i'm $22.00 ukrainian sailors and 2 security service agents we have to do all the steps to phoenix this horrible war and it really. by being easy to feel for him. because we get thank you very much thank you we'll leave you the sailors on board 3 ukrainian vessels were captured here in the current strait 9 months ago after russian warships opened fire on them the kremlin says they illegally entered russian waters near the crimean peninsula which russian troops seized and annexed from ukraine in 2014 since then the kremlin backed separatists have been at war with ukrainian government forces in eastern ukraine at least 10000 people have been killed since the fighting began 5 years ago he crane's recently elected president the lenski says he wants to revive peace negotiations with russia he's been seeking support from european leaders recently and he's

spoken to president vladimir putin by phone the prisoner exchange could be an important step towards further tentative toltz this what is being seen as a victory for both presidents putin and selenski a potential suspect and witness in the downing of the malaysian airlines jet of ukraine 5 years ago has also been released despite protests by the dutch government who had many of its citizens on the flight that suggests the lenski not only had to make concessions but that russia will be a tough negotiating partner in future talks to end fighting in eastern ukraine victoria al-jazeera. heading up after the other art or end salton exhibition if not seen to open in the netherlands. canadian teenager bianca and rescue her and her country's 1st grand slam title upsetting some i know lands in the us open final.

i was there have we yet seen the back of her can do or ian not quite there it is stuck close gets in the atlantic is out of the tropics diner longer hurrican it went across nervous scotia and is not just north of newfoundland that is the position daytime on sunday in its wake whatever it's done it's now quiet weather wise that there is more weather of some use coming in to the west we seem to be big thunderstorms recent the in wyoming in particular have a depth of 10 centimeters anywhere down towards utah even new mexico you could see yet more thunderstorms the southwest monsoon which brings rain to this part of the us mexico is now showing some signs of life but the more active stuff is this across the plains states idaho and wrapping around it so on the canadian border

otherwise enjoy the fine weather if you haven't been able to recently now there are no more hurricanes in the media future is probable there are plenty of big showers in potential jamaica hispaniola and cuba seem good folks want to like ones currency less around tilly's as well but the concentration as is often the case is the right in this gathering in costa rica and panama if you go further west it mesko for example very few storms. the cost of a priceless resource under threat the amazon rainforest. is a blaze emmott's links to brazil stronger former would be i'm sort of production look at bats of bus as yet airways global ambitions which are of left him best it's now sing some big looks countering big holes on al-jazeera to

they're watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now present all traum says he's called off secret meetings involving the taliban and out can government that war to be held and the us on sunday he says it's because of a taliban suicide bombing and kabul parkin dorian as flood to humanitarian crisis and its wake but thousands of people fling their destroyed homes in the bahamas aid is coming end bet it's hard to distribute you because a ruined growed triton ways and pork's and ukraine or russia have carried out a prisoner exchange the it's being hailed as a step towards ending the war in eastern ukraine $35.00 are released by eat side

set arabia's king saul man has replace the energy minister with one of his sons prints until lizzie's and salma it puts him and wanted the cane as most important positions and stabilities will replace col at all folly who was dismissed as chairman of the stay don't aramco few days ago a company's preparing for a much anticipated stock a listing and there is another setback to hopes of salvaging the 2015 iran nuclear deal there audience now say they have the ability to enrich uranium to a much higher level so this is what that means when you're writing in his mind it has less than one per cent of the material used in nuclear reactors but that increases once it's concentrated but in britain when enrichment reaches 5 percent it can be used in nuclear power plants once in its 20 percent uranium measures well for research reactors or for medical purposes that's just a short technical step away from 90 percent purity and uranium grade needed to

produce a nuclear bomb doors into our airports from tehran. another step back from the 2015 nuclear deal but a step forward for iran's nuclear program the latest phase of iran reducing its commitments further to the agreements with 6 world powers is its most serious and technical one yet. more lifting limitations on a recent change of elements imposed by the deal is link lou developments of more rapid and centrifuges we have the capacity to enrich uranium beyond 20 percent but we don't have any plans to do so for the time being this is where the more advanced centrifuges have already been installed as of friday the natanz nuclear facility is now capable of enriching uranium at a much faster speed since the united states withdrew from nuclear pact in 2018 and imposed a series of harsh sanctions iran has been reducing its commitments to the deal

