province s. will be led by a nigerian general human rights campaign is a welcomed its establishment but it's eventual conclusion can be suppressed james bays reports. the province of idlib is assad's last night in syria's long war repeatedly in recent months hospitals and medical facilities have been bombed most suspect the syrian government and their russian allies now the un's announced the team that will head its inquiry to find out the facts but there are questions about whether those facts will be made public. board of inquiries and they routinely happen or. internal documents and not for public release that's what i can tell you at this at this point it's also important to know that board of inquiries are not. judicial bodies they're not criminal investigations they make no legal findings isn't it important the full facts given these are life and death

situations are made public completely agree with you that these are life in this situation this is what i can tell you at this point the u.k. organized a meeting at the un to discuss the situation in a live they were briefed by the former british foreign secretary david miliband who now heads one of the world's leading refugee organizations the international rescue committee it's vital that the findings are made public 1st of all so that justice can be done a but also so that it's clear that combatants in syria or elsewhere that there will be accountability for them for their actions the most contentious issue on the un security council is syria and the most vocal critic of this board of inquiry is russia coincidentally they happen to be this month's president the russians have now called a news conference on monday to give their response to the new board of inquiry james ways al-jazeera at the united nations much more still ahead on the program

for you and john says i'm in the kenya faster the villages he say they are forced to take security into their own. and we look at a dispute. as a problem a company will be laid to rest. this does not look very promising yet another active frontal system coming from the bike heading for victoria and tasmania and showing some pretty good definition of the back edge of the clouds a cold front going through so you might be surprised to find that temperatures actually come out to $24.00 in adelaide breeze out of the interior flooring 17 in melbourne and 19 in sydney not as bad as it looks that would of course be windy on the way through in fact perth doesn't quite catch up at 2021 degrees and it's

cooling down a little bit here's a cloud increases for you on sunday i believe still in the low twenty's the clouds increasing a little bit is to go to 18 in melbourne so where has all the stories to go i expect screens filled in but the system is on its way across the tasman sea the last one still the vast amounts of cloud streaming off the high ground of both north and the side of fond of new zealand other picture on saturday with a northerly breeze is not car was 16 degrees in oakland but overcast was some rain sunshine philosophical nurse in the next front tries to get in but they said the system basically knocked that activity come up just by this time so you got fined looking whether or not especially when 12 in wellington but oakland represents a good part of the north and 15 degrees and brighter. on counting the cost of technocrats and the defacto leader has been ousted well his

replacement is saudi arabia's energy minister fair any better looking i'm struggling to get more flights of oil plus the cost of adapting to a warming. counting the cost on a. quick look at the top stories now less than 2 weeks after hurricane dorian another storm is bearing down on the northern bahamas disrupting the search for more than $1300.00 missing people. hundreds of women have protested through the night and

into the day in south africa demanding that more be done to stop sexual violence in the country and pakistan's prime minister emraan god has promised kashmir residents he'll raise new delhi's decision to strip indian administered kashmir of its autonomy at the un general assembly next week. now the government of bicheno fastow says it's called backing a network of vigilante groups members of the say they are working at a local level to punish crimes from fair to armed attacks catherine sawyer travel too busy in southern bikini to find out more. this is a meeting of people who sit there members of what they call the largest softy fence group in book enough fossil. armed with hunting guns and other homemade weapons the self-styled vigilantes are meeting in the country's soudan district. to discuss security in the area and what they say are new strategies to keep people safe. this

is their leader he says the group has members across the country. we are not civil servants we are a group of herders traders women we provide security and advise our people on good investments if people want to reward us we take the money for our logistics. they call themselves. our bush dads in the moral language they came to prominence in 2015 when government security collapsed after the toppling of former president. who had ruled for 27 years. to this day such so-called vigilantes continued to fill the power vacuum and. you know as i do like many big towns we have police militarily private security but in rule areas these nothing so all the people see the group as a savior. in the village of ressam canned. and his you need to take us to

the local market he says those like you who wear grey uniform a special forces whose work is to arrest suspects and investigate crime. i joined a group because my only don't pay was stolen and police couldn't help me find it then. and i said enough is enough when you come to a small village centers like this one people will tell you that the group has helped the number of highway robberies and petty theft have gone down by the have also been accused of human rights abuse in. their justice is instant when you steal a phone an egg or livestock you pay back 3 times the cost and face public humiliation but. what people fear the most is shame we tie them up to embarrass them so that they don't do it again and to deter others tell me which is a more serious violation of human rights killing someone and stealing property or

