respect to the area just like this polo match has been played here since 1036 formally there are 2 places and ballister there are traditional rivals it's almost like the cricket match of pakistan and india and while apollo is known as the sport of kings this version of the game is freestyle mountain pole are no umpires he rules and played on the highest poller ground in the world at $3700.00 metres above sea level but. it's very difficult to play at such high altitude not only for me but also for our horses but our love for polar sports makes us stronger to withhold such kind of pressure. in recent years scenes like this made her wrist reluctant to visit the chandeleur valley police seemingly ill equipped to deal with the security situation however the historical feud between the northern tribes of gil get and to throw out is not going far into the polish failed what's more of the $31000000.00 has been pledged to the area to encourage more foreign and local

visitors more to get out that it's time for this area where polo is played is very scenic and beautiful and we want everyone to come here and enjoy we're with pakistan loneliest pakistan if the numbers at this year's festival were anything to go by the tourists seem to be flocking back the local authorities hoping that the sports under surveillance are linked to pakistan's past can be the key to a more positive future role pathic al jazeera. that is a useful for now have will feel thanks very much to me your snail jazeera news i'm all teams of next with another full half hour from me and then you start saying thanks for your time and your complete.

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finance minister arrested for corruption never a dime scandal. hello again i'm dennis you know without you there live from doha also coming up. dozens of civilians are killed in syria's province in 24 hours as intense as strikes. and respect was on bristol reinstate the death penalty. thousands demonstrate against the policies of the philippines president as he speaks of getting even tougher on drugs. the british prime minister begins an emergency meeting to decide the government's response to iran sees ear of an oil tanker.

but 1st kenya's finance minister henri has been arrested because of a dam construction scandal marks the 1st time a sitting kenyan minister has been arrested on corruption charges he and other officials are accused of flouting procurement rules when they awarded the building project to a bankrupt italian company has denied any wrongdoing we have to have more on that story a little bit later on in the program in the meantime let's look at other news syrian government air strikes have killed and we did dozens of civilians in italy province several people are still believed to be trapped in the rubble after a busy market came under attack the syrian government backed by russia relaunched their offensive to capture it live in april killing more than 2000 people so far then the harder is following that story from beirut in neighboring lebanon. those

airstrikes have been targeting opposition controlled towns in the southern edges of the rebel controlled province of dozens of civilians killed we believe according to opposition activists on the ground and more monitors at least 30 civilians killed in the past 24 hours among them women and children this morning the time of the airstrike the hardest hit the town of modern man has a crowded marketplace and that is why so many people were killed it's not the 1st time they have targeted residential areas it's not the 1st time they've targeted civilian infrastructure and it's really not the 1st time that civilians have been killed in this ongoing offensive which is now in its 3rd month that is a military tactic that the syrian government has used over previous years to really put pressure on the civilians who in turn pressure rebels to surrender because what is happening on the ground is that the syrian government has not been able to make any significant advances on the ground the rebels are holding their territory they're defending their territory and fact that the syrian government and its

allies are believed to have lost up to 1000 men so this is a very costly battle for the government there was supposed to be a cease fire an adlib a cease fire that was guaranteed by both the russians and the turks these 2 countries who should be working together in syria instead their local allies are engaged in a proxy battle on the ground and live has become a bargaining ground really for these 2 countries and to the east of it libya northeast in syria turkey is pushing for a so-called safe and is threatening a military offensive if it doesn't happen soon. to keep kurdish y.p. g. forces it considers terrorists away from its borders but it won't say u.s. to come on board which box the group will be top of the agenda at a meeting with the u.s. special envoy for syria james jeffrey who's in from istanbul his with more. a proposal for a safe zone by turkey is not the 1st some turkey 1st raised its concern its will