president has found rouhani announced this latest phase on wednesday but said all these changes were reversible when and if the european countries who signed up to the deal upheld their end of the agreement that would include protecting iran's oil exports from u.s. sanctions what you're saying is that they can. but they really don't want to and one parent trying to do is to get. more leverage these are the. treatment also the u.s. does negotiation and the stocks of pentagram with my comment on our partners lead to somewhere the acting chief of the united nations nuclear watchdog well head to teheran on sunday for talks with the rein in foreign minister mohammad javad zarif iran has given britain france and germany and the other 60 days to see if they can do anything to salvage this deal and the head of iran's atomic energy organization has told al-jazeera that after the next phase iran will have officially abandon all

of its technical commitments under the nuclear agreement door such a pari al-jazeera to hong after 8 years of strongman rule a popular uprising in development into a fledgling democracy tunisia's held its 1st televised election debate 8 of the 24 presidential candidates took the stage to nations will head to the polls in october after their 1st democratically elected head of state they she. died in july people gather around the country to tune into the 1st of 3 debates producers hope the format will catch on in the region having endured a week of parliamentary defeats and defection shook a prime minister boris johnson has lost a senior cabinet minister amber rudd who was work and pensions secretary resigned from the government and the conservative party she says she could no longer endorse johnson's approach to practice it because he seems determined to crash out of the without a deal. the money comes

a lot of luck going to nigeria i'm not going in to get it. and then on top of that have seen 21 really good strong concerns to please try moderate christian fundies excluded from the party into coming to the conservative party to such a source who to come to this country no longer has a place for people to use your. anecdotes. and the visions over brock's it became ugly outside the house of parliament parliament that is in london and tired demonstrators fought with police as they tried to reach a rival anti-progressive rally officers by most of the violence on a far right group called the democratic football lads alliance said it was at an anti brock's a demonstration in london where protesters were calling for the prime minister to resign. he may have only been in office 45 days to be prime minister forrest johnson's bureau mates the country behind his question of bricks it already

proving to be very difficult to. sell the demonstration today in central london is also capping off one of the toughest weeks of these hard hops almost more difficult than he could have ever imagined week that saw him coming to severe criticism for having such 21 members of his own party his own brother resigning from his cabinet and also the house of. opera house approving a bill that would effectively block a new deal breck said and put a 3 month delay in order to try and get a deal to avoid the just soldierly exit from the european union now while prime minister george johnson did say that you would rather die in a ditch his words rather than ours for an extension brussels a fact he has already been hey. by his own words the former director

of public prosecutions themselves so if he did not obey the law then there is a good chance that he would standing intense that i could even see himself possibility of being put in jail for not abiding by the laws of this country far from having taken back control by mr morris johnson now finds himself being controlled last in downing street the polls are set to open in a few hours in moscow for its regional elections there. are protests in the city after more than 30 opposition candidate for banned from running step reports. salesman that neil big lets was detained during a protest in late july u.s. charge for pulling the arm of a policeman who was arresting a protester. as he was caught up in the demonstrations after coming from a business meeting he's been sentenced to 2 years in a penal colony. in cases like these people usually receive suspended sentences and

sometimes even have their cases dropped considering that the case has a political status the president knows about it has influenced the sentence he got 3 years in prison for touching the helmet of a policeman. the harsh sentences are part of a government crackdown after protests dominated moscow streets for weeks they started when opposition candidates were banned from running in the last elections more people joined after many were arrested. united russia is trying to hold on to power using the right police batons they are the only pillar of support even the free candidates to run in the election let alone have a fair competition was in the only way to make this election meaningful to turn it into a sort of referendum on the government after being released from detention for organizing an unsanctioned protest opposition figure. only changed his strategy on his you

