some with titles you'd never see to day. they're incredible visual documents of, you know, era on by and, you know, big films like hollywood films, tell us one version of the story. but then other kinds of works like documentaries or industrial films and things like that. show us another part of society that otherwise would have been completely forgotten. still somewhere in musty closets, dusty attics in archive shelves here and around the world. there are surely many more big screen treasures waiting to be discovered. john henry and al jazeera chicago. ah, hello again, i'm fully back the ball. with the headlines on al jazeera, the leader of movement is gone. it's done fun. giovanni is calling for a national uprising after the tiny band to control the last proven. supposing its rules battles raged for days in a mountainous region north of candle. cha,

stratford has more from the afghan capital. there has been over a huge concern for the 152200000 civilians in the pon. she valley talking about spokesperson, which i had earlier saying that they hadn't been a single civilian casualty. and he called on all danny's to to respect punch punch series, as they called with the same respect that they would treat any other afghan. he said the food had run out or food was running out. they've been shortages in the valley during the fighting. he said that food was going to be sent in. and he said that telecommunications communications and electricity was also going to be re started. denise military owners have bond government officials from leaving the country co leader colonel, monday to summon cabinet ministers surmounted president down on the government. the african union and west african regional ball have condemned the coo and threatened sanctions. at least 6 palestinian prisoners have escaped from

a high security is really prison. they dug the tunnel under the game board prison just north of the occupied west bank. this case like this ah rare one who got out as former field commander zachary, as of a g. u zealand is to ease corona virus restrictions in all region except its largest to the oakland. from tuesday. it's recorded 20 new cases of in more than 800 infections and the latest outbreak. most of them in auckland and in australia the state of new south wales has reported more than 1200 new infections down from a record high on friday or late is outbreak began in mid june and he's being fueled by the more contagious dr. very. and those are the headlines on al jazeera join me next on counting the cost. thanks for watching news. news. news.

news, news . i'm fully back, you know, this is counting the cost on al jazeera. you look at the, well, the business and economics this week, china's designs on the indian ocean bay, jane, investing billions, and course in the marsh lanka. and pakistan can india counter china's geopolitical and economic might jack brent fen shoddy maintenance. the tenants who had enough and pushed berlin for a local referendum to strip a german stock market, listed company of tens of thousands of homes and

a toxic relationship. we look at how organized crime, who have turned romania into europe's dumping ground. ah, after it's drop a day and chaotic withdraw from afghanistan after 20 years of war and field nation building, washington was keen to reassure countries, mostly in south east asia, that it would stand by them as china, a source more control over what it considers its territory us vice president common harris on a trip to singapore and vietnam, accused bay gene of bullying and called its claims to the south china sea, excessive china vietnam brunei, malaysia. the philippine van taiwan lay claims to parts of the south china sea, which is caused by vital shipping lanes and contains gas fields and rich fishing grounds. china. hi, this famished military outposts on artificial islands in the south china sea and objects to foreign warship failing through what it claims is its sovereign waters.

but china is extending its reach into other territories to protect what it considers its maritime sell court, which is part of its multi $1000000000.00 spending package, better known as the belt enrolled initiative that saw in shanghai call is the in that port in hong kong, thailand. singapore and malaysia, and crucially, it's paying billions of dollars to build poor se myanmar, to ensure lanka, and pakistan as you can see, it completely in circles. india raising concerns in new delhi about it's been fluid and then china's expansive foreign policy and navy, which is many times bigger than its own fleet. and with good reason, sri lanka, lost control of a strategic $1400000000.00 hamburger total port to a chinese company after he couldn't keep up with debt we payments which has become known as china is debt trap policy. china is also developing the only deep sea port in south asia in august capital colombo. that's the problem for new delhi because

