the kurds who we're dealing with are not very happy about the way things are going i must say that the kurds and you also have the turks watching just secondarily watching you have isis under control so there the president saying that the kurds are very pleased with the situation having been invaded by turkey following the u.s. pullout of its troops from northern syria someone who is not at all pleased with the situation is one of the top republicans the top leaders of the president's own party mitch mcconnell he is the leader majority leader of the senate and he penned an op ed that appears in the washington post newspaper calling the withdrawal of u.s. forces and the fighting between turks and kurds a strategic nightmare for the u.s. his words conall said that the assad regime and in syria and its iranian backers

will extend their influence and that the u.s. administration is ignoring russia's ability to leverage its dominant position in syria now to amass power and influence across the wider middle east and then there was a clear swipe at the president from using a phrase that trump has used many many times in the past but connell said that as neal isolationism grows the rhetoric of endless wars will be heard again and again and this is a phrase that president trump has used repeatedly with regard to the u.s. president presents in the middle east but mcconnell saying that endless war the rhetoric aside war is not simply end they are either one or lost now of course in the midst of this foreign policy crisis for the united states the

president is in countering a lot of criticism from his fellow republicans in the senate at the same time he's going through the impeachment process in the house and there's certain implications for his loss of support in the senate even though the impeachment process is about a different matter altogether robin thank you very much indeed. still to come this half hour an uphill battle for the u.k. prime minister as he tries to win a vote in parliament to get his bracks india across the line to us. it's a brand new observatory and one of the world's most famous buildings one of the world's most famous cities and the rosato that story coming up. by the remains very cool into southeastern parts of australia but further north

there's so much on the side fire danger in place particularly up towards queensland up towards the northwest as well but one or 2 showers you can just see a little bit of play out there just around that eastern side of queensland just stood around the sunshine coast actually i would be the case as we go on through the next to contrast $29.00 celsius for brisbane 1314 degrees down towards the southeastern corner on the other side of the country we could touch 33 in perth may well get down to around 29 on sunday but plenty of heat around a little bit of cloud pushing into south australia's we go on through the next day or so but down to the southeast temperatures pick up a little interfet toria 18 celsius there for melbourne that cloud is making its way towards news a little push its way through very mobile system this one say expect to say some wet sand with the weather over the next couple of days but see back to south allat as we go on through saturday the north island will see some showers and it's all change as we go on into sunday temperatures typically around 18 degrees celsius is

the sort of temperature we can expect across northern parts of japan heavy rain coming into hunchy was a guy through saturday and that may well affect the rugby in tokyo. on counting the cost the $7.00 would tweet that proved too much for beijing how china silence his critics on the eyes access to its 14 trillion dollar economy the cost of hiring at oil tanker is soaring for the lazy and fisherman facing financial losses counting the cost.

they're going to a lot of top stories here on jazeera mass protests continue in lebanon demanding the removal of the government over the worsening economic crisis prime minister saad hariri has given rival groups in his government 72 hours to unite and get behind his reform plans. violence has broken out in barcelona between police and catalan separatists earlier hundreds of thousands of people descended on the city in a show support the 9 jailed cattle and separatist leaders. the turkish president or one says the offensive in northeast syria will resume within minutes if kurdish fighters don't abide by the terms of the cease fire a 5 day truce is largely holding so far. at least 62 people have been killed in an explosion at

a mosque in afghanistan its act happened in the district of the eastern province where shippers had gathered in a mosque for friday prayers explosion caused the building's roof to collapse injuring dozens more no one has claimed responsibility for the attack i bore doc is a national security analyst based in afghanistan he says the government is blaming the taliban the spot them denying responsibility. so the message that has come from the government is that it's the taliban and its taliban seen as partners who are responsible for the attack on the other side we have how the statement coming from the taliban condemning the attack and saying it's basically d. government order guy who is responsible for the attack so the government has blamed the taliban the taliban has condemned the attack and rejected the responsibility we know that jalalabad and specifically areas near to house come in areas where we have dice presence and i want to sign over the past few years. has been

