as greece emerges from years of bailout smear look at how austerity has affected the nation. we're used to be one of the richest countries in the world but now all rich venezuela is suffering from runaway inflation and its national currency has become almost useless president nicolas maduro is blaming all of this on what he says is an economic war against his country term or seeing millions flee even as well as economic hardships for neighboring countries. the international monetary fund predicts inflation will continue to rise by up to one million percent this year to put that into perspective venezuelans are now paying about two million dollars for a cup of coffee in order to tackle the problem the government has introduced a new currency the sovereign bolivia which will remove five zero from banknotes it's linked to a crypto currency called the petro that's pegged to the price of oil and the government is also raising the minimum wage by three thousand percent and faced with a squeeze on the country's cash reserves president maduro wants venezuelans to pay more for what is

the prime minister signal to the beginning of a new age for greece one in which greece will become a normal european country again able to choose its fate to determine its economic policy free from the external coercion of other countries and memorandum of understanding this is very much within the seed is a narrative that this left wing government was elected to rid the country of austerity policies imposed from without due to the policies of previous administrations and admitting no blame itself in prolonging or causing any further problems in the course of the greek economy the opposition conservatives have a very different narrative they believe but see it is this election itself spooks the markets prolonged greece's period in the wilderness on able to borrow from the private sector and therefore remaining dependent on the third handout from its heroes and partners those two narratives are likely to persist as greece heads into an election year with local and european parliament elections coming up in may and the general election by september of twenty nineteen as the two parties

washington all right still to come on counting the cost we look at white eight years of bailouts for greece led to a brain drain. electric car make a tesla has a value of between sixty and seventy billion dollars it's been trading as a public company for eight years but it has never made an annual profit. vision of integrating clean energy with transport and home power some might say is the perfect marriage but is tesla on the cusp of profitability or is this a bubble where joining us now from london is. the corporate finance and deals editor at the financial times in london thanks very much for being with us so first off what is the latest you're hearing on the company possibly going private obviously mr moss has been tweeting about this and then it's caused quite a ripple in the financial community but what exactly is going on well so i think we should point start of the beginning which was a story. i broke with the financial times that the saudi sovereign wealth fund had secretly kind of quietly built. about a four point five four point six percent stake in tesla we broke that story roug

on the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise you have to go for . this and that. plus ism and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims a vicious beatings. as helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is iraq on al-jazeera. but again a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera the former lawyer to the u.s. president donald trump has told the federal court that he made payments to two porn stars under trump's direction in order to influence two thousand and sixteen election michael cohen has pleaded guilty to charges of tax fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. meanwhile transforming campaign manager paul manifold has been found guilty on eight of eighteen charges that counts of fraud brought against him with a guilty verdict relate to charges of tax and bank ford. and the kremlin has denied accusations by global software giant microsoft that hackers linked to the russian government tried to attack political institutions in the u

it's good here in greece i want to go to school and study mechanical engineering would be fine. lotus swapped his going in village for a tent village on summers it's outside the island's official camp which is full of those living here plagued by insects there's no running water and the best way to have a bath is to swim in the sea summers is now home to some three thousand eight hundred asylum seekers that's half the island's population over again and four times its camp capacity this syrian man has constructed a retouched over his tent to keep his pregnant wife cool he's done his best to provide the amenities of home with official resources inadequate it's up to groups like son most volunteers to help maintain hygiene and prevent an outbreak of disease they recently set up this laundry facility for the official camp a lot of people asking if he's in the can. you don't have to watch the banking and you think it's sleeping at night can we get bags with blankets in that bed like have cockroaches in and see what it says is that people live in a position to have a new way out of ce

