Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240713

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How the lines of last year to contain the seasonal rains and i would seem to be quite well spread that they go for more or less vietnam this line here down to now your notice java now should be turning into the rainy season in the easy but use whats clearly see here with actual and forecast rain vietnam is more in line theyll be more heavy rain on the coast of vietnam some more in thailand and me in ma a rain dance was northern sumatra but there are huge gaps where you might expect the rain a good part of malaysia indonesia weather isnt very much evidence of it but it causes in the frame for a shower too big sunder still if youre lucky and you will be eventually big change in australia once again after 5 days of 30 plus in melbourne as an example this cold front has cooled to and hes bringing and will bring at least for a while some welcome rain to those dictorial and a more especially New South Wales and then as it goes through the sun comes out the temperature drops again down to about 16 degrees sunshine cooler rain on the ground a bad combination and theres a weekend or he says 2 days i suppose i should say of fine weather is circulation and these there of High Pressure of both the north and the south on the new zealand that is sunday and this is monday is what the difference. Counting the cost of health care special u. S. Insurers of failing patients of the worlds richest country added 1. 00 of the poorest nations Zimbabwes Health service is on the brink of collapse but can the un hit its goal of universal health care for all by 2030 counting the cost on aljazeera. Television on the top stories on aljazeera tear gas has been fired in hong kong as thousands of people rallied for the 22nd straight in cannes a large crowd was stopped from entering a park where an antigovernment gathering was plans demonstrations have grown over the past 5 months mainly over chinas increasing influence in the territory. At least 53 soldiers have been killed in an attack on a military base in northeastern mali it was carried out on an outpost in the menaka region but no group has claimed responsibility donald trump fired back at attempts to impeach him at a rally in mississippi the impeachment investigation is about to go public after the house approved a resolution setting the rules for hearings trump is accused of withholding aid to pressure ukraines president to investigate his democratic rival joe biden. Tens of thousands of people are protesting against pakistans government and calling on Prime Minister imran khan to resign people involved in the socalled freedom march have gathered in islam. Bad after arriving from towns across the country the group led by a conservative Opposition Party is angry over pakistans faltering economy and imran khans leadership theyve given him 2 days to step down but hes refused to come out haidar has the latest from islamabad it didnt take in day of protests on a busy avenue also known as coach made hire where tens of thousands of people are determined to stay on until their leaders small out of under the man wants them to stay on god has given 48 hours to the Prime Minister to tender his resignation otherwise he said it people will go and then of god directed a gate quite strong and the government on the other hand is also called a meeting of its called committee to try to see how to deal with this created by people across pockets on a watching this very carefully to have introduced on the streets theyre fed up with all the borders that have been continuing over the years they want some sort of political stability however the leader of the damage there are limits. That he really large leave this place under league at the resignation of emraan that is one of their demand that be burleys brought read them out are determined bonzi the paul people who have traveled from the rural areas of bugger down theyre determined to follow the orders of their leader but the military is also a cloak and think that progress on get an order for political instability at this time and these matters should not be centered on the creek but through constitutional avenue migrants from other parts of India Working in kashmir say they fear for their lives after the regions autonomous status was scrapped by the government in new delhi 11 noncash miri workers have been killed in the region in the past few weeks and shovel her reports from but damn an indian administered kashmir. With bullets this was best evidence of the killing of 5 indian laborers include guards in indian administrate because. They were pulled out of their rented home and shot dead a few days ago. Basis by profession they were planning to go back home to invest for the winter instead just their bodies were sent back. In the last 2 weeks or so 11 on kashmiris workers and truckers have been killed in the region Indian Officials say separatist rebels are behind the killings and many local media accuse pakistan of funding the rebels but the rebel group has thus far claimed responsibility. Afzal from the northern indian state of bihar returned to work to the plywood factory in but gone in the region a day after the killings he was among the noncash media workers who left the rally in early august after the Indian Government revoke their regions autonomy he says the recent killings have stunned him but he has no work in bihar and no money. For the recent killings have instilled fear in the us but what can we do about it we cant leave the main paying. Thousands of noncash media workers are employed as farm labor construction workers and apple transporters in india now administered kashmir many more cost me these are spread over india studying or working in february of this year early ours and i call a local revelator wanted on us media workers to leave the valley if the Indian Government stripped the region of its powers including control over its land but it isnt yet clear exactly who is behind the recent killings analysts say the attacks show an emerging division between kashmiris and meeting. But army rosol absolves employers says he has assured his workers of their safety to whatever extent he can the workers see the law. As a friendly really mirror before anybody my entire business is dependent on them because they