President trump promised the deal of the century to bring peace between israelis and palestinians his son in law a white house adviser Jared Kirshner delivered an economic roadmap he called the opportunity of the century the proposal was roundly dismissed by palestinians and many others the plans called for 50000000000. 00 in investments over 10 years 28000000000 would go to the palestinian territories in gaza at the Israeli Occupied west bank the rest to be split between jordan egypt and lebanon its hoped the money would help to double the Palestinian Economy creating 1000000. 00 jobs in the process that should reduce the palestinian Unemployment Rate to nearly Single Digits and lower the palestinian poverty rates by 50 percent so whos writing that 50000000000. 00 check well question i had hoped the gulf states and private investors would see the benefits of the 179. 00 proposed infrastructure and business projects including a 5000000000 dollar corridor all to connect the west bank and gaza but the plan was never going to fly without a political solution longtime campaign to hand ashrawi was typical of the pushback against the proposal saying the palestinians were capable of building a vibrant prosperous economy as a free and sovereign people for his part in an interview with aljazeera offered a glimpse of what the political process could look like. I think we all have to recognize that if there ever is a deal its not going to be along the lines of the Arab Peace Initiative will be somewhere between the Arab Peace Initiative and somewhere between the israeli position and we need to think about what are the fundamental things that are underlying important number one is security right i think the israeli population and the palestinian population and the broader middle east right now cares a lot about have security the more you have security the more you could have freer flow of goods for flow of people i know thats a very big issue for the palestinians as neda abraham reports from the occupied west bank promised to me and say that financial incentives alone consoles a decades old conflict israeli distinctions of palestinian businesses those so tight even sold can sift through the only palestinian salt factory is feeling the pinch palestinian businessmen believe this companys problems cannot be solved by economy incentives on the Military Area so we are restricted in getting anything permits. To. Expand what with existing buildings things that we want is not giveaways but actually Business Opportunities not only does the company need Israeli Court a nation to pump water from the dead sea it also takes him a lot of time and money to export the salt using israeli controlled ports the factory that employs 25. 00 workers is the only palestinian owned business on the shores of the dead sea and has hardly changed or been improved since it started in the early 1960 s. Owners need israeli permission before they can build any structure in this area sometimes never get it it took 30 years before the go head was given to. The factories the main source of salt for palestinians including many businesses in the occupied west bank like many other palestinian business is the owner of this business says profits. If he had under strict access to land and water as well as Free Movement of products israel controls all Water Supplies in the west bank the Palestinian Water Authority estimates that palestinians can only use 15 percent of their Water Resources israelis use that 85 percent in a further restriction to cripple the economy the Israeli Government restricts palestinians from using 60 percent of the land in the west bank to build factories or anything else in. The core of the crisis goes back to the establishment of the Palestinian Authority gay sions of the people in yaki territory has been transferred to the Palestinian Authority at the same time it inherited a weak economy is or is the tax revenues which it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority is at the heart of the authorities financial crisis thats as palestinians coupled with reduced aid from foreign donors as well as the long standing restrictions on businesses further blocks the road to economy progress joining us now from ramallah is across wasnt for economy minister for the Palestinian Authority a business but he currently serves as the chief executive all. Cinna crop global Group Welcome to counting the cost one of the main criticisms of the proposals put forward by jarrett push to was they presented in a glossy manhattan real estate brochure style that lifted ideas from usa the very programs pulled by trunk the world bank and mckinsey reports as a former economy minister but more importantly as a businessman what did you make of it well lets try to want to speak about somebody entities but stein actually has an infant small economy a lot of the g. D. P. Is less than 14000000000. 00 a year its actually like the size of a medium to Large Company in the u. S. Or in the gulf region. Or international and local studies have stated very clearly that that actually palestine economy has been very what identified by these International Agencies and companies from outside and from inside but its fine but everybody agrees that such kind of economy can hardly grow under occupation because the obstacles have been identified the coast this has been identified and an imitation and and very limited kind of those are margins for us to grow has been also very limited so we believe its not only to do a study of the studies have been made in 100. 00 its by these International Experts around the world and they have been very well identified whats going on so i dont think that we are very much in need for new studies to be launched now that what theyre going to make administration know about that is u. S. Idea also has sent some studies the world bank have stated very clearly and their regular reports if the siege on the west bank and gaza is lifted the policy in an economy can get all on 15 percent yearly and if there is that is will also make access for it but its the indians to work to expand their businesses and social life and those are the valley we can is it create another 100000 jobs so at the end its surely to talk your patient and the measures on the ground by copious so you can have an economic deal without a political one alongside it definitely thats thats through those who do any of these infrastructure proposals actually make sense 500000000. 