now chennai is one of the hotspots of the indian leather industry the regulations for tanneries a hike but not all requirements are always met a german company has come up with an eco friendly solution a natural canning agent made from all of these that used to be thrown of they're convinced that big businesses like can make a beer and designer label hugo boss will help their cause. in the olive groves of the mediterranean a quiet industrial revolution is under way more than $3000000.00 tonnes of olives are harvested here every year and what's left is an enormous quantity of leaves. rather than being burnt some of these leaves are now being sold to a german company that cleans shreds and boils them down with water to create a viscous syrup and olive based tanning agent for leather it is even edible. for a few bucks right on all of lanes are in such plentiful supply we could currently use them in 40 percent of global leather production more than 700000000 square meters that would be 100 percent of automobile leather 100 percent of upholstered furniture and 100 percent of clothing we cou

saucomp has taken over a factory that used to be run by nokia, it is based in chennai and that's an area hard—hit of layoffs. it was once the cornerstone of modi's made in india scheme. this has come at a good time. india's economy is in trouble, its slowest rate in six years and is taking advantage of gap that has been created by the us china trade war. 0ur sliding created by the us china trade war. 0ursliding and created by the us china trade war. 0ur sliding and right now as we can see and they are taking advantage of some opportunities that they may not have had in the past in terms of manufacturing opportunities. thank you so much for that update, monica miller. it's the biggest u—tube janet in latin america but you might not have heard of it. his name is kondzilla and at the age of 31, he owns a major record label. arm no latin america's music phenomenon kondzilla. let's look at the hong kong stock exchange which and how it's faring the listing of alibaba. and how it's faring the listing of aliba ba. aliba ba and how it's faring the listing of alibaba. alibaba continues to surge an

chennai on the western coast of india is one of the country's tannery hotspots the leather industry is believed to be contaminating the groundwater recently the government imposed stricter regulations on the sector the company gemini has gone further. it's adopted the german olive based tanning agent and now only produces all of leather. more and more fashion labels demand products that contain known chemical residues. have defeated all immersed in a lot of research and development in sheer doofus. they won by our customer and also by ourself for making fast trainable another product as you need your technology it requires a lot of investment and cost out but it certainly does because here they are on 10 to 30 percent but we have believe they did we believe it does in the long run. in india gemini is a pioneer in this field producing leather clothing for big brands like hugo boss the plant based tanning agent is not only environmentally friendly it also doesn't harm the workers. have been working here for 15 years things have changed considerably since the tannery went green the safety

that a journalist sitting in chennai was unable to grasp what the export data is so when the investigative journalist from forbidden stories the guardian lim mourned. when all of them came together and you know pitched in we had freedom of information requests being filed in their own countries they went and they spoke to the end users in their countries the people who were important. and this sort of took everything to a completely different macro scale so it was not just this one journalist in the south indian state of time or not but it became something that people across the world really does viewers across the world could relate to that's the red stain cross-eyed is an investigative journalist with the guardian newspaper and also a member of the green blood project she traveled to guatemala to work with called the phoenix mine story so when we visited some of the nearby villages we found a lot of people particularly children have skin rashes it's been 2 years since color was charged he is still awaiting trial because his court date keeps getting to late while in the country cross-eyed

yesterday to be honest but the focus is going to be further south if you're lucky tell not about chennai's involved and in sri lanka otherwise it now looks dry the rain in study recently right up here in the foothills of the himalayas they are gone as a forecast feature for the next couple of days 29 still in karachi this is where the rain snow is going to appear snow on the iranian side of the gulf but rain will eventually bahrain and qatar this is the picture for tuesday it fades off into saudi arabia it'll be persistent rain and to some degree sundry once it's gone through the show miles in and things cool down. on counting the cost with breaks it's make america great again to make in india are we seeing a backlash against globalization or is it just another economic war plus francis richest man is worth more than 100000000000 dollars we find out if france is an unequal society counting the cost on al-jazeera. i really felt liberated as a journalist was. getting to the truth as i would that's what this job. is al jazeera here's a reminder of our top stories this hour a tense standoff is