home now today his form office manager is testifying in court to explain why the money did not come through the official channels why did why was it not directed through the central bank especially at a time when the country is facing an economic crisis with the former president couldn't also answer the judge's question on how that money was spent he said he gave some of them to charity as donations and he gave some of them to companies but he couldn't explain whether he gave it in the official exchange rate or the black market or the parallel market exchange rate which is why he was charged to elicit

financial gains so far it doesn't look like he's getting what he wanted but his lawyers are insisting that the former president is innocent and that he should not be charged with corruption and illicit financial gain thing that when the money was given to him he had absolute immunity and the right to receive from whoever he wants and if he's found guilty foley the former president faces at least 10 years in jail what about the other charges against his share he was of course charged with killing protesters in may and as also that i.c.c. arrest warrant against same for the crimes committed in darfur. well that's something that has not been brought up brought up over the past 4 sessions including this one but what we do understand is that the judge wants to finish with this corruption case and the bribery charges and then they will look into other cases people on the streets have been condemning the trial they're saying that it's a sham and they've been demanding an independent judicial system set up to be looked at to look into the issues of protesters who have been killed since december as well as work crimes in the western region of darfur and the southern regions of

new nile and south kordofan we also understand that the international criminal court has said that the arrest warrant against the former president is still valid and that they are going to try to reach out to the transitional government which has been appointed just yesterday to look into the issue of handing over the former president but the council have said that they want to set up an independent judicial system to try the former president here and if they fail to do that then they will look into the issue of handing him over thank you for that morgan live for us in khartoum robert mugabe's death at the age of 95 has drawn tributes from across the world but also harsh criticism it was one of africa's most divisive leaders and until he was overthrown 2 years ago it was the only leader many zimbabweans had ever known how every poor some harare president in a synagogue close relationship with robert mugabe was not always easy but on friday he praised the man he replaced as a principled comrade would made huge sacrifices for his country.

remains. would load grown misuse would do. to. rest. dick days morning our leader and do you use very big of a dyed in singapore way you actually receiving treatment for civil yes he was 95 years old mugabe lease a complicated legacy to sam he was a hero and african agent that is education policy is the reason why is a barbara has one of the highest literacy rates in africa you as a grid leant he knew that food to make a good education it emitted possible for the queues of some bubble to give the a free in free a choice of linney but others points to a history have disputed elections and trains corruption allegations of human rights abuses and political and economic turmoil did to throw doll man on to retry snuffy

that truman wise they're really really great men did nothing for our nation frick what it did do seen bradley has as intro disaster do everything for opposition leader say some of the god is black of palm and policies such as lander form and indigenization cripple the economy and government services the flag that it has read to pass on in foreign learned is something that points today problems that we have been our country we can't save or leaders in africa being treated in for unless we must be able to fix our politics fix our governing institutions tricks are governance is james so that we have big ideas not just big meant big use the jew so not just biggest you know his knowledge is mugabe remains a polarizing figure but government official say who be treated with respect and dignity jew does above was founding father roberts mugabe will be given a state funeral his body will lie in state for

a few days the in he will be dade at the national hero symmetry in the capital when many people roof or to into white minority rule are there it how do we toss are al-jazeera haddadi the case against cameroon's main opposition leader and 90 of his supporters has been put off until next month mores come to our faces life in prison accused of rebelling against the government he was the runner up in last year's presidential election which many allege was rigged police in riot gear guarded the court has come to his followers rallied outside france the u.s. and european union among those demanding his release. as you can see there and the right track stationed here. to tell you not policemen and the security measures sit up here and not only for the security but to stiffen us we are pushed to question is the judgment that will be given to come to be what the people want how can the trial happen in the absence of the people it is representing the judgment will unfortunately be done in the absence of the

concerned. a prisoner swap between russia and ukraine is believed to have started 2 buses were seen traveling with police escort from moscow jail to an airport early saturday and just moments ago a plane took off from russia to ukraine with what we believe are prisoners inside the exchange is expected to involve $24.00 ukrainian sailors captured near the crimean peninsula last november and accused of illegally entering russia $35.00 prisoners on each side so a total of 70 prisoners are being exchanged at this what follows years of conflict involving russian backed separatists in eastern ukraine and new fs to revive stalled peace talks and or simmons has our report. they set sail a boeing orders and ended up behind bars in russia 22 ukrainian soldiers and 2 members of the country's security services they were captured by the russian navy which opened fire on their 3 boats here in the kurdish strait 9 months ago russia

