scenario and we have to remember down the president might be inaugurated until december first so this train may have already left the station by the time he's even in the present. the president. has released an audiotape to u.s. media in which they seem to be discussing a potential payment for a former playboy model michael cohen recorded. with trump in twenty six scene a few months before the presidential election and this was weeks. paid for playboy. dougal one hundred fifty thousand dollars about alleged affair with trump and then never printed it. so. the president weighs in. coming up next.

greenland ice sheet is melting at an accelerating rate causing global concern about the impact on sea levels for the local community there a short term benefits as the ice turns to water tourists are seeing more of the region's spectacular marine life net clock reports from elusive out 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 species 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 loose said 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 sun next 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'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 classes 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 the amount of course and the event and 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 time for this one she is now his peter i think thank you so much a nigerian football coach has been caught on camera accepting cash payments from supposed agents so lisa use of it was filmed by a television crew accepting

a bribe from two investigative journalists posing as football agents use of force the assistant coach to the national team at the world cup in russia corruption in african football has often been blamed for the failure of the continent's national teams to achieve better results on the international stage. now to discuss the broader matter of bribery age cheating and corruption within african football let's talk to nigerian football journalist solomon is on asham zee joins us from johannesburg via skype so many firstly how common is it in african football for coaches to accept bribes from agents well is is very common dieter across the continent of africa from to go to ghana to egypt to south africa zimbabwe it is very common for for coaches to accept bribes and sometimes this relationship isn't nishi it by the coaches who don't get paid much and they begin

to use their players to be able to get some sort of financial reward and another part of it is that agents really instigate in it because they have said to him players that they need to market across the world across europe just saw they would be able to showcase their skill and they come in and give the coach. some sort of our arrangement where they would be able to pay them a certain percentage paid a monthly it depends on the range of mint and you know we see a lot of dyed in the under seventeen and under twenty one group competitions and also age group football and that is why that is really affected by the relationship is there the more football in africa is being commercialized the more we get businesses and pumping money into football making it profitable the more we see this relationship growing and that is exactly what is happening in africa you mentioned age level the tournament's the issue of age cheating is also quite common

within africa how much pressure a player is under to fake their ages. so much pressure peter i think we have to because he'd you know from like three different dimension one is the pressure that the player puts in themselves which is his desperation to succeed and secondly also the family of that play at a player might be from a that's family that is from a lower class they don't know enough to get back didn't have enough to send him to school so there's so much pressure on the family because of his skill and his style and to be able to show it and be able to succeed just so you would take care of the family financially and there's also pressure from the coaches coaches especially on the under seventeen and under twenty one they want to be able to have a winning team they want to be able to go to you know under seventeen ton amends in africa or defeat for under seventeen world cup and be able to win games and be able

to succeed so they they now are falsified ages they know and take away is that it's a it's a it's a very usual practice in one jury out where you see a player he always who is supposed to be twenty five he is now playing for the under seventeen so he's claiming to be sixteen so nine years of his life been taken away so days there's that pressure you know and the players so much to be able to do that and also going up to europe you want to be able to get into european football you know going to remain in ukraine you know when you are like under twenty five so you tend to you know take away some of your age solomon is a national thank you very much for your time it's very much appreciated. the shortlist for the world of players and coaches of the year has been announced by feet all the big names from the world cup of the as you might expect messi and

cristiano ronaldo have dominated the best men's player award for the last decade but that could be under threat fringe stars killing them barbarians one griezmann and rafa are very rare and are short listed while world cup golden boot winner harry k. croatia's captain luca moderate belgium do it in hazard and kevin the brain as well as liverpool's mohammad sol are round out the list world cup winning coach didier this is up against countryman the den for coach of the year as are the coaches from the other three world cup semifinalists class rushers stanislav chatted just off at the winners of the last two women's awards fail to make the list this time round which is dominated by players from the european champions league on five time when a martyr and australian striker sam kerr are also among the other nominees three finalists will be announced for each award ahead of the ceremony on the twenty fourth of september to president a red chip type has weighed in on mesut ozil quitting the german national team over

claims of racism a meeting between who has two fish roots and one in may sparked controversy in germany it came before the team made a shock exit at the group stage of the world cup one says critics couldn't stomach the peers meeting. i spoke to ms that as of last night first of all visits comments and his approach is completely nationalist it's beyond any form of admiration i extend my love and respect for him because such racist treatment towards a young man who has given his all to the german national team for his religious beliefs is an acceptable. meanwhile officials in. town in turkey have put up a new sign marking mehsud ever knew they removed an old picture of him in east germany kate and replace it with standing with only one to highlight his ties to the country barcelona have pulled the rug from under italian side

