it also needs to diversify its economy away from its reliance on oil production at 83 years old the new amir has been serving in senior leadership positions for more than half a century including his minister of interior and minister of defense house if no one comes to meet which challenges is yet to be known but many will look to his choice of every parent and prime minister to indicate what sorts of direction he intends to take. that is al-jazeera these are all the top stories brazil has registered more than a 1000 coronavirus tests for the 1st time in 2 weeks it brings a total number of fatalities that iran 143002nd only to the united states. monica yant a key has moved from rio de janeiro everybody is out and about as if nothing were

happening that's pretty much the case for example it's very hot here in rio de janeiro it's winter but it's been very hot it's a very hot season all over brazil and people are out on the be no social distancing no masks they're out in bars and restaurants and the government also doesn't give a good example the president himself is the one that likes wear masks so people have just been walking around as if nothing like this happening the group that manages the u.s. presidential debate says it will make changes to the full months after widespread criticism she's dazed about it was dominated by personal attacks and constant interruptions as no word yet on what those changes will be will say donald trump backtracked on a support for a known racist group. i don't know who the broad boys are but you have to give me a definition because i really don't know who they are i can only say they have to

stand down let law enforcement do their work law enforcement will do the work more and more as people see how bad this radical liberal democrat book that is and how weak the law enforcement is going to come back stronger and stronger but again i don't know proud boys are but whoever they are they have to stand down let law enforcement do their work international pressure is growing on armenia and azerbaijan to end their conflict over the disputed region of nicole mcadam back french president in monument russia's vladimir putin have called for ceasefire france's highest court has ruled that a suspect in the rwandan genocide can be sent to tanzania to face trial and he is accused of helping to finance the genocide as he had lines counting the cost is next. frank assessment what are you seeing.

and in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al jazeera. hello i'm daryn jordan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera you look at the world of business and economics this week brazil has the world's 2nd highest number of coronavirus deaths the economy is in meltdown and graft cases are piling up against the president's family but both are as popularity is on the rise also this week some livestock under threat mexican farmers feel what little water they have is going to be given to the united states. and the battle for the skies a british startup joins a crowded field to develop electric flying cars which could take to the us in the

middle of this decade. now from all the headlines you may think that brazil's president jay both scenario is having a terrible pandemic his dismissive belligerence saw the virus run riot with more than 4 and a half 1000000 cases and over 135000 deaths brazil's been hit hard by the virus but support among the poor has seen both an hour's popularity at its highest level since he took power in 28 so what's behind his popularity emergency handouts for law salaries due to the pandemic remarkable for a conservative who's of ministration has wanted to smash spending and introduce austerity to cut debt that is heading towards 95 percent of g.d.p. well the budget deficit that's money the government needs to find to finance spending is expected to soar to $180000000000.00 that's according to economist city

that's 13.7 percent of gross domestic product. and the pandemic has sent unemployment soaring to a 2 year high of 12.9 percent and the number of people out of work has risen to 8900000 in the 3 months to may unemployment's expected to tick higher to more than 13 percent well the economy contracted by 9.7 percent in the 2nd quarter the most in the last 40 years that was better than many had predicted and analysts expect g.d.p. to shrink by about 5 percent for the whole year which is better than every other latin american country except europe. well despite all that both and are as popularity has risen to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus the poorest in the country have been receiving monthly stimulus payments of about $110.00 but both are narrow continues to be dogged by accusations of graft against his family and in a circle his wife michelle can't explain why a former aide put thousands of dollars into her bank account and the president to

sideline his market friendly economy minister so what does that all mean for the country and the economy during these very trying times when a canuto senior fellow at the policy center for the new south joins me via skype from washington d.c. a tavia know so what's behind the rise in both scenarios popularity is it simply that he's managed to look after the poor through these stimulus payments perhaps. the fact is that the in contrast years that president mosul i don't know don't include it in his fact edge to respond to to the growth of crisis really struck a chord in the sense that it 1st of all it to us so special in the sense that it was given higher than what many of the recipients would admire really as an incumbent and saturday it is works to a large extent

a 5 bit deeper recession resilient case the 1st pass by april places where very dire and you have a map was casting a downfall of close to 9 percent something in the range of 8 to 9 percent of the cotton judy and the transfers to the population and up up a safety for their wage bill that quietens and now i'm forgetting are pointing to a decline this session to what it might a spot percent and that together with the narrative that president bush a lot o. cited to adopt that is say to deny that he had major responsibilities. disease. was a gamble it was a bet and a not being young and he's not the only both an r. is not the only president in latin america that seen his popularity rise despite

