sources of support such as that from the u.k. and with him of course they have a well established strategic and military partnership the at the base that you just mentioned but also a financial relationship of some significance. you know according to one statistic at kut-o. yis own more of the capital of london than her majesty the queen so there is significant qatari investment in the u.k. that is going to be a part of these active play matic negotiations and this is a symbolic demonstration of an alliance between qatar in the u.k. what did you make. a preliminary ruling of what twenty four hours ago were the un a challenge to the u.n. highest court and the judges came up with a very positive as i say a preliminary ruling against the u.a.e.

how important do you think is this in terms of casseroles fight back against the blockade in countries. i think the support of institutions international institutions like the u.n. is important and significant and it sort of seeks to demonstrate that effectively what's happening to qatar is something of a. sort of. a standoff between the rest of the gulf states and. the qatari government but it doesn't necessarily souls qatar's regional problem which is that it is name is still suffering from the effects of this blockade and some sort of yeah. i'm for the i just i just really would like to get your thoughts on where you think this is going taking a step back a little bit and looking at the geopolitics. what do you think what do you think it

will take to break this impasse that has allowed the blockade to continue for over a year now for three months. well i mean i think the best hope really is back to negotiation now kuwait has taken an important role as kind of mediator in this crisis so there is the opportunity for further diplomatic negotiations through that route but ultimately what we're talking about is some backing down on the part of i would say primarily saudi arabia in terms of the demands of that it is making of qatar in order to comply with what would be required for this blockade to come to an end some clear indication as we've already seen by the international community that some of the actions taken has been excessive and not humanitarian and perhaps also movement

on the cutty side to comply with the demands of. regional powers of. middle eastern history at the university of reading thank you very much. probably going back to one of our earliest or is the situation regarding forest fires in greece has killed at least sixty people a state of emergency has been declared in several areas we can speak to helen scott . who is joining us for a must see must see is the epicenter if you like of of this disaster that soon villepin this area around the capital. yes it is the the main point where damage has been severe unfortunately right now there is a truck going by excuse me as you can see behind me i hope the street is full of cars on both sides that have been burned by the fire this is just all in the case

of what's happening. now the local authorities are going into the houses of god that happened burnt and have reported even the old even though the official death toll is at fifty you are correct in mentioning that it's sixty because they have reported they have found ten more bodies. the social media is being swamped with pictures is being used by the relatives and friends of missing persons who are anxiously trying to find the people there that are missing we spoke to a resident here earlier who has been living here for over forty years he's devastated as can be expected and he said that a part of him has died in his soul a part of his soul has been burned just like the rest but there are questions being raised here has everything possible on whether everything possible was done by the authorities to prevent the extent of this damage but for now the main focus is on saving what can be saved and helping those indeed. and apparently i mean these

kinds of wildfires occur in greece from time to time don't they in many summers in the past they've been these kind of wildfires that what seems to have made this particularly severe are the very very strong winds. all the residents well first of all yes it was the very strong winds they were nine on the beaufort scale and they were westerly winds which brought the fire from the mountain down towards the sea the residents said that they did not they could they didn't understand how it happened it happened so quickly they didn't have time to comprehend that they were in danger and had to leave evacuate the area there was no order for evacuate evacuation given by the authorities. so this is because this is what the result was unfortunately with sixty people dead right thank you very much for that helen scopus there reporting live from marty just outside of the greek capital athens.

the more than one hundred million voters in pakistan are preparing to elect the next government ballot papers are being taken to polling centers across the country campaigning ended twenty four hours before the polls open. there are four major political parties in the race including that of the former cricketer in run county are some of age of age reports now from lahore on the last day of campaigning. 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 poor open it's the last day of campaigning and crowds have been gathering at various rallies being held by the box that they can solve this is the party being led by forget to turn fall addition in wrong hon 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 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 ninety 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 we often have a shitty because he's done a tremendous job in making projects like the natural gas rules of the trade that's

why we'll only support him the numbers 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 see the. 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 but 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.

a series of explosions have been heard in afghanistan's capital three rockets were fired into a residential area in west kabul one hit a home located near a police academy several people have been wounded. all right it's time for the weather now here's richard with the latest on the heat waves that are sweeping say much of europe incredible absolutely phenomenal is just this job actually becomes a very easy martin because i can tease so many incredible starts out of this whole thing we've had record breaking weather all across norway finland and sweden there's a forecast for wednesday no one there to the arctic circle here with all the white see the barents sea and we're looking at temperatures of thirty five degrees for archangel now the july maximum is about twenty two degrees because i was a little closer twenty four hours of sunshine but the forecast the computer forecast is for thirty five degrees would actually make it a record we think the record is thirty four point four and as we get through to

