A lot of criticism of the commission they have taken relatively easy lines on the knee of the witnesses that have appeared you know the process that has gone relatively slowly but that the zoomer appearance of all those on the commission was fascinating you know the general consensus rightly so was a lot of what he said was completely sort of you know out of kilter with reality and with the truth of whats happened in south africa but actually his purpose of appearing there was ultimately political and was focused within the a. N. C. And on those terms actually i think he was quite successful in terms of driving a wedge was his desire inside the party and so i think you have to treat him very carefully and ultimately a lot of this stuff is internally focused within the a. N. C. And that internal focus means that they can be distractions from dealing with some of the big issues the structural forms yes so easy great to talk to pieces many thanks for being with us and counting the cost. Of our iraq imports 12000000000. 00 worth of iranian gas and goods every year while. Baghdad has a 3 month waiver from washington to continue buying iranian exports there are concerns about the Economic Impact for both nations once sanctions kick in already many iranian could see a crossing the border to find work in Northern Iraq we have 2 reports for you in a moment asama been job it in baghdad on fears that ending imports could push up prices but 1st a touch of going to reports from a bill in the kurdish region where the common language makes it easier for a rainy and kurds to earn money for their families back home. Each room gardy wallpapers is bringing him closer to the day he can afford to marry his fiance the money he earns as a handyman in Northern Iraq is also supporting his parents at home in iran. How did it its been 5 years working in a before this kind of work wasnt popular now theres more of a demand and business is Getting Better every 3 to 4 months i take a break and go back to iran because i have a work permit. But these iranian kurds arent so lucky without work permits they enter the kurdish region in iraq on one month tourist visa work every day they can return home and repeat the process Mohamed Faruq says a lucrative month of work puts 800. 00 in his pocket. I know its very hard for me to be away from my family but its hard not to have any money to spend all to buy food whats better being away from your family and having money or being with your family and having no money the government doesnt keep an official count of the number of iranian workers here but says there are hundreds and that number has tripled in the last 2 years as irans economy suffers from u. S. Sanctions the director of labor in the semi autonomous kurdish region expects more iranians to seek work here theyll be taking advantage of an economy. On the rebound following several tough years. Yet he had. Proposed a plan to address the situation with iranian workers it would match them with jobs we have a need for we dont want to close the border with them but we must organize a situation that effects the local workers greatly and we have to give them a priority. He says for the time being the Kurdistan Regional government has no intention of barring these men bound by culture and language many people see these iranian kurds as their brothers and sympathize with their plight. From vegetables to milk cooking oil to washing detergent in southern iraq almost everything on sale is from neighboring iran. Not just theory products come from iran take it snakes cakes juices all are imported from iran there will be a crisis if these products. Some locally produced items are available but imported goods are cheaper irans proximity low prices and long established trade ties make it easier for vendors to rely on 3 indian product. Of an iranian groceries dominate the iraqi market because if it wasnt for the m locally produced groceries would have been sold at twice their actual price. But as the u. S. Increases pressure and imposes biting sanctions on tehran iraqi traders are concerned. That what we can afford the absence of iranian goods in the market the average income of a person under the allows for buying cheap imported goods from iran. Iraq is the only country exempt from u. S. Sanctions on iran washington has extended baghdads waiver on iranian imports for 3 months its not clear what will happen when that expires as the us insists iraq must find alternatives in anticipation of the sanctions iraq and iran have been discussing ways to continue the trade an estimated 25000000. 00 worth of iranian imports into iraq every day according to iraqi officials theres a special financial agreement under which iraq will run without sending over any money iran will be able to use that money which remains inside iraq to purchase goods a similar agreement exists between iraq and some European Countries to work around u. S. Sanctions. And there are other powers papering iran that are defending irans interests which made iraq irans back door a. T. M. So to speak to mitigate sanctions iraqs economy is largely unorganized a lack of official statistics and throw more training makes it impossible to accurately picture what happens at the border with iran which stretches 1400 kilometers in france germany and the u. K. Introduced a mechanism called in sticks to facilitate trade in exchange of basic goods including food medical equipment and medicine between iranian and Foreign Companies iraqs case is different