yes i somehow exceeded to by the government of damascus and what's missing in this equation is the us which is frankly you know just taken itself out of the equation polls have opened in mozambique's general election that could see the for name of the party extend its decades long rule the vote is taking place 2 months after the signing of a peace deal with longtime rival the nama party president felipe and you see seeking a 2nd term but he faces a strong challenge from assume from the mahdi the 2 sides fought for 16 years in a conflict that killed over a 1000000 people malcolm webb joins us live now from outside a polling station in maputo malcolm we understand the president's expected to vote there shortly tell us what's been happening. that's right it's probably stations in secondary school and president felipe when you say he's expected to vote in a classroom just up there in a few minutes from now meanwhile people are waiting to get into another classroom

here this have a look around the living queuing up. to come inside a vote which is just started inside here people join the line when they get to the front. you have to come in here and then they're checked against the electoral register now there's been some controversy over the electoral register not so much he removed that as a province just to the north rights groups and the opposition complain that it's been inflated by 300000 people the words there collect their ballot paper for coming this way and then placing going behind these booth to make their choice of candidate there are 4 candidates on the paper then they come this way to place it into the ballot boxes the vote things just started here just a couple of minutes ago and malcolm what does this election mean men many of those

ordinary mozambicans queuing up outside the polling stations what are the issues that they're most concerned about. one of the key issues for many mozambicans is that in spite of the. economic growth here over the last decade or 2 many people still trapped in a stream policy there are. many millions of people who have benefited from that growth because as much as the economy has grown inequality is also steadily growing at the same time there's another key issue that spreads into the outlook for many voters is corruption the $2000000000.00 loan scandal which actually began under the previous government puts fist on this government as well so for a lot of people need to grow skeptical about the ruling for a lemo party and that's why the opposition. for namo and the city and the m party say they think that they're going to do better this time it's certainly been the

central point of the campaign. at a polling station in the malcolm thank you. time for a short break here on out as iraq when we come back. trade talks between china and the u.s. have been back home but the relationships between the 2 countries have been getting worse i'm wrong marcus and in signs join me when i told to a businessman here who says his company is becoming a casualty of the trade war. and all eyes are on the south africa's former president jacob zuma as he heads to trial for corruption more on that stay with us . how i was again welcome to mathematics at the international forecast we've got a fair bit of cloud just making its way away from northern parts of iran bright

skies coming back in behind it a cloud that just around the eastern side of the mediterranean little drifts into syria lebanon jordan maybe down towards israel as well just notice want to see showers into southern parts of turkey and we continue to be the case as we go on through wettest day for central areas for iraq stays hot dry $37.00 celsius in baghdad $36.00 q a city and in that pakistan karateka it's up to $36.00 as well and hanging on to temperatures around that mark across a good part of the arabian peninsula and a bit of cloud there along the coastal fringes of oman over the next couple of days as tuesday's page show wednesday slides down towards a lot of you could see want to see spots of right as a result of that across into the southwest of yemen you might see wanted to showers here over the just mountains just around the gulf of aden but by and large it does look essentially dry and sunny dry and sunny weather too into much of southern africa but to the northeast of south africa just around the dragons but peaks we

could see some showers as we go through tuesday it brightens up nicely for wednesday we pick your dry weather. on behalf of her majesty's government i apologize reservedly historic apology for one of the darkest episodes in british intelligence there was a growing agreement says that the libyans could be quite useful to the west for 8 years after the death of gadhafi al-jazeera world investigates western collusion with the libyan security services. good battery rendition on the west. on al jazeera.

welcome back to the top stories here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has approved a series of sanctions on turkey he's also calling for an immediate cease fire in northern syria where turkish forces are carrying out a military offensive in kurdish held areas on the ground in syria a group of government soldiers has entered the strategic city of man bitch day after being invited in by kurdish forces but this sets up a potential clash with turkish forces who are stationed on the outskirts. and polls opened in mozambique's general election that could see the from party extend its decades long rule the votes taking place 2 months after the signing of a peace deal with a longtime rival the nama party president and you see seeking a 2nd term. now days 4 people have been killed in anti-government demonstrations in guinea there's widespread anger at a proposed change in the constitution that would allow veteran president alpha

