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tv   Peter Mutharika  Al Jazeera  October 5, 2019 7:32am-8:00am +03

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the e.c.v. reaching its limits pisco policy should be even more important why when you look at the unemployment picture for example in germany it's holding up pretty well how might that change if the country heads into recession the unemployment is very low germany almost just street percent. at the same time it's also important to emphasize that labor force participation is going up which means that more and more people would like to go even those who in the past the kids didn't want to go which is a good news but either recession a number of jobs will be at risk we are hearing very bad feeders from german manufacturing and sooner or later it might lead to decrease in employment i think it is still take time even during the global crisis of 200789 german employment had quite well partly because employers moved their employees
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to 2 part i was issuance you sort of laying them off the offer than it was issues and thereby they were able to reduce. rooted out actually more people and i expect that something similar will happen. in an next recession but if so then if the recession be last long there sooner or later that you know you're in unemployment figures or right thanks so much for your faults on that. well as we move towards 5 g. mobile technology there are growing concerns that with more devices connected to the internet cyber attacks could also increase and nothing exists in isolation you see the world leader in 5 g. technology is china's while away which is at the center of that trade war between the united states and china now the u.s. believes what weighs 5 g. technology could be used by china to spy on other nations in sensitive industries protecting our ability to surf the net to use our mobile phones and apps is
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$100000000000.00 u.s. dollar a year industry it's startling that 88 percent of businesses have experienced cyber attacks in the last year and alarmingly one in 3 of been breached more than 3 times in the last year according to research by cyber security company carbon black. with the trade war a global economic slowdown and the president facing impeachment on economics and is of course top with the chief executive of carbon black he began by asking patrick morley whether the advent of 5 g. should concern us in today's world there's an arms race going on and every time a large technology moves are made there's risk because there's a whole economy around cyber security and around attacker's and 5 g. is going to provide a lot of new capabilities that's going to help a lot of companies globally and consumers globally but it same time will introduce new risks and what do those risks look like well interesting thing if you if we
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look at other large technology moves that have occurred over the last number of years what we've seen continuously is that the the 2 primary groups that are driving attacks globally which is nation states which are countries like china and russia north korea and iran as well as organized crime quickly figure out how to leverage these next moves from a technology platform standpoint in order to advance their aims whether or not those aims are to go collect information about other countries to sway a 'd geo political issues in those countries or if it's over organized crime to actually make money off of these new technology moves and so we don't exactly know how 5 g. will introduce new risks we just know it will so walk away is one of the companies which is leading the field in 5 g. technology the united states believes that one way is the back door for the chinese
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state to spy on the u.s. is that something that you agree with. well we certainly understand some of the concerns that the u.s. has stated and and we also recognize that china from an attack standpoint is driving a lot of the attacks as to whether or not wall way actually has those back doors or not we haven't actually done the research to be able to say that but we certainly understand that there's concerns coming out of the political connection to the economic drivers that china has and obviously while weight provides a lot of the infrastructure globally right now for countries and and so we certainly take. the point of view that the u.s. must have some insight but we can't comment on it ourselves and you know you mentioned china there are a lot says one of the leading nations where it's had a coming from but does the u.s.
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use similar methods against the chinese state. well what we do know is that there are a number of attacks that come out of the u.s. as well most of those in our research are actually from an organized crime standpoint and they're also from what's called an island hopping standpoint which is other countries using the u.s. as a launching point for attacks we also know given some of what's occurred across the globe over the last few years that the u.s. leverage is techniques as well from an attack standpoint. and as to whether or not they're attacking china or not again when we look at what what we're seeing across the globe we can't comment specifically whether or not their government generated attacks coming out of the u.s. but we certainly see attacks coming from the u.s. and what ways integral to president trumps trade war with china. what's the impact on u.s.
