targets hit by a hacking group linked to the iranian government the reuters news agency says attempts to access his accounts were i'm successful microsoft has confirmed that hundreds of accounts were targeted by the group known as phosphorous they include those of current and former us government officials journalists and prominent iranians living abroad possible hain has more from washington d.c. this is a pretty unusual move but it shows how much things have changed for tech companies since the 2016 election microsoft making this announcement saying for the 1st time in this new election cycle that they believe a foreign government backed hackers try to get access to a presidential campaign now they're not saying exactly which campaign and again this is microsoft alleging iran's involvement without actually providing any proof but the allegation is that it wasn't just the presidential campaign it was former and current government officials journalists prominent iranians in america and they said it wasn't a very sophisticated attack of the almost 2700 people they tried to identify what

their e-mails were they were able they say to target about 241 of those people but only succeeded in 4 attack 4 accounts being hacked and microsoft says none of those were government officials or the presidential campaign still it does send a message that things are different this time around and tech companies are sending the message to hackers especially those associated they believe with governments that they're not going to stay quiet don't do this for us democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders so you had a heart attack and here this week sanders seen here leaving a hospital after receiving treatment canceled all campaign events off to suffering chest pains on choose day the 78 year old was treated for a blocked artery. still ahead on al-jazeera the highlights from the world athletics championships including a golden night for. i

know that pensive clouds and showers across much of indonesia 1st of all borneo we've got to some fairly have to. and then it does tend to care but the rain is very much the 4 calls over the next couple of days and a bit lighter across sunday across into pseudo se and also through much of similar show that as we head through monday those rains becoming fairly extensive set in across them on a peninsula and again boy are some heaviest rain sunday through those central areas as full strain and no real heavy rain here just where of course we could do with that maybe some coastal showers over the next couple of days a massive cloud working its way across the great bite this is certainly cool things down into adelaide out imagine that 19 is far preferable to 33 of a couple of days ago 27 in melbourne they so warm ahead of that system the rain pushing across into by monday it does cool down here as well 17 degrees very nice in sydney with 25 celsius and warming up again in perth with

a high of 27 and then across to new zealand we have got more rain showers in your forecast for any kind of conditions as well well of a sudden all fall in 16 degrees in oakland on sunday and then by monday no real change the time to that but it does warm up ahead of the next system in christchurch the rain showers pushing in a bit later in the day. i'm counting the cost germany's heading for recession well i'm going to moscow put aside their concerns about that to stimulate the economy farmers and brazil's amazon fair their livelihoods are on the fight and the billions of dollars in black gold locked away in patagonia. counting the cost and i'll just say. well we know that yes nah i mean yes yes. i mean yes.

you're watching out there a reminder of our top stories this hour iraq has lifted a curfew in baghdad and other areas which have seen days of violent protests at least 73 people have been killed holding an emergency session to discuss the protests to. protest this gathered in central hong kong despite a rail shutdown and calls to council demonstrations covering them faces in defiance of a mass ban imposed by the city's lead. us house democrats have subpoenaed the white

house for documents related to the president's impeachment inquiry but donald trump says he won't cooperate until the house of representatives votes to approve the investigation. at least 10 people are reported to have been killed in a grenade attack in indian administered kashmir it comes exactly 2 months after new delhi revoked the region's special status meanwhile hundreds of people in pakistani administered kashmir are marching towards the unofficial border to protest against india's actions in the territory indian administered kashmir has been under a complete lockdown since new delhi took away a ton of me and arrested local politicians. the capital of pakistani administered kashmir. liberation front which is also a political organization and i claim on both sides of the line of control also known as the line of their white house and all of their suborder are marching

towards the line of control their town made to cross and they said they want to go to syria not go now the problem is for the pakistani security forces they get in order to let that happen because of the tense situation between india and pakistan command quote course of this rally if there is so solid data date with the people of fresh meat to. reject and condemn the brutal oppression by indian security forces inside indian administered kashmir and cards to send a signal to the international community that the people of kashmir now in a state of lockdown for 60 long days without food and medicine. participating in this. country. the. last 2 months. with.

