a car bomb in the country's west that happened in the aleppo countryside there been several bombings in the region since turkey began its offensive in northern syria earlier this month still ahead on al-jazeera coming up in just a moment an earthquake kill several people in the philippines bringing down buildings damaged by quakes earlier in the week. it is really army arrest a well known palestinian politician after raiding her home in the occupied west bank. i. had s. and widespread rains across much of and in asia some heavy a spell's across areas borneo and then what we will see of the next couple days is as rain finally sinking further south across into areas of java and we'll see more of the same on saturday and by saturday some all the heavy rain really sitting

across these northwestern areas of sumatra we could pick up as much as 300 millimeters of rain over the next 2 or 3 days the same rain in the forecast as well into southern areas of australia and also we'll see a real cooldown eventually across into the southeast attempt has been way above average but not quite the case just yet 7 around sydney we have got a lot of fires burning 50 a bushfire currently being forced this one is very close to port mcquery and this is one also which is a prime breeding ground for koalas so they fit about $300.00 products could actually be dead but at the same time the winds as strong so pushing the smoke right there down across into sydney's there are actually some health warnings in place because of that smoke $27.00 in sydney on friday if we drive it be dust in smokey with those fires so very close by and that is saturday will see these temperatures finally begin to come down to more normal levels in the southeast some rain showers a mild them with a high of 24 and the same in high about 25. this

just makes the heroes who you. are for the middle east are shown. to a stage played for. a comment should still make some mistakes it's a deep because it splits. it's sort of short so i want to. put this fee for. the top you'll call. hello down the top stories on al-jazeera a gas stove has exploded on

a train in pakistan sparking a huge fire and killing within 17 people the train was on its way from karachi to open do just outside islam about. iraq's military says one person has been killed after 2 walkouts were fired into baghdad's heavily fortified green zone it happened shortly after a separate incident at the cinema bridge witnesses say security forces shot at least one protester dead and injured dozens more. syrian state media reporting heavy fighting between government troops on turkish forces near the border town of . syrian government forces have taken up positions there after the recent kurdish withdrawal. at least 10 people were killed when a powerful earthquake hit the island of mindanao in the southern philippines the magnitude 6.5 tremor sent panicked residents running from homes shopping centers and a hospital several buildings also collapsed this is the 3rd earthquake to strike the

same area in the past 2 weeks jamila dogon has more from manila emergency operations are well on their way and both national and regional resources are being put together to ensure that those who are believed to be trapped in many devastated structures across mindanao in many parts of mindanao are rescued immediately now the information is slow to come in that is because these areas who have experienced devastation from the earthquake early thursday morning are the same areas that have been devastated by the last 2 earthquakes this month an earthquake 2 days ago left at least 8 people dead 16000 people displaced and according to the philippine government that number is expected to rise in many areas of the southern philippines city. or province and north of about the province a lot of the areas remain cut off the power lines are down and it is believed also

that communication lines are inconsistent but the philippine government assures that all resources are being put together to ensure that that basic needs are given immediately the israeli army has arrested a prominent palestinian politician during a raid on her home in the occupied west bank city of ramallah hama does not as a former member of the palestinian legislative council she's also a leading figure in the popular front for the liberation of palestine that's a party that has been banned by israel is daughter posted on social media saying more than 70 soldiers and at least 12 military vehicles were involved in the raid. just as her previous detentions by the israeli forces the 1st one being on april 25th teen where she was held for 15 months and the 2nd one odd july 2 in july 2nd 2017 where she was held for 18 months

and this time as well my mom was detained under. the so-called administrate of detention which allows israel to hold palestinians without any evidence based on something that they call security reasons and based on secret evidence so my mother has never been charged with any crimes we have never been informed for the reason of her of harassed and she's never been given the right to a proper trial. brahim has more from it on the law. this is not cited the 1st this is the 4th time the israeli army trades her house and takes her to prison in what is known here as administrative detention which is holding palestinians without charges this issue has been back at the forefront of events in the palestinian territory with many palestinians hunger striking that issue we have known for palestinians undergoing 102100 strike to protest their detention without

charges including jordanian palestinian him back 11 now in the raid that happened in the early hours of the morning in. the israeli army has also went to the house of another palestinian prisoner samet allowed to be whom lawyers accuse the israeli security agency the shin bet of using severe torture against him now the israeli security agency says that he's been accused of killing or being the mastermind behind an attack that killed a 17 year old israeli woman near an illegal israeli settlement in august in the read the israeli army has taken measurements of the house which could be seen as a prelude for potential house demolitions. it's a crucial day for the impeachment inquiry into us president donald trump the house of representatives is expected to vote on authorizing the hearing on how to make it

