stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's work. on al-jazeera. pakistan seems to be heading for a coalition government as a run car leads the polls but fall short of a simple majority. alongside the rommany watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in there are also coming up israel says four hundred more satellite homes will be built in the occupied west bank after an illegal settler was killed in a knife attack sixty five years on the final journey home north korea gives up the remains of u.s.

soldiers killed during the korean war. and activists push to ban whale hunting in iceland we'll have more on the practice they say has to stop. welcome to the program twenty six years after he lifted cricket's world cup trophy as pakistan's captain imran khan is inching closer to leading his country the parties that are. has emerged as the single largest winner from wednesday's general election but he will need coalition partners to form a government carnes main opponents allege he benefited from massive vote we're going to live in a moment but first let's hear from assam a binge of it in lahore. supporters of pakistan tehreek e insaf he celebrated their victory even before results were announced initial vote tallies gave him a decisive leaves around honiara i'm getting

a bore hold on khan has promised a lot of the people the huge number of votes the people gave him is because he can do what i was failed to do he should deliver his promises and i should do a lot for the masses who should deliver now otherwise his situation will be worse than that of our sharif and the dari. supporters voted for change and after twenty two years in politics it finally worked for their leader. i'm thankful to god for the twenty two year struggle today god has given me the opportunity that i have dreamt of a dream for pakistan accountability will start with me then my ministers and then we will work our way down. but the vote has been controversial pakistan muslim league which won a majority in twenty thirteen says their mandate was stolen from them there's also been criticism from. the religious school and others but the election commission

denies there was any foul play. here the complaints that we received procedural in nature and there's no complaints of misconduct in the elections so we are satisfied that the execution of the elections this free. of change and people in pakistan even those who did not vote for him want him to deliver by improving living conditions healing the economy and fighting corruption . whichever government comes it should do good for us we want water gas and electricity. other problems as well they should solve our problems. to form a coalition government but he has promised to fight tooth and nail to save their provincial influence the challenge for the cricketer turned politician is to create an inclusive government and then keep it running for five years so far all the major political parties apart from the have reservations about the results they've

called for an all parties conference in the federal capital islamabad it is going to be a numbers game to form a government and does not have those numbers alone the big question is who will he form an alliance with. senior correspondent. in the capital islamabad. election commission and the results they can get pakistan is a huge country it takes time. to get those results in so just give us an idea of where we are with the number. of. two hundred. given.

two hundred and. importantly. one hundred fifteen. he will be able to get another. every four. give you. a. problem. and then he doesn't have to. and all the nine. and then you're.

now in. the independent. to get enough support from. then you. get. your vote democrat big democratic then it is the breakaway faction they were initially with their people. particularly. and. we really need. to be. forming an alliance. we would not be working with regard to your allegations against them. right now.

indeed for the moment we'll leave it. at that the european union observer mission will be speaking live and i think. we will be getting to it later in the program but for the we'll leave it that come all thank you. syrian government forces have retaken the southern city of the israeli occupied golan heights government troops have been seen deployed along the border fence for the first time in four years follows weeks of intense fighting in the province as the army tried to clear it of eisel and other opposition fighters the remaining eisel holdouts of agreed to leave for rebel held areas of northern syria after a deal brokered by russia. the israeli settlers and two others injured after being stabbed in the occupied west bank the attack happened in south west of a palestinian suspect was killed after entering the settlement and carrying out the attack in response the israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman says four hundred

more subtle homes will be built in the area and to simmons has more from west jerusalem. the minister response has been to send in troops to the village of khobar which is where the seventeen year old palestinian attack a came from taking away work permits from his family and also issuing an order to demolish the family home however the defense minister avigdor lieberman made no reference to moves by the military in a tweet that he sent he announced the four hundred more homes would be built in the internationally legal settlement of the town where the attack took place this is in the occupied west bank and the attack took place in near a fence and this palestinian attackers stabbed three people one of them died the third person was lightly wounded not heavily wounded and he shot the attacker dead

now the situation throughout the occupied west bank is tense in response to not just this incident but the whole position in gaza which obviously is causing a lot of amongst palestinians so definitely right now the mood is one of caution and also you would never call it calm it's definitely tense. that internal israeli military report is expected to find no grounds for further investigation into the recent killings of one hundred fifty three palestinian protesters by army snipers along the border fence in gaza israeli media is reporting that the army will not refer any soldiers to the military police over their conduct the report says the military is blaming operational mishaps for the death of anyone who was not an intended target. still ahead here on al-jazeera floods from a collapsed dam in laos also receding that many complain they shouldn't be moved to

