asham alvar as more from central london. qatar's emir and britain's prime minister bonded over football i mean been hammered he told to resume he was impressed with the english football team adding he hoped they would do better when his country hosts the next world cup it was well. this is. this is us. then the discussion shifted to politics the g.c.c. crisis and bilateral relations qatar is one of the biggest investors in the u.k. and a major buyer of british military hardware. last year when saudi arabia u.a.e. bahrain and egypt sever ties with qatar and imposed a blockade doha twenty four typhoon fighter jets from the u.k. . during a ceremony. parade in central london the president of the flag over

a joint squadron of qatari and british pilots who will protect the world cup in qatar t.v. read building strong military cooperation based on a model approach you'll see more joint operations in the future including squadron twelve which you'll see operating soon and through the coming years that's a first step there will be more cooperation in the future rick. britton has called on all the parties involved in the gulf diplomatic crisis to set aside their differences. the u.k. is very sad about the blockade a little bit puzzled really what lies between the behind the blockade there doesn't seem any logical reason for the action but the u.k. must maintain good relations with all our states and that's why we are suggesting.

kuwait is best placed to be the broker. qatar's charm offensive has been in full swing since the start of the gulf crisis it's become couchette at a time when the country continues to face an embargo qatar's huge financial investors around the world along with its agreements to apply have helped this botanists with international political heavyweights and this is important for the gulf nation as located in country is a term that uses the crisis. zero horse cars essential london. well ahead of the emir's meeting with may it emerged that a london casting agency had advertised for actors to gather outside downing street and pretend to protest against his visit sort of hair that explains now on monday u.k. costing agency offered access twenty six dollars sake parts in what it called an

anti cattle event outside downing street now people who all signed up to the agency then posted screenshots of the call outs email sense of them by a company called extra people now the email said its client is looking for quite a large group of people to fill space outside downing street during the visit of the president of qatar those two very obvious errors that the use of the word president and the misspelling of cats as well then the email goes on to say this is an answer cats are event you will not have to do or say anything they just want to fill space. now am i who says she's one of the people who received the e-mail she tweeted that the costing agency later e-mails her again letting her know it cancels the job and the agency extra people has also tweeted this statement putting the air on taking the job down to a junior booker who hadn't consulted management now extra people also tweeted a screen grab of an e-mail sense of the agency from someone called lesley who works

for a company called net chimpy are now that's also mesh mentioned in that statement but what is neptune p r well if you go to the website you'll find that it's actually largely blank not much information on there for you to find out but a quick search of u.k. government records reveals that neptune was registered just three months ago however since this story emerged that chimpy are has created a twitter account saying it's never had anything to do the extra people agency but again received basic errors repute instead of refute and lead instead of lead now it's still more clear who's really behind all of this fingers all pointing towards saudi arabia and the usa now both countries along with and egypt have imposed a blockade against cancer for more than a year and they accuse cats of funding terrorism something it humanly denies over and over again but cats are says the countries involved are building it and trying

to infringe on its sovereignty. now the alleged protest seems to be the latest p.r. stunt against the gulf state it's been known to use boats and trolls as part of its social media campaign to undermine cats are and spread misinformation in the hashtag called oppose cats or visit trending cats or came mostly from users that joined twitter in twenty seventeen all at the same time and we also did a. search on trends map just a quick one to see who are the people that are actually tweeting the hash tag and more than two thirds of those tweets were actually read suites but more importantly a significant number of the bots are pushing that and c m a hash tag seem to have originated in france we have a couple but here is an exam another example as well and a lot of those seem to have been registered about two months ago on sweets and now the anti cattle propaganda doesn't just end their own social media because

a series of and cats are adverts have also paid on billboards around london like this one hey opposing the emmys visit. you're watching at the al jazeera news out there's much more to come on the program inside security preparations as pakistan gears up for an election a hundred million people are eligible to vote in seen persecution at home the teenage asylum seekers arrested at the u.s. border they tell us about their month in government tension. and pepper spraying the peloton and joe will have the latest a strange twist to this year's tour de. sixteen senators have quit nigeria's ruling party in a major blow to president mohamed do biharis bid for reelection the exodus makes the all progressives congress of the a.p.c. a minority party in the senate fourteen of the sixteen have left have defected to

the opposition people's democratic party thirty two members of the lower house of representatives have also left the a.p.c. to join the p.d.p. last week another faction of the p.c. said it no longer supported the hari's government presidential elections are expected to take place in february twenty ninth teen we can speak now to cheeky who will be running in that election he joins us from new york a cheeky very warm welcome to the program chick if i can get your reaction first of all to these defections from the a.p.c. . short thank you julie it's a pleasure to be here today. apparently as you can see with the defections going on tells me that there's no ideology with the parties the ruling parties that we've got right now many of them have no heart there's no core to be a belief systems which is why you have people who were part of p.d.p. two thousand and fourteen switched to a.p.c.

