it's. easier. for you. and i know there are more of this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. a gun battle in the afghan city of jalalabad on a day when there's been a deadly attack and another part of the country. no preconditions no they want to meet only any time they want any time they will just days ago donald trump was threatening iran with consequences few in history have suffered now he wants to

talk. accounts coming in zimbabwe voters could soon know if they have a new leader. broken homes a new worries for thousands of people off to indonesia's of quake. and i'm sorry a small have all the data sporting cluing basketball superstar le bron james says he may run against donald trump in the two thousand and twenty elections seaplanes the west president for using sport to divide the country. security forces in afghanistan the battling gunmen who attack launched an attack on government offices in the city of jalalabad a few hours ago and followed an early attack on a bus and far up province where eleven people died. just salt and targeted tubs of shops as well as government buildings at least three

explosions have been heard. it's all about us and watching developments from kabul and joins us now also saw this attack has been going on now for most of the day what are we hearing from jalalabad. it's been going on for about six hours now it's all about the live in am local time we just have heard specifics about who did attack this department for a refugees in jalalabad saying that there were two gunmen two gunmen who set off multiple explosions outside the compound before breaking it inside there was a donor conference going on to help refugees in afghanistan. and i'm just here now actually it's over so this attack in jalalabad between two suicide attackers and afghan special forces is over and it has been going on now for around six hours

there were multiple people inside some did manage to escape half way through this attack and then we have heard for always now about sporadic gunfire between special forces and these attackers and it appears now that special forces have both of the attackers ok no confirmation yet on any casualties that another attack in western afghanistan we do know that there's been fatalities there. just going back to jalalabad we do know the people who were injured in this we don't have any word about casualties anyone who was killed but we do know that around ten people were injured two critically eight with minor injuries and they were treated at a hospital next door as far as the other attack which happened in the west of afghanistan happened very early this morning that it was a passenger bus there were dozens of people on board it drove over a roadside bomb the government is blaming the taliban for that eight people killed thirty sorry that number went up to live in people killed thirty seven wounded and

they're being treated in hospital and here a province now ok solid ballasting is the latest there from kabul the end of that jalalabad attack as i was just saying it was going on for about six hours there in afghanistan. now donald trump has threatened iran and vowed to isolate it like no other now he's suggesting talks with this president without conditions it would be the first with an iranian one nine hundred seventy nine but it was deputy speaker of parliament says it's not the right time and it would be humiliating for the game lives to run in just a moment but first alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . the u.s. president's surprise offer came during a news conference at the white house with italy's prime minister no preconditions no they want to meet only any time they want anytime they want the u.s. spirally to the deal is signed with iran and its international partners when president trump announced in me the u.s. was pulling out even though there was no indication iran was in breach this was

a horrible one sided deal that should have never ever been made he don't get for months it was a terrible deal and both to scrap it when he became president his offer to talk with iran's president well threw up many more questions than local conditions means that he's ready to sign on the dotted line so to speak with the iranians so will that be acceptable to the region to the powers in the region to the g.c.c. specifically saudi arabia and the u.a.e. i doubt that we've been here before they will be met with fire and fury donald trump very north korea and its leader before agreeing to a meeting and earlier this month he met russian president vladimir putin in all sinking at a top level summit it'll be interesting to watch the reaction to donald trump's offer when barack obama was in the white house and said he'd be willing to meet the iranian president he was heavily criticized by republicans democrats and by many

right wing commentators who know largely support donald trump. one additional problem might be who would broker a summit with iran or south korea pave the way for the meeting with kim jong il in france might be an option president had arjun donald trump not to walk. we've probably run deal during your state visit to washington he's links with tehran and that might open up the necessary diplomatic channels there are voices senior people in this white house have been very critical of the iranian government and called for its removal but this is donald trump's white house if you want something to happen then it could and soon alan fischer al-jazeera the white house the trumps our own senior staff appear to contradict him. pump a rose says he's on board with meeting iran's president but this is several requirements before it could go ahead president wants to meet with folks to solve problems if the iranians demonstrate a commitment to make fundamental changes in how they treat their own people reduce

their malign behavior can agree that it's ha'p'orth while to enter a nuclear agreement that actually prevents proliferation and the president said he's prepared to sit down and have a conversation with them as we've heard there's been plenty of skepticism in tehran about any talks with the us. is the head of north american studies at the university of tehran he says may not have preconditions. definitely will. i don't think he is going to accept any negotiations until the united states returns to the j c p o a the nuclear agreement and implement it because the iranians are saying that the united states is has already violated an international commitment and its aggressive behavior is not going to be rewarded by teheran because if the trunk feels that he six has succeeded in gaining any concessions from iran which has abided by the nuclear agreement in full then he is

