the u.k. may have been among the 39 found dead in a container truck on wednesday earlier reports said they were all chinese the container arrived in essex on a ferry from belgium police are continuing to question 4 people including a truck driver from northern ireland who was arrested on suspicion of murder a word has more from london well i think police have made a 4th arrest in this fast moving investigation he is a 48 year old man arrested at stansted airport on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people a manslaughter 2 other people were arrested earlier both $38.00 a man and a woman in northern england with a lorry driver arrested at the scene is still being held by police the real focus now of course is trying to identify the victims in the early stages of the investigation it was thought they were all chinese nationals but some vietnamese families are reported to have raised concerns about the welfare of their relatives including the family of

a 26 year old woman who they believe could have been inside the container the deputy chief constable of essex police gave this updates we owe it to those who died to get this investigation right and speculation is not helpful it may in fact hindu around 1st occasion in its progress. if not commenting on any speculation about the nationalities of those who have tragically lost their lives well this clearly is becoming an international investigation involving the belgian or thought is where the lorry came from and also the chinese authorities who are pushing the british police to find out exactly what happened on the focus really is on trying to find out where the lorry started its journey and how those people came to be on it in the 1st place well russian national who was jailed in the us for being a foreign agent has now returned to moscow take a look at the life picture right now that is maria cino she's just arrived amman.

and she was released from a florida prison on friday she was convicted of conspiring to influence u.s. conservative activists infiltrating the n.r.a. she served most of her 18 month sentence but was released early for good behavior. taken into custody and then deported as you can see just arrived back in russia. still. going nowhere we'll tell you why. forms are being used to mobilize mass protests catalonia region. how i once again welcome to another look at the international forecast starting to

see showers just sliding down out of malaysia and all name to indonesia now sinking further south as as they should do of course following the sun we have got a little more cloud there pushing into java quite a bit of wet weather there across the board easing over towards the montra and a fair bit of cloud to just around the malaysia peninsula pushing up into parts of thailand perhaps a little drive into a good part of town and as we go on through monday certainly dry there for a good part of indochina but some very lively showers just around the equator pushing further south as they stretch the way right back into central and southern parts of the philippines now see some showers to effect in the southeastern corner of australia size of cloud just bands of cloud rolling on here easing through the greatest writing by easing over towards the southeastern corner fresh direct tucking in behind ahead of that was still something that for brisbane far warning still in force of course big fire risk here the bush was 30 celsius there for brisbane a little more cloud pushing in as we go on monday i think but shoes day we could

see some useful rainfall just pushing into the eastern side of queensland elsewhere is generally dry fine and sunny. the cost of africa opens up its borders to the hope of it relating the success of the european union nigeria shuts its borders to smuggling and tax evasion plus airport expansion and the creation of a regional media. countering the cost on al-jazeera. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. going to the truth was that i would love for this job.

hello again the top stories on al-jazeera iraqi police have fired stun grenades at anti-government protesters they were trying to storm the heavily fortified green zone where the iraqi parliament at least 42 iraqis were killed during a nationwide protest on friday demonstrators are demanding the resignation of government leaders as well as an end to corruption and economic hardship in the oil rich country. in chile right police have fired at some of the 1000000 marchers in the largest anti-government demonstration for decades president sebastian pinera says he's heard the message of the protesters complaining about inequality and the rising cost of living. the u.n. says it supports an audit of bolivia disputed presidential election results that's triggered nationwide protests the official vote tally points to a victory by the incumbent president. the united nations says months of floods in

south sudan have affected almost a 1000000 people entire communities have been submerged since july forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and where 60 percent of people are already going hungry crops have been washed away the weather forecast is more rain for weeks to come. business owners in one theory are complaining they've lost hundreds of millions of dollars since the government closed the border crossing with neighboring binny in. the dress reports from one of the hardest hit towns order guard say they're trying to stop illegal goods from being smuggled in. these trucks have been stuck here at the nigeria binny border for 2 months. court by a sudden change in government policy they're not allowed to go forward and can't go back as a boat has been importing and exporting goods for 23 years he says he's never seen

anything like this and come to our government should they hand over to us goods that you've already paid import duty for we have more than $500.00 trucks on the in the republic side of the border many of the goods are damaged. if this doesn't and soon some businessmen say they have lost hundreds of millions of dollars since the middle of august when the government ordered the borders to be closed imports. this is one of the reasons the government says it's because it's illegally imported rice. officials say the flow of contraband into nigeria is killing its economy and production and opening the door to criminals and weapons. if you must in this. there are. plenty of big broad.

