now this basically is fostering a collaborative environment and if chorus. the implementation might be at that of the challenge in terms of you know this is just going to test all parties well to sincerely implement these steps without trying to outsmart the other probably both parties at the government of yemen and the southern transitional council to gain favor with saudi arabia want to comply i want to show that they are the most reliable partner for the saudis and especially in their fight against the militias and this other transitional council saying we're going to provide 90000 trained men to help you with this fight and it's going to comply with their government and of course you know this earlier if saudi arabia is going to provide the financial component in terms of paying for the salaries for the soldiers then

you know of course there will be. a good basis for good cooperation and relationship and economic prosperity down the road the government has been backed by for some hand so it's also keen on maintaining this relationship in a sense saudi arabia's role is providing insurance is for both parties and perhaps without it this deal wouldn't happen brokered. still ahead on al-jazeera a key witness in the dollar trump impeachment inquiry defies congressional investigators and says he will not testify the committee's next step coming up plus the 2 parties have agreed to expeditiously on continuously. key players in syria's war set to hold talks of the evolving story of meeting.

set fire across china at the moment largely clear skies lots of sunshine around a little bit of fat with a cloud just drifting through those central parts but it will be essentially dry and sunny the west the weather is further south of us and very heavy rain just pushing into the philippines into central and southern parts of the. possibility of a developing tropical system this one really really heavy rain coming in here could well cools asama flash flooding that we have seen flooding rains recently across southern parts of india sri lanka we got warnings in the south of india to just around them all nadu carola into strong lanka further north it is generally dry and that's because we have the system at typhoon so we have trouble cycling out in the arabian sea which is pulling that west of weather out of the way here further north in new delhi again we could do some right here to clear the air is what we have filthy conditions once again air quality very very poor i'm afraid there's no sign

of any wet weather coming in here over the next couple of days the winds pick up a little little more in the way of play but it does stay dry the west of whether it will remain across eastern parts of india down into the south with more very heavy right for good potus lanka for the remainder of the week. on counting the cost of africa opens up its borders in the hope of emulating the success of the european union nigeria shops its borders blaming smuggling and tax evasion plus catalyst airport expansion and the creation of a regional media hub counting the cost on al-jazeera. is now one way of telling stories keeping is top right and to be i suspect it's great to get to know the person for the times to.

come back you're watching out of time to recap the headlines now voters in argentina have elected a new leader amid a worsening economic crisis president believes him actually conceded defeat to center left candidate out about a 5 man days but won more than 47 percent of the vote. the european union has agreed to give britain until the end of january to approve prime minister abbas johnston's breaks that deal britain was choose to leave in 3 days time but m.p.'s forced johnson to request another delay to give them more time to scrutinize and feel. a draft power sharing deal has been agreed between yemen's internationally recognized government and the southern separatist group james to when fighting in

the old city of a that which the southern transitional council seized in august. iraq's 2nd largest city mosul is still trying to rebuild after being virtually torn apart during the rise of i saw on the battle to retake it residents of the city of been recounting their stories of living under the armed group and expressing their joy at hearing the leader of daddy has been killed in a u.s. raid the actual name is more from their. this was the 1st city eisel took control love mosul was also the place where abu bakar l. baghdadi made his public debut in 2014 he came here to the grand el nuri mosque and proclaimed that he was the leader i thought ironically 3 years later i thought this centuries old mosque as it retreated when government forces regained control since

then people continue to live in sheer misery literally amid rubble more than 300000 residents of this city remain displaced and it seems everyone is weighed down by the trauma of living through i full atrocity you know then i don't we have been greatly harmed by this terrorist organization by those gangsters who have no distinction between the young and the old the muslims and non muslims everyone has been harmed in one way or another once we had the news we jumped for joy simply because we have suffered for years they have no mercy many families lost their loved ones because of those terrorists. the residents and they were all delighted by the death of the sinful person named abu dhabi he was the cause of destruction and i once were all delighted to hear the news this vicious man has smeared the religion he along with other i saw for it is have nothing to do with this i hope that. his cause tom to millions of people namely the residents of mosul no one was

spared the old the young men and women we were very happy to hear the news of his killing part of i told modus operandi was to attempt to erase the cultural heritage of iraq by destroying landmarks like this this mosque was so revered at one point it was featured on iraqi currency now you nothe go is collaborating with the united arab emirates to restore this mosque to its former glory. or fact checkers are constantly calling out friends didn't trump for statements that are misleading or often outright false but in the news conference announcing the baghdad raid he was able to interrupt sunday morning news programs that would have otherwise been talking about his impeachment inquiry under schapelle has more. as he notified the world that the leader of ice all was dead u.s. president trump championed his own achievements by making the death of abu bakr baghdadi son more significant than that of osama bin laden this is the biggest

