they're saying is that at least nineteen people have been killed with around one hundred still missing and thousands of people in the area waiting to be rescued there are people sitting on rooftops still people clinging to trees surrounded by those muddy floodwaters that wind cascading downstream from the dam site on sunday night reaching some five kilometers downstream we also know that this may soon turn into an international search and rescue operation there is a thai group of search and rescue personnel on the thai lao border waiting for the green light from the lao government to go in and assist with this operation which is really only just starting to get on the way the south koreans also saying they want to send a team because south korean companies are involved in the construction of this dam sites at least thirty people have been killed in japan's record breaking heat wave and tens of thousands of people have been sent to hospital and many cities across

the country the temperature has hit forty degrees celsius forecasters say it will remain hot for the next few weeks still ahead here on al-jazeera more the rescue efforts in greece after wildfires killed dozens of people and cause widespread destruction. threats intimidation and even the high price of speaking out on the environment in brazil. welcome back we'll start our forecast in southeast asia exist if you show us across borneo but otherwise most of the significant weather right to it is taking place further towards the north across thailand through cambodia and vietnam and again towards the philippines so luzon particular contingency a norful lot of rain at the moment flooding here terms of thirty minute but it's going to be wet for much of the day again some showers across borneo but

a good deal of dry weather fine for much of java bali and then up through them a pensioner looks very fine for singapore and kuala lumpur but then once you get up towards the gulf of thailand that's when you start to pick up the shower activity down into a straight here and for much of the country weather conditions are looking dry and fine fronts though moving through the bite and indeed towards western australia where we'd like to see some quite stormy weather coming through with this particular system during the course of thursday and temperatures struck in perth just seventeen degrees otherwise still a bit on the cool side there from melbourne sydney nothing special at eighteen degrees and not much change it on friday except that we have a little area of low pressure across parts of south australia and into new south wales meanwhile across in new zealand to requite conditions expected during the course of thursday fifteen degrees in the sunshine in oakland and it should be dry for many on friday.

when people think of cuba they think of revolution but ivana is undergoing a revolution and believe her life. isn't the be we're here to discover if those changes are reflected on the plate this is a q what is the q and. russian owner i'm trying to read more today ruth a.j. it's on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm so ho rob a reminder of our top stories there's been a suicide attack near

a crowded polling station just outside the pakistani city of quite a that's the provincial capital of baluchistan more than thirty people including children have been killed millions of voting in a tightly contested general election suicide bombers have targeted a government held city in southern syria at least fifty people of the dead and i'll swear this city is there a pocket of territory held by eisel. and local media are reporting at least nineteen people have died after a dam collapsed on monday it's and a wall of water downstream flooding villages and sweeping away homes rescue workers also for the hundreds of people reported missing. rescuers in greece say they may find more bodies after wildfires swept through coastal areas near the capital athens at least seventy nine people have been killed the government declared a state of emergency with many fires still burning barker is in the seaside resort of marty where 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 unfortunately children see . cars with the keys left in the ignition the doors open and first aid supplies left on the seats picture emerges of people abandoning their cars and trying to escape on foot. within hours large parts of marty had been destroyed survivors described running for the sea to escape the choking smoke military and coast guard vessels along with dozens of private boats join the effort to rescue

more than seven hundred people from the beaches some survivors were discovered at sea here in the resort town of marty nearly every block nearly every street there are signs of devastation like this charred cars lined the streets the fire was so intense here it's even melted the metal on some of these vehicles and some locals 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. is the me me or africa today greece is mourning and in memory of those who perished we are declaring three days of national mourning however we should not let that overwhelm us because this is

a time to fight to be unified and courageous you're buying up all early in the hot dry weather fires burn on the other side of athens too there was panic because greeks looked for their neighbors the flames closing in. this is a coastal town an hour's drive west of the capital. crews trying to limit the destruction but it was out of their control. and appeal for international help has resulted in additional resources being dispatched from spain and cyprus to deal with the worst wildfires in more than a decade in two thousand and seven more than eighty people were killed as 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 frangela kaname only adding to the toll of

a tragic summer. marty east of athens. council's amir has been british prime minister theresa mean in london it's part of his efforts to strengthen relations with western allies amid a blockade on his country by neighboring arab states. as well. qatar's emir and britain's prime minister bonded over football i mean been hammered told a 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 bahrain and egypt sever ties with qatar and imposed a blockade doha twenty four typhoon fighter jets from the u.k. . during a ceremony. in central london the presenter the flag of a joint squadron of qatari and british pilots who protect the world cup in qatar t.v. . building strong military cooperation based on a modern 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 block. a little bit really what

