political career is dead and the nuclear deal lives on it's entire efforts were put towards getting rid of the accord and he was unsuccessful so cut us foreign minister is calling on other gulf states to bridge relations with iran his reign in counterpart divides aretha's back the efforts on twitter saying iran welcomes my brother foreign minister mohammad been i've been just a marathon these call for inclusive dialogue in our region as we have consistently emphasized the solution to our challenges lies in collaboration to jointly form a strong nation a strong region rather peaceful stable prosperous and free from global or regional head to many. of those take you through some of the headlines we're following here on al-jazeera now in the final hours of his presidency outgoing u.s.

president donald trump is issued more than $140.00 pardons and commutations they include former aide steve bannon along with rappers little wayne kodak black and the former mayor of detroit u.s. president elect joe biden and vice president elect campbell harris paid tribute to more than 400000 americans have died from covert 19 biden says containing the pandemic is his number one priority. we must remember it's hard sometimes to remember but that's how we view it's important to do that as a nation. that's why we're here today. shut down and thus. to shine a light. the darkness along. remember all. how going u.s.

secretary of state might prompt has accused china of committing genocide and crimes against humanity against wego muslims it's believed around a 1000000 have been imprisoned in camps in recent years mostly in the region activists have documented atrocities including rape torture and the sterilization of women china says the camps are centers for education and training italy's prime minister decepticons survived a confidence vote in the country's senate allowing him to remain in office it was triggered after former prime minister material renzi pulled his party from qantas coalition last week and the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story. when the news breaks let's close all security forces have been deployed to hit me in hot water like this one

when people need to be. our demands have to be fulfilled by the government and then if all the families leave i'll be too but if another pharmacy that still does iraq has teams on the ground this is the insurrection president trump is accused of fueling to bring. documentaries lyden. sounds prime minister is facing with new protests from his opponents they say him on cars involved in a foreign funding scandal and claims he came to town through the week to vote so they succeeded and i'm sitting here this is the inside story. of the program an alliance of opposition parties in pakistan has held its 1st rally

of the year against the government demanding prime minister iran can step down the pakistan democratic movement top e.d.m. called on supporters to gather outside the election commission and legend khan fortunately financed his campaign they say the prime minister accepted a legal funds from abroad during the 2013 elections last week comes policy admitted raising campaign funds through foreign accounts but playing to illegalities on agents the us without satisfying exactly who they were medium leaders say con committed a national crime and should be punished will bring in our panel of experts shortly but 1st this report from the muslim about. the borders of the budget on democratic airlines are right now president in front of the election commission of pakistan which is situated in the red zone normally a project the norden. however the government had said there didn't keep all their order. in order for the opposition and ordered

a broad daylight in front of the election commission of pakistan and the foreign funding case against the pakistan that he can stop that the party led by iran whatever the organisation was wrongly thinkers make this i really fall for the troll for it has been unable to muster the kind of the boards. that it has been. during the rallies because of. the government on the other hand it's still very confident that they will be able to complete their. but this particular opposition alliance known as the pakistan democratic alliance is an amalgamation of the old 11 political parties every 3 years the 1st ideology. and the strategy however they are hopeful that they will be able to bring their people against the government in a short order in order to for 3 prong collars government.

for inside story. where the p.d.f. alliance was formed 4 months ago marking the 1st time in history all of pakistan's opposition parties have united in a common cause to force come from power here's why p.d.f. leaders allege the military rigged the 2018 elections that brought khan's pakistan terry in soft party to power they say khan's government is just a puppets for the military and its agenda the prime minister is also struggling to cope with a severe economic decline unemployment and one of the worst inflation rates in asia a steep rise in food prices has led to public discontent with his policies many are also angry that khan has so far failed to initiate economic reforms that he promised his plan to widen pakistan's tax base is expected to fail and he offered no clear solution to deal with the country's foreign debt of more than $100000000000.00.

