we have to keep fighting. demonstrators are calling for more protests in the coming days saying what they want is the 1st of the new cheating no matter how long it takes. 200 apple algis eda. auditing as conservative president to say i'm not crazy almost certain to be thrown from office on sunday with polls pointing to a heavy defeat has left his rival out but often and as has campaigned on macrae's fane have to deal with growing poverty the western economy and soaring inflation and on his running mate his ex president cristina cash now is on the brink of a remarkable comeback despite court cases involving accusations of bribery money laundering and corruption well robert valencia has a latin america analyst and also the former deputy editor of newsweek he says michael is declining popularity as a result of his inability to fix the economy problem is that he did not deliver what he promised early when he launched his presidential you know bad word for

argentina argentina is prognosticated to have the highest the 3rd highest inflation in the world behind venezuela and zimbabwe the economy outlook is really bleak for argentina i think the problem here is that market over problem is too much it 2050 he promised to bring down poverty down to 0 he promised that he was going to. ease the control over money exchange and he will stamp capital flight but many of these things did not happen and when he opened the market to. other international markets for say the argentine peso as we've heard. the increasingly devaluated. time for a short break here now does iraq when we come back doctors nurses and paramedics join protests in hong kong accusing police of brutality. and public family scramble out of the path of wildfires in the u.s.

state of california one that. while we have plenty of heavy rain across all southern and eastern sections of the united states is streaming out through the eastern seaboard in the last year as but it's not where he wants it we need the rain of course out towards the west on the temperatures abhi getting to come down but the winds are still very strong this isn't in california this is just across the border into the baja peninsula this is actually to you want to look at this because here again the firefighters have been fighting the blazes they've been found again by these very strong santa ana winds but as i said the temperatures are coming down but on sunday we do expect the winds to actually increase throughout much of this region they could at times just about 120 kilometers an hour meanwhile the central plains we've got this cold air coming through and the small snow in the fork on sunday and monday across into denver look at the temperature minus one celsius very early to be that cold it should be around

20 degrees this time of year meanwhile it's a much better day monday to start the week across much of the east 20 celsius in washington and 18 in new york city plenty of scottish across much of the caribbean is a better day sunday across the bahamas the rain is further to the south quite a bit of rain pushing through western areas of cuba and again we'll see areas of rain generally through much of central america but it's also an improving picture into southern mexico so a few showers into mexico city with a high of 22. just to. make. sure africa middle east. on. stage made. a connection makes the state of the becoming spritzed seek such

a short so i took. this field. goal. welcome back to the top stories here on the al-jazeera iraq's human rights commission says 63 people have been killed in just 2 days of protests across the country m.p.'s linked to. a certain appalling. parts of central barcelona have turned into a battleground between police and protesters following a largely peaceful march is the latest mass demonstration in support of catherine separatist leaders who've been jailed and president has asked all of us government

ministers to resign that apparently is how the message of mass protests nationwide curfew was ignored by a 1000000 people on friday were out in the streets protesting against an equality. now that you can drive a truck in which $39.00 bodies were found has been charged with manslaughter and people trafficking a 5th suspects also been arrested as more families in vietnam expressed fear that their loved ones are on the victims but in baba reports. as the search for answers continues police say they're working day and night on the case several people are now being held one man for more than oil and has been charged with $39.00 counts of manslaughter conspiracy to traffic people conspiracy to assist a lawful immigration and money laundering. the process of formally identifying the bodies won't start until they've been examined to determine what caused the death of the $31.00 men and 8 women the whole process is forensic the recovery process was forensic and the fact actually we have to gain so much information as we go

through to make sure that we don't miss anything all of that takes time and it will continue unfortunately to take time initially local police said the victims were all chinese nationals now it's thought at least some were from vietnam the u.k. based community group b. at home says it's received photos of nearly 20 people reported missing from vietnam since the lorry was discovered east of london early on wednesday. this priest in vietnam says he's liaising with family members of suspected victims he get them in the night. when i learned the news of the people who died on the way to the u.k. in search of a new life not only the district again 10 but perhaps the whole country is in sorrow this is a tragedy that the whole country has to bear british police are urging people who are in the u.k. illegally and might have useful information about the tragedy to get in touch that promising not to prosecute them over in belgium police are trying to find out who

delivered the refrigerated container to the port of zebra from where it set off for england g.p.s. data shows it had previously crossed back and forth between the u.k. and mainland europe in several thoughts he's have admitted such containers rarely get x. rayed and a never checked by heat sensors which would indicate stowaways 19 years ago 58 chinese migrants died from asphyxiation in a refrigerated truck in southern england that had come from xavier go. experts say people in poverty will carry on taking huge risks and fueling the lucrative people trafficking trade as long as they can travel legally not certainly not something that's unique to the k. 2 year up all over the world there are immigration restrictions that limit the ability for people to take a legal option and then they fall prey to. traffic. campaigners say hundreds of vietnamese people are trafficked to the u.k. each year often they're forced to work in slavery in nail salons or cannabis farms