condé to run for a 3rd term as there was no reports now from the capital conakry. gunfire in downtown conakry. frightened residents have locked himself indoors taking cover from guinea's paramilitary forces who are shooting live rounds in the streets what was supposed to be in the nation wide protest against president alpha condé has turned into street battles between security forces and demonstrators armed with sticks and knives they say they are here to defend their democracy we are not of course we are scared but we managed to paralyze the city and turn it into a ghost town to show our frustration with our leadership the 81 year old president wants a referendum to change the constitution so that he can run a 3rd term in office but his political opponents are against a referendum they don't trust the president to organize an impartial vote like you know obviously. need unharnessed leader. treats all of its citizens equally

ear expect t.v. off the ethnic origin of the last if we were to. do with some of the ethnic forlornly make of the majority in guinea and yet never has a full only been in power many of them are out protesting accusing the government of arresting them in discriminating against them this is one professor that has just been arrested in this is what's happening throughout the capital and the country paramilitary police deployed to try to arrest and stop any form of violence. security forces shot dead several protesters and scores are injured human rights watch accused the government of banning street protests for over a year now and cracking down on dissent presidential elections are a full year away but the political deadlock has already set in there is a sense of fear and apprehension of what is to come nicholas hawk al-jazeera cannot

create. now the recent arrival of migrants from a tiny italian island is polarising attitudes towards migration lampedusa has been a key landing point for thousands of people trying to get to mainland europe in the past 2 days hundreds of made the perilous journey across the mediterranean mileage on june sent us this report from lampedusa. they knew they might die at sea but these migrants took the risk leaving from tunisia on a dangerous voyage across the mediterranean that this year alone has claimed more than a 1000 lives arriving hours later on lampedusa a tiny italian island closer to tunisia than italy. this is the 4th group of migrants to have arrived here in the past 17 hours or so now all the migrants i've spoken with here in lampedusa they've been too afraid to be interviewed on camera most of them are traumatized by what they describe as

a harrowing journey across the mediterranean and they're also terrified about the uncertainty they now face days earlier a far sattar scene when a boat carrying approximately 50 migrants capsized off the island of lampedusa 22 people were rescued but at least 13 migrants all women died others are missing ambulance driver giacomo matina helped transport bodies pulled from the water in the lumpiness on the we people from alaska to certify that we're always hillary and we always will and i don't like it when you speak to say that we don't want to hear . but it's not just newspapers expressing those sentiments carmella majority who owns a boat rental business says she used to support those arriving here but she says that changed when migrants stole one of her boats i miss the mail it to me again and nowadays even if one of those women come here i'm not going to welcome her because they cause me harm i know that not all are the same but after

a while you become harsher and you can't do what you would do before known as the gateway to europe lampedusa is increasingly at the forefront of an intense debate in italy on whether migrants should be welcomed or turned away the hardline closed ports policy of former interior minister matteo salvini has at least for now been replaced by a more humane approach to migration under prime minister just have to go on to a center left coalition government italy is working with germany france and malta to establish a quota system for distributing migrants rescued at sea so far they've been unable to get potential partner countries to agree. the identities of most of the migrants buried in lump and use a cemetery are unknown. aid workers are there to a mulatto believes it's important for him to be among the 1st europeans to welcome people who've suffered so much he blames italy's politicians for polarizing opinion

unfortunately. he's an italian island which is influenced by the overall public break and right now well many people even if they face they are a clean. bed of people that see this sentiment i would say quite sane or. on other parts of the island sit other types of graveyards the remains of vessels that were meant to deliver so many desperate people to safety i start reminder a futures in visioned but never realized. and produce an italy the former president of south africa jacob zuma is appearing in court to face corruption charges relating to an arms deal with a french company for me the miller has more now from pietermaritzburg than a scandal that goes back more than a decade. it's been almost 15 years since former president jacob zuma 1st faced

