unfortunately got appeared in the run up with the actions political parties have not been granted in recent history and sanction not one of the things that happens usually so i'm not entirely sure that there is is mine and my political party is against each other as much as it is that if the opposition yesterday get there and rejects the election results it meets the legitimacy of the new government it brings it into question even before they begin and then we also remind you that in summary is the likely prime minister in the cricket and politician and this is a bit of a minister of his own medicine because he did exactly this up at the last elections and the election results due to the streets and basically brought the government to a standstill for months on end so and you know i don't put it beyond the opposition do to rebuild the fear of. this kind of course among khan's party has been accused of being supported by the military there are going to be a lot of questions about whether or not the military played some sort of role in

influencing the outcome of the selection isn't there. now which you are going to report on a solution was already but it wasn't a motion they were thing as being pointed pretty much everywhere quite frankly but now with this sort of delay in results and the allegation of manipulation of results of nixon. i think it's going to be even more controversial so yes and this is not an accurate stance for the government that in and will eat at this point i think he's going to keep it he's going to. accomplish and not mine and try and get the opposition once he'd done that and he's been very clear that he's not going to you know and nothing's going to prevent him from forming the government and i think in the next few days he will whether it's on to our children are clearly farming the government is just the first stage in a long process because the new government has a great many problems to solve what are the priorities it's going to face. and i

think in the priority number one two and friendly is the economy and this is an odd sort of. the last two governments have got me in at the back with another economic crisis. is going to find exactly exactly the. sort of you send thousands of races and it's e.q. and so on so where is the dollar to the root be conversion has gone up from a hundred to about one hundred thirty eight within months and so the person going after has gone unstable as the. problem is it needs external uncreative to do that and it's ominous but external credit i'm not promising at this point so yes it's going to be a big challenge and if the opposition is honest. you know questioning his legitimacy i think it's going to. an economic race is on top of the political crisis and that's never a good place to be if you're trying to the country. is from the asia center at the u.s.

institute of peace thank you very much for joining us. pro-government media in syria reporting at least two hundred fifteen people have died and i saw a suicide bomb attacks that happened in the southern city of also weighed up close to the border with jordan so in troops are trying to clear an eyesore held area close to the israeli occupied golan heights from where 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 and 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. the u.s. secretary of state says he personally warned russia of severe consequences over the last interference in the u.s. election in two thousand and sixteen my pompei i was being questioned by the senate foreign relations committee he said president trump and made it clear to russia's president vladimir putin that washington would not stand for any interference by moscow in its internal affairs but he also faced scathing criticism for the administration's flip flopping on russia the administration tells us don't worry be patient there's a strategy here but from where we set it appears that in a ready fire aim fashion the white house is waking up every morning and making it up as they go rosalynn jordan has more from washington d.c. . wednesday was the secretary of state like pales opportunity to try to explain exactly what happened between the russian president vladimir putin and u.s.

president donald trump during their meeting in helsinki earlier in july it was a contentious hearing for the most part but a small pail told those legislators that there wasn't any effort for the united states to undercut its authority during that meeting with the russian leader here's more of what happened during wednesday's hearing the president disclosed what he said divided by putin about russian interference in our elections and he said that he is confident that as a result of the conversations lattimer understands that it won't be tolerated and i personally make clear to the russians that will be severe consequences for interference in our democratic processes. i would also add that president trip is well aware of the challenges that russia poses to the united states and our partners and allies he's taken a staggering number of actions to protect our interests senators also question pompei o about another big national security issue north korea and its nuclear weapons program insisted that the two page agreement signed by the president and by

kim jong il the north korean leader is the complied with but he said that until there is proof and actual verification that north korea no longer has the capacity to build or to use nuclear weapons u.s. and global sanctions on that country will continue. president trump has pushed back his proposed meeting with putin on u.s. soil until twenty nineteen the white house says the summits being delayed because of the ongoing investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixty u.s. election trump invited put into washington after their controversial talks in helsinki on july the sixteenth and many members of congress had objected to the two leaders meeting again and said putin wouldn't be welcome. in the united states and european union have agreed to work together on lowering trade barriers u.s. president donald trump says he will start trade negotiations with the e.u. and result steel and aluminum tabs as well as retaliate early tariffs the

