a wash gives rather obvious from the washes but that they are having equal number of the thieves from there you can see all trolls and just disappear they have like said to punjab they were put in the heart another thing so and second if you have not called a bug start muslim he has lacked this capacity for demonstration which we have seen in the last five years continuously but you can soften that by a graph on was been so we have to we might hear from the white see a day where there would be a class but there are not gentlemen consigns i understand that but there are genuine concerns are there not about the role of the military in this election allegations are there and of course we have seen the military play a role for many years now but there are concerns that the party of no washrooms the pm l n has been targeted politically and deliberately through the judiciary through an unlevel playing field in terms of the media and also in terms of the pressure brought upon its politicians in some places. i can call you at this point of view

because if you see that the party started recently there was this has been the trials in the government since one and a half years when this by anomaly started and after that bribing the public prime minister no aussie lost his senses seat as well as little on party leadership as recently he was in prison and that gave me an idea and you were expecting a lot in the park stan especially in the present proposal that on the basis of that the voters will be going to work because they think that it is there you can see they are pushing on the side or they have been in this first famous narrative what you call it anti judiciary not a wadded issue new all major armed force in the wallman but you have to not forget in every election these days of the slogans we hear only this time we have to start hearing that the party which was in the government is start talking about sleep or rigging even before the starting of the election previously we have seen that the

previous government was the star people's party and does this also allege that there were all the people rigging and then and that they passed that he can solve so generally people are no you can't the fed up with these kind of slogans that we do partly because there are krentz and the moves and the party who seem to think that it is losing other people are not supportive as when exactly you pointed out in just the last thirty years it was the only change of these laws change of parties only two parties were in power and i go to fifty years but fancied a party or the power that n.t. passed out of people's party rather than what i would share later and we found that in ny it is it becomes somewhat something you know out there what in power this time do you want to change in this change was very much based on the last five years of our stance that he can sign but we do agree that every party is questioning his credibility on

a level playing well thank you very much john for just well and for joining us that friend down upon. living here on the top story now pro-government media in syria says one hundred forty seven people have died in isolates attacks in the southern province of psuedo though the area is held by the government i still still has a presence in the desert region it comes as the government continues its offensive on the south near the front with the israeli occupied golan heights 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 these are really army is keeping a close eye on what is happening. russian jets roared through the sky before unloading their explosives and 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. you know at the news hour live from london much more still ahead thousands white for rescue in laos some stranded on rooftops off to a dam collapsed flooding very remote villages. and how this player has found himself in the middle of a transfer a fight between to you. european rivals. now the number of people known to have died in the wildfires in greece has risen to eighty rescuers are searching the say and on land as they try to track down dozens of people who are still missing eve barker reports from matty one of the west hit towns. lifeguards scour the sea where hundreds fled for their lives

many people are still missing including children a relief efforts underway to get supplies to those in need two and a half thousand homes have been completely destroyed four thousand uninhabitable many survivors have been relocated to hotels in the capital as the search continues the death toll is expected to rise our estimation is that where he closed. really didn't imagine that from mountain to the shore the time that the fire needed was about ten to fifteen minutes so it was not possible to evacuate. the whole area you'll need only one hour interview show to get. some locals have returned to a town they scarcely recognize this is where twenty six people died their bodies were found locked together at the top of a cliff in a final embrace the owners of this land had opened the gates to allow people to flee down to the sea but the fire swept through here at such speed and such force

they had no chance of escape the place it was my paradise but now. it's gone the owner's son saw everything the fire was in front of them so it was impossible even if they knew how to access the beach to go there because there was already a fire in front of them behind them they were trapped were kids kids were taking them down the cliffs all aid is a pregnant lady i was helping them until a certain point and then i. myself we have lost everything everything. without rain the most effective defense greeks have is the sea water scoop from the a g it is flown to the fire still smoldering of the hills in this parched brittle landscape small fires can quickly become infernos. in the town of marty the cleanup has begun streets normally bustling with holiday makers are

clogged with burnt out cars the place was so intense it turned metal into liquid many seaside businesses were relying on a profitable summer season now they're salvaging what they can and. greece is no stranger to wildfires but many public services including the fire service have been crippled by years of a starer to the full scale of this disaster is still unfolding but the author cheese are investigating the possibility some of the fires were started deliberately whatever the cause is the consequences have ruined homes and destroyed lives we've baka al jazeera mati. rescue teams adding interim opossums laos to help more than three thousand people have been left stranded after a down collapse at least nineteen people were killed when the hydro power down failed in the southern province of out of power on monday sending a deluge of water rushing downstream florence louis reports from neighboring thailand. from the air the devastation is clear huge tracts of land

underwater 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 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 fractures in the dam were first discovered on sunday and efforts to move people to safety then the south korean government says it's providing assistance.

