from an immigrant family where they should be, this is the america, and my family wants to be part of the statue will be put on storage until the final decision is made on what to do with it. the plan for now remain a reminder that america may have moved, but there are still obstacles in the way of racial justice island fisher. i'll just see the richmond virginia. ah, it is good to have with us. hello adrian. i get here and, oh, how the headlines on i was just kinda sounds directing prime minister pamela house, and i couldn't just a bloodshed and killings all over in his country. he wants all officials, the part of the past administration to return and be part of the new interim government. the islamic emerick announced a general amnesty for all those who caused the taliban fighters and officials to suffer the most severe forms of torture and abuse. and this is evidence of the

movement, big heart, and that it is a merciful emerett to its people told no one will be able to prove that he was subjected to revenge. and in such circumstances, it is easy to do what you want in the movement is disciplined and controls that government and we have not harmed anyone because of their previous action or officials. any therapy has said that more than $120.00 civilians have been killed. and what they're describing as a massacre to grind people's liberation front is being accused of carrying out the killings. but they deny this describing it as a fabricated allegation. or co says that just have a 50 percent of eligible voters, turned out for elections to choose members of parliament and regional councils. preliminary results are expected anytime. now, the election comes during an economic crisis deepened by the pandemic, both as well so frustrated over a lack of political reform promised a decade ago. west african block echo was suspended guinea after sunday's military

coup regional leaders civil so demanded that the military rulers release president of con, day from custody. the economic community of west african states will send a high level delegation to guinea capital on thursday. the country's army has released political detainees held by the deposed government. the world health organization is again urging wealthy countries not to offer corona virus booster shots. the organization's chief says he's a poor. many poor nations can't get jobs while rich nations are considering 3rd doses. many poor nations are struggling to access enough back seems to administer even the 1st round of shots. several rich nations with already high vaccination rates, are stockpiling doses. and those headlines one, you see here and i was 0. after counting the cost coming up next. it shocked the world and changed the us forever, but after

a vengeful war and africanist on how much has changed and at what cost? al jazeera looks back on 20 years since the $911.00 attacks. ah, really bad people. this is counting the cost on al jazeera. they look at the well, the business and economics this week. china's designs on the indian ocean, beijing investing billions, and course in the marshall 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 turns romania into europe, something ah, after it's wrapped a dan, chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan after 20 years of war and fails. nation building. washington was keen to reassure countries, mostly in se, asia that it would stand by them as china asserts more control over what it considers its territory. us vice president, common harris on a trip to singapore and vietnam, accused paging of bullying. and call this 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. try has his 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 we saw in shanghai call is that port stain. 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 its influence and china is 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 repayment, 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 contain a 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 cause, or a $60000000000.00 project linking the arabian sea to china's land lock west and reach it, access to the indian ocean. c. bruce is critical to beijing as today. china is the world's top oil importer purchasing 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 asked roger raton. i'm school of international studies. he's 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 want to ensure that is on nash the both are being met. and i think in this sense, in the continual express line, self communications that will guarantee and interrupt the excess energy supplies that he gets from the middle east. and not a rico will be killed and lunch, expending the mommy each for us in the region, especially even the embankment and the bank will initiate the at the, i know also was a good that in trust a property in the long right? beijing is coming, of course to, to be protecting its trade rules, but it's also very clearly in circling india. it's biggest regional rival. well, i mean 2 or the and so might be an overstatement. while china might be able to

master code trends along the border, and so far, the only reliable. lemme base the neighbor who will be pocket done. whereas, you know, we would talk about the c bought. i don't think that is one a real which i know clean to and india beyond the building of port restructure. and because given the dynamic between india and it's, you know, solve asian, 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 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 thought 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 and bill in order to receive those. by contrast, you know, we talk about japan is more tedious way. i mean it and still be more on the way it comes to, you know, the filming of requirements. we talk about environmental impact assessment for returns and are the requirements and some form of job environment, the sustainability, but also 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 and japan in the sense. so we talk about an india and i not belong like sample more to

pen play a bigger role than india. i do think democratic countries, collin, are those that say they want to protective all 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 of all booked by the rest of us. all, you know, transparency, that, you know i have to address. we do have an answer to multiple stakeholders, not to say that, you know, less democrat the all different countries do not have the proceed to the end though . but, you know, the thing is that for democratic country, these very often constitute a structural element. when it comes to responding to, you know, what will be c s m, so under my was they all, although 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 is important to be realistic about, you know, the prospect of having, you know, a concert approach all the time due to what i will see as not just about the omen political interest or just the but what to do is, you know, report the, you know, the spring each bus has the queen size ultimately and oh, you know, each democratic and b will mastered their own resources and their own people believe these based on our own circumstances. 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, call in that china's asian neighbors are convinced that the us will stick with them? or is it better for them to stay neutral? but the need there has always been a sense of, of when we talk about western pacific region means east asia. right.