there is this is. the worst ever. osama bin laden was very big. became big with the world trade center in fact checkers called out some of his comparisons the associated press saying a number of trump statements were simply not true nobody ever heard of till really the world trade center when in fact the central intelligence agency operated a dedicated unit to tracking bin laden which went back to the mid 1990 s. and he'd been on the f.b.i. most wanted list for years trump went on to say about a year you have to check out a year year and a half before the world trade center came here the book came out i was talking about osama bin laden i said you have to kill him you have to take him out nobody listen to me and. to this day i get people coming up to me they said you know what one of the most amazing things i've ever seen about you is that you predicted that osama bin laden had to be killed before he knocked down the world trade center it's

true in one of his books released in 2000 trump mentions osama bin laden once as one of many threats to u.s. national security but didn't say he should have been killed in the u.s. invasion of iraq trump said i had absolutely nothing to do with going into iraq and i was totally against it but there's no evidence he said that publicly and the year before the invasion so you for invading iraq the i guess. you know i wish it was i wish the 1st probably start correctly while in office trump has made a lot of false or misleading claims according to the washington post he's made more than 13000 of them since he took office almost 3 years ago and are chappelle al-jazeera. or james warren is the executive editor of news guard an organization that writes credibility of news and information websites he was also the washington d.c. bureau chief for the chicago tribune and joins us by skype from chicago good to have

you with us i'm sure you are not entirely surprised by some of the fact checking issues going on with sunday a speech by the u.s. president but it did get a lot of attention that would have otherwise been paid to impeachment in a sense as he won it's not what he wanted also sure i mean it's for its are sure to that extent he's is a master at deflection and taking control of the news cycles that's one particular reason why the traditional our daily news briefing by a spokesman is now a thing of the past people all around the world your viewers often see him with a maybe a helicopter working in the background we're in the background outside the white house taking questions for ever in every in the decide which ones are supposedly airs and which ones he doesn't and he has an absolute you know our quote from a she now that he's given about 202 or so interviews up at this point presidency which dwarfs that. his predecessors including president obama percentage of those

no surprise a lot of fox news network around 66 the one last week and at this very moment as we're speaking is speaking to the nation's police chief it's not too far away from where i'm sitting here in chicago and his comment last classical. actual and here are hyperbolic fashion bashing the city of chicago for its i am sorry rates and getting particularly personal and us newsworthy as he has attacked the superintendent of police in chicago who's decided not to attend this plank in this one and you know there are a lot of organizations which have spent years taking apart the claims the truthfulness the facts of what the u.s. president says but does any of that really hurt his credibility in standing with voters especially his core base. well that's a. buyer's core base if it's

a brown 3540 percent it would seem to this point not but you can win a presidential election next november with $35.00 or 40 percent so it's going to be absolutely fascinating to see how many of the independents and critically a lot of suburban college educated white females will who were pretty supportive of him when he ran as against hillary clinton not so last year when they had vote for their new congress people in some cases a good many cases which involve the republican side to the democratic it'll be really interesting on top say about a year from now what they feel about this this daily litany of misstatements outright lies deflections 13000 as you just. go by the washington post there 1000. it is a bold new era in politics at least i think we can say james why aren't there thank you so much. pleasure u.s.

house democrats are threatening to hold the witness in the impeachment probe into president donald trump in contempt former security adviser charles government had been ordered to appear before house investigates on monday however he is now filed a lawsuit asking a judge to decide whether he's obliged to testify key officials in the house have sent a lapper letter to cup mint saying is lawsuit lacks merits and is a tactic by the president to obstruct congress he was compelled to appear by a lawful congressional subpoena just within the last few days of course the district court has ruled that the pietschmann inquiry is perfectly valid witnesses like dr cup from an need to do their duty and show up a private citizen cannot sue the congress to try to avoid coming in when their server the lawful subpoena. the governor of california has declared a state wide emergency as new wildfires break out but all star le bron james and

his family are one of many forced to leave wealthy neighborhoods in the hills above los angeles and 180000 people have been ordered to move to safety in the wine producing region of northern california more than a 1000000 electricity customers have been warned of more power cuts to reduce the risk of fires being sparked by damaged cables early results from your acquirers presidential elections suggest there could be a runoff vote the ruling leftist party's candidate danielle martinez and his main opponent failed to get the 50 percent vote share needed to win outright or this means the broad front party's at risk of losing power for the 1st time in 15 years it's been under pressure fire for failing to revive a weak economy presidential runoff is likely now in november the u.n. special envoy for syria is due to have talks with the turkish uranian and russian foreign ministers before a major meeting on a new syrian constitution