our justice system. they're not formally recognised by the government and don't trust security forces it's an ease. relationship the interior ministry feels to spot to request for an interview but this mentality until everyone in the village is feel safe there call where gore is not going anywhere katherine sawyer al-jazeera south and book in a fossil. well now to zimbabwe where the former president robert mugabe will be buried at a national shrine in the capital thousands of and paying their respects to a man seen by some as the country's founding father who died last week in singapore in the age of 95 which house has more on this now from harare. patterns of matters older brother itar used to stand opposite the parliament building every day calling for robert mugabe to step down saying he had failed as a leader 4 years ago it was bundled into a car and hasn't been seen since pets and policemen are working for the zanu p.f.

led government took his brother it ties one of many zimbabweans critical of the government who have mysteriously disappeared over the years and lot of people killed as god's people were made and people killed. because they're of closure for example today. independence in 1800 we are over 50000 individuals who have been or did. and political ground on political grounds since the government came into power and. it ties family don't know whether he is alive or dead after mcgovern was removed by the army in a coup in 2017 they asked him away it was he knew nothing about it is just one of the many unanswered questions in the early 1980 s. thousands of people were murdered imagine 11 provinces for allegedly trying to

remove mugabe from power the former president called that period a moment of madness but is the state of the economy the straights in the us what was once a prosperous nation will gladly took over in 1980 is our struggling with soaring inflation and high unemployment some basic services aren't readily available including water begin seeing the oldest children now womb visit going to screw with old bad thing and we are busy to. facing what. all day. and there's no electricity when the water when their legs use it becomes their new warfare toward our once in a while. was a polarizing figure in life and there was even controversy over when and where his body would be buried now the family says his final resting place will be here. hero's acre is an important national shrine with some of those who fought in the

white minority rule are buried robert mugabe's 1st wife sally is buried here next to her is a name t. grave reserved for the country's founding father family members say after the official government ceremony they will have their own private event to say they could buy while praising god his policies on education and land reform at the synagogue was big a sea of disputed elections allegations of the rights abuses abductions and disappearances and a ruined economy that the team to what. al-jazeera had. a businessman is causing a storm in his native egypt by posting videos on social media detailing alleged corruption by president sisi and generals. who worked as a military contractor for 15 years says they wasted millions of dollars on villas hotels and a seaside palace he's posting from spain where he now lives in self-imposed exile i wonder why spend a huge amount of money building these houses i never understood his decision was he

staying in a one bedroom apartment of course not the problem was that sixties wife didn't want to sleep in the same home with mubarak's wife stayed cc's taken low level corruption to a new level i built 5 villas facilities a palace for the president and a military camp in cairo i built a home in alexandria for the c.c. family despite it being an official residence in the same compound the modifications demanded by cc's wife cost more than $1500000.00 the army also ordered me to build $125000000.00 hotel in cairo's 5th. well now news from tunisia 2 days before the presidential election a court has refused to release leading candidate not be able corral we pending the verdict in his corruption trial lawyer announced the court's decision on the final day of campaigning despite allegations of tax fraud and money laundering the media mogul is still leading opinion polls will cost that ballots on sunday stephanie

decker reports now from tunis. today's events will be electing a new president on sunday that was here that thousands of people 8 years ago came out to the streets demanding change or they managed to get rid of what they called the dictator the man who was in charge of this country for over 20 years but many people now will tell you that even though yes there is some form of democracy when it comes to the politics that nothing has really changed on the ground issues that they will fight the economy there is unemployment and demick corruption and also security issues so we've been talking to the people here on the streets of the capital to see what they have to say. to this candidate to a better candidate but what i hope is that economically speaking and socially we will improve the youth i am a young doctor and i don't have a job a graduate of 4 years ago. we need something new really new not

just lies and promises we love tunisia it's our country we don't want them to win the chair and we just stay in the same problems it can't be only words they must be doers. when in fact friday is the last day of campaigning then saturday the day of silence and then sunday 26 candidates will be up for the public vote now if any of them gets over 50 percent that means that will be the outright winner but no one is expecting that to happen there is the expectation there will be a 2nd runoff between the 2 top winners and i will be in november for a report that parliamentary elections also to government and the prime minister everything is up in the air here the question is. the pace of today's are going to change or any of these politicians going to bring something new to the table certainly everyone we've been speaking to say that that's what they want and that's what they're going to expect. british prime minister boris johnson says he's cautiously optimistic about getting a break that deal before the u.k. is due to leave the e.u.

