what they doing and why they hear, they have been coming here every week for the past 2 months. but today they say that they're only he had to pay their final respects to an indian chief of defense staff and the other military officials who died in a helicopter crash on wednesday with no explanation as to why they chose the spot for doing so. ah, look at the main stories now and the wiki league found a julian sanchez lost his latest bit to stop extradition from britain to stand trial in the u. s. united states $180.00 appeal at the high court in london with judges of a turning an earlier ruling that assange would be a suicide risk if he lost sanctuary in person. he faces up to 175 years in jail if convicted today. it's been almost a year since i stood outside court with our victory of the blocking of the

extradition. for the past year, the past year, 2 years and a half julia has remained in bell marsh prison. and in fact, he has been detained since the 7th of december 2010 in one form or another 11 years for how long can this go on, protested in me, and marvelled a silence strike against military rule in the ousting of the democratically elected government, businesses were closed and streets and markets deserted across the country on friday. me and my was plunged into crisis in february and the military overthrew leader unsung suit. she and her government. the crew triggered mass protest and violence between the military and ethnic minority groups. a truck carrying more than a 160 refugees and migrants has crashed in southern mexico, killing at least 55 people. already spill from the overcrowded vehicle after it flipped over in this state of thought,

he say most people on board from guatemala hoping to travel north into the united states. the u. s. is relaxing, restrictions on people sending money home talk, gone, astonish, posed after the taliban took over in august ac and living that will now be able to thank cash remittances to friends and relatives. but it doesn't apply to charitable donations. money is a lifeline for many in afghanistan. and when is this, he has nobel peace prize of calling for better protection for journalists in the face of authoritarian governments. journalist maria arrest from the philippines and to meet from morocco from russia. the co recipients of this year's award recognized for their bravery and independence and the faith of continuous threat and intimidation. what's it for myself and the team here in london for now? we'll see you tomorrow. counting the cost is the program coming up next. on this thrice a new method of cremation is helping hinder, tradition become more and mine mentally, friend, and we visit

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a global treaty on pandemic readiness. also this week they are super fast and unstoppable. hypersonic missiles are driving and you arms race between the superpowers and defense giants eyeing the profits driven by the sun. so now motors raises millions to get it. solar powered cars on the road. you talked to one of the companies co founders. ah, the money spent by one person a week to buy a chocolate bar could help stop the spread of corona virus and stave of huge economic losses. that's according to save the children. now the aid agency says every dollar invested in the global vaccination. dr. rich nations could avoid losing $35.00 from their budgets. yet wealthy nations have failed to provide the poor countries with the much needed vaccines. and there's been a lack of coordination to tackle. the pandemic of that need to co operate is now

gaining momentum after the army kron variance of code 19 was detected in south africa. the variance threatens to reverse economic recovery and effect government's plans to deal with high inflation and supply chain backlogs. world health organization member states have agreed to negotiate a global treaty on pandemic preparedness. but it would take years for the treaty to be put in place the agreement is not expected to be signed before 2024. potentially . after this, pandemic has ended, and it aims to set up a global structure that would identify threats earlier and better share information on emerging viruses. some countries have push for a sharp increase in domestic funding for health care systems. they've suggested an international financing mechanism was 75000000000 us dollars over 5 years, among other ideas, boosting financial contributions to the w h o y calling for changes to its

governance. and one of the most crucial elements of the plan equal access to health goods meeting demand for vaccines and other drugs and eliminating choke points in the system. or drug makers have opposed sharing the recipes of corona, virus vaccines with poor nations. and the push at the world trade organization to wave intellectual property rights of the doses have so far failed of south africa is one of those leading the push for waivers at the w t. l. after letting the world about the owner, con, variance now feels punished after several countries in post travel bands on southern african nations presidency. ram opposed to says the measures are hurting their economies. they basically say we will not allow you to travel around. but lo and behold, on the crime is spreading all over the world, including in their own countries. and now you ask yourself, where is signs?

