Still ahead on aljazeera tears for the innocents as the u. N. Raises the alarm at the rising number of child casualties in syria. Russia tourists are coming for exactly this kind of experience turbulence on the horizon for georgia flights from russia and grounded. The heavy downpours continue across a good parts of Southern China seen some a huge dunderheads draped across the region pushing over towards that eastern side of china been tipping down for days for some here and that wet weather will stay in place they will tend to not a little further south was so the main thrust of that wetter weather will just ease its way down towards hong kong as we go on through wednesday to the increasingly wet here temperatures getting up to around 29 celsius really lose a degree of 2 off the top temperatures in the heat of the day plenty wet weather to into south asia the monsoon rains accosts doing quite nicely still a little bit hard up towards the northwest if the trees but obviously plenty of shower clout there into myanmar into the northeast of india pushing up across bangladesh and off cloud just not the edge of the temperatures in new delhi but was a high of around 35 celsius over the next day or so western debts staying a very aware they more of the same as we go on through wednesday a very similar picture from the central and eastern parts have got red warnings in force for the amount of flooding rain that we are expecting to see here in the coming days meanwhile across the right information hot and dry sums it up temperatures in the 45. On counting the cost 3. 00 decades after the collapse of the soviet union russia is engaging with africa to raise its political clout and we look at the economics behind turkeys decision to buy the s 400. 00 an f. 35. 00 Stealth Bomber counting the cost on a just. Aljazeera. Where ever you. Welcome back youre watching aljazeera time to recap our headlines the International Criminal court has convicted a formal congolese warlord of war crimes and crimes against humanity and again that was found guilty of all 18 counts connected to the killings of thousands of civilians the 2 of the region between 20022003. Libyan war thought it was preparing a 2nd offensive to seize the capital tripoli his commanders say as many as 20000 fighters have been sent to strengthen forces in western libya. The British Government has ordered an inquiry into leaked emails from and some bassinets washington they describe the Trump Administration as uniquely dysfunctional and inept it triggered an angry response from the u. S. President. They dont see nations is concerned about the growing number of children being killed in the war in rebel held area. Of syria and the Hama Province is being bombarded for a 3rd month by Syrian Government airstrikes backed by russian warplanes human Rights Groups say at least 500. 00 civilians have been killed including kids so the whole the reports. It seems planes never leave the skies over rebel held northwest syria. Oh. Thank. You airstrikes have been relentless 60 both its day 70 of the russian backed Syrian Government offensive the southern countryside of it left province and the northern countryside of Hama Province are battlegrounds. The bombardment has been intense and indiscriminate human Rights Groups say why the areas in populated neighborhoods have been attacked nowhere is safe. I civilians are dying. Rights groups say more than 500 have been killed more than 100 of them children. Beginning. As eunice a i have very right. 40 children being killed even over the last 24 hours children have only. Been a. Very. Actual number of children killed like. The United Nations has repeatedly called on russia and turkey who sponsored a cease fire last year to revive the truce which collapsed at the end of april president Vladimir Putin and russia tie a border guard spoke on friday and plan to hold a summit in august that will also involve iran apart from that there is no sign they are close to a deal that would deescalate tensions at little has become a bargaining card even between the countries that are supposed to be working to. You know theyre in syria. Instead their local allies are engaged in a proxy war but rebels backed by turkey are resisting because of the advance this has given their political leverage rescue workers find themselves digging through the rubble of flattened buildings every day if not every few hours. The campaign is being described as the most destructive against province since the opposition to control in 2015 war monitors have recorded 46000 airstrikes and ground assaults. Parents are burying their children some of them more than one like this father who lost his 2nd son in the bombardment and many here say this is all happening as the International Community looks away. Beirut. President donald trump all claim america is leading the world on Environmental Issues in a speech within a couple of miles. From the Environmental Protection agency show that over the last 2 years pollution in the u. S. Has increased. Well it really is there on the planet which by the way you know we have gotten better since even better President Trump statements about the environment have drawn criticism years before he began campaigning for the White House Trump said he believed Global Warming was a hoax created by the chinese to hurt the u. S. Economy in office he announced the u. S. Withdrawal from the 2016 paris climate agreement an International Effort to limit the rise of global average temperature by 2030 and he began revoking