lies between behind the blockade it doesn't see any. 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 apply have helped its partnership with international political heavyweights and this is important for the gulf nation as the blockade in country is a term that uses the crisis. al-jazeera horse guards essential london turkey's parliament has approved

a new security law which the porter say is designed to protect the country from terror groups it replaces a state of emergency order which had been in place since the failed who have twenty sixteen local governors have been given more authority to detain suspects while permitted detention periods have been extended backers of the law say it's needed to curb the influence of followers of u.s. based business when the fertility glenn who they blame for the coup attempt. the u.s. has accused nicaragua as president daniel ortega 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 choose stay 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 condemn 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 group global witness says the killers often work for mining companies as well as criminal gangs the most dangerous country as it has been for the past few years is brazil where fifty seven activists were killed daniel simon reports from by a 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 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'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'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 on drug government that's 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 a mistake of mine try 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 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 the are group business when you have blundered spirits in brazil bees economic groups define how the government reacts. cases of murder and threats and lucy as his 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. in their disease by a state was ill. 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 in ice turns to water taurus to seen more of the region's spectacular the rain life and reports from the center 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 afar or get 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 pieces of whales that visit the

area add to the icy spectacle all around these waters are brim full of biodiversity and the tourists pay good dollar to see it. actually means i spoke to greenland the greenland week and that is the main thing you seeing out here as well so we have the icebergs that are the draw and nowhere in greenland can you see if you like this with these massive myself 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 to it knowing 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 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. you want your knowledge is there i'm still robin these are all top news stories there's been a suicide attack near a crowded polling station just outside the pakistani city of quite a dusty provincial capital of baluchistan more than thirty people including placement have been killed while hyder seven this update from outside a polling station in the capital islamabad. they are tagged and quite are taking place at the navy yard called the heat then by by this idiotic guard of the day

where door their mortgage cycle a dog a day before you go to war related to bowling duty and to go to did you did they had very very good old days then and there were a number of other people who guard guard our brain that block that grell where odors did thirty five. and therefore their dead dog may go higher. now that didn't comes at a time when millions of voters are casting their ballot to elect a new government one of the main contenders shahbaz sharif from the ruling p. and l. and the party has cast his vote he's the brother of the former prime minister nawaz sharif who's in jail on charges of corruption and his biggest challenger is the former cricketer cum politician iran khan who leads the center right. party. now suicide attackers also hit a southern syrian city of an so later near the border with jordan according to the government at least fifty people have been killed dozens more injured the area is government controlled but there are pockets of territory held by isis local media

in reporting that at least nineteen people have died after a dam collapsed on monday the prime minister visited a temporary shelter where those affected by the floods all staying rescue workers continue to search for the hundreds of people that are still missing and at least eighty people are being killed in japan's record breaking heat wave and tens of thousands of people have been sent to hospital in many cities across the country the temperature has hit forty degrees celsius forecasters say it will remain hot for the next few weeks. and at least seventy nine people are being killed by wildfires there the greek capital athens rescue is fair they may find more bodies in coastal areas devastated by the blaze prime minister and exists a prince has declared a state of emergency in the area and announce three days of national mourning. those were the news headlines the news i was walking down as follows hoff last time next to all the. it's. for the first time since probably was hoarse from polyp by

the army the people of zimbabwe will elect the next president but a struggling economy and frustration amongst many other voters means the result on the thirtieth of july is still hard to predict as follow that the obama election an altair. havana the capital of communist cuba with this revolutionary past the city has often spoken office go frozen in time and associate it with toxic objects but the bomb is the throes of a revolution the relaxation of state control is transforming the economy people's ability to make money but that their access to.

food to a myriad of society it brings us together traces of divergent histories and open some new future some i'm on the journey to meet food lovers around the world and get the inside track of the city through the they love. the people of havana. living in the moment of opportunity. since president castro introduced a new set of reforms in twenty love and tourism is growing and private enterprise becoming easier. one outcome has been a boon doris the name given to small restaurants owned by individuals. carlos crystal ball mark. this restaurant some crystal ball in his home.

run away loudly about. a. p.c. by. the. why is. this is. the door there on. me when i. thought he said he thought. yes. i live here. i say go see on your way we will be. a. he. is.

the. real this. one. and if you get around. and get real they will. only. so how does this. differ.

the.

influx of tourism. websites from the country as within cuba people don't have easy access. many people connect with. free. than ever before.

