you. live from berlin tensions run high in pakistan as the gears up for a controversial election pakistan's disgraced former prime minister now has been arrested on corruption charges this as the country reels from a suicide attack at a political rally one of the deadliest in its history go live to islamabad for the latest also coming up. a look ahead to today's battle of braun's at the world cup st petersburg is gearing up for belgium versus england with both sides playing for pride and one last victory in russia.

and thank you for joining us pakistan's disgraced former prime minister now sharif has been arrested shortly after he returned to lahore from london last week a pakistani corruption court sentenced him to ten years in prison for corruption that decision came just weeks ahead of national elections as sharif's party insists are being rigged meanwhile the pre-election violence that many had feared has become a reality with a suicide bombing that's killed at least one hundred and thirty people. in a political rally in southwest pakistan ripped apart by a suicide bomber scores of people killed many more wounded the blast in a town near the baluchistan provincial capital quetta was the latest in

a growing wave of violence and head of nationwide polls in two weeks time on the streets of lahore security has been boosted thousands of security personnel were deployed across pakistan ahead of the return of former prime minister nawaz sharif sheriffs' backers say the country's military is colluding with the judiciary to damage his political party ahead of elections they are prepared to confront to authorities if challenged. i am ready to give the last drop of my blood. i'm ready to face jail i'm ready to die let them do whatever police and their bullies want to do we are here to face that we will not turn back. while in office a sheriff had been critical of the military's involvement in civilian affairs he'd served three terms as pakistan's prime minister and was widely viewed as a political survivor but last year the country supreme court barred him from office

of a graft charges this year the same court banned him from politics for life shareef is gambling that turning himself in will galvanize support for his beleaguered party. but i am making the sacrifice for the future of pakistan. so join me walk with me join hands with me and change the direction of this country. pakistan's army has denied meddling to tip the scales in favor of national security conservative imran khan and his p.t.i. party. its pledge to ensure a fair and free election on july twenty fifth. for more i'm joined by m.p.'s call an islamic bod who's following the story for us mr goh why has mr sharif were turned to the country now especially given that he's

facing these corruption charges. well he had to do to about respond to. an appeal against the would do that to god. otherwise he would have been declared on the sole person of the presidents for i think such an appeal is mandatory and secondly he had to do the closer and he could actually use and if you don't you don't or he would have been seen as having come from minus the image of the party misusing barack particularly in a situation where it has guided an editor of victimhood and only ending for the sake of. his daughter's a political future he probably wanted to continue politics after the settlement of this legal case which we hope that the appeals process should be over in four to six weeks with regard to the political element of the story sharif has criticized

the military's role in pockets how much influence does the military actually have especially heading into the selection what images going to dilute the influence it all walks of life. and the kind of influence and the eaves are talking about has really nothing new the only new accounting for this election and even the last election there was an article of military and i think behind victory for. the team but he won't leave you know anything in this election is that the syrian military conflict as come out in the traumatically because it will be idiotic tronic media now sharif is in police custody what happens next with regard to any appeals that he may launch. well part of it. was probably of year before these kind of i who are going to monday to find.

and usually use of the process comprises a few days and. even they're. going to school. for you to leave the. weirdest stand because it is supreme court has our. process of. process does not last more beyond six feet so this is the first step is to appear in person before girl who are finding the. empty house gore in islamabad thank you. after rolling out his unique brand of disruptive diplomacy in england us president doll trump has retreated to his private golf resort in scotland to wrap up his four day visit to the united kingdom hundreds of people turned out for anti trump

protests in scotland largest city glasgow but a small group calling themselves scots for trump were also there to welcome the president and yet more protests awaited him as he arrived in the scottish town of turnberry late on friday trump has tweeted he plans to hold more meetings there and of course play some golf. correspondent barbara baseball has been covering trump's visit for us from london she says it's likely trump will ruffle yet more feathers this weekend there are rumors that he's going to probably meet some off to reason may's worst enemies nigel farage and boris johnson and talk a bit more about bret's that for instance and that would really cut the mustard for the british public because then it shows that come the trump has really come to divide and rule over britain and that's not something that goes well down well with people here. you know the united states twelve russian intelligence officers have