people that we are with them they are not alone we will stand by them and fight. until we get free from any and. we want freedom. we are not one of the decision of this be this is not the 100 should be so there's a lot of excitement and also tension in the air jake left it also led by arsene my leg where he's been arrested by the indian or charged and there are also serious concerns about it. and these. people at bank that they want to condemn the atrocities of the indian security forces inside indian administered kashmir and they also want to send a strong signal to the international community too bad tension for the plight of

bush media people. covering the president has ordered the release of his main political rival opposition leader maurice come to who was jailed in january for organizing protests that order came as a national dialogue aimed at ending a separatist conflict wrapped up cameron's english speaking regions have been fighting for 3 years to break away from the french majority on thursday announced the release of more than 330 people i'm a dangerous has more from day. the national dollar conference has made recommendations that include the do some for legislation of such an active just for example regions will have more revenues to run their day to day activities as well as execute projects and then the locals will be able eventually to vote their own officials including governors instead of those officials being appointed by the federal government then there is also the establishment of traditional rulers councils to establish or to empower local administrations in the day to day running

of affairs of the people now the main opposition as well as analysts said the recommendations of course are an important step to a stabilizing couple there are factions that have harbors so more deep seated hatred that it may never be possible to convince them but these now look must not overlook that there are pockets of grievances across the country people who have never actually been if they have never felt included in the process now a lot of people are watching closely what this will mean to the great group will encourage rebels for example who have already indicated that they're not happy with their recommendations especially the issue of autonomy to the regions saying that what they were looking for independence now but government officials as well as key opposition figures are saying that this is an important 1st step whether or not chemical builds on that is

a different matter altogether president donald trump has signed a proclamation preventing immigrants who cannot afford health care from entering the u.s. those seeking asylum must now show that they can afford medical costs or get health insurance within 30 days of their arrival trump says the move will save american citizens money. u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe is in greece to sign a new defense agreement the deal will establish a new u.s. base near the turkish border it comes as turkey which like greece is a nato member develops closer relations with moscow that includes its controversial purchase of the russian s $400.00 missile system john psaropoulos has more from athens. u.s. and greek officials are hailing this visit as the high point of greek u.s. relations and it's true that we have not before seen greece sign an open ended mutual defense cooperation agreement which is what's expected to happen in the foreign ministry behind me in the coming hours that agreement won't have to be

renewed every year and it won't have to be ratified by parliament which suggests that both sides see the defense relationship as broadening and deepening from what we've learned it involves an investment by u.s. armed forces and their contractors in their defense infrastructure throughout the country an. expansion of the u.s. 6 fleets base port at souda bay in crete the establishment of a helicopter base in the north eastern greek city of alexandria police strategically placed very near the turkish border and other joint defense programs there is of course the element of u.s. turkey relations as well that is assisting the growth of this u.s. greek relationship in both energy and defense u.s. turkey relations have famously been souring partly over disagreements in syria and partly over the turkish decision to purchase a russian defense missile system the as for hundreds in favor of taking possession

of u.s. 5th generation f. $35.00 fighter jets clearly the u.s. is still very much invested in turkey it's still very sees turkey as its most strategic ally in the middle east but this reinvestment in the u.s. greek relationship sends a signal that the u.s. is in trenching itself here as a backstop should things get worse in its relationship with turkey. the un special rapporteur who investigated the murder of journalist has again heads down to the saudi crown prince agnes says by hamad bin salman khan take responsibility for the killing while also blaming others she made the comments in an op-ed in the washington post asked the newspaper she worked for when he was killed just over a year ago when the saudi calls that in istanbul kalamata once again stated that the crown prince's ultimately responsible for the murder. more protests are expected in haiti where people are demanding president joven elbow eased his