laws aimed at protecting the environment more recently hes also claimed you know we have the latest terror of the world in the United States and gotten better since im great we have the way it is the water is crystal plain and i always say i want Crystal Clear water and air data from the Environmental Protection agency shows that the number of bad air days jumped 20 percent and 2017 which was also the 1st year of trumps presidency a report by the state of global air which is backed by several u. S. Universities ranks the u. S. As 8th best in the world in terms of particle pollution which is linked to tens of thousands of premature deaths each year under terms presidency more than 80 environmental rules and regulations have been repealed withdrawn or weakened most aimed at reducing air pollution and emissions some environmental watchdogs say these changes will increase Greenhouse Gas emissions by the end of the century cost the u. S. Economy hundreds of billions of dollars a year according to the Pew Research Center a majority of americans now believe that Climate Change is affecting their local area and a 3rd say its affecting them personally and are schapelle aljazeera. Alarming signs of Global Warming are appearing all over the world including in alaska the northernmost u. S. State is sweltering in an unprecedented heat wave and as Andy Gallacher reports thats helping to melt glass is the fastest rate for centuries. In a state known as the last frontier theres no easy way to reach a glacier on foot or the Climate Research of Brian Brettschneider though its become an increasingly important part of his work below is the stunning site of the Portage Glacier a vast structure of ice and rock thats been here for tens of thousands of years in recent decades this another glaciers in the region a melting at an alarming rate were used to thinking about things changing over time spans that are longer than human lifetimes but when you come back here year after year and you notice with your own eyes not with any kind of fancy equipment but you notice how much its changing its really dramatic and it really causes you to think about you know where were at and where were going and what we can do about it all kind of a limited show the rate of change a transformation researchers say is driven by rising global temperature is one startling example of just how far and how fast this glacier is going to perhaps this building it was constructed in 1986 for one reason alone and that was to give tourists a direct view of the face of the glacier but if you look out here now all you see is water and to get to the glacier its a half hour long boat trip. The tom again cruise ship has been taking torys out to the glacier for decades and deck can david mazak join the crew in 19971 tells us back then the Portage Glacier was very different. Giant fires of ice they shot up like bunkers and they went up over 130 feet into the air. On the flight to the glacier you had huge monoliths of ice like big walls of oyster they would come crashing. Down. Like. Many of the tourists that take the cruiser away glaciers are disappearing for those who have traveled far to see one of alaskas most iconic sites theres a sense that this might be their last chance it can treat me kindly nature. Would kind of have to find the best we can tear children and if it is wasting away like this and they wont have anything to drink till a year. Prior to you showed us a picture a while ago i think it was 914 and the lake was just like right here and now look up big it is and theres like its like a 100 times bigger so. Somethings gone researchers say the effects of global Climate Change can be reversed giving glaciers the chance to slowly recover but time is running out. Well im gallica is live now from anchorage in alaska so glaciers can recover but is anyone doing anything to actually make that happen. Not of the moment and this is really about serious policy change to reduce Carbon Emissions things like burning coal something that President Trump has rolled back from the obama era regulations which were limiting the amount of coal burned but what environmentalists say is if there is a light at the end of the tunnel it is if those policy changes and made but made quickly the climatologists we talked to and that report said that if those policy changes are made you will see those glaciers inching back to where they were very very slowly but nonetheless recovering but without serious policy change and very quickly that will not happen and people here are living on the very front lines of this kind of Climate Change and environmentalist say the warming of the Pacific Ocean and whats going on in the arctic is being seen here on almost a year to year basis when typically those events can take hundreds of years if not thousands not much being done how do people there feel about that especially on a day where the u. S. President s going to talk about you know his great record on via mental issues. Its interesting because when you talk to officials i talked to a meteorologist just a couple of days ago who when i put that question to him about manmade global Climate Change he kind of got callie and said look this is not my area of expertise im not a scientist in this area of study so i cant really comment on that but i think at the back of many peoples minds officials are normal people who are living in alaska there is a realisation that this is an environment that is changing rapidly just look at that Visitor Center we were out for