salute monarchy. what about popular will in his 1st comment, since the protest began king m swati, the 3rd caught them satanic with the king controls parliament and the nation. finances opposition groups criticize him for ruling with an iron fist and using public funds to live a lavish life. still with his 15 wives. the army is moving in to take control of the security situation. police have erected checkpoints, shops and markets have been closed and the dust, the dorm curfew imposed. the people say they will continue their resilience in a country broken by poverty, inequality, and decades of fear. northern manly outer syrup. ah, i know that this is al jazeera, i mean the headlines as senior delegation from afghanistan as in cattle to resume

talks with the taliban and comes as violence escalates on the ground. the group has captured large parts of the country in recent days. once on this, let me do the sort of the delegation of afghanistan hit by the chairman of the reconciliation committee has arrived in the capital capital. doha was meeting with the delegation of negotiations affiliated with the government. during his visit at the lab level, discuss important and crucial issues with taliban representatives. the solution to the conflict in afghanistan lies in negotiations, and peace can be reached through dialogue. if these talks lead to satisfactory results for both positive, sorry, do not need to tell us on movement has repeatedly confirmed its readiness for dialogue and negotiations. and the problems can only be solved by dialogue. but the afghan government needs to also show the same commitment. they need to show the right insincere determination when it comes to negotiations in order to end these problems. emergency workers and germany and belgium are still searching for

hundreds of people missing off the heavy flooding. you're watching live pictures now from north ryan, westphalia, nuts and west germany. more than 150 people across europe have been confirmed dead . that figure is expected to rise. so the african president says a weak violence and losing was planned and coordinated. so run the posen says forces if identified 12 ring leaders and he's now deployed 25000 soldiers to help the fuse the situation. at least 212 people have been killed as of friday. the 1st case of the corona virus has now been confirmed inside the athletes village and took care of just 6 days before the start of the games. the official who hasn't been identified as in isolation after being removed from the village. well, those are the headlines. they'll be more news here on al jazeera, after counting the cost to stay with us as the world's ultra rich ticket

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european court. the pandemic have decimated the tourism and leisure industry. we find out how one island nation hoping i'm planning for the recovery. ah, for much of the past few decades, ethiopia, as economy with the exception, has grown at a breakneck 10 percent or more masses until the arrival of prime minister avia hundreds in 2018. he has hope to list the economy to middle income spaces through privatization. but conflicts in the northern te joy region, the pandemic and locust swarms of strains, the countries finances report to the prime minister who won the nobel peace prize for ending a board of war with neighboring retreat. the challenges are acting out its forces to be routed in a c grade before plunging the region into

a humanitarian crisis. the united nations says 70 percent of the population needs food, aids that comfort food from abby's decision to live bands and position and rebel groups, which a stalked, long held ethnic tensions and rivalries. camino fighting and i'm horror and are on maria has left hundreds. dave's tension of brewing on the board with c done over disputed forming lands. she'll political tensions are also rising between egypt. see john and g o p over ivy's decision to continue filling a vast them on the nile, cairo and her to me feel water diverted to fill the 4500000000 dollar down will cause dr. says shoot on experience last year. despite all the challenges at home and abroad. i b one last months election when in 410 with the 436

seats that were up for grabs, position groups of accused his policy a vote. rigging intimidating and harassing its opponents. but the wrong dates can deal with all the challenges you see your face it's, it's that conflicts and t gray that are the ross of washington, which imposed sanctions on the country. the united states provided one, a 1000000000 and funding in 2020, but crucially, it's toll be international monetary fund, and the world bank to withhold funding that could prove problematic. the company tries to renegotiate its debts. it's not just governments and international bodies that are thinking twice about investing in ethiopia, foreign direct investment. so business investments slumped to 2400000000 last year from a high of 4200000000 in 2017. if currency has slumped 12 percent against the dollar this year, and economy may grow just 2 percent this year,

