Deadline for the Regional Government to hand control of its airports off to. Seconds ago we are waiting to see if the kurds comply or iraqs government. Also want to get the final day of demonstrations in catalonia in less than forty eight hours the region is supposed to vote on its secession from spain but still madrid says it will put a stop to it demonstrators both for and against in barcelona and were going to be there live with the latest. On the Fastest Growing refugee emergency in the world today that is the uns description of the refugee crisis where half a million muslims have fled me in ma in just one and now we are seeing firsthand just how desperate that. Many on its to bangladesh life. Intimidated to death journalists in india say they are being harassed online and they say that the government is behind it three journalists. Were killed this month sparking protests and i mean youre hiding. In genius big. Deal with the news with live on air and streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com and literally moments ago the deadline set by iraqs government for International Flights into the kurdish region to stop past baghdad ordered Foreign Airlines they must stop their flights in and out of cities like bill in response to the overwhelming vote for kurdish independence though we should point out the vote im sorry the ban warrant affects military or humanitarian flights is extra pressure to from abroad iran has put a temporary ban on companies transporting oil products to the region kurdish authorities are pushing back though and they have refused to hand over border posts to the Iraqi Government. Im being told we got some live pictures here lets have a look. Erbil airport mostly media there right now isnt it remember domestic flights are still running we should point out that it is International Flights in and out of the bill which have been banned as all fifteen hundred g. M. T. Which just ticked over so were going to focus on Erbil International airport for a moment to show you just how significant it is not just in the amount of traffic it seems but also because it is in one of the calmest regions in iraq and therefore its a good option for travelers going in and out so that the stats here from the Erbil International airport website first of all the carriers youve got big names the coming in the Turkish Airlines kataria was also a Royal Jordanian emirates simle so early in sweden austrian so European Airlines all coming in as well scuse me all the destinations as well it goes as far afield as London Gatwick airport and manchester as well when you look at the numbers over the years this graph shows back in two thousand and six it was only seeing one hundred sixty thousand passengers a year that has grown incredibly over the years to be at this point now where at least this was twenty fourteen i believe these numbers were up past one point five million so just highlighting the fact that it is very important. Has been outside of bail International Airport all day officially the deadline has passed what happens now. And what happens now as you said only a domestic flights to take off here at the airport and also but with special permission from baghdad thank you many terry and emergency and military planes everything for now is suspended for a period of three months according to the director of the airfield International Airport. Tell me a little bit more sort of just got a little note here on my on my computer here about a comment from the shia cleric Ali Al Sistani whos chimed in apparently and someone is not generally speaking on the kurdish issue for a while i wonder if you can expand on that for us. Well he actually he doesnt even ever speaks directly to his through his aide and it happens usually on friday sermons today his aides said to during the sermon in karbala that Prime Minister had to protect the unity of iraq and he also said that this referendum was actually going to lead to do the integration of this country and Prime Minister. Is a very influential man among the shias of iraq putting his weight. Behind Prime Minister body is actually giving him. To go ahead with this kind of measures and the other measures the Prime Minister has announced just to give you an indication of how influential he is if you recall back in two thousand and fourteen when there were there was that formidable sweep of isis throughout central iraq he came out and to use to protect the country where you had thousand and thousands of young men who joined the militias who formed militias these militias today. Protection forces and their. Military forces that are under the direct command of Prime Minister a body and those are also part of the problem between the kurds and baghdad the kurds saying they can live or continue. With a government that has such units within their security forces. That Erbil International airport thank you will cross the border now over to turkey andrew symonds. Just tell us first of all where you are and whats been happening under. Well kemal out this is how poor border gate its a really important one its the only way to Iraqi Kurdistan so now as of now this is the only means by which turks can get across the border into couldst kurdistan iraq indeed iraqis as well because this is really the whole story of this this border is a long war its the silk road that im walking along right now this side the passenger traffic turks and kurds their families happy to go in even though theyve got advice from the Turkish Foreign ministry that they shouldnt travel there was seventy flights a week coming from turkey into kurdistan that has now as you know completely holts it furthermore there are a series of important cargo flights they are also suspended mainly to particular flights going into kurdistan a week and that is all now at a standstill the question now is will this the only landru to into kurdistan from turkey be closed president one is considering it however its a big deal if it happens because it will cut off the lifeline for iraqi kurds food Construction