the man is the. iran hands the front runner his promises of change of been clouded by the inclusion of so-called electable politicians who previously won seats for other parties opponents draw parallels between him and members of his party when he criticizes the washer family for having children and assets abroad imran khan's also been accused of being the favored candidate of the powerful military establishment an allegation he denies. why can't the international media say there will be a new pakistan after july twenty fifth. the party of nigel former prime minister has been struggling to contradict image of corruption since the panama papers investigation and washington's brother shahbaz has taken charge but he's also under investigation male body i'm just being me me and my daughter maria are in prison because we started this movement to bring dignity to your vote no prime minister

has ever completed a five year term in the last seventy years of fighting it's fun but this is the second time a democratically elected civilian government is completing its tenure and the difference is clear when elected politicians went back to ask for votes in the areas where they didn't deliver returns empty handed. it's the third largest national force is the pakistan people's party led by bin laden put to the diary but the son of the assassinated put bill has had to defend the bad state of affairs in sindh province his party has been in power for decades. for the first time people in the tribal areas can vote as part of the federation old alliances have been broken and new ones have emerged in baluchistan in every bottle club provinces. nationally the ballots have been distributed and boxes are in place for one hundred six million pakistanis to vote political leaders see attempts of people rigging can only be defeated if people come out and water numbers some of enjoyably dollars here a lot. ok let's talk to come to life for us in islamabad come on as we head to someone

talking about there the military has been put in place a stand simply to assist in free and fair and transparent polls but what is the suggestion that the military has actually been influencing the outcome of this election. well if you ask the military they were. pretty tricky because the and get him government had all of the military doing headed and that of course provisions of the pakistani. and the security environment in this country really gained and already we have seen hundreds of people during the election campaign. had realised that they. would bomb dog attack the nation so the million million age group i think before we. should watch and see how did

connection how people react and often get a fairly good idea as to where did it end of fair election there are over one hundred from the european union they will be monitoring this election i think we shall have to wait and see what kind of an election it is read that it is controversial and read it and indeed free and fair way that people are. right to choose and left and people. on the polling stations one situated behind me and you can he be but are already trickling to polling stations be put in once they go inside we'll get to peta of paper and run it into. the green will be for the national assembly and a white ballot paper will be for choosing the provincial representative. this race as i understand it is expected to be very tight given the fact that.

brother the former prime minister nawaz sharif is in prison but has been campaigning from there are people surprised by just how tight this race is. with people boarding their bread because they can go anyway one thing that has to be remembered that mr know why should he try to get there but the king that he'd been put in prison because of. politic not correct entirely he had already been accused of math if corruption his finance minister. the brother in law then that he had run away from. the huge red in fact minutes on the floor of the assembly they were two hundred billion dollars of the black money was lying and. another one hundred billion dollars in expected to be.

arrested in the united arab emirates. there are question marks to how such a large amount of money. out of the country of money even the people's party did a nation against them because it meant to their diety. indulging in massive corruption when he wouldn't go. as to whether they want in on it where they want accountability. for the people they've been voting for for the last few decades if i understand it correctly come on if a man con wins he may have to form a coalition what are the chances that we're going to see. dottie acting essentially as a kingmaker as a result of this election. where the people's party can not be the king simply because if a moron con does rain he had already made. north make an airline. a.

good option so did his pin to put it down and of course really come into play once the election takes place then we have a clear idea who i mean if it is going to be a coalition government there will be a lot of intense negotiation for dave brown also didn't make a connection if the ignored able to get that kind of heat he wants to form the next government. permission. for him and crucial for the country and rein in some sort of change to god our country has bought. ninety billion dollars just in the last and one other thing that should be remembered that digit probably the most expensive election in history and that is dimes do elections that have been headed into. life for us and