only going to use this as a tool at his disposal in future remember this is the same trump who threatened canada because of a statement made by the can a canadian prime minister of the neighboring country to the united states a country that has probably the closest relationship with the united states compared to any other country when trump behaves like that then there's no reason for iran to peace him and there is no reason for iran to believe anything that he says especially when we have such mixed signals coming from the white house let's get more reaction now from tad wrong with. mom and randy was right that was that we've been hearing some pretty definitive responses to trump's offer of talks from tehran. absolutely and this is a country that has said over and over again leaders big and small across the spectrum of said they much prefer negotiations over a conflict they much prefer prefer conversation over escalation but in this case

it's really a once bitten twice shy kind of situation for most of the leaders here just a few days ago i was sitting across from a senior national security member of the national security establishment and i asked him point blank what do you think do you think that there is ever can you ever envision a moment where you and your colleagues can sit down with president donald trump and his administration and discuss absolutely anything and he was unequivocal in his response he said never. the feeling here is that there is an enormous trust deficit with this current administration in the white house that by pulling out of the deal by a great deal of hostility towards iran and by threatening sanctions and planning on august sixth to reapply reimplement unilateral sanctions that donald trump has proven that he cannot be trusted and so in iran there is a great deal of of really to be honest most people will see this as just more

more talk from the white house with no real substance now what president rouhani has done in the past is every time donald trump a stone of a curve ball he's leaned on the european signatories to the twenty fifteen nuclear deal and ask them to uphold the deal to resist american pressure with regards to sanctions and to make sure that iran can continue to benefit from the economic merits of the deal since it has kept its side of the bargain and that's what he did today in a meeting this morning with the baster from great britain to tehran he reiterated the point that it was now up to europe to make sure that the deal survives he also said that iran was not interested in stopping any of the oil shipping traffic in the gulf and he said that along with that iran intends. to fully continue to sell an export its own oil and so a very very defiant rhetoric still coming out of iran talks going forward very unlikely in the current climate i doubt the iranians support rouhani i mean when

they get behind his refusal to meet with trouble. i have to be honest at the moment the twenty fifty nuclear deal has become a very toxic policy for the rouhani administration when he began this effort to try to negotiate a deal there were a lot of critics publicly in the iranian population and in the civilian population as well as in the leadership of a number of people said that the united states cannot be trusted the supreme leader of iran himself said that the united states cannot be trusted but let's give it a try and so now with the devolution of the deal over the last few months the policy has become very toxic and unpopular and president hassan rouhani has become unpopular as a result so the harm has been done and it is really difficult to see how president rouhani could create any public support for sitting down with donald trump there's really no there's nothing to be gained for iranian leaders by doing that and so

there's a sort of north korea model that donald trump seems to be trying to implement with regards to iran and there's a few reasons that won't work iranian people feel that policies that have been coming out of this white house the travel ban against muslim majority countries that has affected iranian people the sanctions and the economic pressure and threats made by this white house has brought the value of the iranian currency the reaal down by more than half in less than a year these are all things iranian people feel are personal attacks against them by the white house and so it's unlikely that that model of north korea will work additionally iran is one of the largest oil producing nations in the world it still makes money and so it is a strong country and regionally it is also very very strong militarily especially with recent victories in syria and iraq and so it's unlikely that the attempt by donald trump to bully iran and then play good cop will work in setting the stage

for any kind of summit. and thanks very much time. well donald trump says he can do a deal with any one hundred claims his tactics brought america significant try arms but they don't follow normal rules of diplomacy with north korea trump first threatened kim jong un with fire and fury and had neighboring countries fearing conflict on the korean peninsula but within weeks trump surprised everyone by announcing a meeting with kim in singapore where he called him very talented and talked of a very special bond it ended with a supposed pledge of complete arise ation the deal came with new details and earlier this month a similar meeting with vladimir putin in helsinki trump accepted the russian leaders denial of any interference in two thousand and sixteen elections and later invited him to the white house now he wants to talk to iran's president hassan

rouhani after vowing to squeeze the country's oil exports down to zero and threatening iran with consequences few in history have ever suffered tom brooks is a professor of law and government and darren university he says there's often nothing to show for present charms big talk. we definitely see a pattern of his talking up his this kind of very kind of almost violent imagery of fire and brimstone all this kind of talk really playing up how his is resistance and and isn't tagged ism towards america's traditional enemies only to do this spectacular u. turn moments later when he finally meets can join an already meets putin or if he goes ahead with this meeting in tehran of what a wonderful friend they are oh they i've got perfect reassurances evita is a spectacular turnaround so he's been doing this several times now and i think that