40 percent of container congo are offloaded to a smaller ships for the short trip to india. and then there is the quad, our port in pakistan built a spot of china's belton road initiative called the china pakistan economic coin, or a $60000000000.00 project linking the arabian sea to china's land lock west, and reach and access to the indian ocean c. bruce is critical to beijing as today. china is the world's top oil importer for existing 542000000 tons of crude oil in 2020 last year. 53 percent of china's crude oil imports came from the middle east and passed through the indian ocean. well, let's get some analysis with collin co, a research fellow at the s roger raton. school of international studies is joining us on skype from singapore. thank you very much calling for being on counting the cost. china has been very strategic in the way to expanding

a switch and in the indian ocean. what is it? and game ultimately, i know wants to ensure that it's on nash that are being met. and i think in this sense, you know, that continue express to the self communications that will guarantee and interrupt the excess energy supplies that he gets from the middle east and not recover and lunch, expending economic interest in the region, especially even the investment and that the bank will initiate the at the i know why the good that interest are properly in the long cut. right? beijing is caving of course. so to be protecting its trade rules. but it's also very clearly in circling india. it's biggest regional rival. well, i mean to, or the and so come and might be and all the state when, while china might be able to master code,

the trends along the border. and so far, the only reliable. lemme base the neighbor who will be pocket time. whereas, you know, we would talk about the see book, i don't think that is one a real which i know clean to and india beyond the beauty of infrastructure. because given the dynamic between india and it's no solve asia, the parole neighbors in the region. i don't think that is and possible and so called new dally, right, but efforts by india to to county china have been less successful. for example, new delhi and tokyo japan have offered to build a port in sri lanka. but there is times, seem to be less successful. why, why do you think that is we have a few factors to consider. a one stuff that you had to do with the fact that i know dos, you know, make it easier for what you receive in countries such as sri lanka,

who excess is investment, what we call no fuel strings attached on those fees. but more importantly is to do with the requirements that you need in order to receive those. by contrast, your, we talk about japan is more, you know, way. i mean, it ends to be more on the way it comes to, you know, the film and our requirements. we talk about environmental impact assessment for returns and are the requirements that were and some form of job environment the in the good the by the more important disco, trusting ability and for india, i think when he comes to you for shock tra, india has never been eating, compared to i know in japan in the sense, so we talk about an india and i not last long like sample even more

to pen play a bigger role than india. i do think democratic countries calling are those that say they want to protect a rule space consensus. do you think they can collectively counter china when you look at the long term strategy? well pushed was democratic, so sorry, these uri maybe about by the rest of us all, you know, transparency and accountability measures that i have to address. we do have an answer to multiple sink. hole does not to say that you know, less democrat the all different countries do not have the proceed. endo, but you know, the thing is that for democratic these very often constitute a structural impediment when it comes to responding to you know, what will be c s, m. so under my was they all or the whether you're talking about, you know, a breeze or approach law firm where exam book is possible to come together for

these. and i think it's important to be realistic about the prospect of having, you know, a concert approach. all the time due to what i will see as not just about the omen police because each was all or just the but what to do is, you know, report that you know, that each person has a queen size ultimately. and each democratic and b will mastered their own resources and their own people believe based on also comes to and so, so i think the, the heard those that i believe in or what have to be overcome if you want no more approach, you will, i know do you think finally calling that china's asian neighbors are convinced that the us will stick with them? or is it better for them to stay neutral? not the need. there has always been a sense of when we talk about western pacific region means east asia.

right? there has been a long standing concern about you as you get the wind comes to the region. but that being said, wow, that has to be what we will call within the, at the doctor that we will, we will see any topic we comes to ongoing in the us where the know me or in terms of the better security. but it's quite clear that, you know, there is some hedging that in place when countries around china are exploring options you on the us by deepening the ice. we've are the huge press, the like, my, the power such as for reasons india and, you know, runs germany. you worries, but i think that you know, approach the right to your it, you more than one basket is going to be the approach that's going to be undertaken

in our context of uncertainty, calling co. thank you so much for your analysis. thank you for joining us. on counting the cost, thank you so much for having the species of firefly found in the form of test color in federal mexico, a dying out. unsurprisingly, humans are to blame for the destruction of the force due to logging and agriculture, and even tourists who come to see the so called forest of lights contributing to the extinction of the firefly, algiers, john home and reports a symphony of light in the force of plus gala central mexico. these fire flies posts and seats in unison, great groups participating in a joint courtship ritual that coordinated displays. what makes this species for penis plus c o c special? and in the last few years, they've had never increasing audience. this is

a present for guy l from his girlfriend, erica. they've come all the way from france. they thought it was a nice idea for his where they already did a lady a different it was a surprise into today. so i'm here for the state authorities say the number of visitors to see the pipeline doubled in the 6 years before the pandemic level. and that's a cause for celebration, but also worry for scientists like carlos called darrell fil, as almost have it in a moment or element that critical. this was me. we're going to see them in a critical moment in their lives. and we disturbed that we disturbed the relationship between them and therefore their reproduction and torchlight phones spoke. distract them sound too if to or straight from the path. they can also trample the females who can't fly on. the concern is that if tourism operators here don't take care, they might lose what attracts their clients in the 1st place. we had an up to see the fall flies right now, right?