the prime minister signaled the beginning of a new age for greece one in which greece will become a normal european country again able to choose its fate to determine its economic policy free from the external coercion of other countries and member and understand this is very much within the c.d.'s the narrative that this left wing government was elected to rid the country over. all stare at the policies imposed from without due to the policies of previous administrations and admitting no blame itself in prolonging or causing any further problems in the course of the greek economy the opposition conservatives have a very different narrative they believe but see it is this election itself spooks the markets prolonged greece's period in the wilderness on able to borrow from the private sector and therefore remaining dependent on the third handout from its eurozone partners those two narratives are likely to persist as greece heads into an election year with local and european parliament elections coming up in may and the general election by september of twenty nineteen as the two parties try

washington all right still to come on counting the cost we look at white eight years of bailouts for greece led to a brain drain. electric car make a tesla has a value of between sixty and seventy billion dollars it's been trading as a public company for eight years but it has never made an annual profit in vision of integrating clean energy with transport and home power some might say is the perfect marriage but is tesla on the cusp of profitability or is this a bubble where joining us now from london is arash masood she is the corporate finance and deals editor at the financial times in london thanks very much for being with us so first off what is the latest that you're hearing on the company possibly going private obviously mr mosque has been tweeting about this and then it's caused quite a ripple in the financial community for what exactly is going on well so i think we should probably start of the beginning which was a story that i broke with the financial times that saudi sovereign wealth fund had secretly been kind of quietly. built. about a four point five four point six percent st

safeguards europe's ability to send back failed asylum applicants to turkey greece and. has now concluded a new agreement with germany whereby it will take back refugees who applied for asylum here and smuggled themselves across internal e.u. borders that puts in place it reverse flow mechanism from central europe back to turkey but it leaves most uneasy about its role even though germany has in return offered to speed up family reunifications securing the question is how many people will be returned and how many families will be united with a piece of equivalence in numbers anything difference we did know greece and it's just a two speed europe what if some of the more fortunate asylum seekers are in hotels paid for by charities a sign of how europe is trying to encourage the silent to sell a political service summers just wants to serve its tourists jumps are awful us al jazeera some us. as their arms the whole robin these are all top news stories ugandan opposition leader bobby weiner has been charged with treason he was rearrested moments after a military court dropp

plus as greece emerges from years of bailout smear look at how austerity has affected the nation. were used to be one of the richest countries in the world but now all rich venezuela is suffering from runaway inflation and its national currency has become almost useless president nicolas maduro is blaming all of this on what he says is an economic war against his country the turmoil has seen millions for even as well as economic hardships for neighboring countries the international monetary fund predicts inflation will continue to rise by up to one million percent this year to put that into perspective venezuelans are now paying about two million dollars vase for a cup of coffee in order to tackle the problem the government has introduced a new currency the sovereign body of our which will remove five zero from banknotes it's linked to a crypto currency called the petro that's pegged to the price of oil and the government is also raising the minimum wage by three thousand percent and faced with a squeeze on the country's cash reserves president maduro wants venezuelans to pay more

brazil sends troops to as border with venezuela as tension builds over its neighbors migration and greece completes its financial bailout program but the country's future remains uncertain. one point five million people have been displaced in the indian state of care and the worst flooding there and a century almost eight hundred fifty thousand people have been squeezed into displacement camps as they wait for the flooding to conditions all improving and major roads have been cleared but now the outbreak of disease is a big concern for authorities andrew thomas isn't going to leave one of the worst affected areas. people in kara describe the height of the water not in centimeters or inches but in debt relative to their bodies ankle deep. deep waist deep. some walking kilometers to the nearest dry road to home my house and then it went up on my head no it ground floor was completely covered the old are evacuated first cared for the folks that came for them elsewhere the water is shallow enough the trucks to drive in and. out works in and found most people want to stay at home in houses wit

