no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to al-jazeera. al-jazeera. this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes months of speculation and in the democratic republic of congo joseph kabila won't run for president in upcoming elections. the red cross says sunday's deadly earthquake in indonesia was exceptionally destructive more than a hundred fifty thousand have been left homeless. zambia denies asylum to sing as zimbabwean opposition figure tendai biti.

sports chelsea are on the verge of completing a world record transfer they've agreed to pay off ninety two million dollars for. making him the most expensive goalkeeper of all time. and begin in the democratic republic of congo where the government has announced president joseph kabila will not be standing in december's election. was due to step down from his position in twenty sixteen but the election to replace him has been repeatedly delayed triggering violent protests in which dozens were killed there was widespread speculation that he would try to seek a third term instead he's backing his former interior minister emmanuel diary is under european union sanctions for alleged human rights abuses.

tell us more about his politics and whether his nomination comes as a surprise. lauren first of all he has just finished a meeting at the state the left the building and you're right this will come as a surprise i'm told even to themselves they cover all names. that have been floating around in the last twenty four hours and he's been up until very late today just before he came to present his papers that said even very cramped that lie president joseph kabila very loyal to him action is about ideology and his policies as well from the same home province and joseph kabila a lot of people just saying that he is really a safe option not just spoke of beloved will kill the military because of this home

province where he comes from also home to several powell general as well but there are some people who are raising concern you mentioned there in the introduction about he being one of the eight people in the european union functions. because of alleged human rights abuses he was the interior minister late last when police bust protests. in a protest that what will deny it by the catholic church by a lot of the supporters who are here lauren telling me that they're going to stand by him no matter what their position where they make of this and other companies people. have already come up to say that this is a good day for democracy. the congolese people think that it's because of the pressure that the public people on president joseph kabila that is what made it in

. even tried to run for at that time the catholic church which has been very vocal against president joseph kabila told me that it is a significant step to democracy a lot of congolese also saying that it's a good thing that the the last step down saying that in the last few years we haven't really believe on many of these promises the security in parts of the country still very bad economy is not doing too well. the development infrastructure all the things he promised in the last two campaigns people think that he hadn't really delivered on that as well a lot of people saying that it doesn't really matter who is going to be the next president whether from the ruling party or the opposition they just want a president who will be able be able to elevate this country and and and have the benefit of the huge resource base trickling down to the ordinary consulate. thank you very much and joining us now from washington d.c. is a master herman j.

cohen his the former u.s. assistant secretary of state for african affairs thank you very much indeed for being with us so the fact that is finally stepping down. is that a good thing to think. well it's welcome news a lot of us felt that he would try to violate the constitution and go for a third illegal mandate but so it's good that he will not be president after december twenty third what about that is is he more just would he be the candidate of continuity i mean it would he end up doing the same as could be though do you think that it could mean a difference if if indeed he wins that could be bad news because one thing your correspondent in contrast of the words that he in could be cousins he is related to kabila his mother so in a way selecting. his era parent he's trying to keep the power in the

hands of the family and i think. most congolese people know that they will not vote for him and there is a special lot of anxiety in places like d.l.c. about the kind of level of corruption and sort of patronage. and i suppose some of those networks have been built up over generations and i. we have the thousands of people who are depending on the corruption for example five million tonnes of copper sold every year yields about five billion dollars and most of that does not go into the budget goes into the network of patronage which i would say covers about twenty five thousand people including a lot of military so what's the likelihood of actually ending up with transparent and fair elections in december. it's not likely in my view for example re boaters list has ten million people who apparently do not exist there are no fingerprints or anything like that so you can have an election

and at the end the electoral commission say these till ten million voters have voted for show dari so it is the possibility of a fraudulent election i'm afraid is very strong then there were some reports suggesting that the government was turning down help from the the un the un mission in the country before the elections how worrying a signal if that is indeed what they end up doing how worrying is that for the prospects of the for this election. that's worrying because what the u.n. can give them is logistics they need to distribute the voting machines and all the ballots to a very very large country you know congo's the same as the united states east of the mississippi so without help from the u.n. you can have more delay in this election after all it's two years later already i think kabila may stay in power another year before they take this they complete the election took us through some of the other candidates that we've had the return of