this report that was built so you could look directly at the face of the glacier its now going all the way across the lake and around the corner and thats just one of hundreds of glaciers in this state that are melting rapidly one report done last year says the rate of melting is faster over the last 400 years than its ever been and they can pull cause of ice out of these glaciers and that tells them the temperature has risen by 2 or 3 degrees that really spells disaster for states like alaska but if alaska is a litmus test it also spells trouble for the rest of the world indeed thanks so much and the gallic of their heavy rain in chinas eastern for jan provinces triggered severe flooding nonpaying city is in the worst hit area with several villages under water affecting thousands of people houses vehicles and markets have been flooded rescue services of health about 3000 people reach safety no deaths have been reported but the arrival of monsoon rain isnt cathing the queues for Drinking Water in indias 5th largest city people in chennai are waiting for hours in the sun having to pay for water from electricity from urgency tankers rather many operated by private companies some of the 10000000 population blame years of drought and government mismanagement for the water crisis. Russian airlines are no longer flying to georgia which spells problems for the Tourism Industry there russias president banned flights following the russian riots last month state media says its no longer safe to have a holiday there Robin Forrester walker reports from the mountain result of good audi shes popular with russians forests or at least has been until now. Russians will no longer be able to fly direct to georgia from july the 8th. That could take the wind out of the sails of georgias Tourism Industry. Who guides like gear are trying to stay upbeat. Or. If the number of russian tourists go down there are a lot of other visitors from other countries so were going to just adapt. The flight burn is moscows response to the russian demonstrations in the capital tbilisi protesters were infuriated by georgias parliament inviting Russian Politicians to visit demonstrators accuse their government of collaborating with the enemy Russian Troops continue to occupy 20 percent of georgian territory its breakaway region and south ossetia. Now were hearing the word georgia and this place called the arch of modern make up out of friendship between georgia and russia so in reality colonialism communism and conflicts have all too often defined relations between the 2 countries though georgia has a special place in the hearts of many russians. We love georgia with so happy to be here. Nearly one and a half 1000000 russians who are ists came to georgia last year thats around 20 percent of the total number of visitors georgias National Bank estimates that fewer russian tourists could cost the economy as much as 300000000 dollars this year and there may be worse to come russian tourists are coming for exactly this kind of experience. The great tourist. The beauty of the place. But georgian wine exports may be next on russias banned list russian officials talk of tightening controls on georgian food and beverages russia is a major market its very difficult to quantify the impact of the tourism ban or even the ban on flights and potentially the ban on wine and vegetables and fruits thats going to be difficult to quantify in terms of g. D. P. Impact but what i think we cant quantify is the number of people who are going to be affected the number of people is going to be tremendously high its going to be at least half the population. Of. Russia right. Thats because more than half of georgias population works in torys and agriculture. Fewer russian rubles forced georgia to find new markets but until then the country could be in for a rough ride robyn 1st year walker well just 0 good. Take you through some of the headlines here in aljazeera now the International Criminal court has convicted a former colleagues wall all of war crimes and crimes against humanity bosco and the gander was found guilty of all 18 counts connected to the killings of thousands of civilians in the literary region between 20022003 he will be sentenced at a later date malcolm webb has more there is still some people who support to gander their Political Party to his militia was connected to the p. C. Some of their members told us that they believe that these charges are the evidence rather was fabricated and that the i. C. C. Quite simply have the wrong people but many others whove been affected by the prophecies of connected to the rebel groups that need to go and there was a commander in which isnt only there the u. P. C. But also later the c. N. D. Piero on the back rebel group of the m 23 will say backed by one there in subsequent conflict living in a warlord cliff a half star is preparing a 2nd offensive to seize the capital tripoli is commanders say as many as 20000 fighters have been sent to strengthen forces in western libya after launched his 1st campaign to seize the capital in april. Greece has a new prime minister. Says been sworn in the capital athens is promising to cut taxes attract investment and create jobs after his new Democracy Party won a clear majority in sundays election victory ends 4 and a half years in power for Alexis Tsipras and his series a coalition of the radical left the far right golden dawn lost all their seats in parliament the British Government has ordered an inquiry into leaked emails from some bastard to washington they describe the trumpet ministration as uniquely dysfunctional and in that its triggered an angry response from president donald trump. Has started sending home staff as part of measures to cut 18000. 