it's good here in greece i want to go to school and study mechanical engineering would be fine. lotus swapped his canadian village for a tent village on summers it's outside the island's official camp which is full of those living here plagued by insects there's no running water and the best way to have a bath is to swim in the sea summers is now home to some three thousand eight hundred asylum seekers that's half the island's population over again and four times its camp capacity this syrian man has constructed a retouched over his tent to keep his pregnant wife cool he's done his best to provide the amenities of home with official resources inadequate it's up to groups like son most volunteers to help maintain hygiene and prevent an outbreak of disease they recently set up this laundry facility for the official camp a lot of people escape is in the can but. you don't have to watch the banking and you think it's sleeping at night if we get bags with blankets in that bed like have cockroaches in and see what it says is that people live in a position to have no way out of celera

the prime minister signals the beginning of a new age for greece one in which greece will become a normal european country again able to choose its fate to determine its economic policy free from the external coercion of other countries and memorandum of understanding this is very much within the seed is a narrative that this left wing government was elected to rid the country of austerity policies imposed from without due to the policies of previous administrations and admitting no blame itself in prolonging or causing any further problems in the course of the greek economy the opposition conservatives have a very different narrative they believe that sees us election itself spooked the markets prolonged greece's period in the wilderness unable to borrow from the private sector and therefore remaining dependent on the third handout from its heroes and partners those two narratives are likely to persist as greece heads into an election year with local and european parliament elections coming up in may and the general election by september of twenty nineteen as the two parties try to polar

on the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise there or you have to go for. this and that this is a bus or something and increasingly migrant farm workers are victims of vicious beatings. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is iraq on al-jazeera. they're watching our desire time to recap our headlines now dog transform a lawyer has pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws during the two thousand and sixteen election michael cohen says trump directed him to pay money to women the president allegedly had affairs with and david jr a jury found former trump campaign manager paul manifold guilty of eight fraud charges both cases emerge from robert muller's investigation into an alleged russian interference. the u.s. national security adviser says a lot more pressure will soon be applied to iran over its nuclear plans in syria john bolton has been holding three days of talks in israel. have been violent protests after prayers in indian administ

has now graduated from its program so greece is in very big trouble still it has to trade extremely carefully it's got to spend its money very carefully it's got to raise its money very carefully so as not to kill the economy that remains and it also has to show that it is friendly to foreign direct investment all of those things now remain to be seen that is what markets will be wait waiting and watching for all right john psaropoulos live in athens thank you. now venezuela's major opposition parties of called for a general strike and for a day of protest there's been uncertainty about president nicolas maduro as monetary policy which came into effect on monday the changes include devaluing the boulevard by ninety five percent and linking it to a government backed cryptocurrency venezuelans reacted cautiously to these changes with remaining shot is assuming it's a trick a make over the government is doing to the national economy it's a terrible deception removing five zero doesn't improve the economy at all but it will improve the. people are going to be confused there's no posters

all three would prefer to stay in greece they just don't think this economy will produce the jobs they want nor do they believe greece's political elite can create that economy at least half a million young educated greeks have emigrated over the past decade in search of better jobs and that brain drain is likely to continue greece is forecast to grow. by only about two percent a year for the next five years but over the same period it's obliged to spend at least three and a half percent of its economy per year repaying debt so its gains will be swallowed by its commitments the markets greece will now depend upon for its borrowing a looking for signs of stability that includes keeping up debt payments but not everyone believes it can go to stephanus and looking on lost all studied the odyssey in school they're well aware that to disuse was the sole survivor of his homecoming expedition all his men perished whether his has done enough to ensure greece's survival as well as his own political survival remains in the lap of the gods jump sort of pull us out of syria athens. former cambodia

emigrated over the past decade in search of better jobs and that brain drain is likely to continue greece is forecast to grow by only about two percent a year for the next five years but over the same period it's obliged to spend at least three and a half percent of its economy per year repaying debt so its gains will be swallowed by its commitments the markets greece will now depend upon for its borrowing or. looking for signs of stability that includes keeping up debt payments but not everyone believes it can go to stephanus and looking on lost all studied the odyssey in school they're well aware that to disuse was the sole survivor of his homecoming expedition all his men perished whether his has done enough to ensure greece's survival as well as his own political survival remains in the lap of the gods jump several pull us out of syria athens. taiwan says it will not bow to pressure from china or after another country cut diplomatic ties president citing when criticized el salvador's decision to establish relations with beijing instead the third nation to do say this year only sevente