want to 31st johnson is due to meet with european commission president and chief negotiator michel barnier in luxembourg on monday irish prime minister leo varadkar says the u.k. still hasn't presented viable alternatives to the backstop which is the mechanism aiming to prevent a hardboard on the island of ireland meanwhile johnson brush of criticism of his decision to suspend parliament to so close to the brics it deadline the yes i'm all in for are all in favor of are all in favor of r. and b. is more you know with those who would be. great if we were to go back to the night i'm shutting down. the let's. see what there is ample time for parliament to consider not just pretty but all kinds of things both before and after the european council will table 72 let's let's get on do it at least 4 people have died and hundreds more and evacuated after severe flooding

across much of southeast in spain 2 days of torrential rains have turned roads into rivers and cause have been swept away and i would reports. blood pool to. capita from spain's mediterranean coast this is a seaside town popular with tourists in a region being battered by storms and heavy rain and. the impact of the deluge further inland can be seen from the air with buildings in the landscapes warmed by the downpour. overnight emergency teams worked to evacuate people from properties in the flooded town of. someone to go out and we've been incommunicado since this morning the storm came in flooded all the streets it seemed like a river i've never seen anything like that the water almost. in the morning no rest spite rescuers managed to reach a man whose car had become trapped on

a motorway to look more like a than a wrote can imagine have put up with that appears that he was holding on to a traffic signal since we were talking to him and he wasn't responding to the officer and i jumped in to get him out. the army has been called in to help people in the worst affected towns and villages and work is underway to clear the daybreak this should still be holiday season but this part of spain but the has been record breaking levels of rain and more is expected and he would al-jazeera. residents of a village in russia say life is become unbearable because of swarms of flies people income is chef say the has been an unexplained unpleasant smell in the area if the year as and that insecticides and all the forms of pesce control a having no effect on the swarms they're blaming waste from a nearby farm for attracting the flies at a wire eat that it's turning into a public health has it in

a thoughts he's say they all monitoring the situation there are pretty quick chain of were the most in you was move this is an outcry of despair because it is impossible to wipes so many flies out of our homes every day these flies managed to fly inside the house where we ate and sleep it is just impossible it is so one sanitary we were afraid for the health of our children are more sure and if you haven't we've heard to moment pleasant smell here 1st few years in summer in behemoths isn't possible to breed it residents complained a better poke to farlow we don't understand why there are such a big pharma near enough with or this is the poultry farm or a picket leading far it is an ecological catastrophe someone needs to give us answers just for a bring you a quick update on the headlines before we leave you less than 2 weeks off to harken dorian another storm is now bringing rain and when to the bahamas destructing with clay or up on the search for missing people

a national hurricane center is warm that the new weather system could turn into a tropical storm a warning has been issued for most of the northwestern bahamas including great abaco island and grand bahama which for devastated by the category 5 hurricane or than 1300 people are still unaccounted for but histones prime minister is warning that the indian government's crackdown in indian administered kashmir could result in more extremism imran khan was holding a rally and was off for a bomb the capital of pakistan administered kashmir it's been more than a month since india revote the autonomous status of indian administrate kashmir causing fury in pakistan when do nuclear armed country is fight if the fight a conventional war there's every possibility that it's going to end up and do nuclear war the unpredictable a businessman is causing a storm in his native egypt by posting videos on social media detail in alleged corruption by president bill fatah sisi and army generals mohammed ali who worked

as a military contract to 15 years says they wasted millions of dollars on their lives hotels and a seaside palace he's posting from spain where he now lives in self-imposed exile the videos have attracted more than a 1000000 views hundreds of women in south africa been protesting through the night and into the day demanding that more be done to stop sexual violence it's estimated that a woman is raped on average every 36 seconds in south africa president cyril ramaphosa has admitted his nation is facing a crisis and his pledge some new measures. and turkey's president has threatened to open the gates into europe for syrian refugees unless the european union supplies more aid as a type one has criticized the amount of help turkey has received from europe to support refugees fleeing the war saying his government has spent $40000000000.00 so far counting the cost is coming up next asking why the saudi oil minister was fired