been charged with hacking into hillary clinton's e-mail accounts during the two thousand and sixteen presidential election in a bid to harm her campaign the indictments were issued just days before trump is scheduled to meet russian president vladimir putin in helsinki russia denies the charges saying there are an attempt to influence monday's meeting between putin and donald trump now some of the other stories making news around the world the u.s. justice department says twelve russian spies have been charged with hacking into the democratic party e-mail accounts ahead of the two thousand and sixteen presidential election u.s. officials say the hackers were aiming to harm hillary clinton's campaign russia denies the charges. british police say they found

a small bottle containing the military grade nerve agent know that chalk in the home of one of two people who fell ill authorities are investigating how the substance ended up in the home of charlie rowley the other victim dawn sturgis died in england on sunday. air tran president of florida he arrived in ethiopia to meet with prime minister abi off to visit comes a less than a week after the two countries agreed to end their state of war and normalize relations after two decades eritrea had been a province of ethiopia before a broke away in one nine hundred ninety three a subsequent conflict killed more than eighty thousand people. belgium take on england at the world cup later today to see who will be crowned the third best team in the world already from dede always sports joins me now from moscow all e. i'm going to ask you both teams are certainly hoping to play in tomorrow's final

and not today's third place match but surely they're looking to leave russia with a win. of course i think this third place playoff is one of the weirdest events in sports you know these players have just missed out on what would have been the biggest game of their careers and because of that you actually get often a quite entertaining game in these third place playoffs because there are some real motivating factors like professional pride and simply not wanting to end what has been a successful world cup campaign on a lot of note by losing two games back to back and so the question really is who will be more affected by those motivating factors and who will be more affected by the disappointment of losing their semifinal well let's get some insight into that now by having a look at how both teams have been preparing i belgium were demoralised after france stopped them from reaching their first ever world cup final but just four

days later the red devils need to shake off that disappointment and get ready for saturday's third place play off. that's difficult to play for sure but. that's what. you have to you know to to restart every time. it's just part of the life. you know you lose next week you win so often means we didn't put them to play for the. belgians best performance of the world cup was in one thousand nine hundred eighty six when they finished four for this time they want to go one better and only england stand in their way. and the three lions manager is raring to go. well not scared. away from the big river we have high motivation to perform we have the chance to win a medal. at the world cup which only one other english team has ever done the england manager is not planning on making many changes in saturday's clash so with both teams almost at full strength fans can expect

a cracking match in st petersburg. now will be leaving it all on the field as they try to get this when all in no matter the outcome well belgium and england see this as a successful tournament i think england certainly this is the best they've done at the world cup the further is that they've progressed since nine hundred ninety. and they weren't expecting to get this far either i think a lot of people were voting them i guess the round of sixteen of the quarter final so the semifinals and now the third place play off is is a real bonus also there's a feeling in england the times of change that the negativity is gone and that this young team is actually heading in the right direction now head of future tournament for belgium it's a bit more complicated they are a better side than england so perhaps we're expecting to make it this far at least and hoping to make their first ever world cup final they also love their players at the peak of their powers right now and when they beat brazil in the quarter final

there was this real feeling that this was their time obviously it wasn't to be but they have given their fans a lot of great moments that win over brazil that i just mentioned and also that last minute victory against japan it was a real electrifying moment so i think both teams certainly although they haven't made it to the big day itself they can go home feeling very proud of what they've achieved now looking ahead to the final which will take place behind you on sunday what's the mood like in moscow before france plays croatia. well perhaps unsurprisingly the atmosphere hasn't quite been the same since russia went out of the world cup quarter final stage and i think just generally the latter stages of the world cup are not quite the same as the football festival that you have in the group stages simply because a lot of teams have gone home and the fans of followed them but that being said we've got more and more french in croatian fans now turning up in moscow for the final french fans were brilliant at their semifinal and some petersburg they made a lot of noise although there weren't

a huge number of them there and of course croatia fans after their semi fun the extra time semifinal victory over england were absolutely ecstatic so i'm expecting a great atmosphere here at the luzhniki stadium to fit the occasion of the world cup final. sports reporter all the movie in moscow thank you very much and croatia coach lot has just been speaking to the needy ahead of sunday's world cup final he said he thinks history counts for nothing as his side go for their first title against nine hundred ninety eight winners france. yeah in the blood and pool no i don't set much store in statistics tradition or head to head on it was for the so this is tradition is that survey demolished. mean there's a lot always the world cup final and we don't care who is on the other side of the pitch where here to enjoy the moment to enjoy the fun and give everything we've got but not much when you're watching the news more coming up at the top of the hour

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