of the pakistani military how confident are you that the results that will be announced will be an accurate reflection of the will of the pakistani people there are concerned this is correct there are concerns and there are. questions about the about the what happened because the election and the. little bit people finds an election manipulation and what some turn political ingenuity and allegedly the pakistani military you know those are part of it are said to be behind that this bill and it is issues labeled by serious politicians now we'll have to see from the results which will be announced you know indeed in the next few hours if those results reflect the accusations which were leveled against the military but this is correct this is not right that these things well in the air ok share in the

share as arace i want to put to you a comment here from one of our viewers on facebook adri who says no government ever stays in office without military allegiance talk to us briefly about the role of the pakistani military in this election is it still the case in today's pakistan that it's the military who decides who is in power. this is different topic to correct but when you have to understand the context in which this this this situation is real here we are we are now and that is that for the last several decades since late one nine hundred seventy s. the pakistani military is either in the driving seat of the our backseat drivers and when what they are doing what they have been doing they have a monopoly they have a control on pakistan's foreign policy and focus upon internal and external security policies how can you have this perception they have this feeling that

politicians are parliamentarians are not capable of comprehending the sensitivities of pakistan's strategic interests and that makes military to intervene and perhaps do you think they are they should have a bigger city ok and you know will this be military real tension in pakistan you know it's an ongoing issue it is legacy larry like to talk about that issue also thank you very much we'll leave it there for now thank you very much for analysis of course we'll wait to see how the situation unfolds in pakistan shiraz paracho director of the abdul wali conny university joining us there live from islamabad and we're getting quite a few comments on this election in pakistan someone here on facebook says it's going to be a close call in the end a coalition government will be formed would like to hear from you on this and other stories of course we're covering on the news great all the different ways to get in touch with us on your screen might not get his hash tag a genius great moving on to other world news now and rescue workers from china and

thailand are heading into lauer's to help thousands of people stranded after a dam collapse and sent a deluge of water into remote villages the government puts the number of dead at nineteen but many more are still missing florence three reports from bangkok. from the at the devastation is clear huge tracts of land under water with only rooftops and treetops visible six thousand people are homeless after a dam on the river collapsed early on monday morning the death toll is expected to rise as dozens of people remain missing the walls of water swept away homes and destroyed roads making rescue and emergency work in this remote part of laos even more difficult over the last few years the government launched a plan to build hydroelectric power dams to export energy as a way to help its economy but it's had to rely on foreign expertise and money the

dam that collapsed was being built by lao tie and south korean companies s.k. engineering and construction one of the south korean companies involved said fractious in the dam were first discovered on sunday and efforts to move people to safety start it then the south korean government says it's providing assistance. president moon jay in issued the order to provide aid without hesitation as our companies are participating in the construction of the dam while looking into the cause of the accident one of the companies that has a stake in the project is electricity generating holding company in bangkok it said in a statement on wednesday it sets up a relief fund and that it stopped travel to the affected area in laos to help provide assistance experts have said the dam can only be fixed when the rainy season is over the search and rescue work goes on florence. bangkok

let's take a look at the other stories making headlines around the world his. london you senator. hi there yes we begin in greece where the number of people who have died following wildfires now athens has risen to eighty after the death of a survivor in hospital rescuers and relatives of missing family members are carrying out house to house searches has the latest now from the resort town of matty one of the places west hit the crystalline waters of the aegean sea of fringed with kilometers of art a charred devastation this is the sea front in the village of monte where hundreds of people fled to escape the inferno that tore through here on monday evening many of them made it to the scene were picked up by boats others though ended up at the top of cliffs and were given the impossible choice to jump or succumb to the flames twenty six people were found dead huddle together the top of a cliff a bit further down this coastline and this is just

a very very small section of the devastation here in marty this was a beach bar popular with tourists and greek holiday makers now look at it where to even begin thinking about rebuilding after this kind of devastation we've been watching locals return some of them coming back here to secure their properties obviously what's happened here is how to deep impact on many many people we've also seen fire crews and emergency services going from house to house to try and identify an ever increasing number of people listed as missing no official figure has been given so far but the concern is that it may have already reached triple figures well a second day of mourning is now under way flags are flying at half mast in the capital and questions are already perhaps being asked about whether more could have been done to protect this country prone to wildfires from this scale of devastation . the united nations agency for palestinian refugees announced it will axe more