are more skilled at this task than the kashmiris. Days before the programme attacked 5 truckers were killed in shopping and also in the south of indian administers and a rebel stronghold. This is never happened before. I dont know why you are feeling so scared shortly after our visit police visited the factories in and asked the workers to leave for their own safety. Even as new delhi insists normalcy has returned for noncash media workers here the valley has become unsafe and its future uncertain. But garm indian administers. Thousands of protesters have again turned out for an antigovernment rally in chile theyve been protesting in the capital santiago about economic inequality police used water cannon and tear gas on the demonstrators across the country has hit its Tourism Industry and Hotel Reservations are down by half and many people are canceling trips after chile pulled out of hosting 2 major summits all those antigovernment protests have led to accusations of Police Brutality stuff from the u. N. Human Rights Office are in santiago theyre investigating allegations of human rights abuses Arline America editor lucy and women as more you know. A secondary School Student leader is seen here being dragged out of his home by Security Forces without an arrest warrant. Another student leader is taken away illegally from her Apartment Building scenes reminiscent of chiles former military dictatorship. Community activist daniel mina has been sleeping in a different place every night since he filed a complaint with chiles Human Rights Institute so for security reasons he asks to meet us in a park where they would be said to me i was beaten by the police and then they choked me for a long period that was in a 20 or 30 a Police Station of point 3 out. Hes in a gun he was eventually released and then nearly lost his right eye 10 days ago when he was hit with a lead pellet during another protest you know what i guess. They operated on me here to take out the pellet to hit me here and fortunately got stuck in my eye socket and one of the lucky ones who didnt lose his eye i know people who have lost both eyes off to be shot by pellets and tear gas canister. This is. A mission from the u. N. Commission for human rights is in chile investigating hundreds of charges of abuses by Security Forces from illegal detentions to excessive use of force to torture and rape the Amnesty International says theyve been scores of complaints of sexual abuses even against minors. Committed but you must take into account that many people are afraid to take legal action against those who may have abused them or family members even after the state of emergency was lifted on monday the Police Continue committing Human Rights Violations against peaceful protesters. A member of the Human Rights Institute was shot by police with pellets earlier this week while monitoring a peaceful protest. Here in the capital demonstrators commemorated all saints day with a silent march to protest against those allegedly killed by Security Forces in the last 2 weeks of social unrest the human rights charges are contributing to mounting calls for president s of us to get his resignation and in an unprecedented move in chile return to democracy and impeachment request has been presented in congress by members of the opposition. Authorities insist that with rare exceptions Security Forces are respecting international protocols. Will continue in accusations of abuses seem to indicate otherwise you see a human aljazeera santiago. The Rugby World Cup final is underway england are looking to win their 2nd world cup title while the springboks will be hoping they can take on the web ellis cup for a 3rd time south africa had a chance to open its account in the 2nd minute but missed a penalty attempts but they hold a 3 no lead after landing another penalty attempts well lets get an update from one of the fans owns in johannesburg and speak to father miller shes joining us from mares so we can see the game being screened on the big screen behind you what is the mood where you are at the moment. The reading there are a few 1000 people at this particular venue in china as well behind us and also sitting at response watching on the big screen and there sones like these across to have misspoken other big cities in south africa people here a very excited its just some tension the people here have high hopes for the springboks of course wanting the team to be victorious and you can hear them cheering now at this and you throw this made my in that game but people here are very excited wanting to see a positive result at the end of these 80 minutes and what would it mean for South Africans if they can win a valid 3rd title. But remember back to the 1st Rugby World Cup title that south africa won it was idea into a democratic south africa and it meant a lot then that its up people this time around as much as south africa has wanted to entrench democracy wanted to unite the nation there are concerns they are some groups they are some tension sometimes and this is an event a sporting event that is known to bring self africans to get the process economic losses of pos racial divides and this would mean a lot for 52000000 South Africans the president of South Africans out of microsoft has travelled to japan dismissed the spring by. Well saying that they. Have a lot to be proud of and also what is very one of the many South Africans is that this is a team led by blackout we can see very important in terms of victory all this d. N. A. And some of the changes we see to the springboks ok thank you for that update from johannesburg. Well as qatar gears up for the 2022 football world cup there is a big focus on technological innovation for fans and stadiums and the public at large so and pal visited the smart city expo in doha to see some of the High Tech Solutions being considered for the tournament and beyond. The latest advances in Robotics Technology and 5 g. Gaming can always wow a crowd. Or transport us to a digitized future in this case football fans are getting a taste of whats in store for the 2022 world cup from the ticketing to hologram selfies with players. Beyond sports projects for whats being called a smart city cats are is working to transform itself into a smart country to digitize and revolutionize the way Transportation Health care environment and logistics are managed. Established businesses and startups from around the world are hoping to get a piece of the action for about is a 3 d. Printing machine thats been modified to do gardening operations so you can use it to plant seeds it can do for cision watering using the amount and specific location of water for each plant it also does moisture testing soil testing and if it can do weeding it has a smartish a camera thats able to determine what is a plant and what its weed hundreds of initiatives will be picked up by Qatar Smart Program known as task which plans to spend 1600000000. 