the major stakeholders in that project and they have been the ones that have been released releasing most of the information really about what happened saying that they first saw some cracks in this auxiliary dam on sunday evening so that was about twenty four hours before the actual incident occurred they say they tried to get in there to fix these cracks but the road was damaged by the rain by the flood waters and they did issue a warning to the local authorities and they're saying that an evacuation process did begin at that time but clearly did not happen soon enough or maybe it was a case of people not heeding those warnings and again this will come to what we were talking about regarding information from the lao government down the track weeks and months ahead when it comes to an investigation into this there will be concerns about just how transparent any investigation may be or for the moment where it will leave come back to when the situation develops thank you. well still

ahead here on al-jazeera more on the rescue efforts in greece after one thousand wildfires killed dozens of people and damaged property also why the u.s. secretary of state mike compare is facing questions about donald trump's recent meeting with vladimir putin. how the persistent high temperatures in europe are taking their toll if as far as in sweden really vicious fires in greece just recently and it's only a few showers around that might help a toll the breeze isn't as strong as it was dancer greece as you can see but the create their own strong wind 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 just jumped

you know it was still up to thirty five the forecasts beyond the arctic circle in northern russia throughout finland and sweden where up at that level these are unprecedented 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 stan through poland down towards 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 it 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 attempt at forty in cairo but only twenty five luckily in robot. fresh perspectives. new possibilities. for janice

an alabama law was the public's support templates and discussion when you see tough questions like this what comes to my how do you respond to people how global a problem could we see algy zero zero mood winning programs take you on a journey down the. only she's here. welcome back you're watching i'll just their arms the whole row of the reminder of our top stories there's been a suicide attack near a crowded polling station just down side of kuwait or in pakistan now that's the provincial capital of baluchistan more than twenty people including children have

been killed millions of voting in a tightly contested general election also suicide bombers have targeted a government held city in southern syria at least thirty eight people are feared dead an hour or so later the city is near a pocket of territory by myself. and local media and law our reporting that at least nineteen people have died after a dam collapsed on monday isn't a wall of water downstream flooding villages and sweeping away homes rescue workers all searching for the hundreds of people reported missing. rescuers in greece fear they may find more bodies after wildfires swept through coastal areas near the capital athens at least seventy six people have died the government has declared a state of emergency with many fires still burning these barker is in the seaside resort of marty twenty six people were found dead. with ferocious intensity the flames tore through homes cars and livelihoods. and the

wildfires quickly turned deadly. locked in a final embrace dozens of bodies discovered in the popular seaside village of marty east of athens families had huddled together for safety but found no escape. early this morning we discovered three other victims further away this place where unfortunately there are twenty six people men women and importunately children and the. 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 monte 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 almost been completely destroyed but where do you begin thinking about rebuilding and as 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 too she may eleventh. you mean me. 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 your bun up all early in the hot dry

weather fires burn on the other side of athens to there was panic because greeks looked for their neighbors the flames closing in. this is a coastal town an hour's drive west of the capital. try to limit the destruction but it was out of their control. an 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 fires raged across the country for days. this year a dry winter has again cause 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 fragile economy only adding to the toll of a tragic summer. marty east of athens. another white

are still hasn't released most of the details from the one on one meeting between donald trump and vandermeer putin nine days old from the helsinki summit that'll be one of the questions put to trump's top diplomat as he goes before a senate panel on wednesday our state department correspondent roslyn jordan tells us what we should expect when my face is the panel. 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 shorten al-jazeera washington. the venezuelan university professor has triggered a wave of solidarity on social media after tweeting a photo of his damage shoes which he says he can't afford to mend even the works at a prestigious university unions just one dollar seventy a month of the black market rate but since his tweet went viral he says he's received twelve pairs of shoes nine of which he's given away. obviously when i decided to take a picture of the she's and say look this is the world of a university professor a person who has so many qualifications but doesn't even have the way to fix the soles of a pair of shoes only throws into an hour. i began to get frustrated because my

