A half a 1000000 syrians to its border. And the guy said i know how to read g. M. s taking everything that they are giving us a kicking up yesterday 6 helicopters over our heads forced us to live on my dads bonding checking on that our legs turkeys president has told his russian counterpart that Syrian Military attacks in northwestern syria a causing a humanitarian crisis type one told bloody near putin that whats happening there threatens Turkish National security its one of the reasons turkey is so keen to get a safe zone up and running on the syrian side of the border but so far theres still no indication that turkey has agreed with the u. S. Military on who will patrol is zone and how deep into syria it will go burn its way aljazeera and taqiyya. Still ahead on the program prodemocracy protesters in hong kong say they are tired but they will not back down in their fight with beijing and russias Floating Nuclear power stations set sail across the arctic prompting environmental and safety fears. Hello there the wet and show us a breeze about the conditions they are back all my way to in the southeast of australia not too bad and the as you know. That is bringing the next round of showers so sunny if you in adelaide today are all the wet day 16 degrees so not cold the same across and against them or you could actually see a few of those showers and then by sunday its a bit cooler but it should be dry 13 degrees actually in both cases a warm day in brisbane at 27 and not about day sunday and. Sunday in south l. A. But it should actually stay mostly dry now the systems are heading across the sea the tasman sea on their way to new zealand a quality cloud in the last few hours to the north island that rain will clear fairly slow to clear but itll be a gradual process throughout south of the 14 degrees celsius is your high and really not a bad couple days into Christ Church 11 degrees the whole on saturday sunday fairly mild a 16 degrees but it is ahead of this next system so enjoy that rather mild fields of things that we had up to was japan. As we would expect this time of year with the new zealand 30 celsius in tokyo on saturday to try to date there is a chance of showers and thunderstorms but notice a bad couple days across much of the Korean Peninsula but a warm day in seoul south the sunday at 30 and a similar 30 across in tokyo. Rewind returns with a new series. The updates on the backs to town to see this documentary i think i am going to be the only really the only real wind continues with the last try secret army of the cia its down to 75 believe in the same way that the m sisters did living in the forest in the jungle and seems like theyre abandoned by everybody on aljazeera. In the u. S. Officials told the newspaper that there have been at least 4 strikes on weapons depos controlled by iranian backed groups in iraq a military official confirmed a base was hit and 3 people were killed including one iranian. Or an israeli teenager has been killed by a bomb near an illegal settlement in the occupied west bank the Israeli Army Says its not immediately clear if the device had been planted in advance or thrown meanwhile thousands of palestinians in gaza are rallying after a tense week at the security fence with israel it follows at least 3 incidents of rocket fire and as strikes 9 people have been injured at the demonstration so far is the 71st consecutive great launch of return. Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian Military to respond after the u. S. Tested and new missile on sunday the modified ground launch Cruise Missile would have been banned on the 1907 intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty which both russia and the us of now withdrawn from the u. S. Withdrew from the treaty citing russian violations a claim that last denies putin has ordered the Defense Ministry and other agencies to now take comprehensive mashes. It was in a book and i mean maybe the fact that we developed the newer systems of modern weapons which are on parallel out in the world was caused and we can say provoked by a unilateral exit by the us from the antiballistic missile treaty in 2003 we were forced to we had to guarantee the security of our people and of our country we are doing it now and we will be doing it in the future you know shes going to get was as you know we have never wanted to do not want and will not be drawn into a costly economically destructive arms rice that judging by the defense spending russia is on a modest 7th place of the United States chinese peoples republic saudi arabia United Kingdom france and japan. Meanwhile the russian Opposition Leader alexina valley has been released from prison and immediately vowed to continue his fight against president putin and only spent a month behind bars for planning demonstrations which call for free elections is that a wave of protests criticizing a decision to take us from standing in september elections in moscow he says the protest movement will continue despite intimidation and arrests suggest moving even a store right here for now we see that lies and fraud are not enough for them its not enough to bend the candidates from the election they want to arrest and beat up people to smash anticorruption organizations and these organizations can see they have no support and people feel afraid. Un investigators say the scale of Sexual Violence by the myanma military against the rango was so widespread and so severe that it demonstrates what they call an intent to commit genocide a fact finding report says men lost soldiers routinely and systematically raped gang raped and sexually abused women children men and transgender people hundreds of thousands of rango are living in camps in coxs bazaar in the bangladesh order stephanie deca