says they legally entered its waters near the crimean peninsula seized by russia from ukraine in 2014 a british. let me draw your attention to the fact that they trespassed in russian territorial waters which were russian even before crimea join the russian federation that is in the place where russian territorial waters have always been. the kurds strait gives the only access to ukrainian ports in the sea of as of. but it's now largely under russian control and tensions in the region are high. in july this russian tanker was seized by the ukrainians who said it had been involved in the capture of their sailors the russian crew were later released president putin had been pressured by the european union and the united states to release the sailors an international tribunal had also ordered russia to immediately release the men and their ships the kremlin refused. several of the men were reportedly

moved from labor camps in different parts of russia to a single jail in moscow ahead of their exchange with russians being held in ukrainian prisons all russia seize control of crimea 5 years ago after sending in troops it's also still backing separatists in a war with ukrainian forces in eastern ukraine more than 10000 people have been killed since the fighting began 5 years ago. ukraine's new president little me is the linsky says he wants to revive peace negotiations with russia he's been courting european leaders recently. have already spoken by phone and the prisoner exchange could be an important and if step towards further dialogue and to simmons . u.k. prime minister boyce johnson has accused his opponents of making an extraordinary political mistake in refusing his calls for

a snap election next month and their refusal comes along side another disappointment for johnson the upper house of parliament the house of lords has approved new legislation that would require him to ask the e.u. for breakfast extension rather than live without a deal emma hayward has more from london. he's been struggling to control parliament and even hundreds of kilometers from westminster boris johnson wasn't having an easy time of it britain's prime minister was in scotland to announce extra funding performers he hasn't got the election he wants yet both photo opportunities like this the campaign certainly feels like it's on the way johnson insists he has no intention of resigning if he doesn't get britain out of the e.u. soon that is not a hypothesis i am willing to go but i want us to get this thing done and you know i think the people of this country. and there's no opportunity to be so much more

positive about this earlier a push market he promised again look britain would leave the european union by the 31st of october we're going to go. to opposition parties are continuing to pile on the pressure saying they'll vote against his plans to hold an october the 15th general election just days before what could be britain's last e.u. summit. is hoping that he'll be able to secure the support of 2 thirds of m.p.'s in the commons to push through a general election and middle tobar over 15th is the day that he's proposing the opposition just simply aren't going to budge they don't trust him and they want to make sure that this extension is in place before they agree to anything it's been quite a week the prime minister johnson. on thursday his own brother resigned as an m.p. a minister saying he was told. between neither will t. and the national interest has majority has been obliterated to expose 21 m.p.'s

trying to stop a notable great suit and a bill to stop the country crashing out of the e.u. is going through parliament this been a small bit to put the government though with the high court in london ruling that the decision to suspend parliament put 5 weeks is legal the saying we can politics is a long time has never felt more appropriate boris johnson is a man under pressure to deliver the promises he's made and keeps on making there may not be able to keep the general election it seems likely but the electorate is wary of rex it and they would al-jazeera in westminster wildfires have forced evacuation of several villages in northwest spain found by strong winds in hot dry weather the fires have destroyed a large area of forests in the region water bombing aircraft have helped try fighters on the ground to fires but another 2 are out of control the leaders of 6 latin american countries have agreed on a regional action plan to deal with

a record number of fires in the amazon they've signed a pact that includes measures for the preservation and sustainable development of the rain forests brazil venezuela bolivia and colombia are the worst affected by the fires brazilian president didn't attend in person instead joining via video conference. he says we are aware that perhaps for many decades many of the regions of our amazon were left forgotten or quite simply they were not prioritized i believe that this meeting gives priority to the amazon in our country and it also shows to the world that it is a priority for us. because of ideological differences there are perhaps distances between us but above all this is all the rights of mother earth we respect our differences people have a right to go with her who they want that is not under debate and that is why there is this document we all face this problem india space agency has lost contact with