. safety soon. the vote for change in bobby and in the hopes of next week's election to steer their economy away from isolation. how the heat has eased surat japan forecasts wise were still around about the thirty mark for good part of honshu but the incoming climate is something to watch because it is not benign wrapped up in the masses and incoming typhoon and this is the forecast incoming rain for tokyo down to as a sockets are coming in from the eastern pacific side could be potentially quite heavy rain might have come as a category two equivalent food here soon lose strength with a matter of rain it's light of fall colors the same area that flooded and two to

half weeks ago the temps just asked to rise as the storm itself comes in middle thirty's now after the temp is going to be high again i'm afraid if you in the dream but it's already heat wave territory and it stays that way for a couple of days at least threat china spotty showers some of them heavy but the majority right is still in the southwest erupt up in here and it goes all the way through me and man old tolland back to toss back a dash is the rains a song that really has been. exaggerating the rain which exists down in the southwest of china but not many other places and then the cutoff is somewhere like sudden tollner cambodia a few showers around sumatra singapore maybe borneo but mostly malaysia and indonesia are still dry. the coca plant has long been a pillar of bolivia's traditions but its use in illegal drugs today is threatening the nation's culture most adora jews are involved because they received it back so

while some have made fortunes many others have suffered at the hands of this multi-billion dollar industry malady my mother was trying over to cable and brought to me come with the power it was a huge describe who are the winners and losers of this illicit trade snow of the andes on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera arms the whole rabbit a reminder of our top stories pakistani cricketer turned politician iran card is inching closer to victory from wednesday's general election but he will need allies to form a government his opponents say the vote was rigged to favor him and are threatening

agitation if results are expected shortly an internal israeli military report is expected to find no grounds for further investigation into the recent killings of palestinian protesters by obviously purrs and israeli newspaper says the military is blaming operational mishaps for the death of anyone who was not an intended target. but the remains of fifty five american soldiers who were killed during the korean war are being flown home on the sixty fifth anniversary of the armistice which ended the conflict the repatriation of the war dead is being seen as the first substantial goodwill gesture following the singapore summit between donald trump and kim jong il and she has argued for explains. the fifty five american families the weight of decades of not knowing what happened to this soldier sons missing and. has ended their remains are finally on their way home. a u.s. military jet was allowed to land in north korea to collect them on the sixty fifth

anniversary of the armistice which ended the korean war five thousand three hundred u.s. service men continue to be regarded by the pentagon as missing in north korea the issue was discussed during the summit between donald trump and kim jong un in june both sides have to show the world that they are genuine in fulfilling the agreement and progress has been made the u.s. president tweeted his thanks to north korea's leader for the first substantial development since this summit the white house says the goodwill gesture is encouraging and could signal what it called momentum for positive change critics warn the north koreans might stall on returning the remains of more war did until the u.s. pays money on the main issue of denuclearization progress is slow they have to do something that is dorval first. if you look back through the history of the united

states you know normalizing relations with our former adversaries it usually began with. a return discovery in return of the war remains of the american soldiers it's the first time in thirteen years that north korea has repaired treated the bodies of american soldiers hand-over stopped because of the u.s. dispute over the north's nuclear bomb program. the u.s. says the remains of another two hundred soldiers are ready to be returned to their families hope to be able to honor them on american soil soon. got food or al-jazeera. as the death toll from the collapse in laos continues to rise questions are being raised over whether evacuations could have happened sooner the total killed in losses written to twenty seven with more than a hundred missing. triggered by the. neighboring come bodi officials now say water levels along the border are receding. in neighboring.

over the area near the border. the water level there has dropped by about sixty centimeters over here. water level is still. at about twelve point four forty think the water level may have peaked because it's remained the same for the last twenty four hours now this water flows downstream. into. the water level is about twenty meters still about two meters below the danger level there is however a flood warning in place. but no one has been evacuated authorities advised farmers who have crops in low lying areas to start harvesting. in case there are floods but it looks like that may not happen because the water levels are slowly starting to recede now as far as we know there are still about five thousand people. who have been moved to higher ground and they are being looked after by the authorities and

volunteers who are distributing food water and mosquito nets to them. the greek government. which has killed at least eighty people was started deliberately. or in ruins some searching for missing relatives are blaming the government's slow response. i mean we have serious implications and significant findings of criminal activity concerning we are troubled by many factors. that are now the subject of an investigation. the u.s. and e.u. appear to have pulled back from an all out trade war a preliminary agreement between donald trump and. all european leaders from board with the deal yet gave from washington d.c. . fresh off a trade deal with the european commission u.s. president donald trump took to

