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filching out there with me. so robert and doha, reminder of all top news stories you as president joe biden as old of the release of $1000000.00 barrels of oil per day to call, but rising energy prices, nightfall is bad on russian oil and gas that we put into domestic and international markets for up to 6 months. rush, impressive, luxury putin as issued an ultimatum to stake, hold on for the states. he wants them to pay for russian gas and roubles. as of friday, we'll have the contracts canceled. jimmy says the kremlin is black mailing it closely. i find an order that establishes the rule of trade with natural gas with the so called hostile states. we are offering clear system that they have to open accounts and roubles, and payments have to be made through these accounts from the 1st of april. if they don't, we will consider it a non fulfillment of contract because nobody sells us anything for free and we will not do charity. so their existing contracts will be suspended when they use them as weapons multiple air raid sirens. and that these 2 blasts have been heard in keys

in the past few hours. the 2 explosions was said to be insensitive areas in the capital. and ukraine's president says his country must prepare for a renewed russian offensive at the east. bottom is lensky wall, that moscow may shift its focus to separate us held areas after suffering setbacks and it's offensive near keith not being issued kiva, we continue pushing away occupiers in the north of keys and the churning he region . and in the sumi region, they realized themselves that they can sustain the intensity of combat that they held in the 1st half of march in done bass in mary paul and car keys directions. russian forces are massing resources for powerful strikes. we will defend, we will do everything possible to stop the occupiers and clear our territory from the evil and senseless crimes. those with headlines, i'll be back with law news in half a here on al jazeera. next, it's inside story to stay with us. ah,

with generations, this indigenous community has lived off of what the rain forest provides. but when we discovered that their territory was being invaded by gold mining projects all along their river, community board a lawsuit against a po to us government. you've won you one of the unprecedented ruling obliges the state to consult communities over oil and mining projects that impact their land and to seek their consent. the tiny cedar lake community has won a huge battle, letting me know necessarily have the last word. since the court ruling does leave room for exceptions in the name of overriding national interests, ah, can pakistan's prime minister survive the biggest test of his career?

emerson con faces the no confidence vote. after some of his allies, which side to what's behind the former cricket stars fall from grace. this is inside story with hello and welcome to the program. i'm how much of jerome no prime minister in pakistan has ever completed a full 5 year term. it appears enron. con, could suffer the same fate. the national assembly has begun debating a motion of no confidence with a vote expected by monday. cons opponents accuse him of corruption and mismanaging the economy. their attempt to oust him received a boost when the main partner and his coalition government quit and joined the opposition. it's believed con has lost the support of pakistan's powerful military

. he says there's a foreign conspiracy to remove him, adding he has a letter of proof. his critics are confident they have the numbers and parliament to vote him out. the numbers are open and declared. we have way more than we need now to for him to lose that vote of no confidence. and now really he should just resign and that's the graceful exit. but he doesn't, he's going to lose that board. does that block is sticking? and after that pakistan we'd have to come together to stabilize the longer he stays in the longer he as government challenges, the stability and be on the streets of the capital of the country. i think back a sound faces a growing danger of instability. osama bon jovi has more from his mom about in the last 3 and a half years. this is the biggest challenge that enron has government is facing. it is going to have to present 172 members of parliament to make sure that if it says

that this vote of no confidence can not go through because it still has the numbers parting the opposition, they have fall more than $172.00 and bees, not just because of disgruntled them, be who are switching fights from him and con, spotty towards them. but also because of coalition partners that iran con, enjoyed the support of people who we've been speaking to tell us that iran han has not been able to fulfill campaign promises, including job, stepping out corruption from the ranks of his own government. making sure that the price of basic commodities, inflation, etc. i'm the state of economy is improved and also try and stabilize the u. s. dot fog, you find the ruby against the us dollar. and all of these things combined with the coalition support and the very important question of the pocket funding minute fees . the for the military stablish been a garden, the physician is now going to play a new 3rd or it is no longer going to support him. john han, and that is why people are easy,