you have quite smooth tool group, and each tour operator has a number of people that they're allowed to take up to see the 5 flies each night. we're being told is that the problem can be, is that to operate, to sometimes exceed that number, or people that haven't got a license to just take people up anyway and plan to sign tools. it's a problem in a region with a lot of economic necessity. no need to months a year to make money from the luminous b 2. but many are aware am regulating themselves in quantum lucas in columbus like i like and a lot of the education we give to people is about what not to bring repellant white clothing to be silent for a waiver to begin. let's just begun, oakley, go, i'm paying recycling, local materials to reduce the environmental impact with mass song. they are listening to these platforms are from an industrial part of tuscola. there is,

would not only for the platform, but also for the bed basis. we use this wood that was in place for these quite rustic tape and all the while he's trying to reuse would others chopping down trees all over the forest? it's perhaps the biggest threat for the fireflies logging which squeezes their living space. the now every june to august, the visual symphony continues. the challenge for the future is to keep the lights from going out. john holman, audi ozetta plus gala mexico. now the housing market has been on a bit of a tear in many developed nations. there are many reasons the cost of borrowing has been held down by central banks, tax cars, and a desire to move out of cities. but home buyers are also having to compete for homes. again, some of the world's biggest financial institutions, j. p. morgan leonard and p. s. p. investments are pouring money into snapping up

family homes. financial dr. blackstone is buying whole partners of america for $6000000000.00. the company own 17000 homes. not interestingly. the company allows tenants to buy their rentals in the u. k. lloyd's banking group plans to buy 50000 homes over the next 10 years. and retailer john lewis planned to build 10000 rental homes. but there is some pushback against giant landlords. berlin will be holding a referendum in september that would allow the local government to buy 240000 properties from germany's biggest publicly listed residential landlord. while let's talk to one of those campaign is dr. joanna kusha, who's a research fellow in urban studies at kings college, the university of cambridge, and she's joining us 5 kite from berlin. thank you so much, joanna for being on the show with us. so why has the city decided to vote on seizing these properties from the company that owns them? but linux decided to use the power. they happened the demographics system and

organized this referendum to and domination of financial markets over our housing system. so what the initiative is trying to do is actually not so much for the city to buy that department, but actually to expropriate them to seize this property from the financial corporation and be privatized to take it back to the 50 over compensation. so have the people been evicted from their homes because they haven't been able to pay the rent. but these are relatively strong rental protection laws, so often eviction is not directly to be, but it's been and pictures of people have been priced out of the apartment or a big under the guise of modernization. so despite the strongly got protection, but tenants is building this corporation, they have to own legal department and they have been very good in finding new coal in tenant protection laws. give us an idea, drawn out of the rental prices in berlin. has there been an increase?

oh the the be i'm for the dentist and please, and especially some accounts really attractive of the city like prospect of meta. we've been the last 12 years. we could see price quadrupling. so the fact that we're renting an apartment would be now 4 times bigger than 12 years ago. so our investors wealthy investors, you think adding to the crisis by, by buying buildings and leaving them empty? absolutely, the cooperation could be created with this referendum operate on the financial markets and they have loyal to their shareholders and not to the tenants and 1000000000. it's structurally logical, but it's the housing markets in the city. but john, at the question also of why the city would be a better landlord than a stock market listed company. well, so many reasons being that the city politically must be loyal, good citizen, and not of the shareholders. well, base locally abroad and up in tax haven. so the city could also

use the income from this rent to build more apartments. and also in this way to to said it overcomes housing prices. and lastly 1000000000 has a huge experience in public land. those things is already and all the, all the poets show that it can tend to be more happy in public housing than been in private, the corporate housing. you talked about, john, i think, be an unprecedented and for unprecedented increase. you said in rental prices, to what extent did the pandemic contribute to that? not just in berlin, but also in the rest of germany is, is there an increase in the number of renters? well jim, i mean you want to remember that in comparison to the world, it launch germany and 1000000000 in particular has a high number of runs. is belinda, 85 percent rental. so seeing if the system for all levels of the society

