i've been 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 employees would hare . brained them when we. houseboat hotels and famous doll lakes 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 take on they have abundant 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 london 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 dublin those lawrence lee takes a look a briggs its impact on urban and rural areas right at the site has been marked down here on the site 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 mass

addictions where people are being forced out because not all middle income earners would be forced out of the city because they can't afford to live a tremendous city because of of lupo's of education which which facilitate these guys who don't pay any tax and are on their own for income i'm extract massive profits on the face these individuals behind these companies but the end of the road is the irish parliaments where a quarter of government ministers are themselves landlords politicians sympathetic to the rinses say they can get nowhere with legislation to protect the pool we have set of 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 lyme 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 work you know 607080 percent. of people's here isn't yet spent one year one of the

unions through what would you do this if you had to speak if you had to spend some lives and you know income on rent could you put a little more you know you could be forgiven if you don't bias it 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 a 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 at all 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. was a sports heroes it was a job the race people are irish national heroes they were 3 days a 3rd of a 1000000 visitors inspect the machinery and the livestock it's all in the blood. and given that 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. and the potential maybe there's

a lot of promises made some of them are still ones critically be from above given the level of indebtedness cut out. for you may find out what the british government wants to achieve at this point is vague at your 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 makes from that how to pass on checks through the irish border but nots apparently 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 it's about the irish governments and the european union the agriculture minister turned up to take questions there wasn't a single british journalist there 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 pool is processed from the public 400000 sheep consoled for his daughter i could give you a myriad of statistics so the continuation of the economy is really important to us and those politicians who represent voters around the border insist that if the u.k. can't figure out what it wants it should let irish people decide for themselves this is why people say the failure to agree on brics it could lead to a united ireland so the choices are. 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 breck'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 graeme jones 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 bricks that obviously we're working to achieve the least worst form of breaks it with pollard politics and diplomacy but arlen's 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 a 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 heartbreaks 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 our and the u.k. so the 70000000000 euros in trade that currently exists between ireland and the u.k. in the case of a of a no deal brigs it that would be radically reshaped. yes it would it in and in the case of a 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 juicy great products waiting b.d.'s that are shipped with wonderful logistics onto

supermarket shelves within hours from irish farm to fork infected be as we say that 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 heartbreaks it 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 so 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 that border i mean how important is it to get some sort of a 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 a debate if 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 firewalls out 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. parties have now agreed that it's unavoidable that would have to be removed it may take some weeks to to install but it would be a significant. impedance to the conduct of the several 100000 of that road 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 mcgrane 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 c 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 counting 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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al-jazeera. where ever you are. yemen's are the rebels say thousands of saudi backed fighters have surrendered during a military campaign in the disputed border province. and i'm 10 this is al jazeera live from also coming up the taliban carries out a series of attacks as afghans come out and vote to choose a new leader. i'll tell you about a controversial. a project that promises to bring jobs that threatens a unesco world heritage sites in kenya. we understand the risk you know it's there

it's present every time that we jump back in and daring or deathwish base jumpers take a leap of faith from one of malaysia's best known landmarks. now yemen the rebels say thousands of saudi backed fighters have surrendered during a months long military campaign that he is have been targeting the southern saudi region of now speaking at the un general assembly the foreign minister of yemen's internationally backed government used his speech to blame iran for the conflict and has country jordan has more. while most of the addresses before the u.n. general assembly have been filled with calls to save the planet or to promote economic and social harmony the yemeni foreign minister used his speech to attack those he says are responsible for plunging his country into war and. these are who

3 militias supported by iran the main sponsor of terrorism throughout the world is a run with its expansion a list of iran exploits the resources of its people in order to wage proxy war using militias which are capable of the most heinous forms of destruction and sabotage and he. could then had stepped up his rhetoric accusing tel han of trying to spread yemen's war into saudi arabia and on to the high seas. well. yemen when iran has sown heavy has wrought havoc in the arab peninsula it has created trained armed and financed militias to brandish the slogan of the iranian revolution and they haven't priced an approach based on abuse repression and torture the who things have transformed the region into a stronghold to launch rockets in order to threaten the security of neighboring states and never gave in and the ritzy. who the forces meanwhile have reversed

their decision to observe their own ceasefire instead they claimed they've made significant progress in border fighting against saudi coalition troops as well as against yemeni fighters backed by saudi arabia. thousands of the enemy forces have been captured as prisoners others were killed from among the prisoners is a large number of high ranking officers and soldiers of saudi citizenship more than 72 hours from the launch of an operation they have been destroyed imprisoned and captured. a former u.s. diplomat says with both sides intent on winning the war it's been tough for you went on boys and for regional negotiators to end a war that has led to widespread hunger disease and displacement they. are strong on the ground and they have done. in 2009

in november when the celebes 1st against them they went inside saudi border is near that measure on area and they captured both 100 warders guards. then they use them for water so i imagine here after the saudi this big not unconditionally accept their piece of them that they once again want to show. they are capable of inflicting harm. and then again in flight the a prisoner swap and peace talks when it doesn't seem as if peace talks will happen any time soon at least mohamad tommy has reminded the international community his country is still got 5 more rosslyn jordan al-jazeera the united nations. well a series of attacks as well as technical delays haven't stopped people from voting