00 over the next 5 years to improve the quality of life another device thats connecting people to the services they need is the cause. Insult station if youre sick you can enter a booth like this one and he pads through to a doctor who will run tests and provide treatment remotely the inventor says that it can be placed in shopping malls and your apartment block but it can also go to areas that are lacking access to Public Health care we are talking we can talk of a moment to deploy these kind of so it will show you where people live where people where recchi people go to make do i discuss connected in our city of the world government officials hope such technology can reduce dependency on hospitals shorten queues and provide information that can save precious time in an emergency but there is a huge and always increasing demand for medical infrastructure but no matter how much we increase that infrastructure the demand will always increase but with the virtue of consultation people can actually connect to doctors from home without having to go to a primary case and with so many Smart Solutions to our age old problems these new technological advances could help many here in qatar and elsewhere in the world enter schapelle aljazeera doha well that a year after a spectacular rescue in thailand the cave where a group of young footballers was trapped for almost 3 weeks has now reopened so these are the 1st visitors to the timeline complex since the boys dramatic escape about 12000 to 2000 excuse me people lined up to view the entrance to the site among them were some of the navy seals involved in the rescue the 12 boys and their coach were trapped in the cave by floodwaters for 18 days Brazilian Police have blamed a greek ship for an oil spill thats damaged thousands of kilometers of the countrys coastline. Prosecutors say the ship loaded its cargo into venezuela before spilling its Company Denies involvement. Hello again the headlines on aljazeera this hour tear gas has been fired in hong kong as thousands of people rallied for the 22nd straight weekend many protesters were stopped from entering a park where an antigovernment gathering was planned prominent activists joshua wang had called 4100000 people to march on saturday the demonstrations have grown over the past 5 months mainly over chinas increasing influence at least 53 soldiers have been killed in an attack on a military base in northeastern mali it was carried out on an outpost in the minotaur region no group has claimed responsibility our correspondent Mohammed Vall has the details of what i have from my sources is that. Our sources as well is that this attack took place yesterday on friday 3 suicide bombers exploded themselves inside this compound somali in army camp near the border with nisha in the northeast of the country and they have killed a big number of troops there and also another attack was launched immediately after those suicide bombings and thats where more of the modern soldiers have been killed the Donald Trumps fired back at it tends to impeach him at a rally in mississippi the impeachment investigation is about to go public after the house approved a resolution setting the rules for hearings at least one person has been killed in gaza after israel launched air strikes on sites it says are linked to hamas the group that controls Gaza Health Officials there say 2 people have been injured israel says it was responding after 10 rockets were fired from the palestinian territory. Iraqis have held a ceremony to mourn the 250 People Killed in protests across the country in the past one hundreds marched in the Southern City of basra president has promised to hold elections but has yet to announce when. Tens of thousands of people are protesting against pakistans government demanding Prime Minister imran khan resign people involved in the socalled freedom march have gathered in islamabad after arriving from towns all over the country and the group led by a conservative Opposition Party is angry over pakistans faltering economy because of the headlines on aljazeera counting the cost is coming up next then its the news hour with Martine Denis thanks for watching aljazeera by. The boulder the magnet for tourists from around the world the floor of the peach Risk Landscape young men leaping to by with groups in syria when i went east investigates on aljazeera. Hello im Adrian Finnegan this is counting the cost analysis serial weekly look at the world of business and economics this week the way we pay for health care millions of people in the us go without medical insurance many file for bankruptcy because they cant afford to pay their medical bills. Or the chances of rolling out universal health care in an Unequal World will take a look at Zimbabwes Health care system which is on the brink of collapse. Plus the Tech Companies have a solution to the way that everyone accesses health care well talk to an investor and c. E. O. Of a diagnostic cap. Now just because hell the richest nation in the world and spend more than any other nation on health care doesnt mean the outcomes are better or that more people will Access Health services more than half a 1000000 people turn to bankruptcy in the us because they cant pay their medical bills and more than 27000000 people are without medical insurance in the poorest nations the weakest dont have access to even rudimentary treatments yet its a goal of the United Nations to achieve universal Health Coverage for all by 2030 how well take a look at this the World Health Organization estimates that it would cost around 58. 00 per person per year to achieve universal health care in all low and middle Income Countries that comes to about 371000000000. 