salary for the month of july was almost three million bolivar's but it wasn't enough until i was doing in the region the u.s. has accused nicaragua as president daniel ortega as government of indorsing murder and intimidation at least three hundred people have been killed since anti-government protests began in april with local media reporting three more were shot dead on tuesday or take is refusing to step down and he denies that he controls the paramilitary groups blamed for most of the deaths. the united states government condemns the ongoing violence and intimidation by the ortega controlled armed groups in nicaragua that includes the arbitrary arrests of seven hundred nicaraguans who have opposed the ortega government as corroborated by multiple sources we also condemned the cowardly attacks on the catholic church leadership the buildings and adherence there along with the deaths of hundreds of protesters the attacks have been widely documented internationally and are completely

unacceptable the nicaraguan government cannot continue its to excuse its behavior and blame others for its actions or the actions of those affiliated with it more than two hundred environmental activists were murdered last year worldwide making it the deadliest year old record the campaign the group global witness says the killers often work from mining all marking companies as well as criminal gangs the most dangerous country that has been for the past few years is brazil where fifty seven activists were killed daniel swam to reports from state. anna lucy a lives in fear constantly looking over her shoulder she says she was threatened by armed men as they ransacked her home she knows who ordered the attack and why they want to develop on the community's land but as you know we can't let the men to imitate us we need to continue they can kill me i'm not afraid of being killed i need to defend my people who have 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's from king and lives in what's known as a kilo a community founded in the sixteenth century by a scape slaves it's brazil's oldest and his residents say they're more vulnerable than ever a drug government has been rolling back environmental and human rights legislation . since 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 and the state government try to bribe us with fifteen million dollars landownership 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 right through the middle of the king goma 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 do a spiritual standoff in. brazil is consistently the most dangerous country for environmental activists and these are just some of the nearly five hundred who have stood 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 they are group business when you have landed spirits in brazil bees economic groups define how the government reacts to keep. cases of murder and threats and lucy as his her people have preserved this land they don't polluted the forest but when short term profit is put before sustainable development it's the most vulnerable the already marginalized who are most at risk . and their disease by a state brazil. greenland's ice sheet is melting at an accelerating rate causing global concern about the impact on sea levels for the local community their short

term benefits as the eyes turns to water tourists are seeing more of the region's spectacular marine life nick clark reports from lucette on how the melting ice is changing life in the town. deep inside the arctic circle the town of ilulissat is a big tourist draw the ice field is a unesco world heritage site and it never fails to amaze they travel here from all over the world you can look from a fall down to water level and you never know what you might come across. and lose that was once a center for the whaling industry now the numerous piccies of whales that visit the area add to the icy spectacle all around these waters brim full of biodiversity and the tourists pay good dollar to see it. actually means i spoke to greenland

greenlandic and that is the main thing you seeing out here as well so we have the icebergs that are the draw and no where in greenland can you see if you like this with these massive massive icebergs but there is a flip side this year there's a lot more ice in the fuel the normal that spells danger if a cruise ships which have had to anchor thirteen kilometers outside the harbor the ice is car from the net good you liked last year at a rate of twenty tons a day and growing it is an amazing sight isn't it but it tells a disturbing story too it's known that the arctic is warming up twice as fast as the rest of the world and recent studies show that the greenland ice sheet is melting at its fastest rate in the last four hundred years and it's speeding up nearly double what it was in the nineteenth century. and it's not just the west coast these speeded up images of from the hell heim classier in southeastern greenland that cliff of collapsing ice is seven kilometers long and one kilometer

thick it was filmed by a team camp nearby studying how carving glasses will impact sea level change in the future. it was an amazing event i'm sure i'll never see anything like that again i'm just speechless at the absolute power of nature and the amount of course and scale of the of the of the event the main implication is that a rise in global sea level greenland well make some contribution over this coming century to global sea level and more importantly understanding what's going on in greenland house understand what's going on down south in antarctica where the stakes and the scales are much much much larger much larger possible contributions there is no question that the forces of nature at work here in ilulissat helping drive a profitable local economy and ice conditions do go back and forth one year to the next but if projections are right greenland melting glass is a part of