its lander as it made its final approach it was scenes of disappointment in the mission control center it's not known if the unmanned land a crash or suffered a technical fault on top of or has more from new delhi. there is a palpable sense of disappointment in india as many stayed up late in the night to watch the landing of the moon in the last few seconds the contact was lost chief of india's space research organization said that the last 15 minutes of full of terror and terrifying they indeed were up but why that is disappointment that is also sympathy for the scientists who are undertaking such an endeavor and scientists believe that even though it has failed the data has so far been collected would be useful in finding out why it's feared and what can be learnt at the end of it from this exercise sympathies also that because this is a very cost effective mission the indian government spent $150000000.00 that's about half of what was used in producing hollywood movie the average joe has so how

did succeed it would have been a lesson for scientists all over the world to find out how these missions can be conducted in a cost effective manner other than that the stated mission stated goal of the mission was to research lunar soil to take the images of lunar soil and send them to the earth in the last such mission india india had tried to such water and this time the focus was on soil it has failed bought prime minister said very reassuring what the scientists are implying that there will be a next time. yes thank you and again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera iran says it's begun using new advanced centrifuges to enrich uranium as it continues to reduce its commitments to the 2050 nuclear deal iran's atomic energy agency says european countries don't have much time left to save the deal thus jabari has more

from tehran. according to the spokesperson for iran's nuclear energy organization who's kind of n.d. iran will no longer be limited to pursue its research and development program when it comes to its nuclear facilities the announcement was made because the iranians have said that to the europeans are not upholding their end of the deal this announcement means that iran is going to go ahead and it has as of friday placed advanced centrifuges in terms nuclear facility to speed up its nuclear program a u.s. satellites appears to show an iranian tonka which was held by british authorities in gibraltar and now anchored at a syrian port president donald trump's national security advisor john bolton tweeted the image which he says shows iran was lying about the destination of the adrian dariya one new government ministers in sudan are due to be sworn in prime minister abdullah docs announced his 20 member cabinet earlier this week as

sovereign council will lead the country until elections are held within 3 days and the trial of saddam's deposed president obama care is continuing this saturday he was formally charged last week with corruption and the illegal use of foreign funds bashir says a $25000000.00 a.b.c. from saudi arabia's crown prince wasn't used for private purposes his lawyer says his client denies all charges against him a prisoner swap between russia and ukraine has started the exchange is expected to involve 24 ukrainian sailors captured near the crimean peninsula last november and accused of illegally entering russia. wildfires have forced evacuation of several villages in northwest spain found by strong winds and hot dry weather the fires have destroyed a large area of forest in the region want a bombing aircraft have helped firefighters on the ground stabilize to fire but another 2 are out of control they are upset with headlines on al-jazeera the news will continue here right after counting the cost will be with you and 30 minutes to

stay with this. we cannot see every thing with the tad testimony documentary and hello i'm come all santa maria vis is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week the amisom the rain forest is on fire and a priceless resorts is under threat but behind the headline there's a push by a brazil's president to use the app doesn't from more farming in agriculture so is it time to offset the damage and stop buying brazilian beef and sawyer also this weight as he had global ambitions of left investors nursing the losses we look at

the deal that we wouldn't of got off the ground with up some help from goldman sachs and who have a set a trade war is bad for business well we will meet one golic pharma in california there's laughing all the way to the back one forest fire however large might be considered in natural disasters something that unfortunately happened but $80000.00 in a year in the one place something else is surely going on we're of course talking about the amazon rain forest where right now every minute an area the size of a football pitch has been wiped out the problem it seems stems from the top brazil's diables a narrow campaigned on a promise to open up the m is into farming and logging and mining to strip native amazonian tribes of their land and now he's president he's defunding the bodies responsible for environmental enforcement his argument and that of some rather

brazilians is that their economic growth is being held back because they can't exploit the amazon but how do you put a price and where do you even start when you consider the amazon produces about 6 percent of the world's oxygen and is home to a 5th of the world's fresh water supply it also provides you may not know key ingredients to some of the pharmaceuticals in your medicine cabinet like your aspirin and even heart medications and cancer treatments so there's 2 scenarios here one is to leave the amazon as it is and in fact a study in the science journal nature suggested the economic benefit of leaving the rainforest in its current state would be $8200000000.00 a year and includes all the existing sustainable businesses like nut farming and rubber tree timber but option to deforestation would lead to a fall in rainwater and lead to agricultural losses of $422000000.00 plus

