reality counting the cost on al-jazeera. got the most votes but in one column will likely need to make a deal to put together a new pakistan government. but he you monitor say war was not fair and violence did affect the vote opposition parties are already claiming the vote was rigged. hello welcome to al-jazeera live from doha i'm martin dennis also coming up. stun grenades and clashes around the al aksa mosque compound as israeli security forces push back palestinian worship. and china's vaccine scandal how the social media is spurring the government into action.

or less start with pakistan and imran khan in the party he created appeared to be set to control the destiny of the country they have a commanding lead with only a handful of seats still to be confirmed but hill likely need allies to form a coalition government in the past hour or so the european union monitors have raised some questions about the campaign saying it wasn't a level playing field the official final results are yet to come in but this is where we stand at the moment pakistan terek the p.t.i. that's leading with one hundred sixteen seats his closest rival the ruling len of the jailed former leader he's managed to get sixty four seats now the party of the assassinated former prime minister benazir bhutto there you see it that's managed to get forty three seats in the small. all the parties combined there are forty

three now in order to form a government in iran can these coalition partners to get that majority of one hundred thirty seven seats will be going live to lahore in a bit but first let's listen to the assessment of the election and. 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 affected by the political environment the number of violent attacks targeting political parties party leaders candidates and election officials severely affected the campaign environment. many of our interlocutors acknowledge the systematic efforts to undermine the former ruling party through cases of corruption contempt of court and terrorist charges against its leaders and

candidates are let's go live to our correspondent some avenge of ages in the political heartland of pakistan punjab province and the whole of the capital of it i guess the question is the sama whether these especially that are being cast on the whole conduct of the election are enough to invalidate the final result. well that remains very very unlikely because the election commission the facts on has done the tally for more than ninety percent of the results and in the next few hours be expect that the election commission announced the final results in one body in the lead and declining small apart from perhaps independent calmed the two will go with whichever the better to have a party come to the top of the high number and getting two hundred and thirty seven the majority quiet before the national assembly and that again comes to the backdrop of all of these allegations that are coming in from the opposition parties who have been imaging foul play and been saying that their mandate did been stolen

and the vote count was big there is a meeting that is supposed to happen in the first incompetent with parties from all over pakistan are converging. all said that there was that the election wasn't free and fair and want the election commission take note but it is like he said it is very unlikely to get the election commission and know the results unless there is some become a proof and then in that case there is going to be a constituency by constituency investigations that will be opened and there will that will take a much longer time but you can run on stage you can solve this confidence that is in the lead and it is almost ready to take over as the next government of pakistan and with him on as its prime minister some of binge of aid live from lahore thank you. now israeli security forces have closed the gates of the al aksa mosque in occupied east jerusalem after fighting palestinian worshippers.

some grenades were used to disperse crowds that had gathered for friday prayers there's increased tension between israelis and palestinians following the israeli military's violent response to weeks of protests in gaza andrew symonds is our correspondent not far from the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem andrew what is the situation now. well it's very much an ongoing situation i'm now actually right outside lion's gate which is being closed off by the police let me just show you here now demonstrators who form for afternoon prayer if the camera could just move around and we can see this is still very much a standoff with the police here refusing to let people through behind them one of four gates that have been locked tight and no one's coming out and no one can go in so we have a situation where according to the white house which is the organization the religious organization which represents the custodian the jordanian custodians of

this compound according to them the security forces invaded the compound now according to the security forces they say there were fireworks and rocks thrown at the police and that's why the compound was stormed and some grenades were used and there were two injuries according to the work of a warm received injuries because of the sound of natives that called another one was they say assaulted and so we have now a standoff because these gates were closed off there was a call for everyone to evacuate because that's what the secure security forces wanted to happen after the incident. some went into the the to to pray they're still there in the dome of the rock or the key mosque men in them could be mosque it's understood could be arrested there are forces now outside the

mosque apparently according to the want of they may be entering to make arrests but that isn't a speculation at this stage andrew symonds live in occupied east jerusalem let's go to gaza now where people are gathering again close to the border fence continuing those weekly demonstrations our correspondent is charles stratford and charles how is the situation developing there. well the situation is very tense here we understand we're hearing reports all the at least twelve palestinians injured so far the self known since these protests began in various different locations close to the border along the gaza strip we also heard how my saying that there was an israeli drone strike against what israel was describing as a group of people trying to launch those incendiary believes that in an area of gaza called the too far neighborhood we have heard of no casualties in this strike

