repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand and five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government failed. syrian government's final push to capture last remaining southern areas outside its control. arsenal raman you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up at least fifty people killed and more than one hundred fifty are injured as wildfires tear through villages around athens. also pakistan prepares to choose a new leader as campaigning ends ahead of the general election.

working through stigma the new laws in senegal aimed at getting more people with disabilities into jobs. welcome to the program the fate of iran's presence in syria seems to be at the center of talks between its ally russia and its regional foe israel there are reports that moscow has offered to keep iranian and its allied forces one hundred kilometers away from the israeli occupied golan heights israel has reportedly rejected that and has demanded their complete long term withdrawal from syria instead now the deal was discussed during a surprise trip by russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov fund israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu on monday. while those diplomatic talks continue syrian russian jets continue to pound targets of i

still affiliated armed groups in the southwest syria's president bashar assad has been recapturing key rebel strongholds there in the military offensive which started last month has displaced. hundreds of thousands of people caught between ass strikes on a closed israeli border fence. let's join stephanie decker who's live in israeli occupied the goal of heights let's just begin before we talk about israel and the russian meat stuff and let's talk about where you walk there's a lot of activity on the ground in the over the past week so what's the situation like there on choose day yes from what we've seen in the last half an hour is a lot of air strikes again on this area behind us which is really the last pocket that's held by the opposition in southwestern syria is held by a group which is affiliated with eisel and this is why at the moment there is no reconciliation deal on the table which is the tactic that the syrian government has

been employing in other areas along this border it's been tense of campaign so while we were here yesterday as well aerial bombardment intensive shelling we saw both syrian and russian jets in the sky this morning as well which is interesting is that the jet that's been bombing over there then according to what we hear enters into israeli airspace and then moves out again we were discussing it with the team and again it's just speculation but we were saying well either it's an israeli jet which makes no sense or perhaps a russian jet that in that deal yesterday perhaps would have been allowed because clearly it would go and come across to get into this airspace which is the first time that we've heard that but certainly it remains a very active front line there indeed while there are question marks about what is in the air and who's in the air this impasse between russia and israel does continue over iran and its influence in syria one wonders where the solution is. yeah i just stepped out a shot to show you who just

a recent airstrike but yes this is israel's only concern so how is the iranian presence inside syria initially they'd agreed to push them back from this border because of course you now have the syrian regime troops advancing so israel wants to be very clear it does not want any iranian or iranian militias iranian backed forces with them initially it was thirty kilometers now the russians are offering hundred kilometers which israel says is not good enough we understand this meeting yesterday maps were shown lavrov came with the russian chief of staff showing the locations of the iranian positions iranian backed positions further back from this border but israel will tell you that it is not good enough it is now demanding all iranian troops and iranian backed troops to leave syria completely the iranian response you know recently has been that that's not that's not going to happen and only at the request of the syrian government they will leave ok just very briefly staff we know there was

a lot of movement on the ground certainly with civilians who is all but moving where are they going. yes a couple of things that have changed here over the last week or so one of them was there was multiple many i.d.p. tens internally displaced along this border with the israeli occupied golan heights well yesterday when we arrived back they've all gotten so it seems that many of those people have returned home away from this area of course where the fighting is active but where there is now is that the syrian government in charge so there is that change and be part of those reconciliation deals. just looking yes you can see in the distance there another air strike part of this reconciliation deals what happens is the rebels that don't agree to it are boss together with their families up north to the province and just briefly so hale looking forward it look province is the only fully held rebel province that remains in syria and a lot of these rebels are being bused so they have been throughout the last couple of years of this conflict with these reconciliation deals and there's also

a real concern about what sort of military action the syrian government and the russians may be taking their next we'll leave it there for now stuff of course and join you throughout the day thank you let's go to europe now or at least forty nine people being killed in forest fires that erupted in several areas near greece's capital athens strong winds are whipping up the flames that left many homes destroyed and transport links disrupted states of emergency are in full in two places and residents fear things will only get worse. reports. smoke spreads across the greek capital carrying fear of what the summer may bring around athens fires having 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 any kind of thing could become a fantasy 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.

the fires led greek prime minister alexis tsipras to cut short an official visit to bosnia when i was 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 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 an arrest greece has submitted a request through the european civil protection mechanism the 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 are no it's a race against time with unforgiving flames destroying everything in their way. beyond al-jazeera a new satellite images appear to show north korea beginning to dismantle its main nuclear launch facility hey you can see the side of 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 but this would be an important step by pyongyang out to kim jong un pledged to work towards denuclearization joining the singapore summit with donald trump.

well more than one hundred million voters in pakistan are gearing up to elect their next leader ballot papers are being taken to different polling stations across the country campaigning came to a close twenty four hours before those polls open on wednesday now four major political parties are in the race for the country's second to civilian handover of power after a full time. lahore in punjab province. wraps up the last day of canvassing. 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 lection 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 back of this is the party being led by forget to turn politician in wrong who according to polls has been leading in the race two words the pakistani parliament handles the importance of punjab the heartland of pakistani politics the province of all 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 russian navy is also fired up.