of more on this i'm joined now by our guests in his arm of art should be false information to the staff imran khan's pakistan tehreek e insaf party and push our share as political analysts and commentators and in karachi little ismail politician for what the pakistan muslim league he also served as finance minister for the former prime minister nawaz sharif. very well welcome to you all i'd like to begin with this foreign funding misuse of funds allegations we've seen these protests today this is being described as the biggest scandal in pakistan's political history. can you give me an update has the p.t.i. turned of all of the requested documents to the election commission of pakistan where is that well well thank you very much kim for having me on your program secondly as you were talking about the election commission of pakistan and the opposition. protest in regard to the foreign funding case well

i want to put that on record that to pakistan that he can solve is the 1st political party which started a proper organized accorded system of donations from its party members. and you know we maintain we have a very qualified chartered accountants who maintain our books and we have in this case we have submitted to the election commission of pakistan 40000. to the east and. authenticated proofs of all the donations that have come from abroad and we have some record this since long ago but better to be d.m. opposition coalition which is trying its best to kind of these to allies the. democratically elected government is is it is is almost on or sneeze because

they're there to protest has not attracted people of pakistan because they have they know that these governments the past governments specially the pakistan people's party but just on muslim league known and well enough for them on they have really damaged this country and they have does in my. corruption and latest revelation of that has been the bart broadsheet case apart from the panama scandal that came up in 2016 ok saw. the following and i have done a 5 on family before we move on from the foreign funding scandal the issue at hand the reason that people tend not to protest i just want to bring and the snail to trust the election commission to bring about a just at a timely response thank you so much for having me the election commission has taken importantly long to decide this matter the 1st initial case was wide by a p.t.i. founding member in 2004 deep so it has taken 6 long years and b.t.r.

has used every democratic tech ticket can every delaying technique it can't do not submit the documents did a very very few simple question of the us one there is this money coming from who is it that funding. it would be focused on that could be foreigners and if these baucus dani's i mean what do the punting of money and political industries big hypno by the founder of g.p. and secondly there's this money going is this money going just for a particular part party reasons or that going for personal expenses and via this so many shell companies the p.d.i. has formed. to do to channel that is do nations into why is there such a complicated variable for their whole financial arrangements if you're just going to get some donations ok now 6 years of yes we're pretty i'm sick a single question and they're just trying to delay it. we have no protesting

i'm not particularly sure that the e.c. people still decide because they did it i mean it's a bit of to be very honest with you everybody know them but just on it's an open check is bt i was definitely guilty of this and they're part of a decision we lent and but the government and the government were flawed but obviously. the government is doing everything it can to delay the proceedings to a spouse we haven't had a ruling or a response yet from from the election commission it has been going on for a long time do you think that imran khan is feeling the heat is this is the real 1st real challenge for this government because of the tattoo sent before because of the instruction set is utility to this case because they've been accused of using delete tactics and it took them 6 years election commission and it hasn't been decided yet and then it looks more dubious when the b.t.i. try to you know. wasn't many open and clear about this case.

not in real trouble because. it is something which they have to answer of ok i can see you smiling there mystifies before we move on from the foreign front allegations is there any response he'd like to give to what you've had so far definitely were later prettify there's been only 30 months that he had in government he was 40 years where they were my. colleague mr my 1st mile is his government was there election commission is an independent constitutional body and we have all our proofs and our record financial record in front of the scrutiny committee caused by the election commission of pakistan there as i'm sorry to say that i would slightly disagree with yada yada yada analyst mr raja and that it's been basically people sparty and pushed back a stun was leak known we have not delivered the case was in supreme court and it

was then referred to election of commission of pakistan so we are we have done what we have to we have to do and we are not nor pressured to be out of not feeling the heat because we know that bug is found that he can solve is the 1st party which has brought in a very systematic very transparent system of collecting funds whereas pakistan was . simly has always and people sparty they have always counted on that in the vested interest groups on the langley birds and all the illegal people who are involved with illegally activities because then they do good a quid pro quo or that when they come into the comment then they return the favor just so it is the 1st time that pakistan 30 can solve has a very transparent way of collecting funds from its party people it's just 10 dollars dollars for 15 dollars 100 dollars 50 dollars so we are quite relaxed and this way you know that the recession are ordered by these 11 parties were hardly

muster were 2000 people which is i think you know it says it all ok i want to move on from that from the foreign funding issue. how do you think i mean you obviously feel like i'm on kind of the p.t.i. is on the pressure regardless of what mystifies says how do you think that amount khan has got to this point i mean in these areas since he's gone in the years since he's taken office how how how has he got here when he caved to power and even though we believe in be if achieved just came and said that you know there were elections were rigged and you know eman was 'd selected and not elected but now they're out of pocket and you see a good word for support i mean and money pakistan is a very hopeful that now that he's here he's going to be doing some of the think that you said you would be. a bit dismayed this i mean what we call you names or flip flopping or if you just basically lives and you need everything to be said

