like sarah, a good night at the money, how they can go amongst i didn't mean to cut on me. i do this task happily. i really enjoy taking part in the festival. the joy i had being involved is a 12 year old. i still have today. how do you sunday marks the final stage of the festival known as the up arrow as it draws to a close, many hold that it's brought some respite from the misery of corbett 19 fernandez. just the ra candy. ah, let's take you through some of the headlines here now just here. now, the thought a balance as it will not extend the deadline for western forces to leave afghanistan. us president joe biden is under pressure to keep american troops on the ground beyond the august 31st deadline to continue evacuation efforts from brian reports from cobble. this deadline is something of

a moveable feast. originally it was that it may the 1st rebound, but that was under the trumpet, ministrations piece, deal with a taliban last year. now as part of that deal, the taliban agreed to hold talks with the then african government. they didn't whole talk. so joe biden felt justified, i think in april when he extended the deadline to the symbolically very important september 11th. now, since then, they biden in july brought the deadline forward to august the 31st. so he set that deadline in theory, he can now unset it at the taliban, has threatened before with the extension of deadlines, etc, that it would take action. it would target us troops. i think it remains to be seen . whether that's going to happen. the world health organization says 500 tons of medical aid for afghan, a standard doc in the u. a because of the kale. so campbell, apple says critical supplies will run out in 10 days. china says it's closely

following developments in afghanistan. it's foreign ministries calling for the formation of an inclusive government. aging says it's prepared to work with the tardy bon us. regulators have granted full approval to find the current of iris vaccine emergency approval was granted. in december, the decision could boost the vaccine roll out by convincing more americans to get the job. millions of people in vietnam's commercial hom, how many city bonds from leaving their homes for at least 2 weeks. police and soldiers have been deployed to enforce the country's most severe covey 19 restrictions, yet, infections for soaring, and at least 737 people have died in just 24 hours. it's the highest since the pandemic began. less than 2 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. those he had lines. it's counting the cost. now stay with us here on our 0. ah,

ah ah, ah, hello, i'm sammy a dan. this is counting the cost on al jazeera. you look at the world of business and economics this week, the toddler, bon economy, off the decades of running a power of administration, can they avert a crisis that the u. s. breezes f gamma stand billions in reserve for hill deadliest manmade environmental disaster. 5 years on and tens of thousands are yet to be compensated. but a $7000000000.00 lawsuit against the anglo australian mining giant, heading back to london court room and the gambia left covey restrictions

of the west african country could be a long way from recovery. with no control over off it economy. the news when cobble fell, it did so without the shot being fired, a ton of bond walked in to power. as the country's president, i should have money fled the country, allegedly, with millions stuffed inside suitcases. the tiny bon has the keys to the presidential palace, but they don't have access to all the leaves of power, including billions of dollars held overseas. in fact, the autonomy bomb inherit the world 7th for a country. international aid accounts for 75 percent of the government's budget. and according to the world bank, about 43 percent of the call me last year about 47 percent of the population lives below the national poverty line. according to the asian development bank. and

poverty could accelerate after the united states prose, $9500000000.00 in international reserves held by afghan. the stan central bank. it also stopped the shipment of dollars to the country before the government's fall. without the greenbacks, the economy may collapse dollars and needed to pay government salaries, keep the financial system afloat and pay for imports. as the country runs a trade deficit without it, the currency will continue to depreciate, causing inflation and food prices are likely to rise. the international monetary fund is withholding $460000000.00 it was supposed to send to afghanistan as part of its covert relief program. washington could use that as leverage to make sure that all yvonne forms and inclusive government doesn't become a haven from groups. but that may be easier said than done. the taliban have existed outside the full banking sector for the last 2 decades. they've relied on

taxing trade routes with drugs early forming a small part of their revenue stream. that's according to u. k. think tank overseas development institute. an example would be the south western province of nym route, which borders pakistan and iran. the toddler bomb collects $54000000.00 in revenue every year. that breaks down as follows. $17000000.00 as a levy on fuel $23000000.00 as a tax on goods entering from iran and transiting through the province and the $5000000.00 collected from the drugs industry. right, let's get some analysis now with jonah blank. he's a lecture at the national university of singapore and the senior political scientist and the rand corporation, good to have you with us. so without the international military spending without the international aid, what do you think is going to happen to the afghan economy? well,