because he's done a tremendous job in making projects like the actual. train that's why we lowly support him the new is now led by his brother. who has been criticized by his opponents for not being a crowd puller. insists that his sport is among the masses who've benefited from his development projects and people in his party's constituency seem convinced waters of the muslim league 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 card 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 court has labeled the actions of the united arab emirates against thousands of qatar raise as racial discrimination judges in the hague. have split families they should be reunited cattle took the case against the u.a.e. after it along with three other countries imposed on their land and sea blockade on more than a year ago a report 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. order of 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 three are fairness that this all of that is on provision 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 severed diplomatic ties with qatar and imposed a land sea and air blockade accusing catarrh of funding extremism 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 in 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 neave back at al-jazeera the hague. well still ahead here on al-jazeera cartel's amir is in the united kingdom ahead of a meeting with the british prime minister as the blockade against his country continues plus the language grows increasingly heated and u.s. and iranian leaders trade threats to stay with us so now because. it's still very hot for many of us across europe there's plenty of sunshine to be found but there's also some thunderstorms as well in the majority of them now just

working down towards the southeast these are pretty violent we're seeing some very heavy downpours some damaging hail and some pretty strong gusts of wind as well the whole thing is working its way eastwards though it's still with us on tuesday probably most risk a pulse of remaining so that system sticks around for tuesday and for wednesday as well but further west there's more dry weather to be found here there's also plenty of hot weather still as well thirty degrees in for london where at thirty is well there will be a few thunderstorms here as well in the western parts of europe just not as many of them as there will be in the southeast the other side of the mediterranean we're seeing a bit more humidity here that's working its way eastwards so fortunate as our maximum temperature is thirty two degrees on tuesday and they will see less humidity as we head through the day on wednesday so the temperatures here will rise that little bit higher this time getting to around thirty four for the central belt of africa where there's more showers here as you'd expect some particularly heavy ones over parts of sudan at the moment a there's a road rumbling their way towards the west some of them pretty heavy and it looks

like nigeria is going to catch quite a few. welcome

back you're watching i was there i was a whole robin a reminder of our top stories the syrian government and its allies russia after landing targets of ice from linked groups in the country's southwest while a bid to recapture those last remaining southern pockets continue russia reportedly is pushing for a deal with israel moscow has offered to curb iranian presence in the occupied golan heights but israel has a power to be rejected it. at least forty nine people been killed in forest fires that are blazing through several places near greece's capital athens officials have declared states of emergency in two areas with many major transport links disrupted . and more than one hundred million people in pakistan are gearing up to vote for their next leader ballot papers are being taken to different polling stations across the country in preparation for wednesday's general election for major political parties are in the race for the country's second civilian handover of

power after a full term. more now on the g.c.c. crisis the emir of qatar is in the united kingdom where he's seeking international support in the face of the blockade he's due to meet the prime minister theresa may in the coming hours and in the meantime you can newspaper is reporting a casting agency here seeking actors to protest against the visit the independent published an e-mail containing errors from extra people saying a client to seeking and we quote a large group of people to fill space outside downing street during the visit of the president of cattle now this is an antique cattle event you will not have to do or say anything they just want to fill space you will be finished at twelve thirty the casting agency said it was contacted by a p.r. company for the event from which it has since withdrawn to be our company has refused to reveal its client who was with the ship to mean been how mental tiny

during his first stop at 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 than eve dan 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 cooperation relationship between us is quite extensive across a whole variety of fields from. security 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 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 military corporation with key allies such as the u.s.

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 or 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. than they have done before so why they're being cut off regionally they've actually expanded their reach into the west particular in the united states they've built partnerships that are more resilient in many ways than the partnership that saudi arabia and the u.a.e. have 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 fears a prolonged crisis could lead to more instability possible but i'll just eat or london or leave the us nor iran are showing any signs of backing down in their latest war of words the iranian foreign minister responded mockingly to one of donald trump's threatening tweets echoing the u.s. president's warning to be cautious trump says he's unconcerned about the escalating tension she have returned to reports from washington d.c. . 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 and the president's been i think pretty strong since day one in his language towards iran he was responding to comments made from them and he's going to continue to focus on the safety and security of american people the president's tweet came at