they're feeling it easier to change sides. this is going to be a crucial a few days in focus on political history as this would have no confidence as debate has already begun the both of these sites say they have the numbers and the prime minister is now waiting for that vote. and during this time, new promises are being made on promises are being broken, new alliances are being formed and focused on holds. it's read to figure out whether a prime minister in focus on will be able to complete his 5 year term for inside story. this is a, some of the jobs will begin our discussion in a moment. first, let's remind you of how we got to this point. a popular cricketer and philanthropist. he won his 1st world cup against india in 1992. 2 years later he would create the 1st and only cancer hospital in pakistan at the time. in 1996 con, established the pakistan to rica in soft political party, also known as the p t. i. 6 years later he was elected as

a member of parliament. in 2018 con claimed victory in the general elections, but faced allegations of vote rigging the p t i emerged as the largest party in the national assembly a month later, the p t. i nominated him to be prime minister after defeating his opponent. iran con, became the 22nd democratically elected prime minister of pakistan. all right, let's go ahead and bring in our guess vital voucher joined us from islamabad. he is a former federal minister for water resources and a member of prime minister. im ron cons. communications team from london were joined by far zona shake. she's a specialists in pakistan's politics and foreign policy and an associate fellow in the asia pacific program at chatham house. international fairs, thinktank, and also in london, we have sharon persia, a professor of journalism and a specialist in the affairs of pakistan. afghanistan and central asia. a warm

welcome to you all, and thanks so much for joining us today on inside story for is on a let me start with you today. what exactly is behind this no confidence vote? what i think um it, it depends on who you are, who you listen to. i mean, the prime minister, of course is claimed that it is a result of an orchestrated const, international conspiracy against his government. opposition parties who are bringing this vote of no confidence against francis to iran con. i have insisted that in fact it is the results of his governments, ah gross incompetence and, and mismanagement. so as i said, there are 2 radically different interpretations of what's behind this vote of no confidence. if i so you heard far as on other talk about the fact that prime minister con has said that there is

a foreign conspiracy afoot to remove him. a prime minister con, also had added that he has a letter to show as proof of that conspiracy, but he has not produced that. why has he not produced it? and will he thank you for inviting me or let me explain con, 1st for a few seconds. you know, you somebody who is a visionary. who's ambitious, who's a go getter, a tour, an achiever, have dignity, self respect for his country, and an honesty on top. and somebody always stood focused on. so number one, the, the biggest issue is that he is not allowing others to play on our ground for their own incentives and for their one the treatments. number one, number 2, he's somebody who did explain islam and shorter be sure that we're not extreme assistant, nothing to do with the religion. number 3 is that he, i mean, i can ask you a question, you know, you know, more than i know,

give me one country, one country in the world was sacrificed 80000 lives. we did forget about the collateral damage and financial damages. if the 1000 deeper cook chid because of what they have wat, why, we will not allow that. and you know, you need to understand for us, you know, they need to kill us to stop us. we are unstoppable. you think that we will allow them to sell our country sell? i mean, they're people. these crooks as united opposition has done what they've done to plug a son in law 35 years apart from looting this country. they've been blaming abusing my institutes, my army with, with the generals golackti looking they've been black mailing the j traditionally. they've been making tapes of the judges and that kind of focused on we want never, no education background, no education institute there for, for the people to focus on no medical facility nor nothing. this time, things were different. we did not compromise on this whole gravity set of respect

and dignity of focused on that's a, that's our, that's our issue. and we would not, i mean, there were totally ripping my country for the past 3540 years and look at the optics again. the same people will be abusing my institute, who, when technically they are representing it as innovation is off the people from the, for international human the, to present this diamond to national players does not meet anyone they have in shape of these united on. but i soon as they're, i'm seen and i swear that happening if you don't align, if i so i'm sorry to interrupt you, but i do want to ask again, it's such a critical time at such a perilous time for the prime minister. he's saying that he has proof and at one point he indicated that he would share that proof. why has he not? and do you think he will i mean that there are technical issues with that, you know, there the secrecy act, you know, which we need to follow. so we, we have

a finding a way out, technically through, through lawyers, the how to go about it. but we do want to share everything with the, with the country, they should know that he stood, he did not said, i mean for us, even as if i'm right now. and i'm talking to you, we have an offer by the players that you know when it all been down, agree and accept what they want and everything is going to be all right, but the answer is no, get lost. and that's the attitude we have. and yet then understanding the elite sylvia fall full, we have most strong when we have no seat, i mean for the bed sake of their boss to view of even are and let them breathe new thing that we will allow. we will compromise on a country no, never. number 2, number 3 is that they're giving us pain. but i assure you and i getting to you that they're going to be lot of suffering from our site towards them. and in order to protect focus on and i just one's not. and the people who focused on people who understood the game, you know, nobody can play these games anymore. and on top of it,