they've already said to us, base your decisions on science. but when the moment comes for them to be more scientific, they are not. they resort to their own self interest and ben trevor from the south african countries. while i'm joined now from johanna sped by doctor lincoln monday, who is a professor at the school of economics and finance with the university of woodward rand, he's also a former chief economist and executive vice president at the south africa industrial development corporation. good to have you with a doctor. now, we've talked about how south africa despite being the 1st to identify this variant and alert the world to it. the response from much of the world was travel bands. why do you think that happen at this happened because of, for national innovation systems, excellence by south africa,

based on the knowledge that south africa built during the h i v aids pandemic. and therefore, the ability of cat king or of to relevant at supper mechanism research and development around pandemic. m and ability to share that with formation has been, as shown to be south africa's forage. and that is a bird to show their wage. how kebraw we are, and now we can what prepared also to share the knowledge. because we believe in global certainly that a g. so that all the information that we have godaddy can share and the world can land how to come with a preventative measure. so south africa is been punished for is this research excellence a do these kind of new jerk reactions just expose the lack of global clarity on

this, the lack of a coordinated response? absolutely, it also indicates the extent to reach ad cooper did as she has a good cond over many, many ends of neoliberalism, rugged him globally. and they pushed towards commercialization way over there since the 19 seventy's. we've seen the illusion of capabilities of many states and alliance of them all on the market. and in that process eroded. yeah, by political you that she in preference for the market. and when pundum need, some prices arise, such as the to month, financial crises that he saw enjoy age. and now recently the, the global health, pardon me, that while he does, i'm able to come with consent had formed that only not address the needs as mission stage,

but also address global human challenges because we're all one while all the humans. therefore, we need that drawback sort of got into a coral core corporation collaboration and shuddering of vaccines. so that qualifies and come out to gather healthy as human beings within the world. and what do you think the impact of these travel bands is going to be on south africa economy the longer they are in place, catastrophic as forgot, forgot already. that only has it got high levels of instruction and of course, but also high level of employment that about they do 4.9 percent and designing the economy. you restrung by 1.5 percent in the federal court of when de pins one. but more importantly, where it needs to create jobs, they told them set off because of south africa was beauty for flora and for non of

really well, just fascinated that he's been punished because it is now. so men fell off for a girl, and we used to get quite a lot of american european and middle east and asian as the talk to our country. and therefore, we are not going to be able to address the problems of all i did. is the band continues, and you call upon the weather to really think deeply and avoid this new reaction. open up the skies so that we can, as what just happened to me. also allow people to get jobs and improve their livelihoods. and that's why they've been this talk of, of a global pandemic treaty. what do you think of that idea is, 1st of all, is it something that could work? and is it going to materialize in something that could work? could remember that after the 1st world war work together and really pushed for them for mission of what today recall central banks following the fact that we're, we're also well together the way in the construction development of whether

economists by forming the the twins producing of federal funds now what bank and i'm as little collage of the course done that we came which mechanism of supporting one another. so what a history of cobra sort of very deep particular idea stop and catastrophic events. and their coverage has been cut schofield. and i guess that you know, and that city will go a long way again and to read night and fudge, you humanely to, to gather as you have done. so he started really, as i've indicated, and therefore we feel a follow up regarding and many of our law african proud of them says does that what be let down again by the, by the you loop and america in really taking your center page every to get us about for god in these episodes i've mentioned defect the 2nd world war and the collapse

of the course done not. so it does that edge that to be that asians that we need from the global ship to come to be cheaper to send a tread t so that you can be able to share the knowledge to still would vaccine to highly that had poor countries. and really continue at to get out. quantum is going as we, as we work together to make sure that there is no human being left behind in there . well, that is fully funded. meeks, as well as go about inequality. and this global pandemic treaty aims to provide money for things like health care systems, personal protective equipment, research, and pandemic preparedness. but all this is going to cost money. so who do you think should pay for here? so we have quite my time. you should have talked about particularly dependent with your suggestions. they need to come to the party, politely supporting the highly indebted poor countries. who would notice i've seen what saw ad law in the areas of supplying vaccines as well as

a test not positive. the treatment that stuff, let me come and meet income countries can also accept loans and which are very soft. we didn't for the world bank and i met for donalds are supporting these country. so i think a lot of the stuff for to complete our selves out of each, but you required that human cooperation to address. she begins, most of our countries don't have such capabilities and therefore they require support to fund you part of this edge collection of data. and therefore in doing sol mitigate any potential nutrition as well as other books can image coming up. so really the neat show of cobalt for garbage funding it and mix of odds we're going or keep up. and i, bro, financially, to fund ourselves and the really global support for the hydrogens and what can be,

what motives i see for sure that, that gets free access to all the support mechanism, including the creation of capabilities for its edge and knowledge development. as scientists have pointed out, that until the whole world is vaccinated, this is just going to keep happening. we're still going to get new variance coming through, which will keep slowing down our efforts to get out of this pandemic, do you think the micron variance is the wake up call and you think the rich countries will stop hoarding vaccines? now, what did you do? and come quarter for all of foster humanity. and i've been because of we did as she had been many of the good, but not countries. there is a tendency of protecting the firms, whatever. i get a lawyer that seems bend. disappointed with new liberalism, many governments gave a lot of power to, to markets and, and partners. she'd been, and companies,