there's the social and the economic damage from the migration of indigenous tribes to cities from the loss of river water and food security over a 30 year period that could be as much as 3 and a half trillion dollars the cost of saving the amazon that'll be $50.00 times less $64000000000.00 could help restore the landscape and to change agricultural practices. the heart of the forest clearances is both sonars desire to increase as you heard their beef and soya production brazil is the largest exporter of beef to the world it provides a 5th of the global supply with over 6 and a half $1000000000.00 in 2018 so we're going to discuss all of this with our guest in a moment but there's one other economic elements to these fires brazil's handling of the situation it has strained its relationship with the e.u. in fact at least 2 european countries are frozen their donations to what is called the amazon fund a move that could impact dozens of environmental projects to raise about has our

report now from it's a poor in brazil. every day the his who somebody see there goes into the mit national park to look for seeds he's trying to preserve the rain forest and the dozens of species that live in it. the threat of deforestation has become a major problem and then goes like this there are fighting back and what do we. what we are seeing is really bad out there burning the forest so our work looks into encouraging families to enroll in economic alternatives i don't destroy the forests have environmental impact or kill the rivers. there is growing fountains of trees every year and help locals make a living while also caring for the environment the ngos funded by what's called the amazon fund handled by the government the fundraising is donations to help fight deforestation in amazonia deforestation and the fires have already destroyed large

sectors of the amazon rain forest but there are projects like this one that are trying to preserve and reforest the areas that have been already devastated there are more than 40 species here of trees and crops the problem is that projects like this one are now at risk. germany and norway are crucial sponsors of the fund that helps over 100 projects like this one but they have halted all payments to condemn precedent also nettles environmental policies while better has managed to reforest 800 hectares of trees this year. alexandra gatos fears a drop in donations will impact their work. we are very concerned but we've been working on our projects through the amazon fund and petrobras for a long time that being said sir t.g. clee we're already looking for other sources of funding we want to find ways so that the funds don't go through the government. a long time skeptic of

environmental concerns wants to open the amazon to more agriculture and mining. even a dig out of those who has been working to protect indigenous groups living in london for years she has been threatened by loggers and miners but international funding has allowed her to do her work. then we have much more work now because the local environmental authorities are committed to the cause but feel alone threatened and without support from the government so we are trying at least to show the world there are people who care about the environment but we don't have any support instead we are being weakened by the government's narrative and she'll say they're ready to fight attempt to commercialise the rain forest but need international aid to do so they say they can protect what brazil's president will not. joining us now on skype from stockholm is toby garner toby is a thing yet research fellow with the stockholm environment institute also director

of the supply chain transparency initiative called trade so it's good to have you with us jaya both scenarios very simple argument is well it's our land and we should be able to exploit it we should be able to do what we want with it and maximize it and on the face of it kind of makes sense but there's nothing else like the amazon out there it's there sean thanks very much for having me on the program again there's no question that brazil is a sovereign nation and it has the right to to exploit its natural resources in a way that the wishes but the key point here is the question logic that the clearance of the arm of the of the buyer is necessarily a precondition for sustainable economic development and one clear fact that is that it's important to keep in mind in this whole debate this whole discussion is the area of land that is already being printed in the amazon the vast majority about land is not currently on there any economically viable productive use in fact the

majority of it very extensive low productivity cattle pasture often making making a last economically and last so huge an area of it has been abandoned so it's clear the evidence is in front of a lot of this land wasn't clear it with a clear economic rationale in the 1st place so what brazil has the opportunity to do is to both make make much better use of the land that's already being clear to which there is a huge stock available and the agribusiness community of brazil is the 1st to say that the flat to expand and satisfy their needs while also protecting the remaining areas and another native existence of the so vital as well to the economy brazil the wellbeing of brazilian people and of course the wellbeing of people across the planet for those. people out there who are conscious about such things and maybe don't want to be passive of an angry business which is destroying parts of the

