hi, finds are open, that the athletes village competitors have been told they could be kicked out of the games if they ignore regulations aimed at preventing the spread of corona virus . the not likely to concerned by the restrictions that they focus on winning olympic gold. you can congregate in big groups in the dining, or you're going to stay in your little bubble of 4 or 5 people the whole time and stay the room and all of that. that's exactly how i've always treated on. but games like it hasn't been a big sociable experience for me, it's all about the competition. and so it's going to be pretty routine. that sense of isolation is set to continue into the family's empty stadiums that will surrounds and lympics like no other. andy richardson, al jazeera, tokyo ah, i'm now with the headlines on al jazeera, at least $25.00 people have died in severe flooding and china essential, non province of the heaviest rainfall since wrinkled began. 200000 people have been

moved to safety and as concerns that a dam could collapse. the senior most u. s. general says taliban 5 has no control. nearly half of the countries, $400.00 plus the districts. mock mitty says the group has strategic momentum, as it takes of a new areas. or this is us troops pull out. i would tell you that as of today, more or less, i guess it's about $212.00 to $13.00 in that range. 2 hundreds of the district centers are in taliban control. it's about half of the $419.00 that are out there. you've got 34 provincial capitols in afghanistan. none of them have been seized as of today by the taliban. although the taliban is putting pressure on the outskirts of probably a half of them. 17 of them in fact. and what they're trying to do is isolate the major population centers. townsend, he has main opposition. party is demanding to know whether chairman is after an

overnight police rate. freeman and boy, and 10 of the team of party members were arrested on wednesday. the party says the arrest the proof that president saw me to leave her house on, is continuing the authoritarianism of her predecessor to make a fully who died and march 4 major drug companies have agreed to pay 20 $6000000000.00 to resolve thousands of claims over their role and the u. s. opioid epidemic distributor, his mary source, bergen, cardinal health and mckesson along with the manufacturer. johnson and johnson will pay over a number of years. parts of iran are into the 2nd day of a locked down. the cove at 19 restrictions were brought in the head of the muslim holiday eidolon on wednesday, which usually prompts millions to travel around as battling a 5th outbreak fuel by the delta variant does get you can always check out a website l g. is there a dot com for plenty more news, otherwise i will be back here in about 30 minutes right off the counting,

the cost to stay with us. i'll see very soon. bye bye. for now. the news news news news with me.

ah ah, hello, i'm how am i, he's been and this is counting the coast on al jazeera. you're look at the world of business and economics this week, internal conflict boards and water disputes. if you're p as challenges are piling up with them, the united states calling on innocent national lenders to block access to finance. it is prime minister abbey for the political and economic challenges. one of the biggest exports is of emissions wants to drill in the arctic. environmentalists aren't challenging nor ways plans in the 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. for much of the past 2 decades, ethiopia, as economy with the exception, has grown at a breakneck 10 percent or more. is 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 border of war with neighboring retreat. the challenges are acting out its forces slipping. roaches in a c grade before plunging the region into a humanitarian crisis, the united nations says 70 percent of the population needs food, eats that conflict 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, tensions of brewing on the board was done over disputed forming lands. she'll political tensions are also rising between egypt. see don and g o p a over ivy's decision to continue filling a vast them on the nile, cairo and her to me feel water diverted to fill the 4 point. $5000000000.00 down will cause dr. says she don't experience last year despite all the challenges at home and abroad. i b one last month's election when in 410 with the 436 seats that were up for grabs, opposition groups of accused his party, a vote. rigging intimidating and harassing its opponents. but the wrong dates can deal with all the challenges, ethiopia, face it's,

it's that conflicts and t gray that are the ross of washer and 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 funds 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, a 4200000000 in 2017. if currency has slumped 12 percent against the dollar this year and, 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 mention. so if you p as grounds

e. c o p and renee sounds damn project to stream ties with egypt. se done, but for if the o peons it's a source of prides 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. patch nurse, get home issues at 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 good afternoon. 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 a tricity in our village, so they wouldn't have to go far to grind maze, for example,

up to $65000000.00 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 don. about 250 philippines 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 hosted 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 to download the operated talks mediated by the african union have failed. prime minister, amid recently told parliament the project will not stop. it does most intend to either 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 itc 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 few people 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 in k, c, african economics, greater withers own carrier in the cost and i feel p has requested that it's that be restructured under g twins. he plans to help countries deal with the pandemic. how does 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 to expire at the end of the year and approach the g $24.00 day treatments under the common framework in general. there has been very little in terms of properties since then. and that is, of course, costing regular things id as the initiative is set to expire. the august that is significant. the country was asked to people 1000000000, which is about $0.60 a g d p, which almost 30 is external. the slow progress is,

is most likely contributed towards moody decisions to downgrade 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 work or mission of the acrylic committee. and what exactly is holding up the negotiation? it's, it's possible that it has to do with pressure. but it also seems that there is 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. one of those it's loans with, with china being being another but 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 p has finances or the critical position right now? yes, i would. i would suggest that they probably finance is not just not healthy one. currently. we saw him 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 sort of socratic risks that will and when will threaten, don't support. that's another major consideration. 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 district and it is one of

the significant images the us has. so 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 to describe the situation t grandma to ethnically and would rankle them a great deal. but any of these thought essential individuals and the restrictions placed on on economic and security assistance that will, that will hurt most quite a low spring. the focus and i want to prime minister our 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 lifting the country up to middle income faces, or do you think the pandemic because just erased that prospects entirely? yes, i guess it's of course there's a major threat to to,