than two hundred fifty jobs on the occupied west bank in the gaza strip after the us slashed its funding and provide critical a to palestinian refugees and also provides many people with employment charles stratford is in gaza. the un's refugee agency here in gaza saying it's having to make these cutbacks in these redundancies because it simply doesn't have enough money it says that not enough money has come through from donors or even from an emergency pew appeal that it launched of course the us in january decided to cut his budget by around sixty five million dollars the un's special coordinator for the peace process is urged donald trump to put those farms back into his part highlighting just how important they are of course these job losses not only have a huge impact on the families of the people that work for but of course right the

way across the gaza strip around a million people in goals that depend on aid and assistance basically to survive here so it has a massive impact it's understood that under is in need of around two hundred seventy million dollars just to keep its programs working in two thousand and eighteen it's so this year so this is a huge blow to not only for as i say the employees that stand to potentially lose their job but for hundreds of thousands of people across gaza and of course it comes at a time where we've seen the biggest escalation of violence between hamas and israel since two thousand and fourteen and israel's land air and sea blockade on gaza continues. indian government forces have killed two rebels in a gun battle in disputed kashmir sparking protests against indian rule the fighting began when indian troops started searching homes in southern

a nun tang town rebels have been fighting indian control in the area for almost thirty years but nearly seventy thousand people being killed in the uprising and the ensuing military crackdown. well now at least eighty people have died in japan and thousands of people have been sent to hospital two weeks into a heat wave that's showing no sign of ending the temperature has reached forty degrees celsius in many cities and authorities are warning that the hot weather will continue until the beginning of august the elderly have made up the vast majority of deaths form a catalan leader collars put them on to set to return to belgium from germany and continue to campaign for catalonia secession from spain last week spain supremes court dropped a european arrest warrant after germany refused to extradite him for his part in the illegal catalan independence referendum who didn't want his still faces charges of rebellion in spain believes the change in this government is a positive move. that she did the meeting between spanish prime minister peter

sanchez and the catalan president kim torah was very valuable in allowing them to make their stamp points clear but now is no longer the time for gestures but rather facts we have shown that we are always ready for dialogue but now we must press on with the reason for this dialogue maybe the future of relations between spain and catalonia i'll have more from london for you in about forty minutes time now back to folly thank you very much for that news that's out of this world the discovery of water on mars it's alyan researchers analyzed radio signals collected over three years from a european spacecraft and they determined that a twenty kilometer wide reservoir lies below ice a kilometer fake not far from the planet's south pole this raises the possibility of finding life on mars. we were able to achieve repeatable observations by flying over the same area the stronger the bright reflector would be there and again every single time that really was the change that propelled us

towards our cool the mistreating the presence of liquid water at mars however that would not be easy to take two more years after we finished collecting the data before we could making joining us on the news great francisco diego a senior teaching fellow at the department of physics and astronomy at university college london his eyes kind of thank you so much for being with us they're incredible interviews what exactly just break it down for us what exactly have they discovered and what does it mean eighty says this fascinating is the first time that we have proper evidence of liquid water on mars we. mean at the time of the present time we have evidence for liquid water on mars throwing millions of years ago when we shot everything's off of water ocean in many places on the surface of us but these mars express a european is an european. spacecraft with

a radar has been able to fly as we've just heard to fly over the south pole during the night actually which is where these measurements are better made underscored by penetrate through the soil. better off i mean it's unbelievable that's what more and what if you don't at that to find out that they they they they were the ocean bounces back indicating the presence of liquid water and how locate it is. subsurface lake about twenty white right. deep which is all liquid water front is a major major major discovery you say but i suppose you know there's been false alarms before about the possibility of water on mars how confident are you about this discovery and its possibilities. emission is by radar very reliable we have similar measurements made by other spacecraft in the most of jupiter and saturn where they have also discovered bodies of liquid water so

sources water several kilometers deep so it is quite reliable and the fact that these measurements can tell us that that day and the extension of these underground lake it's a safe quite quite substantial beetle in bits of evidence that we can actually located where it is how do you test and how deep the case ok and we were on that wherever there is liquid water there will be life very primitive life of course and that will be the next the next step now and i was going to my next question to you in fact you know we understand that liquid water can't exist on the surface of mars and why this lake is on the ground so what does it mean you know what does this lake of salty water mean in terms of answering the question of whether they can be life whether in the near you know in the near future on mars how how soon until we know about that possibility. it is it is. called.