nadine barber al jazeera. medical workers in hong kong have spoken out against what they say is police brutality months of anti-government protests have often ended in bloodshed lesa fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the chest as a medics are often caught in the middle difficult pollin has more from hong kong among these crowds are doctors nurses paramedics and other medical professionals they say they have several concerns so one of them is that they're not being honest to disclose to the police which of their patients were involved in the protest movement the other main concern is what they're calling the excessive use of force by the police against protesters radiographer in the hall park or hospital so. we have created quite a lot of citizen the house being arrested by the police after some of those kinds of. protests. and we saw or that

a lot of patience has been assaulted by the police protestors have 5 key demands one of them was met earlier this week when the hong kong government formally withdrew a proposed extradition law that law could have seen hong kong criminal suspects being sent to mainland china to face in the judicial system there that other main demand is an independent inquiry into what seen as excessive force used by the police but hong kong's chief executive has rejected this saying that one of her concerns is the reaction upon khan's 30000 strong police force they say they themselves are victims of violence they queues protesters among other things of throwing rocks and petrol bombs at police stations and the police called off to try thank you but that would be suicide by the people of course could of course. police have used what you can in tear gas rubber bullets and even live rounds against

protesters not long to go home from school eastward. regarded highly respected they were seen as one of the most professional institutions in the city but over the past 5 months or protests their reputation has theory rated dramatically. in the u.s. there's concern extreme winds may intensify wildfires in california they're expected to push one of those fires close to a major highway and put 2 cities at risk about 50000 people have been ordered to abandon their homes in wind but using areas just outside san francisco moment 2000 firefighters are battling the fires in both the north and south of the state. it's an interesting moment to be in because we're in it to support tory face that is obviously rather anxiety inducing and i just want to acknowledge things id the fear that people have about this moment not only we've had only 6 large wildfires up and

down this state the most significant the most familiar here in northern california the cape fire but also the tick fire in los angeles that alone creates exile but also this time of year and speak it creates anxiety you know have to go back very far 201820172015 all record years the most acute wildfires this state had ever experienced we're trying to avoid that fate a u.s. federal judge has ruled that the trump impeachment inquiry is legal the court rejected assertions on the president and his republican party allies the process is invalid because the full house of representatives hasn't voted to authorize it well the inquiry resumed on saturday with closed door testimony from a senior state department official breakup the diplomats portfolio includes ukraine the investigation largely centers allegations that try to use military aid to ukraine as a bargaining chip to get its government to investigate his potential white house

rival joe biden. a russian woman in jail in the u.s. for being a foreign agent has arrived home after being deported maria patino was released early for good behavior after serving most of her 18 month sentence she was convicted of conspiring to influence u.s. conservative activists and infiltrating the national rifle association and gun lobby. people in lebanon have stayed out late into the night after the 10th day of anti-government protests security forces were called to dismantle roadblocks in beirut protesters are urging a civil disobedience campaign until the government resigns leaders are accused of looting the country into bankruptcy. earlier fights broke out in the town of but near tripoli in the north the lebanese army says it fired shots into the air after it intervened to open a road being blocked by protesters several demonstrators were injured along with 5 soldiers. as the latest now from beirut. there isn't really a real leader to this movement you can see they belong to both sides it is my way

and what they're saying is that this kinds of civil disobedience campaign that they're calling it is the only way to keep the pressure on the government and what they want is for the government to resign but that hasn't happened yet so of course you read a stalemate it is 10 days on the government isn't going anywhere. on the streets the schools are closed banks are closed it's a real challenge so it's a bit of a stalemate and everyone you speak to will tell you they don't know how this is going to play out they don't now it's going to but certainly something at some point is going to get the government going to allow people to stay on the streets but the people say unless there's change and those people have been running this country for decades and that have caused it to become what it is we're not leaving so unpredictable times ahead. of a corruption unfolding living standards gripped yemen protesters gathered in the 2nd largest city in the government officials involved in alleged embezzlement the

value of yemen's currency is falling by hops since the start of the war in 2015 a saddam iraq to coalition has been supporting the government's fight against who the rebels have taken over much of the country egypt's president abdel fattah el-sisi has extended his country's state of emergency for another 3 months this is a tense time it's been renewed the state of emergency grants the president extra powers including restricting the freedom of assembly and movement and the right to monitor messages of any kind it was 1st imposed back in 2017 went to church bombings killed 45 people. several security officers have been injured in. the violence since india's. oldest. city.