corruption charges relate to $180000000.00 contract with french arms company town is to provide a naval equipment to the south african government tallies allegedly agreed to pay a bribe to zuma who was then the leader of the cause soon a tall province for his influence the deal was reportedly brokered by his former financial adviser should be a shake only shake was jailed for corruption although zuma later faced charges they were dropped in 2009 but last year charges of corruption racketeering and money laundering were reinstated zuma has always said he wants his day in court but he's also done everything he can to avoid it he says there's a political conspiracy against him last week he lost a court heard to have the charges thrown out here now appear at this court for the start of a trial that could last months. seumas legal fees have cost sub african taxpayers more than a $1000000.00 because the charges stem from his time in office he's now fighting

a core group inc that demanded he pay back that money saying he can't afford to cover his costs while many south africans of calling for corrupt leaders to be held to account the mustin enjoy support among others if found guilty he could face at least 25 years in prison zuma says he's done nothing wrong when i'm interested in a case i'm not is a muslim or it's just a router episode i just want to know what's going to happen at the drive. through my lord hasn't done all the things that are 7 years god everyone deserves a chance to explain themselves. ever since. the trial started it's all now beginning to see that it's not only him that faults but the majority of the people that are in power zuma is also expected to return to a commission of inquiry investigating state corruption during his presidency this

case is you have to understand that it's just a smokescreen is to pacify us to say something is happening around corruption but the fact of the matter is nothing is happening because as i've said jacob zuma is the people to consumer is the godfather and no one can shake that p.l.f. within the a.n.c. well zuma has been out of office for 20 months at the time of his departure there were several allegations of corruption and to many south africans hope this trial may be a chance to finally get some answers from al-jazeera pietermaritzburg south africa . china wants to hold more talks to hammer out the details of phase one of the trade deal touted by president trump the u.s. has delayed big tariff increases that were to come into effect on tuesday but after months of losses and uncertainty businesses in china are still under pressure to branch out to new markets rob matheson reports now from shanghai. this electrical

socket factory opened in shanghai 19 years ago since then 95 percent of its products have been exploited to the u.s. but the owner general shang says the latest round in the u.s. china trade war is hitting his business hard by vincent because our sales about 35 percent due to the trade all we have to work that we try our best to keep most of them the u.s. has been threatening to increase talbot's to 30 percent on $250000000000.00 worth of goods imported from china like many other chinese business owners chan is now trying to find alternative markets at home and abroad but adapting his products for china and europe takes time and money in the 2nd quarter of 2019 china's economy started to slow down for the 1st time in 27 years president ceding playing knows

the success of his leadership is going to be judged at least in part on how his government sustains the economy the presidency also knows that he has to be seen to come away with a good deal for china. u.s. president donald trump is also under pressure he's facing an impeachment inquiry in the u.s. and he too wants a win in trade talks with china ahead of the 2020 u.s. presidential election but relations have become more strained the u.s. has put some chinese companies on a trade restrictions list and banned visas for some chinese officials because the u.s. says they're linked to allegations of human rights abuses. involving china's wego muslims meanwhile chinese broadcasters and other companies have pulled out of $1000000000.00 streaming in sponsorship deals with the u.s. national basketball association after the general manager of the houston rockets tweeted in support of hong kong protesters despite the strained relations with the

u.s. chen says he's confident china has the upper hand or china because of exploiting to us china is dually we value by u.s. carli with our china because most things american people use each day are all made in china. but unless a trade deal is reached more business owners like him in china and in the u.s. could become casualties of the trade war right matheson al-jazeera shanghai. time for a quick check of the headlines here al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has approved a series of sanctions on turkey is also calling for an immediate cease fire in northern syria where turkish forces are carrying out a military offensive in kurdish held areas in the us vice president mike pence says he'll be heading to the region to discuss his campaign. let me say the president

could not have been more firm with president i would want to that. the united states of america is simply not going to tolerate. turkey's invasion of syria any further and we're calling on syria to stand down and end the violence and come to the negotiating table and that's the reason the president sending me to the region to make his intentions very clear and we're going to be looking we're going to be looking for turkey to take strong action in that regard meanwhile in syria a group of government soldiers enter the strategic city of man bish a day after being invited in by kurdish forces this sets up a potential clash with turkish troops who are stationed on the outskirts polls have opened in mozambique's general election that could see the for lima party extend its decades long rule the vote is taking place 2 months after the signing of a peace deal with longtime rival there were nama party president felipe and you see

