now the longest bloodmoon eclipse of the century has thrilled millions of sky gazers around the world the moon turned into red brown color during the event the entire transition lasted for nearly two hours. by chance a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera a group of opposition political parties in pakistan is rejecting the outcome of wednesday's election official results show the party of the former cricketer imran khan has gained the most seats in the national assembly opposition groups say the vote was rigged and that the military interfered in the process. of their. own party's conference unanimously rejected twenty fifth july twenty eighth in 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 we demand free and fair reelections and we all agreed that all

members elected from all parties will not take oath in the parliament israeli forces of reopen the gates of the compound in occupied east jerusalem after closing them for several hours on friday. the soldiers stormed the compound firing tear gas and stun grenades. palestinians protested at being denied entry into one of islam's holiest sites. to palestinians including a fourteen year old boy you have been killed in the latest friday of protests at the gaza israel border. both were shot in the head by israeli soldiers gaza health officials say at least another two hundred forty five people were injured. there are reports at least seventeen people have been killed in central mali ahead of sunday's presidential election tensions high end of the vote which will see twenty four contenders for the presidency including the incumbent. last week the campaign

team for opposition leader. was a touch by gunmen in timbuktu and wildfires in northern california have killed at least two firefighters and forced thousands of residents to flee far cry to say the blaze is only partly contained hot weather and high winds are fanning the flames. and twitter shares have lost more than twenty percent of their value off of the social media site reported a decline in active users the site has recently purged many fake accounts the number of users fall into three hundred thirty five million shares dropped to thirty five dollars despite twitter reporting record quarterly revenues well those were the headlines the news continues here after talked about a zero statement that's watching.

and. you can. see if. you. take a step and reject saying. that. that was the running cry the hundreds of thousands of all mediums in april and may see if you took to the streets and forced the resignation of media's president turned prime minister said she cites your use of those phones and for that they took his ruling republican policy stepped down from power clearing the way for the leader of the opposition he called passion yet to be the new government this fall but if you do

not accept that it gets much requirements of the states and goodbye. to. the velvet revolution so they would be known by that as a remarkable turning point for the caucasus nation. mr posture and he now heads the need to rebut ministration assaults to capitalize on widespread public supports bring about sweeping reforms. didn't he has promised to tame the oligarchs monopolizing all medias politics and the economy over you elections and transform armenia things with different democracy. at the same time he must play a delicate balancing act geopolitically between russia and the west moscow provides economic and military support to all media which is being geographically isolated

by tookie does it by john. media it's a war i going to go in the car but region without supply john in the one nine hundred ninety s. . and as a boy john wants its internationally recognized territory but the conflict could wreak night into a ribbon first year walker in europe i've come to the armenian capital to meet the man whose mass protest movement brought down an entrenched corrupt elite but he now faces the challenges from within his country and the old today i mean is prime minister. talks to al-jazeera. the prime minister of armenia thank you for talking to al-jazeera i was here without easier for those incredible few weeks in april and may of this year when the armenian people rose up in their hundreds of thousands and brought down

the previous government this was something many people believed was impossible and it was done without a shot being fired what have you achieved so far your most important thing that we changed already it's the best events of the day are all role. of the people of any citizen it is most important change that we have done. because before evolution the most part of citizens they considered that they didn't. decide anything that nothing depan from their position from his position. but maybe we make our citizens believe

that their position their voice is more important factor in our political and social life and does most important change that we have already done but you've still got to deliver on those important reforms people want changes they want functioning utilities they want public services they want a reformed police service they want jobs how are you going to deliver these to a public that is hungry for change and based on the history there isn't an awful lot of patience of the revolution's people want it yesterday they don't have an awful lot of patience to wait around you need to implement those changes quickly we are now in process of the involvement new people to the armenian economy we are going to guarantee the equality and now we can't say that all people.