the rising death toll i'm thinking here of mexico's president under his money as upper build that's exactly so and spite the fact that one is concede your right i mean yes president muslim and the other one more are like a left wing populace the president of mexico both those kind of minister who. should distance sellers of any need your responsibility with respect to disease. oh that's a lady responsibility only valid nurse and so national have always said that once responsible for salish a drastic move but it is a restriction that. measures and that a guard he kind of a menace to let's say spite of the clear and to vision of responsibilities that

some i might give that to the president and meet as a president you was leader responsible for or stop machine that you post or the fact is that the broad expanse the treasure income has kind of outweighed the negative aspects on the take down a let's quickly talk about some of the internal wranglings within both now as government and he sidelined his economy minister paul o'grady as why did you do that very quickly. because again this is. had i genda a neighbor argenta that my let's say give but some difficulties for poor posada you know his drive towards higher popularity. do have a sense that. we can resume with this in the sort of

a mid position because so far the fiscal framework has not been abandoned all so still may count on the perspective of add some sort of ground 0 fiscal adjustment over the years. but. only not everything that over geddes would like to do it necessary so ok and and and we know that we know that both america has given up on his plans to introduce a social security program he's keeping the plan of former left wing leader lula disembowel why is that very quickly. to the point is that you know the. trasher of money. cash france or give him so much popularity that he's now trying to let's say to becomes the owner of this will say on

a more permanent basis not simply because of the qualifiers 11 has to understand that because of the fires because of it 19 has mean a disaster in brazil and everywhere where it is being. and as a disaster as a catastrophe the public sector is called to be ok the insurer cut but. but there is this attempt to to this desire to create some sort of a more baronet income transfer program beyond the price tag and i think many people would agree that something has to be done to contain the country's runaway debt is there a plan yes i believe that the. existing . cap on public spending if it is

maintaining if it's but a big if there are really for us that may fizzle the 10 minute obedience to the spread in cat that my provide or time gravity. and i just meant the primary surplus of the public accounts were paid heres question has been down is whether as head will be possible to implement reforms that will make the spending cap fusible take on a just a final thought to you of course waiting in the wings is new at a silver if he can overturn his corruption conviction he could be a familial opponent in 2022 and possibly in local elections next year as well couldn't take well as of today the balls are still pointing to such a polar ization. but at the same time it's not a phantom body you know the fact is that we are not brazil is not content to have

to polarize candid as s. at the forefront there's always a possibility people gain tired of such up extremes position as head and edits i take on a canoe to be happening there thank you very much indeed for talking to count in the cost thank you. nice to talk to you. now drought hit farmers in the mexican state of chihuahua are continuing to occupy a dam saying they want to prevent a water payment to the united states well under 1944 treaty mexico and the u.s. are obligated to share water found along the border between the 2 nations but pharma say they need the resource for their crops money as. this dry desert landscape is in the state of chihuahua in northern mexico just south of the u.s.

border it hasn't rained much lately and many here are concerned that crops and livestock are under threat is that farmers like chloe garcia tell us what little water remains in the region is about to be given to the united states under a water sharing treaty signed between the 2 countries during world war 2 it's us on the order of the work of others these are water reserve that we have collected we have to restrain from harvesting more than one crop per year in order to subsist and not run out of water now the government shows up and say they have to pay the united states it isn't true. the issue of water is a boiling hot topic in this part of the country and protests against the decades old water treaty have been growing more and more violent in recent weeks the medics have been mostly lionel's it's a reaction from citizens who are defending their own way water is everyone's heritage water doesn't belong to anyone water is for everyone and for all mexicans that is why we're outraged and this reaction from citizens is the result of this

anger with the u.s. and mexico signed the water treaty of $944.00 the united states agreed to send more water to mexico than it receives but it still requires mexico to release water from dams along some of the driest parts of the border. at level dam the largest in the state of chihuahua mexican national guard troops are keeping watch farmers recently seized control of the dam and have attacked members of mexico's national water commission who plan to extract water from the reservoir mexico has until october 26th of this year to pay off its water debt with the united states which amounts to some 100000000000 gallons of fresh water and the word of mexico's president has addressed the recent violence but claims water reserves and she are enough to pay both the water debt to the u.s. and supply the needs of farmers in the region the president has also suggested the conflict is politically motivated it don't matter don't. they took over the kid dam

