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 growth is

back to 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 new routes is this part of the strategy aimed at cushioning against the impact of the blockade exactly but there 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 that 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 efficient high quality. high standards of product airline like that it was of 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 that i say 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 disadvantage 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 could be very crucial at a time when you're looking for more growth and revenues no. i think in air transportation there 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 the huge i disagree to the who used inserts you see was how it is we're not in a stable region there are certain west the west that interest 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 are 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 catalyst 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 that have been sport which owns the rights to broadcast the english premier league in the mena region i caught up with safe been ahmed al thani the chairman of qatar 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 to divide. it is a real estate project where i provide your spirits you bring your appointment you

broadcast to me it's different to me. cut out a 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 on broadcast it will be. up to the networks archives. and lots of you know other other projects that i cannot discuss i know. but it will be an ecosystem is what i'm seeing an ecosystem that will go with the flow of the country now and the last 23 years. has. approved a free zone approved media corp we are all in within this ecosystem some media companies have complained that when they visit here

they're not free to travel and 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 beauteous 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 made the media outlet himself will be irresponsible to for what he writes so see if one example edges iraq or the b.b.c. or whoever a media outlets but i sort of porth about the u.a.e. that i've cited the the u.a.e.

cannot kind of cannot come and complain. about that piece it would need to go to the queue or the mother country so here we book the last 2 or 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 internal with. external with external internal academics journalists i could think of social social influence of students the general society we are creating a community that is what we have to we are not just being. a real estate company like what the others have done and that is why they failed 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 a contract to do 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 no we will have limits our limits is people's flosi our limits is people skull chips not just my culture or your cultures other people's cultures respecting one of the one of our perspective of the additions respecting other religion but rather see it as a platform for discussion and

a platform for dialogue and that is what makes qatar unique from others no closing down or does iraq. excuse me but you are talking 2017 and past 2017 saudi 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. a year ago. we had a few 1000 people between. ex-pats thirtieth'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 to show you. what style we are on the outside. so i saw the changes that are happening in qatar. whether it's qatar media city whether it's the free zone these are all changes that are showing you and 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 it's thank you for having. that's our show for this week if you'd like to comment on anything that we've seen you can 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 because to al-jazeera dot net is our e-mail address as always there's plenty more few online at al-jazeera dot com slash c.t.c. that takes you straight to our page and there you'll find individual reports links

even entire episodes for you to catch up on but that's it for this edition of county because i'm adrian finnegan from the whole team here in doha thanks for being with us al-jazeera is next. strangers from across new york with a claim in common abuse at the hands of a prominent priest and a shot of rows back to dance and grab hopefully handles the to stop and just sit there than it's full kline's gains exclusive access to the accusers and questions the accused how long do you think that cardinal dolan will contain and protect you as more men come out in the latest chapter in a scandal that shaken the catholic church to its foundations in bad faith on a. a survivor of the genocide there are people who beg me to kill the bathroom when they're suffering new but it didn't have the power to do it he's dedicated his life to searching the woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. and

here is the. you know hope of finally laying the past to rest and giving peace to the victims' families. i can just find a finger i could bury him bone hunter on al-jazeera. determined and defiant iraq has continued to protest against corruption and poverty despite the deaths of 63 people and today. hello i'm daryn jordan this is out of their life and also coming up spanish riot police charge at demonstrators in barcelona in a rally in support of jail separatist leader plus chile's president demands

a resignation was untucked the wake of huge empty government protests. and while local elections are a test for the president and a peace agreement in colombia. more than 60 people have been killed in 2 days of demonstrations against iraq's government influential shift. is calling for the prime minister to resign and m.p.'s linked to him are staging a sit in the parliament as natasha the reports now from baghdad demonstrators are refusing to give up on their demands for change. protestors in baghdad spent a 2nd day confronting security forces as they attempted to breach this barrier their aim was to march across. the bridge to government offices in the fortified green zone protesters have been in tahrir square are brown macaque since thursday evening they say some have been attacked without provocation in the early morning

hours while journalists aren't around we want to make sure that we will just demonstrate in a safe way as we want that we want that we want to get killed that i don't want to die today i want to have a good country about $200.00 iraq ease have been killed since the latest in thai government protests began at the beginning of this month people are angry about the lack of jobs corruption discrimination and the cost of living prime minister idle abdul mahdi has promised various reforms but he's refusing to meet the protesters main demand that he resigns along with his government he says that would create chaos in garden identify what they see on their couches in the shooting us what do they think chickens the spring take us on us do we need more tears all mata's either die or topple the government the ministry of interior released

a statement on saturday condemning the people it says attacked security forces and vandalized government and political party buildings a spokesman says they did not use excessive force and they're committed to protecting the human rights of peaceful protesters amid the stun grenades and tear gas we met at the noon and his 2 year old son if not by senate had met 18 years i work with the minister of interior and my reward was being fired i have been protesting here and trying to get another contract for 4 months every day they give us promises to call mas i say tomorrow i have nothing i bet who dares says he's protesting for the chants his 4 children might have a future he wants hope for 2003 i have. and get a life a simple life and a happy life off the 2000 city i lose my job my family destroyed my future