have been exploited by. both and therefore we have a duty and responsibility to engage in legitimate actions that would be. better secure our people and more importantly simulate the only people. the port of cotton or in ben in is 120 kilometers from lagos nigeria officials say many goods from coated or smuggled past customs inspectors summer is the busiest of nigeria's border towns connecting the port city of cotton or in been a republic with the country's commercial capital lagos this used to be a very important trading point for imported goods especially right now in this market i mean town there is little traffic since nigeria closed its borders the government hopes that shutting down the borders will stop because from smuggling illegal got into the country. the security clampdown us forced up the prices of goods in markets and there are shortages in some places. the government says the

measures will grow nigeria's economy in the long term officials say in the 1st 2 weeks of the border closures revenues from import duty went to by more than 5 percent but that left many nigerians concerned about rising cost of food stuff. that they want since we don't get regular supplies of food stuff here in same i know food is getting in across the border and no food reaches us here from legal us we are in a fix the government says it wants to stop smugglers and criminals who pose a bigger threat to the country and its economy and all keep the borders closed for now. al-jazeera. along the nigeria have been in border. in spain a judge has ordered the shutdown of a social media platform used to mobilize independence protests in catalonia sonia gago has more from barcelona on the organization called tsunami democratic they vowed to return to the streets following the sentencing of 9 catalan politicians

and activists for sedition 2 weeks ago that tsunami democratic a leaderless anonymous organization called on protesters to blockade barcelona's airport one of the most defiant acts among days a protest that occurred throughout catalonia riots that came after which caused damage and disruption the likes of which had not been seen in decades. catalonia as usual peaceful protest movement became drawn into a controversy over the tactics used to encourage civil disobedience and the question was raised who or what is tsunami democratic today in the spanish of the supreme court ruling was unowned we jews and direct affront to the human rights . the only person to be associated with the movement so far manchester city's catalan manager pep guardiola who has advocated for the session of catalonia for his message to catalans to get behind the tsunami democratic when it came out on

the day protesters occupied the airport and the reaction from the spanish authorities was swift a judge ordered their websites and social media platforms to be shut down part of an ongoing investigation into the movement of charges of terrorism when we mind but hobbs's that this. political parties which where do we hide behind the 1st of the over the phone and the one all for the same organisation and are now behind the anointing more blood for them but it's some kind of a political leap to be preparing the action for a lot of ones they don't mean of their website what it is that it on do allowed 2019 so we might. have been preparing for a lot of time so anyone who wants to join the tsunami democratic or they 1st have to download the app on an android phone and then they have to activate it by getting a q.r. code from another user that code can only be used for

a limited amount of times now there's no account of such that's created however the user has to agree with being able to track their location so far the app is still awaiting activation but the movement has already called further action before and after spain's general election next month in a bid to make further waves in catalonia. al-jazeera barcelona. a conservative political party in pakistan is organizing a march on the capital over poor living standards hundreds of thousands of people are expected to make their way to islamabad by next thursday the group is demanding prime minister imaan khan step down cusick him a financial mismanagement kimo haidar has more from islam about. the effects of an economic meltdown internationally are also being felt in pakistan the pakistani government says that it is coming to grips with

a growing economic crisis and that things are likely to improve however the opposition is threatening to march on the capital saying that the government has failed to deliver and brought the country to the brink of financial ruin they're also accusing emraan crown of rigging the elections in 28 day and that this government should not have been allowed in the 1st place however the government is trying to negotiate with the upper lip games tried to convince them not to carry out that date of bringing life to a standstill in the capital islamabad they're urging for dialogue to try to defuse the situation however the opposition is also not budging ordered. that the negotiating team should bring the letter of resignation of the prime minister before drugs can even begin the people of islamabad and across pakistan are apprehensive about what is likely to happen within the next week and that is on the