Materials medicines a whole series of things furthermore it will also damage the turkish economy because its worth in the region of six point eight million billion should i say dollars a year thats come down since the oil prices have gone down but an incredibly important part of it and now were waiting to see whether indeed there is a closure on the iraqi side at the moment certainly no sign of it come all great stuff from Andrew Simmons in the team there and how poor that is on the Turkish Border with iraq thank you get in touch with us once you become the Contact Details has to get. Newsgroup of course just had a wee comment from kill the no actually question who said why the ban on the flights i mean i think the short story they tell them is the fact that the Iraqi Government bans flights coming in and out they can then take control over what is obviously a very important piece of infrastructure the airports not just bail but other airports in the area calvins watching on Facebook Live facebook dot com slash a. J. News grid the whatsapp number is up and running as well plus nine seven four five one triple one four nine your comments your questions your contributions to the grid right to where we going or catalonia where it feels like the only word for it really is showdown as demonstrators held their final public rallies the Regional Government said the secession vote will go ahead on sunday while a government spokesman in madrid has said categorically there will be no such vote in catalonia this fall that means we may only find out on sunday when the polls are supposed to open but to give you a bit of an idea about the lengths the catalans i go into to ensure they will be able to look at this Farm Tractors rolled out in the streets of basra learn a little bit earlier they are planning to effectively blockade the polling booths from the Spanish Police in order to ensure voting can go ahead and cancel on the disabled in two thousand polling stations are set up and ready to go and the catalans later. Has shed a little bit of light on what would happen if the referendum doesnt go in his favor have a listen. And. If no wins what will immediately happen is a snap election so that a new majority can develop the mandate of the catalan people to continue to be part of spain which is completely democratic and sovereign and it must be respected i think there will continue to be people that believe that the best formula is a state the instruments of a state and giving an opportunity to what we have always tried to develop in agreement with the Spanish State the useful instruments that allow for us selfgovernment and not incompatible with being part of the Spanish State this is what we have tried to achieve for years. John hendren going to. With the spanish Central Government saying theyll be in a referendum does that mean but what is that me. Forgive me for the noise here that is this. Band is warming up. A ferocious session with a little later. To your question. A little bit on real estate. Getting this referendum on the government. Saying they believe that they were shot down this is a referendum. Point is it. Likely given the number. Of three people here you resent him though that is ten percent or even said so in a poll just a few weeks ago. Efforts to shut down the referendum seems. To have given him bridges are there. For people who want to even though they know this man his government if they cleared this referendum illegal even though they know the Spanish Government has bowed down the polls. On the other side the catalonians can run leaders who have said that they will hold this referendum on sunday it will surely not be the kind of turnout debate initially hoped for but when the president said that there is no minimum threshold that will make this a legitimate election that means however many people vote if the majority of them vote yes he is still committed to declaring this and says shed region that is an independent region within two days after that on tuesday so itll be very interesting to see whats happening what we have is Community Groups meeting together trying to decide how and where theyre going to hold those polls and of course theyve got to keep that secret the Spanish Government has confiscated ten million ballots and show the president here in afghan alone he has tweeted a video of him printing out many more ballots so its not clear whats going to happen what seems pretty clear is that a number of people will vote but it wont be nearly the number that the catalonian government wants. Banned striking out again i might just leave you there john thank you for that very much appreciate. The online team has been busy putting together this all you need to know article on the council on your referendum begs the bikes it breaks down the basic questions and theres also embedded videos in there from our reporters theres a recent episode of the stream as well well worth a look as we count down to this very contentious vote in spain on some a couple on you know all you need to know its in the your news section about zero dot com developing news out of the United States now were hearing that the u. S. Embassy will stop processing visas for cuba by the u. S. As they have been attacks on diplomats in have vanna and a new warning is due to be issued to tourists in with us to talk through this one patty what will you tell us. Well lets go back to the beginning this is an International Mystery that really nobody can figure out what happened so we do know that there were twenty one u. S. Diplomats over the series of many months they all started complaining about very different symptoms some said that they were experiencing hearing loss or dizziness or cognitive issues balance problems some of them now been diagnosed not just with hearing loss but with a traumatic brain injury so the u. S. Began to suspect and investigate whether or not these diplomats were being attacked by some sort of sonic weapon those are the reports were seeing they are still investigating and ive just been speaking