central america is about the same time but more importantly as well as two cultures north and south america has to teach it's a very important place found. the u.s. threatens to impose more sanctions on turkey as turkish debt is downgraded. i'm about this and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.n. secretary general proposes for ways to help protect palestinian civilians. cricket star turned politician imran khan is to be sworn in as pakistan's prime minister. and russian president vladimir putin heads to berlin to discuss a controversial gas pipeline which will bypass ukraine.

turkey's credit rating has been lowered by two key agencies moody's and standard and poor's now say it's become more difficult for turkey to make payments on its debts the country's already being rocked by a financial crisis and sanctions from the united states are reports from new york. for the turkish lira it was a week that could not in soon enough he week that started with the lira sliding to a record low of seven point two against the us dollar the currency has lost nearly forty percent of its value against the dollar this year alone as a full fledged economic crisis continues to simmer the trump administration this week threatened to impose additional economic sanctions on turkey over the country's continued house arrest of a u.s. pastor on terrorism charges the diplomatic standoff led trump on friday to again

say sanctions are justified turkey has in my opinion acted very very badly so we haven't seen the last of that we are not going to take it sitting down they can take our face but some analysts say the u.s. is being overly aggressive with the sanctions and use them too much and use them to recklessly if you don't have allies on board when you use the. erode their effectiveness over time however there are some signs of potential relief on wednesday qatar's emir tahmima bin hamad out funny visited ankara bringing with him promises of an investment package worth fifteen billion dollars that money will mainly be injected into turkey's financial markets and banks turkey also promised to inject more money into the economy here on wall street they're watching the events in turkey very closely but most analysts say they have not seen any

significant signs yet that events there are objecting the u.s. stock market but elsewhere that's not the case markets in asia remain mixed and european stocks were mostly down primarily because many european countries remain heavily exposed to turkey's debt while the list of grievances between these two nato allies is substantial this crisis ultimately boils down to a battle of wills between two leader. here's the big question now which one of them will blink first until then how far will the lire fall in the meantime gabriel is on to. new york. united nations has more money and u.n. personnel should be used to protect civilians in gaza and other palestinian territories the u.n. secretary general has been asked to look for ways to shield palestinians from what's being described as excessive and indiscriminate force by the israeli military also in jordan has more from the united nations. the u.n.

general assembly ordered the secretary general and tonio good tenors to come up with the report of recommendations so that there could be new ways or perhaps a reinforcement of old ways of protecting palestinian civilians in the ongoing dispute with the israeli government the recommendations for coming from the secretary general are for the first would be increasing the number of you would personnel in the occupied palestinian territories in order to help palestinian civilians improve their quality of life the second recommendation is essentially more money for u.n. and other governmental organization programs to improve health care education and the economy in the occupied territories the last two recommendations from a terrorist would need a security council resolution and indorsement before either could be employed one could deploy an observer mission that could also act as local bt interest to keep

the israeli military and policy of protestors for of getting into an all out conflict the final would be a deployment of perhaps a peacekeeper force an armed force as the document calls it in order to basically make certain that these two sides don't come into any clashes and that people are killed or injured as a result those last two would be very difficult to get into dorset from the security council without considerable debate and to go see a ship and because the us president donald trump has been very vigorous in its defense of israel's right to protect itself it is likely that should a resolution even be to go see it that the u.s. would veto such a measure essentially putting this whole proposal into the waistband but because the u.n. general assembly decided to debate the matter and to have a good tears take a fresh look at the ongoing crisis. israel of the palestinian territories it is

certainly something that's going to lead to at least a new round of discussion in the un security council and these two palestinian protesters have been killed and two hundred seventy people have been wounded in demonstrations near the gaza israel border fence palestinians have been staging protests every friday since march and they're demanding a right to return to ancestral lands but they say their families were forced to leave they also want an end to the israeli blockade of the gaza strip charles top photo is at a medical tent near the border fence. the medics here tell us that this man has been injured by a live round that has gone through both his legs. the medics here say that the majority of those injured are injured in the lower limbs and they say that ninety percent of the time these bullets live ammunition if you come over here this man. is one of the countless people. suffering the effects of tear gas inhalation medics