member who was in the end acquitted of war crimes by the international criminal court what kind of he's been described in some quarters a wild card in this election what you make of his prospects he is very popular if you saw the video of his return at the airport in kinshasa there were at least a hundred thousand people there he's extremely popular and i think of he runs he has a very very good chance to get the majority of votes and jake owen thank you very much indeed for your thoughts ambassador thank you you're welcome. some of the hundred fifty thousand people have been left homeless by the earthquake in indonesia island of long walk the red cross has described the magnitude seven quake as exceptionally destructive at least one hundred thirty one people have been killed and that number is expected to rise as rescuers struggle to reach all those in need steadfast in reports from the remote village of battle in the west of

grumbach where many are still waiting for help to arrive. the road to the remote village of up big ike is impassable by car. a bill half is has come down from the hills to look for help. he shows us destruction that government of fish kills have yet to see. what i see now is that all the help is focused in the north of lombok but here in this remote area away from the main road we also need help. on the third day after a powerful quake struck the island so vive us are growing increasingly impatient. they are hungry and thirsty. for us living in the mountains it's very difficult to find clean water and it's impossible for us to take the sick to a doctor food is also hard to find because we're not earning any money everyone is still in shock. how daptone and provide he had only just moved into

their new home after getting married a month ago it took more than seven years to build their house while going into the mountains to share extend of the damage of sunday's earthquake becomes clear in isolated villages like this one away from the epicenter many have been left homeless as well while aid is now entering the island of long book many here fear there could be forgotten. while many people in the room most areas are still waiting for help some aid is arriving had improvised shelters further down the mountain and officials say most donated goods have yet to be distributed. there's only very little aid but if we distribute it now it won't be enough for everyone so we're gathering it first and then we'll hand it out. but people can't wait much longer the little food they had this running out fast and many are in need of medical treatment they feel they're being ignored step fasten al-jazeera up

with ike but west. an opposition politician from zimbabwe will be deported after being denied asylum in thembi a former finance minister ten diabetes parties part of the country's main opposition alliance. says he's being investigated by the police for just the inciting violence during protests that followed last week's presidential election our correspondent home which houses on the phone from the zimbabwean capital harare . is a bit confusing is that the situation regarding tendai biti we heard he was arrested first is involved. is it has he has a long confusing day in the early hours of the morning we were told that he tried to cross the border into zambia and some people say he was arrested in people confused because the news came out that he wasn't arrested it turned out it was the end the day his lawyers came out and when he tried to cross he was arrested.

and then the discover the government denied it and then later they did manage to cross into zambia. it seems to pay for what we hearing is that when he crossed from zimbabwe into zambia he didn't goes through some of the proper channels so he didn't go through this involving channels and then when he got to zambia inside that means of this is a zimbabwean and inform them he was around and then it's alleged according to law is that he was arrested eventually released and then he managed to get into zambia and then now we hearing that. the saying that he is pretty quick for asylum isn't. why hasn't he done the way supposed to be done they feel that he. doesn't deserve a simon because of the reasons given and he may be deported in

a few us time but because the bobbie the question now is if he is deported in a feel as time will be a race and when he arrives in zimbabwe what will those charges be and what does that mean his lawyers feel he's being unfairly. we told from the police we know from the police action that a few days ago off the posted last week the police my people from the opposition to appear at a police station for questioning for alleged inciting violence tonight he was one of them he didn't appear that could be one reason why the police are looking for him but until he comes back to zimbabwe and into the police actually say why they want him if they arrest him when he returns they will only know what the situation of the ground and harry the opposition has confirmed that they'll take legal action of a similar god was election win and they say they've got a secret weapon. they have this fear they haven't actually filed the papers.

the last day they can do that is friday best because according to law here in zimbabwe once elance results are announced that fifteen days to file an equal challenge to the last days five day so people are speculating that to try and drag the process out they will wait to the last moment which would be midnight friday to file those papers they say they have a secret weapon that what it is but this is the revealed in court the question now is how strong is the evidence they have they say that the evidence they have is strong enough to stop the no gration which we are hearing could happen in the sunday if that happens of course it will tons the country into even more political crisis already now people are concerned about which way this country will go much just politically but what it means for the economy. he had promised a bobbins that if this election was endorsed internationally it could open up

