include reef that's the brother of the former prime minister now was shareef below while a bhutto zardari son of the former prime minister benazir bhutto and the former cricketer imran khan who is popular with young both well security across pakistan has been stepped up ahead of wednesday's vote come out hyder has more now from islamabad. eight hundred thousand security forces pushed in and have been deployed across the country according to the election commission no foggiest on instructed to boarding a fair and free election the ballot bowl could have already been diffused through the fall flung polling station running across the country forward broke and candidates really be trying their luck full board the national and provincial family. turnout is expected to be high but the figure to go in front of god are very to be found among the election coverage you

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the car. cycling's tour de france has been disrupted by a farmer's protest bales of hay were thrown into the road early stage sixteen that's around thirty kilometers out of the town of son in the south of france police use the pepper spray on the farmers which blew into the eyes of some of the riders temporarily stopping the race. and i remind of the top stories on al-jazeera rescuers in greece fear they may find more bodies after wildfires swept through coastal areas near the capital athens at least seventy four people have been killed and almost two hundred injured by the fires which broke out on monday afternoon many are still burning and risks at risk spreading through scrub land parched by summer heat neave baka has more now from the coastal village of mattie where twenty six bodies have been found less than one

hundred beaches down the road to you've got to see what would have been a beautiful place to come on holiday was very popular with families elderly retirees settled here in marty but just a short distance away from the sea of course this scenes of total devastation this is just over twenty four hours since the fire raced through here but the ground in place is this still smoldering what was a rescue operation is now very much a recovery operation hundreds of people are missing in la after the partial collapse of a dam in the country's southeast the collapse of the dam in the ethical province flash floods through nearby villages another unknown number of people have been killed local media reporting more than six and a half thousand people have also been left. the israeli military has shot down a syrian jet that it says entered israeli airspace killing the pilot the syrian government says the jet was fired on as it was taking part in operations against

rebels on syrian territory. japan's record breaking heat wave has now been classified as a natural disaster officials say at least sixty five people have died in the unprecedented temperatures over the past week and more than twenty two thousand people have been admitted to hospital with heat stroke. fifteen senators have quit to nigeria's ruling party in a major blow to president mohamed who biharis bid for reelection next year exodus makes the all progressives congress or a.p.c. a minority party in the senate fourteen of the fifteen who left have defected to the opposition will have more on that and all the other stories we've been covering on the al-jazeera news i will bring that to you in less than half an hour coming up next on three zero it's inside story thank you for watching i'll see very soon.

qatar has welcomed a ruling by the un's top courts that orders the u.a.e. to reunite families separated by its brocade but will the u.a.e. government comply with the order and what impact will this have on the gulf crisis this is insights. welcome to the program. it's a first ruling by the u.n. top court on the gulf crisis the international court of justice has ordered the united arab emirates to immediately allow. separated by the book on

qatar to reunite in june twenty seventeen saudi arabia bahrain egypt and the u.a.e. imposed. accusing cutoff of supporting terrorism a charge doha strongly rejects cut off the case at the i.c.j. arguing the u.a.e. had violated an international convention on racism when it expelled thousands of qatari citizens during the first weeks of the crisis. the final decision on the case is not expected for months we're bringing in our guests in just a moment but first this report from at 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 fairness that this all of that is. and that article forty one of these that. bind in effect. and there's a international legal obligation 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 its 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 un

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. the hague. and the u.a.e. issued a statement after the court ruling saying contrary to qatar's false allegations thousands of qatar is continue to reside in and visit the u.a.e. qatari visitors may enter the u.a.e. with prior entry permission issued through the telephone hotline we urge qatar to constructively engage on the requests made by the u.a.e. and other countries for qatar to comply with its international obligations now we'd like to point out that we did reach out to officials and analysts in the u.a.e. for comment on this story but they have all declined to come on the program so

let's bring in our guests joining us here in doha abdul aziz al gore director of the diplomatic institute at the qatari ministry of foreign affairs on skype from the croatian city of dobro nick toby cadman an international human rights lawyer and in london. visiting fellow at the center for conflict security and terrorism at nottingham university gentlemen welcome to you all thank you so much for being on the program today toby cadman in croatia i'd like to start with you because you're an expert on the international court of justice and i'd like to clarify for our viewers what this ruling by the i.c.j. a preliminary ruling means because we're getting a different spin on it from the official news agency in the u.a.e. at least which quality does this provisional ruling favor. thank you well

certainly the favor the ruling is in favor of the state of gotham that's clear. that there have been a number of statements coming out from the u.a.e. that it's not a decision. it's an order well i mean that that's a that's a question of semantics to be to be ours the the decision that has been issued by the entire court of justice is a ruling in favor gotten of following their request for provisional measures and as it's quite clear from the decision and i would direct your listeners to read the decision rather than any statement coming out of the u.a.e. is very clear that excess jurisdiction exists that the matter is being complained of for with. and for within the jurisdiction of the international court of justice and it ironic to say the least that the u.a.e. . acting. to spect international which u.a.e.