thursday the computer four has gone for thirty six and trust me computers are never very good at forecasting record so be interests see what develops there meanwhile across in northeastern parts of asia we had a record overnight minimum temperature in south korea of thirty one degrees a japan maximum forty one point one degrees and there is some good news as far as a heat wave across japan is concerned because over the next couple of days the temperatures least for tokyo we're going down a circa still pretty hot thirty seven dropping to thirty four but generally tokyo's got a little bit of rest bite but having said that with everything across the northern hemisphere been so static weather wise there's every sign that the temperatures will start to come up monday tuesday we could see those temperatures back up as high as thirty four degrees. thank you very much indeed richard still to come here on the al-jazeera news. tensions become raised as u.s. and iranian leaders trade threat. spiritual journeys some of the thai boys who were

trapped inside a cave take part in a buddhist ceremony and later on in support with jay we'll hear from the olympic swimmer ryan lochte about his latest suspension from the pull. of the world. fresh perspectives new possibility to. see and then stand in the sand with. the public support debates and discussions when you see tough questions

like this what comes to mind how do you respond before how global. could you see al-jazeera programs. around the globe. deal with al-jazeera and these are our top stories israel says it shot down a syrian jet that it claims infiltrated is a space for the government of damascus says the sukhoi fighter jet was actually flying in syrian air space. at least sixty people have been killed in forest fires

that are burning in several areas near the greek capital athens the fires have destroyed homes and disrupted transport links officials have to create a set of emergency in two areas. one hundred million people in pakistan a garing up to vote for a new government ballot papers have been taken to different polling centers across the country in preparation for wednesday's election told major political parties are in the race. now to nigeria where fifteen senators have quit the ruling party in a major blow to president mohamed who biharis bid for reelection the almost exodus makes the all progressives congress of the a.p.c. a minority party in the senate fourteen of the fifteen have left every portably defected to the opposition only last week another fact. and within the president's party the a.b.c. said it no longer supported president biharis government we can now speak to chata

in one say who is head of research at the consulting firm s.p.l. intelligence he's joining us now via skype from lagos in nigeria thank you for talking to us and this must be a real blow to the or thirty of muhammadu buhari how we can decide. well there has been a defection. it's in members of. he. one of them recounted that even when i was speaking on hold still i'm not up to. however it's the authority of the senate is not absolute to some order in the last few minutes all of it will do that from the house direct the house of representatives what's easy is. absolutely. sweet but since you're not going up each of us to suit him then but the house of reps believe that this little village if. he. wants we have support in us right but israel

thirty thirty and his ability to govern must surely have been weakened by this defection well it's been weakened for quite a bit. even if you find that there's there's been a sort of. sense of it will best this day for example the the how long the or there has been some trouble between the leadership of the or the national assembly on the. for quite a while now and what i was when we get there just on the rules that it's so this is simply bringing everything out. and so how does it leave his position then with regard to those elections which are due in february next year. well one thing that sounds nuts yes is that's all the notes from the song go have mostly been you're in a. very happy with the presence of what will be have not yet but.

even the event buffs you have a sickly song where for example one of the neat in those. moments doesn't have a lot it's because he states in very much of britain. so this there has to be some what they were hoping that's not really us who didn't. stop at least then. i was not as it goes most remaining the we are these police are still strong ok chad thank you very much indeed for shedding some light on what's going on in nigeria today at the bar and no electricity supply to palestinians living in gaza has to be cut further from eight hours a day to just six the so power station on the strip can't get enough fuel to

maintain its current output the amount of fuel that is entering gaza has been greatly reduced since that day when israel impose restrictions on imports through the. crossing the israeli defense minister has now said the crossing will be partially reopened in the coming hours charles shefford has more from the crossing . so trucks now have started taking this vital fuel this this oil this petrol and this cooking gas from the israeli side they the trucks arrive from gaza they fill up and then go back across the border there's great relief here in gaza there was a a press statement released by the palestinian healthful thora to the smalling saying that unless this fuel starts to be delivered immediately then health services were risk of actually having to be closed down and we understand that the power station is still not operating that stopped yesterday there were only one of

full turbines that were operating in that power station before that closure and that's a different issue the power station does not rely on oil from this border it's been relying on it supplied from egypt tammas says it simply does not have enough money to pay for that vital fuel for the power station is also the issues of the amount of money that people simply have in their pockets to pay their electricity bills and this will stem from the big political rift between hamas and fatah that has gone on now since hamas took power here in two thousand and seven for the last year and a half the pollen is the dominated palestinian authority has not paid the salaries for thousands of civil servants here and hamas says this is a as a result of that that they call their electricity bills so the gas the oil for the power station cannot be bull as i say there is a sense of temporary relief here now that they saw oil gas and this is cooking gas

is being transported into gaza but of course so much depends on maintaining this cease fire between hamas and israel after what can only be described as the largest escalation of violence of the last couple of weeks since the two thousand and fourteen war. the chief of staff of iran's armed forces as well in the u.s. of an unimaginable regrettable response they continued to make threats he joins a list of high ranking iranian leaders reacting to a tweet by donald trump that warned the country would suffer dire consequences.