planes as well as emergency personnel reeling in albania that fatah don't disagree government is ready to take all necessary decisions and supply all needed resources our duties to support all agencies so that they have what they need to get the fires under control and therefore the government is following this event closely every minute every day. and usually high temperatures across the whole nordic region up to thirty three celsius coupled with virtually no rain for several weeks have made the vegetation here highly flammable finland norway have also had wildfires in the last week but it's sweden that suffer the most. this dairy farmer says the grass is normally much longer right now and that's a real problem we don't use this much. normally. i think we used to feed about three or four a day. and now it's five or six. alive. in some areas homeowners have been moved to safety thousands of swedes have been warned to

stay indoors with the windows shut to avoid breathing in smoke the situation is very serious the rescue services do not see that their biggest fires will be able to be extinguished in the near future joe today whether that coming week and at the moment the focus is on delaying and requesting and trying to well delay and hindered the spreading of the fires swedish authorities say that as of thursday an area equivalent to twenty thousand football pitches had burned that's ten times the size you'd expect in a normal year and some fires are still spreading the al-jazeera. campaigning underway in pakistan for weapons days general election bilawal bhutto zardari the head of the pakistan people's party and son of the assassinated former leader benazir bhutto has been rallying in the southern city of karachi but the

vote is widely seen as a two way race between the parties a former cricket star in run current and jailed former prime minister and i was sharif whose brother is contesting more than three hundred seventy one thousand soldiers have been deployed to guard the polling stations imran khan's promising to stamp out corruption if he wins the leader of the. party has addressed a rally in islamabad which is seen as a stronghold for his party he told the crowd he would hold ministers accountable for any wrongdoing ya got my vote so we can form a government in pakistan where a minister will be afraid of corruption but our national accountability bureau will catch a prime minister and ministers as it happens in europe. is in charge or destroyed close to the border with afghanistan there he spoke to rural voters. i watched majority of the budgets gone the population lived in the rural areas where dime had

. although it did take part in the election rigorously they have not seen the kind of results by their leadership in a country where corruption runs high in political political leader direct. typing all the billions of dollars from their country ended rural areas people do not have clean drinking water they do not have education they do not have medical care and all the necessary for nation building. and political leadership change will drawn flayed interchange. as it's never brought any change to our laws what i'm doing now is what i've been doing for many years there is no change for the poor in this country and it's going from bad to worse. for the poor elections only mean a change of face nothing more but it matters

a lot to the elite class who are sucking our blood through corruption for their own good and they have gone from millionaires to billionaires but the poor are still suffering because of the social media dated now are nowhere near and political leaders are getting a grilling from the population to what they have done and up by. government and goal by day have not been able to deliver on the promise of trying to better the lives of the watch majority of its population and therefore did i question mark after what happened next. india is scrapping taxes on send the three pads in what's being hailed as a major boost for girls' education they were previously taxed at twelve percent sparking protests when it was imposed last year the additional cost became a problem for girls and women especially in rural areas if officially been listed as an essential. iran's supreme leader has threatened to block oil exports throughout the region if its own sales are in the ayatollah's how many made the

comments at a meeting with the foreign ministry officials in his comments come amid divisions within the country on who's to blame for its economic problems. in tehran. the price of one of america's best known exports is pretty much the same wherever you go but in iran the falling value of the local currency the real means what someone here might have paid for a smartphone last year has doubled a thousand dollars in iran now costs twice as much electronics is just one sector feeling the effects of american foreign policy iranian say from food to clothes to rent sanctions have made everything more expensive. missiles and. i see the purchasing power of people has been reduced a lot inflation is going up rapidly instability of the dollar price has caused tensions in the markets and it causes problems for everybody i think we need a change in our economic administration this change could help our economy. the

iranian president's chief of staff said last week a reshuffle was in the works to bring new faces into the federal cabinet to deal with economic issues but experts say years of economic uncertainty have created such a negative business atmosphere that no one seems to know how to turn things around . a common is that the price of the rio always gets worse never better it's value has dropped so much in recent months that many exchange companies have stopped selling foreign banknotes just to get a sense of how bad things have gotten. to what it was in one nine hundred seventy nine when one dollar seventy realize now that price is nearly eighty thousand in the decade since the islamic revolution iranian men and women aged thirty or under have become the largest segment of the population many say they want to leave iran for a better future abroad i'm going to. i'm concerned about whether i can afford rent and food in this expensive city as

a student i shouldn't have. i should have enough money to focus on my studies. and i'm very worried about what to do i think the course of these problems is mismanagement it is said it's because of sanctions but i think that's just one part of the problem. while u.s. president donald trump is blamed for many of iran's problems iranians say their leaders should have seen incoming government leaders said the signing of the twenty fifty nuclear deal was the light at the end of the tunnel but for many iranians that light turned out to be a train. a new twist in the. playboy model. and zimbabwe's president tends to. say it's. the weather.

