it will be ready for harvesting of september but the region's lockdown has made it hard to get supplies and laborers from outside are being told to stay out there but you know. i got the liberal side push me the government told them to go home pesticides we can't get because the markets a shot rice vegetables we can't even get meat for us says because everything is shut. that's affecting people with small businesses especially in farming who are worried the restrictions on communication and movement means their hard work will be thrown away. it's a situation that's common throughout the kashmir valley most businesses think shut in srinagar carpet sellers have already stocked up for both the tourist and wedding season this month but few have had any sales in weeks so many employers want hair. brained him. houseboat hotels and famous doll lake sit

empty. and with only local people riding a few of the gondolas many boat men are fishing to pass the time and catch a meal just before the restrictions earlier this month the government order tourists to leave the area taking with them one vital piece of the region's economy but it's not the 1st time kashmiris have suffered from work and businesses being shut down has it do. we know by the. abo and or take on. that what they know their. season everything is at stake but they know that the existence. landscape i would think is at stake. but doesn't know if he'll be allowed to transport his crop to market or find enough trucks to do so but he'll continue tending his fields because for many here culture

and pride are more important than business and money. now is the only european union country to share a land border with the u.k. the deadlock over the irish border has held up a break that deal between brussels and blood on a hard break would be detrimental to our lands farmers who export most of their produce and as the capital makes preparations for breaks at the influx of big businesses and property developers a pushing out space as lawrence lee takes a look a briggs its impact on urban and rural areas right at the site has been marked down here things like that the location which is ideal for the modern workers these people are protesting outside the office of private equity company or to use their phrase a vulture fund these financial organizations buy property and evicted tenants who

then say they're threatened with homelessness cutting the ribbon to celebrate sleeping in a tent is bitter a metaphor as you can possibly imagine it's generally gentrification of mass addictions where people are being forced out because i don't think america be forced out of the city because we can't afford to live a tremendous city because of of lupo's of education which which facilitate these goes we don't pay any tax in our own around for income i'm extract massive profits in the face these individuals behind these companies but the end of the road is the irish parliament where a quarter of government ministers are themselves landlords politicians sympathetic to the rents as say they can get nowhere with legislation to protect the pool we have settled repeatedly that we think given the very high proportion of landlords in the 2 major parties in the game they showed excused themselves from phones. on issues where it is a conflict of interest i don't believe that lamb lords are going to pass laws which impact on their ability to make money from property. and that it's not the only explanation but i think it's a big part of the argumentation

a lot of it just to check the bit between equity companies in the political class well i think there's no doubt it is easiest to chop. this housing crisis is a reflection of dublin's entire business model which is to entice tech giants like facebook google and the rest on the promise that ireland is a tax haven the rental market is designed entirely around their needs not those of irish workers the bottom line is the campaigners say that the economics of dublin's housing market have created a sort of social apartheid in which property becomes only the preserve of the rich who buy and then rents either to wealthy outsiders or foreign sorest so in short let's and gradually doublings working poor become priced out of their own city demand outstripping supply means renting one of these tiny cottages in dublin would set you back nearly $2000.00 a month peters lived in one for 13 years his landlady wants him to leave and he's facing spending 2 thirds of everything here on rent somewhere else for normal of

work you know 607080 percent of people's here isn't yet spent one year of unions through what would you do this if you had to speak if you were dispensing lives and you know income on rent could you put a little more you know you could be forgiven if you want biases so if you want to do those university you have to move down the country you know you have to move to cheaper area. the squeeze on housing is affecting foreign workers to the apartment looks great it's only $1500.00 a month the reason it's not so expensive is you have to share it with a total stranger the rental company chooses your flatmates based on a guess as to whether you like each other most of the people living here work in the international tech companies it's the little things we find it's like how often do you clean your dishes to clean them straight after you have a meal to leave them there overnight you do it in the morning all those kind of

things that we find that mice irritate another room ace we kind of find out before they move in and then kind of review both applications and see well you know this guy seems to fit with this guy of this girl so on and so forth and then we'll introduce them and then it's really up to them after that and so it was arlen tries to draw foreign workers in so the housing crisis balloons this recruitment agency says it's so bad that many people who are offered jobs in dublin don't even come because there's nowhere to live as ever it's smaller businesses that suffer some of the multinationals they they could possibly pay a good relocation or they may have a company that will help them i think it's probably putting more and more stress and pressure on the smaller businesses who don't have the luxury of paying out massive relocation fee or they don't have the time to help search for you know accommodation around around dublin. because really it's just there's just not enough accommodation or it's a decade since the banking crash and orleans lost housing crisis in the interim