31st when all the protestors converge head under some of the economists are saying that the country's economy is now in a stable position there is no doubt that the prices of essential commodities have skyrocketed everything is really expensive and very liberal 40 runs our smallest things like measure tables electricity you one guess so i really feel like things should change the. the situation should chance and a man fan should fulfill the promises he made specially for the white people because they're in trouble right now. since him run can came into power he hasn't fulfilled the promises he made commodity prices have gone up unemployment has increased people are very worried about their family's livelihoods health and education we're hoping that my line is march will bring some relief to the people who are financially suffering. by the offer there's generally

a rare opportunity to galvanize the public the board record of writing influence here and with the hope that. board them it really be our death for the government. action well protests going on in so many parts of the world the u.n. chief is warning leaders to listen to the problems of their people and turn to tara says while every situation is unique there are common themes if you school here that that is a good knowing that trusts between people and political establishments and rising students to the social constructs and all these also wrestling with the negative impacts of globalization and new technologies which have increased inequalities within society. even where people are not protesting they are hurting and want to be herds 5 years of war in yemen has seen many men killed in fighting so women have

increasingly become the sole breadwinners and forced into traditionally male dominated jobs so reports. that the women it's a story we see often during times of war women forced to work long hours in grueling manual jobs with husbands fathers or brothers killed by fighting. many of these yemeni women of different ages are now the main source of income for their families. bushra lives in the southwestern city of time. with no one to look after 2 children she takes them with her to work. and a fellow who learns medical circumstances made as good a job it has plenty of difficulties but what can i do i'll work even if they tell me to dig a hole in a mountain for my children out to anything. bushra as one of a number of women in her village defying traditional norms here labor is usually

done by men but it's not been easy. women are faced a backlash from their communities despite it being their only source for a meager $50.00 a month. the work is hard and tiring i used to work as a painter and i'd come home filthy we had objections to us working but would tell them we have to feed our children we received help from organizations but not anymore i'm in a difficult situation. community. says locals complained about women doing manual labor and mixing with men but things are changing. and some traditional parts of human society frowns upon working women but we're seeing a change society is starting to accept the idea that those especially divorced or displaced women are alone. with. a united nations funded program called

cash for work is teaching men and women basic skills to help them get jobs. they've worked in different kinds of jobs like flooring painting school restore ration agriculture marking roads even though the community refuses women to work they have no choice this is what forced many of them to take part in this project that the. years of war in yemen have devastated its population but one way to help women get through it has been achieved by making small changes at the community level so. i'll just. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera iraqi police have fired stun grenades at anti-government protesters some demonstrators have been trying to storm the heavily fortified green zone where the iraqi parliament there are demanding the resignation

of government leaders as well as an end to corruption and economic hardship. reports from baghdad 42 iraqis across the country were killed in protests that began on friday there was a sit in i don't know if you can see the tents behind me here in tahrir square in baghdad overnight several 100 probably maximum spent the night here in the square and they say they woke up to stun grenades and tear gas they say that they were not part of the contingent of people who have been attending. a barrier bridge that would go to the green zone that is where. government offices are as well as the u.s. embassy so there's a lot of anger that i'm hearing from protesters this morning they're saying that the government is using excessive force against them when all they are hearing are . other types of help their eyes out there it's hard

here gas. government protests in the capital beirut demonstrators have started blocking roads people are calling for a civil disobedience movement. recognize government. reached an initial agreement to stop fighting against each other a deal is expected to be signed with. a riot police fired at some of the 1000000. government demonstration for decades. the protestors message has been heard. a russian woman jailed in the u.s. for being a foreign agents has now flown home maria patino was released early for good behavior she was convicted of conspiring to influence u.s. conservative activists infiltrating the national rifle association. recounting the cost is coming up next that it's the news hour with elizabeth thanks

for watching. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to. hello i'm adrian figure and this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week as africa opens its borders in the hope of emulating the success of the european union nigeria shuts its borders blaming smuggling and tax evasion. despite a slowing economy continues with its infrastructure spending ahead of the fifa world cup talk to qatar airways c.e.o.

about airport expansion as rival dubai puts its project on hold. plus can't count on build on the success of homegrown giants al-jazeera and b. in sport by attracting more media companies to set up shop here. in a world where nations are grouping together to form trading blocks replicate the best of the best the european union it's somewhat strange that one nation is leaving but this week's show isn't about bragg's it this is about africa's decision to create an economic bloc that could become the next european union in may of this year a new economic bloc was born $24.00 nations came together to form the africa continental free trade area and the aim of the block is to increase trade between nations by tearing down trade barriers if all $54.00 nations join the combined spending and investment power are estimated to be 4 trillion dollars it's a huge market for businesses to tap into with