because in addition to Household Items baghdad relies heavily on iranian gas imported electricity. Iraq also needs iran iraq political situation isnt completely settled this extends to iraqs economy industry and agriculture besides iranian investment and other Foreign Investment is no although iraqi officials deny that baghdad is becoming irans a. T. M. Or cash machine the fear is that any restriction on tree could affect iraqs fragile stability now how do musicians like taylor swift make their money you may have thought that after her spat with businessman Scooter Braun who bought the rights to swifts 1st 6 albums that there was perhaps a link between streaming publishing record sales and her potential earnings well there is some truth in that but just not enough to make artists rich braun the manager of Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande a paid 300000000. 00 for the rights for the swifts back catalogue but she isnt the 1st or last artist to have seen her work sold to the highest bidder. Paul mccartney wasnt happy in losing the rights to the beatles catalog to Michael Jackson in 185. 00 jackson paid 47000000. 00 to buy a t. V. Which included rights to music by Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones because hes hoping to win the rights back ization still make most of their money from touring according to billboard u 2. 00 was the top 2080 dublin based rockers made 54000000. 00 nearly all of the earnings coming from touring just 2400000 came from sales streaming of publishing. Joining us now from london zack fuller a music analyst at middle Research Good to have you with us on kinds of the costs act does taylor swift have a point with artists receiving such a small percentage of the revenue generated by their music where is the rest of the money going. Of course but this is a conflict that is old as music recorded Music History and weve seen this going back from the days of the beatles theres always been this conflict over is the artist being renumerated in the way that they should through the record label now when artists often sign these deals they are not in the leverage position that they are once they become a global superstar so really what weve witnessed with the taylor swift story is that conflict that because when an artist who has achieved global success then comes to renegotiate with a label that actually prior to that fame had their label had their rights signed off so even in this age of new technology and streaming the way in which we get all music is it still the case the big music is king the big music is king its interesting you bring this up because really what the big machine deal with involving taylor swift writes the shown us is actually hes given this almost a platform to the very idea of the label this now what i mean by label service is that in an era of digital where a lot of artists are actually going direct to fan and bypassing the label system altogether labels are actually having to play catch up affectively and so instead of offering a deal where you are actually taking a lot of the artists rights the Value Proposition that they are offering is using their Marketing Strategies their Global Networks their ability to build a brand and i see using that as their main selling point so what weve actually witnessed with regards to this either of the bigger artists its actually the middle class or the independent artist is outpacing the recorded Wind Industries overall growth if we look at last year it was actually labels Services Group 3 times quicker in terms of revenue than the overall recorded Music Industry so are bigger artists being as big as they were i mean its a fair point to bring up but really its late winning at this point so what would your advice to be to the. Being musician how can Young Artists ensure that they are. Benefiting from the streams that they get from the fact that the people want to download and listen to their music out how can they generate revenue whats important to remember now is that they have more choice than ever so bringing it back to the taylor swift story when she signed this deal these up change these didnt exist those labels services they use they were not in place in the whole streaming economy had not developed at this point so if you are younger artists you may choose to go with a ranger record label because you believe its best for your art but ultimately now you have the choice now music streaming platforms really did disrupt the industry i mean account remember the last time i actually bought a physical copy of a recording a cd i mean vinyls had a bit of a revival but if you take the billboard numbers of what the streaming services are actually paying artists stream it just fractions of a cent its going to take a heck of a long time for musicians to profit from the music isnt it. Well really what the streaming Business Model has done is it appended the whole idea of the seo and so i think the have been some teething problems in terms of how that those economics are beginning to add up because as you correctly identified if youre seeing per stream rates it begins to look quite low but the vantage of what were seeing that streaming is its expanding the overall music market so previous territories where you never would have received any revenue from it really in its most and its most embryonic form recorded Music Industry could only really monetize developed western markets streaming is completely changing that and as the overall base grows that