with Senior Department state Department Officials they say this is an indication that we have any idea what happened to those diplomats they dont know the investigation is continuing what theyre saying is that that there were to reduce their staff by sixty percent theyve already taken all of the family members of diplomats off the island theyve said basically its just a core Emergency Personnel not going to do visas going to tell americans to stay away because they simply dont know what it is they dont know how to protect them obviously this could be seen as a pretty big blow to cuban relations that were just reestablished under president barack obama but the state Department Official insists that this isnt an effort to punish cuba it is simply because they dont know what is happening so they feel that they need to protect their people until they can get to the bottom of it important to note they have not ruled out the possibility that a third country was involved in what theyre calling medical attacks has cuba been mentioned this is a bit Bigger Picture patty but it has been mentioned by the trumpet ministration in other words compared to this improvement on the president obama do we know where this Current Administration to to go with cuba. Well we saw the president head to florida where theres a strong anti castro sentiment especially among republican backers not too long after he was light inaugurated he went down to south florida and he said he was changing the policy it was going to be different didnt really give many details and so far we havent actually seen very many of any concrete changes we still see american planes flying to cuba whether or not bill slows down now that theres a travel warning thats going to be issued remains to be seen but american businesses are still operating in cuba much like they did before President Donald Trump took office so hes again shown a lot of fiery rhetoric which he tends to do then the follow up not so much ok thanks much appreciated now to what is the Fastest Growing refugee emergency in the world according to the u. N. And really the fate of me and miles minority muslim injuries looking more grim by the day at least twenty three refugees have died and four missing after their boat capsized off bangladesh hundreds of people are continuing to cross the border into bangladesh each day hoping to find some safety some of even told down to see where theyve been warned of another crackdown coming the situation is so bad the u. N. Human Rights Council has voted to extend its Fact Finding Mission there for another six months now on the diplomatic side of things china and russia are both throwing their support behind me and miles government russia blames many of the attacks on civilians and the burning down of villages on the armed groups while china road the International Community to get behind me and model solve the crisis china condemns the recent Violent Attacks in myanmar for all kinds state. Supports me on last effort to keep his domestic situation stable it behooves the International Community to view the difficulties and challenges confronting the government of myanmar through all optics exercise patience and provide support and help and must go in a step further ignoring the multiple reports from investigators on the ground in recent days we have received illustration of the fact that the. Me was involved with the killing of civilians what was also found were caches of improvised explosive devices there is information that the extremists forced members of the Hindu Community in border villages to leave their homes and to migrate to neighboring bangladesh together with the muslims. One thing its hard to disagree on though is the sheer volume of ranger crossing into bangladesh but theres actually a bigger and im probably more dramatic picture hidden in the numbers you can see this for yourself at aljazeera dot com but ive got it on the i pad to show you a graph showing as you can see at the top the number of a hinge in me in mar itself and at the bottom the number of the hinges in bangladesh this is since august of last year and if we zoom in on this area this is when the crackdown starts and look at how dramatically the number of me and my story of a hinge in me in ma folds it goes down to well theyre saying half a million to seven hundred thousand me and my main while almost a million are in bangladesh now that is including obviously previous numbers have gone through and then the five hundred thousand or so whove gone in the last of a month or so so just giving you an idea of how dramatic that whole dropoff in number has been there weve got Thomas Mcmanus with us joining us from london he is a researcher at Queen Mary University of london and author of the reports countdown to annihilation genocide in may in mar and he led a Field Research team in Rakhine State so perfectly placed thomas to talk to us through this i mean the title of your report says it all in my opinion genocide you believe we are heading down or actually already on that track. Were already looking at the genocide process we have to line in the report how we see that process we went to recline state interviewed. Hundreds of people and we were able to track with what we found of the people we talked to and i mean we talked to people from different groups and were able to check track that the road or following through the steps of genocide theyre clear steps there are first stigmatized and they are physically harassed and then isolated so rounded up into camps or are not allowed to move in their home villages and then their systematic we can use their systematic weakening you remove Health Care Education is the right to vote the right to associate and then when we left and made this report in two thousand and fifteen we felt that we were looking at the next stage which is the annihilation the stage of removing their own hinges from the area for distorting the culture or for killing and we made the claim that if there wasnt any intervention between now and. Two years ago