amazon i know i've simplified it there but for those people like that is there a way to sort of track the supply chain than to know what's coming from where so the lens on who you are the individual consumer you are on the shot it's incredibly hard at the moment to have confidence if you're wanting to buy a product takes off so it's 1st bedded countless products that we're buying on supermarket shelves and we're often we're often very ignorant blissfully ignorant about where it's found most so in the world used to feed animals and you're not thinking actually when you're eating chicken for example. you're also eating soy that may come from the brazilian that was not the president's out there so there's an individual consumer it's extremely hard to know what you can do there is an increasing number of monitoring systems and score cards that rank and assess the major brands of the world the major companies that produce and processed food and sell it on to retailers and the major logistics companies that transport and

operate that middle part of the supply chain the cargill in the bungie glen cause of the world there are an increasing number of system this is one of the things that we're trying to do tristan transparent sustainable column is and it's just there that c.r.m. with partners is to give some truth to how we judge the relative levels of impact the different companies different buyers are exposed to and if they are in for political pressure as well the e.u. is about to sign a. trade agreement with latin america with with with brazil as part of that has as well president macron in france has been trying to help out shall we say and that hasn't gone too well is it is there room for political pressure there's always room for political pressure and i think that political pressure needs to come in a number of different ways it is important i'm saying that the that you. ellison's legislation i think quite can really try and expedite excel or a catalyst change on the ground through the actions of buying companies the

political pressure also needs to come in other fora need to come through environmental diplomacy it needs to come through packages of incentives that are actually commensurate with the scale of the challenge i think one of the problems for example with this recent stats between macro and post are that we've all been witness to. the g 7 apparently one of the most powerful gatherings of global players of world leaders they tabled this the most gender awesome and came at the end of a $20000000.00 package now that's problematic on 2 levels one it's an almost offensively small amount of money when you think about the challenge so it's bound to stoke the fires of xenophobia resentment of foreign players interfering in brazil's sufferance and secondly it's targeted at the symptoms of the problem so putting out fires if you qualify you posted put it out that far more importantly

when you think about ways to avoid those fires being led to the scraping into the forest in the 1st place and all of the systems and the understanding the technology needed to do that is all in place we just need resources to be able to implement it better and to ensure that the rules that brazil already have has really ready were world class environmental legislation that isn't forced and if it wasn't forced and if founders were properly supported especially farmers who have no choice of which is not the main source of the problem but they need support as well in order to ensure that their practices can continue insisting the way to be gotten a joining us from stockholm to i thank you so much for your time thank you very much for having me on the emergency in the amazon of course stretches beyond brazil nearly one and a half 1000000 hectares of tropical rainforest in. bolivia have been destroyed as well the difference though is bolivian president evo morales actually wants

international aid to fight the fires and one of the things he's trying to save is the large diverse number of animals trapped in the flames in america as alysia newman has more from some ignacio in eastern bolivia. a team of believe in veterinarians traveled to the u.s. to reserve a 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 if you 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 dildo with burnt eyes a hawk recovering from smoke inhalation along with a boa constrictor they're all receiving treatment at the shelter. today the rescue

is hope to find more survivors riding in a 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. this is 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 look red. it's too dangerous to stay on the 2 marion's 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 animals have 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. we're looking at aviation now and in this part of the world we often talk about the big 3 dubai's emirates airline kataria ways both here in doha and he had from abu

dhabi now back in 2005 if he had had some big ambitions to expand and began buying stakes in a bunch of airlines that were bleeding cash it decided to fund air berlin alitalia and india's jet airways by selling bonds worth one point $2000000000.00 now something like this just wouldn't have been possible without the help of an international investment bank and that bank just happened to be open sachs but is the airlines filed for bankruptcy or collapse the bonds became worthless and investors who bought the bonds thought he had would step in and repay the debt well now a group of bond owners have hired private detectives to find out how the deal was put together and to recover as much money as possible so let's talk about as the questions that have been raised about goldman's decision to step in when another international bank decided not to help raise money we're going to london now to talk to robert sally who is the managing director of the capital