public meanwhile the former u.s. national security adviser john bolton has refused an invitation to testify. reports . impeachment investigators are eager to question john bolton the former national security adviser to president trump was a central figure in the administration's policy toward ukraine and one who said to have used colorful language to describe efforts to compel ukraine to investigate trumps political opponents a drug deal is what bolton's assistant said her boss called a july 10th meeting between ukrainian and u.s. officials at the white house the assistant testified bolton walked out of the meeting after sensing other u.s. officials had an agenda apart from solidifying the relationship between the 2 nations to get ukraine to investigate trumps domestic rivals i think that we've heard over the last several weeks a lot of lower level people and now the house is going to start moving up the food

chain but bolton's attorney said late wednesday his client will not accept the invitation to testify democrats will likely issue a subpoena but whether or not bolton complies is an open question he's been quiet since being forced out of the white house in september due to policy disputes with the president but 2 weeks before he left his position bolton visited kiev on official business and delivered this message to the ukrainian people people of the united states fought for their independence their sovereignty we understand what that kind of struggle means and the people of the united states are with the people of ukraine at the time ukraine was expecting the delivery of u.s. military aid to help fight russia but trump was temporarily withholding the aid as his surrogates continue to pressure ukraine. to investigate democrats on capitol hill wednesday nominee to become u.s. ambassador to russia was asked to comment do you think it's ever appropriate for

the president to use his office to solicit investigations into a domestic political opponent soliciting investigations into a domestic political opponent i don't think that would be in accord with our values and nother assistant to john bolton is expected to testify on thursday to morrison is the director of european and russian affairs on the national security council and named by previous witnesses as having key information into the president's decision to withhold aid from ukraine and drumming up expectations further is morrison's announcement on the eve of his expected testimony that he is resigning from the white house heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington twitter is banning political ads saying they may be misleading the new policy goes into effect next month the company's c.e.o. jack dorsey says political messages should be earned and not boughts he also says

internet advertising is powerful and effective but it brings risks to politics where it can be used to influence votes that affect the lives of millions of people well donald trump's 2020 election campaign manager says twitter has made a very dumb decision brad also says twitter has walked away from hundreds of millions of dollars of potential revenue he asked of the platform will also stop buying ads from biased liberal media outlets which will now run unchecked eric come as a us political analyst and the author of the g.o.p. civil war he says campaign teams on both sides will be scrambling to change their online strategies. this is huge not only for the business and social media community but more importantly for the political landscape not just in the united states but across the globe we're talking about a major vehicle major lane for giving out one's message is now being closed off completely and so what this does is this in campaigns it's in messaging.

people from various campaigns scrambling trying to find a way to reach their audience and as we know twitter has a large audience and able to reach many millions of people and so now that lane is completely cut off leaving people trying to figure out how in fact they reached their audience but of course many are looking and wondering what in fact will mark zuckerberg of facebook do now that twitter has made this momentous decision this move is i think it will be much welcomed by at least in the united states by the democratic liberal community we do know that in 2016 the election president donald trump his primary vehicle for reaching his audience was through twitter and now the president has to find another way to reach that audience on a daily basis without the benefit of using political ads firefighters in the u.s. state of california are trying to save hundreds of homes threatened by wildfires on

the outskirts of los angeles the flames are being whipped up by strong winds the state's utilities company is cutting power to various areas of california to help prevent electricity cables from sparking more fires let's get an update j. gray's joining us from los angeles and california hi jay how dangerous at widespread do these 5 fires remain. hey daryn we're actually in simi valley now at the reagan presidential library the winds continue to be very intense here feeling almost like a tropical storm and there are burn scar surrounding the buildings here evidence of the frantic fight by firefighters more than 800 working to save this facility many still stationed here waiting watching for any new flare ups and there have been flare ups through the day and overnight at least 9 new fires and we're learning of

new evacuations going on right now as well so it is still a very tenuous situation and still hundreds of thousands in the potential area that could be affected by these flames so how much progress are the firefighters actually able to make in the situation well in areas like this where the wind is so intense they're just looking to hold their own looking not to lose any ground to the fires to the north where they have been battling fires for several days they're actually getting a bit of a break from the conditions and able to gain some ground on these fires and that's good news still by no means do they have the fires contained and that's going to take some time but at least they are making progress there in fact some people getting to go back to areas that have been evacuated and those places where conditions have called down the rides and grow thank you for that update from los angeles. well fire has devastated an ancient castle on the japanese island of

