and he says that there is reason to believe that the u.s. knows who the culprit is but they'll wait for verification but the u.s. has already come out and directly accused iran who insists that they went involved so your washington is now presumably waiting for riyadh to verify that is that even possible to actually say with any sass and did these attacks well the accusation against the rams was based upon where the oil facilities were damaged they don't look like they were damaged in the north and west or over to some of these which would mean that they get income from yemen but then i'd look closer at all the people of the closer of those photos and it's not quite clear it looks like some is just from the west could have been coming from yemen but don't forget who the 7 launch drones and the missiles against saudi arabia are were several months now none of them have been able to cause the damage that they did these did but this is not new for them to do so with the u.s.

threatening potential military engagement what are its options now if it does decide to go ahead this presumably huge threat of escalation around the entire gulf region. well now if we would attack iran then that you would really have a very very very very violent conflict that would be spread throughout the whole the whole gulf really what we need to do is end the civil war in yemen because even the usa has broken from the saudi position they are there supporting rebels in the southern arc the saudis are still. supporting the hardy government and the whole days of benefit then getting a lot of american a weapon from that the saudis have you use there so really that's what you that's what you have to that's what you hope to do because no one can win that war and the idea you know the saudis told us back in 26 thing they could win that in a month well it's been you know or half years that's what we really have to do if

we want to restore stability to the region if the united states it launches attack on a randall that would really escalate the problems that we have and while trump a somewhat inconsistent we do know he doesn't like to have wars or start military conflicts he's trying to get out of afghanistan and he has basically no longer threatened you know what koreans even though they're still testing nuclear weapons . and on a score of a format u.s. assistant secretary of defense always good to get your insights on out of there thank you don thank you for having the. still ahead on. rebuilding the bahamas the cleanup operation resumes back said by a tropical storm. and i'm nicholas hawk in the mouth forest where century old trees are being birds down and cut down find out next what the

government in kenya are doing to prevent the destruction in east africa's largest indigenous forest. and i welcome to another look at the international forecast weather doesn't say about across eastern parts of the u.s. we do have. strength thing as it pulls away from a homicide to head towards bermuda takingly west windy a weather with its as well along the carolinas. we should be ok here there have been some comments pushing through around the coastal fringes some showers some breezy conditions but things will improve as we go on through monday and on into choose to as it heads into the open waters strengthen as it does so becoming a hurricane in the process but a good to the tribe right weather across the eastern seaboard sensuous of the u.s.

lots of warmth in place dallas at 35 celsius 33 there for kansas city i would say also west the telephonic fly by the know just some showers that just around the rockies longer spells of rain around the pacific northwest into that western side of canada will see a fair bit of wet weather just pushing in across here and if i bet a wet weather to into western parts of the caribbean it correct here costa rica seeing some lively showers at present since i think we might will see some increasing showers also pushing towards the lesser antilles stools of the middle east was laid with the late was seeing some very heavy rain but it's on become to choose day but it stays fine and dry for jamaica. from inside the walls of a west african prison comes. a chance to create to express emotion and take the 1st steps towards rehabilitation. a renowned choreographer his passion

for. inspiring prisoners to perform and to reach beyond the ill deeds of the past and the confines of the press. the dance of the. documentary on al-jazeera. hello again i'm mr power a minder of our top stories this hour saturday's drone attacks on saudi oil facilities have triggered a record and brant crude futures trading u.s. president donald trump says he's authorized the release of oil from america's strategic reserves to fill the market gap if needed. also says the u.s.

is quote locked and loaded waiting for a confirmation of who attacked riyadh's oil facilities secretary of state mike pompei was already accused iran for the attacks claimed by yemen through the rebels terror on has denied involvement. now ballots are being counted in tunis he often nearly hoffa registered voters turned out to choose their country's next president official results aren't expected until tuesday supporters of the 2 candidates. have both claimed to have won the fast round and already celebrating sunday's vote 2nd presidential election since the 2011 revolution stephanie decker reports from tunis . half an hour before voting was due to start a small queue had already formed tunisians waiting to have their say on who is going to be their next president the question how i came here to vote in order to get someone who can get this country out of the crisis the economic crisis the

financial crisis we have lots of debts it's very frustrating for me i'm not fully convinced about any of the candidates because there are so many and i haven't seen them from the beginning it's the 2nd time tunisians are electing their president since the revolution 8 years ago tunisia is often quoted as the only democratic success story to come out of the so-called arab spring the 1st country where its people took to the streets bringing an end to the 23 year rule of president saying . this is democracy in action yes there are many different candidates to choose from but the question is what can they offer to people are they going to offer real change or is the next president going to be more of the same voters here are telling us they're tired of empty promises. the next president is pressing issues to deal with unemployment is higher than it was before the 2011 revolution the security situation is a concern and corruption remains rampant the new leader will face