its going to be to the advantage of the artists so a streaming service is like apple music and spotify the saviors of the Music Industry both the artists and the Publishing Companies or are they are they disruptors but in a bad way. Its a bit of its interesting described as disruptors in a bad way i mean if youre talking to record labels we just should go by the sheer numbers you would almost bring out the savior narrative and record recorded Music Industry was in a state of almost some would have described terminal decline for the best part 15 years between 202015 those revenues are now starting to creep up again although it still has a long way to go for reaches the dizzy heights of what it was in 1990 streaming services have a sense the driven the majority of that growth and so the saving narrative the idea that spotify oh awful music would have saved the record labels isnt too far stretch to say taylor swift obviously unhappy about having to give so much of the revenue her work generates to the Publishing Companies that the put the record companies. Looking at it from the other side who should she be happy that her revenue the revenue that her songs are generating is in the stablish artists is going to help other younger less well established artists up and coming off its was an interesting point because if we consider one of the labels signs artists typically most of them on going to even make a profit in the end theyre not going to go on to achieve the success that taylor swift has so one could make the view that yes revenues are going off to pay for the advances of other artists that werent achieve the same level level of success that taylor swift does converse to that point is an artist may feel well this is my revenue and the one who richie is achieving that success i should be able to bankroll bankroll as other artist you can see both sides of the point from the label and the artist fascinating zack has been great to talk to you many thanks indeed for being with us on counting the cost thank you. 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And investigation south africa toxic city on aljazeera. Going behind the scenes of one of mexicos most love soaps using fiction to mirror the struggles of real life. This week the story line focuses on the basis of systematic violence in Mexican Society and issues close to home for the producers and actors alike as they struggle to portray in fiction the maquis face of reality soap box mexican every day mafia on aljazeera. Arabic language. Theory and said all of the investigation finds only a handful of military officers responsible but that the crackdown on protesters. Clashed blogs a whole robin youre watching aljazeera live by headquarters here in doha also coming up strikes on syrias province killed at least 13 civilians just a day after the u. N. Warns of war crimes in the last rebel stronghold. More than a 1000 demonstrators arrested in moscow opposition candidates are excluded from local elections. Finds a new target africanamerican congressman Elijah Cummings has attracted the u. S. President s attention on twitter. Welcome to the program protesters are back on the streets expressing their anger arson investigation into the brutal crackdown on a demonstration called to military council is blaming a few officers for the violence which the opposition says killed at least 100 people have a morgue and has more from neighboring ethiopia. A few officers diverting from their orders and no blame on sudans military that was the core of the report from the Investigation Committee set up by the military to look into what happened on june 3rd when Security Forces attacked a prodemocracy at Army Headquarters in her. I mean one of the brigadiers was warned that hes not responsible for the operation yet he disobeyed orders and led the Rapid Support forces into the sitting area and handed down orders for them to get out of their Armored Vehicles and force the protesters out its also stablished that the riot forces led by one of the colonels he alone with his forces moved into the sitting area and some personnel started battling protesters firing indiscriminately into. The attack killed at least 100 protesters and injured over 400 others according to the Central Committee for sudans doctors which the ports the protest movement the raid was lifestream by protesters as they ran for their lives and widely circulated on social media when the internet which was cut off on the day of the attack was restored more than a month later the investigating committee disputed the number of fatalities saying 87. 00 were killed and 168 were wounded. The attack halted talks between the military and the Opposition Coalition known as the forces for freedom and change which represents the protest movement talks resumed a month later as protesters continue to demand accountability and an initial power sharing agreement was signed earlier this month the sudanese professional association. Part of the Opposition Coalition and the body which has been leading the calls for protests since december insists the committee was not independent but says it should not affect the talks to form a Transitional Government hours after the report was released people protested against its findings. I dont believe what happened today undermines the political process unless the military council looks for excuses to prison it goes years since or procrastinate the process what happened todays a natural response let the military council see this is