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businesses from that trade will well certainly what we've all seen is that there's concerns across the globe. all a commie on the trade war happening right now it's not just the us that's impacted it's countries across the globe companies across the globe are all interwoven today and certainly you know there's recognition that the ongoing trade war right now is not necessarily good for any of the global economies whether in the those are the u.s. economy chinese economy or other colonies across the globe and when it comes to president trump himself as well we have a president who isn't afraid of calling out company c.e.o.'s or companies or the fed chairman. and he's now possibly facing impeachment how does that affect businesses. uncertainty causes concern across global markets and for business leaders across the globe you have to ask yourself what the potential impacts are to
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you and to your company and what we see from an attack standpoint. from a cyber security standpoint is all of this uncertainty again creates opportunities for nation state attackers to leverage what's happening inside of different countries across the globe to drive their own agenda the political instability that's created by. by the impeach possible impeachment process is that healthy for the economy and it's a distraction for businesses well i think certainly any time there's question marks about the government in particular about the president it does call and it calls risk from for business leaders within that country and certainly we see a bit of that the u.s. having said that in the u.s. right now trump has been very aggressive about his willingness to call call out different organizations etc so i think the u.s.
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economy at least right now is a bit used to it. wildfires are still burning in brazil's amazon forests prompting a warning from some scientists that escalating deforestation could eventually turn the rainforest into a dry savanna despite present. caving in the pressure and placing a 60 day ban on fires for clearing farmland wildfires are only just slightly down from the highest number in a decade the saying there were reports from the state of matter grosso. 60 year old agronomist. walks to the charred remains of his land for the 1st time since fire destroyed it all. these were my seedling beads 4 years of work he would grab to do it and it smelled differently it had life now it's ash. but governor will applied a sustainable system without artificial fertilisers only native species to make the
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land more productive. but all his work to grow his 1st pineapples sugarcane fruit trees and corn went up in smoke in just a few minutes he says that filmed this video on september 7th just before he had to run to save himself. he describes what's left as a prelude to total dysart if occasion. the characteristic of this next of forest is its ability to survive decades of fires but with every new fire it becomes more degraded in smaller until it withers away and the only thing left is it does it. last month the number of wildfires in the amazon tripled compared to the previous year and as elsewhere here in the most impacted state they continue spreading until a week ago all this looked like a kind of in chanted forest what scientists call an environmental corridor with
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more than 100 native species and not just trees but also animals like wild deer armadillos wars poulos and many many more are the fires have destroyed all this in some cases were accidental in others intentional but in all cases they were manmade . the mato grosso state environmental department argues that the number of fires is relative. compared to $28.00 tame which was a rainy year the amount of deforestation will double this year yet if you compare it to other years it's quite everett's nothing extraordinary. but that's not. vale says she's lived in the area for 20 years and says her family never experienced anything close to and wildfires came right up to their doorstep they survived by a miracle she says. i'm very frightened still too afraid to even go to work because i don't want to leave the house and my family alone it's generous. she's
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right to be worried the temperatures have been hovering at nearly $43.00 degrees for weeks the start of the rainy season is at least a month away and even that won't guarantee that this vital tropical forest will be out of the danger to sea and human i'll just see that shot blathered be let out a swimmer is ill argentina is tapping into its shale oil resources to try and find a way out of its economic troubles with michael moore at a basin in patagonia is said to be the 2nd largest shale oil development in the world throws about reports of the and the vacuum one of the shale for mation in argentina by their own year is home to some of the largest unconventional oil and gas deposits in the world. even though it was 1st discovered a century ago exploration and development in the area began recently and it has changed the life of a new low as mall tell located in the province of no can forever. game to
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find work she says thousands of others are doing the same. there is a real state deficit not only companies are bringing people to work here but there are others who come to find work because there is full employment here my grandson found a job in a few days that doesn't happen anywhere else in the country the oil and gas industries booming here and companies from around the world are flocking to walk on water which means dead cow in spanish it all q 4 provinces in the country covering an area of 30000 square kilometers. of the remains largely untapped and that's why argentina needs for incompetence to help explore and exploiting this area but the current economic crises and government policies oppose a major challenge to this area that if well developed could help solve argentina's endemic economic problems last month that government announced that contracts would
