situation with less volatility more transparency. protests because of policy 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 of government spending which leaves in most cases to an increase in poverty levels. the essence of the i.m.f. is the same it is to prioritize the physical deficit. commission 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 they. still had an altered zero

zimbabwe's president attends to voters ahead of this month's election. and they're hoping for a turnaround in fortunes but who's to blame for the rising cost of living in iran. the weather sponsored by cattle. hello there we've had some very heavy downpours over georgia over the last few weeks in the rains here are set to continue for a look at the satellite picture we can see the showers there stretching their way across the caspian sea but they're being replenished plenty more of them as we head through the next few days elsewhere it's largely looking fine and dry just incredibly hot at the moment as you'd expect at this time of year so for beirut we'll probably get to around thirty or thirty one and force in baghdad will be getting to around forty three here in doha it's going to be very windy over the

next few days and that wind will bring a fair amount of dust at times but it will also make sure the temperature is all true high so we're looking at a top temperature of around forty two degrees on sunday the air will be a bit clearer as we head into monday so this time on maximum will probably get that little bit high up for the south but around the south coast of oman and into yemen as a bit more cloud here that could bring us a little bit of drizzle particularly in the foothills of the mountains but further towards the south and for the southern parts of africa areas really only in the eastern parts of arm up we've got the cloud at the moment could just give us one or two showers perhaps around the coast of mozambique a more likely over parts of madagascar but as you head towards the west there's more in the way of joy weather and generally not bad temperature wise a the cape town at twenty two and five in doc will be at twenty three degrees. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. a remarkable portrait of japanese village in the aftermath of the two thousand and

eleven earthquake and tsunami. seventy years later how has the community of mia been able to move on and rebuild their lives. after mouth of a catastrophe on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour funerals are being held for hamas fighters killed by israeli airstrikes in gaza on friday an israeli soldier has also died during fighting along the israel gaza fence

a truce appears to be holding after being brokered by egypt i mean it's a nation it's. france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern in syria russia's agrees to use one of its planes to make the delivery government forces we took peace and go to from rebels in april after a siege which lasted for several years. protesters have returned to the streets of nicaragua's capital managua as months of political unrest picks up new momentum anti-government demonstrators are demanding president daniel take us steps down and calls fresh elections. wildfires are raging across the baltics on parts of northern europe better known for cold weather latvia's had to evacuate a village as it struggles to stop a huge peak five months of drought a forced it to declare and national emergency and sweden is suffering its worst drought for seventy four years it needs help to prevent a bigger disaster now as more. firefighters in sweden say their battle for

control is far from over remarkably nobody's been injured by the dozens of wildfires. the government's appeals for help from other countries italy france and norway have responded by sending water bombing helicopters and planes as well as emergency personnel reeling in albania that fact i don't dislike 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. think of a life. 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 and the rescue services do not see that the biggest fires will be able to be extinguished in the near future due today weather and that can mean wheat and at the moment the focus. delaying and testing. and trying to well delay. the spending of the 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 donald trump

says his former lawyer may have taped it illegally michael cohen secretly recorded the us president discussing payments to a former playboy model the tape was seized during an f.b.i. raid on colin's office earlier this year trump reportedly discusses paying money to cameron mcdougal who claims she and trump had an affair which lasted for ten months shihab rattansi has more from washington d.c. 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 were 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 cohen was acting in a personal capacity for donald trump and have nothing to do with the presidential campaign. white voters are being courted by zimbabwe's ruling zanu p.f. party that robert mugabe is no longer the president new leader emerson man and god one has told them the government's controversial land grabs are a thing of the past as he campaigns ahead of the election in days opinion polls suggest it's a close contest out of what is in harare thank you to many white zimbabweans had a farm seized and given to black farmers 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. who's seeking reelection has been looking for votes among whites and barbarians at a rally in harare. march . one. with some a skeptical about the timing of the president's reassurances to white voters a few days before the parliamentary and presidential elections are this i'm more optimistic we need to come together interact with our counselors our. not our selves 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 parties have generally been a brute to. campaign peacefully even though they haven't complained of intimidation . or generally have been able to get here way down. but the main opposition leader nelson chamisa isn't happy he believes the electoral process is for what alleging the voters are all contained 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. campaigning is underway in pakistan for one stays the general election below our bhutto zardari who's the head of the pakistan people's party and he's been holding a rally in the southern city of karachi is the son of former leader benazir bhutto who was assassinated in two thousand and seven but the vote is widely seen as a two way race between the parties a former cricket star in khan and former prime minister nawaz sharif who is now in jail but his brother is a candidate more than three thousand three hundred seventy one thousand soldiers have been deployed to god polling stations. among cons promising to stamp out corruption if he wins the leader of the week in south

party addressed or rally in islamabad which is seen as a stronghold for his party it told the crowds he would hold ministers accountable for any wrongdoing. yes. we can form a government in pakistan where a minister will be afraid of corruption but a national accountability bureau will catch a prime minister and ministers as it happens in europe come all. districts near the border with afghanistan where he spoke to rural voters. awash majority of the bug astonied population lived in rural areas where time has. 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 basic education they do not have

medical care and all those things are necessary for nation building. and our political leadership change will translate into a change in their lives. as it's never brought any change to a lot of what i'm doing now is what i've been talking 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 for what they have done in. august on. 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 a question mark after what happened next. anya's scrapping taxes and sanitary pads in what's being hailed as a significant boost for girls' education a twelve percent tax was imposed last year but that led to protests across the country that has no cost became a problem for girls and women especially in poor and rural areas they've now been officially listed as an essential item iran's supreme leader has threatened to block all exports throughout the region if its own sales are impeded by a taller hominy made the comments at a meeting with foreign ministry officials the country's split over who's to blame for its economic problems reports some talk on 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. 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 hugh 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 saying in iran 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. the dollar rate to what it was in one nine hundred seventy nine when one dollar cost seventy rio's 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 and don't cha cha. i'm concerned about whether i can afford rent and food in this expensive city as a student i shouldn't have these worries i should have enough money to focus on my studies that is empty and i'm very worried about what to do i think the cause 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. and you can find much more on our website. dot com. dot com. this is al-jazeera these other top stories funerals have been held for the hamas fighters killed by israeli airstrikes in gaza on friday an israeli soldier also guy joining in fighting along the israel gaza fans a truce appears to be holding for now after it was brokered by egypt and the united nations. has more from west to receive them. 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 france is sending fifty tons of medical aid to the government controlled area of eastern ghouta in syria russia has agreed to use one of its planes to make the delivery of government forces we took east and go to from rebels in april after a siege which lasted for several years. protesters have returned to the streets of nicaragua's capital managua as months of political unrest pick up more momentum anti-government 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 recording was seized during an f.b.i. raid on michael cohen's office earlier this year and that according trump

reportedly discusses paying money to cat and mcdougal who claims they had a ten month affair campaigning has begun in pakistan and for wednesday's general election been a while bhutto zardari the head of the pakistan people's party has held a rally in the southern city of karachi is the son of former leader benazir bhutto who was killed in two thousand and seven but the vote is seen as a two way race between the parties of form of cricket start imran khan and the now jailed former prime minister nawaz sharif whose brother is a candidate. india is scrapping taxes and 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 in.