so far but yes such a big task elation in violence between hamas and the various factions here and israel in the last week the situation here is very tense how massive say it that these people have every right to come out and protest in what they describe as a simple sorry as a as a pan a passive all peaceful manner hamas have also said that they have every right to defend their people from the israeli military and of course we saw last week we saw . an israeli soldier killed another one injured seven palestinians six of whom were how most fights is killed so the situation is very tense here and there is certainly phase of of another escalation as these protests go forward in the hours to come happened live in gaza. now breaking news from yemen the saudi u.a.e. coalition aircraft have now launched strikes on the put city of her data we understand

that this is within the past few hours of the city is held by who see rebels who claimed responsibility for a drone attack on abu dhabi international airport on thursday who data host a critically important seaport through which most of the country's food and supplies and so that's breaking news coming from yemen we can now talk to hussein al. who is a political commentator is joining us on the line from the yemeni capital in sana'a can you tell us what chill hearing about the situation in who data. as you mentioned. how d.l. a coalition who is conducting a massive. area in city after targeted one of the they. come by which. they have targets from the old out scripture of. an ability that they describe

attack and it really targeting civilian areas as civilian infrastructure is. a force in that area and the civilians at least and the city and this has been actually for a bit if you will of the electorate there specially after officially at the. airport in abu dhabi and that is for all narron refinery in riyadh. ok. let me ask you a bit about that alleged attack on abu dhabi international airport there has been any proof showing that this actually occurred and the u.a.e. has denied that there was any attack on its airport in abu dhabi. of course until you even legitimize that weekly. actually i'm out with this i thought actually it

did take place it was in fact united arab emirates has developed. an interest. in which i believe. that it proves that if you have many people have jumped at the flight it is probably more supplies at the side of the attack will be late and we know that the airports in. play as well they are one of the most accurate. airports in the world. people disciples of life and many blocks have shields in flight radar and a lot of the flight time that moment delayed and just like you want to prove that it was something that happened as an example if i recall if you did just imagine there are many small minor things it is like as. a surprise ride ok i did you i now see it as her saying elder casey we have to leave it there thank you very much

indeed for joining us and apologies for the quality of that line it wasn't terribly k. it was us now iraq's top shia cleric has demanded that a government be formed as soon as possible to deal with corruption and poor basic services grand ayatollah ali al sistani has called mir is that of protesters across the country demonstrations started in the oil rich city of basra in the south thousands of protesters there say the government is neglecting the region whilst exploiting its resources for no other. if the government fails to keep its pledges or if the parliament or judicial system blocks the implementation of those pledges then the people would have no option but to escalate their means of peaceful protest to impose their will on the officials supported by all the forces of good will in the country and then the scene will look very different compared to today however we hope that there will be no need for that and that the officials will put reason wisdom and the interest of the country first before it is too late

. more now from our correspondent in the iraqi capital baghdad iran kong. those words by the highest sheer religious authority in iraq will be seen as concerning to some quarters of the iraqi government because it will be seen as support for the protesters saying that the government needs to be expedited need to be formed very quickly throwing that support behind the protest movement now white is the highest shia religious authority throwing its support behind the process moving were a lot of the protesters coming from the south which is a shia area and they'll be concerned that these protests will develop and they may well turn to criticize the religious authorities for not getting behind them so by throwing their support behind the protest movement it's a way of saying to the people that we are behind you now there have been other political developments as well the government have been listening to the protesters demands they've struck a deal with kuwait to bring in kerosene and electricity generators into the southern port city of basra that they say will allow electricity to be running for

up to about seventeen hours a day but what's going on with the protest movement and they are on a regular friday basis but we won't know for a few hours yet whether they're in any kind of size that we've seen in the past has been a lot of noise on social media about getting people out on the streets but whether that translates or not remains to be seen now expedition of the government forming that government is going to be a problem the election results were contested there's a manual recount going on and we don't know whether results will come out indeed we are hearing that they might come out this week but there's no official date that's been announced so the government can't be formed until those election results are released. still to come here at al-jazeera flood three madame the collapse in laos a slowly receding but many complain they should have been moved to safety sooner.