okinawa it's one of the region's most popular unesco world heritage sites of mcbride reports. surely castle is one of arkan hours best known tall response and had earned world heritage status in 2000. the fire broke out in the main buildings before dawn the flames spreading quickly through the ancient timbers more than 10 fire engines were sent to tackle the blaze but there was little they could do local people looking on helplessly the full extent of the damage was revealed at 1st light many of the buildings reduced to smoking ruins the castle dates from the rio q kingdom which spanned 450 years until lock in our was an expired japan in the 19th century as a symbol of the island's heritage it had in recent days been holding an annual festival recreating rituals from the past. ok now as loss will be felt by

japan as a whole. i understand sure a castle a world heritage site is an extremely important symbol of okinawa i feel my heart ache a stand my heartfelt sympathy to the people of iraq now or the castle had been wrecked and restored before from fierce fighting between u.s. and japanese forces at the end of world war 2 the government has promised to rebuild it one small problem bride al-jazeera. and hundreds of animals are believed to have been killed by bushfires in the eastern australian state of new south wales the largest of the fire spans areas about the size of 2000 football fields about 45 homes have been destroyed but there are no reports of injuries the fires are causing problems for australia's largest city sydney as andrew thomas explains. it's sunny it should be a perfectly clear blue sky spring day in sydney but you can see the city shrouded

in this smoke e haze at times on the opera house on the bridge were barely visible through the smoke now this is a smoke that comes from bush fires which are burning quite a few hours north of sydney ordinarily the smoke from the wouldn't reach the city here but the been quite strong winds from the north to the pushed back smoke down and in the city itself it's been very still a lack of wind has kept the smoke here it's from the air that you really get an idea of how hazy this city has been now the state government in all this has said that to most people the smoke doesn't pose any kind of health risk but those with acid i've been told to stay indoors and don't do any sport this is unusual but sydney it's normally a city with very clear but all. things are very different. donald trump's federal judge nominee has broken down in tears during a grilling by the us senate judiciary committee lawrence van dyke has been nominated by trying to fill

a seat on the 9th circuit court of appeals and he was asked about a letter from the bar association with said he's not qualified due to his alleged stance against l g b people. sorry. sorry go i did not say that i did not believe. it is a fundamental belief mind that all people are created in the image of god. they should all be treated with dignity. and respect. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera iraq's military says one person has been killed after 2 rockets were fired into baghdad's heavily fortified green zone it happened shortly after a separate incident at the cinema bridge witnesses say security forces shot at

least one protester dead and injured dozens more a gas stove has exploded on a train in pakistan sparking a huge fire that killed at least 70 people survivors recorded what happened as the flames tore through several carriages the train was on its way from karate to open d. which is just outside islamabad plans to reopen schools and universities in lebanon have been canceled as anti-government demonstrations continue across the capital which asters have continued to block roads in and around beirut's they're calling for political leaders to go the prime minister quit on tuesday but he's been asked by the president to stay on as a temporary caretaker until a new government is formed south korea's military says north korea has fired 2 unidentified projectiles towards the sea of japan it's believed the objects were launched from a central area of north korea japan's coast guard says the objects landed in the sea more than 370 kilometers from the coastline syrian state media an s.d.f.

fighters are reporting heavy fighting between government troops and turkish forces near the border it happened around the town of. syrian government forces have taken up positions in the north east after the recent kurdish withdrawal it's part of a deal between russia and turkey to start joint security patrols. local media in syria are reporting at least 9 people have died in a car bomb in the country's west it happens in a free unity aleppo countryside there have been several bombings in the region since turkey began its offensive in northern syria earlier this month. at least 10 people were killed when a powerful earthquake hit the island of mindanao in the southern philippines the magnitude 6.5 tremors sent panicked residents running from homes shopping centers and a hospital several buildings also collapsed this is the 3rd earthquake to strike the same area in the past 2 weeks those are the headlines on al jazeera faultlines is

coming up next then it's the news hour thanks for watching by. new yorkers are very receptive to al jazeera because it is such an international city they're very interested and that global perspective that al jazeera provides. and going to. millions of americans have trouble paying for their prescription medication and. that includes type one diabetics. for them in store and it's a life saving drug for somebody like me it's like the oxygen that you breathe. it is like oxygen you know i breathe except for mean i have to pay $340.00 a mile for that oxygen and. these diabetics are making the 12 hour journey to canada to buy cheaper and sort which just over the border is about 110th of the cost and in the united states. you'll hear all these u.s.

