a case of racial discrimination the un's highest court orders the u.a.e. to reunite families separated by its blockade on qatar. and. live from doha also ahead the chance to convince voters over a twenty four hour stop on campaigning in pakistan has become head of wednesday's elections. states of emergency and fear of the weeks ahead greece struggles to contain wildfires as the death toll climbs. and closing in on the vaccine make a corruption probe now launched amid anger over fake doses given to thousands of babies.

the un's highest court has labeled actions by the united arab emirates against thousands of kashmiris as racial discrimination judges in the hague say the moves have split families and they should be reunited cattle took a case against the one of four countries that some. more than a year ago reports from the hague. qatar's legal battle with the united arab emirates has dealt a defining blow the international court of justice says the measures taken by the u.a.e. after the blockade of qatar amount to racial discrimination according to. the u.a.e. has failed to respect the obligation is the i.c. j.s ordered the u.a.e. immediately to allow qatari families expelled from the country to be reunited students to finish their studies and those qatari affected access to courts and

tribunals the order said the i.c.j. president is compulsory the core of clear fairness that this all of that is on. is and that article forty one of these that. effect. and that's a international legal obligation is for any part to her the provisional measure is that it's last june the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt sever diplomatic ties with qatar and imposed a land sea and air blockade accusing catarrh of funding extremism and accusations it denies qatar says its citizens were either illegally expelled or denied access to the u.a.e. separating families and denying people access to health care education their properties and assets of course the u.a.e. is the only one of the four countries to have imposed a blockade on cattle but it's the only one out of the four to be brought here

before the international court of justice why because it's the only country out of the four that signed up to the international convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination but bahrain egypt and saudi arabia will be watching this case closely and drawing their own conclusions this is a statement that there is a likelihood of discrimination so one would think that the other states in the region would say that means something again likely that this is a violation in earlier hearings the u.a.e. denied any policy of expulsion saying it's measures were designed to have the least possible impact on ordinary citizens it said his argument was with the qatari government not the qatari people but the u.a.e. must comply with the court or face further legal action qatar could go to the u.n. security council and demand an informant order this is one of a string of legal challenges mounted by qatar to try and end the blockade

a ruling the country will welcome but whether it will help end the blockade now in its fourteenth month is less certain nieve back at al-jazeera the hague. tens of millions of pakistanis have less than twenty four hours to make up their minds before they head for an election many see as one of the most contentious ever painting has officially ended with kansas now banned from any more attempts to sway voters just gone. that way you can see there just begun distributing ballot boxes ahead of the wednesday vote. reports. from the rooftop to the seats arranged below political workers gathered in their hundreds charged by the anthems of change they believe the twenty eighteen election will turn the tables on the tradition of venice. it will be

a one sided contest from the rule belts we will sweep the pakistan muslim league nawaz party we will also win from urban areas this is the last time they can express this confidence before the july twenty fifth election campaign activities have been suspended by the election commission twenty four hours before pours open it's the last day of campaigning and crowds have been gathering at various rallies being held by the box this is the party being led by forget to turn politician in wrong who according to polls is leading in the race two words the pakistani parliament the importance of punjab the heartland of pakistani politics the province holds one hundred forty eight out of the two hundred seventy two geographically constituencies which make up the national assembly. god really gives the nation this chance to change their fate these corrupt politicians have been ruling the punjab since one thousand and five even their children are billionaires. but it's not going to be an easy fight for imran khan

a crowd of now jailed former prime minister in the musharraf is also fired up. because he's done a tremendous job in making projects. like the actual bars are all to the tree that's why we'll only support him the neighbors the is now led by his brother shahbaz sharif who has been criticized by his opponents for not being a crowd puller. insists that his support is among the masses who have benefited from his development projects and people in his party's constituency seem convinced waters of the muslim league nawaz see their leadership and party has been targeted unfairly by the judiciary and the military establishment. people will vote for the lion because they have performed in the past five years whether it's the china corridor or a network of roads buses and trains education and health sectors where they did a great job. instead of a single large rally all major parties finished their campaigns with smaller