which has your interests own actions it has complete disregard whole it'll be a provisional victory for cuttack but it's not the end of the case. it is certainly not the end of the case is the very beginning of the case but it's an important first ruling that upholds the position the state of qatar has taken that this is a matter that falls within the jurisdiction of the international court of justice and that the acts complained of are capable of being considered violations of the international conventions so those are two very important ruling that the interest group justice has made and it's also important to note that the entire court of justice disregarded the closing remarks by the u.a.e. when the u.a.e. try to argue that despite the statement of june of last year from their own foreign

ministry that there wasn't any action has been taken and interpol justice did not accept it and so the position of the u.a.e. is before it has been disregarded of course proceedings will interpret just as our very long rights and very complex right involving matters of international law and facts ok so this is likely to go on for some time but it's an important first rule and suddenly abdulaziz al gore here in doha as toby says they're very important to point out that this order does not constitute a final ruling on the case and he could be months if not years before a final decision on the case brought by qatar is made so why is qatar welcoming this initial ruling even though it's not the final decision actually i agree with our colleague that this is a very. fairest step in the in a long a toilet maybe they're not authentic one but for from our office perspective

it shows how the political behavior of qatar as a choice the professionalism and the chores the a proper approach that qatar as. taking and the crisis of the existing courses and struggle with the blockading country a chores when qatar has said to the whole war that our people have been victimized our people have been discriminated against we were really of out of all this that really our qatari people have been at this can discriminated against not only but as you know i would as you know have to this is i'm sorry to interrupt you the u.a.e. and till today insisted he has nothing he has done nothing wrong yvette you know these violations committed are not real because cattery citizens still live and work in the u.a.e. and i still being allowed into the u.s.

. i mean they have been saying this and they are saying this and they will be saying this in the future as all you can see this after the. decisions and still they are repeating the same story again but qatar was able to prove that they. qatari people have been discriminated against by showing evidence of this not by talking about it it's really that we are living in this country we have relatives we have a friends we have colleagues we have people all of these people have been discriminated against especially students and relatives and. families ok let me bring in africa in london now what's your reading of this ruling do you think it's a victory for qatar. well i think it might be

a victory for carter but it's an even bigger victory for the international system i think that what we're seeing here is one party using the the the the concept of the right is might and the other party is using the concept that might is right so what we have is a number of states who are allied against carter whatever the dispute between them i'm not going to comment on it but the point is that they are using political economic and other leverage to force a change of behavior of what carter has done is use the international legal systems to inforce their rights right and i go into our illegal little golden ears because victory i want to ask you about a point you just made that it's very interesting i think do you think by going the

legal route. is complicating a political resolution of the crisis. i think that it could to a very mature parents on how people react to it but the point i think that is inherent in this ruling is that you mustn't mix politics with people it's the next worst things to mixing politics and religion so what. it appears certainly the reading of the court is that whatever the political issue and they have stilted discuss that ok it is wrong to make individual citizens pay for the price of a political conflict and i think that's a significant underlying point to be cabmen into profit my next question to you is is the bullying by by the i.c.c.

enforceable if the un the decides that it doesn't want to implement what is advised by the court what happened stan what are the ramifications. where i think the first point to reemphasize is that going to quite like the way you look at london put it. here we have a situation where at the u.a.e. has has tried to use bullying tactics to to prevent any any kind of actually being taken and to prevent the international community from really scrutinizing the illegality of the blockade in war and the consequences of the blockade so things are important to look at that and of course the i.c.j. is a is a judicial body which is fully independent and impartial and is immune from from the pressure. times of whether they were for the ruling i very much doubt