a population of 1200000000 just to highlight the potential trade between nations on the continent is roughly about 20 percent that compares to 69 percent in the european union but absent from the original group was the region's biggest economy nigeria alone it did finally put pen to paper but for the past 2 months nigeria's borders have been closed imports the government says it's needed to stop illegal goods being smuggled in and criminals moving freely and it argues that products are being diverted to. bring countries to avoid paying duties in nigeria's 4 ports but it's led to people in nigeria paying more for food especially rice al-jazeera as ahmed addressed reports now from that i'd been mean borda have been stuck here at the nigeria binny border for 2 months. court by a sudden change in government policy they're not allowed to go forward and can't go back. has been importing and exporting goods for 23 years he says he's never

seen anything like this here come wipe out government should hand over to us goods that we've already paid import duty for we have more than $500.00 trucks on the bin the republic side of the border many of the goods are damaged some businessmen say they have lost hundreds of millions of dollars since the middle of august when the government ordered the borders to be closed imports. this is one of the reasons the government says it's shut because it's illegally imported rice. officials say the flow of contraband into nigeria is killing its economy and production and opening the door to criminals and weapons. we feel lost in this that. there are. plenty of big broad. have been exploited by some members

and therefore we have a duty and responsibility to engage in legitimate actions that would be. better secure our people and more importantly stimulate and only of our people. the port of cotton or in ben in is 120 kilometers from lagos nigeria officials say many goods from coated or smuggled past customs inspectors. summer is the busiest of nigeria's border towns connecting the port city of cotton or in been a problem with the country's commercial capital lagos business to be a very important trading point for imported goods especially right now in this market i mean there is little traffic since now you know close its borders the government hopes that shutting down the borders will stop because from smuggling lugo got into the country. the security clampdown as forced up the prices of goods

in markets and there are shortages in some places the government says the measures will grow nigeria's economy in the long term officials say in the 1st 2 weeks of the border closures revenues from import duty went to by more than 5 percent but that left many nigerians concerned about rising cost of food stuff. we don't get regular supplies of food stuff here in se me no food is getting in across the border and no food reaches us here from legal us we are in a fix the government says it wants to stop smugglers and criminals who pose a bigger threat to the country and its economy and will keep the borders closed for now it is always good to invite back to counting the cost peter. peter is head of capital markets research at south africa based in tel it x. joins us now via skype from london peter so nigeria joined the africa continental free trade area late and then it closed its borders not

a great start or are these just teething problems do you think. well great to be back i think the key message from this base this is a very long road until a huge potential for can continental free trade agreement can really be realized that there's been so much written and spoken about the upside from the agreements the connecting together of various from value chains and supply hubs around the continent really mapping apart from where we are head to the operation of this thing is going to be incredibly hard i was in washington last week at the owner daniel meeting to try to suss out a little bit of that timeline and basically it's impossible to really sketch out any meaningful view of where we are going to be when i think it's going to be very incremental and really we have to watch the creation i think a regional hubs 1st of the bench you get the blame opened up for to clean things like common in fact thing where you can have quite distributed supply chains around

the region but the full whack continental agreements going to take i inquired a long time to see in any meaningful sense because it will this year the very least give africa more klaus all the international stage read the go sating with the likes of huge trade books like the e.u. or countries like china the us. some lot but i think we have to remember the ultimately country trade by the afternoon between africa and these large super powers not as a as a bloc so clearly linking in certain value chains and into a larger market is important and that is negotiations but this isn't the african union negotiating bilateral or multilateral free trade agreement so i think it will only add somewhat of an upside to really africa continental reach any agreement is about opening up internal trade shifting the trade focus of africa which so dominated by out would trade the rest the world's more in would trade between countries naturally the untapped potential that is going to lift the region's

potential growth there in the media room now russia's president putin has recently hosted 50 african states in sochi isn't russia a bit late to the posse he couldn't really compete on investment grounds. well you have an interesting almost the range of these different conferences you had typed out a few months ago which is a japanese action and then never spoke act the chinese can last year and basically everyone wants a piece of this pie i think the cleverest states will be able to keep open investment environment and be able to settle these countries in different ways but really i think the interesting insincere in what comes with the field i think is very easy to see a lot of money on the table but it's the not the economic condition the the political conditionality that comes with a low there's which i think i have to be watched and argue on the chinese front increasingly alarm bells being rung about the conditionality of the chinese