we're all getting wise to the tough rhetoric on the one hand the pleasantries that will follow afterwards. not much it would seem following from that the big announcement tends to be that he will meet at all not that the meeting will produce something. on the news hour including saudi arabia faces more pressure to release activists as it tries to drive towards reform. and attempts to contain the fallout from a decision that left four million people in the limbo. and those four former world number one does it the hard way in his first court much since last march. friends make it ahead to the next hour or so about who will be the next president in a race some say is too close to call electoral commission is due to begin announcing

results it says there was no rigging nor cheating and the ballots but some observers have raised concerns about the commission's independence have been lining up outside polling booths to see who's ahead in the area of present. opposition leader nelson chamisa say they're confident of winning. in the capsule a live shot of the zimbabwe electoral commission waiting to see people coming up and telling us the initial results how we're going to sot haring these results what the format is going to take. releasing some of the results it only likely be in batches province by province so it will take a while what will happen is officials will. go away for a couple of hours and then come back again so there's no guarantee he will get the final result today both the m.d.c. and the readings are insists they are going to win from what we're hearing

indications of the ground is that zanu p.f. seems to be doing well in the rural areas and the opposition seems to be doing well in urban areas but it is a close election people are watching it closely and analysts say it could be a tight race the key thing of course is would accept defeat already here in a number of accusations of vote rigging tell us more about that. well opposition leaders have just had a press conference. they could say that the process wasn't free and fair they say that they would deliberate tamperings with the vote for example the fact that some people began to wait long in the long lines before being attended to they say that was a tactic used by the ruling party to disillusion people so that they wouldn't vote that's what they are claiming but the commission keeps insisting that's nothing went wrong everything was free and allegations of vote rigging election observers have also been meeting today discussing what happened comparing the findings

comparing the notes and they all saying that people should be calm and they should incite violence and the former president this is what he had to say. victory. in defeat in africa. from the stakes are very high on the house a backup plan for. victory. but look at the picture of a success a successful election for zimbabwe in harare the city is calm what we've seen are a few drive police driving around just to. stay the police and some water cannon opposition headquarters but it is calm at the moment everyone waiting for those those results and how they will react. when those results coming in her and many thanks joins with from harare the syrian military is continuing is built around

rebel held province activists are reporting shelling on just south of the neighboring province where a child has died it is the only significant territory still held by the rebels across a bashar al assad said retaking the province as his top priority. again special envoy to syria is planning talks with iran russia and turkey to finalize a body to draft a new constitution staffan de mistura hopes to have the discussions in sept tenth how to addle hamid has more from sochi. meetings behind closed doors continue throughout the first part of the day now according to one source within the opposition a deal on prisoners is about to be reached yesterday there was a session of the working group on that issue that group will meet again today now that is considered a confidence building measure which to guarantor countries meaning russia iran and

turkey as well as the un considered necessary to try to find some sort of common ground between the two parties now also according to the u.n. envoy to fund them is to or there will be a focus on the formation of the constitutional committee both the government delegation and the opposition that is here in sochi have put forward a list of twenty five names each now they're waiting for a similar list to rip present civil society once there is an agreement of that then they could be within the coming months talk about amending the constitution of two thousand and twelve or maybe changing that even that is even though that is a very complicated issue and both sides don't see eye to eye on it at this stage the united nations is calling on saudi arabia to release all peaceful activists including women who campaigned to lift the world's longest female driving ban the

lifting of that ban in june was held as a major step forward for women's rights in the conservative kingdom but a number of women who had been advocating for the change of since being arrested the u.n. human rights office said genuine reform appeared to be taking place but dissent was still not accepted since the fifteenth of may at least fifteen government critics were detained. we understand that eight of them were later temporarily released until the completion of their procedural review in some cases their whereabouts are unknown and there is a serious lack of transparency in the processing of their cases. as the director of policy allows us at the doha institute he says the saudi crown prince is similar to his predecessors when it comes to political dissent muhammad is a man with what would very much like to be seen as someone who is leading the reforms not being pushed to make the reforms and it seems also that he's taking a zero tolerance policy towards any sort of dissent especially political against