seeking a 2nd term but he faces a strong challenge from bernama as assume from ramadi the 2 sides fought for 16 years in a conflict that killed over a 1000000 people at least 4 people have been killed in anti-government demonstrations in guinea there's widespread anger at a proposed change in the constitution that would allow president alpha condé to run for a 3rd term protests erupted in barcelona over the sentencing of 9 catalan separatist leaders have been sent to prison for their roles in the region's failed bid for independence thousands of cattle and separatists for the police and i could as president just signed a decree scrapping austerity measures that so almost 2 weeks of violent protests in the capital quito workers clean the streets of daybreak caused by the protests which left at least 7 people dead but those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the cost of them so watching. chance for

a reunion after decades of separation caused by a. one i want to use joins a mother's judy to break unite with the son she lost more than 60 years ago in the korean war on al-jazeera. alone has a secret this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week president trump threatens to destroy turkey's economy again we find out and we look at trump's business interest in istanbul. where have all the dollars gone lebannon goes from one crisis to another as one of the world's most indebted nations clings to install a peg. gold what is behind its rise and how high can it go you'll be surprised at some of the bets those in the know are making.

after president donald trump abandoned kurdish allies and gave the green light for turkey's incursion into syria the pushback from usually uncritical republican saw the president attempting to change his decision he said he would in his words totally destroy and obliterate turkey's economy if turkey does anything quote that i in my great an unmatched wisdom consider to be off limits what he meant by off limits wasn't clear but the threat was enough to send the lira lower so is it possible for trump to actually obliterate the economy we don't need to go too far back to see the damage done before and the best way to do that is to chart the liras decline the day before the attempted coup in 2016 the lira was trading at $287.00 to the dollar it's been downhill since then tensions between the united states and europe over syria and turkey's refusal to raise interest rates to find double digit inflation saw the currency weaken further from general 2802. august it

sank 40 percent president trump impose sanctions on aug 1st after turkey refused to release a u.s. pastor who had been held over his alleged involvement in the failed coup a double tariffs a week later sending the lira to a record low the economy slumped into recession inflation peaking at 25 percent and the spat over russia's s $400.00 missiles kept the lira weak on october 7th trump threatened to obliterate the economy sending the lira down more than 2 percent with all the criticism president trump has been keen to point out the economic ties between the nations including its involvement in the f. $35.00 stealth bomber actual trade between the 2 is about $20000000000.00 making the u.s. turkey's 4th biggest trading partner but critics are keen to point out president trumps conflict of interest in turkey top of the list of the trump towers in istanbul according to the washington post trump doesn't own the building but was

paid $10000000.00 to put his name on it. ivanka trump thanked president irwin for coming to the opening of the towers in 2012 and a lawsuit filed by 29 senators and 186 house democrats claims trump is a partial owner of $119.00 turkish business ventures that's according to n.b.c. well joining me now via skype from istanbul is sin then again he is a visiting professor at carnegie europe thanks very much for being with us so how close is the relationship then between presidents trump and one well their relationship is indeed quite close because president traum has been in regular dialogue with the turkish president are gone and as we see in this case he took on board president are gone the arguments and decided to give the go ahead to the turkish across the border military operation and his stance

is markedly different than what we heard from the others pillars of the u.s. administration and primarily pentagon and we when we look at the turkish economy and president trump personally does does he have a conflict of interest because of the trump towers in istanbul he doesn't own the towers but does license his name. yes obviously that's the definition of conflict of interest and given that he has this business venture in turkey. even though as you rightly said he doesn't all the property nonetheless gets a license fee based on extending his franchise so in that sense yes there seems to be a cop the beatrice and trump has in the very recent past put sanctions on the economy that were there were damaging were they the sole reason for the economy sinking into recession nor it was just

a an impetus really but already the church economy it had a number of structural deficiencies. very high external financing requirements more savings rate. and this is the main reason why coupled with the treta of sanctions. there has been a general risk of a version concerning the church on the me which has led to our financial our close and the shock on the currency last summer which peaked on the occasion of with political crisis triggered by turkey holding on to us pastor and how much damage can the us do to that to the turkish economy i mean president trump it has said he can obliterate a turkish economy is that just bluster or can he really do that. well i think that indirectly the u.s. could certainly do quite a bit of damage to the church going because fundamentally the turkish economy is