which was being used to follow through with a commitment to deliver water to the united states under the treaty of 1944 go and go but since the literal interest this has become a political issues. as the drought in northern mexico worsens a growing number of supporters are joining in the protest against the treaty their hopes are fading 1st solution that will guarantee farmers access to the water they say is essential to their survival. below al jazeera mexico city. now water is indispensable to economic activity but industrial use is worsening access to fresh water about 2500000000 people around the world still don't have access to clean water and that in turn is leading to a loss in economic activity water is hugely important not just to the agriculture industry but to the fashion auto and mining industry as well when my next guest

says the fashion industry is blind to the impact of water pollution kate lam is the global director of water security at not for profit environment consultancy c.d.p. and she joins me from london via skype kate great to have you with us here on counting the cost so listen i mean our desire for cheap fast fashion does indeed have consequences tell us how and why the textile and fashion industries are major water polluters. in the fast fashion and our desire full of constant need for new clothes doesn't cope with out its costs the growth in fast fashion has created and has risen 2 fold in the last 20 is despite the fact that just global population has risen just 28 percent and when one considers that the weather is the production of the cotton or the fibers that are used within and within fashion within fabrics themselves account for more than 10 percent of all industrial freshwater withdrawals on the planet at around $79.00 t. h.

best 10 tonight 1000000000 cubic metres of fresh water that withdrawn every single year said to that of course the large number of toxic chemicals that are used right across the fashion and the apparel sector supply chains a lot of those chemicals are in the themselves cost of the genny and when $1.00 considers that around 85 percent of all industrial waste water and leave sites untreated that means the larger portion of those chemicals also leaking into the environment posing a threat substantial threat not only to environmental health but human health all sam and i can understand why big brands would want to show their support for environmental issues but what responsibility do we have as consumers especially when it comes to our demand for cheap fashion. we have a really large role to play the brands themselves listen to us and ultimately result respond to the demand that we place on them we are there the sort of the

solution held is if you like and so amending our desire for constant changing and implodes it will really deliver a significant impact often individuals will consider whether the role that they play will be significant and i can absolutely say with confidence 'd that on this issue it will and so the things that we can do all be used clothes a little bit more perhaps engage in swapping clothes with our friends and consider mending and repairing the clothes that we already do have and think about the the fabrics the clothes and our of them materials are made of leather for example the leather in all kinds of bags our shoes ultimately comes from town was always have a significant impact on the environment whether that's freshwater withdrawal of pollution g.h.t. emissions land convey zhen de forest station if we can consider how we use that material how we treasure measure and look after those materials ensure that we can

use them for a longer period of time then we have a significant role i can't just talk about the comic has for a 2nd because the auto industry we know is pushing to deliver more electric cars as some countries will and the sale of combustion engines by i think it's 2035 so we're going to need a lot more lithium now the problem with mining is that water is really critical to who aspects of production so and we know there are serious strains on water resources already on that's right yes it is a very significant sector full water security in general and the sector is intimately connected with the water cycle itself indeed of the companies that were responding to c.d.p. in 21995 percent of them reported exposure 'd to substantially real water related risks that would generate major changes in their business and indeed the push for. electric vehicles is welcome from a climate change chichi emission perspective it really is a good news story however it is coming at

a cost and as you rightly point out the introduction itself is incredibly water intensive and poses substantial challenges for the communities that often live and it's surrounded by the mines themselves great to get your thoughts thank you for talking to counting the cost thank you thank you gary and now the race is on to launch the 1st electric 5 c. to air taxi service there are at least 20 companies working on similar plans including air bus and boeing where you may remember one german startup lilium that we featured on this program it launched the world's 1st electric 5 seater flying car and it has the backing of china's 10 cent among others its development program is more advanced than an google's larry page the vehicle is built to take off and land vertically in an urban area and should be in service by 2025 and now there's a new entrant bristol england based vertical aerospace plans to have a winged electric taxi service

a year earlier than william and it's backed by steven fitzpatrick who also founded the energy firm over. well chief executive officer of vertical aerospace group my coach of inca joins us now via skype from bristol and michael used to work on a flying taxi concept for rolls royce the maker of airplane engines michael great to have you with us so look an awful lot of money is being poured into moving just a handful of people through the air why is that. so thanks very much for having me well actually i think there's a few factors today more and more people are living in cities we're all struggling with ground based congestion helicopters currently the only real way of taking off and landing but a cli from a small landing pad but they're very old technology telescoped is actually derived from 1960 s. technology they're very expensive they're very noisy they're not very safe and so they're not really viable as a as a broader so transportation solution what we're seeing with electric ation and the

