opponents of former cricketer imran khan reject the election result in pakistan vowing protests and demanding new elections. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up two palestinians including a fourteen year old boy are killed in the latest protest along the gaza israel border the search for those missing after the laos dam disaster goes on as survivors ask why help took so long to come. and blood moon rising all eyes to the sky is the longest eclipse of the century gets underway.

a group of opposition political parties have rejected the results of pakistan's general election following allegations of vote rigging and army meddling the ruling party conceded defeat paving the way for a cricketer turned politician imran khan to become the next prime minister but the opposition alliance say they will take to the streets until a new vote is held well this is how the results stand so far khan's pakistan tehreek and soft p.t.i. party is leading with one hundred sixteen seats his closest rival the ruling pm and of jailed former leader in a washer if is managed to gone to sixty three seats the policy of the assassinated former prime minister benazir bhutto has forty three. and the smaller parties combined are on forty five but to form a government con coalition partners to get the majority of one hundred thirty seven

seats the opposition group though will not accept that saying the vote was not free or fair for. all parties conference unanimously rejected twenty fifth july twenty eighth you know elections we don't accept it as a people's mandate but consider it as a stolen mandate those who are thinking that they want a majority we even don't accept their majority nor will we give them a chance to rule who demand free and fair reelections and we all agreed that all members elected from all parties will not take over in the parliament. is in islamabad and joins us live now. we know that this grouping of rivals to iran can are rejecting the results that are coming in so far how will they challenge the vote. well that's a very interesting question because what they are saying that this election is not

and ward and david in order kept it away of all and runs gordon off wards he will have the independents back him up and of course all show it's more the party they're likely to throw their support behind him international support and also now beginning to trickle in the usa saying that day looking forward to working with the new prime minister there's. a statement out tribute. picture of the united nations congratulating the people of pakistan for holding a democratic election and fall. right. the opposition is helping and puffing we have all the. dead dead. dead are some difference of opinion as far as the opposition is going to turn. their leader of the largest part of this election is going to end although the pakistan people's party the national party have already said that day will go to parliament that day will be

a strong opposition group within parliament so definitely everybody on the same page however more on a man you heard just a little while ago the head of the right wing religious party that. had been threatening protests on other nationalist party had been accusing the military however people in august on do not warrant more political instability and if the. data if you take the old did election commission can then issue an order for it gave these people. be members of parliament in the mall and the government can go for a by election which would be a huge loss to the open so some of the party in mind on which they believe now was still believed it why date because. the need of the. gaining. an order on the same page and we are. members. back

next be critical because. then obviously it could lead to huge political instability and just to be care about this come on face rejection of the election result as it stands does not mean that these policies are definitely not going to go into any coalition with imran khan can we be sure of that when. divisions about this election. are not going to join them or on call on any rate but because they're on call and had one hundred sixteen he'd said you mentioned he just needs to have one hundred thirty seven for a simple majority there are so many independents who have won the election and most of the time they're trained in august on that d.n.

dependents are always going for the dad it's something that enron going for to get on with it really call for a spin to a group of muslim league. behind emraan car on. the ground democrat to get lines which are the number of dead right and wrong so he will be able to comfortably numb bush to get in parliament thank you very much with all the latest from islamabad come on. two palestinians including a fourteen year old boy you have been killed in the late as friday protests at the gaza israel border both were shot in the head by israeli soldiers gaza health ministry officials say at least another two hundred forty five people were injured stephanie decker reports now from gaza they keep coming eighteen

weeks into these protests and even though the numbers may be decreasing their demands remain the same lift the siege let us live like everyone else might not be . suffering there is no electricity no water people are going hungry it's painful we'll keep standing we will come here to show the whole world we want our rights. my bet is. and again just as a civilian be wanted in gaza strip we ought to be bull. dozers yes this is go. look you this is goes is. yes and this is a beautiful is this is military this is reluctant to deal with all of this sect for you are going to this is under nobody from from the road from you can you get intelligence right if you. look at. israel's been using these drones to drop tear gas further back into the crowd and closer to the fence israeli snipers keep watch

and sporadically open fire. there is a well established pattern now similar scenes playing out every friday what is different now however is the escalating tensions between israel and hamas and there been intensive diplomatic efforts underway by egypt and the united nations to try to find a solution everyone we speak to says the same thing the only solution is to improve life for the people here israel's demanded that hamas put an end to the burning quite some balloons that were born out of these protests they've burned thousands of acres of land on the other side of the fence a mass says they are a legitimate form of resistance against a suffocating seach there been less however over the past few weeks now as these fridays come and go a political solution that benefits the people of gaza remains elusive stephanie decker al-jazeera gaza. on allegations of the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied

east jerusalem have been reopened they were closed for three hours following clashes with palestinian worshippers. stun grenades and tear gas were used to disperse crowds who gathered for their friday prayers or entry into the mosque which is one of sites was prevented anderson ones as outside the al aqsa mosque in occupied east jerusalem. this is one of the main approaches to the al aqsa mosque compound and it was closed along with four others a five hour standoff with the security forces in which they actually surrounded this entire area with barricades and when they were lifted this was the scene right here so many protesters who've been praying outside the mosque here as a protest also and try to get past the holdens being managed by the israeli police it was a negotiated end to what had been a very tense atmosphere inside the compound there had been an attack because it was

described by the custodian is all of this mosque complex that's wax on behalf of the jordanians they said it had been an invasion by the israeli security forces however it's a pretty forces were accusing some people of throwing rocks and throwing fireworks and that was the reason why backup was cold and so many security forces opened fire or with sound grenades and also some tear gas at one point and people were told to evacuate evacuate the building evacuate the whole complex but many refuse not lead to a situation whereby for gates what's stopping people from getting in or getting out and there were twenty arrests of youths inside the complex it was a symbolic situation that upset so many palestinians because of the israelis

asserting what they see as their all thoughts on this situation however the situation now appears to be a very tense atmosphere but nevertheless the rights to pray are back. saudi u.a.e. coalition aircraft have launched as strikes on the yemeni city of data a day to host a strategically important seaport which is the main entry point for most of the country's food and well as coalition strikes are in response to an attack on i would happy at ports on thursday which has been claimed by yemen's hissy rebels dress craig is an assistant professor at the defense studies department at king's college london and says the climate is difficult to believe if you look through social media if you look through the evidence that's out there so whatever the who these provide have provided as evidence cannot is fake it's basically these are photoshop images which you know have nothing to do with the reality. and in an

equally the the usa you haven't done enough to provide evidence that it did not happen or provide an explanation that someone logically incredibly explains the disruption of flights yesterday and the thing is here that the country that were known for falls information and a country that really is very secretive about what's going on in their country and they have quite a good control over social media domestically so leaks are very very difficult to to come by so both sides have a long track record of not telling the truth so very difficult to ascertain who is right. but there is no causal link between a disruption in abu dhabi and the claim of the who these particular when we look at the technological ability of the who these at the moment when it comes to the drone capability the distance between you know a potential control center of the who these in yemen to the airport is around thirteen to fifteen hundred kilometers depending on where you measure the sum of three if you look at it is quite an extensive drone this is not a small toy there's not a quatro caught there as we might know it so having such

a huge vehicle penetrating the airspace quite deeply and then thinking that the air defense system wouldn't issue a warning and pick it up before it actually reaches a critical infrastructure such as i would be able it seems to be very very unlikely . without is there much more still ahead for you on the program and beyond disaster for iceland the images that have prompted a renewed call for a complete ban on lighting. our long lasting heat wave is a bite to be curtailed in northern europe for a long time we've had showers woman run in the heat in eastern europe but that arc of cloud now coming in to the british isles is going to be significant it's a cold front and as a result will bring in colder as if you the quotes happening overnight not put the temp to background of course his cooler of not want of again tomorrow but the ten

for london is twenty two in paris is twenty seven this is sort of yellowish but orange is still pretty hot to the east for the netherlands belgium and germany the day of heat wife but even that i think will probably disappear by the time we get to sunday still plenty showers in the heat around about thirty mark anywhere from poland southwards towards greece this may not be the end it'll probably have again we got to twenty eight in paris after all on sunday and all this happening over land if you come back over the trading it's fine warm and sunny the heat on the. coasts of the north off grizz high in places tunisia about thirty seven on the coast argyria up it's a little forty's can't get further inland but otherwise it's just sunshine will to will clearly it's the same for the south this is about as far north as showers get is tommy able to right up into the sahara.