sent us this report. The u. N. Report on the cities the Sexual Violence committed against the right is a reminder to the world that these are stories that people have been telling aid workers and journalists for the past 2 years they are the most horrendous story stories of mass rapes children being raped in front of their parents of wives being raped in front of their husbands now thats coupled with stories of killings of people being chopped into pieces of babies being ripped out of their mothers arms and thrown into the fire now this is why hundreds of thousands of people fled across the border here to bangladesh in just the space of a few weeks and this is why this is now the biggest refugee camp in the world these people want justice what does that mean it means they want to go home but they want to go home with full guarantees of citizenship and security and not dims a long way off hong kongs airport authorities want an indefinite course injunction against protesters to prevent them from present prevent them storming the terminal again 2 weeks ago a sit in by prodemocracy campaign is at the airport descended into chaos or saying hundreds of flights to be canceled and as wayne hay reports the action came as activists staged yet another protest. With hong kongs iconic skyline shining brightly the citys defiant protest is Student Solidarity they formed a human chain that stretched for kilometers around the city the chosen day was symbolic it came on the 30th anniversary of the baltic way when around 2000000 people in a stony and lithuania and latvia held hands to call for independence from the soviet union this protest was not about independence but was an attempt to show that the people of hong kong are united and will continue their fight against chinas increasing influence even we are tired of their charter maybe some of us but we are still going on we are not giving up right now this was a peaceful protest with no police in size the days ahead may be different though as protesters again target hong kongs airport they say they wont try to go into the terminal as they did 2 weeks ago but will try to disrupt transport routes to and from the airport there is no sign that these protests are slowing down but at the same time there is drawing concern about the impact on the economy tourist arrivals and down Hotel Room Rates are being reduced and the airlines are being affected in particular hong kongs main carrier Cathay Pacific which is coming under increasing pressure from beijing. The chief executive resigned and at least 3 employees of Cathay Pacific and its subsidiary cathay dragon have been fired after they showed support for the protest Movement Among them a former Union Representative who says china is creating a culture of fear in the company i know all the colleagues feel so depressed and sad because of what happened here but its not just about the nation. Of the top but its also the whole asia is on its 10th and terrified and all my colleagues are on terror and. Its that fear of chinas evil. Moving influence and control over the city that continues to motivate the protesters to come out week after week wayne hay aljazeera home call. Kenyan Scientists Say the northern white rhino is one step away from being saved from extinction there are only 2 of these animals left in the world both of them are female and infertile on thursday a team of that successfully carried out a groundbreaking procedure to harvest their eggs. Explains. The gene in fact 2 of the only 2 northern white rhinos left in the world they live under 24 hour protection in the open just so conservancy in kenya and thats because both females are the last and only hope of saving the species from disappearing forever. With the help of science sperm was saved from the last little northern white rhino male called sudan and a few others he became famous around the world when he featured on a popular dating app to raise money for an in vitro fertilization procedure since his death the team of International Scientists has been racing against time to fertilize eggs from the gene and fast to. Using Pioneering Technology and millions of dollars later on thursday they successfully extracted 5 eggs from each female. The eggs couldnt be frozen and were immediately flown to a fertilization lab in italy. But its already in the locker room i believe so the moderation starts and if everything goes well then he also says it will be. Ok but it was likely. To we can go where we have some embryos. For Health Reasons and the gene and fats you cant give birth so once the embryos a fertilized theyll be implanted into a star Great Southern white rhino instead. Of a demand for rhino horn in traditional chinese medicine as well as things like dagger handles in yemen fuelled poaching in the 19 seventies and eighties largely wiping out the northern white rhino population in africa but if a surrogate southern mother can produce a baby northern white rhino then these beautiful creatures that have roamed the earth for millions of years may avoid what seemed like certain extinction. Russia is launching the worlds 1st Floating Nuclear power plant it will be to thousands of kilometers to the east to provide energy to remote communities and our mental activists say there are safety concerns claiming it has the potential to be novel on ice severson explains from moscow. A Nuclear Power plant sailing decease russia says its one of the safest and cleanest ways to provide energy to remote areas the academic luminoso of combines both the technology of a Nuclear Powered icebreaker and that of a land based Nuclear Plant it took 10 years to design and build the power plant will be told by 3 boats from more months to the region of 2 caught 5000 kilometers away on a journey that could