not only change of regime his life is under danger, is like, isn't a threat we been told by the bad friendly of neighboring countries. have you been alarmed? we haven't diligence reports. so you know, it's a ray of tense situation in the country and, and the international players are achieving what they wanted to achieve, but they're not realizing that to be being without seat a very strong we have the right life. i. gov is hitting fight my so let, let me, let me get to that point with you in i think is spotty and biography at the moment . right. i'll get back to you on that point. i do want to ask shiraz from your vantage point, do you believe that enron con, can actually survive this? i mean, come if we look at the numbers and it is technically he has lost the majority in the house. it's just a matter of time and formality. but what astonishes me is emron con,

hanging on to car for so long. and this process is picking back which time i should remind you and your ideas that in august on in the past and there were prime ministers who had tutored which already in the parliament. and they were quite powerful. and they had a full parliamentary becky. but egypt they were disposed to wake easily her course and through presidential and who are the meet. on the other hand, in brown han has a pin majority is slim majority and that also prov, other parties. his allies who had brought to him by the military establishment and this hybrid regime was created. i would like to find out what mr vessel want. upset about mr. ram, honda, integrity and honesty. there are now very serious questions about mr. iran has integrity and his honesty. he has, you know,

turn his back and he has taken so many utah's on all his promises. he has broken promises. he has broken commitments. and this rhetoric is really nonsense is very bizarre when they are now creating a storm in a cup of tea by saying that there is some international conspiracy. we know that iran con is one of those politicians in pakistan who has a deep relations with western elite and restaurant comers particular here with the british establishment in brown ha, was the politician, one of his close friends a but s baba his who no opposes him. he, he said that it, hon won't store him that he wanted to use his father, wife jamal, much to my eyes, to have connections in the white house in grand hon did not support it for ac is funny of it. look back hispanic bus driver in the london or in the election,

but miracle london. and he went especially to england for bucket on board his parlor rather than not that gorge. smith, who was better, a brother of mine, of course, so he was in grand hahn, is very close to the conservative party the right wing by which it believes and you know, which is still has the imperialistic thinking. and you know, a party of logs in round hans the or the limited by the iran han has connections in the best. and in ron han has ended due august on to i and iran has made a, b, i m f, which no urologist back is by the government. right. i'm sorry, my house is not going to fix it. in my hand says that he wants the market, texas, i guess when he came back after meeting donald trump, he said he has a he is evil. so happy as if you want to work for us on it. let me ask you,

i'm assuming this happens. let's say that the no confidence vote happens and that iran con does not survive it. what is the immediate aftermath and when it comes to the opposition, does the opposition have any plan going forward beyond this plan that united them as far as just removing the prime minister from office? what i think, i think that's, that's the read worry, you know, i mean i at present, we know that her premise in ron hahn does not have the numbers to win a no confidence full to all to remain in power so. so the chances are that, you know, he will be made to resign. on the other hand, you know, he might was survive. i mean, the unexpected has been known to happen in bought a song. but i think either way, it's fair to assume whether he stays or whether he goes, mark a song is in for a very, very turbulent,

a turbulent period. ahead and, you know, the opposition of course, must also take some of that responsibility because it is an opposition made up of strange bedfellows. who in the past have exchanged a very, very vicious recriminations against each other so that there are many and bob hassan who worry about about the opposition. and it's a parent one point agenda to oust the prime minister. but that it may well be well without a coherent program to, to, to, to see buffy song through to the next elections which are scheduled for 20235. so what is the prime ministers relationship like right now with the military? because there are many out there who believe that the support from the military has

been key to his political success. others lost also a lot of speculation out there right now that that relationship has been fractured . what is the relationship like right now between prime minister con and the military? you see re love and respect the army and the sacrifice. what they gave for the country. number one, we were, we were always there to support them and send them there working under the constitution. that's about it. you know, when it comes to, when we will have got elected, the narrative was that they will be a behind us. and now something is working for the opposition and for the international players, the subtly the same army by them is neutral. so in that regard, i mean, they were the other people have been abusing generals. they were the other people to be, you know, blaming the army, the institute blaming the judicially black mailing, the judiciary, back of the judiciary and the judges taking, getting orders on the phone. so what i'm saying is that they're given bane to my

