Fascinating yet the general consensus rightly so was that a lot of what he said was completely sort of you know out of kilter with reality and with the truth there was happened in south africa but actually his purpose of appearing there was ultimately political and was focused within the a. N. C. And on those terms actually i think he was quite successful in terms of driving a wedge was his desire inside the party and so i think you have to treat him very carefully and ultimately a lot of this stuff is internally focused within the a. N. C. And that internal focus means that they can be distractions from dealing with some of the big issues the structural forms yes so hes exactly great to talk to pisa many thanks for being with us and counting the cost of. The rock imports 12000000000. 00 worth of iranian gas and goods every year while baghdad has a 3 month waiver from washington to continue buying iranian exports that are concerns about the Economic Impact for both nations once sanctions kick in already many iranian kurds are crossing. The border to find walk in Northern Iraq we have 2 reports for you in a moment asama been job it in baghdad on fears that ending imports could push up prices but 1st a touch of going to reports from a bill in the kurdish region where the common language makes it easier for a rainy and money for their families back home. Each room shot from gardy wallpapers is bringing him closer to the day he can afford to marry his fiance the money he earns as a handyman in Northern Iraq is also supporting his parents at home in iran. How did it go its been 5 years working in a before this kind of work wasnt popular now theres more of a demand and business is Getting Better every 3 to 4 months i take a break and go back to iran because i have a work permit. But these iranian kurds arent so lucky without work permits they enter the kurdish region in iraq on one month tourist visas work every day they can return home and repeat the process Mohammad Faruq says a lucrative month of work puts 800. 00 in his pocket. I know its very hard for me to be away from my family but its hard not to have any money to spend all to buy food whats better being away from your family and having money or being with your family and having no money the government doesnt keep an official count of the number of iranian workers here but says there are hundreds and that number has tripled in the last 2 years as irans economy suffers from u. S. Sanctions the director of labor in the semi autonomous kurdish region expects more iranians to seek work here will be taking advantage of an economy on the rebound following several tough years. Yeah he had attempted i proposed a plan to address the situation with iranian workers it would match them with jobs. We have a need for we dont want to close the border with them but we must organize a situation that effects the local workers greatly and we have to give them a priority. He says for the time being the Kurdistan Regional government has no intention of barring these men bound by culture and language many people see these iranian kurds as their brothers and sympathize with their plight. From vegetables to milk cooking oil to washing detergent in southern iraq almost everything on sale is from neighboring iran. Not just theory products come from iran take it snakes cakes juices from iran there will be a crisis if these products are. Some locally produced items are available but imported goods are cheaper irans proximity low prices and long established trade ties make it easier for vendors to rely on 3 indian product. That much. Of an iranian groceries dominate the iraqi market because if it wasnt for the m locally produced groceries would have been sold at twice their actual price. But as the u. S. Increases pressure and imposes biting sanctions on tehran iraqi traders are concerned. That what we can afford the absence of iranian goods in the market the average income of a person under the allows for buying cheap imported goods from iran. Iraq is the only country exempt from u. S. Sanctions on iran washington has extended baghdads waiver on iranian imports for 3 months its not clear what will happen when that expires as the us insists iraq must find alternatives in anticipation of the sanctions iraq and iran have been discussing ways to continue the trade an estimated 25000000. 00 worth of iranian imports into iraq every day according to iraqi officials especially financial agreement under which iraq will run without sending over any money iran would be able to use that money which remains inside iraq to purchase goods a similar agreement exists between iraq and some European Countries to work around u. S. Sanctions. And there are other powers papering iran that are defending irans interests which made iraq irans back door a. T. M. So to speak to mitigate sanctions iraqs economy is largely unorganized a lack of official statistics and throw more training makes it impossible to accurately picture what happens at the border with iran which stretches 1400 kilometers in france germany and the u. K. Introduced a mechanism called in sticks to facilitate trade in exchange of basic goods including food medical equipment and medicine between iranian and Foreign Companies iraqs case is different because in addition to Household Items baghdad relies heavily on iranian gas imported electricity. Iraq also needs iran iraq situation isnt completely settled this extends to iraqs economy industry and agriculture besides iranian investment and other Foreign Investment is no although iraqi officials deny that baghdad is becoming irans a. T. M. Or cash machine the fear is that any restriction on tree could affect iraqs fragile instability now how the musicians like taylor swift make their money you may have thought that after her spat with businessman Scooter Braun who bought the rights to swifts 1st 6 albums that there was perhaps a link between streaming publishing record sales and her potential earnings well there is some truth in that but just not enough to make artists rich braun the manager of Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande a paid 300000000. 