on the streets of greece violence is on the rise. and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims a vicious beating. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is zero on al-jazeera. i go in south africa says the u.s. will investigate what he calls the large scale killing of fall because. there are also had. are you going to spray for a pop star turned opposition leader as he heads to a military court. for the billions of dollars in new terrorists are slapped on cars and factory machinery as the u.s. and china go to the next level of their trade war. and that is where the families in search of a better future why brazil is moving them out of a border state. welcome to the program south africa's president says he totally rejects donald trump statement on london for the allegation of the large scale killing of farmers the us president announced a short time ago that he was getting his secretary of state to investigate land refor

millions to not go to school at all in a country that is now their new home that in greece there is a glimmer of hope chance are awful as has that story. coderre ahmed abandoned his restaurant in the afghan city of can do is three years ago when he found it riddled with taliban machine gunfire he brought his three children to greece where the aid organization out of cease helps them apply for asylum and find an apartment. is a single parent so he only works occasionally the bulk of his energy goes into helping his children attend school. i want them to be doctors and if by then there is no war in afghanistan to return their build their homes and lives there and help rebuild afghanistan afghans are not entitled to relocate elsewhere in europe so once in greece they enroll their children in school the united nations high commission for refugees says education is vital if their children are to help rebuild their water on country's. gives people something to do. propose them for a future. where there is a future people then or going to be refugees for the rest their lives the walls and pe

lots more so it's coming on al-jazeera including greece's prime minister announces the end of the ten year is just a very symbolic occasion to announce the end of the biggest international bailout in the street. on the hit film crazy bridge asians premiers to a hometown audience in singapore but it's had a mixed reaction on that stay with us. nice pink skies by the time my hot. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. however no shortage of hot sunshine across the middle east want to see showers though just around the caspian sea just around the black sea see a little bit of cloud showing up here temperatures still quite nasty on the eastern side of the mediterranean said look at up to around twenty nine thirty there for beirut over the next day. similar values to karate couple of around thirty three degrees tashkent out around thirty celsius in between but the hate forty four celsius there for baghdad forty eight and kuwait city similar values to as we go on through thursday by thursday temperatures in by rate at around thirty degrees i lost a fine and dry weather if not hot so warm

it's good here in greece i want to go to school and study mechanical engineering would be fine. lotus wiped his guinea in village for a tent village on somers it's outside the island's official camp which is full of those living here plagued by insects there's no running water and the best way to have a bath is to swim in the sea summers is now home to some three thousand eight hundred asylum seekers that's half the island's population over again and four times its camp capacity this syrian man has constructed a retouched over his tent to keep his pregnant wife cool he's done his best to provide the amenities of home with official resources inadequate it's up to groups like son most volunteers to help maintain hygiene and prevent an outbreak of disease they recently set up this laundry facility for the official camp lot of people asking if he's in the cabinet. you don't have to watch the banking and you think it's simple thank you we get bags with blankets in that bed like have cockroaches in them so what it says is that people live in a position to have a new way out of celera

the euro zone's rescue mission for greece comes to an end but the pain for its people that's far from over plus sun rises to gold in the pool again show will have the best of the action from the asian. more than one hundred people taken hostage after a taliban ambush in northern afghanistan have been freed many are said to be women and children as ambush happened in the northern province of the buses for stopped on the to car quintus highway about three hundred kilometers north of kabul on sunday president ashraf ghani declared a three month conditional cease fire but the taliban has not officially responded and two thousand and sixteen the taliban set up a fake checkpoint on the highway and posed as government officers kidnapping two hundred twenty people in a scene has more from the capital kabul. less than twenty four hours after president assad of twenty announced the cease fire. today announced that the kidnapped dozens of passengers including. in the north side even said that they. kidnapped those passengers because they received some intelligence that among those passengers wer