president 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 set 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 at least eighteen people have been killed in japan's record breaking heat wave with thousands of people being sent to hospital temperatures have reached fourteen degrees celsius in many cities and authorities are warning that the hot weather will continue until the beginning of august most of those who have died elderly. when our team of italian scientists say they've discovered

a huge underground lake on mars it lies beneath the southern ice cap and is the first time a large stable body of liquid water has been discovered on the red planet and in barbara force a stunning discovery is what they're calling it one that could help scientists know for sure whether life ever formed on mars or even exists today the study led by italian researchers says they found what could be an underground lake it's a large body of liquid water twenty kilometers wide and one point five kilometers below the surface and it was found using radar instruments on board the european space agency's orbiter mars express scientists looked at radar readings from the planet southern icecap which provided ideal conditions ice is a very thin aspirant medium expression if it's called the impurity of the electromagnetic waves so it's good they can make the applied to the the much simpler cups of course these these caps. have some impurities but definite the ice

is called there then the ice on the mars might be cold and dry now but we already know thanks to rovers on its surface and other probes examining it from orbit that it was once a warm place with plenty of liquid water and lakes. the new study doesn't tell us how deep the reservoir is so researches can't say whether what they found resembles an underground pool or is simply a layer of sludge but they do believe it's potentially a huge breakthrough liquid water cannot exist on the surface of mars it's simply not possible because of the the atmospheric pressure on mars is still incredibly thin for water to remain liquid it has to be buried deep underneath the surface and it also has to be very very altie and that is is also of huge importance because a stall to water lake is potentially exactly the sort of place you would go to look

for life form the search for life on mars has been going on for decades scientists now have to find out whether this discovery can help them in that quest knitting baba al-jazeera. let's discuss this some more with glenn white is an astronomy professor at the open university is also a perception leader in the space science and technology department at rather fed appleton a partridge thank you very much for coming in to speak to us why is it taken so long to identify this lake on the planet mars mars is an extremely interesting planet because of the parallels to the early early earth when it was formed and we know that mars was covered in seeds it had rivers it was humid and had all the conditions that might allow life to develop yet now when we see mars it's a dry toxic frozen barren landscape so as scientists we're interested in trying to understand how this strange could have happened and in

particular where the water has gone that once we knew was on mars so we've launched many spacecraft have been about fifty since nine hundred sixty the go on to mars two thirds of them have failed due to technical or other other problems but we have a series of instruments that are able to measure if he happens to be here and in some cases down on the surface and can actually do proper geology in measuring the properties of material on the martian surface but what this particular experiment has done for the first time is let's use ground penetrating radar to look down on the polar ice caps where we already knew there was frozen water but it's found about a one and a half kilometers under the ground a kind of frozen slurry or sludge if you write because we already knew before that there was water but now it's just it's there's stable body of liquid where the water we'd seen before was all frozen and life can't exist in frozen water

but if you can have liquid water then you have the chance of simple life forms by. tira or whatever developing and although the temperature of this particular subsurface lake that's been found is about minus seventy centigrade it's enthuse with lots of sort sort that we already know exist on mars and this lowers the temperature so that you can have a liquid whereas normally it would be completely frozen so the important thing that we've seen is finally we've been able to see that there is actually liquid water that can't evaporates or can't freeze on mars and potentially in a similar way to where we have antarctic late on the earth things like plate ball stock where you have a and subsurface body of water we already know that not only can support life

but they're teeming with it they have been experiments on earth what is the significance of the conditions that the planet mars is in now and what we know of its past for us here on earth today what can we learn from this well that this is been one of the discussions that people who are involved in global warming have been looking at how do we eventually the atmosphere up sufficiently of gases could evaporate and so there are lessons to be had by looking at the past development of mars as atmosphere compared with ours to make sure we don't go down a similar route well thank you very much glenn white a strong astronomy professor at york university thank you very much for coming in and sharing your insight with us on this story. well as much will still ahead for you on the program we're going to get the latest from zimbabwe the main opposition leader accuses the election commission of bias but says he won't boycott monday's vote

a swedish student who stopped an afghan refugee being deported by refusing to sit down unless he was taken off the plane. also racing through russia we hear from two time dakar rally champion a tear as he stays in the hunt for another win. well again i start to look at the weather in the levant and western parts of asia or find here temperatures well forty degrees for tehran forty five for bite 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 bus or finer on the eastern side the mediterranean largely fine around the black sea so the caucus is looking somewhat better most of the share eight to vittie has died away as a head on through into friday fine there 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 but no particular humid at the moment forty five degrees as a high and probably rather cloudy at times on the coast of oman salada producing 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 so sudan gulf of guinea some showers likely indeed showers all way towards west africa showers too for bamako in mali. insider's perspective just six months ago we were at the brink of a war of the real donald trump i think he makes comments that he probably shouldn't