the conditions in the moons of jupiter for example the moon you open or instead of those in the case of. these moons having in ten row source of energy that keeps these water liquid an energy is essential for the if americans and development of very primitive life in the case of mars i think it's going to be difficult to have this kind of energy coming from inside move mars mass he said you logical it there's body there is no source of energy there and this world there is liquid because it is very salty i mean this is well below freezing temperature of normal water but today the high there is a high concentration of souls makes it liquid so they let go for energy there is going to be. difficult conditions for life but still there is little hope that they will be so kind of primitive life in those difficult conditions for life he say francisco and that's a question a lot of our viewers are asking right now one here from vajazzle says when will we

go to live another one for holiday it's time to find another planet to live on francisco i guess is not going to happen anytime soon is it. the trips. will start i guess you know about ten fifteen years ok settling colonies on mars that will be by the middle of the century so we're talking decades i mean a two or three generations down the line very interesting sati thank you so much for shedding light on this for us francisco deadly joining has there on the is great from london and you know they've been other important discoveries recently that have raised hopes of finding life on mars last month novice curiosity rover discovered building blocks for life on mars and also increasing evidence of seasonal variations of methane gas read about it on our website at al-jazeera dot com. if you're watching us on facebook live you'll see a message now from the white house has fallen two years after they made it out of syria and still ahead on the news grid standing firm assuming the sudanese dramatic

pain protests to stop a man from people. i know again i stop to look at the weather in the levant and western parts of asia all fine here temperatures well forty degrees for tehran forty five for bike does being fairly steady around those sort of values for last few days but for the south towards the upper forty's move fifty then towards basra finer on the eastern side the mediterranean largely fine around the black sea so the caucus is looking somewhat better than most of the show right to vittie has died away as a head on through into friday find beirut looking at sunshine and twenty nine degrees sunshine all the way across the arabian peninsula forty three in medina here in doha looking pretty hot no particular humid at the moment forty five degrees as a high and probably rather cloudy at times on the coast of oman salada peru seeing

some sunshine and highs of twenty six down into southern parts of africa it's a largely fine picture at least through thursday but we have got a frontal system developing which will bring some rain into cape town for a time late on thursday into friday some closure in the eastern cape durban may not see unbroken sunshine but otherwise looking fine across the bulk of the region lusaka there sunny and twenty four now into central parts of africa some heavy rain across parts of south sudan gulf of guinea some showers likely indeed showers all the way towards west africa showers too for bamako in mali. every armed attack in europe creates fear and division amongst its citizens west henri's of los no one told. a sweeping association of islam with violence leaves european muslims facing the stock reality of being ostracized by the very

communities in which they live love and moon the tragic loss of life twice evict and coming soon on al-jazeera in the deprived villages of northern argentina there's one man with a solution to every problem. for engineers says proclaimed inventor fernandez and his trusty ninety four to seven ford truck no job and just a small village to farm in his latest mission she constructs a much needed a for generator the drums and five board viewfinder latin america driving change and i just see it i'm.

saying hey. headlines on the n.f.l. is trending on al-jazeera dot com the stories they are looking. and of course the pakistani lections top trending their number one two and four with got the live results on our website when they come in also trending at number three the controversy in kuwait over a blogger comments about how domestic workers are treated in the country she said

this blogger that domestic workers should be allowed to have a day off or to hold on to a passports one hour beauty brands have been boycotting her and banning this kuwaiti blogger read more on those stories and much more on our website at al-jazeera dot com. something that's coming off a lot of social media right now is a video of a swedish students protest on board a plane to stop a man from being deported to afghanistan. bottom old saying is the not going to sit down until this person is of the major swedish students and in essence streamed the whole thing on facebook live as she refused to take or seize preventing the pain from leaving getting both support and hostility from fellow passengers she stood her ground until the asylum seeker was taken off the video has been viewed millions of times what is drawn attention to opposition against sweden's immigration policies is understood the afghan man will still be deported.