00 jobs germanys biggest bank expects to make a 3000000000. 00 quarterly loss because of restructuring. The headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after counting the cost. And has this is counting the cost on aljazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week who runs opec we find out if the hunt for i all prices has for saudi arabia to relinquish control of the oil cartel to putin. From startup to unicorn just how easy is it to create a multibillion dollar tech sensation can the middle east create another success like right hailing. Or is the regions reliance on big money and love of brands stifling growth. So the outcome was never really in doubt saudi arabia was going to get the Production Cut it needed but for the defacto ruler of saudi Arabia Mohammed bin sandman the price he paid probably sacrificed the countrys leadership of the oil cartel opec and now the deal to extend Production Cuts until next year was struck on the sidelines of the g. 20 meeting in osaka and was rubber stamped in vienna that was despite initial objections from iran russias president Vladimir Putin has always worked to promote and recapture the countrys superpower status is pushing his influence in battlefields and capitals in the middle east and increasing the countrys global reach into africa his engagement with opec continues to win new partners despite ongoing western sanctions and when m. B. A. s approached putin in 2016 as oil prices sunk to 29. 00 a barrel putin won a major concession for his sanctions hit economy and b. S. Offered to invest 10000000000. 00 in the country and while the saudi economy needs oil prices around 80. 00 a barrel to balance its budget russia only needs oil at 42. 00 a barrel which is meant russias Rainy Day Fund has accumulated to 100000000000 from past production agreements. While many russian oil and Gas Companies are not keen on the production deal and putin would like them to pump oil freely they really dont want or prices to sink back to 30. 00 a barrel or that could happen as the United States keeps pumping record amounts of oil and trade tensions to squash Global Growth were joining me now from singapore is your hannahs bonine the founder and chairman of vienna and singapore based j. B. C. Energy group good to speak to you sir let me ask you 1st of all who is in the driving seat in with opec now is it is saudi arabia or russia or looks like the 2 have teamed up with the both driving and the interesting element lately was that everyone had to wait for the cheap 20. To come to kind of agreement between putin and moment in solomon so thats a bit of a change you may know that the opec meeting was originally scheduled a week earlier and it was somehow held back and postponed by a one week week by the request of russia and now we apparently know why i mean they wanted to wait for the g. 20. But this production deal would not have been possible without russia i mean russia really does appear to have the upper hand and has effectively been handed control of the oil cartel as it well lets face it the biggest burden is carried by saudi arabia saudi arabia one still have a Broad Coalition because they feel otherwise its really only down to them and so theyre working very hard to bring a lot of different players to the table and having russia being part of it is for them instrumental because it gives the impression there is a wider group of players that are ready to cut and so everyone lifting a little bit helps but saudi arabia really needs High Oil Prices to balance its budget russia doesnt so so why would russia or agree to this yeah that this is interesting i mean we have seen over time the different ideas about what the price would be we know that president putin has a different point in time stated that he would be happy with 60. 00. And out of this statement we know that he has been relatively unhappy with prices going higher especially his Oil Companies are telling him that this would just allow u. S. Production to grow and they the Russian Companies you know im missing out on opportunities yes its true the russian budget requires maybe lower prices but i think its also important for putin to form alliances and this is not alliance that you know if it works out this helpful for him and if it not you know eventually its damaging so right now he is in a much more comfortable position than the saudis are but has russia been keeping to its production quota well interestingly enough they have got there late late but they did they did you may say they only got there because they had a contamination issue where some of their oral pipeline volumes got contaminated was organic cloud. So that was was a problem for them but yes they finally work i think slowly but surely. Its going to be more interesting to see now within the 2nd half of the year they will stick to that. We use you on that they will not be so much sticking to that if you look on the total compliance of opec plus in the 1st half of the year they have been over compliant they were producing about 400000. 