00 for a university 5000000000 dollars to link gaza and the west bank. Look i mean for us businesspeople and we understand that busy strategic interest Infrastructure Projects go in line with the state building if there is no state Building Measures to foot by the stand to have someone at the on its land on the state authorities whats that in the Main Objective of having a statistic projects or an Infrastructure Project this one from one end from the other hand but a stand today has 15 local universities with 240000 students and they have been doing very well without oaks we are in need for vocational colleges and training locational students this is Something Else which i agree about that also they cut a deal between the west bank and gaza but if that is very much in need to tie that youre going to fail there are going to open a c n ns to get that and there was a study been made in 2005 also by the world bank for this kind of door or a town that can get all of what a bridge so options were stated but not with this amount of money how do you think palestinian donors countries like saudi arabia the u. A. E. Feel about these proposals would they do you think try to pressure the Palestinian Authority at least into giving it a good hard look look you and definitional agencies including some of that up countries are invested as they always seek him back for that investment so they can hardly see em packed under a q patient and they need to identify the projects they are investing in and they need to come and see and monitor and supervise the projects they would like to do and countries like but its not but having is there and control of the border that is for those who wants to come in or for those who wants to leave and getting a visa from the israelis usually this is not the way to do business and really to encourage investments from the gulf region for for palestine but its seen as in desperate they have been trying that up most during the last 50 years or so since occupation in 96 or 7 3rd today i can tell you the amount of money came from pinnaces. And desperate is extremely little and because the policy hasnt desperate wealth is exceeding 80000000000. 00 in addition to the arabs and others who would like to see that that would like to share the future for palestinians and to really build the pen to see an end state and to be a part of future building for the for the for the palestinians so as far as youre concerned Jared Christus plan as it is is dead in the water its a nonstarter well i dont want to say that it was born of dead but i think it was a good exercise for the bush not who has been you of 4 that hes in it to understand whats been going on and they really watch part of the sessions in manama over and over the. Life and most of the people have spoken loudly about the limitation for Economic Growth and that if youre patient and without a political well we dont see that things can happen on the ground so you can hardly decouple politics from economics this should be well known and realized by caution and the kind of the American Administration so talking about about Political Security prosperity these are the priorities for palestine they should go in order to put it again security prosperity without political will you can hardly have security on the ground nor press but at the under occupation could talk to somebody thanks dave for being with us. Thank you. Diesel was supposed to be the future but the german car industry has paid and continues to count the cost of promoting the fuel after regulators caught some of the industry cheating on emissions tests now its spending billions to go electric but the cost could be tens of thousands of job losses the german Auto Industry employs 1800000 people directly and indirectly livelihoods are threatened because electric cars dont need complicated combustion engines leading to the loss of more than 100000 jobs by 2035 for the economy the german car industry is a big bringing in 500000000000. 00 annually to keep its Global Leadership b. M. W. Dima and v. W. Will spend 45000000000. 00 on electric Vehicle Technology over the next 3 years for its part says its last fossil fuel based car will be released in 2026 but environmentalists say thats too little too late they want all manufacturers to phase out polluting engines by 2028 so how realistic is this now to serious Dominic Casey has been to a car plant in eastern germany to find out. This is the production line of the folks going to plant in sickle whether robotic and human workforce combine to assemble more than 300000. 00 vehicles every year for decades virtually all the peoples cars produced here have been powered by petrol engines but not for much longer now electric is the buzz words or the w. Word choice we are convinced that not just german drivers but also european ones are ready for this and we are ready to roll out these cars to the whole world why because an electric car is not a compromise they have everything that a car needs maybe even a little more they can be more dynamic with better driving characteristics you get a good sense of the differences between the vehicles when you look inside their shasta stripped down as they are here this is the conventionally powered gulf look at the Central Panel which is clearly big to contain is that and that sort of thing those sorts of controls but kind of cross to what we have here the ideological no major Central Panel because batteries will be going where previously the sorts of machinery that were in the gulf were installed this drive is part of a commitment from v. W. To phase out all fossil fuel powered cars by 2040 leading environmental campaigners are demanding far more radical results holding onto the status quo is like holding on the sand on the beach. Time will slip between your hands and fingers and he would have passed you by and you would be left with absolutely nothing but the best in your hands this sort of sentiment has fueled a surge in popularity for the green party across the continent with the movement