from his job. june is it. the spark that ignited the arab spring elects a new president what does the political scene look like after the arrest of one of the main candidates in the presidential race joining us to special coverage. on al-jazeera. hello i'm hasn't sneakin this is counting the cost on our jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week a technocrat and the defacto leader of opec has been ousted but will his replacement or saudi arabia's energy minister fare any better as the kingdom struggles to get more for its oil. the cost of adapting to climate change if you think businesses haven't already failed because our planet is heating up think

again and trump's never ending trade war with china has opened up opportunities for some type businesses among the chaos. he was the defacto leader of opec and the most respected oil man in saudi arabia and on the world stage so well respected that one crown prince mohammed bin men needed to salvage his credibility after the killing of journalist her mouth ashaji it was energy minister. who returned to but in a surprise move he was ousted and replaced by muhammad's half brother prince abdullah bin southern man it is the 1st time a member of the ruling sold family has been appointed to the post technocrats likely have always been the nation's choice to run the oil ministry. he was also relieved from his role as chairman of the oil giant around co saudi arabia has a 13 percent share of the world's petroleum market during fairly his 10 year he

struggle to raise the price of oil to $80.00 a barrel that price would give mohammed bin man the financial firepower to transform the economy moving it away from its oil addiction it will so enable it to balance its budget and not exhaust foreign reserves on imports but this is how crucial oil is to saudi arabia oil accounts for 40 percent of its economy 70 percent of government revenue and nearly 80 percent of export earnings according to reuters saudi export earnings from oil fell from more than $800000000.00 a day in april 2014 to less than $300000000.00 a day in february 26th that was due to the shale oil boom in the united states and as of june this year it was earning $400000000.00 a day a saudi arabia has used everything in its policy toolbox to raise prices fully

elicited the help of russia and other non opec nations to cut production saudi arabia cut its own production to its lowest level in 5 years to no avail it also needs high oil prices to meet the ambitious 2 trillion dollars valuation for saudi aramco stock market listing early next year at the moment analysts believe the world's most profitable company is worth between one trillion to $1.00 trillion dollars but mohamed bin some man wants a higher valuation and on that count felicia also failed to deliver. well let's find out what's behind the decision and can the new man do any better able to help us answer those questions i'm joined by richard malice and a co-founder of energy aspects a senior energy analyst there thanks very much for being with us so what's behind this move then to get rid of in fairly. well i think it's hard to see it as anything other than

a loss of confidence in his ability to handle some of his portfolio and i think that's probably primarily about crown prince mohammed bin someone who's very central obviously to decision making in the kingdom losing that personal confidence that he's the right man for the job and was that also about the failure to deliver high oil prices because saudi arabia needs needs needs to be at a certain price to deliver its budget i think it's a bit simplistic to just say that saudi arabia needs a particular budget clearly it's run a deficit budget for a number of years it can do that but the there are downsides and saudi arabia has ambitious investment plans vision 2030 and other areas and so i think certainly the slow progress is probably the saudis would see it towards achieving a more balanced market and the part the price increases they'd expect to come with that is going to be a big part of what's driven this change does this is what changed the relationship

with opec plus in particular with with with russia it was it was for the contaminated dorrell shipped to europe russia would that not be in compliance with its commitment to cut production. it's a good question clearly her father was very active and involved in the engagement with russia and the other opec plus members but i think that sound the russian cooperation goes to a much higher political level so we saw a lot of links between the crown prince and president putin on the russian side and i think that engagement is going to outlast the the departure of us all i think really what we're looking at is an alignment of interests for saudi arabia and russia certainly as far as the cooperation agreement it's not a perfectly easy partnership there will be strains down the line and it may not last forever but i think for now at least both countries are looking at having similar interests and seeing the benefits of working together and that will remain the case and we mentioned as well the break with precedent in making this