then we would be in the exact position that we see now tell us ive had a question from one of our viewers peter has tweeted enemies just simply asked will the International Community ever help these desperate people now neither of us can answer that but what it does make me think of is while events like this in the past and the amount of time the International Community has said never again i said never again off the World War Two i said never again rwanda syrias been going on for six years as well why do you think the International Community will wake up to the ranger issue. Well i really i really feel were going to be entering into the never again territory soon and were going to be having that conversation and again in the months coming ahead. Theres a few things that are that are going on at the moment we have the u. N. Calling it ethnic cleansing for me this is a euphemism for genocide this is a word thats used by politicians in order to avoid the legal obligations under the genocide treaty theres a real reluctance to use the genocide word so that nobody has to do anything about it and. We also are seeing the u. N. Security council being completely locked up as you reported by vetoes being threatened by both china and russia so theres no point to bringing any can bear there are no regional human rights courts taking the view that they wont dont want to interfere in the sovereignty of their nation states who are members and so theres very few avenues. One final question for you tell us if you can still hear me its another one from twitter vicky whos asked what is the un doing to stop the crisis instead of real hoarding statistics but she goes on to ask how can we as the public help now its a good question is it as simple as you know denying to aid agencies who are there are they will be able to get in the day that they asking to help. Yeah the aid agencies are able to get in they have to do so clandestinely in the main majority of the cases but what the easiest way is to focus on the agencys going into bangladesh and another way is to make this politically costly for your own governments to ignore so you need to write to your own m. P. Or your own representative and make it difficult for them to ignore this and hopefully they will escalate it onto the world stage time is running out now so we really the International Community really needs to act very fast if we want to see any kind of let up on the suffering on of the range of people Thomas Mcmanus im glad we could talk to you about this and also get your answers to our questions thank you. Lets talk to leah now the you could as we said connect on any number of issues you know but its the trends which youre starting to notice exactly weve taken a step back and tried to look at this over the course of the last few years because there are a hinge a crisis is undoubtedly growing online but we really wanted to know how the world is talking about it and what questions youre currently asking now according to google trends the search about the only took off in the last month you can see there is really no conversation very little actually until august happened in the peak but its been going on since two thousand and fifteen genocide and mass murder are other topics related to the searches about the Current Crisis and me and mark now regarding peoples questions google put out the top five questions that people are curious about the first one being who are him where is really what is the range of crisis why is this happening and how can people help however from the millions of post regarding their own henge one of the most retreated is from un secretary general antonio good tears who said in this video quote violence in myanmar whether by the military or radical elements must and must be allowed to return home he said another very popular post was from aljazeera regarding the bangladeshi Prime Ministers chat with u. S. President donald trump. I suppose bottom of the. Ring but he wouldnt of the but only problem that we have. Received from him but he didnt make any comment. He already declared his. Mind i would know what is mine so why should i ask. If he doesnt feel that this people are distressed people theyre living. They need assistance. If he doesnt feel i can at all skinny this is a yes by no this is not a rich country its true one hundred sixty Million People. In a geographical. Land. But if we can feed two hundred sixty Million People another. Five hundred or so of the hundred thousand people we can do it. Online people in bangladesh and india are talking about the rohingya the most likely because their neighboring countries with me and my are now inside bangladesh users mainly are posting their sympathies and links for donations and india however the conversation has been focused on religion with many mentioning the quote other side accusing the head killing of killing hindus in myanmar actor and member of parliament parish rao while he tweeted saying that the row hendrik kills hindus in myanmar but they will start loving hindus once they enter india then we have a journalist Rajdeep Sardesai here he wrote and said that the world press is accusing me and my army of killing alright henges with documented evidence and that it is a section of indian media making it muslim versus hindu now if you do want to help out there are several not for Profit Organization and nongovernment organizations helping out including the un h. C. R. In this address here if you just google it you can find them if you want to lend a hand you also get in touch with us and let us know what you think about all of this with the hash tag aging is great yeah and thank you lee people are getting in touch with us already and just the general tone of the comments of seniors people saying why is the International Community not doing anything and also would they be doing something if this was happening somewhere else on the on facebook i said you imagine how the world or the un would react if this was in your or if it was happening to another religion interesting