resignation friday's monch was the largest in any food or weeks of protests in which 17 people have reportedly been killed opposition leaders of the international community to withdraw support from morey's. now scientists have been studying the my great tree roots of home but wales and other marine species off the coast of french guyana in the atlantic ocean part of that research involves listening to sounds deep underwater at the site of a new leaf discovered reef system nick cluck takes a rare listen in his report from the region. early morning on the esperanza scanning the waters for signs of life on the surface or positions on the ship a manned and they don't have to wait long away a list spotted blowing the boats alongside the team heads out on to the water melon headed whales ride the power wave as they go all part of the rich biodiversity of these waters the team want to. carry man christophe schwager jumps and there are

extraordinary encounters to be had here it's murky because of the enormous outflow of the amazon river further down the coast but it is a bright swell that emerges out of the gloom this whole region is a migrate 3 route for whales sea turtles and other marine species it is a field day for the scientists aboard the esperanza don't count if you know. we made our 1st expedition in 2008 looking at megafauna but this was by air so this is a follow up on the 1st aerial study it's a very interesting this area is virgin territory there are very few places like this on earth and something quite special this is a hydrophone a piece of equipment that record sounds in water. and that is a song that humpback whale. we now

know this is a feeding and the breeding ground for the species. is haunting song a means of communication between individuals. in the coming months all the science gathered on board from surface to sea bed will be closely underlined giving an unprecedented understanding of marine life in an ocean flight like we have behind us is that it and that oceans there is a lot of life and there's more life than we expected that biodiversity is a source of richness for our planet and for us and we have to be here to preserve it really to to maintain it not true just think all this is this is far away we don't care really we'll we'll think about that later on now taking on many environmental and climate crisis is a battle on many fronts not least that of the ocean but the thing is scientists want to explore and document all companies want to come and drill and these polar extremes are replicated across the climate debate isn't it really all about how one

sees what lies beneath all the reserves worth billions or healthy ocean ecosystems and the wonder of life in all its great biodiversity clark al-jazeera off the coast of french guyana. host nation qatar is celebrating its 1st gold medal at the world athletics championships in doha. successfully defended his high jump title on the night that also saw a weld wreck or broken. leg house that will the action was in the sights sounds and cotton i've been praying for i home town hero my jumper mortality it's the basha in full flight after recovering from an to say dream last year haven't come close to elimination the qatari create to meet this 37 i was it was something none of his drivers could match i had meant bosh and became

the 1st man to successfully defend the high jump title to world championship everyone that i was there my family friends and old people of. all the support i wasn't really ready but that they did that they are the real champions they lift me up today it's just amazing really i have nothing to say they are the champions you can ask them. american to leila mohamad treated fans of the pack khalifa international stadium to a new world record. the 29 year old winning the 400 metres hurdles in 52.16 seconds that's 4 hundreds of 2nd better than the mark she set herself in july i'm hama's gold adding to her limp it title from rio 2016 i. stayed. off the show on a miller we both missed out on gold in the women's 400 meters i believe in god they gave behavior found something to cheer about in the men's event he blew away the

competition to win the final and 43.48 seconds and take home the gold medal i the closest finish of the night came in the men's 3000 meter steeple chase defending champion princess and skip to toe with kenya. ethiopian teenager let me back to the night after an agonizing wait it was keep the route i got the. cuban braves came out on top in the women's discus final with a throat $69.00 to the title and still had an american crown one in august and should be looking to add more gold to the collection and next year's tokyo olympics so he'll manic. on the volga with the headlines on al-jazeera iraq has lifted

a curfew in baghdad and other areas which have seen days of violent protests at least $93.00 people have been killed and more than $4000.00 injured parliament is holding an emergency session to discuss the protesters to moms imran khan has more from baghdad. where there was an incredible amount of criticism from all aspects of iraqi society when the curfew was brought into place this wasn't just a night telling curfew this was a curfew that had no seeming end lost it for 48 hours in the end the cost of the economy people can get to work they can get to offices they couldn't move around the city was enormous it was never a long term or even a short or even a medium term solution to iraq's crisis so the government had little choice but to actually lift it so they can get baghdad moving protesters have gathered in central hong kong despite calls to council demonstrations on saturday and the closure of the territories rail system that covering their faces in defiance of