a steel plant warehouse in the state of illinois speaking to an invitation only crowd the president said he was celebrating a great victory. nationalistic. and we will not let anybody bully our wonderful american farmers. our fortunes as a nation rise and fall together and that is why we are going to stick together and win for our farmers and off factory workers are still workers here we are all across this nation. but if trump ever wanted to see the divisions his trade policies are causing he didn't have to look too far. billions of dollars in tariffs on goods from china have helped the local steel industry in illinois that's why trump chose to speak here. but his trade policies have hurt the local soybean farmers who ship more of their product to china than any other state china implemented retaliatory tariffs on us soil. that's why earlier in the day trump

visited farmers in the state of iowa he boasted that a supposed trade breakthrough brokered wednesday in washington with european commission cheap john klobuchar would have avoided trade war with europe and also help american farmers have a proclaimed deal is light on details and promised just more talks in the future to be sure and there are already signs that not everyone in europe is on board by example or on them that would be good for example in terms of access to the american public markets which are today primarily clewiston we need clear gestures from the united states we need signals of the escalations on the steel and minium where illegal taxes have been applied by the united states and in my opinion that intervention in the subject matters before taking any further steps i think earlier this year trump famously said that trade wars were good and easy to win but not

everybody agrees and now the president is finding out that perhaps they're more difficult than he originally imagined gabriels andro how does it washington. well the chronic shortage of trash in zimbabwe is a major concern for voters so why is the ruined economy when those general election will be the first with robert mugabe in nearly forty years the legacy of the deposed president's rule has overshadowed campaigning as reports from the capital harare. dropped out of school when his parents died he's sixteen or a few jobs in zimbabwe so he ends about eight dollars a day selling tomatoes and of those that are the reason why i came here is to look for money so i get in a living and working for someone i get little money and i send most of my going my

. informal traders only appeared here on the streets of the capital harare is the economy clapped into the rule of former president robert mugabe agricultural exports plummeted after his government seized white owned farms nearly twenty years ago mines and factories closed as investors pulled out foreign banks stopped lending the government blamed the economic sanctions it's now there's a chronic shortage of cash in circulation these people are queuing to withdraw money they're allowed twenty dollars each. flower made from imported wheat is hard to get for this bakery because of the lack of foreign currency to buy it. the aging avon's combi replaced so they're continuously repaired. yeah we just bring that you know good for dates in there maybe things will improve in begetting those will be getting a little things from south africa they're going to need feed me so the new wheat also new so my me yes i buy that all meteorites. and there's the presidential

election campaigns draw to a close head of monday's poll voters want to hear solutions the politicians have to offer. opposition leader no it's actually released as things a real economy. exactly b.f. parties by the same kinds of promises that they supported that was exactly the kind of lesage they want far but the foreign investment and international finance the resume of our lives about the election up here and being not resolved rather than in opposition of unready complained of serious irregularities and the campaign's been largely peaceful compared to the past we should you continue with the same spirit good are going to be election for use in those debate everybody's interested in the mission of pleasure to endorse it that to then it provides a bit of a comfort for capital to come to zimbabwe. even if capital starts to flow back

into the banks and big business in years before street traders like mission x. feel the difference. but people here the election will provide a chance for things to turn around. malcolm webb al-jazeera harare zimbabwe. china's latest vaccine scandal has served a lively debate on social media in spite of strict censorship the country's second largest maker of rabies vaccine that was found to have violated regulations on producing a quarter of a million doses for children the government's own for clean two actually before the story was reported on state controlled media so is social media now influencing the government's decision making or china correspondent adrian brown has more china's social media users were unusually energized this week it's one of the few ways people here can let off steam. the hash tag chung chung the vaccine case was viewed more than four hundred and seventy million times chunk chunk is the name of the

company that sold fake vaccines that were administered to more than two hundred and fifty thousand children. food is involved in a project that tracks censorship on china's social media he's based across the border in semi autonomous hong kong where laws governing freedom of speech are more relaxed in the vaccine scandal fu says the government is monitoring rather than listening in one way then. mourning the public at the same kind of defend. the propaganda machine you tried to we add. trent comment in in the public eye. the vaccine scandal was being discussed on social media days before state controlled media were allowed to report on it that only began to happen after

china's premier league of chung issued a statement just before midnight last sunday just five days earlier the premier had spoken out after another health issue had stirred debate on social media. it was prompted by a new film based on the true story about a cancer survivor who illegally imports drugs from india to help other sufferers who can't afford them. it's not clear if the premier saw the film but he called on the government to do more to help cancer patients. the two cases have struck a chord with the public. i believe what we say online play a big role in what the government does what people say oh internet is powerful. we're worried what we say will be censored him and some of the posts that have already been deleted and we don't know why it. access this article now a post deleted by chinese census are captured by food. they try to work out the