take up to 6 weeks depending on the ice the 2 reactor unit is one of the key projects of president putin socalled northern sea route a faster sea connection between europe and asia which has become accessible due to a melting arctic despite safety concerns russias Nuclear Agency sas theres very little chance of a Nuclear Accident so as resume promotion with. This floating station will of course give a momentum to industrial development. At least in the development of deposits there are plenty of minerals to mine at the same time as ive already said the launch of this station will put an end to the old Palace Station which uses coal. But greenpeace is not convinced in april 2017 the Environmental Group protested against a project calling a child noble on ice referring to the Nuclear Disaster in the soviet union in 1986. Of. If the Fukushima Nuclear station was damaged by a tsunami we can only guess what could happen in this case the place can be flown upside down it can be thrown onto the shore or get damaged by a recent Nuclear Accident in the north of russia which caused a spike in radiation has also raised concerns with several Nuclear Accidents happening in the past few months and the government that this by political about what exactly has happened people are growing increasingly suspicious that like in the time of chernobyl your fortys are trying to cover up incidents of leaks radiation even though the academic i dont know if well travel only to sparsely Populated Areas its journey will be closely watched russias plans to sell Floating Nuclear plants to other countries have also rung alarm bells according to greenpeace offshore reactors will be harder to monitor and it can fall into the wrong hands academically will stay in into got got for at least 10 years before going back to more months for maintenance and to dispose of its Nuclear Waste step fastened aljazeera mosco 8 years ago a 5. 8 magnitude earthquake hit the u. S. State of the jenea it was Strong Enough to crack the Washington Monument and calls 20000000. 00 in damage to the National Cathedral today stone masons are still repairing the gothic sun work the earthquake ship loose. My name is Sean Callahan im a stonemason stand stone carver at the washington National Cathedral in washington d. C. Bases knock on the door one day and ask for a job and thats how i ended up here as an apprentice and have been 107. When i 1st came here i would relish the opportunity it was very exciting and unique and over time it becomes who you are. When i came here it was the master carver i think the last one hired actually. Over the years you build up a breath of dollars like a repertoire of shapes and skills so each piece you do will inform the next piece you worked on when we had the earthquake here it was months before even got the Building Back open structurally what happened to us wasnt too bad it was a lot of things on the outside but we still had to shut down and assess the damage and see what was safe and what wasnt and that took some time my part of it is im here on the workbench hyper focused on this one piece of stone im always aware of how important building is to other people its an important as a public building and as a cultural icon im always aware of that so i have a responsibility to put my best effort in because its not just my work its part of the fabric of the building and its going to become historic hopefully itll be around for a very long time thats always the back my mind im working on this i have a responsibility to be faithful to the work it motivates me when i see the impression it leaves on other people when they come here and visit and see the building it gives me a sense of pride that i have a hand in that of giving that satisfaction to other people that touches people every day its something that grabs you and your soul and you you want to be a part of it. More on top stories here al jazeera dot com of course our top story that the fire is there on decimating the wilds biggest rainforest and the fear is of ace could mean not just the brazil but of course for the wild. I had line stories this hour thats just so bring up to date within the us president has Just Announced he will again raise tariffs on chinese imports off to beijing increase duties on 75000000000. 00 worth of American Goods u. S. Stock market slump more than 2 and a half percent of the american president warned he would hit back donald trump also tweeted a demand for u. S. Companies to leave china i do joe castro has more from washington this is coming at a particularly sensitive time in dollar trumps presidency over the last 2 weeks that u. S. Headlines have been dominated by forecasts of a possible u. S. Recession on the horizon and trump has accused everyone but himself thats the media and his political opponents of talking up this possible recession he says in an attempt to undermine his chances of winning reelection in 2020 fronts an island threatened to block a trade agreement between the European Union and south american countries unless brazil does more to tackle thousands of wildfires raging in the arms and rain forest is a major source of the worlds oxygen Environmental Groups are saying the fire is a link to brazilian president both in ours policies he of course denies that u. S. President donald trump says he has spoken with his brazilian counterpart and is offered help if needed meanwhile hundreds of protesters have gathered in Rio De Janeiro to call for greater action against the wildfires there will also demonstrations outside brazilian embassies around the world in paris london geneva bogota and on to video. The russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered the military to respond after the United States tested a new myside on sunday a modified