hundreds of people are missing after a hydroelectric dam that was under construction partially collapsed in lao it's not known how many were killed but thousands have also been left homeless in that the province after the collapse sent flash floods through nearby villages when have reports from bangkok in neighboring thailand. in this part of southeastern laos villages have disappeared beneath a muddy water that cascaded downstream on monday nights. it's not known how many people have been affected by the partial collapse of the city and say numb noid dam but it's thought that some four thousand families lived in the downstream area the dam was still under construction on a tributary of the mekong river after a recent heavy rain it's believed a warning was issued that a so-called saddle dam built around the reservoir was in danger of collapsing the warning apparently didn't come in time for many people laos is

a landlocked impoverished country that's embarked on an ambitious plan to become the battery of south east asia by exporting our tricity to neighboring countries this dam on the main stream of the mekong river in the south is one of at least seventy that the communist government has built has under construction or planned but for years critics have warned of impacts on the environment livelihoods and express concerns about safety is dam great shows several things that shows that there are there are major risks and downs that have a. down design maybe i'm able to cope with extreme weather events such as very heavy rains that. laos is a secretive one party state and there will also be concerns about the transparency of any investigation that may be launched into this incident wayne hay al jazeera bangkok. israel has shot down a syrian jet that it says violated its airspace the airplane crashed on the syrian

side of the golan heights with the syrian air force has launched several raids in support of a government offensive against rebels stephanie decker has more. the israeli army has confirmed that the jet went down in the southern golan heights on the syrian side which is the area behind us the army says that it penetrated israeli airspace two kilometers that it was monitored and then intercepted by two patriot missiles the syrians are saying that the jet was targeted inside its air space well it's been a very active conflict behind us we've seen russian jets in the sky we've seen syrian jets in the sky over the last couple of days the last opposition held area in southwest syria and just to tell you around here as a as a full out really from that patriot attack on the jet we've seen burning fields at some point we bumped into some soldiers who were assessing the damage they were saying that that was probably due to the actual. outgoing so now what you can see is further airstrikes that are happening in this area it is controlled by

a group affiliated with eisel which is why at the moment there are no offers to negotiate with them which is happen to other areas along this border it is the last held opposition area in southwest syria and the syrians together with the russian allies are very keen to take it back fifteen senators have quit to nigeria's ruling party in a major blow to president mohamed hardy's bid for reelection the exodus makes the all progressives congress or the a.p.c. a minority party in the senate fourteen of the fifteen who left have defected to the opposition people's democratic party last week another faction of the a.p.c. said it no longer supported biharis government aquiver says more now from nigeria's capital. relationship between the executive and legislature in nigeria has been solid for a very long time and the genesis of it was the election of leadership of the of two

chambers of parliament when an election is well won and lost in two thousand and fifteen the ruling party of the a.p.c. wanted sutton members to contest and win positions in the house of representatives and the senate but again there were some members of the ruling party including the senate press kind of senate president would effect it and some members of the party would join him in moving to cross carpeting to another party went behind the scenes and struck a deal with members of the opposition then won some votes and then shed some seats in the senate especially and then the house of representatives that has angered the ruling party and that said this pool of friction between the party and they just as well as the executive and the legislature and some of the highlights of these squabble was the late passage of two thousand and seventeen and two thousand and eighteen budget the budget was just two months ago which of course had even some

problems of the exact if i lighted now so the supporters of these legislators who defected said they have the numbers to win elections with or without the ruling party the a.p.c. and mohamed behind it but supporters of mum would want to on the other hand feel that it was the behind what they call the blood tsunami that pushed some of these legislators into parliament in the frost place with the electorate looking a bit prodigious but because blood was popular then so they voted them into parliament and they believe that these will not make any impact when the elections happen in the next six or seven months from now now the stew situation now is that what all of the they have the numbers to impeach the president if they want to a leader of a faction of the a.p.'s a.p.c. that he might just a month ago insisted that they have the numbers and they're willing to go ahead to reach the president but nigerians will be the judge when it comes to whether or not these people are popular to win the elections including the president himself when

they decide in february two thousand and nineteen. it watching al-jazeera live from london still to come on the program i casting agency advertises for actors to protest at downing street while the emir of qatar meets the british prime minister and the oil rich iraqis turning to kuwait to help ease an energy crisis we will tell you why. hello and welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia who've called the threat of one or two showers on the southern side of the caspian sea otherwise the whole region is looking fine but forty's again for iraq some areas were probably up to forty eight to fifty degrees around the side of the med looking pretty warm there for beirut at thirty three degrees one or two showers on the southern side of the black sea could be quite

heavy at times really not a great deal change your head on through into thursday so moving down into the arabian peninsula on the western side temperatures just in the low forty's there for medina and mecca meanwhile here in qatar we're looking at forty five degrees as a high in a similar sort of expected as we head on through into thursday clouds because of the amount of coastal current there for salami spot or two of drizzle heading down into southern portions of africa it's a fine picture here eighteen degrees in cape town where i ask you said a bit of cloud on the eastern side of madagascar but fine conditions everywhere twenty three year high in winter in the maybe or into central parts of africa some pretty decent shower scatter way across sudan so sit down and away towards the gulf of guinea again west africa looking pretty wet at the moment and shows going a long way north across chad and asia but the forecast suggests at least that bamako mali will stay dry twenty nine.