a roma brazilian forward melcombe has signed a five year deal with basso just a day after the italian club announced they were signing the player the twenty one year old leaves french club bordeaux in a deal worth nearly forty eight million dollars malcolm was due a miracle on monday with roma but didn't take the flight he joined bordeaux in twenty sixty unschooled twenty three goals in ninety six games for the club dhoni team is back on the tennis court after retiring in the first round at wimbledon the austrian made a winning return by advancing at the german open in hamburg he is the top seed at the tournaments and dropped only six games during the match against french qualifier corinth military six four six two the school the austrians only previous appearance at the german open ended in the round of sixteen defeat to eventual champion leonardo meyer of argentina that was back in twenty fourteen.

i'm sorry to go on fees of france speed succeed marco check in it's only six four three six and six four to reach the second round in hamburg morphy's will face leonardo mine in the second. and fifth seed for the coal schreiber was making his fourteenth german open appearance on tuesday the german going down to georgian qualifier nicolas a bus to lash really seven five one six six four the school. now the boston red sox might be the leading team so far in this season's a major league baseball but they came crashing down to earth on tuesday they were up against the baltimore orioles not only a baltimore bottom of their division the same division that features boston but the orioles have the worst record in the entire league not that it mattered much on this occasion jonathan scope and tim baker both hit home runs to lead the orioles to a narrow seven six victory it's only the third defeat in eighteen games for the red

sox and that's all the sport more coming up again later marty peter thank you very much indeed don't go anywhere the hell ramen will be in the face in just a moment or two now be back much later on in the day.

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dollars and he's dressed in ninety four to seven ford truck no job and just two small village to farm in his latest mission he constructed much needed to generate the drums and file board if you find a latin america driving change on i just see it or. at least thirty people are killed in a bomb attack in court as millions of pakistanis vote in a high stakes general election. along with this is our lives their life why of course is here and also coming up will fight as well just series of suicide attacks in a pro-government city in southwest syria. also the company involved in the

construction of a collapsed dam in laos say it had issued warnings after cracks appeared in the structure plus. i'm a clock reporting from inside the arctic circle on how the greenland ice sheet is melting at its fastest rate for centuries. welcome to the program voting is underway 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 of kuwait a policeman and children are among the dead a record number of security forces have been deployed as millions choose members for the lower house of parliament and for provincial assemblies jailed a former prime minister who are sheri's brother show bars is the leading of the ruling p m l and he's up against former cricketer cum politician imran khan who

heads the center right back is than thirty. there's also the pakistan people's party led by beloved bhutto the twenty nine year old son of the assassinated former prime minister benazir bhutto. been corresponding his life for us in the hole and of course it's the stronghold of the. party where the former prime minister sharif is strong his brother is fighting that position now certainly trying to come the prime minister but it's also the home city of imran khan too so what's the impression you get of the certainly the voting on this very important. to me a while but this is the stronghold this is the heartland of politics in pakistan and province and especially the city of lahore which is being hotly contested between the two sides sides as you mentioned the bikes on the family in the p.t.i. the five percent that you can stop being led by. a polling station where you can

see a lot of people who are supporters of the pakistan tehreek e insaf they've been gathering here since this morning you can see behind me there's a camp that has been set up and their supporters have been in high spirits they think that this is the chance that their party is going to get their candidate will be the next prime minister of fun but a lot of that will depend on these very tightly contested seats up especially of the national assembly between strong candidates of the bugs who are who have been campaigning on what they have delivered so far especially in the city of lahore their major infrastructure projects that they have created in the last five years and they say that people will vote for them and also as you mentioned there's been a cloud around these elections of the security arrangements almost eight hundred thousand people security personnel have been deployed three hundred seventy one thousand of them belong to the pakistani military and as you saw this morning how

precarious the situation is especially in far flung areas the situation in the cities is ok but in the areas in the province or baluchistan is pretty dire where a number of attacks have big took place in the lead up to the elections that you saw this morning that at least thirty people have been killed in the city of was the time line in terms of how much time is left for voting and when we expect the first results to appear. in a couple of. thirteen hundred g.m.t. polls will close there has been a request by the pakistan muslim league the party of prime minister minister nawaz sharif saying that the polling needs to be extended by an hour the election commission is still deliberating on whether to allow it or not their request is based on the fact that in many polling stations the process of polling is gray's low this therefore many people have not been able to cast their vote so we hope by