saying they're seeing people like this all the time is not a man head who so doctor tells us has been injured by what he describes as an exploding bullet obviously we can't independently confirm the spot don't just say that he's ready soldiers are using a type of ammunition that explodes in middle and the shrapnel obviously flies out and many people are being harmed this way now hamas says that the palestinians of gaza have every right to continue these protests and as we heard earlier today in the mosques there were calls for these protests to happen in various locations across gaza hamas says that people here have every right to protest until israel's sea is lifted and that's despite the countless injuries we're seeing here every week. among khan is expected to be sworn in as pakistan's new prime minister has taken soft fox he has become the largest in the national

assembly after last month's election but he still needs to set up a coalition government and cons facing many challenges including trying to prevent an economic crisis and boosting jobs has more from islamabad. august on the. children emraan con and they're going to take in prime minister of pakistan there were a chaotic scene inside parliament and the opposition made a lot of noise shouting slogans against iran khan and shouting in favor of now why should the prime minister who were disqualified and younger brother shofar should leave for the opening candidate for the prime minister. however the differences between the politicians in pakistan had meant that the opposition airlines had already fallen apart of august on people's party decided to have pain from the walking and that of course had given enron khan

a clear advantage emraan hahn has spoken on the floor of parliament saying there did going to be bigger an accountability and he's going to deliver on the promise that he made to the people of august on whom he'd have voted for change in iran started as a political party back in nineteen ninety six and in twenty two years has become that great if they can prime minister. on a summer binge of it looks back at cons journey from cricket star to the new leader of pakistan. after a twenty two year struggle in mom tons taken pakistan's top draw the kind of magic cricket captain who brought home the world cup is now the prime minister for years his vision has been to build what he calls a new pakistan the stand to become one. no you can only get out of this by a complete juta and what we call a new box them you know we want to but what they were is go back to the vision of

the founding fathers. it all began with the launch of that there you can sock or p.t.i. in one nine hundred ninety six but it wasn't until the twenty thirteen election that it emerged as pakistan's third largest political party in this election concow being on a track record of establishing a hospital in a university and more recently running the government of the fabric of our problems . he's long been at the center of media attention both at home and abroad which meant his private life was also no spotlight from marrying british socialite jim i'm a goldsmith whose most recent divorce the journalist ron hahn even his third manager the spiritual advisor bush has not been without controversy. hans also denied his rival's accusations that he won as many seats this time because he was the military's favorite candidate. but he has been the favored candidate of many first time voters the youth as iran hahn calls them his party supporters have disrupted to dish and politics in the last few years but their energy and aggressive social

media presence and they've also put pressure on iran and members of his party have misbehaved. imran khan's one of the most recognizable faces of pakistan who's been a vocal critic of u.s. drone strikes and has insisted that dialogue with groups like the taliban is the way to achieve peace people do not want this exogenous of killing in the name of drone attacks is hinted at better ties with neighbors including india and afghanistan in a positive relationship with the u.s. based on what he calls mutual respect. imran khan's become the first former cricketer to have turned popular support into an election when. as he gets ready to fulfill his promise of the so-called new pakistan he faces major challenges including finishing his full five year term as because none of his predecessors remained in power long enough to complete their time in office some of the job it was their. still ahead and al-jazeera the move by the trumpet ministration that some say signals are u.s.

withdrawal from the syrian conflict. in india says a final farewell to the prime minister who oversaw its transition into a nuclear power. from flowing all in winds to an enchanting desert breeze. hello there we've got lots of showers around the black sea again they've been plaguing us for past few weeks and the still more of them as we head through saturday and sunday you see them they stretch from the black sea across towards the caspian sea and some of them have been rather heavy more of them are expected as we head through sunday away from there it's largely fine and dry with beirut up at thirty degrees and it's rather hot in baghdad put it around forty three it's hotter in kuwait the air here is a bit dry so forty seven degrees will be our maximum here in doha we've also got dry air at the moment it's not too shumate so our temperatures will be comfortably

above forty further south more cloud over here over parts of a man and into yemen and that could be squeezing out one or two showers particularly along the south coast of a man a round. if we head down towards the southern parts of africa we're seeing more cloud now in the southeastern parts that's just taken off to give us a few outbreaks of rain particularly in the durban area over in chile as we head through saturday and into sunday that begins to break up and for many of us it will be a drier and warmer one so for jo'burg we'll get to around seventy nine for durban will get to around twenty five it's not that warm if you head down towards cape town here with all the winds coming in off the same or cloud as well so temperatures will be held back just a fourteen degrees. the weather sponsored by can tell me. as protests in nicaragua against the president continue and the number of those killed rises in b.c. someone says i'm staying in public no matter what they have to crash into