pharmaceutical companies they will tell you they have coupons they will tell you they have discount cards they are patient programs they have at all if i could go out to a shrink oh bonnie to think would be driving 870 miles. in the u.s. the cost of nearly every major brand name drug is on the rise. and for many people that means being forced to choose between financial insecurity or saving their lives. and what this bill means to me is her a for stable cancer it means i'm going to live longer but what is a pill costs this particular pill is going to be anywhere from 800 to 1100 dollars at any given time the way we pay for medical innovation today has nothing to do with rationality that's the most expensive thing in europe also quite a curse oh it's worth more than our car so. it has everything to do with profit

maximizing in an environment where we require nothing of the companies in this episode of faultline. we investigate what's behind the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs and how the hefty price tag is costing lives. there at least 1200000 americans would type one diabetes an auto immune disease that has no cure. and once a person has it they're often required to take insulin multiple times a day for the rest of their lives. in slums and old truck. it was discovered almost a 100 years ago. but in the u.s. he keeps getting more expensive. you have to leave the country to buy something that you need to live the rights are being held hostage by these companies and by the u.s. governments in our elected officials to pay

a ransom for the president's line. between 20122016 alone the price nearly double forcing many americans to search for other routes to access if. you have an entire bus load of americans coming to wal-mart in canada to buy insulin because just where they can afford it. would be funny if it weren't so sad and serious. i came from new jersey to minneapolis to ride a bus to canada to buy it for $30.00 and i still think i'm going to save a life but after doing all that it's totally impractical and sort of sad that at all it's just something that required to live so i know it's not last or. is this different than the one you would get in the us it seems like the same exact year so yeah. we stuck through we got

inflation i got nothing by nothing but cloud over $3000.00 for no. file the united states. to stop me $243.00 inside i think it's showing exactly why we have people dying in america on a weekly monthly basis we need legislation passed in america so that no longer people are going to be dying of a type one diabetes. and for many people going across the border to buy cheaper insulin is not a long term solution. studies have shown that one in 4 americans with diabetes have ration their insulin because they couldn't afford it and this can be a deadly gamble. no one knows this better than the coal smith hope whose son alex died in 2017. so we're here today remembering alec and all the others that have lost their life from insulin rationing it's it's amazing to know that it's you know

he would still be alive today if i had known at that time 2 years ago that i had the option to cross the border to purchase completely affordable and so on. it's not just a bunch of people whining and crying about the price of insulin there's a true impact. my family was destroyed by this. i lost a child. and i'll never have my ask my son back. in 2015 alec was diagnosed with type one diabetes when he was 23 years old. at the time while still in the course insurance alex insulin cost between $2.00 and $300.00 a month. but when he turned 26 years old under america's health care law he was no longer able to remain on her insurance. and without it the cost of his insulin shot

up over 4 times i went to the pharmacy the 1st time without my insurance card and hand his 2 types of insulin his diabetic supplies anything that he needed to take care of himself cost of $1300.00 a month. he wasn't planning on it being that expensive. so what do you do he went home with nothing. because halliburton $40000.00 a year as a restaurant manager he didn't qualify for government assistance. nicole believes alex started rationing his insulin because he couldn't pay for it were this made him susceptible to d.k.a. or diabetic ketoacidosis a dangerous side effect the type one diabetes when the body doesn't get enough insulin. it starts shutting down your bowels which would why has stomach was hurting so bad and then it'll work your way up your intestinal system and your

intestines start shutting down. and your kidneys start shutting down and and then you're along start shutting down. and then your heart starts to go. and as the heart starts to go. you typically go into cardiac arrest. or you go into a coma. use or having seizures. and it's an extremely painful way to. elevate him off of my insurance on june 1st of 2017. and was found out engine 27th of 2017. he lasted 26 days i'm sure. he's handsome could. turn smiled. like

a user. hydrophones for guns. in the corner family learned that alec had been stretching out what little insulin he had left until his next paycheck. he was found 3 days short of his payday. what do you miss most. is have you. on the big brother around you. who do you hold accountable. i will the pharmaceutical company is partially or accountable i hold our our government partially accountable. well myself partially accountable. have found i should have seen that. i said and there to protect. i should have been.