for a safe zone in northern syria back in 2013 it has repeated this idea since late 2018 and early $2900.00 turkish an american sides have have come together to discuss the details of that according to the turkish will 32 kilometers from its southern border to inside syria there should be a safe zone that is cleared from any fighter groups like the white p.g. eisel or any other organizations turkey has a concern here turkey believes that the y.p. g. and the p y d is the syria branch of the outbuild kurdistan workers' party that is recognized as a terrorist organization by turkey e.u. countries and the us however the us rhetorical in syria is based on that a y p g of the kurdish fighter group by p.g. it is the boots on the ground of the american army because they are fighting they have been fighting against iceland turkey totally rejects the idea and cooking

doesn't want in any independent kurdish ated entity in northern syria and that's why turkey also say's if if a safe zone is not established it will have to come back to militarize ration in the eastern side of the if you freight his river in order to stop this possibility but what we have learned from turkish foreign ministry during his live interview of today that the u.s. has come with a different plan for the eastern side of the euphrates river and we will learn more in a couple of hours after both the turkish and american delegations meet. are we going back to top story that of the kenyan finance minister having been arrested we can talk to our correspondent catherine soy who's in county that's in northern kenya and catherine the 1st time then assisting minister has been arrested on charges of corruption how big a deal is this. well this is hugely significant martin as

you mention he's a very high profile individual in the government he has surrounded himself alongside his deputy that the director of public prosecutions also ordered their arrests of. of a past couple that was supposed to see oversee this project some of those officials have already also surrendered themselves and has also issued a warrant of arrest for employees of the italian company that was supposed to undertake the construction to begin with and i have seen this statement by the director of public prosecutors and it talks about a construction of the 2 doms farther north that has not even begun months in 4 years after it was commissioned and they're talking about big money the cost that was negotiated was about a $630000000.00 that was of a prized by $170000000.00 a quarter of that money has already been paid in advance including money that is

saved to have been for compensation of the land where those dams are supposed to be consumed constructed the d.c.i. the director of public prosecutions saying that there is evidence that that land was not even part chased in the fast play so a lot of kenyans. are watching this development it's not a new story in kenya this scandal has been going on it has been highly politicized as well the minister himself has been someone over the months several times to question to answer questions dealing with this 2 dumbs he has said that whatever payments have been made have been a bad. and within the right. like so many other african countries in particular as a. corruption it's important i guess politically for the government to show that it's cracking down and is getting tough on. corruption particularly at the higher levels of government. absolutely and we have seen the president coming

out very strongly over the yes saying that he wants to make this. issue a priority that this he wants to leave behind a corrupt free country but a lot of kenyans really disappointed with the fight against corruption corruption is a huge deal in this country this is not the fast high profile scandal that we're looking at over the years we've seen many of the big corruption scandals involving. public money to the millions of dollars involving public figures as well high profile government grants being made. ministers also forced to step down and then people are saying beyond that nothing happened they haven't seen any convictions they haven't seen. you know those held those who are found culpable they haven't seen the assets frozen or money returned to taxpayers in this minister we're talking about has a public debt of $400400000000000.00 we have from the.

general of this country saying that the government expenditure is lost to corruption and mismanagement and people a lot of kenyans saying that they need the president to do more they need his government to do more these fights against corruption is to be won. catherine sorry talking to us live from some boone county in northern kenya thank you very much indeed. that al-shabaab fighters in somalia have claimed responsibility for a bomb blast which killed at least 10 people others were injured near the international airport in the capital mogadishu the suspected car bomb and gunfire was close to a security checkpoint. of britain's prime minister tourism a is currently holding an emergency meeting on iran's seizure of a u.k. flagged oil tanker on friday westminster is reportedly considering a range of options including limited sanctions as part of its response the vessel

with $23.00 crew members on board was seized at the strait of hormuz it's now doctored an iranian port iran says the tanker collided with a boat and broke international maritime laws well terror on that maintains that the seizure of the tanker was a legal measure dosser jabari is live in the iranian capital 1st so let's go to lawrence see who's in london in lawrence so to reason may now taking the helm it's been led up until now by jeremy hunt the foreign minister what are her options. well it sounds like what they're going sue announced this afternoon when jeremy hunt the foreign secretary speaks in parliament. potentially limited sanctions against members of the iranian revolutionary guard and possibly trying to send some more assets to the straits of hormuz in the gulf though it's most unclear what the effect of all those things would have on iran's ability to try to seize