political gatherings marred by some incidents of violence campaigning is ended now votes will decide which political party succeeded in getting their message across the sound of a job. china has launched a corruption inquiry into a company at the center of a fake vaccine scandal a criminal investigation was already underway after it emerged hundreds of thousands of children may have been given doses that don't work the case has provoked what's been described as a tsunami of fear and fury on the internet with parents worried that babies could be in danger aaron brown has more from beijing. it is a worrying time for parents across china. outside beijing's top children's hospital we found many still absorbing the fact that china's second largest pharmaceutical company has been producing vaccines for babies that are fake so you go with the people who made this fabricated vaccine should be executed right away without any

hesitation they did it to babies not adults he added this mother is especially concerned her one year old son was inoculated for rabies last month he has a fever and the scandal has heightened her anxiety my son was born very weak he always has fevers now his dad and i don't know if it's related to the fake vaccines in china or vaccinations to prevent diseases like tetanus hooping cough and rabies are free but now some parents no longer trust the made in china versions. calumny to me at least three chinese vaccines cannot meet correct safety standards i would have to think about buying imported vaccines so far there have been no reports of children harmed by the vaccine or having contracted rabies. the trunk shroom biotechnology company in northeast china produced the fake vaccines the executives have now admitted falsifying test results for its rabies vaccine production is

halted all vaccines are being recalled were still just last thursday this same company was fined over its substandard production of other vaccines it's a tiny she's young after we found out that the company forged the records of production and production inspections and modified technical parameters and equipment at will their actions seriously violated their relevance to belay sions of chinese law this scandal broke four days ago but it wasn't until sunday night the china's premier league chang spoke out urging severe punishment but all those responsible now the government says that all companies that produce vaccines in china will be subject to unannounced inspections this industry was already in trouble just two years ago another pharmaceutical company was found to have improperly stored tens of millions of dollars worth of vaccines many of them had expired but in unusually open coverage china's state controlled media have called

for an overhaul of an industry which one newspaper editorial said had been contaminated by scandals adrian brown al jazeera beijing. has already struggling to control wildfires around the capital have a new challenge strong winds are now weapon up the flames state of emergency in force in two areas in a short time ago the government said twenty four people have died many things will only get worse diane of four pts. smoke spreads across the greek capital carrying fear of what the summer may bring around athens fires have been golf several towns homes have burned to the ground the hillsides no match for the raging flames thousands of people have evacuated many who managed to escape are still in shock if the course of them is that i think it becomes about us i think thankfully the sea was right there and we went in the flames were chasing us all the way to the water it started burning our bags so we dove into the water yes the

fires led greek prime minister alexis tsipras to cut short an official visit to bosnia. just there with but it's i want to believe that despite the adverse weather conditions we will do whatever is humanly possible to get the fire under control in spite of this i'm still concerned by the parallel outbreaks in the east and west of africa this is for everybody but one of the owners of the firefighters the coast guard and army are teaming up to respond to the state of emergency the fires are burning in several areas including the small resort town of kmita about fifty kilometers from athens northeast of the capital the area over a phina is also affected as well as the southern island of crete the low visibility has led to flight delays the closure of roads and a main highway. in the village of monte charred cars cover the streets greece is now asking the european union for help not to make any grace has submitted

a request through the european civil protection mechanism that international ground and air assistance. still fresh in the country's memory are the devastating two thousand and seven wildfires. more than eighty people died as fires burned for days across greece. over a decade later firefighters you know it's a race against time with unforgiving flames destroying everything in their way. italy's foreign minister says migrants rescued from the mediterranean will be allowed to come ashore nations tackle the issue of migration at least new government has taken a hard line on migration turning away rescue ships carrying migrants and refugees at the next five weeks e.u. countries will discuss how those rescued at sea can be distributed across the block . turkey has weighed into the debate over german football decision to quit the

national team adviser to the turkish president has said the way as it was treated is unforgivable announced his retirement on sunday saying he had suffered racism and disrespect because of his turkish descent from berlin dominic cain explains. his international career is over now club duties with arsenal have taken mesut ozil to the far east but in his absence the fallout from his retirement is reverberating around germany the newspapers have seized on his statement in which he pointed the finger at the german football association specifically and its president hein hard glinda accusing him of having a racially discriminative background earth still has been in the spotlight for his off the field actions since this moment posing with the turkish president both alone and with other german players who have turkish roots red chip type area one is a divisive figure in germany as are the policies of his government but in the turkish