a little was done to build new affordable homes for irish workers while the multinationals smell tax breaks as a national policy failure it could hardly be worse. and we're just about to start now trade a truck here it's called the irish national planning championships but in reality it's more a celebration of farming showing just how seriously they take it on the island of ireland the men driving the tractors have rock star status here. oh yes terrorism was a job always people are irish national heroes i would 3 days a 3rd of a 1000000 visitors inspect the machinery and the livestock it's all in the blood and given that in the exports 90 percent of all the food it produces much of it to the u.k. the idea of the new border cutting the island into is a nightmare there's

a real possibility of the coming from would not survive for her. complete potential maybe there's a lot of promise and there's some of that are still ones critically be from of a given the level of indebtedness that our fight for you think they are what the british government wants to achieve at this point is vague the best but it seems to accept the huge importance of irish food to the u.k. politicians use phrases like the all ireland food economy which most people don't understand in practical terms it's much simpler so it appears bracks it has come down to this the british government says it's happy for meats from that how to pass on checks through the irish border but not surprisingly that piece of farming equipment over there and if that's appears ridiculously picky it's also the case of the british government doesn't seem to realise that that would be completely unacceptable so both the irish governments and the european union the agriculture minister turned up to take questions there wasn't

a single british journalist that there's almost no attempt to understand the irish position in terms of the volume of trade from the republican ordinarily in the region 700000000 and something slightly less coming from north south and the granular detail of that is you know. 10 percent of the polish process from the north in the republic 400000 sheep consoled for his daughter i could give you a myriad of statistics on the continuation of the all egg a food economy is really important to us and those politicians who represent voters around. border insisted if the u.k. can't figure out what it wants it should let irish people decide for themselves this is what people say the failure to agree on bricks it could lead to a united ireland so the choices are stark the british government. except the backstop and the minimal protections that it provides in order to ensure that we don't have a hardening of the border or that can give the people in the north of ireland a choice as to which union they want to be part of didn't want to be part of the

dysfunctional so-called united kingdom or didn't want to as declared in the previous referendum the man part of the european union the essential contradiction of brecht's it remains that the u.k. wants to shut itself off from the european union while keeping its border with the e.u. open any ideas proposed by the irish to square that circle have been ruled out as unacceptable in london and yet here they are still waiting for the british prime minister to come up with something else instead joining us now via skype from dublin is john the grain john's the director general of the british irish chamber of commerce john great to have you with us now economists reckon that ireland's economy could suffer a hit somewhere between 4 to 7 percent in a decade's time thanks to briggs it what's your assessment in terms of jobs and the economy it's a very serious situation not to be alarmist but we have to be realistic about the possibility if not the probability of a hired form of brakes it obviously we're working to achieve the least worst form

of access with pollard politics and diplomacy but national economics and social research institute has published an updated forecast for just the next 12 months and deserves 6 percent swing between the 2 scenarios and we could move into a recession with the reduction in economic activity by one percent next year compared with the running forecast of growth of 4.9 percent if we don't have a heart breaks it so you can see the magnitude swing it directly affects major industries and indeed there's no part of the economy is immune to it because of the sheer extent of the relationships between iran and the u.k. so the $70000000000.00 euros in trade that currently exists between ireland and the u.k. in the case of a of a no deal brags that that would be radically reshaped. yes it would it didn't and in the case of the no deal breaker says it would be radically impacted as quickly as within weeks meaning that the food sector and its level of

sophistication in terms of big juicing great products grating b.d.'s that are shipped with wonderful logistics onto supermarket shelves within hours from irish farm to fork effect to be as we say that sector would be really seriously damaged and the notion that hard wrecks it would somehow be job done for the u.k. it's only the start of the problem and the reality is heartbreak that on the 31st of october would have an effect within days on the 2 way trade in goods and some services between the 2 islands even if there is a hard break say how important is it that the deal if there is one although the arrangement that has made leaves northern ireland and the irish republic able to trade freely across the border i mean how important is it to get some sort of arrangement that allows goods to flow across the northern irish border it's extremely important to be fair to most of the tightness in the in the brics and