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 should have made from the former campaign national security director donald is in a class all by himself and for the thirty years i've known donald he creates his own reality. show to date with j.p. coolidge there has been no evidence that shows collusion collusion of working with russian what is known al-jazeera. welcome back a quick look at the top stories now a group of opposition political parties in pakistan have rejected the results of

wednesday's election and have valid protests to demand a new vote two palestinians including a fourteen year old boy of been killed in the latest friday protest at the gaza israel border both were shot in the head by israeli soldiers. and saudi u.a.e. coalition aircraft have launched as strikes on the yemeni port city of data the main entry point for most of the country's food aid. well now 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 were not moved to safety soon florence louis sent us this report from stone trying province in neighboring cambodia. as water levels begin to recede people start to return to their homes to clean up to repair to salvage what they can monday's collapse of the newly built hydroelectric dam in at

a province in southern laos flooded villages and farmland in both laos and neighboring cambodia the scale of the disaster remains unclear information from state media in this remote part of laos has been sketchy and sometimes inconsistent many survivors tell a consistent story however water levels rose so fast they never experienced anything like it. i felt so desperate when i saw the sight of the water i thought i might die the water was rising and rising and everything in the house was all washed away the search for the missing continues the lao army and teams of international experts are helping to look for survivors when young i'm looking for my brothers i'm worried about them and five thousand people in neighboring cambodia have been evacuated from their homes the water level in the sacred river remains high but it appears to have peaked here in still trying province it's about twelve point four meters roughly the same as twenty four hours earlier the cambodian

ministry of water resources and meteorology expects water levels to fall on saturday as water levels recede in places villages are questioning why they weren't moved to safety sooner and there are conflicting reports on when cracks in the dam or first spotted florence al-jazeera trying province cambodia. u.s. president donald trump has denied he knew about a meeting between his aides and a russian delegation that offered to help him win the twenty sixteen election drums former lawyer michael cohen has claimed he was present when the president's eldest son donald trump jr told his father about the meeting according to media reports in the us cohen is repeated is reportedly willing to tell them later investigation which is looking into alleged russian meddling in the vote i want house correspondent can really help has more from washington. the reason that there is a doubt perhaps about not just the president's claim but also of michael cohen's

are plentiful in fact when it comes to the president the fact that he is denying he knew anything about this meeting can be suspect to hoarding to many critics because the president had around that have also boasted very publicly that there would be some negative information coming forth soon about hillary clinton and then that quietly disappeared and dissipated and that sort of big sort of promise for information never materialized and then when it comes to michael cohen this claim coming now is also suspect in terms of the timing because he did appear before two congressional committees. there were two reports put forward by those interviews one democrat one republican and neither one of those reports was there any mention about this claim that is now being made so certainly when it comes to your original question about how the american public is reacting well it depends on who you believe the story you believe in it often depends on where your political stripe is whether or not those stories have any merit at all. well this latest control they

say control of the surrounding donald trump comes amid a positive economic news the u.s. economy is growing at its fastest level in years but economists are also questioning whether this type of growth is sustainable john hendren has the story the united states economy is surging reaching its strongest growth in four years and president donald trump predicts more to come this isn't a one time shot i happen to think we're going to do extraordinarily well in our next report next quarter the trumpet ministration reported that u.s. gross domestic product rose at an end will rate of four point one percent almost double the rate in the first three months of the year but many economists don't expect this surge to last with many predicting actual g.d.p. growth to settle to about three percent this year that is because second quarter numbers were boosted by foreign purchases of u.s. soybeans and other products before a trade war raises tariffs on them but i think the growth number today four point

one percent in the second quarter is good news but it's very temporary there are two important to the second quarter growth. one is that they were propelled at large part by a sharp increase in government spending coming off the increase of the budget deficit for earlier this year the tax cuts the second is a sharp spike in exports as traders accelerated shipments to get in ahead of the risk of higher trade barriers coming off the threat of trade wars but president trump says his actions have helped cut the u.s. trade deficit by fifty billion dollars these tax cuts specifically on the business and investment side are going to be boosting wages livelihoods and jobs for middle american ordinary working folks. and it's starting to take effect and that's why i agree with president this is a boom that will be sustainable wage increases have not kept up with overall

economic growth but for an administration facing a lengthy probe into the president's ties to russia and a diplomatic feud with allies a growing economy and rising unemployment numbers even in manufacturing is cause for celebration and a hastily scheduled presidential appearance we have added three point seven million new jobs since the election a number that is unthinkable we are in the midst of the longest positive job growth streak in history those numbers could prove hard to sustain as u.s. trading partners around the globe raise tariffs answering a trade war set off by trump himself john hendren al jazeera. well and four hundred people have been killed in anti-government protests over the past three months according to nicaragua's association of human rights it accuses the country's security forces of detaining opponents of president daniel ortega in secret torture centers latin america editor you see in human reports. it's been one

hundred days since the garage began burying their loved ones killed in a conflict too reminiscent of the country's civil war in the one nine hundred seventy s. this week at least three more people were killed in the northern city of reportedly by pro-government paramilitary forces while in a lab a brazilian medical student sympathetic to student protesters was gunned down by unidentified sale it's. at a news conference nicaragua's association of human rights said it had tallied ninety seven killings in the last two weeks alone and four hundred and forty eight deaths since april eighteenth when i walked out. with scene operations outside of the framework of law by groups paramilitary thugs who are carrying out detentions torture terrible selective assassinations as well as writing homes destroying private and public property motivated by political party and ideological fanaticism