a slum about come all thank you very much andy. plenty more ahead on the news are including a huge blow for nigeria's president as forty seven lawmakers from is really in party quit almost all of them defecting to the opposition. qatar's emir is in the u.k. ahead of a meeting with britain's prime minister as the blockade against his country continues. and pepper spraying the peloton joe will have the latest strange twist to this year's tour de france. u.s. secretary of state might come pale has to go before a senate panel to explain what happened during president donald trump's recent meeting with the russian president vladimir putin our state department correspondent roselyn jordan tells us what we should expect. when u.s. president donald trump went to helsinki and said this about russian interference in

the two thousand and sixteen election it's my people came to me dan coats came to me and some others they said they think it's russian i have president putin he just said it's not russian republicans and democrats were outraged by never thought i'd see an american president throw the intelligence community under the bus like that absolutely disgraceful a disservice to america he blamed everyone except russia secretary of state mike pompei o goes before senators on wednesday to try to explain what happened some experts say pompei or might have a hard time doing so but they don't know what trump talked about with putin in that meeting it was it was just the two of them and translators. and things are emerging every day that are clearly coming as a surprise even to some of tom's closest advisors in fact it's been moscow that has

revealed what trump and putin discussed behind closed doors the syrian civil war north korea's nuclear weapons program joint counter-terrorism operations in the middle east the crisis in eastern ukraine and crimea arms control treaties and the charges russia is undermining the us political process but some analysts say despite their anger republicans won't put as much pressure on pompei o as one might expect many of them are up for election in the mid-term elections it's more important for them to stay in power than to act on principle no matter what happens in the hearing there is a growing consensus on capitol hill that trump is permanently changing the u.s. is global authority changes that could take years to repair rosalyn short an al-jazeera washington. there's really army says it's shot down a syrian fighter jet after it flew into israel's air space this video shows the

smoke trails left by two israeli patriot missiles that were fired at the jet syrian pro-government media says the war plane never left syrian territory it crashed on the syrian side of the golan heights with the syrian air force has launched several raids against rebels. the un envoy for peace in the middle east has warned of increasingly frequent and dangerous confrontations between israel and syria nicolay in london off made the comments during a un security council meeting in new york diplomatic editor james bays has more from that meeting. it's a time of fresh tension in the middle east the u.n. special coordinator briefing by video link from jerusalem warned of troubling developments on two fronts as we meet today tensions between syria and israel continued to rise by last saturday we were minutes away from another devastating confrontation between israel and hamas in gaza. even before the meeting started the

israeli ambassador came to brief reporters on the downing of the syrian jet which he claimed to infiltrate israeli airspace he dodged my question though about a deal which president trump has said he's done with president putin concerning israeli security the world really doesn't know what the deal is can you explain more for us i don't know about you know a friend and i can tell you one thing we would not allow the iranians to be in their bases that our borders in the golan heights this is our policy and by means that i now with a very clear about if when it is to put in when you meet mr trump wherever he will meeting with or the same we will not allow the iranians to be at their bases next week while i do have an agreement. we have a policy we don't have an agreement inside the council meeting the israeli ambassador went on to blame the escalation of violence in gaza on hamas while his palestinian counterpart said it was the result of israeli on going occupation and

aggression that sweden has the presidency of the council this month it sam bacile his assessment was sobering there are you know the questions to be put whether there are real preparations for peace in the region we have constant bandaids on the wounds that are there but no real long term solutions everyone is waiting for a credible peace plan we haven't seen that yet the us has for eighteen months said it's coming up with that he's plan but there were no fresh details from ambassador nikki haley she instead used her speech to attack countries of the arab world talk is cheap no group of countries is more generous with their words than the palestinians arab neighbors and other member states but all of the words spoken here in new york do not feed clothe or educate a single palestinian child. it's not just dumb bastard to haleigh's hectoring to