a mass ban imposed by the city's. u.s. house democrats have subpoenaed the white house for documents related to the president's impeachment inquiry but donald trump says he won't cooperate until the house of representatives votes to approve the investigation. earlies 10 people are reported to have been injured in a grenade attack in indian administered kashmir become exactly 2 months after new delhi revoked the region's special status meanwhile hundreds of people in pakistani administered kashmir are marching towards the unofficial border to protest against india's actions in the territory. camarines president paul beer has ordered the release of his main political rival opposition leader morris come to i was jailed in january for organizing protests but order came as a national dialogue aimed at ending a separatist conflict wrapped up cameron's english speaking regions have been fighting for 3 years to break away from the french majority

well those are the headlines the news continues here on our just after counting the costs make sure you stay with us for now. with a record number of nominations the world waits to see 2019 well peace prize the nobel committee will announce the winner on friday al-jazeera has been awarded exclusive international rights to interview the way now to the board sam december the nobel prize announces the. hello i'm sammy's a that this is counting the cost of al-jazeera the weekly look at the world of business and economics this week germany heading for a recession well i'm going to merkel put aside their concerns about that and splash the cash this stimulate the economy. the worst wildfires in decades and the rising

threat of that's a terrific ation farmers in the amazon fear their livelihoods around the threat. of dollars in black gold along the way in patagonia could help end argentina's economic problems but does the country have a plan to satisfy oil explorers and environmentalist. germany is europe's engine of growth right now its splattering though and could slip into recession finds itself caught in the middle of the u.s. president's trade war with china that's hurting global growth and as one of the world's leading exporters it's one track that can't escape or vats tips german industry which accounts for a 5th of its economy into recession and unemployment is holding up at almost wreck hold levels that's just one positive for the economy and has also been running

budget surpluses over the last 5 years and has enough headroom to stimulate the economy but chancellor angela merkel isn't willing to travel down that road the mccain goes to the heart of the country's problems. the production line is a busy place these cars will be on the road very soon helping drive the german economy as they themselves are driven and yet for some time their overall direction of travel has been worrying the construct is under god as a car making country with high export numbers germany is facing considerable challenges the politicians need to take urgent steps to strengthen the country as an industrial location again particularly on the international stage we need rapid consistent implementation not long discussions one complicating factor for manufacturers is their commitment to low and eventually no emission vehicles part of a revolution in thinking whose cost implications are considerable discussion if you

would the world. as if. yes some. just in this. journey it's what i feel much better my. job. because assembling an electric car takes 30 percent less work than does a conventionally powered one some models on the market today have more than $100.00 fewer working parts than petrol powered alternatives all of which worries trades unions a glance at the figures shows the scale of the problem last year vehicles represented almost 17 percent of all german export revenue amounting to more than $263000000000.00 in the 1st half of this year overall germany exported more than $750000000000.00 worth of goods down to 6 point one percent compared to the same

period one year earlier but in one key economic indicator the situation is more rosy unemployment is at its lowest since 1980 such figures give confidence to germany. political leaders who recognize potential recession is close at hand and are willing to consider some kind of stimulus package one as mine as it is there's a constant stream it with solid financial foundation as we are in a position to counter an economic crisis with many many billions of euros if one actually breaks in germany and europe will really do it there because it's come there she and i cannot mix an active policy against the crisis is it about jobs mostly that yes. what or what makes the carmakers predicament standout is that other areas of the transport industry are still growing as in berlin with the increasing number of east scooters and electric mopeds one firm says its experience