00 per year by 2030 where does that money come from well the World Health Organization believes some 85 percent of the total cost can be met by domestic resources in the 32. 00 poorest nations a funding gap of around 54000000000. 00 would need to be filled through International Aid and what will that mean in terms of outcome while someone. 7000000. 00 premature deaths would be averted it would also avert 20000000. 00 deaths from noncommunicable diseases like Heart Disease diabetes and cancer Life Expectancy would jump anywhere between 3 point one and 8. 4 years well as the world inches towards spending 10 trillion dollars a year on health care by 2022 we have 2 reports for you in a moment from zimbabwe how to take a look at a Public Health care service thats on the brink of collapse but 1st from the United States al jazeera reports on how the Health Insurance industry is failing patients when virgil clark was diagnosed with cancer she felt confident her Health Insurance would cover her medical expenses how many years there had been paying in the to their insurance peramivir oh my god every light. And he is i guess maybe she wasnt fully covered by Health Insurance paid for most of her treatments but there remained a few 1000. 00 that she was expected to cover and that she just didnt have the hospital withheld her counsel treatment of the hippocratic oath 1st do no harm. But i dont think that applied. And then she wound up detained in a courthouse of the hospital sued and walking up there when seconds in handcuffs i didnt bring in my Pain Medicine because i didnt think i would be there all day this sort of trauma for medical bills isnt uncommon experience for americans in fact 2 thirds of bankruptcies a juju medical issues in the us to find out why we travel to philadelphia to speak to Wendell Potter he was once an executive at the Health Insurance Company Cigna most people in the u. S. Pay monthly premiums to Health Insurance Companies Like cigna as a safety net in case they need medical treatment of some kind just look at these companies then determine whether they will receive and can afford that treatment in 2009 blew the whistle on the Health Insurance industry to the u. S. Congress my name is one potter and for 20 years i worked as a Senior Executive health and Health Insurance companies and i saw how they confuse their customers and dump the sick so all the so also they can satisfy their wall Street Investors that if the Affordable Health care act obamacare was passed it did wipe and coverage and close loopholes Insurance Companies were using to refuse that plans health cat. Im 20000000 more americans were able to get Health Insurance as a result still some 28000000 americans would remain uninsured harry but Health Insurance is still a for profit enterprise yes you can now get insured but if you actually need treatment it will cost you just as bad if not worse is the rising number of people who are under insured these are people who are paying good money every month for their Health Insurance premiums but finding that they now have very high deductibles for their words they have to pay a lot of money out of their own pockets before their coverage kicks in for part of the fundamental principles that guide Insurance Companies havent changed to make as much money as they can to bring as much revenue and but to pay out as little as possible in claims because when that happens theyve got more money to reward shareholders and to enrich their executives i know that because i was one of them that made quite a lot of money this is just in dispute the u. S. Has the most expensive Health Care System in the world however when Health System performance is compared such as quality efficiency access to care equity and the ability to lead a long life the u. S. Is launched against other developed countries the u. S. Does rank top for one indicator that the amount it spends on administrative costs per capita and part of that money is dedicated to Insurance Companies hiring doctors and nurses as what are called medical directors but they dont treat patients they try to find ways to treat patients everyone is employed by an Insurance Company knows that they have their part to play and they can sure that that Company Needs wall street financial expectations so it doesnt have to be direct. That you will deny x. Number of things or treatments but you know that if youre going to keep your job and hopefully get a raise and a bonus youve got it. Do what the Company Expects you to do Health Insurance is expected to be a major issue in the 2020 election proposal recognizes the framing of the debate as one he and other executives would shape in the boardroom before funneling money to politicians the terms that are being used today are the same terms that i used to use and in fact in some cases helped create it is to get people to be afraid of change theres a term thats an acronym thats used for this kind of Propaganda Campaign its fun and its fear uncertainty and doubt and these campaigns are designed to get people to fear change to make them feel uncertain about whats being proposed and that they would benefit from it and to doubt those who are advocating i store someone there because i know theres someone there who went through the sinking or even worse than i am and so that i feel like my story may make a difference or it may embolden someone with a makes but for now its unsettling how familiar story is in the u. S. Armed how powerful the forces are but want to keep. Finding drugs for chronic illnesses its going to get a lot harder for poor and struggling zimbabweans some Public Health centers have no drugs for the patients the cost of 1. 