hello there we're seeing quite a bit of severe weather over parts of asia at the moment if we look at the satellite picture we can see one cluster of cloud hair that's over the southern parts of china and into the northern parts of viet nam this system is intensifying and it's going to bring us yet more heavy rain to a region we've already seen some flooding recently we've also got another area of cloud here that's developing that's brought us flooding already to lose on and that system is now edging away towards the north and then this distinctive area of cloud here is a storm that's working its way towards the northwest crossing shanghai there and eventually beginning to disintegrate further inland over parts of china say many of us are expecting more significant weather as we head through the next few days they'll be further towards the south and you can see the cloud that's been affecting us there over to zone and that's what's brought us our recent batch of flooding that system although the main area of the focus of the energy is moving

away the still going to be plenty of what weather across the new zone in the next few days so they could well be more flooding hit further south also the rains are intensifying for some of us hey could see a few showers every post of java and bali but it does look dry air force as we head through the day on monday towards the west for many of us in the southern some outré looks dry k.l. and singapore both at risk of seeing some showers. the weather sponsored by qatar always. a good question but fifteen thousand people posing an imminent threat to israel you snivel this they were. told it's made to come must people not millennium you'll get a right loan or they're the same thing that i'm from the bay are sending them to die it's a contradiction very of when they come and attack us it's a woman she was attacking your son goes i do hate with daddy and what israel is doing is deliberately choosing to slaughter houses. because it.

you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories so far today funerals have been held for hamas fighters killed by israeli airstrikes in gaza on friday and israeli soldier also lost his life during fighting along the israel gaza fence the trigs brokered by egypt and the united nations appears to be holding for now. syrian rebels who surrendered in the southwest it began arriving in opposition held areas of the promise of more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have reached the town of brook government forces have been making strong gains in the south with most of the areas now under their control. protesters have returned to the streets of the nicaraguan capital managua months of political

unrest pick up more momentum antigovernment demonstrators are demanding president daniel ortega steps down and calls fresh elections. donald trump has accused his former lawyer of potentially acting illegally after it emerged he secretly recorded the us president discussing payments to a former playboy model the recording was seized during an f.b.i. raid on michael cohen's office earlier this year in the recording mr trump reported it discusses pay money to karen mcdougal who claims she had a ten month long affair with mr trump she had pretends he has more now from washington. prosecutors in new york are investigating whether about payment to karen mcdougal who claims to have an affair with donald trump violated campaign finance regulations and was paid by american media inc the publisher of the national enquirer with the expressed purpose of getting the rights of that story to prevent her from telling anyone else about it it was during the presidential

campaign if it's found that the publishing company and michael cohen and donald trump well. working together in order to help his presidential campaign that could be seen as a campaign contribution and that would be illegal companies are not allowed to collude with political campaigns in an election cycle in any way any individual contribution is capped at around five thousand dollars and that could be very serious for donald trump however the trump lawyers say this is all overblown michael kern was acting in a personal capacity but all drama that had nothing to do with the presidential campaign. well the green party is very much been an also ran in u.s. politics but now it's hoping to become a bigger player because of those a frustration with donald trump and the democrats candidates in the midterm elections in november have been making their cases at their annual conference kristen salumi is in salt lake city. she is the woman democrats love to hate many believe jill stein cost hillary clinton the election in two thousand and sixteen

arguing the green party candidate diverted crucial votes in swing states that nearly went for now president donald trump recent revelations have only fueled her critics we know from the moller investigation that the russians not only took out ads on behalf of donald trump but also on behalf of you are you worried about russian intervention in the elections one facebook ad with the kind of you know among i think it was three thousand ads if i'm not mistaken that were attributed to this russian internet agency those ads cost one hundred thousand dollars compared to know donald trump got six billion dollars worth of free air time from corporate t.v. why because he was quote damn good for their bottom line according to the c.e.o. of c.b.s. for example so you know if you're looking for intervention in the election or