still to come here on the program a criminal lawsuit has been filed against greece's interior minister for last month's while faas was killed that is it. hello again we're here across parts of central asia we did watch a lot of trouble activity over the last couple days with the binka really kind of stationary and erratic as we began the week but now the system has moved over here towards vietnam we are going to sing that system weekend but still some very heavy rain could be expected as it makes its way across parts of thailand and then back over into the bamako also we're going to watch that very carefully but also we're going to see those temperatures here across hong kong starting to warm up a little bit thirty three degrees for you and more rain is going to be in your forecast and speaking of rain unfortunately here across southwestern parts of india down towards carroll estate it has been quite excessive over the last couple of days well over five hundred millimeters of rain have fallen in some of those locations in just forty eight hours and the forecast looks like we're going t

the prime minister signal to the beginning of a new age for greece one in which greece will become a normal european country again able to choose its fate to determine its economic policy free from the external coercion of other countries and memorandum of understanding this is very much within the seed is a narrative that this left wing government was elected to rid the country of austerity policies imposed from without due to the policies of previous administrations and admitting no blame itself in prolonging or causing any further problems in the course of the greek economy the opposition conservatives have a very different narrative they believe that sees us election itself spooked the markets for a long greece's period in the wilderness on able to borrow from the private sector and therefore remaining dependent on the third handout from its heroes and partners those two narratives are likely to persist as greece heads into an election year with local and european parliament elections coming up in may and the general election by september of twenty nineteen as the two parties try

it's good here in greece i want to go to school and study mechanical engineering would be fine. lotus swapped his guinea in village for a tent village on summers it's outside the island's official camp which is full of those living here plagued by insects there's no running water and the best way to have a bath is to swim in the sea summers is now home to some three thousand eight hundred asylum seekers that's half the island's population over again and four times its camp capacity this syrian man has constructed a retouched over his tent to keep his pregnant wife cool he's done his best to provide the amenities of home with official resources inadequate it's up to groups like son most volunteers to help maintain hygiene and prevent an outbreak of disease they recently set up this laundry facility for the official camp a lot of people escapees in a combat. unit have to watch the banking and women and men can sleep on that link if we get bags with blankets in that bed like have cockroaches in them so what it says is that people live in a position to have no way out of celera stev

in overton in greece last word to you same question to you what happens when this goes wrong say there's another sandy hook school shooting and one child has lost its life because as well as being tooled up with all the usual semiautomatic weapon ri the killer has a plastic gun that say was put into the school ahead of time and that killer knew where to get it well i'm not speaking from greece i think it might be out to bring that out of the tail of pandora who for all of the sins in the world in one box and hopes it would never be opened but it was opened and the senate will let through and i think this is what happens the revolution will not be televised downloaded. three d. printers it becomes ubiquitous it's really printers become ubiquitous we do not know where technology will end i could have told you a year ago that somebody would be run over by a self driving car and i will tell you that somebody will be shot by a three d. printed gun and that is the responsibility of the united states with a love affair with the second amendment not a european love affair gars not a global love

it's good here in greece i want to go to school and study mechanical engineering would be fine. lotus swapped his guinea in village for a tent village on somers it's outside the island's official camp which is full those living here plagued by insects there's no running water and the best way to have a bath is to swim in the sea summers is now home to some three thousand eight hundred asylum seekers that's half the island's population over again and four times its camp capacity this syrian man has constructed a retouched over his tent to keep his pregnant wife cool he's done his best to provide the amenities of home with official resources inadequate it's up to groups like son most volunteers to help maintain hygiene and prevent an outbreak of disease they recently set up this laundry facility for the official camp a lot of people asking if he's in the camp that. you need to have to watch the banking and you think it's sleeping at night can we get bags with blankets in that bed like have cockroaches in and see what it says is that people live in a position to have a new way out