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be paid at a set exchange rate far weaker than the market rate it also froze an increase in the price of fuel for $90.00 days now it authorized this morning crease but companies investing here i worried and some have in their operations he said is the leader of the powerful workers' labor union he says i'm one of the meets predictability. in this activity there cannot be uncertainty you need to give clear steps this business needs to be run like everywhere else in the world why do we have to be different we all have this wealth and should be able to generate job stability we want to create legislation that the guy who is in power in argentina they cannot be changed in detail the business needs to be run by development in this area comes with a cost to get the oil and gas out companies use fracking last year greenpeace told and british dutch group shell of dumping highly toxic waste threatening
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wildlife and human health. the extraction of oil and gas is not ecological we have to begin with it has an impact on the environment and the residues of what they extract and up somewhere we have to develop more plants to deal with these residues and even more investment in these areas we have to mitigate the impact of future generations. is in desperate need of funds and he's one of the ways it has to get but only a serious long term government plan is what will guarantee that what is extracted here will change argentina's future for good. and that's our show for this week but remember you can get in touch with us via twitter use the hash tag a j c t c when you do. counting the cost. is our address there's more for you online at al-jazeera dot com slash. that'll take you straight to our page which has
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against president obama from. microsoft as an iranian hacking group has targeted accounts linked to the 2020 us presidential election but. most writers in hong kong by a government ban on face masks as they confront police once again. an iraqi prime minister says a curfew on the capital will be lifted at 5 am local time on saturday after hundreds of demonstrators defied the lockdown for a 4th day of violent protests at least 50 people have been killed since press has began 4 days ago there is anger over corruption poverty and lack of basic services and for acts most powerful politicians been taught all saddam has call for the government to resign and whole snap elections and iran contra ports. protesters take cover under a bridge in central baghdad as gunshots ring out scenes like these have led to strong political reaction religious leaders and politicians are taking the protest
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movement seriously. imo the speaker of the parliament mohamed i'll do see is now publicly backing the movement. well and we must pay tribute to all the young heroes whose weapons were their words to convey their message to all the institutions of the iraqi state for the need to proceed with the real reform and the need to pay attention to the people's livelihood influential shia cleric look how to also that also issued a statement saying that the government should be dissolved and new elections held the iraqi prime minister of the law the appealed for calm but his words are seemingly having little effect that have been made promises by the prime minister are to fool the people and they are firing live gunshots and us this was a peaceful protest they set up these barricades and the sniper sitting right there since last night grand ayatollah ali al sistani issued a letter which was read out by his representative. now and then we hope that the
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voices of reason and logic can prevail for the best interests of the country all the officials have the responsibility to make the right decisions to move forward everyone should be aware of the danger of excessive violence before it is too late . the government says it's listening. the protesters demands and will hold an emergency session on saturday one of the main political books also issued a statement saying the government must implement sweeping reforms within 10 days other political blocks of boycotts at the problem and recession saying it doesn't have an agenda it can implement. the crisis that. the age of the protesters has surprised many in iraq but with the young unemployed generation it's perhaps unsurprising the frustration has turned to anger and anger and violence the trend seems to be that the protests are intensifying and and
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certainly they will they will continue i think one question is whether the are brain celebrations or professions coming up might have some effect on breaking the momentum but certainly the there is a lot of momentum behind these protests. in baghdad there are checkpoints every few 100 meters and mobile patrols drive through the streets tension on the streets remains high several countries of war next it isn't against travel to iraq neighboring iran has shut 2 of its main border crossings with the country and the united nations has said that the government must open a dialogue with the protesters but given no protest leaders have emerged it's unclear who will open that dialogue with iran carve out as iraq baghdad while hot is a wagner fellow at the washington institute he joins us via skype from washington d.c. we appreciate your time so much so yes it seems that the curfew will eventually be
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lifting but what do you make of the heavy handed approach by the government so far . in fact you know the most surprising element of these protests because the stuff is very peaceful but the government was very quick to use the very heavy handed approach as you said and that's quickly escalated the size of the intensity of the protests and they won. only one person was killed but by today the number that number has risen to 40 4 'd and 56 depending on different reports so it seems that violence begets violence and. 2 they think that that was you know found a way. to fight with the government actions so far and you think that in some way is going to further motivate the protesters the fact that people are dying. i believe that was the calm given the granddad philosophy on his hopes but only one