political activists we have seen him actually over the past few months targeting not only women. i mean the liberals who are calling for more votes in the county but also all the conservatives like for example senior religious. leaders have also been detained in saudi arabia so i mean this as you know tolerance policy against any sort of dissent. is his approach actually and this is why we are seeing all these artists in the country. israeli politicians will meet again to discuss a deer law that would officially define israel as a jewish state comes amid mounting domestic and international criticism against the law that's been called racist i want to meet next week after fifty two of its one hundred twenty members called for a special that president has said he will sign the law in arabic and protest against downgrading of its status as an official language under the new law. hundreds of hikers trapped on

a mountain in indonesia after sunday's earthquake have been rescued the magnitude six point four earthquake killed sixteen people many people are scared to return to their homes because of off the shocks so reports from long island. the rescue operation wraps up for the last remaining hikers trapped on monday when johnny what in one thousand tourists from twenty six different countries have managed to come down of ok you know since the powerful earthquake struck on sunday one indonesian man died during mating hikers are now safe. the guides and porters were amazing they really helped us to find a safe spot huge walks were falling it was really scary and there was a lot of dust. at the foot of the mountain evidence that there was little around here during the earthquake a group of hikers was staying and does stay on malaysian woman died. look for gas passports only to find a broken mobile phone and some clothes. the woman who died had just taken

a shower and was still in a final a bit probably sending a message to a family because she wanted to go home that morning then this very strong earthquake happened this mountain is more than just a tourist destination many people call this place home more than five thousand of them are now homeless the government has promised funds to rebuild more than a thousand homes never before have they felt an earthquake this powerful at the foot of mount johnny and aftershocks are still happening that's why even though the homes are not damaged most people here have decided to spend the night in tents the earthquake happened during the peak of the tourist season but for the time being one of indonesia's main attractions to country's second largest active folk will be close to hikers. step on al-jazeera at the foot of mountain johnny in. a number of people killed in wildfires in greece has risen to. hundreds of people

account for the victims of the greek parliament in athens the. northeast of the capsule last monday three thousand five hundred homes many people died in the drowned at sea trying to flee. this trailer is expected to send one hundred eighty . to help. northern california at least six people have died and seven remain unaccounted for the fires have destroyed more than eight hundred homes and displaced thousands of families. from reading and entire neighborhood turned to ash and debris people no longer coming and going nobody checking their mailbox kids no longer playing in the front yard for the first time since a deadly fire ripped through syria the people of the city of reading gathered for a community meeting the question they all were asking what next eighty two year old

joseph. baccy read his house last week and hasn't been home since my home is still standing i'm in a motel i'm safe and that's what counts in shasta county were reading is located the fire destroyed over five hundred homes and wiped out entire communities it still contained the county going to come back oh yeah eventually other nature will take care of things things grow people will adjust but it's a hard when this blaze ripped through this neighborhood this home was spared but their neighbors not so much the fire totally in this house all that's left are the charred remains. but this is not a story about buildings that are lost it's about human suffering the people that once lived here they now have nothing else like for this woman ruth angel her home

where she lived with her family for fifteen years burned down when you lose you see that your house is gone it's like ok my life my my my kids they are they grew you know grew up they're the only thing keeping her going hugs of support from strangers we had so many people come to our. try to support us and. we love them back there is no appreciation and you can get people that say hey we got trucks we. bring a gang of people up and we'll help you whatever you need to do in a city chart where lingering smoke from fires still blocks the sunset but not the hope of people to one day rebuild gabriel's oddo. redding california ok. of heavy rain and flooding. weather pictures from

saddam. and even more than that with toga and the weather data is one of those areas of africa really for a swathe of sub-saharan africa we are lacking weather data it's a shame really twenty first century but there we are these shots come from the gosh river and the rainy season across sudan is through to september so to speak quite steady but obviously you've got a lot of flooding here you get runoff and also the reverse themselves they tend to overflow and cause problems we've also got some rain for the toward has been reported in kenya and then. and across the region seen some decent breaks of rain some big convective systems moving through in the flow and some of the center cross parts of west africa with them mollie there are some. and some heavy rain at times and probably some dust further north as well into mauritania and western sahara the interesting thing at the moment is seeing what's going to happen in the coming days in terms of the heat pushing north was from africa into europe we've

had a lot of very warm air across algeria in particular in recent weeks and i think there's little bit of a feed going on there from that direction into the iberian peninsula and here over the next few days we're going to see it warming up across southwestern parts of spain into southern parts of portugal and there's every chance we could see temperatures close to fifty. very wholesome david thanks very much still ahead on al-jazeera exploiting the vulnerable lot of cases that have ignored is of sexual abuse was stopped. and hopes that a decade long territorial dispute between russia and japan could finally be over. and this whole realm of trades a new coach says it's time for gareth bale to step up to the plate it's. the.