finishes eight years of dependence on its eurozone partners the state remains expensive and greece has to produce large budget surpluses for the next thirty years to pay off its lows but the current high taxes could sink the economy that's left a recent study shows that greeks work seven months of the year to pay taxes an increase of twenty five percent over the past decade that puts them on a par with german taxpayers and above most europeans what differentiates them is that they have the lowest level. as of satisfaction from public services like health and education in the developed world the center for liberal studies which produced that research believes this dissatisfaction has ripened greeks for reforms needed to begin a new economic era we all know what the pro growth policies are and that's what we have to pursue and if we do that. i'm very optimistic about our country three years ago the majority of greeks wanted more government programs even if it meant more taxes now the situation is reversed sixty percent of greeks want lower taxes and only thirty five percent of greeks wan

in overton in greece last word to you same question to you what happens when this goes wrong say there's another sandy hook school shooting and one child has lost its life because as well as being told up with all the usual semiautomatic weapon re the killer has a plastic gun that say was put into the school ahead of time and that killer knew where to get it but i'm not speaking from greece i think it might be out to bring that out of the tail of pandora who for all of us is in the world in one box and hoped it would never be opened but it was opened and the senate is all up for it and i think this is what's happened the revolution will not be televised downloaded. three d. printers it becomes ubiquitous it's really printers become ubiquitous we do not know where technology will end i could've told you a year ago that somebody would be run over by a self driving car and i will tell you that somebody will be shot by a three d. printed gun and that is the responsibility of the united states with a love affair with the second amendment not a european love affair gars not a global love affai

it's good here in greece i want to go to school and study mechanical engineering would be fine. lotus swapped his guinea in village for a tent village on summers it's outside the island's official camp which is full of those living here plagued by insects there's no running water and the best way to have a bath is to swim in the sea summers is now home to some three thousand eight hundred asylum seekers that's half the island's population over again and four times its camp capacity this syrian man has constructed a retouched over his tent to keep his pregnant wife cool he's done his best to provide the a man.

greece is finally wrapping up the biggest finance. bailout in history that means no more eurozone funds in return for painful austerity reforms to its labor market pensions and public finances that many greeks if you will there's little reason to celebrate although the economy is now recording modest growth nearly a decade of financial problems has turned greece into a used for poorest country at twenty percent unemployment is still more than double what it was before the crisis and it's unlikely the government will be able to provide much relief to those without jobs or to pensioners to deal reached with other eurozone states dictates it will have to keep tight control of public spending until twenty sixty the speak now to read a phony in saying gallant switzerland he's a professor of international economics at the university of st galang we appreciate your time very much so. thank you this thanks for your joining us so this new milestone how does it really affect the average greek citizen well indeed it's a milestone to be greece's

finishes eight years of dependence on its eurozone partners the state remains expensive and greece has to produce large budget surpluses for the next thirty years to pay off its lows but the current high taxes could sink the economy that's left a recent study shows that greeks work seven months of the year to pay taxes an increase of twenty five percent over the past decade that puts them on a par with german taxpayers and above most europeans what differentiates them is that they have the lowest level. as of satisfaction from public services like health and education in the developed world the center for liberal studies which produced that research believes this dissatisfaction has ripened greeks for reforms needed to begin a new economic era we all know what the pro growth policies are and that's what we have to pursue and if we do that. i'm very optimistic about our country three years ago the majority of greeks wanted more government programs even if it meant more taxes now the situation is reversed sixty percent of greeks want lower taxes and only thirty five percent of greeks wan

has filed a criminal lawsuit against seven officials including greece's interior minister nearly six people ninety six people were killed when a fire spread through a seaside resort northwest of athens john psaropoulos has this report from the village of one of the worst hit area. yes this used to be by now your kitchen he only survived the fire that swept through this neighborhood on july twenty third because he and a friend acted quickly up to smelling the smoke you find you we went to the main road and there was a tsunami of flames sixty meters high as soon as we saw this i said save your family take them to the sea we ran back and i grabbed my mother as she. this is where i was ended up along with hundreds of others some scorched by the flames just going to be extraordinary there was absolutely no warning perhaps the authorities didn't realize the size of the phenomenon it was so sudden oh my house is four hundred meters from the sea the fire took three maybe four minutes to cover that distance an inquiry is now looking into why all photos he's failed to better coordinate their r