appointment why why is the house of sowed seemingly keen on controlling the energy ministry because that's something they voted in the past well i think it's possible to read too much into the fact that the new or the new minister is a member of the house the royal family because when you look at his background he spent several decades as a deputy and other oil minister in a very very deeply involved in this industry he's very experienced i think he's perceived both within the kingdom and they will hope by the oil markets as a safe pair of hands on experience on the person when it comes to oil markets so i think the fact that he's a cramp sorry a prince and the fact that he's a half brother of the crown prince isn't the relevant factor here it's much more that he is knowledgeable about the portfolio and he's seen as someone who won't rock the boat when it comes to policy but he's

a sarah he's inheriting the same low oil prices so what can he possibly do that hasn't been done before. i mean that's absolutely true and that's why i don't think we're going to see a dramatically different policy i think we may see a different style of communication perhaps maybe a move back towards an approach that we saw in the past from saudi arabia where there was less talk there was less comment to the press there was a narrower focus on a message that the kingdom wants to communicate or markets and i mean what we've seen particular in recent months is a more proactive style that hasn't really had the desired results are really trying to talk prices up at times and we just haven't seen prices react in the way the probably was intended in riyadh so i think a move back to a quieter form of communication but not a shift in the underlying oil policy so will this help at the crown prince's move

to to float around co that well i think the change of oil minister not that won't be very significant but actually one of the changes that occurred just before hand the change of chairmanship around coach does signal and we need effort to push forward with the i.p.o. and i think the other thing that we're seeing is reports about i.p.o. will probably begin with a domestic listing which will be easier to achieve fewer barriers fewer regulator requirements so it seems very clear that the push to make the i.p.o. happen and happen sooner rather than later is ongoing the real question for the crown prince of course is at what price will that listing happen and that is very tied up with the oil price and because i don't think this new energy minister can deliver a miraculously higher oil prices anytime soon we may still not see the i.p.o. happening at the levels that the crown prince would ideally want richard mallets and thanks for being with us my pleasure.

earlier this year the california based utility pacific gas and electric filed for bankruptcy protection as costs related to wildfires ballooned it was probably one of the clearest cases of how climate change wiped out a company that hadn't done enough to prepare for a warming planet p.g. and e. faced approximately $30000000000.00 in liabilities as a result of its role in the 20172018 fires state investigators linked $100.00 deaths to the fires the federal judge william also blamed the cause of some of the fires on the utilities negligence judge also said the utility paid $4500000000.00 to shareholders in dividends over the past 5 years while failing to take adequate safety precautions germany's car industry is facing up to the threat of losing its crown as the leading center for production a series of missteps from diesel cheating scandals to the lack of preparedness for

the end of the combustion engine has left the road open to tesla and chinese electric brands an industry that employs more than 800000 people is facing a make or break moment. a both cases raise many questions are businesses doing enough to prepare for climate change or do executives have their heads in the sand according to the global commission on adaptation businesses need to plan more for a warming planet companies that do not adapt may not survive it claims investing $1.00 trillion dollars to climate proof businesses and the broader economy by 2030 could generate $7.00 trillion in net benefits half the world's biggest companies believe climate adaptation could result in $236000000000.00 in increased revenues economists have long argued that putting a price on greenhouse emissions is the fast this way for business to make changes in the 4000 firms with revenue of about 7 trillion dollars already participate in

some form of carbon pricing i want to the authors of that report is fake it's a best mochy for executives of dutch life sciences company royal d.s.m. i cannot mix editor abbott alley caught up with him and began by asking what signal was being sent to businesses with the lack of political will from the likes of president trump who withdrew from the paris climate change accord. well not everybody as i sat is making the right step up himself climates mitigation and we should because we have agreed to on the nation's same pairs in 2015 but i think all countries in a world where do you step up on climate mitigation or not need to protect your own people your own business is the most vulnerable in the world so every nation every company in the world need to step up on climate adaptation in your own interests and i think we need to do for things such pressure to 1st of all create more

transparency on how climate risks are influencing you as a country and every country is exposed for you as a basis in terms of fuel supply chain in terms of your locations or whatever it turns pregnancy and also reinvest us that is very important secondly you need to protect your own operations taking care of your own supply chain if you talk about food and agricultural products or flooding sites or drought state your workers cannot come to your sites certainly you need to focus on innovation trying to do new products new solutions and as a company you can make money and as a society you are served by those innovations we for example make the oceans more resilient for fishing we make. an africa more resilient to doubts and to force an amount is that for the sea to advocate for crime.