silent about it could be done. and this is not the 1st time we have had such a such a phenomenon in jalalabad we have had attacks in the mosque last 2 years as well where we had. the beginning of the dice surge we have rumors that we might start negotiating with the taliban again the united states of america now you have this attack on civilians i don't know how it's going to affect the peace. process again on the other side do you do you now my report which talked about the deadliest sort of civilian casualties are concerned this is harsh reality of honest on every every time you have a talk. of the government and ruler of gone a son it will have civilian casualties. mexico's president has defended the national guard after they released the son of an interest drug lord security forces

gave up on son of your keen as chapo guzman after daylight gun battle with his cartel that killed at least 8 people and rest manual lopez obrador says their decision prevent the loss of more lives in europe are reports from mexico city. in the capital city of siena is in a state of shock. violence on thursday sent city residents into a panic as alleged members of the scene of the work of their launched a coordinated assault against police. on friday mexico security cabinet took responsibility for what they call the failed operation aimed at detaining. son of notorious cartel leader. better known as el chapo mexico's national defense secretary added that authorities were caught off guard so this is. what we underestimate the criminal

organizations response capability of it in the capture of video guzman lopez the security cabinet ordered our forces to withdraw in order to prevent a high incidence of violence than what occurred during his daily morning press conference the mexican president defended the decision made by his cabinet members your. i back the decision because i consider protection of people the most important thing the most important thing is to protect against loss of life the most important thing is peace. while gun fights in fires from burning vehicles raged on the streets a prison break was taking place in coordination with the attack by the cartel. over a dozen fugitives can be seen on this cell phone video carjacking passing motorists the violence and see the lower marks the 3rd large scale violent incident to take place in mexico in less than a week. on monday 14 police officers were killed in an ambush

by cartel members in the state of michoacan days later another gunfight left at least 15 dead in the state to get laid off ongoing violence nationwide is putting pressure on mexican president and the responder will help us over the border who on monday said advances are being made to address mexico's problem with worsening insecurity madrid up in mexico city. the brother of the 100 year and president has been found guilty of drug trafficking by a us court and the honduran president has been labeled a coconspirator on and turn your hand as was found guilty of helping to smuggle almost 200000 kilograms of cocaine into north america new york city prosecutors say he relied on his brother president juan orlando and as for protection the trial has led to protests against the hunger and head of state who denies the allegations. demonstrators have staged a sit in outside the headquarters of the united nations mission in libya crowds

gathered in tripoli to protest against what they see as u.n. inaction on human suffering in the city dozens of civilians have been killed since the beginning in a minute she campaigned in april led by world honey for have to to seize the capital from the un recognized government. the u.k. prime minister boris johnson will face an uphill battle to get his bricks it deal through parliament when it meets on saturday is coalition partner of the northern irish do you pete and all opposition parties are planning to vote against the agreement or a chance has more from westminster. this is the karma before westminster's weekend storm on saturday m.p.'s will face off in parliament in a special session they have just one day of debate to accept or reject boris johnson's new brix it deal and decide the future of this country if they say no the prime minister must ask the e.u. for a break sit extension something he's desperate to avoid i hope that people will think

well you know what's the bounce. constituents really want do they want us to keep going with they want division and delay or do they want us to focus on putting more money in here which is what we're doing expanding a provision for a provision for education. and putting more police out on the streets tackling knife crime those against the deal are hoping opposition parties can hold the line we all know it's going to be tight and the only way boris johnson can deliver his brakes to see if labor m.p.'s break ranks into the tory bricks it with northern ireland's d u p ruling themselves out there are 3 key groups boris johnson must win over for the needed 320 votes there are a group of labor m.p.'s in. seats who want to see bracks it done but not sure whether or not they're going to back this particular deal there's the former concerns that peace with trade as the party for opposing no deal most of those

voted for theresa may still but mites take issue with. johnson and then there's the $28.00 tory breaks his he's $83.00 times against me still it's a big one across party group of brics it moderates still are convinced that no deal is off the table led by the former conservative m.p. when they're trying to amend saturday's vote so that any approval for the prime minister's deal would be deferred until legislation to enact it had been passed so bracks in. would be delayed until the end of january so that m.p.'s could get all the complicated work done i'm not crash out on october 31st because i'd run out of time but there's no guarantee that e.u. leaders would say yes to an extension. through digital i think we should take to deal tolbert such a 1st deadline i don't indulge in political fiction so i'm not going to imagine