a polar trend that will have implications not just here but for the billions of people who live along our coastlines around the world nick luck al-jazeera ilulissat greenland. your geologist there arms the whole rom and a reminder of our top news stories there's been a suicide attack near a polling station just outside the back is the only city of quarter is the provincial capital of block just on at least thirty people including policeman have been killed and that attack comes at a time when millions of people are voting in a crucial general election one of the key contenders sharif from the ruling. party has cast his vote he's the brother of the former prime minister nawaz sharif who's in jail. charges of corruption his biggest challenger is the former cricketer imran carr who leads the center right toby party elections are being held amid

unprecedented security. and suicide attackers of the southern syrian city of ours near the border with jordan at least thirty eight people are feared dead dozens have been injured the area is government controlled but there are pockets of territory held by isis local media in la reporting that at least nineteen people have died after a dam collapsed on monday the prime minister has visited a temporary shelter where those affected by the floods are staying rescue workers continue to search for the hundreds of people that are still missing at least seventy six people have been killed and almost two hundred have been injured in fierce wildfires near the greek capital athens rescuers fear they may find more bodies in coastal areas devastated by the blaze. the venezuelan university professor has triggered a wave of solidarity on social media to tweeting a photo of his damage use which he says he can't afford to mend even though who

works at a prestigious university here in just one dollar seventy a month that the black market rate but since his tweet went viral he says he's received twelve pairs of shoes nine of which he's given away this is. obviously when i decided to take a picture of the she's and say look this is the world of a university professor a person who has so many qualifications but doesn't even have the way to fix the soles of a pair she's always goes into an hour. i began to get frustrated because my salary for the month of july was almost three million dollars laws but it wasn't enough at all. the u.s. has accused nicaragua has president done it'll take as government of indorsing murder and intimidation at least three hundred people have being killed since anti-government protests began in april with local media reporting three more were shot dead on tuesday those were the headlines and back with more news in half an hour next the inside story to stay with us. which is the relationship between

culture religion and a deeply divided city everything here is overshadowed by politics even the most basic of things food in two thousand and eight al-jazeera traveled to jerusalem to see if food could cross deep lines of division jewish history in it together and we cook together we can assure the people that the history. rewind street food jerusalem on al-jazeera. 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 insight. week . and welcome to the program i'm

fully back to bowl it's a first ruling by the un's top court on the gulf crisis the international court of justice has ordered the united arab emirates to immediately allow qatari u.a.e. mixed families who were separated by the book eight on qatar to reunite in june twenty seventeen saudi arabia bahrain egypt and the u.a.e. imposed by land sea and accusing qatar 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 monday's ruling was for eliminating the final decision on the case is not expected for months we're bringing 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 three are fair that this all of that is obvious. and that article forty one of these that. effect. and there's a international legal obligation is 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 it's 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 u.n. 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 honest the the decision that has been issued by the entire court of justice is a ruling in favor of governor following their request for provisional measures and as is 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 interest and actions that it has complete disregard whole it'll be a provisional victory for cattle 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 rulings 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. tried 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 so that the position of the u.a.e. is before it has been disregarded of course proceedings will interpret just as are 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 ruling 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 of perspective it shows how the political behavior of qatar as it shows the professionalism and it shows 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 right about this that really our qatari people have been a disc discriminated against not only but as you know i'm as you know i have to

this is i'm sorry to interrupt you the u.a.e. and till today insisted he has nothing has done nothing wrong that 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 us. 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 are 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 the 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 in there are illegal little timid 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 thirty could do it very much depends 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 still to discuss that ok it is wrong to make individual

citizens pay for the price of a political cold plate and i think that's a significant underlying point to the cabman into profit my next question to you is is the bullying by. i buy the i.c.j. enforceable if the u.s. . decides that it doesn't want to implement what is advised by the court what happened sam what are the ramifications. what i think the first point to re-emphasize is that i don't quite like the way your guest went under and put and here we have a situation where 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 and more and the consequences of the blockade so things important to look at that and of course the i.c.j.