he's actually going against. this this is not a democratic. imagination i mean this is video of a sort of a. fascist government that gives a lot of curtailment on the media and the few speech inflation but just understand it in double digits specially food inflation. but economy when i was the finance minister of electric the site it was going at 5.8 percent. last year it was negative 0.4 percent this year i'll give you that go by 2 percent maximum the dillard been able to collect as much taxes as i did in my last year the deficits used to be made at the deficits but just on the deck divided 40 percent of the debt before i could stand the overall debt in just 2 years would be added 70 years divided in 2 years ok i said of that we're going to get into the we're going to we're going to cut we're going to nail down and drill down into the economy in a moment but before we do i'd like to come back to you mr pawle to to pick up on

something that mr ismail said there and talked about the military and military support of iran caught how much military support dogs promise to come have and why is that so important for an international audience who doesn't understand who may not understand the role of the military in pakistan put that into context for us. thank you the pakistani military considers itself as you know of steed idea which is that military chiefs are usually publicly they say that we not yet not only the defenders of pakistani physical geography orders we are also defenders of pakistan's i do logical orders out of pakistan's 73 years history turkey 5 years the military has the going to go technically and the rest of the time they were ruling they were controlling from behind the scenes it's an open secret in pakistan that the military controls the foreign policy and internal

security policy and knowledge of the economy the reason the national. that from a military point of view is that pakistani politicians and political parties are not trained enough they are not mature enough they cannot be trusted to run their fears there are therefore we will manage the economy people manage the policy even manage the internal policies now iran is the 1st prime minister in the history of bias who says openly that the military and his government on the same speech he is the one who mentions military most of the time in his speeches in his statements and he gets this impression he makes these claims that the military is backing him the military is good whatever odysseys he pulls what out odyssey he pursues so well

and of the military who was in the politics of the last 73 years i mean they were. it was not the people who are saying that military is one of the major players but in the past 3 years now it appears that the the current government the prime minister not prefers to associate and bad. gone and depend on the military and he says the military and the g.i. . pursuing the same policies and the defense of august for the betterment of august . ok. ok mississippi. let's come back to you we talk about the economy g.d.p. growth was at a decade high when enron contacts power 5.8 percent even before the pandemic it had trunk to 1.9 percent that was 2819 now it's gone into the negative for the 1st time in 70 years there was a downward trend here already the numbers say that how responsible is

a man caught in the p.t.i. hair or did you just inherit a difficult situation yes definitely the foot before i go on to the economy i would like to clarify of that courtyard what mr but i just said it's a it's there's no doubt that the military has been in power of on different occasions but this this time around imran khan who is the most popular leader in pakistan and he always was very popular amongst the youth of this country because he was a cricket star he was international athlete and he had done a lot of social work before coming into bar late making a concert hospital making universities and doing other social work so he was already a norn person in this country and the reason people wanted for him was that people were fed up with the with the party system where which they would they turns and destroyed the economy and the students of this country so that's why the people of

pakistan chose imran khan as their prime minister and their most popular leader because imran khan has an unchecked that has a as a very. a great record of being an honest man and he's a great leader and that's why they elected him and no no. now the only complaint that the opposition which is hiding behind the economic figures or through. of other of these protests is because iran han is going after them because he wants as the people mandated him. get the get the money stolen money back from abroad so that is why they are talking like this now i think what i want to commend you on my son there is what i say right from now to me is shrinking at the cost of living is going on us so what's your response to that ok let me tell you again that you know that in the. game we are already in the highly indebted situation and that

is why everybody was saying why do you go to a doctor when you are not well that's why we had to immediately go to i.m.f. because i cannae was not doing well and this is what they left pakistan basically after we came into power 1st job was to stabilize economy that artificially short the dollar. value just to encourage imports and if they had made it as an import then when economy and similarly their exports were shrinking so we just stabilized we devalue the currency to barter to where it's it's to the end value and as a result our foreign debt obviously would increase in the in the local currency terms 2nd lease after that we have stabilized the economy we stabilize the exchange rate be increased exports and explore side raising and i don't at that car for an image this is our to record our luskin manufacturing is going up our current