required to operate in a country the covenants they have on loans as well about ownership in the futures now we see in some places in asia and i think we should see similar questions in mind regarding russian investment into into africa so we shouldn't preclude money on the table but be very careful about what the most is are actually and states seem to be steering clear of it but like europe would a single currency be good for africa but it's very hard to see how that would really happen i think in any meaningful timeframe mag given the lack of free trade area at the moment that is obviously a long run goal that the african union hires laid out and pollard the free trade agreement by i think. trying to forecast is really impossible are in the trying to forecast in the past countries like 7 others joining the euro. over the long run that's a sort of a not a game i think that in africa we're talking probably a $58.00 timeline before we see a single currency coming on later it's always great stories here on counting the cost but effects of these are being with us thank you. it's been

a fair while since we last reported on the nation that we broadcast from so we're going to focus on cata in this next half of the show despite a blockade and the economy contracting by 1.4 percent in the 2nd quarter the country continues to embark on projects that will sustain the economy after the 2022 world cup we're going to take a look at 2 of them now the 1st is an expansion of how mad international airport to handle more than 50000000 passengers from the current 35000000 now that's in sharp contrast to dubai which is the regional aviation powerhouse work on its 150000000 passenger airport has been put on hold but there's also stiff competition from other nations creating transport hubs turkey's airports will ultimately handle 200000000 people a year. al jazeera is hashem how about i met with the c.e.o.

of qatar airways and secretary general of the cattle national tourism council. he asked him 1st if qatar airways was going to deliver the expansion of how about international airport in time for the 2022 fee for world cup at that anyways we always deliver everything on time it is my mend it. my country requires that solidity be ready before the 2022 fee for world cup and we will deliver by the grace of god the terminal expansion on time you're aiming for more than $60000000.00 passengers in the near future is a bishop but at the same time it's challenging because it talking about what expenditure what investments infrastructure to put together this very delicate moment what do you mean by a delicate delicate moment has passed we are now 2 and a half years into the illegal blockade you can see that there is the economy is growing. at hamad the traffic is back to degrade his

back to pre block at times we are investing we are already as a matter of fact. above the capacity of the airport we will be closing. over $40000000.00 passengers by the end of this year and the capacity of the airport is only $35000000.00 so we are expanding the airport. to a capacity of 53000000 passengers initially when after 202254 world cup is over. we will then expand the capacity to just under 70000000 passengers by completing the concourse on the west apron next to the west and to the runway so what this will do is to will give us enough room to keep on growing and delivering the the plans we have and the strategy cut that it was has for up to

2030 because of a blockade can you give us an idea about how you're coping with with it protected from a financial perspective well as far as the financial impact is the impact is huge but we have mitigated the impact by deducing our losses. don't forget that. an airline that flies on an average 20 to 25 minutes extra due to the blockade is a huge impact on the bottom line of the company especially since we are not a small airline we have over 6 $150.00 departures and arrivals a day so this is putting a huge financial pressure on the airline but we are sustaining it over revenues in the last financial year was 20 percent higher than the previous year

so you can see that we are on the correct path. delivering the growth that that their airways has in its strategy we've seen you work in different strategies like acquiring stakes in different airlines and launching new routes is this part of the strategy aimed at cushioning against the impact of the blockade exactly but that airways has to find alternate revenue stream and taking stake in successful airlines is exactly that the strategy you're pursuing an aggressive approach when it comes to having access to open skies like in the u.s. for example but. you seem to be having some problems when it comes to access could you give us an idea about the latest developments of president trump is a businessman he met the airlines including me it was very kind of him to invite me so that he would hear the board sides of the argument and we prevailed

because he realized that the information that was being given to him by the 3 american carriers was wrong that it did not have really the facts and that all the reasons they were doing to block a lot of open sky was to protect their on massive profits and take away the choice that people have to fly on. high quality. high standards of product airline like that that it was you have america's also sees from a different perspective like for example the slums some tariffs on saying that for example is taken subsidies from government in the law as i said i said that is not my problem but do you have any concern. as any president will do president trump is looking at the interest of the manufacturing. entities

in his country he is looking after the interest of the united states and if they find that there is something that is giving them a business this advantage it is their problem it is not for me to comment on it so you seem to be quite confident this is just a matter of time before you get a limited access to the american skies when we are an airline we are not an aircraft manufacturer we have access to american market as per the air services agreement we have in the united states you've signed a pact or an agreement with the e.u. that would pave the way for a limited access to skies from both sides by 2024 you've said earlier that you have absolutely no issue with sharing the cake with the others but a huge chunk of the cake it could be very crucial at a time when you're looking for more growth and revenues no i think in air