is a is a judicial body which it is fully independent and impartial and is immune from from the pressure now terms of whether they will for the ruling i very much doubt that they will do anything to implement the ruling as their statement that they've issued clearly indicates that they consider to be role 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's the default position in terms of in forcing it yes of course it can be and for how to meet u.n. security council so they do actually tell us your council business a lot 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 it is that ratio which which relates

to the war and. that will still stands 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 they un security council but through other through other mechanisms of the united nations they the question really has to be does the united arab emirates which just never says so as a pariah state because that's where it's heading it as it has tried to 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

a 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. they are calling for the state of qatar to respect in its natural 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 were 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 abdicate they accuse doha supporting terrorism and the 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 settlements to this crisis by going the legal route actually in fact cut out of from day one respect to the kuwait as a mediator in the case they asked for the use of locating countries to come. around the table and express 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 the sovereignty and independence of 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 i.c.j. of 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 country is what all what we hear at all what we receive is a total rejection and a skill. that 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 that 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 of 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 in a much more effective solution than being international powers for influence because they will respond to their interest was wrong of mediation really the same as ours 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. and 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 are complying according to the national regulations so they have a face saving way out of this i don't think the anybody should start creating if you like embarrassing situations for other parties in this what 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 i wanted 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 make it a problem as the guest from london 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 going to go we don't know what level of support. it's. ok. for it to security council 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 of south 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 the sitting 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 me fully back to ball and the whole team thank you for

watching by foot. young men join as she bad in the battle for somalia. many never return. loved ones. try to understand. from the north i witnessed. on. the nature news as it breaks the syrian government with the backing of iran and russia now controls sixty percent of syria after steadily recapturing territory with detailed coverage what was supposed to be a summit between the two most powerful leaders in the world is taking things to

a new level from around the world the backdrop of course all of this is a gigantic power vacuum in northern irish politics with no functioning local government for eighteen months. a blast in a polling station in pakistan kills at least thirty people as voting gets underway in a tightly contested general election. possible raman your jobs are alive my headquarters here in doha also coming up i still find as launch a string of suicide attacks and a pro-government town in southwest syria dozens of civilians have been killed. and

the latest on the rescue and recovery operation in lauer after the collapse of the dam floods villages plus fleeing persecution at home the teenage asylum seekers arrested at the southern u.s. border they tell after sarah. in detention. welcome to the program we begin with breaking news coming out of pakistan where violence is once again threatening to disrupt a hotly contested general election there's been a suicide attack near a polling station just outside of the city of. at least thirty people including policemen have been killed millions of voters are casting their ballot to elect the third consecutive civilian government let's get the very latest from our correspondent kemal hyder who's outside the polling station in the capital islamabad let's begin with reports of clashes beginning in the northern province

and that attack in kuwait the tensions are high and that's what the authorities won't be worried about. absent intelligence agencies had already warned that they were the name and date by elemental diet that they did get dollar bond buggiest on the web already claimed responsibility for the attacks during the electioneering campaign. in quite are taking place at the navy yard chord that he didn't buy boston today out of the city where doors are done more to take in a dog a day before you go to war related to polling duty and security duties that happened very close to a boarding and there were a number of other people who guard the guard that blocked that red door to thirty five. and therefore their dead may go higher now i farted the problem in the book bob and there were clashes between supporters of enron tahn and the national lead

with me now to party in. a room. where one of the supporters of enron hans bharti once again but that is. you about had been in danger of all that and again that dr. have said that no woman will be allowed to ward and that of god isn't going to be a significant role for day to day because we have seen and encouraging. and you can see behind me the entire family have got it in the national holiday mood. award. and remain a truly good. idea lection commissioner get on i don't really predicted with a lot of women war during that time it rained and of course the young because of the social media of course in the lead up to the election campaign all the election

date should i say come on this been a great deal of political mudslinging we knew was going to be a vicious campaign and the political parties themselves will see that it's possible very tight race because there's no clear winner olita at the moment in this election. you've covered the story and you are aware that. country when it comes to college date you will have. party then that came family i would story that while. it would in the order traditionally. most of the young stand about working for embryonic on their trains are changing obviously the major political parties died expecting a break in their favor but this election is going to be crucial and unpredictable and we don't know at this moment we're going to be there when everybody of course