for that and then just to win right now right before the elections next see a lot of them are switching again back to p.d.p. that shows you that when it comes to ideology or call a message for the people many of our politicians do not have that. they are in it for the selfish gain and that's part of the problem we have in the nation today and that lack of their core message cheeky is that an opportunity for you what's your message. yes definitely as the youngest presidential candidate you know my my candidates is built on three pillars education entrepreneurship and technology education because it helps us define the problems as well as find solutions to them technology because it helps us amplify solutions to this problem zz and entrepreneurship because it helps as monetize the solutions for us for our benefit and of course for the world and when we talk about the reasons why i

believe it's time for us to run you realize that many of the people who are in charge right now are people who have been there for the past thirty forty years people who run in the nation based on the colonial mindset that they knew about and you have you know the millennium of which i'm a part of will full of promise full of ideologies and vision that we believe that can drive the will drive the future of the nation and that's why that's exactly why i'm running and should be what do you say to those people who say you're too young you're not experienced in op you're speaking from around the country as we speak now what do you say to those people. well one i'm not so young the minimum age to run is there to five so that qualifies me to write in two i believe i'm actually one of the most qualified people right now based on education and experience i may not have been in government but you don't have an actually want to be a part of this government that in itself is should be attained and anyone who's

running right now so having different perspectives different a global perspective ideologies and a vision to drive the nation i believe it's what the nation needs right now because apparently all of those of got the experience of people who've let us down the wrong path so i believe i'm very qualified to run i'll be moving back in two weeks to dive into the grassroots and to get to know the people but even prior to that i have been amassed in the culture have been a mess in and provided solutions in different capacities back home ok they're joining me live from new york take a thank you thank you for having me appreciate this. more than one hundred million voters in pakistan are gearing up to elect their next government ballot papers have been taken to polling centers across the country

ahead of wednesday's elections shahbaz sharif is running at the head of the ruling faction of the pakistan muslim league but more than half of the seats in the outgoing parliament is the brother of former prime minister now i sharif who was recently gael for corruption after returning from the u.k. among con heads the opposition tricky in the south party of movement for justice it's popular among young voters and is expected to get a lot more seats than last time around running for pakistan's people's party is below while bhutto zardari the elder son of former prime minister benazir bhutto was assassinated in two thousand and seven. well security has been stepped up across pakistan ahead of that vote has more from. eight hundred thousand security forces push in and have been deployed across the country according to the election commission no foggiest on food aid instructed to boarding a fair and free election the ballot bowl filled have already been defused the fall

flung horning station founding across the country forward profiled and candidates really be trying their luck full board the national and provincial assemblies for the election going to him day turnout is expected to be high but the figure to go in front of god appeared to be found among the election coverage you know foghat standard instructors were better form the printed feel for inducting and free elections in a country where to turn it already become controversial and it could go to the forehead of god that all go out in large numbers because of the return. by element who have all. the election making it bloody and big bird over one hundred fifty people kids including lead the political party the preparations are now complete and all the people are now awaiting for it for the forming to open on

their graves the fifth of july so they can cause their war before and want to expect from pakistan's elections let's speak to some who are common in washington d.c. she's a visiting research fellow at the cato institute where she specializes in side asian affairs and so harvey a warm welcome to the program thanks very much for joining us saw her how would you describe the political landscape right now and the four candidates who are running here. thank you for having me so i think the political landscape is actually pretty diverse but the four major parties are the leaders of elections of course are the box that they can solve which is the center right party and also the box sons them league no vas group which is also a center right party box on people's party is traditionally a secular progressive sort of socialist party and that center left whereas you also have a coalition of religious parties that are made up of this law me and jim out there with me ask group so i mean the landscape this is pretty diverse and it also