thoughts coming in to keep coming in as the use of the hashtag grid so we tell you a lot about the range across the start we show you plenty of pictures of the suffering particularly from bangladesh of course to truly understand the situation there is no substitute for actually being them but the team at aljazeera called have created the closest thing have a look at this. She is just one of thousands of muslims persecuted in maine maher and now living in a camp and. Put yourself in her shoes. Is the worlds first three hundred sixty degree documentary on the region it was filmed back in may by aljazeera is Virtual Reality. They thought they would documenting the peak of the crisis but since then as we know around half a million more ranger refugees have crossed into bangladesh this stories can seem overwhelming mostly because they are putting yourself in the place of just one person makes it that much more understandable. For them. You can view the film. Before its premiere at the Vancouver InternationalFilm Festival on october fifth. Its really good and i was just watching it on a on a desktop computer you know if youve got a headset and you do want to get in touch with us and let us know how good it was as we say it will go to the bank the International Film festival in a weeks time which is exciting if youre watching on Facebook Live right now were going to see what bomb shelters have to do with farming and then after the brights getting out of puerto rico however they can its the largest evacuation in the area its going to be live from the u. S. Territory. Welcome back as we look at the weather across the levant and western parts of asia weve got some clouds moving across overseas and large rainfall totals being reported in parts of iran and Southern Side of the caspian sea there is still the risk of more showers here nothing particularly heavy but this sort of area could pick up some showers so tehran probably staying dry still pretty help bite out of forty but kuwait in forty three degrees once again around the eastern side of the mediterranean weather conditions are fine for beirut further north some showers for turkey and those also like to be affecting the caucuses for both georgia and armenia showers are likely saturday and through into sunday so lets head down into the Arabian Peninsula where temperatures are just easing slightly around the gulf states thirty eight in and Abu Dhabi Muscat thirty four i dont the other side the potential is still pretty hot with temperatures of forty medina. Thirty nine as we had on through into sunday for southern portions of africa has a bit of cloud around and the potential to yield some showers across parts of south africa in particular so theres the forecast about the risk of showers durban passing the old shop at cape town should be dry and fine for the towards the north fine across mozambique zimbabwe through into zambia with high society expected in the. Water scarcity is a serious problem when you use more then probably you need to why. If theyre. Demanding as much water. As much. More to talk water just came out of there and well compare that to some tap water which could provide. All the water. You know at this time on old as iraq. The coca plant has long been a pillar of bolivias traditions but its using Illegal Drugs today is threatening the nations culture not my own yet most notorious dues are involved because they received it back so while some have made fortunes many others have suffered at the hands of this multibillion dollar industry me malady my mother was strangled it became ill and brutally coupled with the cold it was a huge crime who are the winners and losers of this Illicit Trade snow of the n. D. Is at this time. The big. Headline at aljazeera dot com and whats trending is well its the revenge its trending at number one and certainly it was telling you earlier about the questions that are being asked weve got well some of the answers i would say who are the ranger and also the story of the rights of others if we want justice theres so much strong content including as we showed you before the Virtual Reality well with a look at whats trending right now at al jazeera dot com. More now on this controversial referendum in spains. Region the vote on independence is scheduled for sunday but the Central Government says legal and its not going to happen were going to talk more about this with Marianna Goma now who is the president of. A group that is against the vote so why dont you start off by telling us know why youre against the. Yes because we have a we are the because of all the people who can we feel we are cattle and its about we like to remain in spain because always in the history catalonia have been inside and the country spain and now is not the moment and its not our feeling of the majority of the cattle and people to be independent because its not possible to be independent because the telenor is not enough strong country in alone. We must remain in spain and we must remain in the European Community and the only. International. Institutions now its not good for the catalan people and also we are not. There majority of the people think of the union doesnt like a doll dont like at all to be. The case these n. V. U. Sorry mr graham if thats so its and if thats the case and youre saying that the majority of catalan people dont want to secede from the rest of spain then why not go to the voters regardless of what the Central Government is saying why not go to the vote and it lined out officially. Yes because yes it was because the government in catalonia and now. Government who are governing but with not with the majority of the of the vote perhaps with the mathematical system election system in spain have been possible to to govern but it is not they are not representing the majority of the cattle and people lets to go are you worried about what could happen on sunday we were discussing in our meeting this morning and our feeling from obviously very far away is that with both sides so strongly saying well the catalans