i'm moving on and leaders of the so-called breaks block that's presumed russia india china and south africa meeting in janice berg and as we've said with most economic summits lately donald trump's trade towers are a big talking point china is ready moving closer to developing nations like brakes members to counter protectionism china the e.u. mexico and canada are the main targets of president tom's trade offensive and all have hit back with steep tabs in response later on wednesday the european commission president will meet at the white house but isn't too optimistic they'll be able to resolve anything else on wednesday mexican president elect andrus money over a draw or sit down with officials from canada they're looking for a united front ahead of talks resuming with the u.s. about the north american free trade deal or nafta which trump has threatened to abandon now white house correspondent kimberly how good is standing by for

a discussion about how this meeting between trump and is likely to go we're going structure in just a few minutes but for right now we go to how or. why that breaks meeting is going on how are they able to present a united front the brics nations in face of this looming trade war with the united states. well they certainly are trying to the leaders who spoke in today so far have all pushed for global trade with the threat of the u.s. trade law countries like china for example looking for alternative markers to buy and sell their products in africa is one continent that we're really focusing on in the past few days we saw china pumping a lot of money into the continent it's promising to give south africa five billion dollars for infrastructure development is promising to do the same for countries like synagogues and ruined for example a lot is at stake and what people seem to be talking about here is quietly though

is the issue of donald trump you didn't mention by name but he certainly was the elephant in the room how they plan to unite against him how they plan to fight him is to appear united by for example working together trying to resolve their own internal differences and they all say the aid now is to make sure they increase trade amongst themselves try to work together harder and try to counter whatever the u.s. throws at them so certainly trying to be a united front the president china the prisoners there for kmart as well and on thursday the russian president will also make a speech and he's likely going to say to say thank you for that live for us in johannesburg go to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett in washington kimberly no love lost between the e.u. and the u.s. and the donald trump one can we expect from this meeting between her and the u.s. president. we expect strained relations in short there's a lot there are a lot of differences between the united states and the european union as

a result of donald trump's america first policies and expect that when it comes to car tariffs that will be the latest sort of showdown between the two the stance of the united states is that there needs to be a tariff on european cars into the united states one that is more balanced with what the u.s. receives currently there is a tariff of just two and a half percent on european cars into the united states but u.s. cars into europe face a ten percent tariff so that's something that donald trump is looking to overcome something that is likely to get pushed back in the meeting so expect that that will be a fraction point but of course we also have the steel and aluminum tariffs where there is certainly some frustration on the part of the european union and even if we go back even further to the withdrawal of the united states from the paris climate accord all of these are friction points expect that when they meet at the white house at seventeen thirty g.m.t. that the talk will be very tense one proposal put forward by donald trump is to get rid of tariffs altogether and have free trade the position will likely be that that

would be a violation of world trade organization rules thank you kimberly for the moment kimberly hauck live for us in washington are less on speak to felipe logano who is a political economists who worked as a special advisor at the world trade organization w t o is live in london thank you very much for your time so we're increasingly seeing nations it seems band together to build new alliances in the face of trade policies we've seen the e.u. for instance open free trade negotiation with australia the breaks trying to present a united front do you think these new alliances can work can they preserve the global trading system. well i mean you know the united states is the world's biggest economy its largest importer so trumps aggressive in lotro protectionism. a huge impact at the same time eighty five percent of global trade doesn't involve the u.s. and there's certainly potential for countries can export less to the u.s.