own that has ruffled feathers members of the security council a frustrated that they've been given no details of the u.s. administration's middle east peace plan or of a secret deal that's already been done between the us russia and israel over syria jamesburg al-jazeera the united nations israel says it's partially reopening its only commercial crossing with the besieged gaza strip it having closed on july the ninth israel has only allowed in goods that it decided were for humanitarian use following the closure of the electricity supply to palestinians had been cut from eight hours to just six hours a day just trafford 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 thomas 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 is going 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 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 this 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. so i had an al-jazeera fleeing persecution at home the teenage asylum seekers arrested at the u.s. border they tell al-jazeera about their month in government detention. struggling to survive what cancer patients have to endure because of

a lack of treatment in the war torn yemen. and in sports japan's heat waves causing headaches for all denies there's two years out from the start of the tokyo olympics . he and his friends. in. the weather sponsored by cattle i always. hello tropical cyclone santa is still with us it's hard to see the circulation but it's in there it produced flooding in the philippines more than eight days ago with his more recent flooding in vietnam and laos really nasty stuff is now currently thinking about going back over the border from southwest china into northern vietnam and laos are producing yet more rain in combination with the monsoon clyde's this is not looking particularly good having had flooding and landslides already there going to be repeated

a few showers seem likely around the coast of china through hong kong maybe even shanghai and who had been generally cloudy and humid environment but come south of cambodia and apart from the philippines the showers are read the white top clouds all there in borneo and maybe in singapore and sumatra but then all that likely is probably likely going to be in the sunshine in jakarta for example or in bali even inside the way see there are calm promise it now the monsoon has reached its peak now southwest monsoon so on the coast of myanmar and all over india nepal the good part of pakistan the chances are you will next day or so get a decent time poll has brought the temperatures down course was course it's still pretty humid though whether it's sponsored by cattle i always say. whenever i see something that has happened in the news my first reaction is to please god don't let this person have been someone that we released on parole gatekeepers of

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you're watching all jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour at least seventy six people have been killed and almost two hundred have been injured by fierce wildfires near the greek capital athens rescuers fear they may find more bodies in coastal areas devastated by the fire prime minister i'd like to suppress as declared a state of emergency and he's announced three days of national mourning. hundreds of people are reportedly missing in laos off of the collapse of a hydro power down it sent a wall of water downstream flooding villages and sweeping away homes and emergency disaster as has been declared. polls are due to open within half an hour from pakistan's election more than one hundred million people are eligible to vote by the state's parliamentary poll is counted it's from three main parties and what

someone describing as the dirtiest election in the country has ever seen. qatar is a mirror is in london for talks with the british prime minister he meant to liza may at downing street where the pair discussed defense and security cooperation as well as joint work for the twenty twenty two football world cup in qatar the man is keen to strengthen relations with western allies amid a blockade in this country by neighboring arab states. has 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. he hoped they would do better when his country hosts the next world cup it was well. this is. not us 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 presenter of the flag over a joint squadron of qatari and british pilots who will protect the world cup in qatar t.v. read we're 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.

britain 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 block. a little bit really what lies between me behind the blockade it doesn't see any logical reason for the action but you must maintain good relations with all our states and that's why we are suggesting that 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 crucial at a time when the country continues to face an embargo qatar's huge financial investments around the world along with its agreements to why arms have helped this partnership with international political heavyweights and this is important for the

gulf nation as the locating country is a term that uses the crisis. as is the whole scarse essential london and is emerged the london casting agency advertised for actors ahead of the emir's visit to play the role of people protesting against qatar on monday the agency called extra people sent out an e-mail on behalf of a client it said it was looking for a large group of people to fill space outside downing street during the visit of the president of qatar with qatar misspelled that went on this is an anti qatar event he will not have to do or say anything they just want to fill space but after publicity on twitter and in the u.k. media the agency withdrew the appeal saying as soon as we as a company became aware of what the job involved and why we immediately withdrew involvement. the world health organization says thousands of terminally ill cancer