transportation that is enough business. to go around there is big enough for everybody to take a share of it you seem to be also talking about the need to put into place this global harp here in qatar you look at the at the map this is one of the most unstable regions in the world did i do they carry their huge i disagree to who used you see was how it is not a stable region there are certain west that western interests that is putting this information about an unstable region there is conflicts in every part of the world either internal or external but it doesn't mean that the whole region is unstable and the us stable spots in our region at created by people to give a misperception in order to entice foreign

powers to interfere in our region stability thank you really appreciate your time thank you very much indeed all another huge investment project is catarrh our media says he hopes to compete with well established hubs in the united arab emirates but qatar has paid a huge price for not buckling to demands from its neighbors to shut down al-jazeera qatar hopes to build on al-jazeera success and there have been sport which owns the rights to broadcast the english premier league in the mena region i caught up with safe been. the chairman of qatar's media city and director of the government communications office i began by asking how do you compete with the likes of the u.a.e. which has already attracted some pretty big names look at qatar media city as. as a platform. you can't compare it to dubai. world it is a listed project where i provide your space you bring your equipment. you

broadcast to me it's different to me. get out of media city is a step up of all of these media cities why why because it will be installed with the latest technologies for you to come onboard cust it will be. up to date networks archives at it. and lots of you know other other projects that i cannot discuss so i know. but it will be an ecosystem is what i'm seeing an ecosystem that will go with the flow of the country and the last 23 years. has. approved a free zone approved by the media corp we are in within this ecosystem some media companies have complained that when they visit here

they're not free to travel and to report on what they would like to report on will there be restrictions on what companies can and can't say if they're based doha's media city i don't think that it's got i think there are a few cases were some journalists and you know private property you know i cannot help that i cannot control that i wish i can but i cannot. these cases are a handful of cases. media city has done an ethics code the will nor be there will not be any editorial limits. the editorial to the editor himself will be all the major media outlets himself will be irresponsible to for what he writes so we'll see if one example edges iraq or the b.b.c. or whoever a media outlets the right set of porth about the u.a.e.

that have started the the u.a.e. cannot kind of cannot come and complain in qatar about that piece it would need to go to the edge q. of the mother country so here we book the last. of that sort of. that sort of things. but of course commercial differences and that will be settled through the leisure center of. course the big attraction of being in the middle east from a media companies point of view is the fact that it's a it's a hub to the rest of the world geographically it's that it's the center of the world but at the moment because of the blockade it's very difficult for companies if they're based here to get to the u.a.e. or saudi arabia or egypt why would they come here 1st of all i don't know of saudi arabian uni allow journalists to come in unless. you know it's

the. second or for. that action point is that cut out of media city is more than just media. it is a platform it is a platform for nettled think intern and with an external with xterm that in turn the academics journalists i could think of. social influence of students the general society we are creating a community that is what we are doing we are not just being. a real estate company like what the others have done and that is why the field is because the beast the strategy on being just a project rather than it being a media. matter purely media and media plus

a platform for local and international society to network with each other and that is what we are doing. castro has paid a high price for standing by al-jazeera despite calls from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. that have it shut down. is there a price worth paying i mean qatar's economy or contracted in the last quarter. as a culture as a religion as a tradition that is out of beasts there's a foundation. we talk a lot about openness i'm not going to tell you and lie to you and tell you we're going to be a 1000 percent open. we will have limits our limits is people's flosi our limits as people skull chips not just my culture or your cultures other people's cultures respecting one of the one of our perspectives i love the decisions respecting other religion but rather see it as a platform for discussion

a platform for dialogue and that is what makes qatar unique from others no closing down a dizzy or. excuse me but you're talking 2017 and past 2017 saudia and you we are still talking about this they are still living in 2017 we have moved on from 2017 and. i think the people have seen we have done the permanent president of the on that a year ago. we have a few 1000 people between. exposed to the earth's. children who are mothers of our other categories that have already gotten that a part of it as

a person that now we do not brag about it because there's something private. i am only saying get to do it to show you. what style we are on the outside. so i saw the changes that are happening in qatar. whether it's the media city whether it's the free zone these are the changes that are showing you and. us that we are moving forward they are stuck in 2017 we are moving beyond 2017 excellency it's been really good to talk to you on counting the cost many thanks indeed thank you so arts thank you for allowing. that's our show for this week if you'd like to comment on anything that we've seen you could tweet me i'm a finnigan on twitter please use the hash tag a.j.c. to see what you do or you could drop us a line currently because to al-jazeera dot net is our e-mail address as always