to export more among each other and you could see that for example among the brics where you know china instead of importing soybeans for america could import soybeans. from brazil and you're certainly seeing politically lots of initiatives to try and bypass america so you know america pulled out of the transpacific partnership and those members are going ahead without it you seeing new momentum behind the chinese led regional comprehensive economic partnership in asia at the same time you know the threat that trump poses to the global trading system and that i would hope in particular is severe china as you say it especially has been rallying other trade war victims into a new un tie american alliance but we've also seen a certain reluctance from the european union for instance to associate itself with china and a lot of countries seem to have concern with the way to china does business. what

do you think the chinese need to do in order to get more countries behind it. well you know china is kind of an unlikely standard bearer for free trade i mean yes it's now defending the global trading system and yes it's behaving more responsibly than the united states's at the same time it's not just american companies that complain about their treatment in china it's not just american companies that complain about subsidies regulation and thirty intellectual property european companies do so too and therefore while there is strong agreement between the e.u. and china that transactions are outrageous and dangerous there are also disputes about the specifics of the substance of trade policy so i think one step forward that china could do would be to try and negotiate more seriously to open up its economy and i think that that would be a suitable response to trump's protectionism and what kind of joint actions philip

could all these countries take that would be effective as much as you know they would like to raise tariffs in response to the trumpet ministrations actions a lot of people are saying that wouldn't be a good idea raising their own terrorists that it would lead to losses for everyone so what's the outage of response if they do not raising tad's but nobody wins from a trade war so donald trump is completely wrong about that at the same time politically if you're being bullied by america you need to stand your ground and therefore retaliation makes sense politically i think the best antidote to american protectionism would be for countries to band together to craft a free trade area among themselves which would show the americans are donald trump that free trade works would isolate the americans make them feel the cost and hopefully lead them to change course of course i don't think it's very likely thank

you very much for speaking to us. political economist joining us there from london thank you for your time. and not long from now donald trump's top diplomat will face a question in session in the u.s. congress and they won't be short of questions is still plenty we don't know about trumps one on one with russia's vladimir putin in finland his us state department correspondent was in jordan with more. 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 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 u.s. political process but some analysts say despite their anger republicans won't put as much pressure on pompei o as one might expect many of them are up for election

in the mid-term elections it's more important for them to stay in power than to act on principle no matter what happens in the hearing there is a growing consensus on capitol hill that trump is permanently changing the u.s. is global authority changes that could take years to repair rosalyn short an al-jazeera washington. syria now and bombers have killed as many as one hundred forty seven people in the pro-government city away dead not far from the border with jordan meanwhile syrian troops are fighting the care not a pocket in the base near the israeli occupied golan heights from reports a rare attack in the government held town of psuedo syrian state television says a suicide bomber blew himself up in the market and two more attackers were killed before they could detonate their explosives according to the reports. we heard the

sounds in the early morning people started screaming there's an explosion stay away . i salute claim responsibility for the attack it says it targeted government soldiers the group has lost huge swathes of territory over the last few years one of the last pockets of territory that i still controls is here behind us in the southern golan heights of the bombardment has also been very close to the fence where the israeli occupied golan heights has been intensive campaign underway by the syrian government and its russian ally to take it back he's really army is keeping a close eye on what is happening. russian jets roared through the sky before unloading their explosives we've seen syrian jets to one of which was downed on choose day by two israeli patriot missiles we heard the warning sirens go off we immediately saw this field on fire and we moved closer to find out what we could see. we weren't the only ones these israeli soldiers arrived soon after to inspect the ground.

another field on fire and this one right opposite the offensive against eisel in the area where the jet went down. on wednesday both syrian and russian jets were back in the sky sources tell us that the syrian government is sending reinforcements to this area and one succeeds here it will be back in control of all of southwest syria stephanie decker al-jazeera in the israeli occupied golan heights and all the latest on the war in syria on al-jazeera dot com and i want to point you not to this great opinion piece published just today on our website on the death of a prominent syrian opposition figure an icon of the revolution just found dead at her apartment in paris earlier this week she was forty nine years old may skaf and in this article palestinian writer explains that form a scam the struggle against the assad regime and israel where the same struggle as the struggle to get for palestinians tributes from a scaf have been coming in from syrian actors and television personalities

especially those who have joined the syrian opposition more on that on al jazeera dot com. now an update on a story we brought you on the news great yesterday about the mysterious attempt to hire actors for a fake protests during the emir of qatar visit to britain in an interview with al-jazeera casting agency at the center of a controversy said they received an e-mail from a p.r. company saying it was working on behalf of a neighboring gulf state to qatar it wanted to hire on five hundred people to take part in an on tie qatar event the agency extra people has since canceled the job and explain to us what happened and why it's pulled out sara is here to tell us more rights for me in fact all reports on how my ma what went to the casa agency's office in london often a story emerged on social media he wasn't able to meet with anyone from extra people limited bods he did manage to get through to the director of the company by