make from the former trump campaign national security director sean was in a class all by himself and for the thirty years i've known donald he creates his own reality maybe his son goes to haiti with j.p. coolidge there has been no evidence that shows collusion evolve collusion about working with russians what is known. full of struggles quarrels of them are very well done with the times you got in one piece she blew in with a country full of pleasure. virtue and i had to go to our bomb for an intimate look at life in cuba today was on the dollar cost under my boss on me when i came out of a lot of vulnerable wires may hang. on al-jazeera. come

back quick look at the top stories now a tightly contested general election in pakistan has been overshadowed by another attack at least thirty one people were killed in a suicide bombing outside a polling station in the city of. pro-government media in syria say at least one hundred forty seven people have died in iceland tax in the south and rescue as in greece is searching for survivors from the wildfires near the capital of greece with eighteen people now confirmed dead. don't transform our tiny has released an audiotape to the american media in which the. allegedly discussing a payment of an apparent a fad between the president and a model michael cohen made a series of recordings which received by the f.b.i.

during raids at his home and office in april the conversation and on cheese day it seemed to involve buying the rights to a story by former playboy model karen dougal she was paid one hundred fifty thousand dollars for a story but it was never actually published the president has always denied her claims of an affair well nine days after the helsinki summit the white house still hasn't released details of the one on one meeting between president donald trump and the russian leader of that in a person that will be one of the questions put to trounce top diplomat and he goes before a senate panel in the next half an hour and jordan has 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 russia 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 crumbs closest advisors in fact it's been moscow that has revealed what trump and putin discussed behind closed doors the syrian civil war north korea's nuclear weapons program. joint counterterrorism operations in the middle east the crisis in eastern ukraine and crimea arms control treaties and

the charges russia is undermining the u.s. political process but some analysts say despite their anger republicans won't put as much pressure on pomp a.o. as one might expect many of them are up for election in the midterm elections it's more important for them to stay in power than to act on principle no matter what happens in the hearing there is a growing consensus on capitol hill that trump is permanently changing the u.s. is global authority changes that could take years to repair rosalyn short al-jazeera washington when all the developments u.s. president donald trump says he hopes to work out a fair and reciprocal trade deal with the european union made the comments while hosting a president of the year paying commission at the white house trade tensions have been rising following the u.s. decision to introduce state tariffs on imports of steel an aluminum well i have

a radio and we're looking to have a fair trade deal and hopefully we can work something out. over the years the united states has been losing hundreds of billions of dollars with the european union and we just wanted to be a level playing field for farmers for our manufacturers for everybody. let's get more now from our white house correspondent kimberly young trying to put a positive spin on the relationship between the u.s. and the these days but what's really come out of this meeting. oh we're watching to see what concrete steps might come out of it moving forward there is a lot of tension underlying those smiles in front of the cameras we did hear from the e.u. chief that the view is from you as they go into this meeting that there is a lot at stake the united states and the european union account for half the world's trade he says and that as a result there's a need to work together despite the very confrontational relationship that exists

at the moment that he believes that the united states and the you need to cartney has not enemies but there is a lot at stake as you point out already there are those steel and aluminum tariffs that have been leveled by the united states against the european union among others including canada mexico but also donald trump is suggesting that european automobiles which currently have a tariff of about two and a half percent when they're sold here in the united states in contrast to u.s. manufactured cars in europe which receive a ten percent tariff or do you put onto that purchase price that this needs to be rebalanced so the solution seems to be for now donald trump is pushing these tariffs of course extremely unpopular and this is something that is a point of contention among these two men but it's not just economic behind closed doors they're also going to be talking about again the push by donald trump for nato members to spend a greater amount of the g.d.p. of terms of nato spending and defense spending even the u.s.