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internment and mass indoctrination children are now in the process of reeducation or chinese assimilation forced labor and the use of high tech surveillance we're being complicit in the human rights abuses that are trying. to china's systematic repression of the week tell the world on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello and welcome to the al-jazeera news our live from our headquarters in doha with me it is a problem coming up in the next 60 minutes not backing down and government protests continue across iraq despite a rising death toll. the chilean president response from more than

a 1000000 people rallying against the government saying he's heard their message. new details emerge in the u.k. laurie death a vietnamese mother shares the harrowing details of her daughter's final moments. with all the day's sport england have beaten 2 men favorites new zealand in the rugby world cup semifinals to book a place in next week's finals where they will meet either south africa always. we begin with the latest from iraq where the death toll continues to rise a day after the violent protests the young iraqis aren't given up with many spend the night in baghdad 32 square or 42 people are now dead and more than. 2008 after friday's protests i'm happy with the government's promised reforms or protests

protests erupted around the country a curfew has now been imposed in 8 southern provinces including basra and karbala demonstrators are demanding the resignation of government leaders as well as an end to corruption and economic hardship in the oil rich country. with the ball inside me what can i see the protesters are peaceful disagree the forces are the one who are attacking us the one who are shooting at us the ones who keep us see here for 5 minutes and you'll see for yourself is ready for no reason. that's going to talk correspondent tashi good and she is joining us live from the iraqi capital so what is the situation there today natasha off to such a deadly day of protests. it's another tense day here in tahrir square in baghdad you might be hearing. any time now one just when are stun grenades that are being used to disperse crowds again it looks like it's the same scenario people are trying to reach a barricade to

a bridge that would lead to the green zone where there are offices of top officials and the united states embassy but people here are furious that they are showing the canisters of tear gas canisters of tear gas and what looks like the rightness of these stun grenades saying that this is really the iranian government shooting at us and that we're peaceful and they continue to say that they want the government to go there was a sit in overnight here in times square i don't know if you can see the tents behind me you can see the ambulances which are headed to the hospital fearing people are pretty consistently by the way for the last several hours but in any event several 100 people spent the night here and there were other citizens across the country in iraq overnight but protests were of violence particularly in the towns in the south in one town. a dozen government and political party office buildings were torched by protesters in another town called me out or made

a sign that pardon me people who lost their loved ones during the protest say they plan to exact revenge and in basra protests according to the government protesters stormed military humvees but people here in tahrir square say they are peaceful many people tell us that they were sleeping in those tents behind me and they woke up to the sounds of a stun grenades they're saying we don't want 2 to die we want our dignity we want the right to peacefully protest and people are asking for the international community to step in and ensure that that. the government is saying that it is not targeting peaceful protests it is only targeting criminals. and the chacha what is their plan what is the government's plan to deal with this on vest both in the short term with the protests and long term since their proposed reforms haven't appeased protest as asshole. it seems the one reform that people want is for this government to go they believe that the 16 years of governments that they

allowed did has failed to offer them better economic opportunities to be able to offer them the 6 services things we take for granted like electricity and clean water to drink and i spoke to a man who has his 2 year old son came from the northern town of its purpose to baghdad he worked for the ministry of interior for the 2 years he lost his job 4 months ago while he was on the job he actually suffered an injury and he says nothing from the government no pension no house here so that really gives you a sense of the anger that people are feeling a quick word short time ago the ministry of interior did release a statement again saying that criminal elements disrupted the peaceful nature of these protests that it has no intention of not allowing people to protest and a few violate people's rights to do so but they said that they've arrested scores of people for attacking government and political party officers offices they also

say that there were many casualties among security forces we don't know yet elizabeth just how many of those kinds of things might be among the security forces though we do know that 42 protesters have died since friday. natasha thank you for that for now that the talks are going to end with a nation is live in baghdad let's get more on this we're joined now by sami hamdi a middle east analyst and editor at international interest and he's joining us live from london this to have always good to have you with us on al-jazeera so as has been saying at least 40. 2 people killed 149 people killed before friday since protests began on october 1st we are hearing that they did take a violent turn yesterday but what is that you know the desperation that we're seeing sometimes the violence you know tell us about the situation for iraqis. i think 1st and foremost and for the german this isn't the 1st mass protest in recent times during the summer we had the protests across the southern cities against