various ways users try to disguise their descent it's an endless cyberspace game of cat and mouse adrian brown al jazeera beijing has an income from from come from asia specializes in technology and media trends in china he says the chinese government has no choice but to adapt to the social media age. it is really a game of virtual catamounts where the individuals in china will come up with new names who are the scandals or the people that are involved in the scandals to stay one step ahead of the government here so i think it's always a challenge for the government to actually succeed in totally stamping out and his social media push because users just find a way around social media around the world has done a lot to help societies with a lot of their challenges and when you have one point three billion people there watching out for what's happening to the country especially something so important is how or we see in scandals and passed around baby products anything that really

touches the chinese life you're in china they're going to talk about and it's a great source of information you know i think the government again is maturing in the way that it interacts with social media certainly it means domestic social media and so i think we'll see that continue to mature over time. photos of a well being caught up in iceland are infuriating animal activists there demanding a ban on commercial hunting the d.n.a. testing has revealed the meat from the latest killing can't be exported to restaurants in japan they clog in reykjavik explains. iceland has much to boast of when it comes to natural resources its dramatic scenery and geothermal springs draw tourists in their millions and there's the marine environment to tens of thousands of people go whale watching every year there's even a whale museum where you can immerse yourself in an ocean of life size whale replicas the one thing iceland tries not to publicize too much is the fact that

whales are still killed commercially here which in rage is a big sector of society doing these they are going to steps backward into the viking times and the whaling nowadays especially well not just in iceland but the whaling in iceland show that people it's not that they really think to show the world that they are so it's something of a p.r. disaster when photographs like this appear what is suggested to be a highly endangered and protected blue whale killed and brought back to shore for processing d.n.a. sampling has since shown the whale was in fact a rare hybrid between a fin well which icelandic whale is do have a quota and the ban on blue whale kristen lawson he runs the company that killed the whale says his whale is acted in good faith their way is working for us they've been doing it for decades and to be. here and when be approached.

in which. they went after news one i think for one hour there is no question in my mind. nothing else when it was taken but turned out to be a hybrid these are images of a fin well being legally processed at the whaling station most of the products are exported to japan the killing of the hybrid well which is banned from export has led to more cools for the industry to be finally halted in iceland this hunting is very inaccurate they cannot know the difference between a hybrid bluefin wage and in which they cannot make a distinction that's what they say between the two so you know for that sake they should absolutely stop it. so this is where ships come in from the ocean with their catch and take it up the fuel to the processing plant for about one hundred days between june and september and this year they have a quota of one hundred sixty one fin whales it's an activity that has drilling

support among. ten years ago about seventy percent of the population were in favor of whaling today that figure is more like fifty fifty and as tourists seek out whales alive in the wild still there's a pressing issue what to do with several tons of hybrid whale caught up in a freezer with nowhere to go nick clarke al-jazeera reykjavik iceland. does their arms the whole rom and a reminder of all top stories pakistani cricketer turned politician inching closer to victory in wednesday's general election but he'll need allies to form a government his opponents say the vote was rigged in favor of him and education the official results are expected shortly. there were one hundred twenty observers from the european union monitoring those elections in pakistan and their pollution

the reassessment suggests that even though there were significant and significant improvements this time violence leading up to the polls affected the overall process it is our assessment that despite positive changes to the legal framework with the new elections act and a stronger and more transparent election commission the electoral process of twenty eighteen was negatively effected by the political environment the number of violent attacks targeting political parties party leaders candidates and election officials severely affected the pain environment many of our interlocutors acknowledged a systematic effort to undermine the former ruling party through cases of corruption contempt of court and terrorist charges against its leaders and candid. syrian government forces have retaken the southern city of can terror near the

israeli occupied golan heights government troops have seen deployed of been deployed along the border fence for the first time in four years that follows weeks of intense fighting in the province one israeli settler is dead and two others injured after being stabbed in the occupied west bank a palestinian suspect was killed after entering the settlement and i'm south west of ramallah and carrying out the attack in response the israeli defense minister of indoor lieberman says more settler homes will be built in the area. also the remains of fifty five american soldiers killed during the korean war on their way home on the sixty fifth anniversary of the armistice which ended the conflict the u.s. military plane was allowed to land in north korea on friday morning the gesture follows kim jong un's promise to donald trump those were the headlines here on news in half an hour next it's inside story.

cutting off the supply of middle east oil saudi arabia temporarily suspend shipments through. our attack right. off the coast of yemen. regional tensions to high oil prices this inside story. welcome to the program petrol prices could soon be on the way up because of the war in yemen and sanctions being reimposed on iran saudi arabia has ordered its oil tankers to stop states sailing through the straight off the coast of yemen off to

two all those were attacked if ships on their way to the suez canal and beyond to use this fight.