investment it could help the economy recover but if they are problems it means that that won't happen for the poorest of the poor who want jobs that may not happen for them say that there's a big concern here in the lobby of course the question now is how many of the key opposition officials leave look for by the police how many people will be arrested because i mean ultimately if there's a decision of this election which it seems like they will be what will happen next and of course the key thing of course is will the opposition follow those tables tomorrow if they do or what does that mean for the country arms i thank you very much. watching the hours their news hour is much more to come on the program including desperate for water in new south wales australia declares the entire state in drought. that's the message from democrats to republicans in ohio we'll have the latest on

the special election that's too close to call. and in sport we'll hear from the goal for use in with a chance of completing a career grand slam. saudi arabia has stopped all medical treatment programs in canada and says it will transfer all saudi patients from hospitals there is the latest move by the kingdom after a diplomatic spat broke out between the two countries on sunday it's already frozen all new trade investment and educational agreements riyadh says it could take further measures after chemical for the release of jailed civil society activists saudi arabia's foreign minister says canada is to blame for the dispute. there is no need for mediation of the kind of them made a big mistake and has to fix it going to fully understands what is required from mediation is when there are two parties who have demands in this situation the

mistake has been made by only one party it was kind of the whole intervened this mistake has to be corrected a new report by amnesty international has found that more than seven hundred people died while crossing the mediterranean sea in june and july despite a drop in the number of refugees and migrants attempting the perilous journey human rights group says e.u. policies and hostilities are to blame somebody who has more. don't really go through a frantic charge towards a rescue ship and a desperate plea to be sent back to libya and you know you've got to be aware there were no at all eighty seven people stranded off the libyan coast saved by a spanish charity vessel a week ago after a brutal journey that we have a report of which was no good. thing no food no water i don't think they are among

the tens of thousands of people who have crossed from africa to europe this year the ones that make it a lucky ones. many do not survive. amnesty international says that in june and july of this year more than seven hundred people drowned in the mediterranean an increase in deaths from the same time last year and that's despite a drop in the numbers of people making that same journey. alongside this there has also been a dramatic rise in the number of people being held in overcrowded detention centers in libya in recent months the number of detainees has shot up to four thousand four hundred in march to more than ten thousand by the end of july nearly all were taken to centers such as this after being intercepted at sea and returned to libya by the libyan coast guard. the search comes after a backdrop of intensifying anti migrant politics in europe germany's chancellor angela merkel faced a fierce backlash more than

a million refugees mainly from syria and afghanistan into the country now the government is seeking agreements with fellow members of the european union to send my kids back to the countries where they initially registered but this has done little to calm populist figures all over the continent lucky to be seen as cracking down on asylum seekers amongst them italian far right interior minister. speaking to al-jazeera. more than seven hundred thousand people have arrived in italy across the mediterranean sea alone we cannot continue this way but this helps neither italy nor africa therefore i wanted to stop such action such human trafficking which could be tied to terrorism drug or arms trade whilst the european union has provided financial incentives for member countries to take in asylum seekers it has been criticized but failing to act but until there is a coordinated effort by the e.u.

as a whole this may simply be seen as a delaying tactic for a crisis that is not going away anytime soon so you go al-jazeera. a photo journalist detained in bangladesh is back in police custody after being given the all clear in a medical examination trying to alarm the ledges that he was tortured in jail where he's been held since sunday was taken into police custody hours after doing an interview with al jazeera about demonstrations against the government human rights watch is calling for an investigation into the allegations he was of used. i wish his information minister says. was not detained by his journalism. he has been arrested in sutton the columns of which we are looking into it but as to the producer the court the courtroom he said. what will happen to him but he has not really had a set of down a list examined has been arrested for be soothing the informant for the company

isn't a global act so it is it is a general act for the own citizens not for the galleries so for done the sick endeavor he has not been ordered or a different. opinion he has not been that there are the reasons we will give a report to the court we believe. on have our space and we think that the john lewis should have the security to one. of the sport and this would not be haddest by the law enforcing it is all by any court does the government give protection to them australia's most populous state new south wales has been declared entirely in drought farm reservoirs have dried up crops are failing and farm is a facing ruin the government is recent one hundred forty million dollars aid package for farmers and it's giving them permission to shoot kangaroos at a competing with livestock response posture catching up as what i am reports.