ground launched Cruise Missile would have been banned under the 1907 intermediate range Nuclear Forces treaty which both russia and the u. S. Of withdrawing from the u. S. Withdrew from the treaty citing russian violations a claim which moscow denies. And irans foreign minister says wrong will not renegotiate the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers speaking in paris Mohammad Javad zarif added that a meeting with french president emmanuel back home aimed at salvaging the deal was productive. For myself and the team here in london coming up next on aljazeera its counting the cost and then more news after that in about half an hours time. Their own crisis is now in the. More than 700000 its placed and stateless after fleeing military. And they still dont think its safe to. Follow their plight with special coverage and reports on aljazeera. Hello im Adrian Finnegan this is counting the cost of aljazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week we check the pulse of the Global Economy the age of populist governments and ask is the independence of Central Banks under threat. Unintended consequences the Global Economy takes a hit from trumps trade war with china and the i. M. F. Warns of more pain ahead from the missteps of briggs trade. Its been a pretty eventful year so far in the world of geopolitics and geo economics and seeing as its august when most of the Financial Markets go away for a vacation and we thought that it would be the ideal time to take stock and what a year its been for the independence of Central Banks governors have been threatened resigned or been fired by populist leaders the Global Economy is slowing thanks to the own going trade war between the United States and china the International Monetary fund cut its Global Growth outlook saying that missteps on trade and briggss could hurt any recovery the World Economy will expand by 3. 2 percent this year the fund said that growth rates would be the weakest since 2009 but the funds growth predictions are far more optimistic than those of some independent analysts and sanctions so the threat of sanctions have ratcheted up the tensions in this part of the world of middle east the own growing breaks it saga. Selections that could change both the political and economic landscape and not necessarily for the better weve got a lot to get through so without further ado lets bring in our panel joining me in the studio is ackbar khan senior director of Asset Management at our eye on investment joining us from one of sallys is him in a blanco is the head of Latin America Research at various maple craft and in sydney we have tim harcourt tim is the j w neville fellow in economics at the university of New South Wales and the author of the airport economist and trading places welcome to you all good to have you with us on account of the cost to start with you u. S. Fed chief Jerome Powell has been on the receiving end of some withering attacks from President Trump what do you make of that is the independence of Central Banks under threat i think independence of Central Banks is independence in ny im only you know i think all prime ministers and president s to try and influence them in some current of why President Trumps a lot more blunt than others of course and he made it very happy very clear that he was unhappy with the decision and took to twitter as easy as he always does in a sort of new why of pain president we had that rate cut from the fed a couple of weeks ago to me we expecting anymore well the fed governor. Said he wasnt i mean he said he was just going to tinker. And i guess President Trump was mournful of the. I guess the stance of the European Central bank and also china in cutting rights powell has said who tinker a bit. By sickly reasonably reasonably hawkish compared to other other other Central Bank Governors but he did not rule out possibly cutting again but that didnt seem to be enough to President Trump. Turkeys Central Bank Governor was fired the new one brought in by president did exactly what you want told him to do what do you make of that. And interestingly enough the markets liked all of what was done so there was a lot of fuss about Central Bank Independence it in turkey as weve seen in other countries you mention the us its happened in a host of countries as jim mentioned indonesia or india etc etc so theres a lot of fuss when the when when ed had changed the governor they slashed rates as he wanted as trump pointed and since then the lawyers strengthened significantly they just came out recently and lowered their inflation forecast for the year as world the turkish authorities and so the markets actually interestingly enough responded quite well so the market saying the other one knows more about the economy than the central bank of fact its essentially given in the beginning the green light. Mexicos finance minister quit why well i mean theres theres clearly to come submerging in the Mexican Government one its a pragmatist and one is a more dogmatic one and clearly the right now the dub matic more populist arm of ministration is gaining strength and so the finance minister clearly you know showed some serious policy disagreements with the government and decided to. Move away from the administration and thats something that you know were now seeing in the economy but we have been seeing in regulatory agencies since the beginning of the administration so its a trend we expect to continue ok so we put his resignation be seen as interference in any way well i mean you know we have been seeing it in latin america not just in mexico and from the you know different opposite ends of the political spectrum so we look at brazil and we look at levies resignation from the Development Bank in brazil earlier this year you know of course that was the reason for that was alleged intervention from president also narrow you know the question of institutional independence more broadly not just Central Banks in latin america its one. Heated debate and Central Banks in the region you could say again in the pendants just you know 2 decades ago. In real terms but for the most part theyve never been fully independent and a lot of political interference remains in most countries with some notable exceptions maybe tina being one of them all right lets talk about one of the years dominating stories that the trade war between the u. S. And china. China is hurting growth is slowing should we be worried well i think we should in the sense that. The last chinese should be number 6. 