community in berlin even among those who oppose aerotow on many support earth will and i think. begin fighting racism begins with showing people where the limits are we've had enough someone needs to say that to the german football federation that all players with nine german backgrounds are welcome and we will make sure that you feel well in germany if you have a second or third home that's ok but you're here and you're a part of our society some in the football world here remember what happened after france won the world cup in one thousand nine hundred eight how that multicultural team acted as a catalyst for the then german hierarchy to change its thinking first of all the more integration they tried to build of more schools and as you see it worked in whether you were twenty one in four thousand or nine and whether with the team in two thousand and fourteen in brazil. you know that if there are success nobody discusses where they come from. and yet after this summer's french victory

in russia some did highlight the racial background of that team with one comedian describing the victory as africa winning the world cup something french officials angrily dismissed saying there is no hyphen in people's nationality they are french and only french. here in berlin mesut ozil does have one very powerful ally angle americal says she values him as a great footballer who did a lot for the national team and in his career he wore the national jersey ninety two times scoring twenty three goals and helping his team to win the world cup but now he says the levels of racism and disrespect he's received mean he will never wear this again dominic kane al-jazeera berlin. still ahead here on al-jazeera the language grey's increasingly he says as u.s. and iranian leaders trade threats. and how much did the french and terrorism and

says grilled over the presidential bodyguard the beach protests. hello there we're still thinks some showers around the black sea they've been with us for a good while now and there's plenty more of them at the moment just drifting their way towards the east over the caspian sea of the some of us around the black sea we've seen some fairly dramatic weather recently this is a waterspout that we've seen spotted just off the coast of southwest russia and it looks like the showers there could stick around as we head through the day on tuesday eventually though they are beginning to pull away and as we head through into wednesday things are generally looking draw up there will just be a couple of showers in the far northern parts of turkey elsewhere it's going to be a bit horse or i think on wednesday so a maximum temperature in beirut of thirty three degrees this time force in baghdad

will be at around forty five here in doha been quite windy over the past few days and that's helped to keep the temperatures down a little bit however the wind is going to ease as we head through the next few days so a maximum on tuesday probably of around forty four degrees and that's where we're expecting it to stay for wednesday too just to the south of us though there will be a little bit more cloud around particularly thick over parts of oh man and into yemen and around the coast it could be giving us a few breaks of rain at times for the southern parts of africa largely fine and dry for us here just a couple of showers around parts of mozambique for madagascar as well. egypt is now china's third biggest trading partner in africa more than ten thousand chinese and living in cairo and wanted to see the permits in september one thousand nine hundred five make a move my friends to egypt many started a small traders but are now successful in business shit i began to do business in

two thousand and three or two thousand and four at the time it was small but then it began to expand inch al-jazeera world meets the growing chinese community in egypt egypt made in china on al-jazeera. and again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of. the un's highest court has ruled in favor of qatar in the case it brought against the united arab emirates and sascha court of justice says the measures taken by the way the blockade against amount to racial discrimination. more than twenty four people have died as wildfires rage close to the greek capital

athens strong winds one hundred twenty five states with the have been declared in several areas. and china has launched a corruption inquiry into a company at the center of a vaccine scandal a criminal investigation was already underway hundreds of thousands of children may have been given fake doses. let's get more now on the gulf crisis and. is in the u.k. international support in the face of the blockade. shakes i mean. during his first stop as a london university. qatar's leader began his u.k. visit at a robotics lab at london's imperial college set i mean been hammered fanny van had a meeting with business leaders in the city it's all part of a push by qatar to rally international support the countries under a land sea and air blockade imposed by saudi arabia u.a.e. and egypt the operation relationship between us is quite extensive cross

a whole variety of fields from. its curity defense investments and today of course focusing on health and health issues where we work together so it's a good visit and we encourage all our friends in the gulf to resolve their differences and we hope that can be done but since the start of the g.c.c. crisis qatar has not only ramped up its missile capability is but has also expanded its security and political operation with key allies such as the us france and the u.k. and this is quite crucial for qatar at a time when it continues to face a blockade imposed on it by its neighbors the blockading countries have dismissed international mediation they say qatar must first stop funding extremism close a turkish military base downgrade its ties with iran and shut down the al-jazeera news network qatar has strongly denied the accusations and called the demands