the aim of the revolution was to ensure equality and most cubans work for the state and about twenty dollars a month across the board. how cubans live and that is a recurring part of this story. today i need to allow. the author of the blog a taste of cuba which chronicles the food of his country. a lot of. really good to get you. back here you've got the clothing memo yes we are full blower so we're used to uniform know what i know right. here is the market oh ok. so i'm going to show you this first mark. goldman

support mark all right so there is a big different market. for market price down the alders right you will see the other one big difference it's quite small actually yes that's the problem this is not the free market you know this is not. markets. you would see next so if a cuban came every day is it the same think so does it change. what it is in the season you know all. the supply guys with trucks coming. in that you need to get it you are not truly used to more and you have it right here we have the basics right basics but you don't go hungry you know what is this is there was a paste what do you make with it. we haven't heard of this or will we call it. you

miss this is the slice of this wallop it was she's this really nice i remember this is one of my memories because since i was a boy is this. a line to get me to a commercial market nearby so i could see the difference. what is considered cheap affordable cuban's this is cheap. there's a special kind of paper what we call it. this is very important to make beans and you make of being soup this in q one you are not doing. a real human being to disagree. we usually. means maybe.

this is more expensive here. the woman market if you like the market you come right. along.

the way. people. on my blog one. in one you have a lot of. for me. now. i'm trying. to do a route. back to the route. that we've experienced the internet in this country. we have more. easily. because we do have a broader view.

although this small money to be made in key treat of foreignness someone to produce a building a solid business providing pilot doris for a cuban budget. these are places locals can afford on the move regular basis with food while similar to home cooking . you did last summer. when is the este one of the. smells good you'd eat burial runs a one woman show in dinah from the cozy apartment in old town. how long have you been cooking for the people around here when all jojo was in a lot of a follow up that is that although the. ethical thing out there but i gotta say boil

free the. moderated theone i have a muddy. field on the one of those i like all look at all simpler than one that are online. only are you folio that of the i said of the i ego in my mental. why don't they all know already along with. who your customers nothing and the mail phone law a little subtle problem. see. it all always have a little in the mail i'm with you for the families on. the phone rings continually with some for delivery of this to reserve a meal you do charges just over a dollar for a complete lunch. that analysts fast still.

melissa morgan and aussie actually benefit of i think. the soul dining table can't accommodate all of you did its customers at once but nobody seems to mind lunch is served with good company and they say it's part of the cuban with. the ghana has always been home for poet ricardo al back to paris and his writing brings to life the particularities and the chilly air to east of the country he loves. so good to meet you man of your work here in this program. you've lived through some really interesting periods throughout cuba's history and of course. there's the special period which some people call the skinny period right after the u.s.s.r. what was that like well. i'll let.

you go put your hands are going. to go like out of going. to the meadow carry on let them all go cyril i personally. want. well we call. it but episode full bore so. that goal will look at a local scene but soon you know you. just think of him going. back only yes something fishy i get into esau to go on the set on the boat to see if you want to. pick out. your b.s.o. lamp but. what do you think about the changes to having found him vs. was he sort of boy on an innocent doing well we ended.

up in a bubble one thing in the movie the. quest. to get. a hold on i mean he in nearly i want to. set up it a little later. and. influence him but everybody has to do it but i saw a i go get the data going to congress on his favorite in the courtroom over the top of this. thank you so much. if anybody knows how to get by it's the cubans the combination of low salaries and the long running embargo that the united states put in treat with cuba has made them immensely resourceful. when they come to fort fish head to the water with a pull. when they import machines they built them from scratch this kind of

ingenuity has helped to sustain cottage industries such as the. factory. coupe but then i wanted. to. give you. a. little more weight on your money. he will.

say. the same make. more money. say we don't see anything. much of life in the open with spectators from every direction. for an opportunity for ventilation and hospitality. and this casual. no activity escapes the eyes of the neighborhood committees for the defense of the

revolution. by. the menu in old havana he takes charge of several city blocks where he plays the role of big brother. and your film of it a little the. role of money. from will. it will again at the early show on what again we see there is a lot in there. and. carrying it by there's a lot of down in such a wonderful genre and are up a little. and those are. more than our.

president. but i get your unlawful. almost. comic what is this. at the nollywood at the office i mean. you will feel and i would guess a lot of world. a lot of all of you all among. the course like us and but old and there's a side here but i would like us it's longer brecht enough for everyone. like us are going down with i mean there are a little better noble there's a lot of talk now that they're going to stop the underbrush is that a good thing or a good bye. no shellfish in the bomb and then i'll let real the world know they were up among the dead you know that they will show me. but i got the dollar

settlement and everything at that i m b well manned and lower leave it at the boys . or what i said i'm way down in that one level john bowman border where one will at the in the unit about. it get out they are going to go on a global economy. the libretto is cherished and chided in cuba. whilst many will complain about how its value has reduced from the rich workers and retirees having access to the russian booklet is the difference between subsistence and stopping should. be.