has been very positive you can apply the service to every big city where the needs of an easy and more flexible transportation is there. since the beginning was started in 2016 with balances then we expanded every year and one new city except this year 2019 we expanded in our active cities with 500 just person. other industries also expanding such as in construction where turnover in building completion work was up almost 5 percent in the 2nd quarter of this year on the same period last year and the number of people employed in construction was up 1.4 percent on last year which explains perhaps why at least in public ministers are upbeat about. exams what's most important of course is that the state's total debt is on the decline so the clout to this yes will follow below 60 percent

of g.d.p. this means that for the 1st time since 2002 germany will stick to the upper limit of the masters treaty what's noticeable is that public perception of the threat of recession has not grown yet analysts say the absence of negative indicators is the reason i have a hard when see when you look at the economic expectations it's clear that consumers see a rising risk for recession at the same time they don't see any direct effect on themselves yet they believe their consumption can remain unchanged as a 2nd which allows the major mostly manufacturers to continue to hawk their way as as here in the frankfurt motor show at b.m.w. they say the risk of recession is not something they worry too much about well we're actually doing quite well in the german market so with our new products we are gaining market share in the german market so in that sense we are actually

quite optimistic we see a positive impact of our new vehicles and yet the underlying reality is that overall the car industry here is proving less popular abroad for 2 years the trend of export sales has been downward and explains why this is the one part of the german economy where alarm bells on now ringing dominic cain al-jazeera speak. well joining me now via skype from brussels is out of us he's a senior fellow at bruegel good to have you with us so should the german government be considering a stimulus package right now. the german economy shows very serious signs of weakening and in particular eurozone economy and orders from the eurozone and also he car so i seemed it would be indeed a time to consider some fiscal stimulus in germany this would also be motivated by

defect that in the past 7 or 8 years germany or these had a much better budget position than planned so the order is somehow other than the budget that is but it turned out to be better it means that germany has a lot of fiscal space and i see it should use this fiscal space now to be a stimulus to germany and that would also benefit that asked of the euro area for a talk about how to use that fiscal space then business is often complain about the poor infrastructure do you think that's an obstacle the growth of the government should be addressing with that fiscal space yes the number of reports which look at public infrastructure and many of these reports indicate that there are major investment needs there so clearly public infrastructure is one avenue on the other avenue would be to providing tax breaks for investment because investment is very low in germany so anything that can stimulate affleck investment and also private

investment but very much welcome there's always a question of how far you go in using any fiscal space do you think the government should give up on the balanced budget rule that it's been following that a more fundamental question with the current balance budget rule public debt of germany will be used to very very low levels. now the most recent forecasts of the i.m.f. suggest that gross public debt and g.d.p. in germany will decline to just about 40 percent in tente 24 hour which is barely below the masti 60 percent where you and i think a country like germany could afford having a larger public debt and also there are major investment needs at least for the transition to a carbon neutral economy so i saying that the budget rule should be considerate and

much more forceful investment program need to be implemented in germany that's interesting and when you when you listen to not only what you're saying there about what the outgoing head of the european central bank mario drug has been talk about when he said you know central governments need to do more is it in the kit is that really the european central bank is at the limits of its sort of policy abilities or more needs to fall on national governments in europe going forward i think so on the e.c.b. has slightly kind of that was its rate from minus 0.4 minus 0.5 percent to 10 hours that it feel resume government want purchases of only $20000000000.00 euro spend months which is just one force of the amount the mass the amount the e.c.b. perches in 2016 so clearly the e.c.v. is reaching the limits of its monetary actions and now i think even before i

mean many many years ago in my view fiscal policy should have taken a much more stronger or in supporting the euro eurozone economy but especially now when the e.c.b. reaching its limits fiscal 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 see 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 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 to 2 part i was issuance you sort of laying them off the offer than it was a chance and thereby you 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 the last long there sooner or later that you know you're in unemployment figures or right thanks so much for your thoughts 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 while 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 a $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 its 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 you 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 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