one where there is a lack of domestic saving saw turkey has to import capital from abroad and therefore the cost of that capital is very important at a time when there is tension between turkey and the united states and especially if the u.s. administration including the president trump moves ahead in the direction of sanctioning turkey that will raise the turkey's risk profile and the cost of capital and that's going to be the main challenge for turkey point forward before we end up in such a scenario and if we go back just a few years putin put a stop to russian tourism after turkish warplanes had shot down a russian jet so turkey's economy is prying to shocks isn't it. it is it comes down to the fact that turkey's growth model is predicated on the availability of cheap capital inflows saw no way the deficiency over the past

10 years was that turkey was not evil to shift to a growth model that is less dependent on foreign capital flows this could have been the case for instance of turkey have done a number of significant structural reforms that would have raised productivity and ensured you know are sustainable productive to growth and the economy but clearing that turkey continues to be dependent on these capital falls which makes it vulnerable to these type of political pressures and how would you assess things now is the turkish economy finally turning around interest rates and inflation a coming down what's your prognosis there certainly has been a rebound in turkey it seems to be pulling back from its recessionary trend but the main challenge going forward will be whether turkey will actually be able to achieve the type of higher growth rates just started in the parts that's the main

challenge even if it rebounds from this recession area it looks difficult right now and turkey may indeed. be a hostage to in an environment where it has logged growth rates. and this is something new for the turkish political system an economy system given that turkey had registered quite significant the high growth rates in the past c.n.n. you again thanks for being with us thank you. i one of the world's most indebted nations has declared an economic emergency a lack of dollars for imports of wheat oil and medicine has pushed lebanon's currency to the brink of devaluation or that could end lebanon's 2 decade long peg to the dollar the problem is the businesses buy goods from overseas in dollars and sell in lebanese pounds but lebanese banks are restricting access to foreign

currency forcing many firms and individuals to resort to a growing parallel market and this is reflected in the current account deficit which means it is importing more than its exports in all living beyond its means the deficit has risen as lebanese ex-pats aren't sending as much money back home as they had in the past remittances to lebanon work revelent to 12.7 percent of g.d.p. in 2018 while the government is in talks with saudi arabia for new money the central bank has more than $50000000000.00 in currency reserves that's enough for 30 months worth of imports but if the government doesn't push through austerity measures a devaluation becomes a real threat then a hard reports from beirut. fuel importers here had threatened an open ended strike because of a shortage of foreign currency their customers pay in lebanese pounds but they need dollars to import feel lebanon's central bank is intervening it plans to provide

dollars at a fixed exchange rate not just to importers of fuel but importers of medicine and to wheat supplies of which have already reached dangerously low levels economists say levanon which imports at least 80 percent of what it consumes needs an injection of foreign cash because the government is so exposed to the teaching of culture what's happening to see what's happening in iraq the problem of the g.c.c. countries. who cracked to be. at the. and now the local currency has lost value it's the 1st time in 2 decades exchange dealers won't speak on camera. the official price pegged at $1500.00 pounds to the dollar black market prices have emerged. how much can i sell my dollar.

155000 and if i want to i cannot buy right for. 57 ok thank you. the central bank denies that lebanon is facing a dollar crisis and describes her ports of a shortage as an exaggeration but there are attempts to limit daily dollar withdrawals and more and more merchants are no longer accepting local currency they too refused to speak on camera as an. economic conditions have long been precarious this is one of the most indebted countries in the world a decrease in deposits into the banking sector denies the state a critical source of finance but there are other reasons behind the shortage of cash in the country. on iran for example affected its funding for its ally in

lebanon which is also under sanctions this is disrupted the flow of remittances countries also stop providing help to a country they believe is controlled by their rival iran people are starting to take to the streets there is panic over the currency losing value which has hurt their spending power last month the government declared a state of economic emergency for these protesters however this crisis is not new and they want those in power to be held responsible for years of mismanagement and corruption well let's talk more about what's happening in lebanon from beirut we have sami executive director of the lebanese center for policy studies thanks very much for being with us so i want to ask you 1st help me out with the central bank has enough.