what employee is going to hire david mercer? no one. they are going to hire the person that came over the border. now, americans are at a disadvantage. it's good for businesses. it's one more huge hole in obamacare and the federal government's mismanagement. >> i know you care about the jobless americans, does this concern you? >> i think what we have seen over consecutive months, over the past couple years is 200 plus or 200,000 plus hires by corporations. i don't think that trend is going to be abbating just because of the regulation that you cite and, in fact, this isn't new. this was in the immigration bill that republicans voted for in the senate, that passed nearly two and a half years ago waiting for action in the house. hopefully, that will take place in the new session come january. but, this is not new. i might add, health care is not the only criteria you judge a hire or not. there is, i would think, as an employer, having a will mean a core for you and profitability long term. i don't think you are going to see the trade off

david mercer, al jazeera. >>> we are joined by an international oil economist.d to have you with us, sir. one wonders whether there is an easy way out for opec to keep their prices high. shale producers might increase their output to fill the gap if they cut production. >> well, the question is to cut or not to cut. that is the question. i believe if opec puts politics aside, and thinks in a logical and rational way, they have to cut their production by 2 million barrels a day at least, from 30 million to 28 to absorb the glut in the global oil market. failing to do that, they will all suffer and their economies -- their all economies will suffer as well. saudi arabia and the other gulf producers need a price of $100 and above to balance their budgets. iran needs $125. venezuela needs also $110. so they have to cut. if they don't cut, the price will slip down to $70, and they will all be users. >> but my question -- sorry to interrupt, even if they cut their production what is to stop shale oil producers to increase their production and keeping the prices lower.

david mercer explains. >> reporter: it's the world's fifth largest oil exporterser ed has the largest on the planet. but with oil prices falling to a four-year low, venezuela could be fashion one of its most difficult tests yesterday. oil makes up 95% of the nation's ex-poured and oil taxes are 40% of government revenues. but the price of crude hovering around $75 a barrel, the country's economy is shrinking rapidly. >> translator: venezuela is perhaps the most oil dependent country in the world. oil is the opening thing that brings in dollars, in used correctly the dollars could general ray growth and social well being. but if misused it creates pop limb. where therpopyou limb. >> reporter: from the time he came in to power, how long he chavez the former president used oil reserve to his funds his socialist revolution. price controls and social programs helped lift millions of venezuelans out of poverty. but over the years government policies red to runaway inflation and shortages of basic goods. in february, protests erupted with hundreds of thousands of people demanding the resigna

david mercer, al jazerra. >>> haiti's public health system does not have the capacity to treat a risingof cholera cases, that's according to doctors without borders. the organization says more than 3,000 people with cholera symptoms have been treated in the capital since mid october. haiti's cholera outbreak back in 2010 and has killed more than 8,000 people. >> in the beginning of october 2014 we still had fairly low numbers of cholera patients specifically here in port-au-prince, within a few days the numbers exploded. exponentially. within the last few four to five weeks, we have treated almost 3,000 patients for symptoms of cholera in the cholera treatment centers. >>> now, the recent deaths of 14 women in india after sterilization surgery has put the spotlight on the lack of men willing to undergo the operation. recent figures show nearly half of all of those sterilized in india are well, everybody though the procedure for men is lessons vase i have and has fewer risk. a report from new delhi in the first of our series on family planning. >> reporter: they are loving parents to the