00 months supply at a private pharmacy is roughly 60 u. S. Dallas a Civil Servant saving a month if youre into the. Kitchen if you look at that place because you really need. For you to maintain your lane but then if you baby yet at least that means you dont get to look after your children because all the people that live with. Those who can afford it go abroad for the treatment this used to while expensive private facilities allegedly millions of by this dont have. A has more than 20 registered health insurer. So we have about 800000 members the government has its own Health Insurance for Civil Servants which caters roughly 2340000 workers that means most people here dont have medical coverage while children under the age of 5 we see basically cheat meant a Public Hospitals everyone else without Health Insurance pays cash for such Pain Management the patient must have regular i mean true up to access to medication. The medication is becoming extremely expensive. Traditionally and historically medication has been funded largely by donors but were finding that donors themselves not through lack of world but because of pressures on on their mostly local donors they are unable to support that doctors have been striking for nearly 2 months of a poor pay and work conditions its another sign the Public Health sector is in trouble after numerous negotiations broke down the government issued this ultimatum doctors coming to work will be disciplined. So the 1st thing were very small coming to work there will be paid some here blame the collapse of the Public Health care system on corruption and the states failure to prioritize government Officials Say waste and impose sanctions are the reason for the crisis not them but its patients who end up suffering and as a barbers economy worsens there is no sign this situation will improve soon how much. For cutting the cost. Joining us now from oxford is andrew follow hes a Senior Research fellow at Oxford Martin School Andrew good to have you with us on cutting the cost as we were hearing there there are many many issues with the us Health Industry pharmaceuticals for profit hospitals insurance vast Administration Insurance not even covering the cost of it is this a free market failure or a failure of capitalism well im not sure id good morning it and im not sure it goes far as that but the us does. Right in terms of its performance on hospital performance and Health Performance and that spending on how much lower than it would be justified by in matlab suspend south spends about 70 percent of its g. D. P. Being on out just about one in 6. 00 and yet it racks up in 42nd among 224. 00 nations and if you look at the most developed industrialised countries the top 35. 00 its 22. 00 in the table which tells you something about the way in which that system works and its of its a very high cost system but its also a system that misses a lot of the what you probably know well about the language the Insurance Industry works in the way in which you know 20 or 30000000 people quite regularly are not troubled by that system and thats a big source of its national relative vandeman its it to other countries and then when the expenditure takes place when hospitalization is where it is quite bureaucratic in spite of the pain and there are things in the system that dont necessarily push the direction of efficiency is there anything. To recommend about the us system of health care is the hit anything that anyone else should be looking to replicate thats a really interesting point i mean at that at the very start where the best in the us its actually the best of the maps the globe if you need the top quality treatment of some sort or other you know it can often be found in the us but you can. And one of the things to take out of his story is actually that for relatively lower levels of money you can actually achieve pretty high success so one of the projects sort of highlighting the huge amounts of expenditure in the us is it coming out can send a signal that you need to spend lots and lots and as you know theres the push is to create universal how to cut rich basic package and actually you can achieve a lot with a lot less money in the u. S. The World Health Organization says that 371000000000. 00 or 58. 00 a person per year is all or all it will cost to get health care to low a middle Income Countries what kind of care does that provide and is is that even feasible is anyone willing to pay to pick up the cost. Well theres 2 things the 1st thing is to get this whole thing in perspective you quoted. Well were in a Global Economy of 80 plus trillion dollars so when we talk of 3 or 400000000000. 00 it sounds like a lot but its actually only a fraction of one of those 1000000000 or that one of those trillion numbers so its actually as a percent of the global g. D. P. Its a fraction of the sat the 2nd thing is that the push to create universal Health Care Coverage and the numbers you talked about per capita thats for a very sort of basic package and one of the things that thats been going on the last 5 or 10 years is has been measures to try to actually make it that many cultures can afford that package one of the things that perhaps 10 years or so ago we realized that it was important to get right is that you know theres a lot of tax revenues out there theres a lot of Economic Activity going on thats thats thats not so its fair whack so one of the things that the w. H. O. And the world back and others have been analyzing and trying to understand is is the source of its revenue we have actually trillions of dollars of resources that dont find its way into the mechanisms that actually have a fact we know that in the very coarse countries of all there will meet a time where rich countries and the numbers are they sound a lot but theyre quite small if you think of i started the process if you think of the number you just quoted relative to the fos of the afghan years ago its family trivial and the other thing about the numbers you just quoted is that in terms of Health Impact on the poorest one of the the terrible things about it is its often the most vulnerable its the people cant get access to cash when they need it and one of those sort of curious as it were is that when you need Health Expenditure when you are in a very poor. And somethings gone wrong in the family. Your power back from getting good how treatment because you cannot quickly or retina get out of the cash so a large chunk of the initiative to create these programs for universal after alqaeda coverage is to make it that people in the past it in many cases cultivate so there are schemes in which even very poor people put something every now and again and that gives them some sort of automatic right to some sort of access so its not just rich people and money and its its richer countries and towards the very poorest for a period of time and its really good to talk to him counting the cost many thanks indeed for being with us thank you my pleasure and. With the trillions spent on health care it should come as no surprise that investors are trying to crack the industry with new tech related products the Global Digital Health Care Market is expected to hit 504000000000 dollars by 2025 according to Global Market insights and the health tech wearable market which includes your smart watch trackers could be worth 60000000000. 