reaching clear success in mays european elections in many peoples minds are problems like these in stuttgart one of the most polluted cities in germany where levels of exhaust emissions regularly exceed safety elements and older diesel engines are already banned we are making very clear if you really want to make progress here if you really want to make sure that the cities are cleaning up without doing any circulation ban because thats what the conservatives hate well maybe then we have to clean up the cars and and we need to put a thought policies in place for cleaning up the chorus thats the debate were having and were hoping we can push it further which helps explain why the carmakers are embracing the electric revolution and why for v. W. Fossil fuel powered cars will soon reach the end of the line dominic cain aljazeera. Well while german comic has are getting ready to spend billions on electric cars one nation has stolen a march in the field chinas technology is considered to be miles ahead of its rivals are economic so theres a bit ali spoke to alexander close the executive Vice President of chinese electric car maker aways he began by asking if its Technology Advantage was one reason for its plans to expand overseas starting in germany we think we have a very Good Foundation here in china where you actually have a huge electrical Vehicles Market already and we want to export that to other places where we think the development hasnt been as fast as it has been in china thats why we think we have a certain advantage going to these places namely for us places to go to receive them and German Companies that is start spending 45000000000 on electric cars and you have tesla as another competitor are you well capitalized to be able to deal with that kind of competition we think what well do we offer a vehicle will offer vehicle plus services around that vehicle in the European Market and we will capitalize to do that what others have to spend to actually convert all of the. Existing assets into electrical vehicles and do for electrical codes its something completely different we think weve very well equipped to go into the European Market and as we all starting at the same time we think we have actually a very good chance or not market and why do you think europeans will be interested in buying your cause 1st of all i have to say we wont sell these costs to europeans we just lease them we want to make it us easy as possible for anybody who wants to go in the battery electric vehicle and we think a lot of people do want to go into battery electric vehicles we want to make it very easy for them to get into this vehicle so we will only leads them to. No question about versatile value no question about warranty no question about maintenance and so on will make it very easy for everybody to get into these cars we know that there is a lot of people who want to drive b. And they just cant do so because all they get in the market at present is very expensive its going to be a risk because nobody knows what the residual value bilby in a few years nobody knows what the battery will too and so on we want to take all of that off and we think we have an offering that a lot of people will interested in but youve got Companies Like b y d is a Chinese Company india which have sort International Expansion but havent made the transition yes so where do you think you can improve on the us everybody else has talked about thought about it and so on well just going to do it we think we have a product that is in terms of quality ready for the European Market we think also that we offer everything that the european customers would want to have and thats why were just going to jump over the over to europe we think its also the right time maybe a year ago 2 years ago it was in the right time but now its the right time theres a lot of people literally that are waiting for a car that they can afford where they will have no risk to get into a better electric vehicle and where they can just test this and we offer them that vehicle do you think electric cars are the future in specially when there is concern about range eggs lightly and china itself is considering Hydrogen Technology too for long distances in particular 1st of all we think that most of the customers in the market today will actually not need a car for a very long tests there is this discussion about arranged scientists but we think its exactly that we still offer a car with a very long range and. To our knowledge people will find out. In a few years that maybe that range is even too much for them so they could actually do with a smaller range we still offer it today obviously we dont want to offer something for everybody in the market right now were just offering one certain vehicle for a certain purpose and we think that we have to right solution for that what will be the solution for long range travelling for somebody who has to travel a long range every day is still in the open we doing our own research in that area and there is some some lets say some technologies which might be the right technologies for the future but nobody knows that and were all still developing for the time before that and also for a lot of the short range travel its going to be battery electric vehicles we have very convinced about that sales of cars are slowing in china and we also have the threat of a longer trade war with the United States just tell us what your feelings are as to where the industry is going in china itself yes sales have been slowing in china but they have been slowing in certain segments and certain manufacturers staff in other manufacturers which still successful we are a startup we have a plant with a certain capacity which way we want to fill in we think we can fill that capacity because its only one small part of the market so whilst the market has been slowing around us and we dont think thats going to impact our expansion in the future particularly as we also going abroad as to the potential trade war between china and the u. S. As we expanding in europe 1st its not going to impact us for now we have to see also thinking about the u. S. Market but that might be at a later stage and excludes the executive Vice President of a ways talking that