but ultimately the system felt like. insulin is kind of a perfect storm of all the problems with our drug industry and all the public failure to regulate and meaningfully. it's a century old technology that was gifted to humanity by the university researchers who came up with it and since that time prices have only increased for something that by now should really be essentially free. the reasons behind the high cost of prescription medication in the us are complicated. but one main factor is that the government doesn't regulate or negotiate the prices of drugs directly with companies instead it lets them set their own prices which puts the burden of ever increasing costs on patients. our government has taken less seriously than some others our responsibility to provide affordable medicine for our people in canada and many countries around the world governments are active purchasers and

they say how do i get a good deal how do i negotiate for the best deal and the united states we simply say pharma tell us what you want and we'll give it to you. they can charge essential as much as any of us would pay to care for our 2nd our loved ones no constraints. no constraints on drug pricing means that for many americans no amount of planning can prepare them for the cost of an illness. stay in the r.v. . we are done. in 2015 and just 50 years old jackie trapp was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called multiple myeloma keep it pay it. a tricky little cancer and because it's a blood borne cancer surgery is not an option radiation is only palliative it's really just to make you feel better drugs are all we have her doctor prescribed revlimid an oral chemotherapy drug manufactured by the u.s. biotechnology company celgene and that's just and it has no generic in the united

states. revel may quite simply is the only form of treatment available for me for my cancer. revlimid has kept jackie cancer stable for the last 4 years. but the bills to pay for it and her overall health care have shattered her financial stability the 1st $1.00 i got was january 6th and 2017 and the total member responsibility right here is 11100 $48.14 and then i got the 2nd bill january 30th and that one was 412039 dollars and 89 cents total memory responsibility and here's a real weeks later 3 weeks later here we are on their bill for $12.00 ours is your responsibility yeah this must been terrifying though while you're fighting. cancer in a period of 6 weeks you get 3 bills for the one drug that may extend your life and

it's looking like it's going to be you know over $12000.00 a month. i can honestly tell you that when i was diagnosed you know there are some tears there but i cried hard more when these bills came along i've spent so much more emotional energy on finding ways to fund my treatment then i ever have my cancer. at 1st jackie's insurance didn't cover revlimid has been saying we can do this i'll sell my truck you know what that old bell give us the money but i'm going to be on this indefinitely this is not a solution we need a longer term solution and we're not going to be paying this out of pocket it will be bankrupt before you know it and then what. so jackie spent up to 50 hours a week at times cobbling together a plan to bring down her cost this is my part d. this is my supplemental policy these are different and you know when i was involved in marketplace insurance if you want to live in this is the amount of paperwork

required oh yeah it's pretty complicated i've been lucky i've been ahead of the game i've been able to navigate pretty effectively through the system others are not. just trying to wrap my head around how you can afford this drug you have multiple insurance plans you're on medicare you have found a loophole in the new state law that's helped you you're in disability and you wanted to scale program with all of that what do you how much that cost you or you're still in any given year it's anywhere from $15.00 to $22000.00 for me out of pocket 15 to 22000 a year that's after insurance and that's out of your that's out of your pocket out of my pocket. one of the most effective ways to bring down the cost of medicine for people like jackie is to have more fordable generic options on the market. but experts say that major

pharmaceutical companies use a complex web of strategies to block generic competition. so they can maintain control of the truck's price and protect a monopoly. a company that has a monopoly goes to its potential competition and says hey we've got a better deal for both of us we'll give you x. dollars to just keep your product off the market. so the patent holder benefits from getting preserve their monopoly in their monopoly pricing. the generic firm benefits by getting an insured payday and the public loses because we don't get more affordable medicine through competition this strategy the drug companies use to keep competitors out of the market is legal. and it's not the only one. the way the farms and companies today use the patent system they stack of hundreds of patents on a particular drug so they basically get as low as they can out of that protective protection in order to prevent competition coming in and we all know what is

competition comes in prices drop how does the patent process affect a drug like rabbit i think there are some $107.00 patents on this drug for passing up occasions in the 1st 70 of the granted and that prevents anybody from coming in if i'm a generic competitor i have to mitigate my way through all these to get into the marketplace and so delays so instead of coming to market maybe you know next year i have to wait 23 is because of the way the regulatory system works in terms of you have to end the litigation for you can get approval for your genetic. industry experts told us that strategies like these have stepped back to her competition on prescription drugs by years. celgene which make it back should revlimid did not respond to a list of questions we sent them. imo for making a healthy profit and protecting intellectual property for a period of time but they've abused that it doesn't matter how many great new innovations there are a great new drugs there are that are going to keep people alive he can afford them