a scenario where did british parliament vote this way or that way but i don't think that any new extension should be agreed. despite what micron says it's hard to see e.u. leaders denying an extension and risk being blamed for a no deal crash out but yet again the u.k. is pushing bricks it's right down to the wire. al-jazeera london. and donald tusk say the brokers made an historic mistake that risks destabilizing the balkans a handful of countries led by a french president all of refused to start membership talks with north macedonia and albania it came up to 7 hours of deadlock at a summit in brussels the european commission says both countries have done enough to at least begin talks but france has reservations about both and albania also faces opposition from denmark and the netherlands. is of. truth

but what we saw last night was wrong because it did not act to say either yes or no rule of macedonia and albania will ready to join the european union it acted to say either yes or no they could be candidates candidates we have whom we could have started negotiations in majority of the european council wanted to say so but there were a few member states who were not yet ready it's a historic a historic era. the world's 1st abode of vaccine has been recommended for approval by european drug regulators the vaccine is already being used under emergency guidelines to try to protect people against a deadly outbreak in the democratic republic of congo is the 2nd deadliest in history with more than 2100 people confirmed dead. around 4000000 people flock to this world famous viewing platform each year and how they can go even higher the empire state building in new york has just unveiled its new observatory 16 levels above the original every elizondo want to look. it's one of the

most famous buildings in the world instantly recognizable from the outside but 88 years after it 1st opened the empire state building is getting a new look and it starts way up at the top so show me where the 102nd floors so we're going to go all the way to the top just 102nd for the summit and a pinnacle of. the ride up the elevator to the newly reopened empire state building observatory. and this is the view when you reach the top. it was closed for nearly 10 months during construction but not anymore after opening last week when it was coming to the worst most famous building and it is the pinnacle of the if i said you're going to have 874360 degrees i want to talk to you wish to ship it out at the old

observatory was much different there used to be air conditioner units that would come up to about here and block much of the view now they've changed everything and they've installed these floor to ceiling glass panels they're about $200.00 kilos each and there's $24.00 of them that give you this panoramic view in new york city . while the empire state building receives 4000000 visitors a year for more than 100 different countries it's increasingly facing competition for tourists like from the newly opened vessel structure at hudson yards on the west side of the city and the observatory that opened in 2015 at the top of the one world trade center and that's why the empire state building is in the final phase of a 4 year 165 $1000000.00 renovation it includes new exhibits and displays highlighting the history of this skyscraper and its depiction in movies. well there is no

shortage of toll buildings in the city managers here hope the new views of the empire state building are unlike any other gabriel's rando al-jazeera new york 2 women have made history in space by space walking for several hours on the outside of the international space station nasa astronauts christina koch and jessica mare of become a 1st all female pat space walk women have previously space walked solo or with men they spent 7 hours outside working to replace a broken part of the space station's power grid space walking is widely considered the most dangerous job while in orbit. a man to the top stories on al jazeera lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has given rival groups in his government 72 hours to unite and get behind his reform plans is address the nation amid mass protests over economic conditions at least 2

people have died during the demonstrations but just as a demanding the resignation of the government they accuse their leaders of looting and bankrupting the country which is in a severe economic crisis the latest protests were triggered triggered by new taxes including a fee to use whatsapp that was scrapped but people are still out on the streets. or a board member i am giving our partners in the government a very short a deadline 72 hours to give us a solution that convinced us and the people in the streets and our international partners are still bolland protests are taking place in barcelona after hundreds of thousands of people descended on the city in a show of support for 9 jailed cattle and separatist leaders. riot police fired rubber bullets at several 100 people who surrounded the national police headquarters and set fire to the streets spain's acting interior minister has

warned violent protesters they face up to 6 years in prison the rest follows a day of largely peaceful demonstrations more than 500000 people converged on the cap catalan regional capital in a mass show of support for the politicians. turkish president richard one says the offensive in northeast syria will resume within minutes if kurdish fighters don't abide by the terms of the cease fire the 5 day truce is largely holding so far but they have been some unverified reports of sporadic fighting a cease fire agreed by the united states and turkey is supposed to allow kurdish led s.t.'s fighters to leave areas controlled by current turkish forces at least 62 people have been killed in an explosion at a mosque in afghanistan it had happened in the district of eastern one a whole province where shippers had gathered in a mosque for friday prayers explosion caused the building's roof to collapse injuring dozens more no one has claimed responsibility for the attack those are top