that they would do anything to implement the ruling as their statement that they've issued clearly indicates that they consider to be wrong and they do not consider anything. they do to be subject to external scrutiny in and this is one of the biggest problems with with the u.a.e. and the other blockading states is that the default position in terms of in forcing it yes of course it can be and for how to meet un security council so they don't need to actually tell us your council base national or of justice itself doesn't doesn't have power of enforcement is that what you say. well yes i mean if you have one of the most important rolling stone intercourse just as surprised as a separate issue which which relates to the war and slim that will still stand. despite the finding that it is illegal so it is it is a difficulty in international law in ensuring that there is an enforced ability

mechanism but what you have to understand is that not only u.n. security council but through other through other mechanisms of the united nations the the question really has to be does the united arab emirates wish to establish itself as a pariah state because that's where it's heading it as it has tried to get international community to support it in creating the state of qatar as a vassal state under the authority of saudi arabia u.a.e. bahrain and to a lesser extent egypt and that has failed you know they are up against actual legal reasoning from credible quality which has dismissed the arguments that it has made in defense and said it is in breach of international law as as we've heard from the state of the u.a.e. that they're calling for the state of qatar to respect in its national law again

that's what they're going to have to face it seems that you were just going round and round in this crisis that's just remind our viewers of how it all unfolded on may twenty third twenty seventeen the qatar news agency was hacked false statements attributed to the country's leader posted on its website and broadcast by saudi and iraqi media the hacking came three days after u.s. president donald trump met adly that is at the riyadh summit on june fifth saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain and egypt cut ties with kata imposing a land sea and the accused supporting terrorism and allegation qatar has strongly denied now the. locating countries ordered thousands of qatari residents to leave their countries and demanded that their own citizens living in qatar returned home then they sent qatar a list of thirteen demands that included curbing relations with iran closing a turkish military base and shutting down the al-jazeera media network abdul aziz al gore what do you respond to those who say that qatar is undermining any possible

political or diplomatic settlement to this crisis by going the legal route actually in fact that of from day one respect to the kuwait as a mediator in the case they asked for. countries to come. around the table and accept first of all their concerns on the table with one condition only to come to the table without a pre conditions without really on posing anything that will effect this over n.t. and independency of the cut of that was the only person civil that was not negotiable these so venti and indifferences dependency of the country and the still today is calling for the to come to the negotiation table and to more they will continue to to call for this actually they have shown why evidence to the

that we have called for. negotiation. to come to the negotiation table but all of these attempts have been rejected we responded positively to the kuwaiti mediator we responded positively to all to everybody who a toy to to mediate the with the blockade in countries but all what we hear at all what we receive is a total rejection and a skill. the to have been be used on a very. terrible news ok so you're saying that qatar had really no choice now then to go to the international court of justice. exactly. what impact do you see this ruling having on the battle for influence in western capitals we've seen

the emir of qatar in london on tuesday his travel to washington as well and so have the book eighteen countries have been you know waging a battle of influence really in western capitals what impact do you see this ruling having on the position of western countries in this crisis. well i think that certainly the culture is one if you like a. goal in the battle of influence it's very much in the lead on this particular issue and this particular issue relates of course as we've already discussed to the human rights of people affected in this dispute it doesn't address the wider dispute at this stage is probably going to be downstream and i think that what i would hope that all the parties involved in this dispute take time out and think very carefully about their strategies right the battle the influence can

work both ways what they should do is look at the history of interstate politics and conflict resolution before the first world war and how alliances and this is what we're talking about in this case is alliances both regional as well as international who are having influence on the parties involved and how that can very rapidly fall apart and cause major problems but far bigger than the conflict that we're dealing with right now so you know if they can in any way come together and try to resolve their problems through mediation we've heard about the possibility of mediating through kuwait and other countries that is going to be much more sustainable and a much more effective solution then being international powers for influence because they will respond to there will be an interest was strong of mediation

early the sales out of the local and speaking of mediation you mentioned kuwaiti mediation and we've also heard the possibility of u.s. mediation there's been talk of a summit at camp david possibly in september between donald trump and leaders of these countries in this region do you see this decision having an impact on that can the summit still take place in the current context. well i hope so i i think it should too and one point that i hope i. toby is wrong about. i hope he's wrong i'm not saying here is is that i think my reading of some of the statements the u.a.e. has made to reuters is that they're claiming that they're complying with the the resolution of the international court of justice so they they say they're complying according to the national regulations so they have a face saving way out of this i don't think the term anybody should start