00 barrels a day less than what they said theres a target for themselves and in the 2nd hour of the year we would actually assume that there will be more desire to overproduce and so you may see a similar margin of overproduction to their own sets target that type of overproduction would come from countries like because of stand where the country going to will field was lately expanded you may also say iraq has a little less appetite for maintaining its share of the cuts because they are also bringing new capacities online nigeria has more volume to come and russia probably is going to be a little bit reluctant but with that with the iranian Venezuelan Oil slowly losing market share because of sanctions against. Against against each of them was there a need for this Production Cuts. Well we have to bear in mind that the increase of supply from drest of the world outside of a big is about 2000000. 00 barrel this year now if you compare that was an increase of demand which is about 900000. 00 barrels a day this year you can see that there is a little much oil out there so opec plus had to do something and whats tough for them and thats why i think that the market is not really yet appreciating that cut and is not rising higher the tough message is that if they want to maintain a stable market they will have to cut even more next year because next year they will probably have to do another half a 1000000 so that means to cut that was prolonged now for 9 months probably has to be fine tuned again by the end of the year what he what he knew all of you is pulling down oil prices at the moment. Well 1st of all the supplies from particularly the u. S. But the also see more and more supplies coming in from other parts in the world take it to brazil is increasing production kind of those spring out more barrels. So we will see towards the end of the year norwegian production growing so there is supply left right and center. But what comes really bad is at the same time the demand is slowing we see the impact from the Global Economic growth is not good actually Economic Sentiment is lousy we see that the demand particularly from the car industry is not good but at the same time we see that the light ends in the market are in surplus now you may have seen that the Natural Gas Market actually is in tremendous weak state we have seen the Natural Gas Prices at the lowest level right now for as long as i can think now this weakness in the Natural Gas Market is also spreading into the natural gas leak of its thats product like eating l. P. G. And those products are competing heavily in the petrochemical sector and with nothing on the oil side and all that is right now not having such a good place for the month because the monsoon please lex because of the economic developments but from the from the point of view of the big opec producers like saudi arabia wouldnt it be better for oil prices to sink to wipe out some of the u. S. Shale Oil Production well. The issue is the market requires a Market Management to be balanced if you leave it to the market you will see price extremes of course if you if you just allow the market to do its job without having a kind of agreement on making voluntary cuts prices may sink again to 30. 00 it will kill a lot of companies and eventually it will again move higher. What is a fair price i think this is where the difficulty is probably its around the p 5060. 00 insurer because it around those numbers you will have a. Reasonable return on investment for deepwater exploration but probably also for shallow developments if prices are moving above that range you will see more stimulus you will see more more to asian to invest in shell oil like in other investments and so that means maintaining the prices at lofty high those numbers that i would say are higher than what the russians would like closer to the 70. 00 range makes it more vulnerable to increases in supply and thats thats where the crumble comes good to speak with you yohannes been in you thanks very much for being with us and it will come. Of growing up in the public gaze with your every move scrutinized your mistakes vilified some rightly and justly can be difficult were not talking hollywood or british royalty were talking about Silicon Valley startups only theyre spectacular rise would give the impression that all this success comes easily and the success of a lift and slack can it be replicated when that doesnt happen questions are raised about entrepreneurship government legislation and monopolies so here we are in the middle east after the success of right hailing app karim which bought for 3000000000. 00 we find out if that success will be replicated we have 2 young startups here in the studio to find out how easy or difficult it is to create a Success Story for joining us is. Entrepreneur and cofounder of wash now and imagine lever be the chief executive of group health good to have you both with us and so i want to start by asking you to tell us a little bit about your business and give you whats known as the elevator pitch which im sure youre familiar with just give us a sort of 32nd to a minute elevator pitch. To sell your company magid ruby health of the digital put a company that uses behavior science to help people with their bodies and prediabetes change their habits live healthier and deduce the risk of chronic diseases you know the root of the chronic diseases as behavioral thats why weve designed this bill products that relies on lifestyle and behavior change interventions we started with 2 products they abuse prevention and their bodies management of both using the behavioral science to let people use a 16 week off remote live some of the case in programs that produces clinical outcomes for the wizards in the field tell us about