are there are still want to two big showers along the yangtze for example nearly two hundred millimeters this is west of shanghai and a big mass of one of cloud that's disappeared now and falls in the pass the still plenty though for the rest in sichuan the rough on some heavy rain there but the concentration has been for a day at sea in the southwest of china and beyond and it still is heavy rain that contains the contents of at least one tropical depression some tin which is you know is a stall for a while as in hollister rainfall right far as west is as bangladesh but it's still allowing plenty of more should show big shot in southwestern china and in sichuan maybe want to other places forty one you'll notice on the coast where is dry sucked right in the monsoon season now the heaviest rain has been recently in bangladesh the middle of northern india and just touching pakistan and the pole not swayed expected to be as in the forecast as well temperatures around about the if you're

unlucky the middle thirty's and he would rather cool removed by about twenty nine degrees west of all this of course the picture is a much dry one still very hot we sold fifty again yesterday in the southwest of iran bits of iraq forty one the noticeably in doha. where were you when this idea. that when they're on line it's undoubtedly chief cause of poverty inequality in our society today or if you join a sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to be the speakers for a change join the global conversation on our.

deal with al-jazeera and take a look at our top stories in. a neighboring victory in general elections there's only a handful of seats that still need to be confirmed but he's going to have to form a coalition government so he'll need allies meanwhile the european union observers there say all of the candidates did not get an even playing field. israeli forces of closed the gates of the al aqsa mosque in occupied east jerusalem after fighting with palestinian worshippers stun grenades were used to disperse crowds gathered for friday prayers. coalition aircraft of launch strikes on her

data in yemen within the past few hours held by rebels who claimed responsibility for a drone attack on abu dhabi international airport on thursday the data hosts a strategic importance seaport through which most of the country's food and supplies enters. after years of silence and uncertainty thousands of syrian families. and now being given official certificates for their missing relatives but the government has a release their bodies nor any evidence of the cause of death and many of them have been detained or forcibly disappeared by bashar al assad's forces. from beirut in neighboring lebanon. for years nothing about her husband opposition activist best so hard to be until recently when the syrian government declared that he died in two thousand and fifteen he was among the more than eighty thousand people believed by rights groups to have been detained or forcibly disappeared since the uprising

began in two thousand and eleven in recent weeks and after years of silence more and more families are being told their relatives are dead. and that. this is a heart attack. yeah and this is. very hard because they and some way they. used. to agree that he was not killed. as he says so far there are four thousand names of detainees or those who disappeared now officially registered as deceased the dates go back years among them. a well known nonviolent opposition activist from. his family was recently informed that the here and his brother mohamad had died in two thousand

and thirteen while in detention relatives find out from civil registry offices or the military police families are being told what they long suspected they now want to know where the bodies are buried and the true cause of death. and yet. the right to know what happened to their international human rights groups have accused the syrian government of large scale torture and extrajudicial killing and its prisons the exact number of detainee deaths while in detention is not known some rights groups say thirty thousand died of torture and dire conditions since the conflict began seven years ago other rights groups say the number is as high as sixty thousand and seventy or prison alone amnesty international estimated that thirteen thousand were killed in mass hanging's between two thousand and eleven and two thousand and fifteen. families of

the detained who live in rebel areas are able to raise their voices but those in government territory have to remain silent the fear now is the government may be trying to cover up likely crimes against humanity and prevent families from seeking justice. they are the winners now. because of. that and they want to close. the families say the case of the detainees and the disappeared needs to be dealt with in any post conflict settlement it seems the syrian government wants to avoid that by bury the file and along with it the troops. route. north korea has handed over the remains of fifty five american soldiers who were killed during the korean war a u.s. military plane was allowed to land in north korea on friday morning to bring them to a base in south korea the gesture follows kaman jong un's promise to donald trump.

the number of dead from monday's dam collapse in laos has risen to twenty seven with more than one hundred missing as water levels recede villages are questioning why they weren't moved to safety sooner and there's conflicting reports on when cracks in the new bill first spotted first louis has more from still trying province in neighboring cambodia. and the water level in the se kong river which runs through the northern provinces of cambodia right next to the border with laos is slowly decreasing now near the border the water levels have dropped by about sixty centimeters here in still trying provinces it's still quite high at about twelve point four metres but it appears to have peaked its state roughly the same level for twenty four hours and further south in crossing province the water level is about twenty metres which is still two metres below the danger level there is a flood alerts in place in proxy province but no one has been evacuated officials have advised farmers who have crops in low lying areas to harvest their crops early

in case there are floods now and still in trying province the number of people evacuated remains the same roughly about five thousand people and over in neighboring laos rescuers are still searching for the missing that number still stands at one hundred and thirty one according to government officials and we are unfortunately no closer to understanding or finding out power and why the dam collapsed on the south korean company mainly in charge of construction of the dam has said that subsidence of the dam was first noticed around the days of questions now floating around about whether or not that warning should have been given much earlier whether or not people living in the area around the dam should have been evacuated much earlier. the greek government says some of the wildfires which have killed at least eighty people was started deliberately beach resorts near the capital athens all in ruins and some searching for a missing row. that is are already blaming the government for