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either going to be watching on their heads or a mind of our top stories this hour and this hack on. government office in eastern afghanistan is over two gunmen set off explosions and storm for ministry refugees in the city of jalalabad ten people have been injured security forces forward to six hours to end the siege. zimbabweans make it ahead to the next hour or so about will be the next president in a race some say is too close to call the electoral commission is due to begin announcing results but solids of us have raised concerns about the commission's independence. and the skepticism in iran about donald trump's offer of talks with president hassan rouhani the us president said they could meet at any time without

preconditions but iran's interior minister has ruled that out saying trump isn't trustworthy. well any talks between trampin rouhani would have major implications for politics in the middle east and this includes blockade against castle joining us here. with political sociology at university good to have you with us first of all let's just talk about iran's response so far it's been pretty dismissive of this offer of talks without preconditions do you think they're going to stick to that line well of course the iranians are known for this kind of negotiation they're always up the bar in the beginning for every kind of dialogue but i think the important note here is what's happening in a month by their money for the minister they want to talk to mr smith with his u.s. counterpart and with a green light also and now he's going to have on just announce that he's willing to her next so it's very clear very obvious that there is a push by the americans to have a new wave of dialogue between iran and the united states i believe that the staged

show for the u.s. president during the press conference to say that he is willing to meet with the iranians is only part of that and i believe that the administration believes that the iranians will jump at such an opportune obviously the iranians are as we said just minutes ago that they have any experience with dealing with the americans and negotiating with the americans and therefore they are not expected to jump in full heartedly into this kind of offer if you if you will and there are no real hard. indications of what the u.s. in a situation would like to do also we know that iran has launched a complaint in the international court of justice so the situation is not ready for such a summit and the iranians understand that what trump wants is a show to put on for his people to say i have done this i have met with the koreans and now they haven't launched any missiles i met with the iranians and now they haven't done anything and they i mean they're not willing to give him that media win without any concrete concessions on his side and if you look at saudi arabia

forget the players within the region i mean as far as they're concerned they're saying this as a. and i thought it was very much on that side. well i mean if we go back to the obama era and even before that of the bush era whenever there's a hard line by the united states towards iran we see the same hard line by the saudis and by the americans and other players in the region whenever there is soft language and talk about dialogue with iran we see that the same happens for saudi arabia and the emirates and and other countries and to be honest this is counterproductive productive for our. regional stability here in the region whenever america says jump we say how high and this is very difficult to understand within the current climate i mean american administration has requested saudi arabia that there was to be in the forefront of this war against iran at least in the beginning of the administration now they're talking about talks again i think the saudis will be very concerned by this. but i think everybody now knows that

there's a curve to. decisions it usually takes this very up very media looking decision of the goes down so it's not necessarily the end of hostilities if you will between the americans and the iranians but at least it is now clear that the position that the saudis have took in the beginning of the trump administration attempting to get on drums good side is not going to help them too much because as the iranians were saying trump is not a trustworthy president and this is not just you know inflammatory language his track record since becoming president to it in dealing with his allies and his enemies alike is always that he is not stable and comes to decisions of such magnitude. very. hard thanks very much taking time to come in. now i saw says it was behind a car bombing in southern philippines that killed at least eleven people in a van exploded after being stopped at a checkpoint in lima town city that's just across from mindanao island where

there's been decades of conflict between government forces and armed fighters four civilians including a mother and her child were killed jamal allen dogan has more from meller. it happened early choose the morning when a van coming from the hinterlands of basilan drove and stopped at a checkpoint near an army detachment in basilan upon inspection according to the philippine army that's when the single passenger there to needed the bomb it left several members of the living forces of the military dead and their dependents according to the military the impact was felt as far as fifty meters this is actually one of the rare times when an attack has happened in basilan over the last few years there has been relative peace there since the former leader of the abu sayyaf group is the lone happy lone was forcibly pushed out of the sea land and he moved to morrow week to launch a war there against the philippine military however the philippine military now

says this attack has been launched and led by another leader of the abu sayyaf group his name is fuji in my it remains to be seen how this will change the security landscape in brazil and in other surrounding islands but according to the military they said the pursuit of. other members of the abu sayyaf will be relentless the chief of malaysia's civil aviation authority has resigned after an investigation showed lapses by a traffic controllers during the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight m h three seventy an independent report on monday said the controllers failed to initiate emergency procedures the boeing triple seven disappeared in two thousand and fourteen was flying from a long pole to beijing with two hundred thirty nine people on board vesta cases someone may have deliberately taken it off course. military leaders from north and south korea have described their talks in the demilitarized zone as candid and productive to size less than