after an average of almost 10 percent over the last decade, according to the m. s. that we mentions her, feel p has ground the feel p and renee sounds damn project to stream ties with egypt. m c. done. but for e feel pins, it's a source of pride's many have contributed millions of dollars to the project by buying bonds. and as catherine saw reports from miss rocky in the field here, they're looking forwards to how it will change their lives. tanner's get omega shoes as all she's ever used to light up her house, a bottle kerosene lamp. she lives in a village, 2 hours drive north about the starbuck who down there is a my go that we have many health problems. we spend more time than we should in hospitals, and i think it's linked to this lamp. next door, her brother in law is using solar energy, but only he and

a few others here can afford it. theater to women, travel far with a donkeys to get the most basic support. if we had our tricity in our village, so they wouldn't have to go far to grind maze, for example, up to 65000000 fuel pins. that's more than half the population are not connected to the electricity. greet. many have bought government bonds for the construction of the grand renaissance dom africa's largest hydro electric down. about $250.00 steel pins. leave in this village. the poor, firmer who raised a $1500.00 for the construction of the dumb. the passionate about the project, and eagerly waiting to be connected to the grids. if you'll be a ha started filling the down for a 2nd time, and this is causing a nice downstream egypt and so done, are worried about how it could effect their own water flows. the 2 countries want a binding agreement governing how the dom well the operated talks mediated by the

african union, have failed. prime minister of the med recently told parliament the project will not stop. it does not intend to other countries or intention is to work with other countries and improve the state of moses. a term was worried about the tensions he has invested about $2000000.00 in expanding his oxygen and nitrogen energy plant in the patient of more reliable electricity. his factory, which supplies oxygen to all of eastern the field is facing daily and predictable power cuts for your life. because without telling enough in this country cannot be done. commodity for us. we are going to be willingly romano. we're always out of agreement. the completion of the done is imminent. and

a few pills like to show met to desa his family and neighbors. back in miss rocky village are preparing for what it may bring. right. slips get some analysis now with low now was senior political analyst with kate, so based and k. c, african economics, great. with his own cards and the costs and i. e. c o, p, a has requested that it's that be restructured under g twins. he plans to help countries deal with the pandemic. i just washington's coal on the i and i found the world back to with whole funding complicate matters at all. certainly. but it needs to be really complicated. the service spent initiative set to expire at the end of the year and approach the g 24 day treatment under the common framework in january . there has been very little in terms of progress spent and that is of course, course regular things id, as the initiative is set to expire. the august that is significant. the country has

asked me to people 1000000000, which is about 67 and g d p o, which almost 30 is external. the slow progress is, is most likely contributed towards moody and decisions have done great the country in may. i place a credit rating on review, and we saw a rather exasperated statement from the i m. s on july 6th. when it said it strongly encourages this permission of the acrylic committee. what exactly is holding up the negotiations? it's, it's possible that it has to do with pressure, but it also seems that there is, and some exasperation from, from, from some of the criticism, frustration around transparency issues. it seems that he is reluctant to open his books. and this could have a number of reasons why the cost of the warranty greg in one of those it's loans

with, with china being being another. but it certainly certainly complicating across that is already problematic. well, it's a problematic situation as a complicated situation, but given the deck, the g t p ratio that you've just caught aids, would you say that you feel peers finances or the critical position? right? no yes, i would. i would suggest that they probably finance is not, is not healthy one. currently we still have as much recently of the war in tikrit crossing as much as 2 and a half $1000000000.00. now that puts an enormous hole in any country, public finances, then as to these, the soft is socratic risks that will die and will threaten, don't support. that's another major consideration. i guess one of the largest

recipients all of aid in africa and the u. s. alone contributed some 1000000000 dollars, 1000000000 dollars to that in 2020. this is very much on the script and it is one of the significant leverage is the us has. so the have would have been very annoyed by my comments made last year by president job and specifically by us secretary of state. and the blinker comments, particularly to congress way, he described the situation p, grandma to ethnic cleansing, would have rankled them a great deal. but it is the thought essential individuals and the restrictions placed on on economic and security assistance that will, that will most quite low spring the focus and i want to prime minister be now he has won a strong mandates in last month's elections. do you think he will be able to achieve his goal of listing the country up to middle income faces,