. human rights leaders tell us that in these one hundred days in the rubble has become a part of their state of siege to the country everywhere you can see on the road for example it's only at this hour but it's home to the traffic but instead if you come to see there are buses to get up before it gets dark. a small group of students nevertheless came out to mark the anniversary of the civil uprising ok we say to the government that we aren't afraid they say they want peace but they are killing us the president daniel ortega blames the killings on alleged terrorists who want him out. his wife and vice president. went further in a radio broadcast this one a little read. there are drug addicts and alcoholics linked to all sorts of delinquency the nicaraguan people know all that some have taken the wrong lives so

they can blame the government for the real rights organizations refute the claims and accuse the government of setting up clandestine detention and torture centers. we're seeing monstrous repression with all the perverse methods that the state can resort to jury war time even though the country isn't at war and it's using them against its own people president insists that the country is getting back to normal but the rising number of deaths and disappearances of opponents tell a different story. you see in human al-jazeera managua. iraq's top shiite cleric has demanded the government be formed as soon as possible to deal with corruption and poor basic services grand ayatollah ali al sistani is call echoes the demand of protesters across iraq demonstrations started in the oil rich city of basra in the south thousands of protesters there say the government is neglecting the region while exploiting its resources politicians and struggling to

form a government after the election in may. well have been protests across poland after the president signed off on a law which effectively lets the government choose the next supreme court chief right wing government has made a string of judicial reforms that it says will make courts more efficient but activists say the changes are a threat to democracy and the rule of law about a third of hola supreme court judges have been forced into retirement. now the great prime minister alexis tsipras says he takes full responsibility for devastating wildfires promising the government what quickly to improve safety regulations opposition parties accuse the government of not doing enough to save lives and protect people quake officials suspect the fires which killed more than eighty people were caused by arson activists the pushing to ban whale hunting in iceland industry is back in the spotlight after a cross between a fin while and a protected blue whale was killed and pro-social for processing from reykjavik net

carports. place and 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 backwards into the viking times and the whaling nowadays especially well not just in iceland but the whaling in iceland show that people is not doesn't have a low buzz 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 for its icelandic whalers do have a quota and the ben and blue whale kristen lawson he runs the company that killed the whale says his whale is acted in good faith. years working for us they've been doing it for decades and to be. here and one being approached them received. they went after news one i think for one hour. no question. nothing else than a fin whales 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 coolies for the industry to be finally heated in iceland this hunting

is very inaccurate they cannot know the difference between a high powered bluefin wage and often 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 workable is to well in ships come in from the ocean with their catch and take it up the fuel to the processing to hunt for about one hundred days a year 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 so icelanders 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. a live pictures now the so-called blood moon eclipse which is underway it will be

the longest eclipse of the twenty first century and then will turn a red brown color as it rises with a total eclipse lasting for nearly two alice. well just a quick reminder of the top stories now a group of opposition political parties in pakistan of rejected the results of wednesday's election and they have promised to protest on the streets until there is a new vote they allege of vote rigging and interference from the military a party of former cricketer imran khan has gained the most seats in the result so far two palestinians including fourteen year old boy have been killed in the late as friday protests at the gaza israel border both were shot in the head by israeli soldiers gaza health ministry officials say at least another two hundred forty five

people were injured child strafford is at a border i'll just get out of the way now so you can film some of this tear gas being fired as i say from the drones. will understand these two guys is exceptionally strong as well and a number of those injured today have been treated for two guys inhalation the situation as you can see is desperate for these palestinians they have said that they will continue to protest and they have literally been endorsed by hamas hamas describes these protesters be peaceful it says that it will defend them with their weapons if israel attacks. the gates of the mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem have been reopened. stun grenades and tear gas were used to disperse crowds gathered for friday prayers all entry into the mosque one of islam's holiest sites was prevented for three hours following clashes with palestinian wash.

saudi coalition aircraft have launched as strikes on the yemeni city of data the data has a strategically important seaport which is the main entry point for most of the country's food aid. rescuers in laos is searching for more than one hundred people still missing off to monday's dam collapse twenty seven people are now confirmed dead as water levels recede people are returning to their homes and questioning why they would not live to safety. there are conflicting reports on when the cracks in the dam. will bring you more on that story on everything else i'll be back in twenty five minutes time with another update for you coming up next rewind.

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