it will certainly be jury severely hurt. economy is founded on relies on the international app and it relies on the spending all united states military and of other militaries that are there. so this will really be a hard hit. but i think the biggest problem is going to be how the tama bomb managed to reorient not only the economy but society. the morning science i think are not are. 2 are really quite worrisome, and on top of that, you think the u. s. is going to use f kind of stands reserves and the flow of dollars in the country can use that kind of influenced the political landscape where it will try. but i'm not sure that it will succeed. the tongue of on has proven in the past that it's in still in money, but money is not really as powerful tool as some outsiders might take it as long as

it has enough funding to fulfill its basic duties as it sees them. then i think it's not really going to care whether an extra 1000000000 to 1000000000 here, or there come into the treasury. it needs enough money to get by. and it, quite frankly, is going to have that just from customer's revenue, illegal narcotics, and various other flows that are not dependent on the international economy. what about china and russia? do you think they can fill some of the vacuum of the void that and can they benefit from the departure of washington? i would say highly unlikely. there's a lot of discussion about china in particular filling the gap. and i just don't see that happening. china has had 20 years in which it had a free hand to do any business deal at want it. it has explored rarer it has explored copper mining. there has been talk of

a pipeline that never went anywhere. if china didn't do these things with the united states providing the security environment for free, it's hard to see why they would do it when they would have to pick up the security costs. as for russia, they just don't have the money. they don't really have the. 2 interest in doing this and they, they've had the experience and i've kind of stuff. 1 i don't think they're really going to want to get back in that you know, a really significant way. so given what you've just said, been one assumes that all the talk about the taliban sitting on one trillion dollars of mineral wealth. they're not going to be able to access that very easily . now, not at all, even if it's true. that one trillion figure goes back to a pentagon study or something like 10 years ago. and it never has amounted to anything. it's all really based on

a lot of speculative numbers. what would happen if these rarer and other mineral wealth were in fact present and able to be brought to the world market at prevailing prices and every element of that. a analysis is at best questionable. all right, so given everything putting everything you said into context, will the taliban simply fall back into the sort of mode they've been used to dealing with, which is running a state shadow state, a shadow economy and relying on the sort of revenue streams it has developed over the last 2 decades. that's what the science looked like. we've seen a lot of indications of tele, bon actions, not lining up with all of on rhetoric. and we have to deal with the basic fact that the tele bond is not really a cohesive top down organization. it is a lot of different clans groups, tribes,

all with their own separate agendas. and a couple will have a really difficult time imposing any real order. we have to remember that every ask on government going back century is probably going back forever. has been a very decentralized regime just 20 year experiment in centralized rule from cobble has been the 1st time that this is really been tried. and i would say that a lot of the dysfunctions that we've seen in the afghan government have stemmed exactly from this trying to impose centralized rule on a country that has never really accepted centralized rule. the top will find the same thing. reading the initial science though, from the international community, particularly the u. s. do you think there is a desire to see a stabilized staff kind of stand as long as the taliban does not allow the country

to become a place where groups gathered to attack other countries? yes, with the asterisk that the international community, you would also need to see a regime that has basic respect for human rights. there's a lot of fuzzy us there, obviously. but i think that if a regime were stable, but we're a flagrant abuse or of human rights, it would be difficult for a lot of nations, not all, but a lot of nations to establish a diplomatic representation. i think however, that we're going to see both sides of that equation really cold into question, and probably sooner rather than later. how important is it for the afghan economy? the, the stance that will be taken by some of afghanistan's major trading neighbors, pakistan, iran. so on very important and of course, pakistan and iran have rather different interests, you know,

kind of stop. i think that we're going to see, as we saw in the ninety's, i've got a son being a in arena, a competition among its neighbors rather than a ground for of, for cooperation. right. been good talking to thanks so much for your thoughts. jonah. thank you. the controversial changes to hong kong immigration law came into effect this month. critics say will give the government sweeping powers to stop people from coming in or out. but thousands had been leaving before it came into force. and as adrian brown reports from hong kong, that figure is growing. hong kong international airport is a quiet place these days. except here, the check in area for flights to london. these people are not going away for business or pleasure though. they're leaving for good feeling, a mixture of anger,

guilt, and defense. they're being forced out. this is our home. why do we need to leave? i mean, i have been living here for more than 30 years already and it's my home. so it's really sad to leave the home and you see that everything is she's a finance worker and has no job to go to like others who sacrifice careers often for the sake of their children. bolivia. so for many years we have our korean, we have family. yes. i so it's been upset, but for the, for the future of my children, i think we need to do with the sex scenes and now being played out daily. as more people join a growing exodus from the territory where communist party rule is being tightened. in the past year, an estimated $36000.00 people have left for britain under a special visa scheme. many supported over part of the anti government protest