withdrawal of the paris climate of course there are so many differences right now between this administration and the european leaders that the the closed door meeting is bound to be contentious right and yet trade seems to be the priority for both sides at the moment it was interesting that we can say that tariffs should be lowered and not raised we know that's been the european position all along trying to seem to momentarily agreed but is anything likely to change after this meeting. donald trump seems pretty firm in the in his desire something that he promised on the campaign trail he's now carrying out of the sort of isolationist america first trade policy and practice but it really doesn't many ways run counter to the republican party so what we're seeing are members of the president's own party pushing back even as the president is pressing for with these policies for example the top republican in the house of representatives paul ryan saying that he believes that there are better tools to make them play fairly than tariffs there

are so many republicans that feel and push for free markets for open markets and ultimately that's what donald trump said his goal is but for now he is not responding in the manner that many republicans on capitol hill would hope that he would thank you very much with the latest from the white house our correspondent can be how it. meanwhile the chinese president says they'll be no winners in a global trade war the so-called brakes nations that brazil russia india china and south africa to unite in the wake of terror threats by the u.s. president xi jinping is cool came at the start of a three day break summit in johannesburg which was that. leaders from brazil russia india china and south africa say they are united in fighting petition ism and promoting global trade it's the first time presidents hold the brics a meeting since donald trump's administration said it was ready to impose tariffs on all chinese imports a movie called him a say could also hurt smaller countries like south africa we are meeting here.

at a time when the moment to look for a trading system is for you seeing unprecedented challenges. by the. measures that are incompatible with world trade organization. we are worried about the impact of these measures especially as the impacts developing countries and economies. the five countries of the brics but this is in some of the world's biggest emerging economies more than thirty percent of the global population china has the world's they could largest economy after the united states already started out of the markets to buy and sell their products countries. have become privatized. community activists feel the scrabble for resources could undermine human rights

and good governance in perspective of india and there are many infrastructure projects coming which are causing a lot of human rights violation so we have farmers who are fighting against the language. there's a project called industry border guards coming betrayal acquire forty three percent of the india's line and so we are just concerned about the amount of displacement that will have been some economists say including cheating and increasing trade among brics countries could make the election economy more competitive and perhaps challenge the u.s. it was some insist is an attempt to stoke tension and start a global trade from a. gender split. and bob way now where the main opposition leader is accusing the country's electoral commission of bias days before the country votes elson chamisa says monday's presidential election will be fraudulent but added that his party will not boycott the vote is up against present amisom and gaga and his only p.f. party it's the first election since the ousting of robert mugabe. what we've

resolved to do is to make sure that we defeat board there are free and the player is someone god must be defeated defeated in terms of the overwhelming sentiment in the country that we're not going to allow them to get away with middle literally and metaphorically what does it mean what it does mean is that on monday visited of july it is independence day for the second republic we are going to be voting overwhelmingly for change. south sudan's rival leaders have agreed to share power again three years after their previous deal collapsed salvage care and react with chara set to sign off on a final accord on august the fifth sudan's official news agency says care will lead the transitional government while machar will return as vice president the two men are attempting to end a four year civil war that's killed tens of thousands of people and displaced

millions of others will the united nations agency for palestinian refugees announce that it will axe more than two hundred fifty jobs in the occupied west bank and in gaza after the united states slash three hundred million dollars in funding which there is strong child stratford has more now from gaza. of the weeks of negotiations with their employer the shock of being told they had lost their job was for many too much to bear the united nations refugee and works agency in gaza says lack of dona funding means it doesn't have enough money and so jobs must go i should have been told that i will no longer have a full time job after the thirty first of august then we will i need be able to work part time until the end of the year then my job will end i'm really sad not just for me but for my colleagues that have families this is the office of the head of the u.n. agencies operations in gaza. but marley we shop around outside the building on

monday night by hamas guards protecting her from the angry crowd. the head of the workers' union here says strikes by employees will continue and threaten to close down u.n. aid distribution medical centers and schools if the jobs are not reinstated. climbing was the sit in said he we were not expecting this from a humanitarian organization like only what we've tried to find a solution for three weeks since negotiations started but it looks like they have their own agenda from the start the u.n. refugee and works agency says it needs around two hundred seventy million dollars to sustain its work in gaza this year it says in the merge and see appeal for money from international donors has failed under here in gaza have suffered years of shortfalls in their funding as the crisis here has got worse this latest announcement not only has devastating implications for palestinian employees on the

run but potentially for others work in general across gaza as the people here continue to suffer israel's blockade all the hoff of gaza's population relies on humanitarian aid from the u.n. organization. the job cuts show just how desperate the situ. it's becoming goals of conditions for the two million people living here continue to deteriorate and finding a lost in political solution to ending the violence between hamas and israel remains remote. that i'll just zero dollars. turkey's interior ministry says it has reinstated more than one hundred fifty thousand passports as the country ends its two years state of emergency a canceled passports belong to the spouses of turkish citizens and the government believes were legally suspicious the move was part of a crackdown following the attempted coup in july twenty sixth seen when two hundred forty nine people were killed while turkey's parliament has passed a new security at all which gives the authorities powers similar.