creating if you like embarrassing situations for other parties in this but i think this ruling could do is show that if people can sit down and talk about rights as opposed to politics then you are likely to get a better solution and i would say say that regional solutions are probably more sustainable then international solutions because the us with the best will in the world will be approaching this letter from its national interest let's hear from those may not coincide with other people's interests let's allow toby to respond and toby i also want to ask you about you know you talked about the possibility of the case being referred to the international rather to the u.n. security council if you know it wasn't resolved at the level of the international court of justice if that were to happen. who stands to benefit from the case going all the way to the u.n. security council. well first of all to respond i also hope i'm wrong i don't think

i am but i do hope i am wrong and that the usa that sees this were actually all sides see see this as an opportunity of course everybody wants to see a political solution to this rather than protracted litigation the difficulty is got to has tried that and it's failed. they that have attempted to to mediate a problem as the guest one said from with with the with the kuwaiti. assistance but that wasn't successful and so got i was forced to initiate litigation riggers that was the only way to resolve this issue. because the u.n. security council we don't know which worried. that's ok we don't know what let's support it. it's. ok thank you. for.

your counsel as an absolute last ditch attempt to ensure compliance. by the decision and things will change all right let's give a last word to abdul aziz al gore here in doha how do you see the top place today in terms of the international community and where do you see this crisis go and do you think it can be resolved in the next few months i hope it can be resolved we resolve we resolve the previous one we sat on the table we really discussed the concern why it doesn't happen this time so i do have the hope that it will be resolved but i mean for this to be resolved there is only one way for resolving it is a dialogue a dialogue and dialogue this is the only way to do it i agree with our colleagues that qatar has been left with no choice but going to the international law legal system to claim their ice for its own people of protecting their their. really

their people and. making sure that they receive a proper. and just. dealing with the with the will in these countries ok we'll leave it there thank you very much gentlemen for a very interesting conversation abdulaziz al gore toby cadman absa thank you all for being on this edition of inside story and thank you as well for watching you can always watch this program again any time by this ng our website al jazeera dot com for further discussion go to our facebook page at facebook dot com for slash a.j. inside story you can of course also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at inside story from the three back to bo and the whole team thank you for watching by foot.

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them. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm barbara sarah this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes wildfires a sweep through a greek resort town killing at least seventy four people including entire families hundreds are missing in southern lauer after a dam collapses washing away homes and leaving thousands homeless these really military shoots down

a syrian fighter jet it says entered its airspace and we'll tell you why brazil continues to be the most dangerous country in the world to be an environmental activist. i'm joined again. the day sports the turkish president weighs in on this it is a quick thing the german football team will hear from him later in the. wildfires that swept through coastal areas near the greek capital athens have killed at least seventy four people including entire families rescuers fear that they're going to find more bodies after the fires the homes and forests people ran into the sea in a desperate attempt to get away from the flames many fires are still burning the worst affected areas are of athens and matty and that a female to the east where most of the happened neve barker reports now from.

wood ferocious intense and see the flames tore through homes cars and livelihoods. of the wildfires quickly turned deadly. locked in a final embrace dozens of bodies discovered in the popular seaside village of monte east of athens families had huddled together for safety the phone. no escape. this progress brainwash artists early this morning we discovered three other victims further away this place where unfortunately there are twenty six people men women and importunate children see. cars with the keys left in the ignition the doors open and first aid supplies left on the seats picture emerges of people abandoning their cars and trying to escape on foot. within hours large parts of marty had been destroyed survivors described running for the sea to escape the choking smoke

military and coast guard vessels along with dozens of private boats join the effort to rescue more than seven hundred people from the beaches some survivors were discovered at sea here in the resort town of marty nearly every block nearly every street there are signs of devastation like this charred cars lined the streets the fire was so intense here it's even melted the metal on some of these vehicles and some locals who have returned to inspect what's left of their properties in every fourth or fifth house here seems to have always been completely destroyed but where do you begin thinking about the building owners emergency crews supported by the military go from house to house and as coast guards inspect the sea the fear is the death toll could rise to see many eleventh he is the mini me or africa today greece is mourning and in memory of those who perished we are declaring three

days of national mourning however we should not let that overwhelm us because this is a time to fight to be unified and courageous. you're buying up all early in the hot dry weather fires burn on the other side of athens too there was panic because greeks looked for their neighbors the flames closing in. this is came in a coastal town an hour's drive west of the capital crews trying to limit the destruction but it was out of control. and appeal for international help has resulted in additional resources being dispatched from spain and cyprus to deal with the worst wildfires in more than a decade in two thousand and seven more than eighty people were killed as spies raged across the country for days. this year a dry winter as again calls tinderbox conditions with one hundred kilometer an hour winds fanning the flames for greece in peak tourist season the fires are