announcement followed a meeting at the white house between chomp and european commission president. trade tensions had been rising up to both sides slots tariffs on billions of dollars worth of imports. this of course is on the understanding that as long as we are negotiating unless one party would stop the negotiations we would hold off further tariffs and commuters reassess existing tariffs on steel and aluminum this will open markets for farmers and workers increase investment and lead to greater prosperity in both the united states and the european union it will also make trade fairer and more receptive call plenty more ahead on the news hour including thousands wait for rescue in laos some stranded on rooftops after a dam collapsed flooding the remote villages plus. the electoral authorities in zimbabwe have been accused of bias ahead of

a landmark vote this month. and tested again serena williams claims she's being discriminated against by anti doping officials that's coming up with jo in sport. the number of people who've died in greece following wildfires near athens has risen to eighty rescuers are searching both the sea and on land as they try to track down people who are still unaccounted for following the blazes they've baka reports. 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 be relocated to hotels in the capital as the search continues the death toll is expected to rise iris amazing is that where he's closing it

really didn't imagine that from mountain to the shore the time that they're fine it was about ten to fifteen minutes so it was not possible to have a queue. they're. going 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 their gates to allow people to flee down to the sea but the fire swept through here at such speed and such force 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 you think knew how to access the beach to go there because there

was already a fire in front of them behind them they were trapped there were kids small kids who were taking them down the cliffs only. when i was helping them until a certain point. and then. we have lost everything everything. without rain the most effective defense greeks have is the sea water scoop from the a g.n. is flown to fire still smoldering in 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 a 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 grease is no stranger to wildfires but many public services including the fire service have been

crippled by years of a sterile the full scale of this disaster is still unfolding but the or thirty's are investigating the possibility some of the fires were started deliberately. whatever the cause is the consequences have ruined homes and destroyed lives leave barca al-jazeera marty and his twenty four people have been killed and more than one hundred are missing after a dam in laos collapsed on monday the district governor says around three thousand people trapped in floods are waiting to be rescued or in slow reports. 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 fractures in the dam were first discovered on sunday and efforts to move people to safety started then the south korean government says it's providing assistance. president moon j 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 dam 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 the chinese president has said there will be no winner in a global trade war she jingping is now urging the leaders of developing economies to unite in the wake of threats of tariffs by the us president i don't want us to reports from the bric summit in johannesburg. leaders from brazil russia india china and south africa say they are united in fighting protectionism and promoting global trade it's the first time presidents on the brics trade bloc are meeting since donald trump's administration said it was ready to impose tariffs on all chinese imports a movie karima say could also hurt smaller countries like south africa we are meeting here ladies and gentlemen. at a time when the multilateral trading system is facing unprecedented challenges.

we are concerned by the rise unilateral measures that are incompatible with world trade organization. and. we are worried about the impact of these measures especially as the impacts developing countries and economies. the five countries in the brics block some of the world's biggest emerging economies more than forty percent of the global population china has a world they could largest economy off to the united states was responsible for the return for the markets to buy and sell their products countries of the planet have become privatized. community activists feel the scrabble for resources could undermine human rights and good governance in perspective of india and one of the many infrastructure projects that are coming which are causing

a lot of human rights violations so we have farmers who are fighting against the language. there's a project called industrial cargo dogs coming by train acquire forty three percent of the india's line and so we are just concerned about the amount of displacement that when having some economists say improving and increasing trade among brics countries could make the matching economies more competitive and perhaps challenge the u.s. it was some insist is an attempt to stoke tension and start a global trading. janice but. still ahead on al-jazeera the family stuck in border limbo on a bridge between two nations. plus racing through russia we hear from two time dakar rally champion nascar like there as he stays in the hunt for another with.