in this case, big pharmacies. so if they continue protecting and giving power to those companies, what i'd like to do decisively with this pandemic. therefore, we call upon the european american need as she drives to the challenge and work together, the farmers there. but you to our own pharmaceuticals in the global sods and share knowledge, share the vaccine, and give flux into pool, hide into the countries, and then doing badge and working together as one will be able to come this part to me. but that is in time. will open up all economies and ensure that every can age for communities because we're facing who challenges outside the, pardon me, we have our outcome age and the unfair been ability of the word ads will continue with the panoramic and also in a coming up what is to get on dealing with climate change, which is also going to bring its own challenges such as food shortages and

therefore have fun in and provide you in many of the world am and countries. doctor lib kill him on day. thanks for being with us. it's been a pleasure, been for the me. how the new arms race is all about. speed hypersonic missile is not on the fly, many times faster than the speed of sound they are highly maneuverable, can carry nuclear warheads and a hard to detect several countries on. now spending billions to develop them. they include france, india, japan, australia, and north korea. but china, the us and russia, are running the most advanced programs. and moscow recently fired it's con, hypersonic miss are from a warship and says it is part of a new generation of unrivalled arm systems. but it is china's advancements that are worrying the united states. the most washington says beijing as fight a projectile from the system during a test carried out in july that signals the chinese program has outpaced other

countries. china denies it carried out the test of the u. s. is developing its own hypersonic weapons while the pentagon has been pushing for the army is not expected to field its 1st missile. before 2023, washington has awarded contracts to major defense companies to develop a new hypersonic glide phase interceptor. it says it will be able to destroy an incoming hypersonic miss on or the u. s. has increased funding for hypersonic weapons in recent years. the pentagon's budget request for the weapon research is 3 point a 1000000000 dollars next year. up from it's 3200000000 for 2021. russia has made upgrading its nuclear arsenal priority over the next 2 years. it plans to spend around $50000000000.00 on defense. a china is investing heavily in advance weaponry. and more than $209000000000.00 was set aside for defense this year. but

it's military budget is thought to be much larger than the official figures due to buried costs. while i'm joined here in doha now by defense analyst alex ga, topple us to find out what's the big deal behind. hyper sonics, thanks for being with us, alex. so just tell us what is the attraction of of, of these hypersonic missiles. why now? why are so many countries investing in them? what hope masonic is a buzzword, it's, um, it, it's basically a measure of how fast that missile is going. so it's anything beyond 5 times the speed of sound, or put another way. it's a 6200 kilometer so very fast. but normal missiles already travel, the speed normal ballistic missiles. i persona missile is designed to leave the earth, leave the atmosphere, and then plunge straight back in. what it can do is evade missile defenses. are that have been developed to stop traditional ballistic missiles? i'm that makes it dangerous in the sense that it can't be stopped. and you, you won't know until the last minute what the target actually is. so it's

unpredictable innocence, a speaking of unpredictability because it's, it's something so new right now in the arms in the arms world. there isn't an agreement between the u. s. in china, and there's also the expiry of most of the, the old cold war accords between the u. s. and russia. so that makes it kind of a, a free for all right now, doesn't it? it does. and that free for all was on the cards on the united states is pulled out . some of those are big, cold agreements are russia and turn has also started to ignore them. china was never a signatory, so it's not bound by any these agreements. and it has been developing its technology, military technology at full pace. and now it's the other countries that are starting to catch up. now that they're not pinned down by these old agreements, that frankly never really anticipated these new technologies coming up and they're, they're out of date. right. and what, why is the u. s. lagging behind china on this?