stories counting the cost is up next after me and i asked. you to stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian figure this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week the 7 word tweet that proved too much for beijing the n.b.a. counts the cost as china silences critics and access to its 14 trillion dollar economy. a few years back you could rent an oil tanker for less than the price of

hiring a ferrari prices though an hour sawing will tell you why. the laziest fish farmers face hefty financial losses as pollution destroys the coastline. president donald trump called it a substantial phase one agreement but any talk of a truce of the trade war is pretty wide of the mog washington hasn't removed any tariffs and got a little relief for its famous beijing got crucial access to pork after its pig farmers were decimated by swine flu substantive issues still remain and there's an ongoing economic war in all but name washington slams $28.00 chinese tech companies with sanctions for their part in the repression of weaker muslims meantime beijing is using access to the chinese market as a weapon against those who criticize its policies and handling of hong kong protests the n.b.a. was the latest to step into the chinese quagmire as i was there as rob matheson

reports from beijing. he sees one of the fastest ways for u.s. basketball to risk losing billions of dollars of chinese investment has been a 7 word tweet daryl morey general manager of the houston rockets n.b.a. team voiced his support for hong kong protesters now chinese companies have been suspending sponsorship deals and t.v. coverage from n.b.a. games. no longer watch rockets mashers so i think a lot of rockets fans will be very sad but of course this matter involves a state level issues so we can allow this to happen but the u.s. national basketball association has had a presence in china for more than 30 years it's estimated about $300000000.00 people in china regularly played basketball a few months ago the chinese company 10 cent spend over one and a half 1000000000 dollars securing the rights to continue streaming n.b.a.

games in china for the next 5 years and that's good news for about 500000000 chinese basketball fans who regularly watch those matches in 2018 it's estimated that the n.b.a. is market in china was worth $4000000000.00. china sensitivity about the hong kong protests hasn't just affected the n.b.a. a video game or was banned by gaming company activision blizzard but apparently supporting the hong kong demonstrations blizzard has insisted its decision was based on gaming rules and not on its china connections a chief economist at swiss bank has u.b.s. said in a podcast that an outbreak of swine flu in china would only matter to chinese pigs parts of china's financial sector called the comments distasteful and racist other companies including gap clothing marriott hotels and the daimler car group have been forced to apologize to china i think so different they your mindset.

in the western country you said 3 dumb of speach. in china we also have freedom of speech. but some areas. shouldn't it's a deeply. bottom line china seems to be saying that for those who rely on its money there are some lines which cannot be crossed joining us now via skype from manchester in the u.k. simon chadwick simon is a professor of sports enterprise itself a business school in manchester good to have you with us simon how do you see all of this playing out i mean the n.b.a. is a pretty big deal in china not only in terms of sport but in terms of jobs. i was actually really surprised by this incident because the n.b.a. for the best for the 2 decades now has not only invested a lot of money but has also invested a lot of time into their activities in china and this is really helped to not only

boost the n.b.a. in china itself but also to bust basketball more generally and so what you'll typically find is as many young chinese people are either active participants in basketball or else watch basketball so i think we have some major incident but i do expect it to to die down in the medium to long term i think in the short to medium term they're going to be some turbulence and certainly this week compared to last week it's been a rather quieter. people really and the n.b.a. and china really are so intertwined with one another i think there will be a way forward alternately for all concerned what does it mean for businesses away from sports who want to tap into this 14 trillion dollar economy i mean you'd have to take some pretty extraordinary measures to restrict the freedom of expression of your employees would you. well it's very interesting because over the last 10 days we have seen some businesses some sponsors commercial partners broadcasters really

stepping back from from china from the n.b.a. from the coverage of games that have taken place in china involving n.b.a. teams during that period so i think what it does show and we've seen this in other industrial sectors is that sport will now have to confront the reality of if it wishes to do business in china there is a certain way of saying and doing things and i guess is always this is not unusual because if you are operating in cats or if you're operating in great britain the same is true there are local norms local ways of doing things but i think ideologically in china politically it is so highly charged that essentially what we are beginning to see is is is really this clash of ideologies whereby principles of western principles of free speech and open speech are being moderated or even curbed by the political necessities of operating in china and as i say it's the n.b.a. this time but i think moving forwards from here will find lots of other organizations