a truce pledge of panmunjom and discuss disarming the border and withdrawing troops from the area as the second military level meeting between seldom can yank since the historic enter korean summit in april but not right has the latest from sell this latest round of talks has wrapped up but without a joint agreement or even a joint press communique even so both sides have been putting a positive spin on proceedings saying that progress has been made the proceedings were friendly as the leader of the north korean delegation put it they have continued to nurture the seeds of peace and prosperity as sown by their two leaders the two sides have been looking at ways of easing tensions on the demilitarized zone particularly looking at troop numbers in posts that face each other across the no man's land and the weapons that they have including of course the soldiers who face off against each other on a daily basis between the blue huts at panmunjom peace village both sides have

committed to continuing the process but it does come against these latest reports of the restart of work on north korea's intercontinental ballistic missile program we don't know from the satellite pictures that have been produced just what level of completion these missiles are supposedly up to but according to optimistic supporters of the peace process and that would include of course president donald trump they would point out that there hasn't been an actual missile launch or missile testing now for months even so it is certainly casting doubt on president trump's assertion that north korea is no longer a nuclear threat. anxiety is growing in the northeastern indian state of four million people have been approved test citizenship the indian government has taken them off its national register of citizens and rights groups are worried it could

lead to discrimination or even deportation that has a good name has more. the fallout from the release of india's national register of citizens filled the pages of newspapers in assam state along the border with bangladesh four million people have been left off of the list and are now worried they'll be deported or put in a detention center. we have been harassed a lot in the name of the national register of citizens so many muslims have not been registered we feel there is a lot of politics involved in making this list and that should not be the case. the register was the stablished in one nine hundred fifty one to identify indian citizens at the time there were undocumented immigrants arriving from what is now bangladesh. critics say the omission of millions in the latest register is designed to prevent muslims from voting the government is assuring people there is still

time and a system in place to fix any mistakes. is there any mistakes that people can go to court or deferring his tribe it will be checked irrespective of cost trade and religion and whether he or she is muslim. there's concern the government hasn't provided adequate outreach especially to the poor and illiterate more bottom for so many are generally indian but they haven't received notice due to poor communication from the government but the one good thing is done foreigners and politics has been stopped. some state has long struggled with anger over undocumented immigrants than i was that government should seal the border this is more important than the national register of citizens if the border remains open then the infiltrators to be always be there the government should look for the permanent solution to the four million people not listed as citizens want

a permanent solution to their status as well for many india is their home and they fear being stateless natasha going to aim. and yes prime as in their own drummer he has congratulated them wrong comment on his party's victory in pakistan's general election it was the first calls and. last week come all had a hospital from islamabad. the indian prime minister narendra modi has ordered imran khan and congratulated him on his release and week three in the pakistani elections. his region for peace and development in the neighborhood this all happening after imran khan made it quite clear that pakistan wanted to resolve all outstanding issues particularly. including through negotiations and that if the indians are one step towards pakistan he would take to your dad of

course raising some hope that perhaps there may be one cimarron kong government takeover headed it is expected within the next few weeks also the fact that the ground president. has also called emraan gradually to dame and of course and why did him with an open invitation the wizard of one a stand with him ron had already accepted on that front and ron howard said that he wanted open borders would have one is done more in line with what is. make an investment in the european union and also guard a message from the really an ambassador to islamabad in the meantime other ambassadors from arab countries as relevant the chinese have been meeting imran khan residence just on the outskirts of islamabad. defense ministers from russia and japan and meantime she says discuss

a decades long territorial disputes his country's claim the currall island chain which is part of russia currently topless explains the issue. the focus of this dispute is so small it's hard to see on a map russia cause in the south cure alls japan refers to them as the northern territories for small islands just to the west of the colorado they were invaded by the then soviet union in one thousand nine hundred five and seven hundred thousand japanese forcibly deported shortly after the end of the second world war two of the islands closest to japan have a mine she could turn was supposed to return to japan once a permanent peace deal was signed that deal was never reached tied into possession of these islands of fishing rights and access to future claims for undersea resources despite numerous japanese attempts to resolve the dispute russia has remained adamant the island stay in its control deploying antiship missiles to reinforce the point some thirty thousand russians now live and work on the islands some of which are only a few kilometers of the japanese coast the humanitarian groups having ignoring