movement, like dark su now in birmingham with his family. he says the change to the immigration law will encourage more people to go. i'm just joking. i think the hong kong government speeds up the immigration plan for many home comments. for us, we did not plan to leave hong kong at the beginning, even after the protests in $29.00 team. like many others, he says he's unlikely to return to hong kong. as city that still regards itself as asia's finest, the government denies the law gives it unlimited powers to stop people entering or leaving hong kong. insisting the amendment is aimed at screening illegal, immigration at source, amid a backlog of asylum claims. and the people's right to free movement will not be effected. those who go to the u. k. have opted for a new life in a country where koby 19 rates of soaring and job prospects scares. yet that seems

preferable to remaining here. back in 2015 the fun day. oh damn collapse. releasing almost 40000000 cubic meters of mining waste in the rio doj basin. it was the biggest environmental disaster ever in brazil. it killed 19 people wiped out the villages as the waste swept down the river to the atlantic ocean. more than 650 kilometers away. the dam was owned by the some arco venture between b, h, p, and brazilian iron or mining giant vale. 5 years later, some 200000 people are still seeking compensation related to the disaster. in july of this year, a london court of appeals agreed to reopen the 7000000000 dollar lawsuit against anglo australian mining giant b h p. while to get to this stage, lawyers have had to overturn decisions that have on the gangs claimants. joining me now from london, sell us all about the fun day. oh damn, litigation case is petro martin's. pedro is a partner at law firm p g m b m,

and the lead lawyer in the case representing the brazilian claimant's good to have you. well, so 1st of all, why do you think the court of appeal agreed to reopen the case? well, the judge is in the court of view, believe that you have the real prospect of success. they have the right law, highlighted the sexual nature of the case and said that the claim itself is of exceptional importance. both because of the number of claimants and important to them of obtaining such compensation as they may prove to, to be entitled to. they have agreed that a judges in previous decisions had actually a regional origin. and he failed to address, essential points that go to the heart of the issues that need to be discussed in order to allow our clients to finally get compensation. is what petro give us an example of the sort of claims being made. so we were present over 200000 claimants

. they are divided in different categories, represent municipalities were present, legal persons liberal, represent ego entities as well. i can give you 2 examples that for me are very descriptive of how bad the x that was the 1st one of our individual clients have lost. busy memorabilia, so basically we're talking about very vulnerable people in very vulnerable rural areas. so. busy we're a really, i mean, pictures of their families. they kept these memories in pictures, not digital pictures, not uploaded to a computer, but actually photographs. and the muds basically took every day when he passed, destroyed their houses and destroyed also their memories. in a sense. no other one that it's quite descriptive of how disastrous this was is the claims made by the granite indigenous communities. the river in the credit

tradition actually represents their a god for them almost like their mother. i've called walk to this how they call. busy the river so basically when the wave off. busy docs it much destroyed the river, it killed part of of their, of their culture. now, you know, the issue concerns, brazil, brazil has courts. you got asked the question, why is this being heard in the u. k. court basically be judge b h b e a u k based company. they are domiciled here. and all claimants believed that upon appeal will be able to establish jurisdiction in english against the h. b. we argued that the redress that allegedly being given in brazil it's completely inadequate. and b h p has largely protected itself from the legal consequences. busy today and our clients, we are,

you have the right to pursue this case where the r o, b, h p, as i'm sure you know, claims is going to pay compensation. i think $360000000.00 in financial assistance this year alone that slightly they say to rise almost a $1000000000.00. is it necessary to go to court at all? of our clients do not feel that they have adequate justice in brazil either to the settlement scheme foundation that was created by by d h b and is controlled by d h b and on this please don't, don't. busy take just my word for it. the united nations have been damning on the h. b. the un special reports or backwards to cock, had argued that those responsible for the disaster, including of course p h. b, had failed to effectively support or compensate the victims. he specifically,

by the way, highlights the inadequacies of the renewal of a foundation. this settlement foundation that was created. so it's not about whether what the h p is offering is enough. it's some serious doubts about whether any of these promises are going to come true. well effect, i think it's, it's both simon, the amount of compensation that are being offered in terms of settlement in brazil are far from being adequate to fully compensate things, victims and the damage to him. that he, himself, it be arguing the case should only be held in brazil. why do you think that is? well, i think beach be so far has managed by means of using very expensive lawyers and using some procedural intricacies of the brazilian legal system to be able to avoid its liability to be able to avoid the fact that it