all citizen in armenia are equal before the law we we are going to make economic reforms to liberalize our economy to make it more attractive for foreign investor and for domestic investor how we are going to do that we are going to guarantee. security of any investment we are going to create infrastructure of wheat of high quality and we are going to make people believe and act in economy and create their own businesses and to be to

be. really to have a real opportunity to become successful and make our country more successful you don't have a huge amount of foreign policy experience you're not a military man and yet your country has this conflict ongoing with its neighbor azerbaijan and your team of ministers even younger than yourself and you are just forty three years old so are you qualified for this position and for this job you know when in our parliament. republican deputies tried to show that. i'm not enough experienced to to be prime minister i recalled the example of nessa mandela who was just a prisoner. for twenty six years before became president of the

south african republic saw. just. said that i'm was in politics in armenia from the nine hundred ninety one and i was a journalist that. brought so many articles on military. officials on state officials about the political activity and that was a huge university and hooch experience for being politician for being minister for being. prime minister for being president because i forward all this people in i brought

many articles what was right in their action and what wasn't right in their action right now you're an interim government you need elections to have legitimacy when are those going to happen when you can have those elections if our political situation will stay saved as we have now i think we will have. elections snap elections. next year ok but initially you wanted snap elections and those are exactly snap elections it's a it's a year on from this revolution that's going to for a straight people isn't it you need those elections sooner not years but are important to go to have

a really democratic. towns pariente and free elections and the problem is that for other political activists it for certain expected to have such political changes and for there it is it is an expected situation and if you will we'll have a snap election now eight we voted to be not very equal situation for other political actors we don't want to. have an equal political field and we want to give our political opponent to our political opponents a time for preparing for that elections it's been consistently maintained

that this revolution was not a color revolution it was not manipulated or influenced by political forces outside the country but in order to carry out the reforms and changes that you need you are going to need significant financial assistance from the likes of the european union and the united states we hope to have that financial. assistance not only from the united states european union but from russia as well you have been to russia twice in the last two months as far as i know you've been to sochi and moscow you've met with anime putin you've just got back from brussels how. are you going to balance that relationship between russia and the west it is a difficult balancing act to maintain you have to agree that i don't think that there is a need to balance this relationship we are going to increase the quality of

our relations not only with russia but also with the european union with united states with iran with the with china with india etc with georgia and that we are going to build that relationship on the bears or of the national interests of armenia nevertheless you depend on russia strategically and economically but you are yourself in favor of openness in favor of transparency democracy and human rights these a european violence how do you stay on the right side of light i mean. you know we saw. within our revolution that our partners i mean russia europe in. and.

united states europe all international partners they respect how independence and also way. and they didn't interfere to our domestic affairs just a few days ago you had russian military to drills taking place. they have a military presence in armenia those drills were taking place armenian people were upset very upset by what happened it's a very difficult. situation to be in where support for russia is important to us i said strategically but at the same on oil russia russian military representatives have already apologize for that incident and i think it's an acceptable incident and

i have announced that it was a poor kishan against the armenian russian relationship and it was provocation against the armenian independence of armenia salinity of armenia and now there is investigation that started it and i think that who is guilty for that incident should be punished but this is an example of the ways in which it can be seen that moscow can use its influence on mean it when it needs to it has gazprom here when operating the energy market it guarantees who the security between i mean in the north as a by job but if the situation is that many contraries all around the war. they have tools to impact to

influence on the other countries if we want to say absolutely there is no absolute independence for any country because all contracts and international community now they are connected where you very closely and i mean in particular is in a very yes civil scituate yeah yeah most of my will is you know yes we have but we are in difficult situation and we are going to overcome this difficult situation and huge popular support from people that our government has we are going to use that support for our coming this situation to manage the situation we are going to increase the quality of our relation with russia with he will paint

union with united states well let's talk about your relationships with your immediate neighbors which perhaps is of even more critical importance turkey and azerbaijan armenia fought a war over the territory of nagorno-karabakh in the ninety's that conflict continues to this day albeit a frozen conflict as it's often referred to what are you doing to bring peace to this region between azerbaijan and armenia the first thing you did was go to going to care about after becoming elected as prime minister perhaps that sent the right signal to armenians did it send the right signal to bark as any democracy we are devoted to exclusively peaceful solution for the good in the car above conflict and it's really important because. i'm sure

that democracy. is more important factor to create peace in our region because i am sure that there is not any democracy that is willing. to. start a war. that is willing to use force for solution of any problems people are concerned as a ploy john has seized some form of territory and knock each other on that important area between you and i it's serious and it's it's it's wrong information if there's been all the information they're talking water talk it's a yes it is aggressive language yes there it is another. topic and i'm sure that after white. john became