as the government moves away from its centralized planned economy some cuban expatriates are returning to the best in the country. alberto gonzales michelin stars a chef in italy and has moved back home after fifteen. he's now chosen and an orthodox. is nice and taking up the rolling pin. instead of a fine dining restaurant to britney and settle on a mom to shop in the working class neighborhood. it's really what is it as well as

a. new. the poor. old thought. they were all. in and by you know. a. little me and i went off to romeo. only i will jump again and got to know me. every indian the what good people. and poor. to get of value only to be reachable me a sense how i need a nickel said to. me. out of an idea. and. simply i mean.

end of autonomy is it easy to run your own business and cuba. saying oh no my auditor there and i. see what i want to. hear but i think i mean to impose the lamont and wilson but oh well i guess. you've chosen sense of honor which is you know as we know it's a poor neighborhood why do you come here a minute ago but i. do. want to. interrupt but the money not. in legal. or not but they eat so well ok. you get ok it may hold a sane role. they honestly don't live there without asking for trouble. so you're back and you got from. the same place.

they've been. well. i mean. i don't gamble at the moment. when i'm. in the launch of it all when i'm away. so it's a fascinating time here change afoot for sure and seeing people's energy determination and the military to find a solution for every challenge has been inspiring but it's clear that it's still. decades of trade embargo and chronic shortage just translated into monotonous food in cuba but today's a van that is emerging as a hotspot for those seeking a taste of its preserved past future the possibility of playing by great

chefs and. helping to mold havana into one didn't finish this city till next time all as they say in spanish holloway go. to. based on. history and food today a new generation is shaking things up for rules is why everything five thousand six hundred it's all different so this is all these cultures i'm now on top of each other. we're here to see. a tiki culture and who's in. on. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together.

business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. based on false allegations that just in the last couple of years there's been a number of high profile exonerations of the wrongfully convicted based on police

of prosecutorial misconduct you can check. if the prosecutor is going to seek convictions for the sake of seeking convictions prosecutors dangerous exploring the dockside of american justice system with job on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha i'm martine dennis coming up in the next sixty minutes at least thirty people were killed in a bomb attack in question as millions of pakistan is vote in a high stakes general election. i still launches a series of suicide attacks in

a pro-government city in southwestern syria. the company involved in the construction of a collapsed says it had issued warnings after cracks appeared in the structure plus . on the clock reporting from inside the arctic circle on how the greenland ice sheet is melting at its fastest rate for centuries. and. sports will be taking a closer look at corruption in african football after a jury in coach is caught on film accepting a cash bribe later in the program. very thing is under way in pakistan's tightly contested general election despite attacks and political controversy at least thirty people were killed in a suicide bombing near a polling station just outside question in baluchistan now policemen and children

are among the dead a record number of security forces have been deployed as millions of people choose members for the lower house of parliament as well as for four provincial assemblies jailed former prime minister nawaz sharif's brother shahbaz he's leading the ruling pm and he's up against former cricketer imran khan who heads the center right pakistan tehreek e insaf the p.t.i. there's also the pakistan people's party the p.p.p. and that's led by bilawal bhutto he's the twenty nine year old son of the assassinated former prime minister benazir bhutto we've got two correspondents to talk to now we've got a summer binge of aids he's our correspondent in the hole that's pakistan second most populous city and we've also got kemal haidar he's live outside a polling station in the capital islamabad let's go to you first kemal and talk about what's going on in cueto in baluchistan an attack on people trying to cast

their votes clearly deliberate deliberately trying to dissuade people from taking part in the democratic process. out. something which happened even during the election nearing. one leader of the awami national party in the. province was killed by the taliban pocket down there to great point two billion people and then there was another attack in baluchistan but today that i'd also been claimed by i should be remembered. and that they've. done. where did. they. claimed responsibility for the. taking place on the outskirts of the city where the police. a polling station or a number of people. over thirty were wounded some of them are said

to be in pretty good condition they were told through an incident and not. to be fired. one party will go from enron con party getting. minor. we have seen pretty. good. we've seen women coming out and we believe a lot of young people participating in an election something we did not see. so good to hear that at least in islamabad it's not the threat of violence not pushing people off from taking power and as you say women in large numbers and desist justify then do you think in the minds of pakistan is this extraordinary force it with regard to the number of security forces around the streets more than three hundred seventy thousand being deployed for this election.