it's an overwhelming drought these cattle swarm around a want to truck in new south wales looking for relief from the devastating join us the ground has become too bear for grass to grow and the weather too extreme to predict farmers in eastern australia say the drought has taken over turning one's fertile lands into dust bowls chemical live long i don't know if they got found a very long. when we got healed up. to keep cattle alive some farmers have been forced to ship in hay and grain from other parts of the country that is expensive the national government is pledging nearly one hundred fifty million additional dollars to help offset the cost this winter as they particularly cool you have to go back to sixty five to see another winter like this one and you've got to remember that some of those haven't really recovered from the last

without some farms are doing better than others but stories of desperation are repeated across new south wales nearly eighty thousand people in the state depend on the agriculture industry contributing more than ten billion dollars to its annual economy but the drought is affecting more than forming the government says it's concerned about farmers mental health and the isolation of those who live in remote areas i find droughts a little bit like cancer a sort of eight so why aren't you it just gets drier and drier and more severe and more severe and impacting on your life a lot worse. a dry spell with no signs of ending with entire farming communities welcoming support from local leaders but hoping for help from mother nature cuts a low post adriaan al-jazeera. a key border crossing from oman into water on yemen has been closed by striking yemeni customs officials are protesting against a decision by local officials to increase the tariffs on imported goods by one

hundred percent they say this will lead to huge price increases will add to the suffering yemenis are experiencing because of the three year long war seventy percent of goods imported into yemen go through the crossing in our mara which is in the southeast of the country. syrian state media is reporting that president bashar al assad's wife has breast cancer the sun news agency has published a photo of a small our son and her husband in what appears to be a hospital room hooked up to a drip in a statement the president said she's receiving early treatment for a malignant tumor of the breast a former investment banker was born in london to syrian parents for marrying bashar assad in two thousand. opposition groups in pakistan have held protests in several provinces against alleged vote rigging during last month's elections or mcchrystal in one comes to recruit insaaf party won the vote and is to take power next tuesday is opponents say the military intervened on his behalf which the army denies khan

has vowed to investigate the charges. in the u.s. state of ohio democrats a biting at the heels of their republican rivals in a special election for the house of representatives is usually a safe republican seat but the party's candidate only has a small lead and absentee and provisional ballots still to be counted john hendren is there and sent this report. the election wasn't even supposed to be close but after a long election night it was too close to call republican troy balders and held the narrowest of leads over democrat danny o'connor in a special election for ohio's twelfth congressional district i'm going to promise to you but i'm going to work relentlessly really let mostly for this well congressional district.

i mean there are those on the right and we're going to keep it going about well. in this heavily republican district o'connor and his party called it a win of sorts in way with his campaign claiming provisional in absentee ballots could still make the difference it was anything but a concession speech can you believe how close this is. in a tie ball game and you made this possible the grass roots individuals who've been knocking on doors fighting for the future of our country. in this sprawling landscape of ohio farmland in so. just one democrat has won here since one thousand nine hundred thirty nine. republican state legislators in ohio. to make it more republican in two thousand and eleven so democrats say loss is a harbinger of a coming democratic wave in the november midterm elections. the. president

. percentage points in two thousand and sixteen when polls show democrats in a dead heat with republican troy boulder's in this year. and took to the road troy alderson is the guy the guy that's going to do things. right side groups poured millions of dollars into the race most for. we have a grassroots. campaign across. in a way that democrats need twenty three seats to take over the house of representatives and each side has one more chance to win this district the winner only holds office until january now the two candidates return to the campaign trail to face each other again in the november midterm elections john hendren westerville ohio.

and. hello there we've seen lots of thunder and lightning over parts of turkey recently the satellite picture is picking up the cloud responsible you can see it over the northern parts there and actually then it works its way eastwards towards the caspian sea so we're seeing lots of thunder and lightning lots of heavy downpours too and some hail as well and that system sticks around as we had three thursday

and into friday so expect some more very heavy downpours here on friday where it's also expecting some showers a bit further south so for the northern parts of iran there could be one or two downpours here as well elsewhere there is just fine and hot couple of to around thirty six degrees and for us in baghdad we'll be getting to around forty four now here in doha we've had winds from the northwest over the past few days and so that has ensured it's not been too few mid there with the changing now though so on thursday and friday we drawn in from a more easterly direction and that will drag in more humidity so expect things to be a bit more sticky over the next few days further south you can see a good deal of cloud here over parts of a man into yemen and the southern parts of saudi so obviously more humidity here and it will be a bit sticky and maybe a bit of drizzle around the coast as well down towards the southern parts of africa you can see some heavy rain here over parts of east and south africa and that will gradually pull away eastwards as we head into friday.