these tankers and there's of this quite a difficult atmosphere now between the minister of defense and defense chiefs and the governments because you via you find all the members of the fence establishment and indeed some members of parliament roundly accusing the but they're the governments of having taken its eye off all this completely over the last few weeks because of the obsession with the conservative leadership contest in the unceasing of the british ambassador in washington and in the time between the the seizing of the iranian tanker which is still off gibraltar and now the the the main complaints is that britain didn't actually come up with a sort of strategy to protect the tankers are still going through the straits of hormuz and the bowl fact is that up until a couple of weeks ago the the u.k. has only had one frigates in the area which plainly can protect more than one tank in total the u.k.

around the world only has 12 escort ships. and they're spread out all over the place and so there's there's all these complaints about the navy now being involved in the funded and what's the u.k. going to do in future. and enormous pressure now coming on the government to back the american position of this multinational sort of shepherding force to seal the tanker through the strait of hormuz and protect them from the iranians but the government still doesn't want to do that because it would regard that as the escalation and it says he wants to deescalate the position so all in all the government seems to be in a trap of its own making where it doesn't want to be seen to be adopting the american position. of more aggressive postures and certainly sanctions towards the iranians but doesn't really know what to do instead all right lawrence we live in london let's go to dorset jabari now who is in near a near the capital and i understand that there has been a news conference given by the foreign ministry what's come out of that.

well the press conference was actually held by the spokesperson for the rouhani government's our leader who was asked to place very question about the tanker that the iranian seized on friday he said that this is not a reciprocal move with what the british navy did in the strait of gibraltar on july 4th it is not comparable it's 2 very different scenarios one the iranian tanker that was traveling through the strait of gibraltar disgrace one being kept that was carrying 2000000 barrels of rain in crude oil was seized in international waters that was what their iranians are calling an illegal seizure he then talks about how this vessel the peril was in the strait of hormuz which iran considers its own territory and that the vessel was actually committing maritime violations one it was travelling in the wrong direction and 2 it had turned off its transponder for hours on end so it was not excuse me the revolutionary guards were not able to

reach the crew members on board this vessel and that is why they decided to seize it he said we are used to this kind of behavior from the british government where they do one thing on their own and they expect a different result when we carry out a similar act but he stressed the point that this is not a reciprocal move that there are 2 very different situations and he said that he was hopeful that diplomacy could resolve this issue right jabari interim thank you very much indeed for now we can speak to one couple on who's head of policy analysis at the arab center for research and. as is the case there are competing narratives being placed. one on the one part of the iranians and on the other the british ultimately does it matter given the there is a crisis in the gulf and we have to work out presumably how best to ease tensions absolutely right i don't think without the. now. whether i mean the iranian

or the british is is the one word that describes what happened and. see or form on on friday when they go on ian's actually seized the british ship to the actually we have the 2 countries actually both you know on and britain finding themselves in my opinion in very difficult position if you have talking about britain for example the british don't have. many options in this in this case and in fact find themselves in a very awkward situation whereas on the one hand they want to defend their own interest and the goal. but they don't have. enough resources to do that so they have in this case to lean more towards the american position this is something the british don't like very much in fact because they have been defending the nuclear deal from the very beginning and they are

a strong supporter of the of the year on 2015 because this is the important thing to remember is the fact that there is a nuclear deal here hanging in the balance the americans have walked away which is what triggered this entire crisis and you still got 3 europeans including the u.k. . sensibly trying to save it but i think. here i mean nobody is remembering right now that the crisis is about the nuclear deal it's now about freedom of navigation and the gulf and i think they are making much more easier for the americans actually to change the course of the crisis from being about the iran nuclear deal into being about freedom of navigation and the goal and that will make it as he said much easier for the american to try and build this coalition not there to protect the freedom of navigation into and in the gulf so i think here we