a danger to its frangela kaname only adding to the toll of a tragic summer or we can speak to live. in the coastal village of matthew still for us right behind you we can actually see a recovery operation that's underway tell us a little bit about that one and just generally about how people there are are recovering or trying to after what's happened. well this is one of many streets here in the coastal resort of marty that has seen multiple cars burnt completely to cinders which is what the authorities here behind me are now trying to clear and many people of course trying to escape in their vehicles but quickly the roads were blocked instead people numbering their hundreds we believe headed for the sea some of them went right to the end of the road here which unfortunately led them to a cove that locals tell me probably led to them being trapped with fire all sides

if they had simply turned left towards the port a bit further up the road their chances of survival according to locals may have been greater there's a real attempt here to try and bring this scene at least under control but it's incredibly hazardous there are pylons all over the place to look like they're about to topple with any kind of pressure the hope now is of course that the the weather will improve it has cooled a little bit nothing like the searing forty plus degree centigrade temperatures that we saw a couple of days ago but what everybody here is really hoping for is rain it is for curse though but not any time soon let's certainly hope that the rain does cause of course the greece is a country that anyway is facing economic troubles this should be you know summer is high tourism season for them that's how a lot of the economy gets bolstered just tell me a little bit about how much help greece has had with this from its neighbors.

well there is a sort of panic and european agreement that should there be a situation like this wildfires or other natural disasters that other members of the e.u. chip in and help we know that sweden recently has been having terrible wildfires up there and that a lot of specialists aircraft had to be read directive from sweden back here to greece to help out we're talking about specialist teams from cyprus aircraft has also been sent from there to two amphibian aircraft was sent over from spain they can scoop up five and a half tons of water to dampen flames across the country but what really the authorities here in greece are looking to do next is clarify exactly how many people may have lost their lives and literally in the last few minutes just learned that seventy six people have now be confirmed dead one hundred eighty seven people

are still in hospital twenty three of them are children and we believe that ten people are still in serious condition that form the emergency services who are have been going house to house looking into exactly how many people may have been caught up in the fires a word of warning though from the mare pheno that's the region surrounding mattie who is said that hotels and resorts have still not been explored there are real concerns for a cheese but the figures could rise rapidly we know that the number of missing is in three figure digits at the moment so we're talking about at least one hundred people missing if not many more of course many of those are feared dead of course parker with the latest there from. that terrible fire thank you. well japan's record breaking heat wave has now been classified as a natural disaster officials say at least sixty five people have died in the

unprecedented temperatures over the past week and more than twenty two thousand people have been admitted to hospital with heat stroke in some parts of tokyo the mercury is had forty degree celsius for the first time forecasters say high temperatures will remain until early august. to about half of the people sent to the emergency rooms for heat related ailments are over sixty five but they've accounted for eighty percent of the deaths. well i guess here is senior weather presenter richard anglin explains why the northern hemisphere is currently experiencing such high temperatures well there's no arguing the fact that the heat wave we've seen across asia across japan the korean peninsula and china repeated across scandinavia there of epic proportions we've seen so many records broken and so many more records likely to fall in the coming days even weeks dare i say parts of the explanation lies with the jet stream that a band of winds blowing ten kilometers up in the atmosphere like

a river of wind but at the moment i'm afraid is nothing more than a stream dried up in places and that has an impact on weather types across europe for instance so what we're seeing is because of the weekend of a polar vortex and the changes in arctic sea ice it's allowing weather systems to become more persistent so day on day you get a building of heat on top of that of course there's more energy going into the atmosphere we are living in a warming world twenty eighty probably in the top five for misuse since eight hundred eighty and every chance that this sort of pattern is going to be repeated in the summers to come. 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 been left homeless and at the pier province after the collapse sent flash floods through nearby villages when have reports now from bangkok in neighboring thailand. in this part of southeastern laos

villages have disappeared beneath muddy water that cascaded down stream on monday nights. it's not known how many people have been affected by the partial collapse of the city and see 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 settle 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 southeast asia by exporting electricity to neighboring countries this dam on the mainstream 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 anthony nelson is the rector of the east asian pacific practice at the albright stonebridge group an advisory and the policy for any previously managed the us as he and business council team in laos sir thank you so much for joining us here on the al-jazeera i mean loud tends to be a place that is hard to report from for example we found out of the media found out about this particular incident quite a few hours after it happened so from what you know how equipped is the country to .