and yes this vote will happen and then the Central Government saying no it wont i mean are you worried about what could happen on the streets of us alone or on sunday. Ok we never know i dont know what happened or what will happen in sunday because. Really. They independent these groups likes to vote and the government of spain. Doesnt like to vote because its a legal because in spain in the. Constitution we have not the possibility to have a friend for a few people. In the spain desire to be separate of the spain and its like that but i dont know because the security polices from the Spanish Government are. Broken in this referendum but there is perhaps a lot of people who likes to go to vote but i dont know who will hope. I really feel that. Will be not so difficult and. Violent situations i think the. People is there margaret and cattle and people. Enough called we have a lot of culture to have some difficulties in the violent situations in the street it will lead to but i dont really i dont know whats happened we hope it wont happen i violently on the streets money and i got my from the civil cut the line of thank you for joining us. Were going to india now off the grid lee is here to talk about and this is always concerned threats against journalists right its ongoing and its building in india. So in india there are trolls that are attacking journalists across the country and on social media especially including on twitter and on whatsapp at least three journalists targeted in september are now dead now the headlines this month from major news outlets around the world tell the story the guardian here saying the political reporter beaten to death and northeast india you have have been post journalist from tamil nadu is eating Death Threats for reporting on a bizarre temple ritual and the b. B. C. An indian journalist shot dead in bangalore now she was shot outside of her home earlier this month there was also an immense amount of trolling against lanka on social media before her death with threats now against those who content who condemn her killing now there are reports that other journalists have been threatened with the same fate if they speak out against her death some journalist reports have linked these social media attacks to people who the indian Prime Minister follows on twitter using his official account ravish kumar a journalist with indie t. V. Wrote an open letter to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi asking him why he continues to follow these people online he said in the letter quote i can understand that you may be too busy to deal with this but at least your team can ensure that you do not follow such people on twitter i cannot even read out loud some of the language used against me and other journalists but i am raising for now the case of those who claim to be in your camp who threaten those lone journalists like me whenever ive tried to distance myself from the Whatsapp Group they strike again with language that quote like quote catch him hes getting away and beat him now del. The police said they the Spokesman Says that police have issued three complaints one with the forces cyber unit but that no one has been identified yet now this is something well continue to monitor on news great if youve been the subject of intimidation by trolls online especially in india do let me know you can write me or write me privately on my twitter handle at least. Interesting i hope we get some feedback from that one thank you leah now if you could have a digital discussion way a better than the birthplace of Skype European Union leaders are meeting in stony it to talk something other than brags that in the eurozone for once theyre in the capital telling talking tech everything that you use role in the digital age to online jobs and subsequently i had no idea scott was founded in the challenges there for us having a look at how is sony became one of the worlds most networks nations. Coding kids these are stony and children havent started high school yet but already theyre programming robots you can really like. Teach people. Its really love to learn. But. The aim is to create a generation with a smarter relationship with Technology Digital skills for everyone and if all goes well someday one of those kids might be able to build another skype this is easily estonias biggest tech Success Story the company has to make video and voice calls over the internet and was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven for eight point five billion dollars startup entrepreneurship is a natural fit for a country that spent the past two decades turning itself into one of the most advanced digital societies in the world were going to say that thats like a really big influence there because like when they start their function for the boot camp then it just great that a bunch of wealthy people could invest finally i think its because as soon as paul and people know each other people went like oh i went to high school with these guys if they can do it so can i yarn is now an investor in new estonian startups here and im trying to learn spanish like a language learning out linguist i asked its chief operating officer whether being a stone even makes Young Companies here think differently. So. Domestic market doesnt exist. So it means what. You need to. Start up culture and overcoming the countrys diminutive size also inspired the estonian governments the Residency Program costing one hundred or so dollars and a residency invites Business People from anywhere in the world to remotely create a company here and gain access to the countrys streamlined Digital Infrastructure it doesnt bring in much money but it does foster the networks estonia values you need to have a texas birth on a go expression to have a Virtual Office and if you need this kind of services will put you in touch with. Companies so it makes a Snowball Effect and a lot of some Companies Benefit from the services they provide. Estonia believes countries will one day compete for the residents based on the