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 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 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 reducing 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 650 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 then the previous year so you can see that we are on the correct path delivering the growth that that edwards 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 qatar 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 that it was america's also sees from a different perspective like for example the slum some terrorists 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 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 you'd agree to disagree to who used insert you see was how it is not a stable region there are certainly worse that western 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 that whole region is unstable the us stable spots in our region created by people

to give a misperception in order to entice foreign powers to interfere in our region stability thank you i really appreciate your time thank you very much indeed while 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 project where i provide your space you bring your equipment 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 date networks archives. and lots of you know other other projects that i cannot discuss right now. 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 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 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 see if one example a 0 or the b.b.c. or whoever a media outlets that i said reports about the u.a.e. that have cited the the u.a.e. cannot kind of cannot come and complain. about that piece it would need to go to the at the mother country so here we book the lawsuit or that sort of. that sort of things. but of course commercial differences and that will be settled through the. courts 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 arabia and the 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 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 listed projects 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. catherine 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 qantas economy are contracted in the last quarter. as a culture as a religion as a 3rd edition. 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 flow to see our limits as people skull chips not just my culture your cultures other people's

cultures respecting one of the one of our perspective on all of the decisions 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 whose mothers are catteries that have already gotten a lot of it as a permit now we do not brag about that because there's something private. i am only saying get to do to show you. what style we are on the outside they are. so so so 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 a finnigan on twitter please use the hash tag jaycee's and see what you do or you

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woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. and here is the old. you know hope of finally laying the past to rest and giving peace to the victims' families. if i could just find a finger of i could bury bone hunter on al-jazeera. i'm. glad you. somebody like. the people have spoken and you leader in argentina that could signal a return populist form of government.

hello i'm sorry this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up brussels grants yet another extension to the u.k. british government now has until the end of january to leave the european union ok with this in the dollar trump impeachment inquiry defies congressional investigations and says he will not testify. committee's next step coming up plus. i'm natasha going to him in mosul this was the 1st city i thought took control of it was also the place where abu bakar al baghdadi came to this block and claimed he was the group's leader coming out people react to that. now we begin with a new leader in argentina president has conceded defeat to alberta to. his deputy is former president cristina coach who's facing a corruption trial both now face the challenge of solving argentina's laces

financial crisis and potential bankruptcy there is a bow reports from one of. the transition has already began here in argentina even though the handover ceremony is over one month away there was a very important meeting at the presidential palace between a radical feminist and now we saw michael it's not clear yet what was spoken in that meeting but that meeting lasted for about one hour and there was a picture that came out of them shaking hands that's a very important. picture because it has a very strong institutional meaning in the past elections back in 2015 when we saw michael he was elected cristina fernandez de kirchner did not attend the handover ceremony well that's why this picture is important if it's meant to bring some tranquility to the markets what's been happening in argentina with people lining up to buy u.s. dollar them not trusting in the banking system and that's why because of the

current situation also the government announced on sunday that they were imposing new currency controls in this country of origin times were able to buy up to $10000.00 a month until sunday well from now on it's only 2 $100.00 and this is something that has shocked many people on the ground because argentina has a buy monetary mentality where people saving u.s. dollar because they don't trust in the economy and in the banking system. a party. to celebrate the victory but at the foot of them this and the defeat of precedent. only listened leonsis she's proud of the results. this year so she actually does all my life i've been fighting for social justice in the past few years have been torture for me seeing how the economic situation deteriorated because of mccrery now i can be proud of being argentinian again.

people here are celebrating the comeback of the fair nice could really say that the party who they hope will help argentina lol. with what's coming next to that difficult economic situation with a 55 percent inflation rate and the possibility of a default in the 4 in that a lot of the fundamentalists was chief of staff to former president. his running mate these 2 time pressing cristina fernandez the kershner a lot of this went from being a staunch critic of christina kirshner to joining forces with her in order to unite the peronist party to defeat marketing. until december 10th the president is mockery and of course we will collaborate on everything we can because the only thing we care about is that argentinians stop suffering. when elected in 2015. promised to fall of argentina's endemic economic problems but his plan did not work

out well as his government was forced to request an emergency loan from the i.m.f. and inflation and poverty increased while in office. i want to congratulate president elect our butter fernandez i just told for the great choice the people have made i'm voted him tomorrow to breakfast because he has to start a transition period please this is for argentina the orderly transition the brings tranquility to all arjun times because here the only important thing is the future and wellbeing of argentines the big question in argentina is what's coming next the question then becomes of the what next are we going to see an economic plan are we going to see a cabinet and who will be in charge of that crucial renegotiation with argentine creditors. the new president takes office in december but argentina needs an urgent plan to stabilize the economy this people want to believe the best is yet