drugs don't work if if we can't afford to take and. this is a total rip off. and we are ending. and we will work every day to insure all americans have access to the quality affordable medication. they need and they deserve and we will not rest until this. of unfair pricing is a total victory for the us a. president promised to make the high cost of prescription drugs a top policy priority. he's talked about bringing down the cost of some drugs in line with their prices in other countries. but experts we spoke to say his proposals don't address the root of the problem. the drug companies monopoly power which according to a survey more than 70 percent of americans want to rein it. in you look at the

polling with the people you say there's political will at the electorate level for radical change on this issue. but there's a disconnect between the political will of the people and that actual political will and congress. lies or disconnect their money. the industry has extreme lobbying power about 3 lobbyists for every member of congress and spends a great deal on elections on supporting candidates in the united states. when the pharmaceutical industry says we need more incentives to conduct a certain line of research and no one wants to stand in the way of that so the legal climate continues to favor the industry more and more which means they can abuse all of us in the form of price with unchecked power. federal filings show that pharma the group that represents most of the us is largest drug

manufacturers spend about $27.00 and a half $1000000.00 on lobbying in 2018. when they're asked about the high cost of prescription drugs the pharmaceutical industry often makes this argument. lowering drug prices which type of research and development that impact the creation of new lifesaving drugs this is obviously extremely important to sustain a wave of innovation that hattrick who works for a pro-business lobbying group is sympathetic to this few patients on this is in new ways i've talked to so many people in this industry that says there's an entire set of strategies for extending patents that drug companies are using well this is all there you see this is all part of a. process of attempting to stigmatize an industry that. has delivered tremendous value to people everywhere and i think is unfortunate is part of a bigger at those the state can hold that big business is bad but you have americans

flooding over the border to buy prescription drugs in canada but how do you explain that or wrap your head around that say yep this is this is the system that we want well you could say that other countries are getting away with murder and i wouldn't disagree they are not paying their fair share for the overall system the political situation in those countries has created a situation where the manufacturers have no pricing power this is them that we have works pretty well to create the right incentive for investment and also to allow follow on innovation and if you know high prices on the front under part of that well that's part of the process in a free market a producer has the right to set their price. buyers can take it or leave it but if there's only one drug that treats her illness and that company is the only one that makes itself that drug there is no market of choice and you have to take that drugs

or die i don't think it's any given company's fault that there's a lack of competition you know the fact is that if someone else can figure out a better way to do that they could knock. medicine off the market and notes i'm wrong fact we see that all the time. the only counterargument you can make is that prices should be high in order to fund innovation but there's no limit to that argument i mean under under that logic companies can literally charge anything they want and it would always be a good deal for the public which is what's happening and it's not a good deal for the public. medical innovation is expensive and we need to pay for it that doesn't mean prices should be whatever the companies want them to be which is the current regime. we made multiple interview requests to the top 3 insulin manufacturers see if we get a referee literally on the phone. but none of them agreed to an interview. to get

someone from to go door to speak on camera. all right so i would. say in a fee responded with a statement explaining the various discount programs they offer to patients and encourage them to call the company's hotline for information. we decided to approach someone else who might know more. secretary aleksei czar has been the face of the trump administration's truck price policy. but he has another connection to the us. americans one in the survey says all of the home here say he was a top executive at insulin manufacturer eli lilly and during this time there the price of the company's best selling insulin more than doubled. we wanted to ask him why secretaries are. which tells us one question about description prices insulin doubled when you were president that he will usa. why did you do something about it

been. one of the. sectors i know you can hear me i know that you when you're president it will usa insulin prices double why didn't you do something about it that. the president from said pharmacy companies are getting away with murder was he referring to companies like you would present itself. it's corruption and it's legal companies are free to do most of what we're talking about here today they can pay to delay their competition they can extend monopolies for years or even decades they can spike prices by 5000 percent if they want to making medicines affordable is not a question of cracking down on illegal behavior it's a question of cracking down on legalized corruption in the system that we have created. alice death is not an isolated

situation since alec has passed away i have been in contact with at least 10 other families who had recently lost one of their loved ones from the same thing and ironically half of them are 26 year old. firm is it a company is need to lower the list prices people are dying and the only way to stop that from happening is to make the products affordable. so our reach makes sense just like jackie is now 4 years into a 5 year prognosis with the help of revlimid. but to make it this far she and her husband had to train their savings and some of the money that set aside for retirement. they're now selling pieces of their life on line like furniture and dishes they were given for their wedding. my husband and i both have been incredibly careful people. very conservative with our money. we were the kind of