twelve boys in their football coach go missing deep in a cave in northern timer with rising floodwaters rescuers are running out of time and one when he's inside story of time and extraordinary heat on al-jazeera. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera at least seventy four people have been killed and almost two hundred injured by fierce wildfires near the greek capital

athens rescuers fear they may find more bodies in coastal areas devastated by the fire hundreds of people are missing in lauer after a partially built a dam gave way the collapse sent flash floods through nearby villages killing and unknown number of people and israel has shot down a syrian jet it says entered its airspace killing the pilot the syrian military says the jet was flying over syria territory. a long time casting agency has advertised for actors to play the role of people protesting against a visit to britain by the emir of qatar on monday the agency extra people sent out an e-mail on behalf of a client seeking a large group of people to fill space outside downing street during the visit of the president of qatar which is spelled trouble it went on this is an anti qatar event you will not have to do or say anything they just want to fill space you will be finished at twelve thirty but after publicity on twitter and in the u.k.

media extra people withdrew the appeal saying as soon as we as a company became aware of what the job involved and why we immediately withdrew our involvement. well captain samir met terrorism a at downing street earlier where the pair discussed the fence and security cooperation as well as joint work for the twenty twenty two football world cup in qatar the emir is keen to strengthen relations with western allies and made a blockade on his country by neighboring arab states as you had better has more now from central london the emir's meetings today with the british prime minister and the minister of defense are part of a qatari charm offensive that has been in full swing over the last few months we've seen the emir of qatar traveling to different capitals meeting with world leaders rally international support for his country as he continues to face a blockade imposed by its neighbors saudi arabia u.a.e.

behind and egypt the meeting sound round the boosting you cannot make and military cooperation between britain and qatar the british government has in the past been expressing its desire to see an immediate and to the crisis in the gulf region the highlight of the event was basically the a ceremony of the ministry of defense where the emir of qatar percent of the colors of the squadron which is going to be a unit of qatari and british pilots were going to protect the skies above qatar what in two thousand and twenty two when the gulf nation will host that were the football world cup and this is quite a significant message from the qatari perspective they would like to tell their own neighbors that you're still going on with the blockade however we've managed to consolidate our partnership with key political and military heavy ways such as the

us france and now the u k. iraq's government has signed a deal with q. weight in a bid to relieve its energy crisis the lack of kerosene and electricity has led to widespread unrest but many are asking why iraq which holds the world's fifth largest petroleum reserves needs help from kuwait imran khan reports now from baghdad. in iraq southern city of basra through droughts and freezes because there's no electricity business owners here a frustrated they're losing money the lack of electricity is driving ongoing protests in south q it's providing electricity generators and fuel to help alleviate the crisis and the iraqi government says that will provide electricity for seventeen hours a day but that's not enough for these people. we need our rights it should be twenty four hours of electricity other countries have it why don't we iraq is the

second largest producer in opec it has to import refined products in order to keep the country running and they include fuel such as diesel and kerosene. energy experts say this crisis could have been averted with long term planning. no future plan nor vision was put in place by ministries of planning or oil and electricity iraq needs twenty three thousand to maggie watts of electricity while the current production is between thirteen thousand to fourteen thousand megawatts this means that half of power production is missing power plants were built to consume energy sources that are not available in iraq such as these are. corruption mismanagement no future plans the ministry of electricity says iraq's recent war with eisel has damaged its capacity to produce electricity. in two thousand and fourteen as part of our plans we have established in beijing city a power plant with a capacity of one thousand megawatts but this was destroyed by ice and we were also

able to provide a decent supply of diesel live from beijing refinery which was operating at fifty percent capacity before i sold destroyed it. the ministry insists there is a long term plan to improve the grid and provide a steady power supply here in the capital and elsewhere across iraq are in desperate need of an upgrade now there's no details available for any kind of long term plan but it does seem there are guys thinking short and striking deals with its neighbors. meanwhile the protests continue with summer temperatures set to soar the iraqi government will be hoping that it can provide enough energy to keep the demonstrations from escalating. al-jazeera. japan's record breaking heat wave has now been classified as a natural disaster officials say that at least sixty five people have died in the unprecedented temperatures over the past week and more than twenty two thousand people have a have been admitted to hospital with heat stroke in some parts of tokyo the

mercury has hit forty degrees celsius for the first time forecasters say high temperatures will remain. until early august. new satellite images appear to show north korea has begun to dismantle its main nuclear launch facility this image shows the site earlier this month and then a few days later part of the facility looting a construction crane and processing structure have been apparently dismantled the pictures were released by monitoring group thirty eight north police in china have arrested the chairwoman of a vaccine manufacturer accused of falsifying production and inspection records fourteen other representatives of the fur that's chang chang biotechnology were also detained there are alleged to have violated standards in producing more than a quarter of a million vaccine doses. more

than one hundred million voters in pakistan are gearing up to alecks to elect their next government ballot papers are being taken to polling centers across the country compaq i'm painting ended on monday ahead of wednesday's elections front runners include a reef that's the brother of the former prime minister now was shareef. bhutto zardari son of the former prime minister benazir bhutto and a former cricketer iran karl who is popular with young voters well security across pakistan has been stepped up ahead of wednesday's vote kimo hyder has more now from islamabad. eight hundred thousand security forty four thousand men being they're going to run the country according to the election coverage you know don instructed bridge avoiding a fair and free.