a population hungry for change especially the youth many have told us they don't trust the politicians can move with these elections are a good thing it's the 1st time we've had a debate on t.v. with our presidential candidates we used to watch the debates on t.v. in the united states and now we're watching the same thing here in tunisia that's the 1st. national and international observers were polling stations across the country we knew just a grudge and slew of people but interestingly we saw many elderly coming in very in the morning and been very well organized and there has been no issues and so so far it's been good which is hoping that by no the young people would have come on only increase the percentage of voters luminary results suit you later with the official announcement on choose day the winning candidate will need more than 50 percent of the vote and no one expects that to happen the likely scenario out of $24.00

candidates the top 2 will head to a runoff in november by the end of the day tunisian should know who they are stephanie decker al-jazeera tunis. and algeria is due to hold its president for lection now on december 12th the day it has been announced by interim president other carbon salah the country has been rocked by months of protests since former president addresses beautifully was forced to resign back in april after nearly 20 years in power. now aid operations have resumed in the bahamas as tropical storm we have to away from the area after dumping rain of a parts of the archipelagos northwest now some communities are coming together for the 1st time since hurricane dorian hit 2 weeks ago alan fisher has this report from freeport on the island of grand bahama. for many this was the 1st time to come together since the hurricane the church a source of comfort after some difficult days once more hugs were warm the tears

were real the stories of survival frightening we watch our house and our home destroyed i mean a limb by limb or whatever you want to call it. sometimes over 20 feet coming in over the roof into the roof because you know sustained some damage in that area we saw that but luckily dad didn't see us there sharing what they have one man and his family are sleeping at a friend's one woman has a working well so is sharing water community coping together we lost everything everything we might as a salvage some little shoes and pants and stuff i got to get out of the suffering of a few of my church members have lost everything you know so i thank god that i didn't have that major damage in my house like some of them but we're all alive and we're holding on. just a short distance so we in the hudson neighborhood the work to rebuild has already

begun. many buildings survived but have been left to shell by the storm waters this is probably about a kilometer from the sea but at the height of the storm the water was so high it would have been above my head simply inundating all of the houses in this area. people are saving what they can but there's not a lot left to see most of it is. salt water and sewage backing up into the building. but the everything is you know. while saving the contamination sewage george like many families here is hoping things will start improving before the end of the year getting back to normal that's not even under consideration for no i don't fish or al-jazeera in freeport on the island of grand bahama. at least 13 people have died and dozens are missing

after a boat capsized in india it happened in the godavari river in the southern state of undress pradesh local media are reporting that $61.00 people were onboard including 10 crew members but only about 14 people have been rescued so far the taliban says it will revoke its ban and allow the red cross to work in afghanistan it had excluded the group along with the world health organization back in april accusing them of carrying out suspicious activities during vaccination campaigns the taliban also says it will now guarantee the security of red cross staff in the areas that it controls. well there's been more violence and hong kong after tens of thousands of people defied a police baton and marched through the city center on sunday the protesters are demanding more government concessions and political reforms to the island again reports from hong kong. another day another represent of unrest.

hundreds of thousands of demonstrators defy a police ban to march through central hong kong once again. there is no shortage of anger here the turmoil in hong kong is well into its 3rd month and protests continue unabated. in the formal groups of volunteers from 1st aid medics to lawyers and religious leaders show that support for these demonstrators is far reaching a full withdrawal of the proposed law to extradite suspects to china was announced by chief executive care really lamb last week a concession by beijing's leaders but observers say it may have been given too late . protesters say they're refusing to give in until their other 4 demands are met demonstrators say care really is just a lack of. everyone knows she's not sincere to face to people at home call a slow as she doesn't respond to all demands we will continue to protest. that the

government is full of hypocrisy it's the government that undermine the rule of law police are using on reasonable violence the protesters are using force not ballance it's violence only when it harms people. water cannons police tactics which have so far only emboldened protesters to see surging forward for the last few months these have become familiar scenes the streets of hong kong have become a battleground this is hong kong on edge young people here tell us they are forever transformed by the recent political turmoil and they are risking all to resist what they call creepy authoritarianism from. just 0. about 50 fires continue to burn across queensland and new south wales in eastern

australia about 20 homes have been destroyed and another 30 damaged favorable conditions on sunday help so down the pace of the destruction korea's remain on a bus with hostile windy a weather forecast for the next 2 days fires have been burning across the states for more than a week destroying an estimated 55000 hectares of land. we've just been through so too was our own feeling and jumped through over rain 1st over a river and so fast i always thought they were come up there it will never get across the river. a battles underway for the survival of the largest forest of its kind in east africa kenya's government has a victim hundreds of thousands of settlers from the mal forest over the past 20 is and as nicholas hack reports indigenous people in the region say their homes are at risk and so is the area's rare wildlife. deep in the mouth forest are people who communicate with honey. bees can sense our intentions