should be held accountable in, in, in its entirety for the damaged a day that they have cause, i don't know, i don't think that they want this case to come to the international scenario. there's huge pressures pressures in europe much, much larger than they are in brazil for the h p and their shareholders. all right, thank you so much for talking to us. yeah, thank you. business activities may be slowly returning to the gambia, off the curve at 19 restrictions have been lifted, but to the countries important economic sectors, diaspora, remittances, and tourism continue to flounder. the 2 sectors constant use about half the countries g, d, p, and experts or warning unless they recover fast. the future of the economy could be in trouble admitted race reports from ben jewel. ah, the port of the jewel, a few ships dock waiting for goes shipping activities may not be near what the

government expects after covered 90 destructions. but for model, i mean, who runs a sea food export company. it's an encouraging sign for businesses like history mean afloat, they need to support products. i mean get help from government like this is sort of a little bit of a grant. you'll be able to put, use a lot of space and be able to understanding that locally within the region on the still waters of oyster creek. dozens of boats anchored. i waiting for the tourist, but only a few of them came in. let me content you hoping to convince some of them right in his boat. when we arrived, he was happy to show us the creek and river gambia, the waterways. he says, what happened bustling with tories. now hope is the only thing left for the industry. we have thousands of employees who are not late and then at home.

so basically most of the places are also closed due to maybe rent issues or to finance or this is so completely it is it is it is, it is completely a difficult citizen. at the moment, gambia lost $40000000.00 in torres revenue in 2024, a small economy that there were staging. this is going to be a cortez one of the best places to assess the help of the campaign economy. on a normal day, this area in the heart of the countries tourism industry will be filled with tories and those who cater for them. now that number has significantly reduced business leaders. you can make it to it is maybe resuming slowly. but recovery is still far off, it has not ended, but there's some progress. and recently, i'm pleased to say the chamber was that

a straight tray got to be in dimensional of the 2 years. he says one out of 3 businesses, he and the gambia may not survive the pandemic in one out of 6 businesses that do survive. i expected to face long term cash flow problems. that could mean more job losses or outright closures for some was a business in europe and asia. i beginning to recover from cognitive disruptions. remington will be living abroad accounting for with 20 percent of the g. d. p is expected to return to its pre covered 90 levels. that means more uncertainties for families and the economy of the gambia. the united nations is warning climate change is on the brink of becoming irreversible. that's pushing people to find new ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. one company in july is turning to insects . our latin america editor, lucy, and newman, has the story from the city of chalka. they feed night and day at

staggering speed. one kilo of black soldier fly eggs, eat 25 tons of la ganeth residue in just one week. could you still impartially the co founder and general manager of food for the future? a julian start up that transforms food waste and fly larva into a super food in almost a blink of the eye there why we chose the flies and a specific the black soldier fly. it's because the tremendous ability they have to process a lot of food waste and a lot of different types of food waste in, in a short period of time. and also the ability they have to apply technology to scale these from an industrial point of every year the world produces more than 1000000000 tons of residue from food. this wasted along with the resources used to make it but more impactful than that, is that what that food start the,

the composing methane methane nice submitted because of the decomposition and missing gus. these greenhouse gas that is $23.00 times more than unseal to. so food waste alone is one of the highest c o 2 meters in the world. scientists are leaving little doubt that reducing greenhouse gases, finding sustainable sources of food, and accelerating the transition to a circular corner. we cannot wait if our species is to survive on our planet. this larva absorbs tons of waste without emitting any gases. then it's turned into highly nutritious fly flour, which is made into pellets feeding, fish chickens, pigs and dogs. to most people, these little crunchy critters don't look or smell very appetizing,

but they were in fact packed with protein. and they also producing oil a kind of butter which in the not too distant future. we could be supporting on our post or using in our face cream because it's properties are so beneficial. like coconut oil and breastmilk. it's high in laura acid, m hard concede that flies still have a bad name. and that in most western cultures, eating insects is still hard to swallow. but perhaps more important is what these flies eat, using black fly larva to absorb and up cycle or organic waste before it becomes the thing gas could potentially turn this still young industry into a much needed game changer. and i saw show for this week, but remember this more for you online the valve, is there a dot com flash, c p. c? that'll take you straight to the page, which has been pirate. you can shop on, on sammy's

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