according to the election commission's announcement it is going to end thirteen energy to be a million one hundred send it by an hour and then results will start coming in from the smaller polling stations and we will see much later into the night when polling centers and polling stations will be compiled into constituencies and results of unofficial results will start coming in and it will be it will not be before friday when the election commission of pakistan announces the final results or follows the day's proceedings with you. to some of thank you let's bring in. parag shah in a some of these the director of the of the ali khan university based dan good to have you with us on the program have you ever witnessed an election seemingly been so polarized of sort of the public issues of corruption security and even religious issues. no i haven't this election is different than all the previous elections number one this is the third

consecutive election where government is transferred from one civilian government to another so one of this is the third parliamentary election where civilian governments. changing places seats secondly this elect in this election there are lots of new voters about the total number of eligible water voters is one hundred million early in this election. a lot of young people are going to put disappeared you may know that pakistan the majority of by design if i can listen is under thirty so all these are significant elements in this election but above all this election is about who is going to be in the driving seat in value sounds political history the issue of civil military relationship has been very conditioners and the military. traditionally has

a decisive bigger role in country's foreign policies and internal security but at the revival and continually of democracy civilian governments as thirty years asserting themselves in the foreign affairs and also security issues and this is something which is perhaps not acceptable to some quarters in the end they have their reasons for that in the pakistani establishment that's why this election has become in some in the opposition says it could be a referendum on the pakistan's military and also by a stance judicially their fear they want to start. going back is no surprise you can just get in there is that how actually we just whittle it down for our international viewers who really want a bite sized sample of what's going on in terms of the election is this what the pakistani electorate is going to vote for the vote either for civilian government

or they want military influence that they want peace with india i mean what are they actually voting for the most talk by the polarization of this election campaign on the very basic issues of power generation employment education health and even internal security a security that we've seen has even lapsed on election day. you're right if you if you talk about events from democracy united states yes these issues are playing key role very important role internal issues health education energy forwardly but in a countries like five star foreign policy and countries a. role in relations with other countries it's maybe it's something which is or dramatized that exaggerated but it plays a role and this time it has become important because the media opposition. politician the former prime minister no i should leave has needed this where this is the top of stage and there if you want civilian support to see if you want that

the prime minister have bigger overall vigorously in the country's affairs then you should work for his party and this has made this this polarization to this level where people see some accuse some perceive that the military is manipulating engineering is because this is kind of encroachments in the military so in pakistani context this is very much really relevant in this very much related to the election intend to see what happens in the coming hours for the moment trust pressure thanks for joining us from the capital. these fifty people have been killed and dozens more injured after suicide bombs targeted a city in southern syria several attack and struck at also where the border with jordan is government held but i still controls a pocket of territory to the north. i did speak in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen much of the central part of the country was under i still control but the

group's been squeezed since the us but kurt's approach from the north of russia and the iranian government forces swept from west to east now i still controls just a few pockets dotted throughout syria most notably near the occupied golan heights in the countryside outside of syria to the rural parts of the east even iraqi border sufi deca is in the occupied golan heights close to where the fighting is taking place according to syrian state media one suicide bomber they say belonging to ice will bloom in the market in the city of suede us weight has been under the control of the syrian government for a very long time it's majority dru's area they say that two other suicide bombers were killed by security forces before they could detonate their vest so it is a concern of course it's the first time in a very long time an attack of this nature has happened also i sill the campaign against continues particularly where we are behind us a very active assault by the syrians and the russians has been ongoing to push

eisel the groups affiliated with out of this pocket once they do that they will be in control of all of southwestern syria but the battle is very close to the border this is of course also where that syrian jet was shot down by two israeli patriot missiles that went down in that area they're burning fields behind us as a fallout of that interception so it just gives you an indication of how close the fighting is to this area. state media reporting at least nineteen people have died when they collapsed on monday more than three thousand people still trapped by flooding or waiting to be rescued one of the south korean companies building the site in a poll says crocs was spotted in one of the supporting downs the night before it collapsed it says the government was notified and ordered an evacuation but many living nearby did not have enough time to escape when he has more from bangkok in neighboring thailand slowly but surely a picture is emerging of how serious this incident is with the government in laos

drip feeding information through state media the latest they are 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 under way the south koreans also saying they want to send a team because south korean companies are involved in the construction.