a london based broker nice to have you with us robert i think the 1st thing we should deal with is raising the money in the 1st place there is perhaps a misconception that all the gulf airlines are cashed up and that they are all subsidized by their governments but i guess this sort of showed that they had to raise capital like anyone else at a low being state owned and receiving support has been lost making for many years and in the last years when they wanted to build out their platform within europe they had an ambition that if they bought into some of the european airlines they might be able to start building an alliance of partner airlines that feeds into the . network of empty ad international flights and then increases their international use lies ation right so on average their planes have been running at nearly sort of 10 percent lower capacity than some of their international rivals and that of

course has a major impact on their profitability. as a result you know they've gone on this international expansion bought into air berlin and alitalia to historically loss making airlines and they've not only bought a large equity stake which gives them a significant management role they've also supported those airlines with raising debt and that's where we get this new vehicle in the netherlands that has helped alitalia and air berlin lend hindsight of course is a wonderful thing robert but did they just make some really bad decisions they were with maybe i mean maybe the idea was a bad but the airlines they went after when the right ones i think they had potential a bad advice but in a market like the airline industry you all you can't always decide which companies you're going to buy so i think they might have had

a slightly limited choice of who was available to go after and lynn and i was. in some way right for investment they were lost making they potentially were looking for a new ownership or a rescue and that seemed to be the knight in shining shining armor that would come and rescue them from their losses 3rd to talk about the losses what's gone wrong the loans have gone sour and people are looking for their money. yes or over the years i mean lennon i'll tell you have just wrapped up losses year after year. seems to be some sort of zombie airline that never stops flying although year after year the losses rack up. i think a lot of people held out hope that the alliance or that you had would bring in a new change and support from my money and up investor well in fact that really sort of hasn't transpired as the bankruptcies of both of the airlines as proven.

the financing vehicle then on to put the icing on the cake added further hope to investors and you know when they created these e.a. partner vehicles you would be forgiven for thinking at yad was standing shoulder to shoulder with the airlines and backing them till about the involvement of goldman sachs then obviously very well the deal wouldn't have happened without them i think you're right goldman sachs's involvement is actually crucial in this matter if they hadn't put their name on to the paperwork. wouldn't have really gotten this deal across but on. the smaller brokers and no and a.d.'s don't really have i think the reputation to bring about such a large financing and to bring about the support of investors to put down something like 1200000000 for this sort of deal it's it's really critical that goldman

was on board on this and you know the relationship between goldman. is is a good one so you probably thought well with these 2 partners involved. the bond is relatively secure. so these investors are now going after their money and in some cases as we said hiring private detectives to figure out what on earth happened with this deal and do you think they stand much hope or i don't think you can just sort of categorize all of the investors as. trying to go after and especially not goldman i think i think the issue is that a lot of the investors are domestic people they trusted the name of it and they thought when they're buying into this. they're supporting perhaps one of the national champions. and they're going to be looked after as well and there were documents out there from fitch that implied. it was supporting this bond ok

robin sally great to talk to you thank you for your time today thank you now the tit for tat tariffs between the u.s. and china have gone into effect in the ongoing trade war and there is little doubt both countries are hurting many american farmers are suffering because of his views in fact farm bankruptcies are up and the troubled ministration has given $24000000000.00 in financial aid but there are always exceptions garlic growers are actually profiting from the standoff with china rob reynolds spoke to one farmer in gilroy california the heart of the country's garlic growing region. the garlic king of california can christopher is the 3rd generation to run his family's garlic ranch in the town of gilroy christopher ranch is the united states largest producer and processor of the pungent bulbs so essential to so many of the world's cuisine it's employs a 1000 workers earn $15.00 an hour good wages for agricultural and food processing

work christopher took us to his cavernous warehouse just before harvest time but we are currently standing in what will soon be the largest concentration of garlic on the north american continent so when we start loading this room which is starting this week we're going to about $50000000.00 pounds in the space alone that's 22000000 kilos and any way you crush slice dice or sauté it that's a lot more like for decades cheap chinese garlic imports undercut domestic producers now garlic growers are smelling the sweet scented punitive tariffs effective june 15th the garlic tear up is now in effect at 25 percent and that's impacting all inbound garlic now we have an opportunity to expand acreage grow more garlic than ever before invest in new employees new infrastructure for gerlach growers here in california the tariffs have been great news but other farmers