reflects the populous of the country as well and so what are the expectations from these elections are there high expectations that they will be free and fair. well i think the expectation first of all it's kind of controversial of the free this and the fairness mainly because of the security issue and as as you know this election has been an extremely violent one in which political candidates have been routinely targeted i mean just on sunday box that they solve a crime log on poor us it was killed on july tenth. of a national party was killed. on experience one of its deadliest attacks said in which a hundred thirty seven people were killed and so this is an election where political candidates especially have been targeted which has created sort of concerns around the security of the elections as well that when it comes to fairness this is where

this is also an interesting development because human rights groups the media box any media and even some politicians have accused the military of interfering in the elections which of course impacts how fair and free they would be so i think the expectation is that these elections are very crucial for pakistan's political progress and force democratic transition but there is a lot of skepticism exactly on exactly how free and fair they will be and exactly how secure they will be so far what about the impact of the youthful given the huge numbers of youth that make up a large part of the population. well. use population is massive sixty four percent of the population is between the ages of fifteen and twenty nine the voting age of pakistan is eighteen so even if you consider the ages of eighteen to twenty nine that's a big chunk of the population that's going to vote now according to the. national development report that came out in may it's

a pretty extensive almost two hundred plus page report that really goes in depth of sort of to explain what is the box stands use and what do they want and essentially in that report in past elections eighty percent of youth voters have gone out and voted so it's a pretty active use that wants to participate in the political process so expect to see the same in this election as well now how they will vote is different some of the youth may you know sort of go along old party lines voting for you know the pm . box a muslim league group or even the box on people's party box and that he can soften sort of been on the forefront always of catering to the use but we'll have to see exactly how they vote because the youth main concern is you know the economy whether they're able to marry or not whether they can find employment and it's unclear whether any political party can meet those demands and bucks and that he

can soften never ruled out a national stage so even if the youth votes for them i think they'll be really interesting to see whether or not p.t.i. can deliver so hard come there joining me live from washington d.c. on that story so hard thank you. stay with us on the news hour coming up by oil which iraq is turning to kuwait to help ease and energy crisis plus. i'm daniel shriner in northeastern brazil in a community that is fighting to protect his land from hungry speculators who will stop at nothing including mud to get their hands on that. and i think that eighty years to go until the twenty twenty and the games tokyo construction delays and the heat wave are basing headaches for organizers more on that in sport.

how the persistent high temperatures in europe are taking their toll we felt far as in sweden really vicious fires in greece just recently and it's only a few showers around that might help a tall the breeze isn't as strong as it was dancer greece as you can see create their own strong winds temperature wise it doesn't look too hot for the most part middle to high twenty's right about the thirty mark it's warming up more so in spain france and the british isles but we've seen records broken and i'll just jump you know as we stood up to thirty five the forecasts beyond the arctic circle in northern russia throughout finland and sweden where up at that level these are precedent to temperatures and a long lived drought the some rain around you'll notice but not actually over sweden it's over the baltic states it to tip's down through poland down to was rumania and if you're lucky i think to see some showers a bit further south in greece and want to in turkey is what we go to be lucky because they might just be lightning storms not produced much right now would not

be a good thing for the west is just sunshine and heat still which is a story throughout north africa here breezy. breeze coming down into libya attempts at forty in cairo but only twenty five luckily in robot. every armed attack in europe creates fear and division amongst its citizens where stories of loss go on told. a sweeping association of islam with the violence easier in muslims facing the stock reality of being ostracized by the very communities in which they may have love and moon the tragic loss of life twice evicts and coming soon on al-jazeera. when people think of cuba they think of revolution but ivana is undergoing a repetition of b.

because the last of the isn't the golden age and we're here to discover if those changes are reflected on the plate but this is q what is the cure to. the russian owner i'll try to make more today moot a.j. it's on al-jazeera. a reminder of our top stories coming here on al-jazeera at least seventy six people have been killed and almost two hundred injured by fierce wildfires near the greek capital asked and rescuers fear they may find more bodies in coastal areas devastated by the fire hundreds of people are missing in lyme softer partially

built down gave way to collapse and flash floods to nearby villages killing an unknown number of people. israel shot down a syrian jet it has entered its airspace killing the pilot the syrian military says the jet was flying over its own territory. united states government has announced a multi-billion dollar aid package for its farmers is to protect them from any potential trade war resulting from president donald trump's perfection protectionist tariff policies a white house correspondent kimberly how it has more. in many rural parts of the united states fears of an escalating trade war are real a lot of producers might not survive. in early july the u.s. slapped twenty five percent tariffs on hundreds of chinese goods imported into the united states china responded with its own measures targeting u.s.