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and one of the top stories. the democratic republic of congo's ruling coalition has nominated former interior minister. as its candidate in december presidential election comes after the government announced president joseph kabila will not enter the ballot. the red cross' described sunday's earthquake on the indonesian island of long ball as exceptionally destructive hundred thirty one people were killed and more than one hundred fifty thousand been left homeless. a senior member

of zimbabwe's opposition m.d.c. alliance has been denied asylum in zambia former finance minister tendai biti is being. deported back to zimbabwe. me in my eyes marking thirty years since the start of its democracy movement named eighty eight up to it the year in which thousands of protesters flooded the streets to demand an end to military rule that movement brought on some sushi to promise as a human rights icon since being elected as defacto leader in twenty fifteen may have questioned her commitment to democracy in light of her handling of the ranger crisis scott highland as well. it was an early august thirty years ago the protesters took to the streets of burma as it was called then taking their stand for democracy after decades of military control the movement became known as eight eighty eight the date of a nationwide general strike august eighth one thousand nine hundred eighty eight a year before the country was renamed me and maher thousands marched in the then

capital rangoon and in cities in towns across the nation in its crackdown the military opened fire but the demonstrations continued and grew in the weeks to come three thousand protesters were killed another three thousand jailed and ten thousand fled the country. from these protests a leader for the movement emerged. and this was the really beginning of the growth of you know the image of aung san suu kyi as the great democracy and human rights icon and since that beginning thirty years ago she won the nobel peace prize while under house arrest and her political party went on to win a general elections three years ago but even with that she does not run the country the military's control over the civilian government is guaranteed in the constitution. dunja park preach iraq is a professor of southeast asia politics at thailand's thomas art university. we need to understand the nature of democracy in myanmar today it was developed

to follow military leader myanmar now a day is in the process of then look at the transition of them look at the constellation i think myanmar now is in the half way even though the nation is finding its feet as a new democracy many feel that since taking office on song suchi has ignored human rights and freedoms when she should be speaking out and fighting for them like she did thirty years ago the idea that she was going to be a human rights defender for in the leadership of the government has now really been dashed because you know as she said i'm not you know i'm not a human rights activist i'm a politician. unfortunate those words of prove to be prophetic because you know she has become the kind of politician that an earlier version of her male railed against was a movement that brought on song suchi to where she is today is celebrated the time when she or another democratically elected civilian leader will actually lead the

country is still in the distance got hard learned how to zero. for a minister years christopher gunness who was a reporter in minot during that uprising so you were there at the time how did all that unfold that uprising in one hundred eighty eight i was sent as a cub reporter to cover the confrontation that was looming between the army and the generals the generals in the democracy movements i went as a backpacker posing as a tourist in fact you know illegally to avoid the military intelligence the night after i got there a big news story broke there were elections are announced i was told by london to break my cover someone listening to that story a human rights lawyer called name him heard me and thought i'm going to get the story out about burma he left a note under my pillow through the hotel operator i met students in one of the interviews one of the students said in burma as a language i don't speak our revolution will start at eight minutes past eight on the eight of the eight of nine hundred eighty eight those tapes were later broadcast back into burma meanwhile i was told to leave i was kicked out i went to

bangladesh maybe and then got in touch with me in bangladesh started giving me news every journalist in the country was on strike and my reports became the twitter and facebook of that revolution just as twitter and facebook later became so important in the arab spring and forty one i was called back to london naman was arrested and that story of his arrest and my relationship with the source is actually the subject of a play which is opening at the tower theater in london and i mean that there are consequences for him were quite severe and he uses been absolutely brazen absolutely i mean cut to two thousand and thirteen i mean my office in the middle east an email arrives saying we're the burma students from one thousand eight hundred come back and join in our silver. event i amazed i was amazed i got a visa had been public enemy number one went back with great trepidation met the students great joy all the sadness because so many have been killed and imprisoned men would see me he was adamant and eventually he did and it was a very very difficult meeting full of bitterness he thought had betrayed him and he