to ministration which should be one and not tobar is one an enormous overwhelming mandate. the awesome suggestions and it's, it's that, that he won most too many books and added some difficulty got positions failed to win any books and opposition candidate 11 of the one of the day and everything else that's, that's wrong mandate comes with enormous time. just depending on the situation and see, greg is perhaps the biggest really we are seeing of soldiers mobilization taking place and i'm our regional security forces to go meet tpl. if advances in the west of the region, mainly has captured most of the north and south to great. so this, the complex situation that he has to deal with. i could have mentioned this earlier as well,

is that if the privatization drive it's much wanted privatization was affected, significant risks. now, the big full spectrum in, in april of this year only attracted to bidders. and at least part of that can be explained by the fact that if you go right now, culture, very sickness, a good reputation, risk and your you with you base companies will be reluctant to just for, for massive investments like that, considering its country stuff at the moment well i'm, i'm glad you touched on the private hi zation because that is one of the signature policies and other one since real policy drives is that the grands renee's own stand projects. and that, of course, is causing a lot of tension amongst you feel p as a neighbors will do you make of this. how does this feed into the economic picture and is this another potential flash point for conflicts?

so before, before i move on to, to the good, i should point out that there's been another leverage that the u. s. is seemingly interested in using against the successful bid that was awarded in may of this yet quite a large part of that consortium was made up of the us international finance corporation in both the 500000000 dollar loan, which not seems to be in the balance a lot of us us pressure being placed on on his jo pierre is certainly not good news for, for the grant agreement and tripartite agreement with redundant egypt and the us of course rick las partner, 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 negotiated under the auspices of the african union, the sofa conflict cannot be dismissed. but it needs to be said that conflict

between c o p as 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 act to involved with the sauce companies 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 such but that is, that is a consideration and done on the least recognize this, the advantage of having a massive hydro electric project, it door stick that it could potentially benefit from in the future for electricity . so they would be reluctant to have situations escalate and get too far. ok, fascinating insights for you low. now. really appreciate you talking to us here on i can see the cost that's low now from n k c economics. thank you much. the

who's in norway has done a lot to curtail it's emissions of consumers buying more electric than conventional cars. but western europe, the biggest exports of oil is also one of the world's biggest exporters of emissions and not content with plans for c bad mining. it's also planning to drill for oil in the arctic, but not if environmentalists have their way at bolton's by victories and courts against royal dutch shell. and the german government activists are pushing a european court to rule. but norway's drilling is a breach of human rights. in 3 previous cases, norwegian courts affirm the government has not breached those rights. well, let's talk now it's one of the activists bringing that case. joining as via skype from melbourne, australia is some coarser gilbert's, a campaigner 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 cases in general, what we need to prove is that climate change causes a breach of human rights. and that is 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 climate case recently. so there's a real growing movement for these sort of cases and, and we see a real opportunity to win this case. let's talk about emissions now in st. louis over, you are norway, i'm cap. so those are 3 countries that are quite small in terms of population, but all have vast reserves of oil and gas for exports. they're all exposing their emissions. now a st. leah, i've been quite slow when it comes to acknowledging and implementing changes at home. but norway, it seems half made great strides, but despite all this, the still pushing a heads with,

with drilling in the arctic group. 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 on 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. no, sam, back in 2018, the norwegian governments after

a significant amount of pressure announced that the arctic lo, 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 face push back and we always, they are willing and ready to fight. we've done a lot of solidarity actions 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 contributed 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. 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 butchering one island nation that is open again for us to travelers and visitors. is maricia se in the years prior to the cool, with 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. all the malicious tourism promotion authority, great for have you with us all and i can see the cost just started. so if i explaining how you're preparing for this influx of tourists, we owe 2 phases. one which is found to live where buyer we need with a result but and, and i'll come up with the island subject to boxing the passengers under way and then there won't be one time. then i can just enjoy the ease of the island. tell us about the resort

bobo, how will this work? we'll have to respond restricted to the individual resorts or will they eventually be allowed to explore the rest of the islands? actually as a result will allow us to come to ris in full of the work last week. and all of the those will have access to all the parts that be refined. we need to be after for it, then they come out in the coming and basically with that we know, but we want to promote our legendary service. excuse me, it's marvelous. now 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 hard on people who work in the industry tourism was a cause. great abbas one. and yet for the would either the government because they can very career career and have been explaining born in some way risky. and the 1st was to support empire. and fortunately with this clever management by that make up 90, we are saying that we owe and to see and if you would mind to name on a move to said he is the new luxury. ok. it's very interesting. the government has the support scheme, but the government of maricia is, is also pushing for the production of vaccines on maricia soil. tell us more

about this initiative. this has been measured by the mist apartments and i would like to place on record as more shit in a vibrant economy. we are, it's a diversified economy. and to date, actually with the time 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 to have you on the show. thank you so much for joining us, as our vend boons and director of the maricia here is a promotion authority. thank you. thank you. and that is our show for this week, but there was more for you online at al jazeera dot com slash sci fi fi. that'll

take you straight to our page, which has entirely references for you to catch up on. i'm how am i have seen from the can to the coffee. thank you for joining us. the news on i'll just era is next . ah, me. ah ah, becoming a living legend of a young age with simply not enough. he transformed his influence on the pitch into political clouds. the brought peace to the ivory coast posted by eric comes to the football rebels. the life of the drop on the football seated where politicians had

not dropped the boy and civil war on i was just there. mm. be the hero. the world needs right now. i was ah, ah, strategic momentum appears to be sort of with the tell him. depends on raises the alarm over the telephone to advance and i'm gonna stop us troop ah, other i'm kimbell. this is al jazeera law from go home, also coming up. the military joins rescue efforts in central china. the region

grapples with the worst floods in decades. a boost in the fight against.