'd 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 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 lots as one of the leading nations where it's had some coming from but does the u.s. 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 there are 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. businesses from that trade will. well certainly what we've all seen is that there's concerns across the global economy on the trade war happening right now it's not just the u.s. 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 or not 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

business the. uncertainty causes concern across global markets and for business leaders across the globe busy you have to ask yourself what the potential impacts are to 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. 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 or years of work he would grab to do it and it smelled differently it had life now it's ash.

but gabrielle applied a sustainable system without artificial fertilisers only needed species to make the 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 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 2018 which was a rainy year the amount of deforestation will double this year if you compare it to other years it's quite everett's nothing extraordinary. but that's not really the veil says she's lived in the area for 20 years and says her family never experienced anything close to an 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 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 you and i just see that shot by that they'd 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 at the 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 one year low as mall tel located in the province of no can forever. game to 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. 4 provinces in the country covering an area of 30000 square kilometers one 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 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 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 group shell of dumping highly toxic waste threatening wildlife and human health. the extraction of oil and gas is not ecological we have to begin with that 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 of al-jazeera dot that 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 individual reports links and entire episodes for you to catch up on . for this edition of counting the cost i'm sorry say that from the whole team here thanks for joining us. international trade with your support of having free trade would not change your money or the japanese or chinese dogs or germany controversial immigration policies that anyone who has a well founded euro persecution should be able to calm him as a wolf minister from syria he's closed the door to syrian refugees like a buffalo maybe his son goes head to head with senior trump advisor stephen moore this year the trump deficit crossed a trillion dollars you will be urging everyone not to reelect him will show up well

no i'm not cut out and go 0. al-jazeera. and for you. coming. up. this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian for the get this is the live from doha coming up in the next 60

minutes iraq's parliament set to discuss how to stop days of anti-government protests that have killed at least 93 people. more protests in hong kong after a night of violence forces the city to shut down its rail services. u.s. democrats subpoena the white house for documents related to their impeachment inquiry but the president says he won't cooperate and. i'm a clown reporting from the waters off the coast of french crown brighter than my great tree roots of wales and other marine species has been listening to the sounds of the. live from the national stadium is the big night post the wall and it's championships home favorite. sending the fans into a frenzy he retains his wall the high jump title. we

begin in iraq where at least $93.00 people have been killed in 5 days of anti-government protests there's widespread anger against corruption and a lack of basic services including clean water access to education meanwhile the government has lifted a curfew in baghdad and parliament is expected to address the crisis shortly let's go live now to baghdad and a series among con is so what parliament due to meet shortly how likely is it that it will be able to come up with some sort of solution to this crisis. lose the connection. i'm not sure if i'm still asked so i'm just going to keep talking what we're expecting see in the next coming hour is the pollen meant to meet there's a question mark however whether the pollen and we'll actually convene a session because a number of the political parties haven't been able to come to the parliament because they've simply suspended their membership they say that actually this

session doesn't have enough of an agenda to discuss and therefore they don't see a right to meet the protesters demands. 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 taking the protest movement seriously but. the speaker of the parliament mohamed whole b.c. 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 worked out also that it 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 out 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 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. i think says of violence before the student . the government says it's listening to 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 ok implement. it quickly. the age of the protesters has surprised many in iraq but with a young unemployed generation it's perhaps unsurprising that frustration has turned to anger and anger and violence the trend seems to be that the protests are intensifying and and 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. despite back a few the protests didn't start off but curfews now been lifted in baghdad at least what's going to happen now. well what we're looking forward to it here in baghdad

is a day of politics the emergency session of parliament is going to meet adrian this question mark as to whether they'll be able to convene 2 of the biggest political blocs have boycotted that parliamentary session they say that the government doesn't have an agenda it can implement so therefore they don't want to go to the parliament session if there are not enough members of parliament they can't convene the session so that session is due to start in about an hour's time but this will play into the hands of the protesters who say it's not about this government or previous governments it's about the system of governance that is the problem they've lost faith in the ability of iraq to change anything because of the way the government is set up so again we're seeing a day of politics it was lots of reaction as you heard in the reports there from various people but none of that seems to be quelling the protest as indeed the anger still seems to be rising in fact we've been seeing small batches all