tube channel he started campaigning for what he calls smart to fold urging voters to subscribe to a website on which his team has announced which candidates will have to chance to be the governing united russia party probably through friday friday the opposition between those who still want to continue the 3 protests and those who despite its flaws want to participate in this election and as analyst have pointed out the pride of opposition can be creased the chances of the opposition to beat government candidate and make this so-called smart vote a success. is one of the government candidates likely to benefit while the opposition has strongly campaigned against her after her competitor was not allowed to run she says she wants dialogue. he's a big lie is following a scenario in which the war situation the better meaning the less qualified the more critical the situation is the better i want to dialogue because the situation

is very intense people don't one radical change but they want to improve their lives whatever the outcome of the elections for those who have to spend years and you know colony song for participating in un sanctioned protests it's a high price to pay but many here say even that won't deter them from taking to the streets again in the days and weeks to come step al-jazeera. canadian teenager bianca andrusco has claimed her 1st time title with an upset whenever certain williams in the us open final the 19 year old naturally and power throughout and maintained her composure to fend off a late comeback from the 6 time champion the 1st set 63 and the 2nd 75 and yes i was the 1st canadian to win a major in the professional era. it's so hard to explain in words i'm just beyond grateful and should. leave last i have worked really really hard for

this moment. i can't complain this year has been a dream come true and now being able to play on this stage against. true legend of this sport is amazing yeah beyond a complete unbelievable mansion to graduation. so proud and happy for you. it was. it was an incredible time is out there wish i could have played better but i mean if anyone could win this tournament outside of the u.s. i'm happy. i have you to be on. a dutch museum is bracing for protests as it prepares to open a controversial exhibition called design of the 3rd reich and it shows how off hitler used art to build support anti-fascist campaigners say the that glorifies a regime that kill millions of people to talk about reports and boss. at all for

hitler understood how bold design and imagery could motivate and convince people so he used its power to help fulfill his racist ambitions and create a nazi state that killed millions of people mainly jews in world war 2 the end of this exhibition and then boss in the netherlands examines how nazis use design for propaganda or understood that that's what the guy had to be used for his part of and i wanted to be a powerful modern logo hitler came to power in 19336 years later germany invaded poland triggering world war 2 art and design had helped feel nationalist anti jewish sentiment images recalled a romanticized past military uniforms was sharply tailored to promote fear the museum's director knows there showcasing the a statics of a deadly regime is controversial but he says it's important to take

a critical look at history we are accustomed to present all these iron ore are what we consider good but we all know there is all also stuff and been made that's that's not good from an ethical sense what's bad what's the fall and what we decided to research it while it was possible that we have to face history because it's us you know we are in it we're not nancy's but we're defined by. just opposite the design museum happens debate den bosses cynical gets a coincidence but nevertheless it is a stark reminder of why this exhibition is controversial nazi forces occupied the netherlands for 95 years in world war 2 and in that time 3 quarters of the jewish population was killed among the victims was and frank a jewish girl who was deported by the nazis and died in a concentration camp her famous diary details her years hiding in an attic in amsterdam autographs father was a dutch resistance fighter he says the exhibition nor rafah is the nazi era and

should be banned it is. not only to jewish people but also to people with labor grown. related to resistance people which it's well if it hurts it which it shouldn't be there 75 years after allied forces liberated the netherlands the divisions over the exhibition to highlight the wild nazi occupation is in the past its painful legacy is still very present natasha butler al-jazeera then boasts the netherlands. is a recap of the headlines right now on al-jazeera president says he's called off secret meetings involving the taliban and afghan government were to be held in the u.s. on sunday he says it's because of a taliban suicide bombing in kabul which killed an american soldier and 11 other

people share more from washington d.c. . if this story has to be believed the talks are off these talks with donald trump have been putting a great story of why because this is a major promise he's made to bring the troops back from afghanistan before the 2020 election he was committed to about despite disagreements within his administration is now she looks security advisor john bolton for example being left out of the talks because no one really trusted him they thought that he would try and sabotage the talks all the members of the republican for opposing the democratic foreign policy establishment also warning against a precipitous withdrawal but doldrums seem to be. really pushing for some sort of withdrawal of our cantorian as left a humanitarian crisis in its wake thousands of people are fleeing their destroyed homes in the bahamas the aid is coming and what the problem is it's difficult to distribute because of ruined roads runways and ports 43 people are confirmed dead but that number is expected to rise and dorian is now i mean it's rather canada