hello again we've seen some violent thunderstorms i've a part of the u.s. recently it's been in the southwest that's where we've seen the worst of the weather in fact some of us in color all say that has brought us to some flooding there and a few much flows as well now as we head through the next few days there are likely to be more showers here there's also going to be more wet weather across the eastern coast as well and this is a region that's been incredibly wet this month but some of us a see all what is july on record we haven't even finished the month yet looks like things will eventually begin to dry out as we head through into friday though so it does look like an improving picture here the showers they for the southwest will continue to follow the towards the south of the many of us here we will see some showers get going during the day as you'd expect so cuba has manolo of course jamaica or at risk of seeing one or two showers but we should see some sunshine as well it's to the south where there's more persistent cloud of more persistent right through parts of panama on up through costa rica so generally hit looking pretty

wet and that's really the way it's going to stay as we head through friday needed into saturday meanwhile for the south and for many of us has been pretty cool recently the temperatures have been below average it still looks quite cool for us on thursday one is our reason here is a good deal of cloud around that stretches through europe why as well where there's also some rain. orgon.

as armenians velvet revolution has forced the ruling party to step down you have been to russia twice you've just got back from brussels how are you going to balance that relationship between russia and the west i mean his new prime minister talks challenges era. you're watching all jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour saudi arabia says it will temporarily halt oil shipments with the strait following an attack on two vessels carrying crude oil who think say their missiles attacked

a warship belonging to the saudi and iraqi coalition. there are celebrations in pakistan as early election results put cricket's taught in the wrong khan's party ahead in the polls but the tightly contested general election has been overshadowed by a suicide bombing the largest on the region which is killed dozens. pro-government media in syria reporting at least two hundred fifteen people have died and i saw suicide bomb attacks happened in the southern city of also wedo close to the border with jordan syrian troops are trying to clear an i still held area close to the israeli occupied golan heights. the united nations agency for palestinian refugees has announced it's going to axe more than two hundred fifty jobs in the occupied west bank and the gaza strip it says is because the united states has slashed three hundred million dollars in funding the job cuts have led to fear. and frustration in gaza as charles stafford reports. of two weeks of negotiations with their

employer the shock of being told they had lost a 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 to i've 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. mateus shamali was chaperoned out of 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 the u.n. aid distribution medical centers and schools if the jobs are not reinstated.

climbing was the sit in and certainly we were not expecting this from a humanitarian organization like only one 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 road 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 can't show just how desperate the situation has become in

gaza 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 chance strafford al jazeera gaza. israeli forces have targeted hamas military positions in the gaza strip killing at least three palestinians as well as army says its troops came under fire near the border with gaza and in response it shelled several hamas posts it comes just days after hamas leaders agreed to a cease fire with israel to prevent hostilities from escalating. yemen is on the verge of a second cholera epidemic according to the charity save the children more than a million people were infected last year and in just the first week of this month some three thousand new suspected cases have been reported. in his war. in yemen's port city of what data eight month old lena is suffering from severe

malnutrition two of her siblings have already died from diarrhea and fever. lena is exhausted and suffering she's in a weak state we buy food as much as we can afford but everything sketches we have had enough be all frayed and weary tens of thousands of yemeni children like lena risk of contracting cholera in these hot summer conditions the disease could spread rapidly last year her data had one hundred sixty four thousand cases out of more than a million nationwide in the first week of july alone thousands of new suspected cases were reported charities like save the children say they are doing all they can to help kids like lena we are able to help but how much longer if we can't get humanitarian supplies in here if we cut get medicine in here save the children says what data could be ground zero for new cholera epidemic in one district new cases

increased by one hundred ten percent between mid may and mid june food emergency supplies and medicines were already scarce and the saudi emirate he led offensive against with the rebels has turned hospitals into rubble and damaged water and sewer pipes thousands who have scaped are living in makeshift camps with no sanitation and water these conditions have left children especially for miracle that many children hair and these children have seen things children should never see i just saw a game where they learned about explosives i saw at play where children are going through the trauma of being bombed with the possibility of hard data being besieged save the children is warning children here won't have a chance to survive. al-jazeera the trumpet ministration has lifted restrictions on one hundred ninety five million dollars in military aid to