explained secure macho to her nephew collect the honey with a pure heart she says and you'll be unharmed hanging from the branches are wooden hives people built to protect the bees it's a relationship of cultivated over centuries which is at risk. the bees done tree unsub back but we know what death thinking it's obvious by the sound they make they are angry they are upset destruction in these forests. east africa's largest indigenous force was cut down to almost half of its original size over the course of 100 years british colonisers of kenya invaded and killed people to turn part of their forest land into te plantations then came 50 years of kenyan government logging when settlers who moved into the forest were given title deeds to the land . won a landmark legal battle against the kenyan government 2 years ago the verdict recognizing

their land rights and need for compensation for their suffering now kenya's government is evicting 60000 settler families from their forest in the distance right behind me are trees that were burned to the ground to make way for farmland and pastures to use for people who want to feed their animals and right here is a 200 year old red cedar tree that was cut down days ago now it will take centuries for part of this forest to grow back and that's why the government here is taking such drastic actions to protect the environment at risk of extinction say environmentalist our $173.00 species of animals including the bongo elephant and the golden cat sen the drama from the messiah tribe plays jazz music to his cows. the need soothing he explains because too many animals are dying. this country is littered with carcasses of dead animals because of the drought the murray river

which gives this county over 2000000000 shillings every year dries up to misquote the sea and when you go down and look at the river is horrific. it is a fragile ecosystem in which the survival of the bees depend on the you kick their survival depends on this forest. in the most forest kenya. and i hope with the headlines saturday's drone attacks on saudi oil facilities have triggered a wreck or to jump in brant crude futures trading it opened 19 percent higher with an increase of up to 11 dollars 73 cents a barrel u.s. president donald trump says he's authorized the release of oil from america's strategic reserves to fill the market gap if needed while vanda hari is the c.e.o.

of energy market and analysis group vendor insights and she says the lack of information being released by saudi arabia is making the market even more volatile a much of the is likely to sustain and of course i think while it's realty is going to remain with us as well because of the picture. the extent of damage to. the expected restart resumption how long that will take a lot of the big onsets have yet to emerge trump also says the u.s. is quote locked and loaded waiting for confirmation of who attacked riyadh's oil facilities secretary of state mike pompei or has already accused iran for the attacks claimed by yemen's 33 rebels tehran has denied involvement. ballots are still being counted in tunisia after nearly half of registered voters turned out to elect their country's next president official results aren't expected

until tuesday but supporters of both candidates claim to have won the 1st round and are already celebrating sunday's vote was genesee a 2nd presidential election since the 2011 revolution. and algeria is year to hold its presidential election on december 12th that date was announced by interim president ben sala now the country has been rocked by months of protests since former president. was forced to resign in april after nearly 20 years in power. the taliban says it will revoke it span and allow the red cross to work in afghanistan is it excluded the group along with the world health organization back in april accusing them of carrying out suspicious activities during baths and nation campaigns the taliban also says it will guarantee the security of red cross staff in areas that it controls well those are the headlines join me for more news

here on al-jazeera after counting the cost to stay with us. hello i'm hasn't this is counting the cost on energy or 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 of 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 man needed to salvage his credibility after the killing of journalist to mouth ashaji it was energy minister in philly who returned to but in a surprise move he was ousted and replaced by muhammad's half brother prince abdullah zs been so ma'am it is the 1st time a member of the ruling so old family has been appointed to the post technocrats like foley have always been the nation's choice to run the oil ministry it 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 10 year he

struggled 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 would also enable it to balance its budget and not exhaust foreign reserves on imports. well 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 for 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 fully have also failed to deliver well let's find out what's behind the decision and can the new man do any better will to help us answer those questions i'm joined by richard mallison a cofounder 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 philly. 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 all decision making in the kingdom losing that personal confidence but 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 of 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 change the relationship with opec plus in particular with with with russia it was it was for the

contaminated dorrell ship 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 found 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 of 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 south 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 that 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 code that i think could change foreign minister or not but won't

be very significant but actually one of the changes that occurred just before hand the change of chairmanship of around coke 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 malice and thanks for being with us. my pleasure. earlier this year the california based utility pursued for 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. 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 revenue economists have long argued that putting a price on greenhouse emissions is the fos 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 fakey say best my chief executive 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 a 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 on himself climate mitigation and we should because we have agreed to on the nations in pairs in 2015 but i think all countries in the 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 seeing 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 of your 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 climate mitigation as walls adaptation and i think there is no country in the world.