to process the greece says greece called it a day of liberation and insisted that pos mistakes will not be repeated since twenty ten voided bankruptcy through three hundred billion dollars in loans from the international monetary fund and the european union and return it had to impose punishing austerity measures to balance its budget. she must above the law must see medicine like in the bailouts that carried with them austerity and recession and turned their country into a social desert over our country's regaining its right to define its own fortunes and its future like a normal european country without being compelled to do things from abroad with no more blackmail no more sacrifices for our people. a man suspected of being a former nazi concentration camp guard has been deported from the united states to germany the does justice department says the poly served at a camp in nazi occupied poland during world war two polly lied about his job when he entered the us in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine pictures obtained by a.b.c. news show the ninety five year old being wheeled from

youtube lie this is a teacher who says i remember i was working in a group that helped refugees in greece and how much this story brought attention and help to our group and just how quickly that empathy disappeared people got bored the media got bored so on that note of boredom we found this week just scrolling around our feed this is from andrew and he wrote in europeans are no longer shocked by pictures of drowned children this is americans are getting used to images of caged children were letting the fear mongering politicians undermine our basic humanity so you're actually sent us a video comment picking up on that thread and here's what he told the stream. i think some sympathy for refugees and asylum seekers has diminished in recent years in europe this is mainly due to fear mongering and hate mongering by certain politicians who are trying to pretend this group of people is a huge threat for some reason to their country to their people to europe and try to win votes off the back of that we see this in places like italy where the interior minister has been threatening to send peopl

to turkey and greece has now concluded a new agreement with germany whereby it will take back refugees who applied for asylum here and smuggled themselves across internal e.u. borders that puts in place a reverse flow mechanism from central europe back to turkey but it leaves most uneasy about its role even though germany has in return offered to speed up family reunifications securing the question is how many people will be returned and how many families will be agree united will there be some equivalence in numbers anything difference who did know greece and it's just a two speed europe of some of the more fortunate asylum seekers or in hotels paid for by charities a sign of how europe is trying to encourage the silent to sell a political service some most just wants to serve its tourists jumps are awful us some us the british government has to release a report detailing how it would avoid economic collapse if it failed to get a deal on the floor from the e.u. this so-called no deal scenario has prompted warnings the u.k. could run out of food and medicine and major airports could sh

and he thank you very much indeed now stargazers in greece got a rare treat when meteors streaked across the sky on the weekend the perseids me to shout could be seen with the naked eye people living in the northern hemisphere in areas with little light pollution a better chance of seeing the shooting stars the shower appears around august every year. all right that's it for me for this news but i'll be back in a moment with more of the day's news station that sort of in a minute. on counting the cost what the first wave of u.s. sanctions on iran means by iranians and companies doing business with the world's biggest oil producers and climate change plus stamping out colombia's cocaine addiction counting the cost on al-jazeera. the largest multi-sport event on the continent and the second largest in the world the asian games will host thousands of athletes competing across a mix of traditional and the limbic sports follow us for the news and updates from jakarta the hosting city of the eighteenth asian games on al-jazeera. denied citizenship. health can and education. forced from their h

looking for now more lights and a thank you now stargazers in greece got a treat with me just ripped across the sky over the weekend the percy admits your child could be seen with the naked eye people in the northern hemisphere as a little light pollution have a better chance of seeing the shooting stars that's it for me for this news. is up next with more of the day's news statute also watching. out a zero follows the lives of people in the heart of immigrant communities. in six major cities across europe. the stories we don't often have told by the people who live there. and a brand new documentary series this is year a coming soon on al-jazeera. amidst a climate of violence and paranoia. there's still willing to dream. in honduras dennis seeks a brighter future for his son and community. using art to reclaim the city. and transform the very symbol of caste oppression. you find in latin america liberating a prison on al-jazeera. challenge your perception ethiopia's economy is growing at a faster rate than any other african country fearless journalist look at sirens were heard here