people that whatever the maximum was that we could put away for retirement we did all that interest posed to do we did all the things we're supposed to do absolutely you know we generally had anywhere from $40.00 to $50000.00 in the bank just as a safety net that's gone. that's long gone. we're not going to be that 75 year old couple with the 50 year anniversary parties it's not really in the cards for us and we've dealt with that but i don't want to leave him completely broken and completely bankrupt at the same time and. unless something changes. that's likely to be the case. unless i decide. to no longer seek treatment you're literally saying that you have to make a financial trail i will on how long to live i will there will be

a tipping point and i will have to make a decision as to when to stop treatment and choose to die. so that i can leave my husband with enough so that he can he can make it through the next you know 30 years of his life that's what's at stake for me. jail you're at the mercy of the state but in the land of the free shareholders have a stake it is this profit motive that continues to interfere with adequate health care being provided to people who are detained and incarcerated across the country salt lines investigates how the outsourcing of health care in american jails is impacting the lives and deaths of those behind bars sick inside. business updates rolled to you by qatar airways going places together.

business updates rolled to you by qatar airways going places together. a story 1400 years in the making. a

story of succession and leadership. tells the story the foundation and the emergence of an empire. the caliph episode one. al jazeera. hello and welcome to the al-jazeera news our life for my headquarters in doha. and coming up in the next 60 minutes a gas cooker explodes on a train in pakistan setting carriages alight and killing at least 70 people.

security forces in lebanon struggle to open roads as protesters continue their call for the removal of the entire ruling class. and the administer formally divided into 2 regions directly controlled by new delhi. and a crucial day in the democrats push to impeach donald trump the u.s. house of representatives is braced for its 1st showdown over the inquiry i'm joining with the sport washington d.c. is united under a baseball. as the washington nationals win the world series breaking. the gas stove has exploded on a train in pakistan sparking a huge fire that killed at least 70 people will survive is recorded what happened

as the flames tore through several carriages the train was on its way from karachi to which is just outside islamabad. where there are more casualties due to the speed of the train. fire that's why dozens of people are dead and. well moving on to other news now in plans to reopen schools and universities in the lead. i mean canceled as anti-government demonstrations continue across the country a promise to be resigned on tuesday bob he's been asked by the president to stay on as temporary can take on to new government is formed as the talk last fondant saying whether she's joining us live from the capital beirut and say you've been talking to protest as all morning about why they're back out on the streets even trying to put up some roadblocks so what have they been telling. won't they feel that they need to continue to pile pressure on the ruling elite in

order for them to make concessions what happened yesterday was that the daily life really was returning to normal schools universities were supposed to open today protesters left the streets after the prime minister sato heidi announced his resignation but the protest movement was hoping that his resignation will be followed by a decision to create a new government a new government made up of technocrats people who are not affiliated with any political party in order to carry out much needed reforms and instead the ruling coalition remains stubborn they continue to cling on to power so that is one of the reasons why they returned to the streets but as you can see behind us a security presence across the country there they're opening roads or simply opening roads not allowing the protesters to continue to paralyze this country or to cripple the movement they don't want the public life to be disrupted even the lebanese army in a statement was very very clear we are going to continue to allow you to peacefully

protest that is your right but you have to protest in. confined yourselves let's say in the public square so the army security forces out in force opening roads but protesters remain just as determined to topple what they say is a ruling class which has been in power for decades a ruling class which has been corrupt and mismanaging the. country. for many of us down here. it's a do or die situation i'm not going to stay in this country any longer if the air i breathe of the water i drink are polluted if the politicians are robbing my government if 40 percent of our annual budget goes to paying of loan interest 40 percent of the entire money the country makes in the year goes to paying off the interests i cannot live in a country like this so for us it's we're ready to face the fear we're ready to face the responsibility that comes with facing a sectarian ruling class that has been in trance for 30 years because we want

a better country. the president michelle on who is part of the ruling class is going to address the nation later today it's not clear if he's going to announce the date when he is supposed to start consultations with the various parliamentary blocs to choose the next prime minister this is not going to be easy replacing the prime minister saddam. it's not going to be an easy task because if you are going to appoint a prime minister who is more allied with the ruling coalition definitely the street will not be happy it's not going to calm the anger and even if you decide to read nominates the prime minister saad of a people here are not going to accept that so it's a dangerous stalemate it is now a political crisis this is no longer a protest which began just for demands for better living conditions at the streets as the fighting the lebanese street this divided we've already seen violence so. uncertainty really lies ahead zain i thank you for that finale that is saying