products china is one of the primary markets for us poor consorting and american farmers have been hit hard by the tit for tat tariffs we actually redirected shipments to from there were in route to charter to other countries to alternative markets. with an increasing number of americans suffering the consequences of global trade tensions u.s. president donald trump on tuesday began to lure in rural states to try and sell his trade war releasing twelve billion in aid to reassure farmers hurt by the retaliatory tariffs farmers will be the biggest. markets you watch what's going. to be a little patient but it's not just china the united states has also attacked other allies like the european union with tariffs on steel and aluminum and is threatening even more aggressive trade action if trade deals aren't renegotiated so

you have to choose. good we're going to tariff your cars a. mercedes. b.m.w. . as part of the new relief package the u.s. government will buy up excess supply in an attempt to stabilise america's agricultural economy the president also needs to go to the voting booth an upcoming november midterm elections that will determine the future control of the u.s. congress and critics are already calling this a payout to ensure he has their support for months democrats have slammed trump accusing him of abusing his trade authority given the mounting evidence farm states are being hammered by trump's america first trade agenda still the troubled ministration is ask leading its fight in addition to tariffs already in place white house is preparing to impose tariffs on billions more chinese goods kimberly held

al-jazeera washington. scientists say climate change is feeling heat waves across the globe rate figures from nasa show that last month was tied as the third warmest in a hundred and thirty eight years of modern record keeping well the heat wave in japan has killed eighty people that's been declared natural disaster in some parts of the country temperatures have exceeded forty degrees celsius firefighters from across europe are now in sweden where so far this month there have been fifty forest fires heat wave in the scandinavian region has seen temperatures top thirty degrees in the arctic circle and then last week algeria recorded the hottest temperature ever reliably registered in africa at fifty one point three degrees in the desert well joining me now is senior climate scientist brenda equerry so from the union of concerned scientists hi there brenda thanks very much for being with us and brenda

we're seeing these patterns of extreme heat here in the u.k. it's you know temperatures have been well beyond what they normally are too are these events due to climate change and how do we know. well as scientists we know that climate change is a strong influence in part because of a landmark study by start and colleagues that found that the two thousand and three wave which tragically lost tens of thousands of lives was twice as possible because of human induced climate change the other thing is that there was a study just released by mitchell and colleagues that found out that the excess mortality heat related mortality in that event was about seventy percent in paris and about twenty percent in london brenda what's changed in the way that scientists can connect if i can use that word extreme weather to climate change.

unfortunately what we're seeing today is that events such as the stream heat wave that was extremely rare in the past is now more frequent due to the burning of coal oil gas and forests and scientists can have a vet investigate this change using very sophisticated measurement records and very sophisticated calculations of models that can examine the world with out burning coal oil and gas and the conditions that we have which is a history of very intensive burning of coal oil and gas and that difference tells us that unfortunately today we can see the severity of extreme heat waves that would be nearly impossible in the past brenda does that mean that what we're experiencing now and we're seeing in different parts of the globe is it to some degree a new normal if i can use that phrase it is the new normal that unfortunately our public health procedures and our human infrastructure are not

yet adapted to the amount of change that we already have wrought upon the globe so for example researchers in tokyo studied a prior heat wave and found that the most dangerous part is that you have successive days of extreme heat with little relief in the night time summer temperatures and brenda one of the recent studies that you were talking about there that found you know that some record breaking weather events was so extreme that they would have been frankly nearly impossible without this human influence on on climate and yet we have a situation where in parts of the world including in the u.s. this idea of climate change as that force are being negated by people in power so how do we make the changes that we need try to influence people's behavior and educate them with these kind of polarized views that are floating around. well i think that people really care about protecting communities and saving lives

and so we do need to educate people about the severity of heat stress and heat stroke and what the steps are to protect yourself we have to make sure that as one he researcher said it's a human right to have access to habitable temperature for human beings so we need to have access to temperature control set up cooling centers knock on doors of your neighbors that maybe elderly a may not be aware of how dangerous the situation is with indoor heat if you aren't having access or not choosing to pay the high bills for turning on air conditioning and in cases such as parts of the world where people are trying to have. copd and they do not have access to air conditioning we really really need to have rapid rapid response of emergency responders frantic where is there joining me live from washington d.c. brenda thanks very much the u.s.