absolutely from the word go all there was a very high. that the election would be. much much greater membered the united states war day but it took that day to get. few weeks ago. that day would be punitive reprised in pakistan and the opportunity provided was the pakistani electioneering go all. the way to. the security for didn't. train also we have found that media has played a crucial role. young people and even housewives who are watching television most of the time here in pakistan because they're in so dad of course maybe i

really really fagged as far as the elections are concerned and regenerate and who comes out on top. from the polling really cold across the country and then they are doing. really big and indeed i tend to like the people who are very high and have already decided their day reward no matter what the day or what the consequences. come out lighting is on the past thank you very much indeed let's go live now to some avenge of a correspondent in the hall and. in the hall which is a big prize is intense intense the pakistani politics and this is the coast a traditional stronghold of the now imprisoned full of prime minister but he. is vying for power once again led by his brother this is the pm l. and of course. absolutely mati this is the horror of the capital of punjab province

the heartland of pakistani politics of more than a more than a ha of the seat in the national assembly of pakistan come from this province alone and it is the hotly contested province that both parties the budge from the cd mother by former prime minister to russia be on the budget front there you could solve that by the former cricketer turned politician in money on how focused all of their energies on we are in the heart of the heart of the old part of the horror people have been coming in from the early hours of the morning they have been chewing up trying to guard their ballots and it is going to be a very tight race speaking to people people who've been traditionally voters that it seems that none of the political wrangling in the accusations have been able to sway their vote to words either side but there are a lot of people men women at a polling booth polling station have been going to be nasty and there are a lot of women who said that they use this telling them to vote for the day you can

see their children have been telling them to vote for the. woman told us that she voted for the national assembly for the. voted on her own on for the facts on this to give us it is going to be a tight race and both parties are vying for this prize of punjab and asama how much concern is the toll is being expressed by the downside of being. very colliders by many people many observers that the whole political process has been manipulated if you like by the military and that their intervention is leading towards a victory for him around khan and his p.t.i. . well the biggest concern has been raised and probably even the most strongest of words by the human rights commission of pakistan saying that this is the dirtiest election in august sun's history not just because of the rhetoric and how extreme elements from the fringe have entered the mainstream of politics but of politics

about the sun but also because of the fact that these elections which are allegedly being louvered if you've seen a number of box on the city divide the former ruling members who've left their party in large numbers so almost sixty of them have left from the province of punjab alone and the there are allegations that they are being pressured by various circles in drawing the intelligence agencies of projects on to change going to use towards the box on the inside of the human rights commission of bucks on also saying that the media has also been porous it's been told who's rallied to cover what to say about each politician and how not to report about did involvement and that rolled off the box on the military the deployment of more than three hundred seventy thousand troops as part of that eight hundred thousand strong security force that just guarding these elections it's also been controversial but the election commission of pakistan has taken back the mitch studion powers that it gives to military offices after a lot of criticism suggested of the cloud that hangs around these elections by

various observers and human rights activists saying that there is it is not going to be clean and the results may have already been decided and some have been just a correspondent live in lahore thank you very much. now at least fifty people have been killed dozens more have been injured after suicide bombers targeted a city in southern syria several attackers struck in alsa wader that's close to the border with jordan the area is government held but eisel controls a pocket of territory to the north. but at its peak in twenty fourteen twenty fifteen much of central syria was armed i saw control but the group has been squeezed since then as u.s. backed kurds approach from the north and russian the iranian and syrian government forces swept in from west to east and now i still controls just a few pockets dotted throughout the country most notably near the occupied golan heights in the countryside outside alsa weta and in rural parts of the east near

the iraqi border we can go live now to our correspondent stephanie decker she's in the israeli occupied golan heights in your very close to the area we're describing stephanie many people will be surprised to learn that affiliated fighters are still active in this particular area. well i'll just step out a shot martin so you can actually see what is happening behind us that we've been here for the last couple of days this is that pocket it's called the base and it is controlled by a group affiliated with eisel there's been an intense campaign underway here martine for a couple of days now by the syrians backed by the russians can see there is intense bombardment going on it's been going on throughout the morning particularly air strikes we've seen russian jets in the sky syrian jets in the sky and also shelling from the ground we understand from sources that the syrian government has now sent reinforcements ground reinforcements to this area it is the last area in

southwestern syria that is still under opposition control which is why it is significant and also just briefly this is the area where that jet was downed yesterday so it is all very significant the fighting incredibly close to the border with these radio heights and with regard to the specific activity allegedly carried out by group it seems that it was multiple. carried out in this area attacking civilians as well as pro-government fighters attacking in one instance a vegetable market question in the morning yes this is what we understand from syrian state television suede is around one hundred kilometers from where we are it's been under government government control for a very long time it's majority drew so this is a rare attack martín that doesn't happen there very often and from those reports one suicide bomber detonated himself.