have we have a different point that we must focus from now on about other done there on nuclear deal. thank you very much thank you. still to come. an arrow palestinian homes come crashing down in the occupied west bank as israeli forces ignore international warnings. hello there not bad conditions across much of the korean peninsula and the remnants of what was that tropical storm don ass well out of the picture however we can say the same across much of japan is a funnel system is swinging away towards the north and the east but of course bringing with it a fair amount of rain so 30 celsius in a sock on tuesday with rain showers in the single story in tokyo probably stay just

about dry that for you meanwhile across the korean peninsula you go 31 and seoul and we will have a fair amount of clouds with that temperature as well but it should stay mostly dry 37 in beijing on wednesday the temp is there actually 4 calls to increase of the next couple of days so a feeling pretty warm under those sunny skies $28.00 in seoul because we have got a flare amount of cloud cover and then on into the south into the southeast we've got more of that rain pushing towards southern areas of china hong kong staying mostly dry through sunday through choose a $32.00 is a high temperature there shanghai a very warm day 36 degrees celsius and again this rain really spreading further to the south on the west as we head into wednesday but a dried and hong kong with a high of 32 degrees meanwhile across into indonesia we have got the usual ray of thunderstorms a wet shoes day and a very similar picture on wednesday 29 in singapore.

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teachers been arrested over a dam construction scandal that marks the 1st time a sitting kenyan minister has been arrested on charges of corruption he and other officials are accused of flouting the cure meant rules when they awarded the building project to a bankrupt italian company has denied any wrongdoing. syrian government air strikes have killed and wounded dozens of civilians in italy a province several people are believed to be trapped in the rubble after a busy market came under attack the syrian government backed by russia relaunched its offensive to capture and live in april. britain's prime minister to resign may is holding an emergency meeting to find a way to respond to iran sees you have a u.k. flagged oil tanker london is reportedly considering a range of options including limited sanctions terror on maintains its action was legal in the vessel the 23 crew members on board broke maritime rules.

the palestinians are being made homeless because israeli forces are demolishing their homes despite warnings from the un and the e.u. the destruction of what he says the 1st of its kind because it's under the control of the palestinian authority residents lost their 7 year legal battle to overturn a military addiction order when israel's high court just missed their case matheson is at the size of those demolitions in the occupied west bank he sent us this report. just let me show you these piles of rubble that you can probably just see behind me one on this side of the fence the other one on the other side of the fence these used to be houses these these used to be homes that one was on occupied but this one was occupied by a family that had 6 children and it just around the corner from us from where we are now there was another building that's been razed to the ground there were 2 families in that that had to be evacuated by the security forces before that building was flattened in the early hours of the morning israeli security forces

made their way into vacs property and brought people out we were here when that happened we had people screaming and shouting and yelling the people were taken off further up the road and then we saw teams of workmen who came in and were removing large pieces of furniture from the house where we didn't see any small personal items that were coming out the only thing that we're bracing for now is this building here this 4th building is currently being filled with explosives by israeli military engineers the intention is to bring that building as well always and for doing this is a military ruling that was brought in about 8 years ago which said that in at least as far as this neighborhood is concerned that no buildings could be could be constructed within about 250 meters of this separation fence in the separation fence as you can see is running up the center of the street there you can get an s. sense of just how close these buildings have been. the philippine president rotary

going to tattoo his cool for the death penalty to be reinstated for drug related crimes the president devoted much of his hour and a house say to the nation address to the continuation of his so-called war on drugs despite international condemnation he also focused on corruption meanwhile protests as have been gathering across the country calling for his resignation in manila outside the house of representatives an effigy of the president was. to me. is that the protests and then there. is a call basically for a stronger measures i.p.o. before congress for the imposition of the death penalty for illegal drugs and plunder is proving the government's priority he also admitted in this speech that his government is corruption driven rigid and that's over the past few months he has actually meeting up officials in the palace and money in his mouth there is essentially nothing different from the speech of president. others except at this.