in fact. since this entire area. many of them run inside. in this city. since. catholic bishops in across the amazon historic proposal to allow married men to become priests they're also calling for women to be given a higher ranking role in the church alexia brian explains. there's a lot in this scene at the vatican that would have looked exactly the same hundreds of years ago but some sentries old traditions of the roman catholic church could be

about to change. and reform there are some things to reform the church always has to reform itself. pope francis has been hosting bishops nouns and community leaders from the amazon to discuss challenges such as the destruction of the rainforest. but the most hotly debated question was whether to allow some married men to join the priesthood in remote locations where there aren't enough clergy to perform regular mass. the majority of the bishops also called for the vatican to look into whether women should be ordained as deacons a role currently reserved for the lame in who are allowed to preach bêtise witness marriages and perform funerals the pope admitted the church had yet to grasp the significance of women as women this 130 we need to underline this we do not realize the role of women in the church we just look at the functional part which is

important but the role of women in the church goes far beyond functionality. the group is a urging the church to recognise the unique spirituality cultures and needs of the amazonian faithful but it could have repercussions beyond this isolated territory some conservatives have warned that allowing such exceptions could lead to the global catholic church to ruin right now. he is a reject. he's opening the question. it's more important to preserve. the celibacy requirement it costs. have the many careers weed out greece for many many months every year. anger over the me a discussion of the proposal so some amazonian statues stolen from a church during the meeting and tossed into the tiber river though they were later

recovered i'm damaged but if the pope francis will consider the recommendations and report back by the end of the year but in a signal women have some way to go in the church well they could offer opinions on the ideas during the assembly they weren't allowed to cast a vote elixir brian al-jazeera huge crowds in taiwan have celebrated the annual pride parade 5 months after same sex marriage was legalized on the island about $200000.00 people took part in taipei taiwan it was the 1st place in asia to allow same sex couples to get now. our time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera iraq's human rights commission says 63 people have been killed in just 2 days of protests across the country and being linked to a popular shiite cleric who got us out of a staging a sit in

a parliament part of central barcelona have turned into a battleground between police and protesters following a largely peaceful march as the latest mass demonstration in support of catalan separatist leaders have been jailed for chile's president has asked all of his government ministers to resign after declaring he's had the message from mass protests and nationwide curfew was ignored by a 1000000 people on friday were out on the streets protesting against inequality. you don't see that. i want to announce to all my compatriots that if circumstances allow i intend to live to all the states of emergency starting at midnight on sunday i asked all ministers to resign in order to form a new government and to be able to respond to these new demands and to take charge of these new times argentina's conservative president what is your mockery is almost certain to be thrown from office on sunday with polls pointing to a heavy defeat his left his rival alberto fernandez have campaigned on mattress

failure to deal with growing poverty the worst an economy and soaring inflation. than under his running mate his ex president cristina karishma who's on the brink of a remarkable comeback despite court cases involving accusations of bribery money laundering and corruption. the u.k. drive a truck in which $39.00 bodies were found has been charged with manslaughter and people trafficking a 5th suspects also been arrested as more families in vietnam expressed fear that their loved ones are among the victims and medical workers in hong kong i've spoken out against what they say is police brutality months of anti-government protests have often ended in bloodshed lesa fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters and medics often caught in the middle in the u.s. state of california there's concern extreme winds may intensify wildfires about 50000 people have been ordered to abandon their homes and wind producing areas just outside san francisco more than 2000 firefighters are battling the fires in both

the north and south of the state well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the costs of after watching i felt. hello i'm adrian finighan 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 5th the

world cup talked to qatar airways c.e.o. about airport expansion as rival dubai puts its project on hold. plus can't count our build on the success of homegrown giants al-jazeera and be 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 now 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 neighboring 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 address reports now from the nigerian mean borda have been stuck. in the 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 bodum l.a. has been importing and exporting goods for 23 years he says he's a. never seen anything like this air come wipe out by government should they hand over to us goods that we've already paid import duty for we have more than 500 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 the stand only of people. the port of cotton or in ben in is 120 kilometers from lagos nigeria and officials say many goods from coated was 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 same 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 all 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 intel 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 feedback i think the key message from this base is a very long road until this huge potential and we're going continental pretoria didn't really realize that there's been so much written and spoken about the the upside from the agreements and the connecting together a very different value chains and supply hubs around the constant really mapping apart from where we are ahead of the operation of this thing is going to be incredibly hard i was in washington last week at the ins i'm your meetings trying to suss out a little bit of that timeline based it's impossible to really sketch out any meaningful view of where and where we are going to be when i think it's going to be very incremental and really we have to watch the uncreation i think a regional hub. that eventually get a plane opened up basically and things like karma passing where you can have quite

distributed supply chains around the region but the full whack continental agreements going to take and quite a long time to see in any meaningful sense because it will this year the very least give africa more klaus on the international stage when the go sating with the likes of huge trade books like the e.u. or countries like china the u.s. . 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 in those 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 pot 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 only things considered what comes with the deal that i think is very easy to see a lot of money on the table is the not the economic conditions outweigh 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 confidence they have on loans as well about ownership in the future is 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 and the moment that is obviously a long run goal that the african union hires laid out as 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 are 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 vicious 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 the degree it is 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 plans we have and the strategy cut that it was has for.