fine. but why you accepted the offer. from the beginning despite the fact that the other party mentioned that this is a need to store scene. now

the fake demonstration being organized was meant to happen is the image of cats i met with the british prime minister theresa may in downing street but the protest and happened however this story was picked up by british newspapers like the guardian and the independent as well as the sun now the saudi led blockading countries against katsav for a while been staging p.r. stunts through automated social media accounts or boats and even through billboards that have been seen around london and women paid to attend and. conference in munich was well or a gathering on the first day of the amazed visit to london but here's what one of those attendees had to say why don't you have what you think is going to happen. you don't know what you encounter. is going on now or what are you doing here why you were gays or batteries you know because our hearts are in saudi arabia was fine

i said to reason over the years. well if you're familiar with the gulf crisis it would seem quite strange to have someone protests against cats all and saudi arabia at the same time both countries are in dispute with saudi arabia accusing cats of supporting terrorism of course a claim that cat's eye has repeatedly denied to be if you're following this story then do let us know your thoughts the hash tag for this story is a news grid. thank you very much for that we have coming up next with peter and we'll be speaking live with thirteen time middle east driving champion. to get the latest from the sale. of the west bank.

tracey ali thank you so much now wednesday was stage five of the silk way rally in russia it was the foot stanch took the drivers on a five hundred fifty two kilometer route from astrakhan sioux volgograd mechanical failure and bad weather on just some of the elements the drivers have to battle

along the rough russian terrain as they hade for the capital city moscow now many roma took the day stage for his first stage win at the soakaway rally. multiple adak already winner is also still among the leading pack with just two days to go and i'm pleased to tell you that joins us now live from russia now so great to have you with us here on the newsgroup tell us about how your day went at the so queerly . thank you so much yes this is a day five of silk way it's was a really tough day for everybody. five hundred fifty kilometers and you know we start for almost that and we're going to get out done was not easy but the women edge. to finish. with your problems that we are have a confidence you know for a next two days it will be not easy but we are planning you know to push in extra

days on the war to have really. been a. win for this where only if we can elaborate a little bit on that with just two days to go of the really what do you think your chances or of a really good good finish or maybe even victory yes that is anything's possible you know because just two days of. i was leading and then in day three. coming out of that. silk way they have in your lead silk where early because every day have. some that are my you know some but ok who are too many days are there still clearly and still we have good days and we have a lot of confidence door to win this their son we try to manage their mortal three

hundred forty can all meet that it will be not easy maybe the weather will be. in or some rain but ok we try to prepare our what's there you know what are the more and we'll see if we can win this. and also for our viewers who might just be casual followers of rally racing how would you describe the differences between the so queerly and the deck are rarely. you know there is no compare you know really we enjoy a lot in silk way in order that we're going to. really work hard you know for the. you know. the completely different you know. have a lot of. years of that but we find out what's really in silk where ali it's like you know nearly you know this is what we we need like.

this is the reason why all the themes and yet and still. even get their support from that when ization not out of here thank you so much for joining us on news group and we wish you all of the best for the rest of the silk way really those two stages still to go. thank you let's drop a giro to show we it's almost time of the year again when fever on of the best players and coaches in a glittering award series the shortlist have been announced for those players and coaches and on the main site it's the big names to the recent world cup that dominate there are plenty of threats to the decade long reign of cristiana rinaldo and the n.l. messi french starsky in the and so on griezmann and refound all among the favorites will cup golden boot winner harry kane and mohamed salah are also on that list world cup winning coach did it ishant is up against countryman's in that incident for coach of the year and the winners of the last two women's awards fail to make