across the country complain they are the real victims of the china trade war the vast horn soybean and hawg farms of the u.s. heartland have watched prices plummet as china's stop buying in retaliation for the trump administration's tariffs to limit the economic and political damage president donald trump promises a $16000000000.00 handout to affected farmers but even the garlic kenya admits a prolonged trade battle loom good for the economy we understand that this trade we're it could stand to hurt a lot of americans if it drags on for too long economists' and central bank. girls are watching with alarm is global trade flows slow manufacturing shrinks and confidence sags over trump's trade war and the longer it goes on the economic outlook for workers consumers and yes even garlic farmers will start to stink and on that fragrant note that is our show for this week we'd love to hear from you

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a much awaited prisoner exchange gets underway between the neighborhoods. buses are searched for protesters and entry to hong kong airport is restricted as police try to thwart a planned day of transport disruption. india loses contact with an unmanned spacecraft moments before it was jus to make a landing on the moon. rafael nadal pal is into the u.s. open final as he tries to close the gap on roger federer is time time. on the hopes of salvaging the $250.00 nuclear deal with iran have taken another blow it now says it has the ability to enrich uranium to a higher level the country's atomic agency has announced its 3rd major step in scaling back its commitments under the agreement it says it can increase in

richmond levels beyond 20 percent that's only steps away from weapons grade uranium but that could be quickly reversed if europe delivers promised sanction relief. if the west fulfills the commitments we will return to implementing our commitments but as we move forward the situation will get more difficult the european side must also realize that there isn't much time left if they want to take action they must do it as soon as possible those about who's joining us live from to try and just talk us through some of the details of this. well rob the reigning ins have said that they are no longer limited to the restrictions that have been imposed when it comes to research and development of their centrifuges in the nuclear program the spokesperson for iran's atomic energy organization said that as a friday the advanced centrifuges have been installed in the town's nuclear reactor

at the request of iran's president who is in charge of the country's nuclear program this spokesperson said that these advanced centrifuges will help the nuclear program that reach its goals at a faster pace now this spokesperson also said that at the time being iran is not interested in enriching at a higher level than what it's currently ads which is 4.5 percent of been rich uranium he said that there is no need for higher levels and until they decide that there is a requirement for that they are not planning to increase the percentage of and richer in him but what is important is that they have decided to move forward with advancing the country's nuclear program though so give us some indication of what impact this is likely to have on the 2015 deal. well this really means that this nuclear agreement is on its last legs the iranians have said that they've given the europeans another 60 days but after that there is

really not much hope for this deal to stay in place the remaining signatories france britain and germany are being urged to do everything they can to chime bypass the sanctions that the united states has imposed on iran since they withdrew from the deal last year the main say that that because these sanctions have been put in place on iran's oil and banking sectors the europeans have not been able to uphold their end of the deal and iran is going through various articles in the agreement which stipulates this very specific scenario that if somebody withdraws from this deal iran has the ability to object and withdraw step by step from this deal and that's exactly what's happening in the iranians say that it's really now up to the europeans in the next 60 days to do everything they can to uphold the steel line stores and ok let's take a look at what different grades of uranium enrichment actually mean when you radium is mind it's got less than one percent of the material used in nuclear reactors but

that increases once it's concentrated on enrichment which is 5 percent it can be used in nuclear power plants once it hits 20 percent uranium is usable for research reactors or for medical purposes that is just a short technical step away from 90 percent purity that's theory any and great it needed to produce a nuclear bomb a scene of a searing tbilisi's a research fellow at the united royal united services institute is joining us now from london thank you very much for being with us is iran saying that it will do this or that it simply can do this. i think this has meant made before in tehran is correct what they are saying in tehran and a moment is that they have the capability to arrive at 2 and a range from beyond 20 percent level and we know that iran has had a 20 percent 11 of the recruitment before in the past actually in 2000 time doesn't

happen in iran our drive to do a lot of their treatment so what they're saying is that they can go back to that level but they really don't want to and what they're trying to do is to get some more leverage and these are the the west in particular i beat 3 models of the u.s.o. so that these negotiation and the stocks apart agree with micron but also a way to honor partners they need to somewhere they ring as have been talking about this some sort of less for less in terms of a potential future for didn't care deal given that they are not taking benefit from the economic side after day u.s. withdrawal and that is precisely what the iran has been doing since may scaling back its commitment showcasing that it can implement to elastic extend their obligation until sanctions are not lived so it's increasing the pressure on euro but is there very much else that europe can do in terms of providing the kind of