where it's made landfall in the eastern province of nova scotia with winds of 160 kilometers an hour more than 300000 people are without power and coastal towns have been told to expect heavy rain and flooding roofs have been ripped off houses and a crane toppled over. police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters gathering for a 2nd night in the district. the crowds were pushed back from a police station where they were demanding an end dependent investigation into alleged use of excessive force u.k. prime minister boris johnson has just lost a senior cabinet minister after a week of parliamentary defeats and defections amber rudd who was work and pensions secretary resigned from the government and the conservative party she says she could no longer endorse johnson's approach to practice it because he seems determined to crash out of the european union without a deal as the headlines keep her on al-jazeera have another bolton at the top of

the hour and their main time counting the cost is that next. we. gave them to the people will be at work we listen. to explain. for someone who is also terrorizing we meet with global news makers about the stories that matter 0. hello i'm. counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week the amazon rain forest is on fire and a priceless resource is under threat but behind the headlines is a push by brazil's president to use the for more farming and agriculture so is it time to offset the damage and stop buying brazilian beef. also this week as he had

global ambitions of left investors. look at the deal that wouldn't have got off the ground without some help from goldman sachs and whoever said a trade war is bad for business well we will need one garlic farmer in california is laughing all the way to the bank. one forest fire however large might be considered a natural disaster something that unfortunately happened but $80000.00 in a year in the one place something else is surely going on 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 job also narrow campaigned on a promise to open up the embers and to 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 suggest to the economic benefit of leaving the rainforest in its current state would be $8200000000.00 a year that includes all the existing sustainable businesses like not farming and rubber tree timber. but option 2 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 an are as desired to increase as you heard there beef and soy 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 a boat has our report now from it's a poor in brazil. every day the his who somebody see there goes into the 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 and they are burning the forest so our work looks into encouraging farmers to enroll in comic alternatives i don't destroy the forests have environmental impact or killed over. there that 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 re forest 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 $100.00 projects like this one but they have halted all payments to condemn president jade also now those environmental policies. well we are better has managed to reforest $800.00 hectares of trees this year. alexander gatos fears a drop in donations will impact there was still 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 yes 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 but there's a. 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 attempts to commercialize 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 gati toby is a senior research fellow at the stockholm environment institute also director of the supply chain transparency initiative called try so it's good to have you with us. is 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 that kind of makes sense but there's nothing else like the amazon out there is there yes sure thanks very much for having me on the program again there's no question brazil is a sovereign nation and it has the right. to exploit its natural. losses in a way that the so wishes but the key point is the question logic that the clearance of the arm of the or the buyer is necessarily a precondition for sustainable economic development 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 capital pasture often making making a last economically and also huge an area of it has been abandoned so it's clear the evidence is in front of a ringback 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 which there is a huge stock available and the agribusiness community of brazil is the 1st to say that they have enough land to expand and satisfy their needs while also protecting the remaining areas and another that existence of the so vital as well to the economy brazil the well being of brazilian people and of course the well being of people across the planet for those people out there who are conscious about such

things and maybe don't want to be part of 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 that lendl who you are the individual consumer you orion the shot it's incredibly hard at the moment to have confidence if you're wanting to buy a product take so it sort of for a start bedded countless products that were buying on supermarket shelves and were often were often very ignorant blissfully ignorant about where it found most so in the world it used to feed animals. and you're not thinking actually when you're eating a chicken for example. you're also eating soy that may come from the brazilian amas not the president's out there so there's an individual consumer it's extremely hard to know where you can do there is an increasing number of monitoring systems and school 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 the 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 they use about to sign a. track 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 if they were in for political pressure there is 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 due diligence

legislation i think quite can really try and expedite accelerate catalyze change on the ground through the actions of buying companies the political pressure also needs to come in other fora needs 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 spat between macron and both 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 is. the most generous and 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 or a pleasant fear in brazil's sovereignty 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 for them to have no choice of which is not the main source of the problem but they need support as well in order to ensure that that practices can continue insisting the way to be gotten and 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.