00 by 2023 Juniper Research estimates. All right so lets talk health check with george davis whos the director of hambro parks george good to have you with us on counting the cost why is the Health Care Industry the least receptive of industries to Technological Developments well i wouldnt say is the least receptive i just think that it does face some challenges Global Health care is a huge part of global g. D. P. But of course a great deal of it is provided by governments and legacy systems so change and innovation does take time that being said i think were seeing a huge proliferation of start up businesses and innovative Business Models in the space and i definitely think that over the long term well see absolute transformation particularly as you see Large Businesses like google and apple entering the space as well as new startups and more established players who are now spending more and more time thinking about changes to the system so id say over the long term were going to see dramatic shifts at this point perhaps healthcares lag somewhat but i dont think that will be the case over the long term ive used a Company Called thrive 2 for Blood Analysis its a i did i did the test at home sent it off fantastic google results but i suppose the biggest challenge for Companies Like them it is data how do you store it what do you do with it and the potential for misuse yeah im familiar with rover its a really interesting business a Great British innovative startup actually. Data storage is obviously one of the challenges that Health Tech Startups face because both because of regulator issues but also because of the expectations of consumers who are increasingly i think aware of the challenges around the data that they give away both consciously and unconsciously to to big businesses i do think this is a challenge for earlier stage Health Care Businesses because theres a lot of cost involved and theres a lot of trust involved in the in the minds of consumers i think that often comes from more established players from the role of government that being said i do think those challenges are definitely possible to overcome for start ups as long as they obey the rules and use the services that are available to them i think they can absolutely resolve it and what i would say on the other side of the equation is that the power of big data in healthcare to really change the way we diagnose and treat illnesses and also long term conditions is one that a lot of businesses are definitely looking to harness thriver being a good example and so i think we need to be conscious as consumers that there is a trade off but we need providers of services to be very clear with us what theyre going to do with our data what data theyre storing and how and build that trust over time to catch that opportunity. One of your products is smart t. M. s a Mental Health treatment for depression helping patients with severe Mental Health in the says now that from medical point of view is is an area that requires a lot of skill in terms of managing patients out how does it work so trans smart to mess is a as a non invasive treatment for Mental Illnesses and challenges that people face and thats obviously a massively growing sector importantly it does not it is not a chemical solution to the challenges that people face so and we wouldnt say that there is as an investor we wouldnt say that there is one solution to those challenges that all of its absolutely a challenge that at the consumer level people will have Different Things that work for them this this effectively uses magnetic stimulation to change patterns in in brain behavior and can address a number of challenges depression anxiety and erect sirrah whole bunch of issues that people face and i think as we move into a phase where people are more accepting and open about the Mental Health challenges that people face and that is absolutely a good thing i believe and something that will increase overall social well being in societies i think you need a suite of these opportunities this business that weve invested in is growing very rapidly in the u. K. And is a really powerful innovation but it wont be the only one and you need to take a case by case basis as to to what the right one for for specific uses is now with a shortage of 7000000 doctors worldwide ada health hopes that it can fill the gaps that would reach parts of the world where health care is something of a lottery right now headquartered in berlin its developing and trialing its app aljazeera is economics editor a bit early spoke with ada c. Daniel nath rough and asked how ada was different to people googling their symptoms youre completely right 8 out of 10. People go themselves for an example in germany where im from the thing with google is its a great tool for generalized information search but the results are not personalized to the user and theyre not actionable because google doesnt know enough at that point in time about the user a doubt works in contrast to that very much like a Whatsapp Chat with a trusted Family Doctor that you have access to a 247 except that in this case the Family Doctor is not human but its an Artificial Intelligence that supports you in finding out whats wrong with you and what you should be doing next and where have you deployed this off the software and are you working with Health Professionals or services. So ada has been launched basic again all countries in the world where there is an app store or a Google Play Store which meets over 150 countries and it has become the number one ep in the medical category in the app store in 140 countries and we do have partners that we work with for instance with a large Health System in the u. S. Called Sutter Health in the way on the west coast we also work with some of the Largest Health insurers in germany and there are medical professionals and some of the leading medical institutions in europe who are using our doctor facing software and what is the reaction of those Health Professionals actually the reaction of Health Professionals to ada is very