or do you think the pandemic because just erased that prospects entirely? yes. yes. it's of course, it's a major threat to, to, to miss obvious ministration, which is one in not tobar is one, an enormous, overwhelming mandate. the awesome suggestions and it is that he won most too many books and some of us got positions failed to win any boats when opposition and candidate 11 of the one of the seats, they want everything else that that's wrong. mandate comes with enormous challenges depend, demik and the situation and see greg is perhaps the biggest read we are seeing minutes of soldiers mobilization taking place and i'm our regional security forces to go meet tpr live advances in the west of the region mainly has captured most of

the north and south too. great. so this the complex situation that he has deal with . i could have mentioned this earlier as well, is that if you guess, privatization drive, it's much private decision also faces significant risks. now, the spectrum in, in, in april of this year, and he only attracted to bidders. and at least part of that can be explained by the fact that if you have your right now culture very good reputation, risk and your us, you base companies will be reluctant to just for, for massive investments like that, considering country stuff at the moment. well i'm, i'm glad you touched on the privatization, because that is one of avi signature policies. another one, a real policy drives the grounds, renee's own stand projects, and that of course, is causing a lot of tension amongst if you will, p as

a neighbors will do you make of this. how does this speed in for the economic picture, and is this another potential flash point for conflicts? so before, before i move on to the good, i should point out that this is another leverage that the u. s. is seemingly interested in using against you again, that is the successful bid that was awarded in may of this year. quite a large part of the consortium was made up of the us international finance corporation and both the $500000000.00 loan which not used to be in the balance. a lot of us us pressure being placed on on. this is certainly not good news for, for the grant. if you can renew them agreement and tripartite agreement was done in egypt and the u. s. a. schools requests partner to egypt. and there's a section that they are favor in egypt in these negotiations, and they use the open us relationship intent on so many graphs. and one of the

reasons why it negotiations under the auspices of the african union, the social conflict cannot be dismissed. but it needs to be said that the conflict between yokes of egypt is very difficult to imagine. just because of the she had to divide the massive distance between those 2 countries. so in essence, sudan would have to involve the salt and such confident they would have to provide egypt support and allow them to use that territory. we're getting well ahead of us all by talking about that. but that is, that is a consideration and done on some level at least recognizes the advantage of having a massive hydro electric project uninstall, stick that it could potentially benefit from in the future for electricity. so they would be reluctant to have to ration escalate. i get to follow ok. fascinating

insights for you low. now really appreciate you talk. it says here own can see the cost that's low now from n k c economics. thank you much. the norway has done a lot to curtail its emissions with consumers buying more electric than conventional cars. but western europe, the biggest exports of oil is also one of the world's biggest facts porters of emissions and not content with plans for c bed mining. it's also planning to drill for oil in the arctic, but not if environmentalists have their way. bolden by victories and courts against royal dutch shell and the german government activists are pushing a european court to rule. but norway drilling is a breach of human rights. in 3 previous cases, norwegian courts affirm the government has nots breached those rights. well,

let's talk now it's one of the activists is bringing that case. joining us via skype from melbourne, australia is some coarser gilbert's campaign or for economic justice friends of the earth international. could you just start by explaining to us why you're bringing this case? what are the grains for pursuing this legal action? so what we know from these cases and a lot of the climate case in general, what we need to prove is that climate change causes a breach of human rights and that it's exploiting new fossil fuels also leads to directly to climate change. we think that there's much new evidence coming out in terms of climate change. we see that the impacts of climate change getting worse and worse. i'm from australia. and just last year we saw massive bush fires destroying in area the size of france. we're currently seeing heat waves in north america and also floods throughout the world. so the evidence is mounting about the

impact of climate change. we've also seen a number of very significant victories by young people in regards to claim litigation. so the german cases is very telling in which a group of young people in germany were able to, to win on these human rights climate grounds. also, we were able to win friends of the earth against the dutch dutch royal show in a, in a climate case recently. so there's a real growing movement for these sort of cases. and we see a real opportunity to, in this case, let's talk about emissions now. in a st. leo for you are norway, i'm cancel. those are 3 countries that are quite small in terms of pump you lation, but all have vast reserves of oil and gas for exports. they're all exposing their emissions astray earlier. i've been quite slow when it comes to