protestors not just here in baghdad but across the south of the country as well and that's likely to build as we've seen in the last few days it's always late in the evening when those protests really reach critical mass and as iran can report and live from baghdad iran many thanks protests continuing in hong kong on saturday but the numbers are much smaller than we've seen in the past hundreds of people demonstrating against a recent ban on face masks despite the march being cancelled by its organizers it was called off because the city's transport authorities took the unprecedented step of shutting down hong kong's rail network because of what they called malicious variable isn't on friday some protesters set fire to metro stations during rallies against the face covering laws that were brought in by chief executive kerry lamb. let's go live to hong kong al-jazeera scott heide is the forest so scott this is

the 1st day of the face mosque band it's been relatively quiet as i couldn't say why is that scott but i think we know with the metro stations being shot. that 2 of the age in this this community is so reliant on those m.t.r. train networks that that is definitely one of the reasons why we're seeing a quiet day but as you can see behind me a lot of the shops smaller shops and large shopping malls have closed for today that is because they were anticipating a bigger rally and after we saw the violence on friday they were concerned about that so they preemptively shut the shops and the malls and it's very instant as this is the one cha area of hong kong which would normally be teeming on an early saturday evening as you can see it is not what's going to be happening moving forward we really don't know what's going to happen on sunday just yet there are some plans that have been laid out but also what's been interesting throughout the day you know the word came out kind of mid-morning that the protest organizers called off some marches and rallies they had today is interesting because it seems

as though the word didn't get to everybody so quickly there was one small small or i should say march still several 1000 people the kind of march through this neighborhood and deeper into central hong kong that dissipated pretty quickly and there are pockets of other small protests that went on police were called out but nothing like we've seen over the last 48 hours aging for certain but right now as you can see pretty calm here all right only a change in the next 24 hours or so what's in store for tomorrow scott. absolutely yes and we know that part of the reason that the organizers the protest organizers said that they wanted to cancel the events on saturday is because they want to gear up for sunday there are a couple of there's a rally planned just down the street from here then also there's another marts a very large march they hope organizers are saying that it go through kind of the causeway bay area where we've seen those very very large marches over the last several months the peaceful ones so the organizers are focusing on that they told people to rest up on saturday so they can all come out on sunday and show big

numbers it will be interesting to see how that unfolds because you have these new laws you have the facemask law and then also you know these. marches and rallies are technically illegal still to be interesting to see if there's a different posture by the police and we see this all unfolding on sunday it's all right scott many thanks to those who are scored high to the life here in hong kong with the un's high commissioner for human rights has condemned the rising violence in hong kong. we are troubled by the high levels of violence associated with some people stray showers the having to give place in in in the past. alarmed by the injuries to the police and protesters in crew journalists and protesters. shot by law enforcement officers and i strongly condemn all acts of violence and from all sides and i call on all those responding to them astray ssion and those in gates in there were brought this to do so in a peaceful and non violent way this is what he's after not 0 still to come on the

program strength in numbers in syria as rebel factions come together as part of a national army. of beasts with a great burden to why no border to help save it species. at this cuba joins the women's club at the world athletics championships here in doha will tell you more in sports related. u.s. house democrats have subpoenaed the white house for documents relating to the impeachment inquiry into the president donald trump says that he won't cooperate until the house of representatives votes to approve the investigation this comes as text messages have revealed how much pressure ukraine's president was put under to investigate trump's political rival joe biden how did joe castro reports from washington and i want to think 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 to aid. heard from white house will go rights assuming 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 year mack tells us diplomats once we have a date will call for a press briefing announcing among other things barista and election meddling in investigations verismo is the gas company linked to the son of former us vice president joe biden the.