a goal of reality that usually gets blocked. cynthia remarriages is from a vice president al jazeera. i'm. sure you know. some of the like. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories ratings agency moody's has cuts the status of turkey's credit rating down to junk earlier on friday turkey's currency the lira good even weaker after a turkish court rejected an american pastor's appeal for release washington's threaten to impose more sanctions and i think if he's not freed. united nations

secretary general says that are for what used to protect palestinian civilians and tony gutierrez has been told to find methods to shield people from what's being described as excessive and indiscriminate force by the israeli military. and mung khan is due to be sworn in as pakistan's prime minister a day after his confirmation by parliamentarians he said he can self party one last month's national election the former cricketer has promised to tackle corruption. german chancellor angela merkel essential to hold talks with russian leader vladimir putin on saturday dominic kane reports on the complex relationship between lend and moscow. when i'm going to merkel me to putin on saturday it will be for the second time in just three months on the table of the conflict in syria the situation in ukraine and the controversial nord stream two gas pipeline under the baltic sea but hanging over the meeting is this statement from donald trump at

july's nato summit but germany as far as i'm concerned is captive to russia because it is getting so much its energy from russia so we're supposed to protect germany but they're getting their energy from russia explained to the. russia provides only around half of germany's annual energy consumption but most is in the form of natural gas and that is why the nord stream to gas pipeline is so contentious it's a network which when complete will transport natural gas from russia under the baltic sea to western europe bypassing the existing land based pipelines through ukraine and it might deprive the government in kiev as much as three billion dollars a year in revenue ministers in kiev say the project is purely political moscow insists it's just business but i sure wish i knew when you have the stomach stick that lets us get them a player look we have always treated this project as exclusively economic we have

always kept this outside the scope of any political process i would also like to say that after the launch of nordstrom to stopping the movement of russian gas through ukraine is not intended. but russia's role in ukraine continues to concern the leaders notably angolan merkel specifically moscow's immovable ety over the minsk agreement which broker a cease fire between government and separatist forces the often does the all the we hope to move forward on the issues of the minsk egremont with ukraine and russia france and germany took on responsibility many years ago we are saddened that still no day goes by without a violation of the cease fire that we don't give up hope and we know that through this the relationship with russia could be significantly improved. ukraine assigned to the two leaders do have common ground such as in keeping the run nuclear deal both share concerns about the trumpet ministrations tariffs and diplomacy but their

relationship has never been easy i think both sides have accumulated a lot of skepticism mistrust neutral reproaches and grievances that overshadow their relationship which is why few people in the german capital expect any breakthroughs as a result of this meeting dominic. german chancellor angela merkel is to hold talks with the russian leader vladimir putin on saturday we'll have more on that story of course as it's coming up the italian government says it may take over control of the country's motorways after a bridge collapsed in genoa on tuesday at least thirty eight people have died and hundreds of others have been injured david chaytor has more from general. they've already started to bury the dead in a series of private funeral of but the search for survivors still continues under the rubble of the collapsed bridge the rescuers are using heavy lifting the sheen area and search dogs. but hopes are fading with each hour that passes here that

anyone else can have survived under such a weight of concrete. many of the families of the victims are boycotting the day of mourning called in the city this weekend they say it was a tragedy caused by government negligence and they want no part in the official ceremony for the marriage general or did little to reassure them in their grief this is a way of thinking this every every problem may become an opportunity and it's exactly what they see it right now i mean we're going to have some investment from the from the government to the collapse of the bridge which was opened in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven has fed growing concern about the state of at least aging roads and bridges and the quality of the cement used in the construction boom across the country it does seem that this was created more than fifty years ago and the sheer volume of traffic these bridges are now taking not only here but in many other parts of the italian infrastructure simply was not

allowed for there was too much traffic it was well known since since indicates ago that this infrastructure was not enough for supporting all the traffic the city traffic bortz related traffic and the regional and even international traffic prosecutors in the city say ten to twenty people are still unaccounted for and a warning the death toll is expected to rise the collapse occurred just a day before italy's busiest summer holiday david chase the al jazeera genoa. russian and turkish defense ministers have met in moscow to discuss the plight of syria's refugees millions have been forced from their homes since the war began many are now fleeing from it live as one of the last opposition strongholds ahead of a planned offensive by government forces there taking refuge in camps near the turkish border sin and cos he also has more from inside syria near the border with turkey.