more aggressive after i mean you know revolution because you know that that we have. big success making armenia democratic country in fighting corruption. to create a level playing field to fight more no police and i think that. year has some fears that as a johnny people care in be inspired from our main your allusion in to try. to create to make changes simular to changes in azerbaijan and saw i think the increase of the aggressive retore by the azerbaijani government is connected with this situation

and i'm sure that as a by johnny government is trying to distract the attention of his own people from their domestic troubles problem to the now gorno car bomb problem and so that's why i'm saying that any aggressive move against armenia it's aggressive move against democracy in our region at the same time what are you going to do to bring lasting peace here what are you prepared to give us by john back in exchange for last thing please you know we are ready for peace negotiations and that i i want to make clear that point and time are ready for negotiations wheat president or was by john is ready to meet

him yes of course you've invited him to meet with you your. problem is that we have negotiation for mine. and donald trump doesn't mind breaking negotiation for months he's met with the president and you know you're a real no i don't think it's a legal right. to do to break something. when you aren't sure that you will be able to create something better and. you know that there is negotiation for market. it's been in place for many years but nothing has come out of it this format is very important for keeping peace and for creating real real

opportunity for really peaceful settlement of now go knock on about conflict why because. three. werry important and very influential countries are involved in the all is see ms group chair for money that's russia that's france and that's united states and i think that this four month is able to solve this conflict peacefully if armenian government and as a journey government will have political will for peaceful solution i can assure you and all international community that as any democratic government we have a real feel and real desire to solve this conflict

peacefully and we are ready for negotiation but i want to insist that we aren't going. to make anything in the utmost for all of. intimidation you know it's really important to create a atmosphere of peace in our region you can't hear any hate speech in armenia connected with azerbaijan and connected with azerbaijan the people but unfortunately every day we can hear hate speech from azerbaijan to what armenia and what is really strange and where the dangerous we can heard that speech from even personally from

the president of. and with regards to turkey regardless of nagorno-karabakh in those or by john how are you going to get the borders reopened with turkey proper relations reestablished with ankara you know the problem is that it isn't armenia that cool or the border with turkey in fact it's talking that clause border with armenia in fact that border is open for the armenian side and it's talking should make decision. on opening the border. and i mean here is a ready to establish diplomatic relations with torquey without precondition. and without any precondition and that's that should make

a decision and. with all of this happening at the moment with all of the international. infighting that's going on the european union and the united states do not have a good relationship at the moment liberal democracies in the west are in crisis with the rise of the far right russia and the united states have a troubled relationship with donald trump and let me putin seem to be getting along just fine how do you see the the white house particular led by donald trump in terms of its impact on what happens to armenia and the armenian context you look at what's happening in europe and the united states and think how does this impact armenia here of course. we are concerned really much. on regional situation on deal last development around iran

because iran is our close neighbor and the whole partner and the we hope that all this issues and that all this disagreement will be solved toward the peace and through the negotiation and armenia is of course all ready to support this process is and we are ready to be constructive. in making our region more prosperity and peaceful and the more secure the cooperation ian prime minister of amin thank you for talking to others.

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a group of opposition parties called for a new election in protest and. claims victory. this is. also coming up. some fighting around the mosque us israeli security forces push. on the u.s. state of california destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people from the neighborhoods plus.

a group of opposition political parties has rejected the results of pakistan's general election following allegations of vote rigging and meddling by the military the ruling party has conceded defeat paving the way for cricket's a politician imran khan to become the next prime minister but the opposition alliance says it will take to the streets until a new vote is held some of the reports from the whole. the master even his brother are no longer calling the shots after the campaign it's time to clean up in what the manhunt called a new pakistan video voters have taken their leader to the top job but they're already calling for accountability of those who joined in one hand from the so-called all pakistan in an airfield the scope you want me pardon me if they carry one the same way even after coming to power it will be really unfair to ask. imran khan must know this if he cannot stop the corruption and then he has no

right to be the leader international observers say they did not witness any military indifference during the vote process but the election observation mission says the twenty eight hundred electoral process was not as trouble free as it was five years ago although there were several legal provisions aimed at ensuring a level playing field we have concluded that there was a lack of equality of opportunity candidates was large political appeal and financial means the so-called elected bills often dominated the campaign opposition party said there was a difference especially when votes were counted a multi party conference rejected the results in the capital. this is theft of the people's mandate as those who achieved majority through this we need to accept . them the right we have agreed to demand a new fair and free election but i think. the election commission insists that the