the list this year which dominated by players from european champions league on but five time with a martyr and australian striker sam cooke are also among the other nominees three finalists will be announced for each award ahead of the sunni on september the twenty fourth. and on social media the clubs and other platforms where these players are showcased like broadcasters for example were soon on twitter on this topic i read on the grid for example this tweet if there is well it's all about pride isn't it showing you the number of players from their club that have been nominated as well as the coaches in a deans then don't forget an aura show you the picture that went along with their tweeting you can see all four of them and of course they all have the european champions league trophy in their group as well and one of the rights holders for premier league matches was happy to tweet about the players that are featured on their screens every week and speaking of them self promotion take a look at this little who's official twitter account tweeted this video of

a star striker mohamed salah in action the egyptian is one of the nominees for men's player of the year set the record last season through the most goals in a thirty eight game season. i and finally the darker side of football a nigerian coach has been caught on camera accepting cash payments from supposed agents so lisa use of foot 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 its national teams to achieve better results on the international stage. we'll leave it there for mel remember the hash tag is a.j. news good if you want to get hold of us you can also tweet me directly at peter underscore standard more sport coming up in the eight hundred g.m.t. oh but for now i'll hand you back to funny peter thank you very much for that that

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southern the weight of province. rescue a search homes and cars in greece looking for dozens still missing as the death toll from devastating wildfires reaches eighty. and scientists detect a massive lake on the ice on maus raising the possibility of life on the red planet . well we begin in pakistan where voting is wrapped up in a tightly contested general election of a shadowed by another shocking attack at least thirty one people were killed in a suicide bombing outside a polling station in the city of question but least men and children were among the dead a record number of security forces were deployed as millions voted for the lower house of parliament and for provincial assemblies these are the front runners

former cricketer imran khan heads the center right pakistan to wreak and south party is up against the jailed former prime minister nawaz sharif's brother shahbaz who rules the pm and party there's also the pakistan people's party led by bilawal bhutto zardari the twenty nine year old son of assassinated former prime minister benazir bhutto going to aim has more. eisel claimed responsibility for this suicide bomb attack outside a polling station in quite a dozens were killed another suicide bombing in the same province earlier this month at a campaign event killed one hundred forty nine people including a candidate pakistan has deployed eight hundred thousand security personnel across the country below while bhutto's adare one of three main candidates for prime minister said voters would not be deterred the diaries mother former prime minister benazir bhutto was assassinated in two thousand and seven.

as an attempt to disrupt the political process the people will not be affected by this they will come out and vote in full force. the dory could help form a coalition government if no party wins a decisive victory opposition leader imraan khan has campaigned on an anti-corruption platform and is popular with young voters. this is the first time we've had the chance to defeat the two parties who have been in control here and those who have been taking turns at power in this country for the past thirty years. the other main candidate is shahbaz sharif the brother of former prime minister no wash who's in jail charged with corruption. and i appealed to the nation to come out to polling stations cost the votes and change the destiny of pakistan and make a great prosperous and progressive country make it great in its real meaning.

election observers from the european union are monitoring polling stations there have been widespread allegations of rigging and concerns that the military is engineering the outcome analysts say no matter who becomes the next prime minister they can't remain in office. without the military's back natasha getting to zero. also a binge of eight is live for us in lahore now and some a what are you starting to hear in terms of early results. the voting is currently underway and we've been getting some unofficial incomplete partial results from various parts of the country according to. the caucus on thirty can solve party leading in seats they were supposed to get we've been speaking to various politicians of the park on the phone because they feel especially in the city of lahore which is the heartland of politics in pakistan they feel that they might be facing some losses to the box.

office be saying that it is been campaigning on the slogan of change but they've also done something different this time around where they have included so-called electable politicians people who'd been building seats from various other political parties to their fault and that seems to be working for them what we're hearing from the camp. is that they're going to be holding their leader imran khan is going to be holding a news conference a soon because those have been going in their favor but here in the city of lahore there are a number of constituencies where the fight is very tense they don't think that it is going to be an easy walk over for. the good such a. result that so far from a number of politicians are neck and neck yeah we can see a passionate crowd of people gathering behind you asama. a lot more is one of the