thought that the b.b.c. also had betrayed and abandon the movies as he was imprisoned and tortured for sixteen years i mean when you look back on it i mean he's talked about in an interview where he said he learned about the crackdown because it because it was only what we have as i just just now we have he didn't there in the report is this was brutally repressed wasn't it this this uprising and then upset he felt like it done the wrong thing do you do you still feel it did the right thing or how do you feel about the repression that followed oh i mean it was terrible what happened i mean thousands of people were imprisoned thousands of people unarmed demonstrators were shot dead in fact one of the terrible legacies of burma today comes from nine hundred eighty eight the the the military have destroyed many of the institutions the courts the did issue the democratic institutions the army operated with impunity in one thousand eight hundred thirty three light infantry division which killed so many undemonstrated and is again today country killing the hinges appalling abuses so there's a terrible legacy which of course i regret it's terrible but the up the uprising was a moment of truth it defined burma and it's in

a sense it set the parameters of the transition we have seen recently which is why it's so disappointing to see understands that she really not stay true to the spirit of nine hundred eighty eight so why do you think there is that disconnect between what they fought so hard for at the time and what they kind of ended up with now why is it i only know i think that she was perceived as a spiritual leader people thought she'd be like the dalai lama human rights activists like nelson mandela who knows she's a politician and she had to make tough compromises with some of the most brutal generals in the far east one of the most brutal armies in the world and that's been the problem she's had to make these compromises in order to maintain so she says a stable. government and for many of us who covered those events in one thousand eighty eight she didn't remain true to that spirit and that's a great source of great regrets and in terms of the kind of the. times to go back to your your involvement. what was it about it that that movement that they suddenly had that kind of level of kind of things coming together what was it that

partnership i have to say and i think the name in this character who is for me the unsung hero of this he saw me i was a young cub reporter he was a forty two year old sassy human rights story and he saw that this was an opportunity to get the story out he saw that if you were to get if he was to get news on to the b.b.c. which everyone was listening to people in the north of the country would hear what the people in the south were doing and sadly the overall picture across the country the nation which had been basically enslaved by lack of information could suddenly be set free and that's precisely what happened and that's why this place such a joy this story that's remained untold buried by history for thirty years is now getting out in may when the rightful place in history i hope will be restored thanks to this brilliant play by just you said he wasn't happy with you when you first met him is he reconciled to the idea of the play even well my reconciliation with name it is a very painful issue and a source of great kills i have to say it's

a work in progress i'm not sure the man who was imprisoned for seventy of sixteen years tortured in solitary confinement because he spoke to me will ever be able to find a place in his head to forgive me and that actually is the emotional arc the frost of this drama the play that's as i say in so brilliantly written by guy slater the playwright christopher gunness thank you very much thank you very much. a malaysia's former prime minister has denied three new charges of money laundering najib razak is accused of stealing billions of dollars from estate investment fund which he set up in two thousand and nine a fund called one n.d.b. is at the center of probes and at least six countries reports from quite a. back in court to face more charges former prime minister of malaysia has pleaded not guilty to receiving proceeds that stemmed from unlawful activities he's alleged to have received ten and a half million dollars from a state company called s r c international these three additional.

meanings and the money laundering now and the money laundering is a big is a big word but it's strictly mean proceeds of crime i they are in addition to the charges brought against him last month for criminal breach of trust and abuse of power s.r.c. international is a former unit of one and the state investment fund set up by not chip when he was both prime minister and finance minister the u.s. department of justice alleges four and a half billion dollars has been stolen from the fund one m.t.b. isn't just being investigated in malaysia at least six other countries including singapore and switzerland i investigated the fund over alleged corruption and money laundering. his alleged to have covered up irregularities at the fund when he was still in power sacking his deputy prime minister and replacing the attorney general with another officer who subsequently cleared him of any wrong doing we'll. but

since coming into power following a general election in may the new administration led by mahathir mohamad has moved swiftly to uncover the true extent of the corruption scandal surrounding one m. to be the government who recently took possession of a two hundred fifty million dollars yacht it was handed over by indonesian authorities who had seized the vessel on behalf of u.s. officials who allege the yacht was bought with money stolen from one n.d.p. florence li al-jazeera kuala lumpur. turkey has pledged to continue buying natural gas from iran despite the new sanctions imposed by the united states iran's foreign minister is also warned the sanctions will not stop his country from exporting oil saying it's impossible to cut iran off on tuesday president on trump warned the world against doing business with iran after imposing what he called the most biting citations ever the measures target access to u.s. bank notes and key industries such as cars and carpets and those sanctions are