election was transparent but it failed to keep its promise that it would quickly announce the official results in one khan's party has agreed to investigate allegations of rigging and fraud it also unveiled an ambitious hundred new plan when it forms a government. the value of the pakistani rupee his stick in a nose dive in recent weeks there's an agitation movement brewing amongst opposition politicians in mount khan's challenges may have already begun even before he can charge off what he promised as a new pakistan simon job. lahore welcome ohana joins us live now from islamabad come out so the opposition is calling for a rerun of the election and says it launch agitation across the country but does it have enough support on the streets. where the dead is there a question yesterday which is friday night the opposition had a meeting to get an order everybody was on board the pakistan people's party did

north again that particular meeting were headed by more are now followed remonde at your door later while ago here of course had suffered a humiliating defeat and therefore he is now saying that he were not a party member of course most of them have lost any where they need them to go the question of warden or dad they have tended in david in order to take the order on the other hand you have got the pakistan muslim league now while rejecting that they will go to parliament and they will be taking the or the budget on people's party and they're willing to sit in on the open nation benches today it's a clear signal that day would also not boy a day taking care of many if any of these politicians do decide their day were not gay or the ones who have won then of course they will be a by election and they may lose that john's order to get so interesting times the opposition not on the same page but if they can muster some sort of unity and short

st paul then it'll be another game yeah i'm coming out so what are the implications then if the opposition goes ahead with all of this women can still be able to form the next government. absolutely got done. talking to the independent independent candidates who've won the election he goes through like minded political parties so bagged a few feet so he's comfortable that he will be sworn in as the country's prime minister for that day maybe agitation maybe it is brought to a standstill because that's what enron kahn did when he launched a golf ordination movement against corruption so it'll be interesting to see what happens but. for political instability in a report a bug astonied group has taken a nosedive dad relate to hyper inflation iran has made. and he will be given

a chance however we shall have to wait and see where that plays out though where everybody in progress on wants because they have seen a lot of violence they have seen political instability and they have also made their voices very clear they have voted for change the old political guard and the oligarchs of course have not been able to swallow died and so day will be a reaction but perhaps the people of india and will be the ultimate decision makers read the day do come out in such strong numbers they have already spoken out foreign d.n.a. created and come out thank you. israeli forces of reopen the gates of the al aqsa mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem after closing them for several hours on friday. the soldiers stormed the compound firing tear gas and stun grenades palestinians protest of being denied entry into one of islam's holiest sites under simmons's

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 to protest also and try to get past the coltons being manned 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 as 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 a lot 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 palace. because of the israelis asserting what they see is there also on this situation however the situation now appears to be a very tense atmosphere but nevertheless the rights to pray are back you know two palestinians including a fourteen year old boy have been killed in the latest friday of protests of the

gaza israel border both were shot in the head by israeli soldiers gaza health officials say at least another two hundred forty five people were injured stephanie decker reports 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. we are suffering there is no electricity no water people are going hungry it's painful will keep standing we will come here to show the whole world we want our rights. my brothers and bonding and turns against as a civilian be wanted in gaza strip we are to be ball. you know this yes this is go. look you know this is go as is. yes and this is going to cause this is military this is reluctant to deal with all of this sets for you i guess this is

under humility 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 the hospital is now used to a steady influx every friday 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 has 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 amasses they are a legitimate form of resistance against a suffocating seach they have 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 rights groups are accusing to exist on of preventing a four year old boy from traveling abroad to receive life saving medical treatment ibrahim. is the grandson of an opposition leader in exile human rights watch says he and his family have had their passports confiscated means that blocked from leaving the country the boy has cancer and local doctors concretes him but the government denies the accusation and says he's free to leave at any time. time for short break here al-jazeera when we come back fleeing the violence in cameroon we hear from some of the survivors that made its nigeria on a total lunar eclipse one of the longest of this century as the world gazing skyward more nuts and.

how our soul fifty reported yesterday which is in our great surprise to be honest has been a cloud around but we've seen temperatures in the thirty's easily in the caucasus and you come down to the hottest part of the world really and i'm talking about the southwest of iran and central iraq just to the darker red in there very very light the temperature background nothing really happens here apart from the breeze and the temperature is cooler on the coast as it always is the on shore breeze.