acknowledging and implementing changes at home. but norway, it seems, have made great strides. but despite all this, the still pushing a heads with drilling in the arctic. why do you think this is? well, there's a lot of money to be made in oil, and what we need to do is have people stand up for people in planet. and we really need to have a holistic approach to climate change which encompasses all elements. so it's, it's, you know, it's not good enough for a government or a company to be doing one thing on one side. and then another thing on the other side, we see this with this trailer as well with extreme amounts of exports. and that's why this case is so important, we need people to be out there cooling out the green washing astray. exports a lot more fossil fuels than, than it produces itself. and so we need cases like this to hold governments and companies accountable for what they're actually doing. and we know if way to keep

we've seen a safe climate, we need to keep the oiling the in the soil. and that's why this case is so important. know some back in 2018, the norwegian governments after a significant amount of pressure announced that the arctic fulton islands will be protected for oil drilling for 4 years now. that time is nearly. oh, do you think they'll be more pushback? i think we, we always push back and we always, they are willing and ready to fight. we've done a lot of solid reactions with friends of, you know, and this is a really important case. people love the arctic and they're going to fight for this is a massive global campaign, and we're hopeful to winning the courts and they'll be significant global pressure on the norwegian government around this issue at the upcoming climate negotiations and into the future. okay, great to get your thoughts. thank you so much for joining us on kind of thing that cost some of course,

the gilbert's campaigner at friends of the earth international. thank you. thanks for having me. the leisure and hospitality sexes have been hit hardest by the pandemic. according to the world travel and tourism council, the industry suffered a loss of almost $4.00 trillion dollars in 2020, 20. 19 the travel and tourism sector contribute to 10 percent to global g. p a share which decreased to 5.5 percent in 20. 22, of course, to be ongoing restrictions to mobility or in 202062 1000000 jobs were lost, representing a drop of 18.5 percent, leaving just 272000000 people employed across the sector globally. that's compared to 334000000 in 2019. where you can see what governments are desperate to get people back into work and get the economy motoring. one island

nation that is open, i guess, for us to travelers and visitors, is maricia se in the years prior to the coven 19 pandemic. maricia welcomes up to 1400000 visitors annually with to resume accounting for approximately 25 percent of g. d. p. well let's find out how they're going to reopen the economy to international tourism, joining via skype from port louis as our vend bundle director of the malicious tourism promotion authority. great for have you with us all and it came in the course just started. so if i explaining how you're preparing for this influx of tourists, we owe 2 phases. one which is from july, where buyer we need with a result but and, and i'm up to a boat with the island, subject to boston,

the passengers. and then there won't be time, then i can just enjoy the use of the island. tell us about the resort bobo. how will this work? will to rous be restricted to the individual resorts or will they eventually be allowed to explore the rest of the islands? actually the result will allow us to come to ris in full deed work. gosh, we go and does all of the visit? those will have access to all the piece of the be refined. we need to be after 40 and then they can mentor out in the community. and basically with that we know we want to promote our legendary service.

excuse me, marvelous night tourism accounts for 25 percent of g d p. the last year has been very difficult, of course all around the world, but just explain. so the impact that this is have on people who work in the industry tourism was because the bottom one and yet for underwood either the government they can very correct correct. just measured and how explain the board in supple, risky, and the 1st was to support them longer. and fortunately with this clever managed mind of the band that make up 90, we are saying that we owe and receive and fix your mind. today more of a move to save your luxury. ok. it's very interesting that government has the

support scheme, but the government of malicious is also pushing for the production of vaccines on maricia and soil. tell us more about this initiative. this has been measured by the minnesota and i would like to place some record of by her that we are diversified economy. and today actually i'm to make, we've been getting back. this is quite challenging. so i would say this isn't that would be able to, to invite investors to come to invest in this law. and this could be also beneficial all our region. great for have you on the show. thank you so much for

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