worrying iran's regional neighbors especially india which imports a large amount of its oil from there and is under thomas explains india's relationship with iran is far more than just economic. whew those filling up at this new delhi petrol station have a view on iran's nuclear program nor the merits of the deal to control it but the renewal of u.s. sanctions on iran could be felt here india is the second biggest importer of iranian oil after china eighteen percent of its oil comes from iran and rove rising over the top when petrol prices go up it's the common people like me and others who are affected. india also exports to iran some to see more rice the reimposition of sanctions so far does not cover food nor oil the full extent of what the united states expects of other countries would be no until november india is hoping exemptions can be made a waiver from the sanctions regime or freedom from consequences if it does continue

to trade with iran. but indian exports to the us to twenty five times those to iran it can't afford to risk them the door does and will be taken by the woman it will be in the national interest it is a very very difficult choice we have to strike a balance india has close ties to iran president has on rouhani came to new delhi in february prime minister narendra modi went to terror on two years ago the country's tiny's our strategic as well as economic sanctions on iran are just a matter of money for india this is about more than the price of petrol rights there is a geo political dimension to the us sanctions regime could india. india is the major investor in this sport in iran southcoast it gives india access by sea to places which because pakistan blocks the land route it can't reach otherwise you don is important from the geographical point of fuel when you're looking at to

understand when you're looking at central asia so we have the hub when we talk about the connectivity projects. investment in iran is also politically strategic china's so-called belt and road investment initiative gives its influence across central asia if india can't rival its people here believe china's influence will grow. little is clear yet u.s. and indian officials will meet in september to discuss what the full u.s. sanctions regime will mean here it could hurt and written us al jazeera new delhi. and breaking news for you at this hour we've got to getting reports that there been at least four explosions in gaza the israeli army has confirmed that they have hit several targets in the gaza strip this after rockets exploded in southern israel earlier today in two israelis were injured we'll bring you more on that news story

straight after this short break. since the war with russia. and two states.

georgia's marking ten years since the war with russia that left the country dismembered twenty percent of the country remains effectively under control a decade after the weeklong war in two thousand and eight jenna. well this moment marks a decade since george your fourteenth brief but in many ways devastating war with

russia was four to over territory of course hundreds were killed tens of thousands were made homeless but it also shook the security foundations of a number of former soviet republics in the eurasian space who perhaps yearned for closer economic ties with the european union and the protection of nato and who suddenly here were given a very graphic illustration of the lengths to which russia was prepared to go to prevent that. at a military cemetery outside tbilisi tamari burial needs it has come to remember some of those who fought and died ten years ago she and her family lost their home in george's brief war with russia in august two thousand and eight. to marry now lives in a settlement built to house some twenty thousand i.d.p.'s or internally displaced people their homes and villages were swallowed up by

a forty five boundary separating georgia from the russian backed breakaway regions of south of setia and up cars here. some of the i.d.p.'s preferred to forget and children are not cuts their family's history of floor and occupation forgetting this is seeing. unbelievable to me. many georgians refused to forget outside the building that was the russian embassy until the two countries said diplomatic ties on to the war they demand that russia end what they call its occupation. it's our history we are european country and it will be part of you i want russia to go all the time. but russia shows no sign of withdrawing thousands of its troops stationed in the breakaway regions despite being required to do so under the e.u. brokered deal that ended the war and there's good reason for that. is

russia far more a loss of diplomatic ties with its former soviet republic far more. diplomatic protest is nice to an expansion of nato taking in georgia as a member and bringing that western alliance right up to russia's doorstep. nato has promised to georgia in early two thousand and eight of a fast track to membership later fuse that made war inevitable. this week as georgia and nato hold joint military exercises russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev has warned of a quote horrible new conflict. i spoke to a former georgian foreign minister if we stand where we stand today we will always be vulnerable and we will always be russia so the only way to head to join europe to join nato and to be protected democracy like other eastern europeans. there were

