That she is a new york city resident. She has worked to promote transparency and combat this. Please join me in welcoming alexander. That was wrong okay. Think you so much. My name is erica westerberg. The original moderator cant be with us today. Im in fact very happy to step in and introduce alex. Ive have the pleasure of working with alex at the institute for eight years. In the inclusive developments. One of the Biggest Challenges in this pursuit is of course corruption is very timely for the excellent new book. Better solutions on how to tackle oil corruption. A bit more. She has a phd in international relations. When she is research the politics. Shes worked the last ten years where she leads projects in countries around the world. To research how the oil sector works. And combat corruption. We are changing the format a bit. Please give her a warm welcome. Thank you very much erica. Thank you all for coming despite very various risks in our world. I had been working on this proje
Like human rights the association of Southeast Asian nations has proved time and time again that its largely a toothless body this summit isnt expected to be any different instead the main focus is likely to be trade with the host country thailand hoping to announce the finalization of the 16 nation deal the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership includes all 10 members plus 6 others including china japan and india but not the United States negotiations started 7 years ago and after several delays the members hope a deal can finally be reached particularly now and mid trade tensions around the world china is in a high stakes tariff war with the United States led by President Donald Trump who is regarded as a protectionist who prefers bilateral rather than multilateral deals we need something tangible we need something Strong Enough to that we. Still support the idea of. Trade and investment the partnership would be the Worlds Largest free trade zone and constitute a 3rd of the Glo
Welcome back youre watching aljazeera the seller of our top stories Donald Trumps fired back at attempts to impeach him but a rally in mississippi. Investigation is about to go public after the house approved a resolution setting the rules for hearings also protests against economic inequality continue in chile with thousands of people marching in the capital some tiago the unrest across the country has hit the Tourism Industry hard with Hotel Reservations down by half. More than a quarter of 1000000 people in somalia been forced from their homes by severe flooding aid agencies say at least 10 people have been killed another Tropical Storm is set to batter the region. Russia and turkey have started joint patrols in northeastern syria and group wants to establish what its calling a safe so in the border region and it wants fighters from the largely Kurdish Syrian Democratic forces to retreat has an album reports from the turkey syria border. The most crucial phase of the turkish russian
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That you much just catch you know its out there the cholera. Hello again the top stories on aljazeera this hour. Fired back at attempts to impeach him at a rally in mississippi. 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. Israel has launched air strikes on gaza. Were fired into the southern territories at least one person in gaza was killed israel says it was responding after 10 rockets were fired in the palestinian Territory Health officials in gaza say 2 other people injured. Antigovernment protesters are gathering in hong kong prominent. 100000 people to march in what would be the 22nd straight weekend of demonstrations many are angry at chinas increasing influence in the territory and lets get an update from the get go paul and shes joining us from hong kong so the call is 4100000 people to come out onto the s