quality of their Digital Services and Business Environments if that prediction is correct stonier already has a significant lead more with rory now hes in. Residence is really a good idea. Well yeah i think estonia has basically carved itself out of position as one of europes leaders in tech in the digital sphere and the e. U. Residency program is certainly one of the jewels in that crown and we can speak now with adam rang who is from the estonian eretz Residency Program have you been hoping with the leaders here today weve been talking about we have so you weve spoken to quite a few leaders we managed to speak to present you said that he was interested in becoming the resident which is fantastic so we look forward to his application weve also been speaking to theresa may very briefly we quickly told her how a residency is helping british entrepreneurs do Business Inside europe ok so take a series of dummys guide really of what the residency actually is yeah so estonians have had id cards for about fifteen years and we place id cards they can cut them into their computers and access a stunning Public Services and access our Business Environment anywhere in the world so we thought why should anyone else have the same opportunities as well so this is an irrelevancy cant we if anyone in the world is welcome to apply for them if you are granted one then a matter where you are you can plug into your computer and you can start a company and you can run a company in the e. U. Entirely online from anywhere there have been some misconceptions about this whole program havent they so take us also through what it isnt yeah. Isnt citizenship its not Tax Residency you still have to pay your taxes where theyre owed and its not of my to travel to europe or start me up. What it does mean is that if youre say a location independent entrepreneur no matter where you why you can you can stay where you are or you can go travelling and work at the same time but you no longer have to run a business in one fixed location you no longer have to accept the costs and constraints of a fixed location for your business. And increasing numbers of people they dont necessarily want to work from an office anymore they might want to start their own Small Companies well they might want to go travelling and continue working and. The best way to start a location independent company ok so i could well there you go if you have an entrepreneurial venture and youve got one hundred dollars or so spare you could become in the residence of estonia sounds good laurie thank you so much for that really interesting stuff we have got a bit of developing news concerning yemen for anyone is wondered about the allegations of war crimes going on there well the United Nations human Rights Council has agreed to establish an they calling it a group of eminent regional and International Experts to examine all violations committed by all parties in the yemen conflict that is important everyone is under the microscope here this happened at the u. N. Human Rights Council a little bit more news here was adopted by consensus after a compromise apparently between western powers and an arab group was there and again importantly the yemen delegation has declared it has accepted it as well so this is an investigation into potential war crimes on all sides in the yemen conflict established by the United Nations interesting stuff and we will have more on that of course as we get it now many have criticized the u. S. Government for its slow response in puerto rico after the island was hammered by Hurrican Maria but now top level officials are due to visit the territory to assess the damage on friday and one of the largest evacuation since the hurricane hit thousands of boarded a cruise ship to take them to the u. S. Mainland almost four thousand people making that trip many of them with the rican fleeing or sending family members away from the disaster zone some not even sure if they will have a comeback. When i get that you will get play in the enemy im here because im sending my children to miami so they can be more comfortable they dont have electricity here sometimes they have water sometimes they dont know my husband and i have to work and we dont have any which send them sometimes i cant communicate with them all day because theres no signal im afraid to leave them at home alone. But i mean as i have the money you know but i would check this opportunity came up and i took hits because ive already had five flights cancelled and the refund money will take seven days to go through we were able to get on this cruise ship and its completely free for people who want to get back home ive never experienced anything like this its extremely surreal. I dont think reading about it would really illustrate how bizarre of a situation it is coming from a fairly normal stable background ive never imagined that there could be so little security in america. Grabbing another break here on the grid a virus here shortly with the sport looking at why the visits of the n. H. L. Champions to the white house has got some ice hockey fans under the collar first a look at the international weather. Sets but the weather. As you talk sports im sorry i said ice hockey with a canadian i shouldnt say are about six healthy now its the n. H. L. Actually sort of like a new n. H. L. Season gets underway next week with the league facing some fresh criticism of being too conservative a question is whether prominent n. H. L. Players will follow the example set by stars in the n. F. L. And n. B. A. And their protests against u. S. President donald trump will last a week stanley cup champions of Pittsburgh Penguins accepted an invitation from trump to be guests of the white house it happened just a day after the president rescinded an offer to steph curry and n. B. A. Champions the Golden State Warriors now this is a very emotionally charged story especially in canada where penguins captain Sidney Crosby is from he owns has a god like status in his hometown of how a fax nova scotia where