corruption against the problems with electricity and the like and 2 years ago the protests even managed to get to the parliament they entered the green zone they stormed the parliament and the hate that had been these time but because they had no leadership no alternative system no alternative party to put in place it slowly dissipated after the iranian backed militias came and threatened large segments of society and it's these scare tactics that we're seeing today the iraqis want the basic rights of any citizen around the world but the reality is that this government which is heavily influenced on one side by the iranians heavily influenced on the one side by the americans with sporadic a militia is pro iran spread across the country that's even more powerful than the iraqi army itself these are trying to make sure that this system stays in place and the other dynamic that not many people are talking about and which is actually quite painful to see is that iraqi society itself is very divided we have to remember that this government came about very elections it's true that some of these elections were corrupt however many iraqis actually voted on sectarian lines

and therefore it produced a sectarian government and these parties rewarded their loyalists with public sector jobs and the like the reality is that while the protesters are all united in their basic rights they are not united over who should give them and when push comes to shove the fear factor of politics pushes them back into the sectarian lines and this is the reality this is the problem that iraq has will these protests be able to transcend those tarion lines will they be able to transcend those fear tactics and don't want them to become as things do they don't do you think that they will be able to because from what we've seen so far actually these protests seem to have been crossed sectarian so far and there are a lot of calls a common call actually in this latest round of protests has been for iran to stop interfering especially after the reports that the iranian backed popular mobilisation forces were using snipers to kill protesters.

i agree entirely i think with the way we look at these protests this is the main thing that we're monitoring but we have to remember just one year ago the popular mobilization force were being hailed as heroes in iraq they were being hailed as the main forces that push back i says so in other words the public mood is still quite fickle i think was that in a wait and see period when we're looking at the protests today like i said we have to remember that at one point they reached parliament and actually threatened to bring down the entire government but the failure of the new leadership the same you to have an alternative that the sudden was allowed to write that momentum and went into elections but didn't manage to secure a majority because when push comes to shove there are key protests there's always seemed to dissipate when the push comes to shove so no demands to be see it's clear that the iranians are very scared it's clear the shia militias are very scared which is why they're setting up sniper pose and why they're trying to implement it tactics to push the people back into their homes it's clear that there is fear within those government ranks however does that will that cause you to change how

it will change look like on this final point to the guys to change if we're looking at tunisia if we look at egypt if we look at libya and the transitions that took place there it was people protesting and then the army would come in remove the government and give the power to the people via the democratic elections iran doesn't have a powerful army that is capable of doing that because the militias are stronger than the army so when you look at it practically and my aim is hopefully that to encourage the protesters in order to make sure that they can bring about these rights but let's talk about it practically if the protesters go to the streets and the shia militias attack them and then what force will come to the street to protect them are the army capable of standing up to the militias in the past they haven't been able to stand up to the militias so practically how is this going to work this is why everybody in terrified about ones like you know it could be a bloodbath to have day we thank you very much for your time your insights on this very important story we do appreciate it for now that is live in london thank you. we're moving on to other news now and chile's president says he's heard the message

after more than a 1000000 people turned up for a protest against his the government at least 19 people have died in the unrest that's been sweeping the south american nation manuel rapper reports from santiago . more than 1000000 people have taken to the streets of the chilean capital to protest for the 7th day in a row it is a historic moment there's never been this many people on the streets at least since 1988 people are comparing this to the 1988 march where a 1000000 people march on the streets of the chilean capital to mark the beginning of the end of the pinochet dictatorship friday was an eventful day not only in santiago but in other parts of the country involved but i saw at the national congress protesters attempted to storm the national congress interrupting a session of of representative sending every everyone home and the big concern with so many people out on the streets well over a 1000000 people out on the streets on the 7th night of a military and forced curfew is that things will remain peaceful this has been one

of the reasons people been so angry over the course of the past week since the unrest began in the heavy handed response from police and armed forces with these tear gas water cannons and even live ammunition to to disperse the crowd but we want to give you an idea of what this is been like for the average delay and take a look. at a small fishing village just south of santiago chile. and other fishermen are getting ready to head out to see. things here appear calm but a state of emergency remains in effect in the country and it's a subject that's on everyone's mind. what's happening in the country isn't about politics this is a social problem. if any president has announced reforms to social programs in an effort to calm the crisis but who says says people have lost confidence in political leaders. the president of the republicans only passed a wound but there is still a wound on a new.