00 for the rights for the swifts back catalogue but she isnt the 1st or last artist to have seen her work sold to the highest bidder. Paul mccartney wasnt happy in losing the rights to the beatles catalog to Michael Jackson in 185. 00 jackson paid 47000000. 00 to buy a t. V. Which included rights to music by Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones because hes hoping to win the rights back ization still make most of their money from touring according to billboard u 2 was the top 2018 dublin based rock has made 54000000 dollars nearly all of the earnings coming from touring just 2400000 came from sales streaming of publishing. Joining us now from london zack fuller a music analyst at middle Research Good to have you with us on kinds of the costs act does taylor swift have a point with artists receiving such a small percentage of the revenue generated by their music where is the rest of the money going. Of course but this is a conflict that is old as music recorded Music History and weve seen this going back from the days of the beatles theres always been this conflict over is the artist being renumerated in the way that they should through the record label now when artists often sign these deals they are not in the leverage position that they are once they become a global superstar so really what weve witnessed with the taylor swift story is that conflict that because when an artist who has achieved global success then comes to renegotiate with a label that actually prior to that fame had their label had their rights signed off so even in this age of new technology and streaming the way in which we get all music is it still the case the big music is king the big music is king its interesting you bring this up because really what the big machine deal with involving taylor swift right to shown us is actually hes given this almost a platform to the very idea of the label. Now what i mean by label service is the end there of digital where a lot of artists are actually going direct to fan and bypassing the label system altogether labels are actually having to play catch up affectively and so instead of offering a deal where you are actually taking a lot of the artists rights the Value Proposition that they are offering is using their Marketing Strategies their Global Networks their ability to build a brand and i see using that as their main selling point so what weve actually witnessed with regards to this idea of the bigger artist its actually the middle class or the independent artist is outpacing the recorded Wind Industries of room growth if we look at last year it was actually labels Services Group 3 times quicker in terms of revenue than the overall recorded Music Industry so our bigger artists being as big as they were i mean its a fair point to bring up but really its late winning at this point so what would your advice to be to the. Being a musician how can Young Artists ensure that they are. Benefitting from the streams that they get from the fact that people want to download and listen to their music out how can they generate revenue whats important to remember now is that they have more choice than ever so bringing it back to the taylor swift story when she signed this deal these up change these didnt exist those labels Services Deals they were not in place and the whole streaming economy had not developed at this point so if you are younger artists you may choose to go with a range record label because you believe its best for your art but ultimately now you have the choice now music streaming platforms really did disrupt the industry i mean account remember the last time i actually bought a physical copy of a recording a cd i mean vinyls had a bit of a revival but if you take the billboard numbers of what the streaming services are actually paying artists stream it just fractions of a cent its going to take a heck of a long time for musicians to profit from the music isnt it. Well really what the streaming Business Model has done is it appended the whole idea of the seo and so i think the have been some teething problems in terms of how that those economics are beginning to add up because as you correctly identified if youre seeing per stream rates it begins to look quite low but the advantage of what were seeing streaming is its expanding the overall music market so previous territories where you never would have received any revenue from it really in its most its most embryonic form recorded Music Industry could only really monetize developed western markets streaming is completely changing that and as the overall base grows that its going to be to the advantage of the artists so a streaming Services Like apple music and spotify the savior of the Music Industry both the artists and the Publishing Companies or are they are they disruptors but in a bad way. Its a bit of its interesting described as disruptors in a bad way i mean if youre talking to record labels we just should go by the sheer numbers you would almost bring out the savior narrative and record recorded Music Industry was in a state of almost some would have described terminal decline for the best part 15 years between 202015 those revenues are now starting