egypt the money was withheld in august last year because of concerns over human rights abuses by the egyptian military and us state department officials says the egyptian government will not have access to the funds because of steps taken to address such concerns however rights groups accuse egyptian security forces of continuing to use torture and detention to silence political dissent south sudan's rival leaders have come to a new power sharing agreement three years after their previous deal collapsed. and react much as i said to sign off on the final are called on august the fifth sudan's official news agency is reporting killed will lead the transitional government on macho will return as vice president the two men are attempting to bring a political end to four year civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions of others well how model has more from the khartoum the sudanese capital with the talks have been taking place. after nineteen days of deliberations parties insults and downs conflict gathered here in sign

a preliminary agreement on power sharing it's unlikely to stop the war in south sudan soon though because it is complete and they say that while the agreed on most of the issues they discussed they could not agree on how to share power of the local level what they have so far go to the point is a transitional period of three years in which president salva kiir remains president the appointment of five vice presidents four of them from the opposition to depose for the president and also a referendum on how many states the country should how and where the boundaries should be the final agreement they say is going to be signed on the fifth of august with leaders from the regional neighbors such as kenya uganda sudan if you appear witnessing the signing of the final agreement zimbabwe's main opposition leaders accusing the electoral authorities of bias just days before the first vote since

robert mugabe was ousted now since i mean as a says monday's presidential election will be fraudulent but his party will not boycott the vote is up against president emerson and his zanu p.f. party. what we have resolved to do is to make sure that we defeat their free and clear someone god must be defeated defeated in terms of the overwhelming sentiment in the country that we are not going to allow them to get our way with mandela literally and metaphorically why does it mean what it does mean is that on monday that it is of july it is independence day for the second republic we are going to be voting overwhelmingly malcolm webb has more from her already. nelson chamisa the leader of the main opposition alone has announced that he will proceed in ensuring monday's presidential election in spite of the opposition

having grave complaints about the process they forwarded to the electoral commission they say among several things there are serious the regularities with the ballot papers for the polling stations and with the votes of the registered they said the electoral commission has ignored these complaints with the electoral commission and the rulings on a p.f. party say that process is being followed and everything is legal but jimmy says in spite of the problems a boycott is not an option. the u.s. government has until thursday to meet a court imposed deadline to reunite thousands of children with their parents after they were forcibly separated in the us mexico border a federal court has ruled that all two thousand three hundred detained minors must be back with their families by july twenty sixth according to a filing by the government and the american civil liberties union at least eight hundred seventy nine children have so far been reunited with their parents but the administration says four hundred sixty three parents have already left the country

and it's not known if they were removed by force and it's also not known how long families will be given to decide whether to seek asylum the government's proposed a four day waiting period but that's three days shorter than what the union the says is fair well heidi jocasta is joining us now from macallan in texas they looks as though the government is going to be struggling to try to get to this deadline what measures are they taking to try and hit it. that's right rob it's almost assured that come tomorrow the government will in fact not meet this court imposed deadline we know they've been making efforts to fly children in and bus them in from around the country to reunite with their parents in detention centers here in texas how ever there is that big according to government attorneys close to a thousand children have been deemed in eligible to be reunited that ominous description meaning the government at this point has no plan of how to get these

kids back to their parents because as you said many of them may have parents who were deported or parents who were released into the country that the government has now lost track of immigration attorneys are looking at this and the judge in question has looked at this and says that this is a very concerning reality and in fact it appears that these children who have been forced to be abandoned with their parents out of the country may be the unfortunate casualties of the trouble ministration rushing to implement their hardline border policies. heidi when it comes to the families which have been reunited what happens to them next. right so they fall into two categories some are being freed with court orders to appear at a later date they count themselves the lucky ones they're together with their kids and they are able to travel now throughout the country and go join other family or friends the rest the remain in family detention they are limited there to fewer

than twenty days because of a court settlement which is why the a.c.l.u. the civil liberties union is trying to ask a judge to delay their deportation by at least seven days so that their families may decide what to do next heidi thanks very much indeed. a team of italian scientists says they've discovered a huge underground lake on mars lies beneath the southern ice cap it's the first time a large stable body of liquid water has been discovered on the red planet and in baba reports 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 researches 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's southern ice cap 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 a good they can leak to apply to their the much simpler caps of course these are these caps. have some impute this magnificent the high seas 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 researchers can't say whether what they found resembles an underground pool or is simply a layer of.