government has asked a federal judge to allow the quick deportation of immigrant parents once they are reunited with their children has until thursday to reunite around two and a half i was in children with their parents president chomsky zero tolerance immigration policy has made gaining asylum more difficult it's a harsh reality for many immigrants searching for a new life a bellows and maybe one family affected by those changes one in ana both sixteen years old crossed the border illegally in january they were soon arrested and detained for more than a month before eventually being reunited with and his mother maria who herself has been living undocumented in the u.s. or several years none of them want us to show their faces or use their real names for fear it will affect the teenager's chances of being granted asylum. when they were detained juan n n a spent the first two days in one of the border patrol's notorious holding cells they become known as ice boxes for their cold conditions.

where detainees are given only four wheel blankets to keep warm i was really cold because when we crossed the river very wet so when they put me in the last box or got really cold with my wet clothes they were later moved to a facility near brownsville texas it was there they were separated the family are indigenous mayans from guatemala where they face poverty and discrimination often they are the targets of violence when one was eight years old he was thrown from the third floor of his school by fellow students he survived but it left its mark he's since suffered from seizures maria thinks neither won or ana are safe in guatemala anymore. and here in guatemala there is too much violence and there are often abductions of children over there especially if they hear they have family in the united states and gangs demand the family pay money teenagers like and one who

cross into the u.s. illegally and alone without parents or guardians are called unaccompanied minors by the u.s. government they're arrested and held it was the same under the obama administration crystal fleming is an attorney with the new york legal assistance group who represents the teenagers she says there's one big difference with president trump's administration type of asylum claims have been protected for numerous here such as women and children fleeing from domestic violence as well as fleeing from gang violence in latin america and now recently it was publicized that those type of claims are no longer can be granted asylum if families facing uncertainty in their president trumps zero tolerance immigration policy the only thing certain is their quest for asylum in the u.s. is now more difficult than ever gabriel's on dough i'll just zero your figures

released by the campaigning organization to witness so that two hundred seven environmental activists were murdered around the world last year its annual report said the killers often work for mining and logging companies and big agricultural businesses most dangerous country is brazil with fifty seven activists were killed in northeastern baja state reports. anna lucy lives in fear constantly looking over her shoulder she says she was threatened by armed men as they ransacked our home she knows who ordered the attack and why they want to develop on the communities land as you know we can't let them in to mediate us we need to continue they can kill me i'm not afraid of being killed i need to defend my people who've been here since fifteen sixty nine without any help from the government and now they want to destroy the forest that is part of us she lives in what's known as. a community founded in the sixteenth century by a scape slaves it's brazil's oldest his residents say they're more vulnerable than

ever a drug government has been rolling back environmental and human rights legislation . since i'm a pro and we don't know where to go for help we feel that. the federal government doesn't help us the local authorities don't care about us a mistake government tried to bribe us with fifteen million dollars land ownership in brazil is among the most concentrated and unequal in the world those who ordered the intimidation the murders are rarely brought to justice this road and the bridge i'm standing on cut right through the middle of the king community there was no consultation no negotiation no compensation the authorities simply came and they built evil but it will feel was killed in by. and. i'm real to a spiritual standoff in. brazil is consistently the most dangerous country for environmental activists and these were just some of the nearly five hundred in the

way murdered since two thousand and two trying to protect their land from big business. it seems that those who run the country are construction companies mining companies and the agribusiness when you have landis beats in brazil bees economic groups defined how the government reacts to cases of. and threats and a new c.e.o. says her people have preserved this land they don't pollute the forest but when short term profit is put before sustainable development it's the most vulnerable the already marginalized who are most risk than usual on their own by a state was ill the come on al-jazeera this news hour swimming against the current the senegalese people who say they're willing and able to work despite their physical disabilities and had a scare descended into the record books one of the highest mind is in the wallop.