positive. I was expecting at least some of them to be a little bit skeptical and i was wondering whether some of them would say you know is this kind of a threat to my job but thats not the case at all the real Health Professionals once they realize that ada is actually very accurate they really appreciate the support it gives them in getting to the right diagnosis foster whats the backbone of the technology i mean how do you get the ai to read through medical textbooks saw what d. D. It has been around since 2011 and the 1st 56 years we didnt even go to market we had a large team of 100 plus doctors and computer scientists working on building a very very extensive medical Knowledge Base and refining reasoning engine behind it and then we only know on the app for patients about 2 and a half years ago and what were doing now is that were using certain Machine Learning techniques also to learn from all the cases that come into the system were trying to create feedback loops to make the system better and better every day now we used talk about Silicon Valley trying to just disrupt assert. Industries why has it taken such a long time to disrupt the Health Care Industry i think its understandable that in health care things take longer if you look at some ecommerce businesses lets take the food Delivery Business for instance there you can create a simple shop solution a minimum viable product as they say and then you know you start generating revenue you react to users and you iterate and if something goes wrong its actually not that big a deal for instance if you know you deliver the wrong pizza its annoying for the customer and that moment but its not life threatening in health care you have to be a lot more careful this is why there is medical device regulation with a Software Like ours we have extremely high standards in terms of accuracy Data Protection data privacy because you know this is some of the most Sensitive Data that exists and if you use a product like ours you will be glad when you know you have a heart attack and it doesnt give you the right information it does not tell you or you just have a shoulder sprain dont worry about it is is something that needs regular 3 approval yes so it is certified as a medical device and there are obviously different regulatory authorities in the e. U. In the u. S. And in an asian and other countries and were working very closely with the authorities to make sure that we obtain all of the right sort of occasions in europe where classified as a medical device done you know through a think you very much for its im really appreciates on today thank you thank you very much. 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 jaycees and see what you do or you can drop us a line 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 counselor cost im Adrian Finnegan from the whole team here in doha thanks for being with us the news on aljazeera is next. Too often on the streets of india. 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But 1st were going to start in hong kong because police have used tear gas and water cannon again to disperse the thousands of people whove come out for the 22nd straight week and many of them was stopped from going into a park thats where the antigovernment gatherings are often held prominent activist joshua wont he cooled 100000 people to come out on saturday the protests began against proposed changes to extradition laws which have since been scrapped well go live to our correspondent david ensor palm news there and say things have got ugly yes again in hong kong whats the situation where you are. Thats right martin i am in home khans by manchild those trick main shopping district usually those places teeming with people all over the weekend but once again the protesters have taken it over but despite all the polices afeard as you can see behind me they have set up barricades on one of the main of roads in the city center this is one of the main arteries that takes you to the east and west of Hong Kong Island earlier in the day protesters had gathered at Victoria Park police had far tear gas theyre trying to disperse them to protest 3 of the protests were authorized by police earlier in the day. They had permission to protest but they were later broken up with police saying that they werent allowed to wear face masks and told protesters to Disperse Protesters once again in a confrontation against police so then again you saw the far the tear gas the water canon and it seems to have all backfired originally they were contained in a park Victoria Park a few hours ago now they seem to have spread across Hong Kong Island the main city center of Hong Kong Island and taken over a main road once again using the philosophy of be water dispersing when police come in all direction then suddenly regrouping and setting up barricades and taking over main areas of the city and devean whos been cooling for the autonomy we said that this is being described this particular mosque has been described as an emergency call for autonomy whos calling for that and is that exactly the objective of most of these people. Martin that that the main characteristic of this protest is that there isnt one a single one organizer as you see every weekend messages get sent out on on apps on social media and people start gathering there isnt a leader to those protests but this time the protests these protests over the weekend have been backed by the democracy icon joshua long who as you said asa 100000 people to come on the streets he wants to highlight the fact that hong kongs democracy or hong kong system with no democracy is flawed he wanted to run and local Council Elections but earlier this week he was disqualified he says for political reasons so the protesters earlier today were highlighted or were supported by those Democratic Candidates who won who are planning to run in the local elections but another reason why people are out in the streets again is because the communist party held a very closed door meeting earlier this week. Usually nothing much comes out of this meeting with particularly regards to hong kong but this time in a very unusual move they mentioned hong kong saying they wanted to improve the legal system quote unquote and the national law giving an ominous warning to people of hong kong that they may try and. Put into place