there has been a long standing concern about you as you will get. the wind comes to the region, but that being said, wow, that has to be what we will call. busy within the, at the doctor that we will, we will see any topic we comes to ongoing in the us where the nami, 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 on the us by deepening the ice. we 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. all 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 recipe. she's of firefly found in the forest of task color in federal mexico, a dying out. unsurprisingly, humans are to blame for the destruction of the forest, 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 met code. these 5 flies pulse and cease in unison. great groups participating in a joint courtship ritual that coordinated displays. what makes this species for penis plus your 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, that come all the way from france. they felt that this was a nice idea for his where they already know ladia and different it was a surprise and to today's state authorities say the number of visitors to see the 5 flies doubled in the 6 years before the pandemic. that's a cause for celebration, but also worry the scientists like carlos called darrell fil as almost have it in a moment or relevant that critique or this is 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 tour straight from the path. they can also tremble. 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 fire 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, incleanse assign tools. it's a problem in a region with a law of economic necessity, 92 months a year to make money from the luminous b $2.00. but many are aware am regulating themselves in quanta 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 on mass . so on the, on the sunday the, these platforms are from an industrial part of tough,

scala. there is wood not only for the platform, but also for the bed bases. we use this wood that was in place for these quite rustic tape and all the while he's trying to reuse would others, the 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, al jazeera 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 in,

just not being up family homes. financial jain, blackstone is buying whole partners of america for $6000000000.00. the company owns 17000 homes, not interestingly. the company allows tenants to buy their rentals in the u. k noise 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 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 little beside or can use that power, they happen to demographic system and organize 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 see 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 that's been a pictures of people have been priced out of the apartment or evicted under the guise of modernization. so despite the strongly got protection, but tenants is building this corporations, they have their 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 they been an increase of the be

unprecedented and present, especially some accounts for the attractive of the city prospect of mister. we've been the last 12 years, we could see prices quadrupling. so the stock prices are 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 corporation could be frustrated with this referendum operate on the financial markets and they are loyal to their shareholders and not to the tenants and 1000000000. it's structurally logical, but it comes to 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 citizen and not the shareholders web based locally abroad and up and 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 overcome to housing prices. and lastly, we have a huge experience in public landlords. they exist 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, an increase and unprecedented and for unprecedented increased. 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 me want to remember that in comparison to the world and launch gemini and ben, in particular, very high number of friends is berlin, 85 percent rental. so when seeing if the system for all levels of the society,

almost everyone is a tenant in 1000000000. what the content is that what the global pandemic shown, of course, is how important housing is for so many kind of products, including health policy and for the economic policy supporting people who are the fund damage. so definitely, pandemic was attracted building political mobilization because it made me even more dire right now. the extra creation 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 german, so you should actually have never historically been tried. so legally,

we have to speak with women, potential new precedents 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 that this life majority is for patients. 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, the new home because the city is not going to buy the expropriation with compensation and just compensation. legally speaking has to be below market prices because the actual temperature for what we trying to do is socialization is about intriguing the common who are using the common destiny. a

compensation based corporation 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 financial speculation on building housing markets could be stopped in a way that the lovely, unprecedented, it would be the fair here in the world of a locker graphic initiative. managing to break the domination of global financial capitalism. and that's make the politically so exciting not just willing 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 death will you give the speaking land in which land in federal state has the right to right. and the post that will be certainly very interesting to see how the spans out. thank you so much for talking to us, john shak 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. see legal waste. government officials have told just 0 criminal organizations within the country have made it a big business under simmons report from 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 ways may be induced to other ways in that part. the new head of romania is national environment agency, octavian. but chombo 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 co lawful scale of this 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 cartels. the model for the problem of illegal waste trafficking is compatible with the drug trafficking. to don't, it's 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, whales from other european consignments, like these sho, recycling centers as 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. so says the u. k is incorporating enough on getting prosecutions. i was to have a more collaboration of, of, from the partner for british authorities were fighting against the crimes. and then the crimes regards, not romania and not going to beat them. in my opinion. it's a huge problem for all the product. october on baton who says his investigation team is poorly paid and it faces intimidation from criminals,

exposing your family, your life. it's a problem to be put on the mound. but child who stay besides symbolizes a different era of waste crime. now dwarf by matthew cartels, bribery, corruption here and overseas, and their 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, my tweeting me actually bought a g and don't get to the hash tag a j, c t c. when you can or drop us an e mail counting the cost that our just dera dot net is address, but is more for you online at all just there a dot com slash ctc that will take you straight to our page, which has 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 back from the whole team here

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