a slow response and as such any mayor also i am informing you that we have serious indications and significant findings of criminal activity concerning arson we are troubled by many factors and there have been physical findings that are now the subject of an investigation. now the chronic shortage of cash in zimbabwe one of the major concerns servatius so is the rule into qana me monday's general election will be the first ever without robert mugabe the legacy of the deposed president's rule though has overshadowed campaigning as malcolm web now reports from harare. dropped out of school when his parents died he's sixteen refute 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 can in

a living and working for someone i get little money and i spend most of my going my . informal traders only appeared here on the streets of the capital harare has the economy clapped into the rule of former president robert mugabe the cultural 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. now there's a chronic shortage of cash in circulation these people are queuing to withdraw money they're allowed twenty dollars each. flour made from imported wheat is hard to get for this bakery because of the lack of foreign currency to buy it. the aging avenues combi replaced so they're continuously repaired. yeah we just bring that no good for takes in there maybe things will improve in begetting this week we're

getting a little things things are definitely going to remain so the new we it's also new so my me yes i've got all meteorites. and there's the presidential election campaigns draw to a close head of monday's poll voters want to hear more solutions to politic. ins have to offer. position leader no actually says the missing is a real economy. by the same kinds of promises that their supporters want to exactly the kind of message. was but the foreign investment and international finance to resume the election. clearance being. planted the opposition of unready complained of serious irregularities and the campaign has been largely peaceful compared to the past we should you continue with the same spirit get a credible election we're using those debate everybody but once you're into a city in the national placid in a city that do 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 will be 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 baby vaccines scandal has stirred rather lively debate on social media in spite of strict censorship the country's second largest maker of rabies vaccine was found to have violated regulations the government swung quickly into action even before the story was reported on say controlled media so is social media now influencing the government's decision making his or china correspondent adrian brown 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 chunk chunk of 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. to their friend comment in the public eye on social media 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 of the china's premier league of shang 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 on the internet is powerful . we're worried what we say will be censored and some of the posts have already been deleted and we don't know why. are the posts deleted by chinese

census are captured by food and this team 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. deal with al-jazeera and these are our top stories iran can and his party unerring victory in pakistan's general election with only a handful of seats still to be confirmed but he'll need allies to form a coalition government is opponents they say the vote was rigged to favor him. israeli security forces have closed the gates of the al aksa mosque in occupied east jerusalem after fighting with palestinian worshippers. some grenades were used to disperse crowds are gathered for friday prayers there's increased tension between israelis and palestinians following the israeli

military's violent response to weeks of protests in gaza. saudi u.a.e. coalition aircraft of launch strikes on the city of her date or in yemen within the past few hours the city is held by hooty rebels who claimed responsibility for a drone attack on abu dhabi international airport on third say the day the hosts a strategic important seaport through which most of the country's food and supplies enters. iraq's top shia cleric has demanded that a government be formed as soon as possible to deal with corruption and poor basic services grand ayatollah ali al sistani is called mirrors that of protest as across iraq demonstrations started in the oil rich city in the south the last rather to go back to our lives if the government fails to keep its pledges or if the parliament or judicial system blocks the implementation of those pledges then the people would have no option but to escalate their means of peaceful protest to impose their will

on the officials supported by all the forces of good will in the country and then the scene will look very different compared to today however we hope that there will be no need for that and that the officials will put reason wisdom and the interest of the country first before it is too late the number of dead from monday's down collapse in laos has now risen to twenty seven with more than one hundred people still missing as water levels recede villages asking why they weren't moved to safety sooner and this there are conflicting reports on one cracks in the newly built before spotted roger today there is the latest headlines hear it out is there a coming up next it's the stream. when people think of cuba they think of revolution but ivana is undergoing a revolution to believe how the land. is and. we're here to discover if those changes are reflected on the plate but this is

a few of you and your. russian owner i'm trying to make sure to leave me a.j. it's on al-jazeera. are enjoying the string out of there and on today we discussed a new proposal to house migrants and refugees. attempting to cross the mediterranean sea into your family could be and then later we'll welcome back past guests one eritrean to explore what renewed relations between the countries means for their people but first have a look at this story from out as it was a summer he reports from the hallway of some of the latest news about pakistan's general election millions came out of all of those convicted of corruption.