while business as a bit early. And i want to carry on some of the thoughts from that interview with our next guest joining us from london simon morse the managing director of benchmark Mineral Intelligence simon you are the leading provider of pricing data of the lithium key ingredients of electric Battery Technology but there are concerns that if the world was to stop producing electric cars at the current rate of production we could use up the worlds resources within 17 to 40 years whats missing from that analysis quite a bit really mean lithium isnt rare the question is getting out the ground in economic quantities and at the moment the lithium industry has gone through a surge in exploration and new development but right now theres not not as much investment going into the lithium industry to go beyond 2025 so the numbers you quoted really a little maybe minerals in the ground it hasnt taken to it into account production thats coming on stream and new exploration is going to happen but the takeaway point is left him isnt geologically rare but the challenge is getting it into the supply chain in economic quantities you talk about funding its being held back isnt it because investors just dont know how to price this mineral at the moment theyre looking to the likes of the London Metals Exchange to provide a tradeable contract just like copper the like but a lot of players within the industry dont particularly like to trade it that way thats exactly right so lithium is traded in private contracts between buyer and seller and at benchmark we create an independent reference prize to enable that supply chain to trade but more clarity and more freedom never before but as lithium grows is going to be new ways to trade lithium contracts and one was the London Metal Exchange you have a number of other exchanges looking at it as well but lithium is a speciality chemical its going from the nature 300020 year industry into the mainstream to about a 1000000 tonnes in the mid 20 twentys and with that will come different ways to trade this and when. Expanding that quickly in a market lithium cant just rely on itself to expand anymore its going to need extra no capital and the issue without external capital is investors are present too scared to put their money into it because they dont understand the fume its too risky its too specialist or the evy story is the sun too good to be true and i think thats the main challenge at the moment its not a rare mineral as new. Sources of lithium come on line is there a danger that there might be oversupply and that could impact negatively upon the price how long does it get once youve got the investment how long does it get these these mines up and running its a really good question because it takes anywhere between 8 and 10 years to build a lithium my from scratch and to get it ramped up without any problems and thats the biggest challenge for lithium the investment has gone into the mid twentys twentys as i said but really the surge in electric Vehicle Production is coming after that point and theres a big question mark over where the money is going to come from for all these future lithium mines but as i said the exploration people know these tier one lithium sources now they understand the to 2 sources the question is if the money is going to be committed and at the moment its not coming from the Capital Markets its coming from the industry itself right for the moment chinese entities control nearly half of Global Lithium production and 60 percent of electric battery Production Capacity does that become a security concern for other nations it has to especially the us i mean when you look for certain parts of the supply chain should i should add so when you look at the lithium structure youve got 6 big producers 2 of which are chinese 2 of which are actually american producers mining in south america and the question really isnt on the structure of the lithium industry that kind of that does operate in a sensible normal Market Driven way its actually where the. Passes the bills out so we we collect this data also benchmark and weve got 1. 9 terawatt hours of Battery Capacity by 2029 it sounds a lot it means about 35000000. 00 electric vehicles but where is that capacity being built out its china 67 percent of this batch isnt china how much is in the u. S. Its about 8 percent the question is if you take tests and theyre huge gigafactory at the equation the number is 3 percent so the u. S. Really should be concerned about the supply chains and its playing catch up with china some really good to talk to you on cutting across many thanks indeed for being with us simon morse managing director at benchmark Mineral Intelligence thats our show for this week if youd like to comment on anything that youve seen you can tweet me im at a finnigan on twitter please use the hash tag a j c t c when you do or you could drop us a line counting the cost of aljazeera dot net is our email address as always theres plenty more for you online at aljazeera dot com slash c t c that takes you straight to our page and there youll find individual reports links even entire episodes for you to catch up on but thats it for this edition of counting the cost im Adrian Finnegan from the whole team here in doha thanks for being with us the news not out of syria is next. From cutting edge medical technology. Could be a. Resource development problem lifesaving drugs to advances in the most difficult regions of the world. Thank you for. Innovative solutions to Global Health care problems did they did we get all these words good sure the song the cure. Aljazeera. Hello im daryn jordan of the quick reminder the top stories. Chinas government has condemned the actions of protest as in hong kong a day off the hundreds of demonstrators stormed the citys legislation council. That all over the Building Police used tear gas to clear the area all this on the day of the government held ceremonies to mark 22 years since the end of british rule but there are concerns about what action china might take to control any further unrest but you know you has more now from beijing. The Chinese State media have begun broadcasting reports about the events of last night in hong kong but were seeing very different picture