an almost everyone is a tenant in 1000000000, what the antenna, what the global pandemic shown, of course, is how important housing is. so, so many kind of policies, including health policy and for the economic policy supporting people for the condemning. so definitely, pandemic was attracted building political mobilization because it made me even more dire right now. the expropriation initiative is based on article 15 of the german constitution which says land, natural resources and means of production can be reclaimed for public ownership in exchange for compensation. it's never been tested in practice. so what are the chances of success? yes, that they citing because it's one of the baby clothes of the gentleman that actually has never read historically been tried. so legally,

we have to speak with the weapon potential new president. at the same time, all the legal opinions show that legally speaking it would be possible and if it be possible, we'll see you in the upcoming gra, her end of the latest paula show, the life majority is for the patient. so it is, there, it is a very exciting political moment. it seems that it's possible, but wouldn't the money required to buy all these properties drawn? i would need be better used to build new homes. well this would, this would be much less money available for the, for the new home because the city is not going to buy the department. expropriation with compensation and compensation, you get a speaking has to be low market prices because the actual temperature for what we're trying to do is socialization is about intriguing the common who are using the common destiny. a compensation based preparation must be below market prices,

right. rental price is extremely high, as you said, how easy or difficult would it be to stop speculation and rising rental prices in germany? well, if they're not random and successful, we can expect that this. ringback back to just finance of speculation on 1000000000 housing markets could be stopped in a way that the love and the unprecedented. it would be the fair case in the world of a locker graphic initiative. managing to break the domination of global financial capitalism. and that's makes it politically so exciting, not just forwarding, but for the whole world. but the cities attempt to impose a rental cap was struck down by germany's highest court on what ground the problem was not, not with the law itself, which was not faulty. the problem was competent, so within the federal system it should have been the federal state imposing such lo

and it was done in berlin under locker level, which in this case could be as you would not possible, this is not going to happen with the expropriation and with the referendum precisely because there's no the president, the federal face, has never attempted anything like that. and therefore, legally speaking, in which it lands in federal state has the right to right and the post. that would be certainly very interesting to see how the spans out. thank you so much for talking to us, john. a kusha. jonah joining us there from 1000000000. thank you for being on the show. thank you. romania has become a dumping ground for most of europe. illegal waste. government officials have told all just 0 criminal organizations within the country have made it a big business. and simmons report from the eucharist. this site was registered as a recycling center. yet it became a mountain of waste mixed with building rubble ignored by local authorities for

more than 10 years. until now, i think a lot of plastic domestic waste may be induced to other ways in that part. the new head of romania is national environment agency, octavian. but china knew nothing about it until sewage pipes beneath the tip collapsed a few weeks ago, flooding a suburb of bucharest, aside from the acrid stench, and the colossal scale of its tip and others like it. romania now has an even bigger problem with illegal waste. go east to the black sea port of cassandra, and rubbish is a criminal commodity worth millions of dollars. and a determined prosecutor here is taking on the car, sells the model for problem of illegal waste trafficking is compatible with the drug trafficking to doing its faces. an overwhelming challenge, but he did smash warner daisha plan to import

a shipment of toxic waste from italy. so called business men were involved and they attempted to bribe local officials, way bills from other european consignments, like these show recycling sentences destinations. but instead they go to basic consideration sites all landfill dumps. pollution on a big scale. this is part of one consignment from the u. k. host of cop 26, the u. n. global warming summit due in november, need sa, says the u. k is incorporating enough on getting prosecutions. i wish to have a more collaboration of, of, from the part of british authorities were fighting against any crimes and any crimes regarding not romania and not going to be in my opinion. it's a problem for all the planet october on. but sean, who says his investigation team is poorly paid and it faces intimidation from

criminals. the boys in your family, your life. it's a problem to be put on the mound. but john, who's and besides, symbolizes a different era of ways. crime now to war by matthew cartels, bribery, corruption, here and overseas. and there's pollution never seen before, coupled with inaction and apparent indifference in other european states. andrew simmons al jazeera, bucharest, and that is our show for this week. get in touch with us. why tweeting me actually by a g and don't get to the hash tag a j c t c. when you did or drop us an email, counting the cost that al jazeera dot net is address, but it is more for you online at all just there, a dot com slash ctc that will take you straight to our page. we chose individual reports named an entire episode for you to catch up. and that's it for this edition of counting the cost. i'm fully basketball from the whole team here until hi. thank

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