a violation of its sovereignty despite the crisis it has signed major arms deals including the purchase of twenty four typhoon combat aircraft from the u.k. as part of the deal pilots from the two countries will protect the skies above qatar when the arab nation hosts the twenty twenty two football world cup since the crisis there qatar instead of being cut off from the rest of the world actually engage the world even more the. they have done before so why they've been cut off regionally they've actually expanded their reach into the west particularly in the united states they've build partnerships that are more resilient in many ways than a partnership the saudi arabian the u.a.e. you build in europe and in the united states the u.s. has called on its allies in the region to set aside their differences washington is a prolonged crisis could lead to more instability. london

new satellite images appear to show north korea beginning to dismantle its main nuclear launch facility hey can see the site earlier this month and then a few days later part of the structure has been removed the pictures were released by monitoring site thirty eight north it will be seen as the important step by pyongyang after kim jong un pledged to pull apart the facility during the singapore summit with donald trump. iran's foreign minister has released a tweet mocking donald trump's late night threats u.s. president won the republic of consequences never seen before and he says he isn't concerned that he may be heightening tensions chapur tansey reports. the iranian foreign minister's tweet mimics of the all caps late night tweet from the u.s. president color us unimpressed it said the world heard even harsher bluster a few months ago and iranians have heard them albeit more civilized ones for forty years we've been around for millennia and seen full of empires including our own

which lasted more than the life of some countries be cautious exclamation mark be cautious is how donald trump's tweet ended as well thanks at the white house donald trump was asked if he had any concerns about provoking tensions with iran this was his response. things have changed in the administration everywhere now those around on from who have long advocated for regime change in iran notably national security advisor john bolton he released the following statement if iran does anything at all to the negative they will pay a price like few countries have paid before but white house press secretary sara saunders argued that the administration's approach to iran has been consistent the ultimate goal and the focus of the president is making sure that we keep nuclear weapon weapons out of their hands and that we focus on the protection of american presidents tweet came a time though when much of the international community is arguing that withdrawing from the iranian nuclear deal has made everyone less safe not more diplomatically i think a lot of countries are very resentful of the united states they think the u.s.

pulled out of a perfectly fine nuclear deal that iran was complying with i think they're diplomatically maybe iran feels like it's with europe and russia and china saying that the u.s. is overdoing it here world has become sunday secretary of state mike said the u.s. would attempt to stir unrest in iran by beaming antigovernment broadcast into the country but beyond that it's still unclear what the long term strategy of the trumpet ministration is almost three months since the u.s. withdrew from the iranian nuclear deal she had zero washington. they go back as president has denied responsibility for months of violent protests saying he doesn't control the power in the. blamed for most of the deaths more than three hundred people have been killed since the protests against undertakers government began in april demonstrators wanted to call early elections but in a rare interview with us television ortega has refused to step down and says moving the vote would increase instability he told fox news elections will go ahead as

planned in twenty twenty one. as an american leaders are meeting in mexico in the hopes of establishing trade and economic ties after recent elections in colombia mexico and chile and mexico is trying to integrate with the economies of south america and make it something less dependent on the us gentleman has more from. the saloons coalition of chile peru mexico and colombia has been meeting for the last seven years and it is important this is a coalition the between the countries have about a third of the g.d.p. of latin america that's attracted quite a lot of observer countries more than fifty including australia canada and the united states the war in some way to participate in these summits but this year in particular in this summit it does seem to be a little bit more buzz perhaps a little bit more momentum and that analysts say is perhaps being caused by president trumps of ministration in the united states who have adopted

a much more protectionist tone since he came to power and they say there is an opportunity here for these countries to sort of take the reins to brew to provide some sort of trading and economic energy for this region and really make themselves the center of that now how optimistic that is believed to be seeing especially as we're also in a period of change at the moment the presidents of colombia and mexico about outgoing and those presidents incoming there is specially the new president elect of mexico under his man will lopez obrador seems to be concentrating more on the neighbors to the north united states and canada just on sunday he had his foreign minister read aloud a letter that he was sending to president trump praising him talking about the things that they have in common and saying that he hopes the renegotiations of master the free trade agreement the united states canada or mexico can be concluded