patients in yemen are struggling to get basic positive care and medicines but as priyanka gupta reports the possible closure of one cancer treatment center could make matters even worse. it was sabi has been desperate to find treatment for his sister she suffers from cancer he says he spent all he has and the hope of trying to keep her alive. i saw all my property plots of land and even my cattle now i am in that i am helpless and cannot afford treatment anymore even if there is money medicines are in short supply in yemen specialist cancer treatment facilities like this one don't have the means to provide chemotherapy and we soon shut down. the patients treated here require more than twenty five million yen many riaz every month to cover the cost of chemotherapy apart from other medical services needed regretfully there is no operational budget approved for the

center by the finance ministry the relevant indorsement is still needed by human central bank medical facilities operated by donations grants and charities. there are thousands of cads of patients just in who there are a province in the middle of a battle between hutu rebels and yemen's government backed by the sa the iraqi coalition even before the war many yemenis couldn't afford cancer treatments but now it's become nearly impossible. according to the world health organization only twenty percent of yemen's hospitals can treat diseases like cancer diabetes and hypertension. it says chronic conditions accounted for nearly forty percent of the reported deaths last year. the hospitals that do exist face long spells of power outages and severe shortage of medicines and stuff and that might get worse if the

u.n. fails to negotiate a deal between warring factions that will allow it to take control of what their port a vital lifeline for imports of food and medicine meanwhile these patients can only hope that a solution comes soon enough priyanka gupta is here turkey's parliament has approved a new security law to prevent future attacks on the country it will grant more authority to governors extend detention periods and allow public servants to be dismissed it was passed after a state of emergency which had lasted for two years was lifted last week the bill supporters say the law is needed to safeguard the country from followers of u.s. based cleric for toller golan ankara says he was behind a failed coup attempt. sixteen senators have quotes nigeria's ruling party in a major blow to president mohammad who biharis bid for reelection the defections make the all progressives congress or a.p.c. a minority in the senate thirty two members of the lower house are also changing

sides most of the defectors are joining the main opposition a murderous has more from nigeria's capital abuja. 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 elections were 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 present kind of senate president would effect it and some members of the party would join him in moving to all cross competition 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 in the house of representatives that has angered the

ruling party and that said this tool of friction between the party and then 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 executive highlighted now so these 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 moment 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 elections including the president himself when they decide in february two thousand and nineteen. the u.s. president has taken a pessimistic view of upcoming trade talks with the e.u. donald trump is due to host the european commission president jiang called younker at the white house on wednesday and he's tweeted i have an idea for them both the u.s. and the e.u. drop all tariffs barriers subsidies he went on to say hope they do it we are ready but they won't. in an earlier tweet he'd said that tariffs are the greatest but that came in the same days a ministration announced billions of dollars in emergency aid for farmers affected by the growing trade war white house correspondent kimberly hauck at explains. in

many rural parts of the united states fears of an escalating trade war are real a lot of producers might not survive this. 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's one of the primary markets for us poor consorted beans and american farmers have been hit hard by the tit for tat tariffs we actually redirected shipments to from that were in route to china to other countries to alternative markets. with an increasing number of americans suffering the consequences of global trade tensions us 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

beneficiary. while we're opening up markets you watch what's going to. be a little patient but it's not just china the united states is 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 i said you have to change they don't want to change i said ok good we're going to tear a few cars they send millions of cars mercedes. all of 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 trump will also need farmers 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 pay out 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 hellcat al-jazeera washington well this company was saying some believe this handout is just a ploy to gain support ahead of midterm elections in november one farmer has spoken out saying he's planning to move away from soybeans and plant other grains instead this is a great loss not just because the prices drop but our future markets will be taken away from us so what concerns me is they have made this announcement and the details are not yet clear they probably won't be clear until

a month before the election so this is an election ploy and we as farmers are playing the dupes again in this whole process the u.s. government has asked of federal judge to allow the quick deportation of immigrant parents once they're reunited with their children it has until thursday to reunite families separated under president trumps zero tolerance immigration policy and if the government gets its way it'll make gaining asylum even more difficult his own don't let one family affected by the 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 to.