interference how about the interference of big corporate media that had billions of dollars in free airtime to throw around for a candidates that benefited their bottom line but then there is this photo of her sitting next to russian president vladimir putin and former trump national security advisor michael flynn at a moscow dinner in two thousand and fifteen i was in russia to talk about a piece of offensive in the middle east to talk about nuclear weapons and to talk about climate change and ending fossil fuel use this was not selling out to the russians i did not receive funding i wasn't paid by russia they didn't even pay my way. and as greens put forward a slate of candidates running for congress in the mid-term elections she dismisses concerns that their progressive platform would divide up. position to the party of tramp as democrats work to retake control of the house of representatives people

are not buying into term paving and russia baiting that's really the extent of the democratic party generating i'm pleased at its establishment its leadership people are ready for something different and the better alternative stein says is green kristen salumi al jazeera salt lake city utah. voters are being courted by zimbabwe's ruling as zanu p.f. party now that robert mugabe is no longer the president the new leader emerson and got what he has told them the government's controversial land grabs are a thing of the past campaigns ahead of the election in eight days time opinion polls suggest it will be a close contest government from harare thank you many white zimbabweans have a farm seized and given to black families because of land reform laws passed when robert mugabe was president over the years some felt his black economic empowerment policies excluded them from mainstream politics and job opportunities the army

forced mugabe to resign and the man who replaced him says land grabs would no longer be tolerated president. hu seeking reelection has been looking for votes among whites and barbarians at a rally in had any. reform. near. what the word. must be. one. some us skeptical about the timing of the president's reassurances to white voters a few days before the parliamentary and presidential elections are this a more optimistic we need to come to. our. not. from from politics and voting day at the end of the month will be the first without deposed president robert mugabe the elections are being closely

watched by the international community. generally. true. peacefully. complaints for intimidation violence are generally have been able to get here work. but the main opposition leader nelson chamisa isn't happy he believes the electoral process is floored alleging the voters' role could taint so-called ghost voters and that the rulings on the party is tampering with ballot papers election observers are urging politicians to resolve their differences through dialogue before voting day time is running out the general election is on july the thirtieth some opposition supporters say they will protest next week if the issues aren't addressed these accusations and counter-accusations have heightened tensions something election observers say they are aware of how these disagreements are managed could determine the success or failure of the first

post mugabe elections since one nine hundred eighty. well there i've all of the i.m.f. boss and finance ministers from the g. twenty and board and cyrus has brought thousands out onto the streets they're not happy about the government's decision to take a fifty billion dollar loan from the i.m.f. and what that could mean to resupply from the argentinian capital. left wing groups who gathered to protest against the international monetary fund in one aside is on saturday. last month the i.m.f. stepped in to shore up the argentinean economy with a fifty billion loan agreement but people like the boy believe it won't help improve people's lives. we already had the i.m.f. and a crisis we know what happened in greece they will fire state employees they will reduce salaries and take away workers right what is today one. argentina's economy

has been struggling in recent months due to a drop in investor confidence in emerging economies their currency lost over forty percent of its value and inflation has continued to rise this people are protesting just a few blocks away from where the g twenty finance ministers and central bank governors are meeting by they were prevented from getting closer by security forces this people that you can see here i hope we can reach the guard the director of the i.m.f. with him will sign if we hear their message and hear from the years that the austerity measures implemented by the government. will generate more poverty and unemployment but christine legarde who came to attend the g. twenty summit showed strong support with what is trying to do there has been significant progress in terms of monetary policy as well where clearly the measures that have been taken by the bank have restored and managed

a much better situation with less volatility water. parents. protest because of policies suggested by the i.m.f. are not unique to argentina there has been strong opposition in countries like jordan and haiti international n.g.o.s like oxfam and others have suggested at the i.m.f. should rethink its standard recipes that take away power from labor unions do not help lower unemployment and demand and of government spending which leads in most cases to an increase in poverty levels. for the seats in the me or the essence of the i.m.f. is the same it is to prioritize the physical deficit proton's austerity measures it's the same old i.m.f. with a change in discourse look at what's happening in other parts of the world like jordan . and that's why many here are distrustful of the current government's economic policies because they believe it will only deteriorate the lives of those who need