this is the marketplace of a refugee camp in northern syria by syria after a keyboard there the camp which is one of the oldest in self-rising began a new reality post more than eight hundred fifty thousand syrian refugees those refugees this place may be once maybe a couple of times since the syrian authorising and the bashar assad regime's the salts began and many people here feel stuck because as the fear is as the syrian regime president bashar assad threatens to touch it these people say they have nowhere else to go because this was the ultimate point by the border that they could reach and now you see the stocks you see the shops and people who are trying to make a living here today is friday some of the shops are there but when you speak the way they are holding up things because they are made up and you have sold out by

the syrian regime. the united states says it's cutting two hundred thirty million dollars allocated for stabilization programs in syria and says the funding is only going to be provided if syria engages in a credible peace process led by the united nations it's being seen as a move to extricate the u.s. from the conflict as company halakhah triplets. it's yet another signal of the troubled ministrations desire to withdraw from a visible role in syria on friday it announced it was redirecting two hundred thirty million syrian stabilisation funds frozen in march to other foreign policy priorities. the move comes following contributions in pledges totaling three hundred million by coalition partners to help rebuild parts of syria no longer held by isis among the contributions announced this week one hundred million from saudi arabia. president trump since the start of his presidency has been carefully

cultivated his relationship with the kingdom but the donation is a fraction in comparison to the reported four billion trump reportedly requested in march for syrian assistance and rebuilding still the u.s. says in former eisel strongholds like rocka one hundred fifty thousand displaced residents have been able to return the city's drinking water is now safe. according to a recent u.n. report up to thirty thousand eisel fighters remain in iraq and syria syria has called saudi arabia's contributions to the u.s. led rebuilding effort morally unacceptable through its state news agency it argued the coalition's only goal is to fragment the region that's what the u.s. contends is the goal of iran in syria and throughout the middle east it's pushing for the withdrawal of iran's forces in syria we're going to continue to counter the

iran regime is more an activity. to support iranian voices and to galvanize international support for efforts the u.s. denies the shifting of funds for syria signals a lessening of its strategic goals it says its humanitarian assistance is not effective and defeating eisel remains a top priority we continue to be committed to this fight and we're not backing down from that isis needs to be defeated in the u.s. government stands firmly by that for years president trying to complain about u.s. allies not sharing the financial burden for efforts in syria including preventing syrian president bashar last thought an iranian allies from creeping into newly liberated areas it is a goal saudi arabia says it share kimberly healthy at al-jazeera washington. the once thriving tourism industry in nicaragua has completely collapsed the recent unrest in the central american country has meant tourists staying away since april hundreds of people have been killed in protests against the country's president

daniel ortega john holdren reports now from grenada on how business owners are struggling to make ends meet. their case ronnie and his family put everything into restoring this hotel and ground the naked eye were from ruins to the splendor of its colonial past now he's worried they could lose it all that will be my dream but probably. that will be me and i will hopefully if they know because it will be my food too if i don't have. my air for my investment if and here you know because i was tourism industry was booming since opening four years ago really had never had an empty night until this april when protests in a subsequent crackdown from police and paramilitary groups changed everything there would have been spent a week without anyone in. tourism has plummeted the small

hotels associate. says occupancies it down eighty percent the number of flights is home and a third of restaurants are closed just about everyone in beautiful colonial granada has been affected the city's famous for its cool strong courage rides but we're only old woman's full of customers in the whole month not only he but and there is a man yet cause suffering yes here i mean oh yeah we touch reduced the animals food and they come to he says or not is just trying to get back on its feet but it's hard when you've got reminders of the own going on rest but the town hall badly got hit by fire and when locals themselves still aren't sure if it's safe to go out night. the government's been accused of white washing the crisis this week bringing out a video called mick and i will always beautiful while protests continue to rumble through the streets they say they have to do something instead of staying with our hands down message is that we're here we're working we're working with whosoever