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hand and waiting for the leadership to see what kind of action they will take but the what's the sermon by bike run at the last sunny. manage to quiet the post but on social media i'm increasingly seeing coal for how inadequate the response has been on the one hand but also the speech by the iraqi leadership including the prime minister himself has not been adequately reassuring the protesters of immediate reforms and changes that they need to see in their lives this is basically a systemic failure this is a put 2003 iraqi political system where the politically depends on sharing power across a broad basic and ethnic parties on the other hand the economy is dependent on oil so the patronage of the corruption has seen its course and the government and able to hire more people while the population keeps growing half of the budget of 2019
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which is a $111000000000.00 is going to be paying wages and yet the public is not happy so the way out is serious economic reforms but at this point i think the protesters are fed up and distrustful of any other form promises and they probably one more serious and drastic changes and of course reform takes time we all know that but that's easy for us to say from the outside looking in so what what can you see realistically happening happening in neeley i mean i don't think snap elections are going to happen what can you see actually happening. one of the lection is one thing that. the populous political figure cleric mustered out so that has asked for . so that is a possibility in itself probably if the government wants to alleviate these pressures the 1st thing you would need to do is to find and prosecute those security officers who shot that the civilians there are many corruption cases
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before the government hasn't taken action on perhaps cracking down on some visible elements of corruption that the iraqi public deals with their daily bases and perhaps some reconstruction and and infrastructure projects that would create jobs are too nice for the use these might be some believe in the short term but obviously in the long term it's about reforming the political system where these political parties in power aren't able to just with put to use them solves this by some faceless on one hand but also fundamentally changing the nature of the economy so that the private sector can emerge where the job creation machinery can actually . actually will forward and be able to absorb the number of youths who actually do not even remember saddam hussein the opened their eyes and that this new regime which doesn't make sense to them it's a rich country but they see only poverty around themselves. thank you so much with
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the washington institute appreciate it to be with you. u.s. house democrats have subpoena the white house for documents related to the president's impeachment and donald trump says he will walk whopper ate with the end koreans will house representatives vote to approve the investigation this comes as a release text messages show just how much you crane's president was under pressure to investigate trump's political rival castro as more from washington d.c. and i want to think you it appears ukrainian leaders clearly understood what president trump meant when he spoke with the ukrainian president by phone in july and asked for a favor the favor was a ukrainian investigation into trump's political rivals at home the payoff an invitation for president volodymyr zelinsky to visit the white house and the evidence one day before the call kurt volker the former u.s. special envoy to ukraine sends a text message his alinsky aide heard from white house will her rights assuming
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president z. convinces trump he will investigate get to the bottom of what happened in 2016 we will nail down date for a visit to washington then after the call ukrainian official andre your mac tells us diplomats once we have a date will call for a press briefing announcing among other things and election meddling in investigations bryza is the gas company linked to the son of former u.s. vice president joe biden the text messages released by house investigators show u.s. diplomats and tribes personal attorney rudy giuliani continuing to pressure ukraine to draft a statement announcing an investigation but none was released then in late august the ukrainians learned of trump's decision to withhold nearly $400000000.00 in u.s. military assistance the u.s. ambassador to ukraine bill taylor appeared incredulous texting i think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with
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a political campaign the response came from ordinance on land away. wealthy hotelier and trump donor who was appointed ambassador to the e.u. i believe you are incorrect about president trump's intentions he writes the president has been crystal clear no quid pro quos of any kind there is no bro whoa that was the fact that what i saw about all of either that text defending trump came just as the u.s. media was catching wind of a whistleblower report accusing trump of wrongdoing in his call with the ukrainian president that's what's launched the impeachment inquiry now targeting the president democrats heard from another witness friday the intelligence community inspector general who investigated the whistleblower report we have evidence of text messages between state department officials expressing concern as early as may that rudy giuliani had a jew there was
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a giuliani biting thing going on that had concerned a state department official we have evidence that a state department official was concerned that there was a linkage between security assistance and as he described a domestic political campaign democrats are trying to build a compelling case for impeachment not only to convince the american public but also senate republicans it would take a swell of republican de factors to remove trump from office and thus far there's only been a trickle. castro al-jazeera capitol hill and out of washington d.c. rollin fisher is joining us live so alan through any number of investigations that the president has actually been the focus of even before the impeachment inquiry is .

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