in supporting football in most sports and other areas facing similar issues of what it read you a quote which perhaps sums up what what you were saying it's from been hung from epsilon theory he says that companies need to make a choice he says do you want to preserve your authenticity and your brand or do you want to preserve your earnings guidance and share price choose one isas you can't have both. if you're going to do business in china i have to concur with that as somebody who is a regular visitor to china it is very clear that there are certain norms of behavior that you have to comply with. but those norms of behavior very firmly embedded within our in a very strongly political context and it's very clear in in china if you want to operate in china as a business as an organization if you want to succeed if you want to build

a fun base if you want to secure financial return make a profit then there are the rules of the game and you have to comply with those rules and if you don't what you will do what you'll find is you slip into the situation that the n.b.a. now finds itself in and so i do agree with the courts i think it's very very difficult to find a middle way there is only one way in china and you either accept it or you don't carry back to the n.b.a. sports has always been thrust into geo political tensions and in formula one in bahrain. and the joshua about to fight in saudi arabia why are our sports men and women in managers expected to keep storm one we hear from diplomats who and many business leaders who manage to get away with with with with you know seeing things that aren't palatable to the countries in which the boonies. well the 1st thing i think i would say is is we're not in in new

territory for those of us who are old enough to remember the cold war. and some of us will remember further by the night if you go back to for instance the 936 olympics when out of hitler was in power in germany sport and politics despite their often an easy relationship of have always had to co-exist to a greater or lesser extent so we're seeing this playing out again in china with the n.b.a. so i think that that's an important contextual detail to to to to to to mention but i think for individual athletes obviously these people are incredibly high profile and there are people who are constantly in the public spotlights they are not only representatives of themselves of their own brands they are also representatives of their sports but i think to a certain extent to the these these athletes and teams are also representatives of the team of the countries from which they're there from where they where they're located and historically i think there's been this view that football just plays

football in a box just boxes but increasing or we know all this is what they say how they behave is scrutinized to such a large extent that you are no longer just a racing driver you know you're no longer just a football effect of your you are as is your communicating as a message a set of values a strategic position and so increasingly what we're now finding is that there is training for this training for people working for teams because there woods potentially can be so highly charged these can cause the kinds of problems that we see with the n.b.a. and again this is why i find what has happened with the n.b.a. over the last 1010 days actually really surprising because historically and typically the n.b.a. is always very measured and very careful in the way that it communicates with the world some of this but really gets to into your own culture the course professor many thanks indeed. thank you. now here's something that hasn't

been widely reported but it has consequences for all of us the cost of shipping crude around the world has shot up to 11 year highs after the united states blacklisted chinese ships more than 40 v.l. cc's or very large crude carriers operated by china's cosco shipping energy transportation have been blacklisted for moving sanctioned iranian oil cosco has a total of $1100.00 ships iran's oil tankers estimated to be around 54 of also been sanctions in total nearly $300.00 tankers have been black with listed including venezuela's that represents about 3 percent of the world's oil tanker fleet according to refer it if i come that set the cost of hiring a ship from $18000.00 to almost $300000.00 a day to ship crude from the u.s. gulf to asia the longest routes to ship oil now costs around $14000000.00

for add to that sanctions countries a still managing to get crude to customers by offloading at sea and switching off tracking devices who better to pick all this up with than rajat kapoor managing director of oil and gas at a.w.i. lloyd thanks for being with us roger so what needs to happen to bring tanker prices down should we be concerned here who's shouldering the cost. obviously a big effect on the tanker prices and the way it is and where they are today has got to do with the current sanctions that the u.s. administration has put on iranian crude in order to prevent offloading often include in the high seas in order to stop at least do it to the bare minimum export of group to china the u.s. as you know last month inboard the sanctions on the tanker subsidiaries of costco which is china's shipping line and in the largest shipping line in the world so once you have the sanctions coming in from the u.s. on these entities on these particular bang.