swiftly those negotiations are going to be happen. later in the week so this is an important week for trading and the economy in the americas. french politicians have quiz the interior minister about what he knew of an incident involving the president's former bodyguard he was found beating up protesters while swearing a police helmet and the case has turned into a major political crisis david tacey reports always in the thick of the political fray with emanuel macron before and after his successful bid for the presidency alexandra banal and clearly had the trust of the new occupants of the lease a palace but that very close now threatens to overwhelm the man he was sworn to protect how much did the president know was there a cover up when i was filmed at the may day protests in paris this year wearing a police armband and carrying a police radio he was supposed to be just an observer but mobile phone footage

later showed him wearing a riot police helmets and visor tackling a demonstrator. suspended for just two routes he was back on the security detail when the french football team returned in triumph to paris with the world cup. french deputies of the national assembly on monday cross-examined interior minister gerard calame why did it take two and a half months before a prosecution was brought against the bodyguard and he sounded like he was passing the buck. the office of the president and to pull is perfect or i think only syria information to take action i considered the facts that were flagged were being dead too easy appropriate lever so i did not get involved further in this issue when president was elected last year he promised to bring a new face to the least say with accountability and transparency but opposition m.p.'s saying he's proving the opposite. the hearing of the interior minister that

lasted two and a half hours confirmed the worst suspicions we had namely that there isn't fact a parallel structure in our country which would fall under the presidency of the republic. banal or had just been assigned a luxury flat on the banks of the senate reserved for employees of the elisei as well as a chauffeur driven car before finding himself in police custody as for president mackerel ready accused of being elitist by his enemies and out of touch with ordinary people he's seen his popularity ratings drop to just thirty nine percent they may have further to fall david chaytor al jazeera terrorists. members of the thai football team trapped for two weeks in a flooded cave taking part in buddhist ceremonies to thank the spirits for their rescue. ministry that near chiang rai where they also held

a ritual for the tight navy seal who died during the operation later eleven of the will shave their heads and on roads from spending the next nine days living as trainee monks meditation techniques and helping their physical and mental recovery . you're watching out of there these are top stories the un's highest court has ruled in favor of qatar in the case it brought against the united arab emirates international court of justice says the measures taken by the u.a.e. off the blockade against cattle amount to racial discrimination by eat voters to serve and. the united arab immunities must ensure that. one. separated by the measure is adopted by united. five hundred seventy.

campaigning has ended in pakistan ahead of wednesday's hotly contested election ballot boxes and now being distributed in the capital islamabad the vote pits former international cricket against the brother of a jailed ex prime minister more than one hundred million people are registered to cost that. china has now launched a corruption inquiry into a company at the center of a vaccine scandal a criminal investigation was already underway after it emerged hundreds of thousands of children may have been given fake to. more than twenty four people have died as wildfires rage close to the greek capital athens strong winds are hampering firefighters and states from urgency have been declared in several areas . turkey has weighed into the debate over german football a mess that decision to quit the national team an advisor to president obama has called his treatment unforgettable. international retirement on sunday saying it

suffered racism and disrespect because of his turkish descent new satellite images appear to show north korea beginning to dismantle its main nuclear launch facility i hate can see the site earlier this month and then a few days later you can see part of the structure has been removed the pictures were released by mongering site thirty eight north iran's foreign minister is warning the u.s. president to be cautious donald trump threatened iran with several consequences of twitter tension between the two countries has escalated since the u.s. withdrew from iran's nuclear deal in may. those are your headlines are back with more news on al-jazeera after counting the cost. which is the relationship between culture religion and a deeply divided city everything here is overshadowed by politics even the most basic of things food in two thousand and eight al-jazeera traveled to jerusalem to see if we could cross deep lines of division. we could

be the people that. rewind street food jerusalem on al-jazeera. hello i'm sam is a than this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business and economics this week stronger growth prospects for sub-saharan africa but a big trade challenge is looming. also this week airplanes and e-commerce and sports cars the world's second biggest aviation tradeshow gets underway. plus the world's first habitable three d. printed house's technology causing a stir in the construction industry.