fears that the war ten years ago would pick russia and nato against one another over georgia that remains an alarming possibility. all those comments by the russian prime minister dmitry medvedev he was president of course at the time of the war ten years ago trading places with. putin clearly calculated in their timing but certainly not surprising russia has always made it abundantly clear that it views the nato alliance as a direct threat and is prepared to counter any efforts aimed at its eastward expansion so that war ten years ago not forgotten by anyone on any side and nor can anyone be at all sure that it won't happen again. let's get more on that breaking news out of gaza we're hearing of nine targets hit in the gaza strip by israel and or simmons is live in gaza for us so andrew tell us more about what you've been hearing there. well lauren we've heard very loud explosions here in

gaza city because there have been no less than ten and strikes in the past hour the first was here in gaza city and that was a military target it has to be said how mass headquarters of their special forces that is the brigades i have to say and there was also an attack on the navy building a different location in the city outside the city then just a few minutes before coming to a very loud explosion much closer about two kilometers away and that was a second house navy position barracks we don't know of casualties right now the other targeted areas. jabara. east of rafa we know that they've been targeted there two attacks on rougher it seems

a total of ten in all now what started all of this off it has to pay said that there's hardly seems like proportionate response but that is a debate for later there was a number of rockets fired into israel we've heard that a confirmation effectively from the brigades with their twitter feeds that they actually let loose four rockets and they say two of them were. launched by mistake this was a jibe about a previous attack two days ago on a on a base on the border in which. to have massed fighters died and they said that there would be some form of revenge now it was a mistake according to. according to the israelis they didn't aim necessarily they would realize that the that whoever was the fighters were not aiming at them so right now this is a very tense and. diplomatic situation very difficult in the trees situation

rockets are being fired as i speak and that is where you saw that but there there are rockets being launched have been several in fact we're talking at least nine to ten rockets being launched now that targeting israeli settlements most of them we knew first of all on those first attacks that there were two israeli settlers injured and that's when the israeli military put out a tweet announcements that they were being attacked by house and then of course the response and that's meant that military targets were being hit andrew symonds thank you very much indeed for that time being and time now for sports cars have to pour in there. thank you lauren will start with football and chelsea are on the verge of completing a world record signing

a day before the premier league's transfer window shuts they've agreed a fee of ninety two million dollars for athletic bilbao kapur and either blogger that will be the most ever paid for goalkeeper kapur is twenty three and has one international cap for spain he set to replace courts wide chelsea with the belgian keeper expected to join realm of dreads. well the current world record pfieffer caper was set by liverpool just last month the reds paying roma eighty four million dollars for brazilian allyson that broke a seventeen year old record event has paid parma sixty two million for jana e.g. buffon he still going at forty currently at p.s.g. and last year manchester city paid benfica forty six million dollars for brazilian edison more heists while the premier league transfer window closes on thursday it's the league's earliest have a deadline while teams from rival european competitions are able to buy and sell players until the end of the month we spoke to english football reporter james

robson he says that clubs may now be regretting having voted for the change you're in a situation now where a lot of the premier league teams have not done their business yet and they've been handicapped by that that will cook ran as well and it's an early start to the premier league business well which also adds to it and they've got now what twenty four hours or so to get there to get their business done meanwhile as is the case with barcelona suddenly taking an interest in paul pogba they can still they can still be hanging around for a good few weeks afterwards it makes no sense whatsoever notably two teams who didn't go for it were manchester united and manchester city they foresaw these precise problems that all the teams in the premier league probably little the side are experiencing right now the theory behind i would say was flawed to begin with the theory behind it was a lot of clubs didn't want to start the season not knowing who would be in their team and who wouldn't now of course straight away that theory falls down with the

fact that they can still lose players because the rest of europe can still sign two hundred a month so that made no sense whatsoever the only thing that we know is that if someone starts the season playing for one premier league team. they won't be able to move to the premier league team until at least the january transfer window. kenya's former four hundred meter hurdles world champion nicholas bats has been killed in a road accident at the age of twenty eight betts made history in twenty fifteen becoming the first kenyan to win gold it's a distance shorter than eight hundred meters the father of two crashed his car while traveling between caps about on the famous distance running town of eldoret. sawyer school for now back to lauren and london paul thank you very much indeed and just a reminder that in the next couple of minutes judy mcdonald will be hit with all the news bill so with a reminder of the breaking news from gaza where ten israeli airstrikes have hit and there's also been rocket fire from gaza into israel so that's it for me for this

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