wants to work to develop this sector and to regain that they not miss in that this sector have had already last eleven years that can't come soon enough for reynolds hotel and the more than twenty staff members he's had to lay off for you know him among them daisy who's struggling to provide for his sick parents so i made my ms i see that the needs are the same but now the money is in there we have to playtest food medicine and basic bills that's not going to stop and i'm struggling with it in a couple of months i don't know what we are going to do everyone we talked to is hanging on for the next time he sees and in december if things don't improve by then many say migration might be the only options. john homan and dizzy from the. thousands of people to be in pain tribute to former indian prime minister atal

bihari vajpayee has been cremated in new delhi it was the first prime minister for the hindu nationalist party b j p paes regarded as having been a consensus builder and he successfully lead a coalition with multiple smaller parties under thomas reports from new delhi. india's current prime minister was among the last to life laos next to one of its most respected. then came the last post. a new delhi. old memory place i'll tell biharis but surprise balti was gently taken from its coffin and laid on its pile. for the crowd to sort of the new gunfire. the pile was lit earlier budget place body had been taken on a perception through the streets of new delhi he didn't really be devoted to that he didn't want the man everyone. and he wanted everything but everybody. twenty five roads in the center of the council with close to allow the

crowds to gather thousands of people have come through here on their way to reach the funeral rites and this is just one of many ways among the official more this is a delegation from the incoming government of pakistan imran khan about to be sworn in as pakistan's new prime minister also sends a message of goodwill saying budge plies death left a vacuum in the subcontinent political arena. matchplay is remembered fondly by most indians his period in office was one of strong economic growth and investment in roads and bridges for i it was also when india became a nuclear power the tests i was sore in one thousand nine hundred eight so controversial internationally but popular at home divisive though with two thousand and two use of and single right after a train carrying hindu pilgrims was set on fire killing fifty as many as two thousand mostly muslim men were killed in riots many thought the state government

did little to stop them but europe's then chief minister is today's prime minister on friday the renderer modi called by his go room. much noise cremation marked the end of an indian political giant and it's almost out as there are new delhi. soldiers zero beams of the top stories turkey's credit ratings being lowered by two key agencies moody's and standard and poor's say it's become more difficult for turkey to make payments on its debts the country's already being rocked by a financial crisis and sanctions from the united states washington's threatening to impose more economic pressure on one kyra it wants turkey to free a u.s. pastor who's been in jail there since twenty sixteen well he's been a problem for a long time they have not acted as the french will see what happened they have a wonderful christian pastor

a wonderful past the front thing they've made up this phony. by at least not is by. going through a trial right down your golden trial they should have given back a long time ago. turkey has in my opinion acted very very badly so we haven't seen the last of that we are not going to take it sitting down they can take our people so you will see what happens in non-con is expected to be sworn in as pakistan's new prime minister has to be can self party has become the largest in the national assembly off to last month's election but he still needs to form a coalition government and he's facing a lot of challenges including trying to prevent an economic crisis and boosting jobs. more than three hundred people have died in widespread flooding in the southern indian state of carola tens of thousands of been left stranded soldiers

and local fishermen are trying to rescue them. the u.n. secretary general says there are four ways to protect palestinian civilians when turning a good chat as was told to find methods of shielding people from what's being described as excessive and indiscriminate force by the israeli military meanwhile at least two palestinian protesters have been killed and two hundred seventy people have been wounded during demonstrations to the gaza israel border fence friday protests have been held in gaza for twenty one weeks. russian and turkish defense ministers have been meeting in moscow to discuss the plight of syria's refugees millions of people have been forced from their homes since the war began many are now fleeing from the head of a planned offensive by government forces those are the headlines the news continues here in al-jazeera after talk to all jazeera life and. tensions are high. little has changed and new village officials are struggling to demonstrate goodwill

. among morial is trying for a comrade who sacrificed his life the political change. but will only offend unite drive a wedge between the villages for. part three of a six part series filmed over five years and china's democracy experiment on al-jazeera. would you rule. to see. nicaragua once again a central american powderkeg late april into anger brings tens of thousands of nicaraguans on to the streets to demand the resignation of president daniel ortega former revolutionary hero whom the accuse of having turned into a dictator during one hundred days of confrontations up to four hundred fifty people are killed and thousands injured the vast majority are young people ortega

responds with a deadly crackdown paramilitary groups armed with assault rifles operate in plain daylight breaking up barricades and go.