hears of sexual abuse allegations against their staff that's the conclusion of a parliamentary report at the end barbara reports. earlier this year the charity oxfam was rocked by an abuse scandal its deputy chief executive in britain resigned that was off the rocks found was accused of covering up allegations that staff used sex workers while delivering aid to haiti in twenty eleven now a report by the u.k. parliament says lessons a still not being learned by the sector we did reach the conclusion that it would appear that often reputation of the organization has been put it at the protection of the vulnerable that cannot be right that must stop. the report highlights four key areas where there's a clear need for improvement empowerment meaning everyone who receives a should know how to seek help if their rights are violated reporting with donor organizations actively seeking and responding to reports of abuse accountability

including an independent summon for victims and survivors if established channels have failed them and screening including a global register of aid workers to prevent known abusers from getting new jobs. the report also looks at reported abuse and exploitation by united nations peacekeepers including in the central african republic it says there's no single u.n. body trying to investigations and quote victims appear to be essentially forgotten campaigners say there needs to be a global push to prosecute and jail abuses wherever they work when i work for the red cross and balls in your i heard of rumors of the sexual exploitation of children in the bosnian war and we've now seen in the whistleblower movie that in fact many people and pound you in the nine hundred ninety s. that this was a problem early to thousands we've seen the food for six scandals and we saw this is a problem the difference is finally the people in britain are starting to realize and the people around the world are starting to realize this is not just

a betrayal of the children and the women that are being raped this is a betrayal of taxpayer funds and this is a betrayal of the dinah's the u.k.'s charity commission is currently invest. gauging how save the children handled sexual harassment allegations against senior staff the charity suspended bidding for u.k. government funding so has oakes fun and it's also set up an independent whistle blowing hotline positive steps but real change could take many many years. the pope has been criticized for taking ten days to accept the resignation of an australian catholic bishop convicted of concealing child abuse. and was sentenced to twelve months in jail and. he felt to report the abuse of two altar boys five paedophile priests in the one nine hundred seventy s. as well as prime minister was amongst those who stepped. i think francis having come from argentina has been slow to pick up the guy name particularly in terms of the developments in countries like the united states and australia i think there

have been developments there i think it's very welcome whether we can read anything into him taking ten days to accept this resignation i don't know enough about the internal vatican workings but i think definitely had the cardinal mccarrick kies on his desk there from the united states and now this i would hope that this is a sign of ongoing improvement in their time and the supreme court chief justice has given president a chance to reshape the highest court in the u.s. anthony kennedy was a key swing vote thirty years on the bench he has more on his complex legacy. justice anthony kennedy was nominated by ronald reagan in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven the president's third choice candidate for the supreme court reagan presented kennedy as a quote true conservative and despite his reputation as the key swing vote preserving female reproductive rights and legalizing gay marriage more often than not and that proved to be true during his last year kennedy didn't side with

liberal justices once displaying particular hostility to labor unions for example you can almost bullshit he held attacks on the right of a woman to trees in fact an analysis by the web site five thirty eight dot com found that kennedy voted with conservatives fifty seven percent of the time almost the same as chief justice john roberts and only slightly less than other conservative justices alito scalia and thomas but his retirement is cause for concern for the bulls not least because of this campaign pledge from double trump aimed at his christian fundamentalist base to assist in the overturning of roe versus wade than one thousand nine hundred eighty three supreme court case that established the legality of abortion do you want to see the court overturned really what we put another two or perhaps three justices and that's really what's going to be has that's will happen and that will happen automatically in my opinion because i am putting pro-life justices on the court. this will be donald trump second supreme court pick neil goal such as already established himself on the right wing

of the court democrats have been scathing in their assessment of the latest nominee brett kavanaugh every american who believes that our courts should not be another puppet of the rich and powerful should speak out and every senator who believes in equal justice under law should say no to judge cafe now but it will be difficult for democrats to cavanaugh's appointment especially since several democrats may support him she average hansie. so i had all the sports with the red sox at fenway steaks and then leave over there odds on those.

let's get all the sport now with tara laura thank you so much n.b.a. superstar le bron james has made his first public appearance since signing for the l.a. lakers earlier in july and he says the decision to walk away from the cleveland cavaliers again was best for his family he opened his new i promise school for underprivileged children and his hometown of akron ohio the thirty three year old has been highly critical of the u.s. president says that donald trump is using sport to divide the country before time m.v.p. says he's open to running against trump and twenty twenty and was sounding political as he addressed the students kids just want to know if we care about them they they have the dreams they have the aspirations they have everything that they can actually get so whatever they want to get to a life they just want to know to someone care robert the tao is the c.e.o.