government help the most. plus more news whenever you want it on the website it's always there for you twenty four seven al-jazeera dot com you can also follow us on facebook and twitter as well. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories funerals have been held for hamas fighters killed by israeli airstrikes in gaza on friday and israeli soldier also lost his life during fighting along the israel gaza fence a truce brokered by egypt and the u.n. appears to be holding for the moment. mohammed has more now from west jerusalem. israeli officials we've been speaking with are not calling it a ceasefire they are saying in fact that calm has been restored on israel's border with gaza they are saying that activities are returned to normal but they are not

calling it a cease fire now hamas also wasn't going to cease fire when they were talking about this cease fire for all intents and purposes that's what it is but it is a very shaky truce at this point syrian rebels who surrendered in the southwest have now begun arriving in opposition held areas of the province of hama more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have reached the town of my broke and government forces have been making strong gains in the south with most of the areas now under their control protestors have returned to the streets of the nicaraguan capital as months of political unrest pick up more momentum anti-government demonstrators are demanding president daniel ortega steps down and calls fresh elections campaigning has begun in pakistan for weapons days general election bilawal bhutto zardari the head of the pakistan people's party and some of the assassinated former leader benazir bhutto has been running in karate the vote is widely seen as a two way race between the parties a former cricket star in run current and jailed former prime minister nawaz sharif

his brother is in contestant more than three hundred seventy one thousand soldiers have been deployed to guard polling stations in india scrapping taxis on sanitary pads in what's being hailed as a major boost for girls' education they were previously taxed at twelve percent sparking protests when it was imposed last year the additional cost became a problem for girls and women especially in poor and rural areas. dozens of wildfires are raging across sweden which is experiencing its worst drought for seventy four years comes after months of high temperatures and it's prompted an appeal for help to other european countries those are your headlines up next inside story i will be back in the seat in about thirty minutes.

what's triggering protests in nicaragua president daniel ortega under pressure to step down off two years impala of the form of evolutionary leader planes full of months of turmoil so what's the solution this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i am hashem it's. the man who led the revolution in nicaragua thirty nine years ago daniel ortega and his army of send instead rebels were victorious in deposing president anastasio somoza the left wing rebel fighters called him

a dictator which is exactly what many are calling are taken now the three time presidents defied almost four months of protests against his rule at least three hundred protesters killed thousands injured and condemnations from all over the world from both friends and foes many living in fear roam the streets including in former rebel small holes. reports from one limbo. thirty year old man this had disappeared for three days but on friday his family found his dead body at the coroner's office in the capital. his father a man the says cuts to his arms show signs of abuse. he was tortured he was beaten here in the head in the back and was shot in the chest and leg he didn't have weapons or mortars. his family says he wasn't involved in the

protests but he was taken away by security forces. they took him away outside the house but since those an attack going on we couldn't go out. since security and pro-government forces launched a so-called clean up operation in tuesday to lift barricades a caravan of heavily armed and masked gunmen have taken control of one driving around in vehicles without license plates many businesses and homes here are still closed but the road blocks have been lifted there are still some tensions here in the neighborhood of mourning as a paramilitary continues to patrol the streets here i was thinking of food then. says she's out selling stew for the first time in more than two months but she's still afraid that if this if because of the situation we can't talk we can't say anything but we are ok because we are back to work. police say the clean up

operation was ordered by president bush and his wife vice president. says the government confronted protesters to bring back stability after weeks of turmoil. it has been our duty once again to defend peace for everyone it's been a painful battle because we've confronted an armed conspiracy. violent protests. yes to me that i will have left nearly three hundred people good. morning beau was a bastion of rebel resistance since the sandinista revolution thirty nine years ago and also during these months of protests on tuesday's confrontations at least two people were killed but the crackdown is not get over. again as i just i just see the money we get our.