account deficit which was at that was $60000000000.00 be proctored down by $20000000000.00 within these short span of time i've got an excellent says i know everyone has an opportunity here endemic i've got to make sure everyone here has an opportunity to respond we are not have just lost momentum doesn't carry quite the guy just lost. just last comment just like last comment that despite colbert out economy has done very well economies out across the world to stop this economy the u.s. u.k. your up every japan all have shrunk and that current source saying that pakistan the economy for the 1st time isn't negative would be bit unfair because we did extremely well on the court front and people including the finest finance secretary of us said that if they had a magic art followed focused on example they would have saved 10 trillion dollars ok hi how are you and i have managed i mean i think he did i guess if you have missed the right of reply i can see you shaking your head so go ahead. i think

that my friend has some of the numbers wrong exports actually. exploded in the midst of. them in. the year that i left as finance minister their exports were $27.00 or $24750000000.00 in their 1st year before they actually 6 or by 500000000 dollars or percent at the next year we're going to get introduced export play $20000000000.00 can you tell me show you how this translates to every day people go i want to know what the cost of living what this means for the cost of living what this means for people who want to buy rice what this means for everyday people. so so so so the thing is that after 40 percent devaluation they're still not able to increase exports but what happened was that they've doubled the price of sugar of the left at the price of 155 piece but gauge event $215.00 apiece they've doubled the price of wheat flour there is sure to defeat flour right not

after we do years of the last 2 years of b m a lender would wish i would've energy now there's no natural gas in it in your stove in your factories that electricity in your training to do something or sort of project which is the power sector deficit that is actually going up the diff did increased gas stoves by 140 percent have increased our tariffs by 50 percent and yet there is a lot of deficit in boston this this is this idiot b. even people who support the runtime nor the this isn't the most incompetent government there ever has been ok and the number if it were what last point if i mean they did they had a minister to come tent in 15 days he allows drug the history spite of the drug prices by 500 percent these don't get moved a bit sector general of the party but no no action was taken against him and the president got reduced so from medicines to feed flour p.t.s. test a lot of things and they've made everything worse ok we could go back and forth but

we also have for analysis i'd like to come back to you mr potter if the country is really at a point of mass movement if the opposition does have all of this memento why not just table a no confidence motion against him on the how much momentum does do you think the opposition really has right now i think that opposition has to go along wait. have been able to get nice. big rallies in certain cities but they don't have yet the momentum. everybody comes out on the streets and protest against the government and suppression which can you know force a demand for. it's of pakistan. they have the part of the government so i don't think a position is at that stage yet we're. moved to go by street protests yes through in house with 3 or more. went of no confidence

began to move the government because as slim majority actually he realized. he doesn't have enough numbers to keep the government as of his own party. but again even if the opposition brings that not only does the next government will be a weak a government be bending independents and lots of other. partners and absolutely a position say is in pakistan that parliament the military establishment has. you just see a big seat in of our mission of government even they can manipulate and they can make that many others in the parliament and decisions and not mickey so

this if the establishment get enties them that. they were back out that they would not support him as it runs is the. maybe they're able to remove. this thing that at this time as we speak iran has its full backing and support of the establishment and console when that that is there it's difficult position to bring in not unfair dismissal and the street protest ok thank you so much your time we have to leave it there we're out of time i appreciate you coming on the program thanking to what i guess. it's now and thanking too for what. and see the program again any time by visiting our web site al jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. in that story for me kevin l. and from the whole team here in our.

kenyan journalists in pursuit of press freedom and justice i have the feeling very desperate situations where someone's think about the culture can afford paying clients investigating government corruption and the national health care system some of the transactions espionage and the killing. of money that is unexplained to africa uncensored and publish those things up people don't want to publish even if it doesn't let me ask whose truth is it anyway on al-jazeera american people have finally focus the reality is i split when america is off balance or because more dangerous the world is looking at us in the next year of sadness and. with the election behind us while the republican party dumptruck the feel weakly take on us politics and society that's the bottom all we know what's happening in our region

we know how to get the playfield that others and not the fires are still going on the way they tell the story is what and make a difference. the health of humanity is at stake a global pandemic requires a global response. w.h.o. is the guardian of global health delivering lifesaving to law school supplies and training to help the world's most found people uniting across borders to speed up the development of test treatments and of that. working with scientists and health workers to learn all we can about the virus keeping you up to date with what's happening on the ground in the womb and in the land advocating for everyone to have access to essential health services now more than ever the world needs w.-h. on making a healthy a world. for everyone. in

his final hours as u.s. president donald trump issues 73 pardons among them former aide steve bannon. i'm sam and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. the shot in the lights. dark deuce long. remember all. joe biden on is more than 400000 americans who.