will be hoping that everything goes as smoothly as it wants to break given the fact that we have already heard of violent reports about the violent crime that didn't already taking place across different parts of the country of course kemal and we'll continue to follow it with you on all teams across the country and of course straight into the voting later on in the evening as well for the moment thank you. over the top stories a suicide attack as it hit a southern syrian city of near the border with jordan according to the government at least thirty eight people have been killed dozens more injured as of the very latest incident with our correspondent stephanie decker who's in the nearby or key point golan heights what more do we know about this blast stephanie well according to syrian state media one suicide bomber that they say belonged to eisele detonated himself in a marketplace in psuedo apparently there were two others that the government forces

managed to kill before they set themselves off as you mentioned that number at least thirty eight killed but it does highlight the precarious security situation there is still a small pocket of eisel in that area which is about eighty kilometers further down from here as you mentioned just north of the jordanian border and i salute also has a presence behind where we are so there is still this question now that the syrian government is taking back more and more life even though it's way to the government has been there for very long time and it is going to be difficult to really secure the ground in terms of security because you still have so many different groups many different weapons but certainly that area is majority dru's area as well as most of the golan heights and it's the first time in a very long time this kind of attack has happened there let's talk more about the clashes than that we also saw on the ground on choose then of course the fallout in the air of that syrian jet what more can you tell us about all of that impact on wednesday. well the battle continues to hail really it's it's an

aggressive push by the syrians backed by the russians we've seen syrian jets in the sky we've seen russian jets in the sky there's been an intensive air campaign going on behind us throughout the morning a lot of air strikes and that is basically their push their they're trying to get back this final pocket there's a group in charge there called khaled been widely they're affiliated with eisel so once they take this up they will be in charge of all of south western syria so it's an ongoing back battle it's intense battle and we're trying to figure out how many civilians are left the other day we saw a couple of civilian sheltering close to the fence or the israeli occupied golan heights but of course those borders remain closed so it's a very difficult situation for the people a lot of managed to flee but i had there are still civilians trapped in that area well for the moment stephanie of course we'll leave it there and continue to monitor the situation with you through the day thank you rescue workers in

searching for hundreds of people reported missing after a dam collapsed on monday it's a wall of water downstream flooding villages and sweeping away homes the billion dollar dam was under construction in a remote south eastern province a south korean firm involved in the project to send teams at the home a possible from bangkok in neighboring thailand. the government releasing information slowly through their official state news agency the latest that they're saying is that nineteen at least nineteen people have been killed by this disaster and around one hundred believed to be still missing and they're saying that thousands are waiting to be rescued still there are people still sitting on rooftops clinging to trees surrounding surrounded by this muddy water that cascaded downstream from this burst dam on sunday night and went some five kilometers downstream also again highlighting the fact that this is

a difficult place to get to laos in general at the best of times difficult place for international media for rights groups to get to get access to that may come to fruition again in this case we're hearing that h.i.i. group of search and rescue personnel is trying to get in at the moment they are on the tile our border waiting for the green light from the lao government to go and so we assume that this will very quickly become an international search and rescue operation with assistance from neighboring countries some of the time boys who were trapped inside a cave for more than two weeks have been ordained as novices of the buddhist ceremony the practice is common for young men in thailand work buddhism is the main religion they're spending nine days living as monks out of one of three parts of the ritual. nine days after the helsinki summit the white house still hasn't released most of the details of the war more than one meeting between donald trump vladimir putin that'll be one of the questions put to trump's top diplomat as he

goes before a senate panel on wednesday on state department correspondent george has more. when u.s. president donald trump went to helsinki and said this about russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen election 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 of 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 counterterrorism operations in the middle east the crisis in eastern ukraine and crimea arms control treaties and the charges russia is undermining the u.s. political process but some analysts say despite their anger republicans won't put as much pressure on pomp a.o. as one might expect many of them are up for election in the midterm 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. well still ahead here on al-jazeera more on the rescue efforts in greece after wildfires killed dozens of people and cause widespread destruction and struggling to survive the patients in yemen have to endure because of a lack of treatment those stories after the break. i . mean the weather sponsored by. hello and welcome back let's have a look at the forecast for europe and it's still looking pretty stormy in many. areas of cloud.