they send in this town ashleigh liberation front or f s l n rose to power in one nine hundred seventy nine by overthrowing president and a start your son was a anding more than forty years of his family's war in one nine hundred eighty v.f.s. l.-n. revolutionary government led by daniel ortega introduced widespread land reforms to benefit formerly landless peasants two years later right wing rebels called the contras who were backed by the united states of america began attacks and a state of emergency was declared the control war led to the deaths of more than thirty thousand people in one thousand eight hundred for the first free and fair elections were held with a landslide victory for the f.s.a. land but in one nine hundred ninety of the sandinista were defeated the new president elected was violet acho morrow with support from washington the united states immediately stopped backing for the contrasts fast forward to two thousand and fourteen when changes to nicaragua's constitution came into effect allowing

president ortega to run for a third consecutive term he won the election in two thousand and sixteen and appointed his wife. as his vice president let's introduce our panel. in washington d.c. venice noire men the founder and c.e.o. of a symmetric consultancy that specializes in latin america in manchester u.k. collin harding director of the firm locked in form via skype from. blunden student demonstrators in nicaragua welcome to all but. we talking here about an outcry against a dictator or is it something else no doubt thank you for having me on yes no it absolutely is an outcry against a dictator i'm on originated from venezuela and i have been on your show several

times to discuss those dynamics what we're seeing here is very similar you're saying that there was a group that sort of couched itself in this left wing revolutionary you know rhetoric that had at one point some reason for being right there the green reform inequality corruption dictatorship it's at a woman as well we didn't have a dictatorship when the when these when chavez came in but what is happened is that these these guys the people have realized that what were these left wingers have now you know taken control of all the powers of state taken control of a lot of means. of production control of the media and they they want the repression to end this is what happens when people stay in power too long they become authoritarian and repressive and they're under strain right now so that's exactly what this is this is a real outcry for democracy they want their rights back mr cullen says this is

a satanic sect backed by the united states of america to undermine his government. well yes that's best for you governments rhetoric. ortega has never abandoned his left wing anti-imperialist rhetoric but of course when once he was back in power after two thousand and six he implemented much more pragmatic policies he actually developed quite a successful economic model in conjunction with the private sector who were representatives of business were included on the advisory panels and contracts government contracts were handed out to the private sector and this worked rather well the economy was growing about four percent a year or more for several years until very recently and i think the reference to venezuela or alias is quite interesting because they're playing by the venezuela playbook now venezuela bankrolled the ortega government in recent years about six hundred million dollars a year where solve all i'm very easy terms and credits flowing from caracas to

acronis enabled this this model to to keep functioning it's when it started drying up and one of the things they have to do is increase contributions to pensions by both. workers and by that of the protests broke out alone you're a demonstrator tell us about how it feels being a protest. against dunnill or target in the capital managua what's the atmosphere right now. so. we never. i mean. we are. an especially generation of something we learned in europe we never raised like this before so we

we have. zero. zero zero zero but. now. it's it's hard because big government it's not me. to. to get out of the situation. on their. every parent. isn't worth you ok can i ask you this question alan g g g do you fear for your safety is it for easy for you to come openly on the streets to denounce the government. that's not. the. way home to.

not really say they're now. being visible to the. minister they have hundreds approached by the government seems to be paying off a peaceful the time being do you think that's. in a way or another has this bottle well i think you might i mean you know the parallels between the what's happening in the good our what happened in minnesota are tremendous i mean it's exact same formula and you know protests and as well as started for real in twenty fourteen so when as well as been at this for four years and the streets are you know there are actually many about thirty protests a day but. but they have there is no end in sight to liberation you know to the dictatorship in misrata so that lasted for years and this is more brutal and

in the words this is sort of more people dead in a shorter period of time more effective government repression and more brutal government repression than we can see this lasting for a very long time as well other than sort of devolves into a civil war which of course you can al gore has a history of but the people are by and large not armed and the use of the paramilitary forces and the censorship and the paramilitary forces on motorcycles are particularly frightening and again we had that too is you know means that this can go on for a long time and it gives the government some form of like plausible deniability you know down down the line but so you know that i unfortunately i think that the. people the student protesters have a very long battle ahead of them i don't see or think a letting go anytime soon and you know for the last three years at least that we know of the russians have been training in arming the military and the paramilitary

forces and he got out and so they and they have backing by cuban intelligence as well so this is not you know there are no amateurs ok mr cullen but at the same time we've seen thousands of pro supporters on the streets saying that their revolution is now being hijacked by the west. well. this reflects the changes that took place in recent years the money particularly flowing in from.