to come. european union leaders have agreed to further extend the briggs's deadline giving britain until the end of january to leave that was supposed to happen in 3 days time but m.p.'s forced prime minister boris johnson to request another delay to give them more time to scrutinize the deal he negotiated with the e.u. well in a few hours johnson's expected to ask m.p.'s to vote on holding a snap election on december 12th in return for more time to debate his deal let's go and get the latest now from jonah how he's live from london how's it looking at this point is look like parliament's going to approve that vote for you know for new elections. sanny probably not the process

begins in about the next 10 to 15 minutes we believe the debate on the government's motion calling for a snap election it's a 90 minute debate and then the vote following that bar is johnson calling on parliament for the 3rd time to approve a snap election will likely win the vote on the numbers but he won't get the 2 thirds majority he needs under the fixed term bottoms act to actually trigger an election and that's because the labor party will once again with hold its support in all likelihood for an election the 1st time of course they did it unless waiting for the government to enact parliament rather to enact that backbench legislation that would have called on the prime minister to seek a delay from the e.u. if he couldn't get these deals through by october the 31st the 2nd time they said well then he would have to enact that legislation and actually go and ask for the delay well now we know that the delay has been granted it's been offered by the e.u. again the labor party is saying the prime minister needs to give some sort of an

inch of assurance that there can be no no deal breaks in at any point in the future not just now but in general the 31st at the end of an extension period or even at the end of next year which would potentially be the end of the transition period so he's unlikely to get his election tonight but there is an alternative route opening up for boris johnson possibly as early as tuesday which has a far greater chance of success and it is supported by the liberal democrats by the scottish national party in parliament if the government were to go this route they would likely therefore when they only need a simple majority for what would be known as a single sentence piece of legislation which would be an amendment to the fixed term parliaments act simply setting out to an election will happen on this particular day probably you know early to mid december as a one off amendment so that activists say if that happens and there are clear indications that the government may be preparing to table a motion on tuesday or to support a liberal democrat motion. then which will be on course for a very rich very cold winter election which in all likelihood will see boris

johnson's field and bricks it deferred until afterwards possibly before christmas when the new parliament sits in the house of commons or that segues nicely to my next question was where would all of that leave that and the vote on boris johnson's deal which you know keen to get ahead on. but well it depends on the composition of the new parliament of course we know that in the current parliament which has been such an obstacle to a brics a deal up to now there is a very slim majority in favor of this deal what they're what they're objecting to many in pieces that it's being rushed through that not be given enough time to screws and i apologize gentlemen to have to interrupt you and take you now u.s. the u.s. secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff speaking that's this into what they saying the nation of a multi-year interagency effort to find him and then capture or kill him baghdadi

and the thugs who follow him were responsible for some of the most brutal atrocities of our time his death marks a devastating blow for the remnants of isis who are now deprived of their inspirational leader following the destruction of their physical caliphate earlier this year. i want to thank our brave service members who took part in this daring raid along with our inner agency partners who support the mission there is no guarantee of success in an operation with this level of difficulty and president trump knew this when he made the bold decision to order the raid confident in the expertise of our forces our service members conducted themselves with incredible skill and professionalism and they executed the raid in all of its facets brilliantly not a single united states service member was killed in this high risk operation. despite baghdad his death the security situation in syria remains complex multiple state and non-state actors continue to vie for control of territory and resources

within the country as we have learned from our recent history in the middle east it is very easy to get drawn into continued conflict if our objectives are not clear acting as a police force out to solve every dispute is not our mission our mission in syria today remains the same as it was when we 1st began operations in 2014 to enable the enduring defeat of isis a recent repositioning of forces within a country is intended to pause trust to continue this mission and give the president options while returning the balance back home to united states those who remain will continue to execute tatter counterterrorism operations while staying in close contact with the syrian democratic forces who fought alongside us additionally the united states will retain control of oil fields in northeast syria at the height of baghdad's reign these oil fields provided isis with the bulk of financial resources used to fund its terror. us troops will remain positioned in

a strategic area to deny isis access those vital to those vital resources and we'll respond with overwhelming military force against any group that threatens the safety of our forces there these oil fields also provide a critical source of funding to the s.d.f. which enables their ability to secure isis prison camps and conduct operations against isis among other things last week i was in brussels for the nato defense minister oh and i spoke with our allies about the situation in syria i reiterated our commitment to the feet of isis and called on other nations who have much at stake to offer their support to help mitigate the ongoing security crisis turkey continues to bear responsibility for the consequences of their unwarranted incursion which has brought further instability to the region. a number of allies have expressed their desire to help with the implementation of a safe zone along the syria turkey border the united states remain focused on our

core mission and continue to work closely with the defeat isis coalition as we implement the next phase of the campaign baghdad he's dead.