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 on sunday secretary of state mike pompei said the u.s. would attempt to stir unrest in iran by beaming antigovernment rolled cost 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's. international monetary fund is warning inflation. in venezuela could top a million percent by the end of this year electricity unions in the country are holding an indefinite strike in protest against low wages and poor working

conditions they've joined the nation's nurses who've been staging industrial action for months to month attending only emergency cases venezuela's economy has been steadily collapsing since spoiled prices fell heavily in twenty fourteen dobson is a journalist based in venezuela he says the latest strikes have been another wake up call for the duras government is a sectors which would generally be supporting the government and their fact that they are now taking to the streets is a massive wake up call i think to the government and we can see this in the case of the nurses the nurses have been on strike for nearly four weeks now and two days ago the government announced a quite considerable investment plan for the public health care system of around two hundred seventy three million euros so i think the fact that their their general support base is now starting to militarize a little bit and take to the streets in terms of strikes would definitely draw that the government's attention to some of the problems of maintenance investment

corruption but also wages and conditions of these workers there's a number of issues for example corruption is one of the major qualms in venezuela one of the major complaints both in the public and private sectors and the government is at the moment carrying out a very extensive probe into corruption of all political cover colors and this is something which has been received very well by by their support base but the economic situation is as well as bad as it was a few years ago if not a little bit worse and the time has come for the workers to to let's say call on the government to address the situation and take slightly harsher measures or sternum measures to address the economic collapse which the country is currently going through. now hundreds of people with disabilities and political leaders are gathering in london for the first ever global disability conference it's hoping to make the issue of higher priority for governments around the world particularly in developing countries often people with disabilities struggle to find employment and

fulfill their education now the government in senegal is pursuing new laws to encourage companies to create suitable job opportunities in an effort to root out social stigma nicholas hank has more from dakar. it's in the water that christie feels the most that he. was born with a genetic disorder that caused a malformation of his hands and arms. despite others staring at him he completely forgets about his disability. suffered what was that. i feel like a fish in the water or like a bird in the sky anything is possible. after earning a bachelor's in marketing works double shifts selling t.v. packages by day and chinese takeaway by night for the.

disability is a state of mind we have so much to do to change public perception of people like me our society needs to stop seeing us as a burden and more like people you can depend on almost one in ten in senegal is handicapped and yet many still believe it is a curse like our gays parents who abandoned her as a child she's been living on the streets with others like her trying to survive this is two weeks old mobile phone footage of a police officer beating our gate to the ground because she was begging next to government buildings the officer was arrested and then later released. they want us off the streets so do we what we need is work a job but no one will hire us. members of parliament are debating a new law that will force private companies to hire people with disability and ensure handicapped children have access to schools. senegal is one of the fastest

growing economy on the african continent yet seventy five percent of those with disability are illiterate with this new piece of legislation the government wants to change that so that no matter what the disability everyone from participate in senegal is booming economy and it starts here in the only school for disabled in the country she wants to be a banker jennifer a doctor and city wants to run and i t company their teacher says nothing can stop them reaching their goals albeit they need to overcome other people's prejudice go beyond their disability to be their best self and contribution to humanity then people will stop seeing their disability as one hundred that me he was christopher misses teacher in school as much as it was that sort of attitude that shaped his outlook in life no longer had he kept by his disability but now equipped to overcome whatever challenges lie

ahead. nicholas hawke al-jazeera the car. well of course you can follow all of the stories we're covering here on ars or by logging onto our website at al-jazeera dot com. you want your answers there i'm so whole robin these are all top news stories the fate of iran's presence in syria seems to be at the center of talks between its ally russia and its regional foe israel there are reports that moscow has offered to keep iranian and its allied forces one hundred kilometers away from the israeli occupied golan heights israel has reportedly rejected that tires and has demanded their complete long term withdrawal from syria instead now the deal was discussed during a surprise trip by the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov when he met israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu on monday at least forty nine people are being

killed in forest fires adopted in several places near greece's capital athens officials have declared states of emergency in two areas with many major transport links disrupted dozens of homes have been destroyed firefighters are battling against wrong winds whipping up the flames more than one hundred million people in pakistan are giving up to vote for their next leader ballot papers are being taken to different polling stations across the country four major political parties are in the race for the country's second civilian handover of power after full term. also the un's highest court has ruled in favor of cattle in the case it brought against the united arab emirates the international court of justice says the measures taken by the u.a.e. after the blockade against qatar amount to racial discrimination the court says the u.a.e. should now allow qatari families to be reunited by voters to seven the united arab emirate is. that

one family's. separated by the measure is adopted by the united arab emirate is on five june twenty seven thousand united. international monetary fund is warning inflation in venezuela could top a million percent by the end of the year electricity unions in the country are holding an indefinite strong can protest against low wages and poor working conditions the nation's nurses are striking to only attend emergency cases venezuela's economy has been steadily collapsing since oil prices fell heavily in twenty forty. with another full half hour of news in thirty minutes time here on al-jazeera next it's inside story to stay with us. for the first time since robert mugabe was forced from power by the army the people of zimbabwe will elect the next president but

a struggling economy and frustration amongst many young voters means the result on the thirtieth of july is still hard to predict follow this in balmy election analysis and. i knew iraq for china africa relations xi jinping promises to strengthen economic ties that he made his first visit to west africa as president but how will africa benefit as beijing seeks new markets and is it a win win situation this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm fully back t. bone china has had a strong presence in africa for years beijing has built countless roads buildings and provided economic support right across the african continent now it looks set

to conquer even more markets as a result of u.s. president donald trump's new trade tariffs chinese president xi jinping is on a four nation tour of africa.