of black sports and entertainment he says le bron would be well suited to a career in politics. i think he has the. type of backing that type of charm and the type of drive which comes from being an athlete that he will be very successful in public office i don't know if there's something that he would want to do because obviously politics is a reason to call it politics a lot of. it is not as clean as you would want to be but maybe he wants to get into that to clean it up a bit but i think he has massive crossover appeal and i think the base that he's doing now at the career is les and then foundation that if you does want to go into politics or pretty much anything that people see that he's more than just anathema he's not so one it's just going to shut up and he is someone that is willing to

take a stand to put his money where his mouth is to put its time. and that's what people like to see a politician they want to see still want to. debate can relate to that is going to fight for them and watching the show that he so wanted to fight for the causes that are important to him andy murray has struggled some way to victory at the city open in washington it was scott's first hardcourt match in over a year and the first since pulling out from wendell tennant he continues his recovery from hip surgery so he'll malick reports. andy murray's journey back to the top is in full swing he took on american mackenzie macdonald in his first match since dropping out of this year's wimbledon but the comeback which is the marquee missed most of last year due to a hip injury didn't get off the movie star who. no ground slams the new year and coming off a surgery in january mari did show plenty of fight was but

he also showed clear signs of rust dropping three service games in the opening set and losing it six three months to with a change of outfit for the second and a change of fortune sort of britain. was the when he started finding the composure that's helped him win three grand slams and he managed to break mcdonald's the. was then was. that set up murray to take the second six ball was then. the third that was a really close affair and a severe test for any player that's not played hard core tennis for a year and a half but while mari started looking more confident frustration started to get a hold of the american opponent who is now making basic errors like crossing his racquet over the net. i. despite the drop in the goals level mara didn't have an easy time finishing them all he needed to have as much point opportunities but eventually sealed the decider seven five for the match.

with. all the evidence of this display mari's still far from his best but by getting through this new three hour scrub the school is at least one step closer to where he wants to be supremely al-jazeera. as a football pre-season continues the pressure is on gareth bale as many expect him to try and fill the void left at real madrid by christian or in all those departure to italian serious side eventis real madrid manager do in aleppo take is confident the welsh forward can step up to the plate. yeah. you also asked me about taylor and for all the others well we are delighted that they are staying with us and convinced that it will be a magnificent year i think he is an extraordinary player and we expect a lot from him and we are convinced that he will give us the based version of him. and the boston red sox have gone a season high six games ahead of their arch rivals new york yankees by beating the

philadelphia phillies on monday the red sox winning the tight encounter in the bottom of the thirteenth any thanks to plate x. y. heart. the game had been locked at one also into the fifth inning the red sox have now won nineteen of their last twenty three games in the american league east and that's all your support for now i'll have more later but for now it's r.c. lisa thanks very much indeed now a slip of the tongue from britain's new farm and so could have got him into trouble on the home front jeremy hunt got his wife's nationality wrong false and baiting sinking a post breaks it free trade deal with china. was his first big trip outside of britain since taking over from boris johnson who was also well known for his own. plenty more can be found on the website address al-jazeera dot com that's it for me. to stay with us back in just

a moment. where were you when this idea popped into it when they're on line it's undoubtedly chief cold. of opinion equality in our society today or if you join the sunset criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like bring you have to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to plead to speakers for change join michael o'boyle conversation on our. we here to jerusalem bureau covered israeli palestinian affairs we cover this story with a lot of intimate knowledge we covered it with that we don't dip in and out of this story we have presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to be a journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the

united nations and global diplomacy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens here matters. i wouldn't worry even twenty one years based on false allegations that just made in the last couple of years there's been a number of high profile exonerations of the wrongfully convicted based on police and prosecutorial misconduct you can check me for gun check much well i don't really but i don't have any going to do nothing if the prosecutor is going to seek convictions for the sake of seeking convictions prosecutors teachers exploring the dark side of american justice system with joe burden on al-jazeera. corrupt officials have been ousted. and activists of the chinese village of blue cam take center stage in on precedented local elections. in the first of a remarkable series filmed over five years al-jazeera documents of

a new village committed. rebels to politician the hard won the china's democracy experiment on the edges in. six hours of gun battles as the. comes under attack for the second time in three days. so there are a col this is our sara live from doha also coming up the results are coming soon to zimbabwe's voters but already there is talk of course action. no preconditions no they want to meet only anytime they want anytime they want a now wants to talk to iran donald trump's an offer just nine days after

threatening the country. and calling in and help the battle against the wave of wildfires in the u.s. .