sanctions relief that president emmanuel now call for example was talking about at the g. 7 summit recently. yeah i think this is where the problem lies i think of what the europeans can do very much depends on what the us will to grant and this is why france has been coordinating closely with president trump its administration because we know that in the past it to have been several times by the europeans that's to weaken the impact of sanctions on the run an economy where i'm talking particularly about day in stocks financial mechanism but also about other legislation such as the e.u. blocking regulation but we know that in reality and the extent to which this secondary sanctions have an impact on european companies and banks is to some extent it out of the control of the european countries for the time being so while we need our what do europeans need is for and the us are to be on board of

any kind of the oh that's france or if it is renegotiate with iran how do you think it's going to be for the a pretty european signatories to get the u.s. on board particularly when donald trump has made his position in the white house's position so clear when it comes to this deal. well in one sense the position of the u.s. it's clear we know that that maximum pressure campaign is there is no down on the other hand it's not that clear we don't know what they want from the mox among freshman come thing if it's never sure if it's another deal done there needs to be some sort of incentive provided to to rain ians and this is where the europeans are working towards us in itself is not providing any kind of incentive to dave graney and so so this is where i think there is some room of maneuver still to be negotiated 40 rance to come to the negotiating table really something needs to be

given today right nance and i think the main factor it might be an appealing incentive for doing that would be linked to to lifting of sanctions particularly when it comes to a day or 2 way purse but also to all that you now have you not heard sanction that the u.s. has rein polls really since august 2080 particular thoughts on the sunday service or to debates or thank you so much for your time thank you. meanwhile the united states says a satellite photo proves iran has lied about the oil tanker released in gibraltar last month it says the age in one is apparently anchored off the coast of syria despite iranian assurances it wasn't heading there in july british marines stormed the supertanker suspected of shipping 130000000 tons of oil to syria in breach of use sanctions shihab rattansi has got more from washington d.c. . for weeks there have been reports about how john bolton has been sidelined in

various foreign policy negotiations and discussions in the administration he wasn't included in the talks with the taliban for example in the deliberations about those talks and just on friday there were several reports about how his relationship with mike pompei with the secretary of state has completely broken delhomme that there's a report that the white house chief of staff has been trying to sideline john bolton for meetings about foreign policy meanwhile this week we had donald trump suggested maybe he could talk to the iranian president on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly and then on friday where the u.s. defense secretary talked about the possibility of talks with iran while he was visiting visiting london which perhaps explains some of the wording in this tweet that says we can talk but iran is not getting any sanctions relief until it stops moaning and spreading terror he's clearly not a happy man a prisoner swap between russia and ukraine has started the exchange involves 24 ukrainian sailors captured near the crimean peninsula last november and accused of

illegally entering russia 35 prisoners on each side so a total of 70 prisoners being exchanged lists what follows years of conflict involving russian backed separatists in eastern ukraine the new efforts to revive stalled peace talks and to simmons has more. they set saile of being orders and ended up behind bars in russia 22 ukrainian soldiers and 2 members of the country's security services they were captured by the russian navy which opened fire on their 3 boats here in the kurdish strait 9 months ago russia says they legally entered its waters near the crimean peninsula seized by russia from ukraine in 2014 a british. let me draw your attention to the fact that they trespassed on russian territorial waters which were russian even before crimea join the russian federation that is in the place where russian territorial waters have always been

used. the kurds strait gives the only access to ukrainian ports in the sea of as of but it's now largely under russian control and tensions in the region are high. in july this russian tanker was seized by the ukrainians who said it had been involved in the capture of their sailors the russian crew were later released president putin had been pressured by the european union and the united states to release the sailors an international tribunal had also ordered russia to immediately release the men and their ships the kremlin refused several of the men were reportedly moved from labor camps in different parts of russia to a single jail in moscow ahead of their exchange with russians being held in ukrainian prisons or russia seize control of crimea 5 years ago after sending in troops.