theyve been considering naming a street after him will philip moscow which is from halifax he tweeted thank you Sidney Crosby for the helpful or minder of why its a bad idea to name streets and buildings for people prematurely now this is from georgia law requires a canadian and one of the few black players to play in the n. H. L. He says i dont understand how the penguins accepted the invitation from a man that disrespects women immigrants and. Call the athletes if. You get the picture and finally from derek okeefe out in vancouver Pittsburgh Penguins confirm n. H. L. Status as an embarrassingly conservative institution should have shown solidarity with the warriors well lets get more from having to post writer Travis Waldron who joins us live from washington and does it surprise you that the penguins and Sidney Crosby have accepted this invitation to the white house i dont think its necessarily surprising when you look at the athletes whove spoken out against donald trump theyve been overwhelmingly africanamerican the n. H. L. As we know does not have very many black players its a much wider sport than the n. F. L. Or n. B. A. And its also has many more foreign players in those leagues so i think its something that you look at and say well are they is in tune with the issues that athletes from the other sports have been protesting and the reasons theyve been resisting donald trump. On the other hand it is a little bit more surprising the timing of the announcement that they came out and said they were going to accept the visit right after trump had criticized athletes from other leagues i think you could have possibly expected more solidarity from the penguins and at least the penguins players than they showed. Do you think fans should be angry at the penguins. I think if theyre i think certainly if they feel angry they should they should be angry about it and also i think they should be angry at the timing of it again the timing here is really a massive thing because President Trump had gone after other athletes specifically black athletes and you know the penguins came out at a time when they were easily able to be used by the president as a political prop more than anything else. He got them to accept the invite and they were able to kind of pain a contrast with these. Black athletes and athletes and other sports in a way that really served him politically and i think thats something that you know maybe they werent aware of but that fans should be angry about that essentially donald trump was able to score a political victory using the Pittsburgh Penguins ok you mentioned this a little bit earlier but intentionally or not has it reinforced the idea that hockey is a white sport i think so i think it definitely has i mean its undeniable that hockey like i said is far wider than the sports we spend most of our time talking about in terms of these protests and you know you look at the star players in the in hockey are almost all white there are only a handful of black players that rise to the level of superstardom theres only a handful of black players in total and so its you know its not just a perception its the reality of the sport ok thank you so much as always travis walton. 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But for now ill head you back to how they thank you far and i know that now imagine getting anywhere on the planet in less than an hour that is one goal the billionaire invented a lot musk is working towards as well as planning to start why not a human colony on mars in less than a decade reports now from australia musk isnt the only one with plans to conquer the red planet industry heavyweights and space lovers converged on adelaide for this Years InternationalAstronautical Congress the highlight of the event was without doubt space royalty entrepreneur and billionaire iran musk has long made it known he wants to make humans and interplanetary species to make sure we dont go the way of the dinosaurs now he says hell start a colony on the red planet with the first human flights in twenty twenty four. For the base starting on one ship then horse ups then circling off the city then before city bigger. Yeah and at the time tom foreman was. Making a really nice place to be. Lockheed martin to has plans to get humans to the red planet it revealed more about its blueprints for a Mars Base Camp that will orbit the moon and act as a launching pad for Human Missions to mars it believes it can have it operational in a decade in about five billion years give or take the sun will eventually be going to a red giant it will expand and devour the earth so at least in five billion years we need to have somewhere else now how much do you need to worry about it in twenty seventeen fair question but that eventually youve got to get off the planet if were going to continue as a as a as a human race at the moment all we have on mars two rovers like this replica of the curiosity and while there are Many Companies here that believe humans will journey to mars within this generation and possibly even colonize it there are doubts about whether mass should be considered a backup plan to. All missions to mars need the hope of one of three nasa deep Space Command centers this one is new strains capital camera it operates like air Traffic Control but the space sending commands and receiving signals from spacecraft and all the Vital Communications for any Human Missions to mars will also go through here i think one of the things that journey to mars will tell us most especially is that really in Reality Earth has always got we have to look after this planet first and foremost going off to mars going to have to create a whole range of new technologies to survive in an environment thats trying to kill you every second of the day and theres no shortage of Companies Working on those technologies to keep humans alive in deep Space Technologies that if nothing else could perhaps be useful to humans on earth to yarber malham out zero adelaide. 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