country really give them suffering you thing that is going to be easy for them to lead goal us without seat out just for an argument sake. if they boss to you thing, we want to live that them breathe, that them allow them to sell a country, allow them to do whatever they want. what they did in the past prime is a store to focus on what is the issue right now? what is the problem? the problem is they the, the yes from him. they want to bend number, we bend on for know a lot, not humans. and we don't want to been known. we will day got get on next off. redeem is of a small thing. government is of a small thing, like i said, my punch line is kill us to stop us. we an unstoppable, we are going to protect focused on and that interest and the people to focus on and the noise in the. and that's the reason the popularity graph is hitting, the sky fighter line is gonna be easy. these groups together is going to run the country by join. i'm sorry to interrupt you. i don't because you're talking, we are thing that was her wife. i'm give you 4 months vice, i'm sorry to interrupt you again. we are starting to run out of time as she roused

. let me ask you from your vantage point, where does the military and pakistan stand with regard to the current political crisis? i think the military must be feeling. the generals must be feeling very embarrassed because iran was their darling and it is the. the common perception is that the military was behind the rise to power behind the rounds of ice to park and was groomed by a security agencies general. like general, how me will general, would you mind general amateur general's the hero to slow and current general by and personally, and when iran 150 and in a very controversial elections, the results were contested, but the military was behind him and the mom has a very famous punch line was and it has been until recently that the military and

he's really on the same page. so iran was the public face of the gene, which was the, you know, patronize the and supported by the military. and now in round, because of his group upon his because he could not deliver because he could not to fulfill his promises because what the thought he was maybe and the creation of new pakistan. he couldn't do anything. and the people became, you know, they for sticking the anger against him, run hot in the masters, this much deeper and widespread. the masses might not support the position as much, but they're very frustrated in downtown. and this angle is now the laundry room and is in power. it is directed towards the military. and it is the perception is that the, it is the military who brought pakistan to this. this situation, pakistan has not the, the highest, a foreign debt. which in run on the day run on has taken the government has taken.

lucas government has taken that much foreign debt. so the military must be feeling embarrassed. but there are signs. as i said, in my pleasure in this volcano was question i did it. yes, i like so did his vote. sympathy still in the as guilty as the guilty sentences, but even on hind by his mandatory establishment. and that is why he is the hanging on for so long. otherwise he has lost her number's majority. and wendy is somebody there will be working on the, on the, on the know, covered as well. he can go back, you know, oscar happened as present as there got it by his, for his, on a. i wanna kind of zoom, zoom out and take a look at another aspect of this, which is, um, how allies of pakistan are, are reacting to what's going on. and i want to ask specifically about china from your perspective, where does china, which of course is a, an economic and geopolitical ally to pakistan. where does china's stand in all this,

with as much invested in pakistan as, as they have. are they concerned? how concerned are they? what he does is it simply, you know, a political instability and political turbulence in a country as strategically important as far song is bound to worry the international community. china. in addition, of course, as a major invest investor in the china focus on economic corridor must have additional worries of its own. and i think one of the, one of the points that needs to be made is that in recent months that there have been reports that many projects on the c, peg i have tended to slow down have tended to store. and we know that, you know, some of the issues relating to this apparent slow down as surfaced during the prime

minister in ron hahn's visit in february to china when he, when he met our president. she, now, you know, there have been suggestions that the government of that premise to enron, hom, simply has not been able to deliver a, it's part. and it's side of the bargain. on on c, peg which has led of course, some analysts to believe that in fact in china was probably happier working with a government led by former prime is rosanna na street which was known to be much more much more competent for and, and, and you know, i had sort of economic management at its size on it for us on it, sorry to interrupt you, but we just have about a minute left. i just went out one last question. do you believe that there's

a chance that all this political turmoil could actually transform into violence or more instability? oh, well, you know violence. there is always a risk of fathers are in boxes at the moment. i think, you know, we just have to wait and see how the situation pads out, but there's no doubt that's politically the atmosphere is extremely dense. and you know, we really do need a speed the resolution in boxes or if the situation is not going to deteriorate. all right, well, we have run out of times we're going to have to leave the conversation there. thanks so much. all of our guests myself outta for is on a shake, and shiraz parachia and thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com, and for further discussion, go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter.

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