biggest most significant cities in the country one of the people been telling you about where their support lies and how they might be voting. but it depends on where you are the horror is a very diverse city and it is almost flip between the parties on the in the in the box on there you can stop people who we've been speaking to on the streets. we would traditionally voted for either of these two parties in the last election say that they've held their ground but we did beat some mothers who said that they have changed their opinion about the bikes out there you can solve them on the insistence of the use of their. children and their and their husbands and relatives because iraq is not very often been counting on this slogan of change and it is very popular amongst the young but the other thing that we've been hearing from their opponents is that all of this change is coming from reporting the human rights commission of pakistan thing that what you're seeing today is the wiping out of a political party even before the polling process began so it is according to the charts

the peak of one of the dirtiest elections in pakistan and the results were somewhat expected what analysts have been telling us that this is not going to be an outright majority for any party and it's going to be a coalition government with the highest number of seats all right now thank you very much some of them john they with all the latest from lahore and joining me now from the capital islamabad is off i just follow he's a pakistan analyst and director of the school of politics and international relations at the university thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us first of all what are your thoughts about the way in which voting has gone today. i think that it is the traditional way i have destroyed many polling stations and in the two district noticed that it was the same kind of coffee at the mosfet which we have seen in the previous election of course this time the harder you can defeat her body was gently p.d.i.

by previously to paul than thirteen it was pm i learned then to be falling too tall then he we have seen that after the assassination of the former prime minister vinod people's party so it's a trend in the we have seen but gently if one can assume that any party is going to have a simple majority in the national assembly it's too difficult to predict because all the calls that you will lead the polling booths you one can notice that there was a contest going on between the p.t.a. and the m.l.s. and in punjab and in dissent you will find that the p.p.p. d.d.e. in the two cities. as well in the capital. and unifying deal with this army national party good and indeed looks more independent and new to bush style you need both parties so i just really wanted not correctly predict what will be the outcome but cody's that it's been tested election people came out

forward to. write but so that this the two front runners are the p.t.i. party of former cricketer imran khan and also the pm l. and party of the former prime minister nawaz sharif but what is your feeling about how this could go as imran khan's time finally come in is he likely to be the one to have to form the next government. i think that if we can focus on the crowd it seems that without accountability having a majority vote i'm sick a simple majority vote well for a simple majority of us to form a government or two seventy two seat here required around one hold your why one total five thirty six seats but at the moment the prediction is there you can one can quickly said he would be having it all one hundred plus and then there is the large number of the what you call it independent there would be do any well independents always call a k.

what we call it the way who is palmer leading the government so in this context the probably within three weeks pentagon budget will be a cost you could a federal government iraq would be leading the globe all right so now is a far just fallen thank you very much well. now syrian state media says one hundred forty seven people have died in isolated acts and the southern province of slighter so the area is held by the government i still still has a presence in the region from there stephanie decker reports. a rare attack in the government held town of psuedo syrian state television says a suicide bomber blew himself up in the market and two more attackers were killed before they could detonate their explosives according to the reports. we heard the

sounds in the early morning people started screaming there's an explosion stay away . i salute claimed responsibility for the attack it says it targeted government soldiers the group has lost huge swathes of territory over the last few years one of the last pockets of territory that i still controls is here behind us in the southern golan heights how the bombardment has also been very close to the fence where the israeli occupied golan heights has been intensive campaign underway by the syrian government and its russian ally to take it back he's really army is keeping a close eye on what is happening. russian jets roared through the sky before unloading their explosives we've seen syrian jets to one of which was downed on choose day by two israeli patriot missiles we heard the warning sirens go off we immediately saw this field on fire and we moved closer to find out what we could see we weren't the only ones these israeli soldiers arrived soon after to inspect the ground. another

field on fire and this one right opposite the offensive against eisel in the area where the jet went down. on wednesday both syrian and russian jets were back in the sky sources tell us that the syrian government is sending reinforcements to this area one succeeds here it will be back in control of all of southwest syria stephanie decker al-jazeera in the israeli occupied golan heights on a number of people who have died in greece following wildfires in athens has now risen to eighty off to the death of a survivor in hospital. rescuers and relatives of missing family members are carrying out house to house searches as they try to track down people who are still unaccounted for following the blazes is comes as the antiterrorist authorities investigate whether one of the fires were started to deliberately. as residents of the areas devastated by the fire has returned to try to salvage some of that belongings stories are also emerging of what they went through when trying to

survive.