a national law system with which will once again stifle hong kong peoples freedom so along with that this is one of the for a few times that beijing has responded to these protests and once again its not responded in the way the protesters want to instead of responding to their demands or what they want to have instead try to clamp down on the movement thats taking place here in hong kong or idea thanks have to be a good pal and our correspondent there live in hong kong right this case in mali now or at least 53 soldiers have been killed in an attack on a military base in the northeast of the country was carried out on an outpost in the region so far theres been no claim of responsibility well this is the latest in what seems to be escalating violence in this the saheli in region of North Western africa on september the 30th out as west african affiliate carried out 2 attacks on military bases in bull kesey and the another one in one daughter now 38 soldiers were killed many more still missing but the attacks arent limited to mali theyve been others recently in neighboring turkey the fast so and in the air and groups like iceland block or her arm a known to be active in the region and theyre adding to what is now a constant instability and all of this is despite the presence of thousands of u. N. Peacekeepers and a 5000 strong Regional Force there is led by france called the g 5. Or we can speak to our correspondent now mohammed val who knows mali very well indeed damage you reported there extensively havent you sue to what should we be attributing this uptick what appears to be an uptick in violence specifically in this part of the country. Well martin i mean observateur look at this as a unique situation or not unique but strange situation when you have all those foreign armies who have converged on the region in northern mali and who have been waging a a campaign for years against those groups and we have seen the French Campaign in 2012 and 13 when they said they are literate of those groups and sent them away into the desert expelled them from the main cities and that was thought by the International Community as an end to those groups but soon they began to regroup and to create momentum over the last few years we have seen those attacks that you mentioned in september and now this is one of the biggest blows yesterday to the modern army and also the or the efforts of those troops we have 5000 west african troops there we have we have thousands of you and french troops in the region and they have all been coordinating but were not is that most of the time they dont go out very far in the desert they are concerned primarily with their own safety and they are encamped in cities like god and timbuktu so primarily they protect their own personnel and the question is are they there to keep the peace and protect the civilians or are they there to just protect their own interests of those countries and im here quoting some of the people observing there who say that you know the prolongation of that situation there in that region serves only the interests of those powers and another aspect of this regional conflict mohammed seems to be the attitude taken by the authorities in the various countries insofar as is seeing it as a military situation and theyre piling on in various military forces both domestically and those from abroad. And yet at the heart of the problem is an issue of lack of governance right exactly martin the problem is some of them say the problem is in mali itself the bamako the Central Government is unable to keep a hold on the parts its a vast country theres a country thousands of kilometers of border with Different Countries and lack of training a lack of capabilities on the part of the mali an army we have seen defeat after the defeat there for the mali an army in various regions of the country particularly in the north and in the center and this this conflagration of you know groups and sub groups that are fighting including al qaeda including isis including even a full land you know the the locals of mali itself you know they have taken arms against the center of the regime so the western powers coming to help and african countries coming to help they also put the blame as i said on the government of mali being able to really defend the country and to really give a good contribution to the efforts by those countries in terms of providing security and in terms of fighting against those groups all right maam and thank you for that mohammed val our correspondent whos worked extensively in mali and indeed in the sahara now at least one person being killed in girls are after israel launched air strikes on sites that it says a link to hamas as a group that controls Gaza Health Officials there say 2 other people were injured israel says it was responding after 10 rockets were fired from the palestinian territory. And iraq his have held a ceremony to mourn 250 people who were killed in protests over the past month hundreds marched in the Southern City of basra more than 10000 people have also been wounded in the rallies against corruption and on employment the president has promised to hold elections but he hasnt said when and the protests have started up again in basra thats in the south of the country lets speak to our correspondent natasha going to aim shes in the capital baghdad and. Iraq is natasha they move those huge number of people who died in this month long protests and yet still people are determined to stay out on to the streets to push their point because they want systemic change. Yes and now in the city of basra it looks like their protests are blocking operations of critical utilities local search sources are telling us that protesters and Security Forces in basra have been fighting in front of the room a hoss or port since last evening there was a sit in there and from what we understand protesters had been blocking it the entrance and halting operations for it to the port for about 6 days Security Forces came in cleared the sit in and thats when local sources tell us about 100 people were injured some of them seriously protesters remain there carrying signs that say iran out of iraq you affairs another one a sign being seen is. The Iraqi Government made by iran protesters are upset they say that the courts revenue is being diverted away from their city