debate nobody is denying that northern ireland is a very distinct and and special and specially exposed situation the book the physical border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland would in a heartbreaks it's an area be the only land border of the european union with the united kingdom that border is 500 kilometers long there are hundreds well over $300.00 crossing points across that border many of them on small local laneways and from our roads and across all of the border infrastructure which today is completely open and effectively invisible that that infrastructure that used to support a hard border would have to reemerge and and all of the. parties have now agreed that it's unavoidable that i would have to remove it it might take some weeks to to install but it would be a significant. impedance to the conduct of the several $100000.00 of that

wrote journeys that very freight back and forth across that border every year and that's not into say at all about this significant security risks that everybody agrees are very substantial indeed at the heart border infrastructure was to reemerge john really good to talk to you and counting the cost many thanks indeed for being with us john the grand there from the british irish chamber of commerce and that's our show for this week if you'd like to comment on anything you've seen you can tweet me out at a finnigan on twitter please use the hash tag a.j.c. to see when you do or you can drop us a line counting the cost of al-jazeera dot net is our e-mail address as always there's plenty more for you online at al jazeera dot com slash c.t. see that takes you straight to our page and they'll find individual reports links even entire episodes for you to catch up on. but that's it for this edition of cutting the cost i'm adrian finnegan from the whole team here in doha thanks for being with us the news on al-jazeera is next.

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down. the world community must give the people of kashmir the right of self-determination. and emotional appeal by the pakistani prime minister as he was warns of a bloodbath an indian administered kashmir. 3 house oversight committees order the u.s. secretary of state to produce documents relating to president trump's call to his ukrainian counterpart. chained abused and tortured nigerian police free at least $300.00 imprisoned boys. hundreds of egyptians have defied a security clampdown for a 2nd successive friday enjoying demonstrations demanding the president steps down they accuse sisi of corruption and destroying the economy rights groups are reporting the biggest roundup of mass arrests in sisi took over in 2013 after

overthrowing the 1st democratically elected president mohamed morsi stephanie decker has more. they took a risk to come out to the streets in protest for a 2nd friday that's despite warnings from egyptian security forces that they would face a harsh response al-jazeera cannot independently verify these videos but they are said to be in kenya the city and are pretty gypped and also in l.a. want to clear the capital cairo other reports suggest a large security presence in central cairo with the streets virtually deserted the road to the higher square which has been the heart of previous protest over the years blocked off. another narrative in what is just as much a media campaign state television showing pro-government protests in the capital president abdel fatah sisi returned to cairo early on friday from the un general assembly in new york this welcome posted on his official facebook page with the president reassures this crowd that all is well with the market what are you doing

here why you got up early on a friday morning life is good and easy you have to know that the egyptians are very aware of how they try to fake the realities and realistic things and deceive the people for the sake of allah and for the sake of you what happened before will never happen again don't worry and don't be worried good morning to you but despite the president's assurances something is happening here waiting out troops all over the streets of cairo now is than we are to do random checks all over the city is a very clear reflection of this government's insecurity. the fact that the thing that runs this government more than anything else is the voice of its own people our government didn't secure any standing at security which little missy and it support among egyptians would be so frightened or terrified by hundreds of protesters in the streets of cairo it started with this man mohammed alley

a contractor for the egyptian military for 15 years the largest and most powerful institution in the country recently breaking rank uploading videos statements from spain where he now lives in self-imposed exile accusing senior military leaders of wasting millions of dollars to build villas palaces and hotels it hasn't gone down well with many who are finding it hard to live day by day. more recently there's a lot of economic discontent cc's economic policies have mostly failed the wealth gap has increased and egypt's poverty rate is rising pretty dramatically hundreds came out to protest last friday what has been the biggest show of discontent against theses rule human rights watch says nearly 2000 people have been arrested in the last week alone al-jazeera is banned from reporting inside the country the bigger picture of what is happening here may take time to become clear but it seems once again egyptians have lost their fear and are defying wooders to remain silent

stephanie decker al-jazeera. you heard stuff mention muhammad ali the former government contractor whose videos helped spark those protests he has issued a new message on social media calling on president sisi to step down while this is not how the. c.c.u. sway that you will leave the people don't want you so please be a man if you would don't let your offices upset the people let them walk in the streets freely you promise the people freedom so please stop being a lion of the u.n. high commissioner for human rights says over 2000 people have so far been arrested michel basle a reminded the egyptian government that under international law people have the right to protest peacefully and she urged authorities to radically change their approach to any future protests timothy calder's is a nonresident fellow at the time her institute for middle east policy and he joins us now from boston thank you very much for coming on the program firstly what what