advances in technology is the potential for new types of vehicles that can really disrupt this market so whilst they may need carry 4 or 5 people actually we can develop a vehicle is 30 times quiet and helicopter chiefs the same level of safety as a commercial airliner and does that in a in a cost that actually starts to become affordable and michael is there enough room in the market for 20 odd ventures and do you see many of these players just falling away and actually if you look around there are many more than 20 trying to develop vehicles you know this is a bit like the space race of aviation going on and actually when you've got the background and knowledge you look at many of the concepts being devised and pretty pictures and they're not really realistic budgetary space is in fact one of only 7 companies globally to playing to full scope prototypes and i think there's a massive difference between being able to come up with a pretty picture of us is knowing how to take that through

a full set of occasion standage and deliver a commercially viable product so my personal view is that there is certainly space in this market for several play as but we'll see a big fall out and it's probably going to be way less than 10 that actually is successful yeah and much of this of course michael is driven by money so do you have enough funding to see you through to 2024 when you expect your service to actually fly. we're actually doing a capital raise at the moment we've been incredibly lucky in that we were founded by successful entrepreneur stephen fitzpatrick and so he's fully funded the company so far that's enabled us to grow well class team of over 100 people and as i say develop those 2 full scale prototypes we've now radio reach the point where we need to accelerate what we're doing and it goes to develop a commercially viable 'd way cool way or a pushing the bands of technology and we've got a huge amount of testing to go through so that right now we are in the middle of a cap to raise looking for about $30000000.00 to fund our next prototype and in the

intent once we play in that is to extend that fundraise from to about 150160 1000000 to take us all the way through certification so so just talk us through briefly michael what's the biggest challenge to developing a flying car is it batteries for instance and what's coming down the line that could improve the range and weight of batteries. and so actually one of the challenges is just taking these big cars for a set of vacation program and hitting those you know demanding safety targets is essential to am having you know lots of potential for lots of these vehicles flying over our heads in cities and batteries are definitely the major driver site and pass the reason why these because the starting to happen is automated has really been pushing the bounds of technologies on batteries on out who pound trains so mages in that is a septra but the reality today is batteries are just about on the limits of developing a vehicle that can fly high tens maybe

a 100 miles can carry 5 people can meet the safety standards and do that it is at a price point that styles viable so it's a really in terms of batteries we're seeing you know a steady improvement today typically 34 percent weight improvements every year and they're awesome disruptive technologies being looked at but i think we're not going to see a step change until at least the back end of this decade before they start to come 3 and i guess many people will be asking the question when would all of this technology be available to power knowledge or regional jets along the whole services so say that the simple reality is a pure electric power outage regional all along will jetties not wild bill with any of the technologies we see on the horizon and but i think there is still a real opportunity for electrification to play a role in helping improve the sustainability of law drakkar often and in fact very much the purpose of our company was to help aerospace on that journey not just

a focus on a smaller so we will see hybrid type solutions which still require burning of fuel and maybe hydrogen or sustainable fuels in conjunction with some level of battery and hybrid electric power to improve the efficiency of the vehicles regional actor out probably the back end of the 20 twenty's long haul is a county going to be well in 20 thirties. an important point to make about hydrogen then michael because i was going to ask you as a final thought what about us because we know the plane maker has been under pressure from france and germany airbus hopes to have a hydrogen powered jet in the sky sometime in the next decade so actually from the engine point of view many of the engines that are flying around today kate balut burning hydrogen the challenge is more firstly the acrobat itself so hydrogen is very light but it takes up 4 times as much basis kerosene so you need to really have much bigger tanks in a different type of aircraft hence that kind of concept versus announced recently

and there's a big cost driver and of course is that the cation and the wider infrastructure so how do you produce hydrogen economically at scale and in environmental magnitude a lot of hydrogen production is actually derived from also feels and so really those kind of economic and industrial challenges a part of the journey that you know we're going to need to go on to detail denies aviation my coach i think a great to get your thoughts thank you very much for talking to counting the cost thank you thank you and that is our show for this week but remember you can get in touch with us via twitter or use the hash tag a j c t c when you do all you can drop us an e-mail counting the cost of al-jazeera dot net is our address but there's more for you online at al-jazeera dot com slash c.t.c. and that will take you straight to our page which has anti episodes for you to catch up on well that's it for this edition of counting the cost i'm down in jordan from the whole team here thanks for joining us the news announcer syria is next.

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