a $150.00 member constitutional committee finalized after 2 years of negotiations is due to be officially launched in geneva on wednesday the u.n. says the meeting between government and opposition leaders could lead to a broader political process the 2 parties have agreed to or expeditiously and continuously. it's impossible to say how long it will take for them to conclude its work but as long as it is storm you know with serious intentions and we see progress and as you know i will be reporting to the security council i'm optimistic that we will get in a not too distant future that if you pursue tangible progress in the discussions after all this is and this is important to remember as i said already deuce is actually the 1st time that the 2 parties have an ownership to the process. in lebanon roads are being blocked in the capital as palls of a 12 day of demonstrations on sunday tens of thousands formed

a human chain stretching almost the entire length of the coastline from north to south designed or over corruption and mismanagement of the economy stephanie decker is in beirut. it is day 12 and people remain on the streets blocking the roads this is one of the main highways through beirut it's one of the tactics the protesters are employing to keep the pressure on the government now there's almost a community feel here a lot of people sitting around actually if we can offer one of these ladies why are you here what hi how are you what are you what are you trying to achieve and. she's going to. go ahead what are we trying to achieve we're trying we want everyone to resign and we're trying to prove a point here that we're not going to give the streets children to believe what do you want from them what you want in your life to change basic human rights we want to go we want to be able to use hospitals we want basic basic things to be able to not not have to wait 2 and 3 jobs just to be able to finish uni and that's that

basic basic human rights that's all we want thank you that's a very similar message that everyone here and also in other cities across lebanon are calling for basic human rights the economy here the fact people are citing there are no jobs electricity water is these basic things there is also a lot of humor here you can see they've set up what is almost like a makeshift living room there is a fridge people are talking they've been debating. throughout the days here and of course this is putting a lot of pressure not everyone is happy about it we've seen some of the roadblocks we've seen some cars very frustrated trying to break through the protesters will charge of the cars also to yell peaceful peaceful but it is causing havoc on the roads it is causing those people who want to move around the city a lot of stress and of course schools remain closed the bang. remain close and this is one of the main challenges going ahead it's the last week of the month paid is coming up people are questioning how that is all going to work out certainly at the

moment there is no resolve it seems to be a stalemate the people remaining on the streets the government isn't resigning and at the moment nobody can tell you how it's all going to play out. in britain the truck drivers made his 1st court appearance following the discovery of 39 bodies in the refrigerator container last week morris robinson was seen via video link from prison wasn't required to enter a plea the 25 year old is charged with manslaughter and people trafficking vietnam's government is checking documents from britain to confirm the identity of suspected victims. let's take you through some of the headlines here and al-jazeera now voters in argentina have elected a new leader amid a worsening economic crisis president valise or my crew conceded defeat to center

left count that it had better faster than those who won more than 47 percent for a vote that is about a small from one of us the transition here in argentina has already began and that meeting is now over we're told that it lasted for about one hour and what came out of it we what we know that came out of it is a picture which is very symbolic in argentina because in the past elections president cristina kirchner did not attend the handover ceremony when modi so much we won the election so it's a very very meaning for this message and institutional message that modi so mikey and i was very profitable and they are standing together. the european union has agreed to give britain until the end of january to approve prime minister barak johnson's bragg's the deal britain was due to leave in 3 days time but m.p.'s forced johnson to request another delay to give them more time to scrutinize this deal in a few hours johnston is expected to ask m.p.'s to vote on holding a snap election on the some of the 12

a draft power sharing deal has been agreed between yemen's internationally recognized government in the southern separatist group that aims to end fighting in the port city of aden which the southern transitional council seized in august iraq's influential shia leader mocked other southern has called on the prime minister to announce an early election overseen by the un a 6 hour curfew in the capital will start from midnight after 2 people were killed and at least $100.00 wounded. world leaders are warning the fight against deisel isn't despite the death of its leader i will walk around baghdad the france and britain say they'll continue to work with allies in the middle east to defeat the group entirely by daddy blew him self up during a u.s. raid in northwest syria the governor of california has declared a state wide emergency as new wildfires break out 180000 people have been ordered to move to northern california for safety as the headlines it's counting the cost.

hello i'm adrian finnegan 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 out 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 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. countries to avoid paying nigeria's for 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 gerri have 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 and come to our government should they 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. will fill us in this that. there are. plenty of big broader. 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 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 connectin the port city of cotton or in been a problem 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 there is little traffic since now you know close its borders the government hopes that shutting down the borders 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 want to buy 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 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 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 on your meetings trying to suss out a little bit of that timeline based it's impossible to really sketch out and a 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 particularly 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 clout 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 and that is negotiations but this isn't the african union negotiating bilateral or multilateral that free trade agreement so i think will only add some of that's not 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 pa 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 many things considered 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. see on the chinese front increasingly alarm bells being rung about the conditionality of the chinese

required to operate in a country on the continent 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 say we shouldn't poop you 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 in pollard the free trade agreement and i think you know 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 contracted 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 arc but 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 of the same time it's challenging because it is 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.