destroyed members of parliament were due to meet on saturday but the session was canceled because not enough of them turned up with the country in crisis protesters see that as yet another example of a government deaf to their demands tashi going to aim al-jazeera baghdad well it's mild saddam you served in the iraqi army he says the system of government top of the u.s. invasion is incapable of solving the country's problems. iraqis are furious because lack of services lack of jobs and so and so but the area of current phone demento region where that is the broken political system that produces consensual governments since 2003 until today that based on the secretary of nickel you know kota distribution of the official positions among the you know high ranking positions in the

government that has also led to you know surprising corruption among the political elites depriving the people from their rights the real search for this you know hassle situation if the government should make a real serious reform in the political system in the electoral system also you know iraqis require real democracy ideal democracy not a democracy that you know disappeared between the what do you call parties and unfortunately as well because parties are owning you know militias and armed forces that serve their own interests and this is not the ideal democracy that

everyone everybody in iraq wanted to be for turkey has once again threatened to send millions of refugees towards europe if the e.u. doesn't support its so-called safe zone in northern syria and turkey as leaders have been angered by the way a nato ally described it syria fence of some of the nj of a reports now from our jacqueline on the border. for fighting in syria between kurds and turkish backed syrian rebels in videos uploaded by kurdish fighters they say they're defending the. positions outside the so-called safe zone south of the towns of. fighters who formed a coalition called the syrian national army or any deny they are making any territorial gains for. president there he says 5 soldiers were wounded in attacks record as fighters who are reportedly being backed by syrian government forces although no one has claimed responsibility turkish military sources accuse the kurds of carrying out 4 bombings in the last 4 days within the safe zone the fighting is happening despite an agreement for

a 6 day pause forces loyal to syria's president bashar al assad have moved into towns and villages outside of the 30 kilometer boundary agreed by russia and turkey and russian military police as well as soldiers from chechnya patrolling areas and that kurdish control and. they are implementing the agreement under which the kurds will leave their positions inside the safe zone turkey is a nato member and its dealings with russia in syria have not been welcomed by many of its western allies before arriving in ankara germany's foreign minister called turkey's offensive against the kurds and invasion as did. we were told the proposal on creating an international safe zone is not a realistic suggestions that's why we use the time to deal with those issues which are important for the people in syria right now the issue of what happens with the ceasefire after 150 hours and the issue of how humanitarian aid continues with those who are fleeing in syria the invasion comment outraged turkey's leaders they

say european allies don't share the burden of refugees and refused to support turkey's operation against fighters who are designated a terrorist group by the european union. from bilateral issues we found this a good opportunity to talk about the syrian issue as a whole i also focused on the fact that the u.s. and russia have recognized the developments in the field with the spring operation there are so many imes of that operation one of them is to return the syrian refugees we. to clean the syria from the terrorist organizations. he says that safe zone is meant to create a space for refugees to return but more people have been displaced since turkey began its military operation in syria almost 3 weeks ago the world food program says 176000 people have so far fled the fighting and if they are left. barely mentioned to escape to save ourselves and our children they provided some blankets and fruit but. this is how we are living the 150.

turkey and russia expires on tuesday the us president says he expects a permanent ceasefire and has warned of reinforcing a comic sanctions in turkey if ceasefire violations take place but turkish president is adamant that he wants to establish the 30 kilometer deep so on inside syria to repatriate more than 3000000 syrian refugees with or without the support of his allies solomon job with al-jazeera a truck and the turkey syria border. let's give you some breaking news just coming into us here we're getting reports that the u.s. has conducted a raid targeting the isolator. baghdadi there are no substantive details of the operation and there are conflicting reports about whether or not it was successful the u.s. magazine newsweek citing a u.s. army official briefed on the results of the operation said that al baghdadi was killed in the raid it's important to note however that baghdad has been reported have been killed before the story of course as we get it here at al-jazeera. just

plain now where parts of central boss alona turn into a battleground between police and protesters following a largely peaceful march police use battens and charge that police had been throwing bottles and rocks is the latest mass demonstration in support of council and separatist leaders who've been jailed for their part in an independence referendum that was deemed to be illegal some of the bigger has more now from boston out. earlier this evening at least 350000 people had gathered in the center of barcelona to demand the release of the 9 cattle on politicians and activists have been sentenced for sedition nearly 2 weeks ago after that as we have seen all week they broke off into a smaller group but still quite a huge number of them and made their way over here to the outside of the national spanish police headquarters now this is a site which has seen trouble breaking out the days now and always has been one of

the points of where violent actions and activities and clashes between the police and the protesters have been taking place but of course also the tensions from that sentencing are still very much frightened that amman's also being made alongside more dialogue between the central government in madrid and the capital on government but in an election season where both sides of this argument are not backing down it's looking very unlikely that a dialogue in this kind of environment is going to take place argentina's conservative president morrissey a mockery is almost certain to be thrown from office on sunday when polls pointing to a heavy defeat has left his rival out but often and as has campaigned on my failure to deal with growing poverty the worsening economy and soaring inflation and that is his running mate is the next president christina cash who's on the brink of a remarkable comeback despite court cases involving accusations of bribery money

laundering and corruption. chile's president disaster all of his government ministers to resign after the clearing he's heard the message from mass protests sebastian pinera also says he wants to end the state of emergency a nationwide curfew was ignored by a 1000000 people on friday were out on the streets protesting against inequality 1000 people have been killed in 2 weeks of unrest. but i want to announce to all my compatriots that if circumstances allow i intend to lift 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 money on apollo has more now from santiago. on saturday chile's president. announced sweeping reforms both to his cabinet and to economic policy within the country announcing that he had called.