hour over an hour late would be by the time he appeared in congress but here outside the halls of congress just a few blocks away tens of thousands are protesters are marching in beijing and many of them suggesting that instead of talking president through the. should listen instead they told us basically the procedure in action is a good dad there in the south china sea is the pitch elation to china looting a so-called war on drugs all of these issues they say his rhetoric against gay people against the minority he's called for death penalty and wonder they think it's proof that the president is unfit to the gurney and they want him to resign. hong kong has strongly condemned following a mass rally against the government police. crowds outside the office of china's representatives to the city she critics. people who've thrown eggs at the building

and vandalized the national emblem. thinking the knights dozens of monks men attacked people returning home from the running videos on social media show a group of men dressed in white and the armed with batons storming into a metro station in the district on the outskirts of hong kong opposition politicians blame the attack on suspected gang members and say it will be investigated. sarah clarke has the latest from hong kong. hong kong chief executive kerri lamb and the police commissioner have both spoken about sunday night's violent confrontations we saw in the area called uni long which is in the new territories this is where we saw a mob of people attack a group of anti-government protesters who were returning from the march a peaceful march on sunday here in hong kong she's now announce that they'll be an investigation into those confrontations and she said the rest of those people

involved she said that they broke the rule of law in hong kong and she wants to restore the rule of law as well as peace and order on the streets here she's also here calling for hong kong to protect the rule of law the police commissioner also backed what carrie lamb has said now there's been a lot of or mixed reaction to the violence that we saw on sunday night in your long where we have 46 people injured one is still in a critical condition the pro-democracy law makers have accused that more of being colluding and cooperating with police police took some time to get to those attacks and to help those people who were being assaulted and that that accusation is now that the police were colluding and cooperating of course the probe aging lawmakers have declined any involvement but there's no end in sight here in hong kong for these demonstrations with more rallies planned this weekend. pakistan's prime minister is in washington to meet president trump for the 1st time in rank is seeking improved relations after the u.s. president cut off military aid president trump has accused the pakistanis of not

doing enough to confront the taliban and other armed groups mike hanna reports. this is a crucible in which the relationship was forged pakistan a vital ally in the u.s. campaign against the soviet invaders in afghanistan a partner in the war that eventually led to the collapse of the soviet union. decades later though a defining moment president barack obama ordered a special forces operation in which bin laden was killed an action that took place without the knowledge of the pakistan government so help me god but in the eyes of obama's successor donald trump it was another example of pakistan's inability or reluctance to crack down on terror groups in 2018 in his 1st tweet of the new year the president went after islamabad the united states is brutally given pakistan more than $33000000000.00 in aid over the last 15 years they have given us nothing but lies and deceit. into them for the same year another attack we no longer pay

pakistan the billions because they would take our money and do nothing for us president trump tweeted but large and being a prime example afghanistan being another. trumps condemnation provoked pakistan's newly elected prime minister imran khan to respond with similar venom in a series of tweets he said his country had lost $75000.00 people and more than $123000000000.00 fighting what he called the u.s. war on terror can mr trump name another ally that gave such sacrifices he asked him and seeking to reduce its involvement in afghanistan the u.s. had no option but to once again seek pakistan's assistance last year pakistani diplomats agreed to set up direct talks between the taliban and the u.s. a move gratefully acknowledged by one of president trump's most valuable foreign policy advisers and i'm going to urge him to meet with the prime minister as soon

as practical i think they will hit it off similar personalities in recent days pakistan authorities have finally arrested one of the us his most wanted men of his saeed was accused of masterminding the 2008 terrorist attacks in mumbai since then living openly in pakistan despite a u.s. bunting on his head theorist intended to set a cordial tone for the contra meeting and it was when he welcomed by the president imran khan's meeting with the president does not come without political risk his party has the narrowest of majorities in pakistan's parliament and does not control the senate or a sumption of u.s. assistance would help shore up his government but to come away empty handed would have the opposite effect mike hanna al-jazeera washington.