to creep up again although it still has a long way to go for reaches the dizzy heights of what it was in 1909 streaming services have a sense the driven the majority of that growth and so the saving narrative the idea that spotify oh awful music would have saved the record labels isnt too far stretch to say taylor swift obviously unhappy about having to give so much of the revenue who work generates to the Publishing Companies that the put the record companies. Looking at it from the other side who should she be happy that revenue the revenue that her songs are generating in the stablish artists is going to help other younger less well established artists up and coming off its was an interesting point because if we consider one of the labels signs artists typically most of them on going to even make a profit in the end theyre not going to go on to achieve the success that taylor swift has so one could make the view that yes revenues are going off to pay for the advances of other artists that werent achieve the same level level of success that taylor swift does converse to that point is an artist may feel well this is my revenue and the one who richie is achieving that success i shouldnt be able to bankroll bankroll as other artists you can see both sides of the point from the label and the artist fascinating zach has been great to talk to you many thanks indeed for being with us on counting the cost thank you. 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Supreme court plays a way for president trying to tap into pentagon funds to help build a wall along the mexico border. Fire speichers europes heat wave threatens to melt the arctic ice sheet to a record low. And south africas gold miners win a multimillion dollar compensation deal. But fatal illnesses. Follow the u. N. As human rights chief has condemned what she calls International Indifference to the rising death toll in syrias rebel held province michel but she lay says those targeting civilians should be charged with war crimes in the past 10 days 104 civilians have died in an strikes in southern italy 27 of them children warning viewers may find some of the images in zain is report now disturbing they are images that have shocked many but tragedies like this are happening nearly every day in northwest syria where the governments assault is if its 30 bucks. A loved desperately trying to save his daughters as they dangled from the edge of a building destroyed in the syrian or russian airstrike the 5 year old we have held on to our 3 year old sister drove around for as long as she could. But then they fell to the ground i died. Well when struggled for life but later passed away in hospital. The high number of People Killed and injured here particularly children reflects the scale of the humanitarian situation war monitors say there have been at least 800 civilian deaths 200 of them children since the russian backed Syrian Government offensive began in april in the past months at least 33 children were killed according to save the children thats more than in the whole of 2018. They only probably and most of all the places they live in that are being hit marketplace theres hospitals not the facility is schools no one and nothing it is the thing more and then. These scenes have become all too familiar rescue workers at times dig for hours to find survivors and remove the dead civilian infrastructure schools hospitals. And help the syrians are protected under International Humanitarian law theyre meant to be spared and yet theyre being impacted more than anything else so there has to be outrage. The latest offensive is no different from previous ones during the 8 year war they are carried out with impunity and little accountability. The pope sent a letter to syrias president bashar assad asking him to protect the lives of civilians the European Union says attacks on critical civilian infrastructure must stop the United States and the u. K. Renewed calls for a cease fire an adlib but the International Community statements have not been backed with action. The bombardment hasnt stopped its intensifying the u. N. Describes what is unfolding in islam as a worsening nightmare for the civilians they are not players in this conflict but International Humanitarian rights organizations say they are being targeted. Istanbul. Earlier we spoke to Rupert Colvin the spokesman for the United Nations high commissioner for human rights he says government strikes are relentless and indiscriminate where were definitely seeing a military escalation in general but particularly from the Government Forces and their allies over the past 3 months or so and just in the past 2 weeks i would say its escalated even further with daily attacks and multiple attacks daily i mean over and what we were talking about this morning we were hearing of more as strikes last night and some early today as well so its ongoing its relentless and the people suffering most of all im not the fighters on either side its the civilians who are caught between them i mean just in the past 10 days alone we know of 10 different locations that have been hit by a strike some of them. More than once several times over 10 places where the been civilian casualties have been other strikes where theyve been havent been casualties these tend the strikes are along 2 main routes the m 4 the m 5. And there are essentially civilian areas the civilians really have nowhere to go and bombs are falling in market squares in bakeries and so on are david lilley is executive director at the Syrian American medical society he joins us now from washington thanks very much for being with us so based on these reports and on the work