on the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise there or you have to go for. the sun that this is a plus or something and increasingly migrant farm workers are victims of vicious beatings. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is zero on al-jazeera. the world health organization says the ebola outbreak in democratic republic of congo has reached a point which had been dreading a doctor in the eighth has become the first likely cave in what is one of the country's most violent in accessible zones this is in a town in north kivu where aid workers and government officials are being held hostage the full story now with charlotte bellus. this is a united nations video of a thirteen year old boy and manga the a.p. santa of the latest ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo. is also a conflict zone journalist conquered unsafely so the un films. they all died of ebola was my entire family was my mom an issue away and then my sister's an answer fo

on the streets of greece violence is on the rise you have to go. and increasingly migrant farm workers of victims of vicious beatings. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is iraq on al-jazeera. hello again here is a reminder for our top stories on al-jazeera u.s. media says prosecutors have granted immunity to al in the wise old bury the longtime chief financial officer of the trump organization that's part of the inquiry into president donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen pleaded guilty on tuesday to campaign finance violations. zimbabwe's president emerson my god what is calling for unity of the country's top part confirmed his election when the main opposition party is challenge the results saying the july thirtieth election was rigged. and human rights watch has accused the saudi led panel investigating war crimes in yemen of lacking credibility and independence it comes of condemnation grows over a coalition air strike and h

on the streets of greece anti immigrant violence is on the rise you have to go for . something and increasingly migrant farm workers are victims of vicious beatings. is helping the pakistani community to find a voice the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them undocumented and under attack this is zero on al-jazeera. to take a look at the top stories here at. the funeral of the former indian prime minister atal bihari vadra pi is due to be held in a short while from now he was in office three times and oversaw india's first testing of a nuclear weapon. the u.s. has announced a new task force to deal specifically with iran it says it's to persuade government to change its ways secretary of state might compare announced the new units as the u.s. increases economic pressure with actions. the collapse of a bridge in genoa has put attention on italy's aging infrastructure around seventy percent of its fifteen thousand motorway bridges and tunnels are more than forty years old at least thirty eight people were killed in the general disaster and investig

the deal as a breakthrough in the current immigration crisis a similar pact is also being made with greece and there was never any doubt that this agreement with spain would go ahead as spain has recently become the new preferred route for. seekers attempting to reach europe and there are fears that it will be yet another transit point for migrants to reach germany germany is also working with italy to agree a similar deal a challenge given the immigration stance from politicians now in its government sunny diagonal al-jazeera government protesters have been rallying for a second day in rumania the after more than four hundred demonstrators were injured in violence of police on friday thousands of people have gathered in the capital bucharest against the ruling social democrats many of them are remaining experts who've returned home to protest against corruption. in peru hundreds of protesters in the capital lima have been demanding gender equality and reform to the judiciary the demonstrators say the judicial system ignores the high level of violence against women seven out of ten women i

as greece emerges from years of bailouts we look at how austerity has affected the nation. what used to be one of the richest countries in the world but now all rich venezuela is suffering from runaway inflation and its national currency has become almost useless president nicolas maduro is blaming all of this on what he says is an economic war against his country term or seen millions for leaving as well as economic hardships for neighboring countries. the international monetary fund predicts inflation will continue to rise by up to one million percent this year to put that into perspective venezuelans are now paying about two million dollars vase for a cup of coffee in order to tackle the problem the government has introduced a new currency the sovereign body of our which will remove five zero from banknotes it's linked to a crypto currency called the petro that's pegged to the price of oil and the government is also raising the minimum wage by three thousand percent and faced with a squeeze on the country's cash reserves president maduro wants venezuelans to pay more for