a father with the latest live from beirut now there's growing concern over whether the already fragile economic situation in lebanon mike it was lebanon has one of the world's highest public debt burden standing at around $86000000000.00 that's more than 150 percent of its g.d.p. most of the national budget has been spent on services. of the public sector wage bill but that's often exceeded revenues resulting in deficits that averaged 11 percent of g.d.p. in recent years they've been in depends on deposits from foreign investors to pay off those debts but billions of dollars haven't been handed over because of a lack of economic reform will back banks remain closed because of the ongoing protests and foreign currency reserves have for than about 17 percent well let's get more on the economic situation we're joined now by daniel as ian advance leadership fellow at harvard university where his research focuses on designing

a political and economic reform program for lebanon and he's joining us live from boston and the united states very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so banks are set to open tomorrow on friday after being close for nearly 2 weeks now i mean they're going to be bracing for a busy day to say the least. yeah absolutely i mean even even if there's not any excess of. emotional panics in the people that are going to go to banks i think that it's safe to assume that the 1st thing that anyone's going to do is is going to go to his or her bank and at the very least to replenish their cash or there are monetary needs that they're going to think ok 'd one of the samples again so 'd they'll probably you know want to take out a bit more cash and then there's the 3rd element of the man who just people that are

going to panic i want to get 'd the money out of the lot so even if there's a small uptick when you when you multiply that by hundreds of thousands of people. and that's a huge amount of the man on the existing liquidity in the country which was already under pressure before so i think that as you mentioned they're going to have a very very have a very bad 'd and this as you know you specialize on looking at you know political economic reforms for lebanon and what does the country need to do now the protesters have been out on the streets for weeks because they're sick of servicing a government debt when billions of dollars has gone you know missing from from the government so what do they need to do obviously prime minister hetty's reforms have been rejected. former prime minister. ok the problem lebanon is is that there are 2 aspects to this thing you've got the the very legitimate concerns and demands of

the protesters of the fact of them and the fact that the government has not provided the services 'd that are expected in any respectable countries you know basic stuff like 24 hour electricity which has not been provided by the by this government that successive governments as you know for the last 30 years part of the water you know good roads things like this so these guys have very very legitimate demands on the other hand we have a impending monetary crisis in the country ok and it's almost like trying to execute a 'd heart surgery when you're in an a.t.v. on the you know driving on a bunch of rocks it's a very very sensitive and delicate delicate situation so the protesters have achieved some very positive. objectives already for example 'd they sped up the 'd because they don't get up and presenting their so-called economic paper i mean it did in one year and i have that introduced one and then suddenly with the 72 hours they produced that record of protest so on the one hand the protestors are causing

some positive shock in the country. but on the other hand also you know there are some norms here of the monetary situation so there is some a little bit of i guess divergence here. and again what with this caretaker government now in place what sort of economic and political reforms do they need to look at that we're lacking in prime minister had e.d.s. proposal they have so many challenges up ahead you know not the least of which is their dependence on imports which they could really be running out of out of money to keep bringing into the country there's the lack of foreign currency the fall in foreign currency reserves i mean where do they begin here. well i think there's again there's 2 stages then you've got the emergency procedures that they need to take immediately now and then there's the long term solutions things like you know

terrorism on luxury imports 'd etc there's a lot of solutions and reforms that need to happen on the on the 1st measure i mean they've clearly stated that they're not going to execute got the controls i think that's a mistake because at the very least it's going to end up happening because of the corruption in the system is going to be privatization of certain clients over the average person and the problem in a situation like this where everything in the end is going to searches what's going to happen is that you know the big guys are going to be able to get their money out of the country which means that any future measures that they're going to take is going to affect the middle class and the poor much more than they should they should have had they done it now so one of the one of the issues that they i think they really think about is and this is not just an economic thing it's also political when you've got hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating the streets and true today there is some back of the division among among 2 parts of the

country however one when people realize that their money's in danger and that there's an effect both sides are human is that having 2000000 side you might have 4000000 of these poor you know look 'd at what did people do people in authority do at the stile when they could've when they could have stopped the capital flight by the by the big guys. right to get your expertise on this we do appreciate your time now that daniel as i live in boston thank you. thank you. but plenty more ahead on the news hour including an earthquake killed several people in the philippines bringing down buildings damaged by quakes earlier in the week strong winds. outside los angeles threatening hundreds of homes and. a bad night. would have the.