for you have done here just how desperate is this situation for civilians living there. I agree 100 percent with some of the earlier comments it is a worsening nightmare to date since late april when the us collation expanded the Syrian American medical society medical facilities that it supports have treated alone over 3500 injured these are civilians to date from late april 700 civilians have been killed over 300 have been women and children and whats worse is that these individuals are treated at medical facilities that are facing shortages of supplies of equipment and and pharmaceuticals to treat them and yet they are under threat daily threat of being targeted since late april 39 medical facilities have been targeted have been attacked 14 of which have been have shared their their coordinates with the United Nations last year the United Nations asked for medical facilities to share facilities many of those from the Syrian American medical society did share the facilities with the agreement of the directors of those facilities and so far 39. 00 facilities have been hit 14 of which had shared their coronets with the warring parties at the un human rights chief has says that the world remains largely indifference to all of this in your view why why is that. Its hard to say that tragedy in syria has been going on since 2011. What we call for. The Syrian American medical society. A political neutral party that follows International Humanitarian law what we call for is outraged we call for the community the International Community to investigate for the United Nations to hold the warring parties accountable for the atrocities that they are committing especially. Attacks on civilians especially attacks on medical facilities and schools can you imagine that since this war has started nearly 1000 medical professionals have been killed simply trying to treat those who have been injured in this war one of the most dangerous places in syria to be is a medical facility nearly 400 medical facilities have been hit have been attacked in this war so far. What sort of access if any have you been able to get to to people in those areas particularly in the medical facilities and what sort of accounts youve been getting from them. Weve been hearing from them daily as theres a commentator said early earlier the situation has escalated even worse in the past week on a daily basis we are hearing of medical facilities that have been attacked have been a target have been targeted or who are treating hundreds of injured on a daily basis so just yesterday we heard a minute of an account of a family of of which a community literally had to dig from the rubble to try and save most of whom eventually died it is just a daily tragedy and were looking for the outrage were looking for accountability from all parties from the International Community to provide help this is such a dire situation people need water sanitation they need shelter there are since this has started over 350000 people in the past 3 months have been displaced 20 percent of whom have already been displaced in this war in northwest syria good to speak of you had david lilly joining us there from washington thanks for being with us. How the wider issue of children in the worlds conflict zones is the subject of a new report of the United Nations for now it is only been given to the 15 Member States of the u. N. Security council but aljazeera has obtained exclusively a copy of our diplomatic edited james bays has been reading it. This report comes out every year it makes very grim reading its from the secretary general of the u. N. To the Security Council its not yet been published but aljazeera has obtained a copy of the report in recent years its become a political hot potato with 2 countries not wanting to get mentioned in this report and thats israel and saudi arabia its pretty clear to me from reading this report that theres been political pressure again because inside the report it says that israels responsible for the highest number of deaths of palestinian children 59 in 2800 for 5 years and yet at the end of the report the amex which lists the countries and groups responsible for killing children israel is not mentioned saudi arabia does get a mention on the list but on the part of the list here of listed parties that have put in place measures during the reporting period aimed at improving the protection of children our saudi arabia the Saudi Led Coalition in yemen has been under that section for 3 years it does though beg the question if theyre putting measures in place to stop killing children to protect children why are children in yemen still dying. The turkish president. Says he is determined to eliminate what he calls the terror corridor or in Northern Syria u. S. And turkish officials have been holding talks for a safe zone east of the river euphrates to address its security concerns over the presence of curtis kurdish fighters there but. We are determined to destroy it to pieces to tear a corridor in the east of the euphrates. Regardless of the way negotiations with the United States go on the forming of a safe zone along the border with syria with this operation we will in the context between tira groups based east of the euphrates entier wrists and Northern Iraq this way we will be able to squeeze and destroy the tear a corridor from the east and the east libyas coast guard says its recovered the bodies of dozens of refugees and migrants who died in what the u. N. Has called the worst mediterranean tragedy this year as many as 350. 00 were on board the boats that capsized off the town of homs east of tripoli on thursday about 145. 00 of them were rescued