4 what was not what weve been used to in the boom times and so i think there is some impact that the tried war is hitting between the u. S. And china and also you know asia theres a tribe war in 9 between japan and south korea so there is some fear for that and just to pick up. The last point you know in latin america the new Mexican Administration has abolished mexico which is actually the tri promotion i should say here that attracting Foreign Investment and tried. To mexico and given mexico been a member the Pacific Alliance in the Transpacific Partnership thats quite a negative step so i think. Around the world Latin America Asia and the u. S. We are seeing signs of protectionism and economic populism which has has reasons for all of us to fear from the middle east to turkey to argentina. If any one nation should have benefited from this trade war between the u. S. And china it should have been brazil as a as a brick nation but also nora doesnt exactly have the best of relations with that with president cheaters. Well i mean i think we dont really know yet what the relationship is not like because obviously the rhetoric during the Election Campaign was very negative towards china but you know the reality of campaigning and governing her very different and coming to government and president also narrow has to you know take into account that China Remains one of brazils main trading partners and that the export of soft commodities namely soya is dependent on chinese demand and so i think you know the announcement a couple of weeks ago that he will be traveling to china at the end of the year to seek new trade agreements new negotiations does point to a more pragmatic side you know aside from the the rhetoric china rhetoric that he will maintain those relations now how warm or moderate will those be i guess well have to wait and see. The destroyed war a global slowdown depressing demand or oil thats thats not good for this region the middle east in particular a region thats dependent upon oil is it its depressing demand in in general also for oil will that depress demand combined combined with increased supply coming out of the u. S. Shale production obviously compounds the problem which is why russia and opec are having to fight even harder to cut their supply to offset both the higher supply from the u. S. And whats now turning out to be less growth in oil demand so russian opec have their work cut out for them to be further than theyve done a reasonably good job in keeping more oil in the mid sixtys if. You know at the end of last year we were in the low fiftys from an oil price perspective so its the battle continues is opec still relevant because. The nation that were in right now cattle are leaving opec this year well opec is relevant because oil pretty. As are all production is focused with in russia and opec countries and now in the u. S. So if 2 thirds of that is in terms of russia and opec are working together to bring down their production of oil and thats obviously helpful for the Global Supply and demand balance ok lets move on to the u. S. Debt ceiling are 22. 00 trillion dollars rising whatever happened to republicans fear of a debt of wanting small government thats politics isnt it so the u. S. Has a 110 percent of debt to g. D. P. Now it was in the mid sixtys about 65 percent or so debt to g. D. P. Before the financial crisis 10 years ago 12 years ago so its risen quite markedly is it should we be worried about it is it a problem it is obviously having more debt is a problem but when the country that has more debt is United States and they can just keep printing more money as they have shown a willingness to do over the last decade its less of a problem than if other countries did the same thing printing money is surely sometimes that sometimes the pigeons have to come home to roost you cant keep printing money forever can you you cant but the obviously the Central Banks globally have printed about 12. 00 or 13 trillion dollars since the financial crisis all it does is it pushes the problem further down and from a political perspective thats helpful because it pushes the problem out of the election cycle and and also it is the Central Banks didnt think they had any other choice frankly when they started printing money it was an unprecedented policy approach but they felt they were facing unprecedented times jim should we be worried about debt the new thinking it seems among more than Monetary Policy advocates is that debt no longer matters all. Strongly we had it and deficit scale before the election now the elections over its sort of gone on. A very low in any case so i think. Provided youve got. An export process. In the in the last issue the last question where we talked about brazil and china both the strong and brazil we have. Help with stronger Commodity Prices you know strategies had a morning boom with exports to china brazil which had a dawning boom would soybeans and so on so i think if you know a situation where your commodity