in afghanistan's 4th presidents the election the fall of the taliban but the turnout was lower as nearly 70 attacks across the country killed 5 and injured hundreds of others voters chose from 14 candidates so it's likely to come down to just 2 men incumbent president as afghani and chief executive abdullah abdullah their results will be announced on november 7th tony about the reports from the capital. city in lock down the streets of kabul almost deserted on election day because polling stations open the biggest and tightest security operation ever in the capital was under way the taliban had warned people not to vote and it didn't take long before the group carried out its threats. encounters there were attacks around the city aimed at disrupting voting roads were blocked and lines of communication cut a mortar round was fired into the grounds of a school use a polling hospital confirmed civilians had been killed and a number were injured elsewhere the taliban launch more attacks to north of kabul

one in helmand and one in one go hard province no casualties were reported but a number of people were injured in a blast at a kandahar polling station it didn't deter some others from voting a lot of them despite all the hardships and violence we haven't lost hope we have to vote and think about future generations this is afghanistan's falls presidential election government officials maintain the use of advanced technology and highly trained personnel are making these the freest elections to date but there were reports of some polling stations failing to open and voters complaining that they hadn't been registered i came here to choose a person who can help the poor of this country but they say i'm not registered to vote it's not right for the last presidential election 5 years ago there were queues of people waiting to vote at this polling station in central kabul on saturday. it was a trickle and voting had to be extended. we'll have to see the has extended for

couple of hours we hope that people. can come out and make their choice but as well as in security people have also become disillusioned with politics in afghanistan and the broken promises in failure to tackle corruption poverty unemployment and security international aid agencies say the situation today is worse than 5 years ago though not everyone agrees there is improvements been made we cannot deny that but there are also some kurds in or taliban decrease increase their attacks you know. there are other factors that affect it there are so many other factors that affect it more and bigger taliban attacks had been expected perhaps an indicator the group may be keeping its hardline element of peace while at the same time pushing a diplomatic strategy for peace talks with the u.s. they were abruptly canceled by president trump this month the election results will be announced on november the 7th but it's not just important who wins but whether

the other candidates and all the other groups accept them and agree to work with them and in the fractured world of afghan politics that hasn't always been easy but in 2014 it only happened because of the strong arm tactics of the united states attorney berkeley al jazeera kabul and protests have been taking place outside the egyptian embassy in khartoum to demand the release of a student that handled cairo. has accused of taking part in recent anti-government demonstrations and of belonging to the muslim brotherhood an outboard group and egypt his family says he was tortured and forced to make a false confession on state television the 22 year old to egypt and august to study . in the trial of saddam's former president al the she has been delayed until next saturday following a brief court hearing this year is facing charges of corruption and looting illegal possession of foreign currency and illicit enrichment the trials 7 session was held in call to him and that heavy security. well syria's deputy prime minister has used

his address at the u.n. general assembly to demand the immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces. and said his country is open to international dialogue but not at the expense of its national integrity out of a massacre as a bonus has more from the united nations. syria's deputy prime minister walid muallem again representing his country at the un general assembly hit out at 2 nato members for their military presence in syria. and. the united states and turkey maintain an illegal military presence inside northern syria they have been so arrogant to the point of holding discussions and reaching agreements on the creation of a so-called safe zone inside syria as if they were planning to establish the zone on american or turkish soil the u.n. believes this is an important moment for syria after 8 and a half years of war at the end of october 150 delegates comprised of 3 groups

nominated by the assad government the opposition and representing civil society will meet here at u.n. headquarters in geneva under these terms of reference the committee will come up with a new constitution for syria the authority for the new committee is a u.n. security council resolution from 2015 it also calls for a free and fair elections something that hasn't happened in the country since half as the current president bashar is father sees power in 1970 s. can you guarantee to us now will be as that resolution says free and fair elections can i guarantee you that this will take place you know but as the right to stated this is part of my mandate it's very clear to stamp that stated and it's also international consensus that's the 1st take place some diplomats on the u.n. security council are extremely cynical about the assad regime's decision to support

the constant. committee at this stage they believe that their main focus is still the military operation in a blip and they're trying to keep the constitutional committee busy until they can declare a military victory james al-jazeera at the united nations now hong kong is bracing for another day of mass protests a pro beijing rally is already taking place chinese government supporters are gathering in the area of cow loon and this is all happening just 2 days before the 70th anniversary of the founding of communist china well let's get the latest from sarah clark who's in hong kong for us sara we're seeing plenty of red flags where you are what message are those demonstrators there trying to send. you this is the pro china the very patriotic pride china group that's now moved from how lou which you just mentioned where they did a tour this morning where they sang the national anthem in a number of other very patriotic songs to china have now moved to the pink which is

where we are now this is on long island this is probably one of the best known spots in hong kong certainly for terrorists and of course mainland visitors other about a 100 or so behind me they've been bussed up to this spot and they're doing it to have the on try to get their tour of hong kong trying to get their message across and this of course is in the lead up to the type of one which is a public holiday in hong kong and in china this is china's national day and on tuesday don't be celebrating the 70th anniversary of the fact of the founding of the people's republic of china so it's a very big day planned out the police will be preparing for potential clashes on that day other trying to keep the 2 groups apart that is the anti government or the pro hong kong groups and this group behind me which is the pro china but as i mentioned this.