do we know of these current rallies that are taking place it's a 2nd week of protests. seemingly less smaller than the week before particularly because of a crackdown on those mass arrests that we've been talking about but do you feel that it still has a certain amount of momentum. well i think the reality is that the numbers are substantially smaller than last week. and it's we're still trying to verify where precisely the protests have taken place in cairo and what we're sure that there were protests. and it seems that there were protests in some of the provinces particularly upper egypt which cities in particular have. those claims in and so elsewhere but we haven't really been able to confirm that as for momentum i think it's hard to tell i mean ultimately the challenge here is that mohammed ali doesn't really have a have an organizational base he doesn't have

a base on the ground he's not he's not in egypt at the moment. there is in the clear direction behind where these protests might go that and of course the fact that the authorities have taken a lot of measures to prevent anyone from going out this time around they were searching for days they've been searching anyone's for any young person's phone passing through to where you are looking for any indication that they support the protests going through their social media and one somewhat humorous situation there was a report that one young man's phone ran out of internet credit and the officer gave him a hotspot so that he could continue to search the device. has been a very meticulous attempt to kind of close down public space to prevent a repeat of what what we saw last week. but it's still unclear that there's much there's much momentum for this to continue given that there is that lack of organization and of course the clamp down but let's look at how this is being seen from outside of egypt president has just arrived back from the u.n.

general assembly is there a sense of these protests are casting a shadow of egypt the narrative egypt is trying to send to the u.s. and other countries that this is a stable country in a region that's perhaps troubled in many other areas. if it isn't sending that message it should i think that the government's reaction even before the protests began was very intense in terms of the president himself addressing these videos we got a statement from the minister of defense insisting the military was you know unified we saw enormous amount of propaganda on egyptian t.v. channels promoting c c artists producing coordinated campaign of videos to promote him and then of course the reaction the day after the protest where over 2000 people have been arrested on it from several provinces as well as the real lockdown of public space to prevent anything from happening really indicates that the regime

and the large. demonstrations that the government organized to support sisi in which they distributed food packets to people and bus them in and there's reports that different different organizations and businesses were made were making their employees attend. all these things indicate that they took what was really protests of several 1000 people and as the government puts it out of 100000000. and they've taken that very seriously and they've responded very intensely to it and that suggests that the regime is very aware of the fragility of its popularity and that while these videos by muhammad ali my might might not ultimately be the spark that sets off something larger it does it still remains the case that there is a lot of timber in society there's a lot of anger there's a lot of frustration and something something else may well be that spark and they're taking that quite seriously so if the international community doesn't

realize the fragility of the regime the regime itself seems to timothy called us thank you very much for your time and insights. pakistan's prime minister has used his speech at the un general assembly to deliver an extraordinary attack on india's crackdown on indian administered kashmir and on khan warns of a bloodbath in the disputed region. the 7th autonomy status of customary territory under its control and a speech earlier india's prime minister made no mention of kashmir though the hall has this report from the united nations so you know the enemy don't you know the police the un general assembly was drawing to a close in new york when suddenly it burst grimly back into life pakistan's prime minister imran khan decried india's decision to revoke self rule in majority muslim populated indian administered kashmir it was part of a policy he said of hindu nationalism and ethnic cleansing what is going to happen

when the curfew is lifted will be a bloodbath the people will come out then $100000.00 troops there they haven't come due has not in the mood he says he's done this do for the prosperity of kashmir this is supposed to be for the development of these 900000 troops one of they're going to do when the when the come out they'll be blood but in his speech accused india's prime minister narendra modi of fascism of pursuing an ideology of hate and racial purity drawn from hitler and mussolini in the 1930 s. he said the un must intervene to avoid conflict between 2 nuclear neighbors this is a test for the united nations you are the one who guaranteed the people of kashmir the right of self-determination. they are suffering because of that and this is the time. this is the time not to appease like in 1939

appeasement took place this is the dime to take action and number one action must be that india must live in human curfew a short while prime minister modi had conspicuously avoided any mention of kashmir which india insists is an internal matter but there was a veiled reference to what he has previously called pakistan backed terrorism in the region almost there. we belong to a country that has given the world not war but good as a message of peace and that is the reason why our voice against terrorism to alert the world about this evil brings was seriousness and outrage we believe that this is one of the biggest challenges not for any single country but for the entire world and humanity the lack of unanimity among us on the issue of terrorism dense those very principles that are the basis of the creation of the un and that is why

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