both the, the focus has been on counter insurgency and those rather thorny problems. the last decade in a half the united states has been embroiled in at least 2 wars, and also the very costly process of potentially nation building dead. so the money hasn't been there. and then you've had a, an economic crisis, which is obviously, i'm had an impact on what can be developed, but now now that those was a finished, now those was a rover. now that china has taken a jump ahead and capabilities. america is now also catching up by the way they have been developing this stuff quietly for about at least a decade with some degree of success. so do you expect the u. s. to start investing more in this technology now 9 that china seems to be racing ahead on this. absolutely, absolutely. i think most countries will, of frances, also investing by the way our india is developing

a hypersonic missile hypersonic version of its brahmas, missile, or so, all modern military's will be looking to, to start to get this capability and to incorporate it into their assholes and military thinking and do these weapons have the potential to actually change the balance of power tools? at the moment, hyper sonic is a buzzword, it sounds great, it sounds futuristic, but these technologies have been around for decades. it's how you use these new missiles that's really going to seem to determine whether they're actually got any more use on the battlefields or not. they're fast, they're unpredictable. and that's always a good thing if, when you are trying to destroy your enemy and how lucrative is this going to be potentially for defense contractors. i mean, how beneficial is this going to be from a business point of view, i think sent for the united states point of view, a budgetary bodies already worried about massive cost overruns. we had the

stealth r f 35 program go way, way, way over budget. and i think um, i think now um each of the 3 services are worried that they're going to be dragged into some sort of a commitment where you start to pay for something and then a decade down the line is costing 3 times as much. all right, alix could topple as thank you. now german sonar motors is one of a handful of stops that have developed a solar powered vehicle. it's passenger cy, on car is wrapped by solar panels that can automatically charge itself when it's sunny. it sounds, environmentally friendly though it's not quite fully solar power. the car still has a battery, but it doesn't rely on being plugged in. the compact 5 door hatchback will be sold for $28700.00 us dollars and is expected to make it to consumers by the 1st half of 2023. while the car can be charged through a war box, so no says the sun,

which feeds energy into the battery can handle most of the daily commute. so from munich via zoom, i'm joined now by lauren han, the co founder and chief executive of sono motors. thanks so much for being with us . so obviously you're heavily invested in this than you believe the solar powered cars or the future. tell us why. we see that combustion engines i thing of the past. electric vehicles are present and solar electric vehicles we believe are the future. why? well, because they do so one thing, convenience, convenience for customers. up to 4 times more range compared to any other electric vehicle with the same battery size. and that's convenience. that's why we indicate solar on 2 vehicles. but critics have pointed out the limits of this technology at the moment. the fact that no solar panel they say can generate enough power to

drive the car round while still being small enough to be carried by the vehicle itself. what do you say to that? look, our solar technology means that we charged this vehicle with 5800 kilometers on average per year. the driving distance is on average, 12000 kilometers a year in europe. so what you half is already half of the distance you drive on average in europe is 2 days covered by solar. and now think about solar technology, improving inefficiency. over the next years, we will have cars on the road which cover you daily distance. and that's why we integrate all on every vehicle. what's your primary market right now? where do you see demand at the moment, mainly coming from so these cars. look, we have 2 pillars where we build up our business on 1st to the s e v,

a solar electric vehicle where we have 16000 dom her payments worth over 400000000 us in revenue. on the 2nd pillar, we license and sell our solar technology to be to be customers, trucks, trains, camp of ambassadors, whatever moves. we can indicate solar and all of that we make possible because our mission is put solar on every vehicle. and you say solar powered cars makes electric vehicles more affordable. your car is being sold. as we mentioned earlier at just on the $29000.00. how do you manage to keep it at that level? well, there are 5 strategies we have which make this car so fordable. first, we have only one product. second, we have no own factory. we let

a contract manufacturer produce shirt, no paint shop because of solar force on line direct sales. and lastly, only solar pounds means you have no press stamping steel tools for the outer skin. and that 5 strategies allow us to be so affordable with our 1st speaker. a lot of people who perhaps are not familiar with this technology and they hear the hear the word solar powered cars, they'll, they'll be inclined to think, well this, this can only really work in, in warm countries or i'm in places where the sun is out. all the time and in northern countries where it's cloudy and so on. what's going to happen then i'm not going to be able to get power in my car. what do i do that? what do you say to that? our numbers and figures we have on our website are in munich, and i can tell you munich is not the sunniest place. neither here makes sense, totally sense. but if you go more south, especially in region with a lot of sun,

this car is having this cars. perfect. so computers, this car is perfect for taxi drivers for delivery services for communities. this car is being shared, it's having vita right to charging it, having solar panels integrated and being very affordable. so with that we see crate potential for other regions in the world. good to have you on that. lauren hon. thanks for being with us. thank you so much bye and that is all show for this week . get in touch with us by tweeting me at. has him seeka and do use that tag a j. c t. c. when you do or drop us an email? counting the cost at